PARENlS MADE HUMAN
TORCH BY TEENAGERS
JACKSON, MICH., Two teenagers who plotted
for a %eek to kill their ■ parents will be
tried as juveniles on charges of turning
their mother and father into human torches
an assistant prosecutor indicated last
week.
The assistant prosecutor said current
plans call only for turning Doreen Baker,
15, and her brother, Bruce, 13, over to
the probate court.
Bruce and Doreen admitted they poured
two water glasses of gasoline over their
sleeping parents and ignited their bed!
last Friday morning.
Their father, Sterling Baker,,and mother
were both reported . in fair condition in
separate hospitals..
Police had bpen:considering asking pro-I
bate court,to waive jurisdiction over thej
children - so they could 'stand trial ah
dults but those plans apparently have been|
changed, '
Bruce ;and Doreen told state police Sgt.
Joseph Terse they had planned to beat
their parents to death with hammers but
decided that plan was too risky and ao—
cided on,the burning plot instead.
BOUNCING BABY
DOES HIGH BOUNCE
SAN FRANCISCO,- Five-year-old Feaerick
I 7ray, bouncing on his springy upper bunk
mattress in a second floor bedroom here
last week, lost control of himself and
crashed through a.closed window nto con
crete steps 25 feet below.
The boy, son of Mrs. Almeter Williams*
1343 Webster st., was treated for a scalp
cut, a cut pn his left arm and bruises at
central emergency hospital.
INDIA NAPOLI 5 C RAC KS DOW N
ON PORNOGRAPHY
INDIANaPOLIS,.- nineteen persons were ar
rested last week in a sweeping crack down
on businesses selling”obscene literature”
in Indianapolis.
Raids were' made on 17 business places >■
by 21 raiding parties composed of 6 ^ar
ion county deputy sheriffs/
Arrested were drug store employes,
newsstand proprietors and a distributor.
The deputies were ordered to pick up
-71 magazi,nes-aiescri,bed.-hy a citiaens...coiife_..
raittee fa* decent literfnre #as "indecent
and offensive." ft was the committee's
complaints which touched off the clean
up campaign, .
Those arrested were charged with
| "possession of obscene literature and
pictures and .possession of obscene
literature for distribution."
'national debt
GOES HIGHER YET
WASHINGTON, The.house ways & means com
mittee last Tuesday approved the Pres
ident * s request for a temporary hike
in the national debt; ceiling to 295
billion dollars. '* But it refused to
grant the full increase he wanted in
the permanent ceiling.
In another setback for the presi
dent, the committee put aside for lat
er consideration his request that in
terest rate limits ,be removed from
individual savings bonds and long-term
marketable bonds, bought mainly by big
investor's.
VUlsiGED SKI dM—Taxiing on one Unprepar-'
6u Arctic snow field is an /dr Force
Lockheed C-130 ski-equipped prop-jot,
after unloading construction equipment
for building an extension of the Dew
line. Because of intense cold, the en
gines are kept in, operation during
cargo unloading.* ___
BARBER GETS SINGE
FROM CUSTOMER
GRANADA. HILLS, CALIF.., • Police sought
two negro men after a barber tola off
icers they tied him to a chair, and ro
bbed him and.set fire to his ship be
cause- he refused to cut their hair.
Jack R. Spry, , 40> said he broke
loose drom ropes just before his store,
was gutted by the fire with damage es