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and Steles TOM OK MOW: fin. Hinti TJdts: it SKis law TUm: I I it OXNARD, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1955 Soviets Applying Pre-Geneva Talk Pressure to West UNITED NATIONS, X.Y.'JH-The Soviet Union appeared to day to be applying by calling for a long-drawn out disarmament debate in the United Nations while making plans io mame trie west if it fails. The most logical interpretation elisor vers could put on yes-jlercfay's daylong performance bv Soviet delegate Arkady A. Soh- tuev me u.iN. disarmament commission was that it was "pro-Geneva" maneuver design Pd in buna up pressure on (he; tern powers The Russian, at wide variance with western views, said he saw iin reason why Lhe United Nations should not debate disarmament nt the same time as (he Dig Four foreign ministers arc debating it at their Geneva meeting.

The consensus was that lhe general assembly could profit from the Big Four's views. high School Publications Meeting Held Students from 17 high school ranging from Satila Maria ti Santa Monica and points Inlam met today at Ventura iscnooi lor tne second annua I JVhlx.Kioiis Day. Purpose uf lhe meeting, is to have students and advisers from different schools discuss related problems in the fields of publications, newspaper work, literary magazine and yearbook an- The meeting opened at lo a.m. with an introductory assembly followed by discussion groups for editors, photographers, news, feature and sports writers and members of the publications business staff. The discussion groups continued in the afternoon and a final assembly terminated the meeting.

Sclionls represented were Ox-nard, Carpinteria, PUImor Vianla Mafia. Nofdhoff, Santa Santa Thacher, Himi, Muorpavk, Santa 1'aula, Santa Barbara, Antelope Valley, Villauova, St. Catherine's, Hum S. Hart and Ventura. Boy Hospitalized With Possible Polio Greg Nesen, 15.

son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Nesen of -iO-i Robert avenue, was "In good condition, and Improving," at St, John's Hospital today with possible case of polio.

The hoy's doctor, who reported on his condition, said he was 5 I from meningitis caused by an unidentified virus, which might or might nnt be llflT ved no evidence admitted lhe hospital Thursday, royal stepmother. fefefia Whereabouts of the. boys has boon a nuarded secret ever since Townsend started openly dating Margaret last week. Last weekend the Princess and Townsend spent Saturday and Sunday as house guests at I'v, Park. This Saturday Margaret had a p.m.

engagement to open a church district at London's East India docks. ie pretty mlncess smiled gaily for photographers at 1:05 a.m. today after a six-hour date witn 'townsend, and a London newspaper predicted an early announcement of their engagement. was her eighth dale wilh (he lean, -ll-yenr-old airman for notn she has chased all over on Jt.ii -lid "she will" on among society gossips had' distinct edge over the "she -on'ls." Visiting Solons Deny Asking for Special Planes WASHINGTON The Defense Department today salt that the. Air Force knew in ad vance that three Senators whom special planes are being sent to Europe had to he back in the I nit ted States bv certain dates.

MADRID, Spain Three Democratic senators denied to- nay that they had asked fori special flights by two large Air force planes lo take them am Iheir wives, home i more than fttO.OflO. "I didn't ask for any said Dennis Chavez, of New "1 didn't ask the Air ps for a doggoned If is Eenrung some plaups lo Europe, it Is doinc so on lis own and not on my re- Chavez flew here from NapL with three or his colleagues from the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sens. Stennls McClelland and Harley Kilgore Chevaz, Stennis and McClel iann an denied reports from Washington that (hey had asked for the special flights because I hey refused to wait for ached uleil flights. Kile-ore was not involved in the reports. Snlnns Issue Denials Stennis, a member ot lhe Senate Armed Service sub-committee on Military Construction, said "I came over traveling with our military men and Ibclr families on a military ship, and expect to return with our returning military' men by air." McClelland said; "Any rermrt or Intimation 1 requested a spec ial plane or declined to wail for scheduled flights Is absolutely false.

I never requested at any Hill" plane of the Constellation any other particular saiu there was only one reason for lhe senators' trip. He said a 1350 appropriation fur the defense deunriment called for billion. We wanted to know what the department was doing with the money, especially in England, Turkey and Spain," Chavez said. "The American people are! entitled to know how the Army-. Navy and Air Force are usine the money.

We report our find-; inss lo the senate." 1'wo Navy commanders nt the Construction battalion Port Huenome, have been solec-' ted for promotion to captain. They are Cnulr, it. Van Liew, executive executive officer at (IRC, and Cmdr. Francis T. Pritchard, officer in charge of the Civil Engineer Corps! ujiicers School.

Pritchard will receive his promotion in April, 1356. Effective date of Van Llew's promotion has not been announced. Cmdr, Van Liew cotereil the Navy as a lieutenant (jg) in I'Cbruary, His experience Includes assignment to the ex ecutive office of the secretary of the Navy as Civil Engineer Corps-member of lhe Naval Hoard of Review; com ma rid of Construction jlaUallun Detach- 7 In lhe Hrilish West HOUSTNC rROBLEM-pi-oject when It Is clo Benigno Vt who- vm, it In the Rvukvus campaign faces eviction with his wife and six children In just nine more days. ject, rne period or grace expires it midnight, Oct. nr.

Benigno 711-A won his Purple Heart for a shoulder wound sustained in Pacific fighling and was dis-chnrged with a 10 percent dis ability. ia said. liidiard fiarllKiy, (ifld-H An- arapa, Is a thrice-wounrlerl veteran and also the falhcr of six. the San rranciscn-Oakland Ray Bridge, riant Dam and Madera Canal. His Navy career has Included assignment as public, works officer at Guam and al the Kaval Station, Seattle, and Bureau of Yards and Docks re presentative In Lhe office of lhe U.S.

Attache In London, Cmdr. Prltchard'K assistant, Lt. Cmdr. W. Beck, has been selected for promotion Lo full commander, Lt.

Cmdr, John S. Dougherty, former executive officer a CECOS and now of fleer In charge of Mobile Con struoLlon llaUiillnn II, has alsi been ufkcLcrl for nnmiolion lo SERVING VENTURA COUNTY' Cmdrs. Van Liew, Pritchard Selected for Captaincies Family of eight, above, is among families who must leave San Misuel but has found no other home. From left; Mary, 7, I.upe, It, Dolfe-en, iligno Arrets, Alician, 2W, Mrs. Arreta, and Crux, eight months old.

Plmla Families in Housing Project Out of Luck on Other Homes Bj- Bob Mount A parliallv-rllsabled vet His is one ot more than an lamnie.i -that, have been unable to buy or rent a home since a eviction notice was served last May 1 to residents the San Miguel Housing pro Six Months Arreta's have been hoiis- huntins for six months. As italed in an iuLcrvlew last night, hey can't buy because their net income is not high enough lo tiualify; they cnn'l rent be cause they have six children and no one will have I hem: Ihev 1 ne given quarters in other local federal units becyuse their income is tuo high- we're evicted, don't know what we'll do. We just clou any place lo go," Ar od with the Army Iti Europe during World War II. IV eve looked for a to rent, but they don't want any Ith children," Mrs. CTari- bay said.

"We finally decided to nuy a nouse and have already tailed the papers," she contin ued, "but they tell us they can't et us have a place to live hero until the house is ready because my husband works in Hurhank." Khe shook her head slowly, aying, "We have to get out the st of November. It's eoinc to be rough with six children." Iph Perez, (527-A Coro- works officer of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Cmdr. Pritchard went on ac tive duty with lhe Navy In 1OTi after experience as a civilian engineer that included work on Indies; and service 33 public, commander. nadoi Is an Army veteran whol served in the Pacific and who is Hie father of- four.

He and his wife have looked from Yen to Port Uueneme for a place to rent. "Wc looked at one place In Oxriaid where the lady had a bne-bedroom furnished aparL-ment for S7G. She told us shel was paying taxes ku (hat we could live cheaply and thai she was glad they were putting us out," Perea said. "I've been looking for six months. Next Mouthy I befiiri a two-week vacation and I'm going lo spend lhe whole time trying to.

find a place for my family," he continued. "It's always the same story they don't rent to families wilh three or more children." Some Buying Ironies These are three or eleven interviews conducted by The Press-Courier last night to de-tcrmlue the slatus of families facing eviction from lhe San units. In lhe eight other interviews, four families were buying homes locally, one was buying in Thousand Oaks, one family didn't know what could be done lo keep a roof over 1la head, one man said his family was moving to "Federal avenue," and one woman declared she couldn't buy in a locallon of her choice because of discrimination. C. Hamilton llosserl, a slafl member of the local housing authority, said Inst night thai 115 families remain In the San Miguel units.

(The total remaining on Sept. 1 was 251.) Of those remaining, Bossett has already surveyed 80, and hopes lo complete his survey by Tlies-i day. "Of the BO families I've already checked," he said, have bought homes, and the others have no place to go." Bossert said that George WaU Two Drivers Injured tn Auto Accidents Two drivers suffered minor injuries In separate accidents' yesterday, the California High way Palml reported. William n. Main, 61, Santa lost cnnlrol of his car while rounding a curve on hway J.W, seven miles easL OJal yeslertlay at p.m., patrolmen wild, and crashed Into a fence, lie was treated by a private physician.

Helen Davaull, 37, El Cajon, suffered minor Injuries al a.m. when lhe suction from a truck which approached and passed her caused the 35-foot house trailer she was lowing to sway ami overturn, pulling her car over wild ll, patrolmen said The accident occurred on Highway J01 just of Calleguai road, bhe was treated at Lying-' in Hospital. UOniAK IIITRH 111 lor.i.Ywoou nn iforliak was burleil Cavalry cemetery, lace, local director, doing everything lie can lo see we ean continue Federal ave- iic until they get under hose who have noL arranged to ouy numes are in a non-buyer group, but we can't car s' them on and on, he said tliaL most of lhe families would be oul! by the Nov, 1 deadline. He added, however, that some midship cases might be given i month's extension. won't kick anyone mil in the street," aid.

with Iheni as we He said the number of emer gency cases after the deadline would determine how long the project will remain open on a temporary basis. "We couldn't continue to supply utiUlics for only one or two families," lie said, There are Tfifi units remain ing in the San Miguel housing area, Bossert. reported; another purtabfe houses were elim- ted early In the year. Of tl ISO l-'ed- cral avenue, 100 ate mi Anacapa, Coronado, Seventh, and Kinth streets; and J7R barracUs-type buildings are in veterans' projects Nos. I In and 4032, ac cording to Hossett.

"We're trying lo handle il so hat there won't be a ha hi tcr s.i i. On Nov. 7, Wallace said, -IS row-type hulldhiRS (a total of 132 units) north of Seventh street will be sold. AhouL I wo ks later, the units between Seventh and Ninth streets will be sold, he said. Units on Federal avenue will be.

held back I cases, he said. picking, house raninK and vegetable picking," Krishna Vcnla, loader of the seel, said today. We've got men for work crew Jobs contracted with tho fllato A state Inquiry into lhe sec care for children whose parents are nol living in Box Can yon home of the WKFI, promoted the'' new policy, Krishna said. Of some 10 childicn living in the WKFI, nursery and dormi tories, nine arc not children of' members, lie said, and slate law governing foster hDiries con trols Iheir care. Parenlu have asked the WKI'L to care for the children lhe parent come financially able lo he said.

Tin stall appearing last Mondav, Dr. Rstettenbauer said Anm- had not liiiijn la as at riist feared, but is in serious condition a resulL nf exposui ibrasions, nl cuts and ur. us telle nhauiM' said he had, improved slightly by this morning. "1 mink he's Eoins in ie an iigiu, l.ne pnysiclan said hut menially he's not too clear SC, UC Students Snarl S. F.

Traffic In Pre-Game Riot SAN FRANCISCO fir)'-. Fort police officerji were called out early today ty break up a wild dtfiiioiistralion by some 3,000 students In San Francisco's are, Authorities said most of 1h, demonstrators were slndeuls California and Southern Cali lornia, who were a little advanced activity for today'; Same between the two intivcnd owell street completely and Police lib) chad Sullivan decided lu clear It so the cable cars could run. Four sound rars muved into the mass, but so slowlv that the students whipped behind them end let air out of the rear tires. Twu stpiad cars left the scene on I heir rims. At that RtaRc, the police applied an oltl-limc football the "flyiny wedges" and spilled the kids like tenpins.

The police reached the lead cable car in lima lo keep it Irom Ijeliijj overturned although service had been blocked for more than a half hour. Rio Yourh Center Beams to Be Raised Muscles will be needed Sun lay aflcrnonn lo raise lhe big imams oiun tne I'll Itin Vouth enter, now under construction in Jordan sLreet between Slroubq atitl f.ollins streets. RtibciL Lowi-y a spokesman for the volunteer fjrotip building the center, said Unit each of the leu beams weighs between gencyjfKIO and WO iiouiids, and nil 'available help will he welcome. WKFL Fountain ot World Starts Work-for-Pay Plan After six years of RiibFisllnglters Find heUer sanitary on charity, the for the diildron. ho said.

Fountain of (he World sect near! Ho added that by qualifying Santa Snsann plans to become self supporting. "The WKf'L will contract for jobs such as walnut and fruit for state licensing lhe WKI'T would get proleclinri in case Hie parents disappeared or brought suit against the seel. The first money crew work will no larger nursery and new sanitary facilities, Krishna mid. Later money go toward hotter quarters for married couples. Plans Kami rue livculually, Krishna said, lhe plans to buy 1,000 lo acres for farming opera tions and lo build laboratories for scientific research and train ing.

Krishna said members WKflj had picked walnuts the Hunkle and Barclay ranches near hJimlu Kusann for several years, and bad racently rasied iwo nouses at Jteseda. The WKKI, can be reached hy writing lo Route 1. llox iCaiKiRa Park or by lelcphonin ants larger quai'-lDiamonu B-20G0, Canoga Park, VOLUME 4B NUMBER 96 PRICE FIVE CENTS Ike to Fly to Capital Next Month Townsend, Margaret End Teie-a-Tete at am, RUM lift Princess Margaret went back In Windsor Castle tonight to join her sis tor, the Queen, for ft family weekend, that may result In a decision on her romance with Peter Townsend. The Windsor- gel-lo-gcther will give Margaret lier first Qucc since she started dating the handsome divorced nir hero IHiblicly nine days ago. LONDON HPl Sleepless Peter Townsend courted Princess Margaret until ro5 a.m.

today then rode oil for a gallop at dawn on a racehorse named Experience. Kaeh sueeeding dale -increased v.tho helief thai Townsend marry Margaret, now reported engaged in a classic struggle with her conscience. Hut Town-send was restless. Willi less than six hours sleep after his goodnight Margaret he turned up at Epsom and rode across the downs astride Experience. A pretty brunette stable girl named Mary Smith rode with him in the gallop.

A fully informed suurce disclosed that the- divorced group caption was contemplating an attempt to see his two bull was anxious to shield them the publicity of such a visit. The source said Townsend! had wanted "desperately isit. wnn me iwn inns ever KJnce he arrived In Britain last week on home leave from Belgium, He was thus torn between desire to see his boys and a determination not to drag them into the furor over his rnman their potential 25-year-old Pioneer, 74, Recovering From Ordeal in Mountains Human Arundell. 74-vcar-old f'illmure pioneer wo was found yesterday after three days in the wilds of Pole Creek Canyon, may have suffered a small struke ich caused a "loss of aware-s," Ins doctor said today. )r.

Gstettcnbauor said a slight stroke in the memory ceir explain why Artmdell was "lost' for three days In country lie knows like his own living room. terday morninK fuur miles from his ranch home by his nephew, Don Arundell, and Bill Uroekus of the Fillmore Mounted Rescue Posse. found slunined a ock, just 100 yards ort Pole Creek Canyon road. His rescuers found his shoes shortly before discovering him in a stale or exhaustion. He was rational, they said, and recognised holh i inein.

Jlif.ihed lo Hospllfll Arundell rushed to Fo.s-nr Memorial Hospital by tm-ulanco win-re an examination howed he had suffered no ma-ar Injuries or paralysis. A quarter-inch beard stubble overed his face, and he told is rescuers he had had noth ing to eat or drink since dis He doesn't know what hap pened, and he doesn't know he's in the hospital. He talks some, but he doesn't seem to comprehend." Dr. Osteite bailor said Arundell's relatives said lie had suf-fared a stroke several months ago. "For.

7-i he's pretty hanlv character," the doctor said, "or he wouldn't be around now. tun he's going to be In the hospital several weeks." is reBcue ended several days ireh of the hntsh-covored surround injj his isolated mountain home bv 25 members of the nosse. biother, Frank, disap peared in lhe same area in 1952. The pesse found his skeleton seven months later. Stevenson Calls For 90 Per Cent Farm Price Prop WASHINGTON, nn- An al- nsl-reilain candidate for the 1056 Democratic presidential nomination wuoed lhe ctitlca farm vole today.

Adlal Slcvcnson demancleil eturn to 30 per rem of uaritv uiv icvei ot price supports imtier Democr.il ic administrations, to help solve falling iarm prices. He told a conference of mid west farmers at Dcs Moines Iowa, last night thai DO per cent of parity "is all the more necessary at- the present time when farmers' Income Is fallinir and we tire moving lurtller away from the goal of equality." Democrats plan to make falling farm prices a' major Issue 1056, putting meat of lhe blame on the flexible price support program. New Farm Approach to put him more firmly be hind Lhe Democratic concept of. nsiu nign supports. In an earlier Wisconsin speech he had aiu ne tiountou that ffl) per cent pariry supports were "good enough" lo solve farm problems r.il for new oiinivaclics in nis ucs also that pr PPorlK "do not by constiiute a complete faun pro gram" ami that Democrats musl lion." face lhe lenlules sur- lilusos ami unbalanced produc- lu Stonewall.

two lop nuking Democrats Scnab Majority Leader Lyndon jonuson of -icxas, and Missouri Sen. Sluart. Symington met In a "purely social visit" couTdn't help but include I tions. il pel i lies ami Hie maneuv-l for presidential nomina Nrcs Demo Victory Nixon was discussed bv Sen Walter F. Ccoipe in a copyrighted Interview publish ed by the Atlanta Constitution The newspaper qunlcd ClcorRe as saying Mr.

Ijisctiliower would lie badly defeated if he ran for re-election wilh 'Nixon again a a running mate. 1U0 George also told the Con shtul ion he does not believe Miscnhower will make the rac and "even if he should run Hie handicap of his health would likely cause bis defeat," George said that "il now look: like a Democratic year in 1050' Willi ins parly having a "belter than riO-M chance'- of electing lhe next prr North Hollywood Plane Crash Death Toll Rises to Six NORTH HOLLYWOOD nn The death toll stood nt. slv tn-! ised by day from a tragic air accident in winch a private plane flown i a millionaire playboy wo shin to a North Hollywood ailment house. rne two latest deaths were ise of Miss Shirley 1'reston. 25, and Frank lUnrchica, 3S, who succumbed lasL nlgliL at North lollywood Hospital.

Three persons were killed outright when the small mono plane, flown by W. Thorne, crashed through lhe roof of the apartment house lnsl Monday night and one other person died shortly afterwards. I' our other persons Injured In lhe air mishap remained In Meanwhile, funeral services for Home, wealthy sportsman pi- today, Doctors Hope To Have Ike On Feet Soon -Dr. n.idlcv While, lhe Rofllon heart snoc- cported after a thorough -ii-v-. hower today that it mieht be two or three months" before the chief executive's physicians can judge the completeness of his recovery from a heart attack.

White said, however, that hp found the President's recovery proceeding on schedule. He said Lascnhower was "on the end back' to gootl health." White, flanked bv Mai. Ren. MCC. Snyder, the president's personal physician, said' thr hief executive, between Nov.

5 and Nov. 12, would leave IHen- er and fly to Washington. Afler "a day or two" nt tlm While House lo break the While said lhe "present belief" was that Mr. Eisenhower would hen tfo to his farm aL neltvs- burg, for extended conva lesce Use. While repealed his forecast of two weeks ago (hat it would bo bout the first of the year he-lire Mr.

Miscnhower can return to the While House. Asked whether lhe doctors would he able lo tell the Presi dent about the first of the year whether he eon run for re-elec- ion, White said this question vns still 'unanswerable." He said that aftor Mr. Uisen-lower is Ihoratishlv mobile lhal he would have to make his own decision about his future. )vj ie: chkln, a University of Vermont cardiologist, elaborated on a Klalemenl yesterday he had made which aroused some curiosity, In his earlier Klalemenl Lepeschkin had said the presidents electrocardiograms once had showed a "complication" which later disappeared. Bui loiiay lhe Vermont specialist said what ho mennt a "slower than, normal" iiealiue of lhe licarL that this coiiid nol lie considered as Lopeschkin also said he was quoted "inacciii atelv" I'V a pital spokesman in Hurlington, lying that the President could run for a secouil term.

He id that ft still Is ion early lo whether Mr. Misenhowel 's coudiLiou will permit him lo seek roleellon. Yeslertlay I'residcnL Eis- enliower gave lhe justice dc-parlmetil his approval of- pruyrain aimed at strengtlien-? the fetieral law enforcement processes. flie prngram was outlined at news onferenco hv Attorncv General Herbert. Hruwiioll, following a 2j-minule conference with the chief executive In the hitler's KiUsiiuans Army liospilnl room.

JJrownell said the justice department will ask congress tor 20 additional fedornl judges and legislation lo make it a criminal offense to invade lhe privacy of icoerai jury while It. is delib erating. lhe President also approved plans for two new prisons, Including a S7.o million correctional Institution io lie located somewhere In the wesl, and a new maximum custody prison in the middle west to cosL about. $0.0 million. Urownell also told newsmen he thought it would be inappro priate for any member of administration lo discuss publicly whether he thought Hie chief executive should seek reelection.

The attorney general was asked If hh statement applied lo House Republican Leader Joseph Martin, who ear ths week (he de sirability of Mr, Eisenhower's candidacy In 1000. declined to comment ami said he was speaking only for himself. isrowneii, one of icison- howor's most influeritial politi cal advisers, said flatly that he did not discuss politics "at all'1 with the President. Brain Hemorrhage Caused Boy's Death Death of four-year-old Christopher L. Bates of Cainarlllo was ruled from a "brain hem orrhngc due lo a full" by the cornoncr's office yesterday af ternoon following an autopsy.

The hoy, who died at St. John's Hospilal at 3 p.m. Thurs day, una tanen from a tecter-totler while playing fn h1a yard Wednesday afternoon. He struck his head otl a cement 'sidewalk In tht itii.

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