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nrrvnnrnnnnni rnnm rwvmr nnnr ww Hyde Praises Charter Safeguards 'j 4 i W4jW: i A Mayor Floyd Hyde says the success or failure of the city charter rests on the section which prohibits the council from interfering in administrative service He made the remark last night at a meeting of the Fresno League of Women Voters which is studying the city charter Hyde said the council cannot interfere with the execution of duties of the city manager except in policy matters or except for inquiry because of Section 706 "On this clause the He said he backs the require-or failure of this charter can ment that inquiries and com' well rest" he declared -Hyde said under the commis heard however trivial they: time consuming Would like to1 may be" see a limit placed on campaign In an aside Hyde praised the expenses city employes: The city should have we are blessed thinking about" electing coun-with some of the finest career' cilmen from districts the people in government any-1 area expands we are going to where We have an abundance find out there are distinct dif- plaints by citizens be handled through the administrative office not through councilmep or the mayor's office "1 don't think this has been given a chance to function as it should" Hyde commented ask I plead with the people of the city to give it a chance to function as it should" He also stands equally for the right of the people to "be heard and have their grievances sion form of government before the charter was adopted in 1957 commissioners had "absolute power in hiring firing policy and contracts "These are the dangers in a politically oriented management of city government Political orientation in the setting of policies and goals is needed "Here is where we must draw the line and draw it of dedicated hard working sincere and capable people in our city government In answer to questions after his talk Hyde said: opposes runoff elections under the present rules because He is not convinced now is the time for such elections is opposed" to open partisan city elections is against at this time filing fees for candidates in city they cost too much and are vwvnrv THE FRESNO BEE THE REPUBLICAN' Fresno California Wednesday Evening May 26 1965 Hyde Hints Smut Board Illegality An ordinance which would set up a review board to guard the public from exposure to allegedly obscene literature and movies may not get the support of Mayor Floyd Hyde Hyde speaking at a meeting of the Fresno League of Women Voters last night said an ordinance has been drawn up by the legal staff at the request of Councilman Elvin Bell It would set up a seven member review board to determine if publications and exhibitions are obscene within the meaning of state and federal laws It would not write a new definition of obscenity When asked about the ordi nance by a league member Hyde said: just an ordinance I thought it would just disappear my legal opinion I would say this (the ordinance) is an attempt to evade the state legislation (on obscenity) all my appointments more people have applied for work on this (review) board than Obscenity On Agenda The city council will have before it tomorrow for possible introduction an ordinance which Bm Ptioto DRESS Preparing one of their routines for the annual program in the Kelso Village are students Fred Cole left Vivian Shelley and Willon Sellers The students along with others in the school's trainable class will perform tomorrow starting at 7 PM on the school playground at 404 South Hughes Avenue The program will have a circus theme Mrs Einar Cook the acting principal said the public is Invited Student Flood Threatens To Overwhelm CC By Mike Hartman An avalanche of applications from prospective new students at the Fresno City College has brought the burgeoning growth and accompanying problems into sharper focus College President Archie Bradshaw told the faculty yesterday 2350 applications for entrance next September already have been received have more applications on file at this time than in August of last Bradshaw said usually lose from 25 to 35 per cent of these but in numbers alone if the present 20 to 30 applications a day continues you can see jthe problem regarding space that confronts 1100 In 1964 Bradshaw noted the college received about 1100 applications last year from new students and enrolled about 500 of them To offset the expected enrol ment boom Bradshaw announced a of scheduling classes will be used this fall for maximum room utilization He explained there will be three blocks one for morning one for afternoon and one for evening classes in total blocks rather than isolated subjects This will enable both students and faculty to schedule on campus time in compact sequence Bradshaw said rather than at widely separated class times Some To Reedley Bradshaw also offered a Supervisors Ask Vote On Flood Tax The board of supervisors says the bill to raise die tax ceiling for the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District should be amended to make a tax increase subject to the approval of the voters By a 4 to 0 vote the supervisors authorized sending a telegram to that effect to State Senator Hugh Bums who introduced the bill Supervisor George Malm again was absent Hearings cm measure were held today by the senate local government committee in Sacramento The position is similar to that taken earlier by die Fresno City Council The bill would authorize the flood control board to raise the present tax ceiling of 20 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation No maximum is specified but the district directors have indicated they would set it at 70 cents Bonadelle Gets Okeh For Tract On Gettysburg Subdivider John Bonadelle today paid $14 a minute to have a zone change and a tract map approved by the planning com' mission The commission met in special session at 8:30 AM in the council chambers in the city hall on the application The fee for a special meeting is $100 The meeting lasted little over seven minutes The zoning has the approval of the planning staff and the tract map is in accord with the recommendations of the subdivision review committee The matter normally would have come up on the regular commission agenda Tuesday Involved is a zone change from rural residential RA to single family residential Rl at the northwest corner of North Gettysburg and Winery Avenues The zoning is in accord with the proposals of the College Community Plan for medium density single family residential development in the general area of the application The tract map calls for 61 Rl lots on 14 acres Taylor Graham Win Top Air Guard Posts Colonel Marvel Taylor today was named commander of the California Air National Guard's 144th Air Defense Wing succeeding Brigadier General George Edmonds General Clarence A would set up a review board in connection with enforcement ofP of Bever'y uard existing state laws commander- simultaneous- laws Major Industrial attention for Fresno SP Chief Hails Rise Of Fresno Industry The location of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass multi million dollar plant in Fresno means the city is moving into the all purpose type industry classifies tion This is the opinion of Action Is Slated On Rezoning Cedar-Ashlan The city council may take final action tomorrow on two zoning applications which are in conflict with the College Community Plan At 10:30 AM the council has scheduled a hearing on the proposal by Cal Evans to rezone the northeast comer of Cedar and Ashlan Avenues from single family residential Rl to residential and professional office RP use At 2 PM the council will have before it for adoption an ordinance to permit Gardner Motors jlnc to locate its auto agency at the southwest comer of Shaw Avenue and Fresno Street Needs Variance The Gardner application also involves a variance because the site does not meet the minimum size requirements for regional shopping center C3 zoning The property now is zoned community shopping center C2 A third item is a conditional use permit which is supposed to cover the conditions of use and site development which the agency will have to meet The planning staff and the applicants disagree on the condi-Four persons were arrested tions at 2389 South Nicholas Avenue Both applications are opposed 1 announced the appointment of Colonel Mil-ton Graham to be replacement as commander ol the 144th Fighter Group (Air Defense) Shoop said the assignments will become effec tive this summer when Ed monds takes over new duties as deputy adjutant general for air in the adjutant office in Sacramento A change of command ceremony is planned for August Taylor and Graham are World War II veterans longtime fighter pilots and members of the air guard since its start in 1948 Both flew P38 Lightnings in Europe during the war Taylor compiled 39 combat missions and Graham 68 before he was shot down and taken prisoner Taylor an attorney has crved nationa 8uard bureau in Washington DC and obscenity Immediately after taking office Councilman Elvin Bell called for the council to act to control alleged obscene material and performances The council also will have before it a letter from Robert A McDonald of 231 Dennett Avenue opposing latest effort to instigate censorship within the City of The preamble to the ordinance See Hyde Page 3-D sonal guess" that in the future some students may have to be diverted to Reedley College Hejg supreme Court of the Southern Pacific Comnanv said those students United States has held that ob- Southem Pacific Company and would living in thejscenity ust judged in ac cordance with "contemporary community standards" and that the state legislature has occupied the field with regard to the criminal aspects of obscen Pittsburgh Plate he said All Purpose Area choice of Pittsburgh Plate Glass to locate here means which was drafted by the city legal department notes Center Junior College District ity and thus precluded further of which the two schools are a local regulation part in the overall planning to! Enforcement Aid meet the district's projected The ordinance observes the growth I city is charged with enforcing District Superintendent Stuart! all laws including the state ob-M White has projected the scenity laws and proposes the Fresno CC enrolment for Sep-review board as an aid to en-tember at less than 4400 Yes- forcement terday however he said he The board would consist 0f See Students Page 3-D Biaggini president of the Southern Pacific Company who was in Fresno last night to speak at the annual awards dinner of the Fresno State College division of business In an interview Biaggini said representatives of the railroad as well as those from the city worked about eight months with the glass company before it decided to locate in Fresno and purchase 200 acres at Willow and North Avenues from South' em Pacific Council's delegate body on building community television in the central San Joaquin Valley He also was to speak at a meeting of the television advisory committee at a meeting in the Hacienda Motel He said the Sacramento station "has become an institution that you're moving into a more all purpose type of industry Ground breaking for the plant is expected early next year Biaggini said in effect his company's industrial development division is a silent cham Passenger Service On the possibility of the San Joaquin Valley's loss of more train passenger service Biaggini said the company will continue to supply the service the public demands simply a question of the people having spoken and having said which mode of transportation they prefer" He said he does not see a Sacramento's ETV Success Is Noted John Crabbe manager of the educational television station KVIE in Sacramento said today his sta-1 located 380 new indus-tion has been so well accepted by the public since it tries along our railroad last went on the air six years ago that think tetter than one a ber of commerce for every city along its lines And he said Fresno is getting the attention i mentioning any he said can tell you we are showing more property in Fresno practically every day community would let us go off the air" Crabbe was in Fresno to speak at a meeting of the Fres- no Community has been director of operations for the wing and the group He was assigned group commander in September 1963 Fulltime Officer Graham a fulltime guard of- mat tiac eanad a 33 811(1 IllS DrOtncr9 MarCUS Oit Fftcwif vttltrdBV momm ncer nas served as commander Margaret Ann pmum a tjsj wm and operations officer of thelbotl of the Nicholas address 194th Fighter Interceptor Squad-! Alfredo Juarez Rodriguez 32 of In Court ran group commander and wing 1922 Mary Avenue and Carol SSSSSt director of operations and train-jyicr Mattinson 32 of 836 North1 ing a post he has held since Millbrook Avenue September 1963 Detective Ferol Stanton and! During his guard career he Amil Demes an investigator for has won three world gunnery the district office remeets flying the F51 Mustang ported all have been under ob-' and F86 Sabre jet 1 servation as suspected narcotics Taylor 42 and his wife Mar-! peddlers garet and their two daughters i The investigators suid the1 Denise Margaret and Merritt Mancillas brothers were at the' Elizabeth live in Fremont Ala- Nicholas address when they by narcotics investigators wholly College Community C'tU reported they found 13 mari-j See Council Page 4-D juana cigarets hidden behind a sink at that address They are Octavino Mancillas in the area Our service is rec-i trend toward a railway service ognized and the audience has by which train auto-become solidified and mobiles are carried on the same During an interview in the train for customer convenience Fresno State College TV studios I This he said is popular In he conceded that getting started Europe where highways are not in ETV is the biggest hurdle so good a fact which San Joaquin Val-i He said were practises ETV Page 4-D I See Chief Page 4-D meda County Graham 43 and his wife Edna and the couple's three sons Patrick Bradley and iatCr Mark live at 122 Manila Ave-j A were booked for poson I of marijuana The suspects de-The 144th wing has four fght-nied Clgarets belonged to See Taylor Page 3-D them COMBINATION SPECIAL Trimmer Mower and McLone Edger BOTH FOR ONLY 95 Ornii Stamps Ope Friday Til 9 PM OPIN SUNDAYS rrosno An wStofa tJ 9704 OlMktMM 322-7771 4 DAYS ONLY SPECIAL SOLID OAK BEDROOM SET Double Dreuer and Mirror-full Sue Soak- coia 2 Nila Standi Reg $17993 Matching Chest Reg 5995-SPECIAL $3995 4 Sets Available at This Prico Open Manday and Friday Until 9:00 FASHION FURNITURE CO Rowell Bldg Van Ness at Tulare AD 3-2671 DINNER Sisters Eileen Wenig left and Charleen Wenig look over the table decorations for the eighth annual Junior Achievement Future Unlimited banquet Friday in the Fresno Hacienda Motel Actor Ronald Reagan will be the speaker Tickets for the banquet are on sale at $5 each In the Sears Roebuck box office Tickets for the program without dinner will be available at the door Friday at $250 About 1200 persons are expected to attend Mon thru Fri 9:45 AM to 9 PM 9:45 AM to 5:45 PM 1 i.