Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 169, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 March 1984 — Page 2
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100 said possibly molested LOS ANGELES (AP) - Five nursery school teachers accused of molesting children as young as 2, then silencing them with threats acted out by torturing small animals, were in jail today following a grand jury’s 109-count indictment, the district attorney said. The mayor of the town where the offenses allegedly occurred expressed relief, but some parents of pupils at the privately run school said there were other perpetrators yet to be charged. An estimated 100 children were sexually abused over 10 years at the Virginia McMartin Pre-School in suburban Manhattan Beach, District Attorney Robert Philibosian said after the indictments were returned Thursday. The charges, based on testimony from nine boys and nine girls now aged 2 to 13, named three relatives of founder and owner Virginia McMartin, plus two other women. The school closed in January when parents began withdrawing children amid police warnings. Philibosian said investigators worked with a child psychologist in questioning the youngsters, whom he said were frightened by teachers’ threats. “In order to back those threats, small animals were actually slaughtered in their presence,” he said. He declined to give details, but investigators have said children were force to watch while a turtle’s head was crushed and a rabbit’s ears were cut off. The indictment included allegations of “rape, sodomy, oral copulation and fondling,” Philibosian said. He said there were instances when “more than one of the defendants was involved with more than one of the children.” Charged in the 109 counts of felony child abuse are the owner’s grandson, Raymond Charles Buckey, 25; his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 57, who managed the school; his sister, Peggy Ann Buckey, 28; Betty Raidor, 64; and Babbette Spitler, 36. All were arrested and jailed on bails ranging from $50,000 to $1 million, pending Superior Court arraignment today, Philibosian said. “My reaction is one of relief,” Manhattan Beach Mayor Bob Holmes said. “No one thinks such a heinous crime would happen in Manhattan Beach, but apparently it has .”
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At least five proposals offered
Procedural problems hamper deficit cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) Plans for slashing federal budget deficits are blooming like spring flowers on Capitol Hill, but a weedy tangle of procedural problems in the Senate and House threatens to cut short any effort to bring the government’s revenues and spending closer to balance. So far, legislators can choose among: —A three-year, $l5O billion package worked out by President Reagan and senior Republican senators that would limit the rise in military spending to 7.8 percent next year, saving about S4O billion; cut domestic spending by about $43 billion and raise taxes by about S4B billion. Savings on interest on the national debt would reduce deficits by another $lB billion. —A three-year, $lB4 billion “pay-as-you-go” plan from House Democratic leaders to
Pay raises for state INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - All of Indiana’s 26,000 state employees will receive 5 percent pay increases beginning July 1 for the first time in two years since Gov. Robert D. Orr froze wages in the face of a budget deficit. The raises will cost the state $16.3 million, State Budget Director Judith G. Palmer said Thursday. Most state workers also will receive additional 3 percent merit increases. Gov. Robert D. Orr announced the raises in a special edition of an employee newsletter distributed Thursday.
Prime-time debate set NEW YORK (AP) Democratic presidential candidates Walter Mondale, Sen Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson have agreed to appear in a one-hour debate to be televised live on CBS next Wednesday night, the network says. CBS announced Thursday that the debate, moderated by “CBS Evening News” anchor Dan Rather, will be broadcast live at 8 p.m. EST. The debate will be held at the Low Memorial Library at Columbia University.
limit military spending to a 3.5 percent increase for savings of nearly $96 billion; cut domestic spending by nearly $lB billion and raise taxes by about $49 billion. Savings on interest on the national debt would reduce deficits by another s2l billion. —A three-year, S2OO billion plan Senate Democrats unveiled Thursday to limit military spending to a 4 percent increase for savings of about
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Joseph Vieira Sr. is subdued on the hood of a police car during a disturbance outside Superior Court in Fall River, Mass., following the announcement of guilty verdicts against two more defendants in the Big Dan's gang rape trial. Vieria's son was found guilty last Saturday, along with Daniel Silva. (AP Wirephoto).
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Says US DA official was murdered
Estes implicates LBJ in plot
(c) 1984 Dallas Morning News DALLAS For nearly 23 years, there have been questions about the death of Henry H. Marshall, the former U.S. Department of Agriculture official who Billie Sol Estes now claims was the victim of a murder plot involving, among others, Lyndon B. Johnson. According to sources, Estes, in testimony Tuesday before a Robertson County grand jury, affirmed what Marshall’s family and most investigators have believed all along: Marshall’s June 3, 1961, death from five gunshot wounds was not a suicide, as local authorities first ruled, but a murder. Sources said Estes told the grand jury the killing was carried out to silence Marshall, 51, and halt his investigation of Estes’ questionable acquisition of valuable federal cotton allotments in West Texas. Estes, a convicted swindler who testified under a grant of immunity, has since refused to
$54 billion; cut domestic spending by about S4B billion and raise taxes by $75 billion, including a two-year delay in indexing personal income-tax rates to inflation, which is set to begin next year. Savings on interest on the national debt would reduce deficits by another $24 billion. —A five-year, SBOO billion plan by three members of the Senate Budget Committee
discuss his testimony or divulge the motive for the murder of Marshall, who oversaw the federal crop-allotment program in Texas. But U.S. Marshal Clint Peoples of Dallas, who has interviewed Estes about the murder, said the motive was clear: “Mr. Marshall was blowing the whistle on Billie Sol Estes,” Peoples said. Who was Henry Marshall? And what was he investigating at the time of his death? When Marshall was found dead on his 1,500-acre cattle ranch near Franklin about 125 miles south of Dallas, he was, according to Agriculture Department officials, amassing evidence on Estes’ business dealings. Described by relatives and associates as a quiet, capable public servant, Marshall may have been among the first people in government to begin unraveling the complex series of transactions through which
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calling for a one-year budget freeze, followed by only a 3 percent annual increase in spending during the next four years. This is intended to reduce planned government spending by $450 billion and increase taxes by $350 billion through 1989. Defense spending would be allowed to rise 3 percent and tax indexing also would be delayed. The sponsors are Sens. Ernest F. Hollings, D-S.C., J. James Exon, D-Neb., and Mark Andrews, R-N.D. —A plan by three other Budget Committee senators for a simple one-year, across-the-board freeze on government spending to save $39 billion next year while the president and Congress work out a long-term deficit-reduction strategy. That course is backed by Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-lowa, Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., and Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-Del.
'Justice crucified'
That's cry after latest gang rape guilty verdicts
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - The convictions of two more Portuguese immigrants in a barroom gang rape drew sobs from defendants and protests from 5,000 marchers, but women’s groups hailed the verdicts as offering a “ray of hope’’ for other rape victims. Two other men were acquitted Thursday and two had been found guilty earlier in the case, in which a 22-year-old mother of two testified she had been dragged to a tavern pool table, held down and repeatedly raped while a leering crowd cheered “like a baseball game.” The case became a rallying point both for women’s rights groups, which decried the abuse detailed by the victim, and the Portuguese community, which alleged authorities were prejudiced against the six
New Bedford Portuguese march to protest jury decision
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) As 5,000 people marched bitterly with glowing candles to protest the barroom rape convictions of four Portuguese immigrants, a community leader said the trial brought out “long-standing slurs and outright prejudices against our people.” “Justica Crucificada,” or “justice crucified,” read badges worn by young and old Thursday night as the silent procession, mostly PortugueseAmericans, wound from the
Estes obtained the rights to cot-ton-planting allotments worth millions of dollars. The allotment program was intended to limit the number of acres American farmers could devote to raising cotton. In a series of deals, farmers who had unused cotton allotments bought land from Estes, then leased the land back to him. They then defaulted on their mortgage payments by previous arrangement with Estes, meaning the land, with the cotton allotment now attached to it, reverted to Estes. Nine months after Marshall’s death, Estes, by then a multimillionaire, was arrested by federal agents on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of fraudulent chattel mortgages. Officials said he had obtained loans against mortgages he held on nonexistent farm fertilizer tanks, which even then cost several thousand dollars each. In May 1962, Secretary of
And more plans and amendments to the existing plans are on the way. In addition to that, attempts to pass each plan likely will be made in both the House and Senate. Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., has said he wants to begin action on the Reagan-backed GOP package in the full Senate next week under a fast-track procedure that would involve attaching the various parts of the plan to a measure that has been pending since last year. That skips the usual starting point in the annual budget process, the adoption of a budget blueprint. Republican leaders have said privately they fear the GOP plan might be defeated in the Budget Committee.
defendants, who are all Portuguese immigrants. On Thursday, John Cordeiro, 24, and Victor Raposo, 23, wept as jurors found them guilty of aggravated rape in the March 6, 1983, attack at Big Dan’s tavern in New Bedford. Witnesses testified the two tried to have oral sex with the woman while she was pinned to the pool table. At the same time, Jose Medeiros, 23, and Vergilio Medeiros, 24, who are not related, embraced their lawyers and were mobbed by friends as they were acquitted. Witnesses testified they kept others from helping the woman and cheered their friends, but did not join in the physical assault. Cordeiro and Raposo, along with Daniel Silva, 27, and Joseph Vieira, 28, who were
steps of City Hall to the city jail and back. “Don’t make the Portuguese pay for all the rapes,” said placards carried by a 6-year-old girl and her father, Frank Buxo. “Not life sentences,” the signs also pleaded. Organizers had urged a dignified march, “to show we are a civilized people,” and the hourlong demonstration was peaceful, police said. The trials have driven a deep wedge in New Bedford’s Portuguese community, which
Agriculture Orville Freeman told a Washington news conference that Marshall was a key official in the government’s investigation of Estes. Freeman said Marshall’s mysterious death made it impossible to tell how Estes had obtained his cotton allotments. A week later, W. Lewis David, the Texas state director of the federal program that administered the cotton allotments, said Marshall was the first agent to document Estes’ involvement in the cottonallotment schemes. “Henry Marshall was a conscientious man ... He did his work well,” David was quoted as saying. “He positively is the man who got the first documentary evidence to support suspicions of illegal activity in acreage allotments for Estes.” In late 1960, David said, a farmer brought Marshall documents indicating the farmer had been asked to sign an agreement with Estes to tran-
IU library collects Hollywood scripts BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) librarian William Cagle insists he’s not a film buff, despite being born and raised in Hollywood. Cowboy star Tom Mix lived nearby and, when the 50-year-old Cagle’s mother was a child, she counted Rudolph Valentino among her babysitters. And although he goes to only a couple of movies a year, Cagle, head of the IU library’s rare book depository, is caretaker of a growing collection of vintage film scripts, including those from “Gone With The Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz.“ “It’s an ephemeral type of material,” he said. “Film scripts are intended just for the production of a film. They were disgarded after a film was produced. “If somebody doesn’t start saving these things now, we aren’t going to have the resources to go back and find out how it all happened.” The library currently counts 833 scripts from nearly every type of movie. There are scripts from the 1941 classic “Citizen Kane,” the first sound movie, “The Jazz Singer” starring A 1 Jolson in 1927, the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone, “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” The IU collection received a big boost in 1965 when it acquired the entire literary collection of lan Fleming, creator of British secret agent James Bond. The entire collection of Bond film manuscripts was included. Another lucky acquisition came from a California bookseller who got a box of scripts and production-related material from an MGM auction. The book dealer purchased the famous ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” and asked for a script to the movie to go with them. He was presented with an entire box of MGM scripts. “It was more than he wanted,” said Cagle. “He took the box to a book store, which then telephoned us. And, of course, we bought it.” The story, says Cagle, is “illustrative of the lack of interest •these film companies have in their own history.”
found guilty of aggravated rape Saturday in a separate trial, face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment when sentenced sometime next week. They also face possible deportation. “This is ... justice?” Raposo said bitterly, his tears turning to anger as he was led out of the courtroom. “We’re Portuguese immigrants. That’s why we were convicted.” Jose Medeiros, his eyes reddened by tears, said his friends’ conviction “wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair at all.” Virgilio Medeiros said he lost two jobs and went into debt during the year it took to bring the case to trial. “I’m just so messed up,” he said. “In one year they did so much to me.” Two women’s groups expressed satisfaction with the
makes up 60 percent of the city’s 98,000 population. All six defendants were Portuguese immigrants. The victim and a prosecutor were PortugueseAmericans, and five of the 12 jurors in the second trial have Portuguese surnames. Workers at the bakery that was once Big Dan’s heard the verdict live over a radio. “It seems like this verdict was too quick like the one last Saturday,” said the bakery manager, who asked not to be identified. Thursday’s deliberations took
sfer his cotton allotment. The papers, David said, were “the first concrete evidence to back up the suspicions” about Estes. For 23 years, Marshall’s survivors have believed he was murdered. “He had a wife, a son, 1,500 acres, cattle and money in the bank,” said Marshall’s brother, Robert Marshall, 72, who still lives on a cattle ranch in Franklin next to the ranch his brother owned. “Why would a man in that position want to commit suicide?” Marshall added: “You can’t shoot yourself five times through the stomach.” Many state and federal authorities had come to the same conclusion. In July 1962, Col. Homer Garrison Jr., director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in a letter to local, state and congressional authorities that he believed Marshall was murdered.
verdicts. Priscilla Trudeau, head of the New Bedford Rape Crisis Center, which was formed following the Big Dan’s incident, said she thought the convictions “may give future rape victims a ray of hope that the system does work in these cases.” “Our criminal justice system may have some flaws, but basically it’s a good one,” agreed Darlene Wheeler of the Coalition Against Sexist Violence, which represents 13 community organizations in southeastern Massachusetts However, Ms. Wheeler said her group was unhappy with the cross-examination of the woman, who the defense argued was a willing participant and lied to save herself embarrassment.
seven hours, while last week’s took five hours. Others urged acceptance of the verdicts. “Even though some of us are kind of disgusted with the verdicts, we must accept it,” said John Tomasia, a member of the Committee for Justice. Earlier Thursday, the rape victim’s attorney, Scott Charnas, said he and his client thought the split verdict showed “everyone that this is not or was not a case of a vendetta against Portuguese people.”