Spinster, Young Mother
Held For Embezzlement
FAIRMONT. ,W. Va. (AP)-A at $10,000 each and ordered the
gray-haired spinster and a young I women held in Marion County jail
mother of two children have been pending today's hearing,
arrested on federal charges stem- Bank officials and State Bank
ming from a 1224.224.70 shortageling Commissioner Carl B. Early
t a bank where they both did not elaborate on the shortage,
.worked. ; Early said he had heard Monday
Held for arraignment today on lllal "a" as t well" at the
embezzlement charges were Miss Dank and two examiners investi
tucy Fortney, 62, and Jo Ann 8aled alon8 with agents of the
Stevens, 25, both employes of the tB' " the DIC.
Bank of Shinnston (W. Va.) near
here. They will appear before
U.S. Commissioner L. T. Eddy.
The shortages in the bank's ac
counts were revealed Thursday,
but there was no explanation as
to how they were discovered or
how long a period of time was in
volved. However, deposits" were
insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation. Wayne C.
Hawker, president of the bank,
said depositors would face no
losses.
Accused
Slayer
Captured
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. AP
Howard Lowerv, 23, an accused
clnvAi- u-.ic iantiirpri parlv tnrtav
Authorities said Miss Fortney ,:.', ,;,-,. .wrai hours
was employed by the bank for 28,.,,.. th, voulh wno freed him
years, many of them as assistant
cashier. Both she and Mrs. Stev
ens, wife of a coal company em
ploye, have lived all their lives
at Shinnston, a town of about
2,300 residents.
Mrs. Stevens was employed for
eight years as a bookkeeper.
from jail at gunpoint was recap
tured.
Two highway patrol lieutenants
R. E. Frusher and Sid Berry-
caught Lovery in southwest Ok
homa City.
Captured earlier in the same
area was Mike Marks. 18, El
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Friday, January J7, IMJ
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President Orders Polls
On Prestige Released
WASHINGTON (AP'-Two gov-lfccl-that the reports should be
emmcnt polls which said U.S.kept secret. They contend that
prestige declined last year in t lie studies arc the internal work
some parts of the world were ing tools for the agency, needed
made public today on orders from to help draw an accurate picture
IT'S A
President Kennedy
The studies released bv the U.S.
Information Agency had figured
in the l0 election campaign, many of the studies would be
Much of the two foreign opinion seriously breached, and opinions
samplings had been published by (would be less candidly expressed,
several newspapers before the if the results were opened to oub-
November election. lie scrutiny.
Secrecy labels were left on A third report which figured in
similar studies conducted in the l,le campaign and was "leaked
Both women appeared before neno as he fled on foot from the
Eddy Thursday not long after pajr s sloien getaway car.
blonde Mrs. Stevens was releasedj Lowery is charged with mur
from a hospital after undergoing der in the hitchhike slaying last
two days of treatment for an over
dose of sedatives. Eddy set bond
summer near Yukon, Okla., ot
Dan W. Sims. 28, of Worthington,
Pa.
The patrol said Lowery still had
a gun and also money taken from
a filling station holdup earlier.
Marks was jailed in Oklahoma
City while Lowery was returned
to the Yukon jail.
Marks and Lowery had eluded
highway patrol roadblocks for
some six hours before they were
ALBUQUERQUE, KM. (AP) spotted near Will Rogers Airport
A teen-age girl was found beaten at the southeast edge of Oklahoma
Boy Admits
Murder Of
Teen-ager
THESE SIX Klamath Union High School students are representatives of the group
that will donate their time Saturday, Jan. 28, to man the public address system
downtown during the hours that the Exchange Club will have the annual "Block of
Dimes" in the J. C. Penney Store block. All money will go to the New March of
Dimes fund campaign, Students assisting are members of Script and Microphone
class. Seated, left- to right, are Doris Piercy, Brenda Harger, John, Rice. Standing,
same order, Jim Ferry, Carol Davis and Joanne Musselman.
Block Of Dimes Benefit Saturday
ment.
The US1A acted alter Kennedy
told a questioner at his Wcdnes-
rljiv ninht IMiuti r-mirni-nn.-n.
June 10. .'.i Hn ii,ik .!,! ... "u k.
states that after the collapse oflhelofu lo leas. Ihp llnlu . - h
Soviets May Put Two Men
Into Orbit In One Shot
The annua) Exchange Club
"Block of Dimes" for benefit of
the 1I New March of Dimes
fund campaign is planned for Sat'
urday, Jan. 28. The club is spon
soring the effort for the ninth year.
Tape will be stretched in the
By ALTON BLAKKSLF.E lof a big booster rocket and largcJ.C. Penney Store block all day
Associated Press Science Writer capsule, he said. And "solving the and the public is asked to contri-
problems of re-entry and life sup-ibute to the worthy campaign
port is no harder for two men against arthritis and birth defects.
Script and Microphone students
of Klamath Union High School
will handle the public address sys
of how others sec the United
States.
They sal that the value of
past.
One of the studies, dated Oct
10, 1960. says that people in most
to the press was dated Aug. 29,
liifiO. under the heading "free
World Views of the U.S.-U.S.S.R.
parts of the free world believe."" Diuamc lne re"
that th Knuioi iini ic iA f striition remains on that docu-
America in space achievements
and will lead in space 10 years
from now.
The other, dated
WASHINGTON (APi-The So
viet Union's next SDace spectacu
lar could be to put two men into! than for one.
Many space and rocket experts
think the race to put a man in
to death in a ravine near her
home and police said a school
mate admitted hitting her on the
head with a rock.
City shortly after midnight. The
getaway car crashed into a tele
phone poie and the two men
ijui.iijcti uui aim ucu uii iuui...m , , .t.n. i.
The battered and tumbleweed Marks was caught on an airpori ,,.l;,
orbit, both in the same big cap
sule. She would not only seize the
prize of being first in human
space flight two men would had much more powerful booster
trump even more the U.S. pro- rockets.
Sputnik II launched back
the Paris summit conference last
May public opinion toward the
United States declined in Britain
and France. Rut both America
and President Eisenhower contin
ued to stand far ahead in esteem
compared with Ihe Soviet Union
and Premier Khrushchev, who
also lost in public favor.
The documents were referred to
frequently in the I960 campaign i
argument over U.S. prestige
abroad. 1
Kennedy said American prestige
had plunged under Eisenhower's
rule. Vice President Richard M.
Nixon said U.S. prestige had hit
a new high.
Kennedy demanded that Ihe
USIA documents be made public,
but the Eisenhower administration
refused.
Officials connected with the
studies felt then and many still
were discus.sed last fall." Kenne
dy also said he had no objection
at all to releasing the polls, or the
results of the polls.
A USIA spokesman said the
Aug. 29 document, still withheld,
is not a poll but rather a broader-
ranging study which includes
analysis.
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Soviets. The Soviets long have; will be on hand to accept con-
triDutions.
Ken Bricco is club president.
Paul Buck is Block of Dimes
covered body of Janice McKerrow,
14, was found Thursday night by
her 8-year-old brother who pointed
it out to his uncle and a police
olficer.
An autopsy showed the girl had
not been sexually assaulted.
Police Chief Paul Shaver said
the youth, also 14, was being
runway. He offered no resistance
Dale Hise, 20-year old Oklaho
ma City service station attendant,
was in the wrecked car. He said
November, 1957, and carrying the
chairman.
dog Laika is interpreted as a
clear signal the Soviets had al-
Four Soviet range ships patroll
ing the Pacific ocean for the last
week in the target area used for!,.ea()v beeun then to DreDare for
CAtrta nf Ilia Caiti'M micella fi.'innc ..- - ... . . ..
Martc r.A i -.r oMnMaJ him.""""' " """" -b , piuung man into space, monuis
" nn raip Aincpmv ,R nn imp vpi'pp
. n
of trying another space shoot.
There is much speculation this
might be a spacecraft carrying a
after robbing him of S40 at the
service station in northwest Okla
homa City where he works.
Hise said Lowery, armed with
before the United States had even
launched her first small satellite.
The U.S. timetable doesn't fore-:
see sending a man on a few trips
driver, to Ihe police station when'a gun. threatened him repeatedly.!"""; ther ,ha" a collec"on of-round the earth until much
he said: "I did it." Shaver said
the youth later told officers thai
he hit the girl on the head with
rock.
Ollicers in El Reno, Okla., said
earlier Lowery had voiced threats
against the lives of his wife, Hclga
Lowery of Bethany," and an Ok-
Shaver said the boy was arrest 'lahoma . Crime Bureau - agent.
ed at his home after his parents
called officers to report their son
apparently had been in a fight.
The chief would not release the
name of the youth.
Golden ' Kennedy ' of i Oklahoma
City.
Marks was released from the
Canadian County jail at El Reno,
Thursday alter serving a sentence
animals.
The possibility the Soviets might
send up two men at once is rea
sonable speculation, a U.S. space
official said informally. .
The Soviets have Ihe capability
No charces were filed against for carrying a concealed weapon.
the boy and he was held overnight
In the Juvenile Detention Home.
The slender blonde girl, an ac
complished musician and straight
"A" student, was last seen by a
close friend, Nancy Weaver- She
said she saw Janice walking away
from school carrying her violin
and school books.
Shaver said the violin and books
were found near the body and
showed there were signs of a
struggle. Police -said they found
pieces of a cinder block, covered
with what appeared to be blood, and was back in jail a short time
rcxt to the body. Hater.
He returned Thursday night and
asked to be allowed to sleep in
the jail.
Rowe said as he was searching
Marks, he pulled a gun and de
manded the keys. After releasing
Lowery. Rowe said, the two
forced jail inmate G. R. Deason.
a Texan serving a term for
burglary, lo go with them.
Deason later was pushed out of
the fugitives' car south of El
Reno, about 30 miles west of
Oklahoma City, called officers
U.S. May Push Chinese
For American's Release
WASHINGTON (AP) With the United States would do in return
release of two American airmen' Asked if the Chinese Commu
bv the Soviet Union now accom- nists would join in fresh attempts
plished. the United States is plan- to solve outstanding problem;
ring to press Communist China Menshikov said "this
again for the release 01 iiveipenas on ootn sines.
Americans still held in Chinese But the cool reception given to
President Kennedy in the Chinese
Communist Press Is far from en-
Crime Rate
In Britain
Is Alarming
LONDON (AP) Concern is
mounting in Britain over the ris
ing murder toll, now averaging
nearly one a day and twice what timetable. The Soviets may
later this year.
First must come the successful
lofting of an animal, and then
later an astronaut. On his initial
flight, the first spaceman will be
rocketed just a few hundred miles
down the Atlantic Range, with
recovery of the capsule at sea.
The Soviets launched three
"spaceships" in I960. The first
had a capsule containing a dum
my astronaut. The second one,
carrying a "zoo" of animals, was
returned safely to earth in August.
But a third launched in December
went haywire- when signaled to
return to earth. Its animal occu
pants perished when it burned.
This mis-step could delay the
MEN ARE DELICATE
CHICAGO (BPD - A former
'president of the American Heart
Association has said women re
cover more successfully from
heart attacks than men, who
maintain their youthlul appe
tites" without corresponding phy
sical capacity.
Dr. Louis M. Kalz, addressing
a funds drive dinner for the Chi
cago Heart Association,: said that
men, compared with women, are
"delicate prima donnas who don't
know how to live."
want another successful return of
animals before undertaking a
manned space journey.
it was a year ago.
Conservative legislator Cyril Os
borne told Parliament Thursday
night there had been SO murders
since Dec. 1.
"There is mounting feeling in
the country that the death penally
hould apply to all people of
sound mind who commit these
awful murders," he declared.
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: U.S. officials said today the new
effort on behalf of the prisoners
tiill hp made at Warsaw Feb. 2
couraging.
The President noted this at his
sued Hanging tor all but a
types of murder.
Murder has reached such a
peak that Scotland Yard has run
out of murder squad investigators
they are all assigned to cases.
Public, police and legislators
are particularly worried by the
number of recent sex crimes and
the terrifying specter of a new
also . de-'outbrcak of child killing.
Sir Thotras Mooie. another Con
servative member of Parliament,
says he has mere than 100 Con
servatives backing him in seeking I
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when the Chinese Communist and news conference this week when
American ambassadors are sched
uled to hold their 103rd meeting.
-State Deoartment officials -on-
he spoke ot the somewhat belli
gcrcnt attitude of the Chinese
Communist regime toward
ital crime. Sir Thomas claims sex
skier the continued holding of the new administration.
ual crimes have "increased ap
pallingly" since the prostitutes
were driven off the streets under
his new legislation last year.
Home Secretary Richard Butler
Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador
Jacob Beam will be instructed to
again seek the liberation of Ihe
imprisoned Americans when he
next meets Chinese Communist!
at
five Americans a primary mock
to any improvement in relations
with Communist China.
CThe subject came up Thursday
nieht at an Indian Embassy re
ception when reporters talked Ambassador Wang Ping-nan
hrieflv with Soviet- Ambassador. Warsaw, officials said
Mikhail Menshikov.
'Menshikov had a chat with W.
Avcrell Harriman. Kennedy's spc-IConn.; Richard George Feclcau,
rial roving ambassador, and then Lynn, Mass.; Robert Ezra Mc
trild newsmen it depends on bothann, Pasadena. Calif.: Hugh
kides to make progress in settlingl Francis Redmond Jr., Vonkers,
disputes. IN.Y.. and Bishop James Edward
: ie cited the Soviet release of Walsh of the Roman Catholic
hc fliers and asked what the Maryknoll order.
has ordered an analysis of everv
murder since Ihe new homicide
act was passed lo see if there are
anv new trends.
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