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Business Briefs Clovis From Page 1-B a with an Intelligent ITT Votes 30 Cent Dividend 6 NEW YORK Directors of International Telephone ft Tele- quotient of 100. graph Corp. have declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents a Manning also declined to re- share on common stock, payable Oct. 15 to stockholders of rec- mean 1Q o( ovis flrs ord at the close of business on Sept. 17.

graders, but said it is nowhere Small Business Shares Defense Pie near the 100 used nationally. WASHINGTON (AP) Small business firms have received Yet, he pointed out, 64 per cent of the students were above the 1.9 national mean grade level and only 36 per cent below. wnaaia i I I uaae in i layvroivi 'He said none of 26 research SAN FRANCISCO (UFI) William A. Buzick, the president center? throughout the Unites rVi-ic-ti t-n ac-tnkltc-Vi a MAUT urnplrf Stflt6S tsklllfi III UlC t6S has reported better scores of achievement. Pinedale 'Remarkable' Manning said every school bul one in the Clovis district made significant gains.

He praised the Pinedale School scores as "re markable." "We have a sound program," Manning said, "but I'd be foolish to say it is the best possible. We still have 36 per cent not reading at grade level and I'm sure that can be reduced. We still have a long way to go." Manning attributed much of the success of the program to the district's "administrative leadership," and the "dedica- loyalty of the teach- Wlll Continue Manning and Dr. Floyd B. Buhanan, the district superintend nt, said the program will con i ijuiau tiiuu uui v.u $5.3 billion in defense prime contract awards during fiscal 1965, a White House report says.

This is $463 million more than the total for the previous year. Shasta Plans World Base In Hayward SAN FRANCISCO (UFI) William A. Buzick, the of Shasta Beverages, announced plans to establish a new world headquarters for the company in Hayward, Alameda County. The facility will be located on a 13-acre site and will have floor space of 180,000 square feet. Production is expected to start at Hayward In March 1966.

US Plywood Boosts Dividend NEW YORK (AP) US Plywood Corp. raised its quarterly dividend on common stock to 35 cents from 30 cents. The higher dividend will be payable Oct. 11 to shareholders of record Sept. 20.

Firms Hike Copper, Brass Tubing Price NEW YORK (AP) Two more makers of copper and brass tubes used in plumbing have increased prices. Chase Brass Copper a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper and Reading Tube boosted prices 5 per cent, on copper water tube, copper and red brass pipe, threadless pipe and air conditioning and refrigeration tubes. Prices also were raised 2 per cent on drainage and vent tubing. Federated Stores Up Dividend To $1.60 CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) Directors of Federated Department Stores, voted to increase the annual dividend on com-! mon stock from $1.50 a share to $1.60. It was the fourth straight year Federated has increased its dividend and the eighth time in 10 years.

The first quarterly dividend of 40 cents a share will be payable Oct. 29 to shareholders of record Oct. 8. Paul C. Fisher Fisher From Page 1-B part of the benefit that is don give them jobs.

"The idea of income tax Orig nally was that this would be tax on the rich and would hel to spread the wealth. When on the 'small income it anything but a tax on the rich. Fisher's obsession also drov him to write a'book, "Road tion and ers." California Leads US In Marketing Receipts SACRAMENTO (UPI) California lead the nation in 1964 for $204 million, from greenhouse cash receipts from marketings in all commodities and in all crops. The US Department of Agriculture discloses that receipts from all commodities totaled $3.6 billion and from all crops $2.3 billion. California also led nation in cash receipts from eggs at and nursery at $146 million, from hay at $124 million, from turkeys at $63 million, tomatoes at $151 million, sugar beets at $84 mil lion and barley at $72 million.

Federal officials said Califor nia ranked second in cash re ceipts in all livestock at $1. billion, potatoes at $84 million and oranges at $123 million. LBJ Adviser Says Boom May Continue In 1966 PHILADELPHIA (AP)--The hort term outlook." He think chief' administration economist says the excess of steel sup. plies built up during the recent labor dispute should be absorbed by the economy "without shock or strain." Gardner Ackley, chief economic adviser to i Johnson says the nation's economy may expand this year at a slightly higher rate than the official forecast in January and predicts continuing, improvement in business throughout 1966. A business sometimes follows the, settlement ol a long labor dispute as firms use up the materials they stockpiled in anticipation of a strike Ackley told the American Sta rlstlcal Association this was "the one negative factor in'the should be outweighed by 'strong prospective rise in bus ness fixed investments, in stat and local spending and in the i net fiscal impact of the federal 1 mdget." He "it is clear to me hat this picture adds up to an economy that will be expanding throughout the balance of 1965 and all of 1966." In January Ackley predicted he Gross National Products, he sum of all goods and serv- ces produced, would increase about $38 billion this year.

He says it now appears the increase Daughters here. PGE Gets Nod For State Cut In Shasta Area SAN FRANCISCO (AP)--The Pacific Gas Electric Co. ha been authorized to reduce elec trie rates to meet charges by the Shasta Dam Area Public Utility Freedom," in 1950. boo was rewritten and revised 1960. He is working on anothe book, tentatively, titled "This Where I Live." Both deal wit economics and tax reforms.

$30 Billion Cut The pen company presiden says the cut in Income tax wou mean about a $30 billion loss to the government a year and a Seal Society Training: Life-Saver Swim Class From Page 1-B and a half years ago after receiving a bachelor of arts de- jet by means of an fr hp Univ( rsitv nf ejection seat. In training, the men are taught to i 11 Special fall swimming classes and temselves to withstand the THE FRESNO BEE Friday. September 10.19*5. is a real challenge," he Mid. I A satisfying part of the Job' gicv v.

Is when "men who have had California where he was a pre- use the survival training conie lilrattr na urill hflrlf anrl 118 Catfl med student. It is likely he will which is on a set of rails. or handicapped children dults will begin tomorrow Bowhay takes the men out In p.m. in the pool at the head-'a boat from which they Jump very fascinating work. 1 find it back and thank us," he said.

"This has happened a. few times." -4 uarters of the Easter Seal So- iety for Crippled Children and idults of Fresno County. The free classes are financed by the Fresno Triple Fra- ernity and are taught by members of TAGS, Easter Seal teen age volunteers, under the direc tion of Mel Rochholz, a Red Cross water safety instructor. Dean A. Bailey, president ol the Easter Seal Society, said any crippled child over 3 years of age is.eligible to take the classes.

Class participants may regis ter by telephoning the Easter Seal Center, 485-1521, or by at tending the first session tomor row at the center, 245 North Calaveras Street. nto the water. In rapid se-j quence they free themselves of a parachute, light a flare to signal a helicopter, hook themselves onto a dropped line and are hoisted into the hovering helicopter. When an air group Is relo-j eating on a base in a different climate Bowhay may be calle' Prop upon to instruct them in the specific survival conditions they may meet, such as arctic cli-j mate, desert or jungle. Ground rescue crews also re-, ceive some of his "If they're trying to get an in-; jured pilot out of a plane an untrained man could set off the ejection seat.

He and the pilot would both go," Bowhay said. 1 Bowhay, 26, entered the Navyj IRCA VICTOR! OFFERS 1 ll Youth Suffers Minor Hurts In Train-Car Crash Juan Raymond'Perez, 18, of that of El Gallo, the narrator. Lemoorei Kings County, es- From Page 1-B will make his stage debut in 'The Fantasticks." His role Is ni, Sam uie i v-uii- u- nue into the second grade this gain for the public. the fact'the Office But he is quick to add the the fact'the Office Education has rejected an pplication for another grant of $34,000. Manning has left the district nd FSC to go to the University Minnesota as an associate rofessor of reading education.

The grant was denied because the program must work through a state college. Manning said Clovis still has ibout $9,000 from its previous jrant and is buying the tests to continue. The system involves early letter recognition. The teachers work with letters in games as; money can be made by the government In other forms of taxation, primarily by taxes on accumulated assets of all corporations, persons and organizations. By taxing accumulated assets, such as money gained in speculation, Fisher says the govern rrient could gain up.

to billion a year using a simple tax schedule he has devised and which he believes business would have no argument with. "What I'm advocating is basically quite a tax revolution," he explains, "and it should be taken in steps. The first step, would Dr. R. J.

Steinmetz, an optometrist -who has played in "Everybody Loves Opal" and "The Music Man," rounds out the cast of "The Fantasticks." The show will open next Thursday and will run' through the following Sunday. It will be repeated September 21st through 25th. Tickets at $2.50 may be reserved by telephoning Coffee's box office, 23WKM3. a tickets, at $12, for the season's six productions, also are on sale. The other plays planned for the 1965-68 season are "The caped with minor injuries at 11:05 o'clock last night when the; automobile he was driving' struck a Santa Fe Railway train in the Bowles district.

The Highway Patrol reported Perez was driving on Dinuba; Avenue near Chestnut Avenue When his car struck the third car of the northbound train. Perez was treated In the Fresno County General Hospital. J. 0. Carrot 2531 S.

Ninth was the engineer of the train. Poison Kills Tot SANTA CRUZ (UPI) A 3-, Night of the Iguana," "Life With year-old girl apparently died Father," "A Shot in the Dark," from drinking an agricultural soon as the child begins kinder-'be to abolish tax. on income Side Story." and soon the $10,000 a year." mow all the letters of the alphabet. The program is to be introduced in Sanger schools and in some of the schools of the Fresno City Unified School District on an experimental this fall basis. Manning said he write a full report on, the program.

Bride From Page 1-B Fisher says he believes the philosophies set forth in his book are at least partially responsible for the recent tax cuts received by the American public. "It apparently had some impact because many of the things I suggested in this book were, covered in President Kennedy's message on tax reform to Congress. We now have the greatest reduction on Income taxes this country has ever known. "Today the idea (of reduced i income tax) is a proven, basic 'Nude With Violin" and "West chemical poison, Chief Deputy i Santa Cruz County Hugh Kilpatric said. i a SF Banker Dies Palmira Romero drank SAN FRANCISCO (AP) poison Wednesday while play- Frederick J.

Hellman, 63, a vicejlng on farm machinery in PP? president and director of the cadeto. Slia was 1 Wells Fargo Bank, died here. rival at a hcspital. LOR TVs SCONSOLESf; in a limited quantity at a special price 1 especially for you in the San Joaquin Valley Because: THE WEST WILL BE FULL OF COLOR THIS wards Air Force Base in that, I think, almost all County. economists think is sound.

I feel She was a graduate of the that my a a i in New Sanger High School and at- the Fresno City College. senjor; gf)e was 'one of five Fresno area girls chosen to tour Europe With the Hampshire played a part in this tax reduction." Fisher says he never has had any political ambitions. "However," he added, "if I see an! Back-to-School BIKEslP California Girls Choir. She was opportunity to promote tax a member of the Salem Congregational Church and Bethel No. 197, International Order of Job's District.

The district provided free electricity during August. The regions supplied by the Shasta district and the PGE are contingupus. The State Public Utilities Commission authorized PGE to reduce its present rates. by effective with meter readings of Sept. The PUC estimates this will approximate the result of one month of free service by the district.

PGE estimates that its an nual revenues will be reduced by $12,000 to $133,000 a year for the area. The reduction will benefit 840 residential users and 101 commercial users. No reason was given for the dam district giving away electricity for one month. Occidental Acquires Best Fertilizers will be more than $40 billion, bringing total GNP to about $670 billion. "A repeat performance of the $40 billion increase would be most welcome in 1966," Ackley says.

"I am not prepared to bet we will experience such an encore, but nothing in the present outlook clearly points either to a slowdown or to an unsustainable spurt that would rule out such a happy outcome." On the steel inventory. Ackley says, "the economy withstood a heavier drag from auto strikes in the fourth quarter of last year and still came up with $6.5 billion rise in GNP. "On the whole, therefore, the adjustment of the present in balance in 1 inventorie; should be absorbed by the economy without shock or strain." He says the wage increase granted to steel workers last week amounted to 3.2 per cent the precise figure which the administration had set as a guideline for wage settlements Administration officials contend there will be no inflationary pressure from wage increases if they are kept at or near this percentage. Ackiey calls "the steel settlement last week a victory for the course of moderation and responsibility which has marked our labor history over the last five year." form I will take advantage of it. If that means running for office I will do it." Youth Smashes Window, Flees Juvenile Hall A 17-year-old youth i escaped from Juvenile Hall yes: iterday afternoon after breaking Fischer Beats Austrian a plate glass window next to the NEW YORK (UPI)-US chess Besides her husband and parents, she is survived by a brother, Gary of Fresno and a grandmother, Mrs.

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