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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1963)
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. Oregon Monday, September 16, 19G3 PAGE SA : ' 'infill ife Jury Returns Guilty Verdict GRANTS PASS (UPD-A Circuit Court jury here late Saturday night found Gerald Richard Oden. 25, Wolf Creek, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Oden and Norman Stewart Thomas, 22, Grants Pass, were indicted on charges of first degree murder in connection with the fatal beating of Lloyd Miles Harp er, 48. Grants Pass, near Grants Pass July 12. The jury in the wcek-lona trial deliberated about five hours be fore returning its verdict. Circuit Judge Orval Millard scheduled sentencing f o r next .Monday. Thomas' trial will begin Tues day. Woman Survives Week On Boat After Husband's Death JACKSONVILLE. Fla. UPI "I had no food or water for a week, but I don't remember be ing hungry or thirsty." Mrs. Lorna Slade was relating her experience aboard a slowly sinking cabin cruiser which drift ed nine days in the A 1 1 a n t i c Ocean while she tried to signal for help. Her husband, retired Canadian Naval Commander Stu art L. Slade, died after six days. the spunky Mrs. Slade was picked up Saturday by the tank er S. S. Perryville and brought here Sunday night. Smoking a cigarette nervously, the tiny, grey-haired native of Lincoln, Neb., told of the ordeal which began as an island-hopping jaunt through the Bahamas and w hich took on a tragic note when the engine ailed and her hus band, suffering a leg infection, be came delirious and died. The cabin cruiser, The Crystal, sank with her husband's body as an 82-foot Coast Guard cruiser prepared to tow it back here. Sunburned And Emaciated Mrs. Slade, wearing black slacks and a colored blouse, ap peared sunburned from spending most of (he time on deck paint ing "SOS" signs and lighting makeshift flares. She was emaci ated from a week without food or water. She said she and her husband. after spending time in California after his retirement from the Navy, decided to come to Florida to buy a deep sea fishing boat. They bought one and decided to take the trip to the Bahamas. Mrs. Slade. who was rescued about 120 miles north of here. said she spotted four fishing boats during the ordeal, but they apparently thought "we lishing. She said she and her husband left Miami aboard the 30-foot cab in cruiser Sept. 5, and only sev eral hours later the engine conked out and they began to drift up the Gulfstream. Husband Grows Worse And then her husband, already SOUVENIR SEEKER TOYKO (UPD F.verywhere Farther Tony Glyn goes he looks for Samurai swords and diaries taken by Allied servicemen as war souvenirs. "These two things have great sentimental value to Japanese war widows," said the Catholic missionary from Nara, Japan. So far, the priest has returned 57 Samurai swords and a good num ber of war diaries to Japanese households. were , "not feeling cood." began to cet worse. As tlie hot hours passed and the food and water supply dwin dled and then disappeared, he be came ill, then "delirious." "He was irrational," she said. "Ho kept asking for water. We ran out of food and water after about three days, .'.we drank all the water and then the water from the life jackets. Then he was gone." A storm came up after several days, she said, opening a seam in the boat. The Crystal began to sink slowly. "First I bailed every five hours, then every three hours, and then every hour," she said. "1 had a big U.S. flag which I flew upside down. . .1 had some white faint and painted 'HELP' on top of the cabin in case a plane should see us. I used sheets and towels as flares. . .tied them to brooms and cbairlegs and soaked them in gasoline as flares when a ship came by," she said. The master of the Perryville, Capt. R. A. Ryder, from Balti- moie, .'.Id., declined to discuss the actual rescue. KODACOLOR FILM nd Rlavk and Whit film ONE DAY Nf RVK L UNDERWOOD'S CAMERA SHOP 719 Main BEAUTY WINNER Sharon Hoptowit, 16, of the Walla Walla and Yakima Indian tribes is the winner of the American Indian Beauty Contest at the Pendleton Round Up. Her home is in Cayuse, Ore. UPI Telephoto ALL-AROUND CHAMP Mac Griffith of Pendleton, the all-around cowboy champion at the 1963 Pendleton Round-Up, is shown holding the top award of the rodeo. . 4 ,; UPI Telephoto Local Cowboy Captures Top Honors At Round-up PENDLETON IUPI) - Mac Griffith of Pendleton jolted his w ay to the all-around cowboy title at the Pendleton Round-Up Satur day. Griffith, a stock rancher and farmer, took the award on the strength of a first place finish in the bulldogging event and a second in Brahma bull riding. His combined total for three go rounds in bulldogging was 29.4 seconds. He earned $1,838 topping anoth er Pendleton cowboy, Les Kamm, who collected $1,774. Sharon Named Beauty Winner 1 PENDLETON (UPI) Sharon Hoptowit, 16-year-old granddaugh ter of the last chief of the Walla Walla tribe, Saturday was named winner of the American Beauty Contest for Indian girls. The contest was a feature of the Pendleton Round-up. Sharon lives on the Umatilla In dian Reservation at Cayuse. Her grandfather, Jim Kaninc. was the last recognized chief of the Walla Wallas. In other events, Dale Smith, Chandler, Ariz., took first in the calf roping with a combined three- animal total of 49.1 seconds. Sec ond place was taken by Harry Charters, Mclba, Idaho, with all time of 49.4. Behind Griffith in the bulldog-! ging competition was John W. Jones, San Luis Obispo, Calif., with a total time of 30.2 seconds for three go-rounds. A Caldwell. Idaho, cowboy, Lar ry Davis, collected 347 points for three go-rounds on Brahma bulls. 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