Sunday, Sl'arcB if. tti
Jury finds J
Pair Guilty
Of Murders
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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.
Kroeger, who was home when
the bodies were discovered, de
nied any knowledge of the crime.
"f didn't know we had permanent
guests," he was quoted as saying.
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Heroic Children Save Classmates
As Flames Race Through Building
BELLMORE, N.Y. (UPII -'Don't
worry about me, dad.
Help the other kids."
Smoke billowed from the roof
and windows of the Bellmore
High School on Long Island as
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sell ran to the scene shortly
alter 2 p.m. EST Friday. With
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screaming students trapped on the
second floor.
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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.
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