The Press Democrat from Santa Rosa, California • 1

BEMOC RAT oJd Until, Colli EDWOOD EMPIRE Cloudy with rain tonight and Tuesday. Continued cold. Snow in the mountains. Small craft warnings until 7 p.m. for northerly winds 20-30 mph Point Arena northward.

(Statistics a Page 2.) Sonoma Final The Redicood Empire's Leading Xeicspaper SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA The City Designed for Living -MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 23, 1957 Telephone 1331 rap Plains 7 Da I iailL3Lr il Ml lib ih ihhdl 1 1 1 1. 1 ii i a til Teenage Driver May Face Charges Pershing Liddle Death Investigated k' Vt; pJLli- "Art 1 A 1 1 iff "ft Staff Photo by Jonn LeBaron GILBERT S. EVANS. 18, San Francisco (insert) sits stunned the rear of a California Highway Patrol car moments after his car (background), the sports car in the foreground, and a third car ere involved in a thre e-way collision which killed one person and injured sev en others, one criticallv. Sheriffs deputies are trying to determine what caused the crash ef a light plane that took the life of Pershing Haig Liddle, 38, sales end credit manager of the Mead Clark Lumber yesterday, three miles east of Santa Rosa.

The wreckage of the plane was discovered about 10:30 a.m. near a small irrigation lake in the hilly Annadel Farms property, about an hour after Mr. Liddle had taken off from Sonoma County Airport. Mr. Liddle, a member of the Civil Air Patrol, was on an orientation flight, a flight for the purpose of putting in flying time, CAP officials said today.

Deputies David Liebowitz and William Holbrook said the plane, an Air Force-owned Aeronca, struck the top of an oak tree at the south side of a hill. The deputies said the craft was torn to pieces and wreckage was scattered for hundreds of feet from the point of impact. Body Thrown Clear Coroner Vernon C. Silvershicld said Mr. Liddle's body was hurled from the craft and was found about 350 feet from the oak tree.

Two ranch hands, Cecil Willi-ford and Jade Boydston, driving in the area in a hay truck looking for cattle, to feed, discovered Jthe wreckage. Deputies said the low-flying plane struck several other trees after hitting the top of the oak- tree. Mr. Silvershicld said the plane was flying low for some unknown reason. CAP officials said the craft is owned by the Air Force but loaned to the CAP for training purposes and rescue work.

Mr. Liddle, who resided at 149 Cray Court, Santa Rosa, last week received a bequest of $10,000 from the estate of Mrs. Dora Clark wife of the late Mead Clark, who owned the lumber firm. Mr. Liddle, a native of Santa Rosa, had worked for the firm since he was a student at Santa Rosa Junior College some 20 years ago He attended Analy High School was in "fair" condition today at the county hospital.

Edward Angeloni, 16, San Fran cisco, a passenger in the Evans car. He was treated at the county Snow Blanket Covers Empire 10 cents Thomas Demerritt, 18, San Francisco, also a passenger in the Evans car. He suffered a frac-(Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) reported four inches of snow with the mercury falling to 16 at the summit, the coldest of the winter there. The Weather Bureau said the storm was the worst in Southern California since Jan.

11, 1949. Heavy snow jammed traffic in the Los Angeles area while the city itself was hit by icy rain, sleet, hail and a light snow that quickly melted. The storm pushed into the southwest with about two inches of snowy coating an area from southern Wyoming through western Colorado and into northern New Mexico and Arizona. In California, the Ridge Route, US 99, between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, was closed by the heaviest snowfall since 1949. No motorists were trapped in the pass, but nearly 4,000 cars piled up at either end before it was re opened yesterday afternoon, four hours after it was ordered closed by CHP.

Tell How Unions Would he prefer that the union had not signed up the yard, that things were back exactly where they were before the joint or ganizing drive started? "No," he said, quickly and em phatically. "It's going to be all right. We'll be better off in the future." He was no doubt thinking, as he said this, of the 10 cent raises passed out in the yards as soon as the unions Started their ram. paign, of the additional 10 cents definitely coming to him next May 1, of a contract opening to negotiate on wages May 1, 1938, and the virtual certainty a pen sion plan will soon be added to the contract. Employe Talks Another at the Mead Clark yard is Sergei Condrashoff, a lumber handler who has been with the yard about eight years.

He was helping unload a car of lumber, but paused to take a breather and answer questions, "Sig" and his wife live on a ranch with a few chickens on It (Continued on Tage Col. 1) h. Classified Ads 54 CORONER VERNON C. Pershing II, Liddle and served in the Navy during World War II. He as a member of the Methodist Church, Santa Rosa Lodge 57, the Santa Rosa Scottish Rite Bodies, Aahmes Temple, AAOXMS: Hi-12 Luncheon Club, Redwood Empire Ihw-Hoo Club.

Sonoma County Shrine Club. Sonoma County Shrine Club Kifis, Theodore Roosevelt Post 21, Am Witnesses said the plane took off about 4:30 p.m. from the Hul-bert Muffley Lumber Co. landing strip. While the families of the two men watched, the engine apparently failed shortly after the plane took to the air.

Pilot Woodruff made a desperate attempt to circle and return to the strip, but the plane smashed, nose-first, into a bank on the. west side of the river. Mr, Woodruff was taken to county hospital. Mr. Mills was treated for lacerations, then taken to Healdsburg General Hospi- U.N.

on the Middle East would prove a crucial point in the wors ening Middle-East crisis. Both tgypt ana Israel ex pressed disappointment in Ham marskjold's report which called for complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and from the Sinai shore on the Gulf of Aqaba. Reacts Angrily Israeli Foreign Minstry spokes man Moshe Leshen said in Jeru salcm that Hammarskjold wanted to return to "the very state of affairs which broufiht about the present crisis." He described Hammarskjold's view on Gulf of Aqaba navigation a "masterpiece of obscurity." Egypt reacted even more angri ly. Government sources expressed disappointment Hammarskjold! failed to demand unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces and said Egypt is prepared to go along with the U.N. only if the U.N, is ready to restore rre-inva sion conditions.

I Staff SILVERSHIELD INSPECTS PLANE WRECKAGE (Insert) Was Killed in Annadel Farms Crash One person was killed and sev en others were injured, one criti cally, in a three-car crash yester day on Highway 101, near the Santa Rosa Drag Strip. Dead is Robert L. Davis, 49- year-old Santa Rosa bartender and television repairman. The California Highway Patrol said Mr. Davis' southbound car smashed head-on into a north bound vehicle driven by Gilbert S.

Evans, 18, San Francisco, as the Evans youth cut to the left, across the southbound lane to enter the drag strip. The Davis car then careened into the northbound lane, rolled ant collided with a sports car driven by Karl Unterein, 23, San Bruno. The Unterein car was headed north behind the Evans car, officers said. Deputy District Attorney James B. Barnes said this morning he was considering filing a mis demeanor manslaughter charge against young Evans, on the basis that the youthful San Franciscan caused the fatal crash by making an illegal left turn.

Conviction on such a charge could lead to a maximum sen-! tence of one year in the County Jail. Seven Injured Injured in the morning crash were: Jack Frost, 16, San Francisco a passenger in the Evans car Ke suffered severe head and chest injuries, and was report ea in very critical" condition this morning at Sonoma County Hospital. Ernest Lyons, 17, Santa Rosa, passenger in the Davis car. Young Lyons suffered fractures of the pelvis, jaw and leg. He Sonoma Women Plan Party By Slaff Correspondent SONOMA A Valentine party sponsored by the Sonoma Valley Woman's Club is set for 1 p.

m. Feb. 6. The party will be held at the clubhouse. First St.

East. Mrs. George DeMartini is chair man for the event. Her commit tee includes Mrs. Jack Weiss.

Mrs. Warren More, Mrs. Leland Clerici, Mrs. A. A.

Maffei, Mrs. Fred Butler and Mrs. Olvier Maf fei. Bridge and canasta will be play ed at the party. Admission is 75 cents per person or $3 per table.

Reservations may be made by phoning Mrs. DeMartini at WE 8-2619. W. I. Martin Is Re-Opening Office By Staff Correspondent SOXOMA-W.

J. Martin, long time Sonoma realtor who retired three years ago, plans to re-open an office at 526 Broadway. Asso ciated with Mr. Martin will be his son, Paul, Martin Cullinan and Harry Crouse. BULLETIN! BURLLNGAME l'P Harry Lundeberg, 55, boss of the West Coast Sailors Union of the Pacific, died at Peninsula Hospital today eight days after he suffered a heart attack.

Index ANN LANDERS 10 BUNDESEN 4 CLASSIFIED 13 17 COMICS 8 CROSSWORD 7 EDITORIAL 4 EMPIRE 11 GREAT SCOTTI 18 HOROSCOPE 18 MARKETS 6 OBITUARIES 6 RADIO TV 18 SPORTS 9 STOCKS 6 TIDES 18 TV COLUMN 18 VITAL STATISTICS 6 WOMEN 10 100th YEAR No. tl 18 PAGES TWO SECTIONS Cloverdale Businessman Hurt in Plane Crackup A white mantle of snow covered large parts of the Redwood Em pire area at daybreak today. It was the first in Santa Rosa so far this year and one of the; few snow storms to be recorded for Santa Rosa. I The Mid-Empire area was cov ered along with many areas of Northern and Central California. An inch to several inches in depth was reported.

The weather man has predicted that it will be a little less cold today ami tonight in many areas of Northern California. Even so, he forecast tempera-! tures of freezing ana Deiow in inland and coastal valleys during the night. The California Highway Patrol has closed St. Helena Rd. in So-j noma County because of heavy-snow and chains are required for motor travel on Calistoga Rd.

Although the surrounding hills are covered with snow in Lake County none of the roads are closed. LABOR STATES By Slaff Correspondent ERDALE Cloverdale businessman Charles W. (Chuck) Woodruff is in critical condition from head injuries suffered yesterday when his light plane crashed on take-off from a flying field south of here. Mr. Woodruff, 38.

was taken to Sonoma County Hospital where brain surgery was performed this morning. His passenger, William Mills. 25, of 315 Hardister Cloverdale, suffered severe facial cuts. hospital for scalp lacerations and a fractured thigh, and was trans ferred today to San Francisco Permenente Hospital, in "fair' condition. The CHP reported that all high- ways and roads are open in Men docino County.

Blue Canyon Coldest The coldest spot in California yesterday was Blue Canyon in the Sierras where it was 9 below. Oth er low were San Jose 23, Redwood City 29, Novato 18, Liver-more 29, Richmond 32, San Francisco 39, Oakland 33, Fresno 27. Stockton 27, Sacramento 31 and Red Bluff 32. Low this morning in Santa Rosa was 34. The frigid weather of the weekend came as the result of a storm that brought with it a mass of arctic air.

Snow drifts of as much as two feet were reported on Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County. Thousands of motorists in the Bay Area drove up the mountain yesterday to see it. Mt. Hamilton cast of San Jose ITS CASE-III them, Ernie Bassignani of the Mead Clark lumber yard, who was interviewed for this series. Ernie, a husky, dark-haired.

ruddy-complexioned young man. was jockeying a fork-lift truck with a load of. sheetrock wheh we halted him. He is a resident of Santa Rosa, has worked for Mead Clai six and a half years, is classified as a lift driver and yard man and presently earns $1.93 an hour. What About Fear? What about all this talk about fear and about being coerced into a union against his will? he was asked.

"Well, we were forced to join the union after the contract was signed," he said. Did he mean that he and the others in the yard felt they had lost their liberty? 'No, said Ernie. Then he thought a little while and added: "But there is something that a lot of the fellows in the yard are sore about. They're sore that the ui.ion didn't get us bigger raises." Photo bv Clarence B. die, Vallejo, and a sister, Margaret Jeep, Martinez.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the chapel of the Eggen Lance Mortuary with the Rev. Shirley SheriU and the Santa Rosa Lodge 57, officiating. Private entombment will be in Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Ike Asks $2 Billion School Aid WASHINGTON (UP i-President Eisenhower asked Congress today to vote $2,220,000 in federal aid over the next four years to help states overcome a "most critical shortage of schoolrooms.

In a 2.000-word special message to the House and Senate, the chief executive appealed for quick pass age of an "emergency" program designed to overcome the nation's present "deficit" of about 159,000 classrooms. In an effort to head off the fight over school segregation riders which blocked action on a similar school program last year, Mr Eisenhower appealed to Congress to enact the measure "on its own merits, uncomplicated by previ sions dealing with the complex problems of integration." The president proposed: 1-Federal grants of $323 million annually for the next four years a total of $1.3 billion, to help build public 1 in "financially needy" school districts. The federal money would be distributed under a complex formula taking into account the number of school age children in a state and the state's average income per school- age child. Must Match Funds 2 During the first year of the program, 19o7, the federal aid would have to be matched by out lays from either state or local school district funds. After the first year, the matching fund would have to come solely from state funds, a requirement aimed at states which now make little or no contribution to school budg ets.

3 The matching funds would be (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Maeeettt Jr. erican Legion: a director of the Santa Rosa Credit Bureau, past district governor of the 20-30 Club. CAP, and the Santa Rosa Flying Club. He is surv ived by his wife, Virginia Liddle.

Santa Rosa; a son, James Liddle, Santa Rosa; his parents, William S. Liddle, Se-bastopol, and Mrs. Martha Liddle, Napa; a brother, James W. Lid- tal. Besides the facial cuts, hospital attendants said, he may be suffering back injuries.

Mr. Woodruff is business mana ger of the Medical Arts Building in Cloverdale and active in civic affairs. He had been a pilot for several years and had military' iiight experience, the plane was jointly owned by a group of Clo verdale sport flyers. The lumber company strip is the largest in the Cloverdale area and is used by a number of private flyers. Bandit Pair Strikes At Calistoga By Staff Correspondent ALISTOG A The Napa Coun ty Sheriff's Office has entered into the search of two masked bandits believed to be the same ones who struck recently in Sonoma and Mendocino counties.

An attempt to rob John Wright's service station in Calistoga Saturday night by the robbers was thwarted when Mr. Wright brandished a shotgun. Calistoga Chief of Police Kenneth Hively said one of the bandits, wearing rubber Halloween mask, entered the station with pistol in hand about 8:40 p. m. i shouted, "This is a stick up," to Mr, Wright, his wife, and a friend, William Cooper, who were in the living quarters to the rear of the office.

Instead of submitting to the bandit, Mr. Wright grabbed a shot gun, while the others ducked out of view. The bandit ran outside and fled in a car with one or possibly two others. Lumber Workers They Feel About Egyptians Threatening Action Against Israel By HAROLD ROSSMAN For Sonoma County AFL-CIO Tri-Council Candor requires that we admit some of the people in the Santa Rosa area lumber yards were not happy when the Carpenter-Team ster joint organizing drive won an agreement with several of the biggest yards an agreement providing, among other things, that This is the third of a series of articles presenting the views of the Sonoma County AFL-CIO Tri-council on the recent series, Organizing From the Top. carried by The Press Democrat earlier this month.

All material, including illustrative material and captions, was prepared by the labor group. The articles represent the view point of the tri-council alone. all employes must become mem bers of the union appropriate to their work. But wait till you hear what it is that they, were unhappy about not that they were required to join a union, but that "the un ion didn get us bigger raises." These are the words of one of UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) Egyptian government sources said today in Cairo that Egypt will be forced to "take action on its own" unless the United Nations succeeds in forcing Israel out of the Gaza Strip.

The sources said unless there is an unconditional Lsracli withdrawal from all Egyptian territory Egypt will take action ranging from closure of the Suez Canal as a first resort, to a military counter-offensive against Israel as a last resort. Denounce Hammarskjold The Egyptian position was made public li Cairo shortly after Is rael announced plans to develop the Gaza Strip in defiance of Unit ed Nations demands it quit all ter ritory captured from Egypt, and after Israel denounced Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's ap proach to the situation. Egyptian sources said today's General Assembly debate in the.