Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 1

eMDUIRNAIL TAT HOME EDITION The Weather Fair. Warmer. Low tonight 48 to 53. High Wednesday 80 to 85. Camplrt Wethr I)a an Oh micluQGMJ Served by: As-mi-iulcd Press, United Press International, The New York Timei and Los Angeles Time Wellington Pout New Service I PRICE TEN CENTS ONE HUNDKEU SIXTEENTH YEAR 38 Pages LANSING EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1970 Officers Hunt Laurie's Killer State Police troopers said the Barnes cut-off from U.S.

127 is used by many persons traveling from Lansing to Jackson utilizing several back roads off Meridian leading into Jackson. Police said it was also possible to go from Barnes and Me- Snow Fence Cordons Off Area Near Mason Where State Journal Photo by Bruce Cornelius Laurie Murninghan's Body Was Found (Arrow) I6 Okemos I I Mason Dansville BARNES EO. State Gam Area iiereme Court State ridian to M-36 and into Detroit without using a major road. The strongest police theory on the killing is that the roblwr thought he had killed Mrs. Christine Gallagher, the store owner, when he hit her over the head with his pistol and the gun fired.

In his panic he took als made by Hanoi at the Paris peace talks. The President was in an amiable, breezy mood at times after he usurped press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler's afternoon briefing in the press quarters at the White House and converted it into a news conference in his own office. For example, someone To Review Parochiaid By WILLARD BAIRD State Journal Capitol Bureau The State Supreme Court today announced it will consider the constitutionality of the parochiaid section in the 1970-71 state school aid bill on the basis of legal briefs to be filed with the court before noon on Aug. 17.

Stat Journal Map by Jack Bolt X's on Map Show Location of Abduction and Site Where Body Was Found Nixon Rules Out Imposed Coalition Vote Sought On Airport By NORMAN SINCLAIR State Journal Staff Writer A dark, swampy pond in a heavily wooded area southeast of Mason, may hold the clue to the identity of the killer of Laurie Murninghan whose body was found there Monday afternoon. Michigan State Police crime lab experts today were methodically going over the grassy, sloping bank beside Barnes Road near Meridian Road where the body of former mayor Max E. Murninghan's 16-y ear old daughter was found. Snow fences cordoned off the area. Police Chief Derold W.

Husby pledged Monday night that the department would "leave no stone unturned until the person or persons responsible for this crime is brought to justice." Services will be Thursday at 1 p.m.' in Central Methodist Church. Murninghan asked that no flowers be sent to the funeral but he said contributions could be made to a Lau-r i Murninghan Scholarship Fund to be established through the Michigan National Bank. Three young boys ended 11 days of anxiety, fear, and hope for the safety of the quiet, studious young girl when they stumbled across the decomposed body in a lonely pond across the road from the expansive Dansville State Game Area. NEAR ROAD The youngsters, searching for pop bottles along the road, found the body in a pond about 15 feet from the roadway. Paul Robbins, 531 Dexter Trail, called State Police at 4:45 p.m.

after his eight-year-old son Richard came home and told him what he had found. Laurie, a junior at Sexton High School, had been the object of one of the most intensive police manhunts staged in this area. She was abducted July 9 from Gallagher's Gifts and Antique Shop, 1010 W. Saginaw, by a man who robbed the store of $64. State Police said the body was about 600 feet west of the Barnes-Meridian intersection and less than half a mile from a riding stable on Meridian Road.

The property on which the body was found is owned by Larry West. West has a mobile home near the intersection but he apparently has been away the past few weeks. TIME NOT KNOWN Late Tuesday morning, Coroner Glen Dunn said the results of an autopsy failed to show how Laurie met her death. He said pathologists were planning further microscopic tests to determine how and when she was killed. Police said, however, that the body may possibly have been in the water since the day of her abduction.

Husby said that any clues discovered at the scene where the body was found, or any evidence turned up by the autopsy and medical tests regarding the cause of death would not be made public. "He (the killer) may have overlooked something," Husby said. "I don't want to comment any further on it." Husby said the area off Barnes had not been searched by police but might have been covered by independent search parties. propriated the reward money with hopes of obtaining concrete information that will help police apprehend the killer. DETECTIVES BUSY Hoag said that he, Det.

Larry Hamilton of the Sheriff's Department and Det. George Smith from the Michigan State Police have devoted nearly full-time effort to solving the Casey case. The youth's body was discovered by William Tirrell, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Tirrell, Charlotte, as he rode in the back of a pickup truck driven by his mother.

Sheriff Elwin Smith said the Casey youth had been shot in the back of the head by a .22 caliber weapon. The body had been in the ditch from three to five days. Young Casey was last seen about midnight June 12, when he disappeared at St. Joseph and Waverly, according to Laurie, the only eyewitness to the crime, police theorize. Ironically, the girl was very nearsighted and could not see across a room without her glasses, police said.

The glasses were left in her purse See CLUES, Page A-4, Col. 1 wanted to know at one point if the discussion could touch on the Mideast. "Sure," Nixon said. "I don't want to go." The school desegregation questioning centered around criticism of administration policy by Sen. Strom Thurmond, in a Senate speech Friday.

late Monday in friend-of-court briefs for the forthcoming battle over the popular Swedish import, "I Am Curious (Yellow)." One of the big issues facing the justices next term is whether the film is legally obscene and whether states can require distributors to submit movies for approval before public showing. "Curious" survived seizure by federal customs officials in 1967 and was ordered released for distribution by the federal appeals court in New York City a year later. As a result, it has been seen by millions of Americans. At the same time, additional millions have been unable to view it because of court rulings in individual cities and states. In Maryland, the ban was imposed initially by a state board of censors, the only surviving formal state board to which all films must be submitted in advance.

Out of the Supreme Court's review could come a constitutional right of adults to see any movie in a public theater no matter how raw. However, with the court's composition growing more conservative, a new definition of obscenity, one more restrictive than the current test, is more likely. Currently, the court permits publication for adult consumption of any book or magazine that is not completely without social value and does not offend contemporary section of the $969.3 million school aid bill. Chapter two of the measure, which Gov. William G.

Milli-ken signed into law Monday afternoon, appropriates $22 million for partial payment of salaries of lay teachers of sec-u 1 a subjects in nonpublic schools in the next school year. The court initiated its action upon learning that the governor had signed the bill, a step which it said "fulfilled the legal requirements allowing the Supreme Court to act on the resolution of the Legislature requesting an advisory opinion." In a statement accompanying its formal order, the court said its opinion "will be rendered on an accelerated basis and will be considered on briefs only," without oral arguments. "Persons or groups interested in the determination of this question may apply to the clerk of the Supreme Court for permission to file briefs amicus curiae (friends of the court)," the court order stated. The court divided 5-1 in its orders with Justice Paul L. Adams dissenting and Justice John R.

Dethmers not participating. The bill, doling out state funds for the current fiscal year, stipulates that parochiaid money will not be paid until a decision on its constitutionality has been rendered by the State Supreme Court. Although Milliken supported parochiaid, to the point of including it in his official education reform proposals last October, there was no mention of the special funding in the governor's official statement of the bill signing. School aid totals some $122.3 Movie Industry Demands Freedom million more this year than in 1969-70. Milliken had recommended a $949 million appropriation.

Under provisions of the school aid act, per pupil allowances are increased by $20, the office noted. The bill also ap- See STATE, Page A-16, Col. 4 Inflation Tide Eases Slightly WASHINGTON (AP) Living costs rose four-tenths of one per cent in June in a slight easing of the nation's worst inflationary climb in 20 years, the government said today. But prices of food, housing, clothing, transportation, medical care and recreation still averaged six per cent above a year ago, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And despite an increase of $1.65 in pay to an average of $120.05 per week for some 45 million rank and file workers, their purchasing power was still below a year ago for the 15th straight month because of inflation, the bureau noted.

The June rise in prices brought the government's consumer price index to 135.2, meaning that it cost $13.52 last month for every $10 worth of typical family purchases in the 1957-59 period on which the index is based. Carroll Casey, 4825 Lansing Road, was found dead in a ditch on Broadway Highway near Charlotte last June 19 after he had been missing for a week. He was a ninth grade student at Waverly East Junior High. ATTENDED PARTY The Casey youth's parents reported him missing on June 12 when he failed to return from a party at a home on Hume Street. The boy told friends he intended to hitchhike home from the party about midnight.

Det. Sgt. A. Eugene Hoag of the Eaton County Sheriff's Department said today that leads are still coming in and the department is still checking them out. "There have been no new developments, and we haven't turned up anything very solid," Hoag said.

Both the Delta Township board and the county board ap- The announcement indicated the court intends to move speedily in reaching its decision. In a formal order, approved Monday, the court said it would respond to a request of the Legislature for an advisory opinion on the constitutionality of chapter two the parochiaid They hope to collect 5,016 required signatures by Sept. 13 from three prospective participating counties: -Ingham: 3,505 Eaton: 910 Clinton: 601 Completed and filed, petitions would request the question of county or municipal membership in the authority to be put on the ballot at the November general election. All but two of 75 tri-county governmental spokesmen gathering in the Ingham County Farm Bureau building Monday night backed the petition drive in a show of hands and cardboard carton collection of $1 bills to meet expenses. BENEFITS DEBATED During the occasionally heated -h session, speakers differed over the economic benefits of adequate airport facilities and the wisdom of new reliance on the traditional property tax.

"What's good for the airport is good for us all," contended Joseph P. i Delhi Township supervisor, who contested the petition plan. "I'm involved in trying to bring industry into this area and the first thing people want to know is what kind of airport facilities we have." Kiersey suggested the prop-See PUBLIC, Page A-16, Col. 1 W7 if Anlr lie! 1U JLiUUJlv Ann Landers A-15 Around-the-World B-3 Bridge Column B-8 Capitol Affairs C-5 Classified G-7toC-13 Comics B-6 Crossworld Puzzle B-8 Deaths A-2 East Lansing, MSU A-3 Editorials, Features A-6, A-7 Family Living to A-15 Financial News C-6 Jeane Dixon A-7 Metro News A-3 Mid-Michigan A-10, A-ll Onlooker C-l People in the News B-5 Senior Forum B-8 Sports B-l, B-2 The Doctor Says Theater C-4 TV Listings C-3 Weal her C-2 WASHINGTON (AP) Evidently fearing a new wave of control, the movie industry and the nation's theater owners are appealing to the Supreme Court to guarantee them the same freedom from censorship enjoyed by book and magazine publishers. They want to block the states from banning films cleared for national distribution and they want movies, books and magazines all judged by the court's current, liberal obscenity standards.

The Motion Picture Association of America and the National Association of Theater Owners registered their views WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon says the future government of South Vietnam must be selected through elections not imposed on the war-torn nation by negotiators in Paris. His administration will not stand for an imposed coalition government, the President said. "It must be a government selected by the people of South Vietnam." In a wide-ranging news conference Monday, the President also said he would veto a bill setting mandatory quotas on any imports except textiles. Such quotas, he said, are not in the national interest and might set off an international trade war. EXPORTING NATION "We are an exporting nation rather than an importing nation," Nixon said.

"It would mean in the end, while it would save us some jobs, it would cost us more jobs in exports that would be denied us; and, second, even more important, it is highly inflationary." The House Ways and Means Committee has proposed quotas on shoe and textile imports. Beyond Vietnam and imports, Nixon ranged over a number of topics at the surprise news conference. He said the United States has no idea of using armed forces to expel the Soviet Union from the Middle East; promised no "vigilante squad of Department of Justice agents" will force school integration in the South; predicted voters will turn against big spenders in Congress; forecast an economic upturn for the last half of the year and said he sees lit-the chance of a tax cut during the next two years. The President announced plans for a major meeting on national defense and the defense budget at the Western White House July 27, followed by conferences on the domestic budget for fiscal 1972. WILL LISTEN In ruiing out any imposed coalition government in Saigon, Nixon said he has no significant disagreement with South Vietnamese President Thieu in this regard.

But he said the United States still is willing to listen to any propos By MARCIA VAN' NESS State Journal Capitol Bureau Rejecting a potential -mill properly tax levy to support Capital City Airport, a Mid-Michigan leadership group has set out to call a public vote on the issue. Opponents of a new Tri-County Airport Authority law launched the 60 day petition drive Monday in Mason. Taiwan Raids on China Told WASHINGTON (AP) -Nationalist China has staged many more raids across the Taiwan Straits in recent times than Red China despite growing U.S. concern the harassing action could escalate. While the top U.S.

diplomat in Taiwan dismissed the forays as pinprick raids in cockleshell boats, Ambassador Walter P. McConaughy acknowledged in Senate testimony that "even these small ones really should be avoided." The McConaughy account of raids back and forth across the Taiwan Straits over the past five years was heavily censored before the publication Monday of testimony on U.S. commitments to Nationalist China. flated Story on C-7) McConaughy said the government of Chiang Kai-shek has been informed the United States will not )e bound by a mutual defense treaty to aid the Nationalists against attack prompted by "offensive action against the mainland to which we had not agreed." He said the actions involved included maritime raids, reconnaissance flights and propaganda shelling. "These raids of course are not related to our foreign policy," McConaughy said.

"We See TAIWAN, Y. A-16, Col. 5 Casey Killer Reward Fund Hiked to $3,500 by Donations By GENE HASH LEY State Journal Staff Writer Two more rewards have been added to the fund for in formation leading to the arrest of the slayer of 15-year-old Stanley Casey, bringing the tn total to $3,500. Monday night the Delta Township Board unanimously approved the same resolution adopted by the Eaton County Board of Commissioners last week that provides for $1,000. Eaton County Sheriff Elwin Smith said he received a letter today from James Brown, a Lansing attorney representing an anonymous client who is of- faring an additional $1,500 to the reward fund.

Brown said his client was concerned about the lack of progress made in solving ihc Casey ease, but commended the sheriff's department for the effort so far put forth. Stanley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fair, Warmer Forecast Fair and warmer weather is forecast for the Lansing area tonight and Wednesday. The U.S.

Weather Bureau said Lansing's low temperature tonight will Ik 48 to 53 degrees, and Wednesday's high will be 80 to 85. Chances of rain are zero tonight and Wednesday. Lansing's low temperature this morning was 45, and Monday's high temperature was 62 degrees. i.