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Xo Change REDWOOD EMPIRE Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow except some high fog, scattered showers, in northern coastal regions. Probable lows tonight, Santa Rosa 50, Ukiah 50. (Statistics. Page 2.) TRES OCRAT Sonoma Final The Redwood Empire's Leading Newspaper Telephone 1331 Classified Ads 54 santa.rosa, California The city Designed for Living -Friday afternoon, june 1957 cents tint THE DEM 1 1 1 1 1ll II I Vsgsf.1 0 p3 Depot naioion The recommendation also men San Pablo Bay, lying between the ships, including cruisers and car-i riers. M.

Harrison, Sonoma County Industrial development director, tioned Tubbs Island as a possibil lower reaches of Sonoma and To-lay Creeks. It is about 12 miles due south of Sonoma. Baldwin also pointed to safety aid his office had learned in Tubbs Island Base Cost: $140 Million ity. Baldwin said Little's report "indicated that Tubbs Island could March that the Tubbs Island project had a cost estimate of It is part of the broad area on hazards that exist at Port Chicago as reasons for the move, because the present location "contains be constructed so as to comply with all safety standards." the bay reclaimed during the first many violations of proper safety Baldwin said the Sonoma Coun Port Chicago, on the south shore Tubbs Island, a reclaimed hay- standards" in the proximity of ty location should be used be of Suisun Bay, is in Contra Costa 10 to 15 years of this century by the late US Sen. John J.

Jones of Nevada. Use of Tubbs Island as an ammunition depot serving large Navy growing area on San Pablo Bay due south of Sonoma, will be County. The congressman said cause "the larger ships cannot be loading piers to residences, highways and railroads. The Arthur D. Little on con served by the present Port Chi the present depot cannot serve all ships of the Navy and is a come the new home of the giant cago installations." "They can't get under the inter ships would require dredging of a deefT-draft ship channel out to the hazard to nearby populated areas.

(An explosion of two ammuni US Naval Ammunition Depot now at Port Chicago if a bill introduced in Congress yesterday be He said he asked Rep. Hubert B. Scudder about it when he heard a rumor the Tubbs Island site was under consideration. The congressman told him at that time, Mr. Harrison said, that Tubbs Island appeared to be one of five sites under consideration and that the economy-minded Congress wasn't likely to authorize moving the Navy depot from Port Chicago to any place during the 1957 session.

vening bridges, and the channel up to Port Chicago is not deep channel now linking San Fran tract from the Navy, recently completed a year-long survey on possible new sites for the depot. Its first recommendation was that the present location be expanded tion ships on July 17, 1944, killed cisco Bay proper and the Car- 322 persons at Port Chicago.) comes law. quinez Straits. enough," he said. Dredging Essential The Sonoma County site was He said the Tubbs Island site was the only one among those to acquire all property in the 6af At present boats drawing up to 10 feet can enter the mouth of named in a bill authored by Rep.

John F. Baldwin, Contra Costa ty zone, including the towns of recommended by a private engineering firm which would be de Port Chicago and Nichols where Tubbs Island covers a half-dozen square miles of the flat hay land, mostly reclaimed from Sonoma Creek at high water. TV.1 it r' V- i'tV-t as. V- khk a All r-JiS? Z1" 1 4 VI ro 1 I i 1 County Republican, United Press reported today. 3,500 persons live.

In Santa Rosa today, William veloped to serve all sizes of naval Supervisors Boost Salaries $300, 000 The Sonoma County Supervisors! both also effective Oct. 1. Neither for August and- September. I county personnel agency recom yesterday unanimously approved The board acted late yester mendations. official had been covered by the day after a final 3'i-hour ses state and county survey and rec ommendations.

Despite the raises above" the recommendations yesterday, the net effect of the supervisors' re The. board declined to go along sion on salary and reclassification recommendations of the county Civil Service Commission salary increases totaling about $300,000 for county government employes, then, voting 4-1, cut the cost to $225,000 during the next budget year by postponing the effective date of the raises to Oct. 1. view of the recommendations was with Supervisor Everett D. Lamp and a State Personnel Board sur son's plea for a $1,000 increase believed to be an annual decrease for Dr.

H. D. Stailey, County Hos-' vey team hired by the supervis of about $20,000 in the roughly $320,000 increase originally pro pital chief who also was not cov ors. Dissenting vote in the decision ered in the j-ecommendations. posed by the two agencies.

The two-month postponement Adopts Recommendations Major part ot yesterday session was devoted to reaching an River Fun Schedule BOAT RIDES Captain Bid Green's Boat leaves from Johnson's Beach for Rio Nido. SWIMMING Beaches open to the public at: Mirabel Park, Hilton Resort, Drakes Beach, Rio Nido, River Lodge, Roland's, Johnson's and Dryers at Guerneville, Aldo's Resort and Russian River Inn at Vacation Beach, Guernewood Park, Northwood Lodge, Monte Rio Recreation District Beach, Rhien's Beach. ROLLER SKATING Rio Nido, Roller Bowl at Monte Rio. CANOEING, MOTOR BOATS AND ROW BOATS At most public beaches. BOWLING Rio Nido all day; River Bowl, Guerne-woocf Park.

HORSE BACK RIDING Trail Rides, Korbel Ranch Daily Guides and lessons; Hanan's Stables, Guernewood Park, daily and early morning or moonlight rides. HAY RIDES Nightly, Guernewood Park. PEE WEE GOLF Anderson Village, Rio Nido; Just Over The Bridge, Guerneville; Miniature Golf at Guernewood Park. WINERY TOUR Korbel Champagne Cellars, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, one to three p.m. and group tours by appointment.

DINNER DANCING Rio Nido Hotel, Surrey Inn and Buck's Guerneville; Angelo's Beach Casino, Monte fcio. DANCING Rio Nido, Leo Mallari nightly except Monday; Grove Dance Hall, Guerneville; Folk Dancing, Guernewood Park; Square Dance Groups, Hilton Resort, Hilton; Folk Dancing at' Aldo's Vacation Beach; Folk Dancing Tuesday Evening with Fay and Lou Bowman at Veteran's Hall, Monte Rio. GOLF Northwood Lodge dawn to dark daily. PICNICKING AND CAMPING Armstrong State Redwood Park, Guerneville'; Mirabel Park, Mirabel; Hilton Resort, Roland's Beach, Guerneville; Picnicking North-wood Lodge; Picnic grounds Monte Rio. BAND CONCERTS July and August Armstrong Redwood Park Forest Theatre watch for dates.

to postpone was that of Supervisor E. J. (Nin) Guidotti of Guerneville, who urged the board The board in effect adopted the got little discussion and seemed to spring from several board recommendations of the two agen agreement on salaries to pay employes at various levels of the members at the same time, prompting Supervisor Guidotti to cies except for some three dozen changes the supervisors had rhade county counsel and district attorney's offices. to make the raises effective Aug. 1.

It already was too late to make therrf effective July 1, beginning in four sessions held the past The areument reeled on while three weeks and yesterday. the heads of both departments suggest that it "apparently has been discussed at length before now," He "insisted that the question of the effective date be separat The supervisors also increased of the county's fiscal and budget year. A salary ordinance must looked on. Among other things County Administrator Neal Smith's salary to $15,000 a year the supervisors gave Assistant County Counsel John C. Gaffney ed from the question of the sal- from $13,500, and Road Commissioner-Surveyor-Sanitation Engi be passed at least 30 days before its effective date.

The decision to postpone thus cut the cost by about $50,000, or what would have been the cost a $68-a-month raise instead ofjariea themselves so that he could the $62-a-month pay cut he mightlvote for the pay rates without have gotten under the state andlapproving the postponement. neer Marshall M. Wallace's pay to $12,500 a year from $11,000, STUMPTOWN BEAUTIES Queen To Be Picked Tonight in Guerneville Guerneville Kicks Off Stumptown Daze Large Ocean Area Searched for Boat 14 Soldiers Killed In Truck Accident FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. (UP thought the driver would bring it Fourteen soldiers of the storied out of the skid then I saw the will continue tomorrow and 101st Airborne Division i bridge come up." force to sink it, even by the largest schooner.

By Staff Correspondent POINT ARENA The search Curtis said even then he thought pinned under a truck which plunged 25 feet into a creek Thurs Coast Guard officials say they it was only "a pretty good scare believe Mr. Coats is still alive. was widening this morning for the a 36-foot salmon troller, missing since Tuesday afternoon nothing serious," but the next mo day. Nine others were injured. A spokesman from the Ft.

54 Eldridge Patients Get Diplomas By Staff Correspondent ment he "had a falling sensation, followed by a thud, not a crash. with owner Jack Coats, Mendo Campbell public information office said some of the men apparently cino, aboard. The Nation Salutes Flag "The Flag of the United States By Staff Correspondent GUERNEVILLE The Guerneville Fire Department will lead a noisy procession through town at 7 o'clock tonight and Stump-town Daze will be here, The line of marchwJU lead, to a "service station where" E. J. (Red) Gambetta will preside over Kangaroo Court meting out "justice" to offenders who show up sans beards and other suitable Stumptown raiment.

Costumes will be judged at the Grove Ballroom beginning at 8, the, Stumptown Daze Queen will be crowned at and dancing will round out the The three day celebration Coast Guard boats and planes were drowned arid others crushed "There was a feeling of pressure against us. Everyone was being tossed around. There was no panic, no screaming, no yelling. My left 'leg was under someone are searching the waters between here and San Francisco and all to death when the big truck skid Valley Firemen Conduct Sale By Staff Correspondent BOYES SPRINGS A rummage sale is being held today and tomorrow at the Valley of the Moon Fire Department', 18000 Sonoma The sale is sponsored by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the VMFD. Sale proceeds will be used to purchase equipment for the department to help families hit by.

fire. Mrs. Paul Clarkson is president of the Auxiliary. tLDKIDGE A group of 54 The annual Stumptown Daze Parade will begin at noon tomorrow and pass along a route leading from Guernewood Park to Ef Bonita. Contests for the kids will begin at 2:30 p.

m. tomorrow in the parking lot at the Guernewood Park resort. Parade trophies' and ribbons will be awarded at 3:30 at the parking lot. Dancing in the Grove Ballroom will complete the day. Sunday's program will include log rolling and bucking contests at Johnson's beach (11 a.

p. and a square dance jamboree at the Grove Ballroom (2-5 p. fishing fleets have been alerted to Sonoma State Hospital patients originated in an act of the Con ded off a gravel road through a guard rail into shallow Piney Ford search for the missing craft. and my head was under water. recently were awarded elemen Search conditions today were re Creek.

"I wrenched free and got out tary sdhool diplomas at gradua ported to be excellent. "We don't know yet just how tion exercises here. they died but an investigation al somehow. The nine injured including Curtis, none believed badly hurt, were taken to the base hospital. The school is part of the hos Some fishermen here have expressed the theory that the boat may have been hit by a passing ready is underway," a spokesman tinental Congress in Philadelphia, June 14, 1777 Almanac.

Today, in the Redwood Empire as elsewhere across the state and the nation, countless Americans were flying the United States flag, on the day set aside in commemoration of its official origin. Today was Flag Day, said. puai merapeuuc program, providing academic instruction for schooner in the heavy fog Tuesday harking back to the days when The soldiers were returning to within about nine miles of the base after several days of field Pvt. Ronald J. Curtis, 21, of lumber was king in these parts afternoon.

Coast. Guard officials however, discount this theory be approximately 350 of its 3,300 pa tients. Kalamazoo, who escaped with his face bloodied from cuts. training when the tragedy oc cause, they say, a 36-foot boat could not be struck with sufficient curred. At the graduation, a talk was said survivors held the heads of given by Dr.

Eli M. Bower, of trapped men above water to try to keep them from drowning. the State Department of Educa US Judge to Give Key Ruling on Girard Trial Curtis said only about three of tion. Dr. Thomas L.

Nelson, superin the men got out from under the wreckage. A helicopter had to be used to lift one end of the truck The 1 Believers' Are Arriving With a Dollar tendent of the hospital, present judge who holds up a decision." to Japan for trial has aroused off the bodies of the other men. ed the diplomas, awarded by the The one and one-half ton Army stiff protests from a number of Sonoma County school system truck was returning 25 men of the Only four days remain for less organizations and congressmen here. Gasch predicted the government will win because "ours is the correct position." Girard's American lawyers, who have been working around the 101st from field training when it Welcoming remarks were made by Paul Thormahlen. principal than 1.000 "I Believers" to donate (The Japanese have charged Gi of the school.

Hospital Chaplain skidded on a curve in hill country near the Kentucky-Tennessee border and hit the rocky creek Father E. F. Geary gave the in clock preparing a list of court $1 each to complete the remaining total of $925 to meet the community-wide quota of $13,500 for saving Santa Rosa's One-Tree Church. rard with "death by wounding," the least possible charge for such vocation and benediction. bed.

Curtis said he felt the truck an action. It is punishable by a Santa Rosans believing in the "swerving to the right" on the historic value of the famed land curving downgrade but said, "I sentence of 2 to 15 years. The United States says that while Gi WASHINGTON (UP (U.S. Atty. Oliver Gasch predicted today Federal Judge Joseph C.

McGarraghy will back up the government in the Girard case and preserve America's prestige in the eyes of the world. The celebrated case that has caused a ftiror at home and nbroad heads toward its first big showdown today. McGarraghy has given GI William S. Girard's lawyers until 1 p. m.

PDT to file legal precedents to back their contention Girard should be brought home from Japan and tried by a U.S. court martial for killing a Japanese woman. The government also plans to submit a final list of court decisions supporting' its claim Japan should try the 21-year-old Army mark have until the close of busi Market Holds Open House By Staff Correspondent ness next Tuesday when the city's option expires for the site facing rard was "on duty," his act in firing the shell was unauthorized.) Juilliard Park where it is planned Index The Girard case has roused to move the sanctuary portion of the old church. SONOMA An open house will be held from 9 a. m.

to 9 p. m. I Believe Since the fund to save The Church Built From One Tree needs only $1,000 to complete the work; 1 Believe that 1,000 Believers will now place $1.00 in an en- 1 velope and mail it to "I Believe," P.O. Box 1503, Santa Rosa, Calif. Practice a simple act of faith now! Mail to: I Believe! P.O.

Box 1503 Santa Rosa, Calif. 2 Here is my $1.00, as expression of my faith that D99 others will also mail in that amount before next Tuesday, and save the Church Built From One Tree from destruction. considerable feeling in Congress Chairman Thomas S. Gordon (D- Names of two more patron do nors have been added to the com 111.) of the House Foreign Affairs tomorrow at the Farmer's Market, South Broadway. The munity honor roll of contributors Committee said Thursday i group will delay final action on event celebrates the opening of cases they think back their demand that Girard be tried by U.S.

authorities, also have forecast their own victory. Whichever side loses is expected to appeal promptly to the U.S. Court of Appeals here and the case may reach the Supreme Court soon. However the Supreme Court is slated to quit for the summer Monday. Unless the high court stays in session because of the international importance of the case, the time factor might postpone a final decision until next fall.

In that case the courts presumably would order Girard held in U.S. custody until then. This in turn might delay his Japanese trial, now' expected to start in August. Least Possible Charge Girard is. accused of killing Mrs.

Naka Sakai, a Japanese woman who was picking up empty shells on a firing range in Japan, by shooting an empty cartridge from the market's now 4.000-square- helping to save Santa Rosa's famed landmark, The Church Built From One Tree. the foreign aid bill, if necessary foot redwood and concrete block to investigate the Girard case. specialist from Ottawa, 111., under building. They are the Santa Rosa Mem A Foreign Affairs subcommittee was slated to open an inquiry into orial Park on behalf of Odd Fellow's Lodge No. 53, and the R.

L. and Jack Kronstedt Hotels. Inc. the case Thursday but was unable Proprietors of the Market are Louis Miglioretti, Mr. and Mrs.

Ludwig Alessi, and Mr, and Mrs. Lester Downey. They are BETTER HALF 24 BUNDESEN 4 CHURCH 13, 14 CIASSIFIEO 19 23 COMICS 16 CROSSWORD 24 EDITORIAl 4 GARDEN 14, 13 GREAT SCOTTI 24 HOROSCOPE 24 tAWRENCE 4 MARKETS 8 OBITUARIES 8 RADIO TV 17 SPORTS 10, 11 STOCKS 8 STOKES 4 TIDES 24 VITAl STATISTICS 8 100TH YEAR NO. 203 24 PAGES TWO SECTIONS a U.S. "status of forces agreement with Nippon.

May Rule Today McGarraghy is generally expected to issue his anxiously awaited decision next week. But Gasch to because of the civil rights de More than 300 Santa Rosans are bate in progress. But Gordon said members of Ixxlge No. 53 which he had no Intention of dropping assisted by Tina Bozzone, Kati Gedda and Fritz Davis. the matter.

told the United Press "it wouldn't surprise me" if the judge gives The' Market was started was organized 101 years ago and is one of the oldest fraternal groups in Santa Rosa. "We've decided to go through in 1948. In its expanded new quar with this," he told a reporter. He (Name to -appear on permanent plaque in Church, honoring donors who saved the Church). his decision today.

ters, th6 store will offer fresh added his group had no intention "He been working the same as The Press Democrat was pub-ished in the ground floor offices fruits and vegetable, groceries the rest of us on this case and 1 of the Odd Fellows Temple when of deliberately delaying passage of foreign aid legislation but only wi r's to make a full inquiry into a grenade launcher Bttached to and meats. A coffee shop, gift and wine cellar are also on guess he has come up with the tame legal cases we did. He may Street it was located at Third St. and City his rifle. The U.S.

government de (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) the Girard case. the premises. rule today. He'i not the kind ofjeision to turn the young GI over.