Carroll P. (Spud) Corliss; Longtime Reporter

Carroll P. (Spud) Corliss, 86, a journalist who spent 40 years on the police and government beats in Los Angeles before retiring in 1968. He began in 1928 as a reporter on the old Los Angeles Express, worked for papers in Pasadena and as night news editor of radio station KECA before coming to The Times in 1948. He was one of the first newsmen on the scene of the Watts riots in 1965 and covered countless major disasters and news events, including the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In Ashland, Ore., on Saturday of cancer.