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Saluting the Fresno County
Deputy Sheriffs for
their fine work.
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Fresno, CA 93710 Clovis, CA 93612 Fresno, CA 93710
1986
'The Sheriff's Review
Our Thirtieth Year
Editor Assistant Editor
Gene Hallam .Mary Ellen Tabler
COVER-In all the years I've been editor of this publication, the Board of Directors of the
Association that owns and publishes it has given me a free hand as far as choice and tone of
content is concerned. While there have been suggestions regarding past covers, the final
decision has usually been mine. This edition features a notable exception to that policy of
editorial freedom. The Board took advantage of my absence from a meeting to decide that
due to my long tenure as editor, and the fact 1986 is our 30th year of publication, my picture
should be on the cover. It was not a suggestion; it was a firm decision. I thank the members of
the Board for their past support and for this gesture. Modesty never having been one of my
more prominent virtues, I am flattered by the honor, although naturally a bit embarrassed .
However, as a criminal would say when ready to squeal on his crime partners, "I ain't a-gonna
ride this beef by myself." Others have contributed substantially to the success of The Review,
and they also deserve recognition. There's not room for all of us on the cover, but inter
spersed throughout this 30th edition will be photos of those others to whom the Association
owes a vote of thanks, with a brief account of their contributions. In addition, to each of them
I express my own personal heartfelt thanks for helping me do a job the Board of Directors
feels is worthy of special recognition.-The Editor
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Relief Association Officers ............ .............. 3
Fresno County Board of Supervisors ... . .... .. . . .. . . 7
In Memoriam . ........ . ... . .. . . . ..... . . .. . .......... 8
Editorial: Don't Forget to Vote . ... . ... ........ . . . . . 10
Administration .......... ........ .................. 13
Fiscal Section . . ... . . .... . . ............ ... ... ..... . 16
Inspections .......... .... ......... ....... ......... 17
Internal Affairs .............. .......... .......... .. 19
A Gesture of Appreciation .. .. . .. . ..... .. . .. ..... .. --2{Y
Encore ... ......................... ............... 25
A Cry in the Night ............ . .. ..... . ... .. . . . .. . . 26
Administration Division ......... . . .. . . . .. .. . .... . . . 34
Bailiff Services .................... ... . . . ... . .. .... 35
Extra Help Bailiffs .............. . . ... ....... .... . .. 36
Civil Section ..................... ...... . .. . .. . . . .. 39
Licensing & Permits ............... . ............... 40
Property & Evidence ................ .... ...... ..... 40
VMC Security ................. . . .. . . .... .. . . . . . . .. 40
Training .. ... . .... . .... . .... . .. .. .... . .... .. ..... . 41
Table of Contents
Communications . . ....... . . ....................... 72
Crime Prevention Unit ... ..... . . ...... . ............ 73
Special Weapons and Tactics Team ................ 75
We Went to the Fair .... . . .... .. ............ . .. . .. . 76
The Lighter Side .. ......... ..... ............... ... 78
Frustration Times Two ........ ......... ........ .... 82
Detective Division ........ ................... ...... 92
Crime Analysis . .. .... . ..... . ........ . . . . .. . ..... .. 95
Montana Mountairl Men ............ ....... ........ 97
They Also Deserve a Hand ...... .............. .... 112
The Supreme Court Does It Again . . .... . . . . . . .... 113
Jail Division .. ....... ..... . .. . ........... . .... . . .. 118
Medical Services .. ....... . . .. . . . .............. ... 126
Branch Jail . ... . . . ....... . . ................... . .. 128
Good Intentions May Backfire ... .. . ......... . .... 130
Welcome Aboard . . . .......... . ................... 133
Body Building For Cops . .. . ............... . ..... . 134
Gone Fishing ... . ..... ........................ . . . 136
Notable Covers . . . . . .. . . ..... . .. . ......... . .... .. 138
Records .. ... ... .. ......... . . . ' " . .. .. . . ... . .... .. 43 Protecting Our Heritage .. . .................... ... 142
Technical Services . ... . .. ... . ... ... . . . .. .. . ... ... . 45 Clovis Police Department .. .............. . ... .. . .. 151
Crime Lab ... . ... .. . . ....... . ..... . ...... . . . .. .. .. 46 Coalinga Police Department .............. . . .. . ... 157
Identification Services . .... . . . .. . ... . .. .. ....... . . . 47 Huron Police Department . . . .. . ......... ... . . . . ... 159
How About A Little Smile .. .. .. ...... . ... .... ... . .. 49 Kerman Police Department . . . . . ... ... .. . . .... . ... 163
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team . ........... . . .. 50 Kingsburg Police Department . . . . ..... . .... .. . .. . . 165
K-9 Patrol . .. . .. . . ... .... . .......... . . .. ......... . . 52 Mendota Police Department . . . . .. .. . . . . .. . . ...... 167
Patrol Division ...... . . .... .... . ..... . . ... ... . .. . .. 60 Reedley Police Department ... ... .. . . . . ........... 174
Area 1 ....... . ............ .. ... . . .. .. . . . . .... .... . . 62 Sanger Police Department . .. . .... . . . . . . . ..... . .. . 177
Area 2 . . .. . ... .... : ....... . .. .. .. ......... .. . . .. .. 64 Search and Rescue Update . ..... .. . . . . . . . .. . .. . . : 183
Area 3 . . .... . ............ . ... . . . . . . . ...... .. . . . . .. . 66 And Last But Not Least .... ... . ... . . . .... . . .... . .. 187
Area 4 ................................. . .... .. .... 68 Index of Advertisers . ....... . .. . . ...... . ...... .. . . 188
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Fresno County
Board of Supervisors
Seated, Deran Koligian,Chairman; standing, from left, Sharon Levy, Judy
Andreen, Vernon Conrad, Betty Ramacher. (We wonder if any other
county in California has a Board with a female majority.)
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In Memoriam
Three retired members of the Department
have been taken from us the past year. To
their families The Review extends heartfelt
condolences.
Sergeant Jack De Young had been retired
for many years when he passed away last year.
He had been a member of the Department
since the forties, and had served in the Identi
fication Bureau before regular deputies there
were replaced by criminologists, and in the
Warrants and Fugitive Section, primarily as
pilot of the Department's transportation air
plane. He was active in the establishment of
the Sheriff's Air Squadron, and was one of the
unit's early commanders.
Law enforcement was achlally a second
career for Jack. He was one of Fresno Coun
ty's pioneer aviators, and during World War II ,
was a civilian flight instructor for the Army Air
Corps. After the war he was a flight instructor
for a local civilian flying school. He had a
reputation as a no-nonsense, exacting, flight
instructor, insisting that his students thorough
ly learn and understand all the basic principles
of aircraft operation, and carry them out with
unwavering precision. Many of the commun
ity's present private pilots owe their profici
ency, and no doubt some of his \Vorld War II
former students their lives, to Jack De Young's
consistently excellent flight instruction.
Detective Claude E. Hoy was a native of
Chicago, date of birth August 29, 1927. He
attended elementary and high school there,
and later served in the United States Army. He
joined the Department in July of 1959, and re
tired on February 26, 1981. During that time
he had the usual jail and patrol assignments,
then was assigned to the Special Investigations
Detail (vice), and later to the newly formed
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit, estab
lished for the purpose of working with other
law enforcement agencies in the exchange,
analysis, and safekeeping of potentially val
uable information related to organized crime,
gang activity, etc. He was also, earlier in his
career, very active in search and rescue. At the
time of retirement he had for some time been
assigned to the Checks and Forgery Detail.
Claude became interested in aviation a few
years before retirement, learned to fly, and
subsequently obtained a flight instructor's
license. He retired early with the idea of es
tablishing a second career as a flight instructor
and charter pilot. He was becoming quite
successful in that endeavor when a lingering
and eventually fatal illness put a tragic end to
those plans.
Deputy Sheriff Leonard G. Hunt was born
in Dinuba on August 10, 1928. He attended
elementary and junior high school in Fresno,
and high school in Lancaster and Kerman,
where he graduated in 1946. He then served in
the United States Navy, joined the Sheriff's
Department in June of 1955, and retired in
February of 1980.
Much of Gerry's law enforcement career
was spent in the Mental Health Detail, where
he became very proficient at the difficult task
of dealing with and caring for the mentally
disturbed. Later he served for several years in
the Warrants and Fugitive Section, and at the
time of retirement was assigned to the Civil
Section of the Administration Division. After
retirement he sold real estate and operated his
own private security service.
Gerry attended a Bible college briefly in his
youth, and may have considered a career in
the ministry. His decision that his calling lay in
another direction, however, didn't preclude a
devotion to community service. For many
years he was active in the Boy Scout move
ment, and in the Elks Lodge, where he served
a term as chaplain of the local lodge. His un
selfish interest in service to his. fellow man
continued after he became ill and until his
untimely death.
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Editorial
Don't Forget to vote
I've expressed a great deal of editorial
opinion in the years I've been editor of this
magazine, in the editorial column itself, and
also in various articles I've written. In all of
them the message I intended to convey was
sincere, and in most I consider d it objective
and in the best interests of law enforcement
and the criminal justice system. On a few oc
casions I'll admit I took advantage of the
opportunity to air personal gripes which may
not necessarily have been shared by my law
enforcement colleagues in general. Even then
I sincerely thought it was something that need
ed to be said, if only to bring the question into
the open and foster healthy debate.
This editorial will be brief and to the point,
and while it does express my own strong per
sonal views, I have never been more sincere
than in my conviction that the message is vital
to law enforcement, the entire criminal justice
system in California, and to all law abiding
citizens of the state.
An article in this issue of The Revie\v anal
yzes one of the most recent travesties on jus
tice by the United States Supreme Court. Our
California Supreme Court, not unexpectedly,
has recently made a similarly asinine decision,
the reversal of the conviction of Billy Ray
Hamilton of the Fran's Market massacre. The
local media have covered it well, so going into
detail here would be redundant. The point is,
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the decision was merely the latest in the long
string of refusals by the court to uphold the
law and follow the will of the people. This
flagrant disregard for the rights of victims of
crime and protection of society, and the mis
placed sympathy and concern for those con
victed of crime, will continue as long as the
present make-up of the California Supreme
Court is allowed to remain intact.
In November we'll have an opportunity to
improve the situation. Unlike the United
States Supreme Court, where the justices are
appointed by the President for life tenns, sub
ject only to confirmation by the Senate, our
state Supreme Court justices, although ap
pointed by the governor, are subject to con
firmation by the people. In this year's general
election in November, the names of three
ultra-liberals appointed by former governor
Jerry Brown, Rose Bird, Joseph Grodin, and
Cruz Reynoso, will appear on the ballot for
confirmation to be voted upon.
Usually such confirmation is almost auto
matic, due to the format of the ballot. No al
ternate candidate is listed, as in a re-call elec
tion. The voter is only to answer the question,
"Shall J llstice So-and-so be confirmed for a
twelve-year term'?", or words to that effect,
with boxes to be checked for "Yes" or "N0."
It's so much easier for uninformed voters to
mark the "Yes" box and maintain the status
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quo, than to vote "No" and have to wonder
what happens then, that a vote failing to con
firm is almost unheard of.
It doesn't have to be that way, of course,
and this year there's a strong indication such
confirmation won't be approved. There'sa
vigorous, well-organized campaign under
way to persuade voters to vote against con
firmation, and, so far anyway, those who
favor confirmation have maintained a low
profile. And therein lies a danger; many voters
who honestly think Bird and her stooges
should be removed from office may be lulled
into complacency by the apparent strength of
the campaign toward that end, and think their
votes won't be needed.
We can't afford such a sense of compla
cency. Every vote will be needed, for we can
be sure those of, and those sympathetic to, the
criminal element, and those in a position to
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present low profile may even be a planned
strategy to foster a sense of apathy and com
placency in confirmation opponents. Add
their votes to those who'll vote "Yes" simply
because it's easy, and it's obvious it won't be
an easy victory for law and order.
All of us who want true justice in our state
courts, a fair shake but no sympathy or undue
privileges for the criminal, and for the state
Supreme Court to uphold the laws we vote
for, must not only resolve to vote against con
firmation of the justices in question, but also to
wage personal campaigns to convince our
friends and neighbors of the gravity of the sit
uation and the necessity of their voting like
wise. It may be the last chance we have for
generations to restore respect for law ·and
order to our community and our state.
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LUGGAGE • TOYS • GIFTS. WIGS
ACCESSORIES • JEWELRY • ETC.
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aHLBERG'S FOOD CENTER
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Security Building Maintenance
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Meat -Groceries Produce
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SAN CARLOS CAFE
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Administration
H. McKinney
Sheriff
S. Peden
Sheriff's Secretary
s. Magarian A. Papaleo
Assistant Sheriff Assistant Sheriff
Bureau of Field Operations Bureau of Staff Services
B. Boland
Secretary
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M. Hodgkins
Legal Advisor
J. Magarian
Secretary
R. Kierejczyk
Public Info. Officer
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227-8003
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Truck Body Building -24 Hour Tow Service
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MOVES BOATS AND MOBILE HOMES
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PLASTIC SIGNS. MAGNETIC SIGNS . WINDOW LETTERING
BANNERS . DECALS. WALL SIGNS
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Fishing Hunting Equipment and Licenses
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A Gesture
of Appreciation
By Lieutenant Richard White
Past President, F.C.S.O.R.A.
This issue of The Sheriff's Review is dedi
cated to Gene Hallam, long time editor, who
has been and continues to be a strong and
driving force in the F.C.S.O.R.A.
Gene began his service with the Sheriff's
Department in August 1951, and retired 30
years later in 1981. He served his early days as
a deputy in the jail, as a bailiff, as a patrolman,
and as a detective. In 1960 he was promoted to
sergeant and assigned to Patrol until 1962,
when he "vas put in charge of the vVarrant
Detail. He remained in that capacity until he
was promoted to lieutenant in 1965. He then
was transferred to the Patrol Division where
he served as watch commander until late 1969,
when he \vas transferred to Identification and
Records Division as the Assistant Division
Commander. Most of the time as a lieutenant
in the Patrol Division he was also in charge of
the Search and Rescue Program.
Gene was promoted to captain in 1971, and
was assigned to command the Security Divi
sion, a post he held until transferred to com
.. mand the Patrol Division in 1975. He held that
position until 1976, when he assumed com
mand of the Records and Identification divi
sion. In 1978 he went to the Detective Division
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as division commander, where he remained
until 1979, at which time he was transferred
for the final time, spending his last 21 months
as commander of the Administration Division.
Gene has a natural ability to put his thoughts
clearly on paper, as evidenced by the number
of manuals and memos bearing the signature
of Captain Hallam that still surface around the
Department.
Gene reluctantly agreed to be interviewed
regarding his tenure as editor of The Sheriff's
Review. Rather than attempt to paraphrase
his answers to the key questions, they are pre
sented in his own words.
Q. The most obvious question, of course, is
how did you happen to get the job as editor in
the first place?
A. I'd always been interested in writing, and
when the Association first began publishing
The Review in 1957, I had a vague idea that I
might someday contribute an article or two. I
didn't foHow up on the idea for two or three
years. Al Collins was editor, and at that time I
didn't know him well enough toknow how an
offer of assistance would be accepted. When I
was promoted to detective he was lieutenant
of detectives, and I then became well enough
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acquainted with him that I broached the sub
ject. He gladly accepted the offer, and for a
year or two he and I shared editorial duties.
Q. How'd that work out?
A. Al never said so, but I may have helped
too much. He was a good editor, and was and....-
still is a good writer. However, he sometimes
was guilty of one minor grammatical error
that bothered me. He wrote a great story of a
very unique and interesting murder case of a
few years past, and asked me to read it and
make suggestions for improvement. There
was a lot of action in the story, and there were
several instances of improper tense usage,
which is what the aforementioned error re
ferred to. I corrected the errors, and returned
the manuscript to AI with the comment that
the only improvement needed was in the
grammar, which I'd corrected. He thanked
me, a bit coolly I thought, and made no fur
ther comment. The next year I found myself
editing the magazine without a co-editor.
Q. Was that the reason he turned the job
over to you?
A. I'm sure it wasn't. AI and I have been
good friends ever since, so maybe it was just
my imagination that he may have resented a
rookie detective criticizing a detective lieu
tenant's grammar. The reason he gave for giv
ing up the editorship, that his regular duties
were so time consuming he couldn't devote
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the time to the magazine to do the job he'd like
to, was certainly valid. The lone detective
lieutenant then personally reviewed and as
signed cases for follow-up, and stayed much
closer to the investigations than detective lieu
tenants have to do now, without a supervisory
sergeant to help him.
Q. I know you have some pretty definite
ideas about the magazine's content. Would
you care to elaborate on that?
A. Before the publication of The Sheriff's
Review, the only magazines I'd ever seen pub
Iished by police agencies or their affiliate
associations were poor imitations of high
school annuals. They consisted mainly of
photos of personnel and trite descriptions of
the functions of various units, and the remain
der was advertising. That would consist pri
marily of the same type as found in high
school annuals; anything from a few lines to a
full page with wording such as "Joe Doakes
Hardware congratulates the class of 1956"; the
only change being "the fine officers of Blank
Department" substituted for "class of 1956."
Obviously someone, probably an officer in
uniform, had figuratively twisted Mr. Doakes'
arm and convinced him it would be in his best
interests to purchase advertising, a euphem
ism for making a donation, even if it wasn't
likely to increase sales of hardware. I was re
lieved when the Association's Board of Direc-
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tors decided to have our advertising sales
handled by an outside firm. Having such soli
citations handled by an officer had always
seemed to me not only a poor public relations
policy, but also degrading to both the officer
involved and the law enforcement profession.
Al Collins got the operation off to a good start
by going a step further and presenting a maga
zine with a great deal of readable material, in
addition to the personnel photos and explana
tions of unit function. The advertiser could
thus feel he was actually purchasing advertis
ing that could attract customers, rather than
merely making a donation. I and the others
who have served as editor have ahvays tried to
carryon in that tradition .
Q. You mentioned other pubications such as
ours being poor imitations of high school an
nuals. Is that still a fair description?
A. [n most of those I've seen there's been '
considerable improvement. And I think we
can take some of the credit for that, by dem
onstrating how it should be done. At least one
Valley department contacted us for advice
when they were making plans to publish a
magazine, and others have obviously used our
publication as a guide, some even going so far
as to copy our format exactly for some types
.. of presentations. That has never bothered me;
someone once said that imitation is the most
sincere form of flattery.
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Q. Are there any particularly interesting
experiences you'd like to mention?
A. Bob Smith has always done most of the
photography, but in the early years I did a lot
of it myself. I even learned to use most of the
antiquated darkroom equipment we had in
the old building, and developed, printed,
enlarged, or copied many of the pictures I'd
taken. The Association bought a camera for
me to use: a Crown Graphic press camera that
\vas top of the line in its day. It used 4" by 5"
sheet film and the old-fashioned large flash
bulbs. It had a better lens than any of the simi
lar cameras then used by the I. Bureau, and I
had a lot of fun with it, and made some pretty
good pictures.
Q. I imagine you got some pretty good ac
tion shots, particularly when you were a patrol
sergeant?
A. One would think so, and that was the idea
when the camera was bought. [n actual prac
tice, it didn't work that way. When I arrived at
a crime scene I was too busy doing what had
to be done to worry about taking pictures, and
by the time all the necessary work was done,
the situation that would have made a good
picture no longer existed. About the most in
teresting thing I ever did concerning that
camera was some\vhat embarrassing.
Q. Mind telling us about it?
A. Why not? It was at least 25 years ago, so it
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certainly doesn't matter now. One year I tele
phoned all the police chiefs in the county, and
told them that if they'd have their personnel
assembled at a specific time on a certain date,
I'd be there to take a picture for The Review. I
had the times all scheduled right down to the
minute, one day for the west side and another
for the east side. I went to the west side first,
starting at Kennan, then on to Firebaugh,
Mendota, San Joaquin, Coalinga, and Huron.
The day went very well. Each department
had its personnel waiting in freshly cleaned
and pressed uniforms, and there was no
grumbling, even though the night shift offi
cers were there on their own time. I finished
up at Huron about mid-afternoon, and was
driving baCk to Fresno feeling pretty smug
about how well everything hadgone, when a
chilling thought suddenly intruded. Had I
remembered to cock the shutter? The shutter
control was connected electrically to a button
on the flash holder that, when pushed, acti
vated the flash bulb and the shutter simul
taneously. However, the shutter control had to
be cocked manually beforehand, and in the
somewhat elaborate focusing procedure, that
step could easily be forgotten, particularly by
a novice photographer. The noise the shutter
made opening and closing was barely audible,
so it was possible to bum flashbulbs all day
without realizing that not a single sheet of film
was being exposed.
I tried to convince myself I couldn't have
made such a stupid mistake, but with little
success. I mentally re-enacted every photo
session to the tiniest detail, and in not one in
stance could I remember having cocked the
shutter. At headquarters I turned in the film
for processing by the I. Bureau night crew,
that being before I learned how, and went
home and worried all night. Next morning my
worst fears were realized; every sheet of film
was blank.
Q. What did you do then?
A. The only thing I could do. I made doubly
sure the mistake wasn't reported on the day I
visited the east side departments. Then I had
to call the chiefs on the west side and ask them
to get their personnel together again. I don't
remember exactly what excuse I used, but I
probably blamed it on camera malfunct;on.
The chiefs themselves, and their day person
nel, were understanding and cooperative.
There wasn't exactly a lack of cooperation on
the part of the night officers, but I wasn't as
wannly received as I'd been on my first visit.
That was before bargaining units and memos
of understanding made such extra-curricular
activities subject to overtime pay.
Q. Is there anything else you'd like to say
about your experiences as editor of The Sher
iffs Review?
A. Only that you forgot to inform me of my
rights regarding self-incrimination and repre
sentation by an attorney before this interroga
tion. But I guess I didn't say anything too
incriminating.
The fact that Gene is honored in this edition
does not mean that he is resigning or stepping
down in any way from active participation in
the affairs of the F.C.S.O.R.A. He is in ex
cellent health, travels extensively, and stays
busy actively pursuing his many . interests,
which include camping, wood cutting, enjoy
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Meadow Lakes home, writing, collecting vin
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members and Board of Directors of the
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Encore
Albert Collins
First Editor
In 1956 Sheriff Melvin A. Willmirth suggest
ed that to replace the long-standing custom of
'~passing the hat" each time a Department
member needed emergency financial assis
tance, an association be formed for the pri
mary purpose of financing such neighborly
gestures. The idea was enthusiastically adopt
ed by Department members, a board of direc
tors and other officers were elected, and var
ious methods of raising funds considered.
The first such endeavor was sponsorship of
a home show, held in the old Fresno Memorial
A~ditorium. R'ealizing such an endeavor
couldn't be depended on as a lasting and reli
able source of income, the Board of Directors
decided to also try publishing an annual maga
zine. Albert Collins, who retired several years
ago with the rank of Chief Deputy Sheriff, the
third ranking member of the Department, was
a lieutenant then. He'd been a member of the
Department longer than anyone else, and had
a thorough knowledge of its background and
history. He therefore was the obvious choice
for editor of the fledgling literary endeavor.
Al says that the decision was made in Jan
uary, and material was supposed to be ready
for publication in April. The time factor,
which would have been critical under any cir,
cumstances, was made even more so by the
fact he had to put together appropriate and
sufficient material for a publication that
would be a credit to the Department, with no
precedent to follow. He worked nights and
weekends on the project for three months, and
at the appointed time presented a large box of
what he thought was properly prepared and
organized material to Charles Clough, opera
tor of a local publishing firm that had been
engaged to handle advertising sales and ar
rangements for printing. He says Mr. Clough
took one look at the box and its contents and
said, "What am I supposed to do with this?"
The situation wasn't really that hopeless.
Mr. Clough utilized his talent and experience
in lay-out and design to organize the material
into a publication the Department could be
proud of. That first venture evolved into a
mutually beneficial and cordial business rela
tionship that lasted until Mr. Clough retired
from the publishing business just a few years
ago. Charles Clough deserves a large share of
the credit for the success of The Sheriff's
R eview.
It was decided in the beginning by Al Col
lins and the Board of Directors that The Re
view would not just be a magazine composed
primarily of personnel photos and advertis
ing, as so many such publications were in
those days, but would contain enough inter
esting material that people would enjoy read
ing it, and our advertisers could thus feel they
were actually purchasing advertising that
would provide a return on the investment,
rather than merely making a donation.
With that principle in mind, Al wrote an ex
cellent story of a kidnap-murder investigation
of a few years earlier. As a salute to first editor
Al Collins, and a gesture of appreciation for
his laying the groundwork and setting an ex
ample that made the editor's job e~sier for
those who succeeded him, that story is proud
ly re-printed in this issue.
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•
A Cry in the Night
By AI Collins
A multitude of sounds filled the cold night
air of the small farming community of Huron
in southwestern Fresno County. From a near
by dance hall came the sounds of music mixed
with laughter and the scraping of heavy work
shoes; from the taverns the sounds of clinking
bottles and glassware intermingled with the
sound of human voices-some in friendly con
versation; some quarrelsome-in a hodge
podge of dialects. But from a 1939 Ford-sedan
parked in front of the dance hall came the
sound that was to set off one of the most bmtal
crimes in the history of Fresno County. It was
the crying of 17-month-old Josephine Yanez.
On this night-November 19, 1949, Huron
was buzzing with activity. This was Saturday
night at the peak of the cotton harvesting sea
son. The town was filled with countless num
bers of that "California Nomad"-the migrant
farm worker. They had filtered in from the
many labor camps around Huron, seeking an
evening of pleasure and amusement after a
week of back breaking toil in the fields.
From the Caves Labor Camp came Joe and
Teya Yanez to join the happy throng of pleas
ure seekers. With them was their 17-month
old daughter Josephine, her infant sister, and
several friends from their camp.
Arriving in Huron they went directly to the
Huron Dance Hall where weekly dances were
held. Parking the car near the hall, one mem
ber of the party remained in the car with the
Yanez children while the others went in to
dance. During the evening of dancing one of
the group took turns caring for the babies.
Shortly before midnight, Mr. and Mrs.
Yanez were seated in the car tending the chil
dren. The chill night air of early winter began
to seep into the car and the two-month-old
baby in the arms of her mother began to
whimper from the cold. "Joe," she said to her
husband, "it's too cold out here for the baby.
I'm going inside with her and wait until the
others are ready to go home."
The father remained in the car with little
Josephine, asleep in the back seat. Joe Yanez
began to doze in the car, being awakened
occasionally by a stumbling, cursing celebrant
with too much to drink, or the blatant blare of
an auto horn of a passing motorist.
The father awakened about 12:45 A.M.
when the child in the back seat began to fret.
He gave her a bottle of milk and when this
failed to quiet her, he \vent inside the dance
hall in search of the others. It was late and he
was tired and sleepy and ready to go home.
Inside the han, the dancers were miling
about the floor, and it took him about 15 min
utes to round up the party for the trip home.
Upon their return, Mrs. Yanez started to enter
the car and immediately saw that the little girl
was missing from her bed in the back seat.
Thinking that the child, after awakening and
finding no one in the car, had toddled off, the
party spread out and began to search among
the parked vehicles. Their efforts became
more frenzied when the initial search failed to
produce any sign of the child's whereabouts.
The search was continued for a short time and
when their efforts proved of no avail, one of
the searchers sought resident deputies Gene
Predmore and Charles Smith and informed
them of the child's disappearance.
The officers hurried to the scene to inter
view the distraught parents. After a prelimi
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cord, but had been carried away by some
unknown person.
But why? What motive? Ransom? This was
out of the question. Joe and Teya were of the
average migrant farm working class. They
owned an old model automobile and lived
from day to day on what they earned in the
fields. Revenge? Joe was a happy, amiable
person and got along very well with his fellow
workers.
The officers attempted to calm the dis
traught mother by assuring her that the child
would turn up safe and sound.
The search continued on through the night.
The police radio and teletype systems were
pressed into action and a description of the
missing child was flashed throughout the
county and state.
,About 9:30 A.M. the deputies were joined by
Mrs. Jeanne Peterson, Constable of the Coal
inga district, and her deputy Pete Ewald. Mrs.
Peterson, a kindly, warmhearted person, had
succeeded her hu band as constable upon his
death. Her efficiency in this field, which had
heretofore been regarded as stri'ctly a man's
job, had been attested to by the fact that she
had been re-elected to the post many times
since her appointment.
an through the day the search continued.
Numerous fruitless leads were checked out,
and still no trace of the missing child.
Shortly after 5:00 P.M. on the afternoon of
Sunday, November 20, the first clue was dis
covered in the strange disappearance. Mrs.
Yanez had been tireless in the search for her
missing child, and walking along the edge of a
plowed field some distance behind the dance
hall, she discovered the baby's shoe, a diaper,
and a man's coat in which the baby had been
wrapped. A man's shoe tracks led from this
point into the field. Her cries quickly brought
other searchers to her side, and the men im
mediately formulated a plan to systematically
search the field.
At 5:20 P.M. the torn and lifeless body of
Josephine Yanez was found, lying face down
in the mud, by Leo Andrews of Huron. The
scene shocked even the most hardened inves
tigators. The marks of violence on the tiny
ravished body indicated the work of a de
praved fiend. The body was unclothed, ex
cept for one shoe and her little bonnet, which
was hanging from her neck held only by its
drawstring. The area was quickly blocked off
and placed under guard.
Word of the gruesome discovery was
flashed to the Sheriff's Office, along with a re
quest for the Coroner and additional help.
News of the finding of the baby's body
spread like wildfire, and a crowd quickly
gathered. Muttered threats were heard com
ing from the enraged citizens.
Lieutenant Larry Hoskins, along with Dep
uties Hubert Nevins and Glen Hunt of the
Criminal Division were dispatched, as well as
Deputy Rod Riddle of the Bureau of Identi
fication. They were preceded to the scene by
Deputies Robert Gardner and Pat Prevost of
the West Side Patrol. With their arrival in
Huron, the investigation began in earnest.
Deputy Riddle began immediately to photo
graph the scene and pour casts of the foot
tracks, while the newly arrived officers went
into an immediate conference and were ap
praised of all facts and pertinent information.
With the arrival of Deputy Coroner Harold
Doty, the tiny body was removed. Every pre
caution was taken to preserve any evidence
that might be on or near the body. The officers
eagerly scanned the ground surrounding the
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spot where the body \-vas found, for any clue
that would point to the identity of the fiendish
killer. Their search was rewarded with the
finding of an elbow impression in the mud,
which indicated the kidnap slayer was wear
ing a coat Of jacket of a peculiar weave.
The investigating officers were hampered
by darkness, so it was decided to blockade the
area and resume the visual examination with
the coming of daylight, rather than run the risk
of obliterating any vital clue while trying to
work in the dark.
In the meantime, tips, suggestions, and
names of possible suspects had been flooding
the headquarters set up at the Huron sub
station.
Eusebio Longoria, a twenty-one year old
farm worker, was taken into custody early
Sunday evening by Deputy Charles Smith,
after it was learned Longoria had been seen in
a Huron c'!..fe with blood on his hands shortly
after the baby's disappearance. Employees of
the cafe stated that Longoria had come into
the cafe at 3:30 A.M. and remained until 5:30
A.M. They stated that the suspect had been
drinking and had made several remarks about
the baby's disappearance, and that her folks
would be "mad at him." -
Longoria was questioned at length by Dep
uties Nevins and Hunt, but he denied any im
plication in the crime, and stated that he had
left Huron prior to the time the crime was
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Longoria was then taken to Fresno by Lt.
Hoskins and Deputy Hunt for further interro
gation by District Attorney James Thuesen.
The suspect's clothing was examined by J. E.
Martin, Superintendent of the Bureau ofIden
tification, and revealed traces of blood. Long
oria was then booked in jail on suspicion of
murder, pending further examination.
By this time, the medical examination had
been completed by Dr. C. D. Newel, a path
ologist. Death was found to have been caused
by suffocation. The baby's face had been
cruelly forced into the ground, filling her
mouth and nasal passages with mud, causing
her to smother. Another medical fact, which
the officers had suspected from the very be
ginning, was substantiated by the doctor; she
had been criminally assaulted.
Outraged by this unhuman crime, District
Attorney Thuesen went to Huron to assist in
the investigation and interrogation of wit
nesses. He was accompanied by Hoskins,
Hunt, and his chief assistant, E. Clarke Sav
ory, and a shorthand reporter.
Through late Sunday night and early Mon
day morning the investigation had continued
at Huron by Deputies Nevin, Gardner, Smith
and Constable Peterson. Countless vagrants
and drunks were questioned at the Huron jail,
but failed to produce any tangible clues to the
killer's identity. With the return of Hoskins,
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Hunt, Thuesen, and Savory from Fresno,
Domingo Longoria, brother of the jailed sus
pect, was brought in for questioning. The
questioning of Domingo Longoria failed to
substantiate his brother's story on any vital
point. The cabin occupied by Eusebio Long
oria was then searched, but this failed to pro
duce any articles of clothing matching the
impressions found by the investigating offi
cers.
At the crime scene, Deputies G~rdner and
Prevost continued their lonely vigil through
the cold, star-studded night, warning away an
occasional curious farmhand. Shortly before
midnight, Sunday, they were approached by a
man who identified himself as Mike Chavar
ria, godfather 0 f Josephine Yanez. Chavarria
stated that he had been watching the field
because he believed the murderer would re
turn to the scene of the crime.
Chavarria was dressed lightly, and soon
began to shiver from the cold night air. Dep
uty Gardner got into the patrol wagon and
started the motor and heater, and invited
Chavarria to get in the wagon and warm him
self. Chavarria at first refused, but accepted
when the offer was repeated. Gardner ob
. served that something seemed to be troubling
Chavarria, and began to question him in a
roundabout manner. Gardner gave the man a
cigarette, and after a few quick puffs Chavar
ria told Gardner of seeing a young Mexican
come into a labor camp operated by his broth
er Ray, on the morning of the slaying. He
stated that the man had a great deal of mud on
his shoes and jacket. When questioned as to
this man's name, Chavarria became evasive
and switched to another topic of conversation.
Gardner bided his time, and shortly Chav
arria resumed the conversation concerning the
murder, asking pointed questions as to the
condition of the little girl's body. Upon being
informed of the condition in which the body
had been found, Chavarria became very sick
and jumped from the cab of the patrol wagon.
Chavarria returned in a few minutes and got
back into the cab, visibly shaken, and after
gaining control of himself stated that thename
of the man in question was Paul Gutierrez, and
,---that he lived in his brother's labor camp.
At 2:00 A.M. Gardner and Prevost were re
lieved and ordered to report to the Huron sub
station. On their arrival they were detailed to
transport six burglary suspects to Fresno, that
had been taken into custody by Deputy Pred
more. Gardner sought out Deputy Hubert
Nevins and gave him the information ob
tained from Mike Chavarria, and Nevins care
fully noted the information in his already
nearly filled notebook, promising to check it
out as soon as he could.
Dozens of tips volunteered by anxious citi
zens had been checked out. One man told of
seeing a man washing off a pair of shoes on the
morning following the murder. This man
was sought out and questioned and his cloth
ing examined. It was learned that he was
washing the mud off a pair of borrowed shoes
prior to returning them.
Known sex offenders within a wide radius
around Huron were picked up and ques
tioned, and released after proving their
whereabouts at the time the baby was taken.
All leads seemed to end in a blind alley.
With the coming of daylight on Monday
morning, November 21, Lt. Hoskins and Dep
uties Nevins and Hunt returned to the murder
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scene to resume their search for clues. Starting
at the point where the first footprints and the
baby's clothing had been found, the officers
began a foot-by-foot examination of the
ground betvveen that point and the point
where the body was found. About halfway
between the two points, the officers found an
impression in the mud where the killer had fal
len with the tot in his arms, leaving an imprint
of the right sleeve, with its peculiar weave and
three buttons clearly outlined. Also, within six
inches of this point, a strand of red wool was
found.
An urgent call was dispatched for the return
of the Bureau men. On their arrival the sleeve
mark and additional shoe impressions \~Tere
photographed and then plaster casts made.
The red fibre was carefully removed and pre
selved for further examination.
The officers attempted to trail the suspect
from the field, but were doomed to disap
pointment where the identifying marks be
came caked with mud, and the tracks led out
onto a heavily traveled thoroughfare.
The investigators then returned to Huron,
and after a thorough discussion of the case up
to that point, it was decided to check the in
formation submitted by Gardner and Prevost.
:; Deputies Smith, Nevins, Hunt, and Assistant
District Attorney Clarke Savory went to the
Ray Chavarria camp on the outskirts of
Huron, arnvmg there shortly before noon.
They were met at the camp by Ray Chavarria.
ChavaITia informed the deputies that Gutier
rez and his companion were at work in the
field, but that they were welcome to examine
their cabir:.
As the officers entered the cabin they took a
quick look about the two rooms. Hanging on
the headboard of one of the bunks was a red
dress type jacket with the same peculiar
weave observed in the sleeve impression
found near the body. Displaying no emotion
nor indicating that he had obselved anything
of importance, Nevins casually asked Chavar
ria as to the names of the individuals occupy
ing each bed. "Who sleeps here?" asked
Nevins, indicating the bed from which the red
jacket was hanging.
"That's Paul's bed," replied Chavarria.
Outside the cabin, the officers went into a
quick huddle. "That's the jacket," stated Nev
ins. ''I'd stake my life on it."
"It all fits in," agreed Hunt.
Lt. Hoskins arrived at the camp and plans
were quickly made to take Gutierrez into cus
tody. Nevins and Savory were dressed in old
clothes, and they felt that Gutierrez would not
be alarmed by their approach. They would
ride to the field where Gutierrez was working
with Chavarria in his pickup truck, followed
some distance back by Hoskins in a sheriffs
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car, while Smith and Hunt remained at the
camp in the event their quarry should unex
pectedly return to camp.
Gutierrez was taken into custody without
incident, and taken to the Huron office for
questioning by Thuesen and Savory. Gutier
rez told his questioners that he left the Chav
arria camp about 7:00 Saturday night with
Manuel Gutierrez (no relation) and went to
Huron. Arriving at Huron they went to the
laundry, and then to the China Cafe. Gutierrez
told the officers he consumed "four or five
beers" with his meal. \Vhile in the restaurant,
Gutierrez stated that he was approached to
buy a marijuana cigarette, which he bought.
Gutierrez then went outside where he smoked
the cigarette, and then went back in the cafe.
Gutierrez related that he and Manuel had sev
eral more drinks, and then went to the dance
hall sometime around 11:00 P.M. Paul Gutier-'
rez told the officers that he and Manuel talked
in front of the hall for a few minutes, and that
Manuel then walked away, and that he went
into the hall to dance. After being refused
dances several times, Gutierrez said that he
became angered and walked home.
Continuing his story, the husky, 25-year-old
farm worker told the officers he awoke the
"following morning (Sunday) and found his
clothing was muddy and blood stained and his
shoes covered with mud. He stated that he
then got up and cleaned his clothes \Ivith clean
ing fluid and washed his shoes with water.
\tVhen questioned about his blood stained
and muddy clothes, Gutierrez stated that he
got into a fight with an unknown person be
hind the China Cafe late Saturday night or
early Sunday morning.
Word of the arrest of Gutierrez spread
through Huron as though broadcast, and the
officers, fearing the possibility of mob vio
lence, hurriedly transferred their prisoner to
Fresno, arriving in the early evening, and the
questioning resumed.
The flaws in his story were pointed out, and
after hesitating a few minutes, Gutierrez vol
unteered to make a true statement. Gutierrez
reiterated his story up to the point where he
left the cafe and then stated that as he was
leaving the dance hall he was attracted by the
baby's crying. He walked over to the car and
opened the door and picked the child up. He
told the officers that he recalled holding the
child for about ten minutes, and that on one
occasion he spanked her on the "bottom" to
make her stop crying.
Gutierrez then told the officers he remem
bered nothing further until he awoke Sunday
morning and found the mud and blood stains
on his hands. Questioned repeatedly, Gutier
rez steadfastly clung to his story that he was
unable to remember anything beyond the
point when he spanked the baby.
The suspect \vas then taken upstairs to the
Fresno County Jail where he was booked on a
charge of murder. With the arrest of Gutier
rez, Eusebio Longoria was exonerated and re
leased from custody.
The following morning, Tuesday, Novem
ber 22, Nevins, Hunt, and Savory returned to
Huron where the camp boss and Paul's
roommates were questioned. Ray Chavarria
told the officers that he was in the mess hall
Sunday morning and heard someone ask Paul
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plied that he had fallen in the mud. Chavarria
stated that this incident was of no significance
at that time, because the body had not been
found. After the body was discovered he re
called the conversation and told his brother
Mike about it, who in tum passed it on to Dep;--
uties Gardner and Prevost.
Roommate Alphonzo Cordova told of see
ing Gutierrez washing his pants, and when he
saw Cordova watching him stated that he had
fallen in the mud. Another, Gabe Reina, re
lated that he passed by Paul's bed about 6:00
A.M. Sunday morning and noticed mud on his
face.
Manuel Gutierrez substantiated Paul's story
in regard to their movements during the early
evening. He stated that when they parted
company in front of the dance hall, he agreed
to return about 1:15 A.M. Manuel stated that he
returned to the hall at that time, and was un
able to locate Paul, so he returned to the camp
about 2:00 A.M. and observed him in bed.
Manuel then changed clothes and went to
Fresno.
Mrs. Yanez also recalled that Paul Gutierrez
had asked her for a dance, and forcibly pulled
h'er to her feet, almost causing her to drop the
baby she was holding. She told the officers
this bappened shortly before they discovered
her baby had been kidnapped.
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ing worn by Gutierrez gave a positive reaction
to a chemical test for blood. The right sleeve
of the suspect's jacket matched perfectly with
the plaster cast of the impression found at the
crime scene. The suspect's shoes were exam
ined, and positively linked to the tracks found
near the child's body. A microscopic examina
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vealed conclusively that it came from the
jacket worn by the killer. The officers were
now ready for the final phase of the case.
A complaint was filed November 22 by
Undersheriff H. E. Emmick, charging Paul
Gutierrez with the crime of murder. His pre
liminary hearing was set for November 29, on
which date he was bound over to the Superior
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Deli Sandwiches • Pizza • Beer • Wine
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Open 6 Days a Week 11:30 A.M. to 10 P.M. (Closed Mon.)
TED RECKAS & CRAIG FLEMING, Owners
Friant Road • Friant, CA • 822·2559
R. R. VERNON, INC.
SHELL JOBBER
GASOLINE • OIL • GREASE • DIESEl • WEED OIL
875·2114
210 ACADEMY SANGER
J & L AUTO STEREO
Complete Line Of
C.B. Radios & Auto Stereo Systems
878 Oller St., Mendota 655-4170 I
Courlesyof
VALLEY FENCE CO.
299-0451
4565 E. Herndon • Clovis
MINKLER CASH STORE
GEN:::RAL MERCHANDISE & FEEDS
NOW OPEN SUNDA YS
SYLVIA ASHCRAFT
18243 E. KINGS CANYON RD. • SANGER • 787-2456
JOHNSON DRILLING CO.
Since 1945
Diversified <Drilling
Fresno Service
251·6541 638·5081
23489 E. Kings Canyon Road Reedley
NICO'S MARKET
GROCERIES -PRODUCE BEER
Fresh Flowers for All Occasions
646·3681
590 FRESNO ST. PARLIER
MENDOTA FOOD CENTER
FRESH MEATS -PRODUCE -GROCEtRlES
BEER· WINE· CLOTHING
655-4391
697 DERRICK MENDOTA
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RAUL'S EXXON SERVICE
Supporting Fresno Deputy Sheriffs
and Sanger Police Force
1603 SANGER AVE. (209) 875-4628
QUALITY G'ROWERS
MUSHROOMS
248 S. QUALITY Q SANGER, CA
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GRUB & JUG
DELI -BEER -WINE
298·3306
760 POLLASKY • CLOVIS
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Records
F. Day
Records Supervisor
M. Haggerty
Supr. Off. Assistant
S. Lindberg
Supr. Off. Assistant
R. Parman
Supr. Off. Assistant
V. Kasparian
Steno
B. Bolton
Office Assistant
T. Braun
Office Assistant
E. Brauns
Office Assistant
M. Bufkin
Office Assistant
L. Cruz
Office Assistant
R. Estes
Office Assistant
V. Frazier
Office Assistant
I. Garcia
Office Assistant
J. Garcia
Office Assistant
V. Harris
Office Assistant
M. Leos
Office Assistant
D. McClain
Office Assistant
D. Medina
Office Assistant
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N. Morgutia
Office Assistant
v. Peachee
Office Assistant
B. Petersen
Office Assistant
KOCHERGEN
FARMS
Potatoes
Cotton
Grain
Melon
Oranges
523 No. Brawley
Fresno, CA 93706
268-9266
Huron Ranch -945-2100
John A. Kochergen
Alex Kochergen
N. Qualls
Office Assistant
D. Morris
Office Assistant
KASCO
FAB, INC.
H. (KIM) KIMURA
RON SHADOWENS
MIISCELLANEOUS & STRUCTURAL
STEEL FABRICATION
WELDING, ERECTION
SIMPSON MATERIAL
(209) 442-1018
342 W. YOLO
FRESNO, CA 93706
J . Weber
Office Assistant
Technical Services
D. Justice
Sr. Criminologist
Section Supervisor
J. Duty
Criminologist
R. Preheim
Criminologist
J. Tarver
Criminologist
L. Wiggs
Criminologist
G. Gillis
Deputy
J. Ciancetti
Ident. Technician
S. Creager
Ident. Technician
W. Stones
Ident. Technician
D. Cowell
Photo Technician
L. Wright
Office Assistant
OPEN DAILY AND SUNDAYS 11 A.M. UNT,IL 10 P.M.
FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 11 A.M. UNTIL 11 P.M.
PHONE 224-1865MAIlII ,
CALLENDEIS 4239 N. BLACKSTONE
(Corner of Ashlan) PIES FRESNO
KLEIM AUTOMOTIVE
CENTER
PARTS SERVICE
Complete Auto Service -Tune-Up -Carburetor
Air Conditioning
FREE DELIVERY
CAL CUSTER <::::>< BOB CUSTER
PHONE 233-2684
3135 EAST TULARE
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
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Crime Lab
':;;A
M. Giberson
Criminalist
A. Boudreau
Supr. Criminalist
Section Supervisor
A. Van Der Veer De Bondt
Criminalist
NORMART'S FURS
Estabtished in 1895
226-4171
5091 N. FRESNO STREET
Corner of Shaw and Fresno Streets
WILSON'S MOTORCYCLES
Since 1919
Kawasaki -Yamaha
443 BROADWAY 237-0215
"THE HOME OF THE FAIR DEAL '"
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TELEPHONE: (209) 224-3900
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Identification Service
J. Saterstad
Sr. Ident. Tech.
R. Brown
Ident. Technician
P. Clement
Ident. Technician
T. Fetters
Ident. Technician
F. Hansen
Ident. Technician
J. Jackson
Ident. Technician
S. Turner
Ident. Technician
J. Whitton
Ident. Technician
v. Aguallo
Office Assistant
J. Yamashita
Office Assistant
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A COMPLETE LINE OF STEEL
FOR ALMOST EVERY NEED
HEPPNER
IRON & METAL CO.
SPECIALIZING IN INDUSTRIAL SCRAP SERVICES
DROP-OFF CONTAINERS AVAILABLE
No Minimum Charge
237-6677
S. HIGHWAY 99 & S. CHESTNUT AVE.
THE RIPE
TOMATO
Specializing In
French Provincial Cuisine
Lunch and Dinner Tuesday through Saturday
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Monday Lunch
11 :30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED
225-1850
5064 N. Palm Ave.
Fresno
(In Fig Garden Village)
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, WAYNE'S LIQUORS
LIQUOR -WI,NES -BEER
Mr. and Mrs. l. l. Rich, Owners
48 California SI. • Fresno • 268-2319
ERNIE'S BAKERY
Birthday and Wedding Cakes • All Types Quality Pastry
Ice Cream and Colfee IOpen 5:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m.
3404 E. Butler 264-2267 and 264-5230
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KIMMERLE BROS., INC.
HYDRAULIC PNEUMATIC
SALES AND SERVICE
BARRY L. BARISIC RON BLANKINSHIP
337 M Street, Fresno, CA 93721 • (209) 233-1278
WHITIE'S PET SHOP
Fresr.o's Largset and Most Complete
"Best Prices in Town"
3528 E. Ventura Ave., Fresno 264-2418
L & P MARKET
1808 W. CLINTON AVE.
One Block 'East of Weber
264-0815
Groceries, Meat, Produce. Beer & Wine, and Dairy Products
Open 7 Days Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 am. to 7 p.m.
WALLER INVENTORY SERVICE
Super Markets • Department Stores • LIquor Stores
Priced at BIn-Book Cost
INDUSTRIAL & RETAIL FREE ESTIMATES
225-5700 255-5348
4229 E. CLINTON AVE•• FRESNO 93703
MOY'S CHINESE RESTAURANT
DIN'ING ROOM and FOOD TO GO
227-0735
2636 E. ASHLAN AVE. FRESNO
ART'S AUTOMATIC
TRANSMISSION SERVICE
ART VALLE -Owner
237-0676
436 NORTH H ST. FRESNO
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MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
MANUFACTURERS OF PAPER PRODUCTS
HOME OFFICE
2200 SOUTH RESERVOIR ST.
POMONA, CALIFORNIA 91766
(714) 591-1733
9 ADAMS AVENUE
PO. BOX 309
FOWLER, CALIF. 93625
(209) 834-2571
EDWARDS LOCK & SAFE CO.
AUTHORIZED SALES & SERVICE SINCE 1948
Moving & Installation • Combinations Changed
New & Used Units. Restorations' 7 Fully Equipped Trucks
Contractors Lic. #309161 -Bonded -Insured PL & PO
1901 E. HAMMOND AVE. 442-0220
1 Block N. 01 Olive, 2 Blocks E. 01 Blackstone
B & L FOODLAND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL GROCERS
240 N. THORNE • FRESNO
PHONE 268-5036
Compliments Of
IRON'S MACHINING SERVICE
251-5596
4575 E. CLAY • FRESNO
VALLEY OPFICE EQUIPMENT CO.
Office Furniture -Office Accessories
Franchised Dealers for Steelcase RCR
1417 Fulton St. • Fresno, CA 93721 • 485-5250
PAUL'S SHOES
Shoes for the Whole Family
1040 Fulton Mall. Fresno 93721 • 237-5723
Harrell's Refrigeration
and Appliance Service
HOT POINT -GAFFERS & SATTLER -MAGIC CHEF
G.E. SERVICE -WESTINGHOUSE
SERVICE TECHNICIAN -WARRANTY SERVICE
COMMERCIAL -ICE MACHINES -DOMESTIC
JOHN HARRELL P.O. Box 322, Shaver Lake,
Phone 855-3130 Calilornia 93664
DANE'S NUTRITION
HEALTH FOOD CENTER
229-9817
3408 N. BLACKSTONE
FRESNO MANCHESTER CENTER
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'How About A Little Smile'
The words in the title are the first I ever
heard Bob Smith say, when as a photographer
in the old Identification Bureau in 1951 he
made the photo for my first official Depart
ment identification card. He said them to me
again just a few weeks ago when he took the
picture for the cover of this year's edition. In
the 35 intervening years Bob had a successful
and distinguished career as a photographer
and criminologist, attained the rank of ser
geant, taught the art of photography to num
erous officers beginning assignments to the 1.
Bureau, became one of the Department's best
pistol shots of all time, and maintained an
active off-duty life of skiing, riding horses,
and operating his own part time photography
business, in the course of which he did the
photography for many weddings of other
Department members' children.
In spite of such a busy schedule, Bob always
could be depended upon to handle any spe
cialized photography assignment for The
Review. His extensive training and long ex
perience in the art enabled him to solve any
photography problem, no matter how com
plex. On several occasions he performed the
unlikely feat of producing a photograph of a
person who wasn't there. It is often difficult to
get all members of a sizable group together
for a photograph. In some such instances Bob
would find a photo of the absent person, re
duce or enlarge it to proper size, paste it on the
group photo, then copy the whole with a copy
camera. A careful examination was required
to detect the insertion.
On one occasion he thoroughly confused
Sheriff Wil1mirth, when we needed a picture
of him opening the door of the administration
building at the Elkhorn Industrial Farm, now
the Caruthers Branch Jail. The Sheriff was
busy \I\lith more pressing matters and couldn't
make the trip to the Farm before our dead
line. Bob found an oid photo of him standing
in the proper stance, and super-imposed it on
a photograph of the front of the building.
When the Sheriff saw it he exclaimed, "How
did you get that picture? I haven't worn that
suit for years."
Although he's been retired for several years,
Bob still keeps up with most of the activities
mentioned in the first paragraph, including
keeping his hand in in law enforcement work
ing part time in the Community Service Offi
cer program, and as a member ofthe Search
and Rescue Team's mounted posse.
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Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Team
EOD Team members Tom Lean, Tom Johnson, and Chris Osborn.
By Lieutenant Tom Gattie
During the year 1985, the Fresno County
Sheriff's Department began reconstructing a
• well trained and equipped Explosive Ord
nance Disposal Team. Over the past years the
team had dwindled to one technician, who
was poorly equipped and often had to work
alone. This was totally unacceptable for ob
vious reasons. Based on the efforts of Captain
Hogue and with approval of the Assistant
Sheriff and Sheriff McKinney, theEODTeam
was reorganized and began the process of re
establishing itself as a functional unit. A bud
get, equipment, additional personnel became
a reality in 1985.
The EOD Team is currently composed of a
lieutenant who coordinates and supervises the
activities and training of the team's techni
cians. The technicians, Detective Tom John
son (Internal Affairs), Detective Tom Lean
(Internal Affairs), and Deputy Chris Osborn
(Patrol), have all attended the Redstone Ar
senal EOD Technician's Course (4 weeks) in
Huntsville, Alabama, and are certified EOD
Technicians. While not assigned full time as
EOD Technicians, they do respond to calls for
service regarding found explosives and sus
pected explosive devices, twenty-four hours a
day via a pager system. The primary function
of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department
EOD Team is to take custody and properly
dispose of found explosives, and render safe
real or suspected explosive devices. Addition
ally, they provide in-service training and pub
tic presentations upon request.
During the year 1985, the EOD Team re
sponded to 22 explosive related incidents,
which is up dramatically from 1984, when the
single technician responded to four incidents.
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(Above) A hand grenade with the firing mechanism
removed. (Below) Various types of explosives and
material to manufacture them.
A typical pipe bomb.
These incidents included such items as blast
ing caps, dynamite, pycric acid; military
ammo, hand grenades, pipe bombs, and
homemade improvised explosive devices.
This increase in activity is due in part to public
and officer awareness of the dangers ofexplo
sive devices and the growing trend of criminal
acts which utilize explosives and explosive
devices. The trend for the 1980's and 1990's is
an increase in this type of criminal behavior,
and the Fresno Sheriffs Department's EOD
T earn is attempting to keep pace with an es
tablished and documented public and De
partment need.
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FHES:\(), CA !J:mo
224-h7(jfj
Authorized sales & service for Zenith data systems
Desktop Computer Systems
Locally Designed Accouting Systems for: Farmers. Produce
Shippers· Attorneys. Wholesale/Retail. Bookkeepers.
Service Companies
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K-9 Patrol
By Deputy Jack Sparke
K-9 Handler
The Fresno County Sheriff's Department
K-9 Corps was first established in 1976. Dep
uty Rick Cobbs (who has since been pro
moted to sergeant), utilizing a German Shep
herd named "Duke," was the first handler
team the department had with respect to
patrol dogs. Over the next few years the unit
grew slowly with additional teams. A handler
team consists of one K-9 (for the benefit of
those who may not understand the designa
tion, it probably began with the use of patrol
and guard dogs by the military, where use of
numbers or combinations of letters and num
bers in lieu of plain language is common, and
in this instance was someone's idea of a cute
way to say "canine") and one handier. As with
any specialized unit, the K-9 Corps during its
expansion periods experienced growing
pains. Deputies being promoted or transfer
ring to other divisions, obtaining patrol ve
hicles and specialized equipment for ongoing
maintenance training, were just some of the
obstacles that had to be overcome.
Thanks to several people within the Sher
iff's Department who donated countless hours
of non-compensated time, and the commun
ity who recognized the need for K-9's in law
enforcement, the Sheriff's Department K-9
unit today consists of eight handler teams util
izing six German Shepherds and two Rott
weilers, one Sergeant/Trainer, and one Lieu
tenant. Each of these handler teams will
undergo several hundred hours of training
each year to maintain his respective K-9 for
patrol work.
In a time when attacks on law enforcement
officers is becoming more of a routine matter,
the trained K-9 is an effective tool which pro
vides unmeasurable psychological impact. A
lone handler team has the ability to squelch
and contain multiple suspects in a safer en-
Deputy Steve Munier and Gunther.
vironment than by officers alone. To this date
there have been no serious officer injuries at
the scene of a physical altercation between
officers and suspects where a K-9 team was
utilized. Following are two typical examples
of such utilization.
Armed Robbery/Burglary-Three heavily
armed men force entry into a rural foothill
home near Auberry late one July night. Dep
uty G. Andreotti spots the suspect vehicle flee
ing the scene and the chase is on. From Au
berry to Madera, at speeds in excess of 100
mph at times, the suspects try to evade the
pursuing units.
As the car entered the city of Madera the
driver lost control and the car crashed. All
three men took leg bail and ran in three differ
ent directions. Two F.S.O. K-9 units were dis
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Deputy R. Chatman and Baron.
patched to the scene to assist in the search for
the suspects.
A perimeter was established with the aid of
the Madera P.D., Madera County Sheriff's
Department, C.H.P. officers, and deputies
from our department. A search began through
a cluttered service station wrecking yard and a
small residential area. Deputy M. Robinson
and C.H.P. Officers S. Reed and D. Ericson
found one of the suspects hiding in a small
wooden shed just east of the crash site.
K-9 "Sam" and I were searching a tall grass
field when Sam found a machine gun one of
the suspects had discarded. A few minutes
later as Sam was continuing his search through
the field, a second suspect was taken into
custody by the K-9. This suspect was armed at
the time of his arrest. The third suspect was
arrested two days later. No injuries to the offi
cers participating in this operation were en
countered.
Burglary Assist to Fresno P.D.-K-9 "Arco"
and his partner, T. Klose, were dispatched to
Clovis and Olive at a lumber yard regarding a
burglary in progress, during the month of
November. Following Deputy Klose's an
nouncement of Arco's arrival to the suspects,
and their failure to respond, Arco was released
to search the yard. Within minutes Arco
flushed the "bad guy" out into the waiting
arms of Fresno police officers who were out
side the perimeter.
Again, no officers were injured, and the risk
to officers was minimal due to the K-9's abil
ity to clear the area within minutes, as op
posed to an hour or more the search would
have taken several officers.
These are just a couple of situations over the
past year where the Sheriff's K-9's partici
pated in arresting suspects throughout the
county. For the year of 1985 the K-9's arrested
135 felony and 513 misdemeanor suspects.
The K -9' s primary responsibility is the pro
tection of his handler and his fellow officers.
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Deputy J. Sparke, the author, and
Derek demonstrate the proper
procedure for a field interview.
Sparke and Derek show the
proper way to make an
arrest.
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Getting acquainted after the
demonstration at the Cantua Creek
School.
The K-9's are also utilized to search houses,
buildings, and open fields where criminals
may be hiding. Although their eyesight is not
as keen as a human's, their sense of smell and
hearing is unmatched. Subsequently, a build
ing or field can be searched much faster and
with minimal risk to the officers than by offi
cers alone. The K-9 teams work primarily dur
ing the evening hours. Two handler teams are
assigned to each one of the four areas in the
county. The handler teams are subject to call
out during non-duty hours in the event of a
major disaster or civil disorder. Within fifteen
minutes of notification, all eight handler teams
have the ability to be enroute anywhere in the
county, if the situation warrants it.
As with any domestic dog, the Sheriff's
Deputy E. Mateo plays
the part of the bad guy
for Chatman and Baron
at a demonstration at the
Cantua Creek School.
Department K -9' s are very loyal to the respec
tive handlers. Most of the handlers have chil
dren, ranging in ages from three months to the
teens. The K-9's while at home are treated like
family pets.
The K-9's also play somewhat of a secon
dary role as diplomats for the Sheriff's De
partment, by performing K-9 demonstrations
throughout the county for schools, neighbor
hood watch groups, and any civic organiza
tion that may request a performance.
Thanks to you, the people of Fresno Coun
ty, through your support, the Sheriff's Depart
ment K-9 unit is a group of highly trained men
utilizing specially trained dogs to :perform a
variety of tasks in today's field of law enforce
ment.
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Photograph by Michael Evans. The White House
I am delighted to send greetings to the courageous men and women of the Fresno County Sheriff's
Department. By daily putting your lives on the line to ensure the safety and well-being of your fellow
citizens, you exemplify the finest qualities of the American spi rit and are a source of inspiration to us
all. Nancy joins me in sending you our best wishes for every future success.
-President Ronald Reagan
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It is a pleasure to extend my warm regards to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department. California's peace officers are among the
finest in the world. Your professionalism and dedication have made that possible. May your exemplary record of service and
accomplishment long remain as an inspiration to others. Please accept my heartfelt thanks for a job well done and bes(wishes for
continued success in your fight against crime. Most cordially,
,£.....y-'& J IJ
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REPRESENTING:
Fresno • Madera • Merced
Mariposa • Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo and
Monterey Counties
Congratulations to the Fresno County
Sheriff's Department for its untiring
dedication to strong, local law enforcement.
Congressman Tony Coelho
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"I wish to salute
the Fresno County
Deputy Sheriffs
for their fine work
in law enforce
ment."
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18th District, California
Representing
Fresno, Madera, San Joaquin, Tuolumne,
Calaveras and Mono Counties .
BRU,CE BRONZAN
Assemblyman, Thirty-First District
"Law enforcement needs every tool possible to
do the most effective job. I am glad that I was
able to secure funding for the new CAL-ID
System."
Attorney General John Van De Kamp demonstrates to
Bruce how the system is used .
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BASQUE DINNERS
Call Yevette Bidegaray
at
442-9896
or
266-2170
935 SANTA FE
Compliments Of
Valley Food Center
Valley Travel
Valley Home Video
Valley Department Center
Located in the Valley Shopping Center in Kerman
Distributors to the Plum bing, Piping, Air Conditioning.
Refrigeration & Sheet Metal Industries
Mike Curtis
4333 No. Effie/P.O. Box 5536
Fresno. CA 93755-5536
Ph . (209) 226-7930
SLAKEY BROTHERS
r.:PAUL EVERTS fiElcourn'RY
209-486-1000
SALES -SERVICE -PARTS
SUNCREST • SOUTHWIND-EAGLE 1
HONEY-ROCKWOOD • ROAD RANGER by KIT
ALFA • KOMFORT
TRAILERS AND MOTOR HOMES
Villi our 12 bay service facility & complete parts & accessories slore
3633 S. Maple, Fresno
(Central & Hwy. 99 -3 mi. S of Fresno & follow signs)
FOOTHILL VIDEO
855-3505
29533 AUBERRY RD.
PRATHER, CA 93651
FRIANT TRADING POST
SALUTES
FRESNO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
822-2688
1 71 42 FRIANT RD.
FRIANT, CA 93626
RABB BROS. TRUCKING, INC.
P.O. Box 736
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Patrol Division
K. Hogue
Captain
Division Commander
D. Gustafson
Lieutenant
Ass!. Div. Comm.
J. Arceneau
Lieutenant
Watch Commander
J. Daily
Lieutenant
Watch Commander
D. Lemley
Lieutenant
Watch Commander
S. Tafoya
Lieutenant
Watch Commander
D. Bustamante
Secretary
P. Almeida
Office Assistant
G. Williams
Office Assistant
R. Keith
Delivery Driver
RETA'S
UPHO,LSTERY
FORMERLY PEDERSEN'S UPHOLSTERY
COMPLETE HOME
UPHOLSTERY
LARGEI LARGE!
FABRIC
SELECTION
266·0371
2021 E. BELMONT AVE.
Just off the corner of Diana Street
" Fresno's Own "
FRESNO
MEMORIAL
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WHITESBRIDGE RD . at CORNELIA AVE. I FRESNO I Ph . 26B·7B23
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TOKIWA-RO
JAPANESE & CHINESE DINNERS
Lunch and Dinner 12 noon -7:30 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays
943 E Street 266-5329
KM PLUMB SERVICES
KATHLEEN PLUMB .r-
Typing • Word Processing
Manuscripts • Resumes
P.o. Box 5144 • Fresno, California 93755
(209) 431-7932
VENTURA TV CENTER
RCA Color TVs RCA Video Recorders
3619 E. Ventura 266-5318
VALLEY TRUCK WRECKING
USED TRUCKS & TRAILERS
VAUGHN & LARRY GARABEDIAN
10764 S. Alta Ave.
Ph. Reedley 638-3551 • Fresno 888-2419
O.K. PRODUCE
445-8600
1502 G Street Fresno
RIDGE ELECTRIC MOTOR CO.
Electric Motors -Portable Tool Repair
Commercial Kitchen Equipment Repair
Wiring and Supplies
1215 G Street 268-5031
VIM CUSTOM BOAT TRAILERS
486-0410
5200 S. PEACH • FRESNO
TINKLER MISSION CHAPEL
Funeral Director James W. Copner
"Where sympathy expresses itself
through sincere service"
475 N. Broadway Fresno 233-2101
BILL'S LOCK & KEY SERVICE
Expert Locksmith
Keys Made Speedy Service Locks Fitted
BILL RUIZ
BUS: 237-6237 RES: 233-8511 I
837 F STREET • FRESNO, CALIFORNIA
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VALLEY FOUNDRY & MACHINE
o DIVISION OF
AMETE K, IINC.
PETE P. PETERS, President
2510 So. East Fresno
CAKES BY FELICIA
WEDDING CAKES
CAKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS -BIRTHDAYS,
ANNIVERSARIES, ETC.• CAKE DECORATING
CLASSES • CAKE DECORATING & CANDY SUPPLIES
FelicIa Lang
10266 N. Highway 41 439-0480
l'h miles north of San Joaquin River2 miles north 01 Woodward Park
S.P .S.P., Inc.
Specialists in High Risk Insurance
922 N. VAN NESS
FRESNO, CA 93728
485-3270
DEMCO SUPPLY, INC.
library, Office, Computer Supplies
5683 E. Fountain Way
Fresno, CA 93727
291-2576
FUNG'S KITCHEN
CHINESE & AMERICAN FOOD TO GO
251-3234
4141 E. Butler Ave. Fresno
RUDY'S ELM PHARMACY
"YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD REXALL STORE"
RADIO DISPATCHED DELIVERY
370 B STREET 268-8551
FRESNO
PAPAGNI'S SERVICE
TUNE-UPS -BRAKES & MINOR REPAIRS
268-4666
1254 W. Clinton Ave. Fresno
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Area 1
J. Blohm
Sergeant
D. Conway
Sergeant
R. Souza
Lieutenant
D. Caudle
Sergeant
R. Hagler
Sergeant
J. Avila R. BanuelosC. Mestas
Sergeant
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P. Bellefeuille P. Caporale
J. Chacon J. Coelho C. Curtice V. Frascona
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D. Cervantes
C. Frausto D. Fries A. Maldonado F. Maldonado E. Mateo
AIR WAY HOOVER -EUREKA
Sales and Service • Parts for All Makes
New and Used
431-0443
6050 N. FIRST AT BULLARD
FRESNO SAW SERVICE
STIHL • POULAN • ECHO CHAIN SAWS
TRIMMER POWER MOWERS
COMPLETE SAW SERVICE
721 N. FRESNO 237-1407
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L. Nilmeier P.Oh C. Osborn R. Peylouret
D. Ryan G. Semenko J. Silva J. Sparke J. Tilley
L. Kyle
Comm. Ser. Off.
W. Williams
Detective
T. Haar
Comm. Ser. Off.
R. Hernandez
Comm. Ser. Off.
A. Pina
Comm. Ser. Off.
P. Seney
Comm. Ser. Off.
C. Walters
Comm. Ser. Off.
LlaUOR JUNCTION
SPORTING GOODS
"House of Fine Spirits"
275-1210
5092 W. SHAW AVE. • HIWAY CITY
YOST & WEBB FUNERAL HOME
Tulare & T Streets
237-4147
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Area 2
A. Cox
Lieutenant
T. Garey
Sergeant
J. Retherford
Sergeant
H. Banks -E. Mee
Sergeant Sergeant
G. Tigh
Sergeant
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E. Areyano S. Canning R. Doughty D. Eaton
M. Edwards A. Fierro R. Herring R. Hunt
T. LaBand S. Mathias
Ed's Cedar Heights Shoe Repair
Essegian & Essegian
Custom Bootmakers
Exotic Leathers -Work -Show -Dress
4219 E. Shields Ave. • Fresno. CA 93726 • 209/222-7091
J . Lee W. Nielsen
2
F. Olson
GREG'S STARDUST ROOM
COCKTAILS
222-1112
375 E. Shaw (Mission Village) • Fresno
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R. Reed M. Robison T. Ronlake R. Smith
D. Stone L. Van Meter R. Wilson R. WorsteinC. Waller
P. Moore
Comm. Ser. Off.
D. Schiavon
Comm. Ser. Off.
J. Crimm
Comm. Ser. Off.
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SANTI'S, INC.
USED CARS
1142 F Street
Also Whitesbridge & Hughes
Fresno
S. Jones
Comm. Ser. Off.
Armored Transport
of
California
Complete Banking Service
Serving Fresno
Over 35 Years
All Property in Our
Possession Completely
Insured Against Loss
110 N. Broadway 233-5855
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Area 3
R. Avery
Sergeant
K. Frankfort
Sergeant
M. Wright
Lieutenant
O. Moon
Sergeant
A. Rusconi
Sergeant
G. Tagliamonte
Sergeant
G. Andreotti K. Badiali
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J. Bull R. Chatman
N. Dadian T. Daggett
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M. Duenes J. Fernandez I. Glass
J. Golden
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S. Jones T. Klose D. MartinG. Humann
THE ASTRO MOTEL
99 North -Off on Clinton Ramp
99 South -Off on Valentine & Dakota
An Easy Route To An Easy Rest
FEDERAL \IEWELRY &LOAN, INC.
Since 1919
1902 TULARE STREET. 237-3421
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M. Mims B. Owen D. Perry
L. Rivera D. Rose F. Stewart M. Thobe
E. Thompson v. Wisemer J. Hergenrader
Detective
L. Hill
Detective
J . Gee
Comm. Ser. Off.
D. Howland
Comm . Ser. Off.
E. Massongill
Comm. Ser. Off.
ESNO TILE CENTER, INC.
131 North Maple • Fresno, CA 93702
(209) 251-4268
R. Meunier
Comm. Ser. Off.
B. Nehring
Comm. Ser. Off.
R. Rigg
Comm. Ser. Off.
OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO
THE FRESNO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
FASANO REAL TV
222-2055
1300 W. SHAW, SUITE 3D FRESNO
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Area 4
R. Adolph
Sergeant
M. Bailey
Sergeant
J. Maier
Sergeant
R. Noyes
Sergeant
R. Alaimo
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J. Arendt v. BacchettiM. AmparanoF. Amparano P. Baker
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D. Belluomini B. Christian R. Cole S. Coleman A. Crider
J. Dunn F. Johnsonw. Gunn J. JohnsonA. Graham
Jack-'Be-'l1imble
CANDLE SHOP
Decorative Candles &Accessories
Phone 229·2882
722·A West Shaw (Fig Garden Village)
KIOUS ELECTRIC INC.
Contractors License No. 307646
252-3779
2727 N. Grove Industrial Drive, Suite 131
Fresno
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J. Stuart
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D. Wayne M. Woodward
VANGAS
PROPANE
SALES
AND
SERVICE
855·2565
31822 AUBERRY RD.
P.O. BOX 130
AUBERRY,CA
F. Kilgore S. Meunier T. O'Brien R. Parker R. Pursell
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M. Toste R. Verdugo
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S. Herzog C. Sharp
Detective Detective
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M. Ybarra
Shaver Lake Chevron Service
Hwy. 168 & Dorabella, P.O. Box 55
Shaver Lake, CA 93664
Phone (209) 841-3649
DARRELL MANN LYLE DILLEY
SHAVER LAKE
TIRE COMPANY
Specializing in Brakes, Wheel AUgn, Tune-Up
Air Conditioning Service
Corner of Hwy. 168 & Dorabella Rd.
Shaver Lake, CA 93664
Phone (209) 841-3649
DARRELL MANN LYLE DILLEY
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Compliments Of
M. FRIIS-HANSEN & CO.
Phone 233-3121
1724 West McKinley
CUSTOM TRUCK PAINT
& SIGN CO.
4227 S. Hiway 99
Phone 233-0690
Christensen's Turkey Hatchery
2147 N. Maple Avenue
251-0354
CANTEEN SERVICE
OF FRESNO, INC.
Complete Vending Service
Coffee. Cigarettes • Candies. Soft Drinks. Sandwiches
2136 Santa Clara 485-8800
CAREY OIL COMPANY, INC.
Jack C. Carey
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
P.O. Box 11788, Fresno 266-8226
FRESNO MUFFLER SERVICE
Mufflers -Exhaust Pipes -Tail Pipes
Shock Absorbers
Mas. Yamamoto, Owner
2115 "H" St., Fresno 266-7076
Lake Millerton Inn & Motel
Dining -Dancing -Cocktails
17635 N. Friant Road
P.O. Box 222, Friant, CA 93626 • (209) 822-2504
Sharon Laird Cordell Laird
BILL'S RENTAL SERVICE
"We Salute ihe Sheriff's Department for a Job Well Done"
Bill Vollgraff, Owner
I 207 E. Sierra • Fresno • 435-3290
A-1' LOCK SIERVICE
HENRY BARE -Owner
INSURED PL & PD -BONDED
8 TO 5 MON.-SAT. -CLOSED SUNDAYS & HOLIDAYS
736 N. BROADWAY • FRESNO • 233-8249
ART'S MERCANTILE
Groceries • Wine • Beer • Gas • Oil
442-1995
2082 W. Whitesbridge
GERMAN AUTO REPAIR
Specialized in Mercedes & Volkswagen Service & Parts* German Trained Mechanic Craftsmanship* Smog Inspection Station* Since 1967
1828 E. Hammond Ave. (near Olive & Abby) 237-8090
and Shopping Center
"Quality and' Service"
FRESNO at ASHLAN, 222-4454
-and
5757 N. FIRST ST., 439-2223
1417 FullonSt.
Fresno. CA 93721
485·5250
A Special Thanks to our
Fresno Sheriff's Deputies
Compliments Of
FRESNO AUTO WHOLESALE
3435 E. BELMONT
Saluting the Fresno County
Sheriff's Department
CONSOLIDATED ELECTRICAL
DISTRIBUTORS
1420 N. CLARK. FRESNO. CA 93703 • 268-6464
BIG POTATO MARKET
Open Daily 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.
266-5904
6947 S. Elm Ave., Fresr10
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C. Adolph A. Baker G. Bosch
Comm. Ser. Off. Comm. Ser. Off. Comm. Ser. Off.
C. Butcher
Comm. Ser. Off.
K. Carreiro
Comm. Ser. Off.
S. Kimbley
Comm. Ser. Off.
S. Pursell
Comm. Ser. Off.
NOW
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Assured on Time
Pickup & Delivery
SINCE 1946
ALLIED
VAN LINES®
The Professional Movers Specializing
in Long Distance & International Moves
We',e Number One Because You 're Number One
VIRS Leaving Daily for All Forty-eight States
US FOR YOUR FREE BINDING ESTIMATE
264-3025
BROADWAY
OLONIAL VAN
FRESNO
WE MOVE FAMILIES ...
NOT JUST FURNITURE ..
CURRIE IBROS.,
INC.
JUNE MITCHELL
Office Manager Res. 251-8705
Telephone 233-5171
P.O. Box 1048
Fresno, Calif. 93714
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Communications
C. Hollis
Sr. Comm. Disp.
C, Parkinson
Comm. Disp. III
M. Mosier
Sergeant
D. Plumb
Comm. Sys. Supr.
D. Garey
Sr. Comm. Disp.
B. Gustafson
Sr. Comm. Disp.
W. Burns
Comm. Disp. III
E. G'arabedian
Comm . Disp. III
P. Marin
Comm. Disp. III
S. LaPonte-Kirkorian
Sr. Comm. Disp.
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D. Vargas
Comm. Disp. III
C. Graham
Comm. Disp. II
G. Kirkorian
Comm. Disp. II
B. Whitlow
Comm. Disp. III
W. Elliott
Comm. Disp. II
B. Bosworth
Comm. Disp. I
D. DePew
Comm. Disp. I
M. Robia
Comm. Disp. I
D. Rosales
Comm. Disp. I
R. Saunders
Comm. Disp. I
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Crime Prevention Unit
N. Arceneau C. Curti
Sr. Comm. Ser. Off. Sr. Comm. Ser. Off.
IF IT'S MADE OF CANVAS . .. WE MAKE IT
S AL CANVAS
PECIAL TIES, INC.
We Do Repairing
2750 S. Cherry • Fresno • 485-1290
L. McGrew R. Day
Comm. Ser. Off. Office Assistant
THE AUBERRY
GENERAL STORE
SALUTES
THE FRESNO SHERIFFS
855·2253
33251 Auberry Rd. Auberry 93602
Mid-Cal Publishers
Webster & Sons Printing
960 "0" STREET • FRESNO. CA 93721
PHONE (209) 233-5619 Your printing business
is our ONLY
printing business!
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SAM ALEXANDER
REFRIGERATION
1822 LOS ANGELES
268-6122
DON'S MARKET
884-2404
FIVE POINTS
FRESNO ORTHOPEDIC CO.
1533 E. BELMONT AVE.
266-9759
Compliments Of
TRI-BORO FRUIT CO., INC.
250050. Fowler Ave., Fresno 486-4141
FINE
WINE
3075 N. Maroa at Shields
Fresno 224-1660 Fresno"
STAIGER CONSTRUCTION CO.
PHONE 275-2269
P.O. BOX 9811
FRESNO, CALIF. 93794
Mama Luz's Kitchen
For the real taste in Mexican food
264-2204
Maria Luz Silva, Owner 2428 Tulare SI.
Telvina Silva Blanco, Mgr. Fresno, CA 93721
LAS DELTAS GROCERY
Bien Venidos Amigos
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
BEER • COLD DRINKS
659-2773
36576 W. SHAW FIREBAUGH
FOWLER FLORAL SHOP
834-2505
214 East Merced Street
Fowler, California
EDDIE'S PASTRY SHOP
We Specialize in Birthday, Wedding and Party Cakes
Manchester Center 229-8589
ENOCH PACKING CO., INC.
RAIISINS -DRIED FRUITS
DEL REY, CALIFORNIA
WEST McKINLEY GROCERY
11499 W. McKINLEY
FRESNO
Mr. Sanford of California
Pants And Tops That Do The Nicest Things For Your Figure
Smartest in Ladles' Sportswear
Ask For Our Label In Your Fresno & San Joaquin Valley Stores
Joyce Day Shop • 4866 E. Kings Canyon Rd., Fresno
Best Wishes to our fine
Deputy Sheriffs
from
FRESNO SPECIALTY
CONTRACTORS
1631 E. PINE AVE .• FRESNO
TONY'S AUTO REPAIR
& TOWING
Tune-up • Motor Overhaul
Brakes • Electrical
1311 Eighth SI. • 875-6413 • Sanger
B & J Rent-A-Trailer System, Inc.
Joe's Service
Local Trailer Rentals
Small Industrial Equipment
406 N. H STREET 442-9873
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Special Weapons and
Tactics Team
The Fresno County Sheriff's Department
maintains a highly trained professional SW A T
detail to respond as needed to major incidents,
barricaded suspects, and hostage situations.
The unit is commanded by a patrol lieutenant
who supervises three sergeants and 13 depu
es. The unit has a budget of $36,339.00 and is
roken down into two sub-units. The SWAT
has two sergeants and ten deputies. The
Ncc:md unit is the Hostage Negotiation Team,
emnplose~d of one sergeant and three deputies.
members of the SWAT detail have other
is a vital part of the SWAT con
lD,;iil.U~'t: of the varied terrain in Fresno
the team must be able to adapt their
a variety of situations. At their
training sessions, the team practices
, hostage rescue, cover and con
cealment while moving in urban, rural, or
mountain terrain. Weapon proficiency is es
sential to the SWAT team. This requires many
hours of training on a variety of weapons. In
addition to the team's monthly training ses
sions, there is a two day FBI sponsored train
ing session at Fort Ord which allows the team
to test its ability with other SWAT teams
throughout Northern California.
For the past two years, the Sheriff's Depart
ment SWAT team has assisted the California
Department of Justice and the Bureau of Nar
cotics Enforcement with their Campaign
Against Marijuana Planting Program (CAMP).
The team provides security for raids on sus
pected marijuana gardens. Each member of
the team was given 24 hours of training prior
to their being assigned to the Program for two
weeks. The members worked in two man
teams.
The SWAT team was deployed on six situa
tions during 1985. Additionally, they were
mobilized on several situations which were re
solved prior to their actual deployment. The
Hostage Negotiation Team was utilized on
three of the incidents involving the SWAT
team.
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I We Went To The Fair
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By Rosanne Meunier
Community Service Officer
The Fresno County Sheriff's Department
Patrol Division presented an educational dis
play at the 1985 Fresno District Fair. The fol
,. lowing units worked together to make the
booth a project the Department could be
proud of: Community Service Officers from
all four areas, Crime Prevention Unit, Boat
Patrol, Search and Rescue Team, Dive Team,
and the K-9 Unit.
The theme of the booth was "Child Safety."
Community Service Officers conducted hour
ly presentations for children who visited the
booth. The programs presented were: "Per
sonal Safety," which focused on dangerous
situations a child may encounter; "Lost,"
which taught children how to survive being
lost in the mountains; "Water Safety," which
addressed the hazards of water; and a "Bi
cycle Puppet Show," stressing the importance
of good bicycle safety.
Three video monitors were located inside
the booth. One featured training sequences of
the Boat Patrol and Dive Team. A second
monitor was used by the Search and Rescue
Team, showing mock resuce operations.
Eight 30-and 60-second "Child Safety Tips,"
which were written and produced by area
Community Service Officers from our
department, were presented on the center
video of the booth.
The booth, which was constructed by
Branch Jail inmates, was 20 feet by 60 feet in
size. Over 60 8-inch by lO-inch photograph
were mounted on the walls, featuring the par
ticipating patrol units. A patrol car, a snow cat,
and a boat were on display. And, there were
occasional surprise visits by K-9 units and their
handlers. One of the highlights · for the chil
dren were the four days when the late De
partment bloodhound, Piper, worked in the
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booth. Everyone who walked by wanted to
hug or pet Piper. She was exhausted at the end
of each day from all the love and attention.
A number of businesses and individuals
contributed to the success of our booth. The
booth was well received by the entire certi
munity. Over 1,500 children attended the var
ious child safety presentations. Our depart
ment received a special award for education
from the Fresno District Fair officials. The 30
and 6O-second "Child Safety Tips," produced
by CSO's from our department, are currently
appearing on T.V. station Fresno Cable 4.
In other Community Service Officer activ
ity in 1985, 71 new Neighborhood Watch
Groups were established, 54 such groups up
dated, and one new Business Watch Group
initiated and six updated. The unit conducted
136 home security inspections, 12 business
security inspections, and 95 crime prevention
presentations.
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The Lighter Side
Cartoons were an important feature of our
earlier issues. They were sometimes used to
illustrate accounts of appropriate incidents,
and also to call attention to some particularly
humorous or ironic aspect of law enforce
ment. They served to provide welcome relief
Our first cartoonist, and one of the best, was
Sergeant Don Lysdahl. He is also an accom
plished painter in oils, as indicated by the
painting in the photo at left, made several
years before he retired to illustrate how he
from the overall serious note that tends to pre
vail in writing about law enforcement. We'd
still be using them if we had anyone as talent
ed as the following retired persons to draw
them.
envisioned spending his time after retirement.
It doesn't show in this small reproduction, but
he's looking out the picture window at a
mountain scene. Examples of his contribu
tions to early editions of The Review follow.
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Retired Captain John Papazian was also an
able and prolific cartoonist for The Review,
and he too had the knack of accurately por
traying the humorous and ironic aspects of
law enforcement. Here are some of his best.
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Former Reedley deputy constable, and latWe regret that no photo of him is available,
er District Attorney's investigator, Roy Hinbut the following sample ofhis work shows his
tergardt was another of our early cartoonists. great talent.
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Frustration Times Two
Foreign Factors Stymie Justice
on Dairy Cow Swindles
By Leo A. Dollar
Editor's Note: Mr. Dollar has recently retired after 35
years of writing for and editing Country Life of The
Fresno Bee. He has written rustling and cattle slaughter
stories with Fresno, Kings, Tulare, and Madera County
Sheriffs Departments, as well as equipment theft and
similar rural crime stories. He has worked frequently
with Detective Mike Perry, veteran livestock theft
investigator for our Department. The Review appre
ciates his contribution, and welcomes the professional
touch.
Lawmen swapping shoptalk tales of frustra
tions in their attempts to bring grand larceny
offenders to prosecution these days may find
themselves "put in the shade" if Detective
Mike Perry shows up to reel off a recent mis-
adventure with dairy cow scams. His troubles
with two nearly simultaneous cattle swindles
that came his way, via his livestock thief track
ing specialization, in recent years put him
through some multiplied vexations that could
leave a lawman talking to himself in the final
windup,
No actual theft of cattle on-the-hoof oc
;. curred in either case, at least in what we think
of as traditional rustling or modem-day road
side pasture slaughters, although one suspect
did haul a few dozen head out of his milking
herd across a couple other states' borders. No,
both of these were more like "paper crimes"
through abuse of credit and other people's
trust.
One involved embezzlement by misuse of
cattle loans by an inept gambler, and the other
employed counterfeit dairy cattle pedigree
records and purebreds' registration certifi
cates, as wen as forgery of breed registry asso
ciation officials' legal signatures and seals, to
commit fraud in international commerce.
And, despite investigation that went over
halfway around this planet ... both east and
west ... Perry would eventually see both
cases dry up. Neither would ever reach a
courtroom for criminal prosecution on any of
nearly a half dozen suspects between the two
cases, both originating in 1982.
Complications from technicalities involv
ing international political relations way be
yond his control or that of his local law en
forcement superiors would tie up all hands on
the law and order side. The long investigations
were to wind up as two big zeros.
The embezzler, a Fresno County West Side
dairyman on the Kings County line, misused
funds borrowed to purchase new heifers to
replace animals culled from his milking herd.
Perry ran into a stone wall because our coun
try has no extradition treaty with Portugal.
And that was a necessity because the suspect
fled his dairy farm barely ahead of Perry and
the unpaid creditors, taking refuge first in the
Pacific Northwest dairying district around
Twin Falls, Idaho, and later high-tailing it for
his birthplace in Portugal's Azores Islands on
the far Atlantic, when Idaho deputies closed in
on him at Perry's request for help in capturing
the migrating dairyman.
"Apparently, the guy actually answered the
door, convinced them they had missed their
man, and as soon as they headed for town he
and his wife took off for Reno's airport with
only the clothes they could get in a few suit
cases, and caught the first eastbound flight to
get them back to the island they came from,"
Perry recalled.
"They took off so fast they left all the fur
niture they had had hauled up there from
Fresno County, plus about 60 head of cows
they hired a guy to truck up there from this
county. They even left behind a grown son
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and college-age daughter down here."
Perry explained the flighty suspect had
been in California on a green card as an alien
working in agriculture, working first as milker
and later setting up his own herd. So, as a Por
tuguese citizen, he was just heading for home;
the place he grew up, in his jet-powered es
cape on an international scale.
Perry's problems were far more compli
cated and irritating in his fraud, forgery, and
counterfeiting case. This scam aimed at de
frauding South Korean dairymen seeking to
improve milk herds with U.S. registered Hol
stein-Friesian first-calf heifers bred to top
grade purebred Holstein bulls. The suspects
tried to palm off faked Holstein registration
and identification documents bylong distance.
A Fresno businessman operating four dif
f.erent firms, including export-import agen
cies, an air transport service, and a travel
agency in one northeast Fresno office, was the
primary suspect. He came to Perry's attention
late in 1982, only a few weeks after taking up
the fleeing Portuguese dairyman's trail around
Thanksgiving time, after a Fresno attorney
filed a complaint for the Holstein-Freisian
Association of America on the basis of damage
by the fraud to its prestigious, long-standing
program of guaranteed documentation of
pedigreed bloodlines and production histor
ies for the ancient Dutch dairy cattle breed.
This registration and guaranteed documen
. is an exclusive operation of HFAA,
R GEROLD (JERRY) RICKS
Owner/ Manager
REMINGTON
D&R Tire & Automotive
Service Center
Tires -Brakes -Front End -Tune-Up -Air Condo
901 "M" Street • Fresno, CA 93721
Phone (209) 266-6060
which many generations of dairymen have
depended on for preserving the value of
dozens of generations of milk cows and their
highly reputable sires. Counterfeiting these
special papers and forging the HFAA offi
cials' signatures threatened that valuable
reputation.
"Both of these cases got just downright silly
on occasions because of the goofy, dumb
stunts the suspects pulled in trying to get away
with their deals," Perry recalls in the progres
sion of the two fiascos. "In the Korean cow
switch racket, they didn't even make good
counterfeits of the Holstein registration and
pedigree papers. Our Fresno suspect hired a
printer up in Bellevue, Washington, to print
them up, but the copies failed to match the
real papers several ways. They had the colors
wrong on various parts of the papers, even
had the wrong size type in some places, and
had typewriter type faces instead of the cor
rect computer printout type faces used on the
real documents," Perry observed with a dis
believing shake of the head.
Perry said the printer, when interviewed,
stated he never suspected that duplicating
these exclusive papers might be illegal. He
never tumbled to the possibility the Fresno
businessman might be faking authentic docu
mentation for his overseas game of delivering
"ringers" of grade cows instead of the pedi
greed types his contract called for in his con
tract to procure 250 head of high quality ani-
FRESNO FRICTION
MAT,ERI'AL CO.
CLUTCHES -BRAKES
Automotive and Industrial
Domestic and Foreign
1350 F STREET
266-0871
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mals for a Korean milk processing firm, a far
mers' cooperative, and a combination meat
and milk company in the region around Seoul.
The Fresno suspect and two Korean nation
als in Los Angeles who engaged him in April,
1982 to acquire and ship 250 head ordered by
the Korean fanners and their creamery oper
ators (he later tried to implicate the Los
Angeles pair as co-conspirators in the switch
game) might have got away with their ploy if
they had been more careful in their fakery of
the breed documents.
The first error was in setting the faked serial
numbers on the papers in seven digits instead
of the eight, which was more current. This
ahnost instantly aroused suspicion as soon as
the papers accompanying the first 207 head
were inspected as they arrived at Kimpo Air
port in late June, 1982.
The HFAA had by this time registered more
than 10 million animals. So, when officials of
the Korean national animal breeding improve
ment organization saw only seven digits on the
serial numbers, they became more cautious in
reading them and soon began to have doubts
on many names as well.
As a precaution they communicated with
• HFAA, listing the whole shipment's serial
numbers, and asking for verification. The
discouraging truth was soon on its way from
HFAA's official headquarters at Brattleboro,
Vennont, where all Holstein-Friesian records
are stored, and the only place where registra
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ed and printed.
Apparently, the Fresno entrepreneur-gone
wrong had so little respect for the Korea offi
cials' intelligence or powers of observation,
since there is no Korean Holstein group or
even a truly world organization, that "he just
sat down and typed up the papers with num
bers he felt looked good enough, like the real
thing in Holstein records he had seen, and he
just dreamed up names put together from
reading Holstein publications he thought
sounded like the real ones," Perry stated. Even
worse, every document bore the same filing
data, and in some cases, animals' pictures
were made at the shipping point instead of as
calves.
"Some of the mistakes were just plain
dumb. There were bulls listed as siresof some
of the faked cows that would have had to be
way past breeding age ... even if they were
still alive. And one hiefer listed would have
been older than her own dam (mother). Some
real clumsy work." The Holstein Association
listed errors by the dozens in their deposition
with their own lawyer and state and U.S. at
torneys general.
Interviews with the HFAA field represen
tative and contacts with the headquarters in
Vennont brought out that these papers are
normally processed only through one com
puter setup at Brattleboro and printed out
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puter-Iinked printing device there. Only rare
ly are any papers, whether the "identified
grade cow" papers which list only the milking
animal's sire and his background, or the more
detailed and thoroughly record-searched
registration certificates and pedigree forms, ,
regarded as a guarantee of the data they list,
typed on a typewriter or left to the dairyman
breeder to fill in.
Testing of the suspect papers from the June
'82 shipment to Korea by an expert in the state
attorney general's questionable documents
section of the state justice department estab
lished for Perry's investigation that the papers
handled by the Fresno suspect and his two
contacts in L.A. for the overseas shipmenthad
been printed on one specific model of type
writer, an IBM Selectria using a No. 1403
Alphameric element.
And when the Fresno County Sheriff's De
partment's two teams organized by Perry
made midwinter ('82-'83) searches of the Fres
no suspect's offices and his residence after
were issued, following the Holstein-
l'nle~aaln Association's complaint through a
attorney hired by the breed associa
s field investigator, they found a receipt
rental of just such a machine. The rental
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in which the bogus cattle shipments came
question in Korea. And a member of the
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and his wife had used the rented
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But Perry would need further verification
through tracking the actual machine by serial
number and comparison of its type element.
The case would finally founder on jurisdic
tional bollixes growing out of an immunity
deal with the Fresno suspect, who sought to
save himself by implicating the L.A.-based
Korean nationals who hired him. He would
also be further frustrated through subsequent
problems of vainly trying to get warrants on
complicity charges against the L.A.-based
Korean nationals because of "sensitive inter
national relations" with a "friendly Allied
nation" (Korea) and "possible embarrass
ment" -of both the Korean and U.S. govern
ments.
Perry recalls today tbat cooperation in
searches and investigation, which had been
superb at the Los Angeles end with assistance
from a veteran sheriff's department sergeant
he had worked with before in livestock in
vestigations, withered and died when he tried
to get the district attorney's office in the
Southern Caifornia metropolis and Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents there to carry
through on his need for identifications of other
Korean nationals the Fresno suspect indicated
might also be involved in the documents' sub
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"We had a tough time getting proof and
verifying identifications on some suspects
with so many of them overseas, and we were
repeatedly told it was a 'sensitive situation
politically with Korea' to be trying to charge
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people in official positions over there. We
even had trouble getting hold of the various
Koreans in L.A., much less getting positive
ID's on some of them sent over to officially
inspect the heifers before they left Chicago's
O'Hare Airport.
"And once we had signed the immunity
from prosecution deal here with our Fresno
suspect when he offered to provide informa
tion on the two Koreans he originally signed
up with for supplying the cattle, we lost our
jurisdiction on nailing those two.
"This thing finally went to the U.S. Attor
ney General's office, through the HFAA field
rep and their Fresno attorney. But the only
. courtroom that ever got any part of this was
the U.S. District Court here at Fresno, when
HFAA took their complaint against the Fresno
guy through that route on their civil suit,".
Perry added. That court decided for the
HFAA, but Perry still has no word that any
damages were ever paid by the Fresno man.
Before his case ended, the Fresno suspect
would try several ploys to spread the blame,
including even an allegation in interviews with
Perry and a local deputy DA that the Korean
nationals in L.A., who contracted with him for
the cattle, helped cook up the switch of grades
• for purebreds and that those two also told him
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costs for the lower priced grade animals.
Small wonder the relationships were re
garded as' "sensitive" in the upper levels of
officialdom. The inspectors were represent
ing a group in Korea responsible for super
vising development of improved breeding
stock in the nation's cattle population, and
thus were closely linked to the Korean gov
ernment, apparently much in the same way
our U.S. Department of Agriculture is to our
national administration.
Since prosecution of the case died on the
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beginning of his contract with the two L.A.
based Koreans, to supply 250 head of heifers
according to definitely stated "specs," in that wrc
agreement signed in April 1982 for the June
shipments to Korea. Basically, all animals
were to be only registered purebred Holstein
Friesian first-calf heifers, sired by and bred to
registered Holstein bulls, with both dams and
sires from high milk production families, all to
be of nearly mature size and minimum
weights and certified as to good health. There
were even definite specifications as to color
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However, Perry's investigation and inter
views brought out the fact the Fresnan had
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convince the L.A. intermediary agents for the
Korean creameries and their farmer-owners
that registered purebreds were hard to find
and went on to promote the idea of shipping
"identified grade heifers" instead. Correspon
dence between the Fresnan and the L.A. p~jr
indicated he said they were as good or even
better than registered animals on milk output
and calf-bearing abilities.
That couldn't be called a complete lie.
Actually, many good grade cow herds do out
yield purebred milking strings, but every cow
or heifer has to bear a calf for each 10 to 12
month milking or lactation period while she is
a regular in the milking bam two to three times
each day. And the purebred calf is automati
cally a much more marketable product of the
herd than a grade, whether it is an "identified"
or an undocumented grade · animal. He was
wrong about availability of purebreds; Cali
fornia herds were full of them.
But at$400 less than a registered purebred, a
grade without identity papers, or an "identi
fied grade" at $100 less than the contracted
price of $1,550 for each of registered status,
a handsome profit edge to the
Fresno exporter and the two Koreans he was
dealing with in L.A., and none of their corres
fOndence taken in Perry's searches of their
lJI'eIIIlJS~~S indicated they planned to discount
animals from the original price for the
dairies or the farmer milk suppliers.
nd it turned out that the Fresnan had been
in a similar transaction three years
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before in shipping three lots of heifers in
batches of 555, 200, and 520 head by steam
ship to Korean buyers that fell short of speci
fications in their contract. These shipments
brought protests, since each group was unsat
isfactory because each included several not
pregnant, a number of freemartins (heifers
barren by birth, usually because they were
twin births with bull calves) and many which
actually were crossbreeds. An unusual num
ber died en route and many were under
weight or too young for immediate insemina
tion.
So, it appears the Fresno suspect was no
greenhand in this substitution game. He told
Perry those switches were none of his doing,
but blamed a Kings County stock dealer who
was then his partner in the transport and ex
port companies on a 50-50 basis.
By the time he made his deal for the latest
250 head, again with the L.A.-based Koreans,
he and the Kings County dealer had split up
and he was sole owner of all four Fresno com
panies. And he admitted in interviews by
Perry that he had done the faking on the latest
Holstein papers because one of the Koreans
who was supposed to help ducked out on the
chore. But he insisted he saw nothing criminal
in such su bterfuge, that he thought no one was
hurt by it ... just good business to buy the
cheaper midwestern states' cattle.
Yet the L.A. Korean pair was dunning him
most of this period of late '82 and early '83 for
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the Korean pair would end up threatening
each other with lawsuits and wrangling with
insurance firms, fanners who supplied the
heifers, transporters in the U.S. and suppliers
of such shipping hardware as pens for the air
craft and eartags and neck tags and chains to
identify the animals. And the Fresnan would
finally threaten his erstwhile intermediaries
with exposure to the Korean buyers and their
creameries and cooperative, plus the Holstein
Association, the U.S. Agriculture and Com
merce Departments, and U.S. Embassy in
Korea, and the Korean exchange bank which
issued the original letter of credit to buy the
animals.
All this he included in a handwritten letter
he told Perry outlined the L.A. Koreans' part in
planning the substitutions and the counter
feiting and forgery of the Holstein papers. In it
he also threatened to blow the whistle on them
for arranging an illegal shipment of tires to
Iran in violation of a federal embargo on such
goods because of the Teheran hostages crisis.
He claimed they had covered the shipment by
working through an intermediary in Pakistan.
All of this, too, foundered in the absence of
criminal prosecution. In the original com
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including the Korean farmer-buyers, their
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and carriers, in addition to the Holstein regis
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dollars. How much was actually paid is still
unknown.
If any justice was meted out to the Fresno
suspect or his contacts in L.A. who signed him
up to procure the heifers in the first place, it
would have to be in the money they lost in the
end. Apparently none of the lawsuits threat
ened among them ever went to court.
But Perry is able to say today that the Fresno
suspect ended up with all of his businesses
going broke, and he may have lost his home.
"The last I heard about this guy was that he
was working as a car salesman some place in
the Fresno metropolitan area. I haven't heard
he's shipping any cattle anywhere," Perry said
with a grin.
As to the green-card-carrying Portuguese
citizen who escaped him, Perry says his case is
a bit on the pathetic side as well as the ridicu
lous. He not only left the dairyman's financing
service he hit up for the biggest loss through
several loans he took with them for heifer
replacement he never bought, and hay he
bought and later sold without repaying the
loans, he also left a squad of other creditors
holding the bag for other debts he ran up and
never paid off before he bugged out for Idaho
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His main problem was an insatiable love of
gambling, which has been verified by the
daughter he left behind with his milker's
family, and also by the milker, whom he owed
more than $4,000 in back wages. Other credi
tors left unpaid included truckers who has!
hauled hay and cattle he sold to cover his
gambling losses in Reno's casinos.
"This guy really loved to gamble. From
what we learned from the milker he left with
out pay on the West Side dairy, the abandoned
daughter, and most of his unpaid creditors, he
was a regular at Reno and apparently lost far
more than he won. And when he needed
money to cover his gambling debts he'd haul
some more cows to the auction yard," Perry
explained. Apparently his practice became
almost a habit.
The trouble with that arrangement was that
sometimes the cattle were not paid for entire
ly, or more often he was required by the terms
of his cattle loans to use the money to replace
them in the milking bam, which he did not do.
He was just a mite careless about his cattle sell
ing, but these days that is probably a lot safer
than missing a payment on a gambling debt
(which can be downright unhealthy).
Peny is not sure whether dice or cards were
this fellow's weakness, but he was obviously
not a successful gambler. By the time he made
his escape to the Azores, he had run up a total
of bad debts in Fresno and Kings Counties
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swindles.
Oddly enough, this fellow made such a
good impression on the people who loaned
him money, by his careful herd management
and high mil15 production ... all properly
documented in careful bookkeeping, that no
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most of a full year in 1982 and '8:3, Perry
learned in his investigatins. His main lender
told Perry they could find no fault with his
milk yield or feed management. In fact, they
said, for four consecutive months he received
creamery checks that were higher than even
his most opimistic projections. They also told
Perry that in that high-yield period he was also
holding his herd's size up to the projections in
the financial statements he supplied to get his
loans, and also kept his feed inventory up to
maximum levels and developed a highly effi
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feeding his animals. He gave every impression
of being a good risk. .
His main mistake, other than thinking he
was a capable gambler, was in neglecting the
fact the cattle he auctioned off periodically
for his failures at the Reno tables were the col
lateral for his loans, and not his to peddle off at
his pleasure. He used both Fresno and Kings
County auction yards and livestock dealers to
cash in on his "mortgaged" cattle in his "cre
ative financing."
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close in on the gambling milk producer, Perry
missed him by only a matter of hours, barely a
week after Thanksgiving. His quarry had
called in a moving van company from Fresno
to haul his household goods to Filer, Idaho, a
small town near Twin Falls, where he had
rented another ranch. He also hired a valley
trucking firm to haul more than 60 head of his
milking string up there as well.
These animals, in tum, also contributed to
the frustrations that almost left Perry talking
to himself before the case withered away in
the embezzler's final flight. 'When Perry and
the creditors tried to get them returned to
Fresno County, where the main loser on the
loans had been forced to take over operation
of the abandoned dairy, the California De
partment of Food and Agriculture refused
them entry because Idaho was under a quar-,
antine embargo on cattle movement into this
state because of a disease known as vesicular
stomatitis. It is highly contagious and often
fatal to infected cattle.
Consequently, these animals (which came
as close to being "rustled" as any in both of
these cases) had to sell in Idaho for what the
creditor could get in that area. And apparently
the cash obtained had to be split among the
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tion to the fraction of the total losses each had
suffered. So most are still "out" most of their
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dairy farm, since it too was under mortgage.
Sorting ruefully through his 20-pound box
of reports, interviews, and other paperwork
he built up in the course of investigating these
two cases, Perry does manage to keep his
sense of humor. He cites counts on some
papers that verify sales of at least 245 head of
dairy animals by the "cracked-on-gambling"
dairyman over an approximately two-year
period to just one Hanford auction yard,
which would have been a high count for a
much larger herd than the one he was oper
ating. And these do not even tally the numbers
he peddled illicitly in Fresno County.
Perry also observed that although the gam
bling dairyman made some of his early loan
payments on schedule, he apparently did so
by the same method . .. selling cattle that
were loan collateral.
The detective shrugs and remarks that the
guy obviously had guts galore, then adds that
he will be visiting his own family's ancestors' FI Portuguese homeland this spring, and he is
"trying my darnedest" to learn where his fly
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him a visit. He does not know how much, if
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Montana Mountain Men Wanted
for Kidnapping and Murder
A Tragedy of Men Who Destroyed
the Freedom They Love
By Douglas-H. Chadwick
Editor's Note: A couple of years ago we printed a
story of a Fresno County man who decided he wanted a
certain young woman for his wife, and attempted to
overcome her resistance to the idea by twice kidnap
ping her. It seemed a unique courtship method for the
twentieth century, but later we learned that a couple of
men in Montana unsuccessfully attempted a similar
method of obtaining a wife for one of them. The
Following account of the incident, by a resident of the
area, furnishes detail and background information
omitted by local media coverage, and is written in such
a manner as to make it one of the most interesting crime
stories of recent years.
.on the morning of July 15, 1984, Kari Swen
son set out for a six-mile training run in the
Madison Range of southwestern Montana.
Twenty-three years of age, Kari had just been
graduated as an honor student in biology from
the state university at Bozeman . Having
up around this tall stretch of Montana,
was a skilled hiker, camper, and white
canoeist. She was also a fine shot with a
and a particularly fine, strong skiier. In
she had proven herself in a recent inter
.... "'Vll.'" competition to be America's leading
in the biathlon-the Nordic event,
from battle training, which combines
ntry skiing with marksmanship.
she was virtually certain to represent the
States in upcoming winter Olympics
all the more significant just then, with
nation's attention focusing upon the sum-
Olympics soon to begin in Los Angeles.
Karl was working during the summer as a
at Big Sky, the large resort-complex
slope of the Madisons. Big Sky is a moun
world of ski villages, jacuzzis, golfing
dude ranches, condominiums, restaur
and shops with Bavarian Alp decor, and
its own weekly newspaper with wine-tasting
tips and a column entitled Tennis Tidbits.
That morning Kari went, as she often did, up
one of the logging roads that had spread
through this part of the range since the resort
went in. Then she loped onto the trail toward
Ulerys Lakes and Moonlight Basin, half
hoping to spot the grizzly that Lone Mountain
Ranch owner Bob Schaap had watched feed
ing in the area the day before.
Griz. That's what Schaap was stewing about
toward dusk when Kari still wasn't back. Be
called her parents. Bob Swenson, head of the
university's physics department, took to the
air in a friend's light plane to scout. Jan Swen
son, a nurse at the university's student health
clinic, headed out to the ranch. Gallatin Coun
ty sheriff John Onstad rammed together a
search team, and they, too, 1eft for the ranch.
The next morning two of Kari's friends at
the ranch, Alan Goldstein and Jim Schwalbe
both emigrants from the midwest who moved
to Big Sky to be near the mountains-went out
in the predawn light to help comb the moun
tainside for the young woman. They were
coming down a timbered slope through wind
thrown trees, huckleberry brush, and bear
grass when Kari hollered. The message didn't
register. Was she shouting a warning not to
come any closer? Then they heard a shot, and
Kari screamed. It was 7:50 A.M., still cold and
dark-shadowed under the forest canopy.
Schwalbe was still thinking bear trouble when
he went forward and found Kari lying in a
sleeping bag, bound by a chain around her
waist to a fallen log, bleeding from a .22 bullet
hole through one lung.
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A young blond man was holding a pistol,
shaking, and saying, "Oh my God, I shot her!"
Next to him was a wiry older man with a kind
of storm-light in his eyes, covering Schwalbe
with a .222 rifle, demanding again and again if
Schwalbe had a gun, and ordering the young
man-who was still carrying on about shoot
ing Kari and seemed on the verge of crying
to shut up, Dan, just shut up. Schwalbe told
them to calm down. He turned to tend to Kari,
with the young man trying to help and the
older man's rifle poking his ribs. Kari's pants
were down around her lower legs, and
Schwalbe was only now fully realizing that
she was being held prisoner.
Goldstein, though, had figured out a few
things. Approaching the camp, he drew a .308
pistol from his pack and crouched with it
pointed toward the scene. "Drop your guns:~
he commanded. "You're surrounded by 200
men." The older man shifted his weight
against a tree to steady his aim and shot Alan
Goldstein dead in the center of the face.
Schwalbe paused an instant and then bolted
straight uphill, clenching his back muscles
against the bullet he knew was coming. None
came. He raced back a mile and a half and told
the sheriff that two maniacs had killed his
partner and probably raped Kari.
It was nearly noon before the search team
was able to regroup and, led by Schwalbe,
close in on the camp. Kari was there alone. She
had managed to crawl over to wrap herself in
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a sleeping bag from Goldstein's pack and had
eaten some of his trail rations. Her vision was
fading in and out, but she was still coherent,
still braving it through.
She said that the day before, she had run
onto the men's camp, and they had appeared
out of the woods and knocked her down.
After lashing her wrist to the younger man's,
they started dragging her upslope, planning to
take her to a high camp behind the peaks.
They told her that they were real mountain
people, not like other men, and that they
wanted to make a mountain woman of her for
the younger man. She would choose their way
of life willingly, they insisted, if she would try
it for two or three days. Kari dug in her heels
and fought as best she could. Resting alone for
a few moments with the younger man, she
asked him if he couldn't just let her go. He
thought on it and replied, "No. You're pretty.
I'm going to keep you."
They had not raped her. They had made her
take off her pants-those day-glo orange jog·
ging shorts that Kari's mother had given herin
case she ever became lost-and were darken·
ing them with charcoal when they heard
Schwalbe and Goldstein bushwhacking
toward them. Kari said she thought that the
young man had shot her accidentally when
spun around to tell her to be quiet. Then
had pleaded with the older man to let
one come to help her. Yet after Schwalbe's
cape, he had roughly dumped her out of
sleeping bag, jerked up the pants that she
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never had time to pull all the way back on,
snatched off the chain, and left her oozing
blood onto the chill ground. The last thing
they said to her was, "We'll never be taken
alive."
The Lone Mountain Ranch was evacuatedy-
Other Big Sky residents double-checked locks
and loaded their own guns. Sheer gut paranoia
roiled beneath the dazed feeling that this sort
of thing just doesn't happen here. Not amid
such natural splendor. Not at tranquil Big Sky,
in the best of all possible mountain worlds.
This was where you came to get away from
the smog of violent crime and fear, staining
the soul in more crowded communities.
Yet a number of people suddenly reca]]ed
vaguely suspicious characters coming and go
ing and loitering in the area. A carwith fishing
gear and a .38 revolver was ' stolen from a
motel by Big Sky. Just 15 miles west across the
"WU\'nnr<l'ns, two men matching the fugitives'
....",",.n-'hr'n pulled a woman from her car and
her up. More look-alike suspects were
NlnJ\rr<>f1 from mountain towns near the Can
line in Washington and Idaho.
Not one of the leads came close to connect
The self-described real mountain people,
lawmen now believed, were still up there,
the crags. Who were they, then, those
with the incredible arrogance to see a
they wanted and haul her back to
their lair, as if times hadn't changed
the Stone Age? What was this fantasy of
her one of their kind-a mountain
As if nothing had changed since
Indians celebrated the stealing of wo
and horses, while mountain men traded
for a female to breed and called marry-
went up to go riding at Lone Moun
the morning Kari was found. N or
Goldstein might have caught her horse
for her. Schwalbe took care of her lawn. Told
that bad people trouble was afoot somewhere
above them, she said to the sheriff, «I wonder
if it could have anything to do with those men
I met two days ago at Upper Ulerys Lake?"
Mrs. Beardsley was floating in an innertube,
casting for trout, when the wind put her over
by the bank and she saw them. She spoke w ith
them for a spell and found them nice enough,
though as she drifted closer she felt a brief
twinge of vulnerability. Possibly it was the
look of their clothes and gear; there people,
she sensed, had been out a long time. Maybe it
was the rifle and pistol each carried-not
really unusual in this landscape, but not all that
common before hunting season.
The younger man was inscribing something
on a tree trunk. They asked her what day it
was. She told them, and the young man fin
ished his inscription. Then her husband calied
out something from around a bend in the
shoreline, and they vanished into the woods
like smoke. Later, Kari told of hearing her cap
tors say they wished they hadn't left their mark
on that tree for all to see. The posse found it
and chain-sawed it out. It read: Dan and Don
Nichols live in These M ts. July 14, 1984.
Scrambling for background information,
officials summed up their first impressions. It
looked as though the phrase everyone was
using, modem-day mountain men, fit. The
older man, Don, is a Daniel Boone sort, an
nounced one. A Jim Bridger type, declared
another, getting closer geographically, for
from almost any high point along the Madison
Range you can see the Bridger Mountains
standing above Bozeman and the Galla tin Val
ley. Daniel Boone (Dan) Nichols was Don's
son and much the same type.
But what did such comparisons really
mean? Montana must have a thousand varie
ties of folk stuck here and there around the
backcountry who like to think of themselves
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as latter-day mountain men. Macho Western
hillbilly types; around Big Sky they call them
selves "bohakes." Not to mention the left-over
flower children with big bone-handled knives
in their tipis. Plus the bedrock survivalists,
arming themselves and reading up on forag
ing techniques, practicing for life after
Armageddon.
What of the nostalgia buffs, who might sell
used cars five days a week and rendezvous on
weekends all got-up in beads and fringed
buckskins and coonskin caps to fire black
powder Haekins rifles? And the truly devout
among the backpackers and hunters and other
wildland-seekers who pride themselves on
serious critter-savvy and bushcraft? How
about those men who care less for the moun
tains or any particular role than for simply
being out some place where people will leave
them the hell alone?
The lawmen soon had more facts to flesh
out the names. Don Nichols, 53, and Dan, then
19, had lived in the Madison Range each sum
mer for the past dozen years, principally in the
northern end among what are known as the
Spanish Peaks (currently protected as a unit of
the Lee Metcalf Wilderness). They stayed on
through the fall, winter, and spring of 1983-84.
Their camps, stocked with provisions and
carefully concealed, were scattered through
the steep terrain, and they came into those
shelters by a different route each time to avoid
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leaving any sign of a path. They had at least
one underground hideout-a great hole, they
had told Kari. They had small gardens of root
crops planted in among the natural cover on
slopes where seepwater would irrigate them.
Don WaS known as a head-shooter of game.
But rather than firepower, he and Dan pre
ferred to use silent wire snares. Like some
Indians, they would catch animals as large as
deer this way yet could live well on tree squir
rels, ground squirrels, grouse, and jays. Unlike
men of earlier times, they had a bicycle for
transporting gear over trails and logging
roads, a radio for news and weather updates,
and bo'oks-Don was an avid reader (though
never of fiction), a prolific letter-writer, and
sketcher. And they carried ever-present
binoculars.
They kept an eye on everyone elsebut sure
ly disliked being seen. Don might speak with
one of the two or three guides he had come to
know slightly. If the guide brought other peo
ple along, Don would turn and walk away. He
neither drank nor smoked nor craved any
thing a town might offer, and he was fit as a
wolverine. He had hiked from the Madisons
down through Yellowstone a few times, living
off the land as he went, and a few times up
Great Divide 300 miles to the Canadian
der to visit a fellow mountain man.
Never mind all the conflicting meanings
mountain man. These two were just what
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claimed to be: real mountain people in 1984
smart, wary, self-sufficient, feral human be
ings who had made this high country their
habitat. "If you take an animal that is adept in
the wilderness and instill the power of human
reasoning, you have a product that is nearly--
impossible to capture," obselVed Madison
County sheriff Johnny France shortly after
joining Gallatin County forces in the manhunt.
A SWAT team from Billings was called into
the chase, too. And trackers with hounds, and
helicopters with infrared sensing devices to
locate a campfire's heat, and a special FBI
agent-a man who had been in on the 15
month hunt for Claude Dallas, the renegade
trapper who had shot two game wardens in
some sage-dry Idaho mountains in 1981.
Forest SelVice employees were put on the
Nichols scent. The cowboys over at the Dia
mond J across the Madison crest from Big Sky
were all packing pistols, alert for any break
out try down their side. Posses patrolled on
foot, horseback, by trail bike, with night
vision rifle scopes. The media moved in just
behind them, packing video equipment,
hunkering down in the wildwoods to whizz
out electronic scenes, data, rugged phrases on
portable word processors.
Amidst all this fofurraw-as mountain men
used to call geegaws and hubbub-came the
announcement that the outlaws were probab
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was imminent, a shoot-out highly likely.
But the Nicholses \vere nowhere to be over
powered, and their trail quickly grew cold.
Home went the SWAT team. Sweeps of the
topography became sporadic. The official
word now was that the mountain men had
probably lit out for another of the intercon
tinental mountain ranges wrinkling up this
region. A geology crew I knew of working 100
miles from the Madisons shut down its project
and fled back to Denver. An across western
Montana, tourists off the planes wanted to
know where they could hike without running
into any mountain men. Over in Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, a fellow riding a horse through
a grocery store parking lot one night was
jumped by two cops who took him for a
mountain man and clobbered both him ~nd
his horse. He sued the city for $100,000.
Who was to say which way the Nicholses
had gone? They could be on a march for the
Yukon, for all anyone knew. Or perhaps to
ward Jackson Hole, the fur rendezvous site of
a century past, where their mountain friend
from the Canadian border was living these
days.
Years ago, I had known that man. I went up
the valley from my cabin to visit him now and
again. He was strong and agile, a good horse
man, proficient at throwing a tomahawk. He
drove the game warden and park rangers
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crazy trying to catch him taking game illegal
ly. Conveniently, he had no use for artificial
boundaries. Nor had he anything but disdain
for what he termed the electrical umbilical
cord that harnesses people to shrivelization, or
siphilization, or civilization-what's the dif
ference? In his cabin, though, beneath the en
graved antlers and stretched hides and feather
bundles, was a piano on which he played clas
sical music. He sought his mountain woman
by advertising for one in a magazine. And he
got a capable, college-educated, lovely one.
He wrapped her in ermine and soft otter skins
and called her Dancing Fawn. He was a good
long ways then from Vietnam, feeling clean
again, whole.
Curiosity got an unexpectedly fierce grip on
me, and I went to Bozeman and made it my
base for asking around about the Nicholses .
and hiking the Madisons. I found that Don
Nichols's mother, Maggie Engelmann (now in
her late seventies) lives in Three Forks, about
30 miles west of Bozeman. She had three chil
dren by Pat Nichols, Don's father: Ted, who
also lives in Three Forks, working at a nearby
cement plant and occasionally playing guitar
at country bars on weekends; Betty, who lives
on a dairy farm about ten miles away near
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ter; and Don, the youngest.
During the Depression, Pat Nichols brought
his family from Kansas to Norris, Montana,
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situated at the base of the Madison Range,
with the Tobacco Root Mountains rising
across the valley to the east. Although it holds
fewer than 50 residents at present, Norris sup
ported close to 200 when the two gold mines in
the area were still going. As a teenager in the
sixties I spent a summer with my geologist
father sampling the rock strata around one of
them, Revenue Flats. Pat Nichols and his s
brother used to work at the other mine, the c
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belly-up by the roadside. Don Nichols had
grown to love going into the mountains with
his father, who hunted and fished and some
times hired out as a horse packer. Abruptly,
forever, that was gone. Don was seven years
old.
Times were hard for everyone, rougher still
for a widow with three children.
Nichols took in laundry and did sewing for the
miners. And she dealt a bit more strictly with
her children, wanting them closer by her side.
A neighbor began stopping in to
weekly Bible study sessions with the family.
After a while, Maggie Nichols remarried,
hitching up with another miner, Steve E
mann. Don missed his real father more
ever, though just how real Pat Nichols
mained in his son's mind is tricky to jud
Don had apparently come to idolize him.
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new stepfather had little interest in the far out
doors. He was, the locals thought, awful big
and tough and kept the kids on a short leash.
As the mines shut down during vVW II, the
Engelmanns moved ten miles north up the val
ley to the ranching community of Harris09_,_
population 150-200 then and now. There
Engelmann tried farming and raising live
stock on a couple of hundred acres a mile out
of town on North Willow Creek. Even by the
standards of independent Montanans, the
Engelmanns were noted for keeping to them
selves, partly because that farm kept absorb
ing all their efforts and never yielded much in
return. It was just too small a spread in too
Rocky Mountain climate. People seldom saw
Maggie Engelmann except at church some
times.
From the start," Don never got along with his
stepfather. They agreed on little or nothing
and had their share or more of violent argu
ments. Nevertheless, in Harrison, as in Norris,
folks remember Don as a fairly ordinary kid.
Sure, a little poorer than most. And, well, a lot
more quiet-always kind of a loner, and I
know some of the kids picked on him for that.
nother thing, they'd tell me, Don was darned
iarp. Why he could type circles around the
girls in class, can you imagine? He was a quick
learner and an A student, and so was his broth-
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tist, too, always doodling and sketching.
Finally, Don Nichols had that other quality
that became more pronounced every year as
he developed physically. He was, marveled
one old acqu"aintance after another, "the
hikingest fool I've ever seen." "He would go
up those hills like they weren't even there."
"Don? He could outwalk a deer if he put his
mind to it." Come to think of it, they'd add, he
couldn't wait to get in the mountains every
chance he had back then. Not just to hunt and
fish with the local boys, though he did that too,
but because that was where he really wanted
to be. His favorite place to cover ground was
those Spanish Peaks, which was where his true
father used to take him .
Don was always keen, too, for exploring the
caves and old mine shafts you'll come across
all through this country. The Madisons are full
of holes from Norris all the way up to the
alpine parklands called Cowboy Heaven in
the Spanish Peaks. The summer I worked
around Revenue Flats, I went to Potosi's hot
springs-just west of Harrison up the flanks of
the Tobacco Roots-to soak, and found a col
lection of squatters in the pine canyons there,
meditating, smoking herbs, smoking illicit
deer meat into jerky, talking of Indian spirits
and such. The cowboys got a bellyful of it and
burned the whole show out one night. On the
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other hand, while Don Nichols was growing
up it wasn't considered strange at all for pros
pectors to spend the warm months moving
through the hills with their families, living just
about any way they could.
As soon as Don finished high school he en
listed in the Navy for an eight-year hitch. He
mustered out early, weary of regulation, and
went to West Virginia-mountain country in
its own right. Here he took some advanced
courses in chemistry and metallurgy and
worked for Union Carbide, and married. Fin
ally, he brought his West Virginia bride, Ver
dina, back to Harrison. For all his traveling,
Don seemed little changed. You still had to
sqeeze conversation out of the guy. His wife
was a quiet one as well and sort of shy, maybe
because she felt out of place in this new part of
the country.
They stuck around for the better part of a ··
year, with Don apparently hoping that for
once he might make a go of the old farm with
his stepfather. But nothing worthwhile came
of · it, and Don and Verdina left for western
Montana, where they purchased some prop
erty and raised hogs. For Don, the important
thing was, as ever, to be near wild mountain
country. He wanted to spend more time out,
,. away from the little cabin he had built. Ver
dina, however, was looking the other direc
tion, toward a more settled life, like the life
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children to consider. First had come Barbara,
then tow-headed Dan.What would be best for
them?
In 1971 Don and Verdina Nichols divorced.
Thereafter, Don worked in various towns,
usually at machineshops or lumber mills, as he
was an excOellent mechanic, and usually over
winter. Come the thaws, he would be on his
way to the mountains. In 1973 Verdina and the
children were in White Sulphur Springs, Mon
tana, where she married Lloyd Frisbie, a law
enforcement officer. Don was working, as in
other years to come, by Jackson Hole, and
when he went back to the Spanish Peaks this
time, he took his son with him.
He kept Dan too long, violating the terms of
his visitation privileges-"kidnapped the
boy," in the opinion of some. And when it
began to look as if he wouldn't be bringing
Dan back for school, V erdina called the sher
iff. A local fellow who had grown up knowing
Don saw the father and son in the backcountry
that fall. This guy was driving along a remote
road when he saw a man dart behind some
rocks, running away. Curious, he speeded up
to cut him off. All at once, he realized that it
was Don Nichols. Don was swinging his rifle
around to point toward the man before
too, recognized an old acquaintance, a
stopped, and they talked.
A deputy brought Dan out that year.
Dan was late coming out of the mountains
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met Don on a trail. Don gave his word that
he'd have Dan out in a week, and he kept it.
With the sheriff on that search was Johnny
France, a deputy at the time.
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near Norris, with foster parents, and was grad
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The school wall on which photographs of
graduating classes are hung holds the two
men's portraits a few feet apart. France
wrangled at local ranches all through high
school, including the Flying D-an immense
domain rolling along the Madisons' northern
slopes and abutting Beartrap Canyon, Don's
favorite route into the Spanish Peaks. For a
decade after high school France hit the ama
teur rodeo circuit, riding saddle broncs of
'every known disposition, from only mildly
rank to certified loco. In 1966 and again in
1967 he was the Montana Rodeo Association's
all-around champion cowboy.
France worked the night beat as a city cop
while attending Western Montana College in
Dillon and earned a reputation for doing extra
duty out in the alleys for free-shearing long
haired hippies. After moving back to Ennis
the Madison Valley, he rose through the
ranks of the local law force and was
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country to support a full-time sheriff-France
floated dudes down the Madison River for
blue-ribbon trout fishing and a run through
Beartrap Canyon's rapids.
While most of the Big Sky lies within Galla
tin County, the-core of the Nicholses' habitual
territory lay in Madison County. Thus Sheriff
France became the man chiefly responsible
for directing the 1984 manhunt and for ex
plaining its frustrating lack of success or even
near-success. At one point early on, he told an
interviewer, "In my own way, I'm a mountain
man too. It'll take one to catch one. I'll get
them." Maybe not soon, he added, but sooner
or later.
The Madison County sheriff's office is in
Virginia City-an old, ripsnortin', gold boom
town now restored as a summer tourist attrac
tion-whose first sheriff, Henry Plummer,
~as hanged because he was also head of the
local outlaws. When the lawmen from Virgin
ia City went to fetch young Dan Nichols for
school those two years, Dan didn't want to
leave either the mountains or his father. Sup
posedly, he once left his boots in camp so that
his father would think he was still around, and
barefooted it 35 miles into town.
At school, Dan got along okay. He had some
friends, was a drummer in the schoolband. He
had something of his father's flair for art in
that he sketched and painted well. Once he
did a mural depicting a woman in a woodland
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setting with a unicorn. He also had his father's
kind of reputation for being quiet, very quiet,
and for keeping to himself most of the time.
He had one brush with the law, though be
cause he was a juvenile, authorities won't re
veal what sort of brush.
Dan found himself stuck in between child
hood and adulthood, his mother and father,
town life and a mountain life. During his jun
ior year at school, he lived at a ranch that took
in foster children. Then he dropped out and
went to be with Don in the high country. But
then he walked out of the mountains, sick
and-tired of being so damned lonesome up
there, and took a job in town washing dishes.
And now the father was the lonely one. Lone
ly, despondent, and bitter.
''I'm never going to take that boy with me
again," Don told his sister, Betty, the last time
he stopped in to visit. She never knew when'
her brother might show up from year to year,
but whenever he did, they usually continued
their long-standing friendly debate. She
would tell him that he was crazy to live the
way he did, and Don would argue over and
over that if she and her husband, Walter,
would just try it up there for two or three days
they'd learn to love it. But now itwas plain that
;; Dan, having tried it off and on for most of his
life, had decided against it.
Or had he? The next thing Betty knew, Dan
had once more gone up to join his father, and
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they were together in the mountains from then
on.
The Nichols family, including Don's ex
wife, explained some of this to the lawmen
and the press following the initial headlines
about Bigc Sky's sensational kidnap-murder
case. The family saw the kidnapping as stem
ming less from some brutal desire for a
woman than from a father's desperate desire
to keep his son-the one part of human society
that he was not prepared to live without, the
one thing he needed from town. And the situa
tion had rapidly gone from bad to worse when
Alan Goldstein waved a gun in Dan's direc
tion. "You mess with a grizzly's cub, and that
sow just comes unglued," was Sheriff Onstad's
analogy.
Posters describing the Nicholses as danger
ous and armed and known to inhabit moun
tainous areas were posted regularly· at trail
heads leading into the Madisons next to the
usual warnings to be cautious in grizzly coun
try. Interestingly, a Montanan who grevv up
with Indian friends told me that when he first
met Don Nichols he sensed in the man what
you would have to call bear medicine, a kind
of power that is neither good nor bad so much
as just very strong and unpredictable. And not
to be cornered, cub or no cub.
The weeks passed. A grizzlykilled a
woman close to Kari's age camped alone in
backcountry of Yellowstone Park. Go
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brother, Doug, flew out from Virginia, con
cerned that the costly manhunt \vould be cur
tailed for lack of funds.
Bozeman held its annual John Colter, a foot
race commemorating the mountain man's
flight for life from a band of Blackfeet neaf
Three Forks.
The more I learned about Don Nichols, the
better I understood why those who knew him
were so sure that he and Dan had not fled the
Madisons for more rugged, remote, or less
traveled mountains. The M adisons were
where he lived. And if a man had been living
by his own laws for so long that he could justi
fy kidnapping a woman, he could probably
convince himself that no one would be able to
outmaneuver him in terrain that he knew bet
ter than anyone else. Could be he was right.
. Could be the N icholses were long gone after
all. The sheriff was keeping mum about any
new leads.
But I discovered that the Nicholses, or men
presumed to be the Nicholses, had been spot
ted twice in the Madisons since their escape,
once by a Forest Service crew. Cabins were
broken into and supplies taken as autumn
gave way to winter. Books were taken as well,
including a biography of Chief Sitting Bull.
Tom Heintz had guided and packed in the
Madison Range, operating Medicine Lake
Outfitters, for the past 12 years, nine of those
in the Spanish Peaks. In all that time he never
once laid eyes on Don or Dan Nichols. I read
his diary for October 24, 1984. It contained
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four paragraphs describing the whereabouts
of elk tracks and the look of the weather
heavy snow blO\ving in-and one paragraph
in which he comments that he finally met the
Nicholses.
Tom talked·with them for half an hour. Don
put down his gun only once. He fired a num
ber of questions at the guide but finally turned
to Dan and said, "He's up here becausehe likes
it," and Tom knew then he would be all right.
Dan asked what had happened to the girl; he
thought he'd killed her. Wben Tom told them
that Kari Swenson was alive, he saw Dan's
eyes widen in apparent shock. Then Dan
looked away. Overall, the two seemed toTom
to be much at home in their mountains, un
aware of their notoriety and how widespread
the search for them had been.
It was curious, Tom thought, how one of
them would begin a sentence and the other
would finish it-their thoughts ran so much
alike. They looked thin to him, and their
clothes were thin. Dan said he wouldn't mind
going south. Tom didn't know that Don rarely
ever wore more than a thin jacket, even in
midwinter, or that he had told others he al
ways felt warm in the mountains. Don compli
mented Tom on the quality of his camps; he
had been looking them over for years. Yeah,
Tom said to himself, and he might be looking
mine over for a long time to come.
At the rate the snowstorm was covering
fresh tracks, Tom couldn't see any reason to
make an enemy of this man by racing straight
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for the sheriff when he left; the N icholses' trail
would be invisible by the time the sheriff got
to it. So, for the next three days, Tom was kept
busy guiding his hunters who were scattered
through the mountains. Then he told the sher
iff of his encounter. He said nothing to the
press. But one of his hands got a little drunk
one night and spilled the news that Tom had
ridden up alone to talk to two guys whose fire
he had seen, and by god they were the Nich
olses.
Pretty soon Tom was getting calls all hours
of the day and night. N ewspeople. People
cussing him for not reporting to the sheriff at
once. People asking how they could help the
mountain men. One person wanted to fly his
private plane over and drop them supplies;
would Tom guide him?
The next person to see the mountain men
was Roland Moore, who is married to sheriff
Johnny France's stepsister. He was out break
ing ice at a stock tank the morning of Decem
ber 13 so his cattle could get a drink, and he
noticed wisps of smoke. They rose from a hill
on his ranch, Cold Springs Ranch, where
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though the peaks above were half-buried in
the stuff by now. That's why the elk and deer
were wintering by the hundreds on his ranch
just then.
Moore hustled down the road in his truck to
glass the slope with binoculars and saw two
men. One jumped back into the bush. Moore
called Johnny France. Another search party
geared up. The plan called for a major inva
sion-Operation Barnstorm was its code
name. But the helicopters for it weren't im
mediately available. So France, being familiar
in his bones with the lay of this ranch, went in
alone on a snowmobile, following the foot
prints of two men again on the move. He
abandoned the machine on rocky ground and
went on by foot for nearly four miles. He was
dressed in a white snow camouflage suit and
carried a .223 semiautomatic rifle.
When France passed a huge bunch of mule
deer and saw that the Nicholses' footprints
crossed the snow on top of some of the deer
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tracks, he knew it was awfully close now, al
most time. He worked along the tracks slow,
slow, across the rocks, edged through a cluster
of trees, and found Dan and Don cooking
venison over a fire in a skillet.
"Any coyotes around here lately?" asked the-~
sheriff. He had his gun pointed at the ground
just in front of them. Don Nichols reached for
his gun. It was a scene that France had been
through in his mind over and over during the
nearly five months he had stalked the pair. He
knew that Goldstein had pointed a gun at the
Nicholses and then hesitated to use it, and he
knew exactly what it had cost that man.
France dropped his walkie-talkie on the snow
and drew a tight bead on Don and came a
hair's breadth from squeezing off his shot.
"Don't do anything stupid. Don't make me
kill you," he said.
Ifwe give it up, Don wanted to know, what
guarantees do we have? France promised
Don and his son a hot meal and warm water in
a jail cell-someplace where it wasn't 200 and
30" below zero at night as it was getting to be
out here-and told Don to stand away from
the bushes and open his coat to show that he
had no pistol. As they talked, Don realized
who Johnny France was. Don told him that he
was just as dumb as he had been as a kid, walk
ing up alone on them like that. He said France
looked about the same as he always had.
Johnny Francecsaid he wished he could say the
same for Don, and Don Nichols laughed.
France had picked up his walkie-talkie from
the snow earlier. Sheriff Onstad, hovering in a
helicopter, heard the radio come alive again.
France's voice was saying, ''I've got a couple
of guys down here who need a ride."
They rode to town with Onstad, a minister's
son, and got to talking about religion and phil
osophy. "Their life, as they explained it," On
stad said later, "is in the woods, and it was not
a matter of being relieved to be caught or have
it over. Their life is to be free to roam those
hills.. .. "
That's when an army post commander ~ho
had met Daniel Boone remarked of him, that
he "cannot live without being in the woods."
Of Jim Bridger, people observed that he liked
places better than people. But again, what is a
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with his own particular balance between self
reliance and selfishness. Beyond that, he is
what the rest of us make of him. My favorite
account of the old mountain-man life is a
novel, The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jf. It is, in
the end, a tragedy of men who kill the thing
they love.
The media began its own operation Barn
storm. Movie companies brandished check
books. Other lawmen were criticizing Johnny
France for grandstanding, for going it alone.
Finally, a judge slapped a gag order on every
one to hold down the fofurraw.
Kari Swenson, who loved the mountains,
recovered as her remarkable vitality asserted
itself, and the bloody clots in her lungs dis
solved. She is back with the Montana ski team
and recently worked out with them on the
course at Lone Mountain Ranch. She mayor.
may not ever again reach the rare peak of per
formance she had struggled long and hard to
obtain. And she has a long jury trial to sit
through.
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west just to be near them, had once requested
that his funeral be held beneath a large oak
tree in an open space. He was buried at Clov
erhill Cemetery in Royal Oak, Michigan, his
home state, leaving behind a wife and young
daughter.
Don and Dan Nichols, who wanted so much
to live unfettered in high places, are in a jail
cell, the lowest and least free of all places save
the grave, looking out at a square of the big
sky through bars, awaiting the judgment of
society.
(This story first appeared in American West
magazine for MarchiApril 1985. It is reprinted
\vith the permission of the author and pub
lisher.)
Editor's Note: The local news media reported that
both suspects were found guilty at separate jury trials.
We regret that we are unable to present more detailed
information regarding court disposition. The author
was asked to furnish such information, but he stated he
was out of the country at the time of the trials, and kne\1
none of the details. There was no response to a letter to
Sheriff France requesting the same information.
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The Supreme Court
Does It Again
By Gene HaHam
Just about the time we begin to think the
pendulum of justice shows signs of swinging
the other way, and it seems the United States
Supreme Court is once more applying a bit or
common sense to its decisions, we are sudden
ly made to realize we've been indulging in
wishful thinking. A decision early this year, of
vital concern to our neighbors in Kings Coun
ty, indicates clearly that the primary concern
is still not to punish the criminal and protect
society from his further criminal acts, but to
find some technicality on which he can be set
free, even in cases where there may be over
whelming proof of guilt.
We refer, of course, to the reversal of con
viction and order for a new trial for Booker
Hillery twenty-three years after his conviction
and sentence to life imprisonment. The
grounds for the decision are that his indict
ment by a grand jury was flawed by the fact
no black had ever served on a Kings County
grand jury up to that time. The precedent on
which the decision was based is a UO year old
West Virginia case wherein the court ruled
that if a county excluded blacks from grand
jury service, any decision made by its grand
jury regarding a black would be invalid. The
murder conviction of a black man named
Strauder had therefore been reversed.
The reasoning on which the West Virginia
decision was based is incompatible with the
theory of racial equality: the precept
all of us, regardless of skin color, are cre
equal. If that is true, any group of other
qualified citizens should be able to arrive
a fair and just conclusion regardless of
er they are all white, all black, all
, equally divided, or proportioned any
way regarding skin color. To say a grand
or any other public body must be repre
by any particular race or ethnic group
adictory to that principle, for it is say
ing that some may be more likely than others
to allow personal prejudice to influence their
decisions.
In plain, simple laymen's language, exactly
what was the court saying in the Strauder
decision? The only interpretation that seems
possible is as follows:
"The question of the sufficiency of the evi
dence presented to the grand jury, and on
which the indictment was based, is not at
issue; apparently there was sufficient evi
dence to warrant the defendant standing trial.
The only reason the indictment is flawed is
because blacks have never served on a grand
jury in the county. While there is a presump
tion a black grand juror would be a respon
sible citizen and as capable as a white man of
being objective in his judgment, there is a pos
sibility that in a case involving a black defen
dant he could be somewhat prejudiced in
favor of the defendant because they are of the
same race, allow that prejudice to sway the
judgment of the other jurors, resulting in an
indictment not being handed down, in spite of
sufficiency of evidence to support such indict
ment. Furthermore, the defendant, because
he is a member of a certain minority, is en
titled to any benefit that may derive from the
black juror's possible prejudice in his favor."
Not only is such apparent reasoning an
insult to the integrity of all blacks qualified to
serve on grand juries, it is also in error be
cause, as a lawyer would say, itassumes some
thing not in evidence. The writer has known
and worked with many blacks who meet all
the qualifications for grand jury service, and
most of them seem a bit resentful toward any
member of their race who causes it discredit
and embarrassment. In such situations, if they
were guilty of any prejudice at all, it would no
doubt be against the defendant rather than in
his favor.
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There are so many holes in the reasoning
-that the precedent established in the Strauder
case should be follow d today that it can't
even accurately be described as reasoning; it's
obviously a contrived opinion.
That decision was made just a few years
after the Civil War, when passion and rash
judgment, rather than mature consideration
and careful planning, were the prevalent fac
tors in efforts to assimilate the former slaves
into a free society. A good example of those
misguided efforts was the invasion of the
South by Northern opportunists and parasites
known as"carpetbaggers." Theirsole purpose
was to exploit the blacks who had so suddenly
found themselves recipients of a freedom they
didn't understand or know what to do with.
By various means of questionable legality,
they managed to put uneducated and unquali
fied blacks into positions of civic responsibil
ity they couldn't cope with, and in authority
over their former masters, and thus manipu
lated them for their own profit. They de
stroyed the generally good-natured, patroniz
ing, and protective attitude most whites had
had for their slaves, and replaced it with mis
trust, suspicion, and hatred. It was at least
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be punished for their past ownership ofslaves.
The backlash against the political situation
and social climate created by the carpet
baggers kept most white southerners from
even maki!lg a pretense of believing in racial
equality for a hundred years.
It was in such an era and atmosphere of
social upheaval that the West Virginia deci
sion was made. That decision seems entirely
irrelevant to today's legal and social environ
ment, even though there's still a long way to go
before the goal of complete racial equality is
achieved.
If, aswas implied in a newspaperaccount of
the Strauder case, it was the official or practi
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from grand jury service, an injustice had been
done, but not necessarily to those who had
been affected by the decisions of the all-white
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ately excluded from grand jury service
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reasonable explanation.
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one must first understand the grand jury
tion process in California. Each year Su
Court judges in each county submit to
County Clerk the names of a numberof
dates considered to be qualified for grand
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service. The only requir ments mentioned in
the Penal Code are: 1) Eighteen years of age or
older; 2) A resident of th county for one year;
3) In possession of na tural faculties, of ordin
ary intelligence, of sound judgment, and of
fair character. (It is presumed that in this in
stance the word "fair" denotes impartiality
rather than mediocrity.) 4) Have sufficient
knowledge of the English language.
In counties that have a Jury Commissioner,
it is the duty of that officer to prepare a list of
qualified citizens and present it to the Super
ior Court. However, the court is not bound by
the list furnished by the Jury Commissioner,
but can devise its own, as is done in counties
where there is no Jury Commissioner. Super
ior Court judges, by the very nature or their
duties, lead a life that is somewhat isolated
from the mainstream of the community, and
can't be expected to know every person in the
county who is qualified for grand jury service.
They therefore usually select as candidates
persons they know, either personally or by
reputation-successful businessmen, promi
nent farmers, professional persons, and others
who have some standing and a good reputa
tion in the community. When the names are
filed with the County Clerk, he selects grand
" jurors by drawing names out of a box, as is
done to select trial jurors.
Kings County is relatively small, sparsely
populated, and has an economy based almost
entirely on agriculture. That description was
even more accurate in the early sixties when
the grand jury that indicted Booker Hillery
was empanelled. Blacks who practice a pro
fession or are successful in business tend to
live in more industrialized and cosmopolitan
communities. That is not to say that in the time
in question there were no blacks in Kings
County qualified for grand jury service. How
ever, it is quite possible none who were so
qualified ever came to the attention of the
Jury Commissioner, if there was one, or the
Superior Court judges. It is quite likely the
only blacks the judges ever knew were those
who appeared before them as defendants in
criminal actions.
The final and most flagrant failure of the
Supreme Court to apply common sense to
their decision is the fact that a grand jury
indictment has absolutely no bearing on the
final verdict of guilt or innocence, except, of
course, to authorize the trial to proceed. The
only question the grand jury considers is, "Is
there sufficient evidence that a conviction
would be possible in a trial?" The trial jury
arrives at its verdict only on the basis of evi
dence presented in the trial.
In the Hillery case, the Court didn't imply
that the trial itself had been unfair in any way,
or that guilt may not have been proven
beyond a reasonable doubt. It didn't even
question the validity of the indictment, based
on the evidence presented to the grand jury. It
merely echoed the nonsense of the ancient
West Virginia case. As a University ofCalifor
nia law professor was quoted in a local news
paper story, the intent of the Court may have
been as much to punish Kings County as to e&o
sure justice for Hillery. If that is true, it's a
commentary on the maturity of S
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Court justices. It was that kind of childish
thinking that allowed the former slave owners
to be punished by the carpetbaggers. For an
obscure alleged past injustice to black resi
dents of the county, with no indication that
any of them ever suffered harm because of it
the Court is willing to tum loose on society a
convicted murderer and rapist, knowing full
well there is no question of guilt. To make
matters worse, the decision can't be defended
on the theory that Hillery's crime was one of
impulse and passion, and isn't likely to be re
peated. He was on parole from a prison term
for forcible rape when he committed the
crime in question.
Again looking at the situation from a lay
man's point of view, it appears the remedy for
the alleged injustice of the grand jury indict
ment of Hillery could have been simple. It was
the only point at issue, and even the Court ad
mitted it had no bearing on the eventual out
come of the trial. Why, then, couldn't the
Court have simply ordered that the transcript
of the original grand jury proceedings be re
viewed by the present grand jury? Blacks
have served on Kings County grand juries for
several years now, so the finding of the pre
ent body should be considered credible and
acceptable. If the present grand jury should
decide the indictment was justifiable, the con
viction and verdict would stand. If not, then
order could be made for a new grand jury
g, or a preliminary hearing in a lower
and a new trial if necessary.
That would be a common sense solution,
unfortunately, doesn't always coincide
the legal solution. It would certainly be
ma(:celorable to Hillery's lawyers, who have
reaping a substantial profit from pro
the case.
The Supreme Court's handling of the Hill
case may be one of the most practical ar
that could be presented in favor of
punishment. Had he been executed in
the first place, as the original sentence speci
fied and he so thoroughly deserved, the Court
wouldn't still be trying to dispose of the case
almost a quarter of a century after the com
mission of the crime.
There's not much we can do about the deci
sions of incumbent members of the Supreme
Court. Justices are appointed for life terms by
the President, subject only to confirmation by
the Senate, and once that confirmation is
made, removal from office is virtually impos
sible. However, when future appointments
are made and confirmation is being consi
dered by the Senate, we can insist that the
candidate's record and philosophy be careful
ly researched and considered, and if it appears
he or she is more interested in the rights of the
criminal than in protection of the law-abiding
citizen, that confirmation be denied.
We might also consider a movement for a
constitutional amendment. to the following
effect:
"N0 person accused of a crime for which
there is sufficient evidence to warrant a trial;
nor any person duly convicted of a crime in a
trial in which fairness or impropriety is not at
issue, shall be released from the obligation to
stand trial, or granted a new trial or freed after
conviction, on any technicality of law that has
no bearing on the question of guilt or inno
cence."
Such an amendment is too controversial to
ever be ratified, of course, but the accom
panying debate would at least call attention to
the gross inequities of the present system, and
perhaps create enough public pressure to
force improvement.
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Good Intentions May
Backfire
There has been a great deal of publicity in
recent months about the plight of the home
I ss-those who literally live on the street,
sleeping in doorways or makeshift cardboard
shelters, or on park benches with newspapers
for blankets, because they have no place to
live. Most of the attention has merely defined
the problem and speculated on the cause; no
one has yet presented a practical solution.
One of the causes often cited is the release
from mental institutions of patients not ill
enough to require hospital care, but yet not
capable of coping with life's everyday prob
lems. The theory used to justify such releases
was that keeping those people confined was a
violation of their civil right to freedom. No
doubt that is a major factor, releasing to their'
own inadequate devices many persons with
no place to go and no one to be responsible for
them. No one mentions a somewhat similar
factor, which, in California, also contributes
substantially to the plight of the homeless,
That was a court decision 25 or 30 years ago
that certain sections of the old vagrancy law
were unconstitutional. One subsection stated,
.. in effect, that anyone found wandering
around with no lawful business or visible
means of support was guilty of a misdemean
or and thus subject to arrest and incarceration.
The law was interpreted by law enforcement
and the courts in such a manner that it would
have applied to today's street people and
those who frequent such places as hobo jun
gles. The theory of the court decision invali
dating the law was that it caused people to be
punished for being in a particular situation or
condition rather than for any overt anti-social
act.
On the surface, it appeared that the Su
preme Court had righted a wrong of long
standing-that justice had prevailed for the
benefit of those most directly involved. After
all, why should a person be sent to jail simply
because he was down on his luck? As a practi
cal matter, however, the results were decided
ly different. When the law was in effect police
agencies routinely arrested persons found
sleeping on the street or in public parks, and
frequently checked hobo jungles to pick up
those who appeared to be, for one reason or
another, incapable of caring for themselves.
The officers weren't being oppressive; they
weren't picking on people because they were (
poor, or making arrests because it was easy. \
They were merely using the only reliable and C
~readily available means of providing food and
t(shelter for those in desperate need.
hThe persons arrested under such circum
stances seldom resisted or complained, and in to
T; many instances the arrest was welcome, or
even requested. The arrestee knew he'd have cc
d€a hot meal and a warm, dry place to sleep for
prat least a few hours. Chances were he'd go to
court and be sentenced to at least 30 days in
strlcustody, and for the next month many of his
problems would be solved. The worst that bOt
could happen would be the boredom ofsitting anc
an}in a cellblock throughout his term in custody, ofbut even then he'd be able to watch television,
read magazines, and play cards with the
inmates. There was a good possibility he'd
made a trusty and assigned some menial
that would require little mental or
effort, and be able to spend his waking
outside the cellblock. He might even be sent
a minimum security facility, such as F
County's Industrial Farm, as the Branch
was known in those days, where living c
tions were luxurious compared to what he
accustomed to on the outside. All in al~
wasn't a bad way to spend the winter
someone who had no where else to go for
and shelter.
Another interesting aspect of the
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law, although not pertaining to the homeless,
was the effect it had on the control of prostitu
tion. It made simply being a prostitute a
crime, and if an officer observed a woman he
knew to be a prostitute apparently soliciting in
public, he could arrest her. Furthermore
when booked in jail she could be quarantined
for five days, which meant she was ineligible
for bail. This was to allow time for her to be
checked for venereal disease by the health
department. The same reasoning that it
shouldn't be a crime to have no visible means
of support was applied to the subsection of the
vagrancy law pertaining to prostitution, the
court saying that merely being a prostitute
wasn't enough to justify arrest; the woman had
to actually solicit or commit an act of prosti
tution, and the arresting officer had to be able
to prove the solicitation or the act took place.
The quarantine provision was also ruled un
constitutional on the grounds denial of bail
deprived the person of freedom without due
process of law.
Now, of course, a woman can stand on a
street corner in her hot pants and high-topped
boots, flaunting her purpose and availability,
and it is difficult for law enforcement to do
anything about it. The only effective method
of obtaining sufficient evidence for a convic
tion is for an undercover officer or paid oper
ator to allow himself to be solicited. There
have been instances when a paid operator has
gone through with the act of inter
before the arrest was made. Somehow,
methods seem a bit degrading to the law
ement profession. When the woman is
,she can bail out immediately, be back
street corner before the ink is dry on the
.,,,,,v,Y>rr sheet, and if infected with venereal
can go on spreading it unchecked.
This is not to imply, of course, that the old
IIIIY1'<>nf"U law should be reinstated in its origi
form. It was a bad law in many respects,
no doubt was the cause of much injustice.
However, as applied to the homeless, it was in
most instances the lesser of two evils; it
seemed better to arrest and jail someone
sleeping under a railroad trestle or on a park
bench then to let him lie there and die of ex
posure. Coroner's records will no doubt show
that during the winters immediately following
the invalidation of the vagrancy law, the ntnTI
ber of transients found dead in hobo jungles
and other unsheltered areas increased sub
stantially. And, as applied to prostitutes,
society as a whole benefitted to some degree
by the efforts to control venereal disease.
Attempts to remedy injustices, no matter
how well meant, are not always as beneficial
as they may at first appear to be. Before the
vagrancy law was discarded, a better solution
to the problems should have been devised to
replace it. The law now requires a compre
hensive study and the filing of an Environ
mental Impact Report before any major con
struction or development project is approved.
Perhaps we need a similar study and a Social
Impact Report before any major change is
made in an existing law, or before a new one is
enacted.
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istration and the Fresno County Deputy
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the training classroom of the Sheriffs Depart
and was followed by an orientation ses
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485-2000
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Body Building For Cops '
By Deputy Gary Hill
I first began bodybuilding 29 years ago. I
wasn't exactly the 97-pound weakling dis
played in the old Charles Atlas ads, but at 17
years of age I was 5'11" and weighed just 135
pounds. Over a period of time with proper
diet and consistent training, I gained 50
pounds of muscle and a lot more self-confi
dence and better self-esteem.
Having self-confidence is an important part
of being a peace officer. This kind of self
confidence comes from proper job training,
field experience, and knowing you are in top
physical shape. It is very important that all
peace officers stay in good physical condition.
The officer's life, the lives of fellow officers,
as well as the public served could depend on i
it, and how about those who love and need the
officer the most-his or her family?
Every peace officer should be on a program
of proper diet and good physical exercise.
Smoking should be stopped, as well as any
other habit that is damaging to good health. A
program of running or jogging for cardiovasM
cular fitness, along with weight-lifting for
overall body strength, plus proper diet, is an
excellent way for the peace officer, or anyone,
to stay in good shape. The peace officer must
be ready at alJ times to handle, mentally as
\vell as physically, any situation that may arise. 1
One thing that has kept me motivated
consistent in my training has been
competition. Over the years I have nr,,-nn,,"",.
in 40 physique contests. My first contest wa
1961-Mr. Central California. I placed
and Don Rose, also a Fresno County
sheriff, placed second. Don quit CO'Ylr.<>nnrTll B
body building and turned his attention to
baH, where he has for years been one of
top open league pitchers in the Valley.
Training for physique competition is
work and time consuming. The diet must
just right and the gym becomes a
home. Bodybuilding is a sport where you
get better with age. I have enjoyed
tion the most after I turned 40, and
competing in the Masters Division.
competitor must be 40 or older. I have
in the best shape of my life the last co
years, and have won Masters titles, as
the open (not Master) Junior Mr.
contest in 1984.
In 1980, just before I turned 40, I
physique competition at the Sports F
the Los Angeles Police Academy. This
tition was for all California lawen
officers. This win qualified me to
California at the International Police
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pics in New Yark, a contest I was not able to
compete in.
The following is a list of the titles I have won
in the last couple of years:
Junior Mr. California
Masters Titles
Mr. Fresno
Mr. San Joaquin Valley
Mr. Heart of California
Mr. Central California Crown of Champions
Mr. West Coast
Mr. California
Mr. United States Western Region
Mr. Western America
Mr. Western USA
I also placed third in the Medium Tall Divi-
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At almost 46 years of age I appreciate the
benefits of proper diet and hard training more
than when I was in my teens and twenties.
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Gone Fishin'
Apparently the average age of Sheriff's
Department members is d elining somewhat.
Only three have retired in th past year. All
were top of the line officers, however, and
their absence will be felt for a long time. The
Review wishes them good luck, and many
years of good health and prosperity in which
to enjoy the fruits of their labors.
Lieutenant Alfred W.
Harker was born March
21, 1935, in Ordino, Ida
ho. He attended school
at Nees Colony Elemen
tary in Clovis, and grad
uated from Fresno Union
Academy in Fresno in
1953. He then attended
Fresno City College and Fresno State. He
worked as a brick mason and cement finisher
before joining the Sheriff's Department in
August of 1959.
After the usual jail and patrol assignments,
AI worked for a time as a criminologist in the
Identification Bureau. He was promoted to
sergeant in 1970, and to lieutenant in 1972. For
.. a while in 1977 he served as acting captain and
commander of the Patrol Division while the
regular division commander was away on an
extended training assignment. He had been a
lieutenant of detectives for several years at the
time of retirement.
Al was very active in search and rescue
when assigned to the Patrol Division. He often
served as camp cook, and his proficiency in
tha t endeavor was legendary. At least one offi
cer once remarked that one of his favorite
aspects of being a member of the Search and
Rescue Team was the opportunity to partake
of AI's culinary delights.
Al and his wife Virginia, a former Depart
ment communications operator, stay busy on
their small farm a few miles south of Fresno.
Lieutenant Da1.e Reed
was born on August 2,
1930, in Manford, Okla
homa. When he was six
years old he moved with
his family [0 Sweethome,
Oregon, where he at
tended elementary and
high school. Immediate
ly after graduation from high school in 1947 he
joined the United States Marine Corps, where
he spent the next ten years, much of the time in
the capacity of Drill Instructor, training new
recruits. After discharge in 1957 he worked for
five years as a factory representative for a car
borundum company, then went to work for oj
Fresno County as an Industrial Farm Superth
visor Grade I, and later was promoted to w
Grade II. Tc
That position was re-classified to Correc
tional Officer II in March of 1973. In Novem
ber of 1974 Dale was promoted to Senior Cor
rectional Officer, to Correctional Sergeant in
March of 1976, and to Correctional Lieuten
ant in August of the same year.
In the capacity of Correctional
Dale worked both as a watch commander
the Main Jail, and as commanding officer
the Branch Jail. In both institutions he
reputation as a firm but fair and
commander, although there may be
who say he always remembered the 4
Corps D.1. method of issuing a verbal
mand.
Dale and his wife Phyllis are spending
of their retirement time seeing the country
their motor home.
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Sergeant William E.
Shuman is a native of
Fresno County, born in
Coalinga on May 20,
1930. He attended ele
mentary school in Ba
kersfield, high school in
Lemoore, and Fresno
City College. He served
in the United States Navy from October 1947
till September of 1951. He then worked for
North American Aviation, for Tidewater Oil
Company, and for the Italian Swiss Colony
Winery as a maintenance mechanic.
Bill became a deputy sheriff in November
of 1963. For the first few years he worked in
the jail and patrol divisions, and in the latter
was a member of the Search and Rescue
Team. He was promoted to sergeant in April
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of 1974. He spent a major portion ofhis time as
a sergeant in the Detective Division, first in
charge of a Crimes Against Property team,
and later for a time in charge of the Crimes
Against Persons detail. For the last several
months of his c'areer he was the Department's
Property and Evidence Officer, responsible
for the safekeeping and accounting for recov
ered property and items held for evidence in
criminal cases.
Bill and his wife Ruth planned a trip to
Hawaii shortly after his retirement in Febru
ary of this year. Beyond that, he said, he had
no elaborate plans as to how he would spend
his retirement time. However, knowing how
accustomed Bill is to hard work, and how
much he enjoys it, it would be a safe bet that
he'll find constructive ways to stay busy.
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Notable Covers
Our covers have varied considerably in artistic value and originality over the years, but have
always been intended to illustrate in some way the basic principles of law and order, or the
activities of the Department. These are some of the more interesting examples.
Y OUR
LAW
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A O N CIES OF
... " SNO COUNTY
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1957-Our first edition went to press without
a title on the cover. Inside it is identified
simply as "Sheriff's Office 1957 Annual." It
was not until the following year that the name
"The Sheriff's Review" was adopted.
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1960-We attempted something artistic and
symbolic, intended to symbolize the triumph
of law and order over crime. Roy Hintergardt
came up with the idea of cuffed hands with a
blacked out background, and Don
added the tattoo "HARD LUCK," having
served that many criminals have some type
tattoo expressing a negative philosophy
life. The hands are those of Deputy Don
and the simulated tattoo was applied with
and ink. The photograph is by Bob Smith.
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1962-A farewell salute to the old courthouse,
scheduled for demolition.
1965-The first officer to pose specifically for
a cover photo was Bill Shuman, standing by
Plymouth Fury patrol car at Kearney Park.
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1963-The first cover to feature actual photo
graphs of officers at work, in this case the
Search and Rescue Team's SCUBA divers.
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SHERifF S REVIEW
1966-An official welcome to the new
house.
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1971-Sheriff Melvin A. Willmirth in what
may have been the only time he ever wore his
newly designed official uniform.
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1977-One of the cover boys was Duke, our
first K-9. He later brought disgrace to himself
and shame to the K-9 program by allowing a
passerby to coax him out of the patrol car and
into his own while handler Rick Cobbs was
making a bar check. The man returned him a
few days later, explaining that he hadn't meant
to steal him, but had taken him as a prank
when Duke responded favorably to his atten
tion. Duke was given a bit of refresher train
ing, and subsequently gave several years of
distinguished service to the Department.
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Protecting Our Heritage
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Patrol Lieutenant
Department of Fish and Game
Introduction-As it has been a few years since we
have participated in The Sheriff's Review, this article is
intended to give the reader a general overview of some
of the responsibilities and activities of the Wildlife
Protection Branch of the California Department of Fish
and Game on a statewide basis. Next year's article will
be more specific about local structure, concerns, and
activities in the nine counties that comprise Region 4,
whose regional headquarters is located in Fresno. De
partment of Fish and Game personnel work closely
with and appreciate the support and cooperation of the
Fresno County Sheriff's Department.
Many citizens think of the Department of
Fish and Game only as an officer who will cite
them to court if they're caught fishing or hunt
ing without a license, or with over the legal
limit of fish or game birds or animals in their
possession. However, there's a lot more to it
than that, as indicated by the fonowing infor
mation obtained from our annual report.
Wildlife Protection
Wildlife Protection's responsibilities in
clude protection of game and nongame fish
and wildlife resources and habitat from will
ful or negligent destruction; promotion
fishing and hunting access for the
cooperation with and encouragement of
operation among agencies, groups, and
viduals concerned with wildlife n.rr,ran,",
coordination of state and local agencies to
vent, abate, and mitigate hazardous
and oil spills that have a detrimental
fish and wildlife; administration of a
safety training program; and regulation
importation and possession of exotic
to ensure the welfare of wild animal
protect native wildlife habitat from
advertent introduction of competitive
and to protect the agricultural in
public health in the state.
Special Investigations
Although arrests for fish and
tions remained approximately the
year, new emphasis has been jJ.......""• ..
prehending the chronic violator and
the problem of commercialization of
wildlife. As a result, significant
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made from one end of the state to the other.
In Humboldt County state and federal
agents teamed up in an undercover operation
in which they purchased six eagle carcasses, a
$1,500 bear claw necklace, and various pieces
of Indian reglaia made from illegally obtained ",
feathers. Search warrants were obtained for
three buildings in Ferndale, and more than
1,000 eagle and other prohibited feathers were
seized, together with 30 pounds of marijuana,
cocaine, and other illegal substances.
In EI Dorado County wardens filed charges
against a licensed guide who was issuing frau
dulent licenses to clients. The guide was con
victed of the charge and placed on probation,
with the stipulation that he not guide on Lake
Tahoe for the remainder of the year. In Octo
ber, undercover wardens were guided by the
suspect on a fishing trip on Lake Tahoe. The
court case is pending, but the guide's license
has since been revoked by the Commission.
In San Bernardino County undercover
operations in four separate but related cases
resulted in the arrests and convictions of eight
individuals for selling wildlife parts. Wardens
purchased numerous items of jewelry, and
one full bear mount. Items seized included the
bear mount, a mountain lion mount, a moun
tain lion skull, numerous fox and other non
game mounts, and jewelry made from bear
valued at more than $20,000. The eight
received fines ranging from $2,500 to
each.
The successful use of undercover opera-
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tions has made it clear that there is a large
black market in California fish and wildlife.
The use of undercover tactics has proven to be
very beneficial, and a new emphasis will be
placed on this type of activity in the future.
Hunter Safety
The hunter safety program, now in its 30th
year, provides training in firearms safety and
the principles of conservation and sportsman
ship to approximately 34,0000 Californians
annually. Although there are six staff positions
principally involved with the program's ad
ministration, virtually all of the classroom
training is provided by a corps of approxi
mately 1,600 volunteer instructors, certified
by the Department, who currently teach
approximately 2,000 classes throughout the
state each year. The hunting accident rate is
extremely low in relation to hunter days
afield. Current data indicates 1.15 hunting
accidents resulting from use of firearms while
hunting for every 10,000 licensed hunters
afield.
Trapper Education
The trapper education and testing program
is now in its second legislatively mandated
year. Following a busy initial year in which
1,533 existing trappers were issued study
materials, examined and certified, the Depart
ment is now dealing only with newcomers to
the trapping field. At current levels, based on
presently incomplete second license year
data, this amounts to approximately 200 per
sons per year.
CLARENCE KRAGH
President
LARRY KRAGH
Vice-President
645 Broadway, Fresno, California. 266-0104
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wildlife, has become a significant activity of
Wildlife Protection. In 1984-85 over 1,620 re
ports were made to WLP from the Office of
Emergency Services. Four hundred and
twenty-eight investigation reports were re
ceived indicating follow-up and, in some
cases, significant investigations resulting f.rom
the reports .
Two highly visible spiHs were investigated.
One ,vas in Santa Barbara, where a mixed load
of 3,200 gallons of chemical waste was dis
charged onto Highway 101, and flowed into
Mission Creek and required an off-highway
cleanup. The other incident was the explosion
and sinking of the stem portion of the vessel
Puerto Rican. This incident resulted in the use
of oil spill dispersing agents to reduce the
amount of oil on the surface of the water.
After three days, the oil slick found its way to
the Farallon Islands, Drakes Bay area, and
Bodega Bay. Over 1,000 birds were affected.
About one-half were treated and released bya
combined effort of DFG personnel and Inter
national Bird Rescue Research. A biological
assessment of the shore damage is being con
ducted.
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CalTIP
When the Californians Turn in Poachers
secret witness program started in 1981, the
maximum amount that could be awarded by
the Citizen Review Board was $500. This
amount was increased to $1,000 in 1983, but it
was not until 1984 that a $1,000 reward was
authorized-for unlawful gill-netting of
striped bass in San Francisco Bay.
The Citizen Review Board has considered
203 cases since November 1981, and given
awards totalling $39,950. More than 600 inves
tigations have been conducted by Fish and
Game wardens since the inception of the pro
gram. The ratio of successful prosecutions
varies, but the statistics in Region I indicate
that approximately one out of three tips re
sults in an arrest.
Many witnesses still choose to not be con
sidered for a reward, gaining satisfaction
enough from having made a contribution
towards protecting California's wildlife re
sources. The convenience of being able to
pick up a phone anywhere in the state toll
free, and contacting a Wildlife Protection
Officer has been a major contributing factor
to the success of the program.
Oil, Hazardous Materials
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waterways, in an effort to protect fish and
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Reserve Wardens
The Department goal is to have 200 reserve
Fish and Game wardens. In a year of fluctu
ating numbers, there were 152 sworn reserves
in January, 134 in July, and 150 by the end of
the year. Many officers utilized the reserves
extensively. One case made by the Oroville '"
squad focused on how important this assis
tance can be. A warden had received infor
mation on some woodcutters who were
slaughtering deer commercially. There were
no regular officers available to assist. Reserve
personnel were on hand and were able to
provide coverage as the arrests were accom
plished. The suspects were felons with long
records of assault. During the year, reserve
wardens patrolled a total of 14,354 hours and
issued 1,301 citations.
Gill-Netting
The enforcement of laws and regulations
relating to gill-netting continue to require sig
nificant amounts of patrol. Shark/swordfish
drift fishery enforcement has been stepped
up. Coordinated patrol among aircraft, patrol
vessels, and associate agencies has resulted in
improved compliance and intelligence. Re
ports of late fishing and use of long nets were
the most common problems. One patrol detail
involved the patrol boats Yellowtail, Alba
core, and Bluefin, and the DFG aircraft.
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Thirty-two fishing vessels were checked, and
one vessel was found to be using a net one and
a half miles long.
A Superior Court judge in Santa Barbara
ordered forfeiture of a $14,000 drift gill net,
following a two-day court hearing. The case
presented by the attorney general's office in
cluded reference to information presented by
Fish and Game at briefing meetings with fish
ermen on drift gill net policies. The owner of
the net had attended a meeting in San Diego,
during which the consequences of using illegal
nets was explained and the net length mea
surement methods were outlined. The de
fense attorney also attended the meeting. The
court took judicial notice of the Department's
informational measures to counter a defense
claim that code sections covering net length
were constitutionally vague.
In central California, gillnetting enforce
ment took on new dimensions as emergency
legislation (SB 2266) requiring a special
permit to participate in the fishery was
passed. The law was designed to restrict fish
ing in the most sensitive areas of interaction
with birds and marine mammals, while allow
ing fishermen to continue their business. A
major amount of patrol time and effort was
spent explaining, implementing, and enforc
ing the statute. Officers made eight arrests for
violations of the law.
Problems with the incidental take of striped
bass, salmon, and sturgeon generated similar
emergency legislation (AB 1657), which
closed San Francisco Bay to the use of drift gi1l
nets for small fish.
Gill-netting in inland waters also received
considerable attention. Intensified patrol of
the Salton Sea and good cooperation from the
local courts resulted in a significant reduction
of activity. Fresh fish from the Salton Sea dis
covered in San Diego and Los Angeles County
fish markets and an occasional rubber raft
found in the brush serve as indicators that the
illegal activity continues.
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Reports of gill-netting problems also come
from most Central Valley counties. Some
courts are taking a firm stand on violations in
volving nets. Several defendants were sen
tenced to jail time of up to six months and
heavy fines. This drastic change from past
penalties has had a major impact on the prob
lem, but continuing effort will be necessary.
Fish Business Investigations
Early in the year the Department placed a
new emphasis on detecting violations of li
censing and bookkeeping regulations. Each
region appointed wardens to serve on an in
vestigative team that would attack the prob
lem. Team members have been contacting
businesses involved in the commercialization
of California's marine resources. The system
atic contact of fish-related businesses is de
signed to ascertain the level of and assure
compliance with commercial fish laws and
regulations . The most significant gain made
by the teams' efforts is the increase in com
pliance with commercial fish landing report
laws. This increased compliance results in
better biological data needed to make impor
tant decisions related to the resources.
Operations by the team included inspec
tions of San Diego, Palm Springs, Fresno, and
Sacramento area fish businesses. In the most
recent detail, seven marine resources wardens
teamed with Region 2 officers, and contacted
approximately 81 businesses in the Sacra
mento, West Sacramento, Woodland, Chico,
Stockton, and Lake Tahoe areas.
The most significant case was one made in
the greater San Diego area. Team investiga
tors uncovered a large scale operation in
which a wholesale fish dealer purchased and
sold tunas caught under sport fishing licenses.
effort resulted in the arrest of 14 persons
27 Fish and Game violations.
Compaign Against Marijuana Planting
The Department has been supportive of the
paign Against Marijuana Planting
) program, but involvement has been
minimal. New evidence discovered during
this year's campaign may result in active DFG
participation in the future. Evidence indicates
that persons involved in the illegal cultivation
of marijuana are a significant threat to deer
and other wildJife species. Analysis of limited
data in Humboldt County indicates that grow
ers kill at least as many deer as the reported
buck harvest. Widespread use of poisons and
pesticides is another area of concern. Pot
farmers also are becoming more arrogant and
aggressive in protecting their crops from peo
ple. Confrontations with anglers and hunters
are becoming commonplace. There have
been beatings and shootings. So far, wardens
have not been involved in the violence, but it is
a matter of increasing concern.
Pacific Mackerel
The complex regulations and issues of the
Pacific mackerel fishery continue to require
special effort by wardens. Eight cases were
investigated, involving the 50 percent toler
ance limitation. Nearly 600,000 pounds of fish
valued at almost $53,000 was seized pending
court action. One skipper pleaded guilty, and
paid a $340 fine, plus forfeiture of almost 14
tons of fish.
In a related mackerel case, a vessel crew
was arrested fishing in a closed area at Cata
lina Island. The 17J~ ton catch, valued at
$3,400, and the net were seized. Another purse
seiner crew paid combined fines of $1,740 for
robbing lobster traps near the Channel
Islands.
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Indian Rights
The state Supreme Court made a far-reach
ing decision relating to the take of Klamath
River salmon thi year. In a case resulting from
the arrest of Walter McCovey, Jr. for the sale
of Klamath River salmon to undercover war
dens, the court ruled that federal law pre
empts the state from regulating off-reserva
tion sale or possession of sale of fish caught by
Hoopa Valley Indians on the reservation. The
U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the issue.
These decisions further complicate the diffi
cult task of protecting salmonids returning to
the Klamath River system to spa\-vn.
Efforts have continued between the De
partment and the Round Valley Indian Reser
vation to see if there is some way to allow tri
bal members to fish the reservation's boun
dary streams without jeopardizing the re
source. So far, a tentative agreement has
proven to be unsuccessful in implementation.
Commercial Fishing
Patrol efforts by Marine Resources Region
wardens continue to focus on preventing the
illegal exploitation of ocean resources. Prob
lems with the illegal take of abalone are
among the top priority activities. Last year
information from a commercial fisherman
" resulted in the arrest of eleven subjects for
illegal possession and take of some 414 aba
lones at San Miguel Island. Several other vio
lations were found. In a related case, over 400
undocumented black abalone were seized
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from a Los Angeles dealer. The dealer also
had purchased fish from several of the eleven
subjects arrested at San Miguel Island.
In another case, two abalone divers entered
nolo contendre pleas in a Santa Barbara court.
Both were ~harged, along with a third subject,
for take and illegal possession of black aba
lone along the mainland shore and shallow
,;vater diving near Point Arguello. The arrests
were the result of increased effort~ in response
to industry complaints of violations in the
Point Arguello area.
Sport Fishing
vVardens continue to seek acceptable levels
of compliance with sport fishing regulations.
The extra money provided by the striped
bass stamp has been used to increase enforce
ment presence on San Francisco Bay during
the peak periods of activity. This resulted,
during the months of July, August, Septem
ber, and October, in 80 arrests.
Wardens have spent a significant amount of
time at Tulare Lake monitoring the w hi te bass
problem. Wardens working the lake did not
find any violations of the special white bass
regulations. During October there were 30
citations and three physical arrests. Most of
the violations consisted of angling without a
license and unlawful methods of taking fish.
Patrol efforts at Lake Nacimiento were in
creased to prevent the spread of white bass.
The Bakersfield and Hanford squads parti.
qipated in a "mini-sting" venture in enforcing
warmwater fishing regulations in a pro
area of the Tulare Lake basin known as
Hacienda. Violators, apparently finding
ty in numbers, had been concentrating at
tain locations, making regular patrol only
tially effective. The team was broken
undercover and uniformed elements,
ported by an interpreter and prisoner
portation. Fourteen citations and onep
arrest were made in one pass. W,hdens
improved compliance and less resistance
this area since the operation.
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Protecting the salmon resources is a never
ending battle. For example, in a 10-day per
iod, three undercover teams working with
uniformed officers at the Gilsizer Slough cul
vert pipes in Yuba County arrested 21 salmon
poachers . Numerous would-have-bee,p
spawner salmon were seized as evidence.
Sport Hunting
The illegal take of game has increased sig
nificantly, and wardens have stepped up spe
cial enforcement procedures in an attempt to
halt the growing problem. A recent influx of
people into the San Joaquin Valley is having
an impact on fish and wildlife resources in the
area. Taking game during closed season, over
limits, and illegal methods of take are the
major problems. Working poaching activity
has become particularly difficult, requiring
extensive surviellance and well-planned con
tacts. Poachers are extremely cautious and are
wary of any human activity in their vicinity.
During the latter part of June, the Central
Patrol District of Region 4 set up a special
enforcement detail at the Mendota Wildlife
Area. The detail involved one lieutenant, eight
wardens, one deputy, and four reserve war
dens, combining their enforcement efforts for
a total of approximately 134 personnel hours.
Tbe assigned shifts were varied to cover all
hours of the day and night, and encompassed
weekdays as well as weekends. To vary en
forcement tactics, both marked patrol and
undercover vehicles were utilized. The total
enforcement effort resulted in 25 citations.
ypes of violations ranged from ducks out of
:;'''UL''''''. protected non-game birds, firearms,
seining, to the common angling offenses.
During the deer seasons, wardens encoun-
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tered numerous hunters who failed to fill out
their deer tags prior to hunting. One warden
estimated that on some days more than 50
percent of those encountered had failed to do
so. In most cases, the tags were still in the en
velope received from Sacramento.
Because of an alert from Sacramento re
garding the "circumvention of deer tag laws,"
it was obvious to wardens just how many
people were actually pretending to hunt coy
otes after their tags had already been filled, or
they simply did not have a tag for the area they
were in. It also became obvious that the
people who were using this excuse seemed to
be locals who know the laws and have been
using these types of loopholes for years.
Urban Wildlife
Encounters with wildlife are on the increase
as urban sprawl invades the rural foothills.
'The coyote is one species that has adapted
well to living with people. Some attacks on
people have been reported. Dogs and cats are
becoming a staple in the coyote's diet. Opos
sum, raccoon, fox, ground squirrel, and the
mountain lion are other species frequently
sighted and subsequently reported to the De
partment.
Three adult black bears visited residential
areas of Goleta, Ojai, and Carpinteria at dif
ferent times during 1984. Animal restraint
training paid off in every case as the bears all
were successfully tranquilized and returned to
the backcountry without injury to themselves
or humans or damage to property. This type
of problem seems to be occurring more fre
quently, especially in southern Santa Barbara
County.
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Mountain Lions
Wardens continued dealing with the moun
tain lion problem. Mountain lion incidents
occurred ev ry month during 1985. Sheep
traditionally brought to the mountain areas for
summer grazing were in the Foresthill area
only three days until a dozen were killed by a
lion . The responsible lion was taken, but sev
eral additional lions remained in the area and
the sheep killing continued. Three adult male
lions have now been taken, with a fourth per
mit issued in the Foresthill district.
One lion caught in the act of killing a goat
was shot by the goat's owner. The same per
son killed a lion under a predation pemlit in
October 1983, only a few miles from down
town Plac~rville.
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Lion sightings in formerly unusual places
have increased to the point that they are
routine. Wardens are convinced that lion pop
ulations are at an all time high. Depradation
permits for lions are up.
Au Unprecedented Situation
In addition to all the routine activities, Fish
and Game personnel in the fall of 1985 helped
solve a wildlife protection problem that had
never been encountered in exactly that man
ner before, and may never be again. We pro
vided security and logistical support in the
successful effort to redirect "Humphrey," the
wayward whale, from his unexplained jour
ney up the Sacramento River back to his home
in the open sea. We wish all our endeavors
could have such a happy ending.
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Clovis Police
Department
Clovis Police Department Administrative Staff: front
row, left to right, Capt. Gino Pishione, Chief Jerry
Galvin, Capt. Pat Patterson; back row, Lt. Russ
Greathouse, Lt. Jim Zulim, Lt. Doug Taylor.
Automation
The Changing Criminal Justice Environment
By Lieutenant Russ Greathouse
Capt. Pishione, with 34 years of dedicated service to
the City of Clovis. looks forward to retirement with
mixed emotions. His leadership, enthusiasm and
love for the job has helped make Clovis P.O. a pro
fessional police agency.
With our yesterdays having come and gone
and our tomorrows but a sunrise away, we
find ourselves striving to keep pace with the
technological developments taking place
ahnost daily in the criminal justice atomos
. Criminal justice agencies have to be
rly sensitive to changing public de
mands, and efficient in getting maximum
. 'ty out of the limited resources avail
These requirements are hardly new
are the essence of effective public admin
tion. What will be new is the intensity of
pressure upon criminal justice administra
to meet them. Continuing developments
information technology should increase the
accessibility and utility of computer systems
for criminal justice agencies. These systems
may well be the primary tool available to
assist agencies coping with static or even de
clining budgets.
The installation and operation of the Emer
gency 9-1-1 phone system is an excellent ex
ample of advanced technology at work. The
system came on line at Clovis Police Depart
ment and throughout Fresno County in May
1985. Our system is the enhanced 9-1-1 system
thereby providing, via computer, the address
and phone number of the calling party when
9-1-1 is used. This feature alone has been in
strumental in the saving of lives in Clovis and
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Specialist Jeff Hubbard, Sgt. John Nauheimer and
Officer Tanina Anderson review the Operations
Division workload study produced by the computer
aided Dispatch Center. The study reveals calls for
service, man hours used, response times, officer
initiated activity and peak hours of service.
throughout Fresno County. 9-1-1 has provid
ed the citizens of our community with a path
way to receive immediate help regardless of
the type of emergency that may confront
them.
In years past, Clovis Police Department has
enjoyed a positive and cooperative working
relationship with the neighboring law en
forcement agencies. 1985 was certainly no
exception. With the approval and cooperation
of Fresno Police Department, we now have
the capability to access their automated re
cords via computer terminal. This is a signifi
cant step in providing much needed informa
~ tion to our investigators and patrol officers to
aid in the battle against crime. The spirit of
cooperation between agencies is a must if law
enforcement services are to be effective and
efficient.
With the computer age and technology
upon us, the refinement and upgrading con
tinuing at a rocket's pace, Clovis Police De
partment is examining several areas for future
automation. Case tracking, Uniform Crime
Reporting, Fraudulent Check Recovery Pro
gram, investigative case management, and
evidence/property management are but a
few.
The ultimate goal is to achieve a paperless
system. Given the capability of today's com
puters, this is certainly a possibility. We en
vision the information for the original report
being typed directly into the computer data
bank via terminal. The reviewing supervisor
would then use a C.R.T. screen to approve the
report and route it to the appropriate areas.
Copies would be printed as needed, such as
follow-up investigations and court proceed
ings. The effort to reduce or eliminate time
consuming manual systems is a never-ending
challenge. The various versions of computers
will become like extra hands and minds to the
entire criminal justice system. They cannot
and will not replace the patrol officer, but will
increase his capabilities enormously. A future
that does not have computers in courts, patrol
cars, police stations, forensic laboratories,
prosecutors and defense attorneys' offices is
inconceivable.
Public safety dispatchers Miriam Brooks, left, and
Colleen Kiser at work on the computer aided dis
patch console. 911 Emergency calls are interfaced
with the computerized dispatch function.
We in the criminal justice agencies
never lose sight of the fact that we are here
provide a service to our clientele-you
citizens. The concept of automating the op
ations of a criminal justice agency must
geared toward and have as a primary goal
betterment of those services.
The computer certainly will help us to
you. More useful allocation of manpower,
duced response times, record keeping,
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inter-agency sharing of information will cer
tainly be enhanced with automation. When I
asked Captain Gino Pishione, a 34-year veter
an of Clovis Police Department, to point his
finger at the one thing that has had the most
impact on law enforcement in his career he
pointed to the technological development. He
recalls the era when the beat officerreceived a
call for service via telephone and now the beat
officer receives and transmits the same infor
mation by computer terminal without leaving
his vehicle. Captain Pishione has seen finger
print comparison advance from an archaic,
manual search system to a highly sophisti
cated, computerized data base. Through all
the changes and taking the technological ad
vancements in stride, we have maintained
quality service as a measuring tool for com
puterization.
Obviously, the computer will also have a
potential for enabling the commission of
Clovis Detective Duane Uzzell, seated, and Detec
tive Shane Skadden receive information on the
Fresno P.D. Administrative Computer Terminal.
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crimes, too. This has become painfully ob
vious recently with stolen funds transfers and
entries into supposedly secure systems. It can
be expected that the definition of robbery will
include the transfer, via computer, of funds to
another under a different name. We can ex
pect changes in motor vehicle registration
data to be attempted in order to hide stolen
cars and identities. Ingenious criminals will t interfere with computerized alarm systems in ~ order to burglarize a building or residence. v The list is ahnost endless.
When we carefully analyze the capabilities c of today compared to that of ten years ago and f(then project the knowledge over the next 20 01 years, it becomes quite evident how automafa tion and the changing criminal justice environV( ment will go hand in hand. 19
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Motorcycle officers Robert Cheney and Dean
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one,
farmers to support our girl chasing and the
voracious appetites of our automobiles, his
1929 Model A and the 1930 Chevy of which I
shared ownership with my brother.
It may have been that farm work that even
tually inspired us to go into law enforcement,
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Editor's Note: I'm going to invoke a bit of editorial
privilege and add a few words to the excellent article by
Lieutenant Greathouse. Not that his article needs com
ment or improvement-what I have to say is on another
matter.
The city of Clovis lost a good cop last year
when the illness-induced retirement of Bill
Beaver became official. I wasn't able to attend
the dinner in his honor, so I'll extend my con
gratulations for a job well done and best
wishes for the future in this way.
Bill and I went to high school together at
Caruthers. We chased girls together, back be
fore we were too sure what to do if we caught
and often worked together for local
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for it was before the days of herbicides to kill
weeds and machines to pick the hay up off the
ground.
\~!e used to have some wild races out on the
lonely country roads at night in those two hot
rods. Top speed was usually around 65, but if
either was running just right, it might be
coaxed up to 70.
We both went into the Army after high
school, and I never returned to Caruthers to
live afterward. vVe therefore lost track of each
other for the first several years of adulthood.
Then a few years after I joined the Sheriff's
Department I heard he was an officer with the
Clovis P.D. I ran into him a few times in the
next few years, and when he took his ser
geant's exam I was by then a lieutenant and
was assigned to sit on the oral board.
Before the board meeting I met with Chief
Tommy Higgason and the city personnel
clerk, explained that I knew someone who
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Bill went on to a successful career with the
Department, later attaining the rank of lieu
tenant. I don't know if he ever learned what
that court decision was all about. But, now,
Bill, I'll tell you a secret. I didn't ask you about
the court decision to test your knowledge. I'd
heard talk about it, but I didn't understand it
myself. I just wanted you to explain it to me.
Good luck Buddy, and happy retirement!
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was probably a candidate, and offered to dis
qualify myself if and when that person's tum
came to be interviewed. Both assured me
they'd trust me to be objective.
When Bill's tum came, I figured I'd demon
strate my objectivity, and perhaps give him a
break at the same time, by asking him a very
significant question, but one pertaining to a
topic that was hot news in law enforcement at
the time, and he therefore should know the
answer. I intended to give him a chance to
show off by a series of follow-up questions
regarding the potential effect on law enforce
ment. I believe it was the Miranda decision I
had in mind; if not, it was another very con
troversial and widely publicized court deci
sion affecting law enforcement. vVhen I asked
him if he was familiar with it, he said he'd
never heard of it.
That answer frustrated my plan so thor
oughly I don't remember what else I asked
him, or what grade I gave him. The other
members of the board must have been favor
ably impressed, however, for he placed
second on the promotional list. There \vas
only one opening, but Tommy persuaded the
city council to create another sergeant's posi
tion, and he was soon promoted.
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Coalinga Police
Department
Left to right, front row: Chief James Henry, Dispatcher Laura Gentry, Relief Dispatcher Tommy Wiggs,
Patrolman Mert Carlson, Dispatcher Mary McLellan, Dispatcher Marlyn Roberts; second row: Deputy Pound
master Robert Spradling, Patrolman Jesse Ferrell, YSB Mike Chapman, Patrolman Allen Chapell, Captain
George Morris; back row: Det. John Purcell, Sgt. Keith Lunney, Patrolman Joe De Melo, Sgt. Vance Havard.
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The yearof 1985 can be considered a year of
change for the Coalinga Police Department.
As with any organization, change evolves
from the ideas generated from those who are
closest to the work product of the organiza
tion-the troops. To the everlasting credit of
Chief James H enry and Captain George Mor
ris, the ideas have found merit and the depart
ment has moved ahead in its mission to serve
the citizens of Coalinga.
Perhaps the most far reaching change has
been in the area of training. With an austere
budget to operate within, Sgt. Keith Lunney
proposed that a number of D .O.J. in-house
training classes be scheduled for department
personnel. The idea was to import the instruc
tors rather than export individual officers. The
result was department personnel training as a
group, P.O.S.T. requirements for Advanced
Officer training being exceeded, and a closer
working relationship among department
officers being achieved. This, not to mention
the savings in overtime, travel, etc. More
D.O.J. classes are in the offing, making way
for more specialized individual training.
Youth Service Officer Michael Chapman
has made great strides in his attempts to pro
vide the youth of Coalinga with diversified .. programs of activities. An active and interest
ed group of Explorers has been organized
along with a Young Outdoorsman's Club and
a Rocket Club. Last year Mike was instrumen-
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tal in forming a Youth Soccer Team, spon
sored by C.P.D. The team did very well and
received a trophy for its efforts.
During 1985, patrol officers put forth a
great amount of effort to obtain physical evi
dence at burglary scenes. Their efforts result
ed in several major burglaries being solved
from latent fingerprints. Because these offi
cers went the extra distance, a new team effort
has taken hold, binding this group of 13 offi
cers together in one determined
provide the best law enforcement services in
Fresno County.
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Huron Police
Department
One of Huron Police Department's four new patrol units.
Nineteen eighty-five was an outstanding
year for the City of Huron and the Huron
Police Department. First of all the city hired a
new police chief who turned out to be a gold
mine of knowledge. The first thing he set out
to do was get the Police Department new
vehicles, which made us almost famous
UU~"H""ut the United States and in some
es outside of the United States. This
to fame came by way of Law & Order
our new units made the front cover
three pages on the inside. We have re
letters, teletype messages and phone
from almost every state in the union, plus
many phone calls from police depart
in California.
to his experience in law enforcement
hip, our crime rate has taken a nose
dive, our youth programs have grown and are
very active, our Department has grown, and
morale is very high. His new priority now is to
get the Police Department a new building, so
that we can serve the people of Huron better
and to have better working conditions for our
Department.
Our new additions to our Department con
sist of breakdown in an officer's duties.
Officers have been assigned to special de
partments like narcotics investigations, train
ing, youth counselor, school patrol detail and
patrol. In order to get better training this year
and in the years to come, the Department
hired Al Bradshaw as our new training offi
cer. Mr. Bradshaw holds the rank of captain of
our reserves force and is in charge of all train
ing. I feel we were very lucky to get such a fine
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Mills, Lane & Drace
Attorneys at Law .
(General Law & Specializing in
Personal Injury)
1630 E. Shaw, Suite 178
224-0592
John Sirabian, Attorney
Bankruptcy, Chapters 7,13 and 11
1665 W. Shaw, Suite 106
Fresno 226-2482
LAW OFFICES OF
ROBERT Q. BERGSTROM
Lawrence R. Boivin, Associate
CLOVIS
Free Consultation to
Accident Victims
Personal Injury/Medical Malpractice
Real Estate Law and Litigation
Business Law/Civil Litigation
Wills and Probate/Estate Planning
200 West Bullard, Suite A-1
299-5365
LARRY S. KELLEY
Certified Public Accountant
Personalized Tax Service for Law Enforcement
200 W. Bullard Ave., Ste. E-2, Clovis, 299-8220
Coleman & Coleman
Attorneys
General Practice with emphasis on
!nsurance law, personal injury,
workers compensation, wills & probate
925 N Street, Suite 140
268-8155
Miles, Sears & Eanni
Attorneys at Law
(Plaintiffs and Personal Injury)
2844 Fresno SI.
486-5200
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Chief Marcel J. Jojola and Captain Lew Ceja.
person in our Department. "\Velcome aboard,
Captain Bradshaw."
In closing I would again like to thank all the
law enforcement units in Fresno, Madera, and
Kings Counties for all the help they have given
us ;n the past years and hope to be working
again with them this year, but most of all I
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Cpl. David Ragsdale, left, and Rudy Solis
of Investigations.
would like to thank Police Chief Marcel J.
Jojola for all the good things he has done for
our department and our city. From all the
members of the Huron Police Department,
"Thanks Chief," and thank you, Huron City
Council, for your support.
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& CASTINGS, INC.
Manufacturers of:
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Also Brass &Aluminum Castings
834-2511
7736 E. SPRINGFIELD • SELMA
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Patrol officers: left to right, Bruce Wann,
Danny Gomez, Kim Pitman, Ken
Wedderburn.
Youth Services and Dispatch: left to right,
;, Johnny Jimenez, Ida Caldera, Sue Dignan,
Sandra Perez.
Reserve Officers: left to right, Bob
Morrison, Chuck Wills, Captain AI
Bradshaw, Joe Gruber, Cpl. Cart
Schneider. Not pictured: Mark
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Kerman Police
Department
By David R. Majors
The Kennan Police Department is a unique
small-town police organization. KPD is very
fortunate to have the caliber of personnel it-
does.
Our supervisorial/administrative staff
begins with two lieutenants, whose combined
time in law enforcement totals over 24 years.
Both Lt. Black and Lt. Gongora share the
chief's concern for the officers and enthus
iasm for continued training.
Our chief, Ken Stafford, has 12 years of
service. Something that is very important to us
is training. Training is a part of law enforce
ment that everyone must continually receive.
Chief Stafford believes in training not just be
cause of liability, -but because of concern for
the safety and competence of the officers
under his command and responsibility.
Detective Mark Vaughan has seven years
service and has recently returned from crim
inal investigations training.
Officer Warren Jackson has over five years
service and is currently the reserve coordina
tor. He has also received training lately, com
pleting the reserve coordinators course.
Officer Robert Muller also has over five
years service and serves as our rangemaster,
for which position he has had to attend F.B.I.
schools. The courses he sets up for our qualifi
cation show his level of training and his con
cern for officer and civilian safety alike. The
courses are extremely challenging.
Compliments to the Sheriff's Department
SINGH FARMS
(Vineyards)
17625 W. CLAYTON AVE. • KERMAN
846-8100
Officer Orlando Velasquez has two years
service with KPD. He brings with him a great
deal of experience in the study and applica-
Hon of various martial arts. This ability at
times is invaluable. Because of his training in
martial arts, the police baton,and his ability to
impart confidence. in those he trains, we see
the individual officers will show restraint in
the use of force. He is also active in public
relations.
Senior Officer Ed Singh has had a long and
distinguished career and because of this is
much sought after byreserve officers for part
ners on patrol. Ed has no trouble imparting his
vast knowledge to other officers. You may
question the superlatives used regarding Ed,
but I assure you, they are justified.
Kerman PD also has a canine program in
volving Mark Vaughan as trainer/handler
(with K-9 Zeke) and Orlando Velasquez as
handler (with K-9 Rocky). Lt. Gongora and
Chief Stafford are both long time dog hand
lers.
The City of Kennan reserve officer pro
gram is second to none. Our top man, Reserve
Sergeant Joe Walker, has a career history that
would astound you were I able to recount his
exploits and training; from his military, civil
ian and law enforcement time. He has four
years service with our Department. We have
eight level one reserve officers and six level
two reserve officers. Two of our reserve offi-
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846-9722 or 846-8758
Kerman, California
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cers are or were active in emergency medi
cine, pre-hospi tal care. One is a member 0 f the
city municipal-ngineering staff. Others are
involved in many areas of private sector busi
nesse .
\i\1e also have a community service officer
(who happens to be a level one reserve offi
cer). His varied duties range from crime pre
vention to animal control and everything in
between.
Because of the progressive attitude dis
played by Chief Stafford and our lieutenants,
it is safe to say that Kennan PD will continue
to enjoy an emphasis on training, which in turn
will benefit the individual officer and public
alike. I hope that this article will give you an
idea of 'JVhat we at Kerman PD are about. If I
sound a bit prejudiced, it's because I am!! I
feel privileged to be serving "vith these men
and women.
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Established in Kerman 39 Years
846-8401
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Saving perhaps the most important person
for last, our secretary Marlene Long. Marlene
has four years service with Kerman PD. No
matter what anyone says, we couldn't run this
department without someone like her. She
knows more about everything that goes on
than anyone cares to admit. And since train
ing is our specialty at Kerman PD, I know of
no one whose trips out of town for training
have been marred by any oversight on her
part. She gets it right. Marlene shows all of the
newcomers the workings of the office from
forms to computers. She basically does it all.
We regret that Kerman P.O. photographs
were lost in transit and the loss was not
discovered in time to obtain replacements.
Our Special Thanks to
the Sheriff's Department
for their dedication
to our fine community
Bianchi
Vineyard
of Ke,rman
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Kingsburg Police
Department
A Community-Oriented Police Agency
By Jim Taylor
Chief of Police
The Kingsburg Police Department serves a
small, beautiful community of 5,700, known
as the "Swedish Village." Many people say
that Kingsburg is about 40 years behind the
times as there are still free concerts in the park
by the municipal band and ice cream socials in
summertime. A stroll through the down
business district will reveal storefronts
up in the old Swedish architecture, free
in many of the stores, and an atmos
where everyone seems to know each
. Indeed, Kingsburg is still a place where
will stop to let people walk across the
and church is stilJ the main entertain-
With a yearly average of 200 Part I crimes
each year, the city is a unique place to work
for the 10 police officers, three dispatchers,
15 reserve officers and five reserve dispatch
ers that staff the Kingsburg Police Depart
ment The low crime volume allows officers
time to get into the community to know the
people and provide many of those old time
services that many larger police agencies have
had to forego in this era of increased crime
and decreasing budgets.
Kingsburg police personnel are hand
picked for their abilities to interact with the
community, while taking a firm but fair stance
at prosecution and apprehension of law viola
tors. All regular personnel selections and pro
motional opportunities are awarded with a
heavy input from the community during the
testing process, as members of the business
community and the chief's Concerned Citi
zens Committee, consisting primarily of
Mexican Americans, sit with ranking staff
officers during oral boards.
The Kingsburg Police Department is also
one of the few agencies in the state to utilize
the Assessment Center Process for all entry
level, dispatcher and promotional openings.
After qualifying oral boards, the top candi
dates will square off in a full day ofgroup and
individual exercises, oral presentations, prob
lem solving events and other job related, mea
surable tests which have been written by busi
ness professionals, law enforcement experts
and staff members of the department.
The Department prides itself in being small,
but innovative, and counts Neighborhood
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Watch, O peration ID, Check Alert, Con
cerned Citizens Committee, Senior Citizen
Liaison, Juvenile Officer and the newly in
stituted Canine Program among its many
activities.
The Department operates Kingsburg Police
Explorer Post #245 as an outreach to the young
people of the commu;nity and counts upon
the Explorers for traffic control at local events
such as the Santa Lucia Day Children's Par
ade, the Swedish Fe tival, the Watermelon
Festival and the Fourth of July Fireworks
Display.
The high volume of extra police activities
has been made possible by the Kingsburg
Police Reserve Unit, which consistently pro
vides the city with over 1,000 volunteer hours
per month to fiII in the scheduling gaps and
provide supplemental patrol during peak
crime hours. The reserve unit has its own rank
structure, provides much of its own training, is
heavily involved in the reserve selection and
background process, and has provided a con
tinuing source of full time police officers not
only to Kingsburg, but other central valley
police agencies as well.
The reserve unit is currently involved in
building a pistol range for the department and
.. supports an innovative field training officer
program which brings field training and simu
lation exercises to a large number of recruits
within a short amount of time.
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Kingsburg officers are encouraged to
become involved in the community and can
be found participating as coaches and vol
unteer workers in many areas such as Little
League, Babe Ruth, basketball, the Kingsburg
Volunteer .Fire and Ambulance Service, Lions
Club, Knights of Columbus, and other worth
while projects.
Through the auspices of the Kingsburg Po
lice Officers Association, donations to many
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charitable organizations have been made in
cluding sponsoring youth sports teams and a
Christmas basket for needy families. The
Association also fields a department softball
team as well as accepting challenges from var
ious community groups to basketball, volley
ball and bowling matches.
In closing, I would point to our patch which
sports the city motto, "Valkommen" on the
center seal. You are always WELCOME in
Kingsburg.
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and Associates
INSURANCE SERVICES, INC.
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Steven C. Wigh • Frank S. Doi • Jennifer English
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1615 Draper Street. Kingsburg, CA 93631
Kingsburg (209) 897-2975 • Fresno (209) 888-2181
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Weekdays 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. -5:00 p.m. t09
Sundays 11 :00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Closed Mondayl)
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Located on Highway 99 and Conejo Off Ramp
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Mendota Police
Department
Jack A. Pina, Chief of Police.
Mendota's Youth-Our Most Valuable Resource
By Jack A. Pina
Chief of Police
Judge John Fitch, formerly Presiding Judge
of the Juvenile Court, and I agree on the fact
that the only sure way to curtail juvenile crime
is to start educating the very young about the
criminal justice system and the adverse con
sequences that occur when persons deviate
the rules and laws set by a responsible
There are many factors why juveniles get
difficulties with the law, school and at
Based on my experience in law en
I feel that some of these reasons
4. Excessive drinking by parents
5. Criminal activity in the home
Neglect or abuse by parents
. Lack of time devoted to the children by
the parents (either by lack of interest, work
schedules, etc.)
8. Low self-esteem or low intellect
9. Low socio-economic structure in the
home and neighborhood
10. Lack of positive personal contact with
law enforcement
11. Very little religious training
12. Idle time-lack of wholesome activities
13. Poor athletic ability or other special
talent
14. Lack of discipline (positive).
The Mendota Police Department does not
suggest that we can solve all of the social prob
lems that plague our society; however, we like
to think that we have put a strong dent in
regard to the juvenile problem. We can and
have been a substitute in areas that are lack
ing, in some youths, such as role models,
caring, time, activities, counseling, discipline,
recreation and education.
The Mendota Police Department has been
extremely active during the past four years in
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an attempt to curtail juvenile delinquency by
initiating programs to combat the aforemen
tioned deficiencies. We have been very suc
cessful with the youth oriented programs
which are designed to involve the youth in the
community to the extent thatit will have a las~
ing positive effect on them. With very limited
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resources, our goal has been to contact as
many youths as possible to change any ad
verse behaviors and to ultimately help them
become productive students and law abiding
persons.
Our efforts have been recognized by many
organizations throughout the State, and have
not only helped the youth in our community,
but have also created much interest in the
police officers. Our officers have become
more aware of our young people and their
potential and have become more involved.
The following are some of the projects that
have successfully initiated or are in the
process of currently being initiated:
School Resource Officer
This is a very important concept which
along with the School Attendance Review
Board, gives the poHce officer an opportunity
to become deeply involved with not only the
children in the school setting, but to familiar
ize himself with teaching techniques. The
police officer also has the opportunity to meet
teachers, pareQts, and other school officials
who surely work towards mutual goals of the
education and welfare of the students.
In this program, the Mendota police officer
teaches the children about safety, the law,
how to avoid problems (all types, drugs, as
saults, etc.), and how to avoid influence by
others who are violating laws or setting poor
examples (peer pressure).
Y-NYPUM (National Youth Program
Using Minibikes)
Ask Larry Parrot, Probation Officer of Fres
no County, about this program. He has been
very instrumental in assisting police depart
ments successfully implement this worthwhile
elementary age group recreational/motiva
tional concept.
In Mendota, we have 18 bikes which are
used as an incentive to boys to stay out of
trouble, to maintain good grades, to learn
Chief Pina and Officer Ybarra at Washington Elementary School getting
acquainted with the children during safety session.
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Juvenile Officer Art Ybarra gives last minute
instructions.
team work, and to learn a skill. One half of the
participants are achievers and the other half
are children that are encountering problems in
school or at home or both. In order to partici
pate the members must show that they are
improving their deficiencies (e.g., grades, dis
cipline problems, etc.). We have had 95 per
cent success in this very popular program and
currently have 20 youth enrolled and more
waiting in the wings.
Mendota Boxing Club
Mendota Police Department has supported
the very successful Mendota Boxing Club
with counseling, support, security and tech-
NYPUM participants receive training and counsel
ing from Juvenile Officer Art Ybarra.
nical advice. In addition, testimonial and sta
tistical support was given to the club during
the acquisition of funds process.
Basketball League .
Over 60 seventh and eighth graders and
high school students participated in the MPD
basketball league. Each team played 10 games
and a lot of fun was experienced by all parti
cipants (coaches, referees, officers, parents,
etc.). This effort was a joint venture of the
Mendota Police Department and the Mendota
School District who donated the gym and
equipment. Currently there are over40 girls in
this year's league.
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Officer Ybarra assists at the M.P.O. Boxing Club.
Summer Youth Employment
This activity helps the teenager to develop
skills and accept responsibilities. The youth
will be working at the Police Department and
at City Hall in a pleasant environment. They
are closely supervised and taught how to
become responsible employees. Some of their
tasks may include clerical tasks, answering
phones, writing reports, filing, office mach
ines, etc. They also acquire communication
skills (verbal and written) and have extensive
contact with the general public. This program
obviously helps the youth financially.
" Police Cadet Program
This excellent program is geared to high
school boys and girls. It has proven to be one
of the most effective all-around programs. It
enables the teenager to be a part of the Police
Department-to "ride along" on patrol, take
reports, answer phones, do clerical police
work, be involved in sports.
The Cadets are treated as bonafide mem
bers of tlle Police Department (some have re
ceived commendations and some have been
disciplined). Several have attended college
through the department and have obtained
units in Criminal Justice and speech (taught
by Chief Pina at West Hills College). All in all
the youth have matured and have received a
positive insight on police work. Some will be-
Girls' M.P.O. basketball league hard at practice.
come police officers in the future, others
simply gained standards that will make them
better persons in the future.
Outstanding Student Award
. Father Luigi Lazzari, the Reverend Thomas
Helm and Chief Jack Pina participated as the
Mendota School District Advisory Commit
tee to choose the recipients of the Outstand
ing Student Awards. Several outstanding
youths (grades 5-7) received awards. The
Outstanding Student of the Year was Nereyda
Parra, age 12. Congratula tions to N ereyda and
to all recipients. The selection was based on
grades, poise, citizenship, and how well they
answered all questions at the oral interview.
Police Probation Team
This concept which directly involves the
youth, parents, probation officer and the
police is an alternative to going through the
normal Juvenile Justice System. This allows
for an informal interview and counseling ses
sion to address the juvenile's problem and
hopefully come to a solution. This program
has been extremely successful not only in
Mendota, but in all areas throughout the
county. It obviously relieves the problem of
transportation, overcrowdedness at the juve
nile facility and courts, not to mention the cost
involved. Just as important is the direct con
tact that is made with a youth by the police in a
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at the "CLETS" computer.
Saluting the Men and Women
of the
Fresno County Sheriff's Office
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positive setting. The parents are made ac
countable and the youth cJearIy understand
the process. The youth may be placed on in
formal probation or asked to perform com
munity service projects, etc. If this informal
process fails, then a petition request is file
with the district attorney for further action.
Special "Risk" Trip
Part of our multi-youth program includes a
trip to the Southern California area. We will
be taking approximately 20 youths to Disney
land, Knottsberry Farm and to a professional
sports outing (basketball/baseball, etc.). The
youths and their counselors will stay in a motel
overnight. This will be a "first" for these
youths and will obviously be a very exciting,
educational and rewarding trip.
There are many other youth oriented non
police type tasks that are performed by the
Mendota Police Department, for example,
participation at the McCabe Junior High
School Health Fair, fingerprinting of chil
dren, crossing guard duties, trips to other
agencies, tour of the police facility for elemen
tary school children and intra-departmental
(Cadets) athletic competition.
General concern for our youth will continue
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Officer Ybarra counsels youth during police/
probation/parent session.
to motivate all of us to strive to maintain a
positive professional image, to set good ex
amples, and to be the "role models" that the
youth vitally need.
The youth are our future, and our most im
portant and valuable resource, and we must
protect and help them to the best of our
ability .
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Reedley Police
Department
A New Plan for Vehicle Assignment
By Lieutenant Donald R. Shinn
In February, 1985, the Reedley Police De
partment assigned marked patrol cars to offi
~ cers on an individual basis for the first time in
the department's history.
The Personalized Patrol Vehicle Program
took a lot of time to develop and implement,
but the time was well spent. A Personalized
Patrol Vehicle Program or "Take Home Car
Program" is not unique to law enforcement in
the Central Valley as both Visalia Police De
partment and Tulare Police Department have
had successful programs for a few years. For
tunately for Reedley Police Department, both
V isalia and Tulare police departments were
very helpful in explaining how their programs
worked and how it was to the City's advan
tage to begin a "Take Home Car" program for
the patrol division. The following are just
some of the advantages of the program:
1. Greater visibility of Police because of
more police cars on the street.
2. Increased community relations by in
creasing on/off duty contacts with citizens.
3. Reduced maintenance of police cars.
4. Increased life of each police car by re
ducing the yearly mileage of the vehicles.
5. Provides faster response time for off-duty
personnel when called back to duty on emer
gency situations.
6. Increased incentive to improve officer
morale.
Obviously, the biggest selling point to the
city fathers was the reduced maintenance
costs. While it is too soon to be able to tell in
Reedley's program (most of the new cars are
just now coming off the facto~y warranty).
\Vhat we have experienced so far (as well as
past experience of other departments with
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similar programs) leads us to believe we will
experience a substantial reduction in main
tenance costs.
Some of the things we have experienced in
our first year of the program are that the cars
are "down" for a lot less time due to the fact
that the officers take better care of them.
There is a real incentive to take care of "my
car" if you know you are going to have it for a
few more years. The officers take more pride
in the appearance of their cars. The super
visors have no problem in establishingrespon
sibility for any particularvehicle ifit is dirty or
not properly equipped. When we began the
"take home car" program we also established
a program of regular inspections for the ve
hicles and the equipment they contain. Since
participation in the program is a privilege and
not a right, it was stressed to those who were
involved that their issued car could be taken
from them and they would have to take "pot
luck" from the reserve backup cars when they
came on shift each day. There have been no
problems during the inspections of the units.
What we did experience on inspections was
that many officers had taken the time and
money to polish and wax their cars on their
off-duty time. They were purchasing pieces
of equipment to be used on duty (a camera
here, a set of binoculars there) that they had
never purchased before. In one case a super
visor equipped his car with fog lights (with
Department approval.) The trunks of the ve
hicles were neat and organized and the inter
iors clean. Many officers took the attitude of
daring their supervisors to find something
wrong with their cars.
About six months into the program, a series
Our Special Thanks to the Fresno
Deputies Who Protect Our Community
CORRIN PRODUCE SALES
ALLAN CORRIN, Owner
REEDLEY
of questionnaires were sent out in the neigh
borhood where each of the officers lived that
had a "take home car" to find out how the
public felt about the program. (Five ques
tionnaires were sent to the neighborhood of
each officer.) There was overwhelming posi
tive response in favor of the new program. In
all fairness, it should also be noted that one
citizen complained that one officer was
always at home "having coffee" when he was
supposed to be patrolling the streets. When
this was checked into, it was found that the
citizen was complaining about the officer be
cause his car was "always" parked in front of
his house during the daylight hours. (The offi
cer was working graveyards. ) When the "take
home car" program was explained to this citi
zen, she left happy.
While it still remains to be seen what the
long tenn effects will have on all those con
cerned, the first year of the new program can
be tenned a success.
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•
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638-2031
1610 -11th Reedley
175
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Servil1g the Area with Dignity
for over 52 Years
940 F Street
Orange Cove. Reedley
Best Wishes to the
Fresno County Deputies
Compliments Of
THE JAMAT RANCH
SANGER, CALIFORNIA
&
PAN DOL & SONS
DELANO, CALIFORNIA
OUR SPECIAL THANKS
TO THE FRESNO
COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
•
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and
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SANGER
A Special Salute
To Our Fresno Deputy Sheriffs
Compliments Of
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INC.
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sanger Police
Department
Pride, Progress and Innovation
By Janice Mamigoniim
The past year brought about many changes
for the Sanger Police Department and its
members. The upcoming year promises even
more.
After nearly three years of commanding the
department on a contract basis, Interim Chief
Charles G. Chrestman stepped down in July
of 1985 to make way for newly appointed
Chief of Police J. A. (Jimmy) O'Brien.
Under the leadership of Chief O'Brien, the
department is undergoing a total change in
philosophy, direction and image.
The department philosophy is changing to
"look to the future" as opposed to "dwelling
on the past."
Numerous hours of personal interviews by
Chief O'Brien with community leaders, mem
bers and with department personnel as well as
an intensive study of department statistics and
productivity identified a number of arenas
which would benefit from change.
The first major change was from the spe
cialist to a modified generalist concept of
criminal investigations. The theory of the gen
eralist concept, as modified and applied to
Sanger, is to promote proactive rather than
reactive enforcement. It puts more uniformed
officers on the street to displace criminal ac
tivity. An expanded and intensified training
program providing all patrol personnel with
specialist training will eventually create a de
partment of officers qualified to investigate
and follow up any given crime.
Police/community relations, community
awareness and youth diversion programs are
being expanded and re-directed to promote
community input and support of the police
department in its mission.
Four part-time community service officers
Sanger Police Chief Jim O'Brien
are assigned to grant programs for burglary
prevention/Neighborhood Watch and youth
gang diversion projects. A fifth grant position
for Drug Suppression in Sanger schools is
staffed by a full time Sanger officerand is suc
cessful in reducing drug use within the school
system.
The department implemented a full-time
community service officer position assigned
to dayshift. The officer is responsible for all
non-emergency report calls and office details
such as fingerprinting which previously oc
cupied dayshift officers' time.
The Burglary Prevention/Neighborhood
Watch and Gang Diversion Programs are cur
rently under organizational changes to in
crease efficiency and effectiveness.
The department members chose to change
from Sanger's traditional tan uniforms to
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Administrators: from left to right, Lt. Jess Martinez, Chief Department Secretary Martha Rodriguez.
O'Brien, and Lt . Dave Deleon.
Sergeants: left to right, Jack Hernandez, Ed Wel
born, Marty Stumpf and Senior Sgt. Andy Padilla.
"blues" in keeping with the new image being
projected by the department.
The department will be in an experimental
stage for several years. All programs will be
monitored and evaluated on a regular basis.
Programs which prove to be inefficient or in
effective will be modified or eliminated. The
direction of the department, however, will
continue to involve all personnel in a "parti
cipatory management" style that will assist in
developing programs that promote coopera
tion both within the department and com-
Corporals: left to right, Senior Corporal Hank Ramir
ez, Jim Montez and Tony Guerrero.
munity to achieve the ultimate goal of a safe
and united community.
In September 1985, the department began
its K-9 Program with the purchase of "Askan."
Askan is a four-year-old German Shepherd,
born and trained in Germany. His purchase
was made possible with the advice and assis
tance of Fresno Sheirffs Office Sergeant
Rutherford and K-9 handler T. Klose. Askan
and his handler, Officer Chris Little, received
training in Southern California and currently
train monthly with Fresno Sheriff's K-9 Unit.
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Sanger Police Patrol Officers: back row, left to right, Corporal Hank Ramirez, Sr., Victor Chavez, David Vama,
Mark Jorn, Corporal Jim Montez, and Chris Little; 3rd row, Rick Ko, Jay lamb, Patty Schellenger, Dan Madri
gal, Gary Kageyama, and Corporal Tony Guerrero; 2nd row, Sgt. Jack Hernandez, Sgt. Marty Stumpf, Sgt. Ed
Welborn, and Sgt. Andy Padilla; front row, Lt. Jess Martinez, Chief Jim O'Brien, and Lt. Dave Deleon. Not
pictured: Don Shepherd, Corporal Wayne Seita, Henry Ramirez, Jr., and Epi Cardenas.
(209) 875-7519
or 875-6018
Daily Feed & Animal Suppl,y
Owners JIM & JINNY DAILY
902 Academy MIKE PADILLA, Mgr.
Sanger, CA 93657 Mon.-Sat. 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
MERRI
MART
2664 JENSEN AVE.
SANGER
875-5515
SALVAGE LOGGING, INC.
CONTRACT LOGGING
HEAVY HAULING
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION WORK
(209) 787-2298
21665 E. WELDON
SANGER, CALIFORNIA 93657
Phone (209) 299-6484
Eastside Mobile Locksmith
Professional Security Consultant
EMERGENCY OPENINGS • KEYS MADE • LOCKS REPAIRED
JIM TOLLE
Bonded Locksmith
22270 Watts Valley Road
Sanger, California 93657
179
Animal Control Officer Jim Snyder. Dispatch: left to right, Records Clerk Marie Feuerstein, Paul Doty,
Vera Garza, Maggie Nicacio, and Myra Gonzalez.
Community Service Officers: left to right, Andy Felan, Steve Parchim, and
Dan Malcom.
SHERWOOD INN
LUNCH -DINNER -COCKTAILS
"LAZY 0" SALOON
DENIS AND TRUDI LANFEAR
CLOSED MONDAYS
FOR RESERVATIONS
787-2594
At the Old School House -Located at the Corner of
Frankwood & Kings Canyon Rd. -Stay on HWy. 180
SANGER
COMPLIMENTS TO THE
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
LONE STAR DEHYDRATOR
2730 So. De Wolfe Ave. 266-7117
Sanger
180
K-9 trainer Chris Little and Askan. Gang Prevention Youth Specialist Andy Felan and Youth Boxing Club
trainer Edmundo Vera with local boxer.
Drug Suppression Program
The Sanger Police Department's
Drug Suppression Program is an Of
fice of Criminal Justice Planning
funded project which is aimed at
reducing the incidence of drug use in
the city ofSanger through education,
awareness, and citizen/teacher in
volvement.
Officer Epifanio Cardenas at
tempts to reach students in their
early, formative years, offering a
series of lectures, talks, and presen
tations on the symptoms and dangers
of drug abuse to both teacher and
parent.
Drug Suppression Officer Epifanio Cardenas.
SHERWOOD FOREST GOLF CLUB CHUCK WAGON18 HOLE PUBLIC GOLF COURSE
Driving Range. Cart Rental.
"HOME OF THE CHILI DOG"
Pro Shop (Men's and Ladies' Sports Wear) Open 9 A.M. to 11:30 P.M. Open 7 Days. P.G.A. Teaching Pros • Snack Bar
1 MILE NORTH OF KINGS CANYON RD. ON FRANKWOOD
12th and Academy • Sanger •
79 N. Frankwood, Sanger 787-2611
Closed Wednesdays
875-3889
181
Sgt. Andy Padilla.
WALLIN & SON
FUNERAL HOME
(has. O. Wallin (
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1524 9th St.
Sanger
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Sergeant Padilla to Retire
After 26 years with the Sanger Police De
partment, Sergeant Andrew "Andy" J. Padilla
has announced his intention to retire in June of
1986.
Sgt. Padilla began his career in law enforce
ment as a uniformed patrolman with Sanger in
1960. He was promoted to sergeant in 1966
and has served in that capacity since then.
Padilla has also been Range Master for the
department for several years.
In 1985, Padilla was honored with a 25-year
pin from the City of Sanger.
Padilla said he plans to spend his retirement
with his family while working on his ranch
near Sanger.
Padilla and his wife, J essie, have two daugh
ters, Cathy and Debbie, and two grandchil
dren.
•
SANGER,CA
SALUTES THE MEN & WOMEN
OF THE FRESNO COUNTY
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
182
Search And Rescue
Update
Sheriff's Mounted Search and Rescue Posse. From left, front: Richard Essegian, Jack Mize, Glen Schmeidt,
Marilyn Vasquez, Bill Prewitt, Bob Smith. Second row: James Nulick, Dave Martin, Frank Fodor, Chet
Anderson, Kirk James, AI Saroyan, Steve Stevenson, Ed Ortenzio. Third row: John Bacorn, Mike Sheehan,
Unidentified, Richard Smith, AI King, Ed Campos, Roland Peek, Dale Funston, Bob Haire, Bob Althoff, Ed
Knight. Rear: AI Gomes, Frank Brunneman, Brien Botehlo, Steve Capelli, Gene McClurg, George Porter, Gary
Ihde, Keith King, Manuel Lima, and Deputy Lee Nilmeier, liaison officer.
Iteading or watching news media accounts
of the Department's search and rescue opera
tions, one could get the impression the spe
cialized search and rescue team is obsolete;
that it no longer has a place in modern law
enforcement. To some degree that may be
true; the past decade has brought a tremen
dous change in the nature of search and rescue
operations. We seldom if everhave an extend
ed search that requires setting up a headquar
ters base at or near the scene, and draining the
Department of manpower for days or weeks,
while a foot-by-foot search is made of hun
dreds of square miles of rugged terrain.
It's not that hunters, fishennen, hikers, or
children no longer become lost or stranded in
Fresno County's mountains. In 1985 the Search
and Rescue Team responded to 38 such inci
dents, involving a total of 61 persons. Now,
however, finding the persons and solving their
problems is easier than it was 20 years ago, due
primarily to the availability of helicopters. In
instances when the California Highway Patrol
helicopter is not available, itis usually possible
to arrange for such assistance from a military
installation. Another factor is the much better
communications and other vital equipment
now at the disposal of the team.
There has also been a marked improvement
in the situation regarding search for bodies of
drowning victims, which used to requiremuch
of the S & R Team's time and attention. Due
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237-7054
2549 N. Blackstone Ave.
(Blackstone & Harvard)
222-3051
5251 N. Blackstone
431-6021
4853 E. Kings Canyon Rd.
At Chestnut
251-3551
1914 W. Clinton Ave.
(Clinton & Hwy. 99)
266-9893
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4029 N. Marks & Ashlan
224-8830
408 Clovis Ave.
Downtown Clovis (Clovis & 4th)
299-3711
Mendes Tacherra, Inc.
and
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or
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Visit Our Beautiful New Store
McDonald Jewelers
A jewelry store
with meTchandise and
service of a quality
that you thought
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• Fine jewelry sales
• Custom jewelry design
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West Shaw Village. 276-7660
Northeast corner of Shaw and Marks
Store hours: 10 am -6 pm Monday-Friday
10 am -5 pm Saturday
Closed Sunday
184
Jeep Rescue Unit. Left to right, front row: Carl Snavely, Steve Sherer, Bill Peterka, Russ Dunbar.Middle row:
Dick Haas, Dave Martin, Larry Kragh, Dan Brown, Darryl Moore, Richard Massenge. Back row: Don Dobson,
John Skadden, LeRoy Thurman, Bob Kearney, Wendell Plowman, Bill Gentry. Not pictured: active members
Chuck Johnson, Jim Lyons, Richard Reisz, Harold Reisz, and honorary members Marshall Mahr, Bob Ripley,
Frank Camino
1940 EAST HOME
• ABRASIVES • DRILL & BITS • PINS
• HACKSAW BLADES • DROP CORDS • RINGS
• PIPE FITTINGS• BOLTS • FLIES
• BRASS FITTINGS • FLASHERS • RIVETS
• BROOMS • FUSES • SCREWS
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"DEDICATED TO SERVICE"
185
SIiEIlIFF'S
AIR
Ken Young .
Sheriff's Air Squadron. From left. rear. David Proctor. Phil Stotts. Marvin Simmons. Jack Rustigan. Ray
Rasmussen. Robert Hooper. Cal MacPherson. Roy Bitter. Ralph Gazarian; middle. Lieut. Richard White
(assistant liaison officer). Andrew Holmes. Ed Riedenauer. Walt Fisher. Maurice Smith. H. J. "Penny"
Pendergraft. Truman Campbell. Stanley Gibbs. Bill Brandon. Capt. Chet Lovgren (liaison officer). Gilbert
Kohfield. Bob Akers. Bill Brown. Delbert Ehrlich. Commander Bob Anderson. Buck Moyers. Marvin Janzen.
primarily to the Department's Boating En
forcement's Unit's twin programs of water
safety education and firm enforcement of
water safety regulations, there has been a
marked decrease in drownings. In 1981, the
first year of the unit's operation, there were 29
drownings in the county, and 10 in waterways
patrolled by the unit. Last year those numbers
had been reduced to 13 county-wide, and two
in patrolled waters. 1985 was the first year
since 1979 that no one died as a result of a boat
ing accident on a lake or river patrolled by the
Department.
Even though most search and rescue oper
ations are quickly brought to a successful
conclusion, the S & R Team members main
tain a state of training and readiness for the
day the helicopter won't be available, or can't
fly because of the weather, and the modem
equipmen! won't be sufficient. They'll then be
able to resort to the old-fashioned methods of
slow, painstaking, foot search.
In the same spirit, the Department's S & R
auxiliary units, the Air Squadron, the Jeep
Rescue Unit, and the Mounted Posse, al
though not called upon as frequently as in the
past, keep their skills and equipment ready to
fly, roll, or ride on a moment's notice.
FR iESNO PLANING MILL CO.
Est. 1908
General Mill Work
233-7218
H & MONTEREY
DALE ELECTRIC, INC.
Electrical Contractor
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WIRING *
State License No. 378880
KEITH MECARTEA, Owner
Shop & Office-1308 Iota Ave., Fresno • 264-1831
186
And Last But Not Least
Mary Ellen Tabler
Seniority is the only basis for leaving tribute
to Assistant Editor Mary Ellen Tabler for the
back of the book. Certainly it in no way re
flects the ranking in value of her contribution
to the success of The Review.
Long time readers of the publication may
have noticed that in the late seventies the
nu'mber of personnel photos included had
declined to the point that they were no longer
representative of the relative strength of the
various units. That was because people are
often reluctant to have pictures taken for such
purposes as incIusion in The Review, and per
suading them to do so or digging the pictures
out of personnel files is a time-consuming job.
Our SpeCial Thanks
to
Sheriff McKinney
And His Fine Deputies
Compliments Of
John Garabedian
Farms
Fresno
Furthermore, pictures were not always placed
in the proper place, as keeping up with De
partment transfers and personnel changes is
also a time-consuming job.
Since Mary Ellen took over as assistant
editor a few years ago, with the primary
responsibility of personnel photo layout, the
situation has improved tremendously. Now
nearly every Dep'artment member who has
not specifically requested omission, and those
in sensitive assignments where omission is a
matter of policy, is pictured in The Review,
and in the assignment in effect at the time we
went to press. For that Mary Ellen deserves all
the credit.
The staff at American Forest
Products, Fresno, supports the
men and women of the
Fresno County Sheriff's Department
for accepting the primary
responsibility for law enforcement
in our fine county.
American Forest Products
Robert Simmons, Mgr.
Fresno, CA
187
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Fresno
P.O. BOX 329
Index
of Advertisers
All Bearing Sales, 153 B & J Rent-A~Trailer System, Inc., 74
Allbritton Plumbing Service, 137 B & L Foodland, Inc., 48
Allyn Goodall Trucking, 9 Bakman Water Company, 109
Ambrosini Dairy, 91 J. Dean Ballard & Sons, 38
American Ambulance, 20 Bank of America, 125
Cocktails and dining
at
CEDAR LANES
• Coffee Shop
• Banquet Rooms
• Catering Anywhere
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1T 31470 AVE. 12 •
MADERA, CALIFORNIA 93639
TELEPHONES:
WHOLESALE LUMBER & BY-PRODUCTS (209) 674-6712 or 442-0212
40 LANES AT
222-4424
Sun.-Thurs. 6 AM-2 AM
3131 N. Cedar at Shields
NORBY LUMBER CO., INC.
A-1 Lock Service, 70
A IE, 109
AMOCO Foam Products Company, 104
AOC Adjusters Fresno, Inc., 101
AV Uniforms, 18
Ace Aluminum, 91
Ace Liquor, 91
Acme Refrigeration Service, 87
Acorn Equipment Rental, 153
Adams Paving Company, 24
Affiliated Recovery Service, 135
Air-Way Farms, Inc., 114
Air-Way Hoover-Eureka, 62
Aide Chemicals, Inc., 115
Alert Bail Bond, 116
Alert Plumbing, 146
Sam Alexander Refrigeration, 74
Alhomaidi City Market, 91
American Beauty Macaroni Company, 96
American Carpet Cleaning and Dye Company, 144
American Forest Prod ucts, 187
American Paving Company, 85
American Truck Salvage, 38
Angelo's Drive In, 123
A-Ped, 85
Applied Detector Corporation, 93
Architectural Concrete Products, 115
Armored Transport of California, 65
Arrow Electric Motor Shop, 143
Art's Automatic Transmission Service, 48
Art's Mercantile, 70
Astro Motel, 66
Attarian Oriental Rugs, 119
Audio Sales Company, 9
AUTCO, Inc., 18
188
Basque French Bakery, 148
Beef Packers, 7
Bekins Moving and Storage, 90
Belmont Farms, 14
Belmont Nursery, 153
Bet-R-Roofs, 109
Big Potato Market, 70
Garnet L. "Bill" Billings, 9
Bill's Lock Service, 61
Bill's Rental Service, 70
Bill's Supplies, 10
Blackstone TV, 115
Blue Dol,phin Pool, 28
Bonner Packing Company, 32
Ray Botelho Shop, 164
Bowen's Radio Service, 18
Brad's Transport, 14
Assemblyman Bruce Bronzan, 58
Brownie Muffler Service, 138
H. B. Buck (Buck's Ranches), 33
Buford's Appliance, Inc., 9
Builders Concrete, 88
Burford Ranch, 110
C &L Insurance, 7
Cahn's of Fresno, 110
California First Bank, 96
California Industrial Rubber Company, 105
Cal's Mobile Key Shop, 29
WM. BOOS AND CO.
14382 E. McKi'nley • Sanger, CA 93657
875-6851
,
A. LEVY & J. ZENTNER CO.
10881 S. Englehart Ave. • Reedley, CA 93654
888-2660
I
ROLINDA FARMERS STORE
9500 Whitesbridge Rd. • Fresno, CA 93706
266-3671
I
I
! DIDIER'S LlaUOR
4778 E. Olive Avenue • Fresno, CA 93702
255-0032
I
Cal-State Auto Center, 144
Cal-Valley Distributing, 9
Calvert Insurance Agency, 31
Calwa Cafe, 91
Calwa Meat Market, 122
Canteen Service of Fresno, Inc., 70
Carey Oil Co., Inc., 70
Cedar Lanes, 188
Central Cal Alarm Company, 21
Central Distributing, 88
Central Fish Company, 11
Central Title Company, 84
Cerda Tile Company, 121
The Checkmates Lounge, 36
Christensen's Turkey Hatchery, 70
Dave Ch ristian Construction, 112
Civic Center Square, Inc., 115
Coeh,lo for Congress Committee, 58
Colonial Van and Storage, 71
Commercial Manufacturing and Supply Co., 9
Community Health Projects, Inc., 131
Comstock Signs, 14
Consolidated Eliectricall Dist., 70
Consumers Sales, Inc., 150
Contract Office Group, 90
Cook/Gencom, 38
Assemblyman Jim Costa, 30
Creative Marketing and Research, Inc., 195
Currie Bros., Inc., 71
Custom Truck Painting and Sign Company, 70
D & R Repair Service, 111
D & R Tire and Automotive Service Center, 83
Dale Electric, Inc., 186
Dalena-Penrose and Associates, 96
Dane's Nutrition, 48
Danish Creamery Association, 28
CLIFFS'IDE AUTO CENTER
P.o. Box 366 • Auberry, CA 93620
855-2940
I
HAMES BUS SALES
5602 E. Belmont. Fresno, CA 93727
251-8332
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BOB CARDWELL RANCHES, INC.
15100 EI Mar Lane • Kerman, CA 93630
846-6561
189
Data-Tech,51
James L. Davison and Associates, 4
DeKor Drugs, 126
Demco Supply, Inc., 61
Diamond Lumber, Inc., 22
DiCicco's Pizzeria, 184
Donald P. Dick, Air Conditioning, 150
Didier's Liquor, 189
Dinuba RV Center, 30
Display Advertising, Inc., 139
Donaghy Sales, Inc., 119
Don's Mobil Service, 87
Drug Fair, 168
Duke's Club, 110
Roger Dunn Golf Shop, 132
Dymonds TV, 7
Easton Drug, 94
Bud Eberwein, Inc., 135
Eddie's Pastry Shop, 74
Ed's Cedar Heights Shoe Repair, 64
Ed's Radiator Service, 119
Edward's Lock and Safe Company, 48
Electric Laboratories, Inc., 86
Elliott Manufacturing Company, Inc., 153
Ellis and Thomason Construction Company, cover
Ellm Avenue Feed and Grain, 153
W. S. Emerian Trucking, Inc., 9
Ernie's Bakery, 48
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TRUCKING, INC.
REFRIGERATED VAN SERVICE
1159 W. UPPER BRIDGE ROAD
REEDLEY, CALIFORNIA
(209) 638-9213
Fresno -888-2414
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Serving all Faiths
FUNERAL HOME
Bob lisle Roy Franz Don Foppiano
1605 L Street. Fresno. Telephone (209) 266-0666
Boice Funeral Home, Clovis
Esse Market, 14
Paul Evert's RV Country, 59
F & L Liquors, 196
Farmers Investment Company, 23
Fasano Realty, 67
Federal Jewelry and Loan Company, 66
Fig Garden Village, 2
Fimbres Insurance Adjusters, Inc., 11
Ray Fisher Pharmacy, 168
Foreign Car Engineering, 84
Fresno Ag Hardware, 91
Fresno Auto Wholesale, 70
Fresno Cash Register, 86
Fresno Catholic Cemeteries, 118
Fresno Community Food Resources, Inc., 91
Fresno County Farm Bureau, 31
Fresno Equipment Company, 150
Fresno Friction Material Company, 83
Fresno Glass Company, 110
Fresno Memorial Gardens, 60
Fresno Merchant's Patrol, 153
Fresno Muffler Service, 70
Fresno Notions and Drug Company, 138
Fresno Orthopedic Company, 74
Fresno Oxygen and Welding Supplies, 135
Fresno Pallet, Inc, 107
Fresno Paper Box Company, Inc., 196
Fresno Planing Mill Company, 186
BAKER COMMODITIES,
INC.
ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT
RECYCLING
KERMAN
846-9393
FRESNO
237-4320
Leroy Massey
& Associates
1550 E. Shaw Ave.
Suite 114
Fresno, CA 93710
224-1070
190
Fresno Roofing Company, 102 Hope Manor, 101
Fresno Saw Service, 62 Fred Horn, Inc., 141
Fresno Specialty Contractor, 74 Horn Photo Shop, 33
Fresno Tile Center, Inc., 67 Howell Air Conditioning/Sheet Metal, 105
Fresno Tire and Lube, 91 Hy-Sal Canvas Specialties, 73
Fresno Wire Rope and Rigging, 37
M. Friis-Hansen and Company, Inc., 70
Frontier Fasteners, 185 Imperial Savings and Loan, 38
Fruehauf Corporation, 135 Insured Ammunition Company, 17
Fung's Kitchen, 61 Interior Contractors, 110
Interstate Rapid Transit, 95
Galahad Foods, Inc., 139 Ireland Manufacturing Company, 14
John Garabedian Farms, 187
Gene's Sign Studio, 2 J & J Service, Inc., 115
Gentz Construction Company, 153 Jack-Be-Nimble Candle Shop, 68
German Auto Repair, 70 Jacobs Garage, 15
Dick Gilbert Insurance, 153 Jae's Cleaners and Tailors, 137
Golden Bear Bus Lines, 59 Jaynes and Company, 14
Golden California Meat Packers, 123 Robert V. Jensen, 132
Gong's Market, 70 Jerry's Automotive Machine Shop, 109
Gottschalk's, 38 C. W. Jessen Construction Company, 12
The Governor's Office, 57 Johnnies Speedometer Service, 89
Grandma's Kitchen, 115 Robert Jolly Construction Company, Inc., 16
Greg's Stardust Room, 64 Jorgensen Batteries, Inc., 115
Jorgensen and Company, 15
H-T Audio Visual Service, 103
Hallaian Homes, 34 KASCO Fab, Inc., 44
Hames Bus Sales, 189 Kearney's Manufacturing, 106
C & V Hamilton Enterprises, 153 Louie Kee Market, Inc., 12
Happy's Liquor, 17 Keen's Day School, 17
Tom Harris Electric, 153 Kiggens One-Hour Martinizing, 191
Harvey By-Products Company, 16 Kimmerle Bros. Hydraulic Service, 48
Joe Haynes-Exxon Service, 104 Kious Electric, Inc., 68
Heppner Iron and Metal Company, 47 Kleim Automotive Center, 45
Hicks Signs, 191 Knudsen Dairy Products, 46
Carl Hobe Ranch , 14 John Kochergan Farms, 44
Holt L'umber, Inc., 149 Komato Department Stor2 , 140
PICKER PARTS, INC.
Manufacturers of Parts for
Mechanical Cotton Pickers
And Rubber Products for Agriculture and Industry
NATURAL -SYNTHETIC -MOLDING -SHEETING -EXTRUSIONS
Rubber 10 Melal Bonding -Rubber Covered Rollo and Wheel.
5687 E. Shields Avenue • 291-3501
DAN OLSON ENTERPRISES, INC.
I 251-6001
518 N. HIGHLAND AVE.
SANGER, CA
HICKS SIGNS
CONTRACTORS LlC . #285066
NEON. PLEXIGLAS ELEC. DISPLAYS
CUSTOM PLEX & CAST METAL LETTERS
MARY HICKS -(209) 275-9200
3236 W. BELMONT AVENUE. FRESNO, CA 93711
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MONARCH REFRIGERATION
State License No. 207473
252-8838
5215 E. MADISON FRESNO
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LUM'S CHOP SUEY
Chinese and American Dishes
609 Divisadero, Fresno
268-7919
191
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Kong's Market, 12
Kraft's Shoe Repair, 30
L & B Home Furniture Company, Inc., 149
L & P Market, 48
Lamona Service Center, 34
La Rocca's Italian Restaurant, 195
Larsen-Ratto Construction Company, 12
Leach Leasing, 192
Congressman Richard Lehman, 58
Liberty Mutual Insurance, 12
Liberty Pest Control, 95
Liquor Junction, 63
Lisle Funeral Home, 190
Lloyd's Autowerkstat, 121
Longs and Company Jewelers, 115
Lovejoy Building Materials/Trucking, 103
Lum's Chop Suey, 191
Lyles Diversified, Inc., 106
Lyon's Restaurant, 192
McDonald Jewelers, 184
McKenzie Market, 27
M & H Towing, 24
M & T Distributing Company, 31
F. Machado Farms and Dairy, Inc., 137
Machado's Deli and Wine Shop, 103
Senator Kenneth L. Maddy, 58
Madison Hardware Company, 120
Malaga Food Center, 12
Mama Luz' Kitchen, 74
Manpower, 6
Marcus Bail Bond Service, 139
Marie Callender's Pie Shop, 45
Mar-Lynns Antique Re-Creations, 108
•
ARIS-ARABIANS
Peterson Ranch
13943 E. McKinley
Sanger
875-8660
•
1753 E. SAGINAW AVE. OFFICE (209) 224·9831
FRESNO, CALIF. 93726 RES. (209) 299·1792
Maruko Cyclery, 9
LeRoy Massey and Associates, 190
Master Radiator Works, 14
Melody House Television, 132
The Merchant Association, 132
Metro Glass Company, 98
Mid-Cal Publishers, 73
Mid-State Linoleum, 105
Mid-State Metal Casting and Mfg. Company, 147
Mike's Pizzeria, 19
Millionaire Merchandise, 12
Modern Electric Company, Inc., 33
Modern Welding Company, 93
Monarch Refrigeration Company, 191
Moy's Chinese Restaurant, 48
H. M. Mugali's Market, 17
Myers Ward Tractor Company, Inc., 109
Nelson Sign Service, 194
Nicola's, 74
Nonini's Winery, 153
Normart's Furs, 46
O.K. Produce, 61
O'Brien's Brake Service, Inc., 110
O'Connor and O'Connor Process Service, 41
Ohlberg's Food Center, 12
Old Fresno Hofbrau, 12
Oller Farms Greenhouse, 95
Norman Olsen Construction Company, 106
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, 12
Ostergaard Feeds, Inc., 31
P.I.P. (Postal Instant Press), 107
Palace Meat Market Company, Inc., 137
Cattuzzo & Sons, Inc.
Custom Silage Chopping
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FRANK CATTUZZO GINO CATTUZZO KURT CA TTUZZO
Home 864-3387
Bus. 864-8182 Bus. 864-8182 Bus. 864-8182
Mobile Car-l02 Mobile Car-l04 Mobile Car-l05
A Family Restaurant
Open 24 Hours
Cocktails Available
4965 Fresno Ave. Fresno, CA 93710
(209) 224-3566
192
Papagni's Service, 61
Paradise Liquors, 9
Paramount Pest Control Service, 34
Pardini's Grocery, 36
Bill Parish Chevron, 140
Paul's Shoe Store, 48
Pay Less, 108
Picker Parts, Inc., 191
Playland Pool, 120
K.M. Plumb Service, 61
Poolquip Pool Supply, 17
Producers Cotton Oil Company, 172
Producers Dairy, Inc., 41
Producers Packing Company, 126
Leo Puma Construction Company, Inc., 153
Quali-T-Ruck Service, cover
Quist Dairy, 59
The Rack, 14
Rainbo Bakeries of San Joaquin Valley, 125
Ranchers Cotton Oil, 24
Rasmussen Auto Repair, 17
Fred Rau Dairy, Inc., 95
Ray Bros. Transportation, 12
Ronald Reagan, 56
Red Triangle Oil Company, 15
Reta's Upholstery, 60
Rich Products Corporation, 117
Richard's Cocktail Lounge, 104
Ridge Electric Motor Company, 61
The Ripe Tomato, 47
Bill J. Rippee, Investigator, 19
Rolinda Auto Parts, 153
Rolinda Farmers Store, 189
Ron's Machine Service, 48
Rucksell California Sales Company, 98
Rudy's Elm Pharmacy, 61
S. E. Rykoff and Company, 92
SPSP, Inc., 61
~ams Luggage, 12
San Carlos Cafe, 12
Frank J. Sanders, 37
Mr. Sanford of California, 74
San Joaquin Battery and Electric, 35
San Joaquin Glass, 122
Santa Fe Hotel, 59
Santi's, Inc., 65
Schedler's Engine Rebuilding, 35
Security Building Maintenance, 12
Security Specialists, Inc., 34
Semper Truck Lines, Inc., 6
Seven Up Bottling Company, 37
Marvin Severson State Farm Insurance, 133
Silver Dollar Hofbrau, 41
Silver Creek Packing Company, Inc., cover
Sinclair Paints, 34
Sirman and Warren, 133
Siakey Brothers, Inc., 59
Siavich Bros., Inc., 19
Sonitrol of Fresno, Inc., 5
Sparky Electronics, 105
Dr. Earl G. Spomer, Sr. 0 .0., 168
Staiger Construction Company, 74
Steam Cleaners, Inc., 96
Sterling's Funeral Home, 30
Steve's Saddle Shop, 89
Stewart & Nuss, Inc., 19
Stewart Title of Fresno Company, 132
Stillman Drug Company, Inc., 168
Sunnyside Pharmacy, 168
Sun Sun Kitchen, 17
T & T Electrical Contractors, 141
T & T Trucking Company, 17
Tax Audit Bureau, 124
James Teore Farms, 92
Terminal Air Brake Supply, 94
Thesta Automotive, 34
Tinkler Mission Chapel, 61
Todd's Trailer Park, 24
Tokiwa-Ro, 61
Travelers Body and Fender Works, 108
Tri-Boro Fruit Company, Inc., 74
Trimmer of Fresno, 153
Truck Dispatch Service, 91
Tubes, Inc., 24
Turtle Lodge, 37
Uncle Tom's Liquor Store, 15
United Automotive Works, 137
United Faith Foundation, 6
VIM Custom Boat Trailers, 61
Valley Burglar Alarm, 100
Valley Foundry and Machine Works, 61
Valley Office Equipment, 48
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193
Valley Radiator Company, 106
Valley Towing Service, 136
Van Dyke News Company, 17
Varni Associates, 17
Ventura TV Center, 61
William Verburg Dairy, 132
Vie-Del Company, 124
Waller Inventory Service, 48
Warner State Farm Insurance, 137
Warrick Electric, Inc., 38
Wayne's Liquors, 48
R. J. Wayte & Sons, 132
Webster's Radio, 1
Weibert's Enterprises, 193
West McKinley Grocery, 74
Westcal, Inc., 150
Western Building Materials, 24
Western Exterminator Company, 24
Whitie's Pet Shop, 48
Williams' Upholstery, 115
Wilson's Motorcycles, 46
Yosemite Coins and Antiques, 103
Yost & Webb Funeral Home, 63
AUBERRY
Auberry General Store, 73
Cliffside Auto Center, 189
Loggers Landing, 138
Ponderosa Market, 146
Ponderosa Van Gas, 69
BURREL
Mendes Tacherra, Inc.lMendes Dairy, 184
CANTUA CREEK
Houlding Farms, 15
CARUTHERS
.. Caruthers Drug, 94
Cattuzzo & Sons, 192
Fair Mart, 15
McCarthy Farming, 22
Mid Valley Manufacturing Company, 91
Watson Ag Chemicals, Inc., 146
CLOVIS
Aatlas Truss Company, Inc., 10
All Cal Transport, 21
All Clear Pool Service, 143
Atlas Concrete Accessories, 91
Nelson Sign Service
DESIGN • SIGN WASHING
FABRICATION. INSTALLATION
SANDBLASTED SIGNS
233-1543
3147 S. GOLDEN STATE BLVD.
California Contractors License 250227
Robert Q. Bergstrom, Attorney at Law, 160
Boice Funeral Home, 15
The Busy Bee, 1:04
California Upholstering Works, 154
Central Cycle Salvage, 91
Clovis Custom Wheels, 18
Clovis Five Hundred Club, 154
Clovis Funeral Chapel, 156
Clovis Pest Control, 91
Concrete Specialties, 31
Deegan's Appliance, 156
Environmental Air Conditioning/Heating Co., 18
Fresno Alarm Company, 42
Grub & Jug, 42
Harold's Body Shop, 154
Jim's Place, 156
Harry D. Johnson Acoustical Contractor, 91
Larry S. Kelley, CPA, 160
Kowloon Kitchen, 138
P.R. Farms, Inc., 112
D. Papagni Fruit Company, 146
Remco Construction Company, 146
Sassano's Men's Wear, 91
Savino's Ranch Market, 146
Sierra Custom Homes, 38
Twin Gables, 156
Valley Fence Company, 42
Wawona Frozen Foods, 155
COALINGA
Birdwell Ranch, 15
Coalinga Feed Yard, Inc.. 157
John C . Conn Ranch, 118
Harris Ranch Restaurant, 31
Larry McLeod Ford, 132
DEL REY
Enoch Packing Company, Inc., 74
Garry Packing, Inc., 91
DINUBA
Kiper & Kiper Lumber, 119
O'Neil Land Leveling, Inc., 176
Peloian Ranches, 20
Growers and Shippers of Fancy
California Grapes and
Tree Fruit
ELBAR -SWAN
BAR R PAC KIN G C O.
SANGER, CALIFORNIA
I./~~I~
Sanger 875-2541
Fresno 485-3710
194
FIREBAUGH
Michael Giffen Ranch, Inc., 31
J & J Ranch, 7
Las Deltas Grocery, 74
"Slim" D. T. Locke Ranch, 157
Perez Packing Company, Inc., 173
Tharp's Farm Supply, 42
Tri-Air, Inc., 100
Tri-Transport, Inc., 172
FIVE POINTS
Barlow Bros., Inc., 31
Don's Market, 74
C. Gowens Farms, Inc., 127
Lassen Market, 15
Mid-Valley Cafe, 158
FOWLER
Colonial_Drug, 94
FDS Manufacturing Company, 48
Fowler Floral Shop, 74
Fowler Garage and Repair Shop, 153
C. D. Simonian Insurance, 18
FRIANT
The Dam Pizza Parlor, 42
Friant Trading Post, 59
Lake Millerton Inn, 70
HURON
Mcilroy Equipment, 15
Woolf Farming Company, Inc., 15
KERMAN
A & H Farms, 163
La '1\Qcca'5
ITALIAN RESTAURANT
AND PIZZERIA
Mon.-Sat.
6735 N. 1st, Suite 111 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
431-1278 Sun. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
SHAVER PIZZA & RIBS
*
thanks you
for all you do
* 841·3576 *
SHAVER LAKE, CALIFORNIA 93664
Ana's Clothing, 15
Annie's Pampered Pooch, 115
Baker Commodities, Inc., 190
Bianchi Vineyards of Kerman, 164
Black Velvet Petroleum Company, 15
Bob Cardwell Ranches, Inc., 189
Clement Apiaries, Inc., 164
Helm Bean and Seed Warehouse, 4
Kerman Cleaners, 164
Kerman Crop Dusting, Inc., 11 1
Liz's Hair Fashions, 111
Marty's Floral, 111
Roy Peterson Painting/Paper Hanging, 196
Plaza Drug, 94
Singh Farms, 163
Valley Travel Agency, 59
Wally's Tire & Wheel, 111
KINGSBURG
Guardian Industries Corporation, 166
Swedish MiU Restaurant, 166
Van Bearden, Wigh and Associates, 166
MADERA
Cakes by Felicia, 61
Frank A. Logoluso Farms, 38
Norby Lumber Company, Inc., 188
Yosemite Pharmacy, 94
MENDOTA
J & L Auto Stereo, 42
Mendota Drug, 94
Mendota Food Center, 42
Westside Chemical Company, 102
ORANGE COVE
Collins Garage, 132
Harding and Leggett, Inc., 146
Lopez Realty, 15
The Three Musketeers, 15
PARLIER
KASH, Inc., 96
Moncrief Sales & Service, 146
Nico's Market, 42
Parlier Food Basket, 139
U~Save Market, 146
CREATIVE MARKETING
and RESEARCH, INC.
CHEMICAL FORMULATING
AND PACKAGING
2860 S EAST AVE.• FRESNO, CA 93725
TOM PIERSON
(209) 264-5144
MANUFACTURER OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS
NO FOAM AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
195
PRATHER
Canyon Fork Ace Hardware, 146
Foothill Video, 59
REEDLEY
Auto Tech of Reedley, 111
Cairn's Funeral Home, 176
California Growers, 196
Colonial Flower Shop, 175
Corrin Produce Sales, 175
Dale's Auto Diesel Repair, 125
Davis Road Oil and Equipment Company, 42
W. J. Heinrichs, Inc., 111
Heubert Bros. Trucking, 175
Jim's Body Shop, 14
Johnson Drilling Company, 42
A. Levy & J. Zentner Company, 189
Reedley Produce Trucking, 190
Salwasser Manufacturing Company, Inc., 2
Town & Country Market, 175
Valley Truck Wrecking, 61
RIVERDALE
Darn's Gas, 9
Dun's Shopping Center, 9
Jensen Dairy Farm, 111
Lloyds Bank of California, 9
McLeod Ford, 9
A. F. Mendes & Son Dairy, 9
Rightway Upholstery, 59
Riverdale Drug Store, 42
Rue Ann Dairy, 111
Frank Santos Dairy, 158
SANGER
ADCO Manufacturing Company, 182
Aris-Arabians-Peterson Ranch, 192
Barr Packing Company, 194
Wm. J. & Wm. E. Boos, 189
Chuck Wagon, 181
Daily Feed & Animal Supply, 179
Decker Patio and Awning, 24
Eastside Mobile Locksmith, 179
Jamat Ranch/Pandol & Sons, 176
Lone Star Dehydrator, 180
FRESNO PAPER BOX CO., INC.
Manufacturers of Folding Cartons
Ole Cutting
Jobbers of Stock Corrugated Cases
2192 S. Railroad Ave .• Fresno • 485-9120
ROY PETERSON
Painting & Paperhanging
517 N. Siskiyou
Kerman
846-7731
Merri-Mart, 179
Mid Valley Transportation, Inc., 176
Minkler Cash Store, 42
Dan Olson Enterprises, Inc., 191
Quality Growers, 42
Raul's Exxon Service, 42
Salvage Logging, Inc., 179
Sherwood Forest Golf Course, 181
Sherwood Inn, 180
Tony's Auto Repair & Towing, 74
R. R. Vernot:1, Inc., 42
Wallin & Son Funeral Home, 182
SAN JOAQUIN
American Vegetables, 96
Rabb Bros. Trucking, 59
Security Ag Research, 2
West Side Pump Company, 125
SELMA
Abel's Body Shop, 146
B & H Market, 173
Brent Burwell, Inc., 146
Fresno Valves & Castings, Inc., 161
Gilbert's Automatic Transmission Service, 146
Grumbles Ninety Nine Food Market, 161
Nelson Welding Works, 42
Page Funeral Chapel, 146
Selma Service Shop, 12
Selma TV Center, 146
Torii Market, 137
Well's Used Cars, 12
SHAVER LAKE
Harrell's Refrigeration/Appl iance Service, 48
Ken's Shopping Center, 9
Mountain Oak Electric, 111
The Saw Mill, 132
Shaver Lake Chevron, 69
Shaver Lake Hardware, 137
Shaver Pizza & Ribs, 195
TRANQUILLITY
Lloyd's Market, 158
Orlando's Welding & Hardware, Inc., 15
Rathmann Oil Company, 158
F & L LIQUORS
"The Best LIquors. Beers, Wines"
Fred Gong
1288 N, Fresno St., Fresno 266-1864
CALIFORNIA GROWERS
Wholesale-RetaIl
CHRIS TATE
7701 S. Reed Ave. Bus. 638-3055
Reedley, CA 93654 Res. 638-9562
196
COMPLIMENTS OF
INC.
FRESNO, CA.
GENERAL FREIGH,.
'rHRDUGHDU,. 7HE S,.A,.E
SPECIALIZING IN...
... GLASS and FIBER
... STEEL
... REFRIGERATION
... WAREHOUSING
Phone:
(209)485-9211
*FRESNO
• BAKERSfiELD
"TREATING YOUR CARGO WITH 'TLC' "
QUALI·T·RUCK SERVICE, INC.
TRANSPORTATION DIVISION
3767 E. CHURCH/P.O. BOX 10141
CAL T·114374 FRESNO, CA 93745 ICC MC·145662
SILVER CREEK
PACKING C
Specializing in Westside Ca
Honeydews and Mixed Melon
MENDOTA, CALIFORNIA