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KERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
MONDAY, MAY 19. 1958
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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.
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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
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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. .
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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
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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.
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with two trailers, norlhhounn.
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and1
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Calilornia Highway Patrol.
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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.
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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.
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58 M0BILGAS SPECIAL
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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.-
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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.
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