The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 17

THE FRESNO BEE FRESNO Control ReleasesJj Into River At Friant Are Halted! Jack Rodner the San Joaquin Valley district manager for the reclamation bureau today said the San Joaquin River is under control and no more emergency releases from Friant Dam are being made Rodner asserted a difference between the amount of water required by the Miller Lux interests downstream and the amount released from Friant is being made up with Kings River water flowing through Fresno Slough the Fresno -Slough water were not available water would have to be pumped at Tracy Rodner declared Build Up Storage "San Joaquin River water is being stored at Friant Dam for use later in the Assistant Operations Superintendent Jeff Nielsen reported the flow from Friant Dam this morning was 1300 second feet Nielsen said the release was cut to 800 second feet yesterdav but was boosted to 1700 second feet when complaints were received from down river users in the vicinity of Rank's Island that the flow was not large enough to keep water in the channels on both sides of ths island Pump Will Be Installed Nielsen said a pump is being installed near the island today to lift water from the low channel to the upper channel so all farm pumping facilities in the vicinity can be operated He explained when the pump is in place the Friant release again will be reduced to 800 second feet i Nielsen added: One thousand six hundred sec ond feet was flowing through Fresno Slough yesterday and although about 350 second feet was being spilled at Temple Slough the river is under control for aJt practical purposes We have crews patrolling the river to keep the channels in shape so the water users ran use their pumps Our plan is to oper ate the river to conserve all the water we can to meet later Jrri- at 3892 Butler Dow moved into it in 1894 It since has when Mrs Fred 1 been remodeled Deserter Is Sent To San Quentin On Check Counts Clarence Gregory 26 of 168 North Fresno Street an air force deserter who represented himself as an officer to pass worthless checks was sentenced to San Quentin today by Superior Judge Philip Conley A report filed with the court by Assistant District Attorney Richard Shepard charged Gregory an air force private absent without leave impersonated a major while "passing dozens of bogus throughout the San Joaquin Valley Gregory told the court he rep-sented himself asaca a major Plead Guilty After his arrest in Riverdale he pleaded guilty to passing forged checks for $45 $40 and $35 Albert Lee Murray 23 of Tulare on parole from San Quentin since last September after serving time for forgery was ordered returned to prison for cashing two forged $65 checks in service stations and attempting to pass another $65 voucher in a grocery store Murray was sentenced in Fresno in July 1950 on the original charge Judge Conley ordered the statutory 1 to 14 year terms on the new charges to run consecutively with the term he was serving when paroled Fixes Sentencing Date These defendants pleaded guilty and will be sentenced July 21st: Lloyd Pebsworth 39 of Fowler six counts of petit theft involving the passing of stolen checks totaling $41651 plus a prior felony conviction Paul Edward Bettis 25 and Wayne Wilson 28 both of 3636 Elm Avenue burglary of three Elm Avenue taverns John Gutirrez Sierra of Sanger marijuana possession Tito Alarcon Carrillo 26 of Route 4 Box 436 molesting a 4 year old girl Filipe Padilla Carillo contributing to the delinquency of a 15 year old girl Mexicans In Fresno Cast Straw Ballots Sixteen Japanese Government business and industrial repre-lw sentatives on their way home from a recent world assembly on! Mexico Election Results On Moral Rearmament at Mackinac Island Mich are San Joaquin' Page 2-A Valley visitors Nearly 600 Mexican nationals They will meet tomorrow noon residing in the Fresno area have CALIFORNIA MONDAY EVENING JULY 7 1952 This house which stands Avenue was several years old nf Of 1883 When By Karl Wild ducks were plentiful in Fresno Street and Belmont Avenue Fresno in 1883 at the age of 15 a house in the as the Today at 84 Mrs Dow JDraft Boards Wi Crty Was 6000 In August Bee Photo The four Fresno draft boards expect to begin reviewing the cases of deferred college students in August to see If they may return to school or must begin military service The local selective sendee headquarters said the cases of 510 students now deferred will be reopened for review I Representatives of the local I hoards said they have not yet received Jhe grades from their colleges I Allow 30 Day Teriod i Lieutenant Colonel Frank Lyman the 4th Selective Service District coordinator said a period of 30 days originally was given the colleges to submit the grades He reminded the students it is their responsibility to see that the colleges send their grades to Kidder the vicinity of wAat now is North when May Lundy arrived in Eleven years later she moved into bride of Fred Dow recalls that Fresno was a small town of about 6000 inhabitants when she came here with hfer parents the late Mr and Mrs Otho Johnson Lundy She recalls the baptismal ceremonies conducted nearly every Sunday in the old Mill Ditch which ran through Fresno and! that youngsters in those days' "had to make their own The latter Mrs Dow said consisted of picnics and an occa-sional dancing party Very infre- quently a troupe of players would stop off here en route between San Francisco and Los Angeles and play a one night engagement Rom In Nevada Mrs Dow missed being a Native Daughter of California by a scant few miles She was bom in Aurora Nev which then was in Aurora Nev near Mono Lake The district then teemed with mining activity "My father had left a grain ranch near Stockton for the mining she said family lived in a little town in Mono County named Lundy after us and my sisters attended school in Aurora My sisters were taken there when I was tnj their local boards Iquin River urrrs below Friant i Fred Jurgens the rhajr-Dam- 'man of Fresno Board No 71 said his board will give the col-lieges ample time to submit the grades I Grade Will Decide "If his grades are right the student will he allowed to continue in he said The draft boards must work under selective service regulations hut are not required to defer students Draft policy however calls for deferring qualified Supervisors Are Set For Protests On New Valuations The Fresno County Board ef Supervisor today began sitting a a board of equalization to hear possible protests against ihe new assessed valuations indicated their choices in their national elections by voting in a straw voteconducted throughout California Although their ballot will not count in the election Pes- queira the Mexican consul here said the balloting was conducted with the Fresno Lions Club at a luncheon in the Californian Hotel and then will go to San Francisco Their tour included Yosem-ite Valley today Kanju Kato a labor leader who is a former minister of labor and is a member of the national Fresnan Mrs Fired Dow Early Rotarian Chief Lists Committees Guy MacLeod the president Sets Record Of 70834 Vehicles Dow had the distinction of i having a mine the May Lundy' jnamed after her It was a heavy STJfil Vkmes in thTt area now 1 Ini now was a fruit buyer for the Griffin Skelley firm Kirono Rotary Club an-iboarda thy hiv th qJallfU-a SttSS? £25? Mrn ht City Studies Plan For New Park Playground Sites Fresno City Commission has under consideration a recommendation 'by the joint city and school district recreation board! lor an appropriation of $60000 lor the acquisition ol future park and playground sites No decision will he made until later in the current budget deliberations Chairman 'J Woodward of the recreation unit suggested the locations should be north and east of the present city limits and approximately 30 acres should be acquired He recommended that at least one parcel should be adjacent to a location which is planned for a city school thus eliminating a duplication of effort and facilities Park Overcrowded Woodward said Roeding Park Is overcrowded and the commission should consider "taking care of community' needs including the adults as well as thinking in terms of the "If we procrastinate now we will pay more and have far less choice Woodward continued: feel as a board we would be remiss if we did not call this to your attention and we do not want -to be the ones criticised -10 years from now lor lack of foresight" Funds would not be asked for development of the proposed areas until the need for the added facilities is apparent --L Plans to change the entrance to Roeding Park and to build a new park office building also were disclosed The new entrance would be bn Belmont Avenue about midway between West Avenue and the Belmont Traffic Circle and the present entrance at the circle Would be closed permanently Traffic Congestion Mayor Gordon Dunn said the state highways division has requested the closing because of the traffic congestion caused at the circle The commissioners allowed $7000 In the park department budget for a proposed 25 by 34 foot office which would be located near the new entrance The present office in the restored Fort Miller would he abandoned and the spare made available for the Fresno County Historical Society Funds also were allowed to replace one restroom near pine grove in the park and to build two new 700 cages to house the Gibbon 'monkeys The fire prevention bureau budget is the first one to be completed with tentative -'appropriations 'fixed in all items Budget Increased 1 Exclusive of the charges for Insurance and the portion of the service and retirement' pension contributed by the the budget is increased from $44558 last fiscal year to $47739 this fiscal year The -figure includes $44084 in salaries for nine full time employes a part time typist and five laborers-on -a day to day basis as needed- Commenting -on a deleted re- Juest-for a mimeograph machine 1 i Works Commissioner James Snedeker said: The1 first thing a city manager would do in this situation would be 'to 'set up a mimeographing division with one per sop in charge and we would save money: Boys Set For Camp Will Get Examinations Physical examinations will he given 120 boys tomorrow night at a ramp rally in the Young Mens Christian Associatiorf building The boys will leave Thursday in buses for a outing at Camp Sequoia with the opening of the second camp period Allan Macy and William McAlister will he the camp leaders The physical examinations will be conducted from 7 to 8:30 i Win License William Meyer a son of Mr and Mrs WF Meyer of 1618 West Vassar Avenue is at home following his graduation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point Long Island His graduation won him a license as a licensed third assistant engineer fvr SYSEASB fettegys Eye Strain Reduced Safety Increased There's a new kind of windshield that greatly reduces glare and eyestrain With E-Z-EYE Safety Plate Glass in your car sky brightness ana light reflected from the hood ere materially softened Yet you see and drive more without eye strain Even its pleasing blue-green color is cool and restful Wa can install E-Z-EYE Safety Plata Glass In your car at moderate cast Valley Glass Co 2220 Inyo Street Phone 3-5181 1 Earle Taylor the district traffic engineer for the state division of highways today reported a record July 4th weekend traffic -kjotal of 70834 vehicles NhhSiSSl MtonM Highway at Herndon Bridge the riots failed as an attempt to In comparison Taylor said an stampede the Japanese away estimated 85000 vehicles travel from Democracy into the Corn- for cooperation with the States in the May Dayiing riots in Japan Cites Failure Interviewed through an Dreter Sen Nishivama Kato committees at luncheon i iu to determine the interest executive committee of the So-in the poll If sufficient interest cialist right wing spoke is shown he said absentee bal-up lot may be allowed in succeed-United elections The polling(here was conducted I In the office of Jose Paredes at activities' inter-949 soon were available in Bakersfield and producer He never did Salinas Her wedding to the late Pesqueira said he has no re- Dow took place in the old Tern turns from these cities The consul declared there are an estimated 6000 to -7000 Mexican nationals in the valley area This figure he said includes braceros who are agricultural he'cain munist camp lost the war but we gained a new political He added he believes the Family Moved Around The family came to Ihe San Joaquin Valley and settled in Bakersfield for a time then re would strike another rich ly after the couple established their residence in a small framej house which stood in the 3800 block on Butler Avenue Dow meeting in the Californian Hole several high school students eii They aVe Paul Johnson club gible for deferments who have service Elmer II Hansen voca-! preferred to enlist He empha-tional service Vern Redman sized deferments may be granted community service and Claude even after a draftee Is classified 1A Laval jr international service over San Francisco's Bay Bridge normally on Monday Electric Eye Keeps Count The electric eye station checks traffic going both north and south Records have been kept since 1937 Some years later the frame Club service Eugene Brick-' want educatIonal ructure was moved and a new'er sports-Neil Young attend j1 two story brick house was built anoe Norman Webster club hul-! rT1Pn today have on the site It like the one story-letin George RFulmore fellow- decided whether they want to frame house still stands The ship A Ricks program rhoo be drafted or former is at 3830 Butler Avenue Ham Ixckwood public he are and the latter is at 3892 Butler mation Joseph Dale Rotary smarter than they used to be in information II McMillan this respect" food Floyd A Yearout spiritual I Canham Is the chairman emphasis Norman Case music! of hoard No 70 and Lloyd A least 10 years and maybe older Vocational service Ashton lIHamish heads board No 68 structure was moved and a new'er sports-Neil Young attend- 1 Taylor said an exact record the north and south traffic is not "1 wftifentation a 8i available but it was about even-j01' iy Hjviried I Shimizu 8 psxt prP8i The rount was short of the last dent University stiu Memorial total when 72-267 vehicles were tabulated The check was started Thursday at 5 PM and concluded this morning at 8 o'clock Thursday Night I Teak -traffic stream was Taylor said "with the peak hour between 9 and 10 PM Thursday when-1 425 a mong the 'students and their tab automobiles were recorded and fluence is magnified in the public the lowest from 4 to 5 AM Fri-'eye day when there were 903 1 low hour traffic three times- the normal for that 8 dent body said Japanese students still have an ideological vacuum which needs to he filled Look For leadership majority lean neither to the right or left but also are looking for direction and he asserted "Reds are small in number Takasuml Mitsui the president 0j the Mitsui Foundation an or ganization comparable to the workers hereunder contract' and other who are in this country country illegally Several thousand cast ballots In Los Angeles and other South- ern California cities over the weekend Man Is Assaulted Joaquin Herredia Aguirre of Kerman was treated for knife wounds in the throat and the held by the police as a possible 1 suspect In the knifing Nervy Thief Robs: Waitress Of Watch The police are searching for an unidentified man with a lot of brass who made off with a gold wrist watch and a ring owned by Nellie Martinez of 275 Diana Street Miss Martinez a waitress in the Rainbow Cafe at 822 Street told the officers the man grabbed her hands in the view of many patrons removed the jewelry as she struggled with him and ran out the cafe's rear door gat inn requirements and still qUtely fill the weeds of San Joa a placed on personal and real propwly 1b the county Landowners must make known their objections in writing before Friday if change are to be considered by the board No written protests have been inr 194J Tba tiBuf alii The new valuation are contained in the $179000000 assessment roll submitted by County Assessor Walter Henderson for the 1952-53 fiscal year It covers ail county property exclusive of public holdings Air Reserve Squadron Plans Blood Donation Members of the 9372nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron will donate blood for the armed forces today from 4 to 8 FM in the Valiev Blood Bank at 366 North Van Ness Avenue The donations will lake the place' of the regular squadron meeting Lieutenant Colonel Lad-islaus Kiohs Jr the squadron commander said the roll will-be called at the blood bank The squadron will attempt to top a record of 70 pints donated three months ago Star Spangled Manner By Mrs A Karesh Six feet or two fathoms mark iw or two fathoms mark the nom de plume for his own COLUMBIA'S 24th ANNIVERSARY CARNIVAL OF BARGAINS Now in Progress PRICES SLASHED Throughout the Store asJ Head ('community Service Community service Dr Wal- famiiy stilf lived In Stockton An-jpr A Rohlfing crippled chil-other sister Minnie now Mrs Ilamish rural- Holland of Fresno was born urban Jones sunshine in Lundy Howard Holman youth Car- Lead Subgroup He also named the subcommit tee chairmen of the various groups" They include the ling: ling: ro11 IL Baird: confer officers are James Bradshaw vice president Alex secretary Julius Vlmnin Nielsen "College graduates may con- jtinue studies toward the degree if they convince their I Jurgens said he has known of To Draftee Harry White the chairman (tirely up to the draftee to decide Fresno County Tax Collector Herbert Myers today an- need general 'property tax 1 delinquencies in the county were co? mi q-k -ii 32224193531 Landowners who did not jeir 1951-52 taxes by April 2lst must pay a 6 per cent penalty plus 1 per rent a month and the redemption fees if they seek to redeem their property "The reduced delinquency" said Myers "reflects the general prosperity of the valley and shows the residents of Fresno County have the ability to pay their He also declared the eollec- tion of due taxes to -persons who recently acquired property An automobile Auto Blaze fire was reported at Harvey and Cedar Avenues at 9:20 o'clock last night A BRsico Years later Dow became inter irar idirr uow imtr- convention- Rainh I ReJ i i iisaian Zeners signed hi articles ested in real estate and develop- JJJ" ceneralehaHtv' and Lowcr during the past fiscal yearin the New Orleans Picayune ment and built several butldings aild than for any year since 1947 Young Samuel Clemens an ap-on land whiqfi had been He said $128430 05 remains prentice pilot and a rub reporter answer to Communism in Japan is Rockefeller Foundation is a member of a family which employed more than 1000000 persons in a pre World War II industrial empire Others are Senator Yoshio Domori a member of the House of Councilors Jutaro Konishi Osaka Prefectural Assembly Juichiro Mamiya a member of the central executive committee of the National Textile Workers Isao Matsudaira a member of the House of Councillors Dr and Mrs Ohno an Osaka sur-geno Saichi Yamada a member of the House of Councillors: Sozaburo Yamada the head of the Tokio Shipbuilding Company Hideo Yamahana House of Councillors Shinkichi Ukeda a member of the House of Representatives Shankar Hedge an Indian head of the All India Airways Employes Federation Mr and Mrs Mitani Moral Rearmament fulltime workers and Basil Entwistle the American representative for Moral Rearmament in Tokio Will Enter Classes Barton Boni Jr of 2930 Blackstone Avenue will leave Fresno with his father on Thursday to attend accordion teaching and repairing classes in Minneapolis Minn GIFTS- GIFTS' GIFTS' GIFTS GIFTS- claimed duck 'ponds North Fresno One evi Dow recalls followed a fontoath and trail now followed a footpath and trail now: called Tioga Pass Today Mrs Dow lives with a Elementary School 3 year old school building stretches along three Anchorage blocks and was constructed of concrete treasurer and Junius Snead sergeant at arms The new directors are Cajnbern Johnson Redman and Rchorn Two Are Held For Hobo Jungle Robbery Carl Fred Moore 18 of Sanger and Oscar Husk 37 of 1844 enthusiasm for Alaska is enrolled head of the 1200 pupil Denali Street are In jail charged with During the last three day July 4th weekend in 1949 53078 vehicles were recorded Circulation Of Library Books In City Schools Soars To 191000 The circulation of the Fresno City Schools centralized library last year soared to 191000 an increase of 13011 over the preceding circulation of 177989 City Schools Superintendent Edwin Kraft explained the figures represent the circulation to the various schools and would be much larger if the distribution of the books in the individual schools were considered Of the total 95687 were supplementary textbooks including readers and books in the social studies science and arithmetic -Some 73000 books of fiction land non fiction were circulated 'along with 5503 professional books and teachers manuals Biola Man Is Reuben Contreras 21 of Biola was treat ed in the Fresno County General Hospital for a stab wound in the 'rhest suffered during a fight in Biola GIFTS- GIFTS GIFTS GIFTS' GIFTS' GIFTS' GIFTS' GIFTS' GREETINGS GREETINGS GREETINGS GREETINGS GREETINGS GREETINGS GREETI7 GREETI1 robbing two men in the hobo1 were aided bv a followuD jungles near the 300 block of Wem in effect in his of fSe eiiecx in li Tr Robert A Edwards 46 of Haw- I which involves sending notifies- in the Summer program at the Fresno State College Carl Muen-der the supervising principal of the largest Carl Muender The tall easy going educator knows Alaska from the ice elementary in the made the 3800 mile journey from Anchorage to and glass blocks at a cost of about $15000 a room school matches any mod- em structure in the states" he 28 of Twin Fails Ida rom-schl declared incidentally op-(plained the pair took his shirt portunl ties still are wide open 'Both men said they were beaten for good experienced Starting salaries in his school district among the highest in the territory are $4800 to $5000 Children Name School Muender emphasized with pride that the children themselves name the schools in Alaska by submitting and voting on various choices Denali is the Eskimo name for 20300 foot ML tnorne reported he was robbed of his watch a shirt and a pair of shoes and William Stecklein fi A KfJ I '52 Chev ncKUP McKinley highest peak and the highest point of land in Equipped with 4 speed transmission Commercial wheels and tires North America Strict attention is paid to the Pictorial -educational needs of the child- and statistical survey of the en- ren whose parents are construe-tire territory Last Summer he (tion workers military personnel trekked thousands of miles over and businessmen A $5000000 every passable ro ad within high school is under construc-Alaskan borders jtinn and a $700000 elementary A deep-seated curiosity sent school will be ready next year Muender to Alaska three 'years 'ago He now has no intention of Continued On Page 6-B CoL 4 packed north to the "California LOW DOWN LONG EASY TERMS! 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