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
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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.
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' KUALA LUMPUR, .Malaysia
UP1 (Parliament voted Sat
urday to increase the pay of
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Al-Marlnun Syed Hassan Jama
lullail from $l.000 to $7i;.(Ni0 a
year.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Negotiations Continue
On Berlin Wall Visits
BERLIN 'L'PD West Berlin
officials made a new attempt
Saturday night to reach agree
ment w ith the Communists on a
plan to let West Berliners visit
relatives in East Berlin tor
Christmas.
Any agreement would mark
Chou Starts
Middle East,
Africa Tour
CAIRO. CA R. i L'PD -Chinese
Communist Premier Chou
En-lai arrived here Saturday to
begin a two-month Middle East
and African tour aimed et in
creasing Peking's power and
influence throughout this part
of the world.
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.
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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.
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