The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 June 1966 — Page 4

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An th# children In your neighborhood lustily singing Pictured are the children playing Munchkins in “The Wizard "The witch is dead! Which Witch? The wicked witch?” of Oz” June 16,17,18 in Speech Hall. They are turning into Munchkins who live in the Land of Oz.

lie Tests Back Stewart's Story MARION UPI—Glenn Everett Stewart, 30, was back in the Grant County Jail here today after undergoing four hours of questioning in a polygraph test his attorney said “substantiated" his story of the slaying of Larry Schmidt, SO, a Marion factory worker. The test was administered by state police in Indianapolis. Schmidt’s dismembered body was discovered in the basement of his home May 22 and his widow, Edith, 27, was charged with first-degree murder two days later, shortly before Stewart was arrested by Arkansas authorities. Stewart, a native of Arkadelphia. Ark., told police he did not kill Schmidt and blamed the

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also denied killing her husband and turned the blame on Stewart Travis Mathis, a prosecutor from Arkadelphia hired by Stewart’s friends and relatives, said Wednesday Stewart’s polygraph test bore out the story he first told authorities when he was arrested, that Mrs. Schmidt killed her husband. Marion Police Chief Ted Null confirmed Mathis’ statement about the test. He participated in the questioning. Mathis said Stewart did not know the body had been dismembered until police told him in Arkadelphia. He said Stewart “apparently was an accessory after the fact” of murder, in that he “knew of the murder, helped carry the body to the basement and aided the woman in an escape, but this was his only role.”

acting “like a foolish, frightened young man,” Mathis said. He said he hoped the test would lead to a reduced charge against Stewart, who with Mrs. Schmidt has been indicted on first-de-gree murder charges. His trial has been set for Sept. 12 in Grant Circuit Court. He pleaded Innocent to the charge at his arraignment Monday. Mrs. Schmidt is scheduled to appear in the court for formal arraignment next Monday, with her court-appointed attorney, Patrick Ryan.

Junk Meteorite GREENHITHE, England UPI —Scientists sent to investigate a report that a meteorite crashed through a bedroom ceiling found a piece of junk which fell from a scrapmetal crane.

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Ask Review 0r : Segno's Case ■ GREENSBURG UPI — Decatur Circuit Court here had received a petition seeking review of an order revoking Dr. Robert V. Seglin’s medical practice license. 2 The State Board of Medical Registration and Examination revoked the 41-year-old Westport physician’s license after Seglin was charged with fraud and deceit under the state Narcotics Act in the same Decatur County court last February. A hearing will be held June 20, on order of Judge John W. Goddard, who also denied 8sglin’s request that the order revoking the license not beeome effective until a ruling WM handed down on the petition for review.

Woman Placed On Higher Food 3 Yr, Probation Prices Discussed

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. UPI — A Mexican • American mother of two who chose jail over sterilization was placed on three years’ probation Wednesday by Superior Judge C. Douglas Smith. Smith ruled that Municipal Judge Frank Kearney “had acted arbitrarily and outside the law" In imposing sterilization on Ita. Nancy S. Hernandez, 21, as a condition of probation. Kearney had sentenced Mrs. Hernandez to six months in jail, but placed her on probation when she accepted his sterilization or jail offer. She then changed her mind after conferring with court-appointed attorney, Louis Renga. On May 28, Kearney withdrew his probation offer, ordered the woman jailed and reduced her sentence to 90 days. Her attorney appealed the case to Smith, who issued a writ of habeas corpus, under which Mrs Hernandez was freed after spending about three hours in jail.

WASHINGTON UPI — For those who do the buying it may be hard to understand but Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman says you should be reassured, not alarmed, about higher food prices. In a speech today Freeman said that while food prices have gone up, so have wages, and — percentagewise, at least — consumers are spending less for food than they did five years ago. Since the nation’s economy began its dlmb in February, 1961, Freeman said, the market price of the 11 key foods which most affect the consumer price index have gone up 8.9 per cent. In the same period, he said, after-tax earnings for a family of four headed by a worker in manufacturing has risen 19 per cent, and after-tax earnings for a single worker in industry went up 20.6 per cent. A House Agriculture Committee report agreed with Freeman’s view, which was contained in a speech prepared for

delivery at ceremonies honoring New Jersey Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. Committeeman Harold D. Colley, D-N.C., said farm efficiency had brought food prices down in relation to wages, despite the actual increases in prices. “Actually, in holding back inflation,” our farm people have subsidized the consumers,” Colley said. Over a longer haul, the secretary said, the decreasing percentage of a worker’s take-home pay spent for food is even more dramatic. In 1947-49, “we spent 26 per cent of our take-home pay for food. In 1960 we spent 21 per cent. Today we spend only 18.3 per cent.

Crash Injuns 2 WARSAW,—UPI— Charles Seyfert, 54, was injured slightly and his wife, Agnes, 51, was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture and a broken leg Wednesday when their small plane crashed in a cornfield near here. Authorities said the twin-en-gine Beechcraft developed en-

gine trouble on a flight from Chicago to Fort Wayne and Seyfert attempted to put it down in a newly-plowed field on the Joe Swanson farm. Court Refuses To Rehear Case NASHVILLE, Tenn. UPI — The Tennessee Supreme Court Wednesday refused to rehear the case of Grover Janes, an Indianapolis, Ind. handyman convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the hit-run death of Newt Lee. The widely-publicized case went to trial twice before Jones, who pleaded innocent, was convicted and sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Lee was a Clay County, Term., lumberman killed on New Year’s Eve, 1944, as he walked across a road in front of his home. His son, Welby Lee, vowed he would bring the driver to justice and later said he covered about 100,000 miles in an 18-year search that led to Jones’ arrest in Indianapolis, j

Report indorses Wage Increase WASHINGTON UPI —President Johnson mads public Wednesday a special report endorsing a wake boost of up to 48 cents an hour over 42 months for machinist union members who have threatened a strike against five major U. S. airlines. The report by a special Presidential Emergency Board declared the proposed increase would be “distinctly noninflationary.” For top mechanics, the settlement would raise the present 83.52 an hour pay scale to |4 an hour in the last 12 months of a three-and-a half year contract. The three-man panel headed by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., rejected the union’s proposal for an escalator clause which would tie pay boosts to future cost of living increases. But the board recommended reopening the wake provisions of the suggested contract on Jan. 1, 1968, if the cost of living has risen 2.9 per cent over a five year period ending Dec. 81,1966. Rules Man May Collect On Mete INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The Indiana Appellate Court said Tuesday that a man may collect from his dead wife’s estate for half of a promissory note which both signed even though he Inherits the property involved in the financing. The ruling was made in a suit which originated in Wayne Circuit Court and was filed by Earl W. Miller, against the estate of Mrs. Helen McLochlin Miller. The lower court ruled that the estate administrator, Richard McLochlin, should pay Miller 88,940, representing half of the balance he paid on a promissory note signed by Mr. and Mrs. Miller to build a greenhouse on their Richmond property. The Appellate Court said this was the correct interpretation of Indiana laws and previous court rulings. Mrs. Miller, who lived in Ply. nouth before she married Miler in 1956, died in 1962.

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