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(see Statistics, Page 2). The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper Telephone LIberty 6-2020 SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1959 10 cents 21 Locked-In Teenagers 'S Killed in Arkansas as Fire Flames Hit Barracks, Faubus Starts Probe LITTLE ROCK Ark. (UPI) Twenty one Negro boys burned to death early today when fire swept through their dormitory at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School, 12 miles south of here. The figure was established by Bill Struebing, a lieutenant in the fire marshal's section of the Arkansas State Police. Gov.

Orval E. Faubus, who went immediately to the scene, said he was told that the doors to the one- story brick veneer building were locked, and there was no caretaker in the building. Faubus said he would begin an immediate investigation. The fire broke out in the room of the caretaker, who was ill and not at the school. Blaze Out of Control One pumper truck from Little Rock went to the scene, but the blaze was out of control when it Pet Petaluma Water Vote Set By Staff Correspondent PETALUMA Shall the city of Petaluma be authorized to sell 300,000 worth of bonds to acquire the local facilities of California Water Service This is the issue to be decided April 28 by Petaluma voters.

The city council set the date and the amount of the bond issue in an adjourned meeting yesterday. Mayor Arthur Parent revealed yesterday that the company board of directors has accepted the figure of $2,425,000 as a "firm price." They will sell to the city for that amount. If the voters go along with the proposal, an issue of $2,800,000 would be sold immediately. The difference between that figure and the company price would provide necessary working capital and re- serves. The other $500,000 of the 000 total would be held as a reserve authorization and would not be sold unless required a at some future date for improvements to the system.

The extra $50,000 could not be sold unless and until revenues from the system were sufficient to support their issuance. A simple majority vote is required for the issue, passage of which would have no effect on the tax rate. City officials indicate purchase of the facilities would have no immediate effect on water rates, cently raised an average of some 34 per cent by authorization of the public utilities commission, although this is an eventual possibility. According to estimates submitted yesterday by municipal financial consultants Stone and Youngberg, about $40,000 should be available to the city each year for improvements to the system or other city uses if present rates are maintained. Later, if the city wishes to cut rates to about 3 per cent more than the company's former rates, the city would have a balance of about $28,900 available each year for improvements or other uses.

A 30 per cent rather than 34 per cent increase over old rates would result in an average annual reduction of $2.10 per customer from present rates charged by the company, according to Stone and Youngberg. The "firm price" agreed upon by city and I company officials may rise a little between now and the actual purchase since the company will have to be compensated for any additional improvements, Stone and Youngberg RepresentaEdwin Wells told the council. Mr. Wells estimated it will take four to five months after the bonds are authorized to consumate the transfer. Actual city acquisition would probably come between Sept.

1 and Oct. 15, he estimated. Wife Refuses to Take Stand in Murder Trial Esther Savala, 33, the accused wayward wife, yesterday refused to let the world' know what transpired in her small Cloverdale apartment the day her husband shot and killed her handsome lover. The frail-looking mother of six children walked slowly to the witness stand after she was called by the prosecutor, sat down, then informed the judge she would not testify against her 46-year- old estranged husband, Alfonso. This Assistant District Attorney Kiernan Hyland didn't expect.

He objected, stating he believed if Mr. Savala had no objections, then Mrs. Savala had no choice in the matter. However, after a quick look into the law books, Superior Court Judge Charles J. McGoldrick ruled that Mrs.

Savala didn't have to testify if she didn't want to. The trial entered its third day today and was not expected to reach the six-man, six-woman jury until Tuesday. The jury was seated yesterday morning after a venire of 46 was exhausted and a special venire of 30 was summoned. The prosecution said it may rest its case today. Mrs.

Savala's appearance in court--although brief--highlighted -UPI Facsimile ARKANSAS GOV. FAUBUS AT FIRE SCENE Where 21 Teenagers Died Education Board Accepts $1.83 Tax Rate Election By Staff Correspondent PETALUMA The Board of Education last night went along with the Citizens Advisory Committee recommendation for an election calling for a $1.83 tax for the elementary school district. The present rate is $1.35 per $100 of assessed valuation. In a second action, however, the board voted to increase 000 the committee's recommendation to seek a high school district state loan authorization of $1,600,000 and bond issue of 200,000. The board will ask for a loan authorization of $1,800,000 and bond issue of $1,200,000 as well as the 48-cent elementary tax boost at an election scheduled last night for May 19.

A tentative elementary budget for 1959-60 offered by Superintendent Dr. William Manning last night would require a tax rate of $1.94 per $100 assessed value, the superintendent said. The budget proposes expendiof $823,000 compared to 000 this year. But the board decided it would be wiser to trim the budget and ask for the same tax recommended by the committee rather than increase the risk of a defeat at Prosecution to Move In on Matron's VENTURA, Calif. (UPI) -The worst "crime" matronly Elizabeth Duncan would admit today was refusing to cut the apron strings that bound her 30-year-old son, Frank.

She denied she had bargained for the death of his pregnant wife, Olga, murdered by Luis Moya, 22, and Augustine Baldonado, 25, last November. They said the defendant them $6,000 to kill Olga, but she said they were blackmailing her. Following the completion of direct examination today by defense Index BETTER HALF 20 CARMICHAEL 2 CHILDREN OF THE BIBLE 2 CLASSIFIED 16 19 COMICS 14 CROSSWORD 20 EMPIRE 11 FARM 7 LANDERS 13 LAWRENCE MARKETS MR. MUM OBITUARIES PEARSON RADIO TV 20 RIESEL SPORTS 8, STAR GAZER STOCKS SYNON TIDES 20 VITAL STATISTICS WOMEN 12, 13 102ND YEAR NO. 115 20 PAGES TWO SECTIONS MRS.

BETTY YOCOM, bleached and blowzy, displays a variety of emotions as of she tells of abducting 8-week-old Eric Flores at Ontario, Calif. Police found the infant in Mrs. Yocom's home following a neighbor's tip. (Story, Page 10). arrived.

The firemen pumped water out of a swimming pool to cool the gutted building. L.R. Gaines, the Negro superintendent, said the building, erected as a WPA project in 1938, went up "like matchsticks." He said 68 boys were asleep in the barracks-like room of the building when the fire was discovered. Many kicked the glass and screens out of windows in their mad scramble to escape. One of the boys who escaped said the screams of other boys awakened him.

"The room was so filled with smoke I could hardly see," said Nolan Fortner, 16. "Everybody was trying to get out through the windows. I pushed one boy aside and crawled out." Another said he kicked out a screen and crawled out a window. Robert Ramon, 15, said he awoke and found the room filled with smoke. "I heard boys screaming," he said.

"The only thing I could think of was how to get out of there. I ran toward the window nearest my bed and kicked out the screen and left." Faubus said he inspected the school about a year ago, and at that time "everything was fine." The governor said a caretaker was supposed to be on duty in each building to warn the boys in case of emergency. The superintendent said P.R. Banks, the caretaker for the L- shaped building, had been ill for a week and was not in his quarters. "There is supposed to be a man in each building to warn the boys of any such disaster as this," Faubus said.

The governor was visibly shaken by what he saw. "From the information I have gathered, the boys were locked in," he- said. "This is something that should not have been." the polls with a $1.94 request. If voters turn down the board's proposal, the rate will revert to 90 cents. Reluctant Acceptance The board's acceptance of the $1.83 rate was a reluctant one.

Members indicated that such a rate is likely to result in cuts in proposed teacher salaries or increased class sizes. The proposed budget for teacher salaries, which constitute about 65 per cent of the total budget, would provide raises of about $500 annually per teacher, a figure which Dr. Manning estimates would bring Petaluma teacher salaries up to about the state average. Elementary teachers were paid ($325,000 this year. Raises of $500 would boost the total for 1959-60 by $29,000.

Another possible difficulty was brought up by Dr. Manning last night. His estimate of anticipated income for 1959-60 includes 1000 from Public Law 874. But But President Eisenhower's budget doesn't include any money for this program. Board member Herold Mahoney estimated that $45,000 will have to be cut from the proposed ele-: mentary budget in order to stay within the rate recommended by the citizens committee.

And other board members worried that it "will not be easy" to get voter approval of the $1.83 rate, let alone $1.94. "It's unfortunate that we have to go to the people this year and ask for both a bond authorization and elementary district tax boost," Dr. C. A. Stimson said.

"We'll be very fortunate if we can both of them over." Old Auto Club Hear SF Speaker Fred Stellings, president of the San Francisco Horseless Carriage Club, displayed and discussed his collection of old license plates at a recent meeting of the Santa Rosa Horseless Carriage Club. Mr. Stelling also discussed his club's policies, purposes and activities. Among the reports given was one on the Santa Rosa club's participation in the recent Cloverdale centennial parade. Hiram Wells, Anchorage, Alaska, attended the meeting.

SONOMAN KILLED Officers Testify Picard Drunk After Fatal Crash SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The defense called witnesses today in the preliminary hearing for Henry Picard, 62, president of Burgermeister Brewing who is charged with felony drunk driving and manslaughter. Picard is charged in connection with the death of Emerys Williams, 52, Sonoma bank manager, in an auto collision on the Golden Gate bridge Jan. 8. The hearing opened before Municipal Judge Lenore Underwood yesterday. California Highway Patrolmen Noyo River Gets 40,000 Salmon SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The state Fish and Game Department said today Mendocino County's Noyo River will be stocked with 40,000 yearling silver salmon starting today.

Planting of the fingerling salmon, which average four to six (inches in length, was a part of California's experimental rehabilitation program. The program was designed to clear-up and restore streams and rivers in Mendocino and Santa Cruz counties. Plants of 40,000 fish each were also set for Mendocino's Garcia and Big Rivers later in the month and the Smith and Mad Rivers and South Fork of the Eel. Your Carrier Is Collecting Your Press Democrat carrier is collecting today. He would appreciate your help in making collections by payment when he first calls.

Thank you. Nikita Hints at Delay In Deadline on Berlin LEIPZIG, East Germany (UPI) -Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today he may extend his deadline for the West to get out of Berlin beyond May 27 if "sensible negotiations" are going on then. It could be extended to June 27 or even July 27, Khrushchev declared. "We have no grounds to hurry but we must solve the Berlin problem," he said. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan prepared today to take over the role of traveling peacemaker in an effort to heal a split between Britain and her principal Western allies on how to solve the Berlin crisis.

Britain, the United States, France and West Germany were still determined not to yield an inch to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin demands but they differed on an approach to the problem that could plunge the world war. All some form of negointerest tiations on Berlin. So did Khrushchev but the Soviet leader was going ahead with his plans to Greater Santa Rosa Stores Open Until 9 Tonight Blair Barkley and T. Allyn Bragg testified yesterday that they smelled alcohol on Picard's breath and watched him walk unsteadily after the car he was driving collided with one driven by Williams. They said they believed Picard was too drunk to drive.

Patrolman Bragg said Picard's eyes were "bloodshot and watery." Picard was quoted by Patrolman Barkley as saying, "I was on the wrong side." San Rafael Attorney Howard Morehouse testified that just before the collision he saw a car approaching him in the inside south-bound lane as he was traveling south. Arthur R. Sauter, South San Francisco executive who lives in San Rafael, said that just before the accident he saw a car pass him northbound in the southbound lanes. The four witnesses agreed that they could see the white dividing lines on the bridge pavement despite the fact it was raining at the time. attorney S.

Ward Sullivan, Mrs. Duncan faced a session with prosecutor Roy Gustafson. The tall, calculating prosecutor, an outspoken supporter of an eye for an eye punishment, was expected to relentlessly cross-examine the 54-year-old matron. In testimony so far in the trial, Mrs. Duncan has been sketched as a conniving, obsessively jealous mother who "shopped" for killers to murder her daughter-in-law, a Canadian-born nurse.

From more than a half dozen persons, Gustafson drew testimony that Mrs. Duncan had sought to hire someone to kill Olga. Taking the witness stand Wednesday in the opening day of her defense, she denied all the stories, one by one. As Sullivan went over the testimony of 19-year-old Diane Romero and her husband, Rudy: Mrs. Emma Short, 84; Ralph Winterstein, 26; Rebecca Diaz; Esperanza Esquivel and the confessed killers, Moya and Baldonado, Mrs.

Duncan said: "No, of course I didn't say that. No, I didn't. No No. No." Discoverer Is in Orbit INLEWOOD, Calif. (UPI) -The Air Force said today that its Discoverer I satellite, sent aloft last Saturday, 1 is in orbit.

(yesterday's proceedings. She was represented Healdsburg lawyer J. A. Ratchford. Her husband is accused of slay(Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Space Robot Approaches Sun Orbit WASHINGTON (UPI) America's Pioneer IV space robot, which passed within 37,000 miles of the moon, soared today toward a permanent orbit around the sun.

Government scientists said that for a period "comparable to the life of our universe" the goldplated 20-inch instrument package would continue to revolve around the sun every 382 days. The space vehicle already is orbiting the sun, and will move into its permanent orbit on March 17. The man-made planet's orbit, much more elongated than that of the earth, will vary from 744,000 to 105,829,000 miles from 91, the sun. The earth, in an almost circular orbit, averages 93 million miles from the sun. give the Communist East Germans control of Berlin's supply routes when his May 27 ultimatum expires.

He also was working on plans to write a separate peace treaty. with East Germany and met today in Leipzig, East Germany, with German Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and other Red leaders to study such a plan -one that might make permanent the East- division of Germany. Macmillan sets out next week on trips to Bonn, Paris and Washington in hopes of reconciling Western views. Washington officials expressed confidence he and President Eisenhower would settle their differences. Falk Renamed To State AC SACRAMENTO (UPI) Gov.

Edmund G. Brown today allnounced the reappointment of Harry W. Falk Ukiah, to a -year term on the Athletie Commission..