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4 1987 WEEN ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Friday, March 6, 1987 E7 Officer Pursues Partner's Killer Throughout Two Decades please write: P.O. Box 741, Lemont IL 60439. All ASSOCIATED PRESS information confidential." CHICAGO Police Officer Bob Borowski made a On that spring night, Probst, 30, the father of three graveside vow nearly 20 years ago to find his partner's and an up-and-coming investigator, had been bragging killer, and, after two decades of chasing leads, has cheerfully about a mysterious big case and had been turned to a newspaper ad. watching the Academy Awards on television with his of people have told me to give it up," wife at their suburban Homewood duplex. Borowski said Thursday during a break from his patrol When he walked into the kitchen for a drink of water, duties with the Cook County Sheriff's Police.

"I think his wife heard a shot and the crash of glass breaking. that's what makes me stronger." She found Probst shot in the back of the head. Last week he began running an ad in the Chicago "I made the promise when we buried at St. Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, paying so far about Mary's," said Borowski, now 47 and a 26-year veteran $200 of his own money. of the force.

"Unsolved homicide," it reads. "Anyone having "I stood there and swore it on his grave: 'Ralph, I'm information on the murder of the Cook County not going to give it Sheriff's Police Officer Ralph Probst on April 10, 1967, For two years, dozens of investigators worked every THE WEATHER REPORT Satellite weather photo taken at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Weather report for the 24 hours New Mexico Wind, Rain Sweep California ending at 5 p.m. Thursday furnished by the National Weather Service in Albuquerque.

Rockies and Plains into the Mississippi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Valley. Temperatures rose into the 60s Wea. Hi Temperature Lo Pcp Powerful winds and locally heavy in much of the region. Alamogordo Fair 72 33 rain swept northern California on Today's forecast called for rain and Albuquerque Clear 65 31 Thursday, while much of the Plains rainshowers from western Montana Carlsbad Clear 73 31 Chama Fair 58 20 basked in record-setting warm across much of the Intermountain Clayton Clear 71 37 Clovis Fair 72 34 Deming Fair 71 30 Clear 70 23 Farmington PC 57 24 Gallup Fair 63 23 Grants PC 65 Hobbs Clear Las Cruces Fair 71 Las Vegas Clear 64 27 Los Alamos Clear 59 Quemado Fair 59 Raton Clear 65 24 Red River 56 Roswell Clear 72 32 Ruidoso Fair 64 19 Santa Fe Fair 64 Silver City PC 65 Socorro Fair 69 27 Truth or Consq Fair 68 31 Tucumcari Clear 71 36 LOCAL DATA Highest temperature this date since 1931, 72 in 1972; lowest this date since 1931, 9 in 1966; Thursday's highest, 65 at 4 p.m.; Thursday's lowest, 31 at 6:45 a.m.; departure from normal for date, degrees; accumulated departure since first of month, degrees. Precipitation since first of month, none; departure from normal since first of month, Total since Jan.

1, 1.27; departure from normal since Jan. 1, .38. Relative humidity, 5 a.m. 11 a.m. 5 p.m.

Sunset today 6:06 p.m.; sunrise Saturday 6:29 a.m. POLLUTION INDEX High for 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. Smog 42; dust 50; carbon monoxide 51. Air with an index of 0-50 is good; 51-100 moderate: 101-200 unhealthy; 201-300 very unhealthy; 301-500 hazardous.

POLLEN COUNT Thursday's pollen count at the UNM Student Health Center was juniper 968, elm 7, mold 32. The count is based on the amount of pollen collected during a 24-hour period. Foreign Cities Hi Lo Wthr Amsterdam 36 14 clr Athens 36 32 sn Bangkok 93 75 clr Barbados 85 76 cdy Beijing 46 30 clr Beirut 68 59 rn Belgrade 23 10 clr Berlin 28 16 cdy Bermuda 64 57 cdy Bogota 68 50 cdy Brussels 36 25 clr B'Aires 89 73 rm Cairo 64 48 clr Calgary 28 cdy Caracas 82 64 cdy Copenhagen 21 12 clr Dublin 46 36 cdy Frankfurt 30 14 clr Geneva 36 27 cir Havana 78 68 cdy Helsinki MM Hong Kong 75 66 clr Istanbul 28 23 sn Jerusalem MM Jo'burg 79 59 clr Kiev 12 -09 cdy Lima 79 68 clr Lisbon 73 52 clr London 46 37 cdy Madrid 73 48 cir Manila 90 66 clr Mexico City 68 41 Montreal 27 05 cdy Moscow 12 -06 cdy Nassau 66 cdy New Delhi 86 59 cdy Nicosia 64 59 Oslo 19 0 clr Paris 37 32 cdy Rio 89 64 clr Rome 45 30 clr Santiago 84 52 clr Sao Paulo 86 62 cdy Seoul 46 36 clr Singapore 86 19 75 Stockholm 07 cir Sydney 75 62 rm Taipei 79 61 cir Tel Aviv MM Tokyo 68 50 clr Toronto 34 16 cdy Vancouver 57 48 rn Vienna 30 -04 clr Warsaw 21 09 cdy lead and, Borowski now figures, trampled a few of the sent the food back and put on the handcuffs. And best ones. Sam didn't like that.

Not one bit." Ballistics evidence pinpointed the murder weapon as Jerry Harmon, another former Cook County investia Magnum pistol, then a rare weapon. gator, recalled DeStefano telling Probst, "You'll be Two weeks before his death, Probst had started very sorry you treated me this way." training for the canine unit, which would have freed DeStefano was killed in 1973 and was never linked to him to spend evenings with his family. Probst's death. Before that, he had been assigned to a special Borowski said he could accept finding that Probst's organized-crime unit. His files for some of those cases murderer was already dead, so long as the case got have never been found.

solved. Then there was Probst's run-in with the late mobster His family and other policemen understand his quest, Sam DeStefano in January 1967, when DeStefano was Borowski said, but civilians say, "It's done. Let it serving a contempt sentence and being treated at Cook "They just don't understand how close policemen get, County Hospital for stomach pains. especially when your lives depend on each other," he "He had a big fancy Chinese dinner brought in and said. baskets of fruit all over," Borowski recalled.

"Ralph "I'm sure he would have done the same for me." ALS ADAIR- W. (Thompson) Adair, age 66 and a resident of Albuquerque for 40 years, died Thursday in a local hospital following an illness. She is survived by two sons, Robert R. Adair and wife, Michelle of Albuquerque and John E. Adair and wife, Elizabeth of Albuquerque; a daughter, Sue A.

Maes and husband, Toby of Albuquerque; seven grandchildren, Ted and Bob Maes, Debra, Killeen and Ann Adair and Karie and Erin Adair; sister, Mary Hale Bossmeyer, of Tucson, AZ; a sister-in-law, June Thompson of San Diego, CA; and special friends, Tom and Irene Hardison. She was an avid bridge player. Services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Fitzgerald and Son Funeral Directors, 3113 Carlisle NE, with the Rev. James L.

Hogue officiating. Interment will follow in Fairview Park Cemetery. COUGHLIN- -The family of Gertrude A. Coughlin expresses appreciation to everyone who was so kind and sympathetic at the time of their recent loss. Strong-Thorne, 1100 Coal SE, in charge of arrangements.

DELONG- Graveside services for Mary Delong will be Today at the Santa Fe National Cemetery with Mortuary Chaplin Rev. Tom V. Collins officiating. Arrangements by the Crestview Funeral Home, 7601 Wyoming NE. GALLEGOS- -Mr.

Johnny L. Gallegos, 71, a lifelong resident of Albuquerque passed away Thursday. Mr. Gallegos is survived by three sons Ross Gallegos and wife Margaret, Johnny Gallegos and Ray Gallegos; five daughters Evelyn Vega and husband Pete, Mary Lou Sanchez, Nancy Sanchez and husband Albert, Veronica Ramirez and husband Ray and Mary Lujan, all of Albuquerque, NM; a very close companion Shirley Herrera of Albuquerque; one brother Louie Gallegos of La Puenta, CA; on sister Rose Garcia and husband George of Albuquerque, NM; 27 grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews. Mr.

Gallegos was a member of the St. Edwin Catholic Church. Visitation will be held Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Garcia Mortuary Chapel.

A Rosary will be recited Sunday and Funeral services will be conducted Monday. Times and places are pending and will be announced later. The Garcia Mortuary, 8th and Stover SW in charge of service arrangements. GARCIA-John Garcia, 50, a lifelong resident of Albuquerque, died Wednesday. He is survived by his sisters, Rose Luna and husband, Richard and Julia Nelson; nieces and nephews, Esther Johnson and husband, Wade, Billy Olson and wife, Jan, Mary Espinosa and husband, Cisto, Bobby Olson and wife, Belinda, and Linda Estes and husband, John, all of Albuquerque; and 10 great-nieces and nephews.

He was a volunteer fireman for District when it was founded. Mr. Garcia was also a member of the National Guard and an active Boy Scout leader. Rosary will be recited Friday, 8:00 p.m., at Queen of Heaven Catholic Church, 5310 Claremont NE. Mass will be celebrated Saturday, 10:00 a.m., also at the Queen of Heaven Catholic Church, with Fr.

Sabine Griego, Celebrant. Interment will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Billy and Bobby Olson, Richard Luna, Cisto Espinosa, Bruce Johnson and Joseph Vallegoz. Honorary pallbearers will be Hector Hernandez, Abe Tapia and Wade Johnson.

French Mortuary, 1111 University NE. GRINSTEAD-A memorial service for Mary Allen Grinstead will be held Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. in the Central United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. Harry Vanderpool officiating.

The family prefers memorials to Central United Methodist Church, 1615 Copper NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106. Fitzgerald and Son Funeral Directors, 3113 Carlisle NE, are in charge of arrangements. HARMENING-Thomas R. Harmening, 48, a lifelong resident of the Albuquerque area, passed away in a local hospital on Wednesday. He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou Harmening of Los Lunas, NM; one daughter, Kim Breese of Denver, CO; and one son, Ray Harmening, U.S.

Air Force, stationed in the Phillipine Islands. He was owner of Vern Pierson Insurance Agency in Beach Grove, IN and on the Metropolitan Zoning Board in Indianapolis, IN and was manager of New Mexico Forms. Strong- Thorne, 1100 Coal SE, in charge of arrangements. HEETER-Services for Harriett Grove Heeter will be held Friday, 9:00 a.m., French Mortuary with University Rev. Steve Blvd.

Trout Chapel, officiating. 1111 University Interment NE, will take place at Memory Gardens in Farmington, NM Friday at 2:00 p.m. HOGG-Emily "Inez" Hogg age 86 passed away Wednesday at a local nursing home. Mrs. Hogg had been a resident of Mountainair for 6 years formerly of Washington.

She had been married for over 50 years to Frank Hogg who preceded her in death. She taught in the public shools in the Mountainair area in the 1920's. She is survived by her sister, Grace Brown of Albuquerque and numerous neices and nephews. Visitations will be today from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm from the Crestview Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Saturday, 10:00 am at the Nazarene Church in Mountainair.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Alzheimers Support Group, P.O. Box 1368, Albuquerque, N.M. 87103. Arrangements by the Crestview Funeral Home, 7601 Wyoming NE. MAESTAS- The family of Jose Ramon Maestas expresses their appreciation to all friends and relatives for attending the rosary and funeral, for the kind expressions of sympathy, for the beautiful floral tributes and Msgr.

Peter Garcia, Celebrant of the mass. Gabaldon Mortuary, 1000 Coors Blvd. SW, in charge. MAPSTONE- -William F. Mapstone, 60, a resident of Albuquerque since 1959, passed away Wednesday morning after a brief illness.

He is survived by his wife, Clara; his daughter, Pam Parkle of Albuquerque; his son, Bill, Jr. of Baltimore, MD; his mother, Myrtle of Albuquerque; brothers, Richard of Seattle, WA and Ron of Albuquerque; and five grandchildren. Bill (Mappy) worked 26 years for the Albuquerque Bus Co. and Sun Tran of Albuquerque, retiring in March, 1986. He was a veteran of WWII having served in the US Army.

He was a former resident of Lockhaven, PA and remained a member of the Citizens Hose Fire Co. Friends may call at French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE, Thursday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Services will be conducted at First Christian Church, 10101 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Friday at 1:00 p.m.

Interment will be at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the American Heart Assoc. or the Memorial Fund at First Christian Church, 10101 Montgomery Blvd. NE. MORRISON-Robert Bob Brand Morrison, born March 19, 1915, passed away March 5, 1987.

All services are pending and will be announced by the Alameda Mortuary, 9420 Fourth St. NW. PADILLA-Funeral services for Gloria C. Padilla were held Thursday at 10am where a Mass of Christian burial was celebrated at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Father Mike officiating. Burial followed at the Mt.

Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements by the Crestview Funeral Home, 7601 Wyoming NE. -Mass for Milbeth E. Puccetti will be celebrated Friday at 10:00 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

Interment will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Strong- Thorne, 1100 Coal SE, in charge of arrangements. ROBINSON- -Services for Lorraine Robinson will be held Friday at 11:30 AM in the French Mortuary, Wyoming Blvd. Chapel, 7121 Wyoming Blvd.

NE, with Fr. Paul Baca officiating. Cremation will follow at Sunset Memorial Park, 924 Menaul NE. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Ronald McDonald House, PO Box 4269, Albuquerque, 87196. "Pat" Rowland, 73, a resident of Albuquerque from 1938-1940 and since 1949, long illness.

He is survived by his loving wife, passed away Thursday a at the family home after a Reba, known to him as of the family home; his daughter, Sharie Rowland; his son, Michael Rowland and wife, Lisa; grandson, Tommy Rowland; granddaughters, Erica and Kenzie Rowland all of Albuquerque; sister-in-law, Margret Rowland of Kansas City, MO; several nieces and nephews; and a host of relatives and friends. Pat and Reba met in Kansas City where they both grew up and they married on October 12, 1935. In 1938 they moved to Albuquerque from Taos, NM and in 1940 they moved to Winslow, AZ. Mr. Rowland was a bus driver for much of his early working life.

From December of 1942 through August of 1945, Mr. Rowland served in the US Army Air Corps, Reserve Status, in Flight Instruction in Visalia Dinuba Air Field, CA. The Rowlands moved to Los Angeles in 1945 where Mr. Rowland again worked as a bus driver. In 1949 the Rowlands returned to Albuquerque and in March of 1953, the first Rowland Nursery opened at 7402 Menaul NE and has since expanded to four stores in Albuquerque.

Mr. Rowland served as Chairman of the Board of Rowland Nurseries, he was a member of BPO Elks and a charter member of the Four Hills Country Club. Services will be held Monday, 2:30 p.m., at French Mortuary University Blvd. Chapel, 1111 University NE, with Pastor Lyle Stuehrenberg officiating. Entombment will follow in the Chester T.

French Memorial Mausoleum, 924 Menaul NE. Pallbearers will be Little Joe Griego, Lynn Looney, Dick Hobson, George Sedillo, Tom Sanchez and Roy Jenkins. Honorary pallbearers will be Randy Etmer and Jon Childers. Friends may visit French Mortuary Sunday from 1:00 until 9:00 p.m. The family will greet friends Sunday from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m.

at the Mortuary. The family has requested memorial contributions be made to the Presbyterian Diabetes Center, Virginia Valentine, Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 26666, Albuquerque, NM 87125-6666. -Funeral Services for Mrs. Adela Saiz will be conducted this morning from the Garcia Mortuary Chapel to the Mt.

Calvary Cemetery where the graveside services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Pallbearers will be David Benavidez, Steve Saiz, Juan Saiz, Esperidion Benavidez, Alex Benavidez and Johnny Rillamas. The Garcia Mortuary, 8th and Stover SW, in charge of service arrangements. SHUPLA--Joseph (Joe) C. Shupla, age 51, away March 3, 1987.

He was a NM State Police Field Coordinator with NM Search and Rescue and a State Saftey Coordinator with the NM Diving Council. He was a member of the San Juan County Search and Recovery, Underwater Society of America, national member of the Association of Search and Rescue, a member of F.O.P., Farmington, Civil Air Patrol, NM Police and Sheriff Organization, the Four State Peace Officers Association, and Colorado All Field Investigators Association. Survivors include his wife, Lucille; two daughters, Mona Gayle and LouAnna Raye Shupla both of Aztec; mother, Raycita of Albuquerque; and sister, Mary Webb of Phoenix, AZ. He was preceded in death by his father, Roger Shupla in 1982 and two brothers, Harry in 1982 and Hubert Shupla in 1980. Visitations will be from 10:00 a.m.

until 8:00 p.m. Friday at the Cope Memorial Chapel, Aztec, NM. Services will be Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the Bethel Baptist Church in Aztec, NM with Rev. Walter Sinclair and Rev.

James Vaughn officiating. Interment will be in Memory Gardens. Pallbearers will be Charles Wiggins, Mac Heard, Orville Woodall, Robert B. Miller, Kenneth Shirley and Mike Arnold. Honorary pallbearers will be Art Conroy, Frank Manazares and all members of the Sheriff Deputys and Reserve of San Juan County, Civil Air Patrol and the San Juan County Search and Recovery.

Cope Memorial Chapel, Aztec, in charge of services. weather. Rain and rainshowers also fell from the Pacific Northwest to Idaho and Nevada. Scattered rain and snowshowers were found across the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, and a few showers were reported across far southern Florida. The foul weather in California was blamed for one death, that of a teenager killed Wednesday when a poplar tree fell and crushed his car in Willits.

Authorities attributed the death to winds estimated at 50 mph. The strong winds and heavy rain continued Thursday, reaching into Nevada. Fair and unseasonably warm weather was widespread from much of the ACROSS THE COUNTRY- Hi Lo Pre Otlk 34 14 clr Amarillo 66 37 clr Anchorage 19 09 clr Asheville 53 26 clr Atlanta 65 39 cir Atlantic City 40 27 clr Austin 70 45 Baltimore 36 21 Billings 69 49 Birmingham 67 32 Bismarck 23 Boise 59 Boston 20 Brownsville cir Buffalo 32 clr Burlington, Vt. 30 07 cdy Casper 50 37 clr 62 41 clr Charleston, W.Va. 43 25 59 31 Cheyenne 62 31 Chicago 49 37 Cincinnati 48 35 Cleveland 31 24 62 35 Columbus, Ohio 42 32 .02 34 -01 Dallas-Ft Worth 69 38 Dayton Denver Des Moines 66 34 Detroit 38 31 Duluth 24 El Paso 69 34 Evansville 55 40 Fairbanks 08 -23 Fargo 43 28 Flagstaff 54 24 Grand Rapids 33 Great Falls 72 55 48 26 Hartford 39 18 Helena 71 Honolulu 80 63 Houston 70 49 Indianapolis 48 40 Jackson, Miss.

69 33 Jacksonville 68 37 Juneau 18 14 THE WEATHER Region, the Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest and California into the desert Southwest. Showers will extend across the southern half of Florida. Winds will be strong and gusty from northern and central parts of the Rockies and Intermountain Region through the Great Basin. Highs in the 30s will be found across northern Maine. Temperatures in the 70s will reach from Florida and southern Alabama across Mississippi, the southern half of the Mississippi Valley, the central and southern Plains, western South Dakota and eastern portions of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado through much of New Mexico and the desert Southwest.

Much of the remainder of the nation will have highs in the 50s and 60s. The Accu-Weather-forecast for 6 P.M., Friday, Mar. 6 50 50 60 60 50 40 40 MILDER 50 COOLER SHOWERS 60 WARM 60 60 SUNSHINE 70 80 RAIN 70 FRONTS: 70 Warm Cold Stationary 80 Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Lubbock Memphis Miami Beach Midland-Odessa Milwaukee Mpls-St Paul Nashville New Orleans New York City Norfolk, Va. North Platte Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Maine Providence 43 clr Raleigh 51 25 chr 48 cir Rapid City 65 32 clr 64 48 cir Reno 70 50 86 56 Richmond 42 24 clr 51 66 38 39 cir clr St Louis Sacramento 64 62 53 51 ..33 65 41 cdy Salt Lake City 69 46 76 70 rn San Antonio 72 40 65 34 cir San Diego 85 61 mn 47 32 clr San Francisco 67 53 .34 58 34 cdy St Ste Marie 26 22 (858 clr 55 28 cir San 85 70 70 49 clr Seattle 68 51 41 clr Shreveport 72 35 32 clr Sioux Falls 63 25 69 29 clr Spokane 63 46 44 clr Syracuse 32 27 74 41 clr Tampa-St Ptrsbg 79 54 55 cdy Topeka 71 42 37 26 clr Tucson 80 61 85 63 cdy Tulsa 72 48 33 22 .01 cir 38 26 32 04 clr Wichita 68 39 69 50 .01 Wilkes-Barre 30 17 40 22 clr Wilmington, Del. 36 24 clr New Mexico Area Forecasts COMMUNITY FORECASTS (Highs today and lows tonight in parentheses.

means low, means middle, means upper and means near.) NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PLAINS Variable high cloudiness. Winds southwest 5 to 15 mph: Clayton (M70s-U30s), Tucumcari (M70s-U30s), Clovis-Portales (M70s-U30s). SOUTHEAST PLAINS Variable high cloudiness. Winds variable less than 15 mph: Carlsbad (M70s-N40), HobbsLovington (M70s-N40), Roswell-Artesia (M70s-N40). NORTH AND SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND clouds.

Winds variable 15 mph or less: Raton (N70-L30s), CENTRAL HIGHLANDS Fair with increasing high Taos (L70s-U20s), Los Alamos (M60s-L30s), Las Vegas (U60s-L30s), Santa Fe (U60s-L30s), Ruidoso (U60s-L30s). UPPER AND MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY Fair with increasing high cloudiness. Winds variable less than 15 mph: Socorro (M70s-L30s). SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST VALLEYS Fair with increasing high cloudiness. Winds variable less than 15 Reporter Bill Farr Dies; Was Jailed In 1972 for Not Revealing Source cir clr clr cdy .11 clr clr clr clr clr clr mn .11 clr clr cir rn cir cir clr cir cdy sn In what he later would admit was a mistake, Farr told THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the judge the sources were two unidentified attorneys, LOS ANGELES Newspaper reporter Bill Farr, who officers of the court whose disclosures to Farr once chose to serve 46 days in jail rather than reveal a constituted contempt of Older's gag order.

confidential source, died Thursday. He was 52. When Farr stepped from behind the reporter's legal Death was attributed to complications of pancreatic shield to briefly take a job as a spokesman for cancer, for which Farr had been under treatment since then-District Attorney Joseph Busch, Older demanded 1985. Despite his illness, he worked when he could for that he reveal his sources on the Manson story. When the Los Angeles Times, recently completing stories on he refused, the judge cited him for contempt.

cocaine trafficking. Farr returned to journalism as a reporter for the Farr died at UCLA Medical Center shortly after Times in 1972, but it was too late to save him from midnight, said a hospital spokesman. Older's order. Farr's jailing, which came about because of a story Older ordered him jailed until he named his sources. from the Charles Manson trial, turned him into a First An appellate court backed the judge, ruling that the Amendment activist.

But he never believed he had shield law could not interfere with a judge's power to done anything extraordinary. regulate its own officers and proceedings. is no need to attach any nobility to what I Farr refused to reveal his sources, and released spent did," he said. "All good reporters feel the same way Christmas 1972 in jail until he was ordered by about protecting news sources." U.S. Supreme Court Justice William 0.

Douglas, Farr's legal trouble began in 1970, when he was a pending consideration of his case by the 9th U.S. reporter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner cover- Circuit Court of Appeals. ing the Manson case. The contempt citation eventually was allowed to He refused to tell Superior Court Judge Charles stand, but a state Court of Appeal ruling in 1974 Older the source for a story in which he disclosed prompted another Superior Court judge to hold that to grand jury testimony that members of Manson's jail Farr again indefinitely would simply punish him "family" had planned to murder celebrities such as rather than force him to talk. Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra.

He was ordered to serve five days and pay a $500 Farr cited a California shield law protecting report- fine. ers from revealing such sources. The judge had placed But the state Court of Appeal ruled that Farr could a gag order on the case, restricting its attorneys from not be jailed again, and Older declined to pursue the commenting on it outside of court. matter further. Nursery Founder Rowland Services Set mph: Silver City (M60s-L30s), Truth or Consequences (M70s-M30s), Deming (M70s- Las Cruces (M70sM30s), Alamogordo (M70s-M30s).

NORTHWEST PLATEAU AND WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS Partly cloudy. Winds variable less than 15 mph: Farmington (N60-U20s), Gallup (L60s-U20s), Grants (M60sM20s). NEW MEXICO Variable high cloudiness through Saturday. No important temperature changes. Highs from the mid-50s to 60s in the mountains with mostly 70s elsewhere.

Lows from the upper teens to 20s in the northern mountains with 20s to 30s elsewhere. EXTENDED NEW MEXICO FORECAST Sunday through Tuesday: Generally dry weather with temperatures above seasonal normals. Highs from the 50s over the northern mountains and northwest plateau with 60s to 70s elsewhere. Lows from the 20s and 30s in the mountains and northwest with 30s to low 40s elsewhere. ALBUQUERQUE Increasing high cloudiness.

Winds variable less than 15 mph. High today near 70. Low tonight in the mid-30s. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday for M.P.

"Pat" Rowland, founder of Rowland Nurseries. The services for Rowland, 73, will be at French Mortuary, University Boulevard Chapel, 1111 University NE. He died Thursday at his Albuquerque home. Rowland and his wife, Reba, lived in Albuquerque briefly before moving to Winslow, in 1940. From 1942 to 1945, Rowland served on reserve status in the U.S.

Army Air Corps at Visalia, Calif. He and his wife moved to Los Angeles in 1945, where he worked as a bus driver. In 1949, they returned to Albuquerque, The first Rowland Nursery was opened in 1953 at 7402 Menual NE. There are now four nurseries in the Albuquerque area. Rowland served as chairman of the board of Rowland Nurseries Inc.

He was a member of BPO Elks 461, and was a charter member of the Four Hills Country Club. Survivors are his wife, Reba; a daughter, Sharie Rowland; a son, Michael Rowland; and three FLOWERS SAY IT ALL And Peoples makes the difference 1: SHOPS Peoples 884-1600 grandchildren, all of Albuquerque. Memorial contributions may be made to the Presbyterian Diabetes Center, Virginia Valentine, Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, P.O. Box 26666, Albuquerque, N.M. 87125-6666.

MORTUARY 843-6333 2 locations to serve you 7121 Wyoming NE 1111 University NE.

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