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Show Testifies WASHINGTON (UPI) -The former superintendent of Arkansas state prisons testified today that prisoners were treated like wild animals and that he was fired because he dug up bodies of inmates I believe were murdered. The testimony was given to a Senate subcommittee by Thomas 0. Murton. He related tales of torture and abuse of prisoners, some involving young boys he said were thrown into the same prison farms as vicious, violent and emotionally deranged felons, Murton also said Negro prisoners ate only the scraps investigating prison conditions in the nation that he was fired as superintendent because he dug up bodies of inmates I believe were murdered at the Cummins Prison Farm. Murton exhibited for senators devices including clubs, whips, and a grisly electrical devices called the Tucker telephone" which he said were used on prisoners. Murton said beys as young as 14 are sent to Arkansas prison governed by a group of armed inmates, some of whom are vicious, violent and emotionally deranged felons. At one point, Murtou declared: When we treed men like wild animals we turn them into wild animals. Our from the table after whites CIRCUS FAMILY Prison Horror Off mittee finished eating. Murton told the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcom DESERET prisons, in varying are monster-producintories. Murton the accompanied photoweapons with blown-ugraphs of prisoners on whom they had been used. One Murton said a 1966 investimans stomach had been gation of Arkansas prisons by open by a rider State Police disclosed a cat- ripped the term used for a guard at and of inmate abuse alogue two big prison Arkansas official corruption including farms, Tucker and Cummins. of death, threats, shooting The Tucker Telephone, prisoners, gratuitous beatings which Murton said he took with rubber hoses, black from the hospital at Tucker x brass knuckles, jacks, prison farm, was an handles, torture, stampings, crank phone with sexual kickings, perlashings, removed. its ear piece versions and other forms of It has two loose wires. The punishment. is stripped and patient Many of these inmates strapped down. The wires are were very young. attached to parts of the body Murton said he started to and the crank is turned, genreform the states prison sys- erating electricity in shocks of tem but was fired in a white- varying duration until the wash." man passes out. degrees, g Keane fac- p Nixon Planning Cabinet SALT LAKE ii ion urwwijg (UPI)-Pres-i- better wear my new socks today. We're getting our pictures taken. 1 Casual dining is in the limelight (or candlelight) and especially nice when the table is set with a carefree, cotton terry tablecloth. Select your favorites from an assortment of Vein Feedings Halted For Ike -WASHINGTON (AP) Army doctors reported today that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, continues to .show such favorable progress that they discontinued all Intravenous feedings and medi- no-iro- . cations this morning. He has no fever and his action remains unchanged, said the announcement from Walter Reed Army Hospital. At the same time, the doctors said: It should be em heart regain his former strength. The doctors, who had been issuing two bulletins a day on E i s e n h o w e rs condition, announced Monday they were cutting back to a single daily bulletin. The former president, who underwent an operation Feb. 21 for removal of an intestinal obstruction, was hit by post- operative Friday. pneumonia last Faulty Track Blamed In Crash COVINGTON, GA. (AP) -A race car driver has told members of the Georgia House Motor Vehicles Com- mittee that faulty track conditions caused the crash which killed 11 persons and injured about 50 others at Yellow River drag strip here. Arnie Bestwick of Morrison, said Monday a slick track partially covered with sand sent Huston Platt funny car spinning out of control 111., and into the crowd of spectators Sunday. The committee, led by Chairman Bill Williams of Gainesville, toured the Yellow River track near Covington and visited other strips in Newton County Monday. Rep. Williams said legislation is being drafted to require drag strips to maintain at least $1 million worth of liability Insurance to cover patterns, all fashion-righ- t if perf. 4.99 52x70 WASHINGTON en. (UPI) Stuart Symington, -S- said today the Sentinel missile ABM system antl-ballist- ic could wind $400 payers than the up costing taxmore billion national current debt. His estimate was the highest yet heard in the continuing Senate debate over deployment of the system, designed as a defense against a primitive Communist Chinese nuclear attack and a building Haight-Ashbur- y SAN The FRANCISCO (UPI) Haight-Ash-bur- once-peacef- -- y Francisco has become such a haven for citcrime, that Its izens apparently are thinking of taking vigilante style action. David Johnson, of the areas district of San g neighborhood council, told the city police commission Monday that the 17 murders in the area thus far ir. 1969 constitute an utterly intolerable situation. In addition, Johnson asserted there have been hundreds of armed robberies, attempted murders, assaults, burglaries, looting of merprostitution, of sales pronography to chants, Juveniles and gang violence. y He asserted that the root of The neighbor this evil is the retailing of hood became famous as the hard-cormecca for the hippie movement, drugs. He announced formation of a but increased traffic in narcotsafety council to eradicate the ics and other factors has avalanche of crimes of vio- brought a sharp increase in violence. Johnson is chairman, lence to the home of the flower but he said tire rest ol the com- children, many of whom have mittee will remain anonymous. moved elsewhere. If additional police protecOn Monday, for Instance, a tion is not forthcoming, we will school basketball game for high to be forced investigate other the city championship at Kezar alternatives to deal with the rison the edge of the disPavilion he warned. ing crime wave, into violence. trict erupted is largeThe When a ly police arrived, some peacefully integrated neighborhood of great beauty whose youths dashed through the 35,000 residents are almost unan-- i smashing store lmously sick of being identified windows with rocks and bottles, with a cancerous ghetto , , ,Some looting was reposed. 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The nurse, not Identified, was puzzled by Browns handling of an emergency room case and Ginic Jan. 13 after he answered former Air Force Secretary, an ad in a medical journal, Defense Departchallenged using the name Dr. Glenn L. ment estimates that the Foster. thin But it turned out the real Dr. system would cost under $6 billion and die Fosters cousin, Mrs. Thaine B. thick defense against Soviet Price, was the wife of a Fuller-to- n informed superiors. attack would cost about $40 physician. Learning Brown was arrested Feb. 22, billion. Foster was in town, she tele- - the day after the death of one of his patients, William Noel, 75. An autopsy was ordered. Brown is being held at the Orange County Jail on five charges of violating the state business and professional code, which medicine covers practicing without a license. He is slated for a court hearing Wednesday. Mulls Vigilante Style Action if perf. 6.99, 52x90 Wonda Mat reg. 1.95, draws dirt, snow, removes it on contact. 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But he said Nixon being invested in the program wants to be sure (1) that Nixon aides also were said to various federal programs are be skeptical of the community worth doing at all; (2) whether action programs still left with there is a better way of doing the OEO. If these survive, it them, and (3) whether the was said, they probably will government is getting its wind up under the Model Cities moneys worth. program, although the cities To this end, he said, Nixon program itself is under sharp soon will set up a White House administration scrutiny. FULLERTON, CALIF. (AP) An unlucky phone conversation and a nurse's suspicion of his medical technique led to the arrest of an Alabama man who posed as a heart specialist block to shield against any attack by the in two states, police say. Four of the 87 patients treated Soviet Union. by Robert Ervin Brown, police Symington, a member of reported, died! within the last the Senate Armed Services two months. Committee and an opponent Authorities said Brown, 33, of the Sentinel project, and was hired by Fullerton Medical MB DOOR CRASHERS group on government reorganization. The source said1 the group will not be as broad as the Hoover Commission of the Truman Administration, which proposed a wholesale reorganization of federal activities, because we cant wait that long. He also disclosed that the Office of Bureaus Budget Executive Management will be armed with additional authority so that it can measure proposed spectator injury or death. OTTOKWC n terry in four colors. top-quali- ty 60 phasized that he is still very weak and considerable time will be necessary for him to A3 envt i If perf. private NEWS CAPSULES 4, 1969 terry elotli goes to the table no-iro- n famous-bran- d, Nixons plans were revealed by a White House official who is close to the Chief Executives thinking but who asked that his name not be used. This official said Nixons goal is to bring the reorganization plans against management unwieldy federal bureaucracy latest under tighter White House practices and decide whether control. they are worthwhile. The White House aide said He said the proposed reforms reorganization plans would be accomplished under Nixons at least half the the presidential reorganization will cover bill now pending in Congress. regular cabinet departments, Under the authority, which including Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), Housing and expired at the end of 1968, the Urban (HUD), Development President could overhaul federal departments and programs Labor, Commerce, Agriculture unless either the House or and Interior. did not go into Senate rejected! the plan within While he details for the most part, he did March WT' Reorganization dent WASHINGTON Nixon intends to reorganize at least half of the governments 12 cabinet departments in search of greater simplicity and efficiency, it was disclosed today. 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