Caution, crumbling steps . . .
A caution sign and the podium were placed at the top of the steps of Watson Library Thursday to keep students off the potentially hazardous surfaces until they can be resurfaced.
Four charged in beatings
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UPI)—Four persons were charged with maiming Thursday for the "religious cult" beatings of a young mother and her teen-age sister because they were believed to be witches.
Charged in absentia were the mother's husband, Donald Richard Garman, his sister, Mrs. Sarah Brown and Mrs. Brown's husband, W. A. Brown. The fourth person accused was the victims' mother, Mrs. Maria Ferez.
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1970
The victims of the beatings and month-long torture were Mrs. Sheila Garmon, 28, and her sister, Cindy Perez, 16. They were reported in fair condition Thursday in Washington General Hospital. Their bodies were covered with bruises and the faces of both women were cut.
Mrs. Garmon said she and her sister had been beaten regularly for a month for allegedly casting a spell on Mrs. Garmon's 5-year-old daughter, who suffers from epileptic seizures.
Mrs. Perez to "give us 20 lashes a day until he returned."
Mrs. Garmon told authorities her husband left town last Sunday with his sister and brother-in-law and left instructions with
Washington County Prosecutor Mahlon Gibson said "it appears there was more or less a religious cult" involved in the torture. He said chains and ropes were found during a search after Mrs. Perez was taken into custody.
EMBEZZLEMENT BONANZA
NEW YORK—Sticky-fingered employees are costing American businesses an estimated $1.8 billion a year or $5 million a day in embezzlement losses, according to the Insurance Information Institute.
NEW YORK (UPI)—Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird predicted Thursday that only 210,000 men would be drafted in the 1970 fiscal year instead of the 225,000 he had estimated in January.
Draft cut predicted
Laird said progress in Vietnamization and reduction of the size of the armed forces would allow the smaller draft quota.
The secretary made the comments on a radio interview show CBS' "Classroom USA: At Issue—The Draft" taped in Washington but monitored in New York for broadcast later Thursday night.
Drug apostle waits for pot sentence
SANTA ANA, Calif. (UPI) — Dr. Timothy Leary, 50, in jail here awaiting sentencing on a marijuana possession conviction, will be taken in custody to Texas this weekend for sentencing Monday on another marijuana case.
Leary was convicted here with his wife and son of marijuana possession Feb. 19 and Superior Court Judge Byron K. McMillan immediately revoked his bail and ordered him to jail.
McMillan cited the LSD apostle's published advice to turn on drugs and declared, "You are an insidious, detrimental influence on society."
Main income is beef
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Members of Congress from Kansas asked the Agriculture Department Thursday to extend the May 1 livestock grazing deadline on diverted acres to May 15.
They contended the great plainss area has been too dry for proper use of production.
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