The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 19

ookkeeping Termed Outmoded City irrTHEY Second Degree Murder Choate Verdict On a "last ballot before Guilty Read dinner," a jury of six men Auditors Say System Meeds Broad Revision By IIAKVFY IT A firm of certified public accountants reports it is unable to express an opinion on the city's financial condition because, of the city's outmoded bookkeeping system. is available from the present ac- less of Bernar- in fhp and six women last night found Robert H. Choate guilty of-second degree murder in the fatal Crestline shooting last May 23 of Euro Luigi Sentencing is scheduled for 10 a.m. in On t-" i courtroom or superior louru Judge Archie IX Mitchell. Possi ble sentence is five years to life in prison.

The decision was placed in the dino, hired by the city to js n()t hosu.vcri conl. the annual audit, suggested that inU) a an(1 cohe. sweeping changes and revisions sjve be made in the city's bookkeeping" hands of the jury at 11:15 a.m.j'1"1 uilty by reason ot insanity. system. records as prcM-nily The CPAs softened their wi while well maintained, report with a personal appearance provide a clear picture of lu.fnro the miivoi- nml Chv Coim-lthe city's financial condition at a iven tiiv.e," the CPAs stated.

yesterday, following completion of instructions by Judge Mitchell. The jury halted discussion for lunch, then continued until p.m., when another break was scheduled for dinner. But the jury decided to take one more ballot, and came up with the de cision. (hoate was brought to the ourtroom by Dep. Ralph L.

Wll- cil in which they said that, in general, the books and records of the city are accurate and in excellent shape. i CI JP. i liams and Dep. Howard R. Johnson of the Sheriff's Office.

Dep.j (Continued on Column. 3) They adiled that the cooperation ing that we've outgrown our of city officials made it a pleas- system." ure to do the audit. Administrative Officer Cecil C. Wood, the city's top fiscal officer, In their written report, the ac- said it has bcerl known oi. somt, countants said: )jme tlutl arc needed in "We strongly recommend that some phases of the city's book- the entire record-keeping function 'keeping system.

be reviewed and revised so as to', He said, however, that setting create an efficient accounting sys-'up a new sjstem would require tern, maintained in accordance hiring of outside personnel to do with approved municipal account- the job. ing principles." (Sun-Telearam photo) Mines. Mellvine Fuchs, Ileverly Koh-ler, L. Khine and l'aul J. Hubbs.

lilood will be for patients of Inland Heart Center, San IWrnardino. TIIKV WANT liLOOl) Group of Colton women have volunteered to call on donors to procure hlood for heart surgery patients. From left are Voice of a Stranger on Phone May Be Asking for Your Blood EAWI E.BUIEl You Gotta Have Faith -And a Little Luck I suppose I am the neighlmr-ly People stop me on the street to ask me for a match. What time does the bus come? Where's the post office? Or to comment, "Whew, it's hot today!" It was Hie same way at the races. I had just sat down in Row 17 of I he grandstand at the Los Angeles County fairgrounds.

I had spread out my newspapers across my lap. I go up or down (usually down) with the newspaper horse handicap-pers first. I don't know anything about horses except that they have four leet, and, second, I have an abiding faith in my belief that newspaper people know everything politics, baseball, golf, prize fighting. Why not horse racing? Then the little gray-haired lady with the bulging shopping bag sat down beside nie. "Wow," she gasped, "it's a mile up here, isn't it? That escalator from the ground floor up to the first level helps.

But I'm always nervous on those things. I am always afraid I'll get tangled up in them. But It's better than climbing stairs." Politely, I thought, I excused myself and headed for the pari-mutuel windows to bet on the first harness race. I picked a horse one of my newspaper handicappers said had beaten better than he was running against in the first rare. As I reached the aisle, the little old lady raised her voice.

"I don't think those harness races are the ones to bet on," she said. "Anything can happen. You won't find many people betting on the harness races. It's just plain luck if you pick the winner. It's like those quarter horse races.

The quarter horses bunch up so you can't even see your horse. And every quarter horse race is a photo finish. It drives you crazy." I nodded again in agreement and hurried off to the windows. When 1 returned to watch the trotters, my ticket in hand, the little old lady had opened that (Continued on 5, Column 7) AUTO INSURANCE BEEN CANCELED I Insure anyone. Drunk driven young drivers, over-age drivers my specialty.

PAY YOU CAN PLAN JAMES McGUIRE 732 St. Piione TIJ 5-4713 The GREEN SHACK 163 W. Highland TRY OUR Porterhouse Steak COMPLETE DINNER Lunch 11 to 2:30 Dinner 5 to 11:00, Daily-Sunday, Noon to 10 P.M. Cocktails Phone TUr 2-937G CITY SECTION (Section B) September 26, 1962 (City Page) iiiien will work shifts from battery of telephones at the Blooi' Bank, calling donors on record to fill! fjnno vnrru Your phone rings. A pleasant voice on end asks if you would to donate hlood.

This stranger won't she really is asking help save a life, also ger. say it, but the other, be willing if you of a stran- I Mrs. Khine feels the blood pro-', willlcurement program won't fail. "As a Heart Association volun-j jtcer, I I'm confident that the peo-i County Continues to Exceed Riverside in Retail Sales I Financial information required Ifor the guidance of city officials mm stow St8.1!l; (hino Col-tun Font ana $tT, t(; Muntelair Needles Redlauds KiiiHo and Upland Rierside County Banning Beau 111 i $1 Riytlie. S.t'.'iln: Calm011 Coachella Corona Klsinore llemet Indio S74'tll; Palni Springs Perris, and San Jacinto The distribution in the eight Southern California counties averages 13 per rent above those of a year ago.

(Ace) Bertolo. i nun I awmixi in umr ww wad. Still unresolved was a plea of It will be up to Choate and Pub- lie Defender Charles E. Ward to decide if they wish to accept the present verdict or continue the legal battle. Judge Mitchell was gone from the courtroom when the verdict was read.

Sitting in was his fellow judge, John P. Knauf. Teh(imony in rase was The nrosrn- on Opening to Public $11,8.12 to $15,672 a year. C. V.

McColIough has been acting director of public works since Den-sel's death. Search for Suspect Continues The search for the prime sus pect in the murder of a Los Angeles secretary in an Upland citrus grove is continuing in south ern and central Aruona with no new leads reported. Inspector Kendall J. Stone said that Lt. Floyd Jones is in Arizona heading the search for the suspect George A.

Holmes. Frank A. Gonzales and his wife, Mary, are believed to' with Holmes and are also wanted for questioning in connection with the murder. The three may be making use camping equipment they have with them to stay out of sight. The murder investigation began Sept.

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Continental Traihvays 279 Street TU 41-5313 pie we call will respond gener-! This story o( slrangers concerns tQ 0U). fj. d(JJ f. 10,1 W'0men who Illations. Units of fresh blood, idem' will solicit blood lor persons thp patiellt-s, aro vilai; dergoing open heart surgeiy at lhe of the ileart-lung; the Inland Heart tenter at St.

Nvhich ovcr t10j Bernardine Hospital. Idrculation of blood while the! Bloixl piivurcment of the right. surgical team with its knowledge! type has been a major concern! of all the patients, doctors and Blood Bank of San Bernardino-Riverside Counties since the miracle (if rirwn smwrv in conjunction with the heart-lung machine, began being performed this year at the center. An operation of this type ve Hetail sale in San Bernardino County ciiKiiiued during the second quarter of liMi'J to far exceed Riverside Ciiiinly. The figures were made public yesterday by Kichard Nevins member of the state Board of Equalization.

Local sales' ami use tav collected in San Kernardino County for the quarter were $1 in Riverside. County sUWK.OtMI. In the City of Sun Bernardino the total was in Riverside city The breakdown by other cities of each comity was as follows: San Bernardino County Bar- Action Deferred County Position The Board of Supervisors yes terday deferred until Monday a decision on whether to give people outside the Public Works Department a chance at the job of public works director. Postponement of action came at the end of a long discussion by supervisors and the Civil Service Commission at a joint meeting of the two groups. Tlte supervisors early last month voted to restrict the appointment of a public works director to a promotion within the department.

But the Civil Sen ice Commission recommended an open examination for the post, which has been vacant since the death of Donald A. Densel in March. Members or the commission said restricting the appointment to members of the department would represent an "unwise" change in policy. Supervisors Chairman Paul J. Young said he didn't feel this was an over-all change in policy.

"We just felt that in this case there were enough qualified persons in the department that we wouldn't have to look elsewhere." The position in question pays KIRBY'S CAFE 453 STREET Breakfast, Merchants' Lunch and Complete Dinners Open 8:30 A M. Closed Sundays AIRPORT BUS 8 TRIPS DAILY TO LOS ANGLLKS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT KOK INFORMATION PHONIC ROESCH LINES TU 5-4 tfi5 San Bernardino EAT for $1.00 GARLIC BREAD THXIVC 1 KJ IN I TU 2-9210 be of her quires many pints of fresh blKl.j wortniness aml her C()iin. It must be assured well in r. If your phone lings, it may be lhe San Rernar.l.no County for life.savinK hlood Heart Association hqs accepted a this task of obtaining a '''Hello, I'm Mrs. Rhine.

Under its Coniiiumiry Service! "Hello, I'm Mrs. David K. Coin mm program it formed a oluntary.well. Blood Procurement Committee "Hello, I'm Mrs. Cnarles E.

headed by Imard member Mrs. Enge). corrects the hearts defects, "People who donate their blood lor this purpose will nave the sa tisfaction of knowing that they vstore somebody to health and happiness." jIor coworkers share Mrs. fim "Hello. Fuchs.

"Hello, "Hello, Knapp. "Hello, an. I'm Mrs. divine I'm Mrs. Paul J.

Hubbs I'm Mrs. William L.l I'm Mrs. Wesley Viiuh- YMCA Branch Offers Dog Obedience Class A will six-week Allinneo nCi begin Saturday at town Branch San Bernardino 1 A. I lite class, wmcn win oe irom I eotogisf Doubts Uiess After listening to the account ants presentation. Councilman iGeoiiie C.

Blair said, "You're we just dun nave me time to do it," Wood said. The accountants plan to submit more detailed recommendations, at which time the entire subject will be reviewed by the major and council. The CPAs contend the books are not maintained according to gen erally accepted municipal account-ling principles in that they are kept: On the basis of cash receipts and disbursements rather than an accrual basis (A method which shows expenses incurred and income earned for a given period 1. By a single-entry accounting system (A method in which debts Rowing to and by a concern are the only facts recorded. This contrasts with a double entry system in which every transaction is re-eonled in two parts, debit and jcredit, with the debits in one part jalways equaling the credits in tiic jother parti.

I Kvcept for cash balances, as- jscts and liabilities are not incor-jporated into the general records. "For the foregoing reasons," the report states, "we are unable to express an independent accountant's opinion on the financial condition of the city at June 30, 1962, land on the results of its opera-jtions for the year then ended." I The firm adds that the cash can be presented (Continued on 45, Column n't take as long as anticipated. Judge Frampton said he hoped his earlier remark had something to do with that fact. After the noon recess, KiesV Bayard F. German, fin- with Wilde in short order promised.

The district's wit- ness still had not arrived and an uneasy recess was declared until his arrival. Shortly after 2 p.m. Hamilton, a slender young geologist, arrived. And at the same time Riess' ex- Ipbysies. "The experts are at it again." said Stephan Riess, a first row spectator, just before resumption.

"I must be a sick man if I need so many doctors." But Hamilton, it turned out, fell just short of his doctorate. He held a master's degree, he testified, in geology from Stanford University. Attiirney Herman nioed in on the legal right of "voir dire" challenge the witness' "expertese." Rernian established that Hamilton's master's degree dated from June anil that his periods of employment with various firms Continued on 13 6, Column 1' vV The Antelope Valley contract calls for lin.WiO acre-feet of water to he delivered through Fast Itraneli facilities. Warne said there wer m-v-eral other agencies completing final negotiations for water through the Fast Branch. These IiicIikIh the ralnidaln Irrigation District, San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency and the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water Penetrated Fault Well By JACK young field BLl'E A geologist sat sternlydemanded a quicker tem po.

llO OOlCCUOn lO Iieai'mH a UiW Mill in tbe witness stand yesterday i with three clumps of rocks before! That warning came first in mid him and said he didn't believe jmorning when the judge told Al exander R. Tobin. special coun "even penetrated an earth fault ofsel Valley District, that Marvin Rhine. She and fixe other Colton wo- PRIVATE TUTORING SCULPTURE Qualified and experienced foreign pmiVssor private ila.sscs nn eieative sculpiuritiK in different media. sroup.

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George C. Ken-J vised Valley District through much, noted the same ground had bcen nP(iy 0 UCLA's institute of geo- ol me trial, declared: -Hiat in his opinion the c.uia was iii.fi ui mcu through any large fault" because the well corings showed no con- ALL YOU CAN SPAGHETTI SALAD Refills on Spaghetti Only 167 E. HIGHLAND AVE. centration of crushed material, jfaster and the answers shorter The inference was that an, from both sides. Where com par-earth fault, formed by a rupture jable witnesses have been taking in the earth's strata, tends to 'most of the day, Wilde was near-grind a portion of its abutting ly through by noon.

Riess' attorn LIZ SAYS MOXTH-EXD DRESS SALE Thursday Morning at 10:00 (and you gals know my sales) GLAD RAGS by Liz DEL ROSA CENTER at HIGHLAND AVE. Chg. Accts. Invited. Open Fri.

Nites edges into fine, clay -like material. Hamilton based his opinion on what he -lid was a lack of this typo of material showing up the corings which Riess had turned in from the well. NEED CASH FOR SCHOOL EXPENSES? See Morris Plan where you may borrow for any worth-while purpose. The MORRIS PLAN Company of California 1339 Street TUrner 4-1101 'and listen to the same old thing iall over again." tins occurred as loom was lean ilia Valley District eeneral mana- jger Hugo V. Wilde through a se- ries of questions on the contract ne- covered Wilde testimony weeks I ago when mess attorneys were lhe Riess of thc case.

After tlnit lhe tpiestioas came ey told tne judge onlv "about si.v he would need minutes' for cross-examination Robert J. Webb, staff legal counsel for Valley District assist ing Tobin in the trial, stood up ft The presentation was made at 1-ancastcr just before a ceremony preceding the signing of the Antelope Valley-Fast Kern eather Kiver contract. Vernon K. Valentine, Southern 1 list riot planning chief for the Department of Water Resources, said the Valley District paj-meat ai the first, except for those by urea already being served by tdate facilities. Hamilton was hurried into the told the court the district breach when Judge Jesse J.ould try to get an expert wit-Frampton in Room 110 of the "ess for the rest of the afternoon.

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OF SAN BERNARDINO 533 Street Free Parking Phone TUrner 9-0S81 119 S. First Barstow CLinton 6-6873 A check for S.V!,lll( from the San Itcrmtrrfhio Valley Municipal Water District has been turned over to the state for payment on the Feather Kiver Project the firt Mich payment in the state. Hugo W. Wilde, district Ken-era! manager, presented the eheek to William K. Warne, director of the Department of Water Resource.

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