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THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA Fair today. Overcast tomorrow, probably clearing in the afternoon. High today, 60 to 66, low, 37 to 47. Slightly cooler tomorrow. Gentle winds.

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Aims to Cut Allies' I -9- I Lake Luban Trade In Icy Special to PINECREST (Tuolumne WASHINGTON (UPI) High U.S. officials say the United States plans to intensify pressure on its NATO allies to stop selling industrial, and transportation equipment to Communist-dominated Cuba. The West Europeans will be reminded that the Amer monds High School seniors drowned in the icy waters of Strawberry Lake here Saturday, turning into tragedy what had started as a joyful outing in the snow for 135 of the school's outstanding students. a heroic rescue by three boys and two men saved the lives of at least 10 students when the ice broke about 150 x' fl AX "XJs-tS i I 4 -4 II THEY STEPPED OFF THE BUS, STUNNED Faces of McClymonds High School students reveal depth Tribum photo by Run Rood BY GRIEF of sorrow after tragedy Tears Bus Stop more important than Cuba's, that U.S. consumers might rebel against buying prod ucts of countries selling to Premier Fidel Castro.

The United States went into action after Castro shut off fresh water to the base on Thursday. Cuba sells the water, from a river near Guan-tanamo, to the base for $168,000 a year. Castro said he would not turn the smeot back on until the United States frees the crewmen of four Cuban fishing boats seized earlier in U. S. ter ritorial waters off Florida.

The United States moved ahead meantime with plans to make its big Guantanamo naval base entirely self sufficient Most of the 2,500 Cuban nation als working on base, who return to Cuba about $5 million a year in hard currency, will events ally be fired. The United States also is establishing its own water supply to the base. Administration officials gave the impression Friday that in trusion of the Cuban fishing boats into U.S. territorial waters, where Castro knew they would be seized, might be part of a plot to justify cutting off the water supply to the base. LESS CERTAIN But Saturday, these officials were less certain.

They said they had found no strong evidence that the action was part of a broader pattern, but they cautioned that the United States would take no chances. The White House said Friday night that Washington is determined to maintain the security of the base and the Americans on it against "further irresponsible actions of the Cuban government." The administration has been increasingly concerned by action of its allies in exporting items other than food, medicine and clothing to Cuba. The disclosure that new pressure will be brought to bear came after an announcement that a French company, with the financial support of its government, had made a deal to sell 300 heavy trucks and tractors to Cuba for $10 million. The British already have an nounced they were selling 400 buses to Castro. Arrangements for the sale of other British transDortation equipment are said to be under way.

EUROPE MISSIONS In addition, Cuban trade missions are ranging Europe discus sing possible purchases of railroad equipment, chemical prod ucts and material for public works. Administration officials saw the Cuban problem Saturday in two waysOne concerned ihe need to convince their NATO allies that simply abiding by the generally agreed rules against shipping strategic material to Cuba is not enough. This is be cause Castro is actively engaged in exporting Communism to other hemispheric nations which Continued Page Col. ican market is considerably they indicated Saturday, and Judy Garland tUIIWIJ Mill Concussion Compiled from AP and UPI NEW YORK Judy Garland was admitted unconscious to Mount Sinai Hospital Saturday night with facial injuries and a concussion. The hospital said the 41-year-old entertainer had slipped and fallen in her apartment at the Sherry-Netherland.

Hotel. Miss Garland's personal physician, Dr. Kermit Osserman, described the concussion as "mild" and said the singer should be able to leave the hospital "in a couple of days." Indian Band Ends Outing In Eastbay By GENE AYRES Their natural reticence melted by three days of equally warm Bay Area weather and hospitality, the 14 visiting Shoshone and Paiute youngsters from remote Nevada Idaho reservation whooped their way through their final day here. Their balmy and Jbusy day Saturday left their escorts haggard, but the Duck Creek Reservation visitors themselves were still shining-eyed and eager. The whole glorious five day panorama is almost over for them.

At 8 a.m. today, they and their three adult chaperones were scheduled to climb on Greyhound bus for the 12-hour ride to Elko, which is still about 100 miles from their upland home. SWITCH CLOTHES Somewhere alone the way they will change the ceremonial buckskin, beads and feathers worn here for the mackinaws and cold weather clothes they wore when they left there about midnight Tuesday. There were no thoughts of snow and school Saturday as the youngsters excitedly hurled themselves into one event after another. They breakfasted at a San Leandro pancake house, their orders leaning heavily toward the exotic types, those with chocolate and strawberries.

CAMPUS GUESTS Station wagons sped them to the Mills College campus, deserted for the semester break, where Ron Hotek, a ceramist on the college art staff, seated them at potter's wheels for a little informal pottery making. "I wonder," mused 10-year- nld Lindsev Manning, as he Continued Page 7, Col DEAD IN RICHMOND RICHMOND Richmond Po lice Officer Charles Ross was shot to death at 10th and Bissell Avenue early today. He had apparently been slain after a scuffle with two men in an area of old residences near Roosevelt junior High School in downtown Richmond. The officer's clothes were torn. His body lay next to a picket fence at 914 Bissell about 10 feet from his car.

Frag- ments of clothing and a button were in the middle of the street 20 feet from the car. The officer's gun was missing. Nearby residents indicated four shots had been fired. One shot hit the officer in the head. Other shots hit a fence and hit his club which was found nearby.

There was no immediate de scription of the suspects. Officers brought in at least 20 per sons for questioning after the shooting at 12:45 a.m. Goldwater Demands Blockade CHICAGO (AP) Campaigning Sen. Barry Goldwater called Saturday night for a new blockade of Cuba to prevent the Communist island nation from importing weapons and exporting subversion to Latin America. "Cuba must be sealed off," the Arizona senator told more than 3,600 cheering Republicans at a $100-a-plate dinner.

He was applauded each time he called for a tough stand on Cuba. But Goldwater, bidding for the Republican presidential nomination, said he doubts that President Johnson win do it. He called the administration "Those pacifiers in Washing ton." "I think the time is long past due that we have to take a risk here and there," Goldwater said. "Whenever -this country stands firm, Communism backs down." He said Republicans under stand this and can "bring peace to this country." He said the nation's wars "have not been fought under Republican administrations." He added that this nation is "teetering on what could be the total collapse of its overseas prestige and strength." WHITE HOUSE VIEW The administration consistently has taken the position that a full-scale blockade, entailing the halting and searching, of all ships bound for the country blockaded, is an act ot war. ine Soviet Union has pledged to de fend Cuba against attack.

The blockade imposed by President John F. Kennedy in October 1962 was a limited one. "Cut off from outside support, and prevented from exporting its subversion, Cuba would be locked in the prison-of its own tyranny and the Cuban people would know that the destruction of that tyranny had gone back on the agenda of history," uoia- water said. tie Misusieu we umreu should use force to end the latest Cuban crisis which erupted when Prime Minister Fidel Castro cut off the water supply for the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay.

JOHNSON'S ORDERS President Johnson Friday or dered the base made perma nently independent of Cuban water supplies. He ordered also step-up in economic pres sures againsi casiro, largely throush a reduction in the man Cuban payroll employed at Guantanamo. There is no tnreat of a serious water shortage at the base, according to the Navy. But Goldwater saia in nis prepared remarks: "We could have and should have used our forces in Guantanamo to seize the pumping station involved and to restore the supply of water to our men and women there. He said againsi me Castro regime should go wr- ther.

"The economic sanctions we have threatened but never fully applied must be applied," he said. The long discussed blockade of. subversion from Cuba, and the blockade of military material going into Cuba the Tribune County) Three McCly- yards from shore. One girl died trying to help her companions to safety. The victims were identified as Gloria 'Curry, 17, of 1124 10th Carolyn Simril, 17, of 1111 Peralta and Melviri Lee Moore, 16, of 967 16th St.

ICE CRACKS "We had been tobogganing and were walking back across the ice," Horace Coleman, 17, said. "All of a sudden Carolyn said 'it sounds like the ice is A few seconds later it broke. Coleman and two other seniors, student body president Frank Bailey and Glen Berry, both 17, ran to the hole a few yards away and began hauling people from the water. "Everybody was screaming and shouting," Coleman said. "I couldn't tell how many kids were in the water.

HEROINE'S DEATH "Carolyn had been with us, and" she was safe. She ran over and tried to pull somebody out, and fell in herself. "I tried to get her," Coleman sobbed. "I tried to reach her but I couldn't." Coleman said he threw a sleeve of his jacket to young Moore, but that the youth couldn't catch it. Then Coleman fell in himself, and was pulled to safety by one of the other boys.

PAIR GIVES AID Gene White, 32, of 24813 Pear Hayward, and his brother-in-law Randy Boggs, 29, of 484 Meadowlark Livermore, were sledding near the lake when the ice broke. They crept out on the Ice with their toboggan and helped six to safety. Later they and a third man used a boat to break their way to the spot where the three were lost and recovered the bodies with grappling hooks. CHEER LEADER Carolyn, head cheer leader at the school, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Clinton Simril and the eldest of three sisters and three brothers. Gloria was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Cook.

She also leaves a brother and a sister. Melvin, a member of the Mc-Clymonds football team, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moore. The three bodies were recovered by Tuolumne County sheriff's deputies about two hours after they fell in the water.

LAKE SEARCHED All of the other students were assembled and counted while deputies and Highway Patrol officers in boats and two skin divers searched the lake. At first it was feared at least two other youths had drowned. Highway Patrolman Hal Bird fell through the ice during the search, but he was saved by White and Boggs. The trip had been planned for students designated as "nonor Continued Page Col. 6 ment that she would not seek approval for her marriage by asking for a law of approval to be cast in parliament.

The communique meant Irene had renounced her rights of succession to marry the swashbuckling Spanish nobleman with whom she returned from Spain yesterday. "Princess Irene intends to live abroad after her marriage," the prime minister said. The prime minister emerged wearily from a post-midnight palace meeting with Queen Juli- MORGAN screamed, beating her fists on the unyielding sides of one of the heavy vehicles. "Let me see my sor." The students walked silently from the bus, clutching their jackets and scarves and their grief. Their teachers were grim and tight-lipped.

They refused to discuss the tragedy. "There he is," a father called, pushing his way through the throng and embracing his son. The buses were gone in a few minutes. The crowd began to melt into the darkness. A single street light illuminated a circle on the sidewalk, littered with paper debris and cigarette butts.

The children weren't playing anymore. Somewhere down the street a baby started to cry. Oakland MELVIN LEE MOORE 'I GLORIA CURRY CAROLYN SIMRIL Jack Benny to Undergo Surgery SANTA MONICA UP) Come dian Jack Benny, who celebrates his 70th birthday this week, is scheduled to undergo throat surgery Sunday for removal of what his doctor called a be- nign polyp." The operation will keep Benny in St. John's Hospital for about three days. Benny entered the hospital Saturday but left to attend a dinner for the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.

He returned to the hospital later. a 'StMimmwm MiwaW Myth Punctured Grief, Joy, Mingle at By JEFF The parents arrived first. They assembled in small groups in front of McClymonds High School at 26th and Myrtle Streets, talking in low tones. They worried. Some cried a little.

They knew that three students from the predominately Negro school had drowned during a snow trip in the Sierra, but they didn't know who they were. Soon were 100 people adults and teen-agers alike gathered at the corner. Then there were 200, then 500. By the time the three buses loaded with students arrived from Pinecrest at 7 p.m., the crowd had swelled to 1,000. "You watch," one mother said.

"If my boy is all right I'm going to take my shoe off and whale him for not calling me and telling me he was safe. When her son stepped off a bus she collapsed in his arms and sobbed. The students who had hot been on the trip talked quietly among themselves. They were waiting for friends. Smaller children, untouched by the uncertainty and horror of the event, shouted and laughed and roller skated and ran between the legs of the adults.

The Rev. Herbert Guice, pas tor of Bethel Baptist Church, arrived from the home of one of the drowning victims, where he had been called to comfort the parents. He walked through the crowd, reassuring some and chatting amiably with others. A shout went up when the buses' pulled up on Myrtle Street. The crowd surged forward.

"My one woman Knifer Stabs Man. to Death On Street Roscoe Belcher, 43, of 957 55th was stabbed to death Sat urday night by an unknown as sailant. Inspector Orval Lockhart said Belcher staggered up to Jacob's Auto Repair, 770 West. Grand at 6:30 and told workers, "A man stopped me and asked for a match. He stabbed me and ran." Belcher then collapsed and died.

The victim didn't say where the attack occurred or if he had been robbed. Train Blown Anari Rv Explosion MIAMI, Fla. WV-A high-powered explosion ripped apart a moving train of a struck railroad in North Miami today, blowing box cars into a nearby canal, across U.S. Highway 1 and scattering debris more than a block away. The blast rocked a Florida East Coast railway freight Just before 2 a.m., about the time the train crossed a four-foot high trestle spanning a small creek.

First reports from the Dade County sheriff's department said there were no injuries. Residents as far away as 20 miles said they heard the explosion. Flames as high as a three-story building were visible from metropolitan Miami 15 miles to the south. 'HinhW SAIZMAN norations considenn? the establishment of plants in Oak land. "This survey shows that Oak land is in a favorable position where it really counts in the amount of total taxes a company will pay on a given instal lation, he said.

Because it was compiled by an impartial or ganization so far as Oakland is concerned, we are using it to advantage." The study shows that none of the other 10 California cities has substantially lower taxes than Oakland. But three San Diego, Glen- dale and Pasadena are about 20 per cent higher. San Francisco has slightly higher taxes than Oakland, and Berkeley taxpayers are slightly better off than their Oakland neighbors. By far the highest rates in. the country were recorded by three Minnesota cities, Duluth, Minneapolis and St.

paul. All have levies about, four times 'higher than Oakland's. At the other extreme, a few ritip such as Birmingham. and Albuquerque, N.M.. have rates about half as high as Oakland's.

Among the 11 cities with population ranging between 300,000 and 400,000, Oakland fits precisely in the middle. Five are higher and five are lower. See Table on Page 2. Irene Snubs Dutch Throne for Love By ED Property taxes in Oakland are i generally lower than in major California cities and no higher than in the majority of cities across the nation. And the often-heard claim that Oakland has high taxes is "just myth, according to William M.

Harrison, executive director of the city's Industrial Development Commission. These conclusions were drawn from an impartial, nationwide survey conducted by the Tulsa, Chamber of Commerce. The study shows that Oakland levies for city, school, and county taxes are generally lower than other major California cities and about the same as for comparative communities across the country. The Tulsa chamber based its survey on an adjustment of rates to full-value assessments. Oakland's total, $10.05 on a 21.7 per cent evaluation, becomes $2.18 for each $100 of true value.

Of 10 other cities checked in California, sue are higher and four are. lower. The survey includes a total of 114 cities with population ranging between 100,000 and 1 mil lion. Sixty cities have higher rates than Oakland, while 53 are lower. Copies of the Tulsa study have been made by the Oakland Industrial Development Commis sion.

Harrison is using the information in meetings with cor Sunday Tribune Index EL DORADO FAMILY LIFE Art Books Music Astrology Auto Row Calendar Crossword Bridge Gardens Jazz Records Homes Knave Night Clubs Photo Stamps Theaters Travel WORLD OF WOMEN TELEVISION Clubs Martha Lee Best Bets Humphrey Landers Society- Radio TV Mailbox Guide to News Sections Churches 29 Real Estate Sec Classified Sec Ricca .7. 28 Editorials 35 Sports 37-43 Financial Vitals 33 Martinez 34 Weather ....33 Compiled from AP and UPI THE HAGUE Princess Irene of -the Netherlands announced today she has renounced her rights to the Dutch throne in order to marry the man she lnuea Prinre Carlos de Bour- bon parma of Spain- 24-year-old, green-eyed nrincess had been second ta -g, o-cunied by her mother, Queen Juliana. Early this morning Prime Minister Victor Marijnen issued an Official 'communique following a six-h6ur meeting with Juliana at the royal palace. It said: "The princess told the govern- Con tinned Page Col. 1 Otntinned Pace CoL Jfim -Uf -i.