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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.
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'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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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YMCASummerDayCamp
Slated To Begin June 16
A day camp providing all the
summer pleasures traditionally
sought by boys 7 to 9 will start
off the Klamath County YMCA's
seasonal program, beginning June
16, Paul Campbell, executive di
rector of the association, has an
nounced.
The "Y summer program will
continue on through September 1,
Campbell said, and by that time
a resident camp for boys 9 to
Employment
On Increase
WASHINGTON (AP) Unem
ployment among workers insured
for jobless benefits has declined
for the fifth straight week.
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.
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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.
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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.
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