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Show Wendel probation extended; must pay back to district $41,000 Senator Edward M. Kennedy has requested that draft director direc-tor Lewis B. Hershey withdraw an October 26th directive to local lo-cal draft boards to draft young men who interfer with induction induc-tion proceedings. ing the district, but were testifying tes-tifying strictly for themselves. They termed Mr. Wendel a man of great ability who could make a contribution to society through teaching if allowed to remain on probation instead of going to prison. Probation of Clarence J. Wendel, 53, former clerk of Nebo School District, has been extended from 18 months to three years by Fourth District Judge Maurice Harding who also al-so ruled Mr. Wendel must pay the Nebo School District $41,-000. $41,-000. The total is derived from the $37,699.77 declared m i s sing from Mr. Wendel's accounts while he was clerk, plus cost of the special audit required to determine the shortage. Mr. Wendel appeared in district dis-trict court Thursday of last week on a show-cause hearing to determine whether his probation, pro-bation, to which he was sentenced sen-tenced Nov. 30, should be revoked. re-voked. The prosecuting attorney argued ar-gued that it should be, contending con-tending Mr. Wendel had not made a full confession when he admitted to the court that he embezzled funds from the school district, where he was employed and asked for his imprisonment. The defense argued that Mr. Wendel did not know when he was sentenced how much he had taken. Subsequently he went back over his fiancial records rec-ords and figured he had taken $31,425.19, Mr. Wendel said on the witness stand. However, the defense said it was willing to accept the figure fig-ure of $37,699.77 for repayment, when asked by the judge. Mr. Wendel testified that while some $3,000 was known to be missing when he was sentenced, sen-tenced, he had told authorities the actual figure could be up to $10,000. He said he has sold a car, a house trailer, a piano, an organ, or-gan, and a television set and repaid $10,752.94 of the funds he took from the district. Hopes to teach Mr. Wendel said his wife, a former school teacher, will return re-turn to teaching, and that he, too, hopes to return to the classroom to teach and repay the entire amount missing. Richard Hawkins, an Orem accountant who conducted the audit, told the judge his bill as of Dec. 11 stood at $2,940 and estimated there would be $200 to $300 additional. Friends testify Character witnesses testifying testify-ing for Mr. Wendel were J. Austin Cope Jr., his LDS stake president and the Spanish Fork postmaster; James W. Dunn, an administrative assistant in the Nebo School District, and J. Dean Jones, who described himself as "an educator" in the Nebo District. Both of the Nebo School District Dis-trict e m p loyees emphasized that they were not represent- The trouble with many individuals indi-viduals is that they worry too much about the sins of mankind man-kind and too little about their own. |