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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 5, 1962
Wisconsin 'Meter Mite' And Associates Caught
MADISON, Wis. — (UPI) — A pretty University of Wisconsin student majoring in correctional administration for a career as a parole officer, has been charged with masterminding a student gang of parking meter thieves.
Nancy Griffith, 20. Sheboygan, Wis., and two youthful cohorts pleaded guilty yesterday to a wave of parking meter thefts totaling about $1,000.
Miss Griffith, dubbed the "Meter Mite" by officers, majored in correctional administration at the university. She wanted to be a parole officer.
Police identified the two who pleaded guilty with her as Robert Koppponhauer, 19, and Gregory Skuldt, 21, both university students from Madison. Pre-sentence investigations were ordered for the three.
FOUR OTHER gang members were in custody, two of them seized yesterday. Police said three are juveniles and will appear in juvenile court later. The fourth was to appear today in court.
Police said the "Meter Mite" admitted fashioning keys in the basement of her apartment and directing the gang on its forays.
The investigation of parking meter thefts, which have cost the city an estimated $3,000 recently, broadened to include possible new gangs at the
university, police said. Miss Griffith told police "half the campus" knew of the use of homemade keys to open meters.
POLICE SAID much of the gang's loot was probably spent during evenings at boisterous "18-year-old" beer halls.
The gang was so successful that the city at one time considered spending $3,500 to change the locks on the meters most often looted.
This idea was dropped when city traffic engineer John Bunch received a package that contained a key and a note advising Madison to save its money because keys for the new locks could be made easily.
Bunch said the key he received opened meters at a city parking lot.
The case broke open Tuesday night with the arrest of a 17-yearold boy seen tampering with a meter. The youth steered police to other members of the gang.
Betting Brisk On 'The Rock'
SAN FRANCISCO —(UPI) - Alcatraz prison officials reported that wagering was brisk yesterday among their 250 convicts on the first World Series game in San Francisco's history.
But since money is not permitted to circulate on "the rock," the inmates paid off their bets with push-ups.
LONDON — (UPI) — Music hall singer "Two-Ton Tessie" O'Shea said yesterday she would like to be the first woman in space.
Wants to Orbit
"If I could get out of the earth's gravitational pull." Tess said, "I would weigh less than Audrey Hepburn."
Two KU Women Attend Convention
Joan Felt, Prairie Village sophomore, and Donna Gould, Shawnee Mission junior, are attending the national convention of Cwens, national women's honorary society, today and tomorrow in Meadville, Pa.
Miss Felt is the president of the KU Cwens chapter. Miss Gould is the immediate past president of the chapter.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, is accompanying them.
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