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fso_mag_8701.pdfPAC SMTE Paging • Full line of Motorola beepers to suit your specific needs -tone-alert. tone and voice. numeric display beepers. • Direct-Dial and Manual Service. • Wide Area Paging Coverage. • Low Monthly Rates. • Quantity discounts available. Call today for a free demol~stration 485-1540 l()O N. Broadwa~: Fresno A Pacific Telesis Company 1987 The Sheriffs' Review Editor Assistant Editor Gene Hallam Mary Ellen Tabler COVER -The sometimes difficult task of selecting a subject for the cover photo is easy on the rare occassions when we have a new Sheriff. Sheriff Steve Magarian appears to be quite at home at the big desk used by his predecessors. The Editor Published by the Fresno County Sheriff's Department Relief Association . It is forbidden to reprint any portion of this magazine without written consent and express permission of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department Relief Association. Mid-Cal Publishers Webster &Sons Printing ------- 960 "0" STREET • FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93721 • TELEPHONE (209) 233-5619 1 t ® t t t ~ IU JllE ~ KINGS RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE PROGRAM • Comprehensive • Relevant • Offers degrees in law enforcement and corrections • Prepares you for achallenging career in criminal justice ! I ... J FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ray Clarkson or Mr. Curt Kuball at 638-3641, ext. 263 KINGS RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE -The Correction to Your Future! *1 Saluting the Fresno County Deputy Sheriffs Central Fish Co. Fresh Fish -Fresh Poultry Groceries Try our restaurant for excellent meals at reasonable prices 1535 KERN FRESNO Serving All Faiths L~ FUNERAL HOME Bob Lisle. Roy Franz. Don Foppiano 1605 L Street, Fresno Telephone (209) 266-0666 ~. FUNERAL HOME Bob Bradford, Manager 308 Pollasky, Clovis, Telephone (209) 299-4372 ~v UNIFORMS Law Enforcement. Postal. Industrial UNIFORMS AND ACCESSOR'IES CUSTOM EMBROIDERY AVAILABLE LOGOS, SYMBOLS, ETC. 436-1199 6244 N. B'LACKSTONE FRESNO, CA 93710 2 Fresno County Sheriff's Departtnent Relief Association Officers 1987 T. Kerns President C. Lovgren Vice President V.Kasparian Recording Secretary F. Day Financial Secretary J. Ciancetti Board of Directors C. Henson D. Shipman B. Shuman B. Smith 3 JAMES ,L. DAVISON and ASSOCIATES ADJUSTERS -INVESTIGATORS and MICROFILM AND PHOTOCOPY REPRODUCTION SERVICE SPECIALIZING IN: Workers Compensation Auto Aviation General Liability Trial Preparation Bi-Lingual Adjusters Telephone (209) 442-4806 James L. Davison, Owner/Manager Terry L. Lane • Monte Montoya • Vern Hughes • Tom Baber • Linda Hayworth 1546 "N" STREET, SUITE 200 • FRESNO, CALlFbRNIA 93721 MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 12867, Fresno, CA 93776 LICENSE NO. A6483 81163 24 HOUR CLAIM SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Our Services Include ... * ALL TYPES OF SEED AND BEAN CLEANING & TREATING * STORAGE SPACE FOR OTHER COMMODITIES * COMPLETE BULK UNLOADING FACILITIES * BUYING OF BEANS * 70' PUBLIC SCALE H ELM BEAN & SEED WAREHOUSE, INC. 16782 WEST KAMM -HELM, CALIF. PHONE (209) 866-5422 or 864-8533 K E R MAN WAREHOUSE 1100 SOUTH MADERA AVE. -KERMAN, CALIF. PHONE (209) 846-7341 4 Table of Contents Relief Association Officers .......... . . .. .. . ..... . .... 3 Crime Analysis ....... . . .... . .. ............ ... .. . . .. 75 76 93 94 102 110 112 113 116 121 129 132 139 139 143 145 151 153 157 158 160 161 163 167 174 Area 1 ........... ......... ........ . . .. ... ... ...... 56 182 183 185 187 188 191 Fresno County Board of Supervisors .. ..... ... ...... .. 7 Murder By Remote Control .............. _.......... In Memoriam .. ....................... ... ... ... ..... 8 Jail Division ................. ...... ... . ........ ..... Editorial: Know What You're Signing .... ............. . 9 Main Jail ......................... ... . ... . ..... .... Administration .. . ............... ... . ........... .. .. 12 F.5.D. Joins the Space Age ... . .. . .......... ........ Fiscal Section ..... . ..... . ..... ........ . .. .. ........ 13 Satellite Jail .......................... .. . .. .. . . . ... Inspections . . .. .. . . .. ..... . ... . ... ...... . .... . ..... 14 Work Furlough Site at VMC ........... ...... ...... Internal Affairs ...................... .. . . . .. . ...... 15 Medical Services ............... .. .. .... ....... .. . .. Meet the New Boxx .'; ....; ... . .. . .. . ............... 16 The Branch Jail -"Still a Good Place to Do Time ... .... Gone Fishin' ......... ...'~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 23 Branch Jail .................... .. .... . .... . .... . ... Well Done, Mac! ... ...... ..... ..................... 26 Out of the Past ..................... . .. ..... .. . ... Administration Division ...................... ....... 34 Protecting Our Heritage ................... ........ Personnel . .......... . .. . .......................... 35 Sheriff's Explorer Scout Unit ....................... Bailiff Services ..................................... 37 Hot Dogs With Santa .............. . ..... . . . ....... Extra Help Bailiffs ..... . ... . ........... . .. . .. . . . .... 39 Now It Can Be Told -Gas Attack ...... . ... .. . .. . ... Civil Section .... . .......... . .. .. . . .. . .............. 41 Local Boys Make Good ......... .... . .. . ......... ... Licensing and Permits ... .... . . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . ........ 42 Around the County ............... . ............... VMC Security ......... ...... .... ... .. ............. 42 Clovis Police Depa rtmen t ....... . ............ . ... .. Training ........... . ....... ... . . .. . . . .. . .. . ........ 43 Coalinga Police Department ........... . . ........... Records .............. . . ...... . .. .. . .. . .. . . ........ 44 Kerman Police Department .......... . .............. Technical Services ...... ... .. ....... . . . ..... . ....... 47 Kingsburg Police Department ... ..... .. .... . .. . .. . . . Crime Lab ...... .. . . .. .. . .......... . ..... .......... 48 Reedley Police Department ......................... Identification Services -Property and Evidence ......... 49 Sanger Police Department .................. . ....... RMS -What Is It? ........... .... .... ......... . ..... 51 Selma Police Department ...... .. . . .... .. ........... Patrol Division ............. . ....................... 55 Only The Names Have Changed . .. ........... .. .... Area 2 ........ .............. ................ ...... 58 Air Squadron ... . .. . ................. ... . .. . .... Area 3 ...... . ... .. . . .............. . ... ... . ..... ... 60 Jeep Rescue Unit . . .... . ........... . .... . . ....... Area 4 . ... ... .............. ..... ..... . . ...... .... . 64 Mounted Posse .. .. .. . .... . ..... . .. . ......... ... Communications ........ . .. . .... ................... 67 Other Units ............ . . .. . ... . . . .. . ..... ...... The Law and Domestic Violence ............ ......... 68 The Decider ............ . . ..... .... . .. . .... . .. . . . . . Detective Division ........... ....................... 72 Index of Advertisers ................... ............ Auxiliary Units Plain and Simple -THANK YOU! SECURITY BY SONITROL® 5 Compliments of FRANK A. LOGOLUSO FARMS Frank A. Logoluao, Owner 7587 ROAD 28 MADERA, CALIFORNIA Fanns In Madera Delano -Kerman 227·5834 FRESNO ROOFING CO. RESIDENTIAL· COMMERCIAL COMPOSITION • SHINGLE MEMBRANE & DAMP-PROOFING ALL TYPES BUILT-UP SAN VALLE ROOF TILE. MISSION & SPANISH TILE Government Contracts Invited· Free Estimates· No Obligation AUTHORIZED APPLICATOR FOR JOHNS·MANVILLE ......." . AUTHORIZED DEX·O·TEX APPLlCATORse ~ iT.J Siale License No. 302777 ~ . ~ I."•••• Phone 255-8377 4639 E. HARVEY AVE. FRESNO LLOYD'S MARKET PHONE 698-7452 5789 ANTHONY GROCERIES QUALITY MEATS PRODUCE P.O BOX 516 TRAN ,s ......BEGINS WITH "Fresno's Own" FRESNO MEMORIAL WHITESBRIDGE RD. at CORNELIA AVE. I FRESNO I Ph . 268·7823 BAKER COMMODITIES, INC. ~ ga/idNIAJ ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT RECYCLING KERMAN 846-9393 FRESNO 237-4320 SIERRA CUSTOM HOMES "THE MEN WHO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT" 7181 E. TOLLHOUSE ROAD 299-.6847 CLOVIS RATHMANN OIL COMPANY GAS • IDIESEL • LUBE OILS BOB RATHMANN (209) 698-7458 KEN RATHMANN (209) 698-5197 25561 W. Tuft. P.O. Box 13 Tranquillity, CA 93668 : Fresno County Board of Supervisors From leltto right : Oemn Koligian, SharorTJ Levy, Belly Ramacher-Chairman, Vernon Conrad, Jud.Y Andreen. COMPLIMENTS OF CLEMENT APIARIES 16240 W. Whitesbridge Kerman 846-9792 ROBERT V. JENSEN, INC. BALDWIN FILTERS • KARDLOCK FUELS P.O. Box 8030 P.O. Box 218 Fresno, CA 93747 Auberry, CA 93602 4029 So. Maple 33105 Auberry Rd. Fresno, CA 93725 Auberry, CA 93602 (209) 485-8210 CA 800-421-4300 "YOUR ONE STOP PETROLEUM JOBBER" HUEBERT BROS. TRUCKING GENERAL TRUCKING • HAULING GYPSUM & LIMESTONE FOR PROMPT SERVICE CALL ALLEN -(209) 638-3738 21502 E. PARLIER AVE .• REEDLEY LAMONA SERVICE CENTER, INC. Complete Automotive Repair -24 Hour Towing 237-9159 1316 N. FIRST FRESNO 7 In Melllorialll Our custom has been to include a brief biographi cal sketch in our comments regarding deceased officers and their contributions to the department and the law enforcement profession. In recen t years that has become quite difficult in many instances, due to the department policy of discarding the per sonnel files of employees when seven years have elapsed since their retirement. In some cases, of course, it is possible to obtain the necessary infor mation from surviving relatives and friends. In other instances, that is impractical or impossible., Because we aren't able to discuss at some length the life of all deceased officers, we feel we should discontinue that practice. It isn't fair to so recognize some and not be able to say anything about others. Henceforth, we shall merely mention the name of the deceased, and include whatever information is available about his or her law enforcement duties, and any special assignments t~t may have been made. This change in policy in no way detracts from our respect for our deceased fellow workers or from our grief a t their passing. To the families and friends of those who have F & L LIQUORS " The Besl Liquors, Beers, Wines" Fred Gong 1288 N. Fresno St., Fresno 266-1864 CALIFORNIA GROWERS 7701 S Reed Ave. Reedl ey, CA 93654 Wholesale-Retail CHRIS TATE Bus. 638-3055 Res. 638-9562 In Appreciation To The Sheriff's Department SHERMAN THOMAS ENTERPRISES been called from among us in the past year, Th e Review expresses sincere condolences, and the assu rance tha t we share in their grief. Clarence Bentley -Constable, Selma Judicial District, Orel Hyatt Industrial Farm Su pervisor. Louie Perriera Deputy Constable, Kerman Judicial District; Deputy Sheriff. William Don Safford -Detective Ser geant, Air Transportation, Liaison Officer for the Sheriff's Air Squadron. William Floyd Sommerville -Selma Police Department; Deputy Sheriff; Dep uty Coroner. Robert Worstein -Sergeant -Patrol and Detective Divisions, William Traylor -Mendota Police Department; Constable, Firebaugh Judi cial District; Sergeant, Patrol Division , If we have failed to mention any former Fresno County career peace officer who has passed away in the past year, it is because we have not been made aware of the passing, and we regret the omission. / DAN OLSON ENTERPRISES, INC. 251-6001 518 N. HIGHLAND AVE. SANGER,CA MANUFACTURING AI\ID SUPPLY COMPANY 2432 S RAILROAD AVE. I PO BOX 947, FRESNO CA 93714 1(209) 237·1855 -TLX 35-5342 PENNWALT COR,P. AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS DIVISION 226-8400 516 W. SHAW • SUITE 1'07 8 Editorial Know What You're Signing Furthermore, the drastic budget li~itation put a severe crimp in an ongoing and until then successful program designed to provide the department with the latest innovations in equipment and training, which would have resulted in more effective use of man power, and an eventual tax saving, If there'd been more money available five or six years ago to tackle the jail problem, perhaps the notorious overcrowding would never have reached such a critical stage. Those of us who opposed Proposition 13 agreed that property tax reform was sorely needed. The long-standing practice, of course, was for politicians to decide each budget year how much they wanted to spend, and then set the tax rate accordingly, Obvi ously, that didn't do much to promote economy in government. We tried to point out that in Proposi tion 13,though, we'd have a cure more hannful than the disease; that merely reducing the amount of tax money available and expecting a bunch of politicians to spend the balance wisely was wishful thinking of the highest degree, Howard Jarvis, one of the promoters of Proposi tion 13, is no longer with us. However, his co conspirator in their so-called tax reform crusade, / Paul Gann, tried another half-baked scheme in the - Saluting the Fresno County Deputies Best Wishes From The Pleasant Mattress & Furniture Co. 847 N. Pleasant Ave.• Fresno 268-6446 Compliments of A. F. Mendes & Son Dairy 867-3816 22700 So. Cornelia Ave. Riverdale We hope that all Fresno County residents who are concerned about the rumors and realities of drastic reductions in the level of law enforcement are think ing back to 1978 and remembering how they voted on Proposition 13. How about those promises t-hat essentia~ services such as law enforcement and fire protection wouldn't be affected? Actually, the adverse effect on the operations of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department was almost immediate; it is just reaching the critical state where it commands the attention of the news media and the public. It is true that no one was laid off or demoted immediately. However, the department command structure, not even then up to the level recommended by most police planning experts in ratio of command to supervisory to line personnel, was decimated. Command positions were eliminated by attrition, and captains found themselves performing duties and fulfilling responsibilities formerly considered the province of assistant sheriffs, lieutenants began doing work previously done by captains, and so on down the line. It didn't substantially affect the effectiveness . of the department, but it kept many officers from be ing fairly and properly compensated for their dedi cated service. OUR SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FRESNO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS Victor Gragnatrl & Sons Fanns San Joaquin "The Bakery With A Heart" SINCE 1922 485-2700 502 16M" STREET • FRESNO, CAUFORNIA 9 1986 election, Proposition 61. It would have dras tically, adversely, and unfairly curtailed the overtime compensation and sick leave benefits of public em ployees. It failed to pass by a considerable margin, but only due to an intensive and costly counter cam paign to inform the electorate of its true potential results . Had it passed, the resulting damage to all public service agencies would have made Proposition 13 look good by comparison. We mustn't become complacent over the failure of Proposition 61; it or something similar will be tried again. Mr. Gann is getting on in years, and may not be able to expound his ridiculous theories much longer. However, there's sure to be someone of like mind to come along to take his place. No matter how extreme or far-fetched an idea such a person may de vise, he'll have a good chance of getting it qualified for the ballot, and once it is so qualified, through sen sationalism and outright lying in the campaign, a fair chance of getting it passed. The problem is that in California, and perhaps in all states, it is simply too easy to get even the most ridiculous proposition qualified for the ballot. All one has to do is recruit a few volunteers or paid solicitors, seat them at card tables outside supermar kets, and give them an attractive catch phrase, such as "Return politicians' salaries to local control", as was used to promote 61. Many people will sign the petition on the implied promise of the catch phrase, without even bothering to read it , much less trying to learn the true-intent and extent of its provisions. If my memory of high school civics is accurate, the initiative and referendum process is protected by the United States Constitution. It is therefore unlikely that much could be done to limit or restrict efforts to qualify a proposition for the ballot. We can, how ever, refuse to sign the qualifying petition unless we thoroughly understand it and all its ramifications. We don't have to take the word of the solicitor, who probably hasn't read it, that it will be to our benefit to sign. Had more citizens bothered to find out more about Propositions 13 and 61 before signing the peti tions, . perhaps we wouldn't be desperately trying to cope with the effects of the one, or had to expend so much time, effort and money to defeat the other. ~I Caring for homeless children throughout the world. UNITE~JAITH FOUNDATION ~--- ~ ~ ~--.-..-::;---- THE MINISTRY OF REV. AL FRESNO1921 EAST BELMONT 10 Professional : Medical, Dental, Pharmacies, Chiropractors, and Labs EASTON DRUG 5796 S. Elm, Fresno -264-2966 PLAZA DRUG 15051 W. Whitesbridge Road Kerman -846-9396 • Fresno -266-8796 MENDOTA DRUG 673 Oiler, Mendota -655-4254 CARUTHERS DRUG 2436 W. Tahoe, Caruthers -864-3177 COLONIAL DRUG 111 Merced St., Fowler -834-5389 YOSEMITE PHARMACY 136 ~. Yosemite, Madera -674-8583 FAMILY EYECARE CONTACT LENS DR. EARL G. SPOMER OPTOMETRIST 3855 N. West Ave. Highway 168 at Dorabelle Fresno, Ca. 93705 Shaver Lake, Ca. 93664 Phone 226-6701 Phone 841-8202 M, T,Th , F Wednesdays ASHLAN PHARMACY WE DELIVER PRESCRIPTION SERVICE 5339 N. FreSnO, Suite 101 .222-7794 SUNNYSIDE PHARMACY Prescriptions -We Deliver 5562 E. Kings Canyon Road In Sunnyside Square 251-8601 STILLMAN DRUG CO., INC. COMPLETE PHARMACY DRUGS & SUNDRIES -FREE DELIVERY 4786 E. Belmont at Chestnut 255-8375 MEDICAL-DENTAL PHARMACY Phone 224-1433 . Emergency 439-6085 3152 N. Millbrook Fresno DRUG FAIR Complete Pharmacy Open 9 a.m. to midnight Located at OLIVE AND VAN NESS PHONE 233-2118 The Prescription Pharmacy Free Delivery We Are in Business for Your Health Thomas Fowler 1300 N. Fresno, 1*200-8 • Fresno, California 264-4751 RAY FISHER PHARMACY 4646 N. Blackstone Ave. Phone 222-3033 11 Adtninistration S. Magarian Sheriff R. Kierejczyk A. Papaleo B. Boland Public Information Assistant Sheriff Secretary Officer Bureau of Staff Services 12 Fiscal Section P. Gimbarti Account Clerk P. Gustafson Account Clerk J . Rudd Account Clerk N. Thomas Account Clerk D. Tuck Account Clerk JOHN KASHIKI PRESIDENT Phone (209) 646-2338 P.O. Box 310 Parlier, CA 93648 WESTERN BUILDING MATERIALS CO. 209/454-8500 4620 E. Olive -P.O. Box 12305 -Fresno, CA 93777 A Complete Line of Building Materials ARMSTRONG Ceilings KOPPERS Rooling ProduCIS Built-Up Roofing MARLITE Panel s Cement Asbestos Boa rds MASONITE Panels CHtCAGO METALIC Grid Systems PLASTMO Rain Gullers Dome Skylights Rigid Foam Insulation DOMTAR Tackboards Roofing Accessories F,ber Glass Insulations Rooling Shingles Floor AccessOries SAN SPRAY Panel s FUTURA Motdings TARKETT Floor Tiles GtBSON HOMANS Adhesives TECTUM Panels HENRY Adhesives VISOUEEN HOMASOTE Building BoardS WILSONART Plaslics Fresno County Sheriff's Department This Bud's For You Donaghy Sales, Inc. TAX AUDIT BUREAU GERALD D. CROSSLEY BOOKKEEPING -INCOME TAX -PHOTOCOPY 617 E. BELMONT AVE. • FRESNO, CA 93701 TELEPHONE: 485-1441 13 Inspections R. White Lieutenant Jack-'Be-'l1imble CANDLE SHOP Decorative Candles & Accessories Phone 229-2882 722-A West Shaw IFig Garden Villagel and Shopping Center "Quality and Service" FRESNO at ASHLAN, 222-4454 -and 5757 N. FIRST ST., 439-2223 III. LYONS FRUITS and FLAVORS for the FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY III. LYONS "FOR FINER FLAVOR" SINCE 1852 LYONS-MAGNUS P. O. BOX 646. CLOVIS. CA 93612 (209) 299-2183 14 Internal Affairs T. Johnson J. Williams Detective Secretary T. Lean Detective B & H MARKET Groceries • Meats • Vegetables Beer • Wine 834-5510 11024 S. FOWLER AVE. SELMA C10\'15 Fllneral Chapel FUNERAL DIRECTORS COMPLETELY NEW FACILITIES AMPLE PARKING DANNY MARTIN MIKE MARTIN 298-7536 1302 CLOVIS AVE. CLOVIS T & T ELECTRIC RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL REWIRING • NEW CONSTRUCTION SERVICE WORK (ALL TYPES) AGRICULTURAL SERVICE MOBILE HOMES 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE CALL 266·8889 3188 N. MARKS, SUITE 115 • FRESNO, CA 93705 LICENSE #259649 FRESNO EQUIPMENT CO. "SERVING FRESNO COUNTY" ~ JOHN OEEAE 486-8020 884-2425 FRESNO FIVE POINTS 15 Meet the New Boss County Clerk Galen wrson administers the oath of office to Sheriff Magarian, witnessen by outgoing Shenff McKinney, Mrs. Joanne Magarian , and severn I members of the department. When Steve Magarian was interviewed a couple of weeks after he was sworn in as the twenty second sheriff of Fresno County, he was still some what in a stage of convalescence from the effects of the hectic pace and frustration of the year and a half since he'd made the decision to run for the office. The hectic pace had been the campaign itself; the frustration the seven months of waiting between victory in the primary last June and the assumption of office in January. During that time he had been actively involved in trying to find solutions for problems for which he would eventu ally have primary responsibility, but he lacked the • authority to make the final decisions. Steve wasn't actually pinching himself to make sure it wasn't all a dream. He admitted, however, that his new position far exceeded the ambition he'd had when he entered the law enforcement profession. His wasn't the classic story-book case of a child who'd always worn the toy badge when playing cops and robbers with his buddies, dream ing of the day when he'd grow up to be a real cop. The thought of a career in law enforcement didn't enter his mind until much later in life. Steve was born in Fresno, and attended Winchell Elementary, Longfellow Junior High, and Roose velt High School, graduating from the latter in the class of 1960. He was a good student in high schooL but, except for a brief fling at track, had little time for traditional extracurricular activities. His father operated a small grocery store, the Dan-Mar Market, on the northwest corner of Cedar and Butler Avenues, and most of his spare time was devoted to helping out in the family: business. He thus acquired early in life a thorough background in the grocery business, and it was only natural 16 that he would gravitate toward a career in that field. After graduation from Roosevelt High, Steve enrolled in Fresno City College, and began work ing for the first of several local chain markets, a vocation that would be his source of livelihood and means of finanCing his college studies for the next several years. After a year at City College, he trans~ ferred to Fresno State, majoring in accounting. One grocery firm for which he worked was the now defucn t Gian t Food chain, first as a clerk in the company's outlet at Blackstone and Barstow, and later as manager, at different times of course, of the stores at Chestnut and Shields and Clinton and West. It was while managing the latter store that one of those seemingly insignificant incidents that turn out to have a tremendous impact on one's life occurred. A vendor who made frequen t deliveries to the store was a close friend of then Lieutenant Americo Papaleo, and through that friendship had GARRY PACKING, INC. Holiday Gift Packaged Dried Fruit 11272 E. Central Avenue Del Rey -888-2126 QUALITY GROWERS MUSHROOMS o 2485 S. QUALITY 875-4216 ~ SANGER,CA Wayne's Liquors LIQUOR -WINES -BEER Doug Mathison & Robert Rich, Owner 54 California St.• Fresno. 268-2319 MOSLEY GARAGE &REPAIR SHOP NEW & USED PARTS, TIRES, BA TTERIES PHONE: (209) 834-1914 FRED MOSLEY & SONS 410 SO. 8th STREET • FOWLER, CA 93625 some knowledge of the county law enforcement situation. He knew that the sheriff's department relied heavily on responsible citizens who volun teered their services as reserve deputies to handle tasks for which it was not economically feasible to hire regular officers. With that in mind he decided Steve would make an excellent reserve deputy. He broached the SUbject to Steve, who at first was not particularly in terested in learning another pro fession. He liked the grocery business, and, already a store manager at twenty-three, his future in that field looked bright. The customer persisted, and finally Steve agreed to go to lunch with him where he was to meet Undersheriff Jim Long. As a result of that meeting, Steve decided to give part time voluntary law enforcement a try. It was some time in 1966 when that decision was made and Steve was sworn in as a reserve deputy. During the next two years he worked without complaint at any assignment that came his way. On Sundays in the summer he helped beef up Best Wishes From AMBROSINI BROTHERS 264-1118 or 237-2777 4505 W. MADISON FRESNO FRESNO GLASS CO. AUTO GLASS -WINDOW & PLATE MIRRORS TABLE TOPS -Free Estimates "If It's Glass, We Have It!" New Location: 3605 E. Tulare, Fresno 268-6331 ACE ALUMINUM CO. ALUMINUM AWNINGS • SIDINGS PATIO COVERS • CAR PORTS 1939 E. Olive Ave., Fresno. 268-3051 & 266-1648 SASSANO'S MENS WEAR Nationally Advertised Merchandise 448 Pollasky Ave. 29.9-4430 Downtown Clovis 17 patrol coverage at Pine Flat Lake and other busy recreation areas. He helped police school carnivals, rodeos, and parades. Several times a month he learned more about a cop's job as the second officer in a patrol car on a regular beat. As the months passed Jaw enforcement became more and more fascinating, and a career as a groc ery store manager less a ttractive by comparison. In 1968 Steve took the department entrance examin ation, passed with a high score, and forsook the grocery business to become a regular deputy sher iff. He also changed his major at Fresno State from accounting to criminology. Even though he'd decided to devote the remainder of his working life to law enforcement, Steve at that time didn't have his sights set on a top management or command position. His ambition was to merely do his best in any assignment given to him, and to go as far as he could in his new career. For the first few years he went through the usual progression of assignments; bailiff, jail, and patrol. He was promoted to sergeant in 1972 and assigned to jail duty. Due to an unusual number of retirements that year there wasquitea turnover in serge,mts, so his service as a jail sergeant was brief. In a rna tter of weeks he returned to the pa trol division as a first line supervisor. A short time later the sergeant in charge of the juvenile detail of the detective division was pro moted to lieu te nan t, and Steve was assigned to fill the Iresulting vacancy. It was during his tenure as juvenile detail supervisor that his talent for such administrative duties as planning and training was recognized. That resulted in his assignment to the newly formed department training program, and later to the unit created to help develop thedepart ment's first computer program, the computer aided dispatch system. There was considerable turmoil in the staff offi ces of the department following the 1974 election. It was at first decided write-in candidate Tom Whitt had defeated incumbent Melvin Willmirth, then a re-count gave the victory to Guy Langley. Just a few months after taking dfice Langley resigned under a cloud. Feeling frustrated in such a hectic work environment, and unable to do a job that he felt was up to his self-imposed high stand ards, Steve asked to be re-assigned to the patrol division. There he served for the next two years, for a time unoffiCially as an acting lieutenant, per forming duties that would have been assigned to a regular lieutenant absent on extended sick leave. Steve was promoted to lieutenant in October of 1976. He served in that rank as a patrol watch commander until 1978, when he was again called upon to exercise his considerable talent for admi nistrative detail by heading the newly formed Man agement Services Unit, consisting of Internal Affairs, Training, and Personnel. In that assign ment, although still holding the rank of lieutenant, he reported directly to the sheriff. During those ye,lrs the theory was advanced throughout law enforcement that open communication between police agencies and the public they serve is prefera ble to the traditional aloof attitude on the part of both. Steve was a pioneer in the sheriff's depart ment in putting that theory into practice, develop ing a school visitation program, and also the forerunner of today's neighborhood wa tch programs. In May of 1981 Steve was promoted to captain, and assigned as commander of the jail div.ision. In that capacity over the next year and a half he gained first hand experience in dealing with the problems and frustrations of jail management; experience that will cerainly be put to good use as he deals with such problems as sheriff. In October of 1982 he was transferred to command of the Administration Division, where he remained until he was promoted to Assistant Sheriff in July of 1983. His first assignment after promotion was commander of the Bureau of Staff Operations, consisting of the jail and adminitration divisions. Later he was switched in assignment with the other assistant sheriff, Americo Papaleo, and assumed command of the Bureau of Field Opera tions, patrol and detective divisions. Steve completed the requirements for a bache lor's degree in criminology in 1972, and was awarded a master's degree in 1974. In 1980 he attended the prestigious National Police Academy operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Quantico, Virginia, where police officers from all over the country are taught not only the most up-to-date techniques of crime detection, bu t also the scien tific and business-like approaches to police command and management. A quite interesting coincidence concerns a classmate at the academy, a sergeant from the Madera County Sheriff's Department .He, like Steve, had found himself pur 18 suing a law enforcement career almost by accident. On the same day Steve was sworn in as sheriff of Fresno County, the classmate, Lieutenant Glen Seymour, took the oath of office as sheriff of Ma dera County. By the time he was promoted to Assistant She riff, a friendship between Steve and Joanne Cilio, with whom he'd worked closely when she was th« department personnel secretary, blossomed into serious romance. They were married in June of 1985, and took time off for a honeymoon. By that time Joanne was secretary for department legal advisor Marshall Hodgkins. It has nothing to do wi th this profile of Sheriff Magarian, but a somewhat amusing side note is that in addition to being the best personnel secre tary the department ever had, Joanne enjoyed another unique distinction for years before she became Mrs. Steve Magarian. As far as is known, she is the only county employee ever to have been attacked by a Courthouse Park squirrel, referring, of course, to the little rodent, and not tosomeof the strange humans who frequent the park. Returning from a trip to the coun ty personnel office in the courthouse one morning, she was preparing to unlock the door on the' jail side of the sheriff's building when a squirrel ran out of the adjacent bed of ivy and beneath her feet. In the resulting confu sion she stepped on its tail, and it bit her. The squirre! couldn't be located to determine who got the worst of the encounter. She suffered a superfi cial scratch on the ankle, and on the walk there remained a sizeable clump of hair from the end of the squirrel's tail. Shortly after they returned from their honey moon, Steve learned that Sheriff McKinney had announced he would not seek re-relection. The news came late one evening via a telephone call from a friend and former co-worker who suggested that Steve become a candidate, and offered his sup port. Any person who achieves the second highest rank in an organ'ization while still a young man would have at least some vague notion of eventu ally succeeding the boss. However, it had been gen erally assumed that Sheriff McKinney would seek one more term, so Steve hadn't given the idea of running for sheriff any serious consideration. If he'd thought about it at all, it had been on the basis that he wouldn't have to make the decision for at least another four years. He says he did some very earnest soul searching that night, and hardly slept at all until he could see McKinney the next morning and have the rumor confirmed. By that time he'd decided that if McKinney had defintely decided not to run, he would . For a forty-two year old former bachelor, the adjustment to sharing his life with a new wife and a teen-age daughter would have been a tremendous challenge in itself. Now, in addition to coping with that disruption of his former comparatively tran quil if sometimes lonely life style, he had to start making plans and developing a platform so he'd be ready to campaign in earnest when the time came to formally file as a candidate for sheriff. Steve says he had no idea in the beginning of the magnitude of the task he faced, and that it's proba bly just as well he didn't. Taking it one step at a time, learning as he went along, over the 'next few Congrnlulalions. McKinney's som ewhal solemn expression mny menn he hns suddwly renlized he is oul of a job, while Joanne's exudes juslifiable pride in her husband. 19 months he assembled an enthusiastic and effective campaign committee. In spite of its effectiveness and the part the committee ,lnd others played in the success of his campilign, however, once it ilctually began he was necessarily the key figure. For months every wilking moment he wasn't at work, and there was little time for sleep, was devoted to meetings, speeches, public appeilr,lnCeS, <lnd pre cinct walking. Joanne hadn't counted on such a demilnding endeavor when they were married, but she C<lm paigned just as hilrd as he. The campaign bec<lme <l filmily project, with his mother, Mrs. Alice Magar ian, his sister, Delores Merlo, Joanne's brother, Louie Massicci, and his new mother-in-law, Mrs. Flora Massicci, all actively involved. He first heard about his mother's efforts when a friend mentioned he'd seen her <It F,lshion Fair shopping mall wearing a "MagMi<ln for Sheriff" sweatshirt and handing out campaign literilture to pilssersby. It seeemed il bit out of character for his mother, who'd always been il somewhat shy, retiring wom,ln. When Steve ilsked her why she hadn't told him of her plans to actively participilte in the cilmpaign, she said she was afraid he wouldn't ilpprove. Steve gives much of the credit for success in his personal life and his professional and politicill c(lfeer to the lessons leilrned from and the example set by his father, the late Diln Magarian, with whom he enjoyed a very close father-son relationship. He expressed a profound regret that his father, who had lived to see him achieve considerble success in .. the sheriff's department, couldn't have been around to see him go all the' way to the top. As the date for the primary election drew near, Joanne told Steve he'd better win it all then, as she didn't know if she'd be able to keep up the harried pace until November. He didn't tell her that his own campaign manager, an experienced campaigner and political observer, had predicted that because of the surge of activity of a fifth candidate who'd filed at the last minute, the election WilS sure to go to a run-off. For once, a candidate was grateful when his campaign manager was proven wrong. While victory in June was far prderable, espe cially from a financial standpoint, than waiting to win in November, it was to some small degree a mixed blessing, for it lengthened the waiting period between getting the job and actually taking over. Steve S<lys now that in spite of the awesome respon- A IIIOI/H'liI of solem II reflfclion wilh, lef!, Ihe ReVfrfl1cl G.L. Johmon of People's Church, which Sieve Iwd Jon/we nl/emi, nrlcl Ihe Revermd Rumll Knighl, long lime jnil chnplni/I. sibility and demanding duties of the position, it can't be any harder on him and his family, either physi cally or psychologically, than the campaign and the months that followed. Steve didn't campaign on the platform of a super PAR~IER FOOD 8ASKET ~li~ "boo..., y='" wMh /I' 595 Newmark Parlier, CA 93648 (209) 646-2813 (209) 888-2578 • PIZZA. FRIED CHICKEN. MOJOS • • DELI SANDWICHES FRESH DAILY. • COLD BEER. LIQUOR. WINE • • 6 FOOT PARTY SUBS. NACHOS • • FRITO BOATS. MOJOS • ICE • • FRESH COFFEE ALL DAY. • DELI MEATS & CHEESES. • 800 VHS MOVIE SELECTIONS. • FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE. LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO THE NEW PARLIER FOOD KING • OPEN 6 AM DAILY 20 "It's nil yours now, Buddy. Good luck!" macho, tough-on-crime cop, or promise to have a department policy of making an arrest at every opportunity, nor does he make any such promises now. He realizes tha t such a policy is unrealistic and may be counter-productive, for several reasons. It may lead to arrests that can't be upheld by convic tion in court, and thus foster contempt for law enforcement on the part of the criminal element, and public sympathy for those arrested. He also is well aware that in our criminal justice system it is the prosecutor and the courts who ultimately make the decisions as to how vigorously accused persons will be prosecuted and how severely they'll be pun ished if convicted. A law enforcement official who preseumes to anticipate the action of those agencies by promising persons arrested will be dealt with as severely as the law allows may find himself making promises he can't keep. Steve does, however, promise to adhere to a firm, fair, and impartial policy of vigorously enforcing the law, keeping in mind that the primary function of the sheriff's department is protection of life and property; that the department therefore exists for the benefit of the community and not the other way round; and that lines of communication between the department and the community must always be kept open. His overall enforcement policy will be formulated and implemented on the basis of logic and common sense, as well as on the letter of the law. The Review offers sincere congratulations to Steve Maga rian, pledges its support in his efforts to enforce and uphold the law, and expresses the hope we shall be able to work with him in harmony and to our mutual benefit for as long as he holds the office of sheriff of Fresno Coun ty. 21 (209) 875-7519 or 875-6018 Daily Feed & Animal Supply Owners JIM &JINNY DAILY 902 Academy Sanger, CA 93657 MIKE PADILLA, Mgr. 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Fresno Fresno, Ca. 93703 22 Gone Fishin' The Review congratulates the following depart ment members who have retired in the past year, recognizes their considerable contribution to law enforcement, and wishes them well in their retire ment years. ---~/-Mrs. Bonnie Bolton was nearing the top of the de partment seniority list when she retired on May 31 of last year. She had been a mem ber of the department since March 16, 1954. Bonnie was born in Phoe nix, Arizona. Her family moved to Fresno County when she was a child, and she attended Clovis Elementary School and Sanger High School, graduating from the latter in 1945. After graduation she worked for several firms and agencies, including Fortier Transportation, Fresno Auto Parts, and the local office of the Department of Motor Vehicles. She joined the sheriff's depart ment as a radio operator, and was later promoted to Senior Communications Operator, and then to Tel etype Operator. At that time, as a professional cour tesy, the department provided teletype service to . other local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies not having their own terminals. In Bon nie's personnel file are several letters from repre sentatives of some of those agencies, expressing appreciation for her cooperation and professional ism in handling their teletype traffic. Some time after the old teletype network was replaced by the computerized network, the job title of Teletype Operator was eliminated, and Bonnie was re-c1assified as an Office Assistant II, although her primary duty was tocontinue to handle teletype traffic on the new systems. She was promoted to Office Assistant III in July of 1981, the classifiction she held until retirement. Deputy Sheriff Robert S. Cole retired in December of last year, after twenty years service with the sheriff's department. He first joined the department in February of 1966, and in June of 1970 resigned to try his hand at another vocation. He returned to the department a year later. Bob was born in Dinuba, began elementary school in Reedley, and then attended and graduated from elementary and high school in Joseph, Oregon. He later attended Reedley College, Fresno City College, and Fresno State. Between high school and the beginning of his law enforcement career he worked for the U.s. Forest Service, a local well driller, and the Boise Cascade Corporation. When Bob returned to the department after the year's absence there were no openings for deputy . sherifff. He therefore worked as a correctional officer for a few months before regaining deputy sheriff status. After the usual stints as bailiff and patrol deputy he served for several years as a crimi nologist in the Technical Services Section, eventu ally returning to the patrol division to round out his career. Deputy Sheriff Andrew Crider was forced into a premature retirement early this year because of lasting ill effects from injuries incurred in a gun battle in 1982. After many months of painful convalescence he had returned to duty, but still suffered so much pain that he felt unable to do a creditable job. He therefore decided he should seek a career that would be less physically demanding. Andy is a native of Pennsylvania, and was gradu ated from the Allentown, Pennsylvania, High School. He then joined the United States Navy, and eventually was assigned to the Lemoore Naval Air Station. While stationed there he met the young lady who would become his wife, and decided to become a Fresno County resident after discharge from the military service. He became a deputy she riff in September of 1978, and was assigned to the 23 patrol division. He was promoted to deputy sheriff II in November of 1980, to deputy sheriff III in September of 1983, and to deputy sheriff IV in December of 1984. In 1983 Andy was officially com mended for bravery in the shooting incident that led to his retirement, when he was awarded the department Medal of Merit. ,- In addition to the personal misfortune of a person being forced to give up his chosen career, the retire ment of Deputy Crider was a loss to the sheriff's department and to the law enforcement profession. He was a good officer who no doubt would have gone far and contributed much had he been able to remain in law enforcement. The Review extends to him sincere best wishes for success in whatever field of endeavor he decides to enter. Lieutenant James H. Daily grew up in Fresno, attending Emmanuel Luth eran Elementary School, Longfellow Junior High, and Roosevelt High School. He served in the United States Navy after high school, worked in a local bank for a short time, decided life in a teller's win dow was not for him, and in September of 1963 became a deputy sheriff. He went through the usual progression of assignments early in his career, plus a tour of duty as resident deputy at Shaver Lake. He was promoted to sergeant in May of 1969, and served successively as a jail watch commander and patrol field supervisor before being promoted to lieutenant in June of 1972. In that rank he served as a patrol watch commander, assistant HOPE MANOR A Health Care Facility ServingYesterday's Youth Mrs. John Einhardt, Administrator Skilled Nursing Intermediate Residential Care 1665 "M"Street, Fresno. (209) 268-5361 commander of the jail division, lieutenant of detec tives, and commander of the bailiff section. He was later in charge of the department's narcotics detail for some time, returned to the detective division in August of 1983, and in April of 1985 went back to the patrol division where he served as watch com mander. He Ietired in December of last year to devote full time to his feed store business, which he had established in Sanger a few years earlier. Deputy Carl E. "Eddie" Sharp had only fourteen years with the department when he retired last sum mer. However, his law enforcement career dates back to December of 1966, when he became a member of the Reedley Police Department. After a year and a half there he moved to the Selma Police Department, where he worked until July of 1972 when he became a deputysheriff. Eddie was born in Fresno, and attended Clovis Elementary and Clovis High School ,and later Fresno City College. His first employment after high school was as a cook, working for three local restaurants. He then worked for the Vendorlator Corporation for a time before deciding on a law enforcement ca reer. Eddie had the usual bailiff and patrol assignments early in his career with the department. It was later as a warrant officer that he established an enviable reputation. He seemed to have a sixth sense that enabled him to track down and locate with a min imum of difficulty persons wanted on warrants of arrest, and that, coupled with devotion to duty and hard work, made him one of the best warrant servers the department ever had. Deputy Ronald P. Wil liamson was another good officer whose promising career was ended pre maturely by a service related disability that neces.t' sitated his retirement. He . suffered a heart attack after being kicked in the chest by a person he'd arrested. Ron is a native of Fresno, attended Wolters Elementary, Tioga Junior High, 24 and Hoover High School, graduating from the lat ter in 1966. He served in the United States Army from September 1966 until August 1969, including a tour of duty in Viet Nam. After discharge he worked as a teacher's aide for the Fresno Unified School District, and as a cab driver while pursuing a higher education at Fresno City College and Fresno State University. ,/ Ron joined the sheriff's department in Feburary of 1976 as a correctional officer, and became a dep uty sheriff in August of 1977, and was assigned to the patrol division. In September of 1981 he was transferred to the technical services section. He re turned to the pa trol division in October of 1984, and served there until the unfortunate incident on July 6,1985, that led to his retirement. Still another good offi cer's career was ended pre maturely last year, when on October IS, Deputy IV Alfonso B. Ward was forced to retire due to injuries suf fe red in an on-duty automo bile accident four years earlier. AI was born in Fresno on June 25, 1939. He attended Lincoln Ele mentary School, Edison Junior High and Edison High School, graduating from the latter in 1957. He later attended Fresno City College. He joined the sheriff's department in October of 1968, and worked in the jail for several years. There, because of his calm judgment and cool-headedness under pressure, he was often assigned as acting sergeant in the absence of the regular sergeant. He later worked as a bailiff, and then for a time as schools resource officer, where he specialized in presenting to students programs intended to make them aware of the dangers of drug abuse. In his personnel file are several letters of appreciation from school officials, citing his competence and ded ication in that endeavor. After that tour of duty he was assigned to the patrol division, where he was working when the unfortunate accident occurred in November of 1983. His patrol car was struck from the rear by another vehicle, knocked into a bridge abutment, and he suffered a broken ankle, a fractured femur, and chest injuries. He was never able to return to work. DIDIER'S LIQUOR 4778 E. Olive Avenue • Fresno, CA 93702 255-0032 TOKIWA-RO JAPANESE & CHINESE DINNERS Lunch and Dinner 12 noon -7:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays 943 E Street Fresno, CA 93706 266-5329 FRESNO VALVES & CASTINGS, INC. ManufacturelS of: IRRIGATION GATES & VALVES Also Brass & Aluminum Castings 834·2511 7736 E. SPRINGFIELD • SELMA, CA 25 Well Done, Mac! We had hoped to present in this issue a full length article by retiring Sheriff Harold C. McKin ney, reflecting on his many years in law enforce ment, and perhaps expressing a few opinions and viewpoints that political prudence would have made unwise while he was still in office. However, he decided it was too soon after leaving office to look back on his career from the proper objective perspective. In lieu of that article, which we hope ~ we'll have next year, we shall offer a few remarks in recognition of his long service to the people of Fresno County and his contributions to the law en forcement profession. Harold, or Mac, or Snuffy as he is known to his boyhood friends, is a native of Fresno, and a graduate of the old Fresno Technical High School. He joined the Army Air Corps shortly after graduation, and spent most of World War II with the Eighth Air Force, based in England. After discharge he worked for a time for Peerless Pump Company in Fresno before becoming a deputy sheriff in 1949. Mac says now that his donning the uniform was not to satisfy any particular ambition to be a cop, but that he merely needed a job and that was the one most readily available. There is no record as to why or when he decided to make it his life's work, but it may have been at least partially due to an early interruption of his civilian law enforcement career, and resulting duty somewhat more in teresting and challenging than the usual duty of a rookie deputy sheriff. He was part of the newly formed reserve military police unit that was called to active duty shortly after the beginning of the Korean War. After a stint of duty at Camp Mc Coy, Wisconsin, training recruits, he was assigned to a C.LD. (Criminal Investigation Detachment) unit, and spent the remainder of his tour of military duty investigating allegations of criminal activity involving military personnel. When he returned to his civilian law enforce ment job in 1952, Mac worked for a few months in the jail, then was assigned to the vice squad. Except for brief assignments to patrol after promotions to sergeant and lieutenant, most of his early career was spent in vice investigation, and it was always his favorite assignment. However, not long after his promotion to lieutenant, his talent for ad ministrative duty was recognized. The remainder of his career, both as lieutenant and captain, was spent in some phase of administration, culminating in his appointment to the position of· Undersheriff when Jim Long retired in 1952, and in July of 1975 being picked by the Board of Supervisors to replace 26 Guy Langley, who resigned a few months after tak ing office as sheriff. Harold McKinney is not the stereotype politi cian. Although he wouldn't be described as shy and refiring, he didn't particularly like all the fan fare and public exposure that goes with an impor tant elective office. He realized, however, that ac ceptance of and adaptation to those factors is it necessary evil; it's one of the facts of political life. He therefore learned how to project a positive public image, and to say and do the right thing politically, at the same time remaining his own man, beholden to no group or individual, but able to base his actions and decisions on what he con sidered the best interests of the people of Fresno County. That he became a good politician in spite of a slight aversion to the term is indicated by the ease with which he won the elections of 1978 and 1982. No doubt he could as easily have won in 1986 had he wanted another term. There was a great deal of unfavorable publicity regarding the jail in McKiimey's last term, and some implied criticism by the news media regard ing his handling of the problem. That criticism was grossly unjustified. Throughout his almost twelve years as sheriff, McKinney continued the trend toward improvement of jail conditions that had begin under Sheriff Melvin A. Willmirth in the ear ly seventies. Any failures or shortcomings in that regard were due to circumstances beyond his con trol. In jail operation as in all other phases of department activity, he did the best he could with the resources available. Unjustified as the unfavorable publicity and im plied criticism was, it could tend to cause one not familiar with the situation to overlook his many less-publicized contributions to the department's effectiveness. Lloyd's AUTOWERKSTAIT Specializing in Repair of All German Cars & Datsun-Toyota 237-5924 & 237-0477 1426 N. BLACKSTONE AVE. FRESNO Early in his career Mac realized the importance of formal education, to enable the peace officer to deal with the increasingly complex demands of the job and its relation to society. He not only man aged to earn a college degree for himself, but it was largely due to his efforts, shortly after becoming department perso~nnel officer, that the Fresno County Sheriff's· Department became the first county or city law enforcement agency in the state, and one of the first in the nation, to make college training an entrance requirement for recruits. When the Peace Officers Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) program was established he immediate ly recognized its potential value, and insisted that the department take full advantage of its benefits. That ongoing policy of encouraging education has created an exceptionally well-trained and profes sional organization, hampered in its ability to always do an excellent job only by budget restraints and civil service rules, employee-oriented laws, and court decisions that make it difficult to discipline or weed out the occasional ineffectiveor unsuitable employee. Mac has long been an advocate of psychological testing as part of the recruiting process. He recognized the importance of, and arranged to make available, psychological counseling for of ficers suffering from job-related or job-affecting stress. He ran the department with a management style intended to minimize stress as much as possi ble, with the assumption until proven otherwise that every member of the department knew or could learn his or her job, could perform it with a minimum of direct supervision, and needed only general policy guidelines rather than explicit, detailed orders issued in a military style and ex pected to be obeyed without question or comment. Under Mac's administration the job titles ~a~ BASQUE FRENCH BAKERY GENUINE SOUR DOUGH FRENCH BREAD & ROLLS BAKED LOCALLY Wholesale & Retail -Walk-In Trade Invited 2625 Kern Street 268-7088 27 "matron" and "deputy sheriff-female" were discarded, and female officers re-classified as full fledged deputy sheriffs. He also formulated the policy that women were not to be denied any assignment because of their sex, but were to be considered eligible for any assignment for which they were otherwise qualified. That raised a few eyebrows at first, when female correctional offi-cers began working in the men's section of the jail, but by the time Mac retired the policy had been proven sound. By then there were even female correctional sergeants supervising male officers, a situation that could never have existed had women been re stricted to duty in the women's section of the jail. McKinney was also largely responsible for staff ing the jail with career correctional officers, replac ing deputy sheriffs whose main interest was getting their jail assignments behind them and being assigned to field duty. The program has its drawbacks, due mainly to changes in the original plan that were not his doing, and there has been some consideration of abandoning or modifying it. However, there can be no argument to the fact that it has saved the taxpayers millions of dollars in of ficers' salaries in the fifteen years of the program's existence. McKinney did away with the traditional under sheriff position, whereby one person was second in command of the entire department, and replaced it with the more effective assistant sheriff system, with two top assistants, each responsible for a cer tain phase of the overall operation. He established the area-based policing concept for the patrol divi sion, setting up substations in rural areas, and staff ing them with officers assigned for a considerable period of time to enable them to become familiar with the respective area's residents and its law en forcement problems. These are but a few of McKinney's contributions to the department's progress. The others are too numerous to mention. Future county historians will note that under his leadership the department made greater strides toward true professionalism than under any of his predecessors. No one is indispensible or irreplaceable, and with out Sheriff Harold C. McKinney in command, the department will continue to serve the people of Fresno in an exemplary manner. However, its ability to do so will be enhanced for many years by the stan dards he established, the goals he set and achieved, and the direction in which he steered the department in his many years of service and leadership. Aide Water Technology, Inc. INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT Chemicals and Technical Services Boilers -Cooling Towers Waste Waters Professional Chemical Cleaning -Softeners -Chlorinators Chemical Pumps & Controllers -Waste Water Treatment Reduction in odors and increasing soil percolation 4670 N. EL CAPITAN, FRESNO, CA 93722 (209) 275-5560 I WALL V'S TIRE AND WHEEL TIRE SALES AND SERVICE NEW TIRES. TUBES. RECAPS • BATliERIES 1020 N. 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The White House It gives me great pleasure to send greetings to the members of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department. It's always a pleasure to express appreciation to those who devote themselves to protecting the lives and property of others. Day in and day out, your duties ensure the peace and prosperity of your community, making it possible for the people of Fresno County to live in safety without fear. No job could be more important. I send you my best wishes for the coming year. God bless you. R..-.l6.~ 30 On behalf of the State of California, I am honored to take this opportunity to express mydeep apprecia tion for your outstanding record of service to California's law enforcement community. Of all the promises America offers, none is more precious and more elusive than the right to be free from crime and violence. I believe that a society as richly blessedasourshould doa betterjobinsecuring this fundamental right. The heroic men and women who have pursued careers in law enforcement have chosen a path in which all Americans can take great pride. Your fine endeavors in this regard have met with great success and underscore your deep respect for the law. Through the years, your brave and noble commitment to your community has earned a special place in the hearts of all Californians. Your exemplary record of service and accomplishment will long remain as an example which others will seek to emulate. Please accept my best wishes for continued success with your most worthy endeavors. !r1ost cordially~ )S......~..&...~. (J '. George DeuKmejian 31 32 Rose Ann Vuich State Senator 15th Senatorial District My best wishes to the men and women of the Fresno County Sheriff's Department in 1987. You are all dedicated and loyal, and those of us throughout Fresno County appreciate your tireless efforts on our behalf. Thank you! REPRESENTING: Fresno • Madera • Merced Mariposa • Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties Best wishes to the Fresno County Sheriffs Office and the Employees Relief Association Assemblyman Bill Jones ASSEMBLYMAN BRUCE BRONZAN Congratulations to Sheriff Steve Magarian and the men and women who help make Fresno Coun~ a better place to live. Congratulations to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department for its untiring dedication to strong, local law enforcement. Congressman Tony 'Coelho CONTRIBUTORS & DONATIONS WM. J. & WM. E. BOOS 14382 E. McKinley. Sanger 875-6851 CALZONE'S PIZZERIA 2426 Stanislaus. Fresno 485-2490 CHO'S KITCHEN JOHN GARABEDIAN FARMS P.O. Box 7883F • Fresno 252-3656 GUNNER AND ANDROS 555 W. Shaw. Fresno 227-1647 "Compliments of the Business Community" LLOYD'S BANK OF CALIFORNIA 3494 W. Mt. Whitney. Riverdale 864-3000 STAMOULES PRODUCE CO. Mendota, CA 655-4581 33 PEOPLE DO "ONCE OVER" cotton blow down machine that can save its cost the first year. Adtninistration Division R. Pierce Captain Division Commander R. Boland Lieutenant HALLAIAN HOME0 FRANK M. HALLAIAN 2082 WEST MINARETS FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93711 209/439-5339 OTHER Call Collect. SOLD or MFG. BY HYDRAULICS MACHINERY SALES RALPH W. STARR, Manager P.O. Box 36 (209) 888-2204 5405 S. Del Rey Ave. or 896-1873 Del Rey, CA 93616 Discs, Rldgers and Parts ROGER DUNN GOLF SHOPS World's Largest Golf Supermarkets! 5618 N. Blackstone Fresno, Calif. 93710 STEVE STIDHAM (209) 436-0464 Cattuzzo & Sons, Inc. Custom Silage Chopping FRANK CATTUZZO GINO CATTUZZO KURT CATTUZZO Home 864-3387 Bus. 864-8182 Bus. 8648182 Bus. 864-8182 Mobile Car-l02 Mobile Car-l04 Mobile Carl 05 LARRY McLEOD FORD LINCOLN-MERCURY FORD. MERCURY. LINCOLN CONTINENTAL MUSTANG. THE NEW THUNDERBIRD AND MORE .. . 304 E. POLK COALINGA, CA 93210 935-0768 ALL BEARING SALES IF IT ROLLS WE HAVE IT ••• 237-7416 3263 E. TULARE 34 Personnel J. McDougald Secretary COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECTS INC. Non-Profit, Low Cost Organization General Medical-Physical Examinations: Employment, Sports, Schools Cancer Testing -Tuberculosis Birth Control and Pregnancy Testing Pre-Marital Blood Tests-VD Childhood and Travel Immunizations Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Pre-Natal Care-Well-Baby Check-ups FOR INFORMA T/ON CALL FRESNO 4313 E. Tulare Ave. -453-1751 PINEDALE 34 E. Minarets Ave. -431-6070 i' We Offer: -Inpatient service in Fresno's Turtle Lodge -Outpatient service in 7 counties from Mariposa to Kern County We can help you stop drinking CALL US 3621 N. Parkway Drive Fresno, California (209) 275-5704 275-5707 Fresno Oxygen & Welding Suppliers 3 Locations: 245 M St., Fresno • 233-6684 6101 N. Blackstone, Fresno • 432-9353. 2742 Clovis Ave., Clovis • 292-1234 ~~ fr~ Barnes Welding Supply 2 Locations: 2239 E. Main, Visalia • 733-2335 1204 W. Olive, Porterville • 782-1025 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 Align, Tune-Up Air Conditioning Service Corner of Hwy. 168 & Dorabella Rd. Shaver Lake, CA 93664 Phone (209) 841-3649 DARRELL MANN LYLE DILLEY 35 C & W BODY SHOP DON ASHBROOK, Owner 299-5304 1250 Barstow • Clovis Mr. Sanford of California Pants And Tops That Do The Nicest Things For Your Flgur;~ Smartest In Ladies' Sportswear Ask For Our Label In Your Fresno & San Joaquin Valley Stores Joyce Day Shop. 4866 E. Kings Canyon Rd., Fresno Owl Transfer Co., Inc. Household Goods Movers 486-7880 "The Movingest Movers in Fresno" AUDIO SALES CO. 174 N. MAPLE FRESNO, CA 93702 252-8171 CLOVIS PEST CONTROL MILDON BAISDON TERMITE AND PEST CONTROL Bus. (209) 299-1179 Res. (209) 299-7366 With sincere thanks to our Fresno County Deputies Funston Manufacturing 1865 Industrial Way Sanger 875-8100 VIM CUSTOM BOAT TRAILERS 486-0410 5200 S. PEACH • FRESNO ROLIINDA AUTO PARTS & 24 HOUR TOW SERVICE Tractor Repair • Auto Repair Complete Auto Service and Parts Our Grocery and Hardware Oeliuery Auailable Fresh Meat and vegetables -Beer and Wine 3985 E . Jensen Ave. 264-1487 Compliments of FLEEMAN'S PORTABLE WELDING 3698 CHESTNUT AVE. SOUTH FRESNO, CA CAll TOMMY AT 233-6674 KITCHEN-BEST PrePared Potatoes Frozen Foods 268-8138 25 "L" Street Fresno GREEN'S CYCLERY SCHWINN BICYCLES Sales and Service 4571 N. Fresno 227-5331 Pan American Underwriters 4836 North Cedar Avenue 224-0320 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 Rolli and Wheel, 5687 E. Shields Avenue • 291-3501 VINCENT GANDUGLIA TRUCKING 251-7101 4746 E. FLORENCE PARLIER LUMBER CO. 690 NEWMARK • PARLIER, CA 93648 (209) 646-2822 JOE L. REYNA AFTER 6 P.M. PH. 435-8680 -PAGER 488-9042 (209) 264-7686 (209) 264-5581 9191 W. WHlTESBRlDGE RD.• FRESNO, CA 93706 36 Bailiff Services G. Burton Sergeant K.Abe" Sergeant R. Bender D. Botta . T. Barnes A. Bradshaw G. Cantrell E. Costa ~/~ R. Deleon K. Garner L Gilstrap J. Haroldson G.Hill L Hodge R. Jackson M. Nix D. Overstreet LlaUOR JUNCTION SPORTING GOODS "House of Fine Spirits" 275-1210 5092 W. SHAW AVE. • HIWAY CITY 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 37 L. Pearson R. Peylouret S. Pulliam J. Roberts L. Rosander • R. Shinn L. Watkins V. WisemerW. Stumpf G. Taber NORBY LUMBER CO., INC. MADERA, CALIFORNIA 93639 WHOLESALE LUMBER & BY-PRODUCTS VIE-DEL COMPANY 11903 South Chestnut 834-2525 FRESNO, CALIFORNIA Frank Santos Dairy * FRANLANE HOLSTEINS 867-3849 22419 ELDER RIVERDALE 38 Extra Help Bailiffs H. Barsam J. Beebe B.Evens K. Fitzgerald G. Green M. Guardado K. Hamilton R. Hopkins A.Jones A. Omachi G. Parker N. Rutherford S. Ryan F. Satterfield T. Semore E. Smith F. Stewart S. Struwe C. Velez J. Watson 39 New, Used & Rebuilt Parts FOR TRUCKS. FARM EQUIPMENT • MACHINERY MOST TRANSMISSIONS & DIFFERENTIALS REBUILT WITHIN 72 hours. NEW & USED AXLE SHAFTS HUBS & DRUMS AXLE HOUSINGS TRUCK AND PICK-UP TRANSMISSION Repair or Replaeemant Rebuih units Conversions REBUILT EXCHANGE UNITS: Clark New Process Fuller ~.ft~~~~lional I 233-5169 I General MOlars ANY COURT, JAilOR CITY r MEN &WOMEN 24 HOUR SERVICE Located in Marcus Pharmacy 268-8538 854 E. CALIFORNIA AVE. -FRESNO GEORGE MARCUS MARCUS BAil BOND SERVICE We appreciate the quality service given to Fresno County by Sheriff Steve Magarian and his officers. Thank you. Dale and Margaret Tartaglia Dale's Auto & Diesel Repair 24 HR. TOWING FOU R TRUCKS TO SERVE YOU AUTOS, R.V., H.D. TRUCKS "COMPLETE TRUCK REPAIR" OFFICIAL LIGHT & BRAKE HELIARC, MACHINE SHOP RADIATOR REPAIR SPEEDO & TACK CABLES STARTERS -ALT., CYL. HEADS DRIVE & PTO SHAFTS "COMPLETE PARTS DEPARTMENT" P.O. BOX 818 PHONE 638-6874 9860 S. ZUMWALT FRESNO -888-2092 REEDLEY, CA 93654 Specializing in transmission and rear end replacement and repair. V2 ton through Diesel REAR-ENO DIFFERENTIAL REPAIR, REBUILDING AND RATIO CHANGES. SINGLE SPEED -2 SPEED CONVERSIONS, RINGS & PINION SETS. EATON ROCKWELL GENERAL MOTORS INTERNATIONAL FORD DODGE SPICER AMERICAN TRUCK PARTS AND REPAIR P.O. Box 2805.3599 South Highway 99 • FRESNO, CA 93745 "OUR 62nd YEAR" BAKED FRESH IN FRESNO FOR THE CENTRAL VALLEY EARTH GRAIN NATURAL BREADS ROMAN MEAL HOLLYWOOD BRAND BREA DS RAINBO BAKERIES OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, INC. L & LOS ANGELES STS. 233-5191 Thrift Siore (Mon.-Sat. 9:30-5:30) -140 Van Ness -233-0689 40 Civil Section T. White Sergeant Section Supervisor R. Baruti Deputy R. Bradley Deputy F. Delgado Deputy D. Olivares Deputy C. Snedden Deputy J. Watts Deputy D. Wong Deputy R. Bailey Process Server P. Reynolds Off. Asst Supr. II L. Christensen Office Assistant III T. Morrison Office Assistant III K. Gipson Office Assistant II N. Hara Office Assistant II D. Hutch inson Office Assistant II 41 Licensing and Pertnits T. Kerns Deputy VMC Security J. Vermason Deputy Detached Duty VMC Chief Security Officer - ~ r-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ • ABRASIVES • DRILL & BITS • PINS • HACKSAW BLADES • DROP CORDS • RINGS • BOLTS • FLIES • PIPE FITTINGS • BRASS FITTINGS • FLASHERS • RIVETS • BROOMS • FUSES • SCREWS • BRUSHES • GREASE FITTINGS • TAPE • CAP CREWS • METRIC FASTENERS • TOOLS • CHAIN • HOSE • WASHERS • CHEMICALS • HOSE FITTINGS • WIRE • CLAMPS • KEYSTOCK • WIRE TERMINALS • CLIPS • LIGHTS • WIRE ROPE • COTTER PINS • NUTS • WOODRUFF KEYS • COPPER TUBING • SPECIALTY ITEMS Howard Harmon, Owner 1940 EAST HOME FRESNO, CA 93703 OFFICE (209) 233-4157 "DEDICATED TO SERVICE" 42 Training A. Gaad R. Craig T. Klose Sergeant Deputy Deputy E. Andrade Rangemaster M. Dauer Office Assistant CLARENCE KRAGH President LARRY. KRAGH Vlce-President 645 Broadway, Fresno, California. 266-0104 Best Wishes to the Fresno -COiInty Deputies Compliments Of THE JAMAT RANCH SANGER, CALIFORNIA & PANDOL & SONS DELANO, CALIFORNIA Our Special Thanks to the Sheriff's Department for their dedication to our fine community Bianchi Vineyards of Kerman 43 Records M. Haggerty Supr. Off. Assistant F.Day Records Supervisor Y. Cougoulat Supr. Off. Assistant R. Parman Supr. Off. Assistant V. Kasparian S. Barner Office Assistant B.Bennett Office Assistant T. Braun Office Assistant E. Brauns Office Assistant Steno BEEF PACKERS, INC. Dennis Roth -Mike Pestorich Fig & North Aves.• P.O. Box 12503 Fresno, CA 93778 • Phone 209/268-5586 . oj eII_.VI.__ INSURANCE, INC. "SINCE 1957" 245 East Clinton at Palm Fresno, California 93704 209/226-7242 l' Central Tillie TITLE COMPANY "Locally Owned for Valley People" COMPLETE TITLE & ESCROW SERVICES IIIIIII (Main Office) (Branch Office) 4545 N. West Ave. #108 96 Shaw #21'2 Fresno, CA 93705 Clovis, CA 93612 225-6216 299-5706 "Let us show you how the Local Guys Perform" REFRIGERATOR • LAUNDRY • RANGE HEATING • COOLING 4936 N. Blackstone • Fresno • 222-8484 141 N. Ben Maddox • Visalia • 732-5966 44 D. Conto Office Assistant V. Harris Office Assistant D. Morris Office Assistant L. Cruz Office Assistant J. Johnson Office Assistant B. Petersen Office Assistant COMPLIMENTS OF AIR-WAY FARMS INC. 226-6080 911 E. SHIELDS AVE. FRESNO V. Frazier Office Assistant M. Leos Office Assistant B. Reitz Office Assistant I. Garcia Office Assistant D. Medina Office Assistant B. Southwood Office Assistant J.Garcia Office Assistant .~ , '7 : ~ N. Morgutia Office Assistant J.Weber Office Assistant Alert Bail Bonds 24-Hour Service Ronald J. Ellis Nationwide Bail Service Free Confidential Information Visa -Master I Accepted 266-4321 2113 Merced St. , Between L and Van Ness Fresno 45 RANCHER'S COTTON OIL MANUFACTURERS OF COTTONSEED PRODUCTS P.O. BOX 2596 FRESNO 268-5353 Serving the Valley for over 82 years A!~~~~if):~~ GOTTS.'O ::AALK'S '(I Downtown Frseno Santa Maria Town Center Fashion Fair, Fresno Modsto Vintage Falre Westgate Center, Merced Visalia Fair, Visalia Manchester Center, Fresno Ag Garden Village Center Center, Modesto, San Luis Obispo ADAMS PAVING CO. EXCAVATING GRADING PAVING Licensed Contractor No. 253883 JACK JAMES BUS. PHONE 292-1202 2587 N. SUNNYSIDE FRESNO, CA 93727 CHARLES SORENSEN WESTSIDE CHEMICAL * WESTSIDE HARDWARE * MENDOTA MOTOR PARTS P.O. BOX 7 • MENDOTA PHONE 655-4206 B*~ .ALARM CO. BURGLAR -FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS HOMES -BUSINESS -INDUSTRIAL LOCAL & SILENT ALARMS HOLDUP ALARMS Infrared. Photo Cell. Ultrasonic. Microwave LEASE OR PURCHASE PLAN FREE ESTIMATES 24 HOUR SERVICE 40 E. MINARETS. PINEDALE. 431-8414 McCarthy Farming 6226 West Elkhorn. Caruthers ~ G.W. "Bill" Zehende,H A A CE PHONE (209) 445-0890 ~,.~ ~97E.MALAGA SERVICE & SALES, INC. FRESNO, CALIF. 93745 TRUCK AND HEAVY EQUIPMENTREPAIR SPECIALISTS PARTS • SERVICE • SALES II~jllllll!1.'a.]iJ~I&,ull~ CONSTRUCTION AND LOGGING MACHINERY 209-268-0600 • P.O. BOX 2521/FRESNO, CA 93745 Van Beurden, Wigh and Associates INSURANCE SERVICES, INC. WilliamJ. Van Beurden, President Mark Matthews· Steven c. WJgh • Frank S. Doi Phil Grove· Donald Clark· Jay Hicks Ron Hicks. Robert Lankford 1615 Draper Street • Kingsburg, CA 93631 Kingsburg (209)897-2975 • Fresno (209)888-2161 46 Technical Services D. Justice Sr. Criminologist Section Supervisor J. Duty Criminologist R. Preheim Criminologist J. Tarver Criminologist L. Wiggs Criminologist R. Brown ldent. Technician J. Ciancetti Ident. Technician S. Creager Ident. Technician F. Hansen Ident. Technician ELlCTRIC ~aIJOtJItitde&,-War~house Distributors W. Stones Ident. Technician Since 1904 Specialized Parts &Service -Auto -Truck -Tractor-Boat 1740 Van Ness Phone 485-0330 Fresno D. Cowell Photo Technician L. Wright Office Assistant ~anish(leamery 47 Critne Lab · A. Boudreau Supr. Criminalist Section Supervisor KOMOTO DEPARTM,ENT STORE 1528 KERN FRESNO 268-6502 STEWART & NUSS, INC. SINCE 1924 DUAL ELECTRONIC BATCH PLANTS RADIO DISPATCHED ASPHALT PAVING MATERIALS CRUSH ROCK SAND & GRAVEL 410 N. THORNE AVE. 268-5651 M. Giberson A. Van DerVeer De Bondt Criminalist Criminalist GOLDEN CALIFORNIA MEAT PACKERS OUR SINCERE THANKS TO THE FRESNO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS 3189 W. DAKOTA 229~6571 Cairns Funeral HOllle Serving the Area with Dignity for over 52 Years 940 F Street Reedley • Orange Cove 48 Identification Services Property and Evidence R. Saterstad Sr. Ident. Tech. Section Supervisor J. Fox ldent. Technician J.Jack80n !dent. Technician M.Joseph ldent. Technician G. Patterson ldent. Technician R. Beck Stock Clerk J. Yamashita Office Assistant J. Whitton S. Willeford ldent. Technician Ident. Technician SHERWOOD FOREST GOLF CLUB 18 HOLE PUBLIC GOLF COURSE Driving Range • Cart Rental • Pro Shop (Men's and Ladies' Sports Wear) Open 7 Days. P.G.A. Teaching Pros. Snack Bar 1 MtLE NORTH OF KINGS CANYON RD. ON FRANKWOOD 79 N. Frankwood, Sanger 787-2611 S. Thomas ldent. Technician N.QuaHs Office Assistant SIRMAN & WARREN WHOLESALE DRUGS -SUNDRIES 414 P STREET FRESNO 49 TIVY VALLEY MARKET Groceries. Beer • Bait. Tackle. Ice Near Avocado Lake 2740 N. Terrace, Sanger 787-2448 LIBERTY AUTO SERVICE Complete Auto Repairing Motor Overhaul -Motor Tune-Up Brake Service -Electrical Work 1008 C STREET PHONE 233-9122 SEIBERTS' OIL CO., INC. DIESEL FUEL. WEED OIL. LUBRICANTS BATTERIES. TIRES FOI' Prompt Delivery Call 251-7538 CRAIG & DOUG SEIBERT 3839 E. VENTURA FRESNO Our thanks to the Deputy Sheriffs! Chet & Sons' Truck Wash 4025 S. Hwy. 99 Fresno • 233-3875 STAN ALLES TRANSPORT 1755 N. JAMESON FRESNO, CA 93711 275-6744 FOODlAND,/NC. INSTITUTIONAL FOODS • SUPPLIES P.O. Box 11640 N t 240 N. Thorne Avenue U.9.9t • Fresno, California 93774 Evan's Electric Service Generators -Starters -Alternators Carburetors -Water Pumps 531 Fulton 268-4704 Joe Wright, Hoof Trimming 21122 S. Morris P.O. Box 655 Riverdale, CA 93656 867-3068 LEROI'S CUSTOM CABINETS CUSTOM BUILT CABINETS & FIXTURES-COMMERCIAL-RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL REMODELING Contractors License No. 352606 LEROI VANUCCHI, Owner 4567 N. BENDEL • FRESNO • 275-4567 1:homas E. Avent COTION 3525 E. Tulare 485-8837 SINCE 1958 SAFES • LOCKS • SERVICE 24 HOURS 442-0220 1901 E. HAMMOND AVE. VISIT US -M-F 8-5:30 Sa\. ~1 1 block N. of Olive. 2 block. E. of Blackllone Compliments of JENSEN & PILEGARD Fresno ..Simplot SOILBUILDERS 638-3687 42893 Rd. 56 237-4154 Reedley, CA 93654 Agricultural Chemicals & Fertilizers Rebecchi Department Store Shoes and Clothing for the Family Blue Chip Stamps Visa & MasterCard 1467 -11th Street 659-2259 Firebaugh Great Weste.... Sadugs 1079 E. Prosperity Tulare, CA 93274 688-6636 Technicolor Corp. Black & White and Color Film Service Wholesale and Retail 326 No. Blackstone ·266-0181 Fresno 50 RMS What Is It? by U. Don Lemley A few years ago the Fresno County Sheriff's Department and Computer Services Department· began meeting on a regular basis to explore the feasibili ty of i ncorporati ng an automated Records Management System with existing computer sys tems and information systems. The proposed sys tem was to encompass all Sheriff's information activities and related record keeping functions and provide growth and expansion capabilities for future years. The magnitude of such an endeavor becomes quickly apparent when one views the existing man ual system utilized in the Sheriff's Department Record Section. When one envisions automating :""",nor" of records such as 200,000 master name records, 50,000 booking sheets and release 10,000 court dispositions, 20,000 rap sheets, 15,000 mug photos, 25,000 fingerprint cards, along keeping up with the seven day a week, 24 per day maintenance and service provided by Records Section, the task a t first glance appears insurmountable. The process of automating records is, of course, one aspect of implementing a totally auto Records Management System. One must in mind that the Records System must be integrated with existing information systems such as the Sheriff'soDepartment's Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System, the automated local Want Warrant System that provides information for both the CAD and IBM networks to CLETS, NCIC and NLETS. Another existing automated system is a Crime Analysis System which includes approxi mately 50,000 records, 20,000 crime reports, 10,000 stolen properties, 10,000 field investigation records, 20,000 pawn shop records and 1,500 fire- This is supposed to be the training section 's classroom . For some time it has been necessary to store records here in ·card· board boxes because of the lack of filing space in the records section. This is one of the problems the computerized system will solve. arm records. There is currently an existing Crime Prevention System which continues to grow rapidly in Fresno County. Thus, the need for a "state of the art" Automated Records Management System sufficient to meet the long range plans for an integrated Criminal Justice System seems apparent. 51 evidence, bicycles, traffic accidents and B.O .L. information. The RMS is housed on the IBM computer located in the Computer Services Department. There is a message switch system that allows the IBM computer to talk to the CAD (di gital compu ter) housed within the Sheriff's Department. The Alpha System stores information related to persons who have come in contact with the She riff's Department and are of more than casual inter est to the Sheriff's Departmen t. Some of the types of information stored in the Alpha System are field interrogation cards, alias, warnings or comments (people who may be considered dangerous for one or more reasons), addresses, warrant references, pawn activity, citations, and special registration. The Location System provides a means of relat ing persons and incidents to locations or addresses within the county. The followin g types of informa tion are included in the Location System: Master Location Index, Hazards, Person Summaries, Inci dent Summaries, Common Place Names-, Alarm Records, Security Surveys, and Crime Watch Records. Neighborhood Watch/Busines Watch: This sub system is used to record Neighborhood and Busi ness Watch information and to track selected crime incidents as related to Watch groups. Personnel System: Provides for upda te and retrieval for a variety of Personnel and Training data . This system includes a history of personnel actions, training taken, and information on appli cants for positions. It includes the ability to enter and produce officer schedules. PELOIAN RANCHES • FRESNO COUNTY The Records Management System (RMS) is quite simply (or perhaps not so simply) an auto mated, comprehensive information system. It is structured to operate inan interactive mode so that the RMS user is able to carryon a dialogue with a computer. For each request by the user there are one or more responses from the computer. This computer-user interaction takes place on an imme diate basis so that records that are input or changed are applied as they are received. Any subsequent retrieval will show the updated information -as of that moment. Interaction between the user and the computer is via a pre-formatted screen format which are retrieved and then used by "filling in the blanks." The RMS is an integrated system so that information which has more than one use is input only once and then distributed to other areas auto matically. The RMS is designed to be user oriented and to serve as an information tool. It is primarily an information storage and retrieval system. Here are some of the sub-systems that are included in the automated RMS: Incident System: This is the primary system of the RMS. It includes information taken from each call for sevice handled by the Sheriff's Department, which results in a report number being assigned. The Incident System contains information on crime classifications (for crime stats), case assign ment (for investigation), booking/arrest informa tion, information on persons, vehicles, property/ Thomason Tractor Co. serving the Westside salutes the men and women of the Fresno Sheriff's Department 985 -12th St. • Firebaugh • 659-2039 r ~ Sl 52 l Juvenile Records: Provides for the recording of pertinent information on juveniles, including detailed descriptive data, associates, and case histories. Criminal Identification Records: Provides a means of centralizing all arrest and court disposi tion information for an individual. /' Crime Analysis: There is Crime Analysis Oa ta Base where a complete set of da ta base mainte nance, reports and inquiry facilities are available. This system includes crime patterns, information on particular suspects, suspect vehciles, et cetera. Investigative Case Management: Provides for the tracking of all cases which are subject to follow up investigation. Licenses and Permits: This sub-system is used to record special licenses and permits issued by the Sheriff's Department. Alarm Records: This sub-system is used to record information regarding "Responsible Per sons" at business locations. General's Finest Tire .. . Goes a Long Way to Make Friends OVERSTREET GENERAL TIRE, INC. 1501 Fulton Phone 485-7970 2099 E. North Ave. Phone 237-7156 Day or Nite Service: 237-7156 Lillard COnlpany George C. McMahan Vice-President -Manager 1810 East Peralta Way Fresno, California 266-8169 Warrants: The RMS Warrant Sub-System is used to enter all County warrants and to track activity against these warrants. In conclusion, the Records Management System will be in place during the year 1987. The RMS System is a "user friendly" automated records keeping system that will enable Sheriff's personnel to make simple inquiries to access the many sub systems. There is no need of fearing automation, rather one should be willing to acknowledge the reality of the day and age of automation and utilize it to the very fullest. Joe Marzullo JM Custom Cabinets and Furniture 291·6638 3848 N. Winery Ave. at Dakota. Fresno FOODLAND MARKETS OF FRESNO "WHERE SHOPPING IS A PLEASURE" Valley Children's Hospital • 24 HOUR EMERGENCY CARE • NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE • PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE • HEART SURGERY FOR CHILDREN • PEDIATRIC ACUTE CARE 3151 N. Millbrook, Fresno 9.3726 225-3000 S3 CLEVENGER MERCANTILE CO.• INC. Hardware, Implements, Fuller Paints, Etc. CAL. LIC. 2894BB (209) 841-7757 P.O. Box 170 ..' Shaver Lake, CA 93664 American National Bank Don Merigian Vice President Manager 13356 So. Henderson Camthers. California 93609 209-864-3286 COMPLIMENTS OF ACTION REALTY • 6709 E. BELMONT 251-1600 ~ ® SALINAS VALLEY OIL COMPANY, INC. Featuring a Full Une of Industrial/Commercial and Retail Products TIM CALLISON Plant Manager P.O. Box 506 21015 S. 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Spedaliztng iD John Deere Senice Il. part& All make. 54 Patrol Division K. Hogue Captain Division Commander D. Gustafson Lieutenant Asst. Div. Comm. D. Lemley Lieutenant Watch Commander J.Arceneau Lieutenant Watch Commander s. Tafoya Lieutenant Watch Commander G. Rinder Office Assistant D. Bustamante G.Wiliiams Secretary Office Assistant Always Check With Us Before You Buy! CONSUMERS SALES, INC. Furniture -Carpets -Wallcoverings -Drapes -Etc. BILL MOSS LYNN MOSS Phone (209) 237-9086 1841 W. Clinlon • Fresno, Calif. 93705 DONALD P. DICK AIR CONDITIONING -HEATING MR. COOL 255-1644 Contractors Lic. No. 271615 1444 N. WHITNEY AVE. • FRESNO 55 Area 1 R. Souza LieutIfWlt D.CaudIe D.Conway Sergeant Sergeant T.Gerey Sergeant R. HagIer Sergeant C.MIetM Sergeant J. Avila R. Banuelos D. Fur1ney J. Coelho G. GiIIlsV. Fraacona C. Frauato -. D. Fries A. Maldonado E.Mat80 R. Mendoza L. Nllmeier MANUFACTURING CO., INC. 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Osborn R. Parker A. Rhodehamel J. Stuart ./ ...... I D. Tafoya M. Toste L. Van Meter R. Verdugo C. Waller D. Wayne M.Woodward S. Herzog Detective J.Souza Detective A. Baker Comm. Ser. Off. YOSEMITE COINS & ANiTIQUES Buy and Sell Gold and Silver Coins and Antiques 163 N. Fresno St. • Fresno • 485-8260 C. Adolph Comm. Ser. Off. C. Curti Sr. Comm. Ser. Off. C. King Comm. Ser. Off. L. McGrew Comm. Ser. Off. Canyon Fork Ace Hardware Lumber -Building Materials -Sporting Goods. and Licenses House Wares -Chain Saws-Sales and Service BILL AND ELEANOR DALZELL HWy. 168 & Auberry Rd. • Prather, CA • 855-8348 66 COllllllunica tions R. McDonald Sergeant D. Plumb Comm. Sys. Supr. B. Gustafson Sr. Comm. Disp. C. Hollis Sr. Comm. Disp. , P . ..,1 • ;'~ , ~~ S. Laponte-Kirkorian Sr. Comm. Disp. D. Myatt Sr. Comm. Disp. W. Burns Comm. Disp. 1I1 E. Graham Comm. DisO. 1I1 P. Marin Comm. Disp. III C. Parkinson Comm. Disp. III D. Vargas Comm. Disp. III B. Whitlow Comm. Disp. 1I1 W. Elliott Comm. Disp. II G. Kirkorian Comm. Disp. 1I C. Graham Comm. Disp. II T. Soloman Comm. Disp. II B. Bosworth Comm. Disp. I P. Doty Comm. Disp. I T. Myers Comm. Disp.1 D. Rosales Comm. Disp. I 67 The Law and Dotnestic Violence by David Ryan California Penal Code Section 273.5 states; (a) Any person who willfully inflicts upon his or her spouse, or any person who willfully in flicts upon any person of the opposite sex with whom he or she is cohabiting, corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3 or 4 years, or in the county jail for not more than one year. (b) Holding oneself out to be husband or wife of the person with whom one is cohabiting is not necessary to constitute cohabitation as the term is used in this section. (c) As used in this section, "traumatic condi tion" means a condition of the body, such as a wound or external or internal injury, whether of a minor or serious nature, caused by a physical force. It seems it takes a while for society to get its priorities straight, but finally the lawmakers and victims' rights groups got together and began doing something to aid victims of domestic violence and the police who must respond to calls for assistance ,. in these matters. Before the above section was enacted, a common call would be a family disturbance with the hus band beating the wife. How the police handled the call was not so much dependent upon the need of the victim (usually the wife), but on the desire of society to have the call handled in the least ob trusive way. To understand this the reader has to understand that because of the turbulence of the sixties and seventies the police were perceived by some in society as being "blue meanies" who only wanted to beat people and arrest them and throw them in jail, and it didn't matter in which order. So, because it was the police who were believed to be the violent persons who needed controlling, a lot of money was spent to have officers "trained" or "educated" in matters relating to domestic violence. The "training" gave precedence to try to get the police to advise the persons involved to seek professional counseling, and to try to get the problem settled at the scene because, after all, ar resting someone was traumatic for them, and socie ty didn't think people should be arrested when counseling would work better. There is, of course, no such thing as a typical family disturbance, but many might have gone as the following one. The officers would arrive and the subject causing the trouble would be drunk and had slapped his wife around. She might have minor bruises, but wouldn't want to make a citizen's ar rest for battery. All she would usually want was to have him stop slapping her and to leave for the night. Naturally, the officers would run a warrant check and it would be negative. The only recourse would be to try to get the man to step outside and try to arrest him for being drunk in public. If this was successful, then the culprit would go to jail for at least being drunk, and the problem would be solved for the night. If any officer with even a little bit of street experience knew something for ab solutely certain, it was that taking the person who was causing the trouble to jail would end the pro blem for the night. Of course, at the time society didn't agree with that philosophy. But what if the wife didn't want 'to sign a com plaint, there were no warrants on the guy, and he had been fooled into going outside once too often. The officers then had no choice but to leave the residence, knowing they would probably be back before their shift was over. And sure enough, the time would come when the officers would have to return, sometimes to find a woman badly beaten or dead because her husband was mad that she'd called the police in the first place. In time, possibly due to citizens' rights groups becoming angry at the leniency that liberal judges were showing to vicious criminals, drunk drivers and generally no good clods in general, the plight of the long-suffering battered housewife began to come into focus. . 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The time had come to "unhandcuff" the police in handling domestic violence. In prior times, if a wife didn't want to sign a complaint for battery, the police were powerless. If she was injured sufficient ly to satisfy elements for a felony charge, even if the police made an arrest then, the wife and hus band would sometimes combine to complain about a false arrest and sue the police. But now, in California, we have P.c. 273.5, a truly heaven sent section for the police. The key wording is that we can arrest a person who willfully inflicts upon his or her spouse corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition, a wound or external or inter nal injury whether of a "minor or serious nature, caused by physical force." Now if this isn't open season on spouse beaters, then I'll eat my badge. There are some dark shadows in the future, though, for domestic violence legislation. It's possi ble that some day another liberal regime at the ap pellate court level will decide that the provisions of P.c. 273.5 are overly broad, and strike the section :!down as being too permissive to let officers make arrests in situations that under previous law would be misdemeanors instead of felonies. The other dark area is a situation in which there as no violence, but there was a threat of violence. As it is now, officers must write a report in each case of domestic violence, real or threatened. If, because of laziness, apathy, or lack of proper training, they don't comply with that requirement, then the ham mer of doom will strike them some day, as it did the police agency on the east coast, which was largely . responsible for domestic violence being given the attention and priority it needed by the rawmakers. The case referred to involved a small town police department in a New England state. Over a period of several months in 1983, a young woman was harrassed and physically abused by her estranged husband, who bragged to anyone who would listen that he intended to kill her unless she agreed to come back to him. Each time the police were called they took the position that it was "merely" a husband-wife spat; that they couldn't make an ar rest because they didn't see a crime committed; and that if they did make an arrest she would probably refuse to testify against him. There is some precedence to partially justify the attitude of the police; most states have had laws that would classify crimes committed in a domestic dispute as misdemeanors unless a really severe in jury or death occurs, thus requiring that the act be committed in the officer's presence before an arrest can be made. Furthermore, it is not unusual for a wife who has insisted her husband be jailed for mistreating her to not only refuse to sign a com plaint or testify against him, but to go to the jail and post bail for him within a few hours after the assault and arrest. Some have even been known to insist that the officer arrest the husband, then help the husband in resisting the arrest. It's an ancient axiom among peace officers that if you're going to arrest a man for beating his wife, you'd better be prepared to fight the wife, too. In this case, however, the officers obviously failed to do their duty . The circumstances were such that there was no justification, particularly after the se cond or third incident, for kissing it off as a typical family disturbance. The husband should have been arrested and prosecuted early in the game, and there was no doubt the wife would have testified against him. There would also have been testimony from several eyewitnesses that would have provid ed more than adequate corroboration of her testimony, and have proven beyond a doubt that the husband had been guilty of felonious assault. Instead, the police kept sloughing off the wife's complaints, even after she filed for divorce and the husband brazenly ignored and disobeyed restrain ing orders intended to prevent further harrassment and abuse. Finally, when an assault occurred resulting in her being almost killed, and partially paralyzed for life, an assault that could have been prevented had the officer responding to the call taken quick and appropriate action, the husband was arrested. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to fourteen years in prison: The wife spent eight months in a hospital 70 recovering-as well as she'll ever recover-from her injuries. She filed suit against the city and the police department, claiming their neglect of duty was a major contributing factor to her injuries, and a violation of her civil rights. In denying a defense motion to dismiss the suit, . the judge ruled, "A man is not allowed to physical ly abuse or endanger a woman merely because he is her husband. A police officer may not knowingly refrain from interfering and may not decline to make an arrest simply because the assaulter and the victim are married. Such inaction on the part of the officer is a denial of equal protection laws." The jury apparently took the judge's ruling seriously, for they found in favor of the wife, awarding her the $2 .3 million she'd sued for. After an appeal was filed, the case was settled out of court for just under $2 million. The claim was paid by the city's insurance. That substantial payment got the attention of the entire insurance industry, and cities and counties all over the country were told that unless better laws to cover domestic violence were enacted, and peace officers properly trained in their application, they were in danger of having their insurance coverage for such incidents cancelled. The action, or l~ck thereof, on the part of the police department involved-tragic as it was for the victim of their negligence-may have been a blessing in disguise for countless other potential victims of domestic violence, for it led to the passage in California of the law quoted at the beginning of this article, and similar laws in other states. 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BISHOP KERMAN SANGER, CA SALUTES THE MEN & WOMEN OF THE FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WALLIN & SON FUNERAL HOME Chos. O. Wollin Chos. M. Wollin 1524 9th St. 875-6555 Sanger 7S Murder By Rentote Control By Gene Hallam Just before eight o'clock on Friday evening"Sep tember 5, 1980, Manager Bryon Schletewitz and three employees of Fran's Market, a medium-sized food store on Belmont Avenue just east of Temper ance, were preparing to close for the night. A few minutes before the doors were locked a man and a woman came in. They weren't known to the employ ees, but were recognized by at least one of them as a couple who had come into the store the previous day. They were aware the store was about to close, for one of the clerks remarked to them shortly after they entered, "You just made it." However, they were in no hurry at all, spending time considering and discussing various items before placing them in the shopping cart. They said they were buying sup plies for a relative's birthday party, and made quite a point of selecting the proper cut of meat for shish-ke bob. The roast they finally selected was cut up and wrapped for them by Joe Rios, who then returned to his pre-closing routine of sweeping the floor. While the couple were wandering around the store discussing certain items, Mark Erickson, a local youth and regular customer, came in. He selected a few grocery items, exchanged a casual greeting with the couple when he encountered them in an aisle, then went out to the gasoline pumps and fueled his car. He returned to the store, Schletewitz locked the door behind him, he had a brief conversation with nineteen-year-old clerk Douglas White while Jose phine Rocha, eighteen years old, tallied his pur chases, then Schletewitz unlocked the door and let him out. In all that time, the man and woman still hadn't completed their shopping. As subsequent events would prove, they were deliberately stalling until all other customers were out of the store. Rios was sweeping in the back room when Erick son left. A moment later Schletewitz and the other clerks were marched into the room with the man and woman holding guns on them, he a sawed-off shot gun and she a pistol. All four employees were order ed to sit on the floor, then the man told .Douglas White to get up and go with him to the walk-in freezer and open the safe. White tried to explain to him there was no safe in the freezer room, and never had been. The man refused to believe him until White accompanied him into the room and showed him it didn't contain a safe. They then returned to the storeroom where the female, with a somewhat shaky hand, was holding the pistol on the other three. In all the conversation between the man and A front view of Fran 's Market as it appeared the day after the shooting. White, he'd called White 'Bryon.' As they returned Schletewitz said, ''I'm Bryon." Then the man told him to take him to the safe. Bryon led him to the of fice area where the safe is located, out of sight of the others. They heard a shot from that direction, and the man returned alone. He said to White, "All right, big boy, where's the other safe?" "Honest, that's the only one I know about," White,·- told him. He then shot White in the chest at close range. Rios jumped up, ran into a nearby restroom, and locked the door. He heard another shot, and realized Jose phine Rocha had probably been shot. An instant later the man forced open the restroom door, re loaded the shotgun, and fired at Rios. He immediate ly walked away, apparently thinking the shot had been fatal. Rios, however, had turned away just as the shot was fired, and the charge struck him in the arm. Although the wound was serious, he managed to maintain consciousness and presence of mind. He waited a few minutes, and, hearing no sound, assum ed the killers had fled. He slipped quietly out of the restroom and started toward the telephone by the meat counter. Enroute he saw the pair at the front door, trying to open it with keys they'd taken earlier from the manager. Rios turned and ran to the outside door of the storeroom, slipped out, and fled across the parking lot toward Temperance A venue. He heard someone shout at him, then heard another shot. Just before reaching the road he fell into an irri gation ditch, climbed out, and kept running till he ar rived at the home of a friend about a half-mile away. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Abbott had been sitting in their back yard just north of the store, en joying the cool air of the late summer evening. They heard gunfire, and Abbott ran into the house and got his 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun. He was climbing over a concrete block fence that separates his yard from the store's back lot when he saw the storeroom door fly open and Rios run out and across the parking lot. Assuming he was a fleeing suspect, Abbott shouted at him to stop, and fired a warning shot into the air. When his order to halt was ignored, he ran to the open storeroom door, looked inside, and saw the bodies of White and Rocha lying in a pool of blood. He returned to the fence and shouted for his wife to call an ambulance and the sheriffs de partment. As he was doing so he was shot in the hip. He turned and saw a man in the shadows at the rear of the store. He fired at him, and believed he hit him, as he heard him cry out, and saw him stagger as he The rest room where Joe Rios was shot, and where Connie Barbo was later found hiding. The presence of Rios' blood, dark stains on the walls, floor, and toilet, was one thing which led officers to assume Barbo was a victim . ran toward a car parked about fifty feet west of the building. The man got into the car, and after having some difficulty starting it, drove west on Belmont Avenue. Because of poor lighting conditions, Abbott was unable to describe either the man or the car. Patrol deputy Greg Humann and his partner, re serve deputy Donna Posch, were the first officers to arrive at the scene. They found Jack Abbott lying in the back lot bleeding from his hip wound, but con scious and coherent. They looked inside, and saw the bodies of White and Miss Rocha. A cursory examina tion indicated both were deceased, so they didn't enter the building but did all they could to make Ab bott comfortable until the paramedics arrived a few minutes later. The paramedics were Chief Walt Prather, Captain Jim Hart, and Paramedic Ben Nunley of the Mid Valley Fire Department. Detective Ross Kelly arrived at about the same time, and while Hart examined the two bodies found thus far, confirming death, Kelly and Humann searched the remainder of the building. In the office area they found the body of Schletewitz, who had obviously been killed instantly by a shot to the head. Prather then heard a poise in the restroom, and Kelly found in there a female whose hands and clothing were covered with blood. 77 . h tl T m ca sll leJ ab ed prl niE lat, to d~ mic rna Co hys She was babbling incoherently about someone trying to get her, and it was assumed she was also a victim of the assault. She was taken to Valley Medical Center in the ambulance with Mr. Abbott. There an examination disclosed no physical injury, but an ap parent severe traumatic shock, and she was placed in the psychiatric ward. The open door is the one through which Rios escaped. Barely visible at left rear is the fence separating the store lot from Jack Abbott's property. Because Abbott had seen two people running away from the store, it was at first assumed that two suspects were at-large. However, an interview by Deputy Larry Mendoza, who had been dispatched to the home of Rios's friend, with Rios established that he had been the first person Abbott had seen leaving the scene. His information also changed the status of the woman from victim to suspect. A subsequent search of the restroom where she'd been found turn ed up a Harrington and Richardson .38 caliber revol ver, hidden in the toilet tank. Community response to the triple slaying and relat ed crimes was immediate and gratifying, although not particularly helpful. So many tips were received the next day from concerned citizens who knew or had in formation about possible suspects matching the pair's description that a detective was assigned to do nothing but interview the callers and record their information. Meanwhile, the female was identified through her fingerprints as one Connie Lee Barbo, who also went by several other names, and worked as a barmaid and part-time prostitute. Although still in the psychiatric ward, her condition had improved to the point it appeared she could be questioned. However, when she was advised of the nature of the question ing and of her rights in that regard, she declined to answer any questions and asked for an attorney. She was booked by proxy on three counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder, and one count of armed robbery. During the next few days a great deal of pertinent information was received from various friends and relatives of Connie Barbo. It was learned that she was a heavy user of narcotics, and that her source of supply was the home of Kenneth and Kathy Allen. She had been seen several times in the company of a man she'd met through the Aliens. The only name the informants had heard referring to him was "Little Blue", or perhaps "Blue Boy." His description match ed that of her companion at the murder scene. He was believed to be employed by someone who had race horses stabled at the fairgrounds. Late in the afternoon of the day of the murder, Kenneth Allen had appeared at the residence where Connie lived with her mother, told Connie "Little Blue" had sent him to pick her up, and to tell her to bring a change of clothes, saying something about their having to go to Los Angeles to either deliver or pick up a horse. Connie had left with Allen, telling her mother, "Don't let the kids out of the house, and if I don't make it back, take care of them." With the information indicating the AlIens were in the narcotics business, arrangements were made for a warrant to search their premises. On the basis of evidence thus found, both Kenneth and :Kathy Allen were arrested and booked on narcotics charges. They were questioned separately by detectives Kenneth I r r. h 50 n Ie 78 Connie Barbo Badiali and Fernando Reyna and investigator Willie Martin of the district attorney's office . Kathy Allen readily admitted the family had had a male house guest the previous week, and identified him as Bobby Burnett, a cousin of her husband. She said he'd arrived on Tuesday, September 2, and had met Connie when she happened to drop by the fol lowing day. The two had become quite friendly, and had spent a great deal of time together in the next three days, on several occasions borrowing her car. They had been together at the Allen home on Friday morning, and early that afternoon he borrowed her car to take Connie home. He then returned, showered, and, in her words, "kicked back", and she left to go pay a bill she owed. When she returned about 5:00 p.m. he was gone. A short time later Connie called and said she need ed a ride. Kathy couldn't oblige because she was busy preparing dinner, so her husband went to take Con nie to wherever she had to go. He returned sometime later, complaining because Connie had wanted a ride to the fairgrounds, when she lived so close to that destination she could have easily walked. About midnight she'd received a telephone call from the man she knew as Bobby Burnett, asking if she'd seen Connie. He said they'd had a fight, that she'd become hysterical and walked off, and he wanted to make sure she was all right. When Kathy told him she hadn't seen or heard from Connie, he asked her to go to Connie's home to see if she was there. She told him she'd do so, but her husband objected to her leaving the house so late at night. Instead, she tried to telephone some of Connie's relatives, but was unable to make contact. Kathy Allen said Burnett called her again Saturday afternoon. In a somewhat rambling discourse she had difficulty understanding, he said that Connie didn't know what she was getting into; that "it was all on him." By that time"the news media had made public the story of Connie's arrest in connection with the Fran's Market murders, and Kathy said she there fore knew it was that he was referring to. He also said something about having a hole in his stomach he had his hand over, and that he'd been shot in the foot. He mentioned plans to go to Mexico. She said she'd had no further contact with or information about him. Kenneth Allen's story was at first somewhat simi lar to the statement of his wife. He identified the visi tor as his cousin Bobby Burnett, but when asked for Billy Ray Hamilton more details of the relationship, said he didn't know much about him as they'd seen each other only once or twice in their lives. The cousin had just stopped by for a couple of days enroute back to his home in Oregon from a business trip to Southern California. 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Fire Extinguishers and Safety Equipment Protective Systems 2691 S. East Ave. Ph. 268-6241 80 out of the car and told him she was to meet someone she referred to only as Blue Boy. He said Blue Boy couldn't have been his cousin, as he had left town the day before. As the interview progressed the story began to vary more and more from the one told by his wife. When such discrepancies were pointed out to him he would say that whatever she'd said was correct, implying / that his memory was faulty because of sedation in connection with a recent extraction of some teeth. Eventually he admitted the visitor was a recently paroled convict known to him only as Billy. He said that while visiting his father, Clarence Ray Allen, an inmate at Folsom Prison, sometime in August, his father had told him a friend of his would be released soon, and might be coming to Fresno and need a place to stay. He hadn't asked for or received any further infor mation, but when a man identifying himself as Billy called on Tuesday and said, "I know your father" he realized it was the person to whom his father had referred. He'd gone to the bus station and picked him up, and asked no questions about the reason for his visit to Fresno, or his last name. hadn't heard anything about Connie's arrest. He finally admitted knowing Billy's full name -Billy Ray Hamilton. A check with Folsom Prison revealed that on Au gust 29 a convict named Billy Ray Hamilton had been released on parole, and was supposed to be living in San Jose. Arrangements were made for a recent prison photograph of him to be sent to the investigators. Neither Mark Erickson, the customer who'd seen the suspects in the store the night of the murders, nor owner Ray Schletewitz, who'd waited on them the previous day, was able to definitely identify Hamil ton in a photo line-up. There was no doubt in mind of Joe Rios. Quoting from the detectives' report, "Joe Rios began trembling noticeably upon holding the photograph of Billy Ray Hamilton. Joe Rios stated, 'How can you forget those eyes?' 'I'll never forget him as long as I live'." A warrant was issued for Hamilton, and the infor mation of his having been identified as the second suspect was broadcast on the law enforcement teletype network and released to the news media. On September 9 a man who identified himself as Billy Ray Hamilton was arrested in Modesto for robbing a Kenneth Allen Kathy Allen He'd introduced Billy to his wife as his cousin Bob by Burnett because he thought it might upset her and the children to have an ex-convict staying with them. He claimed he'd taken Billy back to the bus station on Thursday, but admitted he didn't actually see him board a bus. He denied that he saw him at all on Fri day; insisted that it couldn't have been him Connie was meeting at the fairgrounds; and claimed he liquor store. When the detectives went there to ques tion him, they found that not only did his description match perfectly that of the Fran's Market gunman, he had a recently-injured left foot, still containing shotgun pellets. Jack Abbott hadn't missed. When retired Detective Art Christensen saw the television news report of the Fran's CMarket murders, 81 he told his wife Alice, "Clarence Ray Allen is behind that." Detectives working the <:ase had thought from the beginning there was more to the incident than a bungled robbery attempt commited by a sadist who killed out of mere frustration. That opinion was rein forced when the names of Kenneth and Kathy Allen came up. The basis for Christensen's remark and the assign ed detectives concurring opinion dates back to the early seventies. That was when the name of Clarence Ray Allen, up until that time presumed to be a respectable businessman who operated a successful ;;. private security service, began to be mentioned in Hamilton's foot and some of Abbott's shotgun pellets removed from it at Valley Medical Center after his arrest in Modesto . 82 Kenneth Allen's Mercury Meteor, which Hamilton and Barbo used for transpor tation to the scene, and in which he fled and exchanged for his own Cadillac when he and Kenneth met later. It was connected to the crime by blood stains on the floor mat from Hamilton's foot . connection with various crimes and other ques tionable activities. It was not until 1974, however, that any concrete evidence of criminal activity could be developed. By that time, detectives learned later, his security business had become primarily a front for his more lucrative illicit activities. He had become the . leader of an organized gang, specializing in burglary, theft, and forgery, and an occasional robbery. Probably in late 1973 or early 1974, Kenneth Ray Allen, Clarence Ray's son and a member of the gang, became acquainted with and began dating a young coffee shop waitress named Mary Sue Kitts. As the ro mance progressed, he persuaded her to give up her job and join the gang. In June of 1974 she was given her first significant assignment. Arrangements were made for her to meet Bryon Schletewitz, then about nine teen or twenty years old, and to try to inspire in him some romantic interest. This resulted in his being in vited to a swimming party at the Allen home, in the same general rural neighborhood as Fran's Market. At the party, while Mary Sue kept Bryon occupied in the pool, other members of the gang stole the keys to the market from his clothing. Using those keys, they later entered the store and hauled away the safe, containing about five hundred dollars in cash and ten thousand dollars in money order blanks. The senior Allen and other members of the gang took the money order blanks to Southern California, where Mary Sue was assigned to forge and cash them, usually in department or clothing stores. A nominal purchase would be made, and most of the face value of the money order returned to them in change. All was going well until, on a return trip to Fresno, Mary Sue, who apparently had developed more than a professional interest in young Schletewitz, told him who had burglarized his father's store. Bryon told his father, Ray, who confronted Clarence Allen. Allen, of course, laughed at the allegation, knowing there was little evidence to support it other than Mary Sue's statement. Allen and othe~ members of the gang then held a meeting to discuss Mary Sue's violation of con fidence. It was decided that she couldn't be trusted ana would· have to be disposed of. Various methods were considered, including arranging for a fire where she'd bum to death, and killing her and dismember ing the body, disposing of the various parts in widely scattered locations to make identification less likely. Finally, a young gang member named Eugene Fur row was assigned to do the job. Arrangements were made for him and Mary Sue to be together in an apartment in Clovis, and there he strangled her. Her body was placed in Allen's Cadillac, driven to a bridge, and thrown into the water. Mary Sue's mother filed a missing person report, The bridge over the Friant-Kern Canal near Tivy Valley from which the body of Mary Sue Kitts was thrown. 83 and the case was assigned to detective Sergeant Art Tabler and his partner, Detective Christensen. They investigated as well as they could, learning the missing girl had a history of drug abuse, and at least once had almost died from an overdose, and decided her disap pearance had been drug related. More pressing cases and lack of information on this one precluded a more extensive investigation. /' There is a well-founded theory among detectives that if a person expects to get away with a crime, he must never offend or anger any female relative or ac quaintance who has knowledge of it. Dorothy Carras co, although not a member of Allen's gang, was a bus iness associate who had considerable knowledge of his activities. She was a "coyote", a professional smuggler of illegal aliens from Mexico. Many of those she brought from across the border were turned over to Allen, who found jobs for them, either in his own bus iness or with some of his clients. In spite of her blatantly-illegal vocation, she was apparently a kind hearted person as far as children were concerned, and spent much of her ill-gotten money supporting orphan children in Mexico. Dorothy was apprehended, convicted of alien smuggling, and sentenced to a federal prison in Lewis burg, West Virginia. Sometime later Clarence Allen made a seventeen-year-old boy she'd previously be friended a member of his gang. In December, 1976 a robbery attempt in Northern California resulted in a shoot-out with the police, and Allen and other gang members fled leaving the boy to be captured. When asked by officers for the name of parents or guardian, .he gave the name of Dorothy Carrasco and told where she could be contacted. She was officially notified that her protege was in custody for attempted robbery, and the circumstances explained to her. Apparently the boy had also revealed to arresting officers the iden tity of his mentor. When Carrasco heard that Allen had led the boy down the wrong path, she became furious. She told the officer who called that she had information about a murder for which Allen was responsible, and gave them the basic information of the murder of Mary Sue Kitts, but without the victim's name. The arresting agency notified the Fresno Police Department, and .when that agency could find no unsolved murders •that fit the circumstances, the information Wai..~ . on to the Sheriff's Department. The case was.assigned to Detective AIt~NeIl -end rusnew partner in the homicide.....:e.1il1ive If.., Lean. They, too, were waaWe b f d .,.olv ed murder that fit; then Christensen remembered the missing person report on Mary Sue Kitts more than two years before. The file was reviewed, and all the circumstances seemed to match the information fur nished by Dorothy Carrasco. For definite confirma tion, however, more details were needed, and Chris tensen and Lean flew to West Virginia and interviewed her. They thus"obtained enough information to satisfy them that Mary Sue Kitts had been murdered for disployalty to the Allen gang-now they had to get evidence to prove that theory in court. Realizing that to do so they'd need the further .. cooperation of Dorothy Carrasco, they returned home and began trying to make arrangements to have her transferred to Terminal Island at Los Angeles, or another federal correctional facility nearer than West Virginia. All such efforts were stymied by various bits of red tape, and the dilemma was finally resolved by her being paroled to the custody of the two detectives for as long as her assistance was needed in the investi gation. That arrangement, of course, posed various problems in logistics, not the least of which was the fact she was recovering from a leg fracture suffered in a fall in the prison, and was confined to a wheel chair. Compliments of FRED RAU DAIRY, INC. 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Furrow assumed the detectives were hit men Clar ence Allen was sending to make sure he didn't display the same symptoms of disloyalty that had affected Mary Sue Kitts. He told his wife he'd informed the Oregon State Police of his suspicions. Throughout their unsuccessful search for Furrow in Corvallis and Medford, the officers expected to be accosted by the state police and questioned regarding their intentions. However, the agency apparently hadn't taken Furrow's suspicion seriously, for no such embarrassing encounter took place. Although they didn't find Furrow in Oregon, they were close enough on his trail to learn he'd boarded a bus enroute to San Diego. They notified Captain of Detectives Bud Lauters, who had him removed from the bus when it stopped in Fresno. When the detec tives returned they questioned Furrow, who admitted having personally choked Mary Sue Kitts to death, pursuant to orders from Clarence Ray Allen, and helping dispose of the body. He said he knew only that she'd been thrown off a bridge, and described it as a very high bridge because of the time elapsed before they heard the body hit the water. During the next few days the officers drove hun dreds of miles and checked scores of bridges, taking Furrow along to see if he could recognize the one he'd described. He was eventually taken to the bridge over the Friant-Kern Canal near Tivy Valley and without hesitation he said, 'This is it." The physical layout matched his earlier description -that particular bridge is one of the highest above the water level of any bridge in Fresno County. The identification was pretty well substantiated when a hexagonal stepping stone was found in a pile of debris below the bridge. Furrow had earlier said such stones, taken from Allen's yard, had been wired to the body with baling wire. The canal was searched foot-by-foot for miles downstream from the bridge, but the body of Mary Sue Kitts was never found. However, due primarily to the testimony of Furrow, Clarence Ray Allen was con victed of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Also This pile of rocks and debris was on the canal bank a short distance from the bridge, having been dredged from the canal bottom in the routine annual cleaning pro cess. It was here that one of the stepping stones used as a weight for Mary Sue's body was found. 85 testifying to events leading up to the murder were Ray and Bryon Schletewitz. The stone found beneath the bridge turned out to be a significant bit of evidence, even though it couldn't be positively identified as having come from Allen's yard. There was fear at first it would have no evidentiary value, for an inspection of the Allen premises revealed a concrete walk where the stepping stones were re ported to have been. However, the home is in the flight path of the Fresno Air Tenninal, and airplanes frequently pass over it at low altitude. A pilot was lo cated who had made an aerial photograph of the area at the appropriate time, showing hexagonal stepping stones in Allen's yard. That photo, plus rust marks on the recovered stone apparently made by baling wire, helped establish the credibility of Furrow's testimony. In exchange for his testimony, Furrow was permit ted to plead guilty to murder in the second degree. At last report he was serving his time in a minimum se curity facility in Northern California, and appeared to be making a sincere effort toward rehabilitation. A significant trait in Clarence Ray Allen noted by the officers was his ability to manipulate his followers into doing his bidding, no matter how hazardous or unreasonable the task might be. They used the term "like sheep" in referring to the relationship of gang members with their leader. Therefore, even though Alien had been in prison for several years when the murders at Fran's Market were committed, it didn't Officers sift through the pile of debris, putting the dirt through a fine mesh screen, in a futile attempt to find a bit of clothing, a fragment of bone, or other evidence per taining to the body. Several bones were found, but they turned out to be those of animals. It was speculated that because of the lapse of time since the murder, and the fact that the canal rurls far into Kern County and has numerous outlets for irriga tion water along the way, the body had disintegrated into such minute particles mId had been dispersed over such a wide area that no part large enough for identification would ever be found. 86 seem at all unreasonable to credit him with the plan ning, considering the part the store and its owner had played in his conviction. When he heard that Billy Ray Hamilton had been captured, Kenneth Allen sent word to Willie Martin that he wanted to talk. When Martin went to the jail to see him, Allen said he'd tell the whole story. He then gave a detailed summary of the events leading up to the Fran's Market murders. Clarence Ray Allen had planned the whole thing, with two motives: first, to kill Ray and Byron Schlete witz in retaliation for their testimony against him;, and also to make them unavailable as witnesses in the event of a successful appeal and new trial. He had per suaded fellow inmate Billy Ray Hamilton to do the job by telling him there were two safes in the store, and that one of them would contain at least thirty thou sand dollars. That money, plus a promise that Hamil ton would be a 'big man" in Allen's gang, was to be his compensation. The killing of Rocha and White and the attempt to kill Rios had apparently been based on a theory expounded to Hamilton by Clarence Allen and others experienced in the field that when one com mits a robbery, there should be no witnesses left alive. The plan included provisions for Kenneth Allen to furnish transportation and the weapon. It was realized that Hamilton, not being familiar with Fresno area geography, would need help in that area. Kenneth had SHAVER LAKE 841-3298 THARP'S FARM SUPPLY (209) 659-2054 (209) 659-3997 1285 uN" Street, Firebaugh, California 93622 Bob Tharp (209) 659-1009 I LASSEN MARKET " GROCERIES -MEAT Open Daily 9:00 A.M. 'til 7:30 P.M. I 36668 So. Lassen Ave. 945-2362 Huron Jim Costa Assemblyman, Thirtieth District We appreciate the dedication and effort of a/l the men and women at the Fresno County Sheriff's Department. Thank you forhelping keep ourcounty a better place in which to live! Allbritten Plumbing Service "The Barefoot Plumber" C. J. HILL 3150 E. 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She agreed, and when she and Hamilton returned from their reconnaissance mission to the store on Thursday evening, she told the AlIens, "It's a piece of cake." Kenneth said that after the murders Hamilton telephoned him, said everything had gone wrong and he'd lost his pigeon, referring to Connie. They met and exchanged cars, Hamilton taking Kenneth's Cadillac and Kenneth taking his own Mercury Comet that Hamilton and Connie had driven to the scene. Ken neth gave Hamilton some money to finance his trip out of town. Kenneth took the Comet, which he'd previously sold to Connie and then repossessed be- SECURITY AgRESEARCH ~ DIV. OF AG-QUA FARMING, INC. STEVEN R. RUSCONI President 209/693-4303 SECURITY AG RESEARCH P.O. Box 877 San Joaquin, Calif. 93660 cause of default in payment, and sold it to a neighbor hood woman who'd expressed interest in buying it. Detectives later went to the woman's house and ex amined the Comet, finding blood on the floor mat. Kenneth Allen agreed to testify for the prosecution if he could be allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge than conspiracy to commit murder, and permitted to serve his time in a facility where his physical safety could be reasonably assured. A formal agreement to that effect was prepared and signed by Kenneth and a representative of the district attorney's office. Further investigation into the activities of Billy Ray Hamilton after he fled from Fresno and after his meeting with Kenneth revealed that he'd gone to the Modesto area and contacted Gary Brady, a former fellow inmate at Folsom. He'd told Brady that he'd committed a robbery and killed three people pursuant to an agreement with Clarence Ray Allen, and that because it didn't go as planned, and Allen hadn't paid him anything, he needed money. He asked Brady for a gun to commit a robbery. Brady told him he didn't have a gun and didn't know where he could get one, so Hamilton decided to use a knife. He robbed a liquor store clerk at knifepoint, and was captured running away from the scene. A dispatcher at the Modesto Police Department lived in an area where she could receive Fresno area television stations, and the evening of the Modesto li quor store robbery she'd been watching the 6:00 p.m. news on a Fresno station. The broadcast had featured a story on the Fran's Market murders, and the prison photograph of Billy Ray Hamilton was shown, iden tifying him as the principal suspect. When she report ed for work later that night she learned a person by that name had been arrested for robbery. That bit of timely information resulted in Fresno detectives being notified that same night their suspect was in custody. It wasn't considered prudent to keep Kenneth Al len in the same facility with Billy Ray Hamilton, so he was transferred to the Caruthers branch jail, at San Joaquin Valley College The Valley's Career College Medical/Dental • Business • Technical Financial Aid and Job Placement Assistance Available Fresno Visalia Bakersfield (209) (209) -(805) 229-7800 732-6426 834-0126 88 that time used primarily for persons sentenced for non-violent misdemeanors. Because of the more liberal visiting rules at the minimum security institu tion, when Kathy visited him they were permitted unmonitored visits in a room with no barrier be tween them. After a few such visits Kenneth wrote his father a letter assuring him he wouldn't testify against him in spite of his written agreement to do S9-. His mail was monitored, and the letter intercepted. When confronted with it, he said he really didn't mean to go back on his agreement; that Kathy had, by various wiles including giving and threatening future withholding of certain sexual favors during their visits, persuaded him to sign the letter she had written. He promised he'd go ahead and fulfill his commitment to testify for the prosecution. Larry Jones, the deputy district attorney assigned to prosecute the case, felt that in view of the contents of the letter to his father, Kenneth couldn't be trust ed, and informed him that the deal they'd made promising leniency in exchange for his testimony was therefore null and void. The trials of all suspects were conducted outside Fresno County pursuant to change of venue motions granted because the sensational nature of the case and resulting pre-trial publicity might preclude the possi bility of a non-prejudiced jury in Fresno County. Billy Ray Hamilton was the first to stand trial. A jury in Martinez, Contra Costa County, found him guilty of three counts of murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. At the conclusion of the sentencing session he shouted curses at Willie Martin, accusing him of framing him and promising to denounce him with his last breath as he died in the gas chamber. Martin visited him later, and Hamilton's attitude was altogether different. He blam ed Clarence Ray Allen for his predicament, and said he realized Allen had lied to him and had merely used him. He indicated he didn't blame Martin at all, and realized the detective had just done his job. "Then what was all that outburst in the courtroom all about?" Martin asked. "Aw, I was just giving you a little free publicity," Hamilton said. Martin then asked him what he thought should happen to Clarence Allen. "The same thing that's gonna happen to me," Ham ilton replied. Connie Barbo was tried next, in Monterey County. She was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Clarence Ray Allen was the next to go before a jury, on three counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. After a two-month trial in Willows, Glenn County, he was found guilty. Gary Brady; Hamilton's friend from Modesto, testified for the prosecution, saying he had knowledge of the conspiracy when he was in prison with Allen and Hamilton. He said that Allen had first offered the job to him, but that he'd declined. A key factor in Allen's conviction was the testi mony of Kenneth Allen. Although the district at torney had told him the deal promising leniency in exchange for his testimony was no longer in effect, his attorney advised him to testify anyway. The at torney claimed that if he kept his part of the bargain, even after being told the deal was off, the prosecution would be legally obligated to abide by the original agreement. Clarence Ray Allen was sentenced to die in the gas chamber. Investigators were of the opinion that Kathy Allen was the stronger personality in the family, and that her father-in-law had relied more on her in forging the conspiracy than on his son. However, they.had little concrete evidence to support that theory. That lack, plus the fact Kathy was facing prosecution on a number of other charges, led to a decision to not pro secute her for whatever part she'd played in the Fran's Market conspiracy . Kenneth Allen's attorney filed an appeal from the prosecution's decision that the agreement he'd signed had been nullified by his subsequent conduct, and that the people were therefore free to prosecute him without consideration of leniency. The county's posi tion was eventually upheld by the appe)late court, but because of the time required by that litigation, Kenneth Allen's trial wasn't scheduled until 1985, to be conducted in San Luis Obispo County. Just before the trial was to begin, he entered a guilty plea to all charges. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. There was information to the effect that Kenneth had planned to subpeona his father, Billy Ray Hamilton, and Connie Barbo to testify in his defense. Any testimony regarding the conspiracy intended to assist in the defense of Kenneth could, of course, have been detrimental to Clarence and Hamilton in any future appeal hearing. It is believed that shortly before the trial Kenneth received a message from his father warning him that requiring his testimony would not be in the son's best interest, and because of that implied threat, Kenneth decided the prudent 89 course of action would be to plead guilty. Apparent ly he realized that even on death row his father still might have the ability, and if sufficiently provoked, the inclination to wreck vengeange on anyone who displeased him, including his own son. Neither Billy:Ray Hamilton nor Clarence Ray Allen have yet been executed. In the automatic appeal to the state supreme court, both sentences were reversed'and new trials ordered on the penalty phase. In the Hamilton case, the court indicated there might have been some doubt in the minds of the jury regarding an intent to kill. In the Allen case defense allegations of improper instructions to the jury were upheld. Even if there'd been no other evidence to support the theory Hamilton had gone to the market with the definite intent to kill, his actions at the scene should have left no doubt of premeditation. He'd used a single-shot weapon, and thus had to re-load after each shot, requiring a conscious action and precluding any farletched theory that the killing might have been done in the sudden heat of passion. As of this writing, the State Supreme Court has re versed its own decision and reinstated the death penal ty for Clarence Ray Allen. It has also agreed to recon sider its reversal of the death penalty for Hamilton, although no date has been set for the hearing. There are already two very unique circumstances pertaining to Clarence Ray Allen's situation. In the first case, he was convicted of murdering a victim whose body was never found. In the second, he was the first person in California history to be convicted of arranging a murder outside the prison while an in- Clarence Ray Allen mate. In neither case did he do the killing himself, nor was he present when the deed was done. There is a good possibility he will be the first California death row inmate to be executed after a hiatus of several years. But no matter if he's the first, the second, the third, or what his place in the line-up may be, if he does ultimately pay his debt to society in the gas chamber, detectives who worked the cases and friends and rel atives of his victims will agree on one thing -that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. Saluting the Fresno Deputy Sheriffs for their fine work In law enforcement Compliments of JOHNSON'S BOILER & CONTROL, INC. 2496 N. McCALL AVE. • SANGER 90 Compliments Of TRI TRANSPORT INC. ... »)Q«c ... FIREBAUGH (209) 659-3913 Margosian Beverage Co. Miller High Life Lite Miller Genuine Draft Lowenbrau Helneken Henry Weinhard Corona Dakota ARKIE MARGOSIAN -GLEN MARGOSIAN ~TOMORROW 2350 E. GETTYSBURG SUITE B FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93726 209/ 224/ 6766 Authorized sales & service for Zenith data systems Desktop Computer Systems Locally Designed Accounting Systems for Farmers. Produce Shippers. Attorneys. Wholesale/Retail • Bookkeepers Service Companies ~~8\)MBl.e~ GROCERIES, LIQUOR, GASOLINE 99 Featuring U.S.D.A. Choice Meats Lottery Retail A c-\ OOD MAtl~v Store Hours: Nov.-Mar. 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. -7 Days a Week Apr.-Oct. 8 A.M. to 9 P.M. -7 Days a Week Gene Grumbles & Irma Grumbles-Owner/Operator 2521 WHITSON • SELMA, CA 93662 CAL-STATE AUTO CENTER MUFFLERS -BRAKES WHEEL ALIGNING AUTO AIR CONDITIONING TUNE-UPS OPEN 8-5 MON. THRU FR!. -SAT. TILL NOON 268-9866 233-8868 299-1662 1160 N. Blackstone 1817 E. Hammond 396 Clovis Ave. at Olive Air CondoShop Clovis ART WILLIAMS, Owner-since 1957 at the Same Location CUSTOM SPRAYING-oRCHARD, VINEYARD. INSECTICIDES HERBICIDES. FUNGICIDES. FUMIGANTS. FERTILIZER· FARM SUPPLIES. GONDGlA GRAPE PICKING STAKE DRIVING. LAND LEVELING S & M FARM SUPPLY, INC. KEN SCHMALL 5523 S. PEACH, FRESNO • 834-2594 RES: 834-3860 LOGGERS LANDING FOOD & SPIRITS Johnnie and Bobby: Your Hosts 33051 AUBERRY ROAD • AUBERRY 855-2807 Joe & Beto's FOOD MART Quality Meats. 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Betita A. Bryant J . Buffaloe M. Burks Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer K. Carreiro Corr. Officer J . Carter Corr. Officer Z. Colbert Corr. Officer D. Cox Corr. Officer J. Cyran Corr. Officer A. Dana Corr. Officer J. Davis Corr. Officer M. Demes Corr. Officer T. Dermer J. Duenes Corr. Officer Corr. Officer F. Elston Corr. Officer .".• IA'. A ... ,.......,. • G. Escalante Corr. Officer STATE FARM INSURANCE Eugene Warner B. Fidalgo Corr. Officer J. Esparza Corr. Officer M. Flores Corr. Officer Courlesyof VALLEY FENCE CO . 299-0451 4565 E. Herndon • Clovis 4836 E. Belmont Ave. • Fresno • 251-8651 95 D. Foreman L. Gonzales R. Gonzales J. Graham D. Graves Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer J. Growden Corr. Officer N. Guerrero Corr. Officer A. Guevara Corr. Officer J. Gustafson Corr. Officer D. Hadland Corr. Officer M. Heggen Corr. Officer G. Holt Corr. Officer J.lshimoto Corr. Officer C. Johnson Corr. Officer SAN JOAQUIN BATTERY AND ELECTRIC CO. Distributors of LEECE-NEVILLE -AMER ICAN BOSCH Generator. Starter and Alternator Repairs 233-3146 2485 S. CHERRY * FRESNO, CALIFORNIA D. Halderman Corr. Officer B. Hancock Corr. Officer J. Hein Corr. Officer D. Hildreth Corr. Officer L R.Johnson Corr. Officer H ; ~ \ . .~-r... ;~ ~~\t",: ~ T. Jordon Corr. Officer PARDINI'S GROCERY COMPLETE GROCERY LINE ON AND OFF SALE BEER AND WINE 275-6623 5014 W. SHIELDS FRESNO 96 D. Keil S. Kimbley D. Kurtze M. Lancaster T. Langston Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Corr. Officer L. Leach Corr. Officer H. Lee Corr. Officer J. Leon Corr. Officer M. Lanns Corr. Officer P.Lascano Corr. Officer J. Lockie Corr. Officer L. Malach Corr. Officer W. Marshall Corr. Officer W. Martens Corr. Officer L. Lewis Corr. Officer - /' M. McKinley Corr. Officer 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 C. Obeso Corr. Officer R. Mellor Corr. Officer T. Morris Corr. Officer D. Morrison Corr. Officer YOST & WEBB FUNERAL HOME Tulare & T Streets 237-4147 97 KIPER & KIPER LUMBER SQUAW VALLEY, CALIF. PHONE 332·2310 CORRAL LUMBER -FENCE LUMBER FARM LUMBER -POSTS BROWNIE Heavyweight Mufflers CUSTOM BUILT TAILPIPES 5 Pounds Heavier for Longer Life Locally Owned and Operated Free Estimates * Free Inspection 3316 E. Ventura 237-2081 WARRICK ELECTRIC INC. 1324 W. IOTA ROAD FRESNO 264-4163 ~~~~ COALINGA FEED YARD, INC. RT. 1, BOX 135 COALINGA FRESNO CATHOLIC CEMETERIES· • st. Peter's Cemetery • Holy Cross Cemeteryo. Calvary Cemetery Raul S. Zaragosa, Superintendent 264 N. 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Shirey Corr. Officer A. Stones Corr. Officer R. Storm Corr. Officer L. Washington Corr. Officer 99 E. Watkins D. Wood E. Carns J. Dimery V. Marquez Corr. Officer Corr. Officer Sr. Jail Records Clerk Sr. Jail Records Clerk Sr. Jail Records Clerk C. Porter Sr. Jail Records Clerk M. Baker Jail Records Clerk D. Burch J. Essman Jail Records Clerk Jail Records Clerk J. Everitt Jail Records Clerk G. Gerbi Jail Records Clerk R. Hooks Jail Records Clerk G. Hopkins Jail Records Clerk S. MacDonald Jail Records Clerk N. Ramirez Jail Records Clerk R. Stevens Jaill Records Clerk V. Sweeney Jail Records Clerk H. Thomas G. Whisenhunt Jail Records Clerk Jail Records Clerk R. Zapata Jail Records Clerk 100 R. Moreno D. Escobedo R. Estrada W. Hicks E. Kintgen Super. Stock Clerk Stock Clerk Stock Clerk Stock Clerk Stock Clerk P. Niedhamer Stock Clerk B. Mendoza Senior Jail Cook D. Brenner Jail Cook L. Wiley Stock Clerk G. Sanchez Senior Janitor E. Fairbanks Jail Cook M. Gonzales Jail Cook v. Grant Jail Cook E. Solis Jail Cook J. Wood Jail Cook D. T. LOCKE RANCH FIREBAUGH ~*~ SANTI'S, INC. USED CARS 1142 F Street 268-9344 Fresno 101 F.S.D. Joins The Space Age Launches Its Own Satellite by D. Papagni Because of rocketing population in Fresno C,9_un ty's detention facilities, and Superior Court Judge Frank Creede's court order requiring depopulation of the main jail, it was recognized tha t addi tional beds were needed and needed quickly. Severalloca tions were suggested, and after much internal and public debate, the current site, at the intersection of M and Heaton Streets, was agreed upon. The facility sits on 1.7 acres, and was built at a cost of l.6 million dollars, providing housing for a maxi mum of 120 inmates. This facility is Fresno Coun ty's first opportunity to update its correctional philosophy physically, and, except for extensive additions to the main jail building, is the first new jail construction in the county since the Caruthers branch jail was established in the early sixties. The satellite jail was designed to be portable, and can be disassembled and put together again at a new location if necessary. Its functional use also has a very broad range. Once its usefulness as a jail has ended, it can be relocated and converted into offices, storerooms, a work furlough or alcohol rehabilitation facility, etc. Current operation of the sa telli te jail is under the control of the watch commander stationed at the main jail a little over a half mile.it way. Each shift has a sergeant aQd a correctional officer III, along with seven correctional officers to provide the necessary security. The facility is divided into four separate housing units, each holding thirty inmates. One correctional officer is stationed inside each unit and thus provides direct supervision of the inmates. The units are designed to provide direct observa tion of all areas by staff, making it very easy to detect security violations and unauthorized activities. For the short period of time the satellite jail has been in operation we have had positive response from both staff and inmates on the working and living environment created at this new jail. Support services such as medicaI, recreation, commissary, and laundry are provided out of the main jail. Meals are provided through a contract with E.O.C., and are delivered twice daily. This facility has provided the jail division an opportunity to experience what it will be like in the new main detention facility due to open in the fall of 1988. Supervision and control of inmates will be accomplished through direct observation and direcl supervision, which is proving to be an effective and efficient way to operate our new generation of jails. Three unils of Ihe building ready 10 be joined. Like Ihe women's barracks allhe Branch Jail, Ihe chief delerrenllo escape will be direcl suroeillance. 102 The siliellile jllil's closesl neighbor is one of Ihe oldesl commercial buildings in Fresno. REBCO OF CALIFORNIA Custom Made Pool Tables and Accessories BOB AND SALLIE BEBB, Owners (209) 298-9200 402 Pollasky • Clovis, CA 93612 Golden State Ranches, Inc . •N. J. (Jack) Liddell Phone 275-2840 3700 N. Grantland. Fresno, CA 93711 Saturday Banking. The Royal Treatment. Bank on your Local Folk•• Community Owned KINGS RIVER STATE BANIK REEDLEY. DINUBA • OROSI Member F.D.I.C. BRAKE RELINING. WHEEL BALANCING. WHEEL ALIGNING DRUM TRUEING. TIRE SKIMMING BUD EBERWEIN BRAKE AND WHEEL ALIGNING SERVICE ZARKIS MARTIROSIAN 1821 CALAVERAS STREET 268-6359 FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93721 4574 EAST CLAY AVENUE FRESNO, CALIFORNIA 93702 SUPERIOR CUSTOM WHEELS "QUAUTY FIRST" 251-6957 4655 E. OLIVE AVENUE . 103 Lieutenant Papagni, foreground, checks on construction progress. Any would-be escapee who gets outside the building and tries to tunnel under the fence will have to dig deep. Going over the top won't be easy; either. 104 Dired supervision will be supplemenled by dosed circuillelevision. Security Specialists, Inc. INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL HOSPITALS UNIFORMED GUARDS FIXED POST AND PATROL SERVICE lOU PIMENTEL, Owner 3003 N. Blackstone, Suite 2l Fresno, California 93703 Phone (209) 224-4237 CLUB BRAZIL COCKTAILS MIKE OBERTI PROPRIETOR BEST WISHES FROM AUTO WAREHOUSE 266-7811 1419 M ST.• FRESNO VALLEY VWM GARABEDIAN BROS. INC. Welding and Machine Works MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING PACKINGHOUSE. FARM & SPECIAL MACHINERY P.O. 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Growers and Packers of Raisins and Dried Fruits DELREY KESCO Kings Electric Supply Co., Inc. 1950 S. Van Ness Ave.• Fresno. CA 93721 -485·7610 IR3 S. lOth Ave.. Hanford. CA 93230 -582·0331 107 Privllclj is 11111 mirlimum, bul Ihlli's Ihe wily il hils 10 he. Excepl for the barbed wire alop Ihe fence, Ihe exlerior bears lillie resemblan ce 10 Ih e Iypical jail. BRITZ FERTILIZERS, INC. • INSECTICIDES AQUA AMMONIA & NH3 LIQUID & DRY FERTILIZERS SOIL CONDITIONERS WEED KILLER • Fresno-Coalinga Road, Five Points Highway 33, Firebaugh Traver, Kingsburg Fresno 7409 S. Mendocino, Parlier 11856 Road 29, Madera 12498 -11th Ave., Hanford 884-2421 659-2033 897-5151 864-8786 646-3521 674-0913 582-9584 ~ WILLSaN FARMS INCORPORATED 1318 East Shaw Avenue Suite 313 Fresno, California 93710 Phone 209/226-3444 THANKS AND CONGRATULATES THE FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT WITH SPECIAL GRATITUDE TO SHERIFF STEVE MAGARIAN Melville E. Willson 109 Satellite Jail S. Leonardo Corr. Sergeant G. Martin Corr. 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Wheel Aligning Brake Relining Drum Turning Tire Skimming 266-0631 1515 MERCED AT F STREET WEST McKINLEY GROCERY 11499 W. McKINLEY FRESNO APPLIED DETECTOR CORPORATION Louis C. Wang, President 2325 E. McKinley Avenue, Fresno, Calif. 93703 (209) 485-2396 HAYNES EXXON SERVICE FULL SERVICE JOE HAYNES, Owner 4597 EAST OLIVE 255-8752 MODERN WELDING COMPANY Manufacturers and Fabricators of STEEL PRODUCTS Ph. 275-9353 4141 N. BRAWLEY AVE.• FRESNO I I 115 The Branch Jail Still A Good Place To Do Time About fifteen years ago the population of the Caruthers Branch Jail, or Industrial Farm as it was known then, had shrunk to the point there was some consideration of closing the facility. With a daily average population of well under a hun'd~ed inmates, there was scarcely enough manpower to handle all the various farm operations and ade quately maintain it. The reason was the strict admission requirements then in effect; no one con victed of a drug related offense or with a history of drug use was sent there. By the early seventies drugs had begun to play such a major role in local criminal activity that the "no drugs" rule drastically narrowed the field of eligible candidates. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. Sheriff Mel vin A. Wi llmirth and others with some degree of foresight insisted to the Board of Supervisors that even though the operation might not be cost effec tive at that time, the day would come when the jail space at the farm would be needed. Eligibility rules were relaxed somewhat; a barracks was converted for use by female inmates; arrangements were made with the state Department of Corrections for some state inmates to be housed at the farm, with the state paying for their room and board; and persons serving their sentences on weekends were housed at the farm. By such measures the facil ity was kept open, and just a few years ago the predic tion that space would be sorely needed came true. Following a court order to red uce the popula tion of the main jail, the space available at the branch jail suddenly became extremely valuable. Alterations were made to some barracks to pro vide extra security, additional temporary housing facilities were acquired; and the staff of officers beefed up. Thus it has become possible and practi cal to house a number of unsentenced inmates, relieving some of the pressure on the main jail. The average daily population is now around 500. What effect has such an increase had on the operation? Has it adversely affected the farming operations? Has it disturbed the relaxed atmos phere and comfortable environment enjoyed by those serving their sentences there and working at the various farm and housekeeping tasks, factors which have traditionally made doing time there almost like living at a country club compared to 116 serving a sentence in the main jail? Have security and logistics problems increased unduly, and, if so, how are they being handled? To learn the answers to those questions first hand, The Re\riew paid a visit to the branch jail. It began with lunch in the officers dining room, where the same food the inmates eat is served. The branch jail kitchen has long enjoyed the reputation of providing the best food of any institution in the country, and county employees from other depart ments having business at the facility have been known to deliberately schedule their visits for late morning or early afternoon, so they could be there for lunch. On the day we visited the entree, swiss steak, wasn't quite up to its usual standards, prim arily because an amateur inmate cook had sliced the meat the wrong way, and it was a bit tough. However, the flavor was satisfactory, the home made soup was good, and the banana cream pie was excellent. . Following lunch we were taken on a tour of the facility by its commander, Lieutenant Donald Brad ford . Due to the time of year, early February, farm ing activity was at its minimum. We found the farm to still be a model of neatness and effectiveness in design, one of which any farmer would be proud. The fields between the headquarters building and Elm Avenue were a deep green, with a lush crop of barley and oats. The fence lines bordering the var ious lanes were free of weeds and debris. The feed lot, which once was close enough to the administra- Th e Imrrncks for fernnle inmnles . orderly condition, as was the compound. Trees and shrubs are neatly trimmed, the grass mowed and edged, and no debris is allowed to remain on the ground. The housing facilities for inmates serving their sentences at the facility, and thus on trusty status, have changed but little. Each one has a bed and a locker for his personal belongings. Rules ",.-pertaining to neatness and cleanliness, both for the inmate and his living quarters, are strictly enforced. One factor that visitors to the facility have often commented on, that the place doesn't smell like a jail, is still valid. Part of the once vast recreation hall has been converted to housing and storage, but there is still adequate space for a pool table, various exercise devices for those who feel they don't get enough exercise at their assigned tasks, and just plain off duty relaxing. There is still a small theater type television room next door, but instead of the con ventional set in use for years, the inmates now enjoy a large screen projection set, purchased for the facility by the state Department of Corrections when state inmates were housed there. O'le of several new lighl slandards lowering over Ihe compound. tion buildings, barracks, and the kitchen and mess hall to create a problem with flies, has been moved to the farthest corner of the property. New gates have been installed in various positions in the lanes to facilitate the movement of cattle from one pas ture to another. A new and larger sewage settling pond has been excavated to help the sewer treat ment plant better handle the increased load. The cattle herd is thriving, and the number of brood cows is being increased slightly. Because of the increase in population of the facility, the main jaiL and juvenile hall, the cattle operation can no longer supply most of the beef for all three, as it once did, but it is making a substantial contribution in that regard, and is still considered cost effective. There are now four trained horses to assist Livestock Manager Bob Trimmer and his inmate cowboys in handling the herd. The shop and equipment yard, the domain of Farm Manager Joe Cattie, were in their usual The radio anlemlll Ihal lowers over everyllring. II7 The kitchen, mess hall, and laundry were origi nally built to handle any reasonable expansion above the original 250 or so inmates for which housing was planned. Logistics has therefore been no particular problem. About the only significant changes in routine have been to expand the laundry operation from eight to sixteen hours a day, and to obtain hot food carts to feed in tneir barracks inmates considered enough of a security risk that feeding them in the mess hall wouldn't be prudent. Security, of course, has been the main problem. \ It is difficult to convert buildings origi nally designed for minimum security into medium security facili ties. In spite of a maximum effort in that regard, such as a chain link fence around the barracks housing unsentenced inmates, and steel plates installed to strengthen the lath and plaster walls, there have been a few escapes. However, most of the escapes made so much of by the news media have involved trusty status inmates who have walked away from unsupervised work details, or simply went over the fence at night. There have always been, and always will be, such escapes from any minimum security facility, and their incidence since medium security inmates have been housed at the branch jail has been no greater than is to be expected. It's just a better news story to make it appear that housing medium security inmates at the branch jail has increased the -danger to the public. To further discourage escapes from the medium security barracks, it has been necessary to station correctional "Officers at opposi te corners of the building group, with their sole duty to keep all sides of the buildings under direct surveillance. It's cer tainly not a pleasant assignment, particularly in inclement weather, but officers so assigned trade off every hour or so with officers at indoor posts, so that it is not intolerable. A triple-wide mobile home type facility has been erected north of the main compound to house female inmates. Except for the surrounding chain link fence it has no special security enhancement. However, the entire room is in full view of the female correctional officer's desk and work area, so an escape attempt without the officer becoming immediately aware of it would be highly unlikely. Althoug h there are no windows, the room is well lighted and adequately ventilated, and is kept in a neat and orderly condition. Rules are easily enforced by the realization of each inmate that a Chow lime for Ihe "roar! cows. Inmnte cowboys sepnrnte n cow and her newborn calf from the herd, nlld move tltem into a pasture reserved for new mothers and their habies. violation may result in her being moved back to the crowded conditions of the main jail. To further enhance overall security, a new light ing system for the compound has been installed . There are mercury vapor units on each of several poles, spaced closely enough that every corner of the compound is covered. As insurance against the frequent power blackouts common to rural areas, there is now an auxiliary diesel powered generator that can supply power for every electrical need in the facility. It is properly maintained, and the engine started weekly to make sure it will start if needed . To reduce the frequency of possible emergency trips to Valley Medical Center, there are medical personnel on duty sixteen hours a day. It is expected that the coverage will soon be increased to 24 hours a day. Incidentally, the dominant physical feature at the branch jail is something that has nothing to do with facility operation . It's a hundred and fifty foot high radio relay antenna, intended to eliminate blind spots for radio traffic in the western part of the country. It was installed there simply because the county already owned the property, and the location is suitable. The housing of unsentenced inmates at the branch jail has not been without problems. Defense attorneys complain because they have to drive so far to interview their clients, and some have resorted to advising clien ts to feign illness not susceptible to treatment by facility medical person nel, so they1l be taken to the main jail for sick call, and can then be seen by the attorney before being reutrned to the branch jail. One attorney even persuaded a justice court judge to issue a formal order that his client be transported to the main jail for an interview. The legality of such an order is being questione~, but if it is upheld, it could lead to a critical logistics problem if such a practice should become common. Inmate visiting is another problem for which there is no easy solution. When only trusty status inmates were housed at the facility, they were allowed to entertain visitors at picnic tables in the compound in good weather, and in the recreation hall when the weather was bad. Such a lenient policy is not appropriate for unsentenced inmates, of course, but there are no really suitable visiting failities. Inmates and visitors therefore must con verse through the chain link fence surrounding the barracks, with the only amenity a shed type roof above that portion of the fence to protect against hot sun and rain. There have been complaint!?, of course, but for economic and security reasons there is no alternative. The law requires only that inmates be permitted reasonable visiting privi leges; it doesn't require that comfortable facilities for tha t visi ting be provided. We are sorry to report that the combination chapel and spiritual counseling facility envisioned by retired correctional officer Bob LeRoy, and dis cussed in previous issues of The Review, has not yet become a reality. However, the large mobile home unit left over from the Coalinga earthquake, which at our last report LeRoy and his group were trying to get permission to use in lieu of the chapel until the permanent building could be erected, is now in use for that purpose, formal permission finally having been granted. Overall, the crowded situation at the main jail has worked to the advantage of the branch jail. Housing of unsentenced inmates has posed no insurmountable problems. Furthermore, the relax ing of el.igibility standards for inmates serving sent ences at the minimum security facility has resulted in more than enough manpower to perform all the tasks necessa ry to main tain the facility and ha ndle the farming operations. 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Less than two months elapsed between the commission of the crime and the trial. Today it could easily be two years. From 1925: The Fresno Morning Republican, May 23, TWO GHINESE IN AUTOMOBIlE ~RE MURDERED Bodies Found 4 Miles From Caruthers By Woman THREE BULLETS IN EACH BODY Some Express Belief Tragedy Result Of Tong Activity Chinese quarters of Fresno and Visalia were agog with excitement yesterday evening and closely watched by police as the result of murders of Lai Chew, 41, 732 Jackson street, San Francisco, and Dong Gum Wing, 411 East Center street, Visalia, about four miles from Caruthers some time Thurs day night. Nothing was known of the double murder, declared Coroner John N. Lisle to have taken place before midnight, until 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning when the bodies of the two Suey Ying tong men were found rigid in Lai Chew's sedan. William F. Jones, who, with District Attorney George Lovejoy and Coroner Lisle, conducted an investigation following discovery of the bodies, while they sat in the front seat of the moving car. Each body contaIned three bullet holes in almost the same place, all of them fired into their backs, and the windshield bore mute evidence of the slay ing with a hole through it, just in line with the hole through the head of the driver, Lai Chew. DISCLAIM TONG ACTIVITY Local Bing Kong and Suey On tong men dis claimed any feeling that the affair was a tong murder, expressing their belief that it had been rob bery. But at Visalia officers from the office of Chief of Police Court Smith were confronted with the declaration that an emergency tong meeting was to be had in San Francisco last night, and one of the leaders would leave there to make an investigation of the affair, and that in the meantime Visalia Chinese could offer no information or aid. Lai Chew was also a member of the Suey On tong, it was learned. Chief of Police Frank P. Truax placed an extra detail of officers in Chinatown last night, though placing but little credence in the theory that the double murder was a tong assassination. NARCOTICS DELIVERED It was rumored at the sheriff's office that Lai Chew was a narcotic peddler and had just made a delivery of between $2,000 and $3,000 worth of narcotics shortly before the killing, and that Dong Gum Wing, employed at Visalia previously as a cook, had made the arrangements for the delivery. Prior to the closing up of sources of information at Visalia it was learned that Lai Chew, unknown there in the Chinese quar ter, had been in Visalia Thursday evening, leaving on a "joy ride" with Dong Gum Wing and some other unknown persons. One of the most baffling angles about the affair, Sheriff Jones said last night, was the absence of foot prints leading from the scene of the slaying, giving rise to the belief by officers that the murderer had escaped in a car which had probably been following the sedan at a distance. 129 The shooting was done with a .32-20 caliber revol ver, found a short distance from the sedan by the of ficers. Nearby were six exploded cartridges, evidently removed from the gun after it had been fired. Clothing of the murdered men bore little evidence of having been rifled by a robber after the shooting, and each man had about $5 in silver on his person, in addition to a watch and a revolver. Dong .cum Wing's revolver was concealed inside his shirt, while Lai Chew's weapon, not fired, had fallen to the floor beneath his feet. WOMAN FINDS BODIES Discovery of the bodies was made yesterday morn ing by a Mrs. Akers, who lives in the neighborhood of the murder. She saw the machine parked along the side of the road, it is said, and thought it her uncle's machine. Believing that he had been taken ill or had fallen asleep, she halted her machine, emerged from it and peered into the sedan, seeing the bodies of the two Chinese. Mrs. Akers hurried to Caruthers and in formed Constable Printz of her discovery. From The Fresno Morning Republican, July 17, 1925: SLAYER OF CHINESE ESCAPES NOOSE BY VERDICT OF JURY Judge Church Expresses Dissatisfaction With Decision Which Gives Prison Sentence For First Degree Murder; Two Jurymen Balloted To Acquit Deliberating four hours, a jury in criminal court last night found Don Ho Ton, alias Fong Ho Ton, guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his pun ishment at life imprisonment. The verdict returned to Judge Denver S. Church stated that the jury found the man guilty of murdering both Lai Chew and Ong Kim, as charged in a grand jury indictment of two counts. Sentence will be pro nounced Tuesday morning, Judge Church announced before discharging the jury until next Wednesday. Following the discharge of the jury, Judge Church issued a statement in which he expressed himself as dissatisfied with the verdict. He pointed out that con viction of murder in the first degree with life im prisonment recommended means that the defendant will be forced to serve about 10 to 12 years behind prison bars, a sentence that was imposed upon burg lars up until a few years ago. The jury was taken for their suppers at 6 o'clock and at that time stood 10 for conviction and two for acquittal, those holding out expressing the belief Don Ho Ton killed two of his countrymen on the lonely road near Carothers in self defense. "SAFER IN PRISON" After deliberating about an hour in the evening, the jury agreed as to the man's guilt and on the first ballot thereafter unanimously agreed that life impri sonment should be the penalty. Don had previously expressed a desire to plead guilty if he could be assured he would not be sentenced to death. One of the jurors expressed the opinion that Don will be safer in prison than out, asserting that tong men would probably have killed him if he were acquitted. When court convened yesterday morning, Defense Attorneys Gilbert H. Jertberg and Rae B. Carter an nounced that Don Ho Ton would stand on a consti tutional right and would not offer one -iota of evidence in his own behalf, either from his own lips or those of anyone else. This move had been expected by court attaches and newspaper men, although the defense had sum moned three persons intended to be witnesses. It has been known since the trial started that the defense would wage a fight to save the man's neck from the noose and would make no effort to have him found not guilty. In fact, the defendant was ready to plead guilty at any time with the under standing that Judge Church would not pronounce the death penalty. NONE FOR HANGING In their deliberations, it was learned from one of the jurors last night, not a single vote was cast for the hanging of the Chinese slayer, while two members of t jthe jury, for some time, held out for a verdict of not guilty. A reward of $500 offered by wealthy friends of the slain men at Emeryville for information leading to ar rest and conviction of the slayer, it was learned last night, is now due and payable, and a claim for it has been made to Sheriff William F. Jones by Mrs. Jacob Bell, who informed the police by telephone of the presence of Dong Ho Ton in the house at 448 F Street. She is the wife, it is understood, of the butcher 130 whose shop adjoins the F Street premises where the slayer was captured. Ernest Walling, chief deputy district attorney, made the opening argument for the prosecution, re viewing briefly, but forcibly, the evidence that had been offered against the defendant. "KILLS FOR PERSONAL GAIN" .-- He assigned the man as a cold-blooded murderer, one who killed for personal gain. He charged that the slayer took his victims by surprise, shooting them through the back while they were seated in the front seat of a moving automobile and demanded the death penalty. Carter opened the closing arguments for the de fense, reviewing evidence which he pointed out to be in favor of the defendant. He assigned the admission of the defendant's confession as a prejudicial error and pleaded with the jury to disregard it. He said Don Ho Ton had been harrassed and virtually forced into making a confession. Jertberg then took up the thread of the argument. He accused prosecution witnesses of committing "rank and downright perjury" and asserted that tong leaders were instrumental in bringing the arrest of the defendant, that they intimidated him so that he con fessed to a crime he did not commit, and that they "framed" evidence against him. He accused the prosecution of asking the death penalty in a case where such a verdict would not be proper and laid particular stress on portions of Don Ho Ton's confession in which it was claimed the crime was committed in self defense. Chief Deputy Walling early in the afternoon took up the state's closing argument, again making a strong plea for a verdict which would carry with it the death penalty. 'This man measured the life of two of countrymen by a handful of gold," Walling asserted, alluding to the motive of the crime, which was the theft, or "hi jacking," of narcotics worth over $5,000. 'The death penalty is only fitting and proper pun ishment in this case of cold-blooded murder," he said. Presson's Drywall Service • taping. texturing. acoustic. spray • skip • model texturing • • sheet rock installing. glue-on. sheet rock laminating. QUALITY -COMPETITIVE PRICES -SERVICE Don Presson, Owner 3535 N. Duke, Fresno, Calif. 93727 (209) 291-3588 Judge Church issued his instructions to the jury at the close of the arguments and the case was submit ted at 3:19 P.M. During the trial, the prosecution brought out evi dence showing that on May 22, Don left Visalia in company with Lai Chew and Ong Kim, one of the latter two in an automobile and the other two with him on a motorCycle. It was shown that 60 cans of narcotics were taken as cargo and that later the dead bodies of Lai Chew and Ong Kim were found on a lonely road near Ca ruthers, three bullets in each body. The prosecution established that the defendant sought on at least two instances to sell the stolen nar cotics, that he was the owner of the revolver with which the slaying was commited, and that he was in possession of and seen riding the motorcycle near the scene of the crime. Virtually all the evidence, except a confession of the crime made by Don, was circumstantial, but was of such a nature as to link the defendant with the crime. FRESNO DISCOUNT TROPHY Rusty Lomier and Sandy Lomier A Family-Owned Business 268-2057 407 E. OLIVE FRESNO COMPLIMENTS OF EPPERSON'S MARKET, INC. OF CALIFORNIA 2590 N. MADERA AVE .• KERMAN 846-7325 Page Funeral Chapel George and Ella Page Frank Page, Consultant 2014 Arrants at McCall Selma 131 pE W Protecting Our Heritage Crackdown on Poachers By Lnrry H. Redfern Patrol lieutenant Department of Fish and Game Editor's Note: The general policy of The Review is to report on law enforcement activity in Fresno County only. As part of a state organization, Department of Fish and Game personnel operate without concern for county boundaries, except for know ing which county they are working in, so they can share -. information and cooperate with the proper local agency. Because hunters and fishermen are wt usually concerned with county lines either, it is considered appropriate to discuss Fish and Game enforcement activities on a statewide basis, so our readers will know what to expert in the way of enforcement if they go to other areas to hunt and fish. The state headquarters of the Department of Fish and Game is in Sacramento. The Department is under the overall command of Director Jack c. Parnell, and Chief of Patrol is DeWayne Johnston. The state is divided into five administrative areas, with each having a Regional Manager that oversees operations in the separate functions of Game Man agement, Inland Fisheries, Environmental Services, and Wildlife Protection. Each function has a super visor, and in the Wildlife Protection Division, with which this article is mainly concerned, that position is designated Regional Patrol Chief. Fresno County is in Region 4, which also includes Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Tulare, and Kings Counties, with the regional office located in Fresno. The Regional Manager is George D. Nokes, and the Regional Patrol Chief is William E. Childs. Enforcement personnel, in addition to the regional patrol chief, includes four captains, seven lieutenants, thirty-four wardens, and a warden pilot. Additionally, Region 4 has about ten volun teer reserve wardens, who assist regular officers on patrol. Report to the Commission The following portions of this presentation are excerpts from the California Department of Fish and Game report to the Fish and Game Commis sion, and cover some of the Wildlife Protection Div ision activity statewide through June of 1986. New China-In February Fish and Game com pleted the most successful undercover operation in DFG history with the arrest of 26 suspects for a variety of sport fish sales violations. Suspects arrested were from the San Francisco and Klamath River areas. Undercover wardens purchased a var t I s n a a C IT gl c( pc Ei te 132 ie-ty of-illegal fish from the subjects while operating from an Oakland storefront named New China Specialty Foods. The cases against these defendants have been brought to a successful conclusion with the exception of those still pending against six Native Americans . Sentences handed down included jail time, fines and restitution to Fish and Game in excess of $10,000. The cases against the/' Native Americans, which have been held on appeal over jurisdiction, were recently returned to the trial court for action. Bear Parts Operation -With the success of New China the Department fel t other undercover opera tions to combat the illegal sale of animals would be successful. A "borrowed" agent from the Depart ment of Justice was assigned to look into illegal sales of bear parts. Backed by state wardens, the special investigator won the confidence of 23 people, most of them houndsmen, and purchased approximately 50 bear gall bladders, 400 bear cla ws, several teeth, six paws, one bear hide and two mountain lion hides for an estimated total of $5,000. Felony charges are pending against most of the suspects at this writing. Special Operations Units-SB 499 (Davis), 1985, placed three new special operation units in the Department. They are comprised of 12 officers and are required to target violations that commercialize wildlife. The units have been trained and equipped and are currently in the field. They have already made major arrests and seizures involving clams, bear, and fish . The most recent example of their activities is an operation to investigate the move ment of live white bass. The first day on the job, team members observed a local angler removing live white bass from Lake Kaweah. The angler was subsequently arrested. Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) -In late 1984 the Department discovered that marijuana growers were having a significant adverse impact on fish and wildlife. Growers clear areas for planting and kill wildlife to protect crops. One local warden in Humboldt Couny had esti mated the same number of deer were killed by growers as were taken by legal hunters. With this concern in mind, Fish and Game became a formal participant in CAMP for the first time in 1985. Eight officers were trained to be part of the raid teams in the northwestern part of California. Ex periences with CAMP confirmed DFG suspicions. Wildlife is being severely impacted by marijuana growers. Poaching, indiscriminate use of poisons and the illegal diversion of water supplies were the major problems encountered. DFG will continue participa tion. Outstanding Investigation -Two Shasta County men were arrested after a lengthy investi gation that began when a freshly-killed bald eagle was left in a plastIC bag at the gate beside the Red ding Department of Fish and Game office. Also in the bag was a crudely-worded note threatening the life of a Shasta County warden. Invaluable informa tion from a former game warden resulted in search warrants being issued for two residences in the Redding area . A mountain lion hide, a ring-tailed cat, the remains of four fishers and steel traps with golden eagle feathers still attached were recovered. At the conclusion of the lengthy investigation, two defendants pled guilty. One man, charged with fel ony threatening a peace officer and taking a bald eagle, was sentenced to serve one year in the County jail and pay a fine of $6,120. He was placed on probation for three years during which he may not hunt or trap, possess or have under his control any firearm or trapping equipment, [must] submit to warrantless search by any peace officer day or night, and must obey all laws. The other man, charged with illegal trapping and possession of a protected species, was sent to jail for 266 days, ordered to pay a fine of $5,950, and placed on proba tion for three years. CalTIP -The CalTIP program, established in 1981, continues to provide the Department with valuable information which has led to over 500 arrests. While not every call results in an arrest, the proportion of calls resulting in arrests continues to grow. In adddition, the program is making citizens throughout the state more aware of the illegal take of fish and wildlife. The Review Board considered 77 cases this report period and awarded $22,400. These cases bring the totals since the program began to 280 cases with $62,350 awarded. The pro gram continues to support itself with donations from local agencies, sportsmen's groups and private individuals. Important cases made this year include: 1. A citizen informant reported tha t three individ uals were engaged in a commercial deer selling ring. Wardens investigated anad seized 259 pounds of venison and one live fawn. The informant volun teered to testify in court and was the key to the 133 Department winning a four hour jury trial. The CalTIP Reveiw Board awarded the informant $1,000. 2. The Review Board awarded another $1,000 to a confidential informant who reported that a com mercial fishing boat was unloading halibut illegally taken in Mexico. Wardens investigated and seized 3,300 pounds of gulf halibut, baquetta, and ~hite seabass. The owners of a wholesale fish business and two fishermen were charged with various record keeping violations, illegal importation of fish, and licensing violations. 3. A third $1,000 reward was given to a citizen who reported that a person was buying salmon and sturgeon from sport anglers and Native Americans on the Klamath River. The investigating warden arrested the person at his home and discovered an illegal fish processing operation. The defendant was fined $4,000 for the illegal sale of fish taken from the Klamath River and is on three years probation. Oil Spill Response -During the calendar year more than 1,900 reports of oil or hazardous ma terial discharges were received by Wildlife Protec tion Divison and regional personnel. Many of these incidents resulted in criminal and civil prosecutions against responsible parties. The following cases are of significance: 1. Civil charges were filed by the Office of the Attorney General for a dredge spoil discharge cov ering more than 88 acres in Bodega Harbor. The case is pending. 2. Two recent oilspiUs affecting endangered spe • cies in Kern County. Civil charges are being consid ered in this case. 3. One recent offshore spill resulted in the oiling of 3,700 birds. Many were cleaned and released. The suspect is denying responsiblity and the case has been refererd to the Attorney General for civil prosecution. Outdoor Alert-In 1985 the Legislature passed SB 1139, (Keene). The bill appropriated $6,000 to the Department to publish a brochure alerting out doors people to the problem of illegal marijuana plantations in the back country. The Department published the guide, "Outdoor Alert," to educate and warn California's sportsmen and women of the danger that exists in certain remote areas of the state. Sportsmen and women were given sugges tions on how to avoid marijuana gardeners, and how to protect themselves if they accidentally enter a garden or encounter the grower. The brochure also contained some helpful safety tips, a brief des cription of the plant, and a listing of ten counties with the highest incidence of marijuana cultivation. In general, the brochure was well received with objections coming mainly from businesses in identi fied risk areas complaining because of the potential negative impact on tourism. Communications -The overall upgrading of the radio system is continuing and generally follows the recommended changes described in the General Services Radio Study. Most Wildlife Protection per sonnel (WLP) are now equipped with 80 channel vehicular radios; the new equipment allows direct radio contact to many other law enforcement agen cies, especially sheriff's offices. Fu ture plans call for the replacement of the present walkie-talkie type radios. Three additional portable radio repeaters have been purchased for special operations in areas unserved by the present system. New dispatcher consoles and radio equpiment are being installed in each of the regional headquarters. Region 4 head quarters has received the first installation: Local Activity We shall now take a look at some of the activities and types of violations encountered by Wildlife Pro tection Officers in Region 4, and in some instances reflect on the great benefit of public and intera gency cooperation in helping to protect the habitat and our wildlife resources. A Tulare county beekeeper was arraigned in Reedley Justice Court on charges of taking mam mals with a poisonous substance (black bear with strychnine). The subject pled guilty and was placed on three years probation with 180 days in jail, sus pended on condition he pay a fine of $505 and not violate again. He had appeared with his attorney and after reviewing the evidence that had been put together, decided that a guilty plea was the easiest way out. A lieutenant, a warden, a warden-pilot, and our Wildlife Investigations Lab all played a part in bringing this case to a successful conclusion. There are strong indications that this may be a common practice when beekeepers versus bear problems arise. A Fresno County citizen, U.s. Forest Service personnel, Fresno and Tulare Department of Agriculture personnel, and certain people in the Fresno medical profession also partici pated in this case. This was a "hot" carcass -both public safety and wildlife concerns were imperative. t t il 134 The advantages of the new radio system enabling DFG personnel to communicate directly with other law enforcement agencies was graphically illus trated when a DFG lieutenant who lives in a rural area was notified by a neighbor that he'd surprised a burglar in his home. The lieutenant attempted to stop the suspect, pursuing him as he fled in a car toward Fresno. The officer radioed the location and direction of travel, and a warden in the Fresno are monitored. He coordinated communications between the sheriff's department, Region 4 dis patchers, and the pursuing lieutenant. The suspect lost control of his vehicle as he reached Fresno, and was apprehended. The rancher's property, valued at $2,000 was recovered. The suspect, an ex-convict with a murder on his rap sheet, subsequently admit ted several other burglaries, enabling sheriff's detectives to close the cases. Had it not been for the new radio, the burglar might have escaped. A warden recently responded to a call that Fresno County sheriff's deputies had located four subjects with some dead pigs. After the warden collected the evidence and interviewed the witnesses, he deter mined that the pigs were taken illegally, with a .22 caliber rifie, and the hunters were cited on that charge and for trespass. The warden explained that the pigs were good evidence, beca use they "squealed" on the suspects. Last Christmas Eve an irate angler contacted the Fresno County Sheriff's Department and com plained of another angler at Pine Flat Lake with an over limit of trout. The information was relayed to OFG, and a warden investigated. He was told by other fishermen that they'd cautioned the suspect about taking too many trout, but that he'd ignored them and continued to fish. When the warden con tacted the suspect, he was very cooperative, show ing his fishing license and a stringer with five fish. He then remarked that since he had a limit, he'd go home. The warden checked further and found seven additional trout in the man's possession. A warrant check with the sheriff's department showed outstanding warrants with total bail amount of $1,000. The seven extra fish led to the subject not only being cited for that violation, but to his arrest, and a Christmas card in the form of a booking sheet at the Fresno County jail. In addition to those who take game illegally for food, sale, or sport, wardens sometimes run across someone who has weird ideas as to what makes the Ideal pet. Recently a Fresno County resident was cited for illegal possession of a ferret. Apparently he had no plans to get rid of his wild pet, even though the animal had attacked his infant son, inflicted multiple bites on the baby's face, causing permanent loss of vision in one eye, and creating a need for future plastic surgery. The owner had been warned by a veterinarian that possession of ferrets without a permit was illegal, but he had never applied for a permit. Futhermore, it was the third ferret he had owned, one of which had been killed by one of his pet rattlesnakes. The normal suspicions of a game warden resulted last May in the arrest of a couple of cattle rustlers. Patrolling the Kings River area, he noticed a pickup parked in a location not normally used by anglers, and stopped to investigate. As he approached on foot, two persons jumped into the vehicle and fled without headlights. Near where the truck had been parked the officer found the carcass of a freshly killed calf with one hindquarter missing. He ran back to his car and set out in pursuit, notifying with the new Midland radio the sheriff's department. He was close behind the vehicle when it reached Avo cado Lake, and there the suspects abandoned it and fled on foot. In the bed of the pickup was the hind quarters of the calf. A few minutes later one suspect returned to the truck, soaking wet, having jumped into the lake to wash off the blood he knew would be damaging evidence. It was assumed he may have disposed of a firearm in the lake, but a search by a second warden who filled in failed to locate it. Because a domestic animal was involved, the case was turned over to the sheriff's department. The second suspect was later arrested, and both con fessed. The investigation implicated several other persons from the Fresno and Sanger areas who were suspected of routinely taking both domestic and game animals illegally. Too quickly jumping to a conclusion can some times be a tragic mistake. A couple of wardens checked a fisherman on the San Joaquin river north of Kerman, and finding he had no license, no identi fication, and no credible story as to who he was, he was taken into custody for further investigation and seated in the patrol car. About that time a second subject appeared and said, "Hey, he had nothing to do with it. I stole the car." A check with C.H.P. revealed that a vehicle parked nearby was stolen, and the case was turned over to c.H.P. 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Box 366 • Auberry, CA 93620 855-2940 136 turned out the first subject was on parole from state prison, and may have been found in violation and returned to prison anyway, but his buddy probably would have gone free if he'd stayed away and kept his mouth shut. DFG personnel have found that it is not only for traffic violations that people give ridiculous excuses. Investiga ting a report of skinned bear heads found ./ in a market trash bin, a lieutenant found papers in the bin leading to a local taxidermist. When advised that bear season was closed and that the bears had obviously been taken illegally, the taxidermist fur nished the name of the person who had brought the heads and hides for processing. When confronted by the officer, the hunter claimed that he and his partner had been attacked by the bears three times during a two day hunt, and finally were forced to kill them in self defense. He also produced the antlers of a deer and an unsigned deer tag, saying his wife had killed the animal but had neglected to countersign the tag. Unable to convince the officer of the truth of his tale, the suspect finally admitted he'd killed the deer himself, and that his wife hadn't even been on the hunting trip. Charges against him and his hunting partner for several big game viola tions were filed in Sanger Justice Court, the offense having occurred in the Wishon Lake area. Perhaps the most interesting recent DFG opera tion, at least as far as Region 4 is concerned, was the fifteen month undercover investigation, primarily in Tulare County, into illicit commercialization of wildlife. The major investigative phase ended in mid-Ffbruary of this year with the immediate arrest of 22 suspects, further arrests within the next few days bringing the total to forty-four, wi th the probability of more arrests pending. Most of the charges were for misdemeanors, such as illegal possession or sale of such wildlife species as bear, deer, raccoon, mountain lion, and bobcat. Some arrests were made on felony war rants charging falsifying of records, and conspiracy to sell bear parts. There were also charges against persons who were caught selling white bass. The investigation began late in 1985, when infor mation was received that a great deal of illegal hunt ing, trapping, and sale of game animals and animal parts was going on in the foothills of the southern Sierra. Members of the department's statewide Special Operations Team, wardens who work undercover throughout the state, were brought in to assist Region 4 wardens. The undercover officers spent months infiltrating the ranks of persons who employed a variety of techniques to kill wildlife illegally for profit. What they found was not a few hunters casually killing game out of season occasionally to supple ment the family larder, but well-planned, sophisti cated operation. Tile most common violators were "spotlighters," who prowled forest habitat with powerful lights, rifles, and loudspeakers emitting taped sounds simulating squalling prey, to lure such preda tors as coyotes, bobcats, and foxes into rifle range. Some had pickup trucks equipped with turret openings in the camper shells, cabs for gunners to ride, and buzzer systems for communi cation between gunner and driver. They sometimes sighted in their rifles by casually shooting quail and other birds. In gathering evidence to build their case, the undercover officers faced stiff competition from the people they were investigating, illegal purchasers of wildlife. However, they managed to buy 55 bobcats, 27gray foxes, parts of 16 black bears, three whoie bear carcasses, including a sow and her cub, two mountain lions, 11 raccoons, 600 rabbits, talons of a golden eagle, two deer, four valley quail, a rattles nake, a fisher, a long-eared owl, a wood duck, five wild pigs, 227 bullfrogs, and 2000 pounds of white bass. One poacher bragged to an undercover warden that he lost count after killing 76 deer with his favorite rifle over a three or four year period. The same poacher later complained that Fish and Game's mismanagement of deer herds was result ing in fewer deer available to hunters. In another case, an undercover warden made pur chases of illegal bobcat pelts from two poachers who said they needed the money to pay fines assessed in court appearances for prior wildlife vio lations. Another said he'd made sales of bobcat pelts in 1985 amounting to $32,000, and hadn't reported the income to the Internal Revenue service. Commenting on the operation, Regional Man ager George Nokes said, "We want the lawful majority of citizens to know we have great concern about this kind of law breaking and that we're not going to let up in our efforts to stop poaching. This wasn't the first use of undercover wildlife investiga tions in this state and the public can rest assured it won't be the last." 137 "It is clear we are changing criteria for getting the job done," added Patrol Chief Bill Childs. We closed last year's article with the story of "Humphrey," the wayward whale that had jour neyed up the Sacramento River as far as Rio Vista, and the part DFG played in the successful effort to coax him back to San Francisco Bay and the open sea. We are happy to report that Humphrey appar ently suffered no ill effects from his exploratory expedition. In 1986 he was positively identified, by features noted during his sojourn in the river, cavorting in the waters between the Golden Gate and the FaraIIon Islands. His curiosity about living in fresh water apparently having been satisfied, this time he flipp;d his flukes and continued on his migration. Department Regions with Regional Headquarters Addresss Region 1 601 Locust Street Redding, CA 96001 Region 2 1701 Nimbus Road Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Region 3 7329 Silverado Trail Napa, CA (4556 Region 4 1234 E. Shaw Avenue Fresno, CA 93710 Region 5 245 W. Broadway Suite 350 Long Beach, CA 90802 REGION 5 138 Sheriff's Explorer Scout Unit by ]. The Explorer Scout program is designed for the youth of Fresno County between the ages of fif teen and twenty-one who are interested in law enforcement. Both the people of the county and'-- the young people involved benefit from the pro gram. The department is provided with voluntary manpower to handle minor tasks, thus freeing per sonnel for more important duties. The scouts benefit by learning about law enforcement and receiving training in its various aspects. In the past year members of the Explorer unit Barrie ha ve participated in many working activities, learn ing activities, and others involving only just plain fun. Some of their community service projects were Christmas Tree Lane, where they directed traffic and assisted stranded motorists; Pine Flat Lake, where they passed out safe boating literature at the boat ramp and answered boaters' questions; and visiting such local events a health fairs and civic celebrations, where at the parents' request, they provided fingerprinting service for children as part of the nation-wide program to make lost children From lefl, stnnding: L .Grnce, Advisor N. Hnrrison, B. Ventch, Adviso r K. Peters, Advisor C. Knight, Explorer Cnptn in O. Bnch, R. Vidnurri, Advisor B. Stnrling, S. LeQuieu, Advisor ]. Bnrrie, V. Brown; sented: K. Roberts, O. Bnl/y, 0, Peters. Advisor B. Melkoninl/ , O. Flowers. easier to identify. The Explorers also work inside the department, assisting the investigation, identi fication, and Community Service units. Last year the group went to Morro Bay to tour the Coast Guard facility. Most of the Explorers have receievd first aid and C.P.R. training. Some members of the unit were able to attend the National Law Enforcement Explorer Conferehce in Seattle, Washington last summer. There they competed in law enforcement related events, went to training sessions, and enjoyed various leisure activities, with about 2700 other law enforcement Explorers from all over the United States and Can ada. After the conference was concluded, they were able to attend the World Fair at Vancouver, British Columbia. The trip was financed in part by public contributions, and the members express their thanks to the members of the community who contributed to the fund. Scenic Narrow Gauge Railroad Near YosernJte Park Yosemite Mountain-Sugar Pine Railroad Fish Camp. California 93623 • telephone 209/683-7273 The Explorers also assist the Boy Scouts of America by providing security at their camporees. It is comforting to a youngster who may be camp ing out for the first time to know there are older persons around the camp keeping an eyeon things. In return for that courtesy, the Boy Scouts often invite the Explorers to join in their fun activities. Last February the Explorer unit partiCipated in a ski outing at Badger Pass, and in August in a canoe rally at Shaver Lake. Whether or not the Explorer Scout decides on a law enforcement career when old enough, he or she will profit from participation in the program. It provides a constructive outlet for youthful energy, demonstrates the satisfaction that can be felt from providing a service to the community, and gives the you ngsters a posi tive view and a better under standing of the law enforcement profession and its relationship to the community. COMPLIMENTS OF SERIAN BROS., INC. 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Highway 99 268-8726 If no answer, call 268-2714 \ 141 Hot Dogs With Santa A few years ago the Deputy Sheriff's Association started a program that has become quite a tradition of the Christmas season. It's called "Hot Dogs with Santa" and is a party for children of department employees. The kids get to meet Santa Claus, play games, and are served hot dogs and other refresh ments. Santa Claus is Deputy Rodney Craig, and the story teller is Community Service Officer Caro line King. Now It Can Be Told Gas Attack The patrol officer of today receives thorough instruction on any weapon he is likely to have to use before he ever works a shift in a patrol car. Thirty years ago that wasn't true. There was a good (rain ing program in use of the .38 special revolver, but training in other weaponry, if it existed at all, was rudimentary. Tear gas training, for example, might have consisted of watching the instructor, who probably didn't know much more about it than the students, fire a 37 millimeter tear gas shell to land in front of an imaginary crowd of rioters; an admoni tion to not fire directly at a person or group at close range; and a walk through the gas cloud to ex perience its effects. Such lack of training was responsible for a some what amusing incident, since the mission was accomplished and no one was injured, but what could have ended in a tragedy, in the spring of1955. Early in the evening, Constable AI Nester of Laton rad ioed sheriff's department headqua rters for assistance in arresting a man who had been threat ening neighbors with a large caliber revolver, and had then gone into his house, vowing to shoot anyone who came to question or arrest him. Nester knew the man personally, and took the threat seriously. Two patrol officers just coming on duty were given the assignment. As they were leaving the building, the watch commander said, "Take this along. You might need it,"and handed one of them a tea} gas cylinder. The officer didn't pay much atten tion to it until he was seated in the passenger's seat of the patrol car and they were enroute. He then saw that he was holding a metal cylinder about a foot long and an inch and a half in diameter, with a slender, curved nozzle attached to one end by what appeared to be a twist operated valve. "How does thi~ thing work?" he muttered, and pointed the nozzle at what he thought was an open windwing, giving the valve a twist. At that time sheriff's vehicles were parked on a lot behind the building, and a couple of jail trusties were assigned full time to wash windshields and windows. The one who had worked on that patrol car that day had done his job too well; the windwing the officer thought was open was closed, but so c1ean.it was invisible to a casual glance. The brief spurt of gas struck the glass, bounced back, and immediately spread throughout the interior of the vehicle. All windows were opened in an attempt to clear the air, but not in time to prevent the obvious effect. The officers were almost to Laton by the time the tears and burning sensation ceased. . The deputies met Nester near the suspect's house, and a plan was formulated. Nester had infor mation that the suspect would be in a back bedroom with a screen door opening onto a porch, and that he kept the revolver lying on a small table beside the bed. It was decided that one deputy would take the tear gas cylinder to the back porch, creep up to the screen door, and inform the suspect he was under arrest and order him to get up and walk to the front door. If he reached for the gun, tear gas would be sprayed into the room, with the intent of blinding him so he wouldn't be able to find the gun, or see a target if he did get to it. The other two officers McDonald Jewelers A jewelry store • Fine jewelry sales • Cnstom jewelry designwith merchandise and • Watch repair • Appraisals service of a quality West Shaw ViJlage • 276-7660 that you thought Northeast corner of Shaw and Marks Store hours: 10 am -6 pm Monday-Friday no longer existed. 10 am -5 pm Saturday Closed Sunday 143 would wait at the front door to take the suspect into physical custody. The plan worked perfectly, up to a point. The officer crept silently up to the door and yelled, "She riff's department -you're under arrest -get up and go to the front door." The suspect, still lying on the bed, reached toward the table and began fumbling for the gun. The officer let loose a sizeable spurt of tear gas, which reached the suspect's eyes in a split second, helped along by the draft from a large electric fan on the table with the gun, blowing directly from the door to the bed. "Leave the gun alone. Get up and go to the front door," the officer said. The suspect got slowly to his feet, again reaching for the gun. The officer sent a second healthy blast of tear gas into the fan's draft, and repeated the order. The suspect then began groping his way toward the door leading to the front of the house. To further encourage the effort~ the officer shot a little more gas into the room. After the suspect left the room and was out of sight, the deputy waited to hear from the officers in front that the arrest had been made, to make sure the suspect didn't change his mind and come back for the gun. When after a few min~tes he'd heard nothing, he went around to the front of the house. There he found both officers and the suspect grop ing around, trying to getout of the cloud of gas that, thanks to thecfan, had surged from the house when the suspect had opened the front door. [n assisting the other two in handcuffing the suspect, the officer who had wielded the gas cylinder also ex perienced its full effect. After several minutes, the officers managed to lead the suspect to the patrol car and clear their eyes enough for the trip back to Fresno. Enroute they stopped at the emergency ward of the old county hospital, where all three officers and the suspect had their eyes washed out. It was such incidents, some without happy end ings, that finally brought the realization that peace officers need thorough training in secondary wea pons, as well as in use of handguns. Saluting the Fresno County Deputy Sheriffs C. GOWENS FARMS, INC. COTTONI • WHEAT • TOMATOES .. 25692 W. JEFFREY AVE. FIV·E POINTS 144 Local Boys Make Good The "Gone Fishin'" column of this issue mentions the retirement of Deputy Carl E. Sharp. It was definitely not a planned retirement; until shortly before it happened he had planned on completing his law enforcement career with the sheriff's department. A vacation trip early last summer to visit a daughter who had moved to Huntsv-ifie, Arkansas, brought an abrupt change to that plan. He learned the city, about the sizeof Fowler and the seat of Madison County, was recruiting for the position of chief of police. More out of curiosity than for any other reason, he made inquiries regarding qualifications for the job and other perti nent factors. As has happened in other instances when a midwestern or southern department learned a well-trained California officer might be available, he was offered the job. Although not at all familiar with the city, the department, or Arkansas law, Eddie liked the looks of the town and its surroundings, and the challenge was appealing. After only a nominal bit of consider ation, he accepted the job, returned home,arranged for a deferred retirement from Fresno County employment, and moved to Huntsville. Although Eddie had no formal supervisory expe rience with the sheriff's department, those who know and have worked with him predict he'll do well in his new position. He is blessed with a some what rare combination of an even temperament, intelligence, common sense, general knowledge of law enforcement principles, and a willingness to I€arn and to work hard that should pave the road to success as a chief of police. Word was received in Fresno late last year that Ron Wood, a former captain in the Fresno County • WILLIAM VERBURG DAIRY Producer of Danish Creamery Assn. Products 264-4579 2474 S. Brawley Ave. Fresno Sheriff's Department, had been appointed chief of police in Greeley, Colorado. The news came as no surprise to his former colleagues, superiors, and subordinates here. When he resigned several years ago to take a position as captain in the Greeley department it was predicted that he would eventu ally become chief. Ron had a reputation as a top-notch patrol officer early in his career, and demonstrated a willingness to do more than was required by being for several years an active member of the search and rescue team, with its 16 to 20, and sometimes 24, hour work days before the era of paid overtime. As a sergeant he was instrumental in the planning and supervision of the now conventional but then revo lutionary school visitation and public awareness programs. As lieutenant and captain he showed a remarkable talent for administrative detail, particu larly in the field of training. He was credited by Sheriff McKinney as being responsible, when per sonnel captain, for establishing and maintaining a training record system that would ensu're the department's remaining up-to-date in meeting POST mandated training requirements. Even with such an impeccable background and obvious qualification, Ron wasn't handed the Gree ley job on a silver platter. The city recruited nation wide, and there were around four hundred applicants. He was one of the six finalists who were seriously considered. The Review extends hearty congratulations to Chief Sharp and to Chief Wood, wishes them over whelming success in meeting the challenges of their positions, and expresses the utmost confidence in their ability to achieve that success. CIVIC CENTER SQUARE, INC. 485-4700 Real Estate Development and Investment 900 Civic Center Square, Suite 200 • Fresno . 145 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. 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Cal-State Auto Center Cal-Valley Distributing California First Bank California Industrial Rubber Company Calwa Cafe Canteen of Fresno, Inc. Carey Oil Co., Inc. Cedar Lanes Central Cal Alarm Company Central Fish Company The Checkmates Lounge Chet & Son's Truck Wash Christensen's Turkey Hatchery Civic Center Square, Inc. Club Brazil Coca Cola Bottling Co. of Fresno Colonial Van & Storage Commercial Mfg. & Supply Company Continuous Roof Gutters Creative Marketing and Research, Inc. Custom Truck Painting & Sign Company Dale Electric, Inc. Danish Creamery Assn. Data-Tech James L. Davison & Associates Demco Supply, Inc. Didier's Liquor Display Advertising Inc. Drug Fair Duke's Club Bud Eberwein Ed's Cedar Heights Shoe Repair Ed's Radiator Service Eddie's Pastry Shop Edward's Lock & Safe Company Electric Laboratories, Inc. W. S. Emerian Trucking, Inc. Ernie's Bakery Evan's Electric Service Paul Evert's R V Country F & L Liquors Farmer's Investment Company Federal Jewelry & Loan Company Fimbres Insurance Adjusters Inc. Ray Fisher Pharmacy Foodland, Inc. Foodland Markets of Fresno Fresno Ag Hardware Fresno Catholic Cemeteries Fresno County Farm Bureau Fresno Equipment Company Fresno Glass Company Fresno Memorial Gardens Fresno Merchant's Patrol Fresno Muffler Service Fresno Orthopedic Company Fresno Oxygen & Welding Supplies Fresno Paper Box Co., Inc. Fresno Planing Mill Company Fresno Roofing Company Fresno Saw Service Fresno Wire Rope & Rigging M. Friss-Hansen & Co., Inc. Frontier Fasteners Fung's Kitchen Vincent Ganderglia Trucking Gentz Construction Company Golden California Meat Packers Golden State Ranchers, Inc. Gong's Market Gottschalk's Grandma's Kitchen Green's Cyclery Greg's Stardust Room Haase Service Sales, Inc. Tom Harris Electric Harvey By-Products Company Joe Haynes-Exxon Service Heppner Iron & Metal Company Carl Hobe Ranch Holt Lumber [nc. Hope Manor Howell Air Conditioning & Sheet Metal Hy-Sal Canvas Specialties, Inc. Imperial Savings & Loan Interior Contractors Interstate Rapid Transit Ireland Manufacturing Company J & J Service, Inc. Jack-Be-Nimble Candle Shop Jacobs Garage Jae's Cleaners & Tailors Jaynes & Company Jensen & Pilegard Jerry's Automotive Machine Shop C. W. Jessen Construction Co. Johnnie's Speedometer Service Robert Jolly Construction Co., Inc. Jorgensen & Company Jorgenson Batteries Inc. 147 .... A SPECIAL THANKS... Kesco (Kings Electric Supply Co., Inc.) Kearney's Manufacturing Louie Kee Market, Inc. Keen's Day School Kimmerle Bros. Hydraulic Service Kitchen-Best Prepared Potatoes Kleim Automotive Center John Kochergen Farms Komoto Department Store Kong's Market L & P Market La Mar Electronics La Rocca's Italian Restaurant Lamona Service Center Larsen-Ratto Construction Company Liberty Auto Service Liberty Mutual Insurance Liberty Pest Control Liquor Junction Lisle Funeral Home Lloyd's AutoWerkstatt Lovejoy Building Materials Trucking Lum's Chop Suey Lyles Diversified, Inc. M & H Towing M & L Plumbing Machado's Deli & Wine Shop F. Machado Farms & Dairy Inc. Madison Hardware Company Malaga Food Center Marcus Bail Bond Service Margosian Beverage Company Marie Callender's Pie Shop Maruko Cyclery Master Radiator Works McDonald Jewelers , Medical Dental Pharmacy ·Mid-State Linoleum Mid-State Metal Casting & Mfg. Co., Inc. Mike's Pizzeria Modern Welding Company Monarch Refrigeration Company Moy's Chinese Restaurant H . M. Mugali's Market Myers Ward Tractor Co., Inc. Nicola's Nonini's Winery Normart's Furs O. K. 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Sam's Luggage San Carlos Cafe San Joaquin Glass Sanchez-Hall Mortuary Frank J. Sanders Mr. Sanford of California Santa Fe Hotel Santi's Inc. Security Building Maintenance Seibert's Oil Co., Inc. Schedler's Engine Rebuilding & Supply Sign Co. e. D. Simonian Insurance Gerry Smith Masonry, Inc. Sonilrol of Fresno, Inc. Sparky Electronics Dr. Earl G. Spomer, Sr., 00 Staiger Construction Company Stillman Drug Co., Inc. Sunnyside Pharmacy Sun Sun Kitchen T & T Electrical Contractors T & T Trucking Company Tax Audit Bureau Terminal Air Brake Supply Tinkler Mission Chapel Tokiwa-Ro Tri-Boro Fruit Co., Inc. 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CLOVIS Clovis Five Hundred Club Clovis Funeral Chapel Clovis Pest Control Environmental Air Conditioning & Heating 148 A SPECIAL, THANKS ... Fortney's Auto Body Harold's Body Shop Jim's Place Koll Concrete Co. Kowloon Kitchen Mueller Construction Supply P. R. Farms, Inc. D. Papagni Fruit Company Pollard Ranch Rebco of California Remco Construction Co. Sassano's Mens Wear Sierra Custom Homes Twin Gables Wawona Frozen Foods Wilmoth-Champ, Inc. COALINGA Birdwell Ranch John C. Conn Ranch Harris Ranch Larry McLeod Ford DEL REY Central California Raisin Packing Co. Enoch Packing Co., Inc. Garry Packing Inc. Hydraulics Machinery Sales DINUBA Kiper & Kiper Lumber Peloian Ranches FIREBAUGH Michael Giffen Ranch, Inc. J & J Custom Farming Las Deltas Grocery "Slim" D. T. Locke Ranch Rebecchi's Dept. Store Th(')mason Tractor Co. Tri-Air Inc. Tri-Transport Inc. FIVE POINTS Don's Market Five Points Ranch C. Gowens Farms, Inc. 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Whitesbridge - 150 Around the County When planning this edition of The Review, we inadvertently threw our friends from the various police departments a curve. For what seemed a valid reason at the time the decision was made, we changed our date for all material to be ready for lay-out from March 1 to February 1. That forced the police departments to have to compile, or at least begin planning, their material during the holi day season, traditionally a very busy time of year in the law enforcement business. As a result, some departments may not have been able to participate to the extent they'd have liked. We apologize for the inconvenience, and promise to be more consid erate in the future. We also lost of couple of departments for other reasons. Jack Pena is no longer chief of the Mendota Police Department, and to our knowledge a perm anent replacement has not yet been named. We shall refrain from taking sides in the well publicized controversy between Chief Pena and the Mendota city council, for we know none of the details or ramifications. However, we can say that Chief Pena always prepared a good article for The Review, and we shall miss his contribution this year. The city of Orange Cove has recently followed the example of San Joaquin and Parlier, and for economic reasons disbanded its police department. The city has opted to leave law enforcement responsibility to the sheriff's department, by default until such time as it is financially feasible to enter into a formal contract wiht the county for police service . We understand Firebaugh Chief of Police How ard Manes has been off duty for some time recup 151 erating from a heart attack. In his absence the department has been under the command of an acting chief, Lieutenant Rod Lake. With the responsibility of running the department thruston his shoulders in that manner, we can certainly understand why Acting Chief LIke hasn't had time to worry about an article for The Review. We wish him well, and we hope Chief Manes will soon enjoy a full recovery from his illness. One department hasn't seen fit to participate in The Review for several years. That statement is not to be construed as criticism. We don't insist that any department participate, or argue in favor of it. We like to think participation provides the police chiefs an opportunity to publicize their views and opinions, or to report on the progress or prob lems of their departments, in a way it is never done by the conventional news media. We leave the deci sion as to whether or not participation is worth the effort en tirely up to each chief, as we have to do, of course, for we certainly have no authority to compel participation even if we wanted to. If the decision is negative, there is no resentment on our part, for we realize the project requires a lot of time and effort that could quite possibly be spent in more constructive endeavor. However, we want those who choose not to participate to understand that if QUALITY SIGNS and SCREEN PRINTING • SANDBLASTED SIGNS. REAL ESTATE SIGNS • PLASTIC SIGNS. MAGNETIC SIGNS BANNERS• WINDOW LETTERING • • DECALS. WAlL SIGNS 268-3778 1934 East Home Avenue, Fresno, CA RON & MARY BEAUCHAMP ConI. Lie. #479494 MULLER CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY MAC MAGARGEE P.O. BOX 128 PHONE: (209) 299-0475 820 HOBLITT AVE. RE.S.: (209) 299-3466 CLOVIS, CALIFORNIA 93613 they ever change their minds, their contributions will be heartily welcomed. Chief Marcel J. Jojola and Captain Lew Ceja of the Huron Police Department didn't have time to prepare a formal presentation. They did, however, write us a letter expressing regret, and giving a brief assessment of their situation. They report the city's crime tate at an all time low, due to a more concentrated policing effort. They are stilll operat ing from the tiny building the depratment outgrew year ago, but are planning on an eventual move to new facilities. They express appreciation to the sheriff's department and others for assistance in what they refer to as the "big raid" and hope to continue to work in harmony with other law enforcement agencies. We welcome the Selma Police Department back after a hiatus of a year or so. To all the police departments that managed to prepare a presenta tion in spite of our ill-advised schedule, we express our sincere appreciation. We value very highly the information contributed by the county's police departments, for without it we wouldn't be able to meet our goal of providing our readers a compre hensive view of the overall law enforcement situation in the county. E. B. Yancey Building Materials FINISHED and ROUGH LUMBER SHAVER LAKE, CALIFORNIA PATRICK O'LEARY TOLLHOUSE 855-2420 Manager SHAVER LAKE 841-3337 ~ YOSEMITE ~GATEWAY INN Pool • Spa • Direct Phones • Kitchens Restaurant Breakfast • Lunch. Dinner (209) 683-2378 Gilbert & Dolores Ghyselinck 40530 Hiway 41 Oakhurst, CA 93644 152 Clovis Police Departtnent In Celebration of Our 75 Years Capl. During the middle 1800's, settlers began "homes teading" the San Joaquin Valley. Aslate as1890, the Clovis area was still undeveloped farmland. The only structure standing in the area at that time was the home of Clovis M. Cole, a major local landlord and grain farmer. In 1891, a railroad spur, promoted by Marcus Pollasky, was built through the area from Fresno to Millerton. When the railroad was built, a depot was built and named "Clovis" after the local landowner, Clovis M. Cole. In December 1891, the area around the depot was subdivided and divided into lots. This area is now known as Clovis. In May of 1894, a second major event affecting the settlement of Clovis occurred. On that date, a flume to transport lumber from Shaver Lake to Clovis was completed. The terminus at Clovis was the site of a large lumberrnill that is now the Rodeo grounds. With the construction of both the railroad and the lumbermill in Clovis, the area began to attract new settlers. During September of 1911, a campaign sup ported by local churches was begun to close the saloons of Clovis. This campaign was the start of ;; the incorporation of Clovis. A vote for incorpora tion was held in 1912, and Clovis was incorporated by a vote of 10 to 83. The Fresno County Board of Supervisors officially incorporated Clovis as a "City of 6th Class" on February 27, 1912. It was on April 27, 1912, that the newly elected Clovis Board of Trustees (City Council) appointed the first Clovis City Marshal (Police Chief), Jacob C. Horschman. In those early days of incorporation, the Clovis Trustees voted to outlaw saloons in Clovis and keep Clovis "dry." This limited some of the early prob lems facing the City Marshal. During that time, the City Marshal was responsible for collecting busi ness license fees, rounding up wild dogs, and serv ing as a fire watchman. The first City Marshal used a bicycle to get around town. If there was a need to transport a prisoner to the County Jail in Fresno, a horse and wagon was rented from a local livery by Pal Pallerson stable and the City Marshal drove the prisoner to Fresno. Clovis' first traffic accident occurred on on May 8, 1915, when a motorcycle driven by Ernest Schaffner struck a Clovis Transit Company's auto, driven by lB. Sims, at the corner of Fourth and Pollasky. Also in 1915, detectives raided a Pollasky Avenue "Speakeasy" and confisca ted several barrels of bootleg wine. The barrels of wine were stored by the City of Clovis and private guards were hired to protect the illegal booze. However, it was disco vered several months later that the barrels were emptied of their contents by unknown parties while they were being held for evidence. It was in 1920 that the City Trustees doubled the size of the Police Department when they hired a Deputy Marshal to assist City Marshal R.W. Ellis in his duties. This Deputy Marshal was to be primarily assigned to enforce traffic laws using his own vehi cle. In that same year, a night watchman was hired to protect the downtown business district during nighttime hours. Clovis' first major crime occurred on April 5, 1923, when thieves drilled through the roof of the First State Bank at the corner of Fourth and Pollasky. Inside the vault, the thieves emptied all the safe deposit boxes and left undetected. In 1930, the Clovis City Council approved the purchase of handcuffs to be used by the Clovis Police Department. That is the first record of any Police equipment purchase by the City of Clovis. In 1934, a fog horn was installed on City Hall as a means of calling a night watchman. The fog horn was activated by the telephone operator to get the attention of the night watchman. Upon hearing the fog horn, the night watchman would call the opera tor to learn where the problem was. In 1935, City Council started giving the Police Chief $10 a month car allowance to compensate for use of his personal vehicle for police related business. . By 1940, crime became more frequent in Clovis. The Police Department was provided with an office 153 At right: 1929 -First Clovis P.O. Motorcycle Officer, Louis Milanesi. Below: 1987 -Motorcycle Officer, D. Menard. in the back of the Clovis Justice Courthouse build ing at Pollasky and Fourth Street. This was the first permanent location of the Clovis Police Depart ment. In the 40's, World War II saw the building of Hammer Field and the assignment of soldiers to that military base. This had a direct influence on the growth of Clovis and increased the workload of the Clovis Police Department. Up to the 1940s, the population of Clovis was always approximately 2,000. In October 1947, the City of Clovis purchased its first Clovis police car, a 1947 Deluxe Tudor Sedan. At that time, the Police Department consisted of the Chief, two officers, and a part-time night watchman. The following year radios were placed in the Clovis police car. Between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., phone calls to the Police Department were automatically transferred to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department and then dispatched to the Clovis police car via radio. 154 -- Above: 1948 -Clovis Police Department. From left: W. Nelson,]. May, T. Higga~ ~n, Chief B. Spurgeon. At right : 1987 -Officers J. Palm, A. Campos, T. GibsOl1, T. Dailey. ISS A new two-cell jail was built in 1953 to temporar ily house Clovis prisoners. It was then that the Police Department, for the first time, was provided with separate permanent facilities in the City Hall building. By 1954, the population had grown to 3,000 people. In 1958, Frances Qualls became the first female to be given the title of Clovis Police Officer. For all of 1963, there were 64 reported crimes of burglary, robbery, and grand theft, resulting in a combined loss of $14,350. Although these figures were alarming in 1963, they are very small by today's standards. By 1964, growth trends were continuing and the Clovis Police Department had grown to a complement of 14 sworn officers. In 1907, the Clovis Police Department formed the Police Explorers Scout Post #355 to involve youngsters in the Clovis community in worthwhile activities. In 1976, the Clovis Police Department moved into the newly built Clbvis Civic Center complex at 1033 Fifth Street. The population of Clovis had grown to 23,350 and the Police Depart ment had a complement of 32 sworn officers. By then it was evident the growth of Clovis would be continuing. As the Police Department continued to grow, there was a need to modernize. In 1982, a major expansion project relocated the Police/Fire Com munications Center into the basement of the Police Department and expanded the area of the Records Section. This project established an ultra-modern radio system, capable of instant communications links with all nearby public safety agencies. In 1985, the Clovis Unified School District gave the Police Department permission to use a small building located across the street from the Police Depart ment as a Youth Services Center. All police youth programs were relocated in this new building and have received statewide recognition for the success of the programs. The City of Clovis has continued to grow and, on February 27, 1987, will celebrate its 75th Anni versary. At the time of its anniversary, Clovis' pop ulation is approximately 42,000 people, and the Clovis Police Department consists of 55 sworn officers. The first 75 years of Clovis' history has been a time of change and growth. We now look forward to the 1990's and beyond with the same spirit that has made Clovis "A Way of Life." Management staff, from left: R. Greathouse, Captain P. Patterson, D. Taylor, W. Jeans,]. Hauheimer, L. Avery, T. Bos, S. Cox, Chief G. Galvin, T. Coffin, G. Fisher, R. Keyes, ]. Zulim. 156 Coalinga Police Departntent Progress in Spite of Adversity The Coalinga Police Department has had a fairly eventful year with crime on the upswing. Elections netted some new and progressive council members who want the city to grow with the times. With the oil industries as they are right now, unemployment here in Coalinga has been running fairly high. We have seen numerous businesses quit. This has brought about more crime to the Westside. We regret the transfer of Sgt. Keith Lunney, who went to work for Tuolumne County Sheriff's Department. He just got tired of being called a flatlander and wanted to get back to the high coun try. Good Luck, Keith, hear the fishing is great. The Department has seen quite a turnover in personnel this year. Six new officers to be exact and four have transferred elsewhere in the state. Our Reserve Force of one is still putting in a lot of hours. Reserve Sgt. Tim Bement says that he hopes to get five officers from the Avenal State Prison in :0 the very near future. (Correctional officers, that is.) Coalinga Police Deparment again received the Pedestrian Safety Award from the American Auto mobile Association for 1986. A plaque was pres ented to Chief James A. Henry on behalf of the AAA. Officer Mert Carlson has taken over as the Crime Prevention Officer as well as the Neighbor hood Watch Liaison Officer. Numerous programs are in the mill for 1987 to aid in combating crime in the area. Officer Alan Chappel has been assigned duties as Y'outh Services Officer (YSB). He is putting together a Bicycle Safety Program with the assist ance of the area California Highway Patrol Unit. This will be of priority, due to three vehicle vs. bicycle accidents in one month. Also Officer Chap pel is attempting to get a Drug Abuse Program started, especially in the elementary and junior grades. A Fresno County Undercover Officer was placed in the senior class at the beginning of the school year and netted five students for selling drugs on the school property to the undercover officer. The citizens of Coalinga thank the Sheriff's Department for assistance with our drug probelms. Officer Joe DeMelo has been assigned as Depart mentDetective. Due to the shortage of personnel, DeMelo has not had much time to follow up a large backlog of crimes. Things just have to get better in 1987, in fact we know they will. The annual Horned Toad Derby this year was a great success and the demonstration by the FSO K-9 unit was very well done. It helped the citizens to better appreciate just what the dogs can and will do for their handlers with proper training. Sometime in Feburary we expect to get our new updated radios for each of our patrol units. These will have the inter-departmental capabilities for city-wide communications during any earthquakes that may occur in the future. Officer Chapman, heading up the Explorer Scout Program, has been a little short of scouts. We have four scouts that are active. Their duties have been conducting business checks, vacation list checks and some booking/mugging/fingerprinting in the city jail. Our jail is soon to be expanded for the benefit of the bailiff from the county during court days. This addition will be a holding room for the prisoners that are brought down from the county jail for court appearances. It will also be utilized for over flow on the busy weekends. Any allied agency personnel visiting the Westside are invited to stop in for a cup of coffee and a chat. 157 Kertnan Police Departtnent The Joy of Automation by Marlene Long Records Superoisor Out with the old, in with the new update, auto mate, on-line, computerized; however you say it, there's no stopping it, even small departments even tually find themselves faced with the question: Manual or Automation? Fortunately Kerman PO has been more than wil ling to change from manual to automated, it was just a matter of selecting the software and hard ware, budgeting the funds, and getting an O.K. from the City Council. Having done all of the above, we thought the rest would be a piece of cake. Little did we know the "fun" had just begun! We decided to purchase the Apple Macintosh Plus System and when they arrived, it felt like we were children on Christmas morning. It was so exciting opening all of the boxes of shiny new computer keyboards, screens, printers, disks, and mouses. Our team, Community Service Officer Dave Majors and City Planning Engineer David Randall, searched high and low for a system that would meet our current needs and also allow room for expan sion in the future. Since the various City Depart ment's were also seeking to become automated, the Macintosh Plus System proved quite compatible to our needs. Each work station can operate alone, or they can work off of a combined "brain" or hard disk. So far we have purchased five work stations, each with its own printer. No system is perfect, but it is easier to blame a computer than your co-worker or supervisor, right.? When you announce that you are in the market for a computer system, beware of sharks! You had better know what you're getting into -what you need and what you don't need -how much you will spend and how much you won't spend. If you don't do your homework beforehand, you may end up doing a Ilot of after school work. As of January 1987, we are still not on-line or fully automated. We chose to do our own program ming because basically there are no programs on the market intended for law enforcement use that met our needs. Chief Stafford, Lieutenant Black Standing, left to right: Community Seroice Officer Dave Majors and Chief Ken Stafford. Seated, left to right: Records Superoisor Marlene Long and Lieutenant Bill Black. and myself have all attended training at the S.E.A.R.C.H. Group in Sacramento. They present an excellent training program for law enforcement personnel who currently operate on an automated system or for those who are entering into it. Although our records (those wonderful little 3xS cards!) are not automated, the computers have not been getting rusty. The Macintosh Plus System has some great programs such as MacPaint, MacDraw, MacDraft, MacWrite, (the Mac kind of gets to you), Excell, Microsoft Word, and num~rous others. Unfortunately, we also have a program called Flight Simulator. The program was accepted quite well by 158 Ltftto right: Reserve Officer David Randall, Community Service Officer Dave Majors, Records Supervisor Marlene Lmg, Chief Ken Stafford, Reserve Officer Bill Mogensen, Officer Robert Muller, and lieutenant Bill Black. "the patrol officers. I suppose the thrill of flying and possibly old war memories had them glued to the office and after a noticeable decrease in our evening patrol shifts, we had to lock that out of the system for awhile. Chief Stafford was able to see the 1986 year end results in charted form by simply pressing a button. Looking at pi and bar charts is a little less boring and sometimes more convincing than numbers alone. Our Technical Services Division has been pu tting the word processing program to good use by sum marizing each case for the District Attorney's Office after a lengthy investigation. They have also been able to send out appointment letters to vic tims, witnesses, suspects, etc. This has decreased the time they would normally spend in clerical work and in turn freed them to do what they enjoy most, solving cases. Much to our delight, we learned that the C.L.E.T.S. can be tied into our system. However. along with that, we learned that the Department of Justice wasn't too pleased with our computer secur ity. We are in the process of rearranging our offices to accommodate the security of the actual machines. According to D.O.}., no unauthorized persons are to see, hear, touch, or smell the compu ters because they allow access to criminal informa tion. Our office is small now, and coupled with very little funds, it is amazing to see the ideas that spring up out of desperation. Overall, things are looking up at Kerman PD. If you're ever out this way, even if you're lost, come on in. We11 treat you so many ways, you're bound to like one. 159 Kingsburg A Nice Place to Live The Kingsburg Police Department serves 5,803 "Swedish Villagers" in a family-oriented commun ity known for wide streets, civic pride and the repu tation for being a great place to raise a famil A stroll through the downtown village shops is a happy experience marked by friendly merchants, Swedish architecture, Swedish blue and yellow light poles, colorful Dala horses standing guard over the streets, American and Swedish flags flying proudly, and a hospitlity not found in larger cities. Blessed with a caring community and one of the lowest crime rates in Fresno County, the 12 police officers of the Kingsburg Police Department are supported by a 24 hour dispatch center, the Kings burg Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Service, and a host of civilian volunteers such as Reserve Police Officers, Reserve Dispatchers, Police Explorer Post #245 and senior citizen Community Service Officers. The police department offers a full variety of modern services including a Youth Diversion Harold's Body Shop Welding 1231 Barstow. Clovis, CA 93612 Dan Lovelady, Owner. (209) 299-4328 CENTRAL DISTRIBUTING 5561 W. San Madele Fresno, CA 93711 Officer Program in the schools, a detective, a K-9 unit, Neighborhood Watch and a firm but fair, community-oriented attitude and approach to law enforcement_ Indeed, the community is an integral part of the police department, not only through civilian volun teers, but in the selection and promotion process where members of the community sit as evaluators in several phases of testing within the department. A new era is approaching Kingsburg as the entire city staff is working on promoting economic devel opment, while maintaining the family oriented atmosphere where people may still take a leisurely evening stroll or bike ride in a safe and secure environment. Prospective business pe rsons and families are cor dially invited to contact Police Chief Jim Taylor to arrange interviews and ride-alongs with members of the police department to see for themselves that "Kingsburg is a nice place to live." JIM'S PLACE LIVE 5 NIGHTS MUSI,C A WEEK 430 CLOVIS AVE. • CLOVIS • 299-2597 AUfHORIZED IIIMINAL All IUK! SU"L T ~ SALES & SER VICE TERMINAL AIR BRAKE SUPPLY 2475 SOUTH CHERRY AVENUE. FRESNO, CA 93706 Speclallzlng In Sales & SelVlce for: BRAKES -LIGHTS -ELECTRICAL & EXHAUST COMPLETE BRAKE REPAIR SHOP SINCE 1941 486·8480 160 Reedley Police Departtnent Meet our Contact Team The 1987 Contact Team, left to right: K. Fite, T. Reagan, E. Romero, R. Orozco, S. Silva, ]. Nichols, Team Leader Sgt. T. Lnw. by Joel Nichols In early 1982 the Reedley Police Department rec ognized a need to have . officers trained and equipped for special tactical situations. There had been recent incidents of armed felony suspects tak ing refuge in residences, and, in one incident, a family had been held at gun point while the police moved into position around the house. The Police Department recognized that it would, of necessity, be responding to such incidents, so they might as wei! have the training and equipment to do it right. Also, Reedley's K-9 teams were often called on to locate felony suspects, and well armed, well trained officers would be welcome support in such situations. Beyond the direct utilization of a tactical team, it would be useful to have tactically conscious, trained men dispersed among the patrol shifts. Last, but not least, Reedley p.o. is a training oriented depart ment, and tactical training would fit in with the career develop ment policy of the department. Once the need was recognized, the next step was selecting the right people for the training. First, standards were established. A team member had to be capable of achieving ninety percent on the department physical agility test. A member was required to have averaged over ninety-five percent on three separate department shooting courses this included the basic course, a night course, and a stress course. It was known that a team member would be required to put in many hours of training over many years, so a weeding-out program was estab lishde to try the dedication and self discipline of the volunteers. During this phase, volunteers attended training sessions more than one day per week. They worked on rifle marksmanship, starting with study and a written test, then .22 training and qualifica tion, then training and qualification with the de!=,art ment rifles and submachine gun. They also trained in tactics, unarmed defesnse, hand and arm signals, 161 and other basic tactical skills. Beyond the organized training, each volunteer was required to log several hours of exercise on his own time. By midsummer, 1982, there were still six volun teers in training. In August, two team members attended a formal P.O.s.T. recognized SWAT school. The other team members attended formal schools over the next few years as the schools became available. As the team was being formed, one member attended an Unusual Incident Com mand course, and another attended a similar course later. Separate from the six team members, three officers attended hostage negotiation trainig. By the start of 1983, the team was formally recog nized by the department, with Sgt. Don Shinn as the team leader. By 1984, the team was funded, and the members received paid time for training. In the beginning, they had trained on their own time, then they had received compensatory time, and, finally, the pay. When Don Shinn was promoted to Lieut enant, Sgt. Tim Law took over as team leader. Sgt. Law is also in charge of the K-9 Unit, so this put both tactical response forces under one leader who is trained and experienced with both of them. A name for the team evolved from the descrip tion of what the team would do in an emergency situation. As a tactical response policy was drawn up in 1981 and early '82, it was determined that most of the department would be involved in a tactical call-out but only specially trained and armed people should be in actual contact with the suspects. As a descriptive term, these people were referered .to as the "Contact Force." In 1982, as men were being selected and trained, they were still called the Contact Force, but as training continued and the Bella Frutta P-R Farms -Grower, Packer, Shipper o Locally Grown Almonds From P-R Farms to your home three generations of farming experience means quality you can trust. Buy in any amount, from 1 lb. to large bulk quantities. Great for baking. gifts, or fund raiSing! 298-8290 Corner of Willow & Shepherd OPEN SUNDAY-FRIDAY 8:30 a.m.-S:OO p.m. team was formally recognized, they were recog nized by the name. "Contact Team." Now nearly five years old, the Contact Team has proved its worth. It has proved too, that a small department can do it with departmental support and members with enough dedication. Although there have been no more than five actual team call-outs, in each case it was for a situation where the training of the team was vital. And the team's worth has gone far beyond the formal call-outs. Many times team members on patrol have responded to calls and used team tactics to resolve the situation before a call-out of the other members was necessary. At one time every K-9 handler was also a Contact Team member, and on K-9 call-outs not requiring the team, the team's weapons and tactics were stil in use. Later, every member of the three-man Detective Section was a Contact Team member. Felony arrests were made using team training and tactics. The Contact Team continues on with five of the original members and two newer officers. Tactics continue to improve as each man returns from schools bringing new ideas, and training continues to evolve as needs are recognized. Training includes such things as splat guns and a special portable buildings for live fire exercises at the range. The team has received not only department but also public support. Ballistics shields and helmets were bought for the team by local civic groups. As the city continues to grow, crime grows with it. The Police Department is increasing in strength and effectiveness, and the Contact Team will be keeping step with the times, ready for tomorrow's problems. HARVEY BY-PRODUCTS CO. 264·5130 231 6 s. FRUIT AVE. FRESNO 162 Sanger Police Departlllent Excellence in Law Enforcement Reality or Dream? by sergeanl Marly Slump! In a paper ti tIed "Striving for Excellence," wri t ten as a project at the P.O.S.T. Command College, Jan Duke said that excellence in law enforcement agencies can be achieved. He stressed that an excel lent department was not to be confused with a perfect department. Perfection is an impossibility when you must rely on the frailties and imperfec tions of people, and people are a police depart ment's primary resource. In achieving excellence, a department must excel in utilizing its resources and in meeting the needs of the community and governing body it represents as well as the depart ment's employees. Fronl. lefl 10 righl: Officers Roberl Minerva Ilnd Ralph Viveros. Bllck. leillo righl: Officers Diln Mildrigill and Gene Johnson. obtain the candidates best suited to meeting the department's goals as well as providing those employees with a work place and job atmosphere most conducive to, and promoting, employee growth and motivation. We are currently in an experimental state with a numberofprogramsand projects designed to meet the needs of the com munity, department and employees. Last year's article about Sanger Police Depart ment in the Sheriff's Review announced a number of changes in the department including the chan geover from a specialist to a modified generalist concept of enforcement. The first year of this pro gram has been a remarkable success, statistically, with an overall decrease in reported criminal activ The Sanger Police Departmen t has set the ity as well as a higher percentage of "solve rate" on achievement o.f excellence as a primary goal for the those crimes reported. There were no changes in next three years. Since the single most important departmen t reporting proced ures or sta tis tical resource in the department is people, the program analysis from previous years to accommodate sta must start with the department's employees. 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They are now beginning to feel quite comfortable with the "patrolman/investigator" assignment and many have said they now prefer the diversity offered by th program. The program is still experi mental and will be for several more years but, at this time, it appears that the generalist concept is here to stay. As part of the evaluation process, two major problem areas have been identified with the gener alist concept. The inability of officers, on some occasions, to follow-up their cases out of town and the lack of coordination with other agencies. We are currently addressing these two problems and are confident they will be resolved. The department also began a program of special BltL MARVIN ELECTRIC, INC. COMMERCIAL • RESIDENTIAL 32 YEARS EXPERIENCE -LICENSE #399636 BUS. (209) 252-5106 RES. (209) 658-7332 BILL MARVIN, President 4583 E. HOME • FRESNO, CALIF. 93703 Officer Rober! Minerva team assignments such as traffic investigation, D.U.I., etc., based on an officer's preference and area of expertise. Each officer's training. will be concentrated in the area chosen. In addition, they will be cross-trained in other fields. These teams will assist other officers on calls on an as needed basis but will not usually become the primary investigators. The changes in the department could not have come at a better time. As a result of a progressive city council actively soliciting industrial growth, at least three major Japanese industrial firms are cur rently in negotiations to locate in Sanger. Several others are now considering Sanger as a location for their U.5. offices. One project alone is estimated at over 80 million dollars. The projected population growth and new tax base resulting from this PONDESToVE 01UCK ROBERTS LIS ROBERTS (209) 298-1610 812-A BARSTOW AVE.. CLOVIS. CA 93612 165 expansion will require a police depc1ftment tha tis ready and able to expCind and chCinge rCipidly to meet the new needs of the community. With a progressive, innovative city and police administra tion, there should be Ci smooth transition period . K-9 Unit "Askan," the department's K-9, just recently-got his first two"bites."The first occurred on a fleeing suspect during a vehicle stop. The second bite occurred at the Sanger jail when the suspect decided to get even with Askan for the first bite by kicking him. The suspect required minor medical treCitmen t and decided he did not wish to get even a second time. Drug Abuse Resistance Education The D.A.R.E. Program had a short setback when D.A.R.E. Officer Epi Cardenas left the department for employment with the Fresno Police Depart ment. Epi did an outstanding job for us both as police officer and in the D.A.R.E. Program. His replacement in the D.A.R.E. Program is Patty Schellenger who has been with the Sanger Police Department as c1 CSO and then pOlice officer since 11-1-85. Patty has also done an outstanding job for us in the D .A.R.E. Program. Both individuals have, in fact, done such a good job that the City and Sanger School District have agreed to continue funding the program when grant monies are exhauseted. D.U.I. Grant The department was recently notified that our ~ D.U.I. grant request of two officers through "OCJP-" has tentative approval and should be auth orized as soon as funds are available. Sanger has had a severe problem for many years with alcohol related driving offenses. The D.U.I. Program will supplement patrol efforts to get the drinking driver off of the road in addition to freeing up more patrol time for other enforcement projects. VALLEY TRUCK WRECKING USED AND NEW TRUCK PARTS "We specialize In rebuilt transmissions & rear-ends" USED TRUCKS & TRAILERS LARRY GARABEDIAN 10784 S. Alia Ave .• Ph. Reedley 638-3551 • FrH"O 888-2419 ~1 , Communications clerk Sharon Takayama Officer Pal/y Schellenger D.A.R.E. Program LA MAR ELECTRONICS 45 "L" STREET FRESNO 264-3636 166 Selllla Police Departlllent by Captain John Swenning and Michael Del Puppo, Assistant to the Chief As the City of Selma continues to grow, the police department is striving to remain abreast of changing needs occurring within the City. Presently, the Selma Police Department consists of forty-two personnel: the Chief of Police, Police Captain, Assistan t to the Chief, one Detective Ser geant, two detectives, three patrol sergeants, two corporals, eleven police officers, a Communications-Records Supervisor, five dispat cher/clerks, ten level I reserves and four commun ity service officers and a clerical assistant. Many changes have occurred during the past year. Captain Earl Fowler, whose name was syn onymous with Selma law enforcement for many years, retired on July 12, 1986, after serving the City for 34 years. After a highly compebtive exami nation process, including a strenuous assessment center, John Swenning was selected as Fowler's replacemen ton November 24, 1986. Swenning is a former Fresno County Deputy Sheriff and Ser geant and was Chief of Police in Kingsburg for five years. The police department was allotted two new patrol positions, which were filled by Ranay Frank lin, Selma's first female police officer, and John Martinez, who had been a level I reserve with the Department. The eight car patrol fleet is being fitted with new low profile Jet Sonic light bars and PA systems. The Detective Division has been reorganized with Detective Sergeant Bob Johnson in charge of investigations and follow-ups. Assignments are based according to the type of crime, with Detec ti ves Gary Gass and Roger Wilbanks rounding out the corps of investigators. A computerized records maintenance system is currently being installed. The system features an ability to expand to Computer Aided Dispatch as well as the Mobile Communication Module for the patrol cars. The K-9 corps is being effectively utilized through the leadership and skills of Bob Johnson, John Friend, Steve Lowery, and Keith Berry. K-9's Thunder, Tut, Erko, and Max continu~ to perform well and have been life savers in a number of diffi cult situations. 167 Chief James E. Brockell Captain John Swennine One of the major goals for the new year involves the creation of a better community image. Several programs are currently being planned. The nucleus of this emphasis on community relations involves the newly hired community service offic ers. These trained non-sworn officers will perform assignments which include public contact work in crime preven tion and the delivery of certain non emergency police services, which will augment the level of available manpower in traditional law enforcemen t tasks. The most important crime Ass/. to Chief Michael Del Puppo prevention device is the Neighborhood Watch pro gram, to which a full time CSO will be assigned. Assistant to Chief Mike Del Puppo will be in comma nd of the total community rela tions program. Information booths are being built which will be manned at public events for the purpose of distri buting crime prevention, safety and other law enforcement material. For the first time, Selma Police Dep.artment par ticipatedin the "It's a Crime Rally ." We displayed a drug casket, presented a slide series on drugs, and 168 Saluting the Men and Women of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office PRODUCERS COTTON OIL CO. ~ 693-2443 9075 SO. COLUSA SAN JOAQUIN I, NTERNATIONAL 5250 N. PALM, SUITE 201 FRESNO, CA 93704 432-8400 RAY FIMBRES Insurance Adjusters. Inc. ADMINISTRATORS ADJUSTERS -INVESTIGATORS Service throughout the San Joaquin Valley 24 Hour Service 3649 W. Beechwood. Suite 106 Fresno. 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Because of a recent increase in bicycle thefts and accidents, the department bicycle safety program has also been expanded, with regular presentations made by community service officers. An "Adopt a Street" program is also part of our public relations approach to crime prevention. Police officers select a street and during lull periods leave their patrol cars to meet and briefly visit with residents along the street. This provides citizens an excellent opportunity to personally meet their police officers and also gives officers a chance to receive suggestions and learn of problems the police department may not be aware of. Most of the public relations programs will be presented through Selma Police Department's newest member, "P.c." the patrol car. "P.c." is a robot miniature patrolcar, a facsimile of our regu- General Offices 5683 E. NEBRASKA SELMA Air Conditioning • Heating Sales & Installation Service on Most Makes & Models 361 N. MINNEWAWA CLOVIS, CA 93612 (209) 299-9201 . 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All in ali, the members of the Selma Police Department are excited and enthused about their rapidly growing and changing community. We are proud of our Department and our City and invite you to come visit us sometime. (Editor's Note: A memo accompanying the manuscript indicated the following persons were not included in the personnel photos: Supervisor Dispatcher Clerk Gladys Staffod, Dispatcher Chris . tina Alvarez, Reserve Officer Joe Delgado, and Sergeant Ramero Alvarez. It was also mentioned that four members of the department retired last year. They are: Captain Earl Fowler, Sergeant Joe White, Sergeant Dean Nabors, and Detective Sam Ramirez. Too late for more than a brief mention in this year's edition, we learned that veteran Chief of Police James BrockeU will retire soon. Perhaps next year's Selma P. D. presentation will include a profile on him, as he certainly deserves recognition for the many years he served as Selma's chief of police. Disp. Irene Quintanar eler. Ass!. Disp. Gina Vasquez Disp. Steve Gaucin Disp. Petra Garcia Frances Tiger 173 Only The Natnes Have Changed The search and rescue business hasn't received a great deal of attention in recent years, primarily because most missions have been brought to suc cessful conclusions with a minimum of time;nd effort. Last year, however, was reminiscent of the middle sixties, when we could count on a bonafide mission nearly every weekend from the time fishing season opened in the spring until deer season closed in the fall. There are differences, of course, between last year and that era. Communica tions and other tech nology are better now, and with the area based policing concept, a trained officer can often get to the scene soon enough after the report of a person in trouble to effect a proper disposi tion wi thout the necessity of organizing and implementing a full scale search or rescue effort. The availability of the California Highway Patrol helicopter, to supple ment the traditional air search assistance of the Sheriff's Air Squadron, has been a major factor in the increased effectiveness of the search and rescue effort. Military and Forest Service contract helicopters were used quite frequently twenty years ago, but in each instance the request had to be justified to the degree that often by the time it was approved and the craft became available, either the potential for maximum usefulness or the need had ceased to exist. There are, however, many similarities between sea rch and rescue operations of the sixties and those of the eighties. Much of the credit for their success still belongs to unpaid volunteers, the Air Squadron, the Jeep Rescue Unit, the more recently established Mounted Search and Rescue Posse, the new Snowmobile Unit headed by former deputy sheriff Frank Hoke, and the mountaineering unit now being organized. The most striking similarity, however, is the reason for search and rescue oper ations. People still overestimate the ability of them selves and their equipmen t; become separated from companions when skiing or hiking; fail to exercise adequate supervision over small children; travel on foot at night over rough and unfamiliar terrain; and participate in various water sports without proper experience, equipment, or regard for potential hazards. As far as the basic reason for the existence of a search and rescue team is concerned, only the name on the reports havechanged in the past twenty years. The first significant mission of 1986 was on Jan uary 19, when in late afternoon the crew of the CHP helicopter, flying over the mountains east of Fresno, heard on their citizen's band radio a call for help. They answered, and learned that two four wheel-drive vehicles with several persons aboard were stuck in the snow somewhere near Bear Mea dow in the Dinkey Creek area. Because the early darkness of mid-winter was imminent, the fliers didn't have time to pinpoint the location. The she riff's department was notified, and patrol deputies Van Meter and Munier, accompanied by three members of the jeep rescue unit, were dispatched to the general area. There the jeep unit members were able to contact the victims on citizen"s band radio, and learned their exact location. Because of the deep snow and other poor road conditions, it still took two hours for the rescuers to reach the scene, where they found two families stranded in an International Scout and a jeep. The two men explained that they were familiar with the general area, having hunted deer there for several seasons, They therefore had expected no difficulty in taking their families there for a day's outing, assuming their four-wheel-drive capabiity would enable them to travel over the logging roads in spite of the deep snow. They'd been stuck since one-thirty in the afternoon, and had spent several hours in a futile attempt to dig the vehicles out before finally giving up and calling for help on the radio. Without undue difficulty the stuck vehicle was freed by winch power, and the victims headed for the warm th of home and some hot food . The depu ties gave much of the credit for the timely success of the mission to the jeep unit members. Had it not been for their intimate knowledge of the area, and the resulting ability to understand the victims' directions to their location, the victims may have spent a long, cold night stuck in the snow. A couple of months later, on March 8, a report was received of two young men several hours 174 WATSON AG CHEMICALS, INC. Fertilizers. Insecticides • Vineyard Spraying P.O. 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They had been part of a party of several persons who had set out from the trailhead that morning, planning-on turning back in plenty of time to reach the starting point before dark. Somewhere in the Cutts Mea dow area the two had gone on ahead. When the time came for the return trip the others hadn't caught up with them. They waited on the trail as long as they dared, lest they be caught by darkness, then returned to the trailhead. When the missing youths hadn't returned by 6:00 p.m. the sheriff's department was notified. Neither had any previous experience in either cross country skiing or winter survival, nor did they carry any survival gear. Sergeant John Retherford, the department's field coordinator for search and rescue, along with the volunteer snowmobile unit and members of the National Ski Patrol's Nordic unit, and Deputy Mathias with the department sno-cat, began searching shortly before 9:00 p.m. Deputy Robison contacted the Sierra Summit Ski Lodge manager and arranged for one of their sno-cats to take him on a search of the Red Mountain Road to Boneyard Meadow. The two lost skiers had not only violated one primary safety rule by becoming separated from their group; they had later become separted from -each other. Secrest was found a little after eleven p.m. south of Cutts Meadow; Schuyler a couple of hours later on the trail south of Boneyard Mea dow, both by snowmobile units. They were checked over by Paramedic Sue Velasquez, who had been standing by at the trailhead, and found to be in good condition. They had no excuse or partic ular explanation for the concern they'd caused their friends; they simply said they'd gotten lost. On May 25, seven persons from southern Cali fornia, one a nine-year-old boy, set out on a raft trip down the Kings River from the Garnet Dike area. The raft began to fill with water almost immediately, and they were unable to keep it bailed out. They lost control of the craft, and were swept into a swift flowing channel they'd planned to avoid. There the raft capsized. All occupants except the boy were thrown clear. The raft was stopped standing on end by a tree, and the boy was pinned, below the surface, by the force of th~ current to the bottom of the raft, which was facing upstream. One of the adults tried for several minutes to free him, but was overcome by the strong current and swept on downstream, as the other occupants had been. All except the boy eventually managed to reach shore unhurt. When the search and rescue crew arrived, the raft was still wrapped partially around the tree. The boy was not visible, and it was hoped he had been swept free and perhaps had managed to reach shore somewhere downstream. That faint hope was encouraged when a life jacket matching the description of the one he'd worn was found some distance downstream .However, a check below the surface revealed the boy's body, still in its original position. Attempts to recover the body were futile because of the force of the current. Finally, the body was tied to the raft so it wouldn't be carried away, and the air chambers on one side of the raft were deflated. This created an unequal pressure against the tree, and the raft slipped from its trap and it and the body were pulled to shore. On Wednesday evening, June 5, Deputy Van Meter contacted Scott Wilson at Wishon Village in response to a report his backpacking companion was missing. Wilson said he and another young man, Jeff Schroeder, had been hiking in the Tehipite-Crown Valley area for several days. On Tuesday, enroute back to Rancheria traihead, their starting point, they had lost the trail in Crown Valley. They had each taken one side of the creek, intending to walk a short distance upstream searching for the trail, and to stay in touch. How ever, Schroeder had gotten out of sight and hear ing, and that was the last Wilson had seen of him. In searching for him about 3:00 p.m., he'd found footprints he believed to be Schroeder's, but was unable to follow them for any distance because of the rocky terrain. The tracks indicated Schroder had at that time been traveling in a northerly direc tion. Wilson started searching in that general direc tion, and when darkness fell was near Volcanic Cone. He slept there that night, and the next day walked north to a ridge overlooking Blackcap Basin. He then began traveling southwesterly, on a 176 route that took him between Chain Lakes and Cas tle Peak, and eventually reached Woodchuck Creek, which he followd to Wishon Reservoir. From Wishon Village he telephoned Schroeder's father, who notified the sheriff's department. Early Thursday morning Sergeant Retherford arranged for the CHP helicopter to take him on a preliminary search flight over the area. They/flew for three hours in the vicinity of Crown Valley, Castle Peak, Volcanic Cone, Spanish Meadow, and the Woodchuck country. They saw no sign of anyone who might be lost. At· noon Retherford returned to headquarters and organized a search operation. That afternoon the air squadron searched till dark, covering the area from Big Max son Meadow south to Geraldine Lake, and from Wishon Reservoir east to Crown Basin. Meanwhile, the CHP helicopter airlifted seven ground searchers to Johnson's Meadow, not far from where Schroeder had last been seen. Two members of the jeep rescue unit were sent to Hof fman Meadow to provide communications relay between the various search units. On Friday seven members of the mounted posse joined the search, and were assigned to check the area between Rancheria trailhead and Castle Peak. Three more searchers were added to the ground party. The helicopter crew took Scott Wilson aboard and renewed the air search. About 10:00 a.m. footprints were found near Scepter Pass. Wil son was flown there, and he identified the tracksas Schroeder's. They indicated a general direction of travel toward Big Maxson Meadow. The moun ted posse, enroute to Castle Peak, had found the going extremely difficult because of deep snowdrifts. They were ground like diverted to Courtright Lake with instructions to attempt to ride in to Big Maxson Meadow from there. They found that route virtu- impassable also, due to snow on the trail. searchers were airlifted to Big Meadow, and they searched in that vicinity The air squadron flew over the area the day. About 6:30 p.m., the posse, toward post Corral Meadow, heard what a human voice calling for help. was notified, and he asked the helicop to search the area from which the voice have originated. They flew over itat low rk, but saw no sign of anyone needing On Saturday the search, which by now had been augmented by back country forest rangers, con tinued as a full scale effort. The searchers found the going increasingly difficult because of down drifts blocking the way. About 3:00 p.m., members of the mounted posse reported Schroeder had just walked in to Courtright Lake. Schroeder · said that when he and Wilson had become separated he'd been completely disor iented, and had kept moving, hoping to find a famil iar landmark. He'd crossed a ridge between Brown Pass and Scepter Pass, and from that high vantage point had seen Courtright Lakein thedistance,and thought it to be Wishon Reservoir. He's started in that general direction, and by 11:00 a.m. Saturday had reached the north fork of the Kings River. Although it was running extremely high, he'd swum across, found the Big Maxson trail, and fol lowed it to Courtright Lake. A search in the Coast Range west of Coalinga a few weeks later had a much less happy ending than the one for Schroeder. On Monday, August 4, a southern California woman, Mrs. Victoria Wilson, telephoned to report her husband Thomas and a friend, David Reller, overdue from a bow and arrow hunting trip in the vicinity of Coalinga Min eral Springs. Sergeant Retherford sent deputies Tilley and Avila to the old resort, now a county park, to check for the hunters' vehicle, and arranged for the Coalinga unit of the California Highway patrol to make a preliminary check of the general area with the patrol airplane. At 8:30 that evening Tilley reported the vehicle parked at the campground, but had found no sign of the occu pants. The CHP flight also produced negative results. Retherford then began organizing a search team, composed of members of the air squadron, the mounted posse, the jeep unit, and two blood hound handlers. The CHP helicopter was not avail able, so a request was made for a search flight by a Lemoore Naval Air Station helicopter. That request was denied because, although the navy search and rescue helicopter is usually available for emergency evacuation of stranded or injured per sons, it is seldom used for routine search. Early Tuesday morning the two bloodhounds and their handlers began tracking north of Coa linga Mineral Springs Road, the dogs having been 177 given the scent from articles found in the lost hun ters' pickup. Six members of the mounted posse rode up the Kreyenhagen Peak trail. At the peak they split into two teams, one group of three con tinuing north on the traiL and the other dropping off the mountain into Little Oak Flat. The CHP airplane again assisted, with Deputy Mike Robison flying as observer. A jeep unit was sent to c'heck Juniper Ridge from highway 198 around Kreyen hagen Peak and Sherman Peak, then south on Min erai Springs Road back to base camp. Late in the a fternoon three search dog teams from the Califor nia Rescue Dog Association arrived. That is a volunteer agency based in the Santa Cruz area that has reportedly developed a somewhat revolution ary method of using dogs to track lost humans. They don't use bloodhounds, but German she pherds, and the dogs don't track on a leash, but range free ahead of the handler, in the manner of a bird dog. If they locate the proper scent, they are trained to return to the handler and lead him to where it was found. The group was assigned to check the Kreyenhagen Peak traiL but the dogs found nothing by which the effectiveness of the technique could be judged. The search was concentrated the first day in the general area of Kreyenhagen Peak because Mrs. Wilson had stated the hunters had been advised to hunt that particular area. On Wednesday several ground searchers were added, and a number of military helicopters, arranged for through the California Office of ~Emergency Services, arrived to assist. The search area was extended from Kreyenhagen Peak north to Sherman Peak, with the jeeps continuing to check all roads and four-wheel-drive trails in the area. The results were the same as they'd been the day before -no sign of the lost hunters. The area covered thus far was quite dry, and the searchers had seen few signs of the presence of game animals. Speculation on Thursday was that because of that factor Wilson and Reller had decided to hunt farther west, where there was some water available and game might be more plentiful. The overall search team grew to about eighty persons that day, with the arrival of 24 members of the California Conservation Corps. They were made a part of the ground search effort, which covered the Gravelly Flat area north from highway 198 to Bald Mountain Ridge, and west Armored Transport of California Complete Banking Service Serving Fresno Over 35 Years All Property in Our Possession Completely Insured Against Loss 110 N. 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Thursday's efforts were also futile. Thursday evening the worries of Sergeant Retherford and Lieutenant Artie Cox, the overall director of search and rescue who had by then arrived at the" scene, were complicated by the arri val of the families of the lost men. Such a visit is almost always a problem .Families can't be barred from the scene of course, but their presence is usually discouraged unless their assistance is actu ally needed. They are usually too distraught to contribute anything constructive to the serarch effort. They have a tendency to want to be briefed on every detail of the operation so far, when the director is too busy planning future strategy to explain what has already been done. They make suggestions too far-fetched or unreasonable to be followed, a nd may be overly critical because they're ignored. Search and rescue supervisors understand their concern, and try to be patient with them, but sometmes that patience is sorely tried. On Friday the ground search concentrated in the drainage between Kreyenhagen and Sherman Peaks. The aircraft, jeeps, and the dog teams con tinued to search in a circle around the Mineral Springs Park. The area had all been covered before, but then with the possibility the hunters were merely lost, and would be able to make their pres ence known if a searcher came within sight or hearing. By now almost a week had elapsed, and the probability of the hunters still being on their feet was very low. Although the terrain is extremely rugged and brushy, the area isn't so large that they wouldn't have been likely to find their way out had they been alive and able to walk. From any of several mountain tops in the area one could see the San Joaquin Valley and civilization. The search was now a foot-by-foot effort to find bodies, which could be well hidden in the heavy brush. Again on Friday there were no encouraging results. 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At that point there were marks in the dirt indicating someone had fallen, so the search was concentrated there. A short time la ter the body of Wilson was spotted by' an air squadron unit, about 75 yards from where Reller's body had been found. The pilot directed ground searchers to its location by radio, and the long, hot, dry mission was over. Quoting from Retherford's report, the concl u sions as to the ca use of the inciden t were as follows: "The victims were approximately 75 years apart on a straight line. Their equipment was located approximately 400 yards south of the victims, in a separate drainage. Victim Reller's equipment was scattered below a rocky ridge as if he had fallen from the ridge. Victim Wilson's equipment was tied to his bow, and a small diameter hemp rope was tied to one end of the bow. It appeared Wilson may have been lowering his equipment from the rocky ridge. The victims had approximately 2 cups of water remaining. Their flashlights were out of their packs, as if they were moving at night. Vic tims were only one mile northeast straigh t line from camp." Both bodies were in such an advanced state of decomposition that post mortem examination didn't reveal a definite cause of death. However, it was believed to have been from injuries suffered in falHng. The day after the search ended in the dry, brushy terrain of the Coast Range, a report was received of a man who'd died in a decidedly differen t geogra phical environment, the Kings River near the mouth of Rough Creek. He was one of several persons who had planned a kayak trip down the river from that location. Immediately after launch he had lost control of his kayak, was swept to the wrong side of a rock dividing the current, and plunged bow first down a vertical drop with sLlch force that his craft was pinnned in that positon against submerged rocks. He managed to get clear, and swam a short distance, clinging momentarily to ropes his companions had thrown to him. He was unable to maintain his grip on the ropes, and when he turned loose, was swept into a large pool of swirling water, where he disappeared. It was assumed that his body was trapped against or beneath submerged rocks. Because of the extraordinarily high water for so late in the season, and a major forest fire that raged for weeks on the nearby shore, it was more than a mon th, on September 20, before a crew could reach the scene and recover the body. The job was then made easier by the assistance of the CHP helicop ter crew. The scene is one of the deepest canyons in the Sierra, and reaching it by rappeling down the walls would have been a monstrous undertaking. About 10:00 a.m. the helicopter crew met Ser geant John Maier and his crew at Kirch Flat, a few miles downstream from the scene. A reconnai sance flight up the canyon indicated wind condi tions were suitable for a low hover at the bottom. All excess weigh t was removed from the craft to provide maximum power and manueverability. "The victims were approximately 75 yards apart, in a straight line. Their equipment was loented approximately 400 yards south of the victims ... " Two flights were made to transport three men and their equipment to a point directly over the rocks they'd work from. While the craft hovered at between fifteen and twenty feet above, the men and their equipment were lowered by the electric hoist. The craft then returned to Kirch Flat and waited for the recovery to be effected. In the six weeks since the inciden t had occurred the force and volume of the water had abated con siderably. The body was found where it was expected to be, so recovery was relatively easy. By 2:30 in the afternoon the helicopter had picked up the crew and the body, again by LIse of the hoist while hovering, and returned them to Kirch Flat, where a depu ty coroner was waiting. The foregoing are but a few of the many searches, rescues, and body recoveries made by the department's search and rescue team last year. There were many variations in location, circum stances, and dispositions. However. virtually all of them had one common factor. The basic cause of the predicament the victims found themselves in was someone's carelessness, ignorance, or failure to exercise plain common sense, and, in some instances, outright stupidity. 181 Auxiliary Units Air Squadron The primary purpose of the Sheriff's Air Squadron when it was organized in the early for ties, and for most of its existence, was to assisnhe department in search and rescue. It performed ad mirably at that task for many years, with an occa sional bit of variety in the form of a photo mission, which usually consisted of taking an identification bureau photographer on a low level flight over a crime scene so he could make a photograph for use in court. Squadron pilots were also sometimes called on for an officer or officer/prisoner transportation flight, but such missions were rare exceptions to the rule. A few years ago the advent of the California Highway Patrol helicopter service drastically changed the air squadron's purpose. There was even some speculation that its usefulness had come to an end, and that gloomy prospect created a serious morale problem among Squadron mem bers. Although they didn't like to admit it, they couldn't question the fact that a helicopter is much more effective in search and rescue than a fixed wing aircraft, because it can fly lower and slower, hover over one spot, and take off and land without benefit of a long, straight runway. Even though the future appeared unpromising for any substantial degree of worthwhile activity, the Squadron remained intact, and kept itself in a state of readiness for the rare but inevitable occa sions when the CHP helicopter wasn't available. The members continued their regular training ses sions, kept their emergency equipment in top working order, and were always ready for service, even if that service wasn't requested as frequently as it had been in the past. A year or so ago someone in authority in the department began to realize what a valuable resource the Squadron was for activities other than Sheriffs Air Squadron . Back Row: jim jackson, Phil 5101/5, Tim Van Dyne, Andy Holmes, Buck Moyers, jack Rusligan, Arne Dresslar, Cap/. Gene Hallam , ReI., Ed Trimble SIan Gibbs and Tom Koop . Middle Row: Capl. Chel Lnvgren -Liaison Officer, Elmer Tuschhoff, Truman Campbell, Charles Slalie, Bob Anderson, Cal MacPherson, Ken Young, Ed Lnng, Del Ehrlich, Ray Rasmussen -Commander, Gil Kohfield, Hal In Cosle and Richard While -Assl. Liaison Officer. Fronl Row: Marvin Simmons, Bill Brown, Leroy Horsch, Bill Brandon, Eddie Riedenauer, Bob Hooper, Lnyne Hnyden, Marvin janzen, Clyde Baumbach and Andy Brenick. . 182 search and rescue. The gratifying result is shown by the report of Operations Officer Ed Stone, published in the December 1986 issue of The Trim Tab, the unit's official newsletter. OPERATIONS: It's interesting how diversified the Squadron's missions were for 1986. The Sheriff really put us to work each month of 1986. We flew emergen cy blood bank supplies to Santa Rosa, courier services with deadlines for legal documents, witnesses and deputies cross country, many suc cessful searches, photo missions, CAMP mis sions, ordinance transportation, you name it. A total of 94 separate flights participated. By category of flight mission-hours flight time: Search . .. . ... .............156 hrs. 30 min. CAMP . .. ..... . .. . ......... 7 + 10 Transportation .. ........... . 14 + 00 Practice Search .... ....... . . . 17 + 30 Photo Flight Missions ....... . 3 + 15 Surveillance .. .. ... ....... . . 31 + 48 Courier Serv ice . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5 + 00 Snow Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 7 + 35 Emergency Blood Transport . .. 4 + 45 Total Flight Hours . .....245 hrs. 3 min. Our overall response time was always on ready. 99.9 percent of our active and some of our inactive members participated in at least part of each mission. Only on one callout did we fail to supply pilots when requested and weather was partly due to this one. Jeep Rescue Unit The Jeep Unit, like the Air Squadron, has in re cent years felt the effect of the CHP helicopter, in terms of fewer calls for their services. Also like the Air Squadron, they have remained in a state of readiness, just in case, maintaining and moderniz ing their equipment, and conducting regular train ing sessions. One such event was a two-day simulated mission in the Sawmill Flat area near Wishon Reservoir, in which the Air Squadron and the Mounted Posse also participated. John Skadden, leader of the group this year, reports they still adhere to the strict rule of par ticipation adopted when the unit was formed more than twenty years ago. The membership, many of whom come from the ranks of the Fresno Four Wheel-Drive Club, is restricted to twenty. 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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 Mounted Posse The Mounted Posse is not only a hard-working, dedicated outfit, it is further distinguished by hav ing the first female member of a department search and rescue unit. (Deputy Donelle Eaton, as a member of the Boating Enforcement Unit, some times is involved in search for and recovery of bodies of drowning victims, but that is specialized duty usually lasting not more than a few hours, and a far cry from assisting in a ground search of several long, exhausting days.) The pioneer female is Marilyn Vasquez, whose regular job is Correctional Sergeant in the jail. She first heard of the unit's existence when she joined the department about five years ago. Being an ac complished horsewoman with a mountain-trained horse, and having taken some college courses related to search and rescue, she immediately became interested. Sheriff Magarian was captain of the jail then, and she asked him if there was any restriction against women members, or any depart ment policy prohibiting regular employees from being members of reserve units. He told her he knew of neither, and encouraged her to submit an application for membership to the posse and see 185 what would happen. She did so, and waited about two years before getting a favorable reaction, or any reaction at all. Finally, she was told she could become a member if she felt she could make a positive and construc tive contribution to the unit's overall mission, and not be a hindrance because of her sex or not being able to keep with the men. If she hadn't already considered and answered that question in her own mind, she wouldn't have applied for membership, so she enthusiastically joined on those terms. She knew she'd been accepted when they began to talk to her the way they talked to each other, sometimes perhaps deliberately using coarse language to see what her reaction would be. They knew they wouldn't always remember to clean up their language in her presence, and it would be ex tremely awkward if she would be unduly shocked or insulted by such lapses in manners. That testing stopped when Gene McClurg, a retired correction al officer, pointed out that her regular job was working in the jail, and that it would be very dif Sheriff's Mounted Search and Rescue Posse. From left, rear: Ed Campos, Lee Nilmeier, Manual Lima, Kirk James, Earl Hall, Gene McClurg, Al King, Richard Smith, Keith King, Ralph Von Flue. Middle: Jack Mize, Bob Haire, Dave Martin, Allen Gomes, George Porter, Gary Ihde, Billy Prewill, Steve Capelli, Tom Simonian, Al Saroyan, Mike Sheehan, Richard Essegian. Seated: Glenn Schmidt, Jimmy Nulick, Brien Botehlo, John Bacorn, Ronald Peak, Wayne Anderson, Frank Brunnemann. Kneeling: Bill Melville, Bob Smith, Steve Stevenson, Eddie Knight, Marilyn Vasquez, Lou Siegel, Eddie Ortenzio. Marilyn says the other members didn't talk to her very much for a long time. However, she didn't see that as resentment, but more because they didn't quite know what to make of her presence at meetings and training sessions, and were waiting to see how well she would fit into the organization. ficult for them to find words or phrases she didn't hear so often at work that their shock potential had long ago disappeared. By now Marilyn is regarded by her peers only as another member of the team, and a good one. She participated in most of the unit's missions last year, 186 including the search for the two bow and arrow hunters found dead after almost a week of search ing in the Coalinga Mineral Springs area. She describes that as the roughest duty she's had to date, explaining that in some places the brush was so thick it was impossible to ride through. They sometimes had to dismount and crawl on their hands and knees underneath the canopy of brush, breaking a trail with their hands to get the horses through. In spite of that, and the other unpleasant and Center, Marilyn Vasquez and her horse, Brandy. strenuous aspects of the volunteer duty, Marilyn is still enthusiastic about it, and has no plans to give it up. The posse participated in three major training exercises last year, for a total of 800 man* hours. They assisted in four major searches, working a total of 350 man* hours, and rode in parades at the Laton and Clovis rodeos, for a total of 76 man* hours of public relations duty. *and woman Other Units Because of the recent formation of the Snow mobile and Mountaineering reserve units, little in formation is available other than the brief mention in the article, Only The Names Have Changed, the RUANN DAIRY MA,DDOX DAIRY Ed and Doug Maddox Phone 867-4457 7285 W. Davis • Riverdale account of last year's search and rescue activity. We hope to have more detailed information and photographs for next year's edition. Our Sincere Thanks to the Fresno County Deputies A.I.E., Inc. Avionics, Instrumentation, Electronics 298-8332 or 255-6800 187 The Decider From lefl: Scoll Jones, Chris Osborn, Brian Christian. by Ken Frankfort Henry Coy scored on a quarterback sneak from one yard out with 38 seconds left in the game to give the Fresno Police Department a dramatic 30-23 victory over the Sheriff's Department in the Fifth Annual Pig Bowl at Ratcliff Stadium. The vic tory gave the PO a 3-2 edge in the annual event, and marked the first time that either team had "scored consecutive victories in the series. A disappointing crowd of some 4,000 fans were treated to a thrilling game that went down to the wire before the PO was able to pull it out with a clutch drive in the last two minutes. The heavily favored PO took an early 7-0 lead in the first period when they recovered a fumble in the end zone on a bad snap from center. They in creased their lead to 14-0 early in the second quarter when Chuck Mart fell on a loose ball in the end zone following a blocked punt by linebacker Howard McNair. At this point it appeared that the anticipated rout was on, as the Sheriffs offense was not able to get untracked against an aggressive PO defense. But, the Deputies came roaring back on the ensuing kickoff, marching into PO territory, and then cutting the lead on a 40-yard scoring pass from quarterback Sergio Toscano to wide receiver Mike Robison. John Cyran added the extra point to bring the S/O within a touchdown at 14-7. At this point the S/O offense gained momentum and mounted another potential scoring drive on their next possession ; Relying on a strong passing attack, the S/O drove to a first down at the PO one yard line, only to have the drive thwarted on the next play when Toscano's pass was picked off in the end zone. Following the interception, the S/O defense rose to the occasion and shut down the PO offense, forcing a fourth down punt which was shanked out of bounds inside the 25 yard line. With excellent field position, the S/O moved quickly to take advantage of the PO miscue. After having one touchdown nullified by a procedure penalty, Toscano got the Deputies even with a 15-yard touchdown toss to wide receiver Rusty Hildreth. Cyran's point after attempt was on target, and the score was knotted at 14 just before the half. However, the PO refused to roll over as Her mann Petersen took the ensuing kickoff and ran it back to the S/O 45 yard line to set up a 32-yard field goal by AI Abdulla, as PO tooka 17-14 lead into the locker room at halftime. 188 In the third quarter PO forced another 5/0 turn over as Toscano coughed up the ball when he was hit while attempting to pass, and PO recovered at the 5/0 4S yard line. Behind the smooth ball handling of Coy, and the consistent running of the fleet-footed Petersen, PO increased · their lead to 23-14 on a drive that was culminated by Petersen's on.e-yard touchdown run. PO's two-point conver sion attempt failed when Coy's pass fell incomplete in the end zone. Down by nine points, the 5/0 fought back gamely and provided their own break when Greg McClung nailed Petersen on a solid hit just as Petersen was attempting to field a punt at his own 3S yard line . The ball was jarred loose and the Deputies gathered it in to give the offense excellent field position once again. From there Toscano needed only five plays to score, with the toudldown corning on a 10-yard pass to Hildreth, who made a spectacular leaping catch over two PO defenders in the end zone. This time Cyran's extra point attempt was blocked, and PO maintained a slim 23-20 margin. The 5/0 again drew even early in the final quarter when Cyran booted a 35-yard field goal to tie the score at 23-all. This set the stage for a defen sive battle that left the outcome in doubt until the final minute of the game. With just under two minutes left the 5/0 had the ball, and had driven close to midfield. They were hoping to get close enough for a last-second field goal that would have given them a tremendous come-from-behind win . But it was not to be, as Toscano, who had been on a hot streak, attempted a short slant-in pass to McClung that turned into disaster. The pass was off target, and as McClung reached back, the ball deflected off his hand and into the grasp of McNair to put the PO in business at their own 48 yard line. With the roles now reversed, the 5 /0 defense went to work with the hope of getting the ball back for one more .try. But the mental errors that had plagued the 5/0 Vlost of the afternoon were about to spring up and bite them again. Faced with a rigid Deputy defense, the PO was unable to generate a real scoring threat. But just as it appeared that the PO would run out of downs, a critical face mask penalty was whistled against the 5/0 , and the PO was blessed with a first down and a new life deep in 5/0 territory. Taking advantage of the gift , Coy made a short drop and hit his tight end Ray Wallace over the middle for a big gain down to the one yard line. On the next play, Coy snuck over for the game winner. The 5/0 had one final opportunity, but with on ly 30 seconds left, PO's "prevent defense" in tercepted Toscano's long desperation pass, and the game was history. PO hung onto the baIL and with it hung onto the Pig Bowl championship and the bragging rights for 1987. For those in attendance, it was thought to be the most exciting game of the five played thus far. The game provided plenty of scoring and some hard hitting defense by both teams. For the most part, the game featured the consistent running attack of the PO against the dangerous passing game of the 5/0. It was a gutty performance by the Deputy defensive unit that twice carne back to tie the score after being down by two touchdowns. But they never were able to overcome the 14-point deficit that was created by their own mental mistakes and poor execution. Both teams played a whale of a game on defense, with standout performances turned in by linemen Mart and Richard Desmond, and linebackers Jerry Dyer and Howard McNair for the PD, and by linebackers Jim Arendt, Brad Christian, and/Ron Wiley, along with defensive backs Greg McClung and Chris Osborn. Arendt, who seemed to be everywhere on defense, received the award as the defensive player of the game for the S/O, while McNair, an aggressive, hard-hitting linebacker, collected the same honor for the PD. On offense, standout performers included quarterback Henry Coy and running back Her mann Petersen for the PD, and quarterback Sergio Toscano and receivers Mike Robison, Rusty Hildreth, and Greg Andreotti for the S/O. Placekicker John Cyran also performed well for the S/O. Coy, whose solid play and smooth execution guided PD's relentless ground attack, was named most valuable offensive player for his team, while Toscano, who overcame a slow start to lead a tremendous comeback effort, shared the S/O of fensive player award with Robison, who was on the receiving end of several of Toscano's passes. The Most Valuable Player of the Game award rightfully went to PD's fine running back Hermann Petersen. He was simply awesome as he again showed his ability to find the open hole, elude tacklers, and turn on the speed in the secondary. His performance was the difference in the game. A great deal of applause should also go the the members of the S /O offensive line, including Cliff Little, Steve Herzog, Dave Olivares, . Ruben Banuelos, and center Phil Bellefeuille, who provid ed solid pass protection for Toscano all afternoon. Even though the S/O was not able to pull out a victory this year, the team showed a vast improve ment over last year. That must be credited to the addition of Correctional Officers to the roster, which gave some ml,lch-needed strength at several positions. The loss of Deputy Brian Morgan, who suffered a shoulder separation in practice, could have made a big difference in an otherwise ineffec tive running game. His presence would not have allowed the PD defense to key on Isaac Glass, and it would have kept Wiley and McClung from hav ing to play both offense and defense. Five other players who would certainly have added depth to the S/O lineup were honored by Sheriff Steve Magarian. In a pre-game ceremony, Magarian presented retired jerseys to Mike Stan ford, Ken Larssen, Troy Garey, and Al Ward, all of whom were seriously injured in the line of duty over the past few years, and to Karen Graves, widow of David Graves who was killed in 1982 when his patrol vehicle was struck by a drunk driver near Biola. It was a fine tribute to those past Pig Bowl players, and it provided a solemn mo ment to reflect on their accomplishments. 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Emerian Trucking, Inc., 120 Enterprise Electric, 74 Ernie's Bakery, 80 ~ Esse Markert, 80 Evan's Electric Service, 50 Paul Evert's R V Country, 63 F & L Liquors, 8 Farmer's Investment Company, 80 Federal Jewelry & Loan Company, 150 Fimbres Insurance Adjusters Inc., 169 Fig Garden Village, 93 Ray Fisher Pharmacy, 11 Fleeman's Portable Welding, 36 Foodland, Inc., 50 Foodland Markets of Fresno, 53 Foreign Car Engineering, 28 Fresno Ag Hardware, 136 Fresno Auto Wholesale, 92 Fresno Catholic Cemeteries, 98 Fresno County Farm Bureau, 191 Fresno Discount Trophy, 131 FresAo Equipment Company, 115 Fresno Glass Company, 17 Fresno Memorial Gardens, 6 Fresno Merchant's Patrol, 136 192 Fresno Muffler Service, 150 Fresno Orthopedic Company, 58 Fresno Oxygen & Welding Supplies, 35 Fresno Paper Box Co., Inc., 175 Fresno Planing Mill Company, 80 Fresno Roofing Company, 6 Fresno Saw Service, 56 Fresno Specialty Contractor, 112 Fresno Wiz:!!.Rope & Rigging, 61 M. Friis-Hansen & Co., Inc., 150 Frontier Fasteners, 42 Fruehauf Corp/Liquid & Bulk Tank Div., 63 Fung's Kitchen, 126 Galahad Foods Inc./Round Table Pizza, 127 Vincent Ganderglia Trucking, 36 Gentz Construction Company, 136 Golden California Meat Packers, 48 Golden State Ranchers, Inc., 103 Gong's Market, 14 Gottschalk's, 46 Grandma's Kitchen, 125 Great Western Savings, 50 Green's Cyclery, 36 Greg's Stardust Room, 150 Haase Service Sales, Inc., 46 Hallaian Homes, 34 Tom Harris Electric, 23 Harvey By-Products Company, 162 Joe Haynes-Exxon Service, 115 Heppner Iron & Metal Company, 62 Carl Hobe Ranch, 80 Holt Lumber Inc., 57 Hope Manor, 24 Horn Photo Shop, 120 Howell Air Conditioning & Sheet MetaL 63 Hy-Sal Canvas Specialties, Inc., 69 Imperial Savings & Loan, 110 Interior Contractors, 136 Interstate Rapid Transit, 69 Ireland Manufacturing Company, 80 J & J Service, Inc. , 63 J M Custom Cabinets & Furniture, 53 Jack-Be-Nimble Candle Shop, 14 Jacobs Garage, 90 Jae's Cleaners & Tailors, 136 Jaynes & Company, 106 Jensen & Pilegard, 50 Robert V. Jensen, Inc., 7 Jerry's Automotive Machine Shop, 136 C. W. Jessen Construction Co., 106 Johnnie's Speedometer Service, 69 Robert Jolly Construction Co. , Inc., 103 Jorgensen & Company, 80 Jorgensen Batteries Inc., 180 Assemblyman Bill Jones, 32 Jungle King Distributors, 178 Kasco Fab Inc., 65 Kesco (Kings Electric Supply Co., Inc), 107 Kearney's Manufacturing, 136 Louie Kee Market, Inc., 80 Keen's Day School, 120 Kimmerle Bros. Hydraulic Service, 150 Kitchen-Best Prepared Potatoes, 36 Kleim Automotive Center, 98 John Kochergen Farms, 114 Komoto Department Store, 48 Kong's Market, 120 L & P Market, 60 La Mar Electronics, 166 La Rocca's Italian Restaurant, 124 Lamona Service Center, 7 Larsen-Ratto Construction Company, 120 Leroi's Custom Cabinets, 50 Liberty Auto Service, 50 Liberty Mutual Insurance, 136 Liberty Pest Control, 63 Liquor Junction, 37 Lillard Company, 53 Lisle Funeral Home, 2 Lloyd's AutoWerkstatt, 27 Longs & Company Jewlers, 195 Lovejoy Building Materials Trucking, 115 Lum's Chop Suey, 124 Lyles Diversified, Inc., 115 Lyon's Restaurant, 127 M & H Towing, 29 M & L Plumbing, Co., Inc. , 92 Machado's Deli & Wine Shop, 136 F. Machado Farms & Dairy Inc., 136 Senator Kenneth L. Maddy, 32 Madison Hardware Company, 184 Malaga Food Center, 150 Mar-Lynn's Antique Re-Creations, 123 Marcus Bail Bond Service, 40 Ma.rgosian Beverage Company, 91 Marie Callender's Pie Shop, 124 Maruko Cyclery, 175 Bill Marvin Electric, 165 Leroy Massey & Assoc., 29 Master Radiator Works, 184 McDonald Jewelers, 143 Mecca Billiard Supplies, 172 Medical Dental Pharmacy, 11 Melody Food Market, 74 Melody House Television, 180 The Merchant Association, 69 Mexico Theater/Rainbow Ballroom, 92 Mid-Cal Publishers/Fresno Legal Reports, 1 Mid-State Linoleum, 115 Mid-State Metal Casting & Mfg. Co., Inc., 164 Mid-Valley Cafe, 125 Mike's Pizzeria, 124 Millionaire Merchandise, 175 Modern Welding Company, 115 Monarch Refrigeration Company, 122 Montelongo Wholesale, 92 Moy's Chinese Restaurant, 125 H. M. Mugali's Market, UO Myers Ward Tractor Co., Inc., 141 Nicola's, 128 Nonini's Winery, 164 Normart's Furs, 111 O. K. Produce, 184 O'Brien's Brake Service, 115 O'Connor & O'Connor Process Service, 110 Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons, 175 Ostergaard Feeds, Inc., 110 Our Grocery & Hardware, 36 The Outpost, 125 Overstreet General Tire, Inc., 53 Owl Transfer Co., Inc., 36 P & R Liquor Store, 191 PIP (Postal Instant Press), 43 Packing House Employees & Warehousemen Union Local 616, 172 * * Quali-T-Ruck Service, Cover The Rack, 120 Rainbo Bakeries, 40 Ranchers Cotton Oil, 46 Rasmussen Auto Repair, 120 Fred Rau Dairy, Inc., 84 Ray Bros. Transportation, 106 Red TriangJeDil Company, 120 Reta 's UphOlstery, 64 Rich Products Corporation, 92 Richard's Cocktail Lounge, 73 Ridge Electric Motor, 60 The Ripe Tomato, 124 Bill J. Rippee, Investigator, 69 Rolinda Auto Parts/Rolinda Auto Sales, 36 Rolinda Farmers Store, 175 Ron's Machine Service, 184 * * * Seiberts Oil Co., Inc., 50 Semper Truck Lines, Inc., 114 Schedler's Engine Rebuilding & Supply, 150 Sign Co., 152 Silver Dollar Hofbrau, 127 C. D. Simonian Insurance, 141 Sinclair Paints, 180 Sirman and Warren, 49 Slavich Bros. Inc., 69 Gerry Smith Masonry, Inc., 92 Sonitrol of Fresno, Inc., 5 Richard A. Spangle Air Conditioning, 169 Sparky's Electronics, 73 Dr. Earl G. Spomer, Sr., O.D., 11 Staiger Construction Company, 115 Steam Cleaner's Inc., 141 Stewart & Nuss Inc. , 141 Stillman Drug Co., Inc. , 11 * * SUPPORT YOUR ADVERTISERS * * * THEY SUPPORT YOU! Pac Tel/Cook's, Cover * * Palace Meat Market Co., Inc., ]64 Pan American Underwriters, Inc., 36 Paradise Liquors, 175 Paramount Pest Control, 180 Pardini's Grocery, 96 Bill Parish Chevron, 136 Payless, 180 J. c. Penney Co., Inc., 178 Pennwalt Corp., 8 Piccolo's Flowerland, 92 Picker Parts, Inc., 36 Playland Pool, 115 Pleasant Mattress & Furniture Warehouse, 9 K. M. Plumb Service, 150 The Prescription Pharmacy, 11 Presson's Drywall Service, 131 Producer's Cotton Oil Co., 169 Producer'5 Dairy Inc., 61 Producers Packing Company, 75 Puma Construction Co., Inc., 164 * * Round Table Pizza, 127 *Ruckstell Calif. Sales Company, 22 Rudy's Elm Pharmacy, 92 S. E. Rykoff & Company, 120 S & M Farm Supply,92 SPSP Inc. , 150 Sadler Office Supply, Inc., 92 Sam's Luggage, 120 San Carlos Cafe, 125 San Joaquin Battery & Electric, 96 San Joaquin Glass, 184 San Joaquin Valley College, 88 Sanchez-Hall Mortuary, 172 Frank 1. Sanders, 141 Sanford & Gilbert Insurance Agency, 136 Mr. Sanford of California, 36 Santa Fe Hotel, 69 Santi's Inc ., 101 Security Building Maintenance, 106 Security SpeCialists, Inc., 105 * Sunnyside Pharmacy, 11 *Sun Sun Kjt.chen, 125 Superior Custom Wheels, 103 T & T Electrical Contractors, 15 T & 'f Trucking Company, 92 Tarpey U-Save Liquors, 92 W. A. Tarver Company, 179 Tax Audit Bureau, 13 Technicolor Corp., 50 Terminal Air Brake Supply, 160 Tinkler Mission Chapel, 150 Tokiwa-Ro, 25 Todd's Trailer Park, 29 Tri-Boro Fruit Co., Inc., 115 Trimmer of Fresno, 175 Travelers Body & Fender Works, 69 Tru Arc Welding, 92 Truck Dispatch Service, 115 Turtle Lodge, 35 Twice-As-Nice Janitorial, 194 193 Uncle Tom's Liquor Store, 106 United Automotive Works, 123 United Faith Foundation, 10 V M Custom Boat Trailers, 36 Valley Bakery, 9 Valley Burglar Alarm, 94 Valley Children's Hospital, 53 Valley Foundry & Machine Works, 92 Valley Industrial Services, 172 Valley Novelty, 183 Valley Office Equipment Company, 150 Valley Radiator Company, 80 Valley Towing Service, 184 Valley Welding & Machine Works, 105 Van Dyke News Company, 184 Van Vleet Properties, 74 Varni Associates, 120 Ventura T V Center, 184 William Verburg Dairy, 145 Vie-Del Company, 38 Senator Rose Ann Vuich, 32 Waller Inventory Service, 97 Warner State Farm Insurance, 95 Warrick Electric Inc., 98 Wayne's Liquors, 17 R. J. Wayte and Sons, 22 Weibert's Enterprises, 191 West McKinley Grocery, 115 Westcal, Inc., 141 Western Alarm Company, 46 Western Building Materials, 13 Western Exterminator Company, 29 Western Metal Company, 172 White's Moving & Storage, 172 Whitie's Pet Shop, 80 William's Upholstery, 54 Willson Farms, Inc., 109 - JULIO'S AUTO REPAIR 797 Manning • Parlier 93648 646·9904 TWICE-AS-NICE JANITORIAL 1713Tulare, Suite 115 * Fresno, CA 93721 445-0795 Yosemite Coins and Antiques, 66 Yost & Webb Funeral Home, 97 AUBERRY Cliffside Auto Center, 136 Loggers Landing, 92 Ponderosa Market, 106 BURRELL Mendes Tacherra Inc. & Mendes Dairy, 28 CANTUA CREEK Houlding Farms, 120 CARUTHERS American National Bank, 54 Caruthers Drug, 11 Cattuzzo & Sons, 34 Clevenger Mercantile Co., Inc., 54 Fair Mart, 184 McCarthy Farming, 46 Watson Ag Chemicals, Inc., 175 CLOVIS Robert Q . Bergstrom, Attorney at Law, 146 Boice Funeral Home, 2 C & W Body Shop, 36 Calif. Upholstering Works, 106 Central Cycle Salvage, 106 Clovis Five Hundred Club, 175 Clovis Funeral Chapel, 15 Clovis Pest Control, 36 The Conversation Piece, 74 Environmental Air Conditioning & Heating, 171 Fortney's Auto Body, 74 H. K. Concrete Cutting, 74 Harold's Body Shop, 160 Jim's Place, 160 MURRIETA FARMS 5854 S. San Diego Ave. Mendota, CA 93640 655·3221 Larry S. Kelley, CPA, 146 Koll Concrete Co., 196 Kowloon Kitchen, 136 Mueller Construction Supply, 152 P. R. Farms, Inc., 162 D. Papagni Fruit Company, 175 Gene Peracchi Pontiac, 6 Pollard Ranch, 179 Ponderosa Stove Works, Inc., 165 Rebco of California, 103 Remco Construction Co., 106 Sassano's Mens Wear, 17 Sierra Custom Homes, 6 Transportation Specialties, 140 Twin Gables, 126 Valley Fence Company, 95 Wawona Frozen Foods, 14 Wilmoth-Champ, Inc., 29 COALINGA Birdwell Ranch, 180 Coalinga Feed Yard, Inc., 98 John C. Conn Ranch, 94 Harris Ranch, 128 Larry McLeod Ford, 34 DEl REY Central California Raisin Packing Co., 107 Enoch Packing Co., Inc., 115 Garry Packing Inc., 17 Hydraulics Machinery Sales, 34 DINUBA Kiper & Kiper Lumber, 98 Peloian Ranches, 52 FIREBAUGH Michael Giffen Ranch, Inc ., 29 J & J Custom Farming, 164 194 Las Deltas Grocery, 87 "Slim" D. T. Locke Ranch, 101 Rebecchi's Dept. Store, 50 Tharp's Farm Supply, 87 Thomason Tractor Co., 52 Tri-Air Inc., 179 Tri-Transport Inc., 91 FISH CAMP Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, 140 FIVE POINTS American Ag Aviation, Inc., 172 Don's Market, 106 Five Points Ranch, 172 C. Gowens Farms, Inc., 144 Lassen Market, 87 FOWLER Colonial Drug, 11 FDS Mfg. Co., Inc., 56 Fowler Butane Service, 63 Fowler Floral Shop, 58 Mosley Garage & Repair Shop, 17 M. Uchiyama, Attorney, 74 FRIANT The Dam Pizza Parlor, 125 HURON McIlroy Equipment, 87 Woolf Farming Co. of California, Inc., 164 Tiny Mart • 855·8210 Prather 93651 AGRI-~UN NUR~€RV 6910 E:. CLARK)OI~ A\JE:. )E:LlYJA 93662 896-7444 "THANK YOU" TO ALL YOU ADVERTISERS WHO SUPPORT THE FRESNO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT RELIEF ASSOCIATION KERMAN A & H Farms/Haupt Bros. Land Leveling, 175 Annie's Pampered Pooch, 180 Baker Commodities Inc., 6 Bianchi Vineyards of Kerman, 43 Bob Cardwell Ranches, Inc., 80 The Cleanerman, 74 Clement Apiaries, Inc., 7 Epperson's Market Inc., of Calif., 131 Helm Bean & Seed Warehouse, 4 Kerman Crop Dusting, Inc., 75 Roy Peterson Painting & Paper hanging, 196 Plaza Drug, 11 Valley Travel Agency, 22 Wally's Tire & Wheel, 28 KINGSBURG Guardian Industries Corporation, 63 Riverland Restaurant, 125 Swedish Mill Restaurant, 126 Vallis Restaurant, 125 Van Beurden, Wigh & Associates, 46 MADERA Frank A. Logoluso Farms, 6 Norby Lumber Co. Inc., 38 Sherman Thomas Enterprises, 8 Yosemite Pharmacy, 11 RICK UDE, Register~d'Je'weler;'A.G.S. 5091 N. Fresno, Fresno, CA 93710 (209) 226-3618 .5150 ['\. 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Service Companies 195 MENDOTA J & L Auto Stereo, 184 Mendota Auto, 46 Mendota Food Mart, 92 Mendota Drug, 11 Murrieta Farms, 194 Pappas & Co., Inc., 172 Silver Creek Packing Co., Inc., Cover Westside Chemical & Hardware, 46 OAKHURST Bernardi Equipment Rental & Sales, 54 Best Western-Yosemite Gateway Inn, 152 ORANGE COVE Collins Garage, 63 Harding & Leggett, Inc., 175 Lopez Realty, 80 PARLIER Julio's Auto Repair, 194 Kash, Inc. , 13 Moncrief Sales & Service, 123 Nico's Market, 111 Parlier Food Basket, 20 Parlier Lumber Company, 36 U-Save Market, 175 PIEDRA Munk's Lodge, 172 PRATHER Canyon Fork Ace Hardware, 66 Tiny Mart, 195 Treehouse Restaurant, 125 RAISIN CITY Bee's Market, 172 REEDLEY "Cairn's Funeral Home, 48 California Growers, 8 Colonial Flower Shop, 184 Corrin Produce Sales, 175 Dale's Auto Diesel Repair, 40 W. J. Heinrich, Inc ., 40 Huebert Bros. Trucking, 7 Jim's Body Shop, 106 King's River Bank, 103 Kings River Community College, 2 A. Levy & J. Zentner Company, 80 Salwasser Mfg. Co., Inc ., 112 Simplot Soilbuilders, 50 Town & Country Market, 112 Valley Truck Wrecking, 166 RIVERDALE Bridges Grocery, 196 The Busy Bee, 136 Errotabere Ranches, 178 Jensen Dairy, 63 William Kuhl Trucking, 74 M. W. Tire, 172 Maynard's Repair Service, 54 McLeod Ford, 120 A. F. Mendes & Son Dairy, 9 Riverdale Drug Store, 150 Ruann Dairy, 187 Salinas Valley Oil Co., 54 Frank Santos Dairy, 38 Alberto Urbelz, 54 Joe Wright Hoof Trimming, 50 SANGER ADCO Manufacturing Inc., 75 Barr Packing Co., 98 Chuck Wagon, 126 Daily Feed & Animal Supply, 22 Eastside Mobile Locksmith, 123 Funston Manufacturing, 36 JAMAT Ranch, 43 Johnson's Boiler & Control, Inc., 90 Merri-Mart, 22 Mid Valley Transportation, Inc., 65 Minkler Cash Store, 80 Dan Olson Enterprises, Inc., 8 Quality Growers, 17 Raul's Exxon Service, 80 Sherwood Forest Golf Club, 49 Sherwood Inn, 127 Tivy Valley Market, 50 Tony's Auto Repair & Towing, 184 Wallin & Son Funeral Home, 75 SAN JOAQUIN Victor Gragnani & Sons, 9 Melon King Corp., 169 Rabb Bros. Trucking Inc., 180 Security Ag Research, 88 West Side Pump Co., 61 SELMA Abel's Body Shop, 136 Agri-Sun Nursery, 195 B & H Market, 15 Brent Burwell Inc., 93 Eknoian & Mac Donald, 172 Fresno Valves & Castings, Inc., 25 Gilbert's Automatic Transmission, 175 Grumbles Ninety Nine Food Market, 91 Harry McKenzie Trucking, 171 Page Funeral Chapel, 131 Selma Service Shop, 184 Selma T V Center, 106 Robert Serian Packing, 140 Torii Market, 184 Well's Used Cars, 120 SHAVER LAKE Hungry Hut, 126 Ken's Shopping Center, 164 The Saw Mill, 128 Shaver Lake Chevron, 35 Shaver Lake Electric, 54 Shaver Lake Hardware, 87 Shaver Pizza and Ribs, 127 TOLLHOUSE E. B. Yancey Building Materials, 152 TRANQUILLITY Lloyd 's Market, 6 Orlando's Welding & Hardware, Inc., 184 Rathmann Oil Company, 6 American Carpet Cleaning and Dye Co. "AMERICAN REALL Y CARES" Professional Cleaning -Reasonable Rates Residential and Commercial· Tinting and Dyeing RALPH WHOLAVER 3642 E. Rialto. 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