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The Billings Gazette, Wednesday Morning, Sept. 10, 1958 3 Appointed to College Faculty Get Probation GREAT FALLS (UPI) Federal Judge W. J. Jameson imposed three-year probationary sentences on two airmen who pleaded guilty Tuesday to breaking into the Malmstrom Air Force Base post office. Billy Morton, 21, and Richard Jones, 20, were charged with intent to commit larceny.

Legion District Meet Planned Two Local Delegates To Attend Session Engineers Make Crossing Study Group Considering MSE Affiliation Testimony Ends In Kirby Case Expert Describes 'Hairtrigger' Gun Testimony in the manslaughter The Billings Engineers Club, meeting Monday night, heard a trial of Richard Kirby ended in preliminary report of a club com District Court Tuesday afternoon mittee making a study of prob I after a gun expert described as a "hairtrigger" weapon the gun that killed Thomas Shurtz last lems created by the bisection of the city by the Northern Pacific 1 1 XM April 16. bus post, said. Stanley Pearsall of Park City, district commander, will be in charge of the Legion business session. Delegates will arrive from Billings, Hardin, Red Lodge, Broadview, Huntley, Fromberg, Belfry, Hysham, Park City, Custer, Lodge Grass, Laurel, Crow Agency and Nye, besides Columbus, Brunk-horst said. Representatives will report of their post activities and make plans for 1958-59 projects before a joint Legion and auxiliary banquet to be held Sunday evening.

Railway Co. right of way. Alternative solutions presented Lee Freeman and Edward Wamsley will be the official delegates from Yellowstone Post No. 4, American Legion, to the district meeting in Columbus Sunday. Over 200 Legionnaires and members of their auxiliary will attend this fall meeting in the American Legion Hall.

Separate meeting will be held between the Legion and auxiliary members in district 11, Calvin Brunk-horst, commander of the Colum- George M. Fischer, 1154 N. 34th Billings gunsmith, examined the .22 caliber target revolver and by the committee were bridging over the tracks or tunneling under them for traffic on 27th. f. concluded it was defective.

Broadway and 29th bridging Fischer said a sear spring which normally holds the hammer in a half-cocked, safety position had the three streets or tunneling under them or removing the right of way to the southern edge of the city. been broken. EUGENE W. ELLIOTT Kirby had testified earlier that the gun was defective, but he in sisted he did not make the dis A. KENT MARLER Eight Named To EMCE Staff covery until after the weapon dis charged and Shurtz lay writhing on schror, Robert Olund and Clay Brinck from the Montana Society of Engineers in a discussion of affiliation of the Billings club with the state society.

As a result Charles Wilson, club president, named a committee headed by Ed the floor. The defense rested about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday after testimony by two character witnesses. They were Charles Pope and Michael Waldo to study the matter of af filiation. Eight new teachers have joined the faculty of Eastern Montana Nihill, both acquaintances of the defendant.

College of Education, Dr. H. Steele, president, said Tuesday Of these alternatives, the committee said, the least expensive would be bridging the streets over the tracks. However, it said that the presence of either bridges or tunnels in the middle of the business district would be unsatisfactory and would reduce the value of property in the vicinity of the crossings. The committee said it believed the increase in value of the railroad property in the middle of the city were the tracks removed to be sufficient to defray most of the costs of transferring the right of way to the south.

Copies of the study, requested by Ronald Thompson, city-county planner, were sent to the city-county planning board, the Chamber of Commerce, the city engineer and the county surveyor. The engineers also heard a panel consisting of Don Kamp- The jury will hear final arguments at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday be Appointed coordinator of the Man Is Ordered To State Prison Crippled Children's Center fore retiring to seek a verdict. Eastern is David McGann, former Kirby faces up to 10 years' imprisonment if he is convicted. instructor at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass, McGann, who took his master'; degree from the University Connecticut, has done graduate study at Yale, Syracuse and Bos Suspension of a two-year prison sentence pronounced in June on a 20-year-old Billings man was revoked Tuesday by Dist.

Judge Ben Harwood. ton Universities. Testifying in his own behalf, the 31-year-old furnace cleaning firm manager indicated Shurtz himself could have loaded the target revolver without anyone else knowing about it. Kirby is on trial before Dist. Judge Guy C.

Derry in connection with the fatal shooting of SLurtz, 24-year-old salesman for Kirby's firm. The shooting occurred in Kirby's former home His appointment as coordina- tor at the center fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Robert Mattson. Mrs. Adelheid Blomster will join the EMCE staff as a part- time instructor in music. She taught piano in Zurich, Switzer at 2225 Tree Lane.

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Pease, 20, 2404 1st Ave. was ordered to begin serv-: ing the term he received for stealing 450 pounds of copper cable from the Montain States Telephone Telegraph Co. The revocation was based on an allegation by the county attorney's office that Pease had conspired in the rape of a 17-year-old girl late last month and had frequented a south-side bar. i In another criminal case before Harwood, Wilson J. Shields, 28-year-old Brockton Indian, pleaded tor in German at the University Kirby described Shurtz as a close friend who had lived in the den of Kirby's home for about a of Colorado.

Wesley V. Blomster, also a for year before the shooting. mer member of the Colorado fac The bespectacled, well-groomed ulty, will teach modern languages at EMCE. He graduated from the defendant cooly described himself 95 State University of Iowa, took $199 master's from the University of as a gun collector who often had practiced "fast draw" techniques with Shurtz and Mrs. Kirby at home.

Colorado and studied at the Uni innocent to a forgery information Bond was fixed at $1,500, and the case was set for trial at the next versity of Vienna. Eugene Elliott, instructor in He said the mock duels were term of criminal court. science, a former Shell Oil Co employe in Billings, holds a doc i Shields was accused of forging Your Choice: Right or Left Hand Door RUDY'S FURNITURE APPLIANCE 3737 Monrona Avenue performed with empty guns as training for competition at a California pistol meet he planned to enter. tor's degree from the State Uni versity of Iowa. the name John Vallie to a $25 check he allegedly gave to the I Yellowstone County Trades and Other new faculty members in -At one point in the testimony, 'Labor Assembly.

Kirby removed his coat and (at elude Joseph C. Honan instructor in English; Howard Lor-enz, part-time instructor in geolo the request of his counsel) strapped on the death weapon and holster. Standing before the jury box in the manner well gy; Robert J. McRae, assistant professor of science, and A. Kent Marler, instructor in speech, Honan has a B.A.

degree from known to western movie viewers, he proceeded to give the jury a lesson in hip-level drawing. the University of Southern Cali fornia and M.A. degree from the Of events leading up to the University of Missouri. Lorenz has B.S. and M.S.

de grees from the University of Ne shooting of Shtrrtz, Kirby said he had used the death weapon three days before while target practicing in the hills north of braska. He had been associated HDt no with Gulf Oil Billings, as con Billings. suiting petroleum geologist since He said he emptied the gun by 1951. firing all the rounds in the cylin McRae has B.A. and M.A.

de grees from Montana State Uni der before returning home. He said he planned at first to hang the gun and holster on a hook versity. He was previously teach ing assistant at the University of in the den, but instead laid them Washington. on a chair because the hook was Marler has a B.A. degree from broken.

Idaho State College and M.A. de gree from Montana State Univer He said he did not remember seeing the holster and gun again sity. He formerly was a member of the English staff at Western until lust before the shooting, while he was demonstrating sales Montana College of Education, Dillon. techniques to Shurtz and a new does an inspired series of DESIGNER PUMPS De Liso Debs does a complete new series of Designer Pumps, your most important shoe for Autumn. Pumps that pay flattering attention to the new lines in clothes pumps with delicate details.

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was stored in the den. The defendant identified one of five cartridges he removed from the death weapon after the shoot ing as a steel-jacketed type used 'Flame Girl' Entries Named bv Shurtz only. Kirby said he had forbidden Shurtz to use any other type of cartridge than copper-clad in the gun. County Atty. Joe Buley brought The first five candidates in the out on cross-examination that Kir annual "Flame Girl" contest, bv had accidentally shot the fam staged each year in connection with Fire Prevention Week, were ily's babysitter in the arm with a pellet gun about a week before Shurtz was shot.

announced Tuesday by the Billings Jaycees. Kirby said the sitter, Mrs The Jaycee contest chairman, Karole Becker, 16, got in the way James Straw, said entrants thus of a pellet as he was firing at a fare are Pat Layne of 110 N. tin can in the basement of the 25th Miss Arthur Murray; Kirby home. At the time, he said, Dawn Stnngfellow of 1236 Ave Mrs. Becker was neiping ni with his eun practice.

Miss Aldrich Fairie Belle Winter of 1840 Wyoming Kirby told the court he could I ffJl THE SHORTY Miss Vaughn Ragsdale; Roslyn not recall telling police in a sign Russell of 8 Locust Miss Mon tana Enterpnze, and Deanna ed statement that he had said, "And now we will shoot Tom." The remark purportedly was Griffin of 217 S. 30th Miss Gaman Floral. made an instant before the gun discharged. Flame Girl candidates will par Later Kirby said his memory ticipate in many activities during Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 5-11, and will be dinner guests of the was refreshed and that he did make the statement both to police and at an inquest shortly Billings Jaycees Oct.

1. Some of the activities include riding in alter jsnunz aiea in a cuungs hospital. the Air Fair Parade Oct. 4, the fire truck parade, sliding down However, he said the statement On the first cool night put your youngsters in warm cozy Carter Sundown Sleepers the fire department evacuator may have been purely "mental." chute, conducting fire inspections I might not have said it at in several downtown business all," he told the court. "I might have just thought it." buildings with city fire inspectors, and combating an actual fire with Kirbv was the first defense wit fire department equipment.

ness after the state completed its case. Last prosecution witness Straw said entries for the Flame Girl contest are not closed and was Mrs. Becker, wno tesuiiea she saw the death weapon and any girl or business firm wishing to sponsor a candidate should holster on the morning of the contact him or Duane Johnson, shooting and moved them from one chair to another. JO JO OO cochairman. Mrs.

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