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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1960)
HERALD AN'T) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday. Fph. 17, infiO PAGE 7A Motherwell Murder Case Underway DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (UPD The prosecution began its case to day in the murder trial of Larry Lord Motherwell, who is charged with the slaying of a 72-year-old Washington, D.C., widow. The opening statement was pre sented to a jury of nine women ajid three men which was chosen Tuesday, despite defense objec tions that it was overloaded with women. The jury was seated so quickly that even the prosecution was tak en by surprise. The attorneys told Superior Judge Warren Steel they planned for arrival of witnesses fnm the East next weekend. ' The judge said he would recess the trial from Thursday through Monday but that he expected the witnesses to be available at that time. Motherwell, 43. is charged with flaying Mrs. Pearl Putney after touring the country with the widow Jn 1958. Bones identified as hers were found on a mountain road tear here. : Motherwell has steadfastly main tained that he is innocent. He ad mits that he was friendly with the widow, who was last seen alive leaving a motel with the suspect In Marysville, California. The state has admitted that the ease is based on circumstantial evidence alone. It has no witnesses to the crime and furthermore, has no idea what caused the wom an's death. Spud Growers Name Prexy James Ottoman of Malin was famed president of Klamath Po tato Growers Association at a meeting held Monday evening at the Klamath County Fairgrounds. Duane Blackm-an was named di rector for the Poe Valley area and elected vice president. Paul Fairclo was named director for the Henley district. Holdover di rectors are Joe Steele, Klamath Falls; Joe Fotheringham, Mer rill; and L. L. Porterfield, Bo nanza. . Growers renamed Ed Petrasek of Malin as handler-member on the Marketing Order Committee pnd renamed W, W. Thompson of Henley as alternate. : Shippers renamed Wes McKaig as handler-member and Karl Deh- linger as alternate. Continued operation of the Ma- Jin Labor Camp was favored and the Camp Committee was request ed to submit estimates of cost of improvements required to permit opening this fall. - Expansion of sales promotion Into the Los Angeles area was dis cussed, A limited quantity of point Of sale material has been distribut ed there this season. A budget meeting of the com mission's Advertising Committee is scheduled the afternoon of March 8 at the Winema Hotel. The quar terly meeting of the Oregon Po tato Commission will be held at the Winema Hotel March 9. A. E. Mercker, executive direc tor of the National Potato Coun cil will attend the commission's March meeting. Mercker will speak at a meeting of Basin potato grow ers scheduled for 1:30 p.m., March 10, at Tulelake. np4 i-w , .... i - r8 ! 4 . n$ f 7 V Comic Credits Spouse For Return To TV Show WEST PALM BEACH. Kla.' i AP Jack Paar credits his wife. Miriam, with his decision to re turn to his television show. She was the peacemaker, he said at a hideaway at a plush inn near here Tuesday night. He said he'll be back on the National Broadcasting Co. "To night" show on March 7 as agreed in a conference with network of- A BREAK during training brings local National Guardsmen to the kitchen of the new armory on Shasta Way where Sgt. I.C, Arnold Harper, mess steward, pours coffee. Others in the photo, from left, are S.4.C. Roger A. Wheeler, Pfc. Glen A. Catterson, and Sgt. Har old L. Hotchkiss. Prospective guardsmen are asked to contact Ray Childers at the armory. Home Finance Laws Hit 30-Year High WASHINGTON (AP) - If you are appalled at the financing charges you must pay to buy a home, you have a reason. They are at about the highest point in 30 years, and have bumped into the usury laws of some states. Some mortgages, it is suspected in Washington, may actually have violated usury statutes, although it would take a court action to find out for sure. For that reason, the govern ment's Federal National Mort gage Assn. recently refused to buy a dozen or so mortgages o- fcied for sale by Tennessee lend ers, until tneir legality was at tested.. That was a rather remarkable incident. In effect, one federal agency declined to accept obliga tions insured by another agency the Federal Housing Administra tionfor fear the paper would be found illegal and void. Among the 11 states whose usury laws forbid interest charges higher than 6 per cent, some have considered raising the ceiling so as not to choke off housing credit. Builders and organized real estate dealers recently have at tacked what they called excessive discounts demanded by lenders When the builder of a new house finds a buyer, he usually sells the mortgage to a bank or loan company, which will collect the monthly payments. When money is tight, the builder has to take a discount on the mortgage; in other words, he accepts less for it than its face value. Lawyers generally agree that a discount cannot be construed as part of the interest charge, even though the home buyer may pay for it ultimately. The builder who knows he will have to take a dis count may simply jack up the price of the house to cover it. Builders recently have reported lenders in some areas asking dis counts of up to 10 or 12 per cent. The federal housing agencies are showing some nervousness over the situation, because the FHA permits a 5"i per cent interest rate on loans which it insures just under the usury lev el of several states. On top of that is added Vi of one per cent as an insurance premium, bringing the total charge to 6'ii per cent in the first year of the mortgage. If the insurance charge were held to be interest, the usury limit would be exceeded in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsyl vania, Tennessee, Vermont, Vir ginia and West Virginia. However a Tennessee court has held in a test case that the in surance premium is not interest. FIRST HAWK, THEN IAN RUISLIP, England (UPI) It seems that everywhere his dog goes, 2-year-old Ian Fuller is sure to follow. Mrs. Marie Fuller reported Ian missing Monday but later said she found him when she whistled for the dog, Hawk. The dog, followed by Ian, came crawling through a hole it had dug under a fence surrounding the Fullers' backyard. ANTI-INFLATIONARY! . ROMFORD, England (UPI) -Balloon seller Daniel Gribben was fined $11.20 Tuesday for blocking a footpath with a three foot balloon, Newspaper , SPOT ADS are inexpensive repeated daily $1.16 Maryland's attorney general lias ruled to the same effect. But on certain low-cost homes involving mortgages of less than $8,000, the FHA permits the lend er to add still another i of one per cent as a "service charge." This is intended to compensate the lender for the higher cost of handling a small mortgage. That was the type of mortgage which FNMA questioned and sent back, pending formal assurance of its legality. This was FNMA's concern: If a home owner could obtain a court ruling that the mortgage was usurious, FNMA would be holding a worthless piece of paper. That is because Tennessee, like New York, is a state in which both principal and interest of a debt are voided if the terms of the loan violate the usury laws. In North Carolina, Virginia and some other states the interest alone is forfeited. Would it help the buyers of low cost houses if FHA abolished the service charge? Not a bit. Lend ers simply wouldn't take that type of mortgage loan. Few are making them now. Weather Table By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS High Low rr. Albany, cloudy Albuquerque, cloudy Anchorage, cloudy Atlanta, cloudy Bismarck, cloudy Boston, cloudy Buffalo, snow Chicago, cloudy Cleveland, cloudy Denver, clear Des Moines, clear Detroit, snow Fort Worth, cloudy Helena, cloudy Honolulu, clear Indianapolis, cloudy Kansas City, clear Los Angeles, clear Louisville, cloudy Memphis, cloudy Miami, cloudy Milwaukee, cloudy New Orleans, cloudy New York, cloudy .01 .02 38 28 51 24 24 20 50 43 30 5 42 32 36 30 .01 36 32 37 33 36 13 41 13 42 33 .Oti 65 38 37 25 M M M 36 34 40 23 71 50 40 37 .01 43 36 74 65 33 31 56 34 42 36 Oklahoma City, cloudy 58 35 Omaha, clear 40 10 Philadelphia, cloudy 41 27 Phoenix, clear 66 46 Pittsburgh, cloudy 34 30 Portland, Me., clear 41 27 Portland, Ore., cloudy 49 28 Rapid City, clear Richmond, cloudy St. Louis, cloudy Salt Lake City, snow San Diego, clear San Francisco, clear Seattle, cloudy Tampa, cloudy Washington, cloudy (M Missing) 35 25 45 29 52 33 38 22 .04 69 50 62 49 45 32 65 56 43 33 icials. But he's going to take a vacation first. That also is part of the agreement. Paar and Miriam leave today (or California but declined to specify where they will vacation. It was learned, however, they hold reservations for a flight due in Honolulu from San Francisco Wednesday night and have a room icserved at the island hotel, the Princess Kaiulani, and another flight booked Friday to Tokyo. Ml Paar would say about his vacation was they would keep go ing west to places "I've dreamed of visiting but never could afford before." Paar, who walked out of his show last Thursday night because a joke had been edited out of his program, came here Monday. Net work officials, including Robert Kitner and Robert Sarnoff, presi dent and board chairman respect ively of NBC, met him Tuesday. Paar said Miriam, his attractive blonde wife of 17 years, arranged the meeting. Explaining his decision to re turn to the show, Paar said "I wrestled with this thing over and over, I honestly didn't want to go back. "Alter all, I'm responsible for the welfare of at least a hundred people connected with my show. I lelt if I didn't go back, I'd have a lot to answer for." Paar said Kitner and Sarnoff brought full apologies for cutting from his taped show a joke about a water closet. The NBC executives said Paar also apologized, expressing sorrow at having caused any embarrass ment. Paar said the joke was cut by "some guy an ex-FBI man who works in NBC's new department of standards and practices. It was never authorized by anybody high er up." He said he has assurances there will be no more such censorship and that he returns to the show without any strings attached. In New York, NBC declined comment on Paar's remark about repetition of censorship. A spokesman said, however, the decision to out out the joke was made by Ernest Jahnckc, direc tor of the standards and practices department, and that Jahncke's recomii5cndation "was approved by top management. "The spokes man added Jahncke is not an ex FBI man. Paar said "things have gotten rough now and then on my show, hut I have a sense of responsibili ty, a sense of taste. I'll admit some low humor has gotten by on the show but I've got a list of these who did it and they're not coming back on the show." OSBURN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mrl. J. E. EtrltT -Jot EarUr Jr. Proprietor! Thoroughly Modern EAGLES ANNUAL CRAB FEED Saturday, Feb. 20 6 P.M. - 9 P.M. 1 .50 per person Dance Upstairs 9 P.M. 2 P.M. Music by -- Don Phelps Orchestra It's Coming.' New, Classical Styling & Quality at an Economy Car Price! COMET ORANGE JUICE IS DELICIOUS awwaauajMraarkWwai EVEN WITHOUT SMIRNOFF.1 tfai fed p&Me ? BOTH one wears CONTACTS! 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