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seemci cotat; The Press democrat VSOUTH Change REDWOOD EMPIRE Fair except coastal overcast through tomorrow; coastal winds north to northwest 12-24 mph and up to 35 mph in headlands. Highs and lows: Ukiah 72 and 53; Santa Rosa 68 and 51. (Statistics, page 2.) Telephone Liberty 6-2020 COUNTYp cVTAlUf4A The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 24, 1963 cents Plane Hfe Pes Naair SsksE Kbsai mm ill sounded like timber breaking up, jmet Mr. Sloan walking down the Rancher, Dog Walk Away From Crash mountain with his dog. He said his plane crashed into some trees on the mountain side, which is more than 2,000 feet high.

Deputy Cameron placed a pressure bandage on Mr. Sloan's head Mr. Sloan said he left his ranch in Fillmore, Ventura County, en-route to Ukiah yesterday morning. At 1:30 p.m., he said, he stopped his Cessna 210 in Hayward where he was told the ceiling over Sonoma County was at 1,500 feet. Mr.

Sloan said he was flying at 1,500 feet when he ran into heavy fog and was making a turn to get out of the fog when as if the plane had crashed. We couldn't hear the plane engine after that." A search party was quickly organized and the plane crash was pinpointed in the vicinity of Sonoma Mountain, somewhere south of Cooper's Grove off Sonoma Mountain rd. As the search party, lead by Deputy Sheriff Edward Cameron, stop bleeding, and at Mr. ville, suffered cuts on his head which required 16 stitches. The crash was reported at 2 p.m.

by Lee Batt of the Tip Top Tree Service who was doing some work on the Ronald F. Crawford A 45-year-old Fillmore rancher escaped serious Injury yesterday when he became disoriented in the fog and crashed his small plane into the side of Sonoma Mountain. The man, Aubrey Edward Sloan, Sloan's request took him to the sheriff's office where he attempted to call his wife. Later, he was taken to the coun was making its way up the rug-jged terrain, they heard some property, 7254 Bennett Valley rd. "I heard a low-flying plane," UPI Facsimile XXIII APPEARED STRONGER YESTERDAY Ascension Day Crowd in St.

Peter's Square POPE JOHN Blessing an jhis plane crashed into the moun-i tain. owner of the Bar Ranch and who also has a ranch in Layton- ty hospital for further treatment The dog was not injured. shouts. A few minutes later they Empire's Top Spellers In Finals Tomorrow Olticers Subdue El Toro THE POPE IMPROVES Transfusions Given As He Begins Lengthy Rest A vow to put the vowel in the right place may mean the differ A host of law enforcement of Mr. Batt said, "then suddenly it Khrushchev Gains Point Over China MOSCOW i UPD Premier Ni-kita S.

Khrushchev today appeared to have won a diplomatic victory over Communist China by gaining Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's public endorsement of the Soviet position in the ideological dispute with Peking. In return. Castro got a new pledge from Khrushchev that "an attack on Cuba would be considered an attack against the So ence between first place and no Udall Hit For Views On A-Plant WASHINGTON (UPU Interior Secretary Stewart L. UdalPs objections to construction of a private nuclear power plant in California on grounds of earthquake danger have been branded as "specious and phony" by Rep. Craig Hosmer, R-Calif.

Hosmer, a member of the joint The Pope made his last public place in tomorrow's Redwood Em ficers turned wTanglers early today, bulldogging, dodging and bullfighting a snorting Brahma bull, pire-Press Democrat spelling final than Louie, Lower Lake elementary school teacher. Competing in the final: SONOMA COUNTY Richard Rollin, 13, Herbert Slater Junior High; Edward E. Coles, 14. Santa Rosa Junior High; Cheryl K. Davis, 12, Old Adobe Union; Laurie C.

Vast, 13, Gravenstein School, and Erica A. Brotschi, 12, Oak appearance before the retreat Thursday, and the thousands who watched him at his window over a cow and calf in Santa Rosa, at Santa Rosa Junior College. Pioneer Hall's Room 10 will be the 10 a.m. scene of the final in It was a hectic, sometimes comi VAT1CAN CITY iUPI The Vatican sources said "the prog-Vatican press office today report- nosis is not unfavorable" for the ed a "marked improvement" in present, now that the Pope seems the condition of Pope John XXIII to be overcoming the weakness as he began a nine-day retreat of: that forced him to cancel a sched-rest and prayer. juled audience Wednesday.

Vatican sources said the Pon-j They said his trouble appeal's tiff, 81, spent a "quiet night" and to be a lesion in the stomach lin-was reported feeling "rather ing which is causing the bleed-well" this morning. ing. They suggested that the le- St. Peter's Square were looking anxiously for signs of strain and illness. which 15 top spellers from Sono cal, episode in which one policeman had to leap for life atop his ma, Lake and Mendocino counties His appearance was unusually come together letter for letter short four minutes.

He limited himself to reciting a brief prayer with a trophy and $100 savings bond at stake. Second place winner receives a committee on atomic energy, said immediately after- However, it was believed likely sion may be an ulcer, rather than aid retired viet Union." Western diplomats Grove Union. MENDOCINO COUNTY Lynne A. McNeill, 12, Hopland Elementary; Homer E. Rowton, 12, Round Valley Elementary; Earline L.

Ma-han, Willits Junior High; Jerome M. Sedenko, Pomolita Elementary, earthquakes did not present any "particular hazard" to nuclear that the Pope's illness may cause cancer as has been widely re-1 ward-some delavs in nrenaralions for1 ported. Although his voice was fuller patrol car several times and a deputy sheriff's car suffered a beating from the bull's hoofs. After an hour and a half, the weary, apprentice cowhands finally corralled the eight-month bull and tied him to a post at Fourth and Davis streets. Enter now State Humane Officer Roy Couts and Animal Con said he apparently got more during his four week stay in the U.S.S.R.

They believe Khrushchev $50 bond, while third place takes home a $25 bond. Parents, friends and other persons interested in power reactors. "They are safe enough to be the second session of the Ecumeni- The transfusions of the past ll was durln8 previous cal Council, scheduled to resume days were made necessary byl bak'ony appearance. it Sept. 8.

Sources said the full rest heavier bleeding Monday a cracked onc e- and bf ln th ordered for the Pope by his doc- Tuesday, they said. The problem square who watched the pontiff promised new economic and pos- spelling are invited. sibly military aid. The final terminates the 11th put aboard ships at sea, have been designed for use in airplanes and annual spelling bee and more than Exchange Pledges rockets and have been built to tors is bound to hold up prepare-. now is to prevent such heavy and E.

Orchard, 12, Oak Manor School. LAKE COUNTY-Jay T. Smith, 11, Kelseyville Elementary; Clement Barceloux, 12, Minnie Cannon School; Jackson Dodge, 14, Terrace School; Robin Carman, 12, Burns Valley Elementary, and The public pledges were ex Jwas pinched and his cheeks ap trol Officer Ray Pedrini, who took the bull in tow, placed him in a tions. bleeding in the future. peared hollow.

be hauled over rough terrain on heavy trailers," the Congressman said. changed Wednesday at a mammoth farewell rally for Castro at The Pope has been receiving One way, the sources said, is two months of school preparation and student participation. Art Volkerts, managing editor, The Press Democrat, will again welcome spellers and members of trailer and carted him off to the Humane Society Animal Shelters. Lenin Stadium. Today, the two "No 'grave concern' is expressed blood transfusions for internal for the pontiff to get more bleeding.

iFor this reason, he will have not Doctors kept watch for the third official duties until June 2, andj But the fight wasn't out of the leaders were believed planning to head for the Black Sea for a rest Judy Lucas, 13, Lucerne Elemen about these reactors," he added, the audience in opening ceremonies. bull yet. As soon as he was let Judging the tricounty event will consecutive night in a lighted stu-iWill spend Uie time in spiritual; Fishboat Missing Off Coast be Mrs. Dale Moore, Petaluma, "yet all are subject to greater shock than that which might be expected from earthquakes." loose in the pen, he attacked the officers, knocking them down, then "assaulted" the shelter at before Castro's flight back to Cuba, expected early next week. Castro's support was all the tary.

At the close of the contest, the three county champions will receive the engraved plates for their trophies. The bonds for the three tri-county winners will be mailed near the room where the 81- meditations, reading, or whatever year-old pontiff slept, but they chooses to prepare for believed less worried about cost, commemorating the descent an immediate crisis than about of the Holy Ghost upon the Udall, in a letter to Atomic vice president, 14th District, Congress of Parents and Teachers; Louis G. Delsol, Secondary Curriculum Coordinator, Willits, Men- more significant because China used the Cuban crisis of last Oc Energy Commission chairman Glenn T. Seaborg, asked that a tendants, James Whitlock and Dale Morgan, before they could sidestep the bull's charge. As of late this morning, Officer the long run.

apostles. tober to ridicule Khrushchev's i EUREKA UPD Four Coast Guard vessels and 15 aircraft re-isumed searching today for fisherman Charles Witt of Newport, overdue in his 36-foot boat policies of peaceful coexistence and demand a more militant Couts and Pedrini were still look Conquerors of Everest stand against the West ing for the cow and the calf. The impromptu rodeo began Work Way Down Peak 'Kathy Queen." Witt departed Eureka the night nf Mav 13 for Inpal fishino. Hp about 5 a.m. when someone reported he thought he saw a bull running down the street in the "very thorough investigation" be made before a license is issued to Pacific Gas Electric Co.

for construction of a nujlear plant at Bodega Bay. Udall noted that the proposed nuclear power plant would be located near the San Andreas fault, where the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and other tremblors have originated. The Interior Secretary also said docino County Schools, and Na- in about two weeks. Sonoma Valley To Have Own Boy Scout District SONOMA Sonoma Valley will Area Council, have its own Boy Scout District officers elected were: At a meeting Wednesday night I William L. Wetsel, chairman; in Trinity Episcopal Church Par- Wallace Batchelder, vice chair-ish Hall, some 20 scouters met man, and George Christiansen, with Harold Alexander, Sonoma-1 commissioner.

Mendocino Area Council, and; District meetings set up are for formed the new Sonoma Valley first and fourth Thursdays NAlMAmw, nepai an. -umei u. cugenc, Mowing day Four Americans, who wrote a0re- Sheading north out of Humboldt nace of mountaineering history! Hornbein and Unsoeld scaled the; Bay. The Coast Guard said he vicinity of Lincoln and Washington streets. Several policemen were the first with a twin assault of Mt.

Ev- Pak by the previously unexplored provisions for three days. crest, were believed working their west ridge: Bishop and Jerstadj The Coast Guard checked har by the south col 'passi route jbors from Yaquina Bay. Ore. on the scene and found not only a bull, but a cow and a calf as way back down the world's highest mountain todav. which had been used on three SOU(h (0 Central California with negative results.

Nor was any well. Making like matadors, the police tried to corner the animals. Radio reports from the Ameri-i previous climbs, can expedition hase camp Thurs-i Expedition leader Norman G.lt,.. nf Will fnnnrt vpstprHav G-! trace of Witt found when three aircraft scanned 5.785 The bull snorted and charged. Of The Russians, Peking charged, are "as timid as mice" before the American "paper tiger." Castro did not refer specifically to the Soviet missile pullout in his speech.

But he lavishly praised the Russians for their willingness to risk nuclear war and imperil the achievements of the Russian revolution for the sake of tiny Cuba. Refutes Peking Charges This was a direct refutation of what Peking charges. It says Russia has abandoned its revolutionary radicalism now that it has some of the comforts of an established society. According to Peking, this means the undeveloped nations seeking revolutionary guidance must turn to China. Thus Castro's pledge is likely to have important repercussions among the Communist parties in the poorer Latin American countries.

Peking has been trying to square miles in the first day of searching. ficer Robert Donaldson leaped to safety atop his patrol car. Police were soon joined by two dav night said the four had; Dynrenturtn. 44. santa Monica, reached Camp 4 at the radioed from the base lt'vel-nearlv 5.000 feet down from 'camp that Bishop and Jerstad, the peak-arid were safe and who reached the top first, saw The four men who conquered Horbein and Unsoeld climbing up the mountain-reaching the sum-i the wpst ridge toward them and there might be danger to fisheries resources and to people using the newly-created Point Reyes National Seashore, but said those dangers could be averted by close control of operations.

Hosmer charged Udall might have "ulterior motives in attempting to torpedo the nation's nuclear power program." He said the Secretary was "trying to grab control" of all the nation's electrical energy. District, suoject to tne approval of the executive board. The change was made to enable better service and closer work with the Sonoma Valley scouts, thereby producing better scouting, said John Sullivan, district executive of the Sonoma Mendocino Participating in the search from Cape Mendocino south sheriff's deputies, Robert Meyerj monthly, Mr. Sullivan said. The first meeting will be for unit leaders with round table programs, the next of which is scheduled for June 6 in the Trinity Episcopal Parish Hall.

The fourth Thursday will be for administration and will include unit representatives. r-t to Point Sal were the cutters and Mahlon Copeland, and a citizen, I divided to wait tor them. mit by different routes within Ewing. Avoyel and Yocona and an 83-foot patrol boat: and two They retired a few hundred feet three hours of each other Wednes-I Ernest Kentucky) Pendergrass. The officers closed in on the bull and cow and cornered them dav are Dr.

Thomas Hornbein. i to get out of the wind while Hor lCoast Guar(j anc 13 Navy air. 32. San Diego: Dr. William Un-jbein and Unsoeld inched up thejcratl a driveway.

Two cars, a police last lew hundred yards bv anv-i NSGW Speech Winners Listed soeld. 36. Corvallis. Barry Bishop, 30, Washington, and ing pitons into the sheer face. Wednesday's meeting included: George Ford, Troop Alex Boo- her.

Troop 16: Kenneth Clewett I It was 9 p.m. when they joined, forces. Night had fallen and they were unable to find camp 6 at SONOMA Native Sons of the and Rolf Williams, both of Troop Golden West today announced the; 19: John Neville and John Loftus, Two Rock Soldier Injured in Blaze woo these parties, but they can the 27.450-foot level in the dark. Petaluman Makes It 55 By Staff Correspondent car and a sheriff's car, moved in to block the escape route. But they miscalculated the agility of animals, and as one officer put it, "They became very angry and decided to resist." The cow charged and squeezed through the two patrol cars to freedom.

The bull took a different route. 'They decided to spend the night. be expected to follow the line of winner in the speech contest held 1 Castro, the one Communist m'in the Veterans Memorial Build- in the snow despite the scarcity; both of Troop 114; George Christiansen, Troop 103; Harry Wilson and Harold Cook, both of Troop 16; Lawrence Fuller, Post 113. Earl Schmidt, Troop 16: Thomas power in the hemisphere. ing during their 86th Grand Parlor.

Western diplomats pointed out Ruth Lonardelli. Sweetwater PETALUMA A 40-year-old of oxygen in the rarefied atmos-! Petaluma man who has been iniphere. city jail 54 times in the past six' Dyrenfurth said two other per-J vears was to be arraigned todav i sons could have made the climb By Staff Correspondent jage to the three-room cottage in-PETALUMA A 30-year-old, to which Mr. Van Hoesen had High School student in the San Diego area, took top honors in that Castro whatever his had little choice, feelings about the Mayfield and William i e. Kenneth In-lHe tried to jump over the hood Two Rock Ranch Station soldier both of Pack 103: moved a week earlier.

Eleven firemen and two pumper Chinese cause, for which he has; the public speaking contest. on a rharee of stealing a lawn to the too but chose to wait at -suffered extensive second and third the deputy car, out man i graham and Harry Three other young people con i indicated some sympathy in the mower from in front of a store Camp 6 to help the others. They degree burns on the upper part trucks were sent to control the vpiterdav are Dr. David Dineman. 26,, i leap high enough and lodged between the hood of the car and a building.

The bull was finally subdued, but not until after it viciously pum-(Continued on Page 8, Col. 7) Troop 40. Arthur Howard, Troop 10; George Franklin, Pack 15: George Watson, Post 15: John Mesaris. Troop 2, and Den Mother, Mrs. Dorothy Andrieux.

tended in the finals. Terry Olsen. Gait High School, Gait: Helen Bu-zolin. Lowell High School, San Francisco: Terry Lyons, the only male contestant. Loyola High School, Los Angeles.

Clyde L. Blocker was charged; Baltimore. a physician, and lof his body, hands, arms and head jblaze with taking the mower, valued at' a Sherpa guide, Girmi Dorje. ifa firp fi nigntj $54. from in front of the old Mont- Dingman became alarmed when gemery ard store and hiding it the four men did not show up at 1 nndpr a stairway after two un- Camp 6 Wednesday night and sen apparently went to sleep while Index past.

Portable Classroom Bids Up Today By Staff Correspondent PETALUMA The Petaluma Board of Education was expected to award a $68,000 contract today for construction of seven portable classrooms. successful attempts to sell it. started looking for them. He met smoking. He is in Hillcrest Hos-Most of his local arrests have1 them coming down and reported pital where his condition is de-been for being drunk.

He lives in them in good health despite theiriscribed as serious. ordeal. a local hotel. i The fire was discovered by Mrs. Mike Mcintosh, a neighbor, at First prize awarded to Miss Lo-1 nardelli was a $1,000 U.S.

Savings I bond. Miss Olsen received a $500 bond. A $250 bond was given for the third prize and $100 bond fori the fourth. William H. Dombrink.

was general chairman of the state-! Fostmeier Construction Pet aluma. presented 10:27 p.m., when she and her hus- band returned to their home last night. Firemen reported extensive dam-1 DeMolays Flip Hotcakes Saturday the lowest 0f wiaecomeM- i vesterdav and Grand president of the ASTROGUIDE 17 BETTER HAtF BRIDGE PROBLEMS 5 CALENDAR 2 CARMICHAEl 17 CHURCH 15, 16 CLASSIFIED 21 25 COLEMAN 4 COMICS 20 CROSSWORD 5 CUPPY 2 EDITORIAL 4 FLEESON 4 GARDEN 18, 19 MARKETS 8 OBITUARIES 8 PEARSON 4 RADIO TV 17 RESERVED 7 SPORTS 11 13 STOCKS 8 TIDES 5 VITAL STATISTICS 8 104TH YEAR NO. 185 four bids opened 1IST Says: There is a "new kind of warfare" being waged between East and West, and the United States is losing, writes Harry S. Truman in a copyrighted article appearing exclusively in the Press Democrat.

"The free world has not been able to match the communists in skill and effectiveness" in winning over millions of peoples around the world, the former President writes. Read Truman's article to find out why we're losing this vital battle, and what we must do about it! Exclusive in Sunday's Press Democrat. I P.I). Exclusive The Vandals What does vandalism cost Redwood Empire taxpayers? Press Democrat reporter Boniface Saludes will have the total figure in his series on Empire vandals which starts Sunday in your P.D. He'll also probe the reasons behind kids throwing rocks at windows, wrecking schools and smashing construction equipment.

You'll want to read this series starting Sunday in your Press Democrat. Starts Sunday By Staff Correspondent a special meeting was called H- Ewart- presented the noon today to award the contract. I awards. Other bidders and their bids! Local judges were: were: Rapp Construction San- Mrs. Beatrice Armstrong, So-ta Rosa.

$71,706: W. J. Kubon Valley High School: Mrs. San Rafael, $71,887, and Wright Gilcrest, Sassarini School; Oretsky, Rohnert Park, $76,100. john L.

Glaese, superintendent, Five of the classrooms will be I Sonoma Valley Unified School Dis-built at Kenilworth and Petaluma trict: Superior Court Judge Lin-junior high schools and one each coin F. Mahan. Santa Rosa, and will be built at Valley Vista and Robert M. Lynch, editor, Index-McKinley elementary schools. 'Tribune.

PETALUMA The Petaluma DeMolay breakfast of pancakes and ham will be held at the Le- Igion Hall from 7 a.m. until noon tomorrow. The cooks for the breakfast will be mothers of the DeMolavs TWO SECTIONS PAGES.

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