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COMPLICATE INVESTIGATION--A pair of men's Daily NEWS Photo. work boots were found among many other items of where Margaret Reber's mutilated body was found. clothing, both men's and women's, along with house- Police said the clutter in the apartment was one of hold articles on the floor of the Reber apartment the factors that make the 'Never Talked Back' House-To-House Mother Of Slain Girl Describes Daughter As 'Good Kid, No Trouble" (Continued From Page Ona) Peggy's twin sister, Cathryn. Met 2 Months Ago Mrs. Reber said Peggy and Ray Boyer met about two months ago and after about a month they began admitted "going She Boyer frequently slept on a couch in the Reber apartment.

Investigators said he kept personal effects there, including the five-foot archery bow that was used in the killing. In a closet in Mrs. Reber's hotel room she was moved out of her apartment by police to preserve the death scene Is a green mini dress with white lacy design. Peggy will be buried in it on Wednesday. The dress, with matching shoes, was purchased for Peggy three weeks ago by Boyer.

Boyer's wife, Norma, lives at 1140 Chestnut according to court records. She and her husband have a young child and a second is said to be due in about four months. Boyer was jailed Saturday for being $85.50 in arrears in support payments to his wife. The order for $28.50 a week was entered by court on April 23. The jailing of Boyer may have set the stage for the death of Peggy, according to her mother.

Mrs. Reber said she left Friday afternoon with two male friends for New Jersey while under the impression that Boyer would "keep his eye on" her daughter during her absence. She. said Peggy's friend, Blanche Kline, 18, had also been scheduled to move into the Reber apartment Friday from a local hotel. Blanche, a waitress, brought some clothing to the apartinent but apparently did not move in herself, Mrs.

Reber related. As she had told police, Mrs. Reber related in a Daily News interview she thought it was Miss Kline's body she found on the floor of her apartment upon returning from her New Jersey visit. Mrs. Reber, a divorcee and former waitress, said her daughter arose Friday morning about 7:15 a.m., dressed and got ready for school.

Mrs. Reber said she wrote an excuse for her daughter who was absent from school the day previously because she hadn't felt well. "I wrote it and she kissed me goodbye." Mrs. Reber then related that she last saw her daughter between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. Friday.

She said she and her daughter were "fooling" and she explained, "She knew how ticklish I was." She added, "Then, I got ready to go away She said her daughter and Boyer had planned to go out to eat Friday evening. investigation difficult. streaked over the DMZ, seeking war supplies heading for the North Vietnamese troops inside and below the zone. One heavy ground fight was centered three miles south of Gio Linh, with 9th Regiment Marines taking on more than 100 North Vietnamese. The enemy slammed artillery and mortars into Leatherneck positions while keeping, up a steady stream of small arms fire.

North Vietnamese and 1 13 MaInitial. said eight rines were killed, and 126 Marines wounded in the battle. In the air campaign against North Vietnam's southern panhandle, U.S. pilots claimed they knocked 14 antiaircraft guns of the 57mm and 85mm varieties Monday and one of the new 100mm types. The formidable 100mm guns were spotted for the first time in the war last week, and U.S.

fliers reported destroying or damaging 16 of them Sunday. Other Air Force and Navy fliers raided a petroleum storage area near coastal Vinh, a surface-to-air missile site, three bridges, a truck convoy and a transshipment point. In Saigon, the National Police announced that Viet Cong terorists last week killed 108 civilians in South Vietnam, wounded 305 and kidnaped 214. Figures for the previous week were 148 killed, 607 wounded and 214 abducted. At the big U.S.

Army 'ngistics base at Long Binh, nor: of Saigon, the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, bade farewell Monday to the 335,000 U.S. Army men in Vietnam.

It was another in a series of farewell ceremonies and visits for Westmoreland around his command before he becomes chief of staff. Annville-Cleona Club Note Parents' Night ANNVILLE, May 28. The met Monday evening in the Annville-Cleona Kiwanis Club Green Terrace Restaurant. John O'Hara, president, conducted the meeting. Roger Deininger the invocation; Paul Kettering benediction and Allen Binkthe ci-ley, led the group observed singing.

parents The club night with the parents of eight members attending. Paul Ketterling, program chairman, intro- of duced. Henry Westenberger the Lebanon County Historical Society. He showed pictures of Lebanon County from the 1900 to 1930 era. The pictures included scenes of Lebanon, Cleona, Annville, Palmyra, Hershey and Mt.

Gretna. Four members and their wives attended the recent 10th anicsburg. It was announced that anniversary meeting at Mechthe June 3, meeting will be work night at the Annville-Cleona pool pavilion. The annual auction will be June 8 at the AnnvilleCleona pool pavilion. LOVE LOST LILLE, France -Strikin-ling municipal workers today announced all city hall are banned until further notice.

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75g LARGE SLICING TOMATOES $1:00 FRESH CHICKEN LEGS LB. LARGE CANTALOUPES EACH BOILED HAM LARGE SUPPLY OF FRESH STRAWBERRIES AND WATERMELONS CRIME CONFERENCE-District B. Lewis Jr. (behind desk) confers with local and state police involved for the killer of 14-year-old Margaret From left the investigators are: Cold Wind, Rain Topples Dining Tent In Poor City (Continued From Page Ona) Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 28, 1968 Attorney Alvin this morning in the search Lynn Reber. State Troopers Police Against Blank Wall In Probe Of Murder (Continued From Page One) edly took an overdose medication.

Christianson said stomach pump was used and was then released. Mrs. Reher admitted to Lebanon Daily News reporter on Monday that her daughter was "going steady" with Ray Charles Boyer; 19, who on Saturday afternoon was picked up and jailed on a charge filed by his wife. It was Boyer's archery bow that was found protruding from Margaret's body at the time body was discovered. Boyer, according to Christianson, is the only person has definitely been cleared as suspect in the murder.

Christianson said Margaret was seen alive in the Maple Leaf Apartments by Constable William Kimmel when he picked up Boyer there about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Boyer, a Myerstown foundry firm employe, is a brother Richard Boyer, Lebanon RD the husband of Margaret's sister Cathryn. Continue Tests Tests were still being made today to determine whether girl was sexually assaulted her killer. It was reliably reported there was one bite mark in chest area of her body.

Dr. Leonard Tanner, Good Samaritan Hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy, said the primary cause of death was the insertion of the bow to her body. One police theory is that girl may have been the victim a case of mistaken identity. other is that she knew her sailant. The electricity in the third floor apartment had been turned, off by the landlord an eviction attempt, police said.

It was theorized that the dark the killer may have mistaken the girl for someone else. Mrs. Reber said a girl friend of her daughter had been scheduled to move into the apartment during the past weekend. The time that the murder curred is one of the many 000 00 30" HOTPOINT ITSELF ELECTRICALLY AUTOMATICALLY Puts an end to oven cleaning Famous cocking Rotary 5-heat controls for Automatic oven temperatura "Clean" and "Lock" surface Daily NEWS Photo. Raymond Stima and Paul Miller; Lebanon Detective Clifford Roland; State Police Sgt.

Eugene Rickert, State Police Cpl. Arthur W. McNally and Trooper Vincent Graci. IN HAPPIER TIMES Margaret Lynn (Peggy) Reber (right) and her twin sister Cathryn were 10 years old when this photo was taken. Margaret was murdered Saturday or early Sunday morning in her apartment here.

Her sister was treated at the Good Samaritan Hospital early today for what was described as an overdose of medication. factors the investiga- morning for the girl. The tion. Christman Funeral Home is in Mrs. Reber found her daugh- charge of arrangements and ter's body about 3:30 a.m.

Sun- burial will be made at Grandday. At the time she was view Memorial Park. turning home from a visit The Rev. Robert C. Benner, New Jersey where she said she pastor of the Seventh Street went Friday afternoon with two Lutheran Church, is scheduled male friends.

She was unable to to officiate. The murder victim give their names to a newsman. It is believed that the girl had had been baptized in this been dead several hours before church. her body was found. It was County jail officials said her reported that rigor mortis had boy friend, Ray Boyer, had set in and her body temperature made inquiries about attend.

had dropped. ing a viewing for her. No Dr. Tanner said many con- viewing has been scheduled, it ditions, such as the temperature was reported. of the apartment, would have a bearing on the establishment of the time of the girl's death.

in As investigators talked about the case they kept in coming back to what Christianson said was the fact "that many, many people had been in the apartment while Mrs. Reber and her daughter lived there." Ho added, "This is what makes the case difficult to solve." oc- Private funeral services are un- scheduled for Wednesd a SELF CLEAN RANGE LIMITED CLEANS COME 0 Recessed, control knobs, a chores. surface 90 Day units. faction. A alt needs.

control. unit light, SWINGING AFFAIR Page 11 House-To-House Battle Rages In Saigon Suburbs Questioned about her daughter's romantic life, Mrs. Reber said Peggy had what she described as "some crushes" but she didn't "go steady" until she met the sixfoot, 170 pound Boyer. Mrs. Reber described Boyer as "a wonderful kid." Without hesitation she told of her daughter's asking, "What do you think of Ray?" Her reply, she related, was, "He's a nice guy." Mrs.

Reber indicated that her daughter and Boyer had planned to marry if or when he got a divorce. Boyer is employed the Quaker Alloy castings firm, Myerstown. Peggy, -according. to. her mother, was a fair but not exceptionally good student.

Athad hoped to be a secretary but apparently changed her mind about business career after meeting Boyer. As did police, Mrs. Reber related that her attractive daughter appeared older than her 14. years. Mrs.

Reber said her daughter was about five feet two and weighed about 115 pounds. She had long, brown hair. Together Every Night After Peggy and Boyer began going steady, according to Mrs. Reber, they saw each other every night. Dates included movies and trips to a dance hall near Schuylkill Haven.

As Mrs. Reber pondered her daughter's brutal and sadistic death, she was puzzled why no one in the apartment house heard anything. She confirmed what police had said that a conversation in one apartment could be heard in other apartments. Peggy's sister, Cathryn and her husband, Richard Boyer, had on Friday morning moved out of an apartment next to that, occupied by Mrs. Reber and daughter.

Cathryn and Peggy are twins. Mrs. Richard Boyer became the mother of a daughter, Samantha Lynn, about two and one-half weeks ago. Asked whether Peggy had any enemies, Mrs. Reber said "There might have been one or two." Pressed for details she would only say, "Because of Ray.

it might be jealousy." There were at least four keys to the Reber apartment, Mrs. Reber told the Daily News. In addition to keys she and Peggy had, Ray Boyer had a key and a fourth was, Mrs. Reber said, in the possession of a man she identified as Arthur Root, 3 former boyfriend. There is one police theory that Peggy knew her killer.

The apartment door was not forced open and there was no sign of a struggle at the death scene. in men and supplies from Laos, eight miles farther The enemy staging areas been pounded daily by the Air Force's big B52 strikes, but one 4th Division fire base west of Dak To was hit by an estimated 1,000 rockets and mortars and then the North Vietnamese tried to overrun it day. Fight Hand-To-Hand (Continued From Page One) In a 12-hour battle, the attackers broke through the base perimeter and worked their way into five bunkers before they were stopped. After the North Vietnamese were driven out in hand-to-hand battles, the Americans found 102 enemy bodies on the edge of the camp and believed another 100 bodies were dragged away. Russian-made tanks, reported to have entered the area from Laos, have not yet been engaged, said Brig.

Gen. John R. Hickman, the 4th Division's commander. But he said tank trails have been found. Two.

U.S. helicopters have been shot down, but all aboard were rescued unhurt. Up at South Vietnam's north-! ern frontier, more hard fighting was reported between U.S. Marines and North Vietnamese, with enemy artillerymen booming away at U.S. bases from Khe Sanh, on the western flank of the demilitarized zone to Dong Ha on the east.

Eight Skirmishes In preliminary reports military Vietnamese spokesmen and a said 21 126 North were killed in eight skirmishes along the DMZ Monday and and another 186 Leathernecks were wounded. South Vietnamese infantrymen ed killing 96 North Vietnamese (in The the Dong Viet Cong Ha sector. screamed into Saigon and the northern suburb of Gia early morning darkness, killing at least 14 South Vietnamese vilians, military spokesmen an-1 nounced. Eleven of the dead were in Gia Dinh, and 46 civilians were reported wounded. Six miles to the northwest, troops of the U.S.

25th Infantry Division battled a force of more than 400 most of Monday and said they killed at least 218 and capturing two, wiping out perhaps half of the enemy force. The Americans reported six of their men killed and 28 woundled. Like the fighting around Salgon, the fighting along the DMZ also was in its fourth day. North Vietnamese gunners, apparently firing from inside the demilitarized zone, blasted the Marines with heavy artillery. The United States retaliated by sending Air Force B52 bombers to saturate the area side the DMZ above Dong Ha in three raids Monday night.

U.S. Marine fighter-bombers also HAROLD'S FURNITURE 705 Cumberland Lebanon, Phone 272-8481 A blue circus tent in which they take their meals had been toppled over by the wind and rain. The main mooring of the tent still was secure but the canvas top had ripped loose from one of the poles. Another nearby was hastily pressed into service as a makeshift dining hall where marchers who ventured forth from their huts found a cold breakfast of cornflakes, buns, fruit juice and coffee. A portable heater was installed in the tent to take some of the damp, 54-degree chill off the air.

Huts Evacuated Some low-lying sections of the hut city were under five inches of water. Ten or 12 huts in that area had to be because water had risen above the level of the plywood floors, which are raised about four inches above ground by 2-by-4 boards used as joists. The worst flgoding was in the section nearest the Lincoln Memorial. The other end of the site, nearer the Washington Monument, was relatively dry, being on higher ground. Dr.

Murray Grant, head of the District of Columbia Health Department, told UPI public health doctors have been "constantly surveying the situation" at the hut city. Despite. the bad weather, Grant said, the health department does not "anticipate any. type of epidemic outbreak other than colds or other respiratory ailments." A doctor at the site told a reporter several cases of colds had been treated but that he not yet seen any evidence of pneumonia. He said he was not particularly worried about an outbreak of influenza or pneumonia "at this time" but added that continued rainy weather "wouldn't help the situation." Meanwhile, black leaders the Poor People's Campaign voiced confidence that they would be able to head off a threatened defection by Mexican-Americans and Indians who claim they are being discriminated against by the Negro majority.

Reies Tijerina, the fiery Mexican-American spokesman from Albuquerque who raised the complaint, seemed what placated Monday after a meeting with the march leader, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. But Tijerina said his people would not move into ResurrecCity, USA, the Poor People's base camp, until they had assurances of a voice in the campaign. The New Mexico activist also was holding off until he could confer with Mad Bear. a powerful Indian leader due here today.

After talking with Tijerina, Abernathy said there were no serious problems-that, like in a large family, there were just some minor disagreements. The weather did little to brighten spirits. As has happened repeatedly since the marchers began arriving here in early May, rain poured down and turned Resurrection City into a chill quagmire. Most of the poor stayed in their A-frame shanties and gathered all the clothing they could to keep warm. Tijerina stood in the rain at the gate to the camp and told reporters he was speaking for poor whites and Indians as well as his own people when he said: "The black militants seem to have taken over out here and nobody gets a chance to talk." After the peace meeting, the Rev.

Andrew Young, executive vice president of Abernathy's Southern Christian Leadership Council, told newsmen: "No one in the camp has really had an equal voice up to now because we've been so dealing with emergency situations (such as quarters and mud) that we haven't been able to set up democratic procedures. "We're moving to take care! of that now." Bernard Lee, another SCLC leader who sat. in on the meeting, said: "You've just got to get used to the fact that poor folks fuss a lot." folks fuss a NEW YORK (UP1)-A party of sorts was scheduled today at a police warehouse in Brooklyn. Participating policemen promised to finish off more than 8,000 bottles of liquor and 5,000 calls of beer. However, the "finishing was not to be in the traditional way.

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