The Reporter-Times from Martinsville, Indiana • 1

Atom warhead in jet crash Martinsville, Ind. April 21, 1979 20 90th No. 96 Phone 342-3311 If not delivered by 5:45 weekdays, call carrier. If unavailable, Martinsville patrons call 342-3314 between 5:45 and 6 30 Want ads taken until 10-00 a m. 3 ROSE AND KEN KELLER have purchased the Artesian Fabric Center at 360 S.

Main St. from Robert Robinson. The coin-operated laundry is open for business from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m, every day, and there will be an attendant on duty at all times. The place will be redecorated, equipment updated and dry cleaning machines will be available in the very near future.

The Kellers reside at 1990 E. Morgan and were former owners of Kent Cleaners. Jurors free Minton on confinement, battery A Morgan Superior Court He said he had been YVONNE WHALEY, left, was married to Herbert A. Knieper Jr. in 1959, so youd expect that seeing her mother-in-law would not be an entirely new experience in 1979.

But it was. She and her husbands mother, Report Card News from classrooms in Martinsville School District GREEN TOWNSHIP SCHOOL Mrs. Tramontana, teacher Kindergarten The Green Township kindergarten classes have been very busy recently working on the Metropolitan Readiness Tests. We have now met all of the 26 Alpha Time letter people and have listened for their special sounds. The children are anxious to learn more about them next year in first grade.

The fifth grade classes went all out at Easter time to give the kindergarteners a wonderful surprise. Each fifth grader made an Easter basket for a kindergartener. They took the children outdoors to hunt for their Easter basket hidden somewhere on the playground. Thank you fifth Damian Nonte is celebrating an April birthday, and Michelle Brandenburg, Monica Lloyd, Brad Miles and Brandon Weaver will celebrate birthdays in May. Children who have summer birthdays are Amy Barnett, Josh Cragen, Brian Gabehart, Earl Hubbard, Brad Sichting, Jamey Smith, Andy Wegener, Tim Wold, Darren Fulford, Mike Mroz and Tammy Pasley.

We have really had a great year in kindergarten and are looking forward to fun in the first grade. A special thanks to our parents for all their help this Mrs. Trusty, teacher Grade 1 Since last week was the end of another six week grading period, the first grade students had a hundred word spelling test. The students did a very good job with Jill Belcher, Kim Crone and Dawn Wirey getting all the words correct. In reading we are working in May I Come In, Rainbows and Signposts.

The students are also reading library books to each other. With our extra time weve also been reading Tigers, Lions, and Dinosaurs. In math we have been adding and subtracting up to 12. We are also writing our numbers by fives and tens up to 100. Two-digit adding and subtracting without regrouping have been introduced and weve found that working with larger numbers can be fun.

We have also been spending time counting pennies, nickles and dimes. In writing we are reviewing our letters and also copying sentences from the board. Soon we will be writing our own sentences with capital letters at the beginning and periods at the end. Robbie McKinney has a birthday in April. In May, Chad Whaley and Jill Belcher will be a year older.

The June birthdays are Chad Anderson and Dyke Marr. Barbara Wilson and Eli Flake have their birthdays in July, while in August Enc Schubert, Scott Zook, Lori Robinson and Deana Rosenbaum will celebrate birthdays. We want to thank James Perkins for the magic show. Also we wish to thank our room mothers. They are Mrs.

Zook, Mrs. Belcher, Mrs. Doan, Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Coons.

Weve had good parties over the year. Mrs. Voyles, teacher Room 1 The children in our room have had a very good year. Most are now working in enrichment books in reading and adding and subtracting two columns in math. Spelling has been very successful for most with the following children having all 100s in weekly tests: Jeanne Henson, Danny Orman, Nicole Sichting and Amy Wegner.

On April 12 the children were entertained by James Perkins with a magic show that was enjoyed by all of them. In February and March we celebrated the following birthdays: Erin Cragen and Matt Jeffries. In May, June and July these children will be one year older: Jayne Burke, Laura Green, Tony Hallam, Coby Jones, Kristin Mroz, Danny Orman, Nicole Sichting, Ray Tielklng, and Amy Wegner. Near the end of the year we will have a party for all the summer birthdays. We give a big thank you again to our room mothers for the nice parties they have provided this year.

They are Mrs. Orman, Mrs. Wegener, Mrs. Cragen and Mrs. Teeters.

Party days are always such fun for the children. We welcome Stefanie lleckinger to our class from Mooresvllle. We hope she will be happy with us Everyone have a nice summer. Here are some ways the children plan to spend their summer: Julie Bingham, go camping; Jayne Burke, go swimming; Erin Cragen, build a house; Eric Crews, go fishing; Jennifer (Continued to page eignt hunting for a filling station with a wrecker, so Miss Fulks car could be pulled in; and he was under the misapprehension that there was such a station where the bowling alley is located. Although Minton had pauper lawyers for both the cases against him, he was able to furnish $14,000 bond, and is so freed.

They have to follow the law By STEVEN CAPPS SAN DIEGO (UPI) -With the judge, victim and prosecutor all complaining he was getting off too leniently, Lawrence Singleton was sentenced to the maximum possible prison term for raping and sodomizing a 15-year-old Nevada girl and chopping off her arms with an ax. Singleton, 51, convicted on seven charges including kidnapping and two counts of forced oral copulation, was sentenced Friday to 14 years and four months, meaning he could be free on parole in nine years. Superior Court Judge Earl H. Maas Jr. said he was sorry he could not ignore the law of this state because, I would send him to prison for the rest of his life.

But I have to follow the law. Prosecutor John Stahl told reporters such sentences were building a reservoir of public anger that would overflow the way public outrage at property taxes brought on the Proposition 13 revolt. The time will come when there will be a criminal law revolution," he predicted, much the way there was a Proposition 13 taxpayers revolution. The victim, Mary Bell Vincent of Las Vegas, and her mother witnessed the sentencing. I dont think thats fair, Miss Vincent complained to reporters.

Im glad that its over but Im not glad that he only got (Story continued on back page) Harriet Wheeler Clark Deviney, are pictured on the veranda of the Knieper home on Townsend Road. It was made during Mrs. Devineys first visit with her sons family. It was the first time shed seen her son since he was 4 years old. Big Smoke ex-DAs snort coke INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -Two former attorneys in the utors office are under investigation in connection with an international cocaine and marijuana network.

The Indianapolis News said today. The News said William Kerstann, agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administrations local office, confirmed the investigation. At least two Indianapolis attorneys employed by former Prosecutor James Kelley are under investigation in connection with the drug trafficking netowrk, which reportedly is smuggling cocaine valued at $250,000 into Marion County each week, The News said. Several persons formerly employed in the prosecutors office are deeply involved in the use of cocaine or are buying it from suppliers who are bringing it into Indiana from southern border states, said the story signed by Skip Hess and Paul Bird. Authorities have been given the names of at least seven former members of Kelleys staff who allegedly are dealing in cocaine, The News said.

Sources told The News that certain members of Kelleys staff were not investigated when they were in office because a federal of Indianapolis police probe would have appeared to be political or a vindictive move against Kelley, who was probing into alleged police corruption, the story said. It has been learned that police were hampered in drug investigations during the Kelley administration (Story continued on back page) By MYRAM BORDERS JACKASS FLATS, Nev. (UPI) A nuclear warhead was missing and what appeared to be teams of spacemen scoured the scattered wreckage of a downed cargo jet searching for the deadly device. Friday, in a crucial phase of the nations largest simulated nuclear accident, military and civilian personnel dressed in white suits and black rubber breathing gear combed the desert for the last of six warheads. The simulated crash of a C141 cargo plane en route from the West Coast to the East Coast occurred Wednesday at Jackass Flats, part of the Nevada Test Site 100 miles north of Las Vegas, Nev.

Maj. Gen. Grayson Tate, exercise director from Albuquerque, told an on-site news briefing the exercise was successful and the country needed more of them. All of us involved feel that we have to have a continuing program of training, said Tate. It is clearly in the national defense to be sure our plans for nuclear accidents are workable.

Five hundred persons representing all branches of the U.S. military as well as civilianstaffed agencies such as the Department of Energy converged on the exercise site. Real radiation and actual pieces of nuclear devices were scattered at the simulated wreckage site prior to the mayday alert which was broadcast Wednesday and set the $1.6 million exercise into motion. Radium 223 was mixed with a chemical solution and Hastings decrees 180 days for public drunk Judge William K. Hastings Jr.

has sent John L. Bolin of Martinsville off to a 180-day term on two counts of public intoxication. In another city court trial, Hastings dismissed one traffic charge against Herschel L. Johnson of Bloomington, but found him guilty of failure to yield right-of-way in a personal injury accident. He fined the following persons for speeding: Sharon G.

Abbett, 249 Ambrose Eric E. Husted, Crawfordsville; Timothy J. Marsh, R. R. Ricky L.

Ogden, 1415 Raymond Janice A. Reece, 1265 Smokey Gregory S. Stai, 539 Washington Paul D. Starnes, 310 Crestwood and William J. Sharpe, 510 W.

Harrison St. Hastings also issued fines to the following: Bart M. Bales, 4425 Paragon expired plate; Samuel D. Crisp, 3305 Lower Patton Park improper bumper height; Tamara D. Kemp, Spencer, failure to have vehicle inspected, and Frank A.

Weaver, 159 S. St. Clair no license. Judgments granted, fines given by Engle Morgan County Court Judge Fred Engle this week granted two judgements, fined some people for traffic violations and also issued a suspended sentence to one for unlawful consumption of alcoholic beverage by a minor. He is Eddie Meadows, West Sumner Avenue, who was given a 30-day suspended jail term.

Walt Myers of Martinsville was granted a judgment against Roy James Estep, while Rick Jackson of Echo Lake, Mooresville, was granted a default judgment against Thomas Taller of Echo Lake. Fines were issued to Phyliss Wyse, Bloomington; Terry Williamson, Bloomington; and Mark Stiehldreker, Indianapolis, all for disregarding an automatic signal; Larry Owens, 2060 Shelton Road, fishing without a license; and Diana Rush, 129 Duo Drive, check deception at Krogers. smeared over the wreckage. The isotope gave a reading on the radiation detecting equipment similar to that of plutonium, the major component of nuclear weapons. The radium emits alpha contamination which does not penetrate the white duck cotton suits worn by those participating in the exercise.

Officers get car after chase Acting on a bulletin from the National Crime Information Center, three Martinsville officers yesterday evening recovered a car that had been stolen six weeks ago in Indianapolis. Patrolmen Jon and Darrell Davis and David Skaggs stopped Greg Fraley, 1784 Gasburg Road, in town, and, according to their report, he drove off. After a pursuit, they got him stopped again in the southeast part of town and charged him with driving while his license was suspended, fleeing an officer, and possession of a stolen vehicle. The car recovered was a 1977 Cadillac belonging to Harold Hall of Indianapolis. The same officers made other arrests.

They charged Richard B. Allender of Nashville R. R. 3, and Archie R. Betts of Nineveh R.

R. 1 with public intoxication on a local parking lot. They charged Robert D. Hendershot of 1092 Nast Chapel Road with disregarding an automatic signal. Jesse D.

Kindred of Hillview Motel was detained on a charge of illegal use of alcohol. The sheriffs office has a report that someone broke into the Marvin Manley property at 565 Road 67 and stole saw blades and an air gun. Jacquelyn Schlegel of 4655 Flake Road reported the loss or theft of plate 55C1038. At Mooresville, Marshal Pat Schmidt issued three speeding tickets. They went to Robert McKinney of Indianapolis, Scott Connell of 111 E.

High Mooresville, and Michael Towell of 2050 State Road 67, Mooresille. In Martinsille, a bicycle was stolen from the McFarland residence at 209 W. Garfield Ave. It is a 20 Huffy Daisy Duster, maroon in color with a white basket. Refugeses from Reds get ashore HONG KONG, (UPI) -The 571 Vietnamese refugees crammed aboard a tiny converted fishing junk in Hong Kong harbor since Easter Sunday were taken ashore today and given temporary shelter.

It was the first time the refugees aboard the dilapidated 120-foot Ha Lung had touched land since they left Vietnam April 6. Many were reported to be ill from the effects of close confinement for such a long time. The Hong Kong government emphasized that the (Story continued on back page) WEATHER Clearing tonight. Low near 50. Mostly sunny Sunday.

High near 70. Winds light and variable tonight. Indiana: Clearing north and central, rain ending south tonight. Low in the 40s and 50s. Sunny to partly sunny Sunday.

High in the 60s and 70s. Indiana extended outlook, Monday through Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows around 40 north to 50 south. Highs in 60s to mid 70s. Local temperatures Low yesterday 50, high yesterday 75, current (11 a.m.

today) 74. Barometric pressure 30.17 humidity 64 at 7:30 a.m. today. Winds SE and calm. Readings by Marshall Gregson.

jury last night found Roy Minton Jr. of Mooresville innocent of charges that he confined a girl and committed battery against her. Now, within the fortnight, Minton will be tried again on a charge that he assaulted another woman in the Morgan County Memorial Hospital parking lot. Sheriff Dick Allen accused Minton of picking up Lita Kay Fulk of Worthington after her car stalled on the State Road 37 Bypass, driving past two filling stations, and turning up a deserted country lane a year ago. When his car drove into the lane, Lita, a Franklin College student, jumped out into a plowed field, and got away.

Prosecutor Tom Gray told The Reporter this morning that he learned the jury felt that the girl may have overreacted to the situation. He said that they took several votes, and none of the ballots was in favor of the state. He said he believed the jury was conscientious in its work and did not hang up on some dinky little thing like juries will sometimes do. The prosecutor added that he didnt know of any other evidence that his office could have presented to the jury, legally, however. The state is forbidden by rules of evidence to bring in unproved charges; so the prosecutor couldnt mention the hospital parking lot incident, in which a womans car was blocked into a parking place, and she was assaulted as she tried to get in.

The state also was working under the impetus of the unsolved Ann Harmeier case, in which a college girl was murdered in a spot not far from where Lita was picked up. The prosecutor said Minton agreed to take a polygraph test on the Harmeier case, and that he passed it. Minton told the jury that he at no time made any threatening move toward the girl, that he didn't hear some of her pleas for him to stop because he had his record player turned up, and that he was just going to turn around in the lane across from Jordan Road south of town. i i 'r 5 NEXT TO THE MYSTERIOUS death of Amelia Earhart while her plane was flying across the Pacific in 1937, the most sensational disappearance of the 1930s was that of Judge Joseph Crater of New York City. Pictured here in 1916, the year of his marriage to Stella Wheeler, together with his bride and her mother, Emma Francis Wheeler, Crater disappeared 14 years later.

The last person he was known to have contacted was Harriet Wheeler Clark Deviney, mother of Herbert Knieper Jr. of Martinsville. Mrs. Deviney was the granddaughter of Mrs. Wheeler and the niece of Mrs.

Crater. This faded photograph belongs to Mrs. Deviney. Knieper family may put it all together r53 ibf 'if A I The Crater-Clark-Knieper family for two generations has had a problem keeping contact; but the course of its existence may be changed by an event occurring in the Martinsville community. When Herbert A.

Knieper now of Martinsville, was only 4 years old, his mother and father were divorced. The mother, acting on the advice of her father and her attorney, gave up custody of Herbert, and he went to live with his father. That was during World War II. From that time until March 29, Herbert Jr.s mother and he never saw or heard from each other. Mrs.

Knieper was the daughter of a New York advertising man, and she went to work for a lawyer in Boston to support herself. She also worked for a wholesale drug house. She remarried, to James Deviney, and he and her father both died in 1959. Mrs. Deviney is now employed by the State of Maine in data processing, and she lives in North Vassalboro.

Mrs. Devlney's mother was the only one of the three Clark sisters of New York who had a child, and she was a kind of pet of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crater. Her uncle by marriage was a New York lawyer who had a summer home in Maine, and she accompanied him and Mrs.

Crater to Maine when she was a girl. In 1930, Crater was made a judge in New York City, and his niece was going to a girls camp in Vermont. Her luggage was sent, by mistake, to the Craters vacation spot in Maine; and the judge relayed it back to her camp, with a letter. Shortly after sending her the luggage, he left his wife on vacation and returned to work in New York, and he was never heard from again. His disappearance was the sensation of the year in journalism, and several books have been written about him, Including one by his wife, who died in 1969.

Herbert Knieper Jr. lived with his father, a construction man, in the East, until he won a scholarship to Western Illinois University. He left for school at the age of 17, and his father, always moving around In his work, and he lost contact. Young Knieper came to Martinsville on a visit, and he met a local girl, Yvonne Whaley, whom he later married. After college, Knieper completed a tour of duty In the military service, and he is now an inspector with the (Story continued on back page I W'S- county road and keep it maintained.

On Friday as the work began were, from the right, Engineer John Drapalik, Mayor James D. Gardner, John Stewart, chairman of the city plan commission; Wallace Hill, city councilman; James Jessup, county commissioner; and Byron Gus Gray, county commissioner. MORGAN COUNTY AND Martinsville officials are cooperating to get lliiiview Drive in the Wolff Rolling Hills Subdivision (from East Morgan Street to the entrance of Shircman Estates) in good repair. The county has begun blacktopping, and when the drive in good condition, the city will accept the.