Fort Collins Coloradoan from Fort Collins, Colorado (2024)

November 17, 1967

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Fort Collins Coloradoani

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Fort Collins, Colorado

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Friday, November 17, 1967

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a i 1 A -S Frl Nov 17 1967 Fort Collins Coloradoan 3 i niilr' ft Deputies Probe Colorado News Briefs Judge Dismisses 4 mm "'A 1 4 1 Circ*mstances or I 7 Of Man's Death 1 3 -w 5 Farm-City Else? Week John Worthington warns from the city against getting too close to Midnight Keystone Brad Looking on with obvious amusem*nt are Eddie Mills chairman of the chamber agriculture committee County Agent Gayle Knott Sherman Worthington (COLORADOAN Photo) By LUISE HANSON Staff Reporter Arch Walter Hobgood 39 of Route 4 Mountain View Trailer Court was dead on arrival at Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital early today (Friday) Cause of death remains undetermined pending an autopsy to be performed today by Dr Robert Schmidt county cornoer Hobgood reportedly was in- volved in a fight at the Log Cabin in Laporte prior to' his death though Chief Investigator Tom Peterson of the Larimer County Office said facial injuries sustained by Hobgood outwardly did not appear serious enough to have caused death According to Peterson the fight between Hobgood and another man ensued following a bet on a proposed Indian wrestling contest The second combatant listed only as a suspect by the office has been questioned and released PETERSON SAID he understands Hobgood left the Log Ca- bin with a friend of the family apparently suffering no immediate results from the scuffle However when they reached Fort Collins Hobgood apparently passed out His companion took him to Fire Station Number One for help A window in an overhead door at the station was broken in an attempt to arouse help This was at 2:15 am according to Chief Yonker He explained outside doors to the station are locked at night because of pranksters and patrons of nearby taverns This is National Farm-City Week and the occasion is being celebrated in Fort Collins as well A banquet at noon today sponsored by the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce was one of the highlights of the event Here Mayor Thomas Bennett perches precariously on a milk stool to sign a proclamation recognizing the occasion of Farm-City Arrested Deer Hunters Appearing in Court Now Obituaries Racing Against Charges of drag racing on public streets was dismissed in county court Friday morning against James Fisher 20 of Fort Collins Fisher was arrested by Patrolman James Spencer on SepL 16 The Fort Collins policeman testified the Fisher automobile and another left the stop light at Prospect Street and South College Avenue an extremely high rate of headed south on College Avenue He also said the engines of the cars involved were and that the front of the cars raised perceptibly when the drivers shifted gears indi- Club Tico Plans To be Presented Plans for remodeling of Club Tico will be presented at 7 pm Tuesday at the meeting of the Fort Collins Parks and Recreation Board Phillips director of parks and recreation said the meeting will be in the recreation headquarters He said the plans for remodeling have been drawn by an art class of Ronald Raetz-man at Colorado State University with the assistance of the Club Tico Board The will be presented to Fort Collins City Council nex Wednesday Phillips added Vandals Deface Five Businesses Five businesses in the 800 block of South College Avenue wea hit by pranksters early today reports Fort Collins Patrolman Rick Hummert He said vandals squirted oily substance thought to be cosmetic or hair oil on the buildings then threw a tan powder on the oil Firms vandalized include Reeds Gifts Unusual and Ed-gerton World Travel both of 824 South College a vacant shop above Village Shoppes 824 South College University Inn of 816 South College and Barber Shop of 814 South College Only monetary damage reported was an estimated each to remove the goo Girl 16 Injured In Auto Accident Karen Stein 16 of 1212 West Olive Street reportedly sustained minor elbow cuts Thursday about 5 pm in a two-car accident at Mulberry Street and College Avenue according to Fort Collins police Patrolman Roland Marsh said a car driven by Pamela Dianne Springer 17 of 1520 West Mountain slid sideways into Miss vehicle when the differential apparently locked He said the Stem auto was parked at the north side of Mulberry and the Springer vehicle was westbound on Mulberry The injured girl reportedly was taken to Poudre Valley Me- mortal Hospital by her father or super-size) Vogue DoUs Guns Tracks statement that Fawcett claimed killing the deer at 7 am near Granby having breakfast and arriving at Cherokee Park at 10:20 km a distance of 130 miles over mountain roads He said Fawcett claimed to have stopped in Walden at a Phillips Station is no station in added Mason Judge Smoke fined Fawcett the $100 and suspended $25 after the deiendent said he did not know the locality where he was arrested was an either sex area The penalty for such a crime ranges from $100 to $500 and up to six months in jail ROBERT Harvill Jr of Aurora was cited for hunting without a valid license He said he was not a resident for six months but the agent issuing the license suggested using the figure anyway Fish and Game officials said licenses taken from Harvill showed he had obtained resident fishing licenses in botu Illinois and California in May of 1967 Judge Smoke fined Harvill $50 and suspended $20 Thomas Layne Livingston was found guilty of bunting without a valid license and bad $25 of his $50 fine suspended He too stated the agent issuing him the license said it was all right to claim residency even though be had moved here from Mississippi in August Livingston also had $25 of a $100 fine for killing a female deer in an antlered-deer-only area He said he bad studied the game map the night before but forgot it the next day and thought he was in an either-sex area A Lowry Air Force man Cli-tus A Richards had $75 of his $100 fine suspended Richards was stopped at a game check station with a doe Ln his possession The defendant said he did not know the area was for antlered deer only and another lered deer only and another could be shot Bodies Found PINION Colo (AP) The bodies of a Denver doctor and a woman companion were found in their wrecked single-engine plane on ranch land southeast pf here Thursday The pair had been missing since they took off from the Sky Ranch Airport east of Denver Nov 1 They were identified from drivers licenses found in the wreckage as Dr John Cavanaugh 42 and Mrs Frances Patricia Sullivan 37' Sheriff Robert Horvat said the plane hit with such- velocity that wreckage was scattered for a distance of eight city blocks Fire at Sterling STERLING Fire swept through five small business establishments in downtown Sterling today and two other firms were damaged by smoke and water" -The blaze struck at a row of one-story buildings at Main and Front Streets Five More Die By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five traffic deaths were recorded in Colorado Thursday raising the fatality count to 533 five ahead of this date last year Dead are Glen Riggs 72 Fowler -Colo Leonard Max-field 73 Syracuse Kan and his wife Edith 74 Anna Rachel Carr 72 Holly Colo and James Louis Bauer 23 Basalt Colo Wants to Read DENVER (AP) Michael Pasterchik 39 a prisoner in the Denver County Jail asked the federal court Thursday to let him read newspapers in his cell Dave Kiebach deputy jail warden said prisoners are not allowed to see newspapers want to violate their constitutional rights by giving them Kiebach said Man Hunted DENVER (AP) FBI agents looked today for a 20-year-old Colorado Springs man Herbert Hendricks who has been charged with disrupting draft induction machinery Hastie said Hendricks walked out- of the center and disappeared Thursday while an FBI agqpt was on his way to arrest him The charge was filed against Hendricks before US Commissioner Howard Erick son- For Thanksgiving DENVER-(AP) Gov John Love said he and his family will go to the Western Slope ranch of State Rep Bill Gos-sard R-Craig for the Thanksgiving Day weekend He said he may try for some gome shooting along the Yam-pa His wife Ann and their children Becky and Andy! will make the trip with him LoVe Won't Tell ElENVER (AP) Gov John LoVe met for about an hour today with of a special legislative committee on reorganization of the executive branch of the state government He declined to tell reporters what he had recommended Court Agrees (AP) The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to study the constitutionality of a passage in the Colorado Code which gives Juvenile courts exclusive jurisdiction in criminal matters involving children from 10 to 16 New Building COLORADO SPRINGS (AP)-A three-story research building will be added to the Penrose Hospital Sister Myra James administrator of Penrose Hospital announced Thursday Cost is estimated af $18 mil-" lion of which $750000 has already been pledged by the El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs Over Production DENVER (AP) Colorado thanksgiving tables will be sup-ilied with the lowest priced urkeys in five years the State )epartraent of Agriculture iays because of over produc-ion in the industry Studies Urged DENVER (AP) The Feder-1 Reclamation Bureau recom-lended in a report released to-jade for a plan to provide addi-ional water in the Boulder-xmgmont-Broomfield area Committee Met DENVER (AP) The Joint Judget Committee and Legislate Audit Committed met rhursday to discuss ways to see hat appropriations are spent as he legislature had intended eating the cars were engaged a speed contest Spencer said he was parked near the Restaurant and made chase after the ve-hides passed his position He testified stopping the cars in volved after following closely for a distance while traveling 55 in a 40 mile-per-hour zone However Judge William Smoke dismissed the charges saying the law covering speed contests was rather vague and adding that evidence of intent (to race) has to be Spencer said under cross examination by attorney Waldine Olson that he had chosen to ticket the student on a speed contest charge rather than speeding because the drag race charge A speeding charge does not need any proof of intent but is a lesser charge OLSON MOVED for acquittal after Spencer admitted he had seen automobiles that were not racing leave stop lights at high rates of speed However Spencer denied ever seeing two automobiles under similar circ*mstances leave at high rates of speed together that were not engaged in a speed contest Deputy District Attorney Alfred A Johnson protested move for acquittal saying state has a primie facie case based on tbe testimony of a competent police However Judge Smoke accepted plea that the case be dismissed because minds could whether there was a race involved Trucks Collide Nearly $500 in damages occurred Thursday three miles west of Red Feather in an accident involving two trucks according to Patrolman Eugene Benson Benson said the trucks driven by Lester Barnes 47 of La-oorte and Robert Benest 27 of Fort Collins met on an iqy curve and sideswiped Weather (U I WMthff Burttu) FORT COLLINS Fair through Saturday Cooler with locally gusty winds today Prodiclfad high today tt low tonight 23 high Saturday 42 Proclamation probabilty less than five per cent through Saturday Thursday's high was 49 the low this morning 2t At 19 am (MSTI the relative humWfy was 4 per cent end barometer ttit (corrected) end steady COLORADO Pair through Saturdays cooler southeast tonight) lows tonight 90s southwest 25-31 north and oast mountain valleys) highs Saturday 44s tower elevations 50s mountains Pair tonight partly cloudy Saturday with a chance of scattered snow beginning northern mountains colder north Saturday afternoon locally gusty winds south and east Saturday -tows tonight 20s tower elevations 5-11 mountains highs Saturday JOs lewor elevations 40a mountains CENTRAL COLORADO MOUNTAINS through Saturday tittle change In temperatures lews tonight 10-30 highs Saturday 90-40 Estes Park 25-99 precipitation probability lass than per cent through Saturday FIVE DAY FORECAST Saturday through Wednesday temperatures are expected 2 to degrees below seasonal normals turning colder early next weok with scattered snow Ukoty mostly fair theraafrar with slow warming frond high temperatures lot colder days 40s and 50s warmer days lew temperatures to IS colder night IS ta 25 warmar nights Tht sun sets today at 4:44 pm and wlM rise at 4:45 am (MST) Saturday College Center Science Sets r- i A resuscitator was used on Hobgood to no avail and he was transported by ambulance to the hospital where he was officially pronounced dead The hospital listed his injuries as facial contusions according to the office Peterson said he and Deputy Melvin Veit are continuing their investigation into the Log Cabin incident He indicated the case will remain open until results of the autopsy are known MR HOBGOOD was born June 2 1928 at Las Animas Colo -and was employed by ABC welding as a foreman He was married to Betty Berg Nov 5 1955 at Raton She survives as do bis mother Mrs Mabel Hobgood of Las Animas two sons Arch Hobgood II and James Hobgood both at home one brother Ray Hobgood of San Diego Calif and one sister Mrs Ruth Jackson of Laramie Wyo A son Barry Lee drowned last May in a gravel pit near here Mr Hobgood had lived in Fort Collins two years He was a Marine veteran of World War II and had been awarded the Good Conduct Medal World War II Victory Medal China Series Medal and the Navy Occupational Medal He was a member of the First Methodist Church at Las ABkmas the International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers Local 24 and local Moose Lodge Arrangements wil be announced later by Warren Funeral Chapel Royal Burton LOVELAND Royal David Burton 77 of north of Loveland on Taft Avenue died Thursday at Loveland Memorial Hospital He was born at Chester Neb July 25 1890 He warf married to Pearl Olmstead at Seward Neb June 4 1928 They moved to Loveland from Geneva Neb six years ago He was a retired carpenter and attended Zion American Lutheran Church Surviving are his widow one daughter Mrs Billie Jean Renz of Loveland and a son Jay Burton of Fort Collins two brothers James A Burton in Nebraska and George Burton in Kansas one sister Flora Carpenter of Oklahoma City Okla and six grandchildren The service will be at 2 pm at Kibbey Funeral Chapel conducted by Pastor Kneip of Zion American Church Burial will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens north of Loveland Huldah Severs The funeral for Mrs Huldah Savers 93 formerly of 436 West Sixth Street who died Thursday morning at Loveland Memorial Hospital will be Saturday at 10:30 am at the First Baptist Church The Rev Francis Hauseman will conduct the service Burial will be at Loveland Burial Park Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements Westmoreland (Confined Prom Page 2) troops in Vietnam within two years if allied progress continues Ichord said Westmoreland listed as a condition for the phaseout an expansion of the South Vietnamese combat role Chairman Mendel Rivers D-SC said the military commander delivered very optimistic Westmoreland was to meet with President Johnson at the White House today Informed sources predicted the general would be granted a request for earlier deployment of the previously authorized additional troops By mid-1968 a total of 525000 men are to be in Vietnam Joint Kiwanis Lions Meeting Set Nov 21 The Fort Collins Kiwanis Club and the Fort Collins Lions Club will hold a joint luncheon meeting at The Top Restaurant on Nov 21 Dr Rue Jensen vice president foi research at Colorado State University will speak on research at CSU -Dr Robert Dils associate dean of forestry and natural resources at CSU spoke to the Kiwanis Club on Nov 14 His subject was Hours in the i Eventide Makes New Zone Plea The Eventide Association has filed a petition with the- Fort Collins Planning and Zoning office to rezone an area on Stuart Street 'one-eighth mile east of Lemay Avenue The association had applied earlier to rezone the area from R-P (planned residential) to R-H (high density residential) The planning and zoning board recommended denial of the request and after a public hearing the city council did deny tbe request The new petition asks for zoning to be changed to R-M (medium density residential) Also included in the is approximately eight acres to the north of the Eventide property the land is owned by Jack Hahn He is also requesting R-M zoning The matter will be considered at the Dec 5 meeting of the Fort Collins Planning andZon-ing Board- Bomb Report Proves Hoax A bomb tip made to Fort Collins police Thursday shortly after 8 pm proved to be a hoax according to the police report A male caller reported to police a bomb had been placed in the Student Center Theatre at Colorado State University Police the Fort Collins Fire Department and Campus Security officials reportedly turned up nothing in a thorough search of the theater located at the southwest comer of the Sudent Center complex Firemen Respond To Three Alarms Station One of the Fort Collins Fire Department answered three calls Thursday none of which proved serious Damage to a car owned by Harvey Betz oM23 North Mason Street was estimated at $100 following a transmission fire which happened at East Linden and First streets about 4:30 pm The department was summoned to city jail about 7:30 after a mattress in a juvenile cell was ignited The report indicates one female juvenile prisoner was administered oxygen A bomb threat at the Colorado State University Student Center Theater was investigated at 8:20 pm Greeley May Apply For Planning Funds GREELEY The Greeley City Council will consider applying for federal funds to pay costs of a comprehensive planning study for renewal of the downtown area The Project Renewal Committee of Greeley has estimated cost of the project would be from $30000 to $50000 and if the council applies for federal funds the government will be asked to pay two-thirds of the planning work The renewal committee also has considered an improvement district for the downtown area to finance part of the cost which would be paid by the city Pleads Innocent DENVER (AP) Mariann McCarthy 22 of Fort Collins pleaded innocent in US District Court Friday to two counts of illegal sale of the drug LSD in Boulder May 3 No trial date has been set- Those hunters arrested for alleged violations of big game regulations in the recent hunting season are now being brought to trial Friday morning four such cases were beard and all received suspended sentences in varying amounts from Judge William Smoke Robert A Fawcett of Denver was fined $100 but bad $25 suspended for taking an antlerless deer after telling the judge he did not realize the locality was an either-sex area Fawcett had an antlerless deer tagged with an additional tag in his possession when be was contacted in Cherokee said Fish and Game Department Officer Phillip Mason claimed to have killed it near Granby When he was asked to trace his route from there to Cherokee Park he was unable to do The game warden added in his Poverty (Ctirtlniwd from Pge 30 delegates from tbe approved list Sandmeyer apologized to the group for using an old list composed originally by the county commissioners and said he would accept the other delegates names if they would identify their organization Some of the group 3 asked for formal rec-ognizalion of their membership following the voting and received approval OTHER ITEMS considered at the meeting included: reading of the annual report including the financial situation At present funds have run out and the program is using $6700 held over from the summer headstart program un-til new money is appropriated by Congress by the program committee recommending consideration be given to hiring a family counsel and roving community aide of the minutes of last annual meeting --CSU Band (Continued from Pag 1) er with a' stiff leg as a result of a bicycle accident Roxanne Clemens Broomfield clarinet player with a pinched nerve in her back Bill McColman Chicago 111 drummer with a sprained knee and Frances Dependahl St Louis Mo flute player recovering a minor foot op- -wflftll Cl utlUlt 1 Werner cites his most common injury as cracked lips due to during backyard and sand lot football Sprains obtained in the same manner rank a close second Even so fans when you see the referees walk to the center of the field prior to contest they be flipping a coin on whether or not the CSU Marching Band will show Werner and his colorful troop will be there to put on their usual fine performance Injuries and all Use Coloradoan Classifieds We wfil CARPET YOUR BATH FREE on living room and hall carpet orders of 40 yds or more Carpet Mart 484-5579 0 Williams LOVELAND Olen Monroe (Bill) Williams 53 of No 13 West Ridge Drive west of Loveland died Thursday night at his home following an apparent heart attack He was born Match 5 1914 at Houstonia Mo and married Nedra Simmons at Winne-mucca Nev Mr Williams was an auto salesman for Lebo and Sons having come to Loveland five months ago from Grants Pass Ore He was a member of the Elks Lodge at Grants Pass Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Ellen Morrison and Mrs Carol Morris both of Salem Ore his parents Mr and Mrs John Frank Williams of Loveland a brother Harry Williams of Fort Morgan and three grandchilren The funeral will be Tuesday at 11 am at Kibbey Funeral Chapel conducted by the Rev Francis Hausman Burial will be in Loveland Burial Park John Reese John Reese 56 of 1326 East Eighth Street died at his home this morning (Friday) Death was apparently due to a heart attack He was bom Feb 21 1911 at Browning Mo and came to Loveland when he was about 10 years old On June 20 1931 he was married to Hazel Clark at Fort Collins They lived in the Greeley-La Salle area for several years where they farmed then moved to Loveland in February of 1962 Mr Reese was a member of First Baptist Church at Berth-oud Surviving are his widow two daughters Mrs Darlene Van Fossen of San Leandro Calif and Mrs Myrna Stevens of Greeley one son Patrick Reese of Greeley four sisters Mrs Margaret Rickley of Point Reyes Calif- Mrs Alice West erf BilligSyMont-Mrs Eva McQueen of St Joseph Mo and Mrs Mae Alberts of Albany Ore two brothers William Reese of Loveland and George Reese of Independence Mo and eight grandchildren Arrangements will be announced by Hunter Funeral Home Funeral Notices FUNERAL (HAPEL Private Funeral Parking HOBGOOD Arch Walter Hobgood of Mountain View Trailer Court rangements later JOHNSON Charles Johnson of 604 Monte Vista Service Saturday 1030 am Warren Chapel Interment Roselawn Cemetery row OPEN CHUCK'S TOYS HOBBIES 1671 South College In the South SEE US FOR: Plush Animals (Small Madame Alexander and Race and Train Sets Playschool aod Fisher-Price Games and Puzzles Miniature Dish and Cookware Sets Matchbox Series MODELS: Airplanes Boats (We will be open Monday Cars RADIO CONTROL EQUIPMENT Wednesday and Friday Evenings starting next week Til I) See New 'N' Guage Micro Trains OPEN DAILY 10 am (o 6 pm WE GIFT WRAP TREE -4.

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