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10 Cents EDITION Price Tribune HOME The Casper 72nd Year No. 54 CASPER, WYOMING Oil Capital of the Rockies MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1963 Twenty Pages Mother Kills Two Children, Tries Suicide OGDEN, Utah (AP) An 0g- den woman shot her two young children to death, clubbed another over the head and shot and critically wounded herself today, police said. Dead on arrival at the Dee Hospital was Kim Allen Smith, 5. His sister, Marla Jean Smith, 6, died 15 minutes after arrival. Both had been shot in the with a .22 caliber rifle.

The mother, Mrs. Woodrow Smith, about 45, was in very critical condition at another hospital. She also had a bullet wound in the head. Another son, Boyd, 13, was at the Dee Hospital with head cuts. Police said it appeared the mother had killed the two children, then shot herself in the forehead.

Boyd said that he was watching television in the living room when his mother came up from behind and hit him on the head. He said he ran out of the house. Boyd told police his mother told him "she didn't want the children to suffer any more." Officers said the father is an employe at nearby Hill Air Force Base. $25 Is Received For Marion Fund Although the -Tribune campaign for the Natrona County Dave Marion Fund officially ended Saturday, contributions totalling $25 were received at the newspaper office Monday ing, bringing the county total over the $4,000 mark. Monday's contributors were: Brought forward $3,978.00 Mrs.

George T. Leors 3.00 Worthington and Lenhart 10.00 Intermountain Properties, Inc. 5.00 Evening Belles Extension Club 5.00 Anonymous 2.00 Total to date $4,003.00 PARTLY CLOUDY By U.S. Weather Bureau Casper and Vicinity: Considerable cloudiness tonight and Tuesday with a few scattered showers. Cooler tonight and Tuesday.

Low tonight, near 40, high Tuesday, 55-60. Wyoming: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered snow in the mountains and showers at the lower elevations mostly west of the Continental Divide. Cooler north and west tonight and over the area Tuesday, with occasional strong and gusty winds. Low tonight, 20-30 mountains, 30-40 west and 40-50 east. High Tuesday, 35-45 mountains, 45-55 west and 55-65 east.

Five day Outlook: Average temperatures should average from near normal in the east to 2-9 degrees below seasonal in the west. Cooler through mid-week and again at the weeks' end with snow and showers over the weekend. Normal high, 52-61, normal low, 29-32. Sunrise Tuesday at 5:23, sun sets at 6:49. Maximum wind velocity Sunday was 20 mph, SW.

The mean temperature was 56 degrees, a departure from the normal of plus 13 degrees. Temperature at 1:30 p.m. 46 24-hour extremes: High 78, low 51 Airport extremes: High 75, low 52 Extreme temperatures for the 24-hour period ending at 5:30 a.m. Monday: Max. Min.

Pcp. Big Piney 65 36 Billings 78 51 Bismarck 80 57 Cheyenne 74 51 Chicago 55 38 Denver 83 47 Douglas 78 48 Houston 76 Kansas City 72 Lander 73 46 Laramie 70 41 Los Angeles 62 55 .41 New York 61 42 Rapid City 81 59 Rawlins 70 48 Salt Lake City 76 45 .05 San Francisco 61 49 .59 Sheridan 82 59 West Yellowstone 63 28 .03 Williston 80 58 Worland 79 52 'Minor Problem' Was Thresher's Last Message By JAMES PORTSMOUTH, N.H. ballast tanks as the submarine attempt to surface after trouble, drowned out a second court of inquiry was told Lt. Cmdr. Stanley W.

testified that at 9:12 a.m., Wednesday, Thresher messaged: "Experiencing minor problem. Have positive angle. Attempting to He testified he then heard the sound of air rushing into Thresher's ballast tanks, and with that noise, the sound of a voice with another message. But it was completely garbled, he said. He said the voice he heard seconds earlier sounded.

"very relaxed, as i if discussing a normal In answer to questions by the court. Hecker, skipper of the submarine rescue ship Skylark, said he did not recall that the final message used the words angle" as other members of the Skylark crew testified last week. He said it was at that point he had his hydrophone man ask Thresher "Are you in control?" When there was no reply, he took over the microphone and repeated the question three times without a reply. Hecker testified that his concern at the moment was for his own ship. He said that the last position of Thresher before that was only 400 yards from Skylark, and he had some fear that the submarine might collide with his ship as she surfaced.

"I didn't realize time was going SO fast," Hecker testified. He said it was 10:40 a.m., an hour and a quarter after the gar- Sgt. York Is Hovering Near Death NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)-Sgt Alvin C. York, the ailing hero of World War was listed in critical condition today with heart trouble, possible pneumonia and a blood circulatory disturbance.

The 75-year-old veteran from Pall Mall, was brought to St. Thomas Hospital Saturday after his condition became worse. His wife and seven children were called to the bedside. York rested well Sunday, though his condition has not changed materially since his admittance. Attendants said he was conscious and talked with his doctor and members of the family.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, for what Gen. John J. Pershing termed the greatest individual feat of World War I. The Tennessee mountain boy killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 others in a single engagement. After the war York returned to his rural home on the Cumberland Mountains plateau, where he farmed and raised a family.

Ill health forced him to retire several years ago. Two Cheyenne Crash Victims Still Critical urday remained unchanged today in a Cheyenne hospital. John Witherspoon, 12, of Cheyenne was still in critical condition with head injuries, a fractured leg and cuts. Frank Hume of Horse Creek, driver of a truck involved in the accident on a county road 14 miles northwest of Cheyenne, was in serious condition but hospital authorities said exact extent of his injuries had not been determined. Three older brothers of the Witherspoon boy were killed in the headon collision at the crest of a hill.

They were Robert, 18, Tony, 15, and Horace Witherspoon, 14. The youths were returning from a fishing trip. The deaths boosted the state's 1963 highway fatality toll to 26 as compared to 22 on this date a -year ago. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP)-The condition of two traffic accident victims which claimed the lives of three Cheyenne brothers Sat- Some 2,000 To Attend Music Meet CALOGERO (AP)--The sound of air in Thresher made a frantic encountering some undefined garbled message, a Navy today.

Hecker, 36, Brooklyn, N.Y., bled message, that he dropped explosive signals to advise Thresher to surface, and at 11:04 a.m. he sent a message to the submarine control headquarters ashore that he had lost contact with the Thresher. Hecker said he heard the sound of air going into Thresher's ballast tanks for 20 to 30 seconds, which he described as "a fairly long time." Hecker testified his ship rendezvoused with Thresher April 9 for shallow test dives. He said during that day he noted a discolored area in the sea near the stern of Thresher and notified her commanding officer of it. At the latter's request he investigated the area and reported to Thresher that he had concluded it was due to a muddy bottom disturbance.

He said Thresher and Skylark arrived at the deep diving area, some 220 miles east of Cape Cod, where the continental shelf slopes off suddenly to great depths. The submarine went down in 400 feet of water--beyond any hope of rescue or salvage. Hecker testified that at 9:21 a.m., after losing contact, he began an expanding square search of the area trying to sight the submarine, which he said he still expected to surface. He said "we spotted a PC-type hull that looked like submarine sail. We were anxious hoping it was the Thresher." He testified he challenged the vessel by sound but got no answer.

and added he thought it may have been a fisherman, lying to about 6,000 to 8,000 yards away. He was asked by Vice Adm, Bernard L. Austin, president of the court, "did the vessel stay around or did he high tail it over the horizon?" Hecker said it appeared to be lying to and he paid no further attention to it. He reported no other sightings in the area. The Navy plans a brief pause in its search for the cause of the disaster to place a black and white floral wreath on the approximate spot below which the vessel lies.

The only sign of the Thresher since her last communication with an escort vessel Wednesday morning has been bits of debris found floating in the area. It is from the debris, the messages and the knowledge and experience of veteran submarine builders and sailors that the fiveman board is trying to form a picture of what caused the Thresher to vanish suddenly--probably forever. Haunting the inquiry at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where the Thresher was built is the fact that the cause of the tragedy may never be known. It may lie buried with the submarine at ocean depths from which, Navy officials say, salvage is impossible. Lt.

(jg) James D. Watson, navigator on the USS Skylark, surface escort vessel of the Thresher, told the court Saturdav of final exchange of messages and then "the sound of a sip preda- on ing up--like a compartment It's music, music, music this week in Casper as nearly 2,000 musicians and school administrators assemble for the four-day Northwest Regional Music Educators' Conference starting Wednesday. S. K. Walsh, directing chairman, said everything is in readiness for the conference and expressed his thanks to all local citizens who have helped in preparation.

He particularly thanked in advance residents who are housing the 650 high school musicians who will play in the final concert of the conference. This conference is one of six held throughout the nation and will include representatives from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The regional conference is a part of the National Education Association. The Northwest Conference was organized in 1927 in Seattle. The Casper conference represents the 18th consecutive biennial meeting.

Walsh said the conference program consists of many specialized workshop meetings with concerts and demonstrations by nearly 100 student performing groups from all the six states. While primarily scheduled for music teachers, many of the workshops will prove interesting to local citizens and they may attend any of the sessions. Individual workshop or concert tickets are $1. Tickets and program information are available at the School Administration Building or at Morgan Junior High School, conference headquarters. Pre-conference activities begin Tuesday with a full-day workshop for elementary teachers at Casper College followed by a dinner meeting of conference board of directors at the Gladstone Hotel.

extends official welcome to the group at "Host Night" Wednesday evening with "Musical Frontiers." an original pageant featuring 300 elementary pupils, a 600-voice all-city choir. the combined junior high school choirs and bands, the NCHS mixed chorus, band and orchestra. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Conrad Jacobson and Blaine D. Coolbaugh, vocal and instrumental coordinators of the west school district.

Because of limited seating space, the Host Night program will be limited to conference participants, but the program will be presented for Casper residents again April 24. Estes Given Prison Term Of 15 Years EL PASO, Tex. (AP)-Bankrupt promoter Billie Sol Estes was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy in manipulating worthless fertilizer tank mortgages worth $24 million. U.S. Dist.

Judge R.E. Thomason overruled a defense motion for a new trial. Estes, whose financial empire of fertilizer tanks, grain storage and cotton allotments collapsed a year ago, was given an eight-year pris on term last November on state charges growing out of his fertilizer tank mortgages. At 22 Months, Theresa's Center of Art Squabble SOUTH GATE, Calif. (AP)- Theresa Bates, the Grandma Moses of the falling diaper set, is in the midst of an art controversy today--and couldn't care less.

Theresa, at 22 months of age, is too young to care. She was a prize winner in an art show for adults. Some of the mature artists in the show called her work "a happy, accident" and then angrily yanked their paintings from the show. One artist who didn't remove his paintings was Albert G. Bates, Theresa's father.

Bates, also one of the ten prize winners, entered his daughter's work. The father said Theresa's prize work was done one night after Third Firm Joins Steel Hike Ranks YOUTH HELD: Thomas Bean, 18, of Reno, (center) was taken into custody Sat- urday in the brutal slaying skier. Bean broke away tackled by an officer. He of Sonja McCaskie, a from police and ran for a admitted the slaying-(AP 24-year-old former Olympic block and a half before being Photofax). 18- 18-Year-Old -Old Admits To Reno Rape-Slaying By BILL STALL Raggio the killing early April 5 father and a brother, 17, only RENO, Nev.

(AP) Thomas Lee Bean, 18, a gangling 6-foot high school youth, admits, says Dist. Atty. William J. Raggio, killing blonde Sonja McCaskie, 24-year-old secretary and ski instructor, raping her and cutting up her body. Booked by police for murder, Bean is under watch in Reno jail's psychiatric cell, where an electric light burns constantly.

He underwent a examination by a psychiatrist Sunday, Raggio said Bean admitted the dismemberment slaying after he was brought to the police station for questioning Saturday afternoon. A pawned camera owned by Miss McCaskie, with Bean's name on the slip, led him into the police investigation. He broke from officers during the questioning and fled out of the station but was captured after a block and a half foot chase during which five police bullets whizzed over his head. Then, before a sound-motion picture camera, he re-enacted for 11 Negroes Cited After Stadium Row WASHINGTON (AP) -Eleven Negro youths are charged with assault as a result of the punching of 11 whites, most of them youths, in and outside D.C. Stadium after Saturday's American League baseball game between Washington and Boston.

The charges were filed after a meeting Sunday night at a police station attended by the suspects, 12 complainants and several parents. Police Capt. A.B. Nicholson said the attacks did not appear to be racially inspired. Date Will Be Set For Zone Hearing Included in the agenda of the Casper city council tonight will be the setting of a date for a hearing on a requested zone change at 12th and MeKinley Streets.

Mayor M. M. (Mike) Orton said there will be no hearing on the issue at tonight's meeting. Fixing the date for a hearing will be the only action taken in that connection at this time. Increases Effective On Tuesday in Miss McCaskie's duplex apartment.

Raggio said Bean lived with McGee Asked To Clarity Childs' Story CHEYENNE (AP) The Wyoming Broadcasters Association today wired Sen. Gale McGee. D- asking either for affirma tion or repudiation of a nationallysyndicated column which quoted McGee as saying 15 Wyoming radio stations were getting a $1,000 a month retainer from extreme right-wing groups. The column was carried by Marquis Childs April 10 and also charged that the Wyoming Legislature was dominated by the John Birch Society. In its telegram to McGee, the broadcasters group said: "We feel we are entitled to know: "1.

If the implications attributed to you by Childs with reference to Wyoming radio stations are accurate. If so, we request affirmation: if not, a repudiation of Childs' remarks. If your answers are in the affirmative, we request a list of the stations accepting 'monthly retainers', recognizing the difference between a 'retainer' and the legitimate sale of station One Wyoming broadcaster said McGee's remarks were a slur on the radio broadcasting industry and "should call for an seven blocks from Miss McCaskie's home but that he was not his acquainted with her. Bean was arrested in Salt Lake City when he was 16 for an assault upon a 15-year-old neighboring girl, authorities said. The youth served about eight months in the Nevada State reformatory at Elko.

Texas Chief Derails; 11 Are Injured LOMA, Ill. (AP)-The Texas Chief, a Santa Fe passenger train carrying about 250 persons and bound for Houston, derailed near this western Illinois town Sunday night, injuring 11 passengers. Nine of the injured were admitted to a hospital in Fort Madison, Iowa, which is about 15 miles southwest of Lomax. A hospital spokesman said none appeared to be seriously injured. Two others were treated and released.

A Santa Fe spokesman said 17 of the train's 20 coaches left the rails, tearing up track and blocking the railroads main line. The diesel units stayed on the track. Investment Bank Founder Succumbs SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP)-John Burnham, 84, founder of a nationwide investment banking firm, died Saturday. He founded the John Burnham Co.

in Chicago early in the century and developed it into one of the nation's principal investment firms before he retired in 1924. Ex-Mayor of Cheyenne Is Victim of Suicide CHEYENNE. Wyo. (AP) mer Cheyenne mayor Ed Warren, 76. was found dead in his car today along with his dog.

Laramie County Coroner J. Arling Wiederspahn termed Warren's death a suicide. Warren, who served two full terms and part of an unexpired one as mayor, was found slumped in the auto in his garage by a tenant, Ed Piva. Wiederspahn said the car's motor was still running and a hose ran from the exhaust pipe into the car. Piva told officers Warren had told him Sunday to.

dig a in the yard for planting a tree. A note was found indicating War- CLEVELAND (AP)-Republic Steel the nation's third largest producer, said today it was making selective price increases averaging $5.34 2 ton on carbon steel products. Republic said the selected products listed in its price announcement were in heavy demand currently and only included some carbon steel products. The increases will become effective with shipments beginning Tuesday and range in amount from about to 1-3 cents a pound. The company said the total sales value of the selected products it is raising represents about 26 per cent of the total sales value of all steel mill products in 1962.

The Republic announcement third by a steel company in less than a week and the first by one of the major producers-stressed that the company has had no increase in the level of its prices since 1958. "In fact such prices have de clined since that time, while durthe same period costs have increased the statement said. Republic said there have been five labor cost increases totaling 50 cents an hour during the period since 1958. The company also said its earnings for 1962 were the lowest in 15 years, its profit ratio to sales declining from 6.8 per cent in 1958 to 3.8 per cent last year. An investment program of $350 million in new plant and equipment has been started since 1958, Republic said, and only last month it announced a new $100- million program to install basic oxygen furnaces at several of its steel plants.

Republic said the "existing profit squeeze" forced it to reduce its dividend by per cent last year "in order to conserve cash" to help pay for the improvement and modernization program. Steel Price Hike Probe Is Ordered WASHINGTON (AP) A 001- gressional inquiry into steel prices, profits and production problems was ordered today. In announcing the inquiry, Sen. Paul H. Douglas, chairman of the Senate-House Economic Committee, said it was spurred by price increases by the Wheeling Steel Corp.

and the Lukens Steel Co. President Kennedy was reported to be skeptical on whether the price increases announced by Lukens meet the public interest criteria he suggested for the inlustry. Douglas said full committee hearings beginning early next week will go into the issues of steel prices, profits, production, unit labor costs, raw material costs, and the effects of foreign competition. she had watched him paint in the kitchen. "I left for awhile and when I came back, she had made a long mural across the kitchen cabinets," said Bates.

"So I taped paper up on the refrigerator and just let her go to it. She did three pictures and I picked the best for the Judge Robert A. Chuey, an art teacher, said: "Many times children's art can be better than adult art. It seems to me that much adult art and many artists become tired and lacking in fresh viewpoints, whereas a child is untarnished, not yet corrupted." Pat S. Brown, president of the sponsoring South Gate Art Association, declined comment but barred children's entries for next year.

ren wanted his dog buried in the hole. Warren, a native of Butte, Mont. was in vaudeville for many years. He was still active in the real estate business in Cheyenne at the time of his death. He was elected a city commissioner in 1934 and promoted by the voters to mayor in 1950.

He served two terms as mayor and then was appointed mayor again in 1951 to fill out a six-month unexpired term. Surviving are his two sisters who were in vaudeville with him, Mrs. Peter Appel of Cheyenne and Mrs. Curtis Templen of Chugwater. Funeral services are pending here.

Three Horses Are Reported Missing J. C. Hubbard of 320 Benton, Mills, reported three horses missing from his pasture near the airport. The horses, two bay geldings and a pinto mare, are branded with a Lazy 3 on the left hip and were pastured near the airport over a week ago. Hubbard told sheriff's officers that when he checked the pasture Sunday the horses were gone..