The Daily Inter Lake from Kalispell, Montana • 1

The Daily Inter Lake Kalispell Montana Thursday May 4 1967 TWENTY SIX PAGES TEN CENTS 60th Year Vol No 1 HISTORICAL SOCIETT MONTANA COMP HELENA MONTANA 59601 IBRARY Welcome Shriners Section Today Beginning On Northwest Montana's Only Afternoon Daily and Sunday Morning Newspaper The Daily Inter Lake 4 $0 fcYih fey UN'S Lfi I ASfl I MMK Off mMMMMhe IWEMfcMSrHgaL JQ 'THHHHMWH 'N sJssfL' A'e I 'i ySSNwaB fip A Irfe 3m Svaw 15 ijkuLSmimt MriBWjdLjjra Ir 7' i 'v SrM jY vCJBeisfi SHKrt PB la 1 VV vSBI a IBnjjVLd Murder Case To Jury Mrs Clark aces One Of ive Possible Verdicts said Mrs Clark had testimony of doctors and cov ered the background of Mrs early life Heckathorn noted a history of mental up sets in Mrs life start ing in childhood He also asked the jury to consider the low in telligence quotient of the de fendant in regard to her mental state He relied heavily upon the two testimonies as to the possibility of insanity at the time of the shooting Oleson contradicted the argu ment that Mrs Clark was not responsible for her actions on the night her husband was shot He said Mrs Clark was fully aware of her acts and actually stalk her Oleson The second degree murder trial of Mrs Betty Clark Columbia alls mother of four went Io the jury today at 11:15 am The jurors received their instructions from Judge rank I Haswell following summations by prosecuting attorney James Oleson and defense attorney I James Heckathorn Mrs Clark is charged with the shooting of her husband Rob ert on the night of Sept 10 1966 Clark died in a White fish hospital Sept 11 Judge Haswell outlined five possible verdicts: Second de gree murder carrying a sen tence of 10 years to life sec ond degree murder with sen fencing referred to the court manslaughter with sentence manslaughter with sentencing by court or not guilty Haswell said a verdict of not guilty should carry a stipula tion reason of In his summation Heckathorn argued for a decision of not guilty by reason of insanity He reviewed past medical his tory of Mrs Clark reviewed kVH jSf Wt feariaBPgMK NMfrb wK i fXj i dt jr Lg4ET Hngrs? jyK WOraM Ar wJk ''u4mHb 9Bi rSt4L ML JMT jflMT IM iMWIIIM Mary Margaret Homer Columbia Heights Robbery Solved lathead County Sheriff Ross Wilson has declared the March 19 safe robbing at Night Club in Columbia Heights solved The solution came with positive identification of paint scrapings air to partly cloudy today and tonight some increase in cloudiness riday chance of isolated snow showers overmountains during today and ri day afternoon High today SO 55 low tonight near 25 high riday about 55 Chance of rain 0 per cent today and tonight 20 per cent by riday after noon High Wednesday at airport 49 low 23 no precipitation High Wednesday in Kalispell 50 low 27 no precipitation High Wednesday at Columbia alls 50 low 26 no precipitation Noon temperature 48 with 50 per cent relative humidity Records for this date: High 81 in 1897 and 1966 low 22 in 1963 precipitation 46 inch in 1932 Max Min Pep Billings 35 22 Bozeman 40 22 Butte 35 18 02 Great alls 39 25 Helena 45 24 Missoula 50 33 Honolulu 84 75 Salt Lake City 59 34 San rancisco 56 51 Spokane 57 35 Washington 61 44 by the BI criminal laboratory in Washington DC Undersheriff Cecil Combs in vestigated the case Between $500 and $700 was taken in the robbery A heavy safe was removed from the night club and was found on a back road after it had been opened and tlie money removed Combs said the of fice had suspicions about who the culprits were but were lack ing evidence to make an arrest Paint scrapings from a pickup truck were fourid on the safe Combs collected them Leonard Racine a Brown ing resident who was one of the suspects was shot in Brown ing and died in the Kalispell General Hospital April 18 He was shot by a Browning police man when he resisted arrest after being discovered break ing into die American Legion Club in Browning Two other men were with Racine Combs still needing evidence in die safe robbing case went to Browning and took paint samples from pickup truck The paint from the safe and the paint from the truck were sent to the BI crime lab Yesterday the BIreportposi tively confirmed the two paint samples as being one and the same Sheriff Wilson said the evidence is Irrefutable The case is solved except for ac complices Of those one is in jail in a different town and the odier has escaped ClIllfJI'AlulillioIX To these winners of prizes during our 4th Anniversary Sale: Original Oil Painting Grace Hansen 1 3 4th Ave Silver Coffee Service William Knight 655 7th Ave Admiral Transistor Radio Robert Whitright 495 4th Ave Pole Lamp "Red'' Gallagher 495 3rd Ave Pole Lamp William Tarrant Columbia alls Westinghouse ood Mixer Loren rerick Whitefish Motorola Pocket Radio George Schulze Route 1 Kai Chain Lamp Luther Couch 1 023 Idaho Wall Plaques Pr Perry Brown Route 2 Kai loral Center Pieces: Glen Buck Route 4 Creston Earlean Shepard 205 Edgewood Drive Kai Rose Keck 44 7th Ave West Kai Eugene Hint Route 1 Whitefish rwn 471ElbAHX ML 784 2823 Whitefish Red Guerrillas Hit Camp Vietnam War Called James Wolf Nasty Mess By Ike Wounded In Plans Are Evergreen Lions Club CHICKEN Widening work on the tunnel on the Going To The Sun Highway in Glacier National Park affords some beautiful scenery for workers Here is Peak as viewed through Communist had some and feared Americans The first paid in advance classified ad taken in our office each morning will ap pear on the front page the following day at no cost to the advertiser The ad must be non conunercial and cots tain not more than 50 words through different the house to find her She fired more than This irst Cash Ad is ap pearing 3 times for the low price of $240 or Sale: Gas wall heater 1 wheel trailer 4 or 5 rm gas heater or will trade for livestock 752 9279 Westmoreland convinced that militarily doing fairly Eisen hower said just as nasty a mess as ever been Eisenhower said he has no preference for the 1968 Republi can president conespondent Robert said the Communists the Green Beret camp dawn and killed 39 Barking Dog NEW YORK (UPI) A dog barked for 17 and one halfhours Wednesday before neighbors investigated his apart ment They found Ignatius Renzino 40 shot to death Police said Renzino had been shot in the head back and arm UPI Kaylor struck before Montagnard troops and two US officer advisers and wounded 37 others including some Ameri cans Thirty eight more tribes men were missing captured Eight were in the camp Kaylor said the raiders apparently help from the inside in staging their raids One of the first places hit was the command bunker and it appeared to have been blown apart by explosives placed on the inside The camp commander and a lieutenant the only two officers among the eight man force were killed by the blast Two American GIs were wounded The Communists sent an estimated two companies (about 300 men) of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong into the camp They penetrated three layers of barbed wire surrounding the Lang Vei camp blowing it up with satchel charges and rockets and machinegun fire while mortars pounded into the camp The Communists also hit a Montagnard village nearby where families of some of the strike force lived They cap tured the chief and three popular force soldiers and threw grenades into at least two thatched hut homes searched rooms of husband one shot he said and later when the man went outdoors went after him to finish the Haswell in his instructions gave definitions of intent and factors involved in determina tion of degree of guilt The jury was taken to lunch before noon today and was ex pected to begin considering its verdict this afternoon Discussed inal plans for the Algeria Shrine Spring Ceremonial which begins here tomorrow were made at a meeting of the lat head Shrine Club at last night Tom Harmon president presided at the meeting Merritt Warden ceremonial arrangements chairman re ported 1500 are expected for the event which ends Saturday night Others making reports included Charles Powell Myles Johns Hank Hewett Harry Henricksen Ben Bolton and Malcolm McLelland A highlight of the ceremonial will be the parade in downtown Kalispell Saturday at 1:30 pm SAIGON (UPI) guerrillas apparently aided by Vietnamese traitors inside a US Special orces camp invaded the camp in tlic northwest corner of South Vietnam today under a curtain of mortar and machinegun fire and inflicted heavy casualties on the US and Vietnamese defenders The attack was only five miles south of the mountain ridge line where US Marines inflicted what Lt Gen Lewis Walt called helluva on North Vietnamese regulars who tried and failed to hold three strategic hills guarding the invasion routes to the south Marines were still fighting Communist remnants today Today's irst Cash Ad Vietnam Lance Cpl James Wolf USMC was wounded inthe vicin ity of Quang Tri Vietnam his parents Mr and Mrs Leonard Wolf Kalispell were informed Wolf sustained fragmentation wounds in the lower part of his body and both legs from a grenade while he was on patrol This is the second time Wolf has been wounded in Vietnam He was wounded in the left leg Oct 5 while participating in an action against hostile forces He is a 1964 graduate of lathead High School His father works for the Kalispell Street Department HARRISBURG Pa (UPI) Eisenhower said he recently ormer President Dwight conversed with Gen William Eisenhower today called the Vietnam war nasty a mess as ever been But Eisenhower at an im promptu news conference at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station here added the United States is doing that can be in the Southeast Asian situation The five star general and his wife Mamie arrived here en route to their home in Gettysburg after a winter vacation in Southern California Ceremonial Couple Injured $1 25 I Perion TROY Kaare Hitland a fireman on the Great Northern Railway and his wife Ruth Whitefish were seriously in jured about 4 pm Wednesday in a two car collision at Lbonia Junction near the Idaho state line 12 miles west of Troy Mrs Hitland was the most seriously injured when she ap parently went through the wind shield The driver of the other car was Milo Bequette 80 a nearby resident All three per sons were taken to St Lutheran Hospital at Libby where the two Whitefish persons were listed in serious condi tion Bequette apparently was not seriously injured The accident is still under investigation Portal View Of Peak one of the three side portals in the tunnel See story and pictures on page 7 (Inter Lake staff photo) $R00 Per amily (4 or more) Spring Conservation Tour The last of a series of three conservation tours for lathead Count)' eighth grade students was conducted today A tour planned for Tuesday was postponed because of weather Spon sored by the lathead Pomona Grange tlie annual tours give the students an opportunity to view soil and water conserva tion practices first hand and receive explanations from farmers federal agency officials and others on conservation At left Lewis uller Kalispell lathead Water and Soil Conserva tion District work unit conservationist explains a soil profile At right Bob Lundbohm left and Jack David Evergreen School examine moss formations (Roger Graham photos) BAR Sat May 6th 1967 Evergreen School 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM HI I "fV N'V i' "'V vj' Jf4) i I 1 sex I I 5g yH Mary Margaret Homer.