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Record Searchlight from Redding, California • 14

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rage II Rerord-Srarrhlight Saturday January 18 1969 Obituaries Lawyer tells in the life of of tragedies William Roy Redding (Calif) liN riAMCUCO FAIR UPI WEATHER rOTOCAST0 Clear all around Rain and showers tonight will cover most of coast to New England and the Great Lakes parts of the northern Rockies and the Great cloudy skies are predicted for the rest of the the area from the gulf Snow is forecast for Plains Fair to partly nation 25 arraigned on dope counts do intend to prove" Foruria added was unable to and incapable of being-guilty of a Foruria has indicated he intends to base defense on the theory he suffered from capacity" to form an intent to commit crime The defense is allowed under California law for such crimes as burglary where the intent to commit the crime is a necessary part of the offense Roy's wife was primary witness in the first day of presentation of his case after the prosecution concluded its case Friday The trial will resume at 10 am Monday before Judge Richard Abbe in Shasta County Superior Court Roy's wife Kathleen obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from him Sept 17 two days after the attack on (Tie Olinda girl She outlined for the jury the Foruria said culminated in that attack They began in April she said when she and Roy discussed divorce Under Foruria's questioning she listed these other events: The death of Roy's father on May 28 Her quarrel with her husband at a Red Bluff party July 13 and her spending that night with another man at his apartment The filing of a divorce suit and Roy's departure from their home on July 31 A suicide attempt by Roy Aug 7 The issuance of a court order Aug 16 to keep Roy from the home The other moving in with Mrs Roy and the two Roy children for a two-week period beginning Aug 19 The signing of a child custody and property settlement agreement by the Roys Sept 10 Mrs Roy said she and her husband had met when they were high school students in Auburn near their home town of Colfax They were married March 13 1960 when Roy was 20 years old She described her who operated gasoline service stations and a wholesale gasoline distributorship as a man who "worked very hard" but who had financial problems and upsetting quarrels with business partners who provide "the things he needed to do the job In late 1967 or early 1968 she said "he found he had a lump in his stomach and went to the doctor Later on he said- Other witnesses included an oil company official who testified that Roy had obviously very badly by his wife's decision to leave him a woman who had seen Roy at two bars the night the Olinda girl was raped and reported he to be quite drunk" a man and woman who owned a service station and testified that Roy had been unusually helpful as a gasoline distributor but seemed less friendly and strangely preoccupied in the weeks before the attack on the little girl and a woman who had been a mental patient at the same time Roy was at the county hospital and who testified that there and when she saw him later at a restaurant where she worked "he was very depressed" felt that Bruce was sick and needed further treatment" the woman testified Roy's mother Mrs Helen Roy of Colfax testified that when she visited her son at the hospital after his suicide attempt he called her by her first name something she found unusual and disturbing And she said when a psychologist asked to talk to Itoy and her together because she wanted to interview Roy and said not going to go and talk with her because she is not my family" was different" the defendant's mother testified was no doubt about iL He had changed It was very upsetting to She said her son had attempted suicide by cutting his wrists when he was 19 and the Placer County Jail for some infraction of a traffic regulation Drunken driving arrests note: Redding area police agencies arrested the following persons on charges of drunken driving during the 24-hour period ending at 8 am today: Alma Joyce Hopkins 36 Oasis Road Redding arrested by the California Highway Patrol Friday also accused of not having a license in her possession and storage of an open container of liquor bailed out and ordered to appear in Central Valley Justice Court Jan 23 Don Wesley Lindburg 35 7609 Highway 99 Anderson arrested by the G1P Friday Walter William Erl 49 6735 Waverly Avc Redding arrested early today by the CHP bailed out and is to appear Anderson Justice Court Jan 23 Winfred Earl Mason 21 2873 Arcade Lane Redding arrested by the CI1P early today Frederick Henry Garrett 39 2045 Shasta St Redding arrested early today by the CHP Norman Edward Virchau 25 7050 River Drive Redding Vitim A Adams Verne Alonzo Adams a retired masonry contractor died here Friday He was 62 Adams had been under a doctor's care He became ill at his home early Friday An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death Adams was born Aug 21 1906 in Fresno and had lived in Weaverville for the past four years He had been in the masonry business for 40 years before his retirement and was a member of the Masonry and Bricklayers Union Local 8 in Oakland He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge 497 in Oakland the Aalimcns Temple in Oakland and Clampus Vitus The family has asked that friends wishing to make contributions in his memory do so to the Trinity County Historical Society in care of Mrs Alice Jones Weaverville He leaves his widow Floy of Weaverville: two sons Glenn A of Sacramento and Jack A of Larama a daughter Mrs Roy May of Woodland and six grandchildren Masonic funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Monday at McDonald Files Chapel Burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery in Weaverville Carlyle Green Private family funeral services for Carlyle Green will be conducted Monday at McDonald's Redding Chapel The Rev Roy Nelson will officiate and burial will be in the Redding Cemetery Green who was born April 2 1906 in Oakland died early Friday from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound He was a retired employe of Pacific Gas and Electric Co and had lived in Shasta County for the past four years He leaves his widow Rase of Redding two sons Carlyle Green of San Jose and Charles Green of Alamo two daughters Joann Brown of Angels Camp and Myrna Defrates of Kalama Wash a brother Clyde Green of Walnut Creek a sister Elsie Jowett of Cupertino 14 grandchildren and one great-grandchild Jerry S- Fox WEAVERVILLE Members of the Odd Fellows Lodge here will conduct funeral services for Jerry Fox at 10:30 am Monday at McDonald-Files Chapel Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery Fox died Friday in Trinity General Hospital He was born July 11 1877 in Missouri In addition to relatives listed previously he leaves two daughters Mrs Boyd Winfree and Mrs Loura Jeffries a sister Mrs Emily Seamen of Kansas City and four grandchildren Lullier Williams Luther A Williams 62 of Mount Shasta died at Mercy Haspital today following a lengthy illness He had been hospitalized since Jan 4 Williams who was born In Virginia April 30 1906 leaves his widow Blanche of Mount Shasta Funeral services are being arranged by Lawncrest Funeral Services Elizabeth G- Horn Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Guscetti Horn of Redding are being arranged at McDonald's Redding Chapel Burial will be in the Calvery Cemetery in Los Angeles Mrs Horn 81 died Friday She was born July 15 1887 in Ward Springs Minn She leaves three sisters Mrs Emily January and Mrs Mar-quita Carter both of Los An geles and Mrs Addie Hunter of Redding MALLERY'S FLOWERS Here your order is handled as personal ai if you arranged it yourself We have better flowers They last longer MEMBER FTDA Wt bfcND FLOWERS WORLD WIDE 2127 Market Phone 243-0434 We honor the following credit cards American Express Bankamericard Carte Blanche Diners Club The rape of a 9-year-old Olin-da girl in September was the last of a of tragedies'' in which William Bruce Roy of Redding was involved Roy's attorney told a jury Friday do not intend to introduce any evidence regarding Bruce Roy not being with the girl lawyer Theodore Foruria of Redding told the jury The jurors must decide whether Roy is guilty of stealing a clothing store dummy kidnaping and raping the girl and forcing her to commit an act of oral copulation Albert Wrislen Funeral services for Albert Wristen were conducted Friday at McDonald's Redding Chapel Members of the Odd Fellows Lodge 271 officiated Burial was to be this morning in the Brentwood Cemetery Pallbearers were Joe A Burgess Denser son Steve Erickson Jerry Murphy Frank A Carlson and Clark Arneal Walter Hazel line Funeral services for Walter Hazeltine were conducted Friday at McDonald's Redding Chapel The Rev Roy Nelson officiated and burial was in Lawncrest Memorial Park Pallbearers were Roy Graham Robert Roberts Paul DiSenso Ray Post Arthur A Reese and John Severin Elliel 0 Johnson ANDERSON Funeral sere-ices for Ethel Johnson were conducted Friday at McDonald's Anderson Chapel The Rev James Logan officiated Burial was in Anderson District Cemetery Pallbearers were Troy Rucker Dewey Case-beer Jr A1 Burnham Burr Dodson John Volonte and Charles A Spann Louis Zorn COTTONWOOD Graveside funeral services for Louis Zorn were conducted Friday at Cottonwood Cemetery by the Rev James Logan under the direction of McDonald's Andcr-so Chapel William Scliick ANDERSON Funeral Services for William Schick will be conducted at 11 am Monday at McDonald's Anderson Chapel The Rev Roy Nelson will officiate Paul Clawson Graveside funeral services for Paul Gawson were conducted Friday at Redding Cemetery The Rev Roy Nelson officiated Services were under the direction of McDonald's Redding Chapel Ed Pokorny Graveside funeral services for Ed Pokorny were conducted Friday at the Harrison Gulch Cemetery Pastor Darrell Willhite officiated and services were under the direction of Lawncrest Funeral Services Chapel Pallbearers were Glen Foutch Charles Benda Jim Tuck Bob Tuck Dan Rasmussen and Jack Rasmussen Court and he thought something was growing inside of him In July when he went to Sacramento he said someone followed him wherever he went" She said a physician found no serious physical ailment Judge Abbe declined to permit Foruria to ask whether in her opinion her husband suffered a delusion in his belief he was followed in Sacramento Dist Atty Robert Baker argued her opinion was inadmissible as evidence since she based it on actual knowledge of whether Roy was followed on his capital visit Quarrels dogged their marriage she said and at the July 13 party in Red Bluff was with everyone wife and I left with someone else" She said she returned at 4 am and we got up he said how did I like Tom and I said A week or two later she said she told her husband gone to Tom's apartment with him and that I'd slept with him" Under cross-examination by Baker Mrs Roy agreed that her husband was and She complained that lot of times he would stop off at bars and maybe have dinner he seldom had dinner with A further complaint: always picked up the tab She said or three times a month" she would go to work at their oil distributorship office while Roy was in words sleeping it off after a big drinking Shasta County Sheriff's Deputy Bill Harrington testified to being called to the Hatchet Creek campground Aug 7 after Roy was found unconscious in his pickup truck near the campground A garden hose led from the exhaust through a narrowly opened wind wing in to the compartment The truck doors were locked A bowie knife lay by leg An ambulance driver admin istered oxygen Harrington test ified and "about two good whiffs of that oxygen and he started coming Harrington said Roy told him he had a little drinking" and decided to kill himself because "his wife was filing for divorce and he cope with life anymore" Roy was taken to the county hospital by a sheriff's patrol car and admitted to the hospital for several days of psychiatric treatment and in 1945 he received a doctor of philosophy degree in archaeology and Semitic languagas from the Johns Hopkins Univer-siy He was a member of the Scofield Reference Bible Revision Committee and is the author of in the Last and five volumes of Prophets" Korn on honor roll Richard Korn son of Mr and Mrs Robert Korn of Redding and a junior at Oregon State school of engineering has been placed on the university's fall term scholastic honor roll Redding SHERMAN FULKERTH Manager Weather SACRAMENTO VALLEY -Rain likely tonight and Sunday Not so cold tonight Highs both days in the 50s Low tonight in the 40s Light wind becoming southerly 10 to 20 mph late today BAY AREA Rain likely this evening and continuing through Sunday Little temperature change Highs Sunday in the upper 50s Low tonight from the upper 40s to low 50s Southeast wind 12 to 25 mph tonight and Sunday Chance of rain 60 per cent tonight and 70 per cent Sunday MOUNT SHASTA SISKIYOU AREA Rain likely tonight and Sunday Snow level near 6000 feet Not so cold tonight SIERRA NEVADA Increasing cloudiness with rain or snow likely tonight and Sunday Snow level 6000 feet north and 8000 feet south Not so cold tonight SHASTA LAKE Elevation: 101435 ft Up: 85 ft Storage: 3152100 acre feet Depth at dam: 46435 ft Depth at dam a year ago: 46620 ft Discharge at Shasta Dam: 3-365 cubic ft per second Discharge at Keswick Dam: 6000 cubic ft per second LOCAL DATA Lowest temp yesterday: 36 Highest temp yesterday: 56 Lowest temp today: 33 Rainfall to date: 3313 in Average to date: 1871 in Last year to date: 1301 in Sunset today: 5:10 pm Sunrsie tomorrow: 7:31 am Sunset tomorrow: 5:11 pm Vitals: Births HARRIS Born to Mr and Mrs James Harris of Seiad Valley at Siskiyou General Hospital Jan 15 a son Born to Mr and Mrs Daniel Wallace of Anderson at Mercy Hospital Jan 15 a son HOLT Born to Mr and Mrs James A Holt of Cottonwood at Mercy Hospital Jan 16 a son CARR Rorn to Mr and Mrs David Carr of Shasta at Mercy Hospital Jan 16 a daughter GIANELLI Born to Mr and Mrs Paul Gianclli of Redding at Mercy Hospital Jan 16 a daughter FRANKLIN Born to Mr and Mrs Charles Franklin of Redding at Mercy Hospital Jan 16 a son CORLETT Born to Mr and Mrs Clayton Corlett Jr of Shasta at Mercy Hospital Jan 16 a daughter Marriage licenses LOUT NELSON In Car-son City Louis Vincent Lout 40 of Sacramento and Arvada Nelson 27 of Redding It snows in the mountains An unexpected storm arrived in the mountains today to dampen the spirits of skiers The storm hit Ml Shasta and Mt Lassen ski areas early today with light snow Mt Shasta operating from 9 am to 4 pm daily for the next two weeks said this morning the clouds were high and visibility was still good but there was no certainty how long the visibility would remain thatj way The Ski Bowl has 15 feet of snow and all facilities are operating The storm ex-i pectcd to close the road The Mt Lassen ski area re- ported light snow and said it Is expected to get heavier Sunday All facilities are operating with nearly 11 feet of snow The road is plowed and expected to stay open The ski area is open from 10 am to 4 pm on wcek-j ends I Bible prophecy talks set personally headed by Sheriff A Cottar included two matrons six deputies and police chiefs Roy Andrcatta of Weed Henry Watson of Yrcka John Richardson of Dunsmuir and Harold Barnum of Mount Shasta Those arrested in Dunsmuir were Amber Henson 19 Deborah Dawn Kairschcrson 18 Victor Edwin Morris III 21 Thomas Wood Caslcr 20 Richard Douglas Ewing 19 William Robert Pierce 18 Reid William Kirschenman 21 and Jeffry Alan Twigg 21 Arrested in Weed were Alan David Soulhworth 19 Randolph Paul Rhodes 19 John Bleekcr Stepanovich under 21 and Shelton Anthony Bates 18 Nine arrested in the Mount Shasta area were Jeffrey Alan Whittier 22 Daniel Kleve-sahl 19 Margaret Susan Bridget Wheelihan 24 Patricia Graham 19 Jack Graham 19 Bruce Russell Nicbccker 22 Wade Hampton Poole Jr 23 the Rev Daniel DcMero 31 and Wayne Urbin Waterhouse 32 Arrested in the Yreka raids were John William Lount 24 of Seiad two 17-year-old Yreka girls and Loyd Norman Crawford 19 Craw'ford is free on $500 bail and will be arraigned separately Wednesday at which time a hearing will be set He wasn't in court Friday Arrested Thursday as a result of the raids was John Paul Shackett 23 of Yreka who was booked on charges of petty theft and selling LSD Cottar had predicted Thursday that other arrests would follow He said the raids climaxed an intensive month-long investigation by an undercover deputy and a state narcotics officer The youngsters who will ap pear at the hearing are being held in juvenile hall One is charged with selling codeine and the other with furnishing narcotics Charges against the others range from possession sale transportation of dangerous drugs and narcotics to the illegal possession of hypodermic needles Drugs found during the raids included marijuana LSD hashish and codeine the sheriff said Markets Livestock NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FEEDLOT RANGE SALES: Redding Compared to tail week: no test daughter cattle: feeder calvei fully steady demand good for calves and yearlings but offerings were limited Some cattlemen holding calves to use up available feed Rainfall In Redding area totaled 7 inches this week seaton total of 1313 inches compared to an overage to dale of 1301 Inches Volume reported for the week 2770 compared to 1140 last week and 1280 last year All sales for immediate two weeks delivery unless otherwise indicated Sales slaughter cattle: 120 choice yeld grade 24 iso lb heifers 2400 211 utility and commercial cows 1IS0 Sales FOB ranch with 4 per cent shrink Sales teeder cattle: 400 choice 400-435 lb steers 3100-3200 350 choice 500 lb s'eers 2950 la mostly 3000 200 choice 475 lb heifers 2550 200 good end choce (00-150 lb steers 2500 June delivery 250 standard 800425 lb steers 2100 June delivery Sales FOB ranch with work haul none to 3 per cent shrink Replacements: 700 good and choice calvy cows of mixed ages 1M00 350 good end choice cows of mixed ages in cutler flesh 13000 SHASTA LIVESTOCK AUCTION REPORT: Cottonwood Friday Cattle and calves salable 1041 last week 1200 last year 1450 Compared to last week: slaughter cows steady instances 50 cents lower slaughter bulls 100 higher slaughter calves strong to 100 higher feeder steer calves steady feeder steers steady to 50 cents higher feeder heifer calves 100 lower feeder heifers no test Supply consisted of approximately 250 calves 300 steers 50 heifers in replacement Iteilers and cows 40 slaughter calves the remainder mainly slaughter cows and bulls Slaughter cows: Young utility and standard 1950-2100 faw commercial 1900-1950 most utility 1700-1925 cutter 1500-1750 Conner 1250 1500 Slaughter bulls: Comme-cial 1200-1920 lbs 2300 2540 utility 2100 2150 Slaughter calves: Choice 400-535 lbs 2425-2740 good 2200-2450 Feeder steers: Choice 300-500 lb calves 2150-3170 good 2600-2900 few standard 300-350 lbs 2400-24 00 Choice 500-425 lb 24 50-2900 around 200 head 550400 lb 21 25-2900 good 500-425 lb 24 002450 Feeder heifers: Choice 335475 lb calves 2400 2500 good 2200-7450 49 head goad end cho-ce 521 lb 23 30 Replacements: 52 choice cows of mixed ages with small to 250 lb calves at side 230 00-23100 per pair 32 choice calvy cows 11400 each Good end choice ceivy heiters and young cows In cutler flesh 14000-15750 each 4 head good and choice 2 year eld bulls 25000-27500 each YREKA Twenty-five of twenty-six persons two of whom are juveniles arrested this week in a county wide narcotics raid were arraigned in Yrcka Justice Court Friday on several charges Judge George Tyler set Jan 37 as the date of a preliminary hearing for the group arrested in sweeping raids Wednesday night and Thursday The raid' KVIP quits Redding radio station KVIP went off the air for the last time Friday Station officials weren't available for comment The station had been up for sale for some months Stockholders decided to sell after the major stockholder Carl McConnell of Redding bought another Redding station KA1IR and moved to divest himself of financial interests in KVIP To keep KAHR McConnell had to sell his interest in KVIP under Federal Communications Commission rules Station officials reported that several people were interested in buying the station Only one a church group apparently ever came close to a purchase Vehicular accidents Editor's note: Redding area police agencies received the following reports of traffic ac-ridents during the 24-hour per iod that ended at 8 am today: CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL 8 am Friday on Interstate 5 south of the Fawndale Road overpass at Mountain Gate a car driven by Stanley Walsh 51 of Vancouver BC struck a deer 7:45 pm Friday on Rock Creek Road northeast of High way 299 a car driven by Thomas Ralph Greer 55 of Shasta ran off the roadway and struck a guard rail No injuries 11:30 pm Friday on Highway 299 five miles east of the Shasta County line a car driven by Donald Eugene Ulmer 33 of Anderson hit some ice on the roadway and skidded into a guard rail No injuries REDDING POLICE DEPARTMENT 1:54 pm Friday two-car accident at South Market and Veda streets Drivers were Donald Lee Bishop 10 4026 Harrison Avc Redding and Agnes Nemeth 54 5732 Bell Road Redding No injuries 3:30 am today Gary Snow 27 of San Francisco told police he discovered that another vehicle had struck his while it was parked on the parking lot at the Bonanza restaurant Vietnam to tell its story in Sweden STOCKHOLM (AP) South Vietnam is planning to open an information bureau here a Swedish newspaper reported It quoted two men who returned from an anti-Communist conference in Saigon The two Arvo Horm and Lars-Eric Nyman said they proposed the information bureau at the conference and were invited to meet President Nguyen Van Thicu and other officials of his government A teacher of Semitics and the Old Testament at Talbot Theological Seminary in Los Angelas will conduct a series of lectures on Bible prophecy in Redding He is Dr Charles Fein-berg who will appear at the North Valley Baptist Church at 9:30 and 11 am services Sunday and at 7:30 pm Sunday through Friday He was reared in an orthodox Jewish home in Pittsburg Pa and studied for the rabbinate He was graduated from the Hebrew Institute of Pittsburgh in 1927 and three years later he became a Christian Dr Feinbcrg earned theological degrees from the Dallas Theological Seminary and Southern Methodist University Placer Streets 243-1587 mhwnukT aun Forty Years of Service to Shasta County Schedule of Services Elizabeth Horn services pending at our Redding Chapel William Schick 11 am Monday at our Anderson Chapel Ralph Iloeflich services 10:00 am Monday at the Halsted and Company In San Francisco Carlyle Green Monday at our Redding Chapel Anderson Burney RUDY BALMA Owner-Manager Phone 241 1626 GEORGE and JEAN STELTER Owners.

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