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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1956)
Prospecf Canal To Get Permanent Lining A request for technical aid in Installing permanent lining in. a mainline irrigation canal was made Tecently by a group of Prospect ranchers to Sams Val ley - Beagle Soil Conservation district. It has been estimated that the canal, which is located in a pumice stone area, loses about 85 per cent of its water annual ly. In previous years the canal has been plagued by cave-ins which created a serious irriga tion water shortage in 1955. The canal serves 38 users and irri gates about 700 acres. Soil conservation service tech nicians Albert Petska and Ira Spires will make a preliminary survey of the project to deter mine the type of permanent lining. Ranchers who use water from the canal include V. L. Chap man, Waldo Nye, Bruce Grieve, Dave Neville, Christine Dobbyn, T. C. Cunningham, Frank Sim mons, E. M. Boothby, Dee Hedgepeth, Reuben Moore,' Elsie Phipps, Hazel Ulrich, George Wayman, I. M. Chandler, Marian Bossier, Warren h- Barr and Howard Mather. There are several other users who irrigate small areas. Confessed Myrderer of Three Men Wants To Wrsfe Book On Crime Los Lunas, N. M. U.R) Da vid Cooper Nelson, who . once studied for the pulpit, wants to write a book about a murder one of three he confessed in the past two days. Nelson, a 35-year-old truck driver and sheet metal worker from Las Vegas, Nev., faced ar raignment today for first degree murder in the death of Ralph Henderson Rainey, 48, of Santa Monica, Calif. Nelson confessed Rainey's murder to the district attorney at Albuquerque on Sun day. Authorities said Nelson was brought here late Sunday and confessed killing Kenneth Short, 36, of North Hallywood, Calif., and John Valenti, a Pioche, Nev., bartender. Nelson, who served two sen tences in the Montana State Pris on in 1943 and 1947 for forgery and armed robbery, told a state patrolman he shot Valeti on Jan. 4 when he was caught burglar izing the bartender's home. Nel son later denied the confession, but New Mexico authorities said they had accepted the admission and so notified Nevada officials. Next on Nelson's three-week killing binge was Rainey, whose with Short in Oklahoma on Jan. Tuesday, February 7, 1956 MT?T"lt,nTT rnvrnnin tt tbtuiimt riVT i blanket-wrapped body, was found beneath a culvert near Albuquer que on Jan. 10. Nelson said he was hitchhiking a ride with Rainey and shot him with a .38 caliber revolver when Rainey refused to let him drive. "I shot him again to put him out of his misery," Nelson confessed. It "was the next shooting that led to Nelson's arrest and also the one which the one-time min isterial student "plans to write a book about." Nelson was ar rested shortly after he wrecked Short's car near Las Vegas,' but victim's body still has not been found. Nelson said he threw Short's body from the car about 35 miles west of Amarillo, Tex., or about 200 miles east of the spot where Rainey's body was found. 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