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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, May 24, 1956 Auditors Found Cash Everywhere In Checking 'Miss MY Cubicle Editor's note: Thl It the second tn a thrrc-part series on Miss Mini' Mantum, acru&ed of stealing more than 92.000,00ft from her employer. By H. D. QUIG Norfolk, Va. OJ.Ry At 5:50 p.m. last Dec. 16 a platoon of 24 federal auditors swooped down on the Commonwealth Building and Loan Association. And on iU respected and popular em ployee of 26 years, Miss Minnie C. Mangum. They went to the cubicle where she worked as boss of the savings department and assistant secretary treasurer of the asso ciation. Before they finished their checkup, they found shortages of $2,884,957.06. "Everything we would pick up, money would fall out cash, coins, checks," says William A. Patton, federal home loan bank examiner. "She opened one drawer and there was a bundle of currency with a rubber band around it. She said there was about $4,000 there." Just six days after the audi tors swooped, the plump spinster sat with John M. Sink, president of the Fourth District Federal Home Loan Bank, and signed a question-and-answer statement which starts: Mr. Sinks: "Miss Mangum, there is an apparent shortage in this association. Do you hold yourself responsible for this shortage? Miss Mangum: "Yes." Mr. Sink: "Could you give us an approximate estimate of this shortage?" Miss Mangum: "Two million dollars, I think." Mr. Sink: "When did you be gin to use the association's mon ey?" Miss Mangum: "About 20 years ago." She had. she said, given or lent the association's , money to friends and all her relatives ex cept one sister. These people, she said, knew nothing of her de falcations. One part of her statement, concerning a loan to a cousin, goes: Miss Mangum: "I lent her $5, 000 but she paid it back." . Mr. Sink: "When the $5,000 was repaid, did this money go to the credit of the association?" Miss Mangum: "Yes sir. No, I mean it went to my account." How did Miss Minnie do it? What was her technique? For one thing, she was in complete charge of the banking. She hired girls fresh out of busi ness school so she could "break them in to my system." But she made a mistake last fall in hiring Mrs. Esther Cannon as a book keeper. Mrs. Cannon, with some ex perience before, questioned some figures. Miss Minnie got mad. There was a shouting argument. A state auditor, present for a routine check, heard it, got sus picious and reported to his su periors. Basically, the state said, Miss Minnie had three systems: 1. Simply stealing cash from the funds that came in. At the end of the day, tellers would take the tapes off their cash reg isters, count their cash and be checked out by Miss Minnie. From there on she had sole con trol of the cash and of the rec ords. 2. A friend wants $2,000. Miss Mangum walked with him to a teller and said: "Open an ac count for Mr. so-and-so and- put 82,000 to his credit You make a memo of it." The friend then was credited with a deposit, of $2,000 although he actually had deposited nothing. He could draw on it when he wished. 3. Make loans against savings deposits to friends and relatives who had nothing in the associa tion. Miss Minnie had something else. Roy F. Phillips, president of the now defunct association, says: "She couldn't possibly have done what she's charged with doing if she hadn't the perfect confidence of everyone. The auditors had the same confi dence in her that we did." Tomorrow: Why she did it. Helicopter Sets Altitude Record Line Pine, Calif (U.R) A helicopter pilot today was sched uled to again attempt a landing atop 14,495-foot Mt. Whitney after establishing two firsts for helicopters. Bill Davidson, a flyer from Bakersfield, Calif., Tuesday flew an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet. He was the first helicopter pilot to cross the peak, highest in continental United States. Davidson said he was unable to set down on the summit be cause of fan belt trouble. He said he made a forced landing at 12,200 feet, bettering an Air Force record of 9,300 feet. The previous record for a suc cessful landing and takeoff in mountain country was set when the Air Force rescued a stricken hiker from a meadow in Cali fornia's Sequoia National Park. another "business man switched to APPLEGATE-JACKSON VI LLE Sterling Creek Cabin Burns By HELGA MITCHELL Applegate-Jacksonville A three room cabin belonging to Walter L. Clary of Sterling Creek burned to the ground last Thursday night. Causa of the fire was not determined. Clary had been visiting with a neigh bor, Roy Hetrick, and when he came home, he found his house completely destroyed by fire. Clary's home was not insured, and he lost everything but the clothes he was wearing. He has been staying with different neighbors for awhile, and is now employed by the State Forestry at Table Rock rd. The Hunter and Best Sawmill at Ruch is about to embark on a night shift, and they have been hiring men to form the new crew. A few more experienced men are needed to complete the crew, before the night shift will commence. Guests staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Byrne of Upper Applegate are Byrne's sister, Mrs. Stella O'Brien of Richmond, Calif., and with her is Harold Watson, and Watson's sister, Mrs. Gertrude .Helm of San Jose. As the visitors were en route to this area, they had a tire blow out at Yreka and their car was wrecked. Fortunately, none of the car occupants were hurt. A relative, Clarence Wil liams of Medford, picked them up in his car at Yreka and brought them to the Byrne home. Sunday visitors at the Mansel Milam residence were Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Poten of Klamath Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Webb of Lakeside, Ore., visited her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith this week. Services at the Ruch Commun ity church will include Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship serv ices, 11 a.m.; Bible study, 8 p.m. Mrs. Lee Port is improving continually. Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Straube of Upper Applegate were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Nelson of Klamath Falls. The song. "It's So Peaceful in the Country," is certainly true and applicable to the visiting city slicker, but not to the hard working farmers and their wives who rarely have time to take in the peace and quiet of the coun try. The idyllic dream of the farmer and his wife sitting peacefully rocking on their front porch, watching the rest of the busy world go by, certainly is a fallacy. Having been raised in New York City, we always linked this scene with thoughts of the country, but after having visited farms and studying rural 1 life in general, we are begin-1 ning to wonder if such a pastoral scene ever did exist. Mrs. Molly Foster of Forest Creek recently returned to the Mitchell Sanitarium. Luncheon guests at the home of Mrs. Mansel Milam of Sterl ing Creek last week were Mrs. Al Blumreich and Mrs. James Stephens. Found: Another correspondent who wrote for the Indianapolis Gazette. Several years ago, Mrs. ; Marcel LePiniec wrote the j "Hqrse and Hound" column, j which pertained to fox hunting, j Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harr do- j nated a pedal organ to the Amer- j ican Union Sunday school re cently, which was greatly ap preciated by the members of ; the school. I I In a recent conversation, Mrs. Ted Bundle of "Top o the Hill," told of a phone call she received when she first had her phone put in. The voice on the other end of the line said, "This is the phone company, and we are calling you to inform you that your telephone lines are going to be blown out, and would you please cover your furniture to prevent the dust from falling on it?" Mrs. Rundle retorted with a horror stricken, "What?" The laughter of her friend, Mrs. Maude Porter of Jacksonville, revealed the hoax. Rural Reflections: "I've heard of 'bats in the belfry' but not of birds in the bedroom," Mrs. Bill D e S h a z o declared recently. Three hundred birds came in droves and invaded the DeShazo home via their fireplace chim ney, and were chirping and fly ing all over their house. Mrs. DeShazo said there were birds in her bathtub, on the walls, windows, under the lining of her drapes, under the bed, in the bed springs, and everywhere. She was kept busy a whole eve ning dodging and catching the swooping birds with her hus band and putting them outdoors. 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