Boy Slayer Got
On Wrong Track
At Foster Home
SEATTLE, WV-The moody, 12
year-old boy held for the slaying
of 4-year-old Kathryn Ruoff, is
“physically grown up. But his
mind is different,” his mother
said yesterday.
Mrs. Carmi Meske, mother of
Ray John Barker, said her son
was in an Oregon foster home
from 1948 to 1950.
“He never was the same boy
afterwards.”
Mrs. Meske said she had left
her four children in the children’s
farm home near Corvallis, Ore.,
while she worked in Alaska—at
Nome and Whittier.
Her son sat in jail today after
Detective Herb Swinder said he
had confessed strangling the
daughter of Washington State
Rep. Richard Ruoff and leaving
her body in a grease pit of an
abandoned garage.
Ray has been receiving public
psychiatric care, but should have
been placed in an institution for
disturbed children years ago, his
mother said.
Mrs. Meske supports her family
of four children on a waitress’
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earnings.
"He s a cmia w-no Keep.^ every
thing within himself ... he isn't
very talkative,” Mrs. Meske said. ^
"He’s only 12 years old and he
has a mustache ... he was nice to
his friends, but he didn't even
show much normal interest in
girls.”
Mrs. Meske said she has no
money to hire legal counsel for
her son and plans to appeal to the
Seattle Bar Assn, for legal aid.
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Britain Explodes
Atomic Device
SYDNEY, Australia, Britain ex
ploded an atomic device off Aus
tralia’s northwest coast Tuesday
in the second and final blast of its
current series of nuclear experi
ments. ,
A brief announcement by the
British Ministry of Supply said
the explosion was successful and
all safety precautions were in op
eration in the remote Monte Bello
Islands, 12 miles off Australia.
The announcement gave no hint
of the nature of the device, but it
has been generally accepted that
these tests were planned to devel
op a trigger for Britain’s first hy
drogen bomb.
The British H-bomb, which still
is being developed, is to toe tested
next year in the vicinity of Christ
mas Island, about 1,400 miles
south of Hawaii.
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MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine,
JO—State Health Dept. Dr. Alta
Ashley gritted her teeth and used
courage as she administered polio
shot to island youngsters Monday.
Just after arriving, Dr. Ashley
aroke her leg in a fall, but went
an to complete her inoculations on
his island, 20 miles off the Maine
xaast.
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Intercontinental
Missile Program
Is Going Well
WASHINGTON, (iP»—'The Air
Force’s research chief says this
country has “a real, firm pro
gram” for development of an in
tercontinental ballistic missile.
This opinion came from Lt. Gen.
Donald L. Putt, supervisor of all
Air Force research programs. He
is deputy chief of staff for devel
opment.
Putt was questioned on May 17
at a closed door session of a Sen
ate Armed Services subcommittee
investigating relative U. S. and
Russian air power. His testimony
was made public Tuesday.
Often termed “the ultimate
weapon,” an intercontinental mis
sile coul<2 carry a nuclear war
head from this country to Russia
—or in the reverse direction—in a
matter of minutes. The aim is to
develop a rocket capable of hit
ting a target 5,000 miles away.
The general’s cautious optimism
on the ICBM was coupled with
sharp criticism of cuts in recent
years in funds for Air Force're
search and development. He also
cautioned that Soviet Russia i
might surpass this country soon
in quality as "well as numbers of 1
new weapons and aircraft.
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