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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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criticize Secretary of Agriculture
Benson and his policies. Benson
has been a target of congressmen
who classify themselves as liberals.
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