The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 28

THE FRESNO BEE Thunday July 1965 8- a Py nVwWwIwwy Nawspapars Sarviaa NEWS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Youth Corps Coeds Turn Builders Earn Whistle While They Work Honey Binge Is Blamed For Dead Spanking PORTERVILLE Tulare Co Mrs Christine Pelham 42 has been held for trial in the superior court on charges of felony manslaughter in the death of a foster child Danny Koopman 8 and inflicting corporal injury The boy died June 29th be- fore reaching the Sierra View Hospital after being spanked that morning and becoming ill One of the witnesses at preliminary hearing in die Porterville Justice Court was Rosemary Koopman 13 a sister of the dead boy The two had lived in the foster home two years Witnessed Spanking She also said die and other children and her brother had been spanked with the same stick Jack Webb sheriff's office juvenile officer who made the arrest said Mrs Pelham told him at the time that Danny became sick during the afternoon following the spanking and began vomiting She called her Reidenauer Heads Air Squadron (Eddie) Reidenauer to the new commander of the Fresno County 1 Air (Squadron- He succeeds Ken-n McNamara Reidenauer and the other officers were installed in the Desert -Inn Sheriff Melvin A Willmirth was the installing officer The other officers are David 1 Proctor ad- Reidenauer Probation Aide Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement HANFORD Kings Co Former Kings County Probation Officer Walter Stanley Evans Jr 41 pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to embezzling $450 from a local Explorer Scout post and will face sentencing August 4th He was arraigned here before Superior Judge Leonard Gins-burg of Tulare County Kings County Superior Judge Meredith Wingrove who was originally scheduled to hear the case accepted a motion to disqualify him as presiding justice Monday As probation officer for Kings County Evans when he left town with the money on February 1st was an employe of Judge court Four Auburn Buildings Burn Arson Hinted AUBURN Placer Co AP -A three alarm fire destroyed four historic frame buildings in Rosemary said she and other physician but he was out of children in the home witnessed town and the office nurse sug- die spanking which was admin- gested she put the boy to bed istered with a stick about 15 and give him an aspirin inches long and a half inch wide She said about 6:30 PM she listens to their gripes which are infrequent encourages them counsels them and has faith in them "They really are such good sports" she says fondly got myself sane real jewels They have assumed responsibilities on their own They are rather amazing" Mrs Perry is so taken by the general reaction of her charges she now firmly believes industrial arts courses should be part of every education How do the girls feel about their jobs? They are getting fresh air sunshine good food and exercise As one girl put it to Mrs Perry eating more but losing weight" Above all Mrs Perry says die girls appreciate seeing the results of their own efforts "They have so much energy they need to use it constructively Some have never had pay-checks until this She has encouraged them to use die first check to buy leather gloves and the latter a necessity because of the hilly terrain and the possibility of snakes The enthusiasm shown on the job is not put on All are ambitious Among them one finds a girl wanting to join die diplomatic corps another who wants to become an interpreter another wishing to be a registered nurse One of the girls is presently taking a course in elec fied already even though the program will run until September 1st The NYC was devised to help youngsters from 15 to 21 years to earn money this summer The one stipuation is they must be members of an economically depressed family Within the first week they doubled the size of a 12 by 12 foot storage building This includes adding all siding and putting a roof on the entire structure Then they began the chore of house cleaning by putting all the tools and salvaged spare parts into proper places They moved heavy items such as rolls of wire and lengths of lumber They also moved on to other projects which include making firebreaks around the dozen or so cabins on the site and the many trees which shade the outdoor school They maintain trails which will be used by romping school children attending Scicon as part of their expanding education The girls also sorted repaired sharpened and repainted the scores of fire fighting tools They intend to work on some of the unfinished cabins Student Of Architecture Mrs Virginia Perry a teacher in the Porterville area and a former student of architecture at toe University of Southern California is the leader She instructs them removes splinters allies small bandages tronics while a fifth has a full four year scholarship to the University of California at Los Angeles this fall Truck Hits Large Rock Visalian Dies McClatchy New pa pen Service THREE RIVERS Tulare Co Horton 23 of Visalia died last night in a traffic wreck after a pickup truck hit a large rock just west of the Mineral King road on Highway 198 The driver Kenneth Doyle Spradlin 22 a roommate of the victim is in die Exeter Memorial Hospital with major head injuries The highway patrol says Spradlin will be charged with misdemeanor manslaughter and driving without a license The CHP said Spradlin was driving west about four miles west of Three Rivers when his pickup hit the rock bounced over the top of the rock and came to rest on its wheels Horton was pronounced dead on arrival at the Exeter Hospital Funeral arrangements are being made for Horton at the Hadley Chapel in Visalia He is Tulare 45th traffic death this year compared with 40 at this date a year ago By James Foley Fresno Bee start writer SPRINGVILLE Tulare The rasping of a wood saw the staccato rap of hammers the quiet slishing of paint brushes mingled with a chorus of feminine squeals These ingredients when mixed properly produce almost overnight a storage building and repairs on rustic mountain cabins the new look in carpentry and maintenance and-it is taking place at the 65 acre Clemmie Gill School of Science and Conservation north of here It is where this summer 15 young girls all from Porter-vile work a 32 hour week at a job entirely new to them learning how to use hand tools chop dead brush learn new words learn cooperation and at the same time earn money The girls are part of the countywide neighborhood youth corps project which is part of the war on poverty They put in their work week for $125 an hour The work looks and is hard It is regular carpentry and general maintenance work But ask any of the 15 girls how they like it and you will get the same quick response: is a ball" All the girls were recruited by Charles Rich the director of science conservation and education at Scicon It is a pilot program to see if the girls can handle die job and he is satis jutant Baysel (Buck) Moyers executive Officers Miller operations officers Eldon Dill intelligence officer Dr Herbert Kent finance officer Gordon Flaa supply officer and Walter Fisher and McNamara directors The squadron is composed of volunteers who work with officers in search operations for lost persons in the mountains and her husband Thomas Pelham 47 who was not present during the spanking took Danny to the Sierra View Hospital The hospital reported he was dead on arrival Dr James Sargent Hanford pathologist who performed the autophy testified that wounds on the head buttocks and legs js Mother Lode community and were made at the same time She said her brother had been given the choice of a spanking or going without television for a week because he had eaten a half jar Of honey without permission Rosemary said her brother 'fought back with his fists and tried to scratch 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