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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore, Sunday, January 10, 1960 Business News By FLORENCE JENKINS Income Tax Facts W. A. (Woody) Ketnmlller, who Operates Basin Milk Transport moved last week from his former location at 223 No. Spring to his new pumice block building across the street at 228 No. Spring ... he was self-contractor for the 32 36-foot building and the increase In size of his office space has permitted office space for the Klamath Basin Grade A Milk Pro ducers Assn. , . . Wilbur Haskins tecretary manager of the Grade A producers since April, 1954, now has a Klamath Falls headquarters , . there are two telephones for the two operations (with complete intercommunications system), and Esther Shrcevc, Reinmiller's secre tary for the last four years, serves as office manager. o Approximately 50 Grade A milk producers are expected to attend the annual meeting of the Klamath Basin Grade A Milk Producers Assn. at the Klamath County Fair grounds from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m on Jan. lit, according to Wilbur Haskins, secretary manager election of board members will be held before lunch and the board will meet and elect officers during the noon hour. . . , Lawrence Geraghty is completing his sixth year as president . . , vice presi dent is Wilbur Reiling and Ray Hobson is current treasurer other members of the board arc Ed Born and Stan Mastcn, both of Klamath Falls, Ted Albert of Bo nanza and Ken Waters of Monta gue. 0 Classes in the second year course of LUTC (Life Underwriters Train ing Council) resumed last Monday in the county library . . . there are 25 classes a year and ses sions are held from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays .... J. W. Mercer, West Coast Life Insurance Co., is in structor . . . there are eight men enrolled, completing their instruc tion which covers 25 sessions each of two years ... the council is sponsored by some 250 of the best known life insurance companies in the nation and instruction is de signed to improve the service of their representatives to their clients. - Vanity Cleaners, 314 E. Main St., has been purchased by Al and Norma Bukosky ... he has been In the dry cleaning business for 27 years, the last 13 of which have been in Klamath Falls. . . . Mrs. Bukosky is bookkeeper, checker, marker, etc., for the firm . . , the business was purchased from Sol and Bruce Wlrth who will continue to make Klamath Falls Ihcir home and announce plans to expand the Sol and Bruce Wirth Mercury Boat Distributors by adding new lines and complete repair service. . . Sol Wirth established Vanity Clean ers in May, 1933 . ;. . his son worked in the business during school years and upon his return from service in the Navy was made full partner. Albert Wicsendanger, executive secretary of the Keep Oregon Green Assn., Salem, has commend cd the Jackson County Keep Ore gon Green committee for outsland ing support of the program during 19S9 . . . anybody heard from Mr Wicsendangcr in Klamath County? -0- Otto M. Brown, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, came into the office with last week's big snowstorm , , . he re ports that Richard Holmes, park engineer for approximately two years, is transferring to the post of assistant park engineer at Mt. Rainier, Wash. . . . also, that John Adams, landscape architect for Crater Lake National Park,, has been promoted and transferred to Yosemite National Park to be land scape architect there, effective Jan. 4 ... he was accompanied in his move with Mrs. Adams and their two preschool-age youngsters no replacement has been selected, Brown said. 0 Superintendent Otto M. Brown, Crater Lake National Park, shed little more light on the impor tance of the first prize award won by Helga Raftcry, wife of park ranger Jack Raftcry, in the graphic arts division at the National Park Service's biennial conference at Williamsburg, Virginia, last month. 183 national park service areas were represented at the show put on in the visitors' center of the Williamsburg Restoration, Inc., and the graphic arts division was top category in the whole show a picture showing Mrs. Raflery's 'Three Girls" painting appeared the Thursday, Jan. 7, Herald and News. . . . B. Altmans in New York City had requested permis sion to move tne entire exniDit to its NYC store for display there at the conclusion of the conference, according to Brown, who attended the meeting. -0 First annual meeting of the Cra tcr Lake National Park Natural History Assn. (which was incorpor ated in November) will be held in the park on Jan. 14 . . . Otto M. Brown, superintendent, serves as president. . . . Bruce Black, chief park naturalist, is executive secre tary . . . treasurer has been Mrs. Richard (Wanda) Holmes, who is leaving with her husband for his new duties at Mt. Rainier ... as sociation plans call for enlarging the membership this year. Editor's Note: This is one in a scries of articles on federal in come tax filing. These articles are based on information provided by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the South cm Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants in coopera tion with the Internal Revenue Service. Forty years of service with Hart ford Fire Insurance Co. were com memorated recently by a dinner at the Willard Hotel . . . guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs. W. G Hagclstein and Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hagelstrln of Dorris '. . . their host was Joe Faurot, special agent of the New York Underwriters In surance Co., member of the Hart ford group. . . . Hagclstein Insur ance Co. of Dorris, in which father and son are partners, has rcpre scnted the Hartford company since Dec. 13, 1919. . . . W. G. Hagcl stein is vice president of the First Western Bank and Trust Co. of Dorris . . . the family's business and property interests Include Klamath Falls, too. 0 Fletcher Rorkwood, Portland at torney with the firm of Hart, Rock wood, Davies, Biggs & Strayer has been appointed a public inter est director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco for a four-year term which began Jan. 1 1960, according to chairman Albert J. Robertson of the Federal Home Loan Bank board . . . the bank provides reserve credit for mem ber savings and loan associations in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California. Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washing ton, Wyoming and territory of Guam. . -o- Joe Searlrs, Klamath County Civ il Defense director, states: "Based on test alerts originating from dis tant early warning points now in operation around the country, it is assumed, in the event of a war caused disaster, that the probable warnjng time for Klamath County Would be from one to three hours. This warning time would continue for as long as weapons delivery systems for attack on the U.S. would consist mainly of manned aircraft. Thereafter, if delivery sys tems would consist mainly of guid ed or ballistic missiles, maximum tactical warning of initial attack would be reduced to one-half hour for the nation as a whole." Bids will be npened at 3 p.m.. Feb. J, by the base procurement office. 408th Fighter Group, L'SAF, Kingsley Filed, for contractual services necessary to modify the Basa Dispensary, Bldg. No. 123 . . . Inv. No. 60-29. Property Return Asked YREKA C. 0. and Sarah Mcs- serall of Montague are plaintiffs in a suit filed December 30 in the Siskiyou County Superior Court against Adricn Rubin, defendant in a judgment voiding a large prop erty trade between the two par- tics. Mcsserall brought the suit against Rubin seeking to annul an agree ment of October 15, 1957, for sale and exchange of properties owned by the Mcsscralls in Ventura Coun ty for ranching property in Sis kiyou County, owned by Rubin Through the judgment, the Mcs scralls will be restored their Ven tura property valued at more than $150,000, which includes buildings and property on seven lots in the town of Santicoy, in return for the properly owned by Rubin which involves several items of farming equipment. The judgment also restricts Rubin from selling or encumbering the property in Ventura County and has been ordered to restore it free and clear of a deed of trust given by him to Ramona Savings and Loan Company for $15,000 on the property. He is further required to repay $10,473.38, plus interest from October 7, 1959 to the Mcs scralls in addition to $500 per month interest, until the Ventura property is restored. A first lien on the ranch property in Siskiyou County was given to the plaintiffs, as security on the defendant's obligations, according to the court judgment filed in the county courthouse at Yreka. In ad dition, Rubin must pay all court costs. CAR AND HOME DEDUCTIONS Your home and car may be the source of deductions that will low er your federal income tax. It is important to check all possible de ductions because of the savings in volved. If you are in the lowest tax bracket 20 per cent each $5 you can lind in deductions will mean a dollar in your pocket. For persons of higher income the pos sible savings are even greater. The interest on a mortgage is deductible on your federal tax re turn. In most cases, payments to a bank include both interest and principal; as the mortgage is re duced the interest is less, and a larger portion is applied to the principal. Only the amount you ay as interest is deductible in the case of your residence. Sometimes the monthly payment also includes an additional amount which the bank holds for the pay ment of taxes, insurance, and so on. In this case the bank is act ing as your agent hi paying tax on your property. Real estate tax- paid for you by the bank are deductible as if you had paid them directly. The important point here is that you can only deduct the amount paid by the bank. For ex ample, you may give the bank $360 over the year toward .the pay ment of taxes, but the tax bill may only come to $341. In this situa tion you can only deduct $341. From the time you buy an auto mobile, you begin to have other expenses which are deductible on your federal income lax return, Any state or local sales tax you paid on the car purchase is de ductible. So are the cost of your license plates and interest on an auto loan. A common deduction in many taxpayers' returns is for state gas oline tax. It is best to keep a record of your gasoline purchases during the year, but if you don't have such a record you can still make a reasonable estimate. For example, you may divide the aver age number of miles your car runs on a gallon of gasoline into the total miles you have put on the car over the year. This will give you an estimate of the number of gallons consumed. Multiply this by the tax per gallon, and you have a reasonable estimate of the amount yoi can deduct. If you had a collision, you may be able to deduct the damage to. your own car not covered by in surance. Although your drivine may nave been laulty, you are en titled to the deduction if the acci dent was not due to your willful negligence. Such a loss is determined bv suotraciing tne value of the car after the accident from the value before the accident. To determine whether or not you contribute more than half of the support for a dependent (one of the tests for claiming an exemp tion for a dependent), you must cunsider the value of the roof over the dependent's head. For exam pie, if you provide a room in your house for your mother-in-law, you can consider the rental value of the room as part of your support communion. This is the amount you could get for the room your mother-in-law is said to be contributing $2,000 to her own sup port lor tne year, lo list your mother-in-law as a dependent, you must have contributed more than $2,000 to her support. The instruction booklet you re ceive witn your tax torm gives further inlormation on federal in come tax filing. Help is also avail able by telephoning or by visiting tho offices of the Internal Revenue Service. Alters Plea Linton E. Oppcgard. 23, accused of stealing $781 in cash and checks from a Klamath Disposal Com pany safe August 31, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty Fri day. Circuit Judge David R. Vanden- berg scheduled sentencing for Jan uary 15. Articles Filed Articles of incorporation have been filed in Salem for a new church, Miracle Temple, Inc., now under construction on Delaware Avenue off Allamont Drive. In corporation proceedings were insti tuted by Ben and Josephine Pe ters, llcrschel and Ardie Lazarus and Jue Davis. Mrs. Josephine Peters, an or dained minister, will fill the pul pit. A church building of pumice tile is nearing completion. I "- r I tv i' r t 1 " --" CITY BRIEFS Mrs. Orson Stearns, chairman of the Junior Red Cross Commit tee, asks all parent sponsors of the committee to be present for committee meeting at the Red Cross headquarters at 10:30 a m Tuesday, January 12, to prepare comfort kits and overseas gift boxes. Mrs. Juhn Schubert :s recover ing from major surgery at Klam ath Valley Hospital. She expect to return to her home, 2527 Bis bee, early next week. ASSUMING temporary charge of the Klamath In dian Agency and the Indian Sales office in Klamath Falls is Conrad Shetland, who will fill in for Earle Wilcox, cur rently in Washington, D.C., on a training program. Shel land will servo here until June. i fixe 4k ' ' 'lhe Klamath County Farm Bu reau Livestock Marketing Assort ation will hold the group's annual meeting Wednesday, January 13, in the Henley Grange Hall. A pot luck dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. will be followed by the meeting All members, livestock producers and interested persons are invited Mr. and Mrs. Herman Foster have returned from Sacramento where they visited a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Howard. Mrs. Frank Kahl was hostess January 7 lo the Library Club Committee making plans for the annual benefit bridge to be held in the club rooms of the city library on January 23. Mrs. Keith Coddington, 1343 Mc Clellan Drive, will be hostess to members of the Lions Club Auxili ary at 7:45 p.m. Monday, January 11. NCO Wives Club of Kingsley Air Force Base will hold election of officers at the regular meeting Tuesday, January 12, at 8 p.m. in the NCO Club. AH members are urged to attend. if you were renting it rather than use it free. if .i. ii uur muincr-in-iaw lives in her own home, the situation may no quite the reverse. To deter mine the percentage of her sup port provided by you, you must consider the rental value of the one in which she lives. The amount she could have rented the hnmp tor is considered a contribution toward her own support. For ex ample, suppose your mother-in law has an income of $500 a scar. The rental value of her home. even though she has no intention of renting it, is estimated at $1,500 per year. For tax purposes then, Beating Case Continued The cruelty trial of William Olcn ij a i r s o n. 40-ycar-old Bonanza ranchhand accused of beating two babies, has been continued until a further order of the court. District Judge D. E. Van Vac- tor said a date for the trials, to have been held Saturday, would be set January 20. At that time Gairson will be giv en a preliminary hearing on a first degree murder charge. He is accused of k i 1 1 i n g 11-mpnth-old Gary Lee Bursik by beating the child's head against the floor. Gary Lee Is one of the babies Gairson also is accused of beating under the cruelty charge, cruelty to a child not his own. The other is 3-year-old Billie ' Joe ( Jody) Breeding, now recovering in the county juvenile home. The babies were sons of Mrs. Ethel Myrtle Bursik, 21, with whom Gairson was living Both Gairson and Mrs. Bursik have pleaded guilty lo lewd cohabita tion charges. JOHN A. DUGGAN, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duggan, 5035 Sum mers Lane, has completed basic training and has been transferred to the Air Force base at Amarillo, Texas, where he will attend jet and missile school. Duggan grad uated from KUHS last June and enlisted in the Air Force October 13. Police Chief Takes Office LAKEVIEW Appointment of new police chief (or Lakeview, Jack B. Lcntz, was announced at the first 1960 meeting of the Lakeview Town Council, Tuesday evening, January 5. Lentz, an owner of the Quartz Mountain Station, is a former member of the police department at Santa Ana, having spent 12 years with the force there. He has been located at Quartz Mountain since February of 1958 but will move into Lakeview when he and his family find living quarters. He assumed his new duties last week. The new chief replaces Frank Anderl who has been with the Lakeview force since 1947 and chief since 1956. The council also reappointed marshals Dan Siover, Neil Fri day and Bill Ortwein: Robert L. Welch, city attorney, and Ted Schacr, fire chief. Mayor Howard Goodnouch an nounced committees for the year lollowing the reelection of Alvas Elliot as council president. They rt as follows: Sewers, Ernest Gcrber and H e r b e r t Pollard; streets, Elliott and Lane Thorn ton: fire and police. Gcrber and Elliott; finance, Thornton and Pollard. A fifth member of the park board will be named in February lo join the present members of the board. Nat R. Smith, Fields Flynn, Mrs. Con Fitzgerald Jr. and Bob Howard. The gas contract for the year went to Richfield Oil Company on its low bid of .246 cents per gal lon and the dcisel contract to Standard Oil Company on its low bid of .1574 cents per gallon. Landmark Destroyed FORT JONES-One of the old est landmarks in town was com pletely destroyed by fire Sunday. January 3. This was the old flour mill located at the south end . of town. The mill was originally started in 1865 by a group of farmers and citizens of Scott Valley. Mrs. Marshall Comett has re turned home after a holiday trip south, visiting Apple Valley, the Mission Inn at Riverside, Laguna Beach, 29 Palms, Palm Desert and other points of interest. She had dinner at the Shadow Mountain Club, Palm Desert, with former Klamath Falls residents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe O'Neill and O'Neill's sis ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Cornctt was present also for the Tournament of Roses, Pasadena. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peyton have returned to Klamath Falls from San Francisco where they spent tne New year holiday. sented for elementary school par ents. Junior high parents will have a question and answer session There will be a nursery for small children. Merry Mixers Square Dance Club will sponsor a beginners class at the hall in Pelican City Wed nesday, January 13, starting .it 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Bill Mayhew will instruct. Congregational Church, 2154 Gar den Street, will have its annual dinner today at 5:30 p.m. at the church. Dinner will be planned pot- luck. For information telephone Mrs. Norm Wilson, TU 4-3655. All members and friends are invited Leonard Williamson will instruct beginners' square dance classes at 8 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, at the Summers School. Williamson is caller for the Maverick Square Dance Club. Lost River Grange, No. 846, will have its first regular meeting of the year Wednesday, January 13, at 8 p.m. in the Grange Hall at Olene. The card party will be Friday, January 15, in the hall at 8 p.m. Mills-Ponderosa PTA will have its regular monthly meeting Wed nesday, January 13, in the Mills School Auditorium. Guest speaker will be Forrest Hawlcy. Subject will be "What is Your I.Q.?' There will be no room visitation The Unitarian Fellowship meet ing for this week only will be held Monday at 8 p.m. instead of Tuesday. The meeting, at the Con gregational Church Social Hall will feature Dr. Arnold Crompton, minister of the First Unitarian Church, Oakland. Also on the busi ness agenda will be balloting on the Unitarian-Universalist merger. Mrs. Jack Keninitzcr, 2427 Berkeley Strct, will be the host ess when the City Faculty Wives meet at 8 p.m,. Monday. The pro gram will be on household acces sories. Speaker is Mrs. Ed Bell. Degre of Honor will hold their installation of officers Monday at 8 p.m. in the KC Hall. A banquet in the Pine Grove Room of the Willard Hotel at 6:30 p.m. will pre cede the ceremony. Army Pvt, Charles W. Carlson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Carlson 806 Lytton Street, recently com pleted a 14-weck construction drafting course at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Mrs. K. E. Montgomery, state president of the League of Women Voters, and Mrs. John Wolf will be at the meeting of the group at 7:30 p.m. Monday, January 11 at the community lounge, 118 North Seventh Street. Members and any one interested are invited. Clifford G. Shane will speak about the Pure Food and Drug Administration before the Women's Library Club at 2 p.m. Monday January 11, in the auditorium of the city library. There will be a question period. The Rev. L. J Hall of the Immanucl Baptist Church will present several solos. Members and others interested are invited. Raniblin' Squares Club is offer ing beginners' classes starting at p.m. Tuesday, January 12, at the clubhouse at the rear of 4663 Frieda and Hope streets. Anyone interested in learning to square dance is welcome. Call TU 4-8066 for more information. OTI Faculty Wives will have a hobby show, open to the public, be tween 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan uary 12, in the student union lounge. Mrs. Raymond Wood is recuper ating in Portland from surgery and will return lo Klamath Falls the end of this week. Mail will reach her at 11015 S. W. 45th Street. Portland. Raymond Wood is an instructor at OTI. Allamont PTA will meet Tues day, January 12. at 7:45 p.m. in the elementary school gym. Plans for the carnival will be announced. A curriculum overview will be pre- Diver's Death To Remain Mystery EPHRATA, Wash. (AP) A giant of a man and one of the best known and most respected" commercial divers on the Colum bia River died in its swirling waters Friday at the Priest Rapids Dam site, some 50 miles south of here. Just how Clarence Shaw, 52, Pasco, Wash., met his death may be "a mystery the river will hold forever," Grant County Coroner Ralph Osborn said today. Osborn said the 30-year veteran of diving was pulled from the water on the downstream face of the dam under construction, his diving helmet dangling from a strap which held it to a deep sea diving suit he was wearing. "He drowned," said Osborn, "but just how that helmet came off is a mystery to me as well as a number of professional divers and people in the business who have seen it. It wasn't damaged. They say there was nothing wrong with it. It shouldn't have come off. "He may have run into a swift eddy which spun him around and slammed him into the face of the dam," said Osborn, "the hit com ing in just the right place to knock off his helmet." Shaw had been working at the 30-foot level of the Grant County Public Utility District dam. There was swift,, turbulent water where he was taking wedges from a wa ter outlet channel for one of the dam's generators. He had been down about an hour when he started to surface. His crew told Osborn that Shaw's hel met popped out of the water, then suddenly he started back down, apparently stumbling off the plat form on which he worked. The veteran diver didn't use a safety line attached to his suit as most divers do, his crew said Instead a rope was thrown into the water with a piece of railroad tracK attacned. snaw worked up and down the rope on the plat form, giving instructions to his crew to raise or lower the plat form by means of a two-way tele phone. The crew didn't have the safety- line to pull up the massive Shaw, obviously in trouble, said Osborn, and they didn't dare pull on the air hose, for fear of ripping it off the helmet and cutting the sup ply of air to the diver. The crew feared Shaw had suf fered some kind of an attack and was hanging helplessly with but the rubber air hose and the tele phone wire keeping him from plunging to the river bottom.. A call went out for two skin- divers from nearby Moses Lake and some two hours later, James H. Ling, Jr. and Gene HcUcnberg, found Shaw's body in the black water, his helmet whipping back and forth uselessly in the current. They secured a heavy line around the body and it was pulled "P. . , . Hint Self-Defense Motive In Klamath Falls Killing Tjnnard Marvin Lugo testified Friday he was frightened and fear ful whea he fired six pistol shots that killed Joseph Owen Martinez II early on the evening of August 31. Lugo's chief defense attorney, Josech O. Stearns of Portland asked the 21-.vcar-old defendant why he was afraid, and Lugo an swered, "I was afraid of Martinez stabbing me wilh a knife, pos sibly killing me." LUGO OCCUPIED the witness stand during almost all of Fri day's session of the first degree murder trial, which will be re sumed before Judge David R. Van denberg Monday morning. He told of a long afternoon of drinking that developed after he had withdrawn trust money so his WORKERS KILLED BONNEVILLE, France (UPD- An explosion rocked a steel mill blast furnace at nearby Marignier Friday showering molten metal over a group of workers. Four persons were killed and 15 others severely injured. WANT TO LEARN TO DRIVE? Phone TU 4-7690 1959 Report Issued By Red Cross WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Red Cross today said 39 cents of every dollar you gave it last year went to help service men and women, veterans, and their families. The organization's annual report for the 12 months ending last June 30 states that the American people, through their Red Cross and its nearly 3,700 chapters across the ountry, spent $86,456,167 in pro viding the health, welfare and safety services which contribute di rectly to the well-being of every American family. Other portions of the Red Cross dollar, the report added, were used as follows: fiueen cents to collect, process and distribute the whole blood and blood products needed by accident victims and surgery patients. Eight cents to provide disaster relief. Eight cents to teach health, safe ty and nursing courses. Four cents to help young people become better citizens by joining in Red Cross activities in schools and colleges. the remainder was spent as follows: six cents on services and assistance to chapters, one for com munity services, four on member ship enrollment and fund raising two for public information, and 13 for administration and planning in the national organization and its chapters. Chairman E. Roland Harriman and Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, in forwards to the report, paid tribute to the 44,700,- 000 contributing members who gave of their hearts and their funds to help make these "good things hap pen" last year: ' Each month, an average of 87,- 000 servicemen and their depend ents and 34,700 veterans and their families were helped in chapters, and 79,500 servicemen were as sisted at military hospitals and stations. The 54 Red Cross regional blood centers, which serve 3,900 hospi tals, collected, processed and dis tributed a total of 2,367,500 pints of blood. No charge is ever made for the blood or its fractions, al though hospitals in certain regions do help finance a portion of the cost of handling the blood. The Red Cross conducted 298 disaster relief operations in which 88,800 persons were given emer gency mass care and 17,000 fam ilies were helped to rebuild and re pair their homes, replace needed household furnishings and occupa tional tools, and meet their medical and hospital bills. Red Cross awarded 959,000 cer tificates to persons completing first aid courses, 1,554,300 to water safety course graduates, 225,500 to persons completing home nursing courses and 2,400 to persons taking volunteer nurse s aide training. The Red Cross also aided Amer icans in trouble around the world. It negotiated with the East German Red Cross for the release of 15 U.S. citizens who had been detained in East Germany. And, on the other cide of the globe, American Red Cross and family food parcels con tinued to be turned over each month to representatives of the Chinese Red Cross for delivery to the five Americans still imprisoned in China. The report lauded the two mil lion volunteer workers whose parti cipation in all phases of Red Cross activities "is evidence of- the na tion's belief that the common wel fare can best be served through voluntary action Obviously, the value of their participation if measured in dollars would reach astronomical proportions." . The report points out that Red Cross volunteer workers outnumber the 13,400 career employes by a ratio of 149 to one. brother could attend a Washington school. The afternoon included fre quent trips between The Office and Vcrn's Travern, wilh a few other bars visited in between. Early that afternoon he had met 26-year-old Joseph Martinez and had been warned to stop seeing Martinez' estranged wife, Patty Gibbons Martinez. Martinez was thrown out of the bar after three warnings from the bartender,, he; said. Lugo said he suspected Martinez was carrying- a unne. to, lllus. (rate his suspicions, he stood be fore the jury, ran one hand down his trouser leg, and said, "Ilis (Martinez') pants were tight enough that I saw what I though was the outline of a knife." He said Martinez spoke in low tones. I couldn t near what he said," he testified, "but I thought he said, 'I'll get you.' " FROM THE OFFICE he went to Scott Loan Company on Klamath Avenue and bought a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol. Then more drinks in more bars before he (i- nally saw Martinez at the corner of Seventh and Main streets. Mar tinez motioned him to come over. "Why did you go over?" Stearns questioned. 'I was hoping Martinez had called me over to tell me to for get about the threat he had made that afternoon," Lugo answered. He joined Martinez with two oth er persons in Vei n s Tavern. Martinez asked me if I was ready," he testified. "I said, 'I guess so.' We went into the alley, When we got back of the Broiler, Martinez said, 'This is far enough.' "Martinez swung in front of me. His right hand was in his pocket. No words were spoken at all. He lunged at me. I pulled out the pis tol and fired." He said the pistol was in his belt, and he had pulled it in a matter of seconds after Martinez had lunged toward him. It was then he said he was frightened, and feared Martinez, "Prior to this time," Stearns asked, "did you feel any grudge against Mr. Martinez?" -4 . "No," the defendant said. THE FRIDAY SESSION did not begin until afternoon. At one time Stearns and Beddoe, familiar trial adversaries, accused each other of improper tactics, Once, Beddoe charged, "Counsel is testifying. He's reiterating. The witness is perfectly capable of testifying for himself." Stearns objected to the remarks "on the part of the prosecuting attorney," and told the court "I'm not here to engage in a brawl with the district attorney." Lugo spoke .quietly but intelli gibly from the witness stand. His demeanor remained calm. He was clothed in a charcoal suit with white shirt and white tie. A prior defense witness, called after the state had entered Lugo's confession into testimony and had rested its case, was Lugo's father, Carlos Lugo, who said there were 14 children in his family. The trial resumes at 10 a.m, Monday. Lugo will be on the stand for continuation of cross examination. Gethsemane, the name of a beautiful garden of olive trees spoken of in the New Testament of the Bible, means "oil press." OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mn. 3. B. ttrlr Jt Eirlr Jr. FrpritUr Thoroughly Modem Correction from our Friday White Goods Sale Ad BLANKET ENDS 100 wool millends from o famous maker. Bind them yourself and sove! All sizes. Now at a new low price! 2.45 to 6.98 The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will knock on Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: Arrival of Newcomers to Klamath Falls No cost or obligation Phone TU 2-0346 V- I
