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.
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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."
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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
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Ashland
6 A.M. 10 P.M.
7 DAYS PER WEEK
Banquet Room
1 W Mi
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2522 TO
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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
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Christmas
6 a.m. till 1 p.m.
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BREAKFAST ONLY
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