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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1963)
One Kidnap Suspect Son Of Wealthy Man FL1NTRIDGE. Calif. UP1 Barry Worlhingtnn Keenan, 13. one of tliree men suspected of kidnaping Frank Sinatra Jr. for $340,000 ransom, was the ton of a wealthy stockbroker, it was learned Saturday. '. The father and stepmother of Keenan, wl live in a home valued at an estimated $100,000 in this exclusive Los Angeles suburb, painted a picture of a boy from the right side of tlie tracks who eupposedly fell in twith someone from the wrong '.side. ; "I can't believe it. there must ;be some mistake," said the stepmother, .Mrs. John J. Keen an, when informed of the ar rest of young Keenan by news jnen who began telephoning the "Keenan home before dawn. T The elder Keenan w as equally shocked: "I think an older man conned him into this .saying it was a business deal o r something. Maybe he said Met me use your ;car.' " The suspect's father added ;that he was searching for a rea son, any reason. Can't Believe It -"I can't believe it," the large handsome stockbroker mutter ed. "Barry's never done any thing in his life that would give 'me any idea tliat he'd do any thing ike tills except he stole . a kog of beer at a party once. .Bint that was kid stuff." . Police records showed young Keenan was arrested in October . 1959, on a burglary charge, but Iduc to insufficient evidence was Itttrned over to Beverly Hills ;police for petty tlieft charge. ;The proceedings against Keenan ;were suspended Dec. 16, H959, ;when he paid $25.16 costs, the ;FBI reported. ; -Equally etunned were young ;Keeoan's three half-s i s t e r s . None of the family could vgivc -new&men any reason why he I might have been Involved in the Ikidnap. '. ; : "He and his wife had Just Parents Express Surprise iWhen Son Nabbed By FBI ; PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. (UP1 The parents of one of ;the tlireo suspects arrested in the Sinatra kidnap case, Joseph Clyde Amslcr, Saturday expres sed aurpriso. at his apprehen sion by KBI agents. ; : Amsler, 23, rlaya del Key, .Calif., was arrested shortly af ter midnight In a Culver City, Calif., apartment in which FBI agents said tliey recovered the ulk of the $240,000 ransom Honey-4168,927. ; At the time of his arraign ment, Amsler told U. S. Com inissioner Theodore Hocke his parents "can't afford It and I .'don't think tliey would be In 'terested. I don't blamo them." : All three suspects were jailed in lieu of $50,000 bond apiece. ; The suspect's father, Clyde R. ;.msler, declined comment on ;hrs son's arrest, adding "1 don't ;know any of the facts of the case." Mrs. Amslcr. tlie suspect's 'stepmotlier, said lie "has been hiilllldH THE MOST EXCITING hfiro-Gtildyn-Maytr presents Samuel Bronsion's Prodw Hun jffittf HUNTIR SOBHAN McKCNHA KURD HATFIELD - ROM IMl-MllllDfORS Ml GUI CARMEN SIVIIU BRIGID BWIEN HARRY GUARD I KO RIP TORN fUM TURING GUY RCiFE UAURICE tltKAC GREGOIRE ASIAN ROBERT RYAN taMPHIUP YORDAN M,IICH0US MT SAilUF.1 8R0NST0N MICKEY -it 1 33325 broken up," said Mis. Keenan. "And he was very unhappy over that. Tlicy were married just a year. He was always to full of life, nover moody." Keenan's father, in his mid 50s, recalled that "anyone he i Barryl brought to the house were always fine youngsters." Nancy's Classmate He also recalled that his son and Nancy .Sinatra Sands, sis ter of tlie kidnap victim, were in (lie same graduating class at University High School in West Los Angeles. "He worked hard," the father said of his 6on. a vacuum clean er salesman. "He always work ed hard. He was a sVell kid, a wonderful boy. He had taken a lot of raps, taken them in stride like when his mother and I broke up." . "He called last night," Mrs. Keenan said. "He was coming up to spend the weekend w ith ins. We were going to set up tlie Christmas tree." I The family vowed to stand by young Keenan and said they had hired attorney Ilex Ellis of Los Angeles to represent him. Ellis confirmed that he had been retained. Ransom Money Out As Bail LOS ANGELES UPH U.S. Commissioner Theodore Hocke said during tlie arraignment of two suspects in the iF'rank Sinatra Jr. kidnaping that neith er would be able to use any of tlie $240,000 ransom money for their bail. ' He informed Barry Keenan and Joseph Amslcr that KB I agents had confiscated all of the money found in their pos session and were in the process of counting it. Both young men expressed doubt they would be able to raise their designated bail of $50,000 each. on his own tin last few years and would call us when he was In town." She said. Iirr son worked on an abalone fishing boat . last summer off Santa Catalina Is land. She said she and her hus band had not seen or heard from Joseph for some time un til his arrest was broadcast on radio. A former professional boxer. Amsler has a police record of several arrests dating back to 1960, including one (or trespass ing and another for violating tlie Alcohol Beverage Control act. GETS PAY HIKK ' KUALA LUMPUR, .Malaysia UP1 (Parliament voted Sat urday to increase the pay of "paramount ruler" 'Putra Ibni Al-Marlnun Syed Hassan Jama lullail from $l.000 to $7i;.(Ni0 a year. "TODAY! HUMAN DRAMA THE SCREEN HAS EVER TOLD I VS TODAY! V1 it East Side . . . West Side AH Around the Town By JOE CARAHER Sign in front of Molatorc's inn and eatery: "Avoid the Christmas Rush Ear Spaghetti Now!" Civic luncheon speaker Al Ctisi. VP at Oregon Tech, told the story about the fella who got slightly inebriated at a stag party. As he staggered up the steps to the front door of his house, he lost his balance, fell backwards and right onto a near-empty pint Tie was carrying in his hip pocket. Inside, his wife called from the bedroom and asked him if he was drunk. "No!" he said, and then hurried to the medicine cabinet to repair the damage he'd done to his posterior. In the morning his wife said, "I knew you were drunk last night." He said, "How come?" And she replied, "When I saw that tape all over the bathroom mirror!" . District Ranger Homer Faulkner of the Winoma National forest tells us that next Friday will be open house at Chiloquin Ranger District's new headquar ters, a real lash-up across from the Chiloquin airport. You can visit the complex between the hours of 10 in the morning until 5 p.m. or between 7 p.m. and 9. And you don't even have to drive up there. Transpor tation will be provided by merely calling the Super visor's office, TU 2-2548. Cheers for KU! The textbook used in American History, titled, "Rise of the American Nation," by Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti, contains Patrick Henry's great speech and devotes nearly a page to John Paul Jones. While it doesn't say anything about Nathan Hale, the book's batting average is .666, on these three issues we discussed last week in an editorial. Many history textbooks used in schools throughout the na tion fail to mention some of these red-blooded Ameri can events which made The U.S.A. as good as she is today. Les Shaw, editor of the Lake County Examiner over at neighboring Lakeview, dropped us a note the other day and reminded us that he had been "spouting off" on the same subject. Winding up his editorial on the matter, Shaw wrote in his bugle: "You and I have let this happen. (Omission of stories about the heroes of American history). We keep the children too busy with birthday parties, clubs, and TV that we must cut out some thing and that is homework. That Is one reason their history lessons have had all the rounding .flesh cut away, leaving only the skeleton . . . none of the glory, none of the heroic that have made young people patriotic." We can't squawk about KU Principal Cleo Claven not pushing a best seller in history books. Authors Todd and Curti give our topnotchers a good go in the text used by kids here. ' ' CIIITTER-CIIATTER Had a nice letter from Malcolm Epley, Jr., who is an advertising executive in Portland and who proves you can take a boy out of Klamath but you can't take Klamath out of the boy. He wrote "I take a great deal of pride in my Klamath past and out of habit can't resist extending warm hands to the county's new citizens." This is a lot better "habit" than the one referred to by Al Geiss in Paragraph 2 above . . . Sports Editor Royal Brougham (Seattle P-I) recently commented on the thrilling field goal Klam ath's Hal Shldler kicked for Washington against Oregon in the dying seconds of a Thanksgiving game 'way back when at the L'W Stadium, a hoot that hit every part of the goal post before it fell in and the rcf gave the signal Hal had connected. It was worth seeing, which we did, entering stadium as a little kid through hole in barrier . . . Another A-l goodwill ambassador for KF: Bud Cloake, the cheerful petrol dispenser of upper Main Street . . . Speaking of signs, H & N scribe Dan Walters tells about the Presbyterian minister at Eureka who had this copy on the board in front of his church, "We're working to beat hell! Are you?" Visit ing Rota'rians usually Introduce themselves at a meet ing by giving their name and occupation like "Joe Doaks, insurance."' We know of one, a minister, who gives his name and then adds, "fire fighting." Airman Admits Vandalism airman at Reese Air Force Rase Friday vontcssrd tli.it he cut landing fear cables on fix T.18 jet trainers, knocking the planes (ml of operation. It was the second such Inci Previously. Ill T18 jets were crippled in a similar manner at Williams Air Force Base. Chandler, Aril. The Air Force withheld the name of the airman at Reese until an investigation is com pleled. lie was held. CWO Henry Travinsky. secur lly officer at Reese, said guards making routine checks of the planes found the severed and mangled rabies. The cables Kttmim prt. Strvlnt fvtftrn ertii end Ntrthf CtllttM-nli kv Klamalh Pfcltthlt Campaftr Man at BpHfd riwit TUxtM 41111 Intartd as mane-ciata mattar at na rent oftct i mimitN Ht. O'te m Awivtt It. 14. vnetr art t Ct rtt, March 3. U?. ScwvUi r at M at Klamalh Pant. OtifM at additianal ma Hint erficati Carrtar I Ma Hi , t t.fl I MtMht tlt.M 1 Yaac UI.M Mall In AtfvaMt 1 Maum Manthi t Yar Carrttr ant Daalara viMMar. Cr 1 ri HI aa IU.M ... t DNITIO PRISS INTIffNATIONtL AUDIT URflA.U OP CIRCULATION tvKrlBra Mt rcaivlftf dali vary 4 ittiotr Harata sj Htwt. ateaM ptm (Uiatfa -4H1 ftt T fv. were hanging loose from t h e nose landing gears. HOUSE ' DISCOUNT Town & Country Shopping Center-Shop Till 9 EXTRA CURLING RIBBON Reg. 98c 6-Roll Pack !pace-;a Hi lt AI.D AND ff i hi : t 0 SOON TO BE FREE Sixty-four years in prison will end for 84-year-old Richard Hon. eck who has been granted a parole by the Illinois Pardon and Parole Board. Convicted of a murder in 1899. Honeck'was a forgotten man at the Menard State Penitentiary at Chester, III., where he had received neither visitor nor letter jn 59 years. A niece, Mrs. Clara Orth, San Leandro, Calif., heard of her uncle's plight and plans to have him live with her. . , UPI Telephoto Aged Convict To Leave Cell After 64 Years Behind Bars CHESTER, III. (UPU - The last time Richard Honeck spent Christmas outside prison walls he was 20 years old and William McKinley was president of a nation straining to start a new century. Horatio Alger novels, with their young heroes making quick fortunes by honesty and hard work, were the literary rage. But Honeck never saw the birth of the 20th Century as a free man. He was" sentenced to life imprisonment at -Menard Prison here on Nov. 17, 189!). for the murder of his former school teacher. la Tt- Bay's lews (Continued from Page 1) wifh lawyers and experienced accountants, established n e w departments for training, so! up a central fingerprint file and be gan studies of scientific crime detection methods. He made the FBI inlu an in stitution that is respected and admired all over the world. A thought in conclusion: The federal government in these days seems often to be reaching for authority over more and more of tlie affairs that formerly were reserved for the states and the counties and the cities and the villages. Tile schools, (or example, which it is seeking increasingly lo fi nanceknowing that where the money conies from the authorii ty will reside i 'Might it not lie belter if we kept the federal government out of the schools but invited it to take an INCREASING chare in the detection and prevention of crime? Crime is getting to be, cue of our big problems. We could use some help in preventing it. P.VSSKS ON fitXHKTS NEW DELHI 'U'l' - Nai ain Sliarma. former officer in the Indian air force, was sentenced Saturday to U years at hard labor (or communicating of ficial secrets to Pakis'tan, CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS Reg. 1.49 7-light String. Lights Burn Independently NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon if1' 4 Si I . .';! ,' A. 1 ? Friday the Illinois pardon and parole board gave Honeck, ft), the news that surpasses the end ing of any Horatio Alger novel:. He might be freed from prison before Christmas, after spend ing 64 years behind bars. For Honeck, one of 11 chil dren of a Hermann, iMo., black smith, the news couldn't have been better. "4'm ready to go." he said when Warden Ross V. Randolph told him of the parole board's decision. Randolph said the one thing on the prisoner's mind when he was summoned lo his office. . 4 ill I II Commiuxihj. Qakuuhah SUNDAY AMERICAN LEtllON POST 8, 2:110 to 4 p.m., annual Kiddies Christmas Party, Legion Hall. MONDAY , HETHEL (il. Job's Daughters. 7 p.m.. mrtting. initiation, Scot tish Rite Temple. NEIGHBORS OF WOOD CRAFT, 7:30 p.m.. Christmas program, treats (or children, KC Hall. Members and (liends. MT. LAKI GARDEN CLUB, 11 a.m., potluck luncheon, grange hall. Bring mission food donations. HENLEY HOME EXT. UNIT, 11 a.m., potluck, gilt exchange. TUESDAY WW I BARRACKS 925, La- Sinatra Happy It's All Over - WEST LOS ANGELES L'Pl Frank Sinatra Sr. said "thank God it's over" early today after learning o( the arrests of three men in connection with the kid naping of his son. "Credit must go the FBI for a masterful operation," Sinatra said. "Our only hope is that the rapidity in which tlicy were ap prehended will act as a deter rent lo others with such thoughts in tlie future " VALUE Sunday, December 15, 13 iii J A i III I I lyft.jv' mm.m i i i i IStln i I f I n rl M :l t vl l 1 ft I was whether he would be out in time to spend Christmas as a free man. "This could be my first Christmas outside the jieniten tiary in 65 years." Honeck told the warden. Honeck w ill be paroled to his niece. Airs. Clara Orth. San Le andro, Calif., pending approval of California authorities. He w as excited about the possibility of a trip cross counlry and said he would take a train. Randolph said Honeck had seen airplanes fly over the pri son "hut wants to see where they fly from." dies Aux., 5 p.m., Christmas potluck dinner, KC Hall. .MERRILL W'OT.M, Chapter 18. 6:30 p.m., potiluck dinner with LOOM. Christmas party following, Moose Home. COW BELLES, 2 to 5 p.m., Christmas tea. 6324 Juniper St., Moyina Heights. (Members and guests. JOLLY NEIGHBORS, 8 p.m., meeting, gift exchange, Mrs. Vcrda Lords, 14O0 Nimitz.' EVERGREEN G A R D E N CLUB, 8:30 p.m., meeting cookie exchange. Mrs. Lela Thurman. 3307 Hilyard. MINUTEMEN LAUNCHED VANDENBERG AFB, Calif, i LTD The Air Force Friday "successfully" (ired two iMin uteman "instant" intercontinen tal ballistic missiles each bear ing mock nuclear warheads. The launchings. described only as "routine." came within hours cf each other and were 'he 23rd and 2h Jlmutcman shots from this West Coast mis sile base. YouCanTakeltWitHYou! PORTABLE Enjoy the magic sound "( rich, full stereo! 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It is his first visit to Africa. Premier Ali Sabry led a host of high officials and diplomats at a 21-gun salute welcome but the festivities were dampened somewhat by the absence of President Gamal Abdcl Nasser who was in Tunisia attending celebrations of France's with drawal from the Bizerie naval base. Nasser left Tunis Saturday for the flight back to Cairo and conferences later Saturday with Chou at the presidential resi dence before hosting a dinner in honor of tlie Chinese visitor. Chou also was met by Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Vi who arrived in Cairo sever al hours earlier (rom Nairobi where he attended Kenya's in dependence celebrations. The (lag-waving crowd in cluded Henri Fremont Maurice. French charge d'affaires in Cai ro. France does not have diplo matic relations with Peking but there have been recurring re ports President Charles de Gaulle was considering estab lishing them. Maurice asked to be invited lo all official func tions connected .w ith Chou's vis it. i In Belgrade the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said there were persistent reports Chou would meet a "highly - placed French statesman" during his African tour. The Peking report did not identify the French of ficial but said the meeting would be in connection with rec ognition and increased Sinn French trade. i In London diplomatic sources said Communist China appears to have undertaken a major campaign to eliminate Soviet influence in Africa and that the visits by Chou and Chen were major moves in this direction. Africa's more than 200 million people are divided into thous ands of tribes and speak more than 700 different languages. MLM llll WKJUfljUIWI1, ., OTICE! All grocery and variety specials ifi last Thursday's Big-Y Ad good through this coming Wednesday! Super Market 4710 South 6th .- i STEREOPHONIC TRIMLINE PHONOGRAPH Other New Portable GE STEREOS Open Every Nighl This Week tlie first time since the Com munists buUt the wall across the city on Aug. 13, 1961. that citizens of tlie two sectors have intermingled. Officials estimate that more than 5O0.000 West Berliners have relatives living on the Communist side of the wall. Hope of agreement rose when officials of the two sides re sumed negotiations in the after noon after interrupting them at 2 a m. in apparent deadlock. Saturday morning, before the talks resumed. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt flew to Bonn to discuss the situation with officials of tlie West Ger man government. Two obstacles to rapid agree ment lay in tlie anxiety of Mayor Brandt and other West Berlin officials to avoid any conditions that could be con strued as recognition of the ex istence of two Germanies. When the East Germans fir! suggested the Christmas breath in the Communist wall a week a zo. tlicy wanted to open of I ices in West Berlin to issue the special passes. West Berlin authorities refused thus. Informed sources said in the resumed negotiations West Ber lin oflicials were trying to Set around a Communist ' demand that the pass agreement should he signed by a high - ranking West Berlin official. The West Berliners wanted a minor official to sign it. Before (lying to Bonn to meet with West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, Mayor Brandt said he was not optimistic that agreement vfould be reached. He warned that even i( the visits were agreed it would amount to "a very limited hu manitari.in outcome" from which all West Berliners would not benefit. Secret negotiations on Christ mas passes have been going on for more than a week. HOUSEHOLD CLEANING HEADQUARTERS 9 Rug Shampooers Power Upholstery Cleaner! 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