: a , The Weather U.S. Weather Burean Forecast Warmer with showers (Details on Page 2) 116th YEAR ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL 595 0a = + Lovesick Youth Held in of Girl Friend JACKSON (?) — A 17-year-old lovesick youth, known to his neighbors as a perfect gentleman, is held as the gun slayer of a girl chum, 16. “If I couldn’t have her, no one else would either . - Police attributed that sobbed-out explanation today to John Hixon, June high school graduate, Labor Day weekend lover’s* lane shooting” of: pretty,| brown-haired. Carilyn Wal- dron. Carilyn, high school senior and ieclaimed: “It can’t be possible. It otje of four children of a factory worker, was found dead yesterday morning in a scenic spot of the Waterloo State Recreation Area near here. On a hill stands a large cross. This is the scene for Easter Sunday services. Slaying in the against him was that he was a little too young to be getting serious.’’ Of Carilyn’s death the father ex-| just doesn't seem real to me.” The mother, Helen, 33, went into seclusion. The other children in the family are Ronald, 14, an Gail, 5. bec < 4 rwine-wit? | —~€arilyn had béen shot twice with a rifle, once in the head and also in the back: A motorist found the body .a few feet off a road. TELLS OF REJECTION Detroit police, who picked up Hixon later in the day, said he told of a spat with Carilyfi and her rejection of him. Homicide Detective Charles - Schlachter quoted Hixon as admit- ting the shooting. He had given her a ring and she had returned it, he said. The imum rgnsity for . murder is life t ‘Wixom probebly Police said there’ was Carilyn was sexually molested. Hixon.’ was returned here last ‘night from Detroit. x ® &. He and Carilyn had a date 1 ae day night. They drove in Hixon’'s cream and blue car to the park area. Detective Sgt. Marvin Krans of the state police said the youth told of Carilyn’s wish to break off their relationship. Krans said Hixon admitted turning his rifle on Carilyn as she left. the car to walk along a woods trail and firing at her after remarking, “Okay, if that’s the way you want it.” Police said Hixon fled in his car, driving the 70 miles east to Detroit, where he spent the rest of the night in an all-night movie house. He was arrested when he went to , his parked car in the downtown district. Police had found the car earlier, BECAME HYSTERICAL , At Detroit headquarters Hixon, 5-feet-8 and with closely cropped blond hair, became hysterical: at one time facing néwspaper photog- raphers. “Why don't you guys get the h--- out of hére,” he screamed. Hixon, who lives with his mother, Mrs. Camilla S, Hixon, lost his father a few years ago through death. His father, Charles Hixon, was a hotel maintainence man. At ‘his home Hixon has three rifles and two shotguns. Since his high school graduation he has worked as a theater usher. * * * Carilyn's family said the girl recently told her twin sister, Mari- lyn, “break off’ with Hixon. The father, Arthur Waldron, 39, spoke well of young Hixon. _.._ ‘He really seemed nice,” Wal- dron said. “The only thing I had that she felt she had to) CARILYN WALDRON Storm Swamps Boat, 3 Drown, 1 Saves Self KINGSTON, Ont.. (® — Police recovered the bodies of three per- sons who drowned when their 23- foot sail boat was swamped during a storm yesterday, Dr. Peter Fisher, 40, head of the English department at Royal} Military College here; Capt. R.J. Hefferon, 34, Detroit, and his wife, Marjorie, 30, Newburgh, N.Y. went down in the vessel off nearby Wolte Island. Hefferon had been assigned to Kingston from the Sands Proving Grounds, Albuquerque, N. M, Nancy Mosier of Wolfe Island was the only survivor, She swam Low Despite. Michigan Deaths High U.S. Toll Chilly Weather Cuts State Fatals to Total of Only 16 Traffic 403 Drownings 110 Niscellaneous 85 Total 595 By The Associated Press The traffic death toll for’ the nation’s extended La- ‘bor Day weekend, wit h final figures still to be com-| piled, appeared headed to-, day for the preholiday esti-, mate of 420. A sharp rise in deaths on -|the highways in the clos- _ling hours of the -78-hour holiday period shot the total close to the predic- tion made last week by the National Safety Council. Michigan, however, counted a over the long weekend, Authorities had feared it ~— be much high- er, A year ago, 17 were killed in Labor Day holiday traffic. Only last weekend, 20 died on state highways. State Police said Michigan's toll of only 9 lives lost in traffic : |. Overall, Michigan’ s Labor ‘Day celebration this year claimed 16 lives, including 4 drowned, Other fata] accidents included a youth killed wher he was thrown from a carnival ride and an auto race driver killed in a county fair crash. FEW TRAFFIC JAMs the Contrary to expectations, were few traffic jams as motor- ists headed home from the holiday Monday night. Some two million cars had been expected to crowd highways between 6 p.m. and mid- night. But only two deaths were reported in Monday crashes. The holiday fatality count began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at aueeem Mendes * * An seiieainis 30 million cars were on the nation's highways yes- terday, the windup of summer's last long holiday. pass the estimate, But it did not appear likely it would reach the 1957 Labor Day holiday total of 445 or the record high toll for a Labor Day period of 461 in 1951. However, the over-all accident death total may equal the count of 636 for last year's three-day Labor Day period, but below the record high for the holiday of 659 in 1951, * * * In the country's thrée major summer holiday periods—Memor- ial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day — more than 1,140 (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Downy Traffic Jam KITTERY, Maine (UPI) — The most persistent problems con- fronting state police at Kittery over the Labor Day weekend were soft and downy. On two separate occasions over the week- end state troopers were called to round. up flocks of tame ducks to shore after the boat sank. Warmer Weather Forecast as Frost Nips Michigan The weatherman says it will] warm up tonight and tomorrow, with scattered showers likely. The expected low tonight will be near 57 and tomorrow's high around 78. It looked like an -early winter this morning -as_ .temperatures dropped below freezing in parts-of Michigan. Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula was the coldest spot in the state with a chilly 28 overnight. Cooler than normal tefnperatures are predicted for the Great Lakes Region during September with pre- cipitation exceeding rainfall, Ponfiac’s low of 45 between 5 and 7 a.m, was only one degree above the city’s all-time low for the date set in 1885. At 1 p.m. the thermometer registered 67. Red Boats Sunk by Nationalists | Biggest Naval Action in 11 Days Reported Off Quemoy Islands TAIPEI, Formosa (— The Chi- nese Nationalists claimed their warships early today sank 11] Com- munist -torpedo boats and probably a 12th trying to break up a convoy to embattled Quemoy Island. * * * It was the biggest naval action reported in the 11 days since the the normal | _ NEW ROUTINE — Actress Dogs Go for Hoops UPI Photo Roberta Shore, 15, practices a hula-hoop routine in Hollywood with Shaggy, a 20-month-old Eng- RAS a who makes his film debut in a Walt Disney So oe Ae ee, Dog,’ be become an ‘shore islar . * « * Earlier, the Nationalists -an- nounced their artillery on Quemoy in firing throughout Sunday night sank three Communist gunboats and eight motorized junks in a flotilla near Amoy, the Commu- nist island port blockaded by the Natignalist islands. Despite the nayal success claimed by the Nationalists, the torpedo boat attack forced the troop carrier to return to the Pescadores Islands without un- loading 370 troops destined for Quemoy. Only 30 of the rein- forcements made it ashore, During and after the naval en- | gagement, the Red shore batteries pounded Quemoy with renewed ifury. Between midnight and early afternoon nearly 2,800 shells were poured on the island, the Defense Ministry said, and a 100-shell bar- ‘The final traffic toll may sur- ‘Yage was dumped on tiny Tatan islet 2% miles south of Amoy. * * * The combined artillery and sea. attack erupted after the quietest. day in the Formosa Strait since the Reds began their heavy attack Aug. 23. The Communist shore guns fired only 457 shells yester-| day. The small, fast boats struck just as troops from a National- ist landing ship were being un- loaded into small boats six miles offshore. Four Nationalist war- ships intercepted the Communist attackers. The ministry said one National- ist warship was slightly damaged and there were 10 Nationalist cas- ‘ualties. * Meanwhile, the first elements of about 1,000 U. S. Marines arrived in Formosa for amphibious ma- neuvers with the Nationalists be- ginning Friday or Saturday. The 3rd Marine Division from Okinawa and some units of Air Group 1) holding up highway traffic, hice Gamblers De for Arraignment Today Five persons, including Deputy City Treasurer LaRue E. Gullett, were scheduled to be arraigned at 2 p.m. to- day in an alleged Pontiac gambling syndicate. The five are expected to be charged with conspiracy | ito violate Michigan’s gambling laws. Conviction could tle ¥ City Merchants Plan Festival , Sept. 18 to 23 The Downtown Merchants Assn. of the Pontiac Area Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a six-fay shopping festival, Sept, 18-23, ‘it was disclosed before the City Com- mission last night, Norman L. Patterson, associa- tion president, said the occasion would ‘be named Downtown Fes- tival Days and would ‘involve side- walk booths and a downtown car- nival, with fides at reduced prices for those who have made downtown purchases. : Patterson said that details of the event, were still in the planning Stage, 9 x * municipal parking lot during the festival for $500, an amount equal to the estimated city profits from parking me during .a six-day period, The carnival ) E ' ° ADrOSTED p>: aS a TERIL! PO), : ° CLEANED ‘ — 3 sag Bagge | E representative wilt be in our every Wednesday of every week. NEW SERVICE—Rem! White HARDWOOD | | TOILET SEAT With All Fittings 2° s As shown, seat complete with Md and all the fittings. Install your- 3 s self. Limit 1. Pas 98 N. Saginaw —Znd Floor 9 THE PONTIAC PRESS. 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(AP)—Rita, a) 150-pound chimpanzee, broke out of her cage at a zoo crowded with Labor Day visitors—and knocked the stuffings ‘out ‘of her owner, * * * “When J saw her I chased her,” said Les Lindvig, 42, operator of the small zoo, ‘‘With all those’ peo- ple there, something had to _be done.” = ——t—