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2 March 6, 1056 5 Cettti Port Angeles, Washington Jtai RESIGNS; County, EttgineervHaKrison Hawk- Ins submitted his resignation': Monday afternoon to the Clailam CoUn- ty -Commissioners, in'-a one sentence letter, gave two notice to 'the The surprise move, stunned thte Commissioners who spent the entire day discussing new, old, abandoned' and established roads. Ironically, Commission Chairman Bert Cole had just told the Board they shpuld'not bother the engineer with little things, the Statement came during discussion of future road Work. A sudden quiet filled the room as Chairman Cole read Hawkins letter. He passedS thei letter to Commissioners Evan and iLyle T.Watson.. The letter said: "Having accept' ed another herewith tender my resignation as County Road Engineer effective in two All" three Commissioners registered Chairman Cole Stated they accepV" Hawkins' resignation with 'regret and, said he has served the county "well.

SEVEN. YEARS Hawkins concludes. seven years as county He, was appointed to the position in February, 1949. Hawkins the Evening News later he had ho comment to make on his resignation oiv his' plans; After one postponement last month, the Commissioners; adopted the county's consolidated' road system at a 'hearing (ROAD QUESTIONS Three roads question last month were settled 'following the public' 0. CommissiPner the Stovel Road, west of 'Port Angeles, will toe placed on the county system.

He reported-the present road will be a bridge. The' board instructed the County Engineer to prepare a survey -of the and road oir the resolution upon completion of. The 'Lotzgesell ne ar DUngeness went on road system. At last month's meeting, James appeared- before the 'board asking be: placed on the system. GRANT JLAND i 'Lolizgfjseifesald he w.ili county of; way" forf 60 ifpqy va' turnaround 'area 'for a' irbad' grader.

''The final' was left but tif toy its Walter; 'Schibig-; of the C6m niissioriers placed the; Road oh the The owner; protested the road was a private road leading" to and from private property, at Crescent and Agate Beaches; Schibig appeared before Board attorney', Ernest rM. Russell. The attorney pointed out the'difference between road and a road used by the public toy permission He said the Schltoigs, "stinkers" and close 'off the road at Beach if. they wanted to, however, Russell 'declared the owners did not mind'the public using the "OFFHAND" OPINION County Prosecutor Lee J. Reynolds" was called in by the Commissioners to give the -board the legal aspects of Schibig's stand, Reynolds said in ''offhand" opinion the Schlbigs, were correct the county could not include the Agate Beach Road into the system as a road.

Two local persons to support Schibig's'case. They stated owners of Crescent and Agate Beaces have beep very generous in letting the public use their private PUD Service Back Fo Normal Following Weather Trouble The Clallam County Public Utility District's sevyice to the west end returned -to normal' today following trouble because of weather Manager Csu'l Miller said a 1 transmission es arq free of ice and snow was the main pause of trouble, A smsU! cvew workmen ave still working at the PUD's main trouble spot p'n of a mountain miles of High. way 101 at- the' top FfUrhoVme Hill, Miller said tho crewmen are 'busy shoveling snaw awny t'Offl the main PUR transmission to at 'that Jgpationi Wmd.whipp.e^ s.nGw 'up around the at 1 ithis, point toeeri a constant, put the wintev, For A has 'been set here for ay sn the 'in-easing and of the mghtev WftgWngtPii In the will be an pp.en Kearin-g. All of the oo pprsons Wie ship wpi-e rescued 'the afty night smfeins, andjeyevfjl of them lire espectecj tq Vase is far Ms in property for picnics and other recreational The two, Mrs. Basil Decker and Roy Weed, said the county should leave the road off the county system.

Over Commissioner EVans 1 jections, the Commissioners postponed action of the Heath The First District said he- wanted the road on the county system. The iboai'd'decided to delay action on the Heath Road status until further Commissioners had their share of fireworks again as -Wilfred B. Cooper, East Sequim Bay, appeared before the Board-on the status of the old East i Bay Road, HEATED DISCUSSION In another heated discussion marking the Commissioner's meetings during the 'past three months, 1 Cooper asked once again what will toe done about the road -going by his home. The Cpmmissioners said they informed Cooper toy are closing off the old road. The Board stated the property along the old road rights of way: is toeing returned to the Cooper the' not vacate a road hi this manner.

Bert. Cole touched off the discussioh stating the no longer needs -the road. He said it does not serve the public and the road -is being vacated; Cooper hotly declared the could not legally vacate the road. He said -the quitclaim-deeds given to the county "contain; stipulation of returning' the old, right of Commissioner Colef said they a letter on file i position, from other propjerty owners. Cole said, of hearing this all FIRED.

BACK Cooper fired And I'm getting tired of: toeing around. I'll have plenty isay, tout on Watson; clarified the issue saying is- a public' to i.vaoa'te. the road according" law. The Boani 'told other owners be witti. the new East Setjuim; pay; Road" 1 for they 'have li have, tou.ilt; to by -V March A df 40th M'etobei? Associated .,,,4,..

missioner- approach and Britten" eommissip ers to Storing 'now- supppf his 1 and hot present, iniithe courthbusfe; MEMORIAL ktSEUM NEARS Pioneer Mem- South Race Street, started In 1953, is riow completely enclosed 120 by 44.foot.structure, with full basement, is being built by the Class of Port Angeles High School. The young workmeii ai'fe'hdW' finishing the interior. The heating system is install- eel. Rustic cedar shakes will be the exterior finish. The building is sponsored by the Clallam County Historical Society with the cooperation of the National Park Service which will own the structure when it is complete.

(Evening News Photo). pictuie, taken last week, shows' the touilding' Angeles High School grouped.in front of the they aie building At extreme left is Supt. Olympic National Paik and next to him, Marion The others, not in older of Joseph Atkinson, Al Brannin, Tom -Brown, James Carnell, G. Dickson, Fred 1 Evans, Gary Gustafson, Jerry Hamilton, Bill Jagger, Sid Krumpe, Joe Langdon, 'LeRoy Mix; Jeh'y Roderick, Terry Schlep Joe Tweterand Robert Mathis. funds and received Com- afternoon.

Cole said too current road surplus. i i being invested in fihel the. money shqul'd' spent; to do road work with anpney'itoeing placed in re'serjvejjln. of emergencies. agreed to u'gerthe toeyond the when the Jokes C.

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and be to Seattle would I do in says' 'iKenny, is not a joke, need comes year foiv ad- ditional'projects. i Commission er i Fred G. a stipulated the distribution of surplus funds will come, only after his First District gets the money not spent in 1955. He pointed out his district had turned back money during, the past several years and placed in the reserve fund ibecause work had not been done. GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT The Commissioners made a gentleman's agreement to Evans' proposal for the split of surplus funds.

Two new road projects for 1956 were approved Monday. The County Engineer was instructed to prepare a call for bids on the Mc- Dbnnel Creek bridge project in tine First District. The second road project is the paving and oiling of the area roads around FOrks, Among the roads to be improved are: Furhman, Smith, Cemetary, Bogachiel Way, Mill Creek and the junction at, Mora off Highway 101. The area to be improved is about six miles. The Commissioners also placed two other items on the call for bids.

On April 20 -two commissioners will open 'bids on the county printing. The board will also open bids on a panel truck for the County Forester's office on March 20. On March. 20th the Commissioners will open bids on three pieces of-road equipment, BUCKET LOADER The county is -buying a bucket loader, a two to three ton roller and double drum hoist, In other- tousines yesterday the Commissioners: Received a letter from-Rev, Ro- be.rt Apostolic Faith 'Church, urging the Mom, Pop Blamed For Delinquency W) Mom and; ii'ftpped harder than pity's conference Oh -delinquency 1 a.nd other juvenile Roger 'P a urged 'making parents "criminally VespQnsibJe for criminal acts of their and a panel session pf. the Community confer' ence ow came up with a pjiepk: "'undesirable parental types, Grant, Parent' Assn, peuncii secretary, gave the panel this rundown on ipal failures" among mothers fathers; who undertake tp -be "There' first the see-s a whs; fe as stern as oapt.

oneway aM an indulgent parent nestj" said Mrs, arant. there is the fea'ck" always saying, that pargRt," she says, aygfied, that mpth, feno.w 'best, and will The Nervous Nellie type, said Mrs, Grant, foresees danger i whatever her chil'd is doing- or plans to do, and, consequently, disr courages all of her children's tivities. tab-Keeper," said s. Grant, "expects an it account pf children's time," and "ambitious parents" are always urging Weir kids to seek "greater tify their ''own failures in life." "Finally," she concluded, "there is the phaperon 1 who wants johnny to bring his frjesds home and when, he does 'the heavy chaperon' acts like a "private eye 1 on a 1 Judge pfafl, in attacking what he called "poddling" of quents, hgd this to say of Juveniles WhP repeatedly violate the law and the terms'pf their probation: fi ln such, eases the parents have certainly been put on notice con- peming the antisocial behavior of their child, and parents' records pf continued indifference and fusaJ tp their parental obligations shovMd justify I ling griminsl pompjaiut against them." to place a county public safety- building proposal on' the November-General Election ballot; Heard E. H.

Nailbr on the problem-of road-in the wrong place on Viewcrest Addition, south' the city. The matter was referred to the engineer; Started action to collect'for damages to county roads the Voice of America- property near Dungeness. The claims, will be submitted to the federal government; Received a petition asking abandonment of a platted nty road near Gales Addition. G. C.

Schetter presented the petition stating the road, which was never built, goes through his property; PETITION FOR ROAD Received a petition from William M. Wenner asking the county to place a road in the Marine View Homesites area into the county system. Wenner agreed' to get deeds granting rights of way to the county; Instructed Commissioner to check on an application for a road extending from the end of the present Eunice Street to Park Avenue. board told Mrs. Walter Thomas, petitioner, the area would include deeds for right of way from the county housing authority.

OKANOGAN TIMBER ON SALE OLYMPIA W) Some 15 million board feet of state-owned timber in Okanogan County will toe sold at auction June 5, the State Land Department announced Monday, The sale will be one of the largest in the state's history. Neffat, New hit been by President s. Prispner Serving In Monroe For Forgery Here Escapes Sunday MONROE, Wash. UP) Two State Reformatory inmates inched their way through a narrow hole to freedom Sunday night. Supt.

P. J. Squier said Basin Dean Funk, 25, Everett, and Louis Woodford, 24, of Portland, made the break some time before the 8 p.m. check. Squier said the men, both of whom had previous records of escapes, jammed the locking device of climbed into the attic of the cellhouse, broke a ceiling tile and crawled through an 8-inch toy 2-foot hole in the roof.

The men used a toedsheet to drop from the cellhouse to the top of the administration building and an electric light cord to reach the ground, Squier said. FORGERY HERE Punk was serving a 2 -15 year sentence for second degree burglary in Snohpmish County, and Woodford, also known as Louis Malcom Helvie, was serving 4-20 years for first degree forgery in Clallam County. Squier said Funk's record showed he escaped from the Oregon State prison farm in 1952. Woodford was listed as a onetime escapee from the Oregon state training school, Chance flf FV War Dimi LONDON W) Premier David Bon-Ourlon of Israel declared Tuesday the chances of preventing a war in the Middle East shrunk. The Israel Premier addressed his Parliament In Jerusalem In the wake of the firing of British 'Lt.

Oen. John Glubb as commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. As he spoke Arab chiefs of state were holding a summit conference in Cairo. "If war should come," Ben- Ourion told the Israeli 'Parliament in one of its stormiest sessions, "moral responsibility will rest with the Soviet and U. S.

governments" Soviet because It supplied arms to Egypt and the United States because It has denied arms to Israel. "Israel will not start a war," Ben-Gurlon declared. "But if it should break out we will meet it with confidence and strength," ARAB CONFAB Saudi Arabl's King Baud flew to Cairo for the summit conference with Egyptian Premier Oamal Abdel Nasser and President Shukrl' al Kuwatly of Syria. Their talks are expected to deal both with the Arab-Israeli feud and the possibility of bringing Jordan into their mutual military aid pact. In Karachi, where he is meeting with foreign ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), British (Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd said the sale of arms to Egypt by Czechoslovakia was "the act most likely to endanger the peace of the world since Korea." TOP FIGHTERS Jordan's Arab Legion, trained and financed by the British, is rated the best fighting force in the world.

Now that Kirig Hussein has ousted British Lt. Gen. John Bagot Glubb as the Legion's the three big Arab powers would like to haVe it under a unified command oh their side. They have, already offered to replace the subsidy of some 22 million dollars a year which Britain has paid for the Legion's support. Britain reacted sharply to the Glubb case and.

a smarting setback in Cyprusr the'- colony thafcxis" headquarters for her East and air Prime Eden's go.yernr ment recalled 'the IS top; officers who had d'erved. in the. Arab Legion under- Glubb; "And announced it Would use forces as necessary to end! the and bombings On Cyprus, where a compromise self-government to leaders of a union-with-Greede" movement broke down. The British Monday (began, jamming broadcasts by the Athens Radio to Cyprus, shutting off a flow of words which said helped to inflame 1 -the Cypriots against their rule. In- reprisal the Athens Radio announced Tuesday it is suspending the relay of British Broadcasting Corp.

broadcasts in Greece. The old Arab-Israeli struggle went oh in words and deeds. G-E Workers May Get $9,000 Per Year By '66 NEW YORK Iff) Electric President Ralph J. Gardiner says it is possible that his firm's employes will have average' earnings of $8,000 to a year by 1966, He said such earnings will be possible in another 10 years automation Increases the number of Jobs requiring higher education and skills. GE employees' average annual earnings now are about $5,600, he said.at a dinner of the Club of New York, In Jerusalem the Israeli Foreign Office pf "massing fighting the Gaza strip and the S'mai Peninsula'' and dond'ernhfed Whrft.it called the Increasing belligerency pf the tonC'pi, public anti-Israeli pronouncement by Nasser arid 'other Egyptian lead--' ers.

In Amman, ft' commentator Jordan's radio station" called Gen, Glubb "a guardian, and defender df the JeWs." Despite the the 1948 Pal- estlrie war, the 'commentator declared' 'Glubb -had reduced it to.a parade'army rather than maintaining it al a striking force. Joint Chiefs Meet For New Look At Defense By C. YATES McDANIEL WASHINGTON, WV- The military high command is taking another "new look" at the forces, weapr ons "and strategy required in the next three years to keep pace with missile-atomic age science and the. changing face of world communism. The Eisenhower administration's new reappraisal of nation's defenses "started Saturday, when the' Joint' Chiefs of Staff slipped out of 'Washington unannounced and flew, to Ramey Air.

Force Base in Puerto Rico. Disclosure of the strategy session cdme night when the Pentagon said in feply to reporters' inquiries -thft the meeting will continue through this week af the isolated 'air It added that, the military, 'chiefs' meeting there will be able to their full time' without interruption" to defense business. Taking i part are the chairman, Adm. Arthur -W. Radford; Army Gen.

Maxwell D. Navy Adm.i' Arleigh' BUrke; Air Force Gen. Gen; aW imder -orders Secretary 'of 4 Defense Wilson make a ture and or likely to. toe or nation's security the next three" ears" three" years. House Passes Bill i.

For Payment To State 'WASHINGTON' Wl The House' Monday, passed, a bill to require the. federal government to pay thestate.pf: Washington $581,721 for a portion of. Highway which was taken the; Hanford Atomic' Works area," The legislation, tatrpduced by pbn' Magnuson' CD-Wash)'" would, a 1951 federal 'court decision hich''disallowed; the state's claiijri' for, the payment. The j'ltlie money on an Wahluke v. The comes to an Springs in Ben ton It, will toe' 1 extended to a Magnuson TO SPEAK OKLAHOMA -CITY, UB Gov.

Raymond; Gary of Oklahoma says he has -agreed' 'to make three Democratic meetings in Washington State in June, Dates, of the speeches were not announced, Gary said one will be in the Columbia" River Basin, one at Taooma and one probably at Spokane; Second Honeymoon Couple Aboard Doomed Freighter Describe Thrilling Gulf Rescue By Navy Troopship By MURLIN SPENCER "There were three cracks crack, crack, crack, just like that, And then the general alarm rang, I rushed out of my cabin and there was the hull of the ship streaking by in the other direction, "It was a sight that will be burned in my memory forever, I thought this is it!" That, in the words of Mrs, Vernon tester of West Vancouver, B. is the way the freighter Wash' Ingtoh Mall broke in two in storni'swept Gulf of Alaska at 1:15 p.m. last Saturday, jt was the start of an afternoon of what could have been "sheer it hadn't been for those wonderful American seamen," The 60 crewmen and passengers on the.Washington Mall were rescued by the Navy troopship Gen. B. Freeman, The testers, along with 48 of the survivors, came baek to the united States Jast night aboard a chartered plane from Sodiak, where the Fireman landed them shortly after noon yesterday, Ten other swrYivoi's.

remained for a brief time in the Lesters, They left their four daughters 18, 15, 11 and 5. at home and topk the Washington Mail for Tokyo. "Qji our first honeymoon I ran out of money," reniarkefl Lester, It was a second honey moon for "On this one, we ran out "of ship," "There was no sign of anything wrong," said Lester, "It was after lunch, and we had gone to our cabin to rest, We had had rough weather, yes, but the sailors said; nothing to worry about. It can get much worse out And then there were the three dous erashes," "We thought we had hit something," his wife said, "When the general alarm rang, we put on PU? life belts, vern told me to put on a pair of his trousers over my siapks, 1 My su.it coat and skirt i wrapped around my head and shoulders for warmth, And grabbed a coat too, SERS BOW GO BY "Qur cabin was right to the lifeboats and as i rushed out on deck there was the bow of the ship streaking by in the other direction. That was when I thought; This is it." "That was the rough time," Mrs.

Lester said of the order to abandon ship, "It was nearly dark by then, and snowing and the waves were 40 feet high. "I had put 6n my husband's trousers oVer my slacks a as started 'UP the deck I almost stunv bled. The darned trousers had slipped down to my ankles, it broke the tension for everyone. It made them laugh." The Lesters and a number pf others ymo.yed toward the lifeboat 'davits: AS the life- bpat swung 1 In.toward the ship the women were lifted and tessed inside, waited and pne by one Jumped the swinging boat, WONDERFUL FREEMAN tfoat that wphderful Freeman," in- terppsed. her husband, 'We c'ould see were like the most wonderful Christmas tree anypne evey saw;" Twp.

lifeboats, were lowered, filled.with crewmen and passengers, They, made for Freemjn, away, The'Washingtpn M.all sank, abowt 19 minutes after, the second boat pulled ftwfty, when. the liftppsts p.H}|fd ajgng, side 6 -wftw ef the troppship drpppefl cradles lines the i it Lester, PWM thftfc we mftdj -3P9U has N9T Pie aboard saYfd," they say no, shjp 4 irt of the oo "Sod now all.