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g g SUNDAY. JANUARY 27. 1963 - . MEDFOHP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOBP. OHEGON -TT Brink's Robbery Still Baffles FBI, County and City Policemen r ... f . . . 111. hnndils to be that of a Brink's em- ueietw." . . (Editor's not - A gang of highly professional crooks last month pulltd on of Chicsgo's slickest holdups in years - th pr-cision-pltnntd looting of Brink's armorsd truck. Th ' loot was in th hundreds of thousands of dollars and th gang ascaptd. Following if an in-depth report of th mechanics of a grand lar- cany.) . ' By MORT J. SULLIVAN United Preis International Chicago JPB At 5:45 p.m. Christmas eve, a Brink's armored truck pulled up in front of a suburban bowling alley on its last money pick up of the day. At 3:50, the truck was loot ed of $250,000 in Christmas eve collections, What happened in those five minutes? The Federal C" . -n rsT v. .... r-s ,BCUWTYf.Cr- E I ' ". ;,:, . 1 7 Jf ' ' MPttOTt " 1 HIJACKED TRUCK Brink's Co.-armored Plalnes.' F.' Neuberger,1 one of the two truck is shown in the brickyard where it Brink's guards, -was found handcuffed in was taken after being hi-jacked by a gang the backseat of the truck. The gang escaped of masked gunmen near suburban Des. with $250,000. (UPI) Dennis , the Menace '-TAKE TAPACROWTiC M0 BALLET AN0 PIANO LESSONS l . 1rlAT510U3H.' CP Building Permits Valued at $695,900 Central Point Building permits for construction total ing $895,000 were issued by the city of Central Point dur ing 1062. The total included permits for 69 single family dwellings valued at $647,900, one two- family dwelling at $16,000, and one four-family dwelling at $32,000. The 1062 figures represent ed a boost of more than 50 per cent over 1981, when per mits for new construction to taled $412,000. Constructed in 1961 were 42 single family homes, two two-family homes and one motel. Building permits ' issued during December, 1962, were to Virgil Ladd, dwelling, 102 Princess way, $10,000; Holly and Logan, dwelling,' 1000 Comet ave., $10,000; W. L. Moore, construction, 209 Kings way, $11,000; W. L Moore, construction, 730 South Fifth St., $10,500; Dale Bush, dwelling, 100 Princess way, $8,000; McGonagle con. struction, dwelling, 903 Comet ave., $10,000; McGonagle con. struction, dwelling, 211 Wind. sor way, $10,000; Lloyd Thornton, dwelling, 415 Ninth St., $5,000. TO ALL owras Of Falcon - Valiant - Rambler -Corvair ABOUT TO BUY A HEW CAR: Ars you unhappy with lack of room in your compact? Has per formance failed to livt up? Do up' holstery, seat springs and trim leave something to be desired? . Then step up to the car you wish your compact were! '63 Lark. It's lavish with quality ... a lot more car for your money. With exhilarating performance, gener ous roominess and true big car comfort end ride. Yet as parkable as any compact. . 26 brilliant models. Lark's price Is low giving you America's best dollar-for-dollar value and you stay ahead dollar for dollar as you add extras, too. Such exclusive, as Lark's Beauty Vanity are standard Options Include caliper disc brakes sunroofs Twin-Traction 4- speed stick shift. You can e hive the Avanti supercharged en- gine for only $17 or so more month: Look into Lark at your Srudcbiker Dcalir today, v 36-mo. payments. '63 LARK Dollar For Dollar America's Greatest Car Value JAY ALL EN DO 1078 Court Street Oregon ltd. Medford Bureau of Investigation, Brink's, the Cook county sheriff s police and the Chi cago police department are still trying to find out, Who did It? Police don't know - except that the hood. ed bandits who commandeer ed the armored truck, hand. cuffed veteran driver Frank Neuburgcr, 57, and whisked 37 money bags into a waiting car were all -stars. They were the top men In their chosen field of crime, investigators said - the one' shot-for-a-blg-s core breed And investigators fear their gamble may have paid off, The Christmas eve heist ranked as Chicago's biggest hijacking in recent years. In precision and planning, in vestigators compared it to the $1.5 million Plymouth, Mass., mail truck robbery last Aug 14 and the historic $1.2 mil lion Boston Brinks robbery in 195Q. Christmas eve around Chi cago last month was a snowy, blustery day. It was a busy one tor Newburgcr, a Chi. cagoan, and his partner. Wil liam Link, 40, of suburban Prospect Heights. I heir armored truck wound methodically through north west Cook "county suburbs and the northern fringe of Chicago, stopping at at least two banks and 40 business places. At each stop they took on money - more money than usual because of the holiday. Both men gave passing thoughts to the day and smiled in the knowledge that, W7 n VIEWS EMPTY TRUCK Brink's guard William Link looks into his empty armored truck after it was robbed of $250,000 near suburban Des Plaines. (UPI) Capitol Memo State Gas Chamber Having Impact on 1963 Legislature HUBERT J. SOHER To Discuss Economy State's Economy To Be Discussed By SF Consultant What's ahead for the Ore gon economy will be discussed by Hubert J. Sober, nationally-known San Francisco in dustrial consultant, at the luncheon meeting of the Med ford Kiwanis club Wednesday, Jan. 30. The speaker recently con cluded a onc-year-long survey of the economy of the state, and his recently published re port, entitled "Oregon Today and Tomorrow," will provide the theme material for his speech. His discussion will include a review of the significant fac tors creating opportunities for continued growth in southern Oregon. Sober has had a long career in the field of industrial and financial consulting and in vestments, and is the senior partner in the consulting firm of Hubert J. Sober Company, which lists many of the na tion's leading business and fi nancial firms among its cli ents. Formtr Editor A former financial editor of the San Francisco Chron icle, he later became a gen eral partner In the stock brokerage firm of Manhcim, Dlbbcrn and company, San Francisco. Following his re tirement in 1928, he became public relations director for the Bank of America in 1931, and two years later re-enter ed the investment banking field as a partner of H. R. Baker and company., which merged in 1945 Into Walson, Hoffman and Goodwin, mem bers of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1953 he was appointed by President Eisenhower to a team of 55 American business men to study the Foreign Aid Program, and was assigned to Belgium, Holland and Luxem burg. He recently returned from an extensive European trip, where he studied the im pact of the Erimpean Common Market on the affairs of east ern Europe. He has been a frequent speaker before the Common wealth Club of California in San Francisco, one of the fore most civic and business for ums of the West Coast. bj By ZAN STARK Salem - IUPD - The cyanide caprice associated witn tne Oregon aas chamber is having its impact on i i the 1983 legis- I . ' l lature. Sen. Don Winner (D - Portland) has submitted an -anti- death penalty bill, and proposed that persons sen tenced to strk 1 1 f e be re quired to stay in prison at least 15 years. Sen. Thomas Mahoney (D- Portland) introduced a bill to make it harder to commute life or death sentences. Ma- honey's plan would require supreme court approval be fore a governor could grant a pardon or commutation. The Portland . senator said he wanted to make a life sen tence mean something, and he wanted to take pressure off a governor . Some of the emotional fer vor may have been dampened by the stay of Jeannace June Froeman s Jan. 29 date witn death But Larry West Shipley, 21, of McMinnville, is scheduled to enter the gas chamber on Feb. 28 A plan to appeal Shipley's case to the U.S. Supreme Court already has been an nounced by the American Civil Liberties Union. It was Miss Freeman's sec ond stay. An appeal for Ship ley could result in a stay for him. There is a similarity in both the Freeman and Shipley cases. Miss Freeman's companion in crime and mother of the two children killed, Mrs Gertrude Nunez Jackson, was sentenced to life in prison. Shipley's companion in the slaying of 16-ycar-old Linda Jean Stevens, Glen Douglas Dixon, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to lite Many legislators and of ficials arc on record in opposi Hon to the death penalty. But the voters have disagreed. Gov. Mark Hatfield, Atty Warden Clarence T. Gladden have openly opposed execution. In 1958 the people voted 276,487 to 264,434 against abolishing the death penalty -a 12,000 vote margin. . ... The voters did abolish the death penalty - by a slim 157 votes -- in 1914. A series of brutal murders followed, and in 19:10 the death penalty was reinstated - by 17,000 votes. The hangman claimed 40 lives in Oregon before the gas chamber was built in 1937. Since then 18 persons have taken their last breath in the tiny chamber at the state pent tentiary - the latest on Aug, 20, 1962, when Leeroy San- ford McGahuey was executed for the 1961 slaying of an infant. Former Gov. Robert Holmes commuted three death sen commuted three death sen tences and the gas chamber was unused for seven years prior to McGahuey s execu tion. The pattern seems the same. Preceding each scheduled ex ecution there is a last-minute frantic scurry to appeal, to win a stay, to fight for time, to hope for commutation. Each pending execution sweeps a tide of public reac tion into the governor's office. There are letters, personal visits, tearful pleas. Each time a stay is granted the tide recedes, only to come back again as the next execu tion date ncars. The Freeman and Shipley cases cannot help but affect legislative reaction. Writer of Hit Songs Dies in New York New York - (HIT) - Otto A, Harbach, famed Broadway librettist who wrote the lyrics for such all time hits a "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' and "One Alone," died in bed at his Manhattan apartment Thursday. Harbach, 89, wrote the words to more than 1.000 songs and the lyrics of numer ous opcrattas, including "Des ert Song," "No, No, Nanette," Gen. Robert Y. Thornton, and "The Firefly," and "Roberta." for the kids, Christmas day would be a white one. Neuburger, with Brink's 19 years, pulled the steel plated, bullet-proof truck to a stop in front of the River Rand Bowling Alley in Des Plaines. Neuburger settled back in the driver's seat and scanned the passing throng of last minute Christmas shoppers -while Link, his gun drawn, left the truck. All three doors of the ve hicle opened suddenly. Too suddenly. . . Handcuff Drivtr . "All in a flash," Neuburgcr told investigators later, some men grabbed him, pushed him to the floor, handcuffed his arms behind his back and put a. gunny sack over his head. . The next thing he realized was that it was quiet. After some squirming, he managed to get the sack off his head. He was in a brlcKyara, a mue from the bowling alley. 'It took less than three minutes," he said. As the snow continued to fall, Neuberger made his way to a warehouse and called police. Neuberger said three hood ed men wearing black, zip pered jackets accosted him in the truck, Sao 4 Gunmen Other witnesses reported seeing as many as six persons, four gunmen and the drivers of the two escape cars. All the valuables in the truck were taken, police said. The gunmen left in two cars, one a 1961 blue Pontiac and the other a yellow Ford, be lieved stolen. A statement by Neuburger opened up one of the few new avenues of investigation. "The y , m us t have had keys," he said. He said this was the only way the three doors could have opened simultaneously. Authorities turned their at tention to a northwest side public garage where the truck had been parked nightly with three other Brink's vehicles for the past six years. might have gone to the garage nri taken impressions of keys from which duplicates were made to open the truexs doors. Keys to the stored trucKS were left in the doors of the vehicles to conform to tire department reguiauu... pa rage owner Lynn Knoth said. He said it was possible for someone to walk into the anH make impressions of the keys while the atten tion of the aucnaant on uui, was distracted. Keys, Chief Clua Aside from the key clue, authorities admitted they had little else to go on. A fingerprint lifted from one of the truck doors proved nlnvec. Lie tests administered to both Neuburger ana -init confirmed ineir accuums ui the robbery. Neither of them had ever been robbed before, nor ever fired a gun in anger. Brink's ordered a top-to. bottom rehauling of its se curity system, but would make no statement about the robbery or the exact amount taAu' parties to the investi gation operated on the theory that the bandits were pro. fessionals who prepared a minute by - minute timeablo and followed it completely. The quick, bloodless suc cess indicated months of prep arations and rehearsals, they said. (life 117 S. CENTRAL 773-7301 3-DAY SALE! Just Arrived Another Carload WARDS SPUN ROCK WOOL INSULATION ON SAIE MONDAY, , TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY While It Lasts (mroV BAG U-Haul U of O Enrollment Reaches 8,966 Mark Eugene -HIPP- Winter term enrollment at the University of Oregon has reached 8.00(1, registrar Clifford L. Con stance announced Friday. 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