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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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Three men training for defense jobs at El Centro high school machine shop stole gasoline from a school bus and tools from the shop. Okla Lee Burke pleaded guilty, sentenced to 30 days jail and watering duties; brothers Chester Burke and George Humble face trial Dec. 30.
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Three men who had been receiving training for good paying jobs in defense industries at El Centro's high school machine shop, Saturday stood charged with stealing gasoline from city school bus.
One of the trio, Okla Lee Burke, 24, pleaded guilty to the charge before Police Judge Lee Nuffer, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and to water the school grounds. They also had in their possession tools identified as having been taken from the school training shop.
The other two, Chester Opal Burke, 28-year-old brother of Okla, and George Anthony Humble, 23, pleaded not guilty and were ordered to trial December 30 for petty theft.
The three were nabbed late Friday night by Officer Lloyd Edwards who charged them with siphoning gasoline from a school bus through a piece of rubber hose allegedly cut from a full-length tubing used to water the school grounds.
Okla Lee Burke told Judge Nuffer that he had previously stolen five gallons of kerosene from the school and thinking it was gasoline, emptied it into the fuel tank of his car.
The car refused to percolate on coal oil, and Burke went back for the real thing, he admitted.
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El Centro
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Late Friday Night And Saturday
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okla lee burke pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and to water the school grounds. chester opal burke and george anthony humble pleaded not guilty and were ordered to trial december 30 for petty theft. they had in their possession tools identified as having been taken from the school training shop. okla lee burke admitted previously stealing five gallons of kerosene from the school.
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Three men receiving training for defense industries at El Centro's high school machine shop were charged with stealing gasoline from a city school bus by siphoning it through a piece of rubber hose cut from school watering tubing. They were nabbed late Friday night by Officer Lloyd Edwards.