The Way it Was

Game warden use a shotgun in

enforcement effort

MACON, Mo., -- C.A. Casson, deputy game warden is under arrest for using a shotgun to compel respect for the hunting license law. It is charged that he found "Bud" Wilson, a farmer, hunting mink without a license. Wilson had laid his gun down while peering under a log. He told the warden he did not have a license to hunt mink because the prosecuting attorney said the license law was no good.

The warden said the Saint Louis court of appeals has upheld the law.

In the altercation it is alleged the warden picked up the hunter's gun and pointed it at him, ordered him to stop and consider himself under arrest.

Wilson was tried and acquitted. In the meantime, the Saint Louis court has reconsidered its opinion on the license law and the county attorney thinks this makes a case against the game warden for the unlawful display of firearms.

He was accordingly arrested and will be tried Saturday.

50 years ago

Teen-age "Rebels" admit to vandalism

Police Chief Darrell Estes Jr., announced this afternoon that four teen-aged youths, three of whom are students in the Nevada public schools and the fourth who recently quit school, have admitted being the instigators of the "Rebels."

The group has been sending semi threatening notes to various high school students recently and Tuesday night damaged a car belonging to John Turner, a member of the basketball team.

One of the lads is a senior, one is a freshmen and the other is a member of the eighth grade class, Chief Estes said. Names of the youths were not made public by the police as the investigation into the case continued this afternoon.