The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 1

'u-i'V" 4-r 1-V i mSSTT-NXNTB YEAR I'M THE WEATHER Deiert area ternari: Meetly clear todey Omagh Friday bat aaiaa Ugh claudiaeu Frida Leeaily windy Calarada River Valley teday Highs taday IHI apper valley ft-71 lawer valleya Slightly warmer Friday after- EVENINGS DAILY EXCEFT MONDAY PHONE MOS fi ii High here eater day waa 17 wav 77 a ad law The Desert Empire? Dally Newspaper VolXXIX No 126 1 6 Pagti Palm Springs Californio Tharsdoy March 15 1956 Phono 5005 Singlo Copy 10c Malenkov in London on First Trip Outside Iron Curtain 82000000 Cars 53000 Deaths Foreseen in 1965 CHICAGO 01 The National Safety Council predicted today that 10 years from now the highways will be jgmmed with 13 million cars This would be 30 million more than are on the road today The council said the S3 million cars would be driven at various times by a total of 90 million drivers rolling up a total of about 825 billion miles per year The traffic death toll wiU run around 53000 in 1966 the council estimated unless the nation's motorists mead their waye LONDON RFl Former Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov arrived in London today for a tour of Brit-( ain'i electric and atomic power inataliationa It waa hie lint trip to a free country outside the Iron Curtain Hia arrival waa cloaked by atrict aecurity arrangement Scotland Yard made it hard for anyone to get a peek at him through a thicket of elaborate aafegiiardi ax ha flew in from East Berlin and landed at London Airport But Malenkov chon to the capitalist protection screen by They Would Lease Land City Bought Strebe Offers Way To Supply Course Voters Rejected Councilman Earle' Strebe today planned to urge the board of director of the Hotel and Apartment Association to petition city council to purchase a municipal goX course site which the hotel group would improve as a means of supplying the municipal course killed in the February 14 bond election He will ask the directors to form committee to ask cmihcil formally to approve the spending of city money to buy a site when a course could be built The hotel group would then lease the land according to plan He said that the site should bo protected from wind and any other form of elemental destruction preferably on tha south end of town There ia apparently sufficient money in the general outlay treasury to purchase the lot without passage of a bond issue He will act In oa advisory capacity and said ho has talked informally with all the persona involved and that they are in favor of petitioning council Tha construction would' be financed by tha hotel group accord- ing to Strebe'a plan and the course would eventually be owned by tha city Second of Well-Heeled Mastery Pair Dies Refusing to TellHerName Troops Brace for New Arab Guerilla Raids French Alert For More Yiokrnce After Crackdown Order PARIS HI French troops were alerted today to resist an anticipated upsurge of Arab guerrilla violence ia Algeria where more than 100 person! have been killed in sporadic fighting far this vyctk Helicopters and scout planes searched the hilla for signs of guerrilla activity while mobile troops stood by their guns awaiting orders French and loyal Arab settlers in rural areu barricaded- themselves in their homes heeding reports the guerrillas plan a large scale outbreak tonight to counter Premier Guy new emergency powers Tha French upper hoose met to vote fonnal approval of (he check" powers awarded MOllet by the National Assembly earlier this week Algeria Minister Robert LaCosta la expected to return here from Paris this weekend to start putting the new powers in force The parliamentary vote authorized Moilet to take virtually any economic or military step he considers necessary to put an end to the a ni-French campaign of murder and arson in Algeria The Premier who previously had threatened to wage all-out war against the guerrilla if they persist in their activities yesterday offered increased wages farm reform aad public works jobs for the gasmptoyed to ditions in Algeria PALM SPRINGS LIONS CLUB yesterday officially presented two new standard museum table cases to the Palm Springs Desert Museum which are already employed to diqriay selection from the Fred Markham coOectloe of minerals and dolls of other lands from the collection of Mr and Lira Bruee Thomas Another recent contribution was a cast specially constructed by Hans Lauritz Hanna te house a coming exhibit of mounted birds Above Judge Eugene Therieau Lions president right makes the presentation pt Dr Smith Museum diroetar (Daaert Sun photo) Council Nearly Junks Surrby Plan Relents and Defers Verdict a Week Cafe Owners Move to Sever City Inspection Henry Baker will represent the Retail Merchant! Association with the complete support of fellow restaurant and cabaret owners when they petition city council to divorce restaurant inspection from the rest of tha Riverside Health Department's contractual program in Palm Springs The board of directors of the merchants association of which eating and drinking establishments are a part will form a committee to ask' that Palm Springs be allowed to police its own restaurants according to -prenideift Adrian Roeen The plans canto 'oa the heels of shelving a planned restaurant griding system they were eonsidMng for adoption THE RESTAURANT system died rapidly after a May or's Coordinating Council meeting last week when the plan to grade by 'signs in public view met fierce verbal RMA oppoaition It had been considered by council for adoption when it waa discovered that other cities of a nonresort nature had benefited by Ito adoption Statistics proved that Palm Springs restaurants are cleaner without that type of policing than Riverside restaurant! were when the system had been in effect five months it was said City manager Robot Peterson said today the plan wu (helved indefinitely and that council had not formally presented it so did not have to formally quash it Peterson said bo talked to Henry Baker of the merchants about initiating a system whereby the county health group would handle all health inspection and examinations they presently do under contract but exclude their present restaurant inspection system Their discussion wu informal and ntf conclusion wu reached BAKER TODAY mid he had planned to read a petition including some of the inspection stipulations to council last night but no room could be found on the informal business agenda ached uling an airport presa conference immediately As Soviet miniater of electric power atatioei Malenkov is here for a three-week tour of power facilities at the invitation of the British Central Electrical Author ity He was met by Lord Citrine chairman of the Central Electrical Authority and the miniater fuel and power Aubrey Jones Security arrangements imposed by Scotland Yard were so severe that even the London Communist Daily Worker complained pounds' band Lorio said Botkina' parents Mr and Mrs Howard Hoskins live In Phoenix and "Arizona police were seeing what they can find for us there Washburn Ho police said Hoe-kina had come there about eight months ago from Medford Ore and worked aa a cattle buyer They said be had been there He wu arrested twice in February for driving while intoxicated On Fob 6 ha paid $100 fine plus coits and on Feb 33 he wu picked up on the same offense and paid a $290 fine plus costs At the time of the arrests Hoa-kina Jiad $MJW is cash with him police laid Sh wore a wedding Attlee Says Ul 'Will Leave Us to Fight Alone' LONDON 01 Earl Attlee uid today the United Staten ia to stand the sideline and leave us te cany oa thd ia the troubled Middle East The former Labor Prime Minister ia hia maiden speech before the House of Lords added hia censure of the American attitude to the dcnuariatlona voiced yesterday by Anuria Bevan ia Commons "I sometime! feel with all friendliness to our American friends that they are a little apt te stand tha sidelines and leave ua to cany oa the Attlee said ia commenting on tha Cyprus dispute and ether pressing problems iii the Middle Eaat His words reflected British resentment at tha American attitude toward Britain's crackdown on extremist proGroek elements oa the reslleu island of Cyprus Informed sources said that Field Marshal Sir John Harding governor of Cyprus has advised Prime Miniater Anthony Eden it will take at least a year to out terrorism" in that colony Village Parks Job Turned Down by Join Lewis John Lewis parka and recreation director at Twentynins Palma yesterday Informed city manager Robert Peterson that ha did not want to accept tha similar job afforod Mm by Palm Springs Tha announcement which Peterson relayed laat night to city council came la place of an expected appointment announcement Lewis said he thought personal feelings ia Palm Spring! were against him and that friction would result foom hia acceptance The position offered ia one newly created by the job-classification ordinance adopted March 1 Future sctica indicated by Mayor Flnriin Boyd was: "We'll just have te start all over Peggy King Sued by Press Agent HOLLYWOOD Ul Singer Peggy King wu sued in Superior Court Wednesday for $5641 which pubiie rvbliou man Ed Gollin uid she owed him for service! between Aug IS IKS and Feb 4 I Two Arraigned in Slaying of Teen-Age Girl HUNTINGTON PARK Bi -Orville Townsend 31 Bell Gardens and Leon Dennis Woolery 23 Los Alamitos worn to bo arraigned today on murder chargee In the attack slaying of 17-year-oid Mar-gena Joyce Brunner Sheriff deputies said Townsend admitted attacking the girl twice and then breaking her neck when she restated him Sunday night 'Woolery said ha drove the car for Townsend after they offered to take the Bell Gardens high school girl home from a par Moulin Rouge Hotel Bankrupt LAS VEGAS Nev HI Th Moulin Rouge Hotel shuttered since laat fall after four months of operation waa declared bankrupt The action wu token by bankruptcy referee John Mowbray who ordered sale of the hotel te satisfy creditors City coundlmea last night agreed to put off tie a week final decision on the proposed Village surrey system after first coming clou to dropping the whole idea The proposal received a near-fatal setback when it wu pointed out the state coroprathm commission hod told A Aldridge applicant for the new city transit system that the state would not approve it unleu the city granted him a 10-year operating permit Thereafter Council Members Hardy and Strebe observed they had the plan from the beginning It had become evident the council would reject the 10-year proviso when Saul Ruakin Aldridge's attorney appealed for further consideration He uid a longer permit than tha single year including a 30-day revocation which first approved by the council wu not only ntceuary to meet state requirements but to allow the Palm Springs Surrey company to incorporate and get financial backing It wu pointed out to Ruakin that Aldridge hod told council before the permit wu issued that he had adequate financial backing and needed only permission to operate Ruakin uid the backing will come from "sound and they must have the security of a legal corporation He added that the council has nothing to loso and everything to gain by granting the permit for 10 years "The council and city manager should go outside the dty to get LULING La Ml A mystery woman injured in a car-truck collision that killed her Missouri male eompanion died today refusing to tell her name Chief Deputy Sheriff Lorio Jr said identity of the woman and detail! about a 116500 money order found on the dead man were a myotery The man was identified as Oscar Eugene Hoskins 43 who left Washburn Me about a week ago Ha wu killed instantly when ha attempted a U-turn at Boutte La Lorio laid authorities were checking Hoskins' record in Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Ariaona and Oregon ia an effort to identify the Officers described the woman aa "about 41 slender about 115-130 i Attack Victim Burned Alive in Her Auto ALVA Oils A preliminary autopsy report showed today that attractive 22-year-old co-ed wu burned alive in her automobile apparently after a uvago MS fttticke County Atty Potts said forthcr chemical testa would be needed to confirm that the cremated victim Mra Mildred Ann Reynolds waa raped But surface appearance indicated she wu Mrs Reynolds married only alas months waa the wife of Reynolds a high school basket-hail coach at nearby Avard Okla She- wu attending Northwestern State College and wu driving home Tuesday when attacked Investigators said lameoae crowded Mrs Reynolds' automobile off a country road and caused It to smash into a tree Plaster casts were made of the second vehicle's tire tracks Tail dry gran wu smashed flat new where her car wu found Indicating a fierce struggle took place One of her shoes stained with blood lay nearby Mrs Reynolds' fire-blackened body in the automobile Investigators uid a highly flammable liquid had been splashed over the car which wu then set on fire Mental Patients Quietly Flee Fire FULTON Mo 01 Several hundred mental patients fled to safety early today fire virtually destroyed the JOA-year-old administration building at the State Hospital for the Insane here NO LAWS FOR THE BURRO Only the wild creatures that find enough of the right kind of food cover and water will lira The rest must either starve because they cannot eat be killed because they cannot hide or die off because they cannot raise enough young to replace their losses These are natural laws EDITORS NOTE: But the bow wild burro pays no attention to such laws Dry Camp Blake says the burro the Jenny Lind of tha desert Condemnation ot Leibling Property Condemnation proceed Inga against the A Leibling property at Tahquitz Road and India Avenue will reach Superior Court in Indio April 30 as a remit of unanimous city council action last night The 30 members of aa assessment district property owners whoso lands our round the 339 by ISO foot lot they would buy for a municipal parking lot will have te pay all coats aa stipulated -by future court award Leibling spoke to council before it agreed to take the nutter to court He said he had suffered damages in waiting that ha had been deceived by those who had appeared to be "friendly and was sure the court would award him at least $300000 Under the original agreement between the city aad property owners ia formation of the district tha city will return up to $100000 in parking meter receipts ever a 10-year period 5 in Army Plane Lost in Storm CLOVIS NM A single engine military plane with five persons aboard was missing nearly 24 hours in a wintry storm and presumed down today on a flight from Fort Sill Okia to Clovis Air Fores Base here Eight search planes took off to hunt for the missing aircraft an L2p liaison aircraft after being delayed four hours by snow overcast ikies and freeiing rain Authorities at Fort Sill said all aboard the missing craft were from Clovis AFB Their names were not immediately dixclnyed Wants Builders' to Aid Inspection Couadhnoa Ted McKinney last night asked his fellow members to consider giving council recognition aad the yoke of responsibility to group of contractors to act as as iavartigation group to guard against substandard construction McKinney said the amount of caostrucUoa underway la the Village at present has overloaded department! -rSfolv ordinarily hindle ouch inspection He was told that qpme contractor have already called tha dty managers office telling of substandard construction He said he thought a committee similar to the elctricians and swimming pool contractors who help draft regulatory onfinancee could be formed and given council approval Cut in Sewer Fees Tabled City council laat night tabled a motion by councilman Ted McKinney to reduce by half the sewer connection fee of persons ia the Vista Cielo assessment district in the Deiert tract after one member asked that greater relief be considered Cub Parker 4287 East Sunny Dunes Road appealed to council for more of a fee reduction than provided in McKinney's motion Tha motion was mode after Frank Hamer sc Msg told council that the money spent by the members of the district above that which would be normally required amounted to about $31 each connector They spent the extra money in stalling a line directly to the sewage disposal plant in order to bypass the overloaded Ramon trunk They also installed a pump coating Ihtm more than $5200 extra Feeling of the council waa that the connectors should receive relief commensurate to theif money expended Southorn Pacific's Not $622 a Short SAN FRANCISCO h-The Southern Pacific Company reported to-fcy net income for 1955 amounted to $56246000 equivalent to SS32 I share This compared to a net income for IKS of S487030UU equivalent to $5J8 a share pubiie Ruakin uid adding that they should take advantage of the opportunity of offer Councilman Jerry Sanborn agreed that there ia a definite need for good bua aervict ia the Village The present bus service is one bus aa hourly schedule aad wu unable to apeed up after a recent try Peterson told the council Council Racks More Rental Car Airport Service Improved car-rental service at the Palm Springs airport received the helping hand of city council last night whoa it agreed unamim-ously to grant a business license to California Car Rent whose local office to in Cathedral City Airport operator Haskell presented a verbal petition to council urging them to approve the license listing present embarrassing car-rental aervica as hia main reason After hearing Haskell praiu the applicant and learning that if an ordinance did not forbid the applicant would like' to station cars at the airport council instructed city manager Robert Peterson to investigate possibilities of modernizing tb ordinance to allow that Haskell had uid the ordinance wu geared about 35 years behind present day airport operation He said the customers who would use the rcnlal are "people who head our billion dollar corporations and fly ia every Councilman Earle Strebe asked that council take immediate action to designate a spot at the airport where about eix cars from any rental agency wishing to participate could be parked for immediate rental use Peterson was directed to 'inveitigate ways and means Inside of the Sun A regular relama wriUen by tha jaanalism class (He Palm Springs High school High School Highlights caa be fund aa Page 3 Cathedral City S-7 Classified 13-13-14-15 Clssisg Starks 16 Camlrs 19 Desert Empire 6 Editorial Spsrlg 9 T-Schedule of resumption ofeervice byVeeternAir Lineavai airnoun-ced today by Maiiager- Bruee Pickett Start-llng toxoh there will be one morning flight dally two froaLoe Angeles Ck March 28 the Californian which-services the Northwest' will Its afternoon -j flight and starting April 1 full Berries I will be attained with the Us Vegas-San I Diego flights- WASHINGTON 1 CP House" and Seriate confer- i ees (grand today on a compromise bill 4 to 5 authorise the Upper Colorado Reclamation Project SACRAMENTO UP A resolution urging fed- erul action to support the Supreme Court decision on integration lnrthe South was unanimously approved by the' Assembly Meeting Planned on Fun d-Raising Censorship Law A meeting will be arranged with Rabbi Leon Rosenberg other persons who would be in charge of large fund-raising campaigns and city manager Robert Peterson to discuss the adoption of an ordinance giving legal backing to a social service commission City council last night approved Peterson's recommendation that more study be given the proposal which would errale a commission governing fund-campign registration in Palm Springs The proposal includes the appointment of five persons on a governing board who must be notified of all campaigns planned for the Village The ordinance would make il a misdemeanor not All available crews were placed I to file a petition of intent to the repair work immediately duet such a campaign Line Break Halts Phone Service A cable accidentally broken by crewmen preparing far the of South Palm Canyon Drive interrupted telephone service between the Palm Spring and Cathedral City branches for four hours yesterday afternoon Bill Nash local manager reported widening MEW I0HK UP Short-wave radio lcatioDS in the entire daylight portion of tha world were silenced for 20 to 25 migrates today by sunspots D0UU70N2S STOCK AVERAGES UP 30 Indus t- i rials 50750 up 382 20 raila 16966 up 062 15 utilities 6752 up 018 and 65 stocks 17981 wp 097 -Sf' -if1.