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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBtJHE Bander. AprU I. IMS MERCHANDISE THAT MAKES FRIENDS Mcrtchstik Bamboo Draw Drapes Venetian Blinds and Window Shades . Aluminium Awnings ... In Colors Aluminum or Galvanized Tension Screens Trade Wind Motor Fans and Blowers Automatic Wood Heating Systems FOR OLD OK NEW HOMES Write or Phono for Estimates HOME OWNERS SPECIALTIES 74 N. Main, Ashland .Phono 7231 Blonde, Treasure andd Ex-Union Man Absorb Attention of Federal Agents Crushed Crushed Granite Rock o Sand Gravel -USE-LININGER'S READY-MIX CONCRETE M. C. LININGER fir SONS PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Los Angeles (UJ9 A "beau tiful blonde," hints of $139,000 in buried treasure, and a former Credit Union official with a "bull by the tail" have absorbed the attention of Los Angeles FBI agents. The "beautiful blonde" was identified as Dolores Krinski of San Francisco. The G-men wanted to know whether she had any knowledge of $27,600 missing from the cash recovered with the arrest of Harry L. Ruppenthal II, a for mer St. Louis postal employees' Credit Union official. Arraigned Friday Ruppenthal was arrainged Fri day before U. S. Commissioner Howard V. Calverley and held on $25,000 bail. The bespecta cled former sectretary-treasurer of the Credit Union was arrested Thursday night by the FBI. When arrested, investigators found $110,500 in neatly wrap ped bills and another $75,000 EVERYTHING YOU FOR YOUR SPRING-TIME BUILDING and REMODELING ' NEED O Framing and finish lumber Hardwood flooring O Plywoods Johns-Manvillo products: . 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However, St Louis reports indicated the total cash missing was $139,000 and mentioned Ruppenthal's friendship with Miss Krinski, who now lives in Belmont, a San Francisco sub urb. Admits Knowing Blonde "Sure I know her," Ruppen thal said. "She's a beautiful blonde. Used to be a postal clerk in St Louis until she quit a couple of months ago." Ruppenthal admitted that he had visited with Miss Krinski At Least Another Month Necessary On Dam Hearings Washington (U.B Chair man Clair Engle, D-Calif., raid Friday his House interior sub committee cannot complete hear ings until May or June on a bill to authorize the controversial Hells Canyon dam on the Oregon-Idaho border. The subcommittee recessed hearings Thursday after it heard a power adviser to the governors of Idaho and Washington urge that the Hells Canyon plan be dropped. Hearings Extended Engle emphasized that the sub committee already had extended its hearings two days beyond the original schedule. He explained the recess was necessary because other interior subcommittees, with duplicating memberships, have hearings scheduled in the coming weeks. Witnesses, including T. E. Roach, president of the Idaho Power Co., and Jack C Stevens, a Portland, Ore., consulting en gineer were waiting to testify when the hearings were recessed. Jordan Opposed The final witness was Holland Houston, who said he was power adviser to Gov. Arthur B. Lang lie of Washington, but had been "loaned" to Gov. Len B. Jordan of Idaho. Jordan told the sub committee earlier he was op posed to the project Houston said a dam at the Kooskia site on the Clearwater river in northern Idaho, plus five small power dams in Hells can yon, would be the most economi cal development in the area. Shady Cove Man Flown To Portland Hospital Lewis BelvaiL 70, Box 238, Shady Cove, was taken to the Veterans Administration hospi tal in Portland Friday evening by the twin-engine Mercy Flights Cessna air ambulance plane. Belvail, the 51st patient car ried by the non-proft ambulance firm, was transferred from the Community hospital by Perl am bulance. Miss Virginia Rose was the nurse in attendance. Al Cleven was pilot on the trip, which started at 5 p.m., and Dr. M.P. Vojel was copilot. while in San Francisco before he rented a car and drove to Los Angeles.' but he denied he had anything to do with her moving to the coast from St Louis. "I've taken her to lunch, but anyone who says there was any thing between us is crary. I've got a wonderful wife and three wonderful kids in St Louis,' Ruppenthal said. Intended To Return Money Investigators said Ruppenthal insisted that he intended to re turn the money to' the Credit Union. But the money was found wrapped in waterproof coverings and officers found an Army sur plus shovel and four empty am munition cases, indicating he in tended to bury it "I wasn't going to bury the money I was going to turn my self in when the FBI got me. Ruppenthal said. "Look this whole thing was an impulse. I'm not a criminal. I'm a good solid citizen. "I was sony the moment after I took it" he said. "But did you ever have a bull by the tail and couldn t let it go?" Spent No Union Money The former Credit Union map said he used his own funds to fly to California and had spent none of the Union s money. "I Just did it for spite to spite the directors and some of the members of the Credit Union board. They were trying to get my Job by underhanded meth ods," Ruppenthal asserted. Practice Bombs Dropped in Yard Seattle U.R) The Navy explained Saturday that seven 50-pound water-filled practice bombs which narrowly missed Tacoma home Thursday night were dropped accidentally from a P2V Neptune patrol bomber. The bombs sank deep into the yard of O. J Slackburn with a loud "thump." Blackburn was not home at the .time, but a neighbor, Lyle Decker, said it was "sheer luck" that his child and the Blackburn youngster were not playing in the yard at the time. 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