Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 1

10-24-6 tr or Or. Library Eusta, Ofgtl k17103 16 Arrest Of Brudos Leads OSL Goec's Jp maiiMiii'f Oat 1W7JIUM fj VI WWW i him, he changed the subject to religion but became noticeably upset when she questioned one of his beliefs, a philosophy of right and wrong that one should "decide your own rules." During the conversation, he twice made reference to the BB. IB wg py-uder Groups On the way Brudos said he was in prison camp for.three and a half years. When she" questioned Aim about Viet- nam; he had little to say. When they arrived at the drive-in, he asked: "Why would you go out on a date with me why would you trust He tiien started discussing the possibilities of his.

kidnapping her and the motives for such an act and asked, "What would you do if I tried rape you?" When she said she'd fight The caller Brudos, and the father of two children." The coed, an attractive Junior, said she was busy with a term paper. The male -caller said he iiad learned a new method of studying while at.Walter Reed Hospital debriefed oir. his Viet- nam experiences. He was willing to share this method. "It aroused my curiosity," the coed admitted.

"I guess I'm gullible." 2 me a half the coed finally agreed, saying she would be ready just before 10 p.m. By the time Brudos arrived, the girl had decided it would be better-to stay at the dormitory and asked him to join heln the -lounge. a little' irritated we weren't -leaving but After sitting in the lounge, he started to massage her shoulders, saying this was his new study method, a system of relaxation. The girl admitted she was a bit startled by the development. body of Linda Salee was found to the Long Tom River south, of Corvallis.

Two days later the body of Karen Sprinker was discovered in the same area of the river. Both girls were murder-victims. Only two days later, WednesdayfMay 14," atrOSU coed who wishes to remain anonymous received a phone call at 9 p.m. The unidentified caller -said he had just returned from Vietnam and wanted a "coke date" simply to talk to somebody. fact-that lie-hadn't tried to rape" her.

Then Brudos started complaining about having to replace the motor in his car which his sister had ruined. "This rang a bell," the coed (Continued on page 2, col. 5) Established 1862 A A By MIKE BRADLEY G-T Newt Editor A petition calling for a "911" telephone emergency system in Corvallis and "Benton-County was taken under consideration by the Corvallis City Council last night. The system would permit anyoneJftdjal .911. for any type of emergency help.

Th petition was presented to the City Council by way of a letter from Aura Roseo, president elect of the Corvallis chapter of the Oregon -State Retired Teachers Association, and Martin H. Baker, president of the Corvallis chapter of the American Association of Retired Personv Some72 persons signed the petition. The letters pointed to an article in the December1968, issue of Readers Digest outlined how the system worked in communities that have adopted it Many lives are saved and crimes averted through 'the system, it said. The council was asked to urge the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. to adopt the system.

The council asked City Manager C. Dean Smith to in $wmi PRICE 10 CENTS TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1969 CORVALLIS, OREGON, vestigate and report bacjya the council at the next meeting. nn 7 rn 1 fl 1 Council Action The council gave automobile dealers 30 days in which to remove all cars parked on the Willamette riverfront property owned by the city. The city will pay for the Dixon t-reeK tne proposea 1 iv' im Crnnn lic Man a. 'V I 1 I un Ubz tvans 1 I i i i In Sea Collision A Benton County Navyrnan, IC1C Jesse Perkins was aboard the destroyer USS Frank E.

Evans that was cut in two in a collision with an Australian carrier today. Perkins ia the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Perkins, 1175 SE Third. He has served in the US.

Navy for 10 years and has been aboard the destroyer for one year. His father said no word about his son had been received yet today. By JACK RICKARD G-TCity Editor A May "14 phone call to an Oregon. -State University coed led directly to the arrest of Jerome Henry Brudos, charged with four counts' of first degree murder. (See column 3, also.) Brudos, a former Corvallis "resident, was arrested Monday in Salem on charges of murdering four The 30-year-old Salem is scheduled for arraignment Wednesday in Salem.

On Saturday, May 10, the VOL. 62, NO. 28 Brudos Due In Court Wednesday Jerome Henry Brudos, 30, Salem, will appear in Marion County District Court at 9 a.m. Wednesday to answer charges ron four counts of firstdegree murder. Brudos' court-appointed attorney, Dale Drake of Salem, said he will ask for a preliminary hearing.

A former Corvallis resident, Brudos was arrested Monday and charged with the killing of four young women. The. charges were filed in Marion" County on the assumption that all of the slaymgs took place there and to consolidate handling of the case against Brudos. Brudos is charged with killing Karen Sprinker, 19, Salem; Linda Salee, 22, Beaverton; Jan Whitney, 23, McMirawille; and a Jane Doe whose real name and residence are either not known to authorities or not reported and who is said to have been killed about July 1, 1968. The bodies of Miss Salee and Miss Sprinker were found in the 'Long Tom River 13 miles south of Corvallis on May 10 and 12 respectively.

Miss Whitney's body has not been found. She disappeared Nov. 26 at the Santiam rest stop on Interstate north of Albany. Dist Atty. Gary Gortmaker of Marion County issued a brief press statement Monday in connection with Brudos' arrest but has not been available to answer his questions.

His secretary reported him in conference throughout Monday and again today. It is known that Brudos lived in Corvallis from 1957 through 1963. He transferred to Corvallis High school In the 1956-57 school year from North Salem high and graduated from CHS In 1958. He ranked 142nd in a class of 202 at Corvallis High with an overall 2.12 grade point average. Brudos was employed as an elevator operator-bellhop at the Benton Hotel and later as a carpenter and as an electronics repairman for Harms and Rogoway.

He was also employed as a night (Continued on page 2, col. 6) tio) IU tUllIltXl Willi DUlUttlldll. 11IC UC.CIupci VI pivyvii.jr iu the area, Charles S. Wilson, asked the city to carry the after he agreed to construction of an access road to NW Fourth and would pay the cost of signals at the railroad crossings, plus the cost of the streets. The council said it would be some time before the culvert was put in.

At the request of downtown merchants, the council told City Attorney James Eickelberg to draw an ordinance that would permit the merchants to display their wares on sidewalks in the downtown area on July 16 for their Crazy Daze promotion. 1 The council. accepted minutes of the Library Board that, say the library" will be closed on Friday evenings from June 16 to Sept. 1. The council was informed that Karl Helms, Negro member of the Human Relations Committee, has resigned.

The com- mittee said it has again invited Helms 'to provide details to charges of-discrimination in Corvallis as related to the Focus Club in May. Helms has been requested four times to meet with the committee, it said, but so far has failed to do so. The committee said it would meet at any time Helm sdesired. The Council awarded a contract to Corvallis Sand and Gravel Co. for the paving of four streets NW Conifer, -SE Viewmont and streets in Rodger's Hill addition and King's View second addition.

The firm was low. bidder at $92,576. The bid was as much as 7.4 per cent above the-engineering estimates, indicating the increase. in costs, officials said. r- Two-inch waters continued fo plague the council, with a policy on how to assess costs for enlarged lines undetermined.

As a result, the Council sent back to committee the problem of what to do to provide water to a house construction on SW Oetjen Drive that would reduce the supply to houses already on the two-inch line. i A two-inch line" already Installed In NW 26th north of Grant is adequate to serve her. property, an' attorney for ha A rWploner is asking for I PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii Asnfalf (API Navy ships LOlVaillS PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii Navy ships "Think of something sad," he asked. When she couldn't, he said, of those two girls who -were "That was an awful to have happen," he added. Then Brudos -wanted to leave and asked her to walk -around -the block-He said people around the lounge area were "bothering him." After a short walk he persuaded her to go to a local drive-in for a Coke.

She reminded him- she had to be back by 10:30 p.m. Mrs. Mary Cohen, 75, who said she bought the building about 12 years ago after it had been damaged in a fire, Slie said the building con- tamed 30 apartment units, but two were unused. James Halloran, director of the fire department, said the-blaze started around an abandoned elevator shaft at the rear of the building. In State expected the final total in the county to be around 60 per cent of those eligible.

In Lane County a spot check showed 3 to 8 per cent turnout by 10 a.m. Precinct chairmen said this was usual for the first two hours. They said they expected a big surge around i p.m. Polls close at 8 p.m. (Continued on page 2, col.

cWent from their small outboard 200 yards away. The bnyi raced, to the scene, and David diwe Into the watrr to support tin elderly man who wai trying to find some part of tli sunken craft to hold onto. He towed the man to the boys' boot and helped him aboard, while Bon helped Mm. Wagnofl Into the same boat. i Paul Drathrrsge.

15. Son of Mm, B. L. Dratlierape, 2361 NW Grant, meanwhile had rowed to the acrr, and pulled the eight-yfar-old girl out of the wator. Wagnon prefer-rd to remain with his boat, which had only about three tret of the pmw showing.

The bnya took the tliree peraotis to short, then returned to (Continued on pg 2, cot. I) to I i i v. r. .1 i WHERE TWELVE DIED all that remain of the top Ing in Kansas City after. and rook the lives of 12 searching the debris for missing persons.

Bodies of a small child and a woman were found in the area being searched. AP VVIREPHOTO UUlulc CiUWruus iaiu ws vvwva. 1 iv.in-h linn tn surve timnprtv in the area, and the Edwards Twelve Killed In Kansas City Blaze property would be included in the assessment district under the current plan. The council sent it back to committee for further, study. The council declared Its Intent to pave SE Ryan Street from Alexander to Denman; and the alley between NW 27rh and 28th from Jackson to 28m.

cost of a culvert to carry extension oi nun oireei perty within the district, the remainder to be derived from other income sources. The budget previously was defeated by a substantial margin. It was returned to the voters yesterday without change, the budget committee having determined that no cut could be 'Wade without Impairment of the educational program. swimming with Davis and Ilogan, told authorities that Davis and HoRan were attempting to swlra across the river when they were caught by swift currents. They called for help, then disappeared from view as the river carried them downstream.

The three notified police and searchers found Hogan passed out In a clump of bushes on the opposite tide of the river. Divers resumed the search for Davis today. Inside Today A sea school budget Wins By Three Voies porch screaming for help. Wa.jan up the stairway of the building, knocking on doors and telling everyone to close their windows and shut the doors. The fire wasn't that bad then.

"But when the people opened the doors to escape," Twenter said, "the draft up." The apartment is owned by Vote Light tor, as heavier than expected. "It Is such a nice day," he said, "that maybe the oldsters are walking to the polls early." Everywhere In Oregon the weather was fine. Weldon said one east county precinct had a 25 per cent turnout by 10:30 a about normal for a general election. However, Weldon said, he Three votes gave approval to the Alsea school budget in yesterday's second vote on the $256,099 financial issue. Final count was 99 ballots approving the measure, and 96 against it, according to the report from Superintendent Bernard Adamson's office today.

Of the $256,099 total of the budget, only $127,569 would be raised by tax levy on pre- crisscrossed the South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam today but failed to find more of 73 men missing after an Australian carrier cut a U.S. destroyer in two. The bow section of the USS Frank E. Evans sank swiftly after it was rammed by the Melbourne during maneuvers about 240 miles southeast of Saigon just before dawn Tuesday Saigon time. The Navy's latest listed one American sailor dead, 73 missing from the Evans, and 200 survivors, in cluding the skipper, Cmdr.

A. S. MtLemore. No casualties were reported on the Melbourne. The Evans was a famed World War II destroyer which weathered a massive kamikaze attack tn 1945.

It was based at Long Beach, Calif. The collision occurred during maneuvers by warships of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization. The survivors were taken aboard the Melbourne and later transferred to the USS Kearsarge, a carrier that rushed to the scene from It station 85 miles away. The Melbourne, Involved a similar disaster on Feb. 10, 1964, headed for Singapore.

Radio Australia said the ship was expected to arrive Thursday. of the Kearsarge was not Immediately known. But the Navy sail one man In critical condition was flown to a U.S. hospital at Cam Ranh Bay, on the South Vietnamese coast 200 miles northeast of Saigon. There was no report on how mwiy of the destroyer's survivors were Injured.

8arch parties later boarded the aft section of the Evsns, still afloat at last report, to recover classified documents and salvage what they could. Adm. John 11 1 Pacific fleet commander, Immediately ordered a court of Inquiry into the collision. There were no details on exactly how the disaster occurred. The vessels were among some 40 warships of six 5RATO nations taking part In maneuvers, called "Sea Spirit The maneuvers were cancelled after the collision.

The weaBtw was clear, the km calm and both ships wet equipped with radar. The destroyer, steaming nearby, had been escorting the carrier as took on plane. School Cost Tops In State SALEM (AP) The Corvallis school district ranlou highest among the state's 31 largest districts In the amount of money it spends per student. During the 1967-68 school year, it spent $71'4 per student. The Ontario district was lowest wim per siutrenu The figures were released today by Dale Parnell, State Superintendent of public Instruction.

Here Is the spending per student In the other 29 targes districts, from the largest amount to the smallest: West Linn $707, Pendleton $702, Eugene CVA- Uirth Bend, $680; Coos Bay $663, Oregon City $658, The Dalles $654, Reynolds, Multnomah County, $651, David Douglas, Multnomah County $651, Parkrose $850, Springfield, Lincoln County, $647, Bend $646; Beaverton $646, Lake Oswego $642, Medford $638, McMinnville $631, Ashland $625, Hood River $804, Portland $595, Josephine County $588, Roseburg $571, Klamath County $551, Salem $541, and Baker $500. ParneU's survey shows that the Portland school district has the highest true cash value per student, $39,608 1967-68. The David Douglas district was lowest with $17,337. TJcallhcir fwvitlit VtiHri Fair patrhy Hiornina fof Urn UnKla Ittraufk Wniaaaday. Lot mc Ma, Blah, u.

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Firemen are shown in serious condition at General Hospital from Injuries suffered, police said, when he jumped from the third floor-with the child cradled in his arms. Cornelius and Charles Twenter, brothers who live were 'passing the building in a car. Cornelius said "there was a man standing above the front Sales Tax A moderate to light voter turnout, was reported this morning In Oregon's special sales tax election. An exception was In Multnomah County where the early vote was described by John Weldon, elections direc- CAKMICHAEL Mtf peettY Witt IT UP FO fifl OFFICE 4yM Junction City Youth Feared Lost In River KANSAS CITY -(AP) -Twelve persons including six believed to belong to one family died as fire swept an apartment building early today, and police began looking for two former residents who had been evicted. Police said one young man evicted for not paying his rent was reported seen around the building early today on the south side of the mid town business district Officers said they also wanted to talk with another youth thrown out last Sunday for allowing friends to move in with Sgt Dan Breece of the police arson squad said they found no evidence Immediately that the blaze had been set.

Eight of the fire victims were children. The blaze was discovered In the three-story, L-shaped brick structure shortly after 2 o'clock and burned out of control for about two hours. Among the dead was five-month-old Harry Smith. His father, Lawrence Smith, 30, is Education has proposed raising tuition from tra) to a year for non-Oregon students. Yu Wing Yin, an orcanlar of the protest, said the foreign students "fully understand that, even with Die Increase, our eduration Is bring subsidized by the state.

In that respect are gratrftil. But we sUU fed we-have Just" Sonja Swrrk. of stuoVnt body vice president, said a "CollrRe Caravan" of students from all state Institution! wrxi Id at lend a Jun 10 meeting Of the fdiifiUon board to protest the Increase. Corvallis Scouts Save Family Of 4 U0 Foreign Students Protest Tuition Hike JUNCTION CITY (AP) -An 18-year-old youth who at- tempU-d to swim to an Island In the middle of the Willnmclte Rlvrr war here Monday afternoon Is missing and prcsumca uiwtutu, ic Stewart Davis of Junction City. A lon-DarrcU i lloean.

lso Junction City managed to reach short, but was found ex hausted and unconscious, ne was trratrd it Eugene hospital and later released. Three others, who had been Today's First Cash Ad IM rot wr.ri ts. 4 rinsr run TW mat Mr. and Clyde Wagnon. ICS North First Street, Springfield, are thankful for an alert group of Corvallis Scouts.

Three members of Explorer Post no wers on Cougar BeM-rvoir, east of F-URrne, In two small boats about 7 m. whrn the throttle of the 11-foot outboard jummrd In reverse, wstr pnured over the transom and the boot sank, stern llrst, throwing Mr. and Mrs. Wagnnn. their elgtit-ytpar-old and TOyriirold unrlr Into 30 feet of Walrr, David Rrcle, 1, aon of Mr.

and Mrs. Hndgrr HrgWe. 1U NW 11th. nd Kon Wwltt, IS, son of Mr. and Mia Jamni PWsfjt, luoi Xib, saw the EUGENE (AP) A proposed tuition Increase for out-of-town and foreign, students in State universities drew sharp protest Monday from some 300 University of Orrjjoo students.

The students, organized by the Foreign Students Association of Oregon, gnUvred outside the student union building on the of campus. Stanley president of the Foreign Student Association of Oregon State University, said he hoped the oVrrvwwtritlnn would give education policy makm an loa of the foreign stiKkflt's problems. XIm Stat Board Uifihar Today's Markets 2 Editorials 4 Ann Landers 8 Crossword Purzle 8 Women's News 9 TV Schedule 10 Sport 12, 13 Comirs 14 15, 16, 17 AmuwmcnU.