Bartlett Replaces
Egan As Marshal
In Rose Bowl Parade
PASADENA, Calif., UP) — Sen
ator-elect E. L. Bartlett of Alaska
was named Grand Marshal of the
Tournament of Roses Monday,
replacing the new state’s ailing
Governor.
Governor - elect William Egan
originally was invited to lead the
Rose Parade but was hospitalized
last week for an emergency op
eration.
Senator Bartlett, his wife and
their 19-year-old daughter, will
arrive here December 27 for the
coronation (ball for Rose Queen
Pamela Prather.
Said Tournament President
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“It has been our intention for
several months to honor Amer
ica’s 49th State, because we in
the Tournament of Roses consider
Statehood for Alaska to be Amer
ica’s most down-to-earth adven
ture of 1958.”
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Sen. Morse Fires
His Republican Gardener
EUGENE, Ore., JP) — Because
he was a Republican and liked
Ike, D. F. Pickert said, he was
fired as a part-time caretaker by
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore).
‘<It was just the idea I was a
Republican that was too strong
for him,” said the 66-year-old
Pickert, who had worked part
time at Morse’s farm near here
for 25 years.
He was paid $1 an hour.
Morse said in Washington, D. C.
that he did not dispense with
Pickert’s services because the
caretaker is a Republican, “but
beause he had not been loyal to
my friendship.”
Pickert said at his home here
that last October, after Morse had
criticized President Eisenhower in
a speech, he remarked to Morse,
“Eisenhower has forgot more
about war than the common man
will ever know.”
“I never saw a man get so mad,”
Pickert said. The discharge, he
said, followed.
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Girl Scout News
Registrations have been sent to
the Girl Scout office in Fairbanks
for 124 girls and adults. Girls who
were late to register may join a
troop and be registered in Jan
uary. There are ten traoops of
Brownies, Intermediates, and Se
nior Scouts.
* * *
New Leaders Needed
More leaders and assistants are
needed for Brownie and Interme
diate troops. Perhaps you are new
in our community and would like
to get acquainted while being of
service to the young people of
Nome. If so, please contact Mrs.
Bovd Harwood or Mrs. Roscoe
Wilke.
* * *
Senior Scout News
The Senior troop meets twice
a month for a business meeting
and social ctivities. Some of the
girls are entering community serv
ice as Aides and giving of their
time each week to train and to be
of service to the community. Bev
erly Bohrer and Daphne Rylan
der are Library Aides and work
in the Public Library during this
school year. Ann and Myrtle
Chambers are Program Aides, as
sisting with a younger scout
troop. Pearl Johnson is an Office
Aide and has been working at the
Nome Hardware office. She is now
working in Howard Greene’s of
fice. It is through the cooperation
of Nome citizens that these girls
have the opportunities to train as
Aides. Thanks to those people who
are so helpful.
* * *
Holiday Projects
The Brownie troops have made
toys and favors for the hospital
this fall. One troop collected mag
azines for the patients.
The 6th Grade troop No. 69
made Thanksgiving and Christ
made favors for the employes of
Federal Electric Corporation at
Granite Mountain Installation.
The men were grateful and sent
the girls a letter of appreciation
and a donation to help with troop
expenses.
* * *»
It is a loss to Girl Scouting in
Nome that Frances Martin and
Ruth Cruz are leaving. These two
nurses contacted the committee
and asked if they could help with
scouting. Each has had a very ac
tive troop and has given of 'her
time to provide better scouting
for more girls in Nome.
Elizabeth Bakeman, who has
been a very successful Brownie
leader, will be moving from Nome
in January. Older Girl Scouts will
be helping with these troops un
til more leaders can be trained.
Kay Casperson is a new mem
ber to the Nome Girl Scout Com
mittee. She has served as an as
sistant and as a leader in pre
vious years.
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Youth Confronts California Friend
Whose Wife, Children He Butchered
SAN DIEGO, Calif., t® — Thom
as Pendergast stared at the lanky,
pimply-faced youth who had just
confessed slaying Pendergast’s
wife and four children.
“Why did you do it?” he
screamed. “They were all I had
in the world.”
Young Carl Eder slumped in his
chair at the police station. His
mouth opened and shut several
times but no sound came out.
(Finally he blurted: “I didn’t
want to, Tom.”
The meeting between Pender
gast and the 16-year-old runaway
New Pork youth he had befriended
came Monday night after Eder
had been captured in a beach
community a few miles north of
San Diego.
Police had been looking for him
since Friday when the bodies of
Mrs. (Lois Pendergast, 37, and her
four children were found in their
home. The mother had been shot,
the children slashed and stabbed
with a knife.
The 6-foot-3 teen-ager, whose
description had been widely broad
cast, was recognized by a resident
of Mission Beach and arrested by
an off-duty policeman and a life
guard. After a brief show of de
fiance the boy started crying and
admitted he was Eder and that
he had killed Mrs. Pendergast and
the children.
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PARIS, (A1) — A rare hurricane
swept most of France Tuesday
night, leaving at least nine dead
and thousands of dollars of dam
age.
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At the San Diego police sta
tion, officers said they got a de
tailed confession from the youth
whom Pendergast had picked up
as a hitchhiker six weeks ago and
taken into his home because he
felt sorry for him.
They said Eder told them he be
came angry because one of the
children, Diane, was making a lot
of noise. Hejgtormed into the bed
room and threw the girl on the
floor, cutting her head.
Mrs. Pendergast rushed up, took
the child into the bathroom to
bandage her and told Eder to call
a doctor. Instead, the youth got a
pistol from the garage and came
back and shot the mother.
He killed Diane and her brother
Allen, 2, by cutting their throats
with a hunting knife. And when
David, 9, and Tom, 6, came home
from school, he killed them the
same way.
He was waiting outside when
Pendergast came home from his
job as an aircraft worker and
forced him to drive him toward
San Diego before the father had a
chance to enter the house and
find out what had happened.
He left Pendergast at a service
station in San Diego. About the
man who had befriended him he
said: “I didn’t want to kill him.
He’s been real good to me.”
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