"DENNIS THE MENACE"
Christmas Tree Delivery
Boy Is Killed By Bully
NEW YORK (AP)-Robert Gui
tarri, 14, Christmas tree delivery
boy murdered Friday night, was
stabbed by a neighborhood bully
trying to extort money from him,
police say.
Acting Chief of Detectives Fran
cis Robh said Edward Vogt, 17,
slender, good-looking youth with
a crop of brown hair worn in a
luxuriant pompadour, admitted
the killing Tuesday.
Vogt told police he stabbed Gui-
tarri with a nine-inch hunting
knife after the boy refused his
demand, "Give me all your mon
ey."
Young GuitarrI had only two
quarters ir. his pocket, tips from
Christmas tree deliveries.
Police said Vogt told them he
had been selling Christmas tree;
in the upper West Side when he
saw GuitarrI "lugging a big
tree." He said he thought the boy
would "be an easy touch," and
followed him into the building, of
fering to help carry the tree.
By Vogt's account, as reported
by police, the two went up in an
elevator to the sixth floor. There
Vogt demanded the hoy's money,
Vogt said he pulled out a hunt
lng knife. Guitarri tried to run,
but Vogt grabbed him and stabbed
him repeatedly in the back.
Vogt then ran to the roof with
out taking the SO cents from the
boy's pocket and made his way
across the roof tops to his own'
apartment building.
Robb said Vogt was arrested
because of complaints from many
boys in the neighborhood that he
had been extorting money from
them by threats.
Vogt has a lengthy police record
that includes conviction in 1958 for
molesting a 12-year-old girl, and
charges of mugging, petty and
grand larceny.
Three Arrested
In Beating Case
Three young men were ar
raigned in district court WedneS'
day on charges of assault and bat
tery. They are accused of beating
up William Seaberry, 3060 Lodi
Street, Monday night at the Sun
rise Tavern on East Main Street.
The trio pleaded not guilty.
They were Richard Berg, 22, Peli
can City; Delroy Berg, 26, 2826
Altamont Drive, and Charles Ben
nett, 23, 3613 Boardman Street.
A jury trial was scheduled by
Judge Richard J. Burke for Jan.
18 at 10 a.m.
Sheriff's depulies Lou Bogart
and Del Summers arrested the
young men Tuesday after Seaber
ry signed a complaint. Seaberry
said he was pulled off a bar
stool and assaulted. He was treat
ed at Klamath Valley Hospital for
cuts and bruises.
Johnson Finishes Course
Suggests
New Use
For Base
SALEM (API - Gov. Mark 0.
Hatfield said Wednesday he has
asked the Defense Department to
find some other use for the
Tongue Point Naval Station near
Astoria.
He gave this answer to a group
from Columbia River Marine In
dustries k Affiliates, who came
here to ask Hatfield to try to per
suade the Navy to reverse its de
cision to close the station next
year.
W. J. Troudt, Portland, chair
man of the organization blamed
Oregon's Congressional Delega
tion for "Oregon being short
changed when it comes to spend
ing the defense dollar."
Hatfield answered that he's dis
appointed that Oregon doesn't get
more defense money, but added
that he and the state Department
of Planning and Development
have been trying to get more.
Troudt said that "Oregon has
taxation with the most miserable
representation in Washington of
any state. They are just interest
ed in getting front page headlines
about themselves."
Another member of the group,
Lew Russell, Portland, said. Ore
gon hasn't had any representation
in Congress since Sen. Charles
McNary died in 1944.
Troudt said that California has
26 large naval facilities, Washing
ton has eight, and "Oregon has
only one "little fourth-rate estab
lishment Tongue Point."
He added that Oregon "not only
has to keep what little we have
now, but it's urgent that we get
more. We are being discriminat
ed against. We don't even get an
opportunity to bid competitively."
Hatfield said he hopes that
Tongue Point can be used by the
Army, Navy or Air Force, or as
a missile facility.
Troudt said the state's news
papers are not educating the
people about the importance of
getting new industry. He said
many Oregon tans object when
ever it is proposed to locate a
defense establishment in Oregon.
The governor said that is large'
ly true, but that a majority of
the people of the state do want
new industry.
Hatfield said he Is asking the
Legislature to provide money to
station a Planning and Develop
ment Department man in Wash
ington, D.C., to work with the
state's congressional delegation
and with the Defense Depart
ment.
He also remarked that some
heavy industries have recently
indicated an interest in locating
In Oregon along the Columbia
River.
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Army Lt. Col. Floyd L. John
son Jr., 41, whose parents live
at 315 Lincoln Street, completed
the 16-week associate course at
the U.S. Army Command and Gen
eral Staff College, Fort Leaven
worth Dec. 16.
The class of 364 U.S. Army of
ficers and 25 officers from 16 al
lied nations heard the graduation
Sawdust Source
Of Raw Material
- CORVALLIS (AP)-Douglas fir
sawdust may be a promising
source of raw material for the
manufacture of corrugated paper,
Say scientists at the Oregon For
est Research Center here.
Tests indicated that paper made
from the sawdust does not have
great strength, but is crusri re
sistantthe key property needed
for corrugated parts of boxboards.
Use of sawdust in this manner
would mean substantially higher
prices for mills which now sell it
for fuel. ,
The Cornell University Labora
tory of Ornithology has more than
4.000 tape recordings of the calls
of more than 600 species of
birds.
address by Gen. George H. Deck
er, chief of staff, U.S. Army,
who was introduced by Maj. Gen.
Harold K. Johnson, school com
mandant and commanding gener
al. Fort Leavenworth. Following
the address, the graduates re
ceived their diplomas from Brig.
Gen. William A. Cunningham, as
sistant commandant.
The college, the Army's senior
tactical school, was established in
1881 as the School of Application
of Infantry and Cavalry. The as
sociate course was established in
1947 and is designed to prepare
selected officers from all com
ponents of the Army for duty as
commanders and general staff of
ficers. This is the 22nd class to
complete the course and included
58 Army Reserve and National
Guard officers on temporary ac
tive duty. The attendance of the
civilian component officers is in
dicative of the Army's effort to
train and maintain "One Army."
Colonel Johnson is assigned to
the Second Infantry Division Ar
tillery's Headquarters at Fort
Bennuig, Ga.
The colonel entered the Army in
1941.
He is a 1937 graduate of Klam
ath Union High School and a
1941 graduate of Oregon State Col
lege.
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OREGON NEWS ROUNDUP . . .
Wife Of Escapee Also Disappears
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THE NEW YEAR will com in for members of Klamath Falls Lodge, No. 1247 6POE,
and their guests at midnight, Dee. 31, during the annual New Year's Ball. Commit
fee members, chairmanneo by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hickman, promise favors, noisemak
art, dancing from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. to music by Baldy's Band and ham V egg
breakfast. Making plans were, rear, left to right, Herb Schults and Lowell Netier,
Front row, same order, Ethel Schults, Ed Hickman and Mary Ellen Hickman. Commit
tee members net present for the picture are Betty Stippich, Lois Netier and Virgil
Stippich.
BASIN BRIEFS
Sunspots are not visible to the
naked eye except when the sun is
shrouded by mist, fog, thin clouds
or reddening at dusk.
"W thought you'd lika soma dinnar muiio!"
.California
Briefs
Mocdoal
MR. AND MRS. DELMER
CRISS spent the weekend in
Reno. They also visited Mr. and
Mrs. Leland Criss at Litchfield.
Calif. The Criss children spent
the weekend with their erandmoth-
er, Mrs. Maggie Criss.
MRS. MARTHA BRANNAN has
returned to Siskiyou County Gen
eral Hospital, Yreka, for treatment.
CLARA HASTINGS returned to
her home in Dixon, Calif., Thurs
day. She had been visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Whitt.
MR. AND MRS. K. C. WILSON
spent Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday vacationing in Reno.
Mount Hebron
MR. AND MRS. ROSCOE
REAMES and their family left
recently to spend a month visit
ing relatives in New Mexico and
Oklahoma.
MR. AND MRS. JACK SPEN-
CER and their family left last
week to spend a month in Penn
sylvania and Florida visiting rel
atives.
MR. AND MRS. VERNON LEW
IS spent a recent weekend in I
Portland visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Terry Starr.
MR. AND MRS. STANLEY
WARREN and their family,
Mount Hebron, were dinner guests
Saturday night of Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Ross.
BILL KANDRA had dinner and
spent the evening visiting Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley War
ren at their home here. Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Raines also spent the
evening visiting the Warrens.
MR. AND MRS. VERNON
LEWIS left Wednesday and will
return Friday from Yreka where
they are visiting Mrs. Emma Ahl
gren, Lewis', mother.-
RedTock
MR. AND MRS. TOM CAVEN.
ER and family, Dorris. and Mr.
and Mrs. John Parsons and fam
ily were guests for dinner Sun
day of Mrs. Minnie Parsons.
WALTER AND CARROLL RO
BISON and their families moved
their cattle to Red Rock from
the Prather Ranch recently.
Lofcevlew
VINCENT H. SHULTS, Marine
private, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Everett H. Shults, Lakeview, com
pleted four weeks of individual
combat training recently at Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
Molin
MR. AND MRS. GRADY SAUN
DERS, Corvallis, visited their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Loyal
Saunders, here last week while
they were en route to Glendale,
Calif.
MR. AND MRS. TRUMAN
KIN'SEY of Silver Lake were
guests of the Arnold Scotts re
cently. MR. AND MRS. BOB DERRA
of San Francisco visited rela
tives here over the weekend.
MRS. IDA CLARK and her
daughter, Wanda, visited another
daughter, Mrs. Hans Van Ness,
in Cottonwood, Calif., last week.
ROBIN BROWN, a student at
the University of Oregon, spent
the Christmas holidays with her
family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brown,
Malin.
MR. AND MRS. JACK RAT-
LIFF are visiting their sons, Vir
gil and Jack Ratliff, and their
families in Eugene this week.
MR. AND MRS. JIM LACEY
and their daughters are spending
their holiday vacation in Portland
with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lacey
Sr., and with Mr. and Mrs. Noah
Peterson. '
MRS. ANNA WEATHERBY Is
a patient at Klamath Valley Hos
pita, Klamath Falls. She under
went surgery recently.
MR. AND MRS. BOB BROWN
were hosts during a Christmas
dinner to Mrs. Brown's brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs,
Donald E. Regnart, San Jose;
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kreizenbeck
and their family, Tulelake, and
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Griffith,
Sprague River,
Klamath Soldier
Finishes Course
Army Second Lt. Daniel F.
Hitchcock, 22, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard C. Hitchcock, 1861
Fremont Street, completed the
eight - week officer orientation
course Dec. 9 at the Infantry
School. Fort Benning, Ga.
The course is designed to famil
iarize newly-commissioned officers
with the duties and responsibili
ties of an infantry unit command'
cr. The Infantry School constantly
prepares a better infantry for our
Army by training and developing
the leadership qualities of combat
commanders.
A member of Alpha Gamma
Rho fraternity and the Scabbard
and Blade Society, Lieutenant
Hitchcock was graduated from
Klamath Union High School in
1956. He is a 1960 graduate of
Oregon Slate College.
Pre-lnventory Fashion
Clearance
NOW IN PROGRESS
Coats -Suits -Dresses
Children's wear -Sportswear
USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT ... oil
charge purchases made balance of month
will not be billed till February 1st, pay
able February 10th.
PORTLAND (AP - Mrs.i
Charles Hedrick, whose husband
escaped from the state hospital at
balem last Monday, also has
vanished.
Police said she left her baby
with a note asking neighbors to
"please take care of my baby if
I should die."
She left her Portland home a
few hours before her 25-year-old
husband and another inmate. Ver
non Wesley Street, 41, escaped.
The men pried loose a screen.
wrapped themselves in a blanket
and plunged through a plate glass
window on the ground floor of the
hospital. Witnesses said they
were picked up by a car driven
by a woman.
Hedrick was sent to the hospital
for observation after police said
he had admitted sexual assaults
on several Portland women.
Mrs. Hedrick left the two.
month-old boy with Mrs. Cloice
Farm Groups
Split Over
Flemming
SALEM AP The heads of two
farm organizations were split
Wednesday on whether Arthur S.
Flemming, now secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
should become president of the
University of Oregon.
Gerald Dctering. president of
the Oregon Farm Bureau Federa
tion, said he was opposed to anyj
such appointment because of
Flemming s role in the cranberry
crisis a year ago.
However, Robert Elkins of Mo
lalla, president of the Oregon
Washington Farmers Union, said
Wednesday Flemming would be
an outstanding president of the
university.
After the cranberry dispute, El
kins said, Flemming announced
that some broilers from southern
states were contaminated, thus
giving a great boost to Oregon's
broiler industry.
Meanwhile, at Portland, Henry
Cabell, president of the State
Board of Higher Education, said
no appointment yet had been
made, and added that the cran
berry crils in no way affected
Flemming s qualifications for the
university Job.
Earlier, Detering said that it
did.
Purcell, a neighbor. Juvenile au
thorities took charge of the infant.
Rites Held
PORTLAND (AP) - Funeral
services will be held here Satur
day for Cmdr. Walter P. Ramsey,
USN-Ret. After the service, and
cremation, the ashes will be
taken aboard a naval 'vessel and
committed to the sea.
Ramsey died Tuesday at the
age of 59. At the time of his
death, he was president of Power
Plant Engineering Co.
He served in World War II as
a commodore of convoys in the
Atlantic. He also was a professor
of naval science and tactics at
the University of Washington.
He was a great-grandnephew
of President Polk.
Survivors include the widow
and four children.
Get Rockets
PORTLAND (AP) - Col. Walaa
E. Timm, acting chief of staff of;
the Oregon Air National GuardT
said Wednesday that missiles
with atomic warheads have been
assigned to Guard fliers here for
use in the event of enemy attack.
The Genie missiles, air-to-air
rockets, are eight feet long, about
II inches m diameter, and have
a range of about m miles. The
Air Force Blue Book says: "The
Genie can kill at near-miss range
of half a mile or more by the
brute force of its explosion."
Timm said the atomic missiles
will not be carried on training
flights by tho 123rd fighter inter
ceptor squadron. Dummy missiles
will be used. Timm did not dis
close where the missiles ere be
ing stored.
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"Sometime I hear a vote constantly, Doe oven
my wifo It away vlalting her mother!"
250 Invited
SALEM (AP)-About 250 per
sons trom throughout the state
have been invited to Atty. Gen.
Robert Y. Thornton's second an
nual crime prevention conference
here Jan. 19-20.
He said today that members of
the Legislature also will be invited..-
In the three day Christmas
holiday last year, 41 persons died
as a result of fire.
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