The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 23

7-B Bass Lake Problem THE FRESNO BEE Monday June 24 1968 B52s Set Off Giant VC Munitions Dump State Funds May Be Asked For Hells Angels Policing about 60 miles northeast of here Government spokesmen said 44 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 71 wounded It was the most one-sided oss government troops have suffered in weeks antiaircraft defenses yesterday shot down an Air Force F4 Phantom et over the southern panhandle The two man crew was isted as missing It was the 58th US plane lost over North Vietnam costs could go even higher Supervisor Herman Ncufeki said he favors billing the state He said it would bring the problem of Hells Angels at Bass Lake into proper focus Sheriff Marlin Young said motorcycle groups are a statewide problem and proposed working with legislators on the matter Young said "We hear about the bad but never the good I do everything I legally can to protect life and property If anything happens it will not be because of our (law enforcement) actions" Supervisor Jack Schmitz said Bass Lake residents are disappointed in the law enforcement they have been getting He said enforcement has been permissive and results In "mollycoddling" Hells Angels Hanoi Spurns Humphrey's Cease-Fire Call PARIS (UPI) North Vietnam today rejected Vice President Hubert Humphrey's call for an immediate ceasefire in Vietnam Xuan Thuy chief North Vietnamese delegate to the Hanoi-Washington talks in Paris told lunch meeting of the Anglo-American Press Association: The United States must first cease its air raids and other acts of war immediately and unconditionally" 'Commenting on Humphrey's statement that he believed a cease fire would enhance chances for the success of the Paris talks Xuan said "we must not mix up aggressors and their victims" extending inland night and morn- Thuy said Hanoi would 'mwaiura chanoa Highi tha 40 along tha coait to Ilia 70i Inland no concessions in exchange fornoi 50-55 NorinwtMcriy wind ion the end of US air raids and other "acts of war' Lot Anaelei end Night end aaainct erv morning low clouds becoming agamai mMtly in 4 MADERA Deputy Diet Atty David Stockman has suggested Madera County ask the state (or a special appropriation to help defray the costs of additional law enforcement at Bass Lake during the July 4th holiday weekend when Hell's Angels makes their annual visit Stockman said the county has good reason for asking for state funds because "the problem is here and not in other counties" Deputy sheriff's from surrounding counties help at Bass Lake and are paid by their home counties but Madera County provides food and lodging Costs last year were about (5-000 and Stockman said if tighter controls are instituted the SAIGON (UPI) US B52 bombers today destroyed a nearby Viet Cong ammunition dump so big that it was still exploding six minutes after the Stratofortresses left In dontown Saigon 13 miles away the earth trembled from the dump explosions US intelligence sources said the bombing was especially timely They said American forces inside Saigon went on this afternoon because a third major Communist assault on the capital was expected The alert sent GIs to their posts in five of Saigon's eight precincts whole blocks of the areas already rubbled by Viet Cong-North Vietnamese attacks' in February and May A military source said possibly "several hundred of guerrilla arms to be used against Saigon were destroyed in the B52 strikes southeast of Saigon The eight-engine jets struck an area that has served as the major springboard for Communist assaults against the capital In other developments: the sole major battle Viet Cong units ambushed a South Vietnam army battalion convoy on Highway 2 McTeer Is Dead At 44 Raymond Lorlyle McTeer 44 of 224 Dayton Ave an insurance agent died yesterday in his home after suffering i heart attack He was a native of Missouri and had lived Wirtz Urges New Green Card Laws By Leo Rennert McClotchy new papers stall writer Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz has urged immediate enactment of a "new and regulation to bar Mexican card" holders from strike-bound farms in California and other Southwestern states In a letter to Atty Gen Ramsey Clark he warned that growing militancy by Americans of Mexican descent is tied directly to job competition posed by the continued inflow of "low- Strong in Fresno for 18 North Vietnam years He be From Page 1-B Tulare he was a planning technician for the City of Walnut Creek He is married and the father of a child His father Dr Win ston Strong is a member of the FSC agriculture department UC Cuts Would Hit Agriculture Needy Students wage" Mexican nationals Wirtz recommended better enforcement procedures by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) an agency under Clark's authority along with tightened rules governing ad' mission of workers from Mexi co At issue is the seasonal bor- Police sunny ilttrnaons through Tuesday Little temperature change Higns 73-10 lows 40-45 Southern Fair through Tuev day hut night end early morning low icmuds and log Inland to roastal and Intermediate valleys Slightly cooler mast inland areas FRESNO DATA I Normal maximum and minimum 95 I degrees 59 degrees Maximum and minimum this dale last year 9S degrees and 41 degrees Time of sunrise 5 41 o'clock of sunset 1:11 o'clock FORT IRWIN A small inches Seasonal precipitation 7 24 Normal precipitation 11 21 Precipitation to this date last year 14 99 Relative humidity at 4 yesterday 24 per cent highest! his morning 41 per can Sea level pressure at 4 pm yesterday 2944 Inches at 4 am today 2949 Inches RIVER REPORTS Kinas Pine Flat Reservoir storage at midnight 42090 arrc-feet Calculated natural flow ot Pledra 1404 sar-ond-foet The actual flow at that point at 7 am was 4150 socond-feet Released lor diversion bv units below Highway 99 was 1915 second-feat Mlllerton Lake inflow 1913 second-feat instead of reporting it brought! i-sttsecond-ieet 1 lk orooe 24X457 acre-feet releases It into the barracks It went off in econd-1ef Into San Jooouln River 110 into Frlant-Kern Canal 15911: into Madera Canal 959 Flew inures are aver- military rocket either ignited or exploded inside a barracks at this desert training center injuring eight National Guardsmen from the San Francisco Bay Area one seriously An Army spokesman said a soldier apparently found a round from a 35 rocket launcher and about 5 pm Sunday LOS ANGELES (AP)-Aid to i needy students and agricultural gan his life in surance career in 1954 and for the last three years had been the Fresno general agent of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co He was a past president of the Central California Association of Life Underwriters McTeer was a World War II Air Force veteran He was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church He is survived by his widow Shirley two daughters Carolyn McTeer of Fresno and Mrs Linda Van De Vere of Los Angeles two sons Brad McTeer of Fresno and Richard Me From Page 1-B Clinton Avenue and Fresno Streets going through the red light all the cycles had sirens blasting disturbing occupants and visitors of 2554 Clinton Ave der crossing of thousands of "green card" Mexican programs will have to be cur-nationals with the status of le-jtaiied at the University of Cali-gal immigrants I fornia next year unless budget Under current INS rules 'cuts under consideration by a such workers may not cross the 'joint legislative conference are I 4 I a v- The injured here for two weeks of summer training were "We let this go after phoning border (heir purpose at therestored a university vice pres-the police to find out what was time they enter the United ident says happening and were told that States is to seek work at strike- ir hu formation wa 0 babound lam 'prWdent lor plSiTd aL gven out The Umted Farm Worker lysis said in an interview yes- "Later we found it was con- gamzing Committee aid to needy students nected with the American Le-FI-CIO contends this word- particularly minority groups gion convention I might ask ing permits them to show upwould be cut W7 million if at this point what is so top after awhile at a struck farmthe proposed budg- without risking deportation pro- 't reductioof $74 miliion secret about this convention? Teer serving with the armed members of Company 1st forces in Germany and two Battalion 159th Infantry 185th step-brothers Tommy and Brian Folger of Bakersfield Funeral services will be held at 9:30 am Thursday in the Lisle Calaveras Chapel Burial will be in the Fresno Memorial Gardens Meany Pledges Aid To End Bias In Labor Unions WASHINGTON (AP) Racial discrimination remains a major barrier to Negroes hunting jobs and labor unions haven't done all they can to eliminate prejudice within their own ranks the AFL-CIO said today But "this is not a time to give up it is a time to fight (or equality said George Meany president of the 135 million-member labor federation Meany in reports to a civil rights organization and the AFL-CIO magazine The Feder-ationist said high unemployment or deadend jobs for Negroes are a major cause of the social disorder To Convention Meany's message to the convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People in Atlantic City NJ also said that Negro gains in education housing and other areas have been "laggard everywhere" The delay in making Negro equality a reality is disheartening to be disheartened is not to be a Meany said Of course the progress of school integration has been disgracefully slow Of course the evils of slum housing remain and the twin escape hatches that have been opened this year housing in principle and more housing in are narrowed by the weight of prejudice Of course the goal of equal employment opportunity' has been tarnished by those who seek to frustrate Meany said "Shall we for these reasons despair of America? We say no We say that the answer is not to bum but to build he said We in the AFL-CIO have never sought to minimize our own problems in this respect Discrimination persisted in many local unions despite its vigorous repudiation by every national Meany said Soon Eliminated "It has not been entirely exterminated yet But with the aid of the federal law we fought so hard to enact the few remaining abuses will soon be he said The Federationist report said that despite improvement through federal and private programs Negro unemployment rates still indicate widespread discrimination in employment or no law it is simply impossible to look at the employment experience of Negroes the amount of unemployment and underemployment and at the occupations in which they are employed and the income they without concluding that even after allowance is made for all other factors one of the major problems that equal opportunity is more often a policy than a practice" it said Latest government figures show the jobless rate of Negroes down to 64 per cent lowest on record but still double the rate for white workers Sees Improvement is no doubt that conditions have improved and that opportunities previously closed to Negro youth have opened the AFL-CIO report said But there is also no doubt that discrimination remains a major factor in the job problems of Unemployment among Negro teen-agers is nearly 25 per cent about double the rate for white teenagers in terms of social are already upon the AFL-CIO said The report follows in the wake of criticism by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther that Meany has failed to exercise strong leadership in such social areas as civil rights In fact there were reports last week that the UAW and the Teamsters union both at odds with the AFL-CIO had come to tentative agreements on programs to deal with the problem of racial discrimination and other areas ceedings Under proposed regulation the Justice Department would close this loophole comes final Extension Decrease He said a proposed (93 mil- Weather Shift Slows Giant Angeles Blaze NEWHALL A favorable weather change today spurred hopes that a huge brush fire which has blackened 60 square miles of northern Los Angeles County will be contained within 24 hours a fire official said More than 1300 firefighters battled the 40000-acre Liebre Mountain blaze which has burning out of control since Friday in the Angeles National Forest They had been hampered earlier by winds up to 50 miles an hour low humidity and 100-degree temperatures However the spokesman said that the winds dropped to 7 to 10 miles an hour this morning and temperatures cooled He said that the fire was now One area was in the northeast corner of the blaze where firemen were unable to establish lines as the flames swept up small canyons around Liebre Mountain 50 miles north downtown Los Angeles The other' critical spot was near the Red Rock Mountain firebreak where firemen were attempting to make a stand The area was cleared of brush and planted with grass about a year ago A third blaze near King City in the Los Padres National Forest in Central California was reported 50 per cent contained with more than 1000 men on the lines 12:30 AM "The next disturbance came at approximately 12:30 am Sunday when the same thing happened with even larger numbers of motorcycles all blasting their sirens "Since the disturbance was caused possibly by police from out of town (LA) and was created outside the line of duty we Armored Group They have been at the Armor and Desert Training Center since June 15 Seriously Injured Seriously injured was Dennis Garman 21 Richmond In fair condition were Sgt Richard Hernandez age not available Richmond Sgt William Hamilton 26 Pinole and Sgt Willis Anderson 27 Oro-ville In good condition were Sgt Donald Andrews 25 Oakland Spec 4 Dennis Gray 24 Oakland Sgt Edward Ryan 25 San Leandro and Sgt Peter Mason 24 El Cerrito Clark has promised to tighten Hon reduction in agricultural enforcement of INS regulations programs would mean a 25 per cent decrease in state funding for research and a 75 per cent decrease in agricultural extension the service by which the university advises farmers and ranchers of advances in agricultural techniques partment and INS are in feeljstantial disagreement over how as citizens and taxpayers wish sub-to lodge this complaint We that as citizens we have thejto handle the problem with same rights as off-duty police the department more inclined force Therefore if we can accept union complaints apprehended for disturbing the against INS at face value peace or a variety of other charges so can the police offi Besides keeping foreign labor away from all struck farms Balderston said the reductions would seriously reduce the scope of agricultural research a ut minate a8ncultur a cxtcnson-Wirtz recommended eventual He said he was also concerned adoption of an even tougherjabout one section of the Assem-rule which would bar "green budget proposal which was cers or whoever was responsible for thi disturbance Fresno police confirmed the motorcycle squad was made up) card" holders from any Ameri- Engineer Dies In Tanker Blast PORT ANGELES Wash An engineering officer was killed last night in an ex plosion aboard a Mobil Oil Corp tanker in the Pacific about 600 miles west of Seattle Propeller Cuts Driver Tossed From Own Boat David Wright 23 of 3877 Acacia Ave was severely cut on the right arm and leg yesterday afternoon at Millerton Lake by the propeller of his in board-outboard motorboat Park Supervisor William Reinhardt said Wright was driving the boat pulling a water skier when he crossed the wake of another boat while turning to starboard The jolting action threw him out of the boat and it passed over him the stillturning propeller gashing hand arm side and leg He was taken by ambulance to Fresno Community Hospital His condition today is described as 560 Teens Open '68 Girls State DAVIS (AP) About 560 teen-age girls will spend the next week running a mythical government in the annual Girls State workshop on democracy sponsored by the American Legion The event opened officially today on the University of California campus A highlight will come Friday when Gov Reagan addresses the girls at the 25th annual meeting can job they can prove they are not adversely affecting US The basic problem Wirtz told Clark centers on the impact an immigrant work force has on worded to prevent using regents' or other nonstate funds for land acquisition without legislative approval The recommendations of the conference committee on the budget are expected to be released later this week of off-duty Los Angeles police- men escorting American Legion dignitaries to McLane Stadium for drum and bugle corps competition The department said it would take no action on the statement and referred the complainants to the district attorney age for 24 houri to last midnight CALIFORNIA REPORTS For 24 hours ended al 4:20 am High Low Pr Bakersfield 91 75 FRESNO 99 44 Las Angeles 79 45 Me-ted 94 44 Oakland 47 57 Paso Robles 94 54 Red Blull 1M 74 Sacramento 100 59 San Diego 71 42 San Francisco 42 SS Thermal log 74 Yosemlle Valiev 90 54 THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE Albany cloudy Albunuernua clear Anchorage 41 Atlanta cloudy 4 Bismarck rain 74 Boise clear Boston cloudy Buffalo cloudy Chicago cloudy Cincinnati cloudy Cleveland deudv Denver clear -Des Moines cloudy Detroit cloudy (1 Falrbenks door Helena rain Honolulu rain Indianapolis dear' Jacksonville cloudy Juneau rain Kansas City door Las Vegas Louisville cloudy Memphis cloudy Miami cloudy is Milwaukee doudv 1 Mpls-St Paul cloudy New Orleans cloudy New York cloudy I Okie City cloudy 14 Omaha cloudy 92 Philsadlphia cloudy Phoonix door Pittsburgh doudv 13 Portland Me cloudy Portland Ore dear Raold City rain Reno Richmond dear 93 St Louis cloudy Salt Lk City dear Seattle clear 75 Tampa door 19 Washington der Winnipeg door T-Trece in NATIONAL SUMMARY Th6 CaUS6 Of UlO accident Sporadic thunderstorms crocked across 1 the engine room of the 32000- 3 iUV wnTeMi ton Mobiloil was not immediate-inli' ftiTotZ mi ly determined and the weakening but carrying -uu rains and capable of spawning Of the Victim was withheld tem- marc tornadoes Hurricane Brende moved owov from Bermuda spending her 75 poramy mlle an hour wind lury on oocn ocean A savage storm tore through sedions The vessel en route from18 Chicago ore causing widespread lire vcbogi property damage and six Inlurles-none Cook inlet in Alaska to San of them serious Dnvt lornado damaged a house northwest Francisco was diverted to Port of Grand Island Neb and another Annalac jlwlster touched down about 25 miles Angeles I southwest of South Bena ind High winds damaged five airplanes 35 I miles southwest of South Bond and sev-m 1 1 -eral homos suffered minor damagt bv hire Lid IS I severe winds al Homewood III south 1 11 WM of Chicago The Frasno Fire Deportment answered) Mean wind end hailstorms wore also the following colls between midnight Sol- reported In other sections of Nebraska urdey end noon today: Illinois and Indian! as wall as in parts 1:10 am 224 Dayton Ave resus- gf wvgRiing Colorado Iowa Wisconsin citator coll rand Ohio 1:21 North Colleea and La Sierra Heavy rainfall amounts included al- College USS" stli m-North Collisch ond Shields ihn Avenues The storms dtvcleeed along a station- 7:25 am 223 Son Joiauin St grossly front dividing coal air which covers i the northern tier ot states from warm to: South Seventh and Tulare iir dominating the southern two-thirds of Streets cor tire I the nation 12:04 Korn ond Streets false The storm which struck Chicago cooled temperatures which had soared to A h8f 01 'un 2:37 5555 Frasno St faullyi parts ot thf country soared the severe lorm system I weather were the West Coast the South- 3:52 Eest Hsmmond Avenue andwsi nd me Northeast NYwCrn ifr emrSinn iu( kTh highest temperature raoorted In 20 D-fh- 4041 Blecksmnt Avtime nation vosterdoy was US degrees el UMiirm lu fln Sortnos Calll Today's low except E' 5 rr Mwr Ave i ior Alaska was 40 ot Mullen Idaho rtsutciiiiof caii i 7:07 Von Ntss Avenue ond Kern Street resu senator coll I 7:40 Mariposa and Streets) rasuscltetor cell 7:57 Fresno Freeway and Clinton Avenue traffic Occident 0:44 441 St grass fire 9:14 1345 Towo Ave resu s-cltator coll 9:22 1431 Dlvisedero St coaler motor 10 South Barton Street ond East Kings Canyon Rood car tiro 10:44 224 Yolo St resuscl-totor coll 11:22 017 Parkway Dr rosusci-totor cill 11:53 Fresno ond Streets car tiro 12:50 South Fruit ond Valencia Avenues falsa alarm 12:54 South Doing ond California Avenues grass lira 2:50 2990 Cherry Ave resus-cltetor cell 7:25 915 Tooaka Ave peoar fire 710 California Ave grass fir Deputies Arrest Suspect In Store Armed Robbery Earl Ray Mitchell 19 611 Modoc St a suspect in the June 14 armed robbery of Money Place at 1426 Tulare St was arrested by the Fresno County office yesterday at a restaurant on Fruit and Church Avenues He was turned over to the Fresno Police Department Trial Pioneer Aviator Saul Dies At 77 RATHMULLAN Ireland Capt Jonathan Saul 77 a pioneer aviator and noted fisherman died Saturday while taking part in a fishing festival off Rathmullan Saul was navigator for the Sir Charles Kingstgord-Smith on the flight of the airplane "Southern from Portmamock Ireland to Newfoundland New York and San Francisco in 1930 one of the early trans-Atlantic crossings 2 Clovis Youths Are Held After Pinedale Assault Two Clovis youths have been arrested in Pinedale and two more are sought as a result of an attack with jack handles and tire irons on Dennis Kennedy 19 of 224 Locust Ave Booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon are Randall Blaine Law 19 of 1485 Fourth St and Martin Bady Lewis 18 of 62 Woodworth Ave The attack occurred early Friday night near the new swimming pool at Pinedale Elementary School on West Spruce Avenue officers said From Page 1-B San Francisco home and two Bay Area warehouses in April of last year The Federal Firearms Act makes it illegal for anyone convicted of a felony or anyone under indictment to ship guns or ammunition in inter-state transportation Under Indictment It is alleged Thoresen was convicted of burglary in Bar Harbor Maine in 1959 and received a suspended sentence while his wife is currently under indictment in New York City for illegal possession of bombs and weapons The trial originally was scheduled for San Francisco but was switched to Fresno because of what was deemed extensive pretrial publicity in the Bay Area French Star Denise Darcel Is Arrested For Shoplifting wages and working conditions in border states The aggravation of this low-skilled and low-wage work force on the workers of the southwest grows he said of the energy and anger of the growing Mexican-American militancy in the southwest is aimed at the workers who live in Mexico but who claim the economic benefits of being a US citizen Mexican-American social groups and the unions such as the UFWOC cannot rest until this problem has been resolved I urge that the federal government move to control the impact of the letter stemmed from a report by Labor Department officials who joined an INS team in an on-the-spot investigation in the Bakersfield-Dela-no area last month The secretary said his aides returned convinced that INS bears some responsibility for growing union distrust of federal officials It is highly significant that the union is referred to as causa' that the folk hero of the members is Emilio Zapata that its patron is the Virgin of Guadalupe All are symbolic of the struggles of an oppressed people Unless the Delano issue is recognized for what it is an integral part of the present civil rights struggle in America measures to solve the particular issues investigated by the task force are likely to be The report stated union members consider the government's attitude a because they can see that present regulations and enforcement do not prevent Mexican commuters from acting as strike breakers The Labor Department team said it apparent that the allegations had merit' MIAMI (UPI) Actress Denise Darcel arrested yesterday outside a Miami department store with a bag of lingerie she had not paid for said she was misunderstood had the money to pay for it when they arrested said the French star of such films as and the The actress 42 charged with shoplifting (3804 worth of undergarments from Jefferson's department store was booked under the name of Mrs Denise Atkinson of Miami Beach Police said Miss Darcel said she had made some purchases and had paid for them When Mrs Kirkegaard Is Appointed To Hospital Board Mrs Patricia Ann Kirkegaard of 5477 Millbrook Ave wife of Dr Dale Kirkegaard has be appointed to a four-year term on the Stockton State Hospital Board of Trustees Gov Ronald Reagan named Mrs Kirkegaard and Bette Cooper of Stockton to the board to succeed Eileen Rue of Stock-ton whose term expired and Judge Priscilla Haynes of Manteca who resigned Mrs Kirkegaard is active in several philanthropic and cultural activities in Fresno She is a member of the Auxiliary to the Fresno County Medical Society the Board -of the Fresno Arts Center and the Symphony League The trial was delayed for two weeks on June 10 after Goodwin upheld defense contentions that the jury failed to represent cross section of the federal eastern district court Goodwin with Deputy Clerk Ray and Jury Commissioner Charles Sells selected a new panel of 70 veniremen from a new list of GOO The defense motion for further delaying the trial was based on a contention that there has been an increased volume of publicity on gun control legislation since the assassination of Sen Robert Kennedy Goodwin in denying the motion pointed out that jurors are instructed they must take the law as it is even if they do not agree with it A motion to transfer the trial out of Fresno was based on local publicity concerning the Thoresen triaL It was denied Floods Ravage Southern China CtaTh W511' Motb'r ltBM he floods vid traffic between fli ttettend wutb through central! UrtIe she put Chinn has come mV virtual ber fWmS m- standstill according to end travelers aitWtog in vm rnmmmet rhin onto 118 sidewalk a momen to stand her Kong from Communist China Ki Tfcaff Qboz Miss Darcel was released im Denise Posts bond said Police Lt Paul check on a bus when Crops have been ruined and she was arrested STOPS HEAT GLARE FADE! New' magic invisible plastic elating far wiadow glass for kerne effice industry Clear er tinted Guaranteed 3 years Law cast Phone er write for free estimate free demeistratiei today WH-STOF Tmnpiraot Blow teaNog Piv A-l Stew Co 4721 Olive Ph 255-4708 many lives lost in Hunan Hupeh Ewangsi Kiangsu Chekiang Kiangsi and Kwang-tung provinces the reports said der (500 bond and plans to fly to New York this week to appear in at the Actors Colony Inn in Seymour Conn Read Bee Classified Want Ads every day as thousands do It is the shopping center of the San Joaquin Valley Police said she was excited and spoke with a heavy accent and she was being treated badly felt tbey didn't under- i.