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PACE A HERALD AND NEWS, MARKETS and FINANCE Stocks NEW YORK STOCKS By United Press International Allied Chemical 50' i Alum Co Am M American Air Lines 26! American Can 45 Anierican Motors 17V AT&T 122Vi American Tobacco 28 Anaconda Copper 48'i Armco 58V, American Standard 17'd Santa Ke Pfd 28 Bendix Corp 49H Bethlehm Sled 29'i Boeing Air 34 Brunswick Caterpillar Corp ' Chrysler Corp 63'i Coca Cola IW.i C.B.S. 7', Columbia Gas '29H Continental Can . 46'. Crown Zcllerbach 497: Curtiss Wrieht 19" Dow Chemical W.'t Du Pont 243 Eastman Kodak 110 Firestone 33'. Ford 51' General Dynamics 24 General Electric 80 General Foods 82' General Motors 71' General Portland Cement 20; Georgia Pacific 50 Greyhound 41 Gulf OU Homestako 52 Idaho Power 331 I.B.M. 44314 Int Paper 29 Johns Manville 47 Konnecott Copper 72' Lockheed Aircraft 36 Martin 18'4 Merck Montana Power 3VA Montgomery Ward 38'i Nat'l Biscuit 53 New York Central 20 Northern Natural Gas Sl'e Northern Pacific 47 Pac Gas Elcc 3214 Perm RR 18 Pormanente Cement 17 Phillips 52V. Procter Gamble 75 Radio Corp 70 Richfield Oil Safeway 6" Sears SheU Oil . Socony Mobil Oil 70 Southern Co 55 Southern Pacific 35 Sperry Rand M'A Standard Califomia 67 Standard Indiana 64 Standard N.J. 70 Stokcly Van Vamp Sun Mines 11 Texas Co. 73 Texas Gulf Sulfur 15 Texas Pacific Land Trust 231. Thiokol 20 Trans America 53 Trans World Air 19 ( Tri-Continental 46 Union Carbide 108 c Union Pacific 40 United Aircraft ' 44 'is 0 United AHr Lines 39 1 U.S. Rubber 46 0 U.S. Steel -17 United Utilities 38 0 West Bank Corp 42 0 Westinghouse 37 d Youngstown MUTUAL FUNDS Prices until 10 a.m. PDT today r 1 Hid Asked Affiliated Fund 8.14 8.80 0 Atomic Fund 4.60 5.02 Blue Ridge 11.80 12.90 BUllock 13.36 14.65 Chemical Fund 11.44 12.44 Colonial Fund 11.51 12.58 , Cormv. Inv. 9.U1 10.83 Diver Growth 8.71 0.55 Dreyfus 17.311 18.87 1 E 4 II Stock 13.87 14.99 1 Fidelity Capital 8.83 9.60 ( Fidelity Trend 14.64 15.91 Fundamental 9.91 10.86 ! F.I.F. 4.36 4.78 Founders Fund 6.15 6.68 Group Sec Com XD 13.28 15.54 - Or Sec Avia El XD 6.72 7.3T Hamilton H.D.A. 4.93 Hamilton C-7 5.06 5.K liicorp Inv. 7.07 7.7J ICA 10.53 11.51 Investors' (Iroup ;Intercontinental 6.07 6.55 , ;Mutual 11.49 12.42 Slock 18.70 20.22 Selective 10.48 11.21 Keystone S I 22.11 24.13 Kcystono S-3 14.58 16.20 Keystone S-4 4.19 4.58 M.I.T. 14.94 16.33 M.I.T. Growth 8.24 9.01 Nat l Inv 15.32 16.56 Nat'l Sec Div 4.12 4.50 Nai l Sec Growth 7.91 8.64 Nat'l Sec Stock 7.92 8.66 Putnam Fund 15.02 16.42 Putnam Growth 8.73 1)54 Selected Amcr 9.81 10.61 Shareholders 10.94 11.95 Sup Inv Scr 7.39 8.05 United Accum 14.68 16.04 United Canada 17.50 19 02 United Income 12 48 13 64 United Science 6.77 7.40 Value Lines 5 28 5.77 Wellington 14.59 15.90 Whitehall 13.68 14.71) Potatoes PORTLAND (UPD - Potato market: Steady; Calif. Si. A Long White 4.00-4.25, some 4 75: sized 2 oi. spread 5 25-5.50; Bakers 4.50-4.75; Round Reds 250 . 2.75: Wash. Round Reds 2.50-2.75; While Rose Sz. A 3.60-3.90, Bakers 4-4.25; U.S. No 2s 2.75-2.90; US No 2 Bakers 310-3 25, Oregon Sz. A Whit Rose 375-3.85, Bakers 4.25-4.50. Friday. August 9, 1963 Klamath Fall. Ore. LIVESTOCK PORTLAND (UPI) (USD A) -Weekly Livestock: Cattle 1830. Slaughter steers steady to 25c higher; good-mostly choice 25.75; small lots good 22.- 50-24.75; good-choice heifers 24.50; standard-good 17-23; utility -commercial cows 12 50-18; cutler 12 14.50; canner 10-13; utility bulls 20; good-choice feeder steers 22 24. Calves 375. Good-choice vcalers 24-27; small lots choice steers 27-30; medium-good 24-27 Hogs 1050. Barrows and gilts 50c lower, 60ws weak to 50c off 1 and 2 barrows and gills 19-20; t and 2 60Ws 270-420 lb 14-16; few 600 lb at 10. Sheep 3850. Spring slaughter lambs firm to 25c higher than last week's close; choice - prime 18- 18.50, some high yielding 18.60; choice - prime shorn 17.50-17.75; mixed cull, utility, good ewes 4- 4.75: spring feeder lambs 70-80 lb fancy 14-15. Grains Portland Cash Grain Cash Delivery Basis White wheat 1.95 Soft white 1.94 While club 1.97 Hard red winter 2.09 Hard white baart 2.01 Oats No Bid Barley 40.75 Stocks LOCAL SECURITIES Bid Asked Bank of America 64 67 Cal Pac Util 26 28 Con Freight 10 11 Cyprus Mines 24 26 Equitable S&L 32 34 1st Nat'l Bank 67 80 Janlzen 22 24 Morrison Knudscn 30 32 Mult Kennels 4 5 N.W Natural Gas 35 37 Oregon Metallurgical 1 1 PGE 27 28 PP&L 26 27 U.S. Nat'l Bank 79 83 West Coast Tel 22 24 Weyerhaeuser 31 33xd Court Records MUNICIPAL COURT Aug. e, 1M3 Merlin Martinez Jr., drunk. IIS or flvo or 10 days. Merlin Lotchei. drunk. $25 or flvo or 10 devs. jemes Peter Altuvllle, drunk. US or five or 10 deys. George Galloway, drunk. I2S or live or 10 deys. Ygnecle Gemer. drunk, 125 forfeited Orval Lee Cheney, drunk. S2S or five or 10 deys. Simon Reyes Zapata, reckless driving, lin or 4U oavs. Jamei Lee Kellon. drunk, 12S forfeited. Ray William Duncen, drunk. S2S tor felted. ' Flriencle Crur, drunk, $35 forfeited. Lawrence P. Melsler drunk, 925 or five or 10 days. Roy Edward Rttoten, drunk, sis or rive or to days. Clarence J. Oppegard, drunk. 125 oi five or 10 days. Gene carllon Gentry, drunk. 125 for efted. Hawley H. Hood, drunk. Ms forfeited Torger A. Pollestad, drunk, S25 or five r io pays. William F. Hook, drunk, $25 or five r 10 days. Stanley Meay, drunk, S25 or five or ) days. Simeon Riddle Jr., drunk, $25 or five ' 10 deys. Vvnoy Tipton, disorderly conduct, $75 ' 15 days. Lawrence Salinas, drunk, 125 or five ' 10 davs. Pat Williams, drunk, $25 or five or 10 DISTRICT COURT Auq. 7, IMS TRAFFIC CASES Francis Bell Gardner, failure tn vlplri loht ot way, not pullly pica, trial wllh- ut lury set for Auo. 12. Foster Decolor Smith. Improper change f lanes (no signal), $10 fine paid. William Coleman Durham, violate bas c rule, $25 ball forfeited. Charles Claude Collins, no operator's Icenie. is ball forfaited. Lewis Roland Davis, viuinie bstii ule, guilty plea, $15 fine paid. Peler Francis Carr, violate baste rule, lullly plea, $10 fine paid. Darl Fay Mlchaells, violate basic rule, luilty plea, $10 fine paid. Richard Benton Freeie. violate basic ule, guilty plea, $10 tine paid. Jack Leon Lindsay, no solely chain, lullly plea, $10 fine paid. Luther Gary Butler, (ruck speeding 32 m.ph.l, guilty plea, $10 fine paid. Frances Mae Sharp, violate basic ule, trial without lury, found gullly, 115 Una paid. Wlllerd Shellon Bates, no safety chains. guilty plea, $10 tine paid. ivan Micnael fvancovlch Sr., obslrucl d vision, guilty plea. $10 fine paid. Wayne Arthur Marts, disobeyed slop Ign, guilty plea. $10 line paid. Mervln Berfletl Jones, nn nnnralnr't license (expired), guilty ploa, $5 fine paid. Lawrence Ernest Jones, ooarallno sus. pended period, gullly plea, $150 line and v aays in county lent of which 30 days were suspended! or 30 additional days In lieu ol fine. Operator's license suspended one additional year. FELONY CASES Charlie Francis Clubb, burglary not In dwelling. Preliminary hHnn t fnr Aug. t. Dakota Picnic Tlie Dakolans will hold their annual picnic at one o'clock. Aug 18 in the North Bond Citv Park. North Bend, Oregon. The dinner will be politick, bring your own table service. Ice cream and beverages will oe lurnisncd. Youth Home Bernic Sice, a 14-year-old Keno youth who was reported missing Tuesday, returned home Thurs day, city police repotted. The boy had been last seen alter lie picked up his Ma chock from KFPA alter helping fight tlie Tucker's Cabin (ire on llama ker Mountain. Grass Fires City Kir..TKn Thursday after noon extinguished two small grass lires. The first, at 1:04 p.m.. was on South Kinlock Avenue. The sec ond, at 3:55. was in tlie 2:IIK1 block of Oak Avenue on the anal bank. Britain's Train Robbery Haul Exceeds $8 Million LONDON (UPI i - Confirmed bank los.scs in the biggest rob bery of all time soared today to ward $8 million. Insurance companies hit by the loss offered e record reward of more than half a million dollars for capture of tlie mail train rob bers and recovery of the loot. Officials said tlie known loss thus far in Thursday's "great train robbery" now totaled $7.- c.vpecicu to run as uigu as 90 million. Scour Countryside As the reward money piled up in hopes of inducting a "squeal er" to offer information about the gang who staged the smooth ly-efficient ambush of the Olas gow-to - London train, Scotland Yard and post office security men scoured tlie countryside without a single clue. Tlie bandits appeared to have vanished with their huge haul of cash and gems which they took from 120 mail sacks and carted away in trucKs ana a ear in Thursday's pre-dawn darkness. There was a possibility the loot and at least ome of the robbers already were out of the country. Tlie London Evening News quot Tulelake Man Takes Life A 46-year-old TulelaKe man ap parently calmly read a maga zine as lie awaited death while seated in his automobile at the gravel pit, near Harpole Road, yesterday. Oregon State Police have reported. Dead is Clifford Phillips, P.O. Box 682, Tulelake. whose body was discovered at 4 p.m. by L. E. Sliellcy, Rte. 1, Box 34, Bonanza, after the victim had apparently succumbed to monoxide poison ing. At the time of the discov ery, the motor of the automobile was running and a rubber hose was extended from the exhaust to the interior of the car. Next to the body was a magazine which the victim had apparent ly been reading until the time of his death, police said. Two notes were found inside the vehicle. One was addressed to "the officer" and tlie other was for Lloyd Pickett, Warren Hotel, Tulelake. The automobile had been ob served parked at the gravel pit about 12:40 p.m., police stated. Funeral arrangements are being undertaken by O'Hair's Me morial Chapel. Joins Staff Of Winema A shift of forest service per sonnel has brought Hawley L. Woolschlager to join the staff of the Winona National Forest. Woolschlager was previouly em ployed on the Malheur Forest in Burns, Ore. where lie served as limber sale officer on the Burns Ranger District. In his new assignment on the Winema he will serve as a right- of-way specialist and work in the general lands activities. He has relieved Doug Ludwig who was recently reassigned to the Klam ath Ranger District. Woolschlager is a graduate of New York State College of For estry. Syracuse, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954. His forest service expe rience began on the Okanogan National Forest in northern Wash ington in 1953. Ho served in tlie U.S. Armed Forces from 1955 to 1958. In 1960 he was reassigned to Burns and last month came to Klamath Falls. Obituaries BLACK Frank Junior Black, 55. d ed near Soreguo River, Ore., Aug. I. 1043. Sur- vlvors: Brother, William w. Black. Edgerlon, Mo.t sister, Sister Wary Won. Ice. St. Louis. Mo. Funeral services II be announced by Ward's Klamath Funeial Home. PIALA Ann Flale. 57, died Aug. a. Survived by husbend Charles, Klamath Falls; daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Arrlngton Jr. o Stockton, calif. i two sisters, Elisabeth Francois. Nebraska City. Nebr., Mary Kruieberg, Beatrice, Neor.l three grand children. Recltetlon of the Holy Rosary will be Saturday, Aug. 10, at I p.m. In O'Hair's Memorial Chapel. O'Hair's Me morial Chapel will announce funeral rengemenls. Funerals DAVIS Piintrct strvlcfi for LrRoy Dvi will b hvld from tht Chapel tat Ward Klmitr Furnral Horn Monday. Aug. 17, at I pm. Concluding ttrvkts Lost River Cennlery. Glenn D. Ramirez ond Qucn tin D. Steele hereby announce the dissolution of their partner ship for the practice of law. Mr. Ramirez will continue to practice in his offices ot Suite 205, IOOF Bldg 432 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Mr. Steele will practice in Suite 206, IOOF Bldg, 432 Main St., TU 2-0452, Klamath Falls, Oregon. ed an unidentified man as saying he saw an airplane land and take off again in a hurry at a disused airfield near the site of the train robbery and at about the time H took place Thursday. KOO.OOO Reward As police explored this latest mystery phase of the roooery Interior Asks leasing Bids PORTLAND (UPI I - The In terior Department today called for nominations for areas for prospective oil and gas leasing in the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Oregon and Washington This would be the first leasing of offshore lands in tlie Pacific Northwest by the Federal Govern ment. Tlie area currently has no production of oil and gas. Under Secretary of the Interior James K. Carr. chairman of the Department's Offshore Oil Com mittee, said plans call for com petitive sealed bids for leases on specific tracts to be received Oct. 1, 1964. Prospective leasees must now indicate offshore areas on which they are interested in drilling for oil and gas. Nominations must be submitted not later than Nov. 1 Carr said, "It is our view that a successful program for explora tion in the offshore area will make a substantial contribution to employment and to economic ac tivity in the Pacific Northwest. Accordingly, tlie Department's timetable for the sale has been calculated to a f f o r d interested parties sufficient time for thorough seismic work in advance of the sale date." Oil firms have been exploring off the Oregon coast under state permits but no oil has been found Auto Causes Home Damage A 14-year-old Klamath Falls boy who took his mother's car without permission lost control of the car and smashed into a house belonging to Mrs. Hugh O'Con nor, 133 Grant Street, damaging the car and house extensively. The accident occurred Tuesday afternoon. The youth, Dan A. Andress, 303 Washington Street, was cited for violation of basic rule and hav: ing no operator's license. The boy had just let out a couple of his friends shortly before he turned the corner at Grant and North Second streets and jumped a curb. The youth told police he just doesn't - remember what hap pened after he hit the curb. Po lice feel that the inexperienced driver probably froze at the wheel. The vcliicle hit tlie back porch of the house shearing off an 8 by 8 foot support. Andress was not hurt in tlie crash, police in dicated. Girl Injured In Car Mishap A 17-year-old Klamath Falls girl received cuts and bruises when she was thrown out of a car involved in an accident at tlie intersection of Reclamation Avenue and Martin Street Thurs day allernoon. The girl. Madeline Murray, was thrown onto the pavement when tlie car she was a passenger in collided with a vehicle driven by Robert William Johnson. 38, 1006 Alandale. The other vehicle was operated by the girl's mother Rose Marsango, 40, 2136 Eberlcin. Mrs. Marsango and Johnson both complained of pain after the crash. The woman was cited for failing to yield Ihc right of way and her car received moderate damage while the Johnson ve hicle was damaged extensive ly, according to police. City police, observing that the Marsango vehicle was without seat belts, advised the woman to equip her car with these salc ty features. staged by bandits wliose faces were masked by women's stock ings and who were armed w ith crowbars, blackjacks and guns, the insurance brokers offered $560,000 in reward money. Individual banks which had shipments of cash in vary ing amounts en route to tlie Bank of England in London added their own rewards to tlie insur ance brokers' offer. Officials said they felt Die amount of the re ward money almost certainly would tempt some member of the underworld to furnish some leads to tlie robber gang, whose number originally was estimated at from 20 to 30 but which may have been smaller. The gigantic record reward offer was made by the firms of Hart and Co. and Toplis and Harding, insurance assessors. As Scotland Yard stepped up one of history's greatest man hunts, some of the banks affect ed increased their original re ward offers. The Midland Bank, for instance boosted its offer from $70,000 to $140,000, as the nation's banks began to learn just exactly what they had lost in the wild West- style train robbery. The amazing success of the bandit operation near Chedding- ton, 40 miles north of Lon don, was causing some new- thinking on Britain's traditional concept that neither policeman nor robbers usually carry guns. Because of severe penalties for harming a policeman, the under world usually commits crimes without firearms. At least some of the mail train bandits carried firearms, using them to threaten the unarmed train crew and post office person nel aboard. A post office spokes man said there were no armed guards on tlie train, a usual practice since it has been felt that the large force of mail sort ers normally was enough to keep watch. This is contrary to American practice, w here a minimum of at least two armed "clerks" or guards arc aboard every U.S. mail train. Storm Damage Report Given SALEM (UPI) A year and a half's supply of timber for tlie en tire Oregon-Washington forest in dustry was blown down in the windstorm last Oct. 12, W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice presi dent of the Industrial Forestry As sociation, said Thursday. He estimated the blowdown at 17 billion board feet. Loggers salvaged two and half billion board feet, or about 15 million board feet a day, dur ing the first half of 1963, he esti mated. The timber disaster committee which Hagenstein ivcads, is seek ing lo remove most of tlie sal vage by June of next year to re duce tlie threat of tree killing bark beetles which often build up in blowdown and later spread to living trees. Heart Seizure Fatal To Man A 66-ycar-old hitchhiker died of a lieart seizure near Irene's Cafe in Chemuit, about 3: 15 a.m., Thursday, Peace Ambulance has reported. Dead is Luther Paul Wiggins of Gresham whose personal ef fects indicated he had resided more recently in two other Ore gon cities and California. Wig gins had been en route to tlie University of Oregon Medical Scliool at Portland when he was stricken, a reliable source told tlie Herald and News. Tlie body was removed by Peace Ambulance to O'Hair's Me morial Chapel where funeral ar rangements arc pending. LPIEQM 300 Sieefs of Pre-finished Birch Veneer PANELING 97 Good '4"x4'x8' 25 other pre-finished panel types ..... S3.95 up SWAN LAKE MOULDING CO. "Serving the Klamath Basin for 40 Years" 3226 South 6th TU 4-5145 Standard Oil Anti-Trust Case Ruled Mistrial PORTLAND UPI ) An anti trust case against Standard Oil Co. of California was declared a mistrial here Thursday after coun sel for the plaintiff declared in tne presence of the jury that Standard hired a potential witness. Clyde Perkins, 73, Vancouver, Wash., sought more than $ti00,000 from the company in a case brought under tlie Robinson-Pat-man Act. Perkins, a former petroleum Jobber and one time executive vice president of the Portland Beavers of tlie Pacific Coast League, charged that Standard sold gasoline and oil products to competitors of Perkins at lower prices. Federal Judge William G. East granted the mistrial on the 15th day of testimony after attorney Roger Tilbury pursued the subject of hiring a potential witness in the jury's presence. The judge set a new trial for Oct. 21. Judge East later signed an Ol der requiring Tilbury to appear Wednesday and show cause why he should be be assessed the cost of jurors' fees and subsistence in curred by the government during the trial. Perkins, who operated under tlie brand name of Champion stations, alleged that his business from Se attle, to Centralia, Wash, was taken over by another Standard jobber. Perkins and Tilbury said that Standard retained a certified pub lic accountantcy and that such ac tion had the effect of cutting off the plaintiff s attempt to ob tain records needed in tlie pre sentation of the case. Hill Named Emergency Plan Chief SALEM (UPI) - Public Utility Commissioner Joncl C. Hill has been appointed by Gov. Mark Hat field to be tlie state's emergency planning director. The position was formerly held by Civil Defense Director Robert Sandstrom. However. Sandstrom recent ly told the Civil Defense Advisory Council he couldn't continue to hold the position because of added personal duties which resulted when his staff was cut from 18 to three by the legislature. In the emergency planning role. Hill will make plans for keeping the state's economy going and provide adequate food and serv ices to the people in case of nu clear attack. Hill said he plans to contact top business and industrial leaders to help him prepare the program. He also plans to enlist the aid of state and federal officials in Ore gon. Plans will be based on the as sumption tlie state will be cut off from the rest of the nation for 90 days in case of nuclear attack but that there will be no direct hits in Oregon and the state's econo mic facilities will be intact. He said rationing plans will be included. Hill said some of the emergency planning had been done while the function was under civil defense direction but that much additional work was needed. On a national level emergency planning has also been separated from civil defense. IF YOU NEED ADVICE IF YOU'RE SICK FOR INCOME TAX ... If You Need Insurance - SEE US! G0EN-BR00KS Insurance Agency 631 So. 6th Phone TU 4-3262 STAN BILL Klamath Gets $359,247 In 0&C Allocation To State Klamath County will receive $359,247 as its share of timber sales from O&C railroad grant lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, according to a report from tlie Department of the In terior. Tlie amount is part of $15,031.- 270 earmarked this year for tlie 18 Eastern Oregon counties w hich benefit annually from O&C tim ber sales, the department report ed. Klamath County Treasurer Eva Cook said today that the check for tlie countv's share of the reve nues has not been received. Such checks are delivered by special messenger from the Medford of fice of the Department of the Interior to the County Courthouse, Mrs. Cook said. The amount coming to the county this time is nearly $9,000 less than it received last year when $368,063 came here in O&C revenues. Money received from tlie account goes into the general fund. The $15 million released to the Eastern Oregon counties repre sents 50 per cent of the gross revenues of more than $30 mil lion obtained in the timber sales during the last fiscal year. Some two million acres of O&C lands are under the administra tion of the Bureau of Land Man agement, Department of the In terior. The Forest Service, De partment of Agriculture, also ad- Mishap Kills Beatty Man Frank Black, 53, Sprague Riv er, was killed about 5 p.m., yes terday when a truck rolled on top of him as he was attempting to hook up tlie vehicle with a tractor, at the Vince Bodner Ranch, near Sprague River, the Herald and News learned today. Black and Delbert Conney of Klamath Falls had been hauling hay for Bodner at the time of the accident. Reports indicate that Black had been operating the tractor and Conney tlie truck when the two men stopped at the base of a steep hill. They began hooking the two vehicles together with a steel cable when the truck rolled on Black, killing him instantly Deputy Medical Examiner W. P. Kendall went to the acci dent after receiving word of the fatality from Klamath Falls Po lice. The body was taken to Ward's Klamath Funeral Home, where funeral arrangements are pending. Kansas Picnic All former Kansans are invited to attend the annual Kansas picnic to be held at tlie Grants Pass City Park, Section No. 2, on Sun day. Aug. 18, at 5 p.m. Bring a basket dinner and table service. Ice cream and coffee will be furnished. Various awards will be given. Ideal Local-ion DOWNTOWN Business or Office Inquire GUN STORE ... See Your Lawyer See Your Doctor See Your Accountant Especially For The Do-lt-Yourselfer! 395 Sheet mininsters about a lialf million acres of OC lands. The slight decrease in tlie rev enues received this fiscal year compared to fiscal year 1962-63 is primarily due to a decline in the market value of timber. The Department of the Interior gave the following breakdown of funds going to the other 17 coun ties this vear: Jury Finds Huitt Innocent Robert L. Huitt. Agency, has been acquitted of the assault with a dangerous weapon of Howard Wise, a 28-year-old itinerant, who was wounded in the leg with a bullet fired from a .25-35 cal iber rifle after he became a tar- let for the accused following a drinking bout at Huitt's residence Feb. 28. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated four hours and 22 minutes before it returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty to Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg, 10 p.m., last night. The case went to the jury about 3:30 p.m. yesterday, following the closing statements of the de fense attorney and Deputy Dis trict Attorney Bob Thomas, mark ing the end of the trial which started Tuesday. In a surprise move early yes terday, the defense opened and ended its case with the testimony of one witness the defendant, Robert Huitt. The story of the shooting inci dent as told to the jury by Huitt yesterday was at considerable variance with a statement he had made to the district attorney's of fice in March and the version re lated by Wise during the trial. Huitt s first story was that he had observed Wise peering into the house through a window. Be lieving Wise was a prowler, Huitt said in his statement that he fired four shots at the man as he retreated from the house. The last bullet struck him in the leg. During the trial. Wise told the jury that he became a target for Huitt after he angered him by moving too slowly in producing a bottle of liquor from another part of the house. Testimony from both men es tablished that the victim had been a guest in the Huitt house at the time of the shooting. Come to our gala premiere of the great, all-new Balanced V-8 performance and economy Si Enjoy it in sedans Now own a glamorous Classic V-8 sedan at this low price! Enjoy it in waaons! Lu.uirv! Room! Comfort! Top Yours in this Classic V-8 Highest trade-in on your car now at ECCLES MOTORS 606 S. 6th Benlon. $425,384; Clackamas, $856,782; Coos, $883,838; Colum bia, $235,990; Curry. $453,944; Douglas, $3,774,352; Jackson, $2,- 356.903; Josephine, $1,806,758: Lane, $2,319,325; Lincoln, $54,112; Linn. $399,831; Marion, $22,462; Multnomah, $263,047: Polk, $327, 681; Tillamook, $85,678; Wash ington. $97,703, and Yamhill. $108,225. The latest version of the inci dent Huitt told the jury yesterday was that fear for his six-month-old daughter precipitated the shooting that has confined Wise to a Medford hospital since that time. Huitt related that during the night of the shooting he was awakened by a strange noise and looked up to observe Ihe form of a man standing over his daughter. Huitt said he reached for his ri fle and fired twice at the figure who dashed toward one end of the. house. As Wise passed a couch, Huitt fired two more shots, with the last bullet clipping his target on the leg. In his closing statement, Thom as argued that Huitt had con cocted the more recent story when he learned that the stale could prove that Wise had been a guest in his house at the time of the shooting. Man Killed In Accident Arthur Louis Schuck, 57, Yre ka, was killed about 8:45 a.m. Friday when a lumber truck backed over him near Yreka, the California Highway Patrol re ported before noon today. The victim was transferred to the Siskiyou General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was taken to Giidner's Mortuary in Yreka. Operator of the truck was Leon ard Anthony Johnson, 44, also of Yreka. FREE Text Book Covers with school supply purchase JONES' OFFICE SUPPLY 629 Main TU 4-4197 as little as $ 2426 as little as jluc! $ 2827
