Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 6

April 6, 1956 RENO EVENING GAZETTE Phil Spifainy CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE APPROVES -CENTRALIZED STATE WATER AGENCY Benson Blasts Rigid Supports Of Farm Prices Schools Lagging, President Told for, said he would sign the bill, although it doesn't go as far as he wanted. The final day also brought passage of the city-state settlement giving the state 120 million dollars of Long Beach Tideland oil royalties and an interest in future revenue. 4 These actions capped a productive 32-day session which also: 1. Adopted the biggest state budget in California history. It SACRAMENTO.

VP) A dramatic, 11th hour compromise yielded a new California state water department before the 1956 legislature adjourned last night. The water program was pulled back from the edge of defeat by a never-say-die conference committee that worked for 11 hours on seemingly hopeless differences. Gov. Knight, who got the director-run department he asked totals $1,779,000,000 but, happily for an election year, requires no new taxes. 2.

Voted 24.9 million dollars for flood aid and another 3'a million to help redevelopment in areas swept by rivers on the rampage last Winter. 3. Agreed to increase the ceiling on state loans for home and farm purchases by California veterans to $15,000 and $40,000, respectively. The present limits are $8500 and $15,000. 4.

Appropriated 9.3 million dollars to start site acquisition and preliminary work on the vast Feather River project. Another 4 million dollars guarantees the I960 Winter Olympics for Squaw Valley. Boy Slayer's Mother Offers Sympathy to Victim's Mother happened to Davey Powell. I only wish I could tell Mrs. Dlesk (Betty Dlesk, mother of the dead boy) how sorry I am." Tommy is a twin: His brother, Joseph, also is under indictment in the slaying, but a statement by Tommy absolved Joseph.

Mrs. Williams wrote: "Tommy was such a quiet boy when he started to grow up. Why, he used to be so afraid of little animals. And now he's so different. I found out he was stepping on field mice while he was down at Eston hospital.

"This bracelet I'm wearing. We bought it for Tommy and he asked me to wear it for him." SIXTH ANiIOAL DAKGE NEVADA STATE RAHGERS Odd Fellows Ksll, Verdi Saturday, April 7th 9:00 P.M. UNTIL Music by younghan'S orchestra DOOR PRIZES REFRESHMENTS SALT LAKE CITY, April 6. UP) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stuck to his guns last night, taking pot shots at high, rigid farm price supports and calling for flexible supports and a soil bank program. Then he flew to Washington, in an unplanned move, as house-senate conferees announced that the election-year farm bill ould probably be out of the committee today and ready for house debate Monday.

Benson had come to Salt Lake City "to attend the annual confer ence of the a 1 1 r-day Saints (Mormon) church. He is a mem ber of the church's Council of Twelve Apostles. It's the first time he has missed the church conference since he became a member of the cabinet in 1953. But he said he had to do it "in response to an official call to duty." He left shortly after giving an address on farm policy, sponsored by farm group organizations in Utah and Idaho. In his talk he attacked "some political opportunists (who) have capitalized on the popularity of the soil bank (and) propose to tie to its coat tails a variety of unsound measures which, in calmer times, would never be enacted." Some of these measures, he said, were mandatory 90 per cent of the parity supports, dual parity for wheat, corn, cotton and peanuts, multiple price plan for wheat, mandatory price support for feed grains and a boost in price supports for dairy products.

He strongly urged congress to retain the flexible price support system while enacting the soil bank plan. The administration contends the restoration of high, rigid supports cancel the surplus-reducing features of the soil bank. Flexible supports, he said have been endorsed in the past by both Republicans and Democrats and "every secretary of agricul ture for 20 years." He said that in 1948, President Truman and the National Farm ers' Union both favored the "principles" of flexible supports and "modernized" parity. "If President Truman and the Farmers Union thought that way in 1948," he said, "why don't they feel that way today?" But from Denver, the president of the National Farmers' Union, James G. Patton, challenged Ben son to prove the NFU "once supported the sliding scale system of price supports." Patton said the "National Farmers' Union has never stood for an 'economy of scarcity' which is what the sliding scale means when you boil it down.

The delegates to our national conventions have always called for 100 per cent of parity income. The secretary doesn't have the facts on his side." LAWN MOWERS SHARPENED "AND REPAIRED Free Pick-up and Delivery In Reno and Sparks WOODS LOCK KEY SERVICE 232 N. Sierra Phone 2-879S COMPLETE SAFE and LOCK SERVICE TV SECRET i. A NEW LIFE Roy Eaton, 52, of Lordsburg, New Mexico (above), sits in office of State's Attorney Bernard J. Moran at Rock Island, 111., after being freed from prison for crime he didn't commit.

He spent 16 years behind bars. Moran was active in investigation that cleared Eaton of kidnap-rob-bery crime in 1940. (NEA). LDS Church Meet Opens SALT LAKE CITY, April G. (JP) President David O.

McKay of the Latter-day Saints church pleaded today for more stability, harmony and happiness in Mormon home life. President McKay, speaking at the opening session of the 126th general conference of the church, said: "I am not so sure whether we are maintaining the high standards required of (us in our homes. I feel constrained, therefore, to make an appeal for more stability, more harmony and happiness in home life. "It has been truly said that the strength of a nation, especially of a Republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people." President McKay said that "in no other group in the world should there be more contented, more happy homes than in the Church of Jesus Christ but recently my attention has been called to conditions that seem to justify our admonishing the membership of the church to keep their homes exemplary before all the world." SUNDAY BRUNCH Spoon hot- cheese sauce over poached eggs arranged on toast; top with crisp slices of bacon, wonderful for Sunday brunch! Crawford St. Bridge in Providence, R.

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31ieir weaknesses usually stem from a lack of means rather than uny defect in their goal." ICalling for action to arouse and tnaintain public interest, the report said schools "now affect the welfare of the United States more -than ever before" and "have become the chief instrument for keeping this nation the fabled land ef opportunity it started out to Be-" 50.000-word document contained only one surprises unanimous committee view that racial desegregation "must be worked out by each community within the intent of the relevant supreme xiourt decisions." The segregation issue received gnly scant attention in reports issued during last Winter's conference. It was not mentioned in Summaries of preliminary state conferences, which formed part of today's report. On another key issue federal aid to schools the committee plit three ways, with a majority rkvoring emergency building grants. Twenty-eight members of the commitee, headed by iJeil H. McElroy, presiCent of the Procter Gamble held that "Federal aid for school construction should be made available on a limited basis to aS states and territories and the District of Columbia to help overcome the present school building emergency under the philosophy of encouraging greater use of state and local funds." A minority report signed by ur members contended federal assistance should be through loans, not grants.

Another, sign-lei! by two members, held that it should not be limited to building aid nor to emergency aid. The majority reported it was making no recommendation re garding federal aid for school operation. It noted "great division of opinion on this subject" at the White House and state conferences. The report wound up a project in motion in response to Eisenhower's call in his January 1934 State of the Union message for fthe most thorough, widespread and concerted study the American people have ever made of their e.ducational system." The jcommittee was set up in late" 1954, with dint Pace, form-et Dallas newspaperman, as staff director. During 1955 an estimated 500,000 persons took part irj 3600 community and state conferences.

The White House conference" was held last Nov. 28-Dec. 1, with nearly 2000 participants representing the states, national organizations and the federal government. -The report submitted to Eisenhower today was based on state and White House conference reports, together with further findings of the committee and its consultants. In broad terms, it drew a pic-tare of a nation strapped for school buildings and teachers but with the financial and human resources at hand to beat these shortages if it chooses to use them.

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This is bolllcd elegance the hiskey for you. lasted through the war years, it said, adding that many people decided against having the babies who might have grown up into today's teachers. The shortages, it said, are compounded by the wave of wartime and postwar babies now banging at school house doors. And, it added, the proportion of school age children staying in through high school is steadily increasing. The committee fpund that the objectives of American education have bee enormously, expanded during the past two generations in response to "a genuine public demand." "The basic responsibility of the schools is the development of the skills of the mind," it said, "but the over-all mission has been enlarged.

Schools are now asked to help each child to become as good and as capable in every way as native endowment permits." "This is truly a majestic ideal," the committee said, but it is "a natural development in the United States it recognizes the para mount importance of the individual in a free society. "Our schools are asked to teach skills currently needed by the na tion, but never at the expense of the individual. This policy of encouraging each child to develop his individual talents will be of the greatest use to the nation, for in the long run if no talent is wasted no skill will be lacking." The committee said jt unanimously approved "this great new goal for our schools" full development of the child as an individual but' that "two particular aspects of this goal involve basic disagreements which the committee did not resolve satisfactorily, partly because of the limited time." The first problem, it said, arises from modern schools' aim toTos-ter moral, ethical and spiritual values, which "invariably involves widely different convictions. The report said "judicial decision on church-state relations have clarified only small parts of the whole question" and called for continued study. "The second difficult question it continued, "concerns the issue of segregation This too is an area of conflicting opinions not entirely resolved by supreme court action." The committee said it agreed "that the intent of the majority of the American peopled to abolish racial segregation as soon as possible." As for school building needs.

the committee wrote: "There is a great deal of conflicting information on the size of the nation's classroom shortage One common factor runs through all of it: the shortage is immense." The committee put the building problem this way: "If the expected enrollment of 1959-60 were enrolled now, the need would be for 375,000 classrooms. "The present construction rate is about 60.C00 classrooms per year. If this rate continues or decreases, simple arithmetic shows the need has no chance to be met." The majority urged that as much as possible of the load be financed withjn states. Modoc Supervisor Candidates File Twelve candidates seek three vacancies on the county board of supervisors at Alturas, Calif. In the second district the incumbent, Charles Fitzpatrick is opposed by John Kelly, Harry L.

Payne, Carman Fleming and A. W. McCaughan. C. Brunei Christensen, incumbent in the third district, is opposed by James Reid, Harry Pin-neo and Virgil Pratt.

In the fourth district Everett Caldwell, incumbent, is opposed by Bob Sherer and Alva Troy. Superior Judge A. Kesner Wy-lie is unopposed in seeking election. r. s.

visit JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 6. UP) A government source said today that President Soekarno would leave May 14 for his two-week official visit to President Eisenhower and the United States. W1' PATIO? Td -r In rfrm Told to Finish His Application LAS VEGAS. Phil Spitalny, orchestra leader who hopes to become a gambler at the Royal Nevada HoteV has been told by the Nevada gambling control board that his application for a license must be completed before it will be considered for issuance. Spitalny appeared before a meeting here of the board and was told that his application for the Royal Nevada is stilll He was advised to complete the application by informing the board of the proposed operation of the hotel and who else will be interested in the gambling establishment.

Board members questioned Spitalny concerning his background in 'the entertainment business and was asked questions about his finances. In answer to a question from Spitalny concerning how long he might have to wait for the license approval, Spitalny was told that it would depend upon who the other applicants in the might be. Spitalny and Jake Kozloff, who formerly was connected with the Golden Nugget and New Frontier Hotel operations, took over the Royal Nevada six wreeks ago after the hotel was closed on the first of the year. They have main tained hotel service along with a cocktail lounge but have not previously applied for a gambling license. All -members of the gambling control board, along with tax commission member William Deutsch, attended the session.

Now fe 1956 SCHENLEY DISTIUERS PITTSBURGH, April .6. UP) The mother of a 14-year-old boy convicted of first degree murder in the Wheeling, slaying of a 9-year-old playmate said today she wanted to meet the dead boy's mother because "I feel we both have lost our sons." Mrs. Kathleen Williams told her story of heartbreak and grief today in a signed story published in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. A jury yesterday found her son guilty of murdering David Powell, a Cub Scout, who was canvassing the neighborhood selling tickets for a Boy Scout benefit. The jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment.

Mrs. Williams wrote: "My boy Tommy is not the same boy he used to be. He's changed. He's different. I think he's very sick and needs help.

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