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Newspaper Page TextU4 PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1058 'DENNIS THE MENACE" ' "iA BIG APPLZ Convict Confesses Slaying Of Alabama Vice Crusader MONTGOMERY. Ala. (AP)-A Virginia convict has confessed to the l'J54 slaying of vice crusader Albert Patterson, Gov. James E. Folsom's office said Wednesday. "There appears to be a degree of truthfulness" in the signed statement of Calvin W. Pruitt, 28, who said he shot the attorney general-elect in a robbery at tempt while a debt-ridden soldier stationed at Fort Bcnning, the governor said. Folsom said he asked Atty. Gen. John Patterson to join in an investigation of the confession concerning the murder outside his father's Phcnix City law of fice the night of June 18, l'J54. The Patterson slaying sparked Group Slates House Probe DALLAS, Tex. (API A probe of housing problems in New York City by the Civil Rights Commis sion will be started in February, Robert G. Storey, commission member, says. . Storey, dean of the Southern Methodist University Law School, would not say whether the investi gation concerned racial discrimin ation. He said the complaints re ceived concerned the administra tion of housing facilities in New York. He pleaded ignorance on the na ture of the complainls. "We intend. to find out," he said. Slorey also was close-moulhed on recent commission hearings into voting procedures in. Alabama where it was alleged Negroes had been deprived of voting rights. He termed the action of Al abama officials in refusing to tes tify as "regrettable and lament able." He said he had no idea what action, if any, the Justice Department might take. ERA ENDS LONDON iUPII - London's old double-decker buses are up for sale. Transport oflicials said they have already sold sumo of the 500 buses declared surplus after re cent cuts in service. Ceylon took i 140 and 21 went to a private deal er and the atomic energy author ity. POORS OPEN 6-30 P.M. HJlMJlij THE U. S. MARINE IS - LA TARAWtl&BEACHHEAD 1 J TRED T.r... . 7:15 10:10 Ctm Station MBttCffllCtt immmmmmmm Mi . a Now?" can fa l pffreta TrTT 0 11! I POL&HeZ '. ' the Phenix City vice cleanup which he had promised in win ning the Democratic nomination for attorney general shortly be fore. John Patterson was sent into the attorney general's office in his father's place and was elected governor this year. He takes of fice in January. He was unavailable for com ment. Former Chief Depuiy Sheriff Albert Fuller of Phenix City was convicted in tue Patterson mur der and is serving a life term. Of the two others charged, for mer Solicitor Arch Ferrell was acquitted and ex-Attv. Gen. Si Garrett never stood trial. Garrett underwent a year of mental treat ments in a Texas hospital after tne Killing. Pruitt. a native of Halevville. Ala., is serving Virginia sentences of 30 and 20 years. He was con victed last May of robbing two service stations. Virginia prison authorities said he also was sorving a life sen tence, but the nature of this charge was not disclosed. How ever, records showed he was to have stood trial for the Feb. 6 slaying of a Lorton, Va., grocer. mis wue in Alabama said he was convicted. ' He is married and Is the father of two children who live wilh their mother Mrs. Ve va Pruitt. 24.- in Haley ville. Mrs. Pruitt. nucstioned about her husband's statement, said he was serving terms totaling 170 years and "he just wants the chair." She said she believed he would prefer execution to spend ing his life in prison. she said her husband entered the Army at 16 and had about 11 years service before his arrest. He was stationed at Ft. Benning in 1954, she said, and until he was transferred to Ft. Belvoir, Va., last year. Police Chief B. T. Scroggins of Jasper, Ala., said Pruilt had been charged with a robbery and a burglary in Jasper in 1957. He said warrants were issued after Pruitt was arrested in Virginia. Folsom said Pruitt's confession '.o me I'attcrson slaying was brought to the attention of Ala hama officials in a letter from Supt. W. F. Smyth Jr. of the Vir ginia prison system. NOW SHOWING! THE TOUGHEST FIGHTING MACHINE ALIVE! KtRWIK MATHEWS JULIE DDAMS T DANIDN . Ayche t iS Only Orearn AND INTtOOlC iifHjin' a Bay Area Jolted By Quake; Minimum Damage Caused SAN FRANCISCO H'PI) A"It looks as though we'll have sharp earthquake followed by sev-alterquakes and similar shocks oral aftershocks rocked and rolled San Francisco and a 50-mile area for several minutes early today, but it caused only minimum dam age. The University of California seismograph laboratory in Berke ley said the temblor measured be tween 4.75 and 5 on the Richter scale and was centered 18 miles southwest of Berkeley in Daly City. Daly City is a suburb on the southwest edge of San Francisco that suffered widespread damage on March 22, 1957, from a quake that had a Hichter reading of 5.25. Today's quake was first recorded at 1:49 a.m. p s.t. and kept the sensitive needle jiggling for sev eral minutes, alterwards. It was felt in downtown San Francisco with a rolling motion about 1:53 a.m. Residents of the Westlake area of Daly City said the quake was preceded by a loud explosion. William Benn, a United Press International teletype operator who lives in Westlake, said the shock woke him up. "I heard a loud report," he said, "and then there was a sharp jolt. It seemed to me it was as sharp as the one in March, 1957. Some figurines we had on a shell fell to the floor and our pic lures were crooked. 1 went out into the garage and found all my tools nan fallen to the floor. The quake touched off minor slide on Highway 1 which runs along the coast. However, the road was not blocked Ray Riva, assistant seismologist at the Berkeley laboratory, said Court Records KLAMATH COf'NTT DISTRICT COURT Lacy Harold Patterson, combination overload. s.is forfeited. James Georce D'Wart. tin nnrsinr' license, dismissed upon motion district aiiorncy. Chester Kenneth Dale, no operator's license, dismissed upon motion district attorney. Howard Lansdon Tullis, violation basic rule, dismissed upon motion dis trict attorney. James Edward Bundy, no PUC per mit, dismissed upon motion district attorney. Aloysius Moses Fiddler, larceny in a dwellinx houe. dismissed; released to Montana authorities. Bobby Lea ScogRlrut, reckless driv ing, request set December 12. Bond set $100. Remanded to sheriff. James Ronald Chance, violation bas ic rule, $7.M forfeited. Robert Dennlson Clatworthy, viola-! lion basic rule, $20 forfeited. David Ray Spencer, combination! overload. S44 forfeited. Earl Dwisht Hayes, permit unli censed minor to operate vehicle, $7.50. Elmer Hamilton, fail drive right half. $7.50. Daniel Elmer Emrick. excessive i width, S3. Lawrence James Badorek, violation basic rule, $10. Elmer Alden Seymour, follow- too closely, $7.50 forfeited. John Richard, Drtscoll Jr., over height. $10 ball forfeited. , Raymond McCoy Jr., driving while intoxicated. $400. Henry Plna, no PUC permit, $20 for feited. Donald Leroy Oden. petit larceny. request set for December 0, at 11 a.m. Bail set at $250. Remanded to sheriff. Gerold Springer Whitlatch, violation basic rule, $15. Arnold Brent Sarvls. driving during suspended period, dismissed motion of district attorney. Marie Dixon, fail stop for school bus, $23. I waiter William sterling, without two head lamps. M. I Harroid Miller Maitory, fail -top at stop sign. $3. wtiiaim Hardy Moran Jr., no rut permit, $20 forfeited. peter uiarx Macianane. violation Da- sic rule. $12 30. , Gino Ana c ho Carninl, violation basic rule, $13 forfeited. Carl Eldon Htldreth, no PUC permit, $20 forfeited. Jack Hance, no operator license, $7.30. Benjamin Clarence Gorton, following too cloie, $13 forfeited. Donald Leroy Oden, petit larceny, en tered plea of guilty; time passing sen tence December 11 at 10 a.m.; re leased on cash bond of $250. William Robert Wolsiffcr. violation basic rule. $13. Bienda Mendez, no operator's license. $7.30. Daniel Leroy Masset, excessive width, $10. George Wesley Sanders, no operator's Jo"h'n Edmund Nolan, fall turnUh In- formation at iccne of ccidmt. $50. Richard Joneph Morgan, fail drive r'"oh?G"nMJohn,on. fall di.pl.y II- cunt. 7 so I torreat Meivin Braithaupt, violation Jack Burton Lawson. violation basic' rule. $7 30. jtm Howeii, forgery of endorsement, rf qucsiru id wiivh piciiniiiiaiiy ucaai IPG"rd'7u7y: bd! int. ordered held net $2,000; remanded to custody of her Iff. Joseph Andrew Hofmilster, no oper ator's license. $7.50, . Ronald McCord Ketcham, fall stop at stop sign, $3. James Ward Horton, no PUC permit, $23 forfeited. Varnum Cornelius Jackson, obstruct ed rear vision, $7.30 forfeited. William Donald Noonan. truck speed ing, $730 forfeited. Kl.AMATH FALLS MUNICIPAL COt RT Robert Benton Carson, drunk, $23 or 12t days. Raymond Jackson, vagrancy, $30 or 29 days. W infield Chiloquin, vagrancy. $50 or 23 days. John Anthony Hamilton, drunk, $25 suspended. Dorothy Willfams. drunk and disor derly ronduct. $100 forfeit. Ronald Judd Morgan, drunk, $23 for feit. Morris Everett Roy, drunk. $23 or 13'. days. William Andrew Wallace, drunk. $23 forfeit. Gladys Loretta Matney. vagrancy, $25 or lS'i days, Alexander Pratt, drunk, $13 or 12i days. Jest Keaton, drunk. $23 or 12't days. , Lewis Chester Reynolds, drunk and disorderly conduct. $30 or 25 days. Jesse Claude Hill, drunk and allow ing unlicensed person to operate ve hlrle, $13 forfeit. Madge Rabjohn. reckless driving, $50 or 23 days; no operator's license, $5 or 2' days. Jack Thompson, drunk, $23 or 12' days Eric Berg, drunk, $23 forfeit. Roosevelt Tarter, drunk, $23 forfeit. Winficld G. Chiloquin, drunk, $33 tor felt Morris Everett Roy. drunk, $23 for feit William A. Patten, drunk and dis orderly conduct. $50 or $3 days Julius H. Green, vagrancy, $30 or 25 dai Bennte I Swenson, drunk, $23 or 12' days. Harold E. Siansgt, drunk, $23 or 12 1 1 days. Owen Riddle, drunk. $29 or 12t dav 'I Harold L. Davis, drunk, 923 forreti. Darlene Merrill, drunk, $23 forfeit. Jettte Merrltt. recklesa driving. $30 following this one." He suggested that residents keep away from windows and large ob jects and that valuable objects be placed on floors. "We've had a flood of calls from people in San Francisco and the East Bay reporting that pictures fell, but as far as we can tell that's been the worst of It," Riva said. Enlistment Gates Open The 733rd Engineer Company Depot) of Klamath Falls has re cently been authorized to accept men without prior Army service for enlistment in the six months active duty reserve program. M.Sgt. William R. Smith, unit adviser, announces. The conditions ' of enlistment vary according to whether the en listee is still a high school student or not. High school students may enlist in the Army Reserve and attend weekly meetings of two hours' dur ation, receiving one day s pay for the two hours. They are deferred trom their active duty of six months' training until graduation, if they graduate within one year. Alter graduation, they report to Ft. Ord, California, for eight weeks basic training. The next four months are spent in branch training at a site selected by the Army. There is no limit at present to the number of high school stu dents who may be enlisted under this program. The conditions of enlistment for men who are not high school stu dents are the same,' except that they do not receive a year's de ferment but must report for the six months' active duty within 120 days of enlisting. Only four en listments of these non-students can be accepted. Both categories of men obligate themselves to spend six months on active duty and three and a half years actively participating in a reserve unit. At the end of four years they are eligible to transfer to the standby reserve, in which tney are not required to attend weekly meetings. High school students who are attending the weekly meetings while deferring their active duty may apply this period of atten dance against the total reserve obligation of three and a half years. Anyone interested in enlisting tinder this program should get in tonch with bcrgeant Smith, whose office is at Fourth Street and Klamath Avenue. Reporter Draws A Profile Of Eleven-Year-Old Star By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Having made his conquest of Broadway, Eddie Hodges has now done the same in Hollywood. Eddie is the talented 11-year-old from Hatticsburg. Miss., who scored a hit in "Music Man" in New York. Now he's here to play in his first movie, "A Hole in the Head." He plays Frank Sinatra's son. "The kid is simply great," Sina tra rhapsodizes. "Most child ac tors are insufferable: Eddie is a wonderful, well-behaved hoy. And what a great performer!" I must coniess I was sold. too. I found Eddie to be as bright and natural as you'd want a boy of 11 to be. Credit must go to his parents. H,'s f0'1" HodSes. ? along to lunch and explained how they have kept Eddie from be- """"S a problem Usually a look from me is enough to convince Eddie when he SCtS OUt Of line said Hodges. B Navy veteran who was mqht man- aper and accountant at New York hotels until recently. "Sometimes it taxes more man a iook. it doesn't hurt him makes him grow. "But usually I don't have to dis cipline him. When he's at work, he's all work. When he's home, he's all boy. If the time ever Afeni loiUUiU, Con Be ' Attractive oL lltllai Practical! -hI PARAGON SPECIAL DUO SINGLE UNITS Crvttil-rlril tlii r. n bank. Pnt par ami. or BaUnctd 11.00 plus tlx YOUR The Christmas Store 721 Mtiit Shoe Fri. Niaht Till p.m. TU 4-4S41 STUDENT OF THE WEEK at a Naval auxiliary air station in Milton, Florida, one week in November was Ensign Jerry E. Morrison, left, son of Mrs. Daisy O. Crawford of Klamath Falls. Presenting a certificate to Morrison is Capt. D. J. Harrington, his commanding officer. Tranquilizers To Nab Menacing Husband COSTA MESA, Calif. (UP!) Tranquilizina pills secretly slipped by police to a chemical engineer threatening his former wife with a shotgun were credited today with leading to the man's capture. Charles S. Miller, 44, of Los An geles, Wednesday held his wife, Alice, 44, captive in her mother's home for more than three hours, ignoring her pleas and those of a priest who tried to talk the des perate man into surrendering to police who s irrounaea tne nonie. Miller's twin daughters, Sally and Marilyn, 12, fled the home when Miller entered brandishing a shotgun and pnnounced: "I've reached the end of my rope and this is the only way I can get any action." He battered a hole in a door with the gun and rushed into his wife's bedroom where he threat ened her. Police, called by Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Fanftie Fiege, who fled the house also, said Miller in sisted in talking with Los Angeles Sheriff's Lt. Robert Parsonson, whom he knew. Parsonson, who made the Actress1 Child Accident Victim HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -Actress Hedy Lamarr's 11-year-old son Anthony John Lee is re covering from a severe head con tusion suffered when hit by a car Tuesday night while he was riding his bicycle near his home in Bev- erly Hills. Anthony is Miss Lamarr's son by her former husband, actor John Loder.. She is maoVied to Texas oilman W. Howard Lee. came when he got to be a prob lem, we'd pick up and go right oacK to Hattiesnurg. Father Hodges has quit his own work to manage Eddie "It was either that or pay someone else to watch after him, and we didn't want that. It looks as if he'll have plenty to manage. Now that he is out of Music Man. Eddie is free to take other offers. He has numer ous opportunities in films and TV and will return East to shoot a plot of a proposed series. ' Eddie likes making movies, but the hot lights get him down. Though he played "Music Man 405 times, he never tired of it, he said. "Each night is a different show," he remarked. "Sometimes the people in the audience will laugh like crazy. They're always different. He didn't mind the night hours during the show. Mrs. Hodges, who usually took him to the thea ter, would get him back to their Flushing home by 12:30. Then Ed die would watch a little of the late movie on TV preferably a horror film to calm down after the ex citement of the show. Neither of Eddie's parents was in show business, nor does his sis ter, a year older, diplay any yen as a performer. With a true pitch and an instinct for acting, Eddie is a red-haired natural talent. A SPARKLING new set of 'HIS' fine men's toiletries, moulded in the dis tinctive sure-jrip design from crystil-dcir gliss. a After Shive Lotion with choice of Cologne Talcum. Price, $2.00 plus Ux., J STORE Aid Police 50-miles from Los Angeles in 35 minutes, bought a supply of tran- quilizing pills at a drug store and then went to the home and to the bedroom window. "Charlie," Parsonson said, "you wouldn't shoot me, would you. I am the only friend you have." "I'd hate to do it," Miller an swered, "but I'll have to shoot you if you come in." Parsonson put some of the tran quilizers in a cup of coffee and offered it to Miller who at first refused but then accepted it and drank about naif the contents. 'It just relaxed him," Parson son said. "Didn't knock him out or anything." While Parsonson gave Miller a chance to relax, other officers crowded outside the bedroom door waiting for the pass word, "Dam mit, Charlie." to be uttered by Parsonson. When the lieutenant offered the slowly relaxing Miller a cigarette. Miller s finger supped off the shot gun s trigger and Parsonson shouted, "Dammit, Charlie, you can't do this!" Miller was subdued and booked on suspicion of attempted mur der. He told police he feared his wife whom he divorced in 1951 was mistreating their daughters. KF Doctors Attend Meet Dr. Donald- P. Noel and Dr. Robert L. Jensen of Klamath Falls attended a one-day conference, jointly sponsored by the State Dental Association, the State Board of Health and the State Board of Dental Examiners, to which the University of Oregon's dental school was host Saturday in Eugene. Dr. Bruce D. Forsyth, San Fran cisco, regional dental consultant: for the U.S. Public Health Service, was a featured speaker. He told conferees that the rate of tooth trouble for school children living in non-fluoridated areas in Ore gon is among the highest in the country, and said that restoring fluorides to community water sup plies will assure children using Oregon water 60 per cent less tooth decay. " Although the U.S. public spends a billion dollars annually on its teeth, only half the population is now receiving adequate dental care, according to another speak er at the conference, Dr. William P. Brust, Everett, Washington, past president of the Washington State Dental Association. He de clared that Oregon has one of the most outstanding programs in the country to meet the costs of dental care and that this program is be ing used as a model by other states. Lodge Rescinds Offer To City PORTLAND (AP)-The Eagles Lodge Wednesday withdrew an offer to give the city of Portland a stone tablet bearing the ten commandments. An argument thus was ended. Several representatlvesof Church groups objected to the gift, saying -it would violate the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state. PREMIERE PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW RESERVE YOUR SEATS NOW! BOX OFFICE 717 MAIN ST. PHONE TU 2-5971 FRI. SAT. SUN. EVES 8:15 SUN. MAT. AT 2:30 PRICES $1.65 $2.20 $2.75 Inc. Tax ALL SEATS RESERVED FRI. MAT. SOLD OUT Student Mat. SAT. 1. '30.50c ADULTS-1.65 Good Seats Available Farm Bureau Federation To Wind Up Annual Meet BOSTON (AP) The American Farm Bureau Federation pre pared to wind up its annual meet ing today with adoption of a plat form placing it on what is regard ed to be the conservative side of most major issues facing the na tion. The big farm group's four-day convention, which drew upwards of 5,000 visitors, featured speak ers who put themselves in such a political and economic category. It roundly applauded U.S. Sen. Barry M. Coldwater, .conserva tive Arizona Republican, when he characterized the farm bureau as the most active defender of the free enterprise system in the country. The platform, as drafted by a resolutions committee made up of members trom eacn ot tne 48 states, called for strong legisla tion to curb powers of organized J labor, for sharp reductions ml federal spending, and for laws to re-establish powers of the states) which, it said, have been usurped j by the federal government. i The resolutions voiced opposi-! lion to federal aid to education and to expansion of the federal highway system. It insisted upon a balanced federal budget. In the area of farming, the plat form tentatively approved, by the voting delegates late Wednes day called for a virtual with drawal of the government from control of agriculture as soon as present surpluses can be disposed of. The government itself, was blamed for the oversurpluses. The only members of Congress invited to address the convention were Coldwater and Sen. Spessard L. Holland of Florida, a conserva tive Democrat. Both Goldwatcr and Holland tossed barbs at the so-called lib erals of both parties in Congress and made bitter attacks on labor leaders. Speeches of both received warm applause. A Coldwater suggestion that conservatives of both major par ties should line up in one party to preserve what he called rights of the states and of individuals was well received. So were charges by FREE GIFTS Every Night at Including Six TV SETS by Christmas Every night till Christmai Old St. Nick will pan out hundreds of boxes of animal crackers to the kiddies. Many of these boxes will contain FREE GIFT CERTIFICATES from every Town and Country Merchant . . . including 6 Portable Emerson TV sets. Inspect the box your young ster gets carefully as hundreds of dollars in mer chandise will be given away. No obligation . . . nothing to buy. Meet Santa Nightly Under the Tree 7:30 til. 8:30 .3800 So. Sixth PELICAN THEATRE On Stage In Person With VAL BALFOUR and A HUGE CAST 7 SPONSORED IY THE KLAMATH Holland that the U.Si Suprem Court had overstepped itself to en ter the policy-making and legisla tive fields of government. Perhaps significant was the fact that at no time during the first three days of the convention was a speaker or delegate heard to criticize Secretary of Agriculture Benson and his policies. Benson has been a target of congressmen who classify themselves as liberals. TOURIST OUTLOOK GOOD WASHINGTON IUPD - Th American Automobile Association predicts that Florida will have a record - breaking winter tourist, season if the weatherman coop erates. SPINET PIANOS Still Some Bargain! . ON OUR Big Sale! $395 LOW TERMS Open Fri. Till 9 P.M. Louis R. Mann PIANO CO. 120 No. 7th FALLS KIWANIS CLUB or S3 days; drunk, $23 or II1 daj. !