Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 34

A I I I THURSDAY, MARCH 1967 DESPITE RETIREMENT Ice Won't Fr0m Police Tales By DAVE GREEN CUM! Staff Writer When Lt. Kenneth Ice put Us policeman's badge last week after what Police Chief Bernard L. Garndre called "twenty yeas of dedicated service to the community," be closed the book on a colorful police 'career which he shunned publicity. But police veteran, who'fc known for his cool- during dangerous will not be able to become anonymous to the Tuc- 'ion Police Department. Reminiscing officers will guarantee that.

The men who served with Navy veteran of World War It Airing his police career can retail dozens of narrow escapes and breathtaking brushes with which seemed to call Ice to'; the front of the ranks Once almost cost him his life. In May 1951, four years' after be. joined the Tucson force, Ice and fellow police officers were snt to track down an escaped city prisoner who fled the jail farm after bludgeoning another prisoner to death. As usual, the publicity-shy Ice scorned any retelling of the tale, but were with him reconstructed the episode for reporters at the time, The escapee had stolen a car and was speeding northward on Silverbell Road and Ice: was waiting on a looking for the cloud of dust that would warn him of the prisoner's approach. Suddenly, the slayer's vehicle Lt.

Kenneth Ice hobbled toward him. Other patrolmen closed, in and, after wounding the slayer, took him into That Ice had steel nerves was demonstrated again in a dozen more 'instances, including that day in August 1960 when he headed a'group of officers sent to a North Side motel to quell a disturbance. A pistol-waving man was threatening to shoot his and anyone else who tried to stop him. A half-dozen patrolmen approached the gunman and then backed away at gunpoint to try to reason the gun from his hands. Still trying to aypid drawing their guns, the policemen were talking with the man from a distance when Ice arrived.

He walked straight toward the gunman, who repeatedly threatened to shoot and kept the pisol poiried directly at him. Ice demanded the weapon. Finally, after' agonizing seconds during which the man appeared to be deciding Ice's fate, the gunman handed the lieutenant his pistol. Ice, practically a Tucson native (he came here with his parents from Marion, at the age of 7 months), joined the department in 1947 after serving In the Navy in the Pacific during World War n. He was promoted to sergeant in 1954 and to lieutenant Jan.

15, 1959. Later that year, he graduated from the FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C. Gannire says Ice served, with distinction in nearly every division of the Tucson Police Department. SAND BLASTW6 Pwb Taaki TraBtn MEMORIAL ARTS INC. MM E.

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