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THE FRESNO THE REPUBLICAN VOL 84 NO 15416 Phone 268-5221 FRESNO CALIFORNIA TUESDAY AUGUST 3 THREE SECTIONS Founded 1922 By Carrier Dalivary 05 Monthly Par Coov Daily Ik Sunday Me Viet Paratroopers Break Cong Siege Of US Camp State Boosts Utilities Value To $45 Billion McClatchy Newspaper Service SACRAMENTO The state board of equalization has set the 1965 assessed value of privately owned utilities for tax purposes at $453 billion an increase of 2 per cent over that for 1964 Utilities Tax Base In County Declines Wo The assessment of the value of the utilities by the board late yesterday will enable cities counties and schools to complete their budgets John Lynch chairman of the board and second district member said the total will enable the state's 5311 revenue districts to levy about $380 US Planes Raid Targets Near Chinese Border SAIGON Vietnamese paratroopers attacking in waves broke a nine day Communist Viet Cong siege of the American special forces camp at Due Co in the central highlands today The village is 210 miles north of Saigon and 20 miles from Pleiku Communist ground fire shot down a United States Air Force Thunderchief during a raid 130 miles south of Hanoi Other American planes bombed railroad targets barely 50 miles from the border of Communist million in local property taxes on the 192 companies assessed He estimates the cent AP Wirechoto lided at the southeast side of Liberty Center Ind John Irwin 64 was crushed by the buckling cars FATAL TRAIN A Frankfort Ind crewman was killed as two Norfolk Western Railway freight trains col- China in an effort to cut increase in the annual utility assessment will mean about $30 land lines with Red China The killed Diplomats Tell Of Global Red 'Peace Moves' By Daniel Gilmore LONDON UPI Roving US Ambassador Averell Har riman and special envoy to Hanoi today said moves toward peace in Viet Nam are under way in the Communist world Another peace initiative was in progress in Belgrade where President Tito discussed Viet Nam with President Sekou Tou re of Guinea Tito heads a non aligned effort to end the fighting In Peking French President Charles de envoy met the Chinese leaders But in Hanoi the Communist Viet Nam news agency last night rejected any proposal of United Nations intervention in the conflict and Communist China gave no hint of conciliation in its broadcasts Open Door Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday left the way open for the Communists to say how they would react to another cessation of US bombing raids But in Washington today retiring US Ambassador Maxwell Taylor said on his return from Saigon that Hanoi could See Peace Page 4-A Gasoline Tax Boost Will End September 1st Saudis Fear Egypt Brews Assault On Red Sea Port pilot was reported The successful relief of Due Co was reported in a UPI dispatch from the scene It came as a US military spokesman reported a series of ground and air strikes against Viet Cong positions in South Viet Nam million more in local taxes Protests Made Protests were submitted by representatives of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company Santa Fe Railroad Union Pacif- t'e an est'mate guenil- Saudi summer capital of Taif Informed sources said Nasser offered to meet Faisal any time or place for negotiations on a Yemen settlement but Feisal declined on grounds there was would bring the tribal national guard into Yemen to fight with the royalists against republicans and Egyptian troops A Nasser envoy conferred with King Feisal Saturday at the nothing new in offer By Gene Grigg The state board of equalization today announced the assessed valuation of public utility properties In Fresno County hydroelectric plants railroads and telephone company properties dropped 22 per cent while the state as a whole increased by nearly the same amount The local assessments for utilities went from $203166000 last year to $198685000 in 1965 a decrease of $4481000 Public utilities in the entire state were assessed at $4530-569000 a 2 per cent increase over last year Second In Row It is the second consecutive drop for the county in public utility assessments which form one part of the local tax base They went down $2644000 or 13 per cent from 1963 to 1964 The decline this year closely matches that anticipated by County Auditor-Controller Maurice Uhler When the board of supervisors was conducting budget hearings ic Railroad Southern Pacific Company and Western Pacific Railroad The board took the protests under submission The utilities generally contend the state assessment ratio applied to their properties is nearly twice the amount at which locally assessed property is assessed in California and protest this as "Inequitable and Representatives of the utilities urged the assessment ratios between state and locally assessed property be equalized within 10 years Fear Takeover quickly on this could be more than disastrous" warned George Reilly of San Francisco a member of the las in the last 24 hours At the same time Viet Cong attacks scored little success Severe Pressure The American special forces camp at Due Co has been under harassment by Communist guerrillas since the beginning of July The Viet Cong overran the nearby district town of Le Thanh a month ago Inflicting heavy losses and Due Co Is the last government foothold in the area The Viet Cong had battered the camp unmercifully with mortar recoilless rifle and small arms fire Inflicting what an American spokesman called casualties" on the defenders At the height of the operation a US special officer in die camp House Gives Final Nod To Voting Bill WASHINGTON UPI The house gave its fina endorsement today to President Lyndon bit to throw new safeguards around Negro voting rights in the south The rollcall vote was 328 to 74 The bill as passed and sent Pentagon Hikes September Call To 27400 Men WASHINGTON UPI The defense department boosting draft calls because of the Viet Nam buildup today asked selective service to provide 27400 men in September and 33600 in October The October call includes 4600 men for the navy which will be drafting for the first time since March 1956 when it called up 10000 men AH other men being drafted during the two months will be for the army which is being expanded and is supplying the majority of men for Viet Nam The September call is a revision under terms of President Lyndon order that United States military strength in Viet Nam be boosted immediately by 50000 men to a total of 125000 and that the draft be increased The Pentagon originally had called for 17000 draftees in September In Accord The defense department said the revised September levy and the October call in accord with the recently announced decision to increase the active armed forces strength In connection with southeast Asia Draft calls now will exceed the highest level since the Berlin crisis when 25000 men were inducted in September 1961 The highest monthly call during the Korean War was 80000 That came in the first months of 1951 SACRAMENTO UPI- Governor Edmund Brown today announced a temporary 1 centl as J3 increase in the state gasoline nary figures disclosed board would be a move radioed that intelligence reports By David Dugas BEIRUT Lebanon UPI -Informed sources today said Saudi Arabia has evidence that Egypt plans an air-sea attack on the Saudi Red Sea port of Jizan a few days" Evidence of a planned Egyptian attack is said to include the delivery of large numbers of tanks and heavy artillery at the Yemen port of Hodeida two weeks ago and their subsequent movement toward Jizan United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser said in a Cairo speech July 22nd the UAR and Saudi Arabia had resumed talks on a settlement of the three year old Yemini civil war but if they failed the two countries might become involved in direct armed conflict Doubt Attack Some western diplomatic sources discounted the likelihood of a UAR attack on Saudi territory at present although they do not rule it out as a possibility The UAR supports the Yemini republican regime of President A1 Sallal while the Saudis back the royalists seeking the restoration of the monarchy The apparent aim of the UAR attack would be to knock out Saudi centers for weapons and ammunition supplied to royalists Such attack could quickly involve the United States on the side of Saudi Arabia a major source of western oil The sources say Nasser's real aim could be internationalization of the Yemen war to the extent which would bring a United Nations imposed settlement They say Nasser anxious to end a war he has failed to win feels any solution worked out by the UN would be preferable to a personal admission of failure or acceptance of Saudi terms Saudi support for royalists has been mostly confined to supplies However the sources say any Egyptian attack on Saudi Arabia by the taxpayers especially homeowners for the state to take over the The utilities have two weeks in which to file protests The rolls then will be sent the coun- See State Page 4-A said 30 truckloads of Viet Cong had just crossed over from the nearby Cambodian border Colonel Theodore Mataxis of Seattle Wash said the report proved untrue but the See Viet Page 4-A there would be a drop of about $4-500000 in public utility assessments this year and would be one factor in requiring a property tax increase here Lesser Increase Another factor is the disappointing increase in the assessment of private property in the county It went up only $7999-000 a 12 per cent jump instead of the hoped for 4 per cent The board of supervisors has yet to fix the tax rate for the current fiscal year When Uhler announced there would be a drop in public utility assessments he said the loss was mostly in depreciation on utility property in the tax imposed last April will end September 1st Brown told his news conference the tax which boosted the rate from 7 to 8 cents a gallon had raised the money needed to repair Northern flood damaged roads and bridges Raps Far Right Brown used the announcement to slap at what he called of the far He said they had said when the tax was enacted last spring that it would never be lifted and that exists only to impose Brown said enactment of the tax by the legislature proved that persons from every area of the state are willing to help other areas and that of the far was discounted Nets $32 Million The governor said the tax in- Yanks Burn Homes i To Oust Red Snipers DA NANG Viet Nam AP United States Marines burned out about 100 Vietnamese homes with cig-aret lighters and flame throwers today after they received intense sniper fire from a village area three miles south of Da Nang Marines told a newsman they! had orders to set fire to homes Viet Cong casualties if any not known in the area if they got so much Negroes to vote in Alabama Georgia Mississippi Louisiana South Carolina and Virginia the justice department to start federal court suits to challenge the constitutionality of poll taxes used in state and local elections of Alabama Mississippi Texas and Virginia new criminal penalties for attempts to stop qualified persons from voting or to threaten or harm civil rights workers seeking to assist prospective voters Subcommittee Okehs Minimum Wage Of 5175 WASHINGTON AP A house labor subcommittee approved today a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $175 an hour by 1968 and expand coverage to 61 million more workers including 700000 farm workers This goes beyond the recommendations President Lyndon Johnson had requested an additional 46 million workers be given minimum wage protection He made no recommendation for an increase in the present $125 an hour minimum wage Another administration pro-jposal that double pay be NEW YORK The state department has refused) uid for overtime work on chess champion to play an international tournament the subcommittee Soviet Launches Monitor Satellite as one round of sniper fire The area has been a menace to the cicflse which covered dk- Whor In Krie 01 ohiooohod satellite Intended AsmJrin nlt m((erKl lght from motorists This combined t0 gatjer information on outer raqliai- it movwi hrnifph with $35 million in federal funds casualties as it moved through nau far Hue hi oh uatpr the area and was raked by rfamappinflicted on the north Cosmos 775 orbit as a small arms and automatic damage inflicted on the north 0f 180 7 mues and a low weanons fire The leathernecks Sf nu um Z0 tp fh increM law he ricc peddic the Une vided for the boost to remain The purpose of the operation in effect throueh December 31 SIRnals from a new was outflank a Viet Cong unit unlesrfufS funds satellite were reported has at Cam Ne a village 400 were raised earlier Motoristsearler th day by the obser- yards from Dong Son the ma- also oav a 4 cent a gallon fed- vatory at Bochum West Ger- rines' southernmost position at the Viet Cong or dodging the eral ievy I many Da Nang draft Brown Will Call Special Tax Reform Session county assessment practices fol- question of reapportioning their Anderson Asls Special Session On Medicare McClatchy New pa per Servlet SACRAMENTO Lieutenant Governor Glenn Anderson today urged an early special session of the legislature be held to implement California's role in the new medicare program the No 1 said Anderson is California's proper role to move quickly to give the fullest meaning to this great program is my urgent hope that our lawmakers will meet as soon as possible to enact the needed state legislation for the fullest implementation of the new federal medicare program" In The Bee Today Amusements Theaters 2-B Bridge Column 7-B Cartoon 16-C City News In Brief 6-C Classified 10C To 15-C Comics 5C Crossword Puzzle 10C Editorials 16-C Financial 8-C 9C Household Arts 7-B Katherine Kitchen 7-B Letters 16C Movie Times 2-B News Behind News 16-C Obituaries 15-A Politics By Rodda 1-A Radio 10-C Sports Section Sylvia Porter 8C Television 9C Valley New 8-B Vital Statistics 10C 11C Weather 3-B Women's Activities 6-B 7-B Brown said today he has a team of experts working with state senators in the hope a tentative agreement on tax reform will be reached before the special session begins The senate killed the Petris-Unruh plan in the closing days of the regular session The governor promised coop- in Cuba later this month He does not fall within the established is the explanation for turning down Fischer's request that his passport be endorsed for travel to Cuba The young grand master from Brooklyn made the request June 29th through his attorney Andrew Davis The lawyer explained Fischer had been invited to play in the Capablanca Memorial Tournament in Havana on August 25th Congressman James Roosevelt (D) of California subcommittee chairman said there was strong bipartisan support for the bill's general outlines Quits Film MEXICO CITY AP A Mexican starlet Ana Martin has quit a film because she said the producers put in nude scenes by another actress after she had refused to do them herself She called the scenes slight against my reputation as Players also have been invlt- dared all US passports invalid an actress" ed from Argentina Britain Can-for travel there unless specifi-ada Denmark The Netherlands cally endorsed and Spain as well as from Bul- A state department spokes-garia Czechoslovakia the So-man today said current regula-vict Union and Yugoslavia tions allow only three classes of houses in line with the United States Supreme Court's one man one vote ruling Brown said he is glad the state supreme court has stepped into this case He said he actually prefers to hare the legislature reapportion its houses but that he cannot reach a decision until he knows what the court will do The regular session of the islature failed to enact a senate reapportiomnent measure but the upper house is asking the courts for another try Although medicare was the principal reason given several See Brown Page 4-A By Richard Rodda McClatchy newspaper polilH-il editor SACRAMENTO Governor Edmund Brown today announced he will call the state legislature into special session early in October to consider tax reform The governor also said at a news conference the current assessment scandal which has rocked officials in at least seven counties "cries out for reform" The governor noted that his own program presented at the 1965 regular session of the legislature called for changes in the business inventory and personal property taxes Both the governor's program and a $1 million tax reform plan by Speaker Jesse Unruh of the assembly and Assembly-man Nicholas Petris of Alameda County failed at the regular session lowing the disclosures of alleged kickbacks to officials by a tax consultant in Alameda County The governor agreed with a recommendation by William MacDougall general counsel of the county supervisors association of California that the assessment investigation be ex-eration in the investigation of! tended Into every county in California Weather OFFICIAL FORECAST Fair through tomorrow Today's highs 97 to 102 degrees tonight's lows 60 to 65 Little change in temperatures tomorrow Northwest winds 5 to 15 miles an hour FRESNO FACTS Yesterday's 102 Today's 63 100 62 Today's 99 62 Details On Page 3-B any violations of the law are uncovered continued Brown the office of Attorney General Thomas Lynch will collaborate with the district attorneys The governor was asked whether he would include senate reapportionment on the agenda for the special session He said he would rather wait until the state supreme court acts The senate and assembly are under orders to show cause before the supreme court on the Players are to be paid living and travel expenses and will compete for cash prizes including 1 $2000 first prize Davis noted that skill at chess carries worldwide 1 1 1 and declared Americans to travel to Cuba 1 Bona fide journalists 2 Businessmen with longstanding interests in Cuba 3 Persons on humanitarian missions such as relatives of prisoners or very ill Cubans Today's Chucklo Some single girls don't think about men all the time They just think about them when they think 1 '4 1.