Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - November 18, 1981, Ukiah, California November 18, 1981 121stYear No. 184 468-0123 4 Ukiah * Journal Mendocino California Weather By United Press International Northwestern Clearing today then mostly fair through Thursday except areas of valley fog forming Thursday Clearing by 3 Sections 25 Cents Shelton guilty of murders By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer After finding Joseph Perry Shelton guilty of first degree murder yesterday the Jury in the case returned today to deliberate over whether to give the Sacramento man the death penalty for the Lassen County The jury returned a guilty verdict for the first degree murder and kidnapping of Kevin 21, and the second degree murder and kidnapping of his Laura Francine 20, back in The two had been on their way to college in Oregon when they were kidnapped and later murdered by three The three-man jury deliberated about 14 hours Monday and Tuesday before announcing its decision yesterday afternoon to Superior Court Judge Timothy In addition to the first degree murder the jury also found the special circumstances surrounding the crime were and and showed extreme Those findings sent the jury into another day today of deliberating the fate of In all death penalty the jury must decide on either capital punishment for the crime or life in prison without possibility of During remarks to the jury today in the death penalty defense attorney Harold Abbott said that while Shelton was involved in the Shelton is TiOt a brutal Abbott noted the death penalty is a hard decision to make and not even the District Attorney was up and down over As the 29-year-old Shelton solemnly sat slumped in his assistant defense attorney John Behnke of pleaded with the jury that life in prison without parole is a He finding one man criminally responsible largely for the acts of indicating another Ben Behnke said the evidence showed Shelton caught up in and not having the moral character to get himself people have the strength to kill don't think it's present in Joe Behnke on Page 3) Challenge for peace to USSR Photo by Tony Huegel A smoke-free In the interest of good health and the fight against lung the staff at Ukiah General Hospital will join the American Cancer Society in Thursday's American Smoke The staff challenges all smokers to participate in the Smoke Out by not smoking for one day - in the hope that it will lead to a smoke-free Dumping their cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia from left to Marilyn Kim Lanny Glasner and Steve Heeb trial will begin December 7 By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer The criminal trial of Ten Mile Justice Court Judge Robert Heeb has been set for December 7 before visiting Sonoma County Superior Court Judge William Heeb was arrested in July after a grand jury indictment charged him with aiding a fugitive from The indictment resulted from evidence presented to the jury by Deputy District Attorney George The indictment charged Heeb with aiding Mark Brian 20, to evade Hagan was wanted for a number of burglaries in the Fort Bragg He is now doing time in an Arizona state prison for a similar on Page 3) By DONALD A. DAVIS WASHINGTON - President in a speech broadcast around the today challenged the Soviet Union to join the United States in giant step for - a mutual reduction of arms starting with nuclear weapons in The president outlined a four-point plan for comprehensive arms talks to cut both strategic and tactical nuclear to pare conventional military forces in and to curb the risk of an accidental atomic Reagan said he had just sent Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev a a yet historic The United States proposes the mutual reduction of intermediate range nuclear and strategic Reagan we cannot reduce arms Reagan can only come if the Soviet Union will share our He said if agreement can be reached on arms the achievement would be like first footstep on the moon a giant step for Reagan began his National Press Club broadcast by satellite to every continent except by saying he wanted to speak to people of the world about America's program for peace and the coming negotiations which begin Nov. 30 in on reduction of nuclear weapons in The wearing a dark suit and standing before a blue velvet said there has been a tendency to make the problem of arms control I want to be clear and I have outlined the kinds of equitable proposals which the world expects of Reagan Reagan's speech was seen as an effort both to ease concerns of allies in Europe - where plans to deploy new U.S. missiles have sparked massive demonstrations - and to place the burden on Moscow to explain why nuclear arsenals cannot be The address was scheduled for 10 a.m. EST so it would reach Europe on Page 2) New daily paper for Willits By GALE HOLLAND Journal Writer WILLITS - Jim Chase of Willits Printing Co. has started a new daily paper in Willits called The Daily News Scheduled to begin full publication next Chase said the paper will be a digest of national and international news from the wirf Associated Press telegraph equipment is being installed at the printing company office today and Chase The paper will be something on the order of the Gannett chain's East Bay Today a.m. edition of the Oakland a compilation of tight summaries of the previous day's news geared for the morning heard they have the digest in the Bay but I've never seen though I'd like Chase idea just came to me as a viable idea that will go without undue competition to anybody Local news coverage will be limited to items of Chase but our advertisers and readers want things we will yield to Chase plans to distribute the paper at distribution points throughout Covelo and rural spots and go to paid circulation if the concept is Advertisers are already lined Chase and a pilot edition is in circulation in Chase said the like his 11-year-old printing is a joint venture by him and his and no other investors are The necessary printing equipment is already in as Chase now prints the Lake the Coast Peddler and area high school Chase who formerly published a weekly paper in Humboldt will edit and write most of the he John managing editor of the Willits a free enterprise and we welcome but I can't comment until I see a copy of this elusive 25 employees lose their jobs without warning An abrupt end for Sambo's By GALE HOLLAND Journal Writer Sambo's cook Greg Copley had almost completed his graveyard shift Tuesday morning when a identifying himself as a corporate employee from the food chain's headquarters in Santa told him the State Street restaurant was closing its doors for asked him what the problem and he says well the police are across the if any violence comes through the there'll be arrests on the Copley was feeling like starting That was my and I have family on the Thus 13 years of Sambo's in Ukiah came to an unannounced and final end Nov. 17 about 4:30 throwing 25 employees out of Opened in 1968, the local Sambo's had been closed three times in recent years for county health But corporate spokesperson Art Dowd from Santa Barbara said the shutdown had nothing to do with local health but rather was part of a of the profitability of the various franchises in the One employee from the home office reported that around 60 of the chain's 1,114 restaurants in 47 states are being but Dowd said he had no firm figures on the total and declined to give an company is almost 25 years Dowd there's never been a It's long Local lugging frozen foods and staples through Tuesday's frigid sleet into a large van marked a subsidiary of Sambo's objected Tuesday to their sudden termination without In the loading dock behind the the air was thick with tension and the smell of Verbal skirmishes occasionally but for the most part the employees compliantly helped dismantle the despite their Morning shift waitress Christine 22, said the company was for cutting the employees off with no advance knew about it our paychecks are all here and today's time is already on Taber had no idea at I just showed up as scheduled at 7 a.m. and found Now a lot of people are without and almost everybody's got family on the Corporate employee Paul who said his job title is management by objective to the and referred all questions to Dowd explained why notice was not to put yourself in the position of operating a restaurant and then closing it. It's different than an there are the customers to the as well as our a wide variety of interests to be I'm not going to accuse anybody of but there are a lot of We didn't know about it very County sheriffs were parked across the street during the closure at the request of Sgt. Larsen received a call at 4:40 a.m. that they wanted us to be aware of what was going on so we wouldn't think it was a so we sat across the street to make sure it was a valid Larsen get information out of the blue like you don't know if it's a Sgt. Charles Lambert explained that it is department policy to stand by a civil problem might result in a breach of the to make sure emotions don't get too and nobody gets uptight and thumps on Prospective customers trickled up the front walkway all many shaking the chained double then reading the sign posted in the business for before turning Most preferred not to comment on the restaurant's but several expressed no great sense of on Page 3) Fishing for pra Charles procurement chairman for the Elks Lodge prawn has only 376 more prawns to catch before the event Saturday good Cocktails will be served at 6:30 p.m. at the lodge 1200 Hastings dinner at 7:30 and dancing at 9 to Barbara Curtis and which have been limited to 200, are available at Poma Angell's Mill Oaks or at the Elks Original
