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PAGE 4 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FRIDAY. MAY 30, 1953 Police Solve 35 Crimes By Trio Of Teen-Agers An Intensive police investigation liere this week has resulted in so lutions to 35 crimes, all. com mitted by teen-age youths, who Blond Lad Alters Mind, Decides To Be Peace Officer CHICAGO (API A small town boy's dream of becoming a big league baseball player were bro ken by the busy, shrill whistle of a traffic cop yesterday.- Blond crew-cut Tommy Krause changed his mind after watching policeman Carl Willis direct traf fic at a busy South Side intersec tion. ' Tommy, 9, spent part of his life savings '$201 for a train ride from Battle Creek, .Mich., to Chicago without his parents' knowledge to see the Cubs play ball. He was in the baseball mood, with a bat In his hand, when he got off the train at a South Side station. He noticed several other passengers alight, so he didn't wait for the train to arrive at the downtown tation. He wandered along 63rd Street until he arrived at the intersec tion where Willis was directing traffic. Willis noticed the boy with the baseball bat, questioned him and took him to Woodlawn sta tion. Police telephoned Tommy's parents. Police told Tommy the Cubs had no game scheduled but they would take him to a Little League ball game while his parents were driving to Chicago for him. "Oh, that's all right," Tommy said. Tm not going to be a ball player any more. I'm going to be a traffic cop." Tom's father Eugene and his mother Mildred greeted their son at the station last night. They said he had never run away before, and Tommy promised he never would again. His parents whisked him right back to Battle Creek 140 miles away from big league baseball and snarling traltic. SHAPED TO FLATTER A marvel of shaping fashion's new ease across the midriff is so flattering to half-sizers so com fortable for summer. Sew this two-piece Printed Pattern in shan tung, linen or cotton. Printed Pattern !M32: Half Sizes 14'4, 16'j, 18i, 204, 22t4, 24'i. Size lfi'j requires 3'i yards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat tern part. Easier, accurate. Send fifty cents (coins! for this pattern add 5 cents for each pat tern for lst-class mailing, send to Marian Martin, care of Herald and News. Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York II, N. Y. Print plainly name, address with lone, size and style number. 'Sh ita-rtad her at the vary bottom and worked her admit to still more offenses they can L rcmemoer. The crimes cleared include 19 auto thefts, 11 larcenies and five burglaries. Some six Klamath Falls police officers, since last Sunday, have been questioning the boys in volved, checking past crime re ports and returning large amounts ot tne property stolen. The break in the juvenile crune wave occurred early last Sunday morning when the arrest of a pair of teen-agers who ran from a South Sixth Street used car lot when cruising officers ap prnacnoa. The two taken into custody im plicated a third boy who was picked up immediately. This trio, under patient question ing by police, has confessed they definitely stole 19 cars which they were ahle to name by make and location Irom where stolen. The boys only apparent motive In taking the cars, officers said, was "joyriding." The gang stole as many as four cars in one evening, driving each one until they were either tired of it or It ran out of gas. Then another would be hot-wired. The same three youths also con fessed that one or all of them participated in 11 other thefts, most of them involving the steal ing of' items from parked cars, such as tools, radios, wearing an parel and auto accessories. As much of this property as can be located is now being returned by ponce to owners. Two of the auto theft trio plus an additional four other youths have one or all been implicated in contcssions to live break-ins. in eluding drive-In restaurants and private homes. Some $162 cash may have been taken from one of the drive-ins, police said. An electric guitar and ampli fier was stolen from one home while a pistol and whiskey was taken from another. One of the youths confessed to stealing a boat from the yard of a nome, carrying it away, and then abandoning it some two blocks away. All boys involved are awaiting appearances before the juvenile court. Police this morning said they plan to question the youths fur ther. The teen-agers told officers they had committed so many thefts, it was Impossible for them to remember them all. Police men said some of the crimes may not have even been reported by victims. California Weather By United Press International San Francisco Bay Area: Fair through Saturday and probably Sunday except late night and morning low clouds; high today San rrancisco 65, Oakland 72, San Mateo 7.1. San Rafael 74: low to night 53-51); westerly winds slight ly above normal. Northern California; Most ly fair through Sunday hut chance of a few showers or thunderstorms extreme north portion; high fog on coast; drizzle Eureka north ward Salurdny; cooler Salinas Valley and Merced northward to day: coastal winds northwest 14- 28 m.p.h. south of Point Arena and variable 8-16 m.p.h. north of Point Arena. Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Most ly fair through Sunday but chance of a few showers or thunderstorms in high mountains; cooler today Sacramento Valley: fair through Saturday and probably Sunday; cooler today; high today and Saturday 74-84: low tonight 50 80; southerly winds R-1S m.p.h. Northwestern California: Mostly fair through Sunday but chance ol a few showers and thunderstorms in northern mountains; drizzle Eu reka northward Saturday; cooler inland today; high today and low tonight Ukiah 75-52. Santa Rosa 74 50, Napa 74-53; variable winds 8 IB m.p.h. near coast point Arena northward. Lad Hurt In Mishap Termed 'Very Poor' Billy Allen Cantwcll, 17, C.nss- ville. Missouri, who was critically injured in an auto accident on the Keno Iload Wednesday, was re ported to he in "very poor'- con dition at Klamath Valley Hospital Thursday morning. Cantwcll is the brother of Lee Cantwcll, Route 3, Box 40ti. 5 ur 4 l-urr 4tiit.i PAYLESS DRUG STORE employes signed pedge cards to donate pints of blood during the coming visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile to Klamath County, June 4-5. The mobile unit will be at the Masonic Temple, 418 Pine Street, Wednesday, June 4. Hours will ba 1 1 a.m. to I p.m. and 4:30 to 8 p.m. The following day, residents of Merrill, Malin and Tulelaka will donate at the Merrill Recreation Hall, 4 to 8 p.m. All Masonic groups ara sponsoring this month's operation. Members of the Eastern Star were in charge of the area which included Payless Drug. These employes want to build up a blood bank for use of relatives elsewhere. Blood can be sent anywhere in the United States under this pro gram. This is the first in-plant, set up in Klamath Falls with employes working with management. Left to right, front row, are Mrs. H. A. Moore, solicitor, Corgia Morley, Jackie Coble, Charlotta Harris, Esther Hodges, Beatrice Florez, Viola Heath. Rear, Elsia Homer and Ron Harrison. BARNEY HELSER, of Beaverton, left, operates his rock pro duction plant two miles west of Fort Rock with diesel elec tric generating sets totaling ISO kilowatt capacity, and a 125 horsepower motor powers the eccentric cone crusher. Helser commutes from tha Portland area in his own light plane. With him is E. A. Pekkola, plant superintendent. Parks Photo Pilot Says Plane Buzzed As Passenger Knowland Dozed SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Sen., William F. Knowland and 61 other persons aboard a United Air Lines DC-7 had a narrow escape Thurs day when an Air Force B-47 "deliberately huzzed" their air liner near Salina, Kan. Tho charge of "buzzing" enme from UAL pilot W. K. Wolfo of Palo Alio, Calif. Other passengers confirmed his story. Knowland was dozing at the time of the incident, which took place at 2:02 p.m. C.S.T. Wolfe said the plane was flying at 20.000 feet about 10 miles east of Salina. He said his air speed was better than 400 miles an hour. This was a near miss duo In Chamber Heads In Redding Trip Klamath Falls Chamber of Com merce nflicials Thursday journeyed to Redding in an attempt to get this city's name placed on cer tain California highway directional signs. Charlie Schuss, convention chair man, and Ed Brotherhood, assis tant manager, were told by Hie California Highway Division, how ever, that such a mine was con frary to policy. I ho two otticials soueht to have Klamath Falls and Rend placed on mileage and directional signs be tween Redding and Weed, in an ettort to stimulate lluhway 9? traftic. The two cities are not cur rently named on siqns in this area. The California highway authori ties said their policy was to in clude on signs only Calitornia cities that are cnunly seals, pins the largest city m the next stale. Tims. Portland is the only Oregon city mentioned in the area con cerned The chamber men. however, dul not return without some accom plishment. They stopped in at lled ding's KVIP-TV 'and were asMiiod the local chamber's TV movie pro moting tourist attractions here would be shown soon Suburban Flower Will Be Open All Day Memorial Day 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 3614 So. 6th St. Ph. TU 4-8188 mm ; j a deliberate buzzing," Wolfe said in a report filed after his arrival. He said the B-47 passed from north to south "in front of our plane, at a distance ranging from 500 to 1,000 feet." "Two seconds, after it passed, we were jolted by its slipstream," he said. Frank A. Parker, Menlo Park, Calif., engineering executive, de clared the B-47 "deliberately man euvered around us. It came with in about 500 feet." Knowland. Senate minority lead er, was returning to California for the windup of his primary campaign. He is seeking the Re- puhlican nomination for governor. "These things aren't pleasant," he said. "I'm glad it was a near miss." Wolfe's report will be forward ed by UAL to the Civil Aeronau tics Authority He said other pas sengers planned to file complaints ol iheir own Capt. J. W. Hinds, information officer at Schilling, said "we did have planes in the air at that time, but none was in the immed iate vicinity.' Earlier, the Air Force announced more steps for reducing the possibilities ot air collisions on the nation's transcontinental airways and airport approaches. The ac tion followed establishment of three "super skyways" across the nation (or civilian flights, effec tive June 15. Merchants Group To Meet Tuesday The Klamath Merchants Asso ciation will meet Tuesday morn ing at 8 o'clock at the Chuck Wag on, it was announced by Lew W.iyhurn. KMA president. All merchants and business men, whether members of I he associa tion or not, are invited to attend the meeting and take part in a planning discussion lor a "Silver liollar Specials" promotion to be he'd in lale .lune. I i Road Work Half Done FORT ROCK Gravel production for the paving of the Fort Rock road is now about half completed. Work has been resumed following the construction workers' strike. Rarney Helser, Beaverton. has sub-contracted the rock production and paving. Hauling of the 12 inch layer of natural rock base course, about two thirds completed, is at a standstill due to the partial re moval of equipment for use at White Salmon, Washington, dur ing the Oregon strike. A. L. Har ding, Stayton, is contractor for the C.3 mile job here. Using seven men for each of two shifts, the rock crushing plant turns out about 400 cubic yards to a shift. The job requires 12,000 yards. The new roadway mileage is 6.38 compared with approximately seven for the old route. Several tricky curves are eliminated. The new alignment has but four grad ual curves, none sharper than two degrees. Elderly Man, 69, Found Strolling An elderly man, barefoot and carrying $809.50 cash in his pock ets, was found wandering on South Sixth between Walnut and Oak yesterday afternoon. When police stopped lo ques tion him, Peter Vukovich. 69, clad in a suit coat and hat with a white robe and pajamas underneath. said he had just walked away from Hillside Hospital. "I want to go to California to get well," officers said he told them. Police arranged for the man to be admitted to the County Nurs ing Home, where elderly people are carea tor. Funerals PETERS YREKA William Conrad Peters. 68, Y'reka, died May 20 at the Siskiyou County Hospital after being stricken with an apparent heart attack at the family home earner in the morning. Mr. Peters was Born on Fehurarv 1. 1800 in San Francisco and lived most of his life in Mendocino County, where he farmed in Hopland in the LKian area. Survivors include the widow, Harriet Peters, at the fam ily home in Y'reka: two sons. Wil liam C. Peters Jr.. Montague; Harry li. Peters, Willits: two sis ters. Mrs. Flora Collonan. Mrs Frances Robinson: one brother. ur. h. (j. Peters, alt of San Fran cisco: and six grandchildren. Holy uosary win be recited at Cirdner s Funeral Chapel. Yreka. at 8 p.m. Friday, May 31. A Requiem Mass will be held in St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. Mon day, June 2. Interment will be in the family plot at the Holy Cross ucmeiery. ban rrancisco. Announcing RICHARD T. STOUTT Registered ReDrentotive, affiliated with Wall ton & Co. Eugene office, will be in the Klomath Foils Oreo monthly to assist you with your investment needs. Pleose writ or coll collect, Eugene, Dl 3-2567 for appointment whilt In Klomath Falls next trip. Wcilston &Co. 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A government report yesterday said fi decline of 82.000 during the week of May 17 left an unem ployed total of 3,019,500 for this category. Other reports showed: 1. Americans paid off their in stallment loans faster than they ubligated themselves for new ones during April, with allowances for seasonal factors, consumer in stallment credit outstanding de clined 123 million dollars, most of it in automobile loans. 2. Department store sales were up 3 per cent last week over the comparable week of 1957, with higher sales reported in 9 of the 12 federal reserve districts. But the total for the year to date was 3 per cent below that for the cor responding period last year. In releasing the unemployment figures, the Labor Department noted that more than 900.000 work ers have exhausted benefit rights and are not counted among the insured unemployed. But some of these, officials said, nave un doubtedly found new jobs. Tho department's Bureau of Employment Security said 44 states reported declines in in sured unemployment for the week ending May 17. Michigan led the way with 12.800, followed by Penn sylvania. 7.500. The peak in Insured unemploy ment benefits was reached the week ended April 12 when 3,363, 300 received jobless payments. Since then the rate of unemploy ment among these workers has dropped from 8.1 to 7.2 per cent. A year ago the percentage was 3.4 or 1,364.200 unemployed. The bureau attributed the de cline to an upsurge in spring con struction and other outdoor work, as well as a continuing high rate of exhaustion of benefit rights. Meanwhile, the volume of ini tial claims from newly laid off workers declined by 34,700 to 324, 500 during tho week ended May 24. Thirty-nine states reported re ductions to make for the lowest number of new claims since the week ended Nov. 16, 1957. The bureau said the figures partly re flected fewer layoffs among work ers in oil and supplier plants in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, Pat Boone Makes High Honors NEW YORK (UPD-Singer Pat Boone will be graduated from Columbia University next Tuesday with high scholastic honors, the university disclosed Thursday. A spokesman said the singer will be graduated magna cum laude the second highest honor attain able from the school of general studies. Boone, who had a four-year "A average, ranked in the upper five per cent of his class, the spokes man said. Obituaries FORREST Clyde Forrest, 75, a native and resident of Prairie City, Oregon died May 30 at the home of his daughter Mrs. Lila Fisk of Malin He is also survived by the widow. Myrtle Forrest and a son Orrin Forrest of Prairie City. Funeral services will be held in Prairie City, Monday, June 2. O'Hair's Memorial Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Forrest came to Malin to attend the grad nation of his grandson, Wayne Fisk. from the Malin High School and suffered a heart attack during his visit. WASHING MACHINE FIRE The South Suburban Fire De partment put out a small washing machine fire, due to an overheated clutch, at the Robert Charles home. 2144 Garv Street, Wednes day morning. The only damage, and that slight, was to the ma chine. CHICAGO S0AK0 OF TRADE COMMODITY EXCHANGE. INC. HID YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE HID YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE 14, a special camp for Hi-Y and try Hi- members, and a resi dence camp for the whole family will also have been held. This pro gram is in addition to the tradi tional "Y" family nights, held the first and third Fridays of each month, which during the summer will usually take place out of doors. The youngsters' day camp, first held in 1955. will cover three dif ferent periods. The week of June 16 to 21 is reserved for first time campers. "Ol' timers," boys with at least one week s previous camp ing experience, have the dates June 23 to 28 and July 21 to 26 reserved for them. . "Y" Camp Totton, located 21 miles from Klamath Falls, off of the Lake of the Woods Highway, provides facilities for handicrafts, archery, hiking, woodlorc and camp cookery, plus safe water fun in nearby Denny Creek. A bus wlil leave the "Y" build ing. 722 Pine Street, for camp, at 9:30 Monday, Tuesday and Thurs day mornings, returning at 4:45 p.m. mere will be an overnight trip on Fridays, with the bus leav ing at 3 p.m. and returning Sat urday mornings at 11:30. Dads are urged to go with their boys on the overnight camp. Campbell, who is camp director, says that all phases of the day camp operation will be conducted under experienced adult leader ship. Bob Mezger is chairman of the overall Camp Committee as- sisting Campbell, with Glenn Fun denberger in charge of day camp development. The camp will accommodate 40 boys at a time. Y members pay S1.50 for a day or overnight at camp, and non - members 2o cents more. This includes transportation insurance and milk, and the boys bring their own food. Reservations for the resident camp for older hovs which will be held at the Medford YMCA's site on Diamond Lake, are now complete, wich means that 75 boys will spend July 5 to 12 in this beautiful setting, facing Mt. Thielsen. Wayne Plaisted and the Rev. Arthur Johnson are Camp (.ommittce members for the resi dent camp, which has recently neen approved by the American Camping Association, after consid oration of its program, adult load ership, sanitation, water front safe ty, food service and living facili ties. The special camp for Hi-Y and Tri Hi-Y members will be held at Camp Silver Creek, the property of the Salem Y. This is an an nual leadership training confer ence, to which each club may send one delegate. Further infer able at the "Y." The "Y" family camp, which rounds out the summer program, will be held over the Labor Day weekend, August 30 to Septem ber 1, at Camp McLauglin, the property of the Rogue River Coun cil of Boy Scouts, at Lake or the Woods. Wilbur Womer is Camp Committee member for this fourth innual camp, which offers fun. in formality and water sports to gether with a chance to be1 lazy, since prepared meals will be avail able at low cost. The "Y" has additional informalion. Registration for all the camps is on a first come, first served basis, and the "Y" has a plan set up to help boys earn all or part of their camp expenses. As a consequence of its inten sive summer camp program, the Y ltsclt will operate on a re duced schedule during the season, beginning June 2. The summer schedule is 9 to 5:30. Mondavs through Fridays. The building will not be open in the evenings. The Klamath County YMCA Is a United Fund agency. BUDGET HEARING All interested persons are invit ed to attend the forthcoming pub lic hearing on the proposed !9SR 1959 budget for the Klamath Falls Elementary School District. The hearing will begin at 7 p.m., Mon day, June 2, in the new south wing cafeteria at Klamath Union High School. & FENCE POSTS BARBED WIRE -CHAIN LINK FENCE r: Double Loop FENCE Rower Bed Border FRtE DELIVERY ANYWHERE PHONE TU 2-3426 RIGHT NOW ... f i Ml V MM 421 SUING STHET KLAMATH f AILS, OUGON w 11 , 1 !-' PATRICIA JENSEN, Port land student nurse. Walla Walla College School of Nursing, Portland Sanitar ium and Hospital, is in Klamath Falls to observs services of the Klamath County Health Department. Patricia - is one of many nurses who spends soma time here in the course of their nurse's training. Officer's Child Struck By Auto A 7-year-old girl, daughter of a state noliceman. was struck by an auto yesterday afternoon while rid ing her bicycle on Wiard Street. She was not seriously injured. Driver of the car. Edgar New man, 2835 Darrow Street, was ar rested on charges of driving while intoxicated. Taken to Klamath Valley Hos pital by ambulance was Barbara Jean Rush, of 1707 Wiard Street. Attendants said she was cut and bruised and suffering from shock. She was released to go home at about 6. p.m. yesterday, soma four-and-a-half hours after the mis hap. Stale Police said Newman pled guilty to drunk driving be fore District Judge v. fc. Van Vactor. Bail was set at $1,000 and sentencing will take place Mon day. Newman was in county jail this morning. witnesses said the car strucK Barbara's bike in the rear, knock ing the girl off onto the street. Teen-agers Turn On Hydrants Various parts of town came in for an impromptu wetting this morning when a gang of teen agers turned on fire hydrants at four intersections. Police said the pranksters be gan their "fun" at about 2:10 a.m. and turned on the last hydrant about a half hour later. Water poured out of hydrants at Third and Jefferson streets. Main and Spring, Sixth and Lincoln, and Crescent and Portland. One witness told oflicors he saw five youths turn on the hydrant at the last location. They escaped in a black sedan with noisy ex haust down a dirt road at tha end of Crescent, he said. Five Day Forecast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eastern Area Temperatures averaging near normal. Highs gen erally 72-82 and minimums 45-55. Scattered afternoon and evening Ihundershowers with precipitation totaling more than normal. Western Area Temperatures averaging near normal. Highs 70 80 in Western Oregon and 65-75 in Western Washington, except about 65 on coast. Minimums 4S 54. A few showery periods with total more than normal. "Puts Mosquitoes Into A Tailspin" Said Circle Placer field miner), 20 year 4fto, in voting BUHACH as Science'i 2nd Itreatdt contribution to Minus. Juit U effective today. Be Sur BUHACH You Get Soft loiy To Ui Itonomltor FENCING! uJi iv-74 X P'iortl way up xo cnisi DomonecK. ,; i
