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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1963)
Sunday, Sl'arcB if. tti Jury finds J Pair Guilty Of Murders OMAAI by GEORGE T. CALLISON Manager KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMfRCI SAN FRANCISCO 'CPU - A ; With the exception of the Local and State Affairs Committee. City and the Southwest. B u t most important, as Tom Croson. Superior Court jury Friday night found Iva and Ralph Kroeger guil whose members must feel come times that they should be draw WCAL vice president, pointed out. this should be considered not so much a matter of taking Southern ty of first degree murder in the strangulation slayings of an elder ly invalid and his ex-wife. l. ill U ' r " ing legislators' salaries for the tme they spend studying and dis Oregon people to Reno but rather one of bringing Reno and Nevada people to Southern Oregon, where recreational opportunities are so great the year around. The panel of eight women and four men deliberated for five K';-i cussing State Senate and House bills of concern to Klamath toun ty, the chamber's busiest commit PAGE t-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. c 7 t'r-- X- hours and 12 minutes before re turning the verdict in the court room of Judge Harry J. Neu barth. Mrs. Kroeger, 44, a glib grand mother who interrupted the eight- tpc still is the Aviation Commit tee. ; Tne committee director and cjiairman, Jim Bocchi and Les titon. and the 16 committee members, have several projects in tt works, but work Is being con centrated currently on another ! tcmnt to establish a commcrical airline route between Klamath ';ills and Reno. The effort got off to a flying start two weeks ago when some 30 persons met for luncheon at Reames Golf and Country Club and. for about two hours discussed problems connected with the project. Among those present were Wfo representatives of the Ore gon State Board of Aeronautics, a Public Utilities Commission rep resentative, a vice president of West Coast Airlines and aviation committee members from the chambers of commerce In Lake view, Redmond, Medford and Eu gene. Several other communities, unable to send a delegate, did send along their pledge of full support. jf.The two state agencies have promised to spearhead the ef fort, but a great deal of detail Wnrk in assembling data and pre paring exhibits will fall upon the ayiation committee of this and other chambers throughout South ern Oregon. ; Of particular interest to the committees is Information re garding the volume of business traffic between Klamath Falls, other Southern Oregon points and Reno. As an example, one local businessman who attended the Feb. 28 meeting, volunteered the information that his firm does three-quarters of Its business in Reno and Northern Nevada and that this necessitates up to 20 trips a Inonth trips that would be Olado by air, if the service were available.. "A. mail questionnaire to elicit Information such as this Is now being readied by the local avia tion committee. But since it would be impossible to poll more than just a representative samplo ol the community, anyone having in formation of this sort is asked to mail or telephone It to the cham- tor office or to the office of Joe Sawyer, manager of the Munici pal Airport, who is subcommittee chairman of this particular proj ect. Opening an air avenue to Reno 0 only a part of tlio story, ol (Soui'se. This in turn, would provide additional and improved connec tions by air to Denver, Salt Lake How Doors Open 12:45 Tonight two men would fight it out for the beauty who desired them both... but the winner would be picked by the jungle reared teenager who - called both men father! QlScOf COt.OAOf u WILLIAM SW'' liQLDEN ""HOWARD j CAPUCIIUE Error Noted In Divorce Suit Story A notice published in the court records of Thursday's edition of the Herald and News which stated that William S. Metier had filed for divorce against his wife, Gladys, is incorrect, it was learned Kri day. There are no records at the courthouse indicating that either of the Metiers has ever filed such suit, it was further revealed. At the time of the erroneous divorce announcement, the Met iers had filed a civil suit against Dale G. Osborn and Edith M. Osborn. It was the file folder of that lawsuit which was inadvert ently placed with other folders containing divorce actions. The names on those folders subsequent ly appeared In the divorce action column of the IleralJ and News. The lawsuit filed by the Met iers requests payment of $2,250 (including interest) due them on a promissory note they made with the Osborns In exchange for a lot in Altamont Acres April 19, 1060. The Metiers stated In their com plaint that the defendants have failed to make a payment on the note since April 17, 1061. Cars Bashed In Accident Two cars 1'oeeived moderate damage hi an accident Hint oc curred at 6:45 p.m. Thursday near the intersection of South Sixth Street and Shasta Way, city po lice reported. Jack F. Moore, 58, 4255 Freida Street, driver of one of the cars. was cited for failing to yield the right of way to another vehicle. i KfAA... ...... j..i..t..M ...i. jmuuio wnn uiivmg euuill Ull Sixth when lie made a left turn in front of a vehicle driven by Juanita S. (joodo, :i2, Route 3, Box 55, Klamath Falls, who was proceeding north on Sixth, police .said. No one was injured in Hie crash hut both vehicles had to be towed from His scene. Moore claimed ho didn't see any headlights from tho Goode vehicle and Mrs. Goode said she didn't see any directional signals from Mimic. Six Arrested For Gambling PORTLAND (UP1) - Internal revenue agents and city police arrested six persons Friday In connection with alleged operation of a numbers game. ' The charge involved failure to purchase a federal gambling tax stamp. Agents said gambling parapher nalia and some money were con fiscated In the raid on a building on northeast Tillamook street. They said the numhers came In volved selling various numbers with a winning number drawn from a basket. Preliminary hearings for (lie six are scheduled next Wednesday DOORS OPEN 12:45 cw fwn cm miss FKANG5 WEKUSS - KQSI1I TAMBLYH icwo w m Jims LONG RANDEtl PERSY PAIGE t ' ' 5 CITY, " J&4 GERRYMANDERED SCHOOL DISTRICTS This Is a map of the proposed school district boundary changes entailed in the gerrymander plan adopted by the Joint School Boards Association Feb. 28, and reaffirmed at a later date by each of the school boards at special board meetings. The proposed city district would be com prised of the present city elementary district plus the Stewart-Lenox, Weyerhaeuser area and that part of the suburban area now serviced by KU and part of Henley, that is north of South Sixth Street and the Simmons Avenue extension. The part of the suburban are a marked County on the map above, would be brought into the county district for both elementary and high school purposes. The division line, again, is the presont city elementary boundary and South Sixth Street extended to the end of Sim mons Avenue. New Series Predicted In WASHINGTON (WD- Senate disarmament chairman Hubert Hi Humphrey predicted Saturday that Russia, balking at any lost ban agreement to gain time, wil fire another scries of nuclear ex plosions lale this summer or early next fall. The Minnesota Democrat tqlcl United Press International in mi interview: J "Their refusal lo accept a test ban agreement convinces me that they are getting ready, 'for new tests." i At the same time, Humphrey said Congress and the country must be told and understand- that the effectiveness of Ameri ca's nuclear test detection system has been greatly Improved by 'closc-m seismic stnlions on the perimeter of tho Soviet Union. Humphrey s information on tile nuclear test dilemma was broad cued and forlified by his attend nice at closing sessions of the Geneva test ban talks several weeks ago. He said then and still believes that if an agreement Is not reached this spring, the world is In for a slepup in the nuclear arms rare. Phone Fraud Confessed GRANTS PASS (UPP-Rohei'la Jean lloffard. 19, Portland, enter ed a guilty pica in Justice Cowl Friday to a charge resultii.g i.urr. a telephone call. It Is believed lo lx tlie first charge of its kind filed in Oregon. A complaint sicned by Police Chief Philip Averill charged Miss lloffard conspired on rob. 27 with an unnamed woman here to ob tain $1.25 worth of service from Pacific Northwest Bell without paying. Chief Averill said a call was placed person to person from Portland to Grants Pass asking fur Roberta Jean lloffard. He said the local woman replied "Miss lloffard is not in but probably will be back tomorrow ." He said this was a prearranged code which meant "No new orders signed, but may be signed tomorrow." Loaded with Of Soviet Atom Tests Late Summer Or Foil As part of his campaign to streamline congressional consider' ation of the problem, he proposed this week that Congress create a joint committee on national se curity affairs. His disarmament subcommittee starts hearings Monday on nuclear policy, while the Senate preparedness subcom mittee plans ntlier early hearings on the overall disarmament sub ject. The joint atomic committee is now reviewing technical data on nuclear test detection and identification. Humphrey told UPI that the "national" system of seismic sta tions lo check underground Soviet tests has been greatly enhanced Mother Of Six Tells Of Shooting Husband LOS ANCiELKS (UP1-"1 knew he had to be dead." A hushed courtroom heard these somber words Friday, uttered by a young mother of six children. Mrs. Shirley Carlson, 23, charged with fatally shooting her husband, Robert, last Oct. 27 only a few hours after talking him out if a suicide attempt, told the court her husband beat her al most every day of their 10-year marriage and kept her in near slavery. He hit me every (lav. she testified, "but 1 got a real going over once or twice a month." She told the jury of nine women and three men that her husband an insomniac kept her awake for three days prior to the shoot ing. "He kept me awake for SO hours F.vcry time I oVued off he would slap me awake.'" she said. "He finally doted off. "1 felt that 1 hud to shoot him. I had never handled a gun but 1 put bull ts in it. Then I walked up close. I shot three limes. Asked if she was thinking about her six children at the time of the shooting, she replied, "I had lo protect them. 1 knew he had lo be dead " The prosecution charged she shot her husband a f t e r he even tually fell asleep. Mrs. Carlson, whose children THURSDAY STARTS A. SOUTH fctti St. and SIMMONS by others in friendly countries close to Russia. Some of these are only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union rather than the 2.000 miles or more of continental U. S. stations. Actual locations of these over seas stations is classified. So is the way they are maintained and paid. But the Minnesota Democrat, who agrees with President Ken nedy that the detection system is still "not good enough" to justify abandoning insistence on some on site inspection inside Russia, feels the case for a lest ban agreement "suffers" from lack of public in formation. have been in court through much of the trial, said that on one oc casion her husband asked why she wasn't smiling. "1 told him I had a cold and bad headache, and he said 'That's not a good excuse lor not smil ing.' and then he started in on me. He threw me across the floor up against the refrigerator." she testilicd. On another occasion he fired a shot at me for not finding a tel ephone number fast enough to suit him." One defense witness was the slain man's brother, llichard Carl son. Columbia, S. C, who testified he saw Mrs. Carlson beaten re peatedly by her husband. "I'd say that almost every time 1 was over at their house he was either beating her or the kids." Carlson's brother said. He said he once suggested the defendant have his brother com- milled to an institution, and she had replied: 1 Klamath PalTk, OrN Publith tfciiy ictpt Sal.) 4 tuntfai larvtn Southern Crttfi and hrtnrn California by Klamath Pusli.hln Ctmpany Midi at Iiplant Phant TUitdo 4-1111 W. . Swtftiand, Puetttrtar nttrd as acont-elti matter at fa pott a'f tea at Klamath Fan, Owut, n Avfuit la. 10. vntfer act t Cfw frail March 1 lift Snlei ott at at Klamath Faiu. Orta anal at aMiiial mtiii.if of'tcat. Carrier 1 Meoth MAAthl 1 Year Mall in Atfvenu I Metri Mentha . . 1 Year Carner anal Daaiert . t 1 S VM US M 111 M Weekday 4 Sundry, ceey lie UNITI& tSS INTI ft NATIONAL AUOIT tUMIAU 0 CIRCULATION Sutrlr iwt rtteivtnt tfelivtry 1 their Here ana) mew, plea pcm TUittf Mill feetar 9 P AL week trial dozens of times with shrill courtroom outbursts, had pleaded innocent by reason of in sanity as well as innocent. A san ity trial for her will follow under Californua law. Kroeger, 61, a slow-talking hod carrier and former ranch hand from Colorado, had entered a straight plea of innocent. Basement Graves The state claimed that the Kroegers strangled invalid Jay Arneson and his former wife Mil dred and buried their bodies in the basement of the Kroegers' San Francisco home. The motive, the prosecution ar gued, was the possession of the Santa Rosa motel owned by the Arnesons. Mrs. Kroeger, whose demeanor ranked from hysterical to placid during the trial, stared impas sively at the jury foreman Aldo Cima as he read the verdict. But Kroeger strained forward in his chair as if he hadn't heard Hie decision correctly. Mrs. Kroeger told newsmen. At least 1 can sleep tonight. That's more than I can say for some." 'Never More Wrong She added, "All 1 can say is that someone must have paid off . ,l m going to ask for a new trial." Her husband, asked if he ex pected the verdict, replied grim ly, "Nope." As an afterthought he added, "They never was more wrong." The Arnesons disappeared from their motel in December. 1961 and January 1962, but their bodies were not discovered until August following a tip by a truck driver who had been acquainted with Mrs. Arucson. The truck driver. Walter Hugh es, told police that he drove Arne son and Mrs. Kroeger to the Kroe ger home in January. Police then descended on the modest home ind unearthed the bodies in two days of digging. 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Floyd Has- sell ran to the scene shortly alter 2 p.m. EST Friday. With horror he became aware of screaming students trapped on the second floor. Lying on the ground was his son David, a senior. The youth, witnesses said, had left the build ing when the fire alarm sounded, then raced back inside to rescue others, until choking smoke forced him to leap from a second story window. The plunge shattered his knee caps, but Ins concern still was or the others. Terror lilts School David was not the only young ster to jump nor the only one to show heroism when a mys terious blast of flame trans formed a pleasant Friday after noon into terror within minutes for 900 Bellmore teen-agers. Forty-three students and one teacher were hospitalized in the fire and 100 others treated at the scene by doctors summoned OPEN TILL 10:00 P.M. 7 Day a Weak J. W. KI.RN'5 Norge Laundry & Cleaners 131 tto lilli it -MIDI Tub $14995 - MARK I VERN "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" HjJ ". in a county-wide emergency call. 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