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THE FRESNO THE REPUBLICAN VOL 83 NO 15139 Founded 1922 FRESNO CALIFORNIA FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 IS FOUR SECTIONS Phone 268-5221 By Carritr Mlvtrv JJJO ManIMv Per Copy Dally IOci Sunday Me The Bee Recommends As a guide to the electors The Bee makes the follow ing recommendations on candidates for contested offices and propositions to be voted on at the general election November 3rd Clip and take to the polls for reference Smoke Kills 7 Inmates In Blazing Colusa Rest Home Victims Are Blinded By Fumes STATE PROPOSITIONS Park and recreation! bonds Vote YES 2 Higher education building bonds Vote YESj By Frank Cormier DETROIT Presi- 3 Public school buildingaidi inhnnn bonds Vote YESdent tax afnaUampagn tour Vote YESof the came uh Veterans tax exemption ia new sogan loday- The Vote NOvote cast wil1 be and the 'ou PRESIDENT Lyndon Johnson incumbent UNITED STATES SENATOR Pierre Salinger incumbent CONGRESS Second District Harold Johnson incumbent Sixteenth District Sisk incumbent Eighteenth District Harlan Hagen incumbent ASSEMBLY Thirty second Fresno District George Zenovich incumbent Thirty third Fresno County District Charles Garrigus incumbent COUNTY SUPERVISORS Second District Jefferson Hahesy Third District Sloan McCormick incumbent AP WirfflhOlO INFERNO Colusa firemen battle flames sweeping through the Oak Manor rest home Seven inmates died in the fire will be your own Johnson unveiled this phrase in a speech prepared for an airport rally in Detroit' It was his latest move in a weeklong effort to picture himself as the candidate bestj equipped to preserve peace The president even while emphasizing questions of peace and war in every speech still seeks opportunities to contrast his views with those of Republican rival Barry Goldwater He did this anew last night in Philadelphia taking issue with Goldwater on the role of clergymen in public affairs Addressing a Democratic dinner Johnson added to his text a challenge to a Gold-water statement questioning the propriety of political endorsements by members of See LBJ Page 5-A Bolivia Breaks Relations With Czechoslovakia LA PAZ Bolivia AP Bolivia broke relations with Communist Czechoslovakia last night accusing it of inciting rebellion after new skirmishes in the capital killed at least three persons and wounded 23 The government accused the Czechoslovak embassy of slipping arms to student and miner rebels who have staged PGE Cancels Application For Bodega Bay Atom Power Plant Barry Eyes 'Must' Vote In LA Area LOS ANGELES AP Senator Barry Goldwater headed for the Los Angeles area today in a bid for votes in the state he has said is one of the four states if he is to beat President Lyndon Johnson His campaign day began in Cheyenne Wyo where he declared Johnson is to reduce American politics to a popularity poll" and said the Democrats are letting the free world fall apart while United States prestige sinks The Republican presidential candidate charged foreign policy has lost Turkey as a US ally He said France is seeking new trade ties with the Soviet Union while Great Britain's new Labor government ponders US nuclear deterrent policies And the Communist world said Goldwater is under tough new Called Ambitious Goldwater said Johnson proven to be a president isolated from foreign policy behind a wall of political ambition and behind a wall of See Barry Page 13-A Climbers May lop El Capitan By Nightfall McClatchy Nevnpaperc Service YO SEMITE NATIONAL PARK A four man team striving to conquer the hitherto unsealed North American Wall of massive El Capitan were nearing success today and there were some indications the top might be reached before dark Halted temporarily by heavy rain yesterday the climbers got off to a late start Rain slick rock and a difficult overhang made for slow progress but last night they were 2700 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor with 300 feet still to go By radio they told their ground crew worst is Making the climb are Yvon Chouinard 25 of Burbank Tom Frost 28 of Orange and Chuck Pratt 25 and Royal Robbins 29 of Berkeley While this is Chouinard's first El Capitan ascent Frost and Pratt have scaled the granite monolith five times and Robbins six but not up the sheer wall whose natural markings resemble an outline of the North American Continent All other climbs the first was made in 1958 have been near the center or nose of El Capitan An idea of the overhang the team encountered yesterday was gained when a rock dropped from the 2400 foot stopping point fell without touching die cliff below and landed 50 feet out from the base mean PGE has lost its confi- dence in nuclear power plants The announcement follows th hecls of a sl from Record Road Budget Lists $6989000 For Fresno County A record highway budget of $841033526 including $6989000 for Fresno County projects has been sent to Governor Edmund Brown for the 1965-66 fiscal year COLUSA AP Seven elderly persons groping blindly in thick clouds of smoke were killed early today in a fast moving fire that burned down the Oak Manor rest home for the aged "They were dead when the fire readied their said Colusa County Coroner Howard Moore lie attributed all the deaths to carbon monoxide poisoning The cause of the fire is be-ng investigated Moore said a caretaker Ernest Lincbaugh 24 and an inmate Mrs Rosa Rourke in her 50s repeatedly ran into the burning one story wood frame building to bring out six other inmates The dead were: Frank Yanez 73 Princeton Colusa County Ella Reckers 87 Williams Colusa County Christine Danley 93 Maxwell Colusa County Maude Dietrick no age given Meridian Sutter County John Jansen 87 and Frank Saiambini 73 both of Colusa and Vi-viano Rodrigue 80 of Grimes Colusa County Sounds Alarm Moore gave this account of the tragedy: Linebaugh was asleep in the ranch style building ivhen one of the inmates apparently Mrs Rourke saw smoke in a rear wing and made an outcry With the smoke thickening Linebaugh pulled the fire alarm It rang for three or four minutes then stopped apparently because the power supply failed The lights went out too Moore said Meantime Linebaugh called the Colusa Fire Department He and Mrs Rourke rushed back and forth from the home to the lawn to bring out inmates Flames were shooting through the entire building don't think any of them died in bed just that the smoke got so thick they tell where they were doorways or Moore theorized that those who later died had been aroused with the rest when the inside alarm went off But by the time they were ready to come out the smoke got so thick they could not find their way The rest home was inspected and relieensed by the state social welfare department last March Mrdiiirh) Smii I SAN FRANCISCO The Pacific Gas and Electric Com-! pany today withdrew its ap- plication for an atomic power plant on Bodega Bay Sonoma County PGE President Robert II Gerdes when he made the announcement today said the minority view of the atomic energy commission that there is a Lack of proof of the safety of the plant sufficient cause for us to withdraw our application" Gerdes said the decision to withdraw the Bodega Bay Retaliatory insurers Vote YES Investment of public retirement funds Vote YES Election of judges Vote YES district Vote YES 10 State school fund Vote YES 1 1 Consolidating municipal functions Vote YES 12 Disasters: relief property tax Vote NO 13 Naming private corporations Vote YES 14 Anti fair housing Vote NO Anti pay TV Vote NO State lottery Vote NO Railroad train crews Vote YES The budget is $45116426 more than the 1964-65 budget and is divided into three segments: $612432000 for state highway construction purposes including rights of way and engineering $79200000 for maintenance administration land' scaping roadside rests buildings and land highway research and development honor camps and legislative claims $149401526 for functions not under state highway jurisdiction including $72502857 for construction and rights of way for streets and roads and $50492857 for improvements and a i e-nance work on city streets Robert Bradford chairman of the state highway commission and administrator See Budget Page 6-A Ord Has 96th Meningitis Case FORT ORD AP Another soldier the 96th this year was stricken with meningitis last night at the big army training base and placed on the serious list Lawrence Anderson 18 of Everett Wash was admitted at 9:30 PM He was in his eighth week of basic training The base is closed to new trainees in an effort to stamp out meningitis on the base ever found listed as worth $50000 Other stolen gems included a smaller star sapphire called the Midnight sapphire $35-000 an uncut diamond crystal from Eagle Wis $25000 the De Long Ruby $21400 an engraved emerald $10000 several pieces of diamond jewelry and a $3800 aqua- taxation abandon its plans to construct the Bodega Bay plant Gerdes' complete statement is as follows: "We have repeatedly slated that if any reasonable doubt exists about the safety of the proposed Bodega plant we would not consider going forward with it Bodega site and the engineering design of the plant were studied extensively and confirmed as safe by eminent consultants in gcoL ogy seismology and seismic design The advisory committee on reactor safeguards an independent group of 12 em inent scientists and engineers established by law to advise atomic energy commission came to the same conclusion We are convinced these views are sound The regulatory staff of AEC however has recently reported that it has doubt the present of our knowledge' the capability of the structure to withstand the maximum assumed earthquake Although agre i 'the proposed engineering principles appear the staff has expressed over the lack of any experiments or experience proof tests of them doubt raised by the although a minority is sufficient to cause to withdraw our applica-We would be the last See PGE Page 4-A William Bennett president of the state public utilities commission who asked PGE to reexamine the proposal for the plant Bennett said he asked for a reexamination of the safety and cost factors in the light of departures" from the original design Governor Edmund Brown in another development just prior to the announcement said PGE should See Bailey Page 4-A Farewell Thurmond-Gladly Wrightson man in charge of keeping the for President Lyndon Senator Strom Democratic to the Republican ever Baileyjpendent slate pledged to Eisenhower As national committee chairman Bailey is responsible for the finances setting up campaign headquarters sending out advance men to smooth the way for the appearances printing' and distributing literature and tlon- the that the some state about that concern and staff view ius uprisings in wide areas of Bolivia Quiet was restored in La Paz today and government troops are in firm control of Oruro a city proclaimed the capital of rebellion by miners and students opposed to President Victor Paz Estenssoro Oruro is 143 miles south of La Paz But students and miners last were reported fighting troops 18 miles from Oruro Hold Miners Rebel miners still are in control of most of the tin mines in that area Rebel outbreaks also are reported in Cochabamba 310 miles southwest of La Paz Paz in a radio speech lastjNational Committee said: night blamed Communists! jt cnui( cause us to lose for the uprising in the tin south Carolina but worth mining centers and declared the gamble he will resist demands of his -Thurmond has never sup-foes that he resign ported the Democratic pro- Possibly 50 persons have' He has jumped the various party twice least he is more honest than some southern members of congress who praise Barry Goldwater but stop short of been killed in the clashes throughout the country in the past few days The fighting in La Paz raged for three hours between rebel students and! plant application does not Comment In Fresno Bailey Bids To By James John Bailey the campaign machinery running Johnson calls South switch from the Party best thing that Speaking at a news con- ference last night chairman of the Democratic County Bills Citizens For $62 Million Some 147000 tax bills Ur taling nearly $62 million were mailed to Fresno County property owners today The deadline for first instalment payments is 5 PM December 10th After that a 6 per cent penalty will be added The entire bill may be paid in the first instalment Payments may be mailed to the county tax office in the hall of records The tax bill also should be endosed Property owner who do not receive bills should check to see what happened to them The fact no bill is received does not excuse a taxpayer from payment Steve Allen Kin Rites HOLLYWOOD UPI Funeral services were held yesterday for Belle Montrose former vaudeville performer and mother of entertainer Steve Allen She died Sunday at age 78 Today's Chiseklo getting harder and harder to reconcile our net income with our gross habits Museum Burglary university 'rnTS wh ta WLK j-Jft-r com-story university building miees congress surrendered to government Thurmond led the States forces which included armyjRShts revolt against Dem-troops policemen and theocratic President Harry mjijtja Truman in 1948 and said he -j voted for Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 when South Carolina voted for an inde- Largest Star Sapphire Slick tirci era haurdoui Is Stolen ing the most valu able stones and apparently! left the way he entered Dr James A Oliver mu seum director said he had complained to city officials only last Monday that a lack of sufficient guards for the collection presented a problem" The city provides guards for the institution Weather OFFICIAL FORECAST Fair through tomorrow with some afternoon clouds and patches of dense ground fog tomorrow morning highs 65 to 70 degrees lows 44 to 49 Gentle winds FRESNO FACTS Yesterday's high 70 low 49 forecast 68 46 normals 75 44 Details on page 5-D Parade Features Messages From Johnson Barry Tuesday Americans again will have a privilege few people in history have enjoyed and millions today do not possess the right to choose their own leaders Yet millions of American voters will not take advantage of this right which their forefathers and contemporaries fought and died for President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Barry Goldwater urge all Americans to perform their duties as citizens and vote on election day Read the presidential special messages in Parade magazine in The Bee Sunday jSundaylsLasf Day For Controversial i rOlltlCdl AdS In Bee In accordance with custom Sunday will be the last day The Bee will publish political advertisements which raise new issues or contain not previously published criticism of any candidate or proposition to be voted upon in next Tuesday's election After Sunday controversial ads will be accepted only if they have been published in The Bee so candidates or proposition proponents or opponents have had ail opportunity to answer NEW YORK UPI A sure footed cat burglar broke into the American Museum of Natural History last night and made off with 22 jewels from the Morgan collection including the largest star sapphire and the renowned De Long ruby The gems were valued at $200000 the financier gave them to the museum in iqo Menrn nffiriai 1903 Museum officials were at a loss to know their pres ent market value but they probably would be worth! jmany times their original evaluation The major loss was the Star of India sapphire the largest blue star sapphire In The Bee Today Amusements Theaters 5-B Bridge Column 3-B Cartoon 12-D City News In Brief 4-B Classified 5-DTo 11-D Connies 6-B Crossword Puzzle 5-D Editorials 12-D Financial 6-C 7-C Katherine Kitchen 3-B Letters 7-B 12-D Movie Times 5-B Nason On Education 11-A News Behind News 12-D Obituaries 4-D Patterns 2-B Politics By Rodda 2-A Radio 7-C Sports Section Sylvia Porter 6-C -Television 5-C Valley News 7-B Vital Statistics 5-D Weather 5-D Women's Activities Section Your Health 10-A marine The museum said the the museum not )sured 'n'l Much of the collection in- jividually but may be covered by a blanket policy on the cludng the stdr saPPhre museum collections pictured in color illustrations The police said the burglar in the Encyclopedia Britanni- apparently inched his wayjca's section on gems The along a moulding of the mu- stolen jewels are so well seum's granite facade to a known they could not be sold! back window The thief intact the police said Theyl smashed three cases contain-! would have to be recut although it does not run Bm Photo KEYED John Bailey right chairman of the Democratic National Committee accepts a key to the city from Fresno Mayor Wallace Henderson Bailey reminds Henderson there are only four days to go before the election I 1.