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Put off by Council
Street Widening Okehed
By ROBERT E. GANGWARE
City Editor, The Statesman
' Action on a one-way street grid for downtown Salem was put
dff by Salem City Council Monday night after opponents of the
traffic plan began making themselves heard.
In other business at the City Hall meeting, the aldermen de-
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Old Dan Reed stuck his cocaine
needle in the idea of a nationa!
sales tax and put it to sleep with
his blunt statement that there
would be no such tax, that Con
gress wouldn't go for it Recently
with heavies, outlays urged for
national defense against the
H-bomb- and with cuts from in
come and excise taxes in pros
pect, agitation for a nationa.
sales tax has risen. The Alsops
even figured out how much
manufacturers' tax or a sales tax
would raise for each per cent of
the levy. Now the budget bal
ancers and the eager spenders
will have to back off and take a
fresh look. And they had best
look in some other direction than
a retail sales tax.
Dan Reed can speak with
high degree of authority. It took
all of the President's influence
and Speaker Martin's arm twist
ing to get an extension of the
excess profits tax for six months.
That was done over Reed's Quak
ing body. As chairman of the
House ways and means committee
he is in position to dictate reve
nue legislation, especially since
he carries a majority of the com
mittee with him.
Reed insists that the income
tax cut of ten per cent set for
1894 go into effect He already
has a promise from the White
House to let the EP tax die in
January. It is safe to say he'd
like to let the five per cent cut
in the'ebrporation tax and other
cuts built into excise tax laws
occur
(Continued on Editorial Page 4.)
Baking Firm
Plans Salem
Bakery Plant
A new bakery plant for Salem
will be built this fall by Davidson
Baking Co., of Eugene and Port
land, that firm announced Mon
day. This will be the second new
bakery in Salem as Franz Baking
Co. of Portland recently started
construction on South 20th, south
of Mission Street
The Davidson bakery will be
erected at 13th and Cross Streets
where the company has owned
property several years, announced
President E. F. Davidson who said
the plant would have about 7,000
square feet of floor space.
Plans are now being prepared
by Richard Sunleaf Architects.
James Mohatt, Salem sales man
ager for, Davidson's, reports the
bakery's annual payroll in the Sa
lem area is $70,000. Fifteen Wil
lamette Valley routes are operat
ed from Salem leased space.
Misplaced Ticket
Cuts City's Take'
Mailboxes aren't parking - tag
boxes and vice versa.
Salem Postmaster Albert Gragg
thought that should be made clear
Monday when he discovered that
omeone had dropped a red en
velope and 50 cents fine into a
corner postal box.
But he said the city would get
the envelope and the 50 cents all
right marked "postage due."
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
7JUT5 TWICERS YEAR
HE'S LOOKED AT ME
7H FLIRT -
Action
I cided to widen and pave Market
Street east of 21st Street next
spring, to conduct a public hear
ing Sept 28 on the proposed new
zone code and to proceed with
paving of Ferry Street between
19th and 20th at property owners'
expense even though less than a
majority of property owners there
sought the improvement
Council members said they had
received several complaints
against the proposed one-way
street area expansion in recent
days. Mayor Alfred W. Loucks
said the council generally fa
vored the plan but didn't want to
rush it through even though some
advantages would result from set
ting up the grid at the time the
Center Street bridge reopens
later this month.
Cites Narrow Street
As it stands, the couplet of
one-way bridges over the Willam
ette River probably will go into
operation at least two weeks
before a street grid could be
marked off.
Chandler Brown, one of six
persons speaking at a public
hearing on the issue last night
advised further study to learn
what steps in addition to a one
way end would be necessary to
relieve traffic problems as in
tended. He cited particularly
downtown State Street which is
too narrow for four lanes con
sidered best for one-way opera
tions. He said parallel parking,
wider driveways or other meas
ures should be considered.
Spragne Appears
Charles A. Sprague, represent
ing the Capitol Planning Commis
sion, asked that through traffic
be kept out of the Capitol Mall
and recommended that the grid
extend no further east than
Church Street for the present
Carl Wendt City Transit Lines
manager, opposed blocking one
way streets off at Union and
Trade Streets because more traf
fic would be turned into those
streets -which carry railroad
tracks.
Elmer Amundson, manager of
the former one-way street com
mittee of the Elfstrom adminis
tration, endorsed the proposal
but suggested several traffic
guides such as additional cross
walks or stop lines, and painted
arrows to indicate turns.
Page Stevenson asserted that
parallel parking and no-left-turns
would help traffic as much as
one-way streets.
(Additional council news on
page 2.)
Husband Held
For Shootins
McMINNVILLE OB A family
argument ended fatally Sunday
night at Grand Ronde and Joseph
Kochis, 77, was in the Yamhill
County jail Monday charged with
first-degree murder.
Sheriff W. J. Jones said Kochis
told him he shot his wife, Rosa,
74, with a .22 calibre rifle. The
bullet struck her below the left
ear and she was dead before ar
rival of an ambulance called by
her husband. v '
Kochis, a pensioner, said his
wife had defied him to "shut me
up."
Max.
M
Mln. Predp.
M .M
53 .00
1 .00
49 trace
Salem
Portland
SI
Saa Francisco 83
Chicago . 65
New Yorlc es
SI .00
Willamette River 3.1 feet.
Mostly fair and continued warm
today and tonic ht. Partly cloudy and
idnesday. Kixneix lemper
y near 85, lowest tonight
near 48. Temperature at 11 ."01 a .it.
was 56 decrees.
SALEM PRECIPITATION I
Since Start ( Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year tart Year ' Normal
trace JO -SO ;
Driver Charged
Assault in!
NEWPORT. Ore. Ui State Po
lice SgL William Colbert Monday
filed a charge of assault with in
tent to kill against a Newport au
tomobile dealer whose partner is
in a hospital with injuries. j
Both were involved in an auto
mobile accident last Thursday. 1
Richard Thomson, 25, was Jailed
at Toledo under $3,000 baiL He was
arraigned Monday and waived pre
liminary and grand jury hearing.
No date was set for him to enter
plea. 1 - c 'i
His partner. James K. Mueller
was in serious condition at a hos
pital here with compound leg frac
tures, bruises and cuts. 1
Thomson first reported that the
car he was driving and in which
Mueller was a passenger plunged
Classroom
5TT3
BROOKS Toung America returned to school in many mid-valley
communities Monday including Brooks, nine miles north of Salem,
where a pledge of allegiance to the flag was an opening ritual.
The above pupils are in Alta Simmons' third-fourth grade. Like
Bitter Gotham
Campaign to
Voters Today
By ARTHUR EVERETT
NEW YORK The city's may
oralty primary campaign ended
Monday night, with the Democratic
Party gravely split by its first city
hall contest since 1937.
Republican and Liberal Party
candidates are unopposed.
The future of the, so-called con
servative wing of the Democratic
Party rides with Mayor Vincent R.
Impellitteri. seeking reelection. He
is .backed by former Democratic
National Chairman James A. Far
ley, shooting, for a comeback and
control of the New York state party
organization.
Son of Senator
His chief primary rival is Man
hattan Borough President Robert
F. Wagner, son of the late New
York senator who authored the
New Deal's Wagner Labor Act in
the 1930s.
Behind Wagner is the so-called
liberal or New, Deal wing of the
party Americans for Democra
tic Action Sen. Herbert H. Leh
man, Averell Harriman and Rep.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Tammanr Backed
Wagner also is backed by Tam
many Hall, the Manhattan Demo
cratic organization, and the Bronx
machine of the late boss Edward
J. Flynn.
The winner of Tuesday's Demo
cratic primary will be pitted
against three other candiates in
the Nov. 3 general election. They
are:
Three Opponents
Rudolph Halley, a Democrat who
starred on television as the general
counsel of the old Kefauver Senate
Crime Committee. He is running
on the Liberal ticket.
Harold Riegelman, a Republican
who served a short stint as New
York City's acting postmaster aft
er President Eisenhower took over
the White House.
Clifford T. McAvoy, candidate of
the far-left American Labor Party.
The ALP in recent years has swung
little weight at the polls.
Congress Aspirant
First Man to File
H. H. Stallard, Portland Demo
crat, filed his candidacy for con
gress Monday at the statehouse,
becoming the first candidate to
file for any office in next year's
election. He filed in the third
congressional district.
With Deadly
Crash on Coast
of! the Coast Highway after the
steering gear locked.' Thomson
said he was thrown clear first, and
Mueller was thrown out just be
fore the car went over a 150-foot
cliff. The car landed, on rocks at
the shoreline, near Cape Foul wea
ther, north of Otter Crest
But under questioning, Sgt. Col
bert said. Thomson admitted is a
signed statement that be struck
Mueller on the head with a section
of pipe Just before the accident.
Colbert quoted Thomson as saying
he couldnt remember what hap
pened after that Because of his
condition Mueller could not be
questioned. -
Thomson told police he had been
considering dissolving his partner
ship with MneUer.
Routine . Beckons Many Valley
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Valley Schools Count
Climb in Enrollments
By CHARLES IRELAND
Valley Editor, The Statesman y
Pupils returned to classes in more than a dozen mid-valley com
munities Monday and nearly everywhere it was the same story
more students than last year.
Dallas, Silverton, Woodburn and Albany were among eities re
porting big increase.
One of the biggest bulges was
at Keizer, independent school dis
trict closest to Salem, where 841
students were attending classes
under the same roof.
The Keizer enrollment was 93
higher than at the close of last
term, according to Supt. Carma
lita Weddle. Relief was near,
however. Mrs. Weddle said the
new Keizer school might be ready
in four to six weeks.
Meanwhile, 11 Keizer first and
second grade classes were double
shifted, with some pupils attend
ing from 8 a. m. to noon, others
from 12.-S0 to 4.30 p.m.
Dallas Count Up
At Dallas, Supt S. E. Whit
worth said first grade registration
leaped to 168 from 120 last year.
Total enrollment for the city's
four public schools was 1,308 25
more than at the start of last
year. High school was down 21
from last year's 390, but late
registrants were expected to push
the total higher. The first eight
grades total 939, an increase
of 48.
At nearby Rickreall, 80 stu
dents showed up and Mrs. R. V.
Carleson, principal, said they
"looked out the window a lot be
cause it was so warm." The total
was eight more than last year.
Start Kindergarten
Woodburn had 56 more first-
uay students than a year ago,
according to Supt F. P. Doerfler
Grand total was 724 of which 239
were at high school, 360 at Wash
ington and 125 at Lincoln.
Silverton reported 1,104 open-
mg-cay students. Supt Howard
Haiders tone said 73 of them were
in the new public kindergarten.
Grades one to six had 483 stu
dents, 40 above last year. There
were 99 first graders, the most in
history. Other figures were high
school, 385; junior high, 163.
North Marion Union High
School reported 172, about the
same as last year. Hubbard
Grade School had 189, down three
from a year ago.
Mere Enroll at Brooks
Gervais Union High School
opened with 143 'students, and
Gervais Grade School counted 62.
At Brooks Grade School there
were 121 students, nine more
than last September.
Lake Labis h, one of the rural
schools starting Monday, had 64
pupils, three more than last year,
according to Principal Lloyd
Lyda.
Albany reported 2,610 students,
an opening increase of 68. The
high school listed 652, junior high
474 and grade school enrollment
totaled 1,501.
FatemiEyes
Cairo Hideout
. CAIRO, Egypt (A Hossein Fa
teml right hand .man of Iran's
ousted Premier Mohammed Mossa
degh, has escaped from Tehran with
a price on his head and plans to
hide out in Cairo, an informed
source said Monday.
This source said Fatemi. who
has slipped through Iran's biggest
police dragnet, is either in Cairo
or will arrive momentarily. The
whereabouts of Iran's former for
eign minister is top secret, govern
ment sources said. ' .
most schools, Brooks counted more students Monday than on open
ing day last year, was prepared for more when crops are harvested.
(Statesman photo by John Ericksen.) (Additional school pictures on
Pge 7.)
TrcyStaats,
Former Polk
Official Dies
SUtetnua ftewi srrir
DALLAS Tracy Staats, for
mer mayor of Dallas for two
terms and a Polk County employe
for the past 30 years, died at a
Dallas hospital Monday at the age
of 79 years.
Services will be held Thursday
at 2 p. m. in the Presbyterian
Church with Dr. Earl Benbow
officiating and interment at
Dallas Cemetery. The Bollman
Funeral Home is in charge.
Staats' service in Polk County
included 28 years as school board
clerk, city councilman, mayor,
deputy assessor, deputy sheriff,
county treasurer and some years
in the tax department
He was born Feb. 11, 1874, in
Airlie, Ore., the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry D. Staats, both early
Polk County settlers. His grand
father, Isaak Staats settled in
Oregon in 1845.
Staats married Eloise S. Phil
lips, March 28, 1906, in Portland.
They have resided in Dallas since
after their marriage. He was a
member of the Presbyterian
Church, the Oddfellows Lodge,
Masonic Lodge and the Shrine.
Survivors include the widow of
Dallas; two sons, Howard D.
Staats, Dallas, and Dr. Thomas
Phillip Staats, Portland; two
daughters, Mrs. Margaret Crider,
Monmouth, and Mrs. Mary Wort
man, McMinnville; a brother,
Emmett W. Staats, Monmouth,
and 10 grandchildren.
WIL Playoffs
At Salem 2. Spokaa S
American League
At New York 8. Cleveland S
At Boston 8. Chicago 10
At Washincton 8. Detroit 1
Only same scheduled.
National League
At Chicago 3. Brooklyn 1 .
At St. Louis S. Philadelphia 8
Only games scheduled.
Police Chief KJifls Youftlhi. Takes
TACOMA tff) A youthful es
capade ended at the foot of Mt
Rainier early Monday morning with
the death of a 13-year-old boy and
the sujeide of the police chief who
shot him.
Shot and killed as the car in
which he was riding ran through a
police blockade was young Kenneth
Nelson of Seattle. ,
Dead by his own hand minutes
after be shot the boy was Floyd
E. Tharp, -41. chief! of police at
Morton, a tiny logging community
about 45 miles south of Tacoma.
Tharp shot himself without know
ing Nelson was dead. Sheriff A.
Earl Hilton M Lewis County said.
Other deputies at the scene said
Tharp, "just fell apart- after the
shooting. They said they walked
with Tharp . down a road a short
distance, trying to console him, un
Youngsters
l,154Enrolled
For Parochial
School Year
Salem's three Catholic schools
enrolled 1,154 boys and girls Mon
day as their new school year
started.
Record high enrollments were
reported at both elementary
schools and both will have two
full first grade rooms this year
for the first time.
, St Joseph's School counted 461
students, including 84 first grad
ers. , The St Vincent dePaul en
rollment of 447 included 85 first
graders. Both have an additional
room this year, making 10 class
rooms.
More Expected
At Sacred Heart Academy 246
high school students enrolled,
about the same as last year. All
three schools expect additional
students to report later this week
or next, as many boys and girls
are reported finishing up sum
mer jobs.
Among new faculty members
at Sacred Heart are two Francis
can fathers from California, now
living at Shaw. They are the Rev.
John Francis dePaenelaere, his
tory teacher, ad the Rev. Kelvin
Murphy, Latin. Both also will
teach religion.
School officials said the fathers
are here also to study the possi
bility of future Catholic high
school expansion for the Salem
area.
New Teachers
Other new teachers on the
academy faculty of 17 are Sister
Michaelann, science, Sister Re
gina Mary and Sister Mary
Elaine, who will teach music at
the academy and at St Joseph's.
Sister Mary Aquinas is the new
principal at St Joseph's. Also
new there are Sister Joel Mary,
Sister Celeste Marie,' Sister Vic
toria Maria, Mrs. Clifford Etzel
and Mrs. John Pizzuti.
St Vincent's faculty now in
cludes 11 sisters and two lay
teachers. New this year are Sister
Marcella Maria, music, and Mrs.
Edward Meier, second and third
grade teacher. Sister Margaret
Jane is principal
Salem public schools and Salem
Academy will open next Monday.
Today's Statesman
General News 2, 3, 4, 5
Market News 3
The Oatis Story 4
Society News 6
Sports News 8, 9
Classifieds 10, 11
til he finally told them he was all
right '
But a moment later he pulled his
revolver from its holster, placed
the muzzle in his mouth, and fired.
He died instantly.
' Law enforcement officers from
Lewis and Pierce counties gave this
account of the tragedy:
Nelson, with two other boys from
Seattle, both 14, were running away
from home. One borrowed his fath
er's car, although he said later he
had driven it only twice. ,
En route to Portland, the trio
stopped at a motel on the mountain
road near the Mt Rainier National
Park. ,
The proprietors, Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Jones, were awakened by
a noise in the motel courtyard. In
vestigating, they saw a shadowy
figure apparently tampering with
the gas tank on a parked car.
Jones turned on lights in their
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By DOUGLAS
i CHICAGO (JPV The big oratorical guns of the Democratic Par
ty raked the Eisenhower administration Mondiy night as govern
ment by postponement, operating a "wrecking crew" in Washington
andi letting biased millionaires and big business tun the nation, t
Hit was Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee
of last year, who accused the GOP of putting things off, ,
It was former President Harry S. Truman who declared a
wrecking crew is "undermining and tearing down" in the national
capital and that Democrats must i
keep America and the world from
thej road to ruin."
Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois
said.it is big businessmen who are
working havoc with the interests of
the i American people through a
"give-away, throw-away, sell-away
program."
This top trio of party leaders and
more besides cannonaded the GOP
at a national Democratic rally de
signed to ring up the curtain for
the 1954 election and regain control
of Congress for the Democrats.
$l9fa-plate Dinner
. They spoke at a $100-a-plate din
ner to some 1.600 party partisans
assembled in the grand ballroom
of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. ,
Stevenson quipped that he was
relieved to discover there still are
so many Democrats in the country
and j that after nine months of a
Republican administration "s o
many of them have $100."
The former Illinois governor said
the COP brought about a change,
all right, but it seems to be mostly
one, of attitude. Now, he said, they
seem to be doing their best to per
suade the people they won't "touch
a tingle one of these advances of
the past 20 years."
Draws Applause i
The administration's motto, Ste
venson said, seems to be: "When in
doubt, appoint a commission and
the areas of doubt are very wide."
Taxes are going to be studied
and taken up at the next session of
Congress, he said, and that goes
for revision of the Taft-Hartley Law
and 'foreign trade policy
"I. guess you might call it govern
ment by postponement," Stevenson
said.
Laughter and applause rolled
through the ballroom.
Announcements of defense cuts,
followed by threatening words in
Asia, Stevenson declared, sounds
as though the administration was
saying to the Communists, "one
false move from you guys and we'll
cut the national defense by another
billion dollars."
Called Solemn Hour
Thunderous applause rolled
through the hall as Stevenson used
his tapier on the Republicans,
Stevenson said the hour is too
solemn for partisan satisfactions.
with a weary world, on the thresh-
hold of momentous negotiations in
Asia and EuropeKorea, China, In
dochina and Germany.
Fateful decisions that affect us
all confront the administration, he
said, and "it is our government as
well as the KepuBlicansY
. "The job of the Democrats." be
counseled, "is to help in every way
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Tidal Waves
Hit in Fijis,
Canada Coast
AUCKLAND. New Zealand vn
An earthquake accompanied by a
tidal wave struck the Fiji Islands
in the southwest Pacific Monday,
killing at least two persons and
smashing buildings.
The islands, Britain's most im
portant colony in the Pacific, are
about 1,100 miles north of Auckland
and ; about 1,500 miles northeast of
Australia.
Reports from Suva, colonial capi
tal on Viti Levu, largest of the
islands, said the center of the
quake appeared to have been not
far fouth of that city.
SOOKE. B. C. (A Giant waves.
rolling in from the Pacific, caused
injury to several persons Sunday,
capsized small boats and wrecked
fishing gear at Gordon Beach on
the. west coast of Vancouver Is
land. Experienced fishermen, however.
discounted reports that the waves
and surf had been caused by an
earthquake creating a tidal wave.
Waves 15 feet high tossed logs
about like matchsticks, while small
boats rolled in the rough surf.
One witness said the sea was
calm, then suddenly receded, built
up a tremendous volume of water.
and crashed in waves 12 to 15 feet
highi
home and the youths fled up the
mountain road into the national
park toward Longmire.
Jones knew the road was a dead
end and notified police authorities.
Tharp, Sheriff Hilton and Lewis
County Deputies Ed Stanich and
Orville Amundson responded. With
one i vehicle, they set up a road
block at the-motel. In a second
car, the sheriff and Stanich drove
up the mountain road.
- They met the car, which had
turned about, approximately a mile
andi a half from the roadblock.
They signalled it to stop. As it
whizzed by. Stanich fired a shot
gun blast at the tires. Sheriff Hil
ton radioed back to the roadblock
of the developments.
As the young trio approached
the roadblock at the motel, their
car veered into the courtyard of
the motel, attempting to avoid hit-
"B. CORNELL-- -it
at
Transfer
By SAM SUMMERLIN
MUNSAN Lf Angry, rock-hurl
ing anti-Communist Chinese pris-'
oners balked Monday at being
turned over to Indian custody in
the Korean neutral zone and some
thought they were being sent back,
to the. Communists.
Indian custodial troops restored
order without bloodshed.
An additional 2,000 Chinese and
North Korean prisoners, the larg
est number yet in the 6-day-old
movement, were to be sent to the
neutral zone Tuesday. . ;
United Nations Command officers
handling the mass transfer of 14,
700 Chinese and almost 8,000 North ,
Koreans from Allied prison camps'
to stockades in the neutral zone,
said it took four hours to get 250
Chinese prisoners into the camp
Monday. i
Another 250 stoned Red observ
ers and grappled with Indian'
guards.
Other rock-throwing, fist-swinging
Chinese prisoners staged violent
shows of defiance when they spot
ted Communist observers watching
their transfer from U.N. control
to Indian guardianship. : A
U.N. Debates
Seen on
ans
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (A
A new fight between the Commu
nists and the U.N, majority over
the Korean peace conference ar
rangements threatened Monday to
mar the opening days of the eighth
United Nations General Assembly.
The battle is expected by dele
gates to make worse the prospects
for an eventual settlement
The delegates of 60 nations will
begin, the session Tuesday at 2
p.m. it is anybodjrs guess how
-quickly Soviet Chief Delegate An-
riri V. VlahincW will rwnwn thm
Communist fight to broaden the
peace conference and to invite Red
Chinese and North Koreans here
for this new debate.
Red China's i Foreign Minister
Choi En-Lai informed Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold Sun
day that Peiping wants Russia, In
dia, Burma, Pakistan and Indone
sia to take part in the peace con
ference. ';
The United States Immediately
rejected the Peiping proposals and
France and Britain indicated Mon
day they will stand beside Wash
ington in this rejection. Hammarsk
jold distributed the Red .Chinese
communication to all member coun
tries. 8-Year-01d
Found Alive
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK,
Calif, cn Eight-year-old Dana
McClure of Pacoima, Calif., miss
ing for more than five days In
rugged back country, was found
alive and well Monday except for
a few scratches and bruises.
Assistant Chief Ranger Car lock
Johnson said one of several search
parties heard the boy crying faint
ly as it explored along the huge
gorge cut by the Marble fork of
the Kaweah River.
The ranger said the youngster
saw tne party' approacning dui
didn't make a ! sound until they
were almost upon. Then he ran
to Clark and grabbed him about
the legs in a tight embrace.
Ovm Loire
ting the vehicle parked in the mid
dle of the highway. In swerving,
their car almost hit Amundson. The
officers opened fire. ,
The car swung out of control and
plunged down over an embank
ment, lahding 25 feet below.
The driver and one companion
were shaken, but uninjured. The
car was demolished. Nelson was
wounded, but responded to ques
tions. He was carried to the road.
It was then that Tharp walked
away from the scene, hysterical,
repeating over and over that he .
had two sons about the same age. '
While Tharp was gone. Nelson
died. Minutes later. Tharp'a revolv.
er spoke and he. too, was dead.
"Under the circumstances. Tharp
had perfect justification to shoot at
the car." Hilton said. Officers said
an autopsy performed Monday aft
ernoon showed it was Tharp's shot
which killed Nelson.
Anti-Balk,
Reds
Meeting PI