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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Monriav. Feb. 8, lRBO
MARKETS
Stocks
WALL STREET
NEW YORK (APl-The stock
market took another severe loss
today but prices were above their
lows late this afternoon. Trading
was fairly active.
Volume for the day was est
mated at 3,500.000 shares com
pared with 2.530,000 on Friday
Pivotal stocks were down from
fractions to 2 or 3 points.
High-priced International Busi
ncss Machines lost about 7 and
Dupont. another high-priced issue
was down more than 4.
Reports that the demand
steel is expected to drop and
that
auto sales will not be up to pre
vious estimates combined with
general air of pessimism to sharp-
en. losses. Prices were at their
worst in early afternoon then
met
some support.
U.S. Steel touched another
new
low for 1930-'60 and was down
about 2 points.
NEW YORK STOCKS
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Admiral Corporation
A. J. Industries
Allied Chemical
Allis Chalmers
Alcoa i
American Airlines
American Can
American Cyanmide
American M 4 Fdy
American Motors
American Smelting
American Tel k Tel
American Tobacco
American Viscose
Anaconda Copper
Armco Steel
Atchison Railroad
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Boeing Airplane Co.
Borden Co.
Borg Warner
Burroughs Corp.
California Packing
Canadian Pacific
Caterpillar Trai l or
Celanese Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
Cities Service
Consolidated Edison
Continental Can
Crown Zellerbach
Curtiss Wright
Douglas Aircraft
Dow Chemical
du Pont de Nemours
Eastman Kodak
El Paso NG
Emerson Radio
Firestone Tire
First America Corp.
Ford Motor
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Georgia Pac Cp
Goodyear Tire
Great A. k P.
Great Northern
Great West. Sugar
Gulf Oil Co.
Idaho Power
Illinois Central
International Bus Mch
International Nickel
International Paper
International T k T
Johns Manville
Kaiser Aluminum
Kennecott Copper
Libby, McNeill k Libby
Lockheed Aircraft
Loew's Incorporated
Minnesota Mining
Mon.santo Chemical
Montgomery Ward '
National Cash Reg.
New York Central
Northern Pacific
Pacific American Fish
Pacific Gas k Electric
Pacific Tel k Tel
Pan American Airways
Penn Dixit Cement
Penney fJ.C.) Co.
Pennsylvania R.R.
Pepsi Cola Co.
Philco Corp.
Phillips Pet.
Polaroid
Ptiget Sound P k L
Radio Corp of Amer
Rayonier Incorp.
Raytheon
Republic Sleel
Reynolds Metals
Richfield Oil
Safeway Stores Inc.
Schenley Distillers
Scott Paper Co.
Sears Roebuck & Co.
Shell Oil Co.
Sinclair Oil
Socony Mobil Oil
Southern Pacific
Sperry Rand
Standard Oil Calif.
Standard Oil N.J.
Studebaker Packard
Sunray
Sunshine Mining
Swift k Company
Texaco
Thompson, R W.
Transamerica
Twentieth Century Fox
Union Oil Company
Union Pacific
United Air Lines
United Aircraft
United Corporation
United States Plywood
United Stales Smelting
United States Steel
Walgreen Stores
Warner Pictures
Western Auto Supply
Western Union Tel.
Weslinghouse Air Brake
Westinghouse Electric
Wheeling Steel
Wool worth Company
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and FINANCE
Livestock
PORTLAND (AP) - I USDA ) -Cattle
salable 1,400; fed steers
and heifers moderately active;
steady to strong; cows rather
slow, steady; bulls and feeder
steers scarce, steady; 32-hcad
load choice 1.133 lb steers 26,50.
also 5-hcad lot 1,113 lbs 26.50;
several loads good and choice 963
1,115 lb steers 26.00: most good
steers 23.50-25.50; 40-head load
choice 831 lb fed heifers 25.00, with
22 head accompanying 967 lb good
with few choice 23.50: several
loads good and choice 843-955 lb
(or
heifers 24.00; most good heifers
22.00-23.50; standard 20.00-21.oO
few utility cows 13.50-15.00; can
ners and cutters 10.00-12.00, Hoi
stein cutters to 13.00; cutter and
utility bulls 1B.00-2I.25.
Calves salable 150; moderately
active, fully steady: good ana
choice vcaler 28.00-33.00; stand
ard 22.00-27.00: cull and utility
12.00-21.00; good and choice stock
calves 23.00-27.00.
Hogs salable 1.150; includes
about 10 per cent sows; feeder
pigs scarce; trade active; butch
ers 23-50 higher than late last
week; sows about steady: U.S. 1-2
butchers 180-235 lbs 15.25-mostly
15.50, one lot 15.75; mixed 1-3 lots
14.50-15.00; few around 270 lbs No.
butchers 13.50; numerous lots
1-2 sows 277-340 lbs 12.00-13.00;
heavier weights 11.00-11.73.
Sheep salable 500; trade active,
steady; scattered lots including
nearly 200 head high good and
hoice No. 1 to full woolcd lambs
90-102 lbs 19.00-19.50; one lot fed
lambs 19.75: good and choice 70-
90 lb feeder lambs 17.50-18.00: cull
to good slaughter ewes 3.50-7.00.
Stocjtlon (UPI-FSMNSi - Live
stock :
Cattle salable 600. High good
1.038 lb slaughter steers 25.25.
low good 1,215 lbs 22.50, standard
150 lb Holstein slaughter steers
21. Commercial and standard
cows 17-10, utility 15-16.50, canners
and cutters 11-15. Utility and com
mercial bulls 1.300-1,800 lbs 20-
22. Good 550-970 lb stocker and
feeder steers 22.75-25.50, medium
030-900 lbs 22-23. Medium 610 lbs
heifers 20.
Calves salable 150. Good and
choice slaughter calves and vcal
ers 250-500 lbs 26-30, vealers to
32, Good and choice around 350
500 lb stock steer calves 27-30,
comparable grade heifers 25-27.
Hogs salable 400. No. 1 2 190-
240 lb butchers 15, No. 2-3 190-
240 lbs 14.50, 240-260 lbs 14.25. No,
1 to 3 sows 300-600 lbs 6.50-U.
Good and choice 50-120 lb feeder
pigs 12-15.
Sheep salable 100. Market not
established.
GRAINS
CHICAGO (API-
High Low Close Prcv.close
Wheat
Mar 1.98'i 1.98 1.98-V.j IM'.t
May 2.00H 1.99 2.00S4 2.00S.
Jly 1.85 l.B4"4 1.847i
Sep 1.87'i 1.87',4 1.87-U
Dec 1.92S 1.92'4 1.92'j
Corn '
Mar 1.14'i 1.14'i 1.144
1.84
1.87'k
1.92'4
1. 14'. 4
May 1.174 1.17 1.17V 1.17'i
.Tiy 1.19'j Lin 1.19n 1.1!'
Sep 1.164 1.16t 1.164-S 1.16U
lire l.lO'i 1.10'i 1.1034 1.10'
Oats
Mai
May Jly
Sip
Pec
Rye
Mar
May
Jly
Sep
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.W .66'4 .66 .661
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1.28 1.2634 1.28 1.27:'s
1.2t;,4 1.23lj.l.2434 1.24
1.25' 1.24i 1.25'. 1.2S4
1.274 L27-'4 1.27-'4 127:14
Soybeans
Mar 2.1314 2.12 2.13S-'i 2.12i
May 2.15', 2.14' 2.15:V,t 2.15'
Jly 2.1.V 2.11 1 k 2.151! 2.15;
Sep 2.10t 2.09U 2.IO'(-4 2.094
Nov 2.08s. 2.07'i 2.08'a-5. 2.07!
POTATOES
SAN FRANCISCO lUPI-
FSMNSl Potatoes:
Russets Klamath U. S. l. 2
inch minimum 4.75-5.00; U. S. 1
5-ounce minimum 5.40-3.85.
LOS ANGELES tUPI-FSMNS'
Potatoes:
Russets Klamath U. S. l. 4 (to.
bakers 10 - ounce minimum 4.
U.S. 2 3.25.
Israel Plans
Arms Step Up
JERUSALEM, Israeli (Ul'P-
Ijrael plans to step up purchases
ef arms and military equipment
ss a result of current border
plashes with the United Arab Re
public and to compensate for the
recent flow of Soviet arms into
Arab countries.
This was expected to be the
main result of a cabinet meeting
called Sunday by Premier David
Ben-Gurion. The ministers con
(Tied on the ten.se situation along
the Israeli-Syrian frontier.
A uneasy iuicl prevailed along
hi border today, as was the case
over the weekend. U.N. observers
reported no incidents in the de
militarized zone south of the Sea
cf Galilee, scene of most of the
clashes over the past 11 days.
Funerals
DODSON
Funeral services for Maurice AI
len Dodson, owner of the Old River
Exchange, 707 South Sixth Stree
will take place from the chapel of
Ward's Klamath Funeral Home on
Tuesday, February 9. 1960, at 10:30
a.m., the Rev. C. O. Trcmain of
the Free Methodist Church official
ins. Concluding services in Klam
ath Memorial Park. Mr. Dodsoi
was also survived by his father;
Vess W. Dodson of this city,
Auto Crash
Injures Two
High speed was the apparent
cause of a bad auto accident on
South Sixth Street early Monday
morning, city police said.
Two youths, passengers in a car
driven by a juvenile, were injured
and admitted to Klamath Valley
Hospital. They were Rodger Earl
Hclstrom, 19, and Donald Lee Cun.
ningham, 21, both of 204 Gentile
Street. '
llclslroin's left leg was broken
He was said to be in fair condition
late Monday morning. Cunningham
complained of neck injuries. He
was reported recovering quickly
I he driver was charged by offi
cers with reckless driving. He was
southbound on South Sixth Street
and lost control at the l'JOO block
The car spun around and crossed
the northbound lane of traffic and
smashed into a steel pole.
The driver was not injured. The
other youths were taken to the
hospital by Peace Ambulance.
A second accident over the week
end produced considerable dam
pge, but no injuries resulted.
A teen ager told officers he was
eastbound on Main Street when a
pickup truck cut in front of him
at Fifth Street Friday night. The
driver of the pickup stopped, but,
while witnesses called police, drove
away.
Witnesses recorded the California
license number. Police later found
the suspected truck parked behind
the city fire station. A complaint
was to have been signed at police
headquarters Monday against the
truck driver, an employe of a local
sawmill.
The youth's car sustained about
S250 damage.
A third auto accident produced
very minor damage to a car
owned by Charles Palmer of 607
Van Ncss Street while it was
parked at a local grocery store
aturday morning. The driver of
the other car left the scene, police
said.
Palmer said he saw the car back
into his vehicle.
Police Detain
Two Juveniles
Two local juveniles were taken
into temporary custody for ques
tioning concerning burglary over
the weekend. A third youth was
referred to county juvenile officers
in connection with violation of pro
bation. -
The two youths admitted the
theft of two tires and tubes from
a garage owned by John W. Nash
of 1221 Eldorado Avenue Sunday
afternoon, police said.
They said they had been driving
around town and spotted the two
(res in the open garage. Each
took a tire and tube and sold them
In a local service station lor $10.
The gear was valued at $40.
A neighbor spoiled the youths,
notified Nash, and Ihe pair of them
gave chase, but lost the youths.
1'hey got a description of the car.
however, and city officers were not
lung in halting the car on Main
Street.
The third youth was a passenger.
thus breaking a condition of his
probation from a MacLaren School
fur Boys. The burglary case is in
Ihe hands of county jmcnile offi
vers.
City police also fuund live boys
on Ihe banks of Ihe A Canal who
were reported throwing rocks at
cars over the weekend. They told
officers I hey were skipping rocks
olf the water, and some bounced
and landed on the pavement near
Old Fort Road. They were lec
tured and sent home.
Oflicers have not yet lound the
culprits who shot holes in win
dnws of two cars parked at the
Jim Winde Buirk Company lot
1330 .Main Street Friday. The dam.
ace apparently was done with a
pellet or BB gun.
Vandals also threw a rock
through a window in the Laikin
Insurance Company office, 114
North Seventh Street. Frid.iv or
Saturday. The window was valued
at $5.
Bureau Study
Is Reauested
WASHINGTON UPI) Ren
John E. Moss (D-Calif.) called on
tnc interior Department today to
make an "immediate investiga
tion of its Bureau of Land Man.
agement's land appraisal prac
tices.
Moss, chairman ol a special
House subcommittee, ha been
conducting an investigation of
his own into land appraisal poli
cies winch he said contain
"serious delicicncies."
School Notes
On Monday, January 18, the pu
pih: of Altamont Junior High
had a National School Assembly.
Carl and Carolyn Scoby told us
about snakes. The four most dead
ly snakes are the rattlesnake, cot-
tonmoulh, copperhead and the cor
al. They told us there were 166
kinds of nonpoisonous snakes in
Ihe United States. They also
showed us some live snakes they
had in captivity, even taking them
out of their small boxes and walk
ing around the gym showing them
to us. Some of these were a cobra
from Louisiana, the indigo from
South Carolina, and the indigo
from Central America. Mrs. Scoby
old us that snakes sometimes
have many names. They showed
us some other nonpoisonous live
snakes. Thoy also showed us some
live poisonous snake. Airs, Scoby
tuld us about the heads of snakes
and how to treat snake biles.
Wednesday, January 20, I960,
Altamont Junior High played a
game against Fremont. The score
was 38 to 18 in favor of Altamont
Walter Smith and Don Graham
each made a free throw, with Don
Workman making two free throws.
Walter Smith, Marvin Cunning
ham, Roger Rogers, Daryl Mitch-
II, and Vernon Petrick each
made one basket. Marvin Yunck
and Don Workman each made
three baskets and Johnny Still well
mudc two, Bill Smith made four,
.Mr. McGown coaches our eighth
grade team.
The .report cards were given out
anuary 20. Ihe citizenship pen
nant in the eighth grade was given
to Mrs. Thompson's 8C room. In
he seventh grade two rooms tied
the 7F and the 7G rooms. Each
room will get to keep the pennant
lor three weeks.
The Altamont Junior High Stu
dent Council met for the filth time
this year on Thursday, January
Each home room will have
le duty of cleaning up the halls,
music room and the gym during
the noon period for one week. The
oom that does the best job will
cceive $5.
On February 20 there will be a
dance at the YMCA. It will be
ponsored by the YMCA for the
Indents of Altamont and Fremont
unior High.
Friday, January 22, the seventh
;rade team, coached by Mr. Whip
ple, beat the Fremont Midgets
by a score of 22 to 8. There were
so many good seventh grade play
ers that they were divided into two
teams.
Altamont's eighth grade team
played two games against Med-
ford at Medford on January 23.
One game was played with the
Medford freshman team. The
score was 64 to 46 in favor of
Medford. ihe other game was
played against Medford's eighth
grade .team with the score reading
32 to 25, also in favor of Medford
January 27, the eighth grade
played Fairhaven at Fairhaven
The score was 32 to 43 in favor of
Altamont. Also on this date Alta
mcnt students enjoyed a good vol
ltyball game. The faculty played
the eighth grade all-star volleyball
team. Mrs. Hazel Kramer, Mrs.
Ethel Whitlatch, Doyle Whipple.
Irvin Fletcher, Harvey Denham
Jim McGown, Dick Hannon and
John Klien were the teachers who
parlcipated. The score was 12 to
17, giving the faculty the victory.
January 28, Fremont's eighth
grade all-star volleyball team won
a victory over our eighth grade
all-star volleyball team with a
score of 15 to 13. On January 28,
a basketball game was played be
tween our eighth grade and Mer
rill's eighth grade. This game was
played at Merrill, with Merrill
winning 22 to 19.
The second string, coached by
Irvin Fletcher, won over Conger
by a score of 38 to 10 on January
29.
On January ":t the Altamont
PTA sponsored a carnival in the
Altamont Junior High gym. Tic
kets were sold by the elementary
and junior high students. The high
room was 7E with $150 in sales.
Wayne Galop was the high boy
salesman. Virginia Bean and Kath
r.vn Watach tied for the high girl
salesman. The high boy received
S3 as a reward for his efforts
and the girls each received $2.50;
The tickets for the door prize,
a portable TV set, sold for 25
cents each. The room selling the
most tickets got to elect a carni
val king and queen. Janice Morrie
was crowned queen with Buddy
Lummus reigning as king. Both
the high salesgirl and the high
salesboy crowned them during the
carnival.
January 30. our second string
basketball players plajed at Mills
School. The score was 41 to 5 in
favor of Altamont.
Roxie Bennington,
News Reporter
DA Seeks Help
The district attorney's office
seeks help in locating a witness
needed for a trial Wednesday.
The man was driving a light
colored Ford station wagon. 1!35
to 11)50 model, on a gravel road
near Merrill between 4 and 4:40
p.m. December 28.
Officers said the' driver picked
up William Junes of Medford and
drove Jones Into Merrill. Jones Is t
the complaining witness in an as
.sault and robbery trial of Leonard
Thomas Powers scheduled for cir
cuit court Wednesday morning.
The driver of the car is urgently
requrstcd to notify Ihe district at-
torncy'j office, TU 2-3434. I
POTATO MARKET INFORMATION
(Furnished) by Federal-State
Marketing News Service)
POTAtOES
RAIL AND TRUCK SHIPMENTS (CL EQUIV.)
2 5-6-7 60 1959-60 1958-59
KLAMATH BASIN
Oregon Rail 22 715 431
Oregon Truck 16 1,368 1,159
Calif. Rail 31 2,238 1,617
Calif. Truck 5 1.175 1.166
OTHER OREGON
Rail 15 4,137 4,049
COLORADO 40 2,956 3,685
IDAHO Rail 248 22,814 27,005
WASHINGTON Rail S 8,790 6,598
U.S. TOTAL Rail 823 105,828 103,447
SHIPPING POINT PRICES:
(SKD. PER CWT)
FOB KLAMATH BASIN PTS:
NETTED GEMS U.S. No. 1-A
U.S. No. 1-A 5-14 ox.
U.S.2 2" min.
NET PRICE TO GROWER
NETTED GEMS U.S. No. 1-A 2" min. Too few
U.S. 2 to quote
FOB CENTRAL OREGON PTS.
RUSSETS U.S. No. 1-A 4.00-4.20
U.S. No. 1-A 6-14 ox. min. 4.60-4.70
U.S. 2 2" or 4 oz. min. 50 lb. 2.50
NET PRICE TO GROWER - BULK DELV'D. WHSE.
RUSSETS U.S. No. 1-A Too few
U.S. 2 2" or 4 ox. min. to quote
IDAHO PTS: NET PRICE TO GROWER.
RUSSETS U.S. No. 1-A Too few
U.S. No. 2 6-oi. to quote
POTATO UNLOAD
38 CITIES Friday Week Ago
Rail Unload 249 265
Truck Unload 313 358
Total Unload 562 623
Richard Allen
Dies In Crash
A former resident of- Klamath
County, Richard (Dick) Allen Ad
ams, 28, died February 6 in San
Francisco in a one-car accident.
Word of his death reached friends
here over the weekend. The family
now lives in Hayfork, California,
The victim was a graduate of
Henley High School.
He was recovering from critical
injuries received in a automobile
accident about six months ago
when he suffered fractures of a
leg and arm and the leg was still
in a cast when. he was killed.
Officers reported he was riding
in a car with a couple, a man
and woman. The car went out of
control and over an embankment
Adams and the woman passenger
were killed.
Survivors include the widow,
Marge, a young son, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Adams, and a
brother, Jim Adams, all of Hay
fork: a brother, Clarence Adams,
Red Bluff; a sister, Mrs. Calvin
Noble, Klamath Falls.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday, February 10, in Hay
fork.
Fremont Group
Presents Play
The Fremont PTA will present
a hilarious comedy entitled "This
Can't Be You, or Can It? Thurs
day. February 11, in the school
auditorium at 2:30 p.m. Parents
and faculty will share in some
exaggerated and ironic situations
which bear true semblances of ac
tual problems familiar to both. The
underlying philosophy depicts, in
some humorous episodes, the ne
cessity of understanding and co
operation between the home and
school. 1
Past presidents will be honored
in a unique manner this year.
Money in their names will be add
ed to the scholarship Fremont of
fers some worthy high school grad
uate each year.
Mrs. John Putnam. Founders
Day chairman, has made the ar
rangements. Check Passer Held
City police arrested Ronnie
Reeves of Route 3 over the week
end and charged him with passing
worthless check.
Reeves, 19. waived preliminary
hearing in district court Monday
and was bound to the grand jury
in lieu of 2.000 bail.
Police said Reeves apparently
passed a check for $30 at Alameda
Grocery, 201 Alameda Avenue
January 25. The check was written
against the account of his mother
and made payable to himself. No
such account was found, police
said.
CABINET TOP
SPECIAL
Formica, Consoweld, Nevamar,
Textolite, Pionite, Laminart
LABOR and MATERIALS
To Install Any Of The
Above Laminates
We Give M" Green Stamps
McCollum HOME MART
2030 So. 6th TU 2-5815
Friday
Toe few
to quote
2" or 4 ox. min
BULK AT CELLAR:
Canceled Check
Burdens Mailman
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP)
When the bank mails Allen H.
Christensen this month's canceled
checks, the outsized parcel may be
enough to give the postman a pain
in the lumbar region.
One of the checks is a pine plank
5 by . 12 inches, complete with
knothole. Christensen made it out
to his brother, Robert, for $4.57
when he couldn't find his check
book. Zions First National Bank ac
cepted the wooden check without
demur. Not a guffaw splintered
the silence when it was presented
No wag said it went against the
grain to cash it.
"The check is perfectly legal
and was drawn from a regular
checking account," said Ames K
Bagley, the bank's vjee president.
House Opens
Payola Study
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
same House investigators who
probed TV quiz show rigging last
year opened .hearings today into
under-the-table payola for record
and commercial plugs.
The subcommittee on legislative
oversight ' has subpenaed a num
ber of witnesses for the new
hearings. On the basis of an ex
ploratory inquiry, the probers de
scribed the payments to broad
casting station employes as "ram
pant." Missiles: The House Defense
Appropriations subcommittee re
leased testimony by Assistant Air
Force Secretary Joseph V.
Charyk in which Charyk admitted
human errors were behind some
l.i'lures' in the Titan intercontin
ental ballistic missile program.
He said in an earlier hearing
that the mistakes resulted in
changes of personnel and proce
dures. Hnscs: The appropriations sub
committee also released testimony
by the' chief of naval operations
in which Adm. Arleigh A. Burke
said the Navy had no plans to
pull out of bases in Cuba, the
Panama Canal or Trinidad, de
spite recent anti-American inci
dents. Navy Secretary William B.
Franke said the bases were need
ed for the nation's defense.
ELECTRIC FIRE
The county fire department
found an electrically-caused fire
out on arrival at Old Midland Road
Sunday evening. Firemen said a
car had struck a power pole, caus
ing a short circuit. Little damage
resulted.
S98
sq. ft.
Prosecutor Sees Holes
To Get Finch Conviction
LOS ANGELES (UPI Pros
ccutor Fred N. Whichello believes
there are enough holes in the
rtory told by Dr. R. Bernard
Finch of his wife's death to send
the surgeon to the gas chamber
Whichello puts Finch under
what is certain to be a long and
Court Hears
Young
A solemn, attractive youth of
17 made today Ihe first of a series
of court appearances on the charge
against him first degree murder
Monday before District Judge
D. E. Van Vactor the youth did
little more than identify himself
as Bernard J. Fitzpatrick, an
AWOL soldier from Fort Ord, Cali
fornia. He was remanded to juve
nile authorities pending further dis
position of his case.
Fitzpatrick has admitted stab
bing to death a Pasco, Washington,
motorist who had given him a ride
near Sacramento, California. The
youth admitted he stabbed t h e
driver, 52-year-old Ralph Ray Law
son, south of Crescent early Sun
day morning. January 31, because
Lawson had berated his inept driv
ing.
Fitzpatrick was arrested Febru
ary 2 in Kirkland, Washington. He
was returned here early Saturday
by District Attorney Arthur Bed-
doe and State Police Sgt. Bruce
Lattin, after retracing the route
he had taken with Lawson's body
a week before.
Beddoe said Fitzpatrick dictated
a full statement of events leading
to and following Lawson's death
from five stab wounds of an Army
bayonet.
Fitzpatrick was returned to the
city jail. Juvenile Officer Francis
Mathews said a hearing in juvenile
court will be scheduled for Fitz
patrick after conference with Ju
venile Judge Charles H. Foster,
A result of that hearing pre
sumably will be Fitzpatrick's trans
fer o circuit court and eventually
the Mamath County Grand Jury.
Mathews said several weeks may
elapse before the hearing because
witnesses may have to be sub
penaed from other states. These,
possibly, include the boy's mother
in Seattle, his father in Billings,
Montana, and his commanding of
ficer at Fort Ord.
OBITUARY
SMITH
Leo Whittington Smith, age 67,
died here February 8, 1960. He was
a native of Talequah, Oklahoma,
and resident of Klamath Falls for
the past 25 years. He is survived
ty the widow, Joan, of this city.
funeral arrangements will be an
nounced by Ward's Klamath Fu
neral Home.
MEGGS
Brady Madison Meggs. 64. na
tive of Eldorado, Arkansas, resi
dent of Klamath Falls for 30 years.
died here February 7, 1960. Sur
vivors include the widow, Ida Ruth.
of this city; a son, Hubert M. of
Ihe USAF in Kansas; a daughter,
Mrs. C. J. Long of this city; also
six grandchildren. Funeral serv
ices will take place from the chap
el of Ward's. Klamath Funeral
Home on Tuesday, February 9, at
1:30 p.m., the Rev. Dallas McNeil
of the First Methodist Church offi
ciating. Concluding services in
Klamath Memorial Park. Mr.
Meggs was a member of the I. A.
of M, No. 1493, Klamath Falls Post
No. 8. American Legion and Klam
ath Falls Lodge No. 1106, Loyal
Order of Moose.
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pounding cross-examination today
alter the doctor completes his ac
count of leaving the scene of 4h
July 18 killing of .Mrs. Barbara
Jean Finch, 33.
Finch and his 23-year-old mis
tress, Carole Trcgoff, are charged
with Mrs. Finch's murder. It was
not yet known whether the girl
would take the witness stand at
all. -
Women jurors were in lean
Friday at the 42-year-old surgeon's
broken-voiced recital of his wife's
last words as ho knelt beside her.
Finch claimed his wife was shot
when a revolver fired accidental.
!y in a wild fight.
"I'm sorry - I should havt
listened," Finch quoted his wife,
"Take care of the kids."
Trial observers agreed his story
had terrific emotional impact and
put the doctor in the best position
since testimony in his trial began
live weeKs ago.
But it was filled with coinci.
dences and strange twists.
Ihe first was the tremendous
mathematical improbability of iht
gun firing Finch says in tht
process of being flung away
and hitting the brunette Mrs.
Finch squarely in the back.
A second was the explanation
of the presence of the so-called
"murder kit" at the scene and
the strange mixture of rope, knife,
flashlight and medical equipment.
Carole brought it up the drive
way, Finch said, because he want
ed the flashlight inside and she
did not have the key to the at
tache case so she brought th
whole kit.
Even should Finch withstand
the interrogation on those points,
Whichello still had Finch admit
ting he contacted ex-convict John
Patrick Cody in Las Vegas.
The indictments against Finch
and Miss Trego(( have tw
counts:
Murder.
Conspiracy to murder.
The second involves Carol
more than the first. It was shs
who put the doctor in touch with
Cody. The Minneapolis jailbird
testified they paid him to kill
Mrs. Finch. The doctor says they
engaged him solely to get divorc
evidence.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 hours to 4:30 a.m. Monday
Max. Min. Prep,
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42 28 .0
51 34 .80
57 50 1.12
41 32 .55
55 47 1.27
41 33 .90
55 48 .68
61 48 .84
61 55 2.07
59 40 .20
. 57 44 .39
54 40 .53
57 49 1.01
58 45 .55
54 40 ,31
Astoria
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Pendleton
Portland Airp't
Western Oregon Partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday morning;
increasing cloudiness Tuesday
afternoon with a little rain begin
ning along coast; mild tempera
tures. Highs 50-60; low tonight
38-46. Coastal winds tonight west
erly to southwesterly, 15-30 m.p.h.
Eastern Oregon Clearing con
ditions tonight with a few showers
or snow flurries in extreme east;
partly cloudy Tuesday. Highs 45
55: low tonight 25-35.
Northern Oregon beaches
Partial . clearing tonight; partly
cloudy Tuesday with increasing
cloudiness late in day. Tempera
ture range 42-56. Southwesterly
heach -wincjs, decreasing through
the night. '
Grants Pass and vicinity Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Highs
53-60: low tonight 40-45.
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