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MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON OBITUARIES JAMES L. HERRINGTON Funeral services for James L. (Big Jim) Herrington, 35, of Stevens Road, Eagle Point, who died Saturday in Grants Pass, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tues day in H i 1 1 c r e s t Memorial Chapel, on the North Phoenix Road. The Rev. Warren L. Christensen, of the Eagle Point Community Bible Church, will officiate. Committal will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park, with full military honors by a detail from the Veterans Administra tion Domiciliary. Conger-Morris funeral directors, are in charge of arrangements. Mr. Herrington was born Sept. 26, 1928, in Colorado City, Tex. He moved to Prospect in 1954, and since 1957 had made his home in Eagle Point. He was married Dec. 2, 1950, in Rogers, Ark., to Betty Howland, who survives. He was a veteran of the Korean conflict, serving from Sept. 2, 1947, to June 16, 1953, in the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the Rogue Sports men Club. Survivors besides his wife in clude four children, Nicky L. Herrington, Sammy L. Herring ton, Kimmy L. Herrington. and Jayne L. Herrington, at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Herrington, Rogers. Ark.; and a brother, Bert H. Herring ton, Columbia, S.C. MICHAEL A. HANIFEN Services for Michael A. Hani fen, 63, of 745 Queens Drive, who died Friday, were held this morning in the Conger-Morris chapel with the Rev. John A. llg of Sacred Heart Church, of ficiating. Full military honors were given by a detail from the Veterans Administration Domi ciliary in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Mr. Hanifen was born in Spo kane, Wash., Sept. 27, 1895. A veteran of World War I, he served from September 1917, un til April, 1919, with one year of service in France. He was - a member of Disabled American Veterans, Altman-Ruoff Chap ter, Spokane. Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Leona Hanifen, Medford; a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Rinck, Missoula, Mont.; a son, Michael A. Hanifen Jr., Spokane; a bro ther, J. E. Hanifen, Seattle: and four sisters including Miss Margie Hanifen and Mrs. Elaine Foster, both of Portland. JOHN W. HASKINS Full military honors for John Wickham Haskins, 56, of 2769 Merriman Road, Medford. who died Thursday, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Conger-Morris downtown chapel. Chaplain John B'razee of the Veterans Ad ministration Domiciliary will of ficiate. Military honors will be given by a funeral detail from the domiciliary. Committal will be in Siskiyou Memorial Park. Mr. Haskins was born May 24, 1907 in Doswell, Va. He had lived in Southern Oregon for 22 years, and for the past eight years he had owned and oper ated the Haskins Saw Shop. He was married Dec. 8, 1948, to Rhoda Newton, who survives. He was a veteran of World War II. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. LaVonne Hot stad, Hayward, Calif.; a bro ther, Milton Level, Portland, Ore.; two sisters, Mrs. Helen Marshall, Germany, and Mrs. Evclvn Devine, Bakersfield, Calif" and three crandchildrcn. Honorary casket bearers will include Clarence Pfnister, Har old Davis, Joseph Jones, John L. Sullivan, James Hayes, and Walter Taylor. LAURA M. ALLDREDGE The body of Laura M. All dredge, 79, of 1625 Stratford Way, who died Saturday, will be sent to Leon, Iowa, f'r funer al services and interment. Perl Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Alldredge was born April 12, 1884, in Moweaqua, 111. She made her home in Keon, Iowa, for severay years where she was county recorder from 1930 to 1938. From 1938 to 1942, in Leon, whe was an em ployee of Iowa's Department of Soil Conservation. In 1947, she came to Medford where she has made her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morlan. She was a member of the Leon First Christian Church, Order of the Eastern Star, Elec ta Club, and the Iowa Pythian Sisters. In 1902 in Leon, Iowa, she was married to James H. Alldredge, who died in 1929. In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Lillian A. Morlan, she is survived by one brother, Charles A. Housh, Des Moines, Iowa; two sisters, Mrs. L. E. Caster, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Winnie Painter, Leon, and two grandchildren. One son, Regi nald Alldredge, died in 1918. MRS. GLADYS STANLEY Services for Mrs. Gladys Stanley, 649 Carrington St., who died Friday, will be held in the Hillcrest Memorial Chapel, North Phoenix Road, Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Norman Northrup, First Christian Church officiating. Committal will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Conger - Morris, funeral directors, are in charge of ar rangements. Mrs. Stanley was born in Wa pato, Wash.. April 27. 1912. and had lived in Medford since 1955. On Jan. 12, 1942, in Olympia, Wash., she was married to Vilis L. Stanley, who survives. Also surviving are three brothers, Harold G. Smith, El Centro, Calif.; Albert G. Foster, Kenne wick, Wash., and Lawrence Westerwaller, Seattle. Casket bearers will be James Nistler, Leonard Yost Jr., Rudy Yost, Cyrus Farnsworth, Wil liam Roberts, James Buckmas- ter. COLUMBUS S. JACKSON Columbus Stephen Jackson, 63, of Drew, Ore., died in a lo cal hospital Sunday. Conger- Morris, funeral directors, is in charge of funeral arrangements. WILLARD H. HERYFORl) Willard H. Heryford, 72, died Sunday in a local hospital. Fu neral arrangements will be an nounced by Conger-Morris, fu neral directors. BRIAN DUANE HANSON The body of Brian Duane Han son. infant son of Mr. and Mrs, Ronald Hanson, Fortune, Calif., who died here Friday from in juries sustained in an auto acci dent, was taken by Conger- Morris, funeral directors, to Fortuna for services and interment. EDWARD SPIRES Edward Spires. 97, died Sun day evening in a local rest home. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger Morris, funeral directors. GEORGE JANTZEU George Jantzer, 72, of 4044 Crater Lake Ave., died Sunday evening in a local hospital. Fu neral arrangements will be an nounced by Conger - Morris, fu neral directors. Merry Christmas ..allW. I LI M-... V.i, and Happy New Year to Everyone! MASTER FURRIERS In The Medford Shopping Center 5 -Ox ltlj if m Easy Guidelines For Schools for Holiday Lacking By ROBERT FAIRBANKS United Press International SACRAMENTO Calif. (UPI) -!- Christmas is a jolly time, except perhaps for the" public school teacher who must decide if and how to celebrate it in the classroom. For despite the Supreme ioun s Decision last June, and earlier words from the high tri bunal, there are still no easy guidelines for the teacher or ad ministrator to follow when deal ing with this particular holiday. For instance: should there be a nativity scene in the school? Should the children sing Christmas carols? Should they hear the story of Christmas as it is told in the Bible? California deputy attorney general Richard Mayers, a specialist in church - state law, made this observation: "The Supreme Court said that the government is neutral when dealing with religion." But, he said, this is not an easy doctrine to apply when assess ing a particular Christmas cele bration in a particular school. Religion Question "You have to ask whether it is given, or intended, as a re ligious ceremony," he said. That is not an easy question when many persons argue that Christmas observances are not necessarily religious but a part of folklore. Dr. Max Rafferty, superinten dent of public instruction, is in clined toward that point of view. He said that he favored the presentation of Christmas pag eants in the schools, com plete with carol singing and readings from the scripture, "provided that it was given to the children as a celebration of a great holiday, common to all Americans." "It should be," he added, "a culturally directed program rather than one devoted to any kind of sectarian religious indoctrination." Rafferty said that Christmas Carols, along with Santa Claus and Christmas trees "have passed into the folklore tradi tion of the whole race. Historical Statement Readings from the Bible, he continued, should be considered as an "historical statement of a great time." Harry A. Fosdick, an official of the California Teachers As sociation (CTA), took a different view of scripture readings. In a recent article for the CTA newspaper "Actio n," Fosdick said he opposed programs "which demand religious com mitments of a captive audience or feature the dogma of the Christmas story. "This." he continued, "would rule out reading the Christian scriptural passages of the Na tivity, which I have seen done solemnly and eloquently in many public schools." About Christmas carols, Fos dick said there were "many gray areas." He noted that "We Three Kings of Orient Are," for instance, "recognizes the dog ma of Nativity, yet is cultural as a foundation for our gift-giv-ine tradition." Earlier this month, the Los Angeles City school district issued its annual set of "guide lines" for principals and admin istrators who may be concerned with Christmas programs. In general, the district left final decisions to local principals "who best know how to judge community needs. However, the guidelines said ,-that "highly sectarian scenes : and tableaus should be avoid ed." On music, they said, "much of our finest music is of a religious nature and as i music may be appropriately i used in connection with school programs. Calls For Precaution The district also asked for precautions "to insure that the individual pupil is not embar rassed and there is no violation of his individual conscience and of the law . . ." California law on religion in the schools was summarized in 1955 when then Attorney Gen eral (now governor) Edmund G. Brown issued an opinion say ing that prayers and Bible read ings could not be made a part of the public school curriculum. But he said the Bible might MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963 Locals Woman Injured Mrs. Elsie Grove, Medford Plaza Apart ments, is a patient at Crater Osteopathic Hospital, Central Point, for treatment of injuries received in a fall at her apartment. Building Permit The Med ford Building Department has issued a building permit to A. R. Dubs, for the construction of an $18,000 residence at 316 Mur phy Road. Two Patients Larry Lcmos, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lemos, Hornbrook, is a patient at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco, where he was admitted Dec. 15. His grandmother, Mrs. L. L. Lock wood, also of Hornbrook, is in the Rogue Valley Hospital, Med ford, where she is recovering from a broken hip received in a fall at her home about two weeks ago. Flue Fires Medford fire men were summoned at 1:50 p.m. Sunday when a flue fire was reported at the residence of Eugene L. Garner, 1600 Crown Ave. Then at 8:20 o'clock this morning the Central Point Rural Fire Department was called to the Harrison Meyer residence, 2765 W. Beall Lane, Central Point, by a flue fire reDort. There was no damage in either case. Fire on Grill Minor smoke damage resulted from a fire on the grill at Dell's Hamburcer Stand, 323 E. Sixth St., Medford, Saturday evening. Medford fire men were called at 6 D.m. Own er of the building is John Lang-stone. Attends Seminar Dr. Ed ward V. Chance, 525 S. Second St., Central Point, was among doctors who attended a four-day clinical seminar held recently in Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Chance accompanied her husband south. Hospital Patients Conva. lescing at Sacred Heart Hos pital following surgery is Louis A. Parker, Cave Junction. Med ical patients there are Mrs Ernest Bridger, Keno. Ore., and Mrs. Betty L. Jack, Route 4, Box 535A, Grants Pass. Republicans Said Unready for Race WASHINGTON (UPI) - A magazine whose editors call themselves moderate Republi cans believes that the GOP is "totally unprepared" to face next years presidential clec tion. The magazine, Advance, said Sunday night that a"progres- sive KcpuDlican could beat President Johnson and the out come would be decided "in the metropolitan North, Midwest and West" where the I960 elec tion was decided. Somebody Getting Free Transportation HUTCHINSON, Kan. (UPD- An unkown thief stole a sta tion wagon Sunday and drove to Wichita. Apparently, police said, the same thief then stole an identical station wagon in Wichita for the return trip. Last week, a car stolen here turned up in Nickerson, Kan., and a car stolen in Nickerson was found here a few hours ater. Police believe the cases are the work of the same person. Servicemen ABOARD DESTROYER Seaman Gary C. Fields, son of Mrs. Herbert C. Fields, 411 Beat ty St., Medford, is serving aboard the destroyer USS Wilt sie operating out of San Diego, Calif. SANTA'S HELPURS-In Portland, Ore., Judi Landes, left, and Kathi Murphy, are sworn in as Santa's Helpers bv the Jolly Old Man him self. "So help me St. Nick," they avow. (UPI) Home Ownership in State High; Valuation Is Below Average EUGENE Oregon ranks fifth in the nation in the propor tion of its citizens who own their own homes, but the value of the homes appears to be be low regional and national levels. This is one of the facts brought out in a new publica tion, "Oregon Housing Fact Book," recently published by the University of Oregon Bureau of Business Research. The booklet, which is availa ble from the Bureau for two dollars, is a compilation and in terpretation of the 1960 federal census of housing reports pre pared by Dr. Clyde E. Brown ing, assistant professor of real estate in the School of Business Administration. It has been prepared primari ly for firms and individuals en gaged in the building, financing, and selling of residential real estate, but will also be useful to city officials, educators, plan ners, and others interested in the Oregon housing picture. A total of 69.3 per cent of housing units in Oregon are owned by their occupants, com pared with 68.5 per cent in Washington, 58.4 per cent in California, and 61.9 per cent nationally. However, in 1960. the median value of Oregon owner-occupied housing units was $10,500, well below the average for neighbor ing states and the nation. In fact, California homes had median value almost 50 per cent higher, the figures showed. Even after adjustments have been made for the fact that Ore gon has a greater proportion of older homes and California has generally higher real estate val ues, "the fact that roughly a quarter of all Oregon homeown ers live in homes valued at less than $7,500 is no', comforting," Dr. Browning observed. He has suggested that Ore gonians' widespread ownership of boats, trailers, and vacation cottages may explain why they appear to have put less of their disposable income into larger, more substantial housos. Wedding Party Ends in Tragedy As Autos Collide Woman's Death Due to Asphyxiation DALLAS, Ore. (UPI) - An autopsy Saturday revealed 18-ycar-old Joyce Lee Schwab, Sa lem, died of asphyxiation. Mrs. Schwab's body was found early Saturday in a car in Wal lace Park, just outside the Sa lem city limits. Her companion, Clarence Waldon Sutton, 22, Brooks, was unconscious. Sutton was treated at a hos pital, and later taken into cus tody on a vagrancy charge. He was, released on his own recog nizance later Saturday. Polk County Sheriff Virgil Taylor said an investigation re vealed Sutton and Mrs. Schwab, a divorcee, had met and driven to the park. Taylor said Sutton's car be came stuck on a dirt road, and that as they sat in the car fumes from a defective exhaust overcame both of them. Polk County Deputy Lee Ed wards, who discovered the stalled auto while on a routine patrol, was credited by Sheriff Taylor with saving Sutton's life. FRESNO, Calif. (UPI) - A wedding celebration ended in tragedy Sunday when two cars slammed into a truck in dense fog 15 miles southwest of here, killing the bridegroom and four other persons and seriously in juring the bride. Marcelino Arrosagary, 30, of Huron, Calif., and his bride, Marie, 16, were married in Fresno Saturday and were en route to Huron for a wed ding breakfast when the crash occurred. Highway Patrolmen said the two cars smashed into the truck as it started across an intersection after halting for a stop sign. The cars, they added, were traveling at ex cessive speed. Killed Outright Arrosagary was driving the second car and was killed out right. His wife and two other persons in the car were in jured. The first vehicle was driven by his brother, Miguel, 33, of Chino, who was also killed in stantly. The top of his car was sheared off when it slammed into the truck's trailer bed. The three other persons in Miguel's car were killed. They were his wife, Maria, 29. Mar guerite Ann Changala, 35, and her sister, Grace, 47, both of El Toro, Calif. The injured in Marcellino's car included Pedro Erro, 4H, of Fresno, and his wife, Veronica, 40. All the injured were taken to Fresno General Hospital, then to the Community Hospital, the patrol said. The driver oi tnc Diamond Meat Co. truck, Merle Duck ley, 29, Fresno, was not injured. be used for "reference, literary, historical or other non-religious purposes." "The religious guarantees in our constitution," he continued, "stem not from opposition to re ligion but from respect for it and for the right of each person to determine for him self his fundamental faith." All Night Buffet and BREAKFAST New Year's Day! Bring Your Friends for a Gala Evening RESERVATIONS ONLY! Live Muiic Open House Christmas Day from 1 p.m. BE OUR GUEST enjoy Chrillmll 99 nog, dance to live mtitie, Food it in best EVERYONE WELCOME. DARDANELLE 4ii Interstate 5 it Gold Hill - 855-1230 GREAT BIG HITS! TONITE! 3 fey,IBgfe Yeuowsiome VrCLINT WALKER EDWARD BYRNES jomn ftueaiu. ANON MARTIN Kelly at 7 p.m. t 1 2:40 Sunn Slide 9 p.m. Tirun 1 1 p.m. TECHNICOLOR TROY DONAHUE CONNIE STEVENS IMItrt HcCifllf -UlTf MKII -TO MAGNIFICENT COLOR WiM.toKMWr.WtiSI.M m - 1 1 i Jl jL I SJflW nr n iiiiM This is coupled with the fact that in Oregon many low in come families own their own homes, whereas in other states people of comparable income may be renters. In the spring of lflfiO, Oregon contained 622,853 housing units, a gain of 18.9 per cent over the previous decade. Of the owner occupied units, 87.5 per cent were classified as sound, 10.1 per cent were deteriorating, and 2.4 per cent were dilapidated. Comparable figures for rental units were 74.6, 19.5, and 5.9. Near Nation's Average These figures are close to the national average, although Ore gon has slightly fewer homes that are either sound or dilapi dated, and slightly more that are deteriorating. A much higher proportion of Oregon rental units are single family homes than are those of the nation. Oregon also has a somewhat higher proportion of owner-occupied trailers in Us housing inventory 3.3 per cent compared to the nation's 2 per cent. The trailer figures cuuld he explained by Oregon's scenic at tractions and the many dam projects under way in the stale, Dr. browning pointed out. Oregon has an unusually high proportion nearly a third of all housing units in the rural nonfarm category. These dwell ings, although many of them were built in recent years, are lower in value, in poorer condi tion, and have a higher vacancy rale (nan tnc average lor the stale Shoplifters To Get S520 Million From Stores in Nation A 11 By MARGERY MCELHENY United Press International CHICAGO (UPI) - Sticky fingered shoppers will help themselves to $520 million worth of goods between now and New Year's Day, a manu facturer of anti-theft devices predicts. The losses will be carried out of supermarkets in women's purses, coats, umbrellas and pockets, said Norman M. Kiv cn, president of Norman Indus tries, manufacturers of convex, wide-angle mirrors and other devices to discourage shoplift ing. A loss of $3 may not seem like much but overhead and other operating costs demand that the food merchant ring up about $35 in additional sales be fore he can break even on the loss, Kivcn said. Added up, these losses cost the grocery industry more than $300 million last year, enough to feed San Francisco, Calif., for a full year, according to an in dustry estimate. Lose Billions Kivcn said that approximately 25 per cent of all the year's stealing occurs during the Christmas holiday season. He said various estimates show that retailers will lose more than $2 billion to pilferers this year, more than the cost of all the nation's burglaries and hold ups combined. "The most frequeent shoplift ing offender is the average housewife," he said. "Ninety per cent of the stealing is done by her, and quite logically, be cause she does over 90 per cent of the shopping." And, shoplifting continues to increase. A report by the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation said it increased 10 per cent over last year during the first quarter of 1963. Kivcn attributed the increase to the tremendous growth of self-service type stores. "Walk down the aisles of a typical operation and you sec acres of attractive merchandise pay the lower figure or conceal merchandise that should ba changed, it's natural that tha die is cast to mould a new crook." Bomb Threat Brings Church Evacuation PORTLAND (UPI) About 500 persons evacuated St. Rita's Catholic Church following a tele phoned bomb threat Sunday morning. A man called the priests' re sidence at the church and told a housekeeper "you'd better watch out there's a bomb in the church." Police and firemen searched but found no bomb. Variable Tuesday, morning Law High WEATHER KOIUSCASTS Medford and vicinity: cloudiness tonight and but with night and patrhes or valley (or. nisht 2R-33. llich Tuesday 43-48. Western Oregon: Cloudy with periods or ram tonight and early luesclay. Low tonight 42-32. Tuesday 43-mi. Northern California: Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday, execpt (OH in the central valley. Little rhanca in temperatures. TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 40: above normal 2. Kecord high thi; date 61 In 1910. Record In wthis date 1(1 in 104a. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month .20 Inch. .2. IT Inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1. 7.21 inches. .39 inch below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 68. highest this a.m. 100'V High 4:00 24 CITV Yestrr- a.m. Hr. day Low Prec Brnnklnes .18 .10 Crater Lake 38 21 Grants Pass 54 32 Howard Prairie .. 37 2(1 Klamath f alls .18 2. MEDFORD 40 20 Portland 43 38 .05 Scnlllc 4B Spokane 38 Yakima 35 43 34 28 .58 .05 Eureka 58 41 Red Bluff 60 35 Sacramento 53 33 San Francisco .... 58 47 Los Angeles . 70 30 40 Phoenix 02 Denver 33 Chicago 24 Miami Beach 74 New York 38 Washington. D. C. 34 5 F1VK HAY FORECAST (Through Itec. 2S) Western Washington and Ore- displayed to create impulse """j. T5mp.cr";;'rc;. vs the 4t)s and lows in the mld-30s. Precipitation above normal, except near normal In Southwest Oregon. purchases but backfiring to al low impulse stealing," he said, Pilferer Psychology "Look around and get the feeling that you've extended Cub Scout News Pack 8 Cub Scout Pack 8 of Jackson School met Thursday, Dec. 12, at St. Mark's Guild hall for their Christmas party. Two one-year and two two- year pins were awarded and Danny Carpenter and Tommy Klusman received Bobcats awards. Their project at the party was for all the boys to take a Christ mas card with which they decor ated the tree and each put a gift under it. After the tree was completed the cubmaster pre sented it to the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Home. Santa Claus visited the pack and treats were presented to the Cubs Scouts, their brothers and sisters. CHARGES FILED McMINNVILLE (UPI) Scott Robinson Kyle, 16, Sheridan, was charged with failure to yield the right-of-way today as a result of a fatal auto accident at the old Grand Ronde Indian Agency southwest of here Sun day. Lyle Lyman McClure, 50, Silvcrton, was killed in the crash. Part of the reason for this large figure may lie in the fact that many of these houses arc used only seasonally or as va cation cottages, Dr. Browning explained. The two Oregon metropolitan areas, Portland and Eugene, contain about half of the total housing units in the state, and these units are in better condi tion than the state average. From 1950 to I960, Portland s housing stock increased slightly faster than the state as a whole, while Eugene's growth was about 40 per cent greater than the state. In a breakdown of housing characteristics in various com munities, it was found that Corvallis and Snlcm Heights ranked high in a number of categories in cities of 10,000 to 50.000 population, while Astoria, suffering an economic and pop ulation decline, had the poorest performance. Smaller Oregon towns with populations of 2,500 to 10,0)0 exhibited a wide range of hous ing characteristics. Median val ue ranged from a high of $18,500 in Oswego to a low of $6,700 in Silverton. Hermiston has the lowest pro portion, .2 per cent, of housing classed as dilapidated, while Reedsport had the highest pro portion, 14.4 per cent, of unsat isfactory housing. BARD'S INN RESTAURANT Closed Christmas Day Ashland 6 A.M. 10 P.M. 7 DAYS PER WEEK Banquet Room 1 W Mi Jinr Aim A Litv loan can help you through the Holidays! We gladly make prom cash loans for just such worthwhile need. Give us a call and see for yourse We can put the money your pocket. CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: 482-2431, Ashland Life insurance available on all loans at low group rates 2522 TO 1S0022 Open Saturdays 9 A.M. to 12 Noon During Holiday Season Northern California: Preciplta tion at times in extreme north, possibly reaching most of area lat- r, - - icr part 01 pcrion. temperatures your budget, but have to have near nrmal except below normal in a certain article, and tne owner ""-"" "-c iv. won't miss it. Or perhaps the potential pilferer thinks that be cause he or sue nas Dcen trad ing with the store for some time management owes her some thing." One of the solutions, ho said is to deter, shoplifting by taking away privacy from the long isles. Convex mirrors placed in positions wnere incy renect images from around gondo las or corners alert potential thieves to the possibility of be ing observed, so fewer persons will take the risk of stealing, he- said. Kiven believes prevention of the then is more practical than attempting to prosecute the I thief. If a merchant docs file charges, often the pilferer Is placed on probation or in some states, where the shop lifting apprehension law is so weak that the thief goos free on a technicality, the merchant faces a false arrest charge," said Kivcn. Judges Iterate The average theft, Kevin said amounts to $1.11 and judges oc casionally "berate the business man for tying up the court on a petty Hem. He discounted the idea that the thefts were performed by professionals who sell the loot. "We arc living in a nation of thieves," Kiven said. "It's not uncommon for youngsters to hear parents boast about in come tax cheating or read about the scandals in business and government. Therefore, when a child sees a parent or friend switch a price label to I THE WORLD ffJBSM M i . I the t MSttlk i f skV 12 N00N Aduiti $1.00 4jf Students 75c mkm Children 50c J it 1 Merchant fCff Open Christmas 6 a.m. till 1 p.m. SERVING BREAKFAST ONLY SAMBO'S PANCAKES 1025 So. Riverside i
