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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1955)
THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SIXTEEN 9th and Pin Phone 3188 OPEN EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT 'TIL 9 P.M. RACK-TO laWH SALLf! THIS FFA grand champion Suffolk, shown by Marshall CorneH, right, of fvlalin, wenf to the Byron Johnson Machinery Com pany, Malin and Tulelake for $1 per pound. Johnson handed over a check for $100 for the black-faced champion. Baby boy Johnson, who wouldn't tell his first name, looked over Jhe priie animal, sold at the animal Junior Livestock auction at the Klamath County Fairgrounds August 23. Police Believe Deiroii's 'Shovel Burglar' Caught DETROIT Wl After a five-year hunt. Djlice believe they have cauaht Detroit's "Shovel Burglar.' Officers say he Is William E. ScWHz. 44, a last-tawing pulmonis salesman who has 3erved lour terms in Southern Michlgnn Pris on. They said he supplemented his J100 weekly income as a salesmnr. by looting homes of between aio.000 and 415,000 a year. For live years the Shovel Bur glar' routine never varied. He operated only on Friday nights between sunset and 9 p.m., taking a "vacation" between May and September and during the deer bunting season. He stole only from fashionable neighborhoods in Detroit's North west Bide. Each Friday, after spotting a darkened house, he would steal a shovel from the nearest open ga rage, pry open a window, crawl Inside the home and carry oil cash, Jewelry and anything else o! value xan cuugh'. nis eye. Mter looting several homes, he Would tUck tho shovel in the uvound outside the last house he I Lake Swim if i course next The flrat organized course of In ittrucUon in swimming in the Cres cent Lake area was completed this month, under the sponsorship ol the local Red Cross chapter. ClnsH e.i were given In beginning. Inter mediate and swimmers classes, Instructor was Joanne DeMerritt oi Malin, authorized Red Cross in structor, assisted by Nancy De Merritt, Water Safety Aide. Mrs. Virginia Meissner of Cascade Sum mitt recruited the students for the class, The instruction met a need for water safety Instruction in a community bordering on both Cres cent and bdell lnkes, "twenty four children enrolled as beginners; 13 registered lor Inter mediate swim instruction, and five completed the swimmers course. Classes were held at the Crescent Lake resort beach. There wns no charge for the classes, and cost ot the project was born by the lo cal Red Cross chapter. vlt ited as his personal "calling card." Over the five years nearly 1,000 homes were looted In this manner. Police were battled. Then Detective Lt. Harold A. Brownfield took charga of the in vestigation in June 1054. He or ganized a dragnet of some 700 civil defense auxiliary police and scores of off-duty policemen. - i One Friday night, all at in darkened houses scattered through the district waiting for the Shovel Burglar to appear. But the Bur glar, apparently learning of the trap, stopped his operations (or two weeks. Brownfield carried on the search, talking tq dozens of public meetings, urging citizens to be on the lookout. . The burglaries suddenly halted Inst April 9. That ..was the date Ignatius Kec)-, who had heard Brownfield speak, spotted Schlltz prying open a window with a shovel at a nearby house. Keep and two neighbors, one ot them with a 'notgun, raced to the ihoue. Rchllt?., talking glibly, al-1 most convinced them he had been looking for a flog, but when the Ihree inaiMed he tell his story to police, he suddenly stuck his hand in a pocket and told mem he htd a gun and would snoot to Kin. Schlltz drove away but the three men identified him in a police line up soon afterward. schlltz, oi suburban Livonia, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charpe of attempted burglary,- but denied any of the 1,000-odd other burglaries. Recorder's Judge O. Z, Ide freed him on $2,500 bond for sentence Sept. 13, Flower School Plans Announced Dates for the fourth course ol the Oregon Slate llower show school to be held In the cltv li brary nre August 29-30-31. Reals nations which are open to the pub lie will start nt ) a.m. dnlly and be resumed at 1 p.m. Instructions will be given on the first two days by Mrs. Flnnl7. Ne hammer, Mercer, Island. Washing ton, on lower arrangements and by Mrs. D. C. Mahoncy, Pendleton who will talk on bulbs, glads and chrysanthemums. The third day will be taken up v uh examinations. Mis. Scott McKendree. Klamath rails, is general chairman ot the bchool. STATE FARM Yovr Car INSURES Yovr Heme ALL THREE Yovr life Soinrtimri it's smart to put all your rt!$i in one basket ... tiperiaily when if your iniur ance prolrttion. You'll enjoy the convenience of hatinf til your I personal insurance in (he hand, of onr prtMnho knows your ia- ii ilul nrcih. Call me anytime. 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