JURY SEEKS PENALTY
FOR DR. FINCH AND
CAROLE TREGOFF
LOS ANGELES UP — Ten men
and two women resumed deli
berations which mean life or death
for Dr. R. Bernard Finch and
Carole Tregoff.
The same panel which found
the surgeon and his erstwhile
mistress guilty of murder and
conspiracy is now seeking to fix
the penalty. The jurors have two
choices — life imprisonment or
death in the gas chamber.
Dr. Finch, 43. and Miss Treg
off. 24. were convicted last week
of murdering the doctor’s wife,
Barbara Jean, 36. The jury began
pondering the penalty Monday.
Superior Court Judge David
Coleman told them to continue.
Record Earthquake Ten
Miles Under Los Angeles
LONG BEACH. Calif. OP — Au
thorities say an earthquake cen
tered 10 miles beneath Los An
geles-Long Beach harbors knock
ed out 26 producing oil wells and
damage may total millions of dol- j
lars.
A subterranean slip was!
blamed. No surface damage was !
reported.
The quake, at 1:30 p. m. yester- !
day, at first was believed to have
been of no consequence.
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Estranged Wife of
Spade Cooley Found
Beaten to Death
TEHACHAPI. Calif. W — The
nude and bruised body of Mrs.
Spade Cooley, estranged mate of
the former western band leader,
was found Monday night at the
couple’s palatial desert ranch
house.
Cooley was taken into custody.
A dozen investigators swarm
ed over the property dusting for
fingerprints and seeking to pierce
a veil of mystery in the case.
“Her body was covered with i
: bruises,” said sheriff’s deputy1
! John Howard. He reported the ;
i body of Ella Mae Cooley, 35, was
j wrapped in a blanket when an j
ambulance arrived.
She was taken to Tehachapi I
Valley Hospital and pronounced '
dead.
Cooley was taken to the sheriff’s
substation at Mojave.
The sheriff said he planned to
book the hillbilly musician for
investigation of murder.
Cooley admitted he slapped his
wife with his open hand during
a quarrel but denied striking her
in any other way.
Just last March 17 Cooley, who
gained fame as a fiddling band
leader and songwriter in the early
stages of television, sued his wife
of 15 years for divorce, charging
incompatibility.
At that time he told reporters:
“Ella Mae moved out and I’m!
heartsick, but there isn’t a chance i
of reconciliation.”
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Senate Approves
Appropriations Bill
Calling for $56,734,040
JUNEAU UH — The State Sen
ate gave its okay yesterday to a
general appropriations bill call
ing for the expenditure of $56,
734,040 for fiscal 1962.
The vote on the bill was 12-8.
The vote came on a dramatic
switch of votes by Republicans
Vance Phillips and Elton Eng- ’
strom.
Phillips and Engstrom voted no
on passage of the bill, but just
before the final vote was an
nounced — and it would have!
been 10-10, a vote killing the bill i
—Phillips and Engstrom switched. |
Before going into final action |
on the bill, the Senate adopted
a last minute amendment offer- j
ed by Sen. R. J. McNealy to
boost the appropriation for a
teachers’ salary increase by $1
million.
McNealy said he was doing so
to bring the appropriations bill in
line with a teachers’ pay increase
bill approved earlier by the up
per chamber.
“We’d look pretty silly if we
raised teachers’ salaries and then
didn’t provide money for it,” Mc
Nealy said.
The amendment passed on a
voice vote.
The final vote ended two days
of partisan wrangling in which
a total of 53 amendments to the
budget bill were considered.
Sixteen amendments were turn
ed down today, prior to the adop
tion of McNealy’s amendment.
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Calls Upon Division of
Highways Maintain Right
Of-Way Sections in 3 Cities
JUNEAU UP) — The Senate Fed
eral Relations Committee intro
duced a resolution yesterday call
ing upon the State Division of
Highways to maintain planning,
engineering, designing and right
of-way sections at Nome, Anchor
age and Fairbanks.
Under terms of the measure,
the field offices would handle all
highway projects within their
districts, under the supervision
of a Central Review Office which
would be maintained at Juneau.
Chairman of the Federal Re
lations Committee is Sen. Lester
Bronson.
NOTICE
To Our Friends and Customers
Pop's Drive-In will be under
new management as of April 1,
1961. The lessees, Esther and
James Carter, will give continued
and better service.
We have sincerely appreciated
your patronage which has made
this small business a success. Look
for better things to come at Pop's.
We will not be responsible for
any debts contracted after March
31, 1961.
Chuck Frazier &
Don Perkins
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Too Many Sightseers —
Stops Work on Gold Mine
OLD GLORY, Tex. OP) — Paul
Harrelson says hard luck and too
many sightseers forced him to
stop work on a vein of gold he
said he found near this west
Texas town.
He said Monday crowds of
sightseers drawn by news stories
of his find kept employes from
working and a sudden rise on the
Brazos River washed out a dam
at the location, and swept away
two pumps.
“We changed all the locks on
the gates,” he said. “We don’t
plan to reopen the operation for
at least a month or until some
of this publicity cools down.”
Harrelson said a week ago he
found the vein about one mile
from the old Cortez silver mine.
He said a sample of the ore as
sayed $138 gold per ton.
Kennedy Tees Off . . .
PALM BEACH, Fla. iff) — Play
ing like a man in a terrific hur
ry, President Kennedy drove —
and severely hooked — two golf
balls off the first tee into a gusty
wind yesterday.
Both balls traveled about 175
yards, and both came to rest be
yond the rought — in the wrong
fairway.
This was the first time reporters
had been permitted to watch Ken
nedy tee off, and then write about
it, since he was nominated for
the Presidency in July.
A few minutes earlier photo
graphers for the first time in that
period ihad been allowed to take
pictures of Kennedy on the golf
course.
The only shots permitted by the
White House, however, were of
the President standing at the first
tee.
Nome Directory
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Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw, Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Each Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber nf Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
□ Barbara Martin
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
A. E. BOHRER, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Robert Grant
President
Dusty Rhode
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Mina Bachelder, President
jane Foster, Secretary
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Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
Northwestern Group
Lt.-Col. Dusty Rhode, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 185
Meetings - Monthly, Last Tuesday 8 p.m.
Staff Conferences - Each Tuesday 8 p.m.
Group Hdqtrs., Nome Airport
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each THursday 7:30 p.m.