The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 30

May 4, 1983 q4 THE SUN Prosecution claims Malone killed others Kaiser retirees to keep benefits despite closure Orange Sfwiv attendance reported down SAN BERNARDINO So far, attendance figures at the 68th National Orange Show are running behind last year's. Orange Show manager Joseph G. Brosmer said Tuesday that 98,179 persons had passed through the admittance gates as of Monday about 18,000 short of last year's figure of 116,311 for the first five days. Also, Brosmer said that opening-day numbers were less than in 1982, due apparently to weather, but about 9,793 persons were on the grounds by evening of the first day, most of them to attend the queen contest the show's first event. Tonight The Blasters, a rockabilly band that plays a mixture of music ranging from 1920s country blues to 1950s rock, will begin its two-day appearance at the Orange Pavilion.

Other events will include stage productions on several of the showgrounds stages. In the Livestock building, judging and showing of hogs entered by FFA members are scheduled. By RAMON C0R0NAD0 Sun SlaH Writer SAN BERNARDINO Kelvin Malone, the twice-convicted murderer whom the prosecution claims was arrested with his last victim's eyelid in his pocket, is the killer of two other victims, a jury was told here Tuesday. At the onset of the death penalty phase of his trial, the 23-year-old defendant was accused of making one of his victims "beg for his life" before shooting the Kansas City man four times in the head. Reading from a list of 10 alleged felonies from Malone's past, including a 10-day crime spree from Missouri to California in 1981, Deputy District Attorney Gary Admire elaborated on one case.

Admire said the bullet taken from the head of a 62 year-old Missouri cabdriver was "proven conclusively" to have been fired from Malone's handgun. In still another incident, the DA claimed that Malone forcibly restrained a fellow prison inmate while another proceeded to sodomize the victim. Two weeks ago, following four weeks of testimony, a Superior Court jury deliberated three hours before finding Malone guilty of the robbery and beating death of Myrtle Benham, 65, of Baker. Benham disappeared from a gas station March 20, 1981, along with the station's cash box. Her body, nude from the waist down, was found days later near Dagget.

An autopsy indicated that she had been beaten over the head with an object similar to a pipe. In December in Riverside County, Malone was given a 25-years-to-life sentence for the mur "Carl told me that it was no problem, and that I shouldn't worry about it," Anglin said. "And I'm sure that when the company gives us its final answer it will reiterate yesterday's statement," he said. But other union representatives did not share Anglin's confidence in Kaiser management. "I personally am sick and tired of verbal agreements that change from one day to the next," said Van Ross, grievance representative for the basic oxygen plant and caster workers.

"I guess everything's got to be spelled out on paper in black and white." Irv Russom, chairman of the union's hospital pension committee, said he has already assured steelworkers that they would continue to receive the $400 supplement. "I've been assuring people all day that the company has agreed to this," Russom said. "They're really hurting our credibility with our own people." The retirement agreement reached Monday represented just one of a series of negotiations about shutdown benefits for steelworkers. Although Anglin and other union leaders continue to hope that a buyer will rescue the troubled mill, they are preparing for the worst. Anglin said union leaders and management officials will meet again on May 20.

Special union meetings to an-ser steelworkers' questions about shutdown benefits are scheduled for 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. May 26. der of Minnie White, 55, whose body was found in the trunk of her car abandoned near Blythe. Malone now awaits still another jury verdict this one to determine if he will be put to death for the 1981 Baker murder.

Malone's public defender William Russler asked the jury to consider the alternative verdict, which is to imprison Malone for life without the possibility of parole. "It will protect society and punish Mr. Malone for whatever crimes he has committed," Russler said of the life sentence. Russler disputed the DA's claim that Malone is the slayer of Missouri cabdriver, William Parr, saying the "connection was tenuous and circumstantial. Mr.

Malone did not kill that cabdriver." The lawyer also described evidence implicating Malone to an Arroyo Grande robbery as "conflicting." Referring to the sodomy allegation at the California Institute for Men at Chino, Russler said it was a "lie." Speaking of another robbery where the victim was a Missouri Supreme Court justice, Russler said, "Kelvin was a participant. He did not handle the gun. He actually showed kindness and decency." Throughout the guilt phase of Malone's trial Russler and co-defense attorney Alan Spears argued that the Baker woman was killed not by Malone but by their client's partner in crime, Michael Crenshaw, 20. Spears, a court appointed San Bernardino lawyer, said Malone passed a polygraph examination in which he was asked if he killed Benham, but answered deceptively when asked if he was in the shed where the woman was believed to have been killed. PASTEL-PINK Yours with any In what is believed to be the first time ever in San Bernardino courts, Superior Court Judge Bob Krug allowed the polygraph results to be admitted as evidence in the trial.

Prosecutor Admire argued that the polygraph examiner errored in the wording of the questions in the lie-dector test. The defense also claimed that shoe prints found near the location of one victim's body matched shoes worn by Crenshaw. Crenshaw pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of White last year in Riverside County. Spears said the eyelid found on Malone was hanging from the outer edge of his trouser pocket. Further, he told the jury the skin tissue was not from a murder victim but from Crenshaw who sustained an injury to the head after Malone and he had an automobile accident shortly before their arrest.

The prosecutor contended that the eyelid was blown off the woman's head when she was shot in the area of the eye. According to Admire, Malone began his crime spree in February 1981, when he escaped from a Monterey County jail where he was in custody for burglary and a parole violation. Malone next travelled to Arroyo Grande where he allegedly took part in an armed robbery of a gas station. After the gas station robbery, Admire claims that Malone kidnapped a man then stole his car. With the man locked in the trunk, Malone drove to Los Angeles where he abandoned the vehicle.

Malone then boarded a bus to the St. Louis, area where he met up with Crenshaw, an old childhood friend. The two then agreed to a partnership in crime, Admire said. PEARL EARRING BONUS Jewelry, 20. ft Mm GIFTS WITH PURCHASES GIVE HER ANY OF THESE PEARLY BEADS, AND WE'LL ADO By ERIN KELLY Sun 5lH Writer FONTANA The scheduled shutdown of Kaiser Steel Corp.

in November will not affect the health or life insurance benefits of retired steelworkers, according to an agreement reached this week by union and management officials. The agreement will protect the benefits of already retired steel-workers as well as workers who will be eligible for retirement when the Fontana Works is closed, union and company officials said. Frank Anglin, president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 2869, estimated that the agreement will affect between and 4,000 steelworkers. Despite the agreement, there was a dispute between union and management officials Tuesday over a benefit that gives retirees $400 a month in supplemental pay on top of their regular retirement benefits. Currently, a retired steelwork-er receives the supplemental pay until he becomes old enough to qualify for Social Security benefits, Anglin said.

Hut Kaiser spokeswoman Mon-tye Male said Tuesday that the $100 supplement was not part of Monday's retirement agreement. She said the issue has not yet been resolved and that further discussions are planned. However, union leaders said Carl Griffin, Kaiser's director of labor relations, assured them Monday that the $400 supplement would not be affected by a shutdown. Bill promised on handling of ballots By HARVEY FEIT Sun Political Editor SAN BERNARDINO Assemblyman Terry Gog-gin, D-San Bernardino, said Tuesday he would in tended to prevent the handling of absentee ballots by campaign workers. The measure, Goggin said, would state that un-.

less a voter is incapacitated, an absentee ballot mav rtnlv hp nlaeed in the mail by the voter or a relative of the voter. "I am enormously disturbed by the fact that a recent court decision has made it possible for campaign workers to actually go to people's homes and take possession of their absentee ballots prior to their being counted. "This court ruling opens up the possibility campaign workers hov- ir nr irt ore exertir.g undue influence over them as they are voting. "Further, even though there are stiff penalties for tampering with ballots, it seems intolerable to me that the law can be interpreted to allow partisans to actually possess uncounted ballots." Absentee voting played a major role in the elections Tuesday in the 3rd and 6th wards. And handling of the ballots by campaign workers was one of most controversial elements of the campaign.

City Clerk a a Clark first said campaign workers could not handle them. But late in the campaign the city attorney's office said a quirk in the law permitted campaign workers to collect and mail absentee ballots. A week ago, the City Council passed an emergency ordinance to prohibit third party handling of ballots. Absentee balloting is a touchy political issue, with both the Democratic and Republican parties jockeying for advantage. Republicans traditionally have been much greater beneficiaries of absentee voting than Democrats.

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