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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 41

Publication:
The Fresno Beei
Location:
Fresno, California
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41
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I THE FRESNO BEE 7-D Wednesday August 19 1964 Board Mitch Draws Hurrahs In Vegas the Fresno Memorial Auditorium The Fresno Community Theater and the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra will benefit Tickets can be purchased at $4 $350 and $3 at the Hockett-Cowan Music Company box office performers include the male and eight pretty danc-ng girls The group will visit Fresno on a six stop tour of the state The Fresno Bee KMJ and KMJ-TV is sponsoring the show Monday at 8:30 PM in Rafferty Urges Active Labor Education Role SAN AP Max Rafferty state superintendent of public instruction urged labor unions to take a more active role in education because Labor the great and tragic if "a California public school is not teach' ing Its kids to read PRICES SLASHED Mitch Miller and his Sing: Revere Phil Olson Bill Ven-Along Gang who will present tura and Stan Carlson The concert in Fresno Monday night won high praise during stint in a Las Vegas night club This may not come as a suprise to the fans of Miller and his men but the show was an unexpected pleasure to many in the city which is considered the capital of sophisticated entertainment The reviewer for a national show business publication acknowledges this calling the performance "a i show the likes of which has never been seen before on the strip "Even honest hippies will salute the show's amazing pace its excellent blend of fine voices its superb solos its colorful costumes its easy flowing choreography and its coordintaion by the musica humorist Miller The repertoire consists just about the same standard commercial music that made Miller and the gang one the top rated television shows over the past four years Members of the gang (intact except for Leslie Uggams who won critical hurrahs include Bob McGrath Mary Lou Ryhal Victor Griffin Adrian CATCHING UP Beverly Moon who spent the summer in Mississippi with civil rights workers checks copies of The Bee to see what sort of headlines the racial unrest received She is trying to rally support for the Mississippi rights project and for the Freedom Democratic Party delegation From Page 1-D of the Nesi Avenue inter change as a commercial site County Planning Director Harold Tokmakian told the supervisors Manning and Dor ris were selected because they tie in with the east-west highway system The Panoche Road interchange would not be suitable for commercial development since two freeways would cross there and access to abut ing private property would not be allowed he added Lloyd Weber of the Fresno County and City Chamber of Commerce suggested more than two commercial interchanges be zoned but did not specify how many Young who represented John Bidegaray a sheepman contended the county should require an adequate number of under passes to allow sheep to cross from one side of the freeway to the other VanVoorhis of the state highway division said the sheep crossings would be decided upon by negotiations between the highway division and property owners Members of conservation groups who emphasized they were speaking for themselves supported adoption of the general plan which seeks to keep the freeway a scenic road A representative of the Coalinga Chamber of Commerce also supported it The supervisors set no date for making a decision on the proposal Apology From Page 1-D of justice if the county's dealings with individual en-trepeneurs could be handled with clarity and Dr Leavenworth also sent a letter to Newton Russell a member of the advisory committee saying he regrets not making it absolutely clear in his original letter to McCormick that he was speaking for himself and not the ARMSTRONG TIRES brand NEW! 1st QUALITY! Ul- NO SECONDS! gp- GUARANTEED! His forum was the state 'ederation of labor biennial convention yesterday The 2000 delegates were cautioned in advance to be courteous to Rafferty Federation Secretary Treasurer Thomas Pitts thought the warning advisable because of our people have serious disagreements with Rafferty said it was his first public address to the "confoundedly gun Labor movement He told of plans for a winter conference of educators and Labor leaders "to restore meaning and morale to our vocational program which are so badly Seek Goldwater Defeat For the second successive day delegates heard a series of speakers urge them to go allout to defeat Barry Gold-water for president "Drop everything else fo: the next 12 urged A Barkan national AFL-CIO political director John Henning Uniter States undersecretary of labor said the Republican Party in nominating Goldwater has declared war on the trade union movement Delegates adopted resolu tions urging state and federal government to take a series of actions to lessen problems of poverty unemployment the technological change and economic inequality Tour Group Franson From Page 1-D presentation will include reports on the activities of the biracial committee including its opposition to Proposition 14 the measure which would nullify the Rumford Fair Housing Act and other legislation dealing with equal opportunity in the purchase and rental of housing Employment Employment of Negroes during the first half of 1964 totaled 11 per cent of all persons hired through the state department of employment However Redman of the employment subcommittee said there is a shortage of qualified applicants for jobs He urged the Negro community to keep working to get qualified people to apply i From Page 1-D not be welcomed into the Goldwater campaign Creede said all GOP campaigns in Fresno County are beginning to roll He said he will meet Friday with campaign leaders to work out details of a unified precinct organization to help all Republican candidates "Leland Edman will be there so will assembly candidate Leonard Hoar congressional candidate David Harris Dean Nichols and Richard Lang representing assembly candidate William Evans and William Townes and Silas Pitkin cochairman of the precinct organization in Fresno Creede said Purse Snatch Suspect Is Nabbed Jailed Peter Medina 35 of Selma was jailed late yesterday on an accusation he snatched a purse from Mrs Erma Souza of Riverdale in Kutner Alley near Mariposa Street Mrs Souza reported Medina grabbed the purse and ran He reportedly dropped the purse with its contents intact when a witness Allen Naza-roff 18 yelled at him He was arrested a short time later by Patrolman Gene Bain on a description supplied by the victim and Nazaroff Three Are Jailed In Coalinga Gang Fight McCtetrhy New paper Service A roadside melee in which car windshields were smashed and one driver was beaten and stomped on resulted in jail sentences for three Coalinga youths and a fine for a fourth when they appeared in the Coalinga Justice Court before Judge Fred Butler Michael Tatum 19 who Auto Overturns On Curve Two Youths Injured Robert Duarte 17 of 1662 North Sixth Street and Leonard Saldana 18 of 1239 Pottle Avenue were injured late ast night when automobile overturned The highway patrol reported Duarte was driving on 'forth Willow Avenue at East i Hopper Avenue when he lost control of the vehicle on a cure Both were thrown out They were treated in the Fresno County General Hospital Coast Tides Pismo Beach low tides tomorrow 3:48 AM 3:08 PM 24 Friday 4:17 AM 3:40 PM 22 For Morro Bay and Cayucos add 10 minutes From Page 1-D turn them into old people by the time 16 or Most of the voter registration program was aimed at signing up members of the Freedom Democratic Party which hopes to have its delegation seated at the Democratic National Convention later this month instead of the all white Mississippi delegation Miss Moon said she came home two weeks earlier than she had planned because members of the Mississippi Project had asked her to help rally support in California for the Freedom Democratic Party and for the project in Mississippi the Democratic convention will seat the Freedom Democratic Party delegation the power structure of Mississippi will be broken into from the top on a national she said Hits Democratic Process "Then there would be a chance for a democratic process to grow up in Mississippi which had a democratic process for a long long Why did she join the Mississippi project? Miss Moon thought a long time Then hesitantly she said: hard really to talk about motivation I began talking with people at UOP and once you start talking about it you find you almost have to go I felt it was as much my concern as that of the man living in Mississippi twists and distorts the life of the Negro But it twists and distorts the life of the white too one of the things wrong and something that ought to be Miss Moon will be speaking before church and other groups before returning to the JOP campus -in a week two and is soliciting books and funds for the Mississippi Project Donations are being collected in the office of the 'irst Methodist Church Miss Moon has been a Sun day school teacher for the First Methodist Church and las served as a church camp counselor When she com pletes her studies at UOP she plans to work for a doctorate in theology in Germany WELCOME TO CLOVIS SUMMER CLEARANCE JjJiiw flO nu()UDlH BawmewBWwwy Kirsck WALKER Paint Specials the trap and drove rapidly away r-' 1 In the meantime the car driven by Brown had parked partially on the roadway a short distance away Brown Tatum and Chaffin had been chasing a vehicle in which Lupe older brother Leo and four other youths were riding but it had gotten away The younger car came up 1 over a rise and smashed into automobile Brown Chaffin and Tatum got out and advanced toward Lupe and his companions companions the oldest 16 the youngest 13 fled leaving him alone Gayton was knocked down by Tatum and then kicked He lost several teeth his ear drum was ruptured and he suffered a fracture of the nose He was left unconscious by the road and the others drove away Guerin last night picked up Tim Mclsaac and Rick Freitas both 20 and charged them with throwing bottles from a moving vehicle He says other arrests are expected today He says all involved admitted they had been pleaded guilty to assault bat tery and throwing a lug wrench from a moving vehicle drew a total of 150 days in jail and was placed on probation for two years on each count Additional jail sentences aggregating 13 months were suspended Morris Wayne Brown 21 one of the drivers was fined $56 when he pleaded guilty to parking on the wrong side of Jayne Avenue near the drive-in theater and partially impeding traffic John Chaffin 22 and Leo Ruiz Gayton 20 were sent to jail for 30 days each when they pleaded guilty to throwing objects in case a portion of a bumperjack from moving vehicles They were arrested Sunday night by Highway Patrolman William Guerin who said he answered what appeared to be a call on a routine traffic accident However Guerin says it proved more serious than that Here is what he says happened: Several youths in a fast car forced an automobile driven by Lupe Gayton 17 off the road just outside the city limits They got out and with bumperjacks tire wrenches and beer bottles broke all the windows and the winshield of the Gayton car Gayton finally got out of Every item in stock to 50 A REAL VALUE AC-4 WALL PAINT Complete bl Waihablo 8 modom colors MS California Redwood Stain White Pink Beige er Pastel Green Mix or Match You Design Them You Install Them IN MINUTES THE WORLD'S MOST COMFORTABLE CHAIR IT ROCKS IT RECLINES HAS TV POSITION FINE DURABLE HEAVY -DUTY CLOTH FABRIC MADE BY FAMOUS BERKLINE Glo-Tec ENAMEL MS? 6'eHWIDE Awnings 2795 5 COLORS Ashlan-Millbrook Auto Accident Injures Three Three persons were injure at 10:12 last nigh when automobiles driven by Betty Swartz of 614 Wes San Jose Avenue and Mrs Ethle Vredenburg of 1911 East Ashlan Avenue collidec at East Ashlan and North Millbrook Avenues The injured are Mrs Vredenburg and two passengers in her car Sharon A Mallett 11 of 3913 Kenmore Drive South and Kathy Baggett 7 also of 1912 East Ashlan They were treated in the Fresno County General Hospital Mrs Vredenburg later was transferred to the Sierra Hospital EXCEPT 1 OR 2 FAIR TRADED ITEMS SALE IS STORE WIDE HUNDREDS OF ITEMS San Luis Fair Opens For 19th Season Masking Tape roll 49c 9'xl2" Plastic Drop Cloths ea 27c "x4'x8' Luan Plywood $3M PAINTBRUSHES McClatchy New papers Service Co Pleasant 4" Flaged Nylon Wall Brush 1 Vi" Pure Bristle Trim Brush PASO ROBLES San Luis Obispo weather greeted the 19th opening of the San Luis Obispo County Fair today The fair will continue through Sunday with the theme Living Is Best In The Golden West Larry Lewin fair manager BOTH FOR Take your choice 2995 each Heavy distressed tables Rich Salem finish LAMP TABLE COFFEE OR STEP TABLE Also in stock a heavier group at 3450 each row night Friday and Saturday nights the cowhands will take over the arena with an RCA approved rodeo is shooting for a record attendance of 50000 Last year attendance was more than 40000 Heading the entertainers will be Tex Williams and his western variety show at the grandstand tonight and tomor- WE INVITE YOU TO COMPARE ON SPECIAL REFRIGERATORS FREEZERS COLOR TV1 Tss Numerous ts Mentioi Prices Toe Low te Quote REDWOOD FENCING Posts Roils 1" Thick Pickets Precut 5f High $104 per ft 6' High $117 per ft FREEt With each fence purchase 1 Gal Calif Rdwd stain for each 300 sq ft of fence 1 SIDE ONLYi BUDGET TERMS HOURS 8 AM to 6 PM OUR PRICES ARE HONEST SALE PRICES 52 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE MIMBIR NATIONAL RETAIL FURNITURE ASSOCIATION MEMBER RETAIL FURNITURE ASSN OF CAUFORNIA HONEY -i Call George 299-2626 Let's 9t 20 ft REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER DUPLEX $399 a demo WANIC FURH CLOVIS FREE PARKING FREE DELIVERY Plane Crew Escapes EL PASO A KB50J air refueling tanker of the Tactical Air Command caught fire on landing last night at Biggs Air Force Base but its eight crewmen escaped injury USE YOUR BANKAMERICARD OPEN SATURDAYS 8-5 CLOVIS LUMBER CO 755 Third St Clevis 299-4321 CLOVIS FURNITURE CO CLOVIS APPLIANCE 622 Fourth St Clevis 299-6806 CLOVIS 199-4366 4TH CLOVIS AVE.

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