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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 19

Publication:
The Fresno Beei
Location:
Fresno, California
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19
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IS ip -f ti tw Offer To Buy! Mail Cornei ii Is Rejected 'timbers if the riiy's ret jieinpmtrnt agency today ar offer by real I (ta Robert Kkir ni I Hrris to buy pir-pcrry i comer of the Fultmt Fresno it reel lor 5 a font i Bp Phin million dollar sheet glass facility on vl ch construction will start Monday In foreground is Ta Rust the process engineer NEARING COMPLETION This is the Pittsburgh Plate Glass tempering plant at Peach and North Avenues due for completion next month Adjoining it will be a multi THE FRESNO BEE The agency directed i -r to continue twgo'ijtirg i Kirin and Harm wrh S'O i square fool ns the ti age-uy will accept Klein and Harm have- r- -i an informal offer r-f 5M square fool for 54 tot frontage and have hake an cption on an atMi'i 61 frit of frontage- -n price They have not Wcrti'i' ii prospective developer of ih projxrty However a i report that the Ea-nn In- I Company was tr- 5 -viir er concerned was incorrect Th Faion firm had made a --n vioust offer through the 'brokers Robert Maffin of jageiwy said toilay ihrre jbeen no change in faiijt to value of the pr-per ss jlhu the staff still M-f square foot is too low The apti cy appraisals on the preper Iplace the value at 'foot At one point in the agency member DoiaM Jjc the acr-ncy ri-i of SJJ Yr tJ id for ibe i Karl Hue warned sg tin hv rating PPG Slates Start Of Construction lant Fresno California Tuesday Evening March 1 1966 MS City Gets Set To Tackle Planning Task By Edwin Gough The Fresno City planning staff faces a major project in the coming months of translating the still somewhat general com else plaining ami was the goal of the vn distant future when work liegan 10 years ago on producing the Frmo-Clovls Metropolitan Area General Plan The adoption of a precise plan would pinpoint the location of ic0linIer public facilities such as schools inaf fi son suggested a counter offer corner parcel a terior land Agency Chairman man however running 1 just hate round breaking ceremonies are scheduled for Monday noon on the Pittsburgh Plate Glass multimillion dollar sheet glass manufacturing plant on a ji 200-acre site at Peach and North Avenues David Hill PPG president 5 and other officials Including the executive commit-t tee of the board of directors will Jjpin with city 'and County officials in the ceremonies ar-t ranged by the Fresno County and Cify Chamber of Com- i merce i The contract for the project has been awarded to the George A Fuller Coiv of Los Angeles Oliver chairman of the chamber's Industrial com- mittee said the new plant to be called Works 15 will re- quire one year for completion and then will employ nearly 500 persons with an annual payroll of about $4 million The facility will adjoin iciUty will Japan Executive Says People Support US A Japanese businessman who manufactures synthetic resins says the vast majority of the Japanese people support stand in Viet Nam Hiroyki Sakuragi leader of a team of 14 Japanese businessmen in the United States to study management techniques made the statement in a brief interview today before leaving on a tour of the Roma Winery THE REPUBLICAN munity plans into detailed and specific- documents to shape development in particular geographic areas This" process is known as pre- per cent of the Japanese population is behind the American principal of defending Sakuragi sRid The Japanese and Xmeri-cans also seem to be Agreed on the basic that there is a danger of Communist China coming into the Uses Interpreter -Sakuragi made the comments through an interpreter The team of business executives arrived in Fresno last night and will leave Thursday Although they spent sime time in San Francisco before coming here Fresno is the first official stop on their tour They also were scheduled to have lunch with the Downtown Lions Chib and tour the General Box Co plant and the new Pay Less store on Blackstone Avenue today Sakuragi who has visited the United States before and has made trips to Europe Hong Kong South Korea and Taiwan says life in the US is more than I expected am quite Impressed by the faCf that the United States is a very very industrial nation and Although he Aid not compare the of anese busi- See Japan Page 3-B Drunk Driving Cases Arrests Jom Alaca Rocha of Rivcrdalt at Highway 110 and Brawicv Avamia ttiia momlng Lydia Salat of S3I7 Eait Av at Jen ten and Lotus Avonoat mil mornlns In Court Ridurtf Pulido of FewMr tour davt In I all ttiFoa vaart probation Senttncod by Municipal Court Judge -Dan I Evmann tigl ass tempering plant which is' due for comple-4 tion next month The Harris Construction Co is the contract-or for it i The will have 40 employes who are being recruited locally by the company 1 Robinson Barker vice president of the glass and fiber-' glass group said the plant is one step in the glass division plans to provide the most modem production equip- ment as close as practical to i its western markets Some 20 key personnel will i be transferred here from Pitts- burgh The plant will operate fc three shifts a day parks and playgrounds establish ttie traffic rirculatioa pdt-tem including designation of which streets should he widened relate the projected population density to the zoning pattern so enough of each land! use classification would be available provide the basis forj prior tv list of wfiich public improvements sliould be made and label each piece of property in the precise plan area with a zonln classification All the above would be to the end oi actually achieving the goals as set forth for the area in the adopted community plan Thors is considerable opinion that if the precise planning had been completed for those areas such as the College Commu nity which has seen a ground-swell of development that by far major share of the con-trovetial zoning issues which have split the community would not have occurred For example if a precise plan were in effect there would not new be the excess commercially zoned acreage in the College Community which has plagued the planning commissions and legislative bodies for yean Thr staff intends to discuss the necise planning program with the planning commission as scon as a work session can be scheduled A prev i I scheduled one was wiped out by the fu wave Thu general plan was adopted by city and the county in 1958 and was updated in 1964 The updated plan also was adopted by both bodies It was undei stood as part of the updating that the presentation of plans for individual con1 ities and precising those plans alter ibey had been accepied would be accelerated Th adoption of a general plan and of a pre- community Icise irfan to refine if are by 1 £jty pge 3-B 1 4 Suspect Is Held After Attack In 'Hobo Jungle' Two transients reported they were attacked in the jun-f on Weber Avenue south of I 17 I Valentine Avenue to be uwf-- pre See Offer Page 2-i5 Cecil White Seeks GOP Bid To Oppose Sisi Cecil White who r-p' seated four San Joaquin Vail counties in Congress ir VtVi a 1950 today announced he decided definitely to try for job again When the 65-yea r-old i served in Washington he wa Democrat Since fen he changed his registration and will be a candidate in the I 7 primary for die HTf-iWu nomination The size of the i been reduced and now tov-only Fresno Madtra jirsf ced Counties Stemsiaus Co ty previously was Succeeded (iearhan While who la Gearhart wit fcated in 1950 by Pfpbhhc Oakley Hunter lluntrr in ty -was defeated in 194 by 1 crat Sisk onrrturjc last week he will wck artm' term this year White is the first Rep-ibhc to announce his inter ion fa i against Sisk this year Du' Harris wlio faced 'Si years ago said today he not closed the to uyi again but will nor mate race unless the GGP conn1 I ward ith promises of financial help during the i paign White who has teen in cotton business mice he ws said he still op'rates twi ton cumpresses ore in Frcs i land one in Oakland tie is in the process of eitfo-r mg or leasing tv Las-new 1 Ookianl and "m've run C-t See White Pare 36 i i home here wua to the fosks Te i Negro temm'-my Pixloy Fir'rx api'awlcd mss jjj wasKiana The resi'lerts 'without Ulirrr Programs Will Cement Ties Of Fresno Lahore Two programs Rimed at increasing the ties between Fresno and one of its Sister Cities Lahore Pakistan were announced last night during a Night in Lahore dinner in the Gibson School Rashid Ahmad consul general in San Francisco reported Malik Nazar Hyat Khan Tiwana a former resident of Lahore who now resides in Chico is setting up a scholarship program so a Fresnan may attend a college or university in Lahore for at least one semester a year Ahmad also announced that Fazhal Mohammed of Butte City Glenn County also a former Pakastani will finance an annual essay contest about the Presno-Lahore Sister City Program in Fresno City schools i 250 Attend Ahmad was principal speaker at the dinner which was sponsored by the Lahore Committee of the Fresno People to People Council About 250 were served authentic? Pakastani food The dinner program at each plate included recipes for each'dish The- dinner was served by Fresno State College students dressed in Pakastani costumes The Bullard High School Brass Choir started off the evening by pfoying the US and Pakastani national anthems Mayor Floyd Hyde praised' jhe council which also conducts Sister City Programs with Kochi Japan and Moul-mein' Burma and said the council members the New America an America-that wants peace and understanding one that does not demand that everyone -must understand us but a we must understand each other says are friends and we do not demand that you do things in' a certain 1 2 one thatfor i Jack Allen Stone and Elvln Cain told sheriffs deputies they were sleeping alongside -t railroad tracks when two men attacked them with a railroad spike yesterday A short time later John Frazier 34 who listed his dress as general delivery Sa- linas Monterey County was ar-l rested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Stone and Cain identified him as one of their attackers 'Poverty Pioneer' OKs Africa Bi mem project in Zambia for twnsprojerts he started have years after which he hopes tniunquabiied oli By Rod Taylor Fresno Bee itafl writer VISALIA Tulare Co Bard have foiled in seme tltjrre': least nrie there 1 t-' are In the interrrg 1 He will be replaced here by bin quiet man rj mrn Foster pkilosopny has ca- el 5 In ihe tail of 1935 McAlxisterjcussed applauiit'd 1 surveyed the state searching criticized e-? 1 out a location for what was theradvi a flyJglirg ASFC idea to help- jis prey f-q the impoverished Americans islnnj? an cffjre return here io the form worker McAllister who started a war against poverty among Central Valley farm workers while President Lyndon Johnson still was in the Senate will leave in June on an African assignment the American Friends Service Committee McAllister 47 will take over an AFSC community develop- who gathered the crops Toe av with more experience in this field than any other man he makes this predictcn-1 day the American farnt worlur wifi be the highest paid-laborer in the nation he asks of his with tween How Can You Be Sure Of A Wise Diamond Purchase? LESSONS Wijj be presented by Beginning Friday morning March Hth ant to improve your bridge If so you will enjoy this 10 lesson sens! I'ndcr the expert direction of Mrs (L Edwards well-kiitvn valley bridge teacher and player 'U van greatly improve sour Mine Clashes held Friday mornings 10 AM noon Class limited to 80 students so sigit up tomorrow at wpm less rh iHwDie Compare Intelligently Consider Quality and Price 3 Seek Advice of an Expert Reputable Jeweler 4 Use Scientific Instruments To See Quality -Reduction! art from LOW CompgMtvg PricM IfoBlMElg highest paid industrial pro--duoer the field worker can November 1933 and now a jinvrritory of information im-4 pre5iors and up IS hsc-s beer accumulated Some of the See McAllister Pigi J-3 Tire project ilvjf Muk A federal 11 23 Fulton Mall Reg'ttprgd Jeweler American Soc'rty 217-5414 I i 1 ii wg.

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