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to of fo PAGE FOUR Page4 Oct. 19, 1982 The Hanford Sentinel Garcia must stand trial for murder A Hanford man, arrested with two others last month for the stabbing death of Carlos Garza, 29, outside La Copa Club, will stand trial alone on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Judge Tim Buckley ordered Larry Fernando Garcia, 23, bound over to Superior Court for trial and set an arraignment date for Nov. 4 after his preliminary hearing in Hanford Justice Court Monday. Charges against Garcia's brother, Richard, 20, and Virginia Vasquez, 29, were dismissed due to insufficient evidence.

Garcia is accused of fatally stabbing Garza, as well as cutting La Copa Club owner Carlos Ruiz on the back that same night. Eleven persons testified during the four-hour Ruiz later testified he saw a thin man jabbing a at acknowledging that Garcia had heavier man, but said he couldn't see either of their hearing, some become in the bar that night. faces or a weapon. He went on to say one of the men, angry waitress at the bar, testified wearing a baseball shirt, turned and assaulted him. Silvana Lopez, a court interpreter that Garza's friend, Ruiz said he then ran from the scene.

through a Patrocinio Avina, was singing loudly to music, Lopez testified that Garcia was wearing a angered Garcia enough to baseball shirt that matched Ruiz's description, and which apparently challenge Avina to fight. claimed no one else in the bar that night was Lopez said Avina went outside with Garcia, even wearing a similar shirt. he had said he didn't want any trouble. Avina said he never saw his friend Garza come though Garza then reportedly asked Lopez what was out of the bar after him because he had been happening as he followed the two men outside. knocked down with something resembling a wrench said she did not tell Garza the two went that narrowly missed his head.

Lopez outside to fight. When he got up and went back into the bar, he said she told owner Ruiz about the possible said, he found Garza slumped and clutching his Lopez fight, then called police. chest. Accident slows project further Helms su supervisor defends test policy FRESNO (AP) Even though it took an hour there (at the upper gate)." the pipe to burst but would not rule out anything, to turn off the water after a pipe broke at Helms Another reporter asked Strassburger why the including sabotage. An analysis of the break is hydroelectric plant, it would be "extremely gate at Courtright was not kept closed during the being conducted for by Failure Analysis impractical" to close the water gate during each tests which were being conducted in hopes of Associates, a specialist in investigating building test, the project supervisor says.

generating electricity by mid-October. collapses, including the collapse of a walkway at The break in a 22-foot diameter, 140-foot long "It would be extremely impractical to do that the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City. pipe allowed an estimated 1.4 billion gallons of each time during the test phase," Strassburger Strassburger said two people saw the break, water to roar down ravines into Lake Wishon, replied. but he refused to describe what they saw or say tearing up trees and brush in its path. Strassburger felt that closing the gate im- whether their versions agreed or disagreed with Arthur Strassburger, project supervisor for mediately wouldn't have avoided major damage each other.

Pacific Gas Electric discussed the Sept. 29 to the terrain downhill because that process He did that some water had been in the say accident during a press conference Monday at takes 15 minutes, and the water already in the since early September, and it had been fully pipe the pumped storage plant in the Sierra Nevada pipe caused most of the damage. As water that pressurized 24 hours before the accident. 80 road miles east of Fresno. had been sitting in the broken pipe flowed out, water flowed through the system to the The pipe was checked one hour before it broke, Asked why someone was not manning a gate more that controls the water flow from Courtright break until the gate was closed.

were and "no leaks observed or Reservoir through the plant and into Wishon, The process of closing the gate stretched to an Strassburger said. Strassburger said: hour because an employee had to drive 45 Because of the break, the new pipe that will be "The water was just sitting there (in the pipe). minutes along winding mountain roads to reach installed across a canyon will be 11 inches thick, The plant was not in operation. We felt at the the gate, officials said after the accident. one quarter inches thicker than the pipe that moment, there was no need for someone to be Strassburger refused to speculate what caused broke, Strassburger said.

Suspect found in Naranjo killing Crime FRESNO A man charged with mur- Oct. 27 for a preliminary hearing. dering Hanford resident Michael Naranjo Flores is charged with the Sept. 6 slaying of BURGLARIES pleaded innocent Monday during his Ernest Lavine, of Idaho Avenue; portable color television arraignment in Fresno County Municipal the Hanford barber, whose body was found in and food from refrigerator. Loss, $530.

Court. an orchard along Central Avenue southwest Irene Motta, of Omaha Avenue in Corcoran; stereo Juan Garcia Flores was ordered to appear of Fresno. equipment and canned food. Loss, $468. Markets Stocks Cotton Metals Courtesy of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fresno, 264-9631.

(Prices are as of closing quotations.) Yesterday Today Allied Chemical AMFAC, inc. 243 Amerada Hess Brands American Tel Tel 601 601 Armco Inc 1624 Armstrong Rutter Bankamerica Bethlehem Steel Burlington Northern 49 511 Carnation 391 Chrysier 8 Crocker Nat'l delivery Dayton Hudson 52 Dupant Eastman Kodak 93 Exxon Ford Fluor General Electric 821 General Motors Goodyear Tire Grace Int'l Harvester 4 Int'l Paper 4434 461 John Mansville 53 -Mart Longs Drug 37 37 Dow Jones Averages Industrials Transportations Utilities Volume 77,654,000 1982 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION The Hanford Sentinel The (USPS 234-440) Vol. 1982, No. 246 Published every evening except Sunday by Hanford Sentinel, 418 West 8th Hanford Colt 93230 1982 Hanford Sentinel, Inc. Entered as second class matter the Post Office Hanford California.

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Office hours 8 a.m 5.30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 12 p.m. Saturdays, Circulation Department 8:30 6:30 p.m. I Monday through Saturday Publisher: Jack Morgon, Managing Editor: Paul Merz Advertising Manager Derral Hawkins Circulation Director Andy Ortiz Office Manager: Virginia Belvail Mechanical Superintendent Bill Theis Press Room Foreman: Fred Gomble Postmaster: Send address changes to The Hanford Sentinel, P. O.

Box 9, Hanford, CA 93232. THE VOLUNTEER BUREAU OF KINGS COUNTY AND THE RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM thanks the following people who contributed greatly to the success of their annual fundWALKATHON: Eddie Azevedo and his crew Waldo Larson The Copy Factory Art Leon John and Joan DeGioia Joe Rosemary Maciel Frank Gianols Mark Park (Sandwich Steppe) (McDonald' a) Rosalinda Pesqueira Norma Greenbaum's Prairie Market Hanford Jaycees Bill Raven (Armone Lockers) The Italian Restaurant Smart Final Iris Co. Kelly's Liquors Superior Dairy Products Kentucky Fried Chicken The Victorian Inn Radio Club Kings Amateur Claudette Witherspoon Trophy Shop Kings County Workingman's Store And a SPECIAL THANKS to all the walkers and their sponsorsill FRESNO Today's Cotton Exchange quotations all charges f.o.b. compress: 11-16 13.32 114 Strict middling 61.50 63.25 63.25 Middling 61.25 63.00 63.10 Strict low middling 59.25 61.00 61.10 Low middling 54.50 55.50 55.50 FRESNO Today's closing cotton number 2 futures on the New York Cotton Exchange: Settlement Change Dec. 65.06 March 67.17 May 68.45 July 69.55 Hay FRESNO Today's gold and silver quotations from Merrill Tourist visit ME Ivy Holzinger (left) and Esther and Roy Marks, all of Mankato, visited the home once occupied by Harry and Bess Truman.

Mrs. Truman died Monday at age 97. she will be buried beside her husband, who died in 1972 at age 88, on the grounds of 1 the Harry Truman Library, not far from their Independence, Mo. home. The Minnesotans were sightseeing Monday while on vacation.

AP Laserphoto Obituaries Evelyn Marie Smith Evelyn Marie Smith, 49, of Hanford, died Sunday in a Southern California hospital. A native of Cypress, she lived in Hanford the past six years. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Brigid's Catholic Church. She is survived by four brothers, Frank Andre of Riverside, Manuel Andre of Corona and Tony and Johnny Andre, both of La Palma; and a sister, Lena Ormonde of Norco.

Rosary will be at 7 p.m. today in Whitehurst-McNamara Chapel. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Brigid's Catholic Church.

Burial will be i in Calvary Cemetery. Friends may make contributions to City of Hope in her memory. Quinton Bradley Brooks Brooks, 69, died Monday at Born in Oklahoma, he was a retired farmer and had farmed in the Lemoore area for many years. He also had property on the coast and traveled between the two homes. Surviving are his wife, Nan; one daughter, Margaret Carlton of Lemoore; three sons, Quinton Bradley Brooks Jr.

of Riverdale, Dewayne Brooks of Lemoore and William Neal Brooks of Exeter; three sisters, Lorene Gallagher of Lodi, Florene Burns of Monroe, and Billie Rodgers of Sacramento; two brothers, George Neal Brooks of Riverdale and Lawson Brooks of Woodland; 13 grandsons and three great-grandsons. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Lemoore Assembly of God Church. Burial will be in Lemoore Cemetery. Arrangements are by Phipps-Dale Funeral Chapel.

Maude D. Blake his Cayucos home. Maude D. Blake, 80, of Temple City died in an Arcadia hospital after a lengthy illness. A native of Little Rock, she had lived in Hanford for 30 years, moving to Southern California a year ago.

She was a member of the Pentecostal Church. Surviving are four sons, Raymond Blake of Atwater, Curtis and Delbert Blake, both of Five Points, and Willie "Bill" Blake of Hanford; two daughters, Blanche Rudd of Temple City and Colene Bonnette of Reno, one brother, Bill Alread of Morgan Hill; one sister, Nora Davis of Watsonville; 10 grandchildren, and several greatgrandchildren. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at People's Funeral Chapel.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel. Burial will be in Hanford Cemetery. Thomas D. Trumble Thomas D.

Trumble, 83, died Sunday in Sebastopol. A native of Naples, Texas, he had come to Hanford 25 years ago and moved to Sebastopol six years ago. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Surviving are two sons, Pershing B. Trumble of Sebastopol and Harry Trumble of Las Vegas, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at People's Funeral Chapel. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Grangeville Cemetery. H.

Dewey Hammers H. Dewey Hammers, 60, of Fresno died Monday in a Fresno hospital. A native of Birmingham, he had lived in Fresno since 1969. He was retired owner of a medical supply company and was a Navy veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife, Peg; two daughters, Patty Broocker of Belmont and Peggy Crittendon of Bakersfield; one son, David Hammers of Seal Beach; and seven grandchildren.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Phipps-Dale Funeral Chapel in Lemoore. Private cremation was at Chapel of the Light in Fresno. Friends who wish may contribute to the American Heart Association. Irmadean Thomas Irmadean Thomas, 45, of Lemoore died Saturday in a Hanford hospital, apparently of complications from a gunshot wound received July 31.

A coroner's office spokesman said an autopsy has been performed, but a decision on the cause of death is pending further investigation. A native of Lemoore, Thomas had lived in the area all her life. Surviving are five daughters, Beverly Salas, Ernestine Morales, and Christine, Brenda and Jane Jeff; two sons, Glenn and Patrick Jeff; four sisters, Carmalita Perry, Mercedes Sorondo, Martha Sorondo and Yvonne Garfield; two brothers, Norman and Elmer Thomas; and 12 grandchildren. All live in Lemoore. A wake will be at 7 tonight at the family home at 16300 17th Ave.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Indian Cemetery on 19th 1 Avenue. Arrangements are by PhippsDale Funeral Chapel. DOYLE DAVIS SUPERVISOR DISTRICT 4 COME MEET YOUR DA SUPERVISOR Oct. 19 10235 Heath Oct.

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Box 214, Armona, Ca. 93202 Fenner Smith, 906 Van Ness 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time and are not Yesterday Today Mission insurance 7 McDonald's Corp Occidental Pete. 221 Pacific Gas Elect Pacific Lighting J.C. Penney Pennzoil Polaroid Corp, Safeway Sears Security Pacific 4112 So.

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36 Net Noon Changes 1011.31 411.79 122.32 J. B. Ross's Foreign Exchange Complete foreign auto repair. Specializing In Datsun Porsche, Audi 584-8818 Grower prices as reported by the Federal-Sate Market News Services for Hanford-Corcoran-Tulare, Oct. 18, 1982: Light supplies of fall clippings found good trading interest at $90 to $100 per ton, while mediocre-quality summer hay received moderate demand at $75 to $85 per ton.

Grassy hay with little or no rain damage returned $60 to $75 per ton, while milling quality traded down to $35 to $40 per ton. Hanford-Corcoran-Tulare This Week Last Week Last Year U.S. No. 1 $85-490 U.S. No.

2 leafy 85 U.S. No. 2 $65-4 70 961-465 TYLOR'S CARPET CARE CARPET CLEANING ANY 3. ROOMS. 39.95 a Call 582-0704 427-201 FRUIT JAM CANNING JELLY Free Open Mon.

Instructions 7568 thru Sat. p.m. Hanford Ave. RAD Lynch, Pierce. Fenner Smith, Gold Landon: 441.50 New York: 441.50 Silver 10.09 Stocks up NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices pulled back in heavy trading today after opening broadly higher.

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