The Times-News from Twin Falls, Idaho • 5

Tuesday, July 11, 1972 Times-News, Twin Falls. Idaho 5 No evidence TF LID projects begin on streets Watermelon bombing proves to be hoax BOISE (UPI) A Boise Police arson investigation has found no evidence to indicate arson in a fire at the unoccupied Idaho Old Soldiers Home. The Boise fire department responded Sunday night with three trucks and 10 firemen. Firemen at the scene said the fire started in the basement of the building and at that time they thought arson may have been involved. The story grew.

The jollity spread. Finally, to howls of laughter from his colleagues, one officer sat down and composed a fictitious crime report, starring "exhibit the watermelon. By midnight, the tale had grown, like Pinocchio's nose and a reporter called the station to ask if anything was happening. "Not much, except for a guy who got hit on the head with a 51-pound watermelon dropped by his replied an officer, reading the crime report. "It really isn't funny," said a spokesman for the department.

"It's quite embarassing. We've checked it out and there isn't a seed of truth to it." He said later shifts may have been fooled by the phony crime report, and innocently passed the story along. An investigation now being conducted may result in suspensions, he added. Carr, 6 others charged by jury TWIN FALLS Reconstruction and improvement of parts of nine Twin Falls streets under a half-million dollar Local Improvement District project began today. The work, which includes street reconstruction, installation of drains and catch basins, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, will continue on an accelerated basis with all streets to be paved and completed by Sept.

26. Neilsen and contractors, will be announcing detours and area closures during the projects. The construction contract is in the amount of $484,278.25. City Manager Jean Milar said today the first streets to be brought under reconstruction are Russett and Shoshone streets. Work on Russett will run from South Park Avenue to the railroad tracks to the north.

Equipment was scheduled to move to the site today with excavation and demolition work go be completed by July 17 along with railroad crossing drains. Curb and gutter will be completed by July 21 and the asphalt will be placed by Aug. 2. On Shoshone Street, reconstruction will run from Second Avenue North and East to Sixth Avenue North and East. Excavation and demolition was scheduled to begin today and be completed by Aug.

4. Manholes Avenues will be under reconstruction Aug 16 to Sept. 14. Martin Street and a small section of Morningside will be started Aug. 17 and completed Sept.

26. Martin Street improvements will extend from Addison Avenue West to Heyburn Avenue. Milar said improvement of structures over Eighth Avenue Lateral, where reconstruction programs are scheduled, will be completed this fall and winter to avoid interference with irrigation water delivery. He said residents of Twin Falls are asked for patience and understanding during the reconstruction program. "Because of the nature of the work, these projects come during hot, dusty weather and there will be some inconveniences and unpleasant conditions.

"We are certain when the project is complete residents will agree it was worth the inconvenience of the construction period," he said. Milar said the downtown area which is now a functional and attractive area is an example of what can be accomplished by reconstruction work. Schedules, he said, are furnished by the contractor to keep the public informed on what the work plans are at this time. They are preliminary and may be modified as work progresses. and catch basins will be constructed from July 26 to Aug.

2 The entire street is scheduled for completion by Aug. 29. Milar said the industrial area will not include sidewalks, but Shoshone Street will include some sidwalks. In the business area where full sidewalks run from the curb to the building, only the outside sidewalk is being replaced by the local improvement district. Persons wishing to replace the walk areas adjacent to their business buildings may contact Neilsen and Co.

and make arrangements for the additional work at their own expense, Milar said. Sidewalk and driveway work on Shoshone Street is scheduled from Aug. 9 to 15. Other projects beginning in the immediate future will include South Park Avenue from Washington Street west to the city limits. Work on this street begins Friday and will be completed by mid August.

Other parts of the project include Locust Street from Heyburn to Fourth Avenue East, scheduled to begin the first week in August and be completed Sept. 14. The same work schedule applies to Elizabeth Boulevard from Locust to Madrona Streets. Glendale, a short section of Street, and Sunrise Boulevard from Heyburn to Shoup with broken ribs, collarbone and punctured lung, while detectives hunted for Miss Jones. There is no Miss Jones.

Nor does the O.C. Henry in the police report exist. There was no watermelon bombing. But there is a big watermelon, and that, it appears, inspired the tale. As police investigators tell it': Patrolman Gary Lowden and his partner, Larry Whitman, brought the giant watermelon to the stationhouse Saturday.

They had bought it, and intended to split it later and take it home. As other officers came and went, they asked questions about the presence of the big green oblong. A few bored lieutenants began telling other officers to keep their hands off the watermelon "to preserve the fingerprints. We're booking it as evidence in an assault case." Give your boat the same quality protection as you give your home and car. "All Risk" coverage is the answer.

UNITED PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY A Member of United Pacific Insurance Group yf 1 Is. used the money to buy a controlling block of stock in the South Atlantic Co. of Tampa, Fla. Later, the indictment said, they borrowed another $550,000 from the Exchange Bank of Dallas and put up the assets of National Bankers Life as collateral. The indictment also said they were unable to pay back the loan from their stock investment deal, so they covered it with another loan.

The second loan was made from the Exchange Bank of Dallas, and the men are accused of putting up the assets of National Bankers Life as collateral for this loan. Carr, the Democratic Party's LOS ANGELES (UPI)-The 51-pound watermelon weapon was grown by the Piltdown man with seeds he bought for a $3 bill from one of Orson Wells' Martian invaders. In other words, it was phony. The detectives who thought up the hoax may have plenty of time to eat their- enormous watermelon on the picnics they can go on while they are suspended without pay. Local newspapers, radio and television stations, and national news agencies picked up the tale of the "assault with a deadly watermelon" promulgated Sunday by 77th district stationhouse.

According to the story, one "O.C. Henry," had an argument over a welfare check with his grilfriend, "Ofena Jones." As police told it, Henry stalked angrily from the house, but the unforgiving Ofena called to him from an upstairs window. As Henry looked up, Miss Jones let fly with a 51-pound watermelon, which smashed him to earth. The watermelon was supposed to have survived the impact undamaged, but not so Henry, who was hospitalized Area meet postponed BURLEY The meeting between Western Ambulance officials and the Cassia County commissioners scheduled for 8 a.m. Monday was postponed until 10 a.m.

today. About 25 interested persons arrived to attend the Monday meeting but the commissioners had not been informed about the meeting so it was re-scheduled. Roger Porter, owner-manager of Western Ambulance, requested a subsidy from the county in January when the budget was being prepared. The commissioners refused the request at that time. Western Ambulance will again make the subsidy request of the commissioners.

PROTECTION FOR YOUR BOATING PLEASURE FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI)-Former Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr and six others were charged Monday with using funds from one of their own insurance firms to pay off personal debts in excess of $582,000. The firm, National Bankers Life, went bankrupt. The federal indictment was the first criminal action against Carr to come out of the Texas stock fraud scandal although he was a defendant in a civil suit filed 18 months ago by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The grand jury for the Northern District of Texas, sitting in Fort Worth but investigating under a Dallas venue, returned the indictments against Carr, his law partner John Osorio, Joseph P.

Novot-ny, Tom Max Thomas and David Hooper. They had all been named in the SEC's suit of Jan. 18, 1971. Also indicted were Houston attorney Thano Demaris and Dallas attorney Jarrell B. Ormand.

The grand jury accused Carr, attorney general from 1963 to 1966, and Osorio, a former Texas state insurance commissioner, with first borrowing $550,000 from the City Bank and Trust which at the time was controlled by central stock scandal figure Frank Sharp of Houston. The government said the pair Another demand before chess play 5 1 candidate for senator who lost to Sen. John Tower in 1966 and a candidate for governor who ran third in the 1968 Democratic primary, could get up to 99 years in prison if convicted on all 21 counts. Carr, Osorio and Novotny, a former president of the Sharp-stown State Bank of Houston, were indicted on 10 counts of mail fraud and two counts of wire fraud. Carr, Osorio, Thomas, Hooev-er, Ormand and Dameris were indicted on two counts of filing false reports to SEC, four counts of fraud in the sale of securities, four counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy.

made starts York demanding more money, Spassky was walking the streets of Reykjavik patting children on the head, conversing with local chess players and piling up points in the prematch popularity contest. The prize money was raised from the original $125,000 to $250,000 through a wealthy British banker named Jim Slater who came up with more cash to save the match. RG INSlKtMSCE 241 SH0SH0HE ST. N. 733-3410 REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The $250,000 world championship chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky was still go today, but Fischer made a last minute demand to stop televising the first of the scheduled 24-game series.

"There will be no tv filming tonight, but we hope some other arrangements can be made so they can film later during the match," said Fred Cramer, vice president of the U. S. Chess Federation. Fischer said the television cameras, hidden behind cloth-covered scaffolding above the stage where the players will sit, would distract him. Fischer's opponent, world champion Boris Spassky, said he was ready to play.

"Everything is fine with me," said the popular Russian. Cramer said earlier that Fischer was "go, go go." The first game was scheduled to. start at 5 p.m. (1 p.m. EDT).

with Fischer the experts' favorite but Spassky far ahead in the popularity poll. Both men made final inspection tours of the sports arena where the match will be played. Fischer made an unannounced tour early in the day and Ukd) nnjkffic Spassky strolled in at noon (8 a.m. EDT). Spassky studied the chess board and picked out a chair from among several provided by the Reykjavik furniture stores.

Fischer earlier had his favorite chair flown in from New York. Fischer earlier complained about a number of details in the hall, including he lighting, the chess board and the size of the chess pieces, the television cameras and the thickness of the window drapes. To accommodate Fischer, the lighting was dimmed and the first row of spectator seats was moved farther away from the stage so the nearest spectator would be about 25 yards away. An unofficial poll among chess experts assembled in Reykjavik showed the 29-year-old Fischer the favorite. But most of Iceland's 210,000 chess-mad citizens were behind Spassky.

Only a few weeks ago the fans of Iceland were with the unpredictable American but he lost his popularity quickly when he demanded more money and failed to show up in time for the scheduled July 2 start of the match. While Fischer was in New North Idaho Junior College at Coeur d'Alene, and graduated from Idaho State University with a major in elementary education major and music minor. Also hired was Larry Newlan as janitor. He and his wife are from Castleford and have three children. LaRae Brown was rehired as bus mechanic and driver.

Other busdrivers hired were Mrs. Carol Peterson and Mrs. Regina Erwin, and James Welhausen, relief driver. Supt. Neil Andreason announced that school will begin Aug.

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