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PAGE FOUR KERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON MONDAY, MAY 19. 1958 C ttu tr MC ta. -. "finrrtf man hut hia len't nraamknat TUia la 4ha kipper, and Dreamboat's Police Chase Rifle Wielder Klamath Falls police last night chased an alleged rifle wielder some two miles before finally stop ping him and arresting him on dangerous weapon assault charges. Patrolman John Kennard was cruising by a South Sixth Street tavern at about 10 p.m. when he Was flagged down by Mrs. Bob Canady of 777 Old Fort Road. Mrs. Canady told the officer that one Carl D. Roberts, who was just then getting into an auto, had held a .22 rifle to her head moments before as she sat In her husband's car outside the bar. Roberts then drove off with the policeman in hot pursuit, red lights on. Kennard finally halted the suspect in the 4300 block of Avalon Street, a distance of some two miles from where the chase began. Roberts, who lives at 4308 Ava lon, was brought to the station and booked on a dangerous weap on assault charges. A companion In his car, Elmer C. Hegg, 813 Pine tSrcet- was booked on charges of heme drunk in an auto. Mrs. Canady told Kennard that the had been in the tavern earlier in Ihe evening having a soft drink Willi her husband when Roberts came up to her and asked to buy her a drink. She refused and a short argu ment, ensued, she told Ihe patrol man. Then, when she and her hus band left the bar for their auto, Mrs. Canady continued, Roberts followed, after taking the rifle from his own car. . He came over to the Canady auto and stuck the rifle through the window tu Mrs. Canady's head and threatened to shoot her, the woman told police. Deputy Nabs Ex-Convict A 22-year-old ex-convict was captured in Chilomiin this morn ing after eluding stale police and sheriff's deputies who had put out an all-night road block for some 12 hours. Arrested by Deputy Sheriff Al vie Younghlood and booked on bur glary charges at the county jail was Freddie Hood of Chiloquin. Authorities said Hood "dropped In" Ihe Golden Rule Store in Chil oquin a few moments past 8 o'clock last night via a skylight. He had been inside the store only a minute or so when Vernon Norval. proprietor, arrived to do some extra work. Alter questioning Hood. Norval picked up Ihe telephone to call the sheriff's ollice. The suspect then broke away and ran. with Norval unable to slop him in a short struggle. A roadblock was set up quickly and some 10 stale police and .sher iff's cars participated. However, Younghlood made Un arrest at Ihe home of Dollie Kirk al 8:15 a m. today. Hood offered no resistance, the depuly said. " J J m Sf 'i "The ttore was out of diet bread, Mom, to I did the next btt thing I just bought lollipops!" In dry dock for tonight!" Car Overturns; Teen-agers Hurt Six Icen-age boys and girls were injured last night when the car in which they were riding went out ot control and rolled over several limes in the 600 block of Lake- shore Drive. Police investigating the accident said the car, with a 16-year-old boy behind the wheel, was heading toward downtown at about 8:45 p.m. Due to "excessive speed," po lice said, the youlh lost control of the vehicle and it careened to the left side of the road, rolled over several times and came to rest on its right side. All the young people were cut and bruised and were treated at Klamath Valley Hospital. None was hurt seriously. Accused Forger To Be Returned A 35-year-old accused forger, ar rested by slale police in The Dalles Saturday, will be relumed lo Klamalh County and charged with writing two bogus checks. Sherilf Murray "Red" Britton said today. The suspect is Lee Hen dricks, a transient, who Iked in Salvation Army quarters here last year. Authorities said Hendricks se cured two blank Salvation Army checks, made them out for $56 each and cashed them in local establishments last July. Man Claims To Be Victim Of Hit-Run An 81 -year-old man. found hv police at Ihe side of Old Fori Road late Saturday nighl. claimed no was run down bv an automo bile. The man. Peter Christensen of 775 Old Fort Road, was taken to Klamath avlley Hospital where he was treated for a bruised right hip. He told nolice a tnwn-hnund ear struck Turn. He asserted further that groceries in his possession had been stolen from him. Officers said they weren't sure if Christensen had been hit bv a car or whether he fell into the ditch alongside the road. VANDALISM Police today were invest igating a case of vandalism involving four used cars on the Jim Windc Buick Company lot at 1330 Main Street over the weekend. Company offi cials said rear view mirrors on all lour aulos were broken otf and that in addilion, two hub caps were stolen from one car and the aerial sawed off of another. In another incident reported yesterday, Donald Libby of 1323 LaKcsnnre Drive told police two tiros had been slashed on his ISM spoils car while it was parked near Esplanade and Wall Saturday night. CHINESE SPUTNIK SEEN MOSCOW (UP) The president of the Communist Chineso Acad emy of Science says China might launch ils own earth satellite soon, the Soviet Communist Par ty newspaper Pravda said Sun day. r. i ulfM ea. e mi , ! Air Show (Continued from Pag One) tion of 'how much can we afford to spend tor air defenses a peace lime' but rather 'How much can we afford to lose.' " Loenig presented part of his "plane load of facts" to describe the increased uses of aviation in farming and other types 'of busi ness and urged support of the Flying Farmers' slogan, "Crop Care by Air." H. O. Juckeland. chairman of Aviation Week festivities, emceed Ihe dinner meeting which was sponsored by the Sportsmen Pilots of Klamath Falls. Ned Putnam chairman of Armed Forces Day assisted. Special guests at the banauet included a delegation of 20 from Wenatchee, Washington, 12 from Portland, representatives of F.tna Helicoptors. Inc., of Etna. Califor- ma, Mayor Lawrence Slater ol Klamath Falls: Col. Raymond A Thornton, 408th Fighter Group commander: John Tuefel, Hills boro president, and Mrs. Ray Meyer, Tigard, secretary of the flying farmers: Ed Anderson Salem, state president and Marion Bixel, Portland, secretary of the Sportsmen Pilots Association: Gil Smith, immediate past president of SPA, Mrs. Smith and Jan, Port land: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Doug lass, Klamath Falls, secretaries of Ihe local SPA and its auxiliary, and Mrs. Bud Addison, president of the local SPA auxiliary. During the weekend, crowds thronged the airport to view Air Force jet planes, the giant B-36, cargo planes and the flying radar station which, along with civilian planes, National Guard equipment. automobiles and boats lined the runway. Visitors watched para chute jumping, look rides in heli copters and commercial airline planes, watched demonstrations of aircraft and model plane exhibi tions. Harold Jones, airport manager. who coordinated civilian efforts to wards Aviation Week, said the event will be repeated next year n conjunction with Armed Forces Day. Funerals NELSON MOUNT SHASTA Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday. May 17, 1958. in the Community Methodist Church for Mrs. Aribella Mary Nelson. 78, a native of Canada. She died in Mount Shasta Wednesday. May 14. The Rev. Harold Engdahl offic iated. Survivors include a son. Arthur J. Nelson. Mount Shasta; two daughters. Mrs. Clarena Hart ley, Mount Shasta, and Mrs. Ind ia Patten, Eugene: nine grand children; eight great-grandchildren. Interment was 2 p.m. Mon day, May 19. . r.ioiw.is MOUNT SHASTA - Holy Ros ary was recited Friday. May 16, 19o8. at 8 p.m. in Noble s Chan el for John Ginrgis, Mount Shas ta, who died Wednesday, Mav 14 Funeral services were conducted Saturday, May 17. at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Michael Myles, SI. Jo seph's Catholic Church, officiat ing. Mr. Giorgis, 76. a native of Italy, had lived in Mount Shasta ,i2 years. He had worked for Ihe International Paper Company. Weed. He was never married. He is survived by two brothers, Angclo, Weed: Anthony, Coquille, Oregon: and several nieces and nephews in California and Oregon Interment was in Mount Shasta Cemetery. SIGLER ALTURAS - Clarence Millon Sigler. 62, a native of Kansas, died Thursday, May 15, 1MH, in Quincy, California, from injuries received in an automobile accident Wednesday night. Mr. Sigler was well known in Modoc County whore he was engaged in a trucking busi ness until he moved to Vallejo approximately two years ago. He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include two sons. Lynn Sigler. Alturas: Norman. Quincy, California: one daughter. Mrs. Jane Rulf. Fort Jones. Funeral services were held in the McDon ald Funeral Chapel, Redding, at 2 p.m. Monday, May 19. ROBINSON WEED Funeral services for Paul Cleo Robinson, 58, of Alluras will he held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday from t h e Mn.?doel Community Church with Upton's Mortuary of Weed in charge of arrangements. businessman at Alluras for the last eight years, Mr. Robinson died at the home ol a sister Mrs. Heat- rice Walton at the Bray Ranch near Macdocl on Friday. May 16. He had formerly lived in South ern California. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Ruse Lenora Rob inson of Alturas: two sons. Patrick tohn Robinson of Culver City, and Robert Dean Robinson of Los An geles: two daughters. Rose Marie Robinson of Alturas and Mrs Pauline Davis of Los Angeles: six brothers and two sisters of South ern California; also sex en grand children. Interment will he in the Incdoel Cemetery. Truck Driver Escapes Injury WKKD A Init'k (Irixtr. flaudp Cliapnian IUIrit. 2 of nnsup Iiicr, Orrgon. escaped iniuiy when his rig went out ( conlml on the !H Kanch hill ture on his way in Yreka atout 5:l.t p.m. on Sundav. Ir u:i Huh invj frcit'ht tnii I- with two trailers, norlhhounn. Hip mr lr:iih'r xccrpit nff and1 the ! hihay nnd its load dunned into j me Miasta tiucr. aceordinj: Calilornia Highway Patrol. to! An UMPVi'ii In n1 in th re. ii . tr;illrr U;K hl.mu'd Uv I'lll tor i the accident. The ni; ninird nut guard rail on the bridge out tht Sh.xsta Hier. f "i ' ;.U';-,. i. --.' : '". - : ' - J fi L -fa. K 4". , ..-.! I. JU If -' .--f f'',( 1 Li,, t-.. " " - t Jr- WEED SHASTINA VOLUNTEER FIREMEN began the free home inspection program to in sure fire safety in the Weed area last week. Talmadge Barren, center, is receiving a cleared safety certificate from Ed Turner, left, following inspection of his home on Ore gon Street, by volunteers Turner and Eldon Hanson, right, The program was initiated throughout the Weed area with the consent of the home owners. All fire hazards are checked by the volunteers, working in teams of two. Gaynor Photo Monthly Road Progress Listed WASHINGTON i The Bureau of Public Roads reported Mondav it authorized construction of 2.053 miles of federal-aid highways last month. This was in addilion to work on the interstate superhighway net work. The bureau reported Sun day night that construction con tracts on 383 miles of the multi- lane, limited access road net were awarded during April. Ihe regular program for build- ins nrimarv. sernnri.irv nH nrhan roads also is in addition to a special 400-miilion-dollar fund set up to spur similar projects as an anti-recession measure. During the weekend the bureau reported prompt use is being made of the special fund. It said plans to spend nearly 2!) million dollars on 671 miles of roads were approved by April 30 just two weeks after Congress passed the anti-recession highway law. St. Louis, Missouri, was named by French settlers lor King Louis XV of France. & j. 1 5 -f r i M"" - l?"--'d-: b'MotSJ- 1ZZ- ""Zm-T-i K55!S?iLl885 sales - Los Angeles , T- -tH"? ' fc. rT " .LJ- to ffslveston r jffaAm Fuelt J5 p . lloil -Zi- ' . : ULl ilTt Air Workers Back On Job MARIETTA- Ga. Ml - Union workers streamed back to their jibs at Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Monday after settlement of a 10 day strike. Carl Kotchian, vice president and general manager of Lock heed's Georgia Division plant, largest single private employer in the state, estimated about two thirds of the employes would be at work. He said additional workers would be called hack Tuesday and that the plant should be 100 per cent manned by Friday. Members of District 33, Inter national Assn. of Machinists, voted Saturday to accept a new two year contract. The union has 8.000 members among the 13.000 plant employes. The strike was marked by minor violence. Both sides were en joined by court order from creat ing disturbances. -x 58 M0BILGAS SPECIAL . Red Recognition Urged By Group . WASHINGTON i.fl After a hot fi?ht, the Americans for. Demo cratic Action (ADA) has gone on record in favor of negotiations pointed toward United States rec ognition of Red China. The battle over the recognition issue highlighted the final session Sunday of the organization's three- day annual convention. The action came as something of a surprise in the light of ADA'S rejection Saturday of a -proposal calling for admission of Commu nist China to the United Nations. MEETING MALIN The Malin Parents an3 Patrons will meet Tuesday eve ning. May 20, at 8 o'clock, accord ing to Mrs. Louis Kalina. president of the unit. Officers will be in stalled for the coming year. The program will include a candle light fly-up ceremony by the South County District Camp Fire girls. This is the first time such a ceremony has been held in Malin. Refreshments will be served by mothers of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades.- i- - W JfeJ ""Mi New Lightning Fires Set 2,000 Acre Forest Ablaze . By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New lightning-set blazes sent a 2.000-acre fire out of control again Monday east of North Bend. Wash., n tinder-dry Snoqualmie National Forest. It was the biggest of widely scattered lires in the Pacific Northwest, where high tempera tures, low humidity and shifting winds have contributed to the out break which brought early season logging closures. The North Bend blaze was re ported controlled until lightning set new areas afire near its peri meter. More than 700 persons were on the fire line early Mon- Theater Owner Reports Hit-Run WEED Jacob A. Leach, thea ter owner of Weed, reported a hit and run accident to the California Highway Patrol. Leach vis driving alone to Med- ford and about 12:10 a.m. on Sun day, a large truck and trailer, also northbound, passed his car and cut in ahead, so sharply that the trailer hit the front of the 1957 Oldsmobile he was driving and forced him into the ditch. He was not injured, but the left front side of his car was damaged. He reported that he surmised that the truck driver was un aware that the trailer had caught his automobile. Accident Kills McCloud Woman McCLOUD Mrs. Francise Ball. 50. of McCloud. was killed at 12: f7 a.m. on Sunday when the car driven by her husband. George Ball, about 52. went off the high way and rolled over one mile west of the McCloud Hospital on Grove Street in McCloud. She was thrown from the vehicle. California Highway Patrol Offi cer William Duncan, who investi gated, said Ball has been cited for violation of Section 501 of the California Vehicle Code relat ing to driving while drunk. Bail appeared to "have been uninjured, Officer Duncan said. UNBOLTED NEW HAVEN, Conn. I Thieves stuffed a load of stolen auto accessories into the back of a stolen pickup truck and drove off. Making a turn, the rear of the truck came loose, sailed the other way, ?nd with accessories inside, was later recovered. Police said it hadn't been bolted to the front. YOU'RE daV and the Army was lending soldiers from the Yakima, Wash. Firing Range to aid them. Airplanes were being used to drench new fire areas with a bo wax mixture that coats trees and smothers flames, but fire fighters said it was practical only on small blazes. "We will be working at it for days and days." said Guy John son, regional fire dispatcher at Portland, concerning the North Bend blaze. Elsewhere scattered fires most ly were out or under control. Lighting set two small new fires in Oregon's Siskiyou National For. est, where two other blazes were put out Sunday. Two other small blazes were reported Monday -in the Grants Pass State Forest o( Oregon. everal fires in Oregon's Ump qua Forest were out Monday. In Washington logging shut. downs were continued Monday in King, Clark ana parts of Cowliti and Skamania counties. Earlier closures were discontinued in Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, Pierce, San Juan and Island coun ties, because of cooler weather and higher humitieis. . Clear but somewhat cooler weather was forecast for the Western Washington area after a heat wave Sunday. The Sunday temperature at Seattle reached 87, a May 18 record. Scooter Overturns Injuring Youth, 18 A motor scooter that overturned when it struck a soft shoulder ol the highway near the Monroe boat docks on Upper Klamath Lake brought painful injuries to an 18-year-old Klamath Union High School senior Saturday afternoon. Injured is Bob i ancey. son of State Representative and Mrs. Carl Yancey, 4009 Homedale. Young Yancey who suffered ' a crushed left arm in the accident, also suffered body bruises and skin lacerations. He had been wa ter .skiing and was clad only In swim trunks. He submitted to sur gery on the injured arm this morn ing in preparation for setting the broken arm. Obituary j ROBINSON Paul Robinson, owner of the Pi oneer Inn. Alluras, died unexpec tedly at Bray Ranch, California, at 1:15 a.m., Saturday, May 17, ac cording to a message received by the Modoc County Sheriff's Of fice. Alturas. He is survived by the widow, Rose, Alturas. MILES AHEAD WITH MOBIL . LVJOpDU
