The Reporter-Times from Martinsville, Indiana • 1

Jury hears dramatic pitches as trial ends Martinsville, Ind. Maa.Oeciirt ja tr.h yr No 37 Ptwrne JU J3U If aUMf4 Coll (WfWf II I IMiltl. MMlMlll By BETTE NL'NN tUM Cll Mill! -IttMlIM Ml Buildings WE WERE DRIVING to South Bend Saturday, when I had oceaion a lone occasion to wonder if then weren't a better way to Crt some plat. At Peru, an Ice storm fell on the road and made it slick enoudi for skating. The f.

llow in the pickup hit by vehicles A note on the Martinsville police blotter indicates that a building was run into in weekend incident at 1090 E. Morgan and aggravated vandaJUrn by a truck driver was rejortel to the sheriff office. A charge may be filed in at least one of the caM-s. Someone hit the front steps of the Oval Foster residence at 1090 E. Morgan and drove off, according to a report by Patrolman David Skaggs.

I le got a description of the car. At 8625 Main Morgan County Proterutor Tom Gray tutuludrd the state's ca attain! Harry Frryuun d.u moming by holding up a tire tool and aking the jury: "Will you give thi tack to Harry Ftrgjson?" Gray said: "He trying to beat the rm If the law he is trying to at. He beat -sth this and now he's tryutg to beat you with it." Ferguson i tharved ith attempted murder and attempted rape of a Monrovia area w-uinan on May 13. 1978. A jury of eiiht v.omen and four men were given final arguments by defence attorney Tim t'urren and Gray, while final instructions were read by Judjje Phillip Smith.

ik-fore the trial resumed thi morning, Currens asked that a mistrial 1 detlan-d, as one female jurr said another female juror had already made up her mind in the case. However, when the judge called the juror in question, site said site had not made up her mind. Smith railed in the jury and talked to attorneys before deciding to proceed with the trial and ordered the jury to decide their verdict on the basis of the evidence presented in the trial, which started last week. Gray was first to summarize and said the victim is lucky to be alive. He discounted any idea that the defendant was intoxicated, stating that he probably had four to six beers in four to five hours.

He talked about the events of the evening in question and of the attack and showed photographs taken of the woman after she was in the hospital. He said there was more than a yard of Ulcerations to her skull bone and said the doctor commented it wa the wont beating raw he had ever seen. He talked about the woman's finger being almost totally knocked off while she was probably trying to protect henetf from a blow to the head. He talked about the blood being all over the house and alout her identification of the defendant. I Shfjt rvolmuti) oo fcrt ptgtt Synanon king held to be crazy KINGMAN, Ariz.

(UPI) Synanon founder Charles Dederich has been declared mentally incompetent to be arraigned on charges he solicited two of the sect's "Imperial Marines" to put a rattlesnake in a Los Angeles attorney's mailbox. Justice of the Peace Everett Milam made the decision Sunday with the 66-year-old Dederich sleeping a few feet away in a hospital bed. "His head is not exactly screwed on straight." Dr. B. Ruland told Milam at the closed hearing.

"Sometimes he is all right and sometimes he is not." Phoenix attorney Thomas Thinnes, called in to represent Dederich, argued his mental condition precluded his arraignment and he was supported by testimony from Ruland, staff psychiatrist at Mohave County Hospital. Ruland's testimony was supplemented by that of Dederich's physician of the last eight years, Dr. David Schwartz, who said Dederich had been bedridden for the past seven weeks with a heart condition, obesity and THE PILt ATID wOODI'l CM tomrlimrt pot to a Wngia of 19 iikbcv and hunting fur bug that gr in oud, be can cauw enough (Lunate la a hou id irtuli in an inimwe claim; but he's a mighty shy frtlo. Robert Kryei of Boring Place a able to get dm photograph by hanging a suet bag in his back yard and aiming a tripod mounted Iclcpholo camera at il. The woodpmkm lo be cither eatirr lo ire or kw ary of men after the foliage drops off the tirrt ks the Ml.

Caucus OK's Engle, Mrs. O'Neal The Morgan County Republican precinct committee caucus Saturday named one pmon to fdl county off; and recommended second. By the caucus attiun. Mrs, Marion O'Neal will compkte Die U-nn of her huttiand at county auditor. O'Neal was bwtalled but month a county count il man, and cannot hold the mt of auditor at the same time.

Ilia U-nn at auditor would expire at the end of this month. O'Neal indit at-d that he would stay in the auditor! office to lntrurt hi succvor. Dan ilitfttin, and to complete the yean-nd work. Mr. O'Neal takl this moming that IWt'tn would work in the office with her huland.

it will lw jHtewJiry for Mrs. O'Neal to sign official paper and lie legally responsible for the auditor' office operations. Had Batin U-en twom in a auditor this morning, his time in the )t would lie limited to right yean from today. Thi would mean that he'd have to quit U-fon the end of his second U-rm, shoukl he run and relrted after serving one U-rm in the pot. The caucus endorsed a recommendation by the Morgan County Bar Association that Fn-d Kngle lie made county judge.

Other names brought before the committeemen's meeting wen? those of Jon Williams of Monroe Township, who has a law practice in Greenwood, and former superior court Judge Noble Littc-11, who's teaching in Florida. The caucus is not empowered to make the appointment of the judge, as is the ca.sc with filling the auditor's term. The judgeship must be filled by Governor Otis Bowen; who, by custom, will follow the reommendation of county Republican Chairman Judson Dutton. Out ton said this moming that he would abide by the recommendations of the bar association and the caucus and recommend Engle's name to the governor. Pilot fears unguarded guards Beikman's son says dad denies murders into the (Thomas Beikman, about was brought woodbuming kiuhen, was probably the most glorious form of travel ever dewed by man.

(Well, maybe a voyage on the Queen Kluatx-lh could top it.) Hiding a Pullman over a solid track was safer than staying at home, with a chance of slipping on the linoleum. Taking a meal in Die average dining car was worth the trouble of taking the trip. The Pullman class of service survived even World War II; but it could not beat the competition of the automobile and the heavily subsidixed airlines. On paper, rail tranortation is still the most efficient way of getting from one place to another, for goods or passengers. But the ruinous condition of our railroads can't be papered over.

In addition to subsidized competition, they were taxed to death, looted by insiders, smothen'd by featherbedders, and spumed, finally, by a public that would rather do it itself. When I was a boy, you could get on a train in Rushville at 11 o'clock, have a lunch, and arrive at Indianapolis, unhurried and unworried, during the noon hour. Nowadays, the same population, bypassed by an interstate and bereft of any dual-lane highway facilities, must grind its way back and forth on an under-designed, jam-packed U.S. 52. They did the same thing when the trains ran; so they don't run any more.

DURING THE 15 years of his mayoralty Jimmy has never subpoencd anybody to a council meeting. But he handed one to his chief of police today, to be delivered to a real estate developer. The mayor says he looked up the law, and he has the authority. This power may stem from the time when the mayor, in Indiana, was also city judge. It may be the first time in Martinsville history that anyone has been subpoened into a council meeting, but there's no way to check.

At least no way that I'm going to try 21. related locally, was chamber. ahead of us. towing an empty, light trailer, couldn't make it up a moderate grade; and driving a four-whet-kr, took to the U-rm fur about 50 mOet of what fet-med like ox cart travel. On the way back lat nsjiht, fog cut visibility to lew than a btot-k until we gut south of A mot; and UJS.

31 in a fog is no fun. Some of tho fog could develop hard centers very quickly. This kind of experience naturally Wads one to wonder if we've devoted too many resources to the automobile. What, for instance, could we have had had we sjn-nt the Interstate money on a new-rail system? Well, I can answer my own question. We'd have a lot of angry motorists buying more and more cars every year and avoiding the rail system like some kind of slum.

Indeed, it might have become a slum; for that's what's hapHned to the mass transit systems in most big cities. It's improer to mention racial and social biases in the public print; but they exist, nevertheless. 1 believe, that if scripture is true, anybody who hates anyone because of his race will go to hell; but the truth remains that people avoid public transportation, because they are afraid they will come into too close contact with people they believe to be rowdies from what is termed the inter-city ghetto. Although statistically, they are in much greater danger in their own cars, they prefer their automobiles to any form of surface transportation easily accessible by the "Dad told me. 'If only one reported to be among the survivors of the Jonestown person can know the truth, it is I.

I did not kill colony who were turned back from a PanAmerican flight Thomas Beikman said. to the United States.) Waverly, a vandal driving a truck smashed into a carport support post, damaged a deep freeze and a camper and a toy box, and knocked a window out of the mobile home of Martha L. Baxter. Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Btunk made a report on the incident, and his notes said that the mobile home resident would consult with the prosecutor. There were other, more usual type wrecks over the weekend.

Saturday night, a truck driven by Marty S. Buis, 16, Plainfield R. R. 1, ran off State Road 42 west of Monrovia. It hit a boaid fence belonging to Mel Powers, and property damage amounted to $650.

Two passengers in the truck were injured. They were Lora Lamb, 15, Plainfield, broken nose and bruises; and Ellen Lee, also of Plainfield, bruises and a cut finger. The wreck was investigated by Deputy Sheriffs Kenneth Blunk and Marvin Baker. Vehicles operated by June Byms and Eugene Smith, both of Lewis Drive in the Brookmore Addition, collided Saturday afternoon. Chief Deputy Dick Allen reported that the drivers exchanged information, and the wreck was not investigated by an officer.

Damage of $5,000 was estimated in a Friday night wreck on State Road 252 in Jackson Township. According to Deputy Sheriff Jim Hicks, Larry Rowe, 26, Columbus, hit a fence belonging to Dean Miller. Rowe suffered abrasions and cuts. James C. Holderbee, 63, 8 Mill Brooklyn, suffered cuts on the face and nose in a one-car mishap Sunday.

It GEORGETOWN. Guyana (UPI) Authorities today tried to send home 19 members of the Peoples Temple death cult left in Georgetown Sunday because a jetliner pilot refused to take them without an FBI guard. The pilot was quoted as making the decision after Guyanese authorities searched the cult members and took away three knives they were carrying. Charles E. Beikman, the exMarine accused of the slitthroat slayings of Temple spokeswoman Sharon Amos and her three children, made a brief appearance before a judge and was quoted by his son as denying he killed the Amos family.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman said authorities were trying to send home 19 people who were removed from the Pan American jetliner because of the pilot's concern for the safety of his other passengers. The 19 people mentioned by the embassy differed from the 20 reported Sunday, which included two adopted sons of the Rev. Jim Jones who were alleged to be trained members of the cult's security force. Some 64 survivors of the Peoples Temple mass suicide remain in Brooklyn electric rates to go up INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -The Indiana Public Service Commission has announced 44 fuel adjustment electric rate changes, 27 of which are increases.

The figures all are based on an average of 1,000 kilowatt hours of residential use. Among generating utilities, Southern Indiana Gas Electic Co. was granted an increase of $2.02 over the previous month, Crawfordsville Municipal a 54 cent increase and Jasper Municipal Electric Utility a decrease of $2.09. The rest of the adjustments were on nongenerating utilities, which usually are seen on the next month's bill in this case probably the January bill. Eight rural electric The FBI offered no immediate explanation of why no agents showed up for the flight, which Capt.

Albert Brockob delayed at Georgetown for 90 minutes Sunday, waiting for federal agents. An airlines spokeswoman said there had been "an understanding" a federal agent would accompany the contigent of 30 the largest group scheduled to return home thus far. When no agents arrived, Brockob decided to take only seven women, two teenagers and a 3-year-old boy on the regularly scheduled commercial flight to New York's Kennedy Airport. He described them as "very nice, very well mannered and very calm." At Kennedy, Brockob told reporters he trimmed the group because he was concerned for the well-being of his 167 passengers. "When the FBI men were not on board, I made the decision not to take them in," he said.

Brockob noted that Jones' adopted sons "were supposed to be members of the (cult's) basketball team," whose members were trained as part of Jones' security force. Many survivors have expressed fears that soldiers of Jones, who died with more than 900 of his followers in a mass suicide-murder ritual in their commune in the South American jungle, would harm them for not (Story continued on back page) to take. rsk Harmeier suspect to be tried public. They don't mind airplanes so much, because everybody has to sit in his own seat, is checked out for weapons at the entrance, and is unlikely to be assaulted or accosted or come into contact with street types who are just as unlikely to have the money for a flight to Las Vegas, or wherever. Moreover, a train wreck like the six-fatality derailing that occurred over the weekend gets more attention than a six-fatality automobile wreck.

Though you rode the Crescent and had a derailing, your chances were probably better than ours on slick 31 Saturday night. Trash dumping, other offenses reported The sheriff's office has a report of trash dumping in the county; and other offenses are listed by police here. The dumping occurred in the neighborhood of 1006 Maple Turn Road, according to a report by Robert Young. A van belonging to Paul I. Stanton Jr.

of Indianapolis was recovered by the sheriff's office after a report from Robert Kitchen of 2730 Old 37 North. The vehicle had been burned. M. Twomey of 45 Sunset Court reported the theft of a battery. Someone stole license plate, Illinois SN3212, from Francis A.

Johnson (Story continued from page 1) an alcohol problem, during the 25-minute hearing, Dederich lay with his eyes closed and did not speak. The initial attempt to arraign Dederich after his arrest Saturday in Lake Havasu City also failed because he was "stone drunk." "When we went in he was in a staring straight ahead, with an empty bottle of Chivas Regal in front of him," said John Watson, one of the Los Angeles prosecutors who took part in the arrest at Dederich's home. Dederich was taken 63 miles by ambulance to Mohave Hospital. The incompetency finding was merely an interim decision however and the issue will be subject to review at Dederich's Jan. 2 extradion hearing.

In the arrest warrant, Dederich is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon and one count of solicitation to commit murder. The charges are based on an Oct. 10 incident in which attorney Paul Morantz was bitten by a 4'-foot rattlesnake placed in his home mailbox. Two members of Synanon's "Imperial Marines" security unit Lance Kenton, son of bandleader Stan Kenton, and Joseph Musico were charged earlier with putting the snake in Morantz' mailbox. Morantz had been successful in winning a $300,000 judgment against Synanon.

At Sunday's hospital room hearing, Thinnes indicated he would try to have Dederich transferred to Barrows Neurological Institute in Phoenix, a private facility "more conducive to speedy recovery." He said being held occurred on Road 67 north of Mooresville, and Allen estimated damage at $600. In Martinsville, Patrolman Abe Walls charged Michael D. White of R. R. 8 with driving while his license was suspended and under the influence of alcoholic beverages.

Skaggs charged Elizabeth Davis, 24, 339 E. Washington with failure to yield the right-of-way after a smashup at South and East Streets Sunday. Driver of the other vehicle was William Keith, 53, 590 E. Walnut and damage amounted to $650. membership cooperatives were granted increases.

The additions were $2.12 for Noble County REMC, $1.42 each for Daviess-Martin County REMC, Sullvan County REMC and Southern Indiana REC, $1.30 for Fulton County, $1.41 for Harrison County, $1.51 for Knox County and $1.43 for Orange County REMC. Downward adjustments were made for seven REMCs: $2.96 for Dubois REC, $1.80 for Kankakee Valley REMC, $1.70 for Kosciusko County REMC, Marshall County REMC, $1.73 for Miami-Cass County REMC, $1.76 for White County REMC and $1.77 for Whitley County REMC. Rate increases for municipals included 17 cents each for Advance, Dublin, Hagerstown, Lewisville, New Ross, Rising Sun, South Whitley, Bargersville, Brooklyn Dunreith, Lawrenceburg and Thorn-town. Also: 18 cents each for Flora, Rockville, Centerville and Washington. Other municipals' rate increases were 19 cents each for Greenfield and Bain-bridge.

Municipals' decreases included $5.83 each for Georgetown, including Beikman and Larry Layton, accused of the killings of Rep. Leo Ryan and three journalists, which triggered the Jonestown mass suicide. Beikman, who under Guyanese law is entitled to hear all court proceedings against him, was brought into the Georgetown courtroom for a brief appearance as his case changed hands from Magistrates Demsond Christian to Charles Fung La Fatt. Beikman of Indianapolis is charged with cutting the throats of Mrs. Amons and her children, Lee Ann, 11, Martin, 9, and Christa, 7, at the Temple's Georgetown headquarters at the same time the cult members in Jonestown began drinking a cyanide and fruit drink potion Nov.

19. He also is charged with the attempted murder of Stephanie Jones, 9, allegedly because she witnessed him killing the Amos family. The Jones girl is no relation to the Rev. Jones. Beikman made no public comment, during his brief appearance in the courtroom filled with several cult members, including his son, Thomas, who hugged and kissed his father as he DEATHS Marie Fishel 59 W.

Pike St. Marvin Garrett, 70, 8585 New Harmony Road Lloyd Stephenson, 67, Morgantown Dana L. Knight, 56, Fort Worth, Texas (Information on page 8) (Editor's note: William Milligan was once a suspect in the death of Ann Harmeier, Cambridge City, who was killed north of Martinsville over a year ago.) By TIM MILLER COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) A judge said today that a man whom psychologists say has 10 separate personalities is comptent to stand trial on charges of rape, kidnapping and robbery. William Milligan, 23, is being tried on four counts of rape, three counts of kidnapping and three counts of aggravated robbery. Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Jay Flowers said he had received a supplemental report from the South West Community Mental Health Center which upheld the judge's earlier ruling that Milligan was competent to stand trial.

"He is competent to stand trial and he can understand the charges and assist in his defense," said Flowers. Milligan has been undergoing therapy at the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hopsital where doctors say his personalities have been (Story continued on back page) jWEATHER! Clear and cold tonight. Lows in the upper teens and lower 20s. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs in the upper 30s and lower 40s.

Winds westerly 5 to 10 mph tonight. INDIANA: Clear and cold tonight. Lows in the teens and 20. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs in the 30s and 40s.

Wednesday through Friday Partly cloudy and cold Wednesday. Lows in the teens aand low 20s. Highs in the 30s and 30s. Warmer Thursday and Friday with a chance for rain central and south and snow north Friday. Lows in the 20s north to 30s south.

Highs in the 30s north to 40s south. Local temperatures Low yesterday, 25; high yesterday, 60. Current at noon today, 26. Precipitation: .50 inch. Barometric pressure, 29.87 inches at 7:30 a.m.

today. Readings by Marshall Gregson. Martinsville sunset tonight 5:22, sunrise tomorrow 7:19. SOCIO LOGISTS, economists, politicians, and do-gooders, studying all the figures, calculating the cost, and daydreaming, still can't get people out of their automobiles into public transportation. They aren't going to do it until people feel public transportation to be more coavenient than the automobile.

It's going to have to be available when you want it, take you where you want to go without the necessity for lugging a bunch of bags through a station, have some social prestige attached to it, and be infinitely more comfortable than the average passenger train of today, rolling on a track that would have been a disgrace back in 1835. The old-fashioned train, pulling a Pullman full of bedrooms and a dining car equipped ith a DULY kjgfc yi lip MORE Multiple charges filed by officer at Mooresville Marshal Tom DeWitt at Mooresville has filed multiple charges against three of four persons he arrested over the weekend. He accused Douglas Howe of 71 W. High St. of possession of marijuana, failure to get his vehicle inspected, and operating (Story continued on back gage) prisoner at Mohave County Hospital was not conducive to fast recuperation.

Thinnes then moved to have Dederich release on his "own recognizance or menial bail" in the custody Anderson, Avilla, Gas City, Mishawaka and Warren; 11 cents for Etna Green, Chalmers and Walkerton, and 84 cents for Tell City. of a "responsible Havasu citizen." But Milam ruled that bail would remain at $500,000. SKOPPIFIG DAYS lib zxmmm.