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WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1962 Police Press Hunt For Killer in Case Of Basement Grave San Francisco-OJPD - Police intensified their search for a woman murder suspect today after her two grandchildren with whom she had been seen recently, were found wander ing on an Oakland, Calif, itreet. Oakland police said the two youngsters were picked up Tuesday afternoon as stray children. Efforts to identify them and find their parents led to the connection with Mrs. Iva Kroeger, 44, wanted as a suspect in the slaying of two persons whose bodies were uncovered in basement graves here. Seen With Children Police were combing the East Bay area where the chil dren were found. Other re ports said Mrs. Kroeger was seen with the children in ban Francisco last week end. They were reported to be the sons of a Florida man who was Mrs. Kroeger's son by a previ ous marriage. Oakland police said the chll dren were identified as re lated to Mrs. Kroeger through pictures. They were being cared for at the Oakland Juve nile Hall but officials there declined to give their name's ' or ages. Mrs. Kroeger's husband, Ralph, 61, was booked on suspicion of murder. He de nied any knowledge of how the bodies of a Santa Rosa, Calif., couple . were buried under concrete in his base ment. The body of Jay Arneson 70, a semi-invalid, was found in the modest Kroeger home Monday night. Late Tuesday, police found another decom posed body in a steamer trunk b.uried a few feet from the spot where Arncson's remains were discovered. Strangled with Bait Coroner's deputies said Arneson apparently had been strangled with a belt which was found about his neck. They were anlayzing the re mains of the second body to day to determine whether it was that of Arncson's ex-wife. Mildred, 58. The Arncsons, who had been friends of Mrs. Kroeger, vanished six months ago from the motel they operated at Santa Rosa, Calif., where they lived in separate rooms alter divorce. Police said the Kroegcrs, using the name "Long," sub sequently took over operation of the motel. A warrant was filed for I 111 1 ' Bw Si V v T A. XJ STOCK REMOVAL SALE We Have Lot our LEASE ... ALL STOCK MUST BE SOLD BY SEPTEMBER 1ST . . . Bring Your Truck or Trailer and SAVEI SAVE! SAVE! SALE ITEMS: Ranges, Refrigerators, Freezers, Dishwashers, T.V., Stereo, Washers, Dryers. NO CATCHES - NO GIMMICKS! THIS IS A BONAFIDE CLOSE-OUT SALE! WE MUST VACATE BY SEPTEMBER 1ST Mrs. Kroeger by the FBI charging her with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in another case. A warrant seek ing her for assault with a deadly weapon was issued in Santa Rosa in May of this year after she threatened a bill collector with a. gun. Mrs. Kroeger was seen last in a neighborhood depart ment store Friday. Boarded Bus She had with her a blond boy about three years old and said she was caring for him for a neighbor. The woman and the boy were reported to have boarded a bus toward downtown San Francisco. A chance remark by a con struction worker, Walter Hughes. 38, led to the discov- ery of the bodies In the Kroe ger home. He was questioned by police and released. Hughes casually remarked to another Santa Rosa motel operator, Mrs. John Dodge, that he had driven Mrs. Kroe ger and Arneson to Mrs Kroeger's home last January and had dug a hole in the basement floor there "for some plumbing" at Mrs. Kroe' ger's request. Mrs. Dodge recalled that Arneson had been missing since mid-January and called Santa Rosa authorities, who alerted San Francisco police They entered the Kroeger home with a search warrant Monday night and found Arneson's body one hour and 45 minutes later. Mrs. Arneson was seen for the last time Dec. 15, when she had a deed on her prop erty notarized supposedly as collateral on a loan of $10, 000 to Invest during a project ed South American trip. Police said the deed subse quently was recorded by Mrs. Kroeger, under the alias, "Long." Mrs. Kroeger fled from Santa Rosa in a taxicab after the gun-wielding encounter with the bill collector, police said. A wanted circular issued by San Francisco police July 13, at the request of Santa Rosa officials, described Mrs. Kroeger as having a "bad temper, and a proverbial liar and confidence woman." New York - (UPD - Superior Industries corporation, maker of recereational equipment, re ports that about 500,000 pri vate homes have varied-sized pool tables for family recrea tion. This about doubles the number five years ago. Y APPLIANCE CENTER In the Big Y Shopping Center Phone 773-3052 California Man Receives Plaque From AETA Group Eugene The American Ed ucational Theatre Associa tion's Citation of Merit Award Plaque, highest honor bestowed by the group, was given this week to Sami'cl Scldon, head of the depart ment of theatre arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. The award and several oth era were made at an awards luncheon held on the first day of the 26th annual AETA convention at the University of Oregon. The luncheon fol lowed the opening session of the convention. Seldon served as president of the association in 1060. He has written more than 50 articles on the theater for leading national and foreign theater periodicals, and has written, or had a part in the writing of, 11 books. Before assuming his present position, Selden was chair man of the department of dra matic arts at the University of North Carolina, and was Director of the Carolina Playhouse. Delegates Welcomed Oregon Gov. Mark O. Hat field welcomed delegates to Oregon at the first general session. Another speaker was Miss Peggy Wood, president of the American National Theatre Academy. Arthur S. Flcmming, president of the university, gave the keynote address. Noting the convention theme of "theatre of distinc tion." Dr. Flemming praised the group for criticising mediocrity, and admonished delegates to "help build lives that are dedicated to the pur suit of excellence." He blamed the willingness on the part of some educators in the past to settle for mediocrity for two big weak nesses today: inability to com municate effectively with one another, and the lack of crea tive energy and original thought. I believe that those who have devoted their lives to educational theater can make contributions which ian lead to the substitution of excel lence for mediocrity," he said. Sequoia Singers Entertain Rotarians The Sequoia High school madrigal singers from Red wood City, California, enter tained members of the Med ford Rotary club Tuesday at the Rogue Valley Country club. Members of the talented group, featuring the romantic style singing popular in Eng land during the Shakespear ean era, presented the pro pram nt. a luncheon meeting. They are currently appearing at Ashland during tne snaKe spearean Festival. Vnunpslor who won spe cial honors during the city re creation baseball program this summer were presented trnnhine Iw .Tnhn Kovenz. Mcdford High school baseball coach and head of the sum mer baseball clinic here. Thne who won awards were Steve Cox, Jack Mullen, Rick Lewis, Mike Farthing, Brad Thompson, Dick Boltger and Bruce Bcrtrand. Checking Auto Good Idea For Motor Trip New York - IUP1' - Before you begin an interstate motor trip, be sure your automobile liability insurance meets with the laws of the states you plan to visit, the Insurance Infor mation institute suguests. Such a check is particularly advisable if your itinerary in cludes Canada or Mexico. GERMS FIND OIL New York -IUPII- Oil Fads, a publication of the Ameri can Petroleum Institute, re ports that a newly patented system uses certain bacteria which thrive on methane g;is in the search for new nil deposits. MLDFOHD Decisions In ROTC Br APRIL W. STONE United Press Inttrnational Washington (UPD - The first of a four-part study of man's decision-making ability was completed here recently. The Initial phase of the pro gram involved 202 Ai? Force ROTC cadets and took 18 months to complete at the Catholic university of Amer ica here. The cadets were subjected to a multitude of personality and intelligence tests and then given the "decision mak ing ability test," a scries of numerical problems, each re quiring a decision. .The number of "good," "fair" and "foolish" decisions made by each subject was scored and this data was re lated to his "personality" as determined by earlier person ality and intelligence tests. Subjects were classified as (1) fast deciders. (2) interme diate decision speed and (3) slow dealers. They were also rated as (1) high anxiety and (2) low anxiety.. Findings Told The Catholic university re ported these major findings: -"Snap" decisions are usu ally bad decisions. Subjects who consisently made "good" decisions were those who used all the time available before signifying their choice. -Intelligent persons make better decisions. It was found that individuals with a high degree of intelligence were capable of absorbing and eval uating more information in a shorter time than the aver age. -Vocations are unrelated to decision making ability. No relationship was found to ex ist between a man's occupa tional interest and his ability to make decisions. Four Airmen Test Reaction To Bright Light San Antonio, Tex. - (UPD -Anyone who has ever looked at an exploding flash bulb and then tried to read his watch can sympathize with four U.S. Air Force volun teers helping in space flight research. They participated In initial experiments by eye specialists at the U.S. Air Force Aero space Medical center to deter mine how long it takes for a space pilot to read his con trols after being temporari ly blinded by the sun. Capt. Sanford L. Severin of the ophthamology branch at Brooks Air Force base test ed four volunteers by dazzling them with a flash of light. It then took the volunteers six to 30 seconds to regain sufficient vision to see small blinking lights on a testing machine. There were varia tions according to the intensi ty of the flash and the bright ness of the test lights. Face Situations Severin's report said astro nauts and pilots face many situations where they have to discriminate details of a dim ly illuminated object short ly after exposure to a more highly illuminated field. "The pilot of a high per formance jet bomber must be able to read his instrument panel even if exposed to the flash of a small atomic weap on," he said. "And as astro naut who Is dazzled as his space craft enters the bright portion of the orbit must re tain visual discrimination." Severin warned "if instru ments cannot be read during a critical phase of t lie mission, the results may be disastrous." He said the experiments on two flight surgeons, a pilot and a staff opthamologist prove the reliability of testing equipment. Results also prov ed that recovery from dazzle is consistent and repetitive. Severin said more experi ments are needed to clearly definp the ability of a person to recover from a dazzling flash. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, Studied Research -"Drive," or energy, does not indicate a good decision maker. - Mildly maladjusted indi viduals are capable of making sound, fast decisions. "A ma jor finding of the study," the Catholic university said, "was that the adjustment or malad justment of individuals is not related to the goodness . . . (or) confidence they have in their decisions or other as pects of their decision-making behavior." . Highar Slakes - Adventurous individuals will risk higher stakes than stay-at-homes. -No i n t e r-relationships were shown among the fol lowing factors: intelligence, decision time, sequential ef fects of successes and failures, confidence in one's decisions and probability of winning preference. The project is being carried out under a cooperative re search agreement between Catholic university and Amer ican Car and Foundry com pany. Phase two of the program is now under way. This part is concerned with whether man can learn to make good decisions. If the human vari ables that contribute to an individual's decision making ability can be man-modified, then man ultimately can be trained to make sound deci sions under all circumstances. Dr. John Townsend, director of Catholic university's psy chology laboratories, said. "The implications of this re search are enormous," he said. vuu u should on nuns. OREGON Forest Service Laboratory Opens At Oregon State Corvallis - (UPD - The U. S. Forest Service's new half mil lion dollar Forestry Sciences laboratory opened formally to day at Oregon State univer sity.. The functional wood build ing was dedicated in cere monies attended by officials representing the university, state, forest service and lum ber industry. The structure is the first unit of a laboratory that ulti mately will cost $1.5 million. Surrounding a courtyard on three sides, it contains an in sect research wing, a plant disease research wing, and an administrative wing. Its staff of 35 includes 24 forest scien tists. Directed by Robert W. Cow tin, the laboratory's program will include research in forest economics and management, forest utilization, fire preven tion, watershed management, range, wildlife and recre ation. The laboratory and the uni versity will cooperate. Those taking part in the dedication included OSU Pres ident James Jensen; Dr. George Jemison, deputy assis tant chief for research, from the Forest Service, Washing ton, D.C.; Charles R. Hollo way Jr., vice president of the state Board of Higher Educa tion; and Clarence W. Richen of the Western Forestry and Conservation association. The laboratory will have an mm mmm DON'T BE A LITTERBUG! From the thoughtful angler's angle . . . from any good sportsman's point of view, littering is bad. Ugly, unsanitary-and costly to clean up. So carry a litterbag in boat and car. Take trash out with you. Leave lake, stream, camp site the way wfMi'a-J lib a r -firiiH if Plain inrJ k a it it if 1 1 Tha si-m -v 1 1 A !"" line j imu tA. vivQii aim vcauuiui. iiic way be. And could be if all MUSHROOMING New York -H'PD- Big busi- ness soon may make the mushroom as familiar on the dining table as potatoes and tomatoes. The Borden com pany and other major con cerns have recently acquired mushroom plantations with a total capacity yield of one million pounds a year. U.S. initial operating budget of about $300,000 a year. When additional units are built, the laboratory will be a $1,500, 000 research center with an annual budget of about $650, 000. The laboratory will be oper ated by the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service. Before The Theatre Try Our . . . PRIME RIBS OF BEEF Featuring the finest, tastiest matieuloui cart by Elwtll Rosen, chef el' Cuisine, After the Play Enjoy Your . . . lvy in this eon ' Daneina Fn America remembers: MEDFORDWTRIBUNE I output this year is estimated at nearly 132 million pounds, I up sjx million from last year and triple 30 years ago. Child's Feet NOT beef available prepared with If II FAVORITE BEVERAGES congenial atmosph Friday & Saturday MARK ANTONY MOTOR HOTEL Ashland, Oregon Phone 482-1721 all rlliciiva every litter j f More than six million, germs can be carried by the common house fly. A Problem? HERE! mm Nights rs lav m' x s -x. m
