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TRUMAN CALLS FOR TAX Hong Kong to Draft Britons WOtttP NATION STATE HARDER WORK FOR EVERYBODY 2 Oakland Tribune, Friday, Jin. 1 2, 1 951 Sunnyvale Feels Brunt of Tornado; 2 Millions Loss Continued From Fare I I NATIONAL STATE Because 18-year-olds are not Continued From Page 1 Here's what may be in store for you by 1960: Intercontinental tween $45,000,000,000 and given the "right to vote, buy gency, if the whole stabilization liquor, or other privileges given telecasting. Color TV from coast-to-coast. Sports events televised adults," the Fresno County Council of Veterans of Foreign Wars 1 000,000,000 a year. This is roughly double today's outlays, "The real economic cost of this defense effort is that we must work harder, reduce consumption, and forego improvements in Ifarm, business and household throuetl limited area.

Counts The plant was forced to shut By STANLEY RICH HONG KONG, Jan. 12. 0P This crown colony adjoining red China had a collective case of war-fear nerves today. Officials ordered all British subjects men and women to be prepared for immediate military call and the rumor mart began down and some employees nurd the tornados yesterday did by helicopter. Television instruc-j tion in most school rooms.

30-inch screens cheaper than today's smaller ones. Two and three re-j doesn't think they should be drafted. A aesolution passed by the council yesterday also calls not approach th intensity of the big mid western "twisters," tnaldel for "rounding up all draft dodgers of whose "funnels" winds some of previous wars and rescreening time reach an estimated 500 miles' were sent The plant reopened today. MANY DOMES IMAGED At feast score af homes suffered serious damage, and many were moved 10 to 15 feet off their foundational Broken gas mains 4-Fs." PEOPLE hour." The "twisters' yesterday, first ever to occur ii the Bay area in the memory of Weathor Burea An Inventory and appraisement a threat at explosion and officials, but not tie first occur fir. a tijne.

in California, probably 6ss Tuxv San Jose poUca and firemen nel" velocities of about 100 miles program is fair and equitable. "Effective price and wage controls, much higher taxes on business profits, along with many other restrictions which will affect the whole population, are all aspects of a comprehensive stabilization program in which everyone will do his part." The President called on businessmen, workers and farmers to share in the planning effort, to produce more per man and more per plant, to share the sacrifices equally. Businessmen must accept lower profits and more restraints and controls. "They must be willing to withdraw from enterprises which are non-essential and wasteful during a national emergency." i URGE PAT RESTRAINT Workers must take essential jobs, accept restraints on wages, and find ways to settle disputes without strikes. Farmers must expect a slowdown in their past substantial rise in living standards.

And- for consumers he had this word: an hour. and Moffett Field sailors sent to aid the stricken townspeople yesterday morning, remained on duty during the night. ceivers to a home both black and white and color. More than 1000 TV stations in operation. Rebirth of foreign languages due to international telecasting.

All this has been forecast by Dr. Allen B. Dumont, a New Jersey television pioneer. The U.S.S. Kula Golf, first of a fleet of 21 escort carriers at Boston to be taken out of "mothballs" since the President declared an emergency, will be re-commissioned about February 15, the Navy announced.

The Kula Gulf, built at Tacoma, is 557 feet long, of 10,900 tons and Counts said tornadoes can oc cur any time a pattern of weather equipment," Truman said. "This cost cannot be put off into the future. It must be paid by the people now, one way or another, and it should be paid through taxation." Laying great stress on the inflationary hazard, the President then called for "broad extension of price and wage controls" to hold the anti-inflation line for the duration of the emergency. STRONGER RENT CURB He also asked Congress to provide: Stronger rent control authority to replace the present "obsolete" ceilings. International pacts governing the supply of vital materials, and extension of export control.

Credit control over existing conditions such as existed yesterday occurs, adding that such i At nearby San Jose, another, "twister" ravaged a tZ-bbxk. area1 ers" and additional shifts and longer hours in some defense in dustries "are being; added: "Arrangements are under study to protect the pension and seniority rights of workers who shift to defense jobs." He asked for an improvement in the unemployment insurance system to provide better protection for workers who leave their communities to take defense jobs in other states. Spending on national security including foreign aid, atomic energy and stockpiling will take 18 per cent of the Nation's total production by the year end, as against the 7 per cent now being used up in this way, the President predicted. Not only must civilian plants be diverted to munitions, he went on, but new mine, mill and factory capacity must be increased, POWER BOOST URGED Truman said the country must, plan to increase its electric generating capacity "by well over 20 million kilowatts during the next three years" with a major share of the expansion coming; from private utility enterprises. He said he was recommending; the development of additional public power capacity "in the Pa-cific'Northwest, in the Tennessee Valley area, at Niagara Falls, along the St.

Lawrence River as part of the seaway and power project, and elsewhere, to eon-tribute needed additions to the power supply as quickly as they can be built." nattm seldom exists on the and caused dsn age estisaated at about $30,000. The front of onei West Coast Properly, be added, the tornado filed in Orphans Court in Philadelphia fixed the estate of Ellis A. Gimbel at $2,587,791. The estate includes the original manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven," which is valued at $7500. Gimbel, founder and board chairman of Gimbel's department store, and a noted philanthropist, died last March 17 at the age of M.

Use of majors and other high-ranking officers to deliver papers for the Pentagon has drawn sharp criticism from senators. Senator Bridges N.H.), asked Defense Assistant, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, why privates or corporals or even civilians could not be used as messengers. "Probably because of the high respect for senatorial Mrs.

Rosenberg finally replied, as senators and spectators laughed. home was torn completely off and more than 25 ethers were damaged. In most of the industrial section was left without one of the largest all-welded vessels in the world. churning out wild reports. There were these developments: 1 The government said all British subjects above age 17 are required to register for the service of the Empire by February 1.

It applies to Eurasians and Chinese born in Hong Kong as well as Europeans. NO EVACUATION 2 Malcolm MacDonald, the British high commissioner for southeast Asia, said British dependents would not be advised to evacuate Hong Kong as American families have been. 3 Chinese newspapers carried front page reports that bugle-blowing Chinese red troops traded shots across the border with Hong Kong police. The reports were denied by Hong Kong police who said the "bugle-blowing troops" were several Chinese trying to sneak into the colony. ANOTHER RUMOR 4 A private commercial radio station said all Royal Navy men ashore had been ordered to report back to their ships.

A Royal Air Force spokesman said only the crew of one frigate had been called back to its ship to search for a missing Spitfire fighter plane. MacDonald said, "British authorities do not anticipate any developments in the near future which would expose Hong Kong to danger." Princeton University is setting 'houses as well as new dwellings. I But the major emphasis was on power when lightning, which aoj eoraponied the storm, and high' winds knocked out four power poles. Th roof of a building at the C. Dudley DeVel-biss Construction Company was torn off, causing damage estimated at $35,000.

Another $30,000 in damage was caused the a rigorous, budget-balancing tax up a James rorestai riesearcn Center in memory of the late Secretary of Defense. The university said the center will be used to "American families must make sacrifices. They can expect very sharp curtailments in the supply of durable equipment which Anchor Bay Lumber Company at! An lt-year-oid girl, married: the foot of Huntington Avenue in when she was 13, has given birth to her fifth child a five-pound the Richmond Annex. MESS HAUL DAMAGED program. The heavier taxes, he said, "will make it harder for everybody." "But for any group to seek to adjust its income upward, to counteract the higher taxes which the defense program is making necessary, would tend to relieve that group from its share in the cost of achieving national security.

CALLS FOR SACRIFICES am sure that every group will be willing to accept the necessary sacrifices in this emer The roof of a 1 00-by -7 8-foot mess hall at the California Mari brings convenience and entertainment to the home. "They will have to make their household goods last longer, their automobiles and appliances, their linen and clothes. "They must save a larger portion of their incomes. Many of them must postpone buying a new housed" On the manpower front the President said that "industry hiring standards are being reviewed, to provide suitable jobs for work su one is mrs. ivsn vucrn oi St Louis, wife of a $200-a-month employee in the city rubbish department.

Her latest baby, Wanda Sue, was born January 6. The husband is 28 years old. Spare Those Pies! time Academy near Vailejo was ripped off and a falling, 125-foot Is not cyclone, aiinougn uie terms are used synonymously in Central Ptaina and Sun th west State where such, ocenrrences are common. KDffT VfOtXNT TTiMt fie described the tornado as the BMMt destructive and violent type of storm, but always confined to the limited area through which the vortex sweeps. Next in line is the hurricane, which covers a wide area but whoso winds are far less destructive.

A feature of the tornado not generally known far that its winds are net its principal destructive force. Most of the devastation caused is by the intense low piesaure area, at tb center of the "funneL" Thus, the pressure outside a structure is suddenly lowered permitting the higher pressure inside, the structure to explode" like a tire blowout. Thfcs pottem walls falling outward and roofs "popping" off was noted generally the destruction at Sunnyvale, San Jose anH Richmond. "Freak occurrences elsewhere evidenced the fact that the same tornado condition existed elsewhere throughout the Bay area. In for Instance, two huge plat glass windows at the Maltby Market at 14th and Harrison Streets were polled outward onto tli sidewalk, rather than pushed inward where 39 persons seated at the market's butch study aeronautical jet propulsion and related subjects for the armed forces.

Fort Lewis will undertake a $58,400,000 expansion program to speed training of troops. It has been disclosed that more land tracts will be acquired in Washington for training purposes. General Watson said the expansion program will increase the permanent troop capacity of Fort Lewis from 45,000 to 65,000. Dr. Donald Hoppe, an Iowa psychologist, reports that highway collisions might be reduced by making vehicles "glow" in the dark.

He suggested that "reflective sheeting" applied to the rear tree damaged two other buildings. COLUMBUS, Jan. 12. OT Trucks operated by the Blue Bird Baking Co. here carry this warning: "Hit me easy I'm full of Total damage was estimated at $30,000.

The $30,000 Peter Christiansen ranch at Two Rock, in Sonoma pies." i County, was demohshed by whati may hT been another INTERNATIONAL Tibet's refngee ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, is considering a pilgrimage to Buddha's birthplace in North India, authoritative sources said In Kalim-pong. India. The youthful ruler of the Himalayan roof-of-the-world country currently is in Yatung, Tibet, where he travelled by male train from Lhasa following the Chinese communist invasion of Tibet. ends of all vehicles would make them visible from greater dis Another ranch house, a few yards away across a highway, was untouched. Power and telephone service was cut off for varying times in many areas.

Power failures forced dismissal of classes at five school in Richmond and EI Cerrito. $qam Oakland. Yt -'4 v. i is-, Sa 1 tances. This sheeting, consisting of hundreds of tiny glass beads, adheres to a plastic backing.

Growing a third set of teeth at 88 is giving William Dickinson British Government has of North Adams, a pain. The process began a year ago, 'it 4 iv4-a- Jl 1 f) i I JL 2 Vil' f- Ir't' The spry octogenarian now has cuu liter won Id have been hi the three new upper teeth to go with path of the falUna: abandoned plans for commercial production of the world's biggest airline the Bristol Disclosing this, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Ministry said the development of jet airliner types has reached the point where the hulking Bra baron "is not a practical proposition-! eight remaining from his original set. "He's beating odds of two British Officers Held In Bribery Probe CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 12. (J More than a score of British Army officers serving in the Sues Canal Zone were reported under arrest today while investigations were proceeding into alleged bribes and other crimes.

The Arable newspaper Al Ah- Sunnyvale's tornado cot a swath through town. At million to one, quipped an un identified dentist. Westtechouee's tOJOOtfto Sunny valo plant, a UO-bj-SM-foot roof Chicago police reported a new wss desnoluhed, part of a turbine machmo ahep collapsed on scores i record in its recent crime annals 112 successive days without a of parked cars and th plant's murder. Lieut. John Golden, head power sub-station was knocked I A .4 .1 1 I of the homicide division, said the SakeUshi Sakai, president of Japan's Kanto Steel Mills, declared "If the United Nations troops leave Korea, Japan must get ready to fight." Sakai said Japanese rearmament "must begin now, before it is too late." out.

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