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$325,000 PARKING FOR DOWNTOWN FAVORED DAMAGE FROM A TORNADO. This was the scene at what once was a service station after a tornado dipped to the ground at Silver City, a tiny northeastern Oklahoma community. The twister wrecked numerous bouses, hurled Tornadoes Kill Six, Injure 67 equipment into the air and caused injury to 3 persons. It splintered this service station, overturned a truck and butane tank and lifted away a 2000 gallon storage tank. (APW) HILLSBORO, Tex.

(UPD-- At least eight tornadoes hit sleeping communities and homes over a front hundreds of miles long in Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday night. They killed at least six persons and injured 67 others, four of them critically. A tornado that hit two communities between Hillsboro and Wa- Sign Causes BigExcitement A i suddenly appeared early today at the corner of Borel avenue and El Camino Real on the famed Borel estate announcing imminent advent of a super supermarket. Businessmen in the area were galvanized into action. Building Official Mervyn A.

Bader was galvanized into action--and Attorney Aylett Cotton who represents and participates in the ownership of the estate was galvanized. Calls tegan coming in from all sides. He never heard of the development, or the sign. He hastily called Mrs. Cotton who, with a companion and armed with an ax, proceeded to the estate to chop down the sign before the eyes of amazed onlookers.

One of them, Caesar Guarisco of Caesar's furniture, across the highway, came over to lend a hand. The sign was examined carefully--but no trace of the painter or its origin could be determined. Deduction? April Fool! C. A. BUCK hvltcs you to WIN TRIP rOR VIA PAH AMERICAN Nothing fo Just fiiiib tats statement MAYFLOWER MOVING I STORAGE "If 1 moving or storing my possessions, I would select a Mayflower Warehouse because Int enfry UmM C.

A. BUCK Moving Storage Dl 4-1701 co, in central Texas, was worse than the other seven combined. It accounted for the six dead and 38 of (Tie That tornado blew an automobile from the road, killing Mrs. C.B. Brurier, 27, wife of'a James Connelly Air Force Base flight surgeon.

It injured her husband and two children. "Pin Cushion" It drove so many splintsrs into the body of A. Lee Harris, 71, Bynum. that doctors at Hillsboro said he looks like a "pin cushion." The twister destroyed or damaged an estimated 75 homes and other buildings between Hillsboro and Waco. A refuge for the homeless was set up in the First Baptist Church in Hillsboro.

The other tornadoes, and the damage and casualties they inflicted included: Walnut Bend and Calisburg, persons injured, including two seriously. Farm buildings and a natural gas plant destroyed. Walnut Bend and Calis- burg are about 120 miles north of Hillsboro. Henderson, injured. A garage and a home destroyed and trees plucked up by their roots.

Air Base Safe Perrin Air Force Base, tornado touched ground, but no injuries or damage reported. Perrin AFB is north of Dallas, near the Oklahoma line. Silver City, injured, including one seriously. Terlton, but no casualties reported. Morrison, but no casualties reported.

Rock Creek Lodge Resort--Four injured but none seriously. Rock Creek Lodge is on Lake Texoma, along the Texas-Oklahoma border. '6 Americans Escape In Haiti Air Crash PORT AU I Haiti (UPI)---Twenty-three persons, including six Americans, escaped serious injury Tuesday when a government operated Haitian Airliner crashed on take off at the local airport. THE TIMES RECOMMENDS San Mateo City Election April 7 Councilman (Full Term) Hugh A. Wayne Clyde S.

West, Jr Councilman (Short Term) Robert C. Garvey City Clerk Assessor William J. O'Farrell City Treasurer Tax Collector Edward M. Pollock Bond Proposals Police Department Building YES Additions to Central Fire Station and Branch Station at 27th and Edison YES D. A.

to Fight Land Crab in High Court REDWOOD CITY District Attorney expressed surprise today that Palo Alto has taken its proposed land grab of San Mateo territory to the state supreme court. He pledged to continue to fight the move, and predicted that Palo Alto's ambitions wiE meet the same fate in the supreme court that was encountered in the district court of appeal. "I didn't think an appeal would be taken," Sorenson said, "because the district court of appeal decision was so clear and definite. "However, I am confident the county's position will be upheld before the supreme court." The county's position is that there is no authority in law for a city to annex territory across a county boundary. Palo Alto is seeking to annex 816 acres of city- owned property in southeastern San Mateo county.

City facilities on the land include the municipal airport, golf course, sewage treatment plant and yacht harbor. Palo Alto told the supreme court that many cities in California are in a similar position because their growth cannot be limited by artificially drawn county boundaries. Los Angeles, Berkeley, Sacramento and Riverside were cited as examples. Sorenson said some cities have expanded into counties through a realingnment of county boundaries. Attempts by Palo Alto to accomplish this have failed in the past.

There is no instance in California, Sorenson said, where a city has annexed across a county boundary, however. The district attorney explained that the county will be given the opportunity to respond to Palo Alto's brief before the supreme court. If the court decides, on the basis of the briefs, that a hearing is warranted, Sorenson is pledged to appear before the court to fight the proposal. Multi-Story Project Wins New Support Three of the largest landholders within the proposed Second avenue parking district favor a $325,000, ISO- stall, multi story parking facility on the old College of San Mateo gymnasium site on Second. The landowners--the Wisnom company, City of Paris and Mills hospital control "well over" half of the assessed valuation of the district, City Manager Arthur Sullivan reported to the city council last night.

I Sullivan said that he met with John Markuson of the Wisnom company; Ross A. Applegate, City of Paris manager, and Robert Burness, Mills hospital administrator, who said they now favor the most expensive and largest of three proposals for the parking facility. Major Switch The announcement signaled a major switch in the feelings of the three organizations, which in July had endorsed the smallest and least expensive of three proposals, a 60-stall, single level facility to cost an estimated $165,000. The middle-price alternative would be for an 80-stall lot cost $220,000. Burness said today that the fact that the district would get "more for its money" with the larger facility played a big part in influencing the decision.

The" per stall cost would run about $2000 for the 160-stall lot, compared to $2750 for the smaller facility. hospital administrator said that that a meeting of all landowners within the proposed district has been scheduled for next week to sound out opinion. Seek Approval Sullivan said that while there is no set system on the number of landowners who could veto the plan, the city council probably would approve the parking facility if a majority affected approved it. However, the a landowners, Sullivan Said, want to get as big a majority behind them as possible. The 160-stall proposal calls for the paving of the entire property, which has a 200-foot frontage on Second avenue and an area of 32,000 square feet, the construction of a culvert over the creek bed at the rear of the land and (Please See Page 2, Column 1) Grace Surgery Due This Week LAUSANNE, Switzerland (UPI) --Dr.

James A. Lehman told United Press International today he will operate on Princess Grace of Monaco "sometime this week." He refused to say, however, whether the former Hollywood movie star was suffering more than a recurrent appendicitis. The Philadelphia surgeon, who is the Kelly family physician, confirmed-earlier reports that he had been corresponding with Lausanne surgeon Dr. Jean- David Buffat about the princess' condition for some months. Told that medical circles here believed that it is unusual to allow a recurrent appendicitis to go so long without an operation, Lehman said: "That's a technical point." Nevada Feels Strong Quake BERKELEY, Calif.

(UPI) A "very strong" earthquake apparently centered in Nevacia was recorded on the University of California seismograph today. Seismologist Jack Cameron said the shock was powerful enough to cause damage if centered in a populated area. He said the quake had a magnitude of 6Vi on the Richter scale of infinity. It occurred at 10:19:11 a.m. p.s.t.

and lasted 11 minutes on the seismograph. Its location was given as 190 miles from Berkeley. Cameron said he had received reports that the shock caused timbers to fall in a railroad tunnel near an unidentified river. The quake was felt in Reno, and at Sacramento and Marysville, Calif. It was slightly felt in San Francisco.

It was the second strong Nevada quake in a week. A temblor measuring 6Vi to 6te was registered March 23, centered in Dixie Valley, east of Reno. I A TO THE INTERESf A HOME OWNED A I A OF SAN MATEO NEWSPAPER Vol. 59-No. 78 5 Sections SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1959 lOc PER COPY Russ Approval Seen Of S.F.

Summit Meet Brewer Island Annex Plans To Be Started Leslie Salt company will a official negotiations with the city of San Mateo for annexation of its vast Brewer Island and bay tidelands properties after the municipal elections week, City Manager Arthur Sullivan told the council in study session last night. It calmed -council fears of an invasion by Redwood City, which last week announced the intention to annex Leslie land right up to Brewer Island. Sullivan informed the council that three semiofficial meetings have already been held with Leslie Salt company representatives, who told him that they want to annex to San Mateo. Leslie controls about 2200 acres on Brewer island and other bay tidelands along the eastern boundary of the city. Avoid Politics Leslie, however, does not want the annexation to become a "political football," Sullivan reported, and so decided to wait until after city council elections to begin formal negotiations.

In his report, Sullivan outlined the motives behind Leslie's sudden urge to annex their vast bayside holdings. "They told me they don't want to take a chance leaving their land open to annexation by special districts," Sullivan said, "so they are annexing to specific conservative cities around the bay." He said that Nestor Barrett, a planning consultant retained by Leslie to handle the annexation negotiations, says the salt firm feels it will be "better off financially" if it annexes to cities and then lets them act as "watchdogs" on taxation matters. "They feared they would taxed to death by a lot of smal! districts," Sullivan reported. Ideal Concurs Ideal Cement company, which also has vast underwater holdings in the bay, is going along with the Leslie Salt company annexation decisions, Sullivan told the council. Barrett told Sullivan that the salt company wanted to negotiate with San Mateo, Redwood City -nd Menlo Park simultaneously and announce the annexations at the same time.

But Leslie felt th'j it could not wait any longer in the south county, and sped negotiations to completion there. Sullivan quoted Barrett. Belmont and San Carlos reaction to the annexation plans are told on page 13 in today's Times. PENINSULA FORECAST Fair tonight and tomorrow. Low temperature tonight, 50 degrees; high tomorrow, 75.

Gentle variable winds. INSIDE TODAY'S TIMES Births, Deaths 20 Business, Finance 8 Classified 21, 22, 23 Comics 17 Editorials 16 Foster, TV-Radio ....15, 18 Junior Editors 16 Peninsula News 13, 14 Kane's Analysis of Phils 9 The Babe and I 10 Sports 9, 10, 11 Theaters 15 Women's Pages 6, 7 Invitations Go Out From Brown And Christopher SAN FRANCISCO (AP)--Khrushchev wouldn't object to a Summit meeting in San Francisco, in the opinion of Vladimir Paramanov, chief of the Soviet news agency Tass in Washington. Commenting on the proposal by Britain's Prime Minister Macmillrn that the Summit talks site be San Francisco, Parmanov told a San Francisco newspaperman over the phone: "If there is an official proposal that San Francisco be designated as the place for a Summit conference, I am sure that Khrushchev wouldn't object to it." West Seeks Package Deal On Germany WASHINGTON (AP) Western foreign ministers were reported today to be framing a package deal to propose to the Soviet Union for settlement of the Berlin crisis and the larger issues of German reunification. The foreign policy makers of Britain, France and West Germany gathered at the State Department with Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter.

Under Pressure They were under pressure to make some basic German policy decisins by night, since they are scheduled to report to a meeting of the foreign ministers of NATO Thursday on their plans. The talks, begun Tuesday, were resumed against a background of increasing tensions over Soviet control of traffic in Allied air corridors between West Germany and West Berlin. The Soviet Embassy in East Berlin declared "complications" would result if the United States persisted in flying transport aircraft into Berlin at altitudes above 10,000 feet. The U. S.

Air Force in Germany said transports, which operate most efficiently between 20,000 and 30,000 feet, will be used on the Berlin flights as necessary in spite of Soviet warnings. Buzz Transport Three Soviet jet fighters buzzed a transport which first went to Berlin last week at 25,000 feet. The Soviets followed that incident with their demand for U. S. acceptance of the ceiling.

The State Department rejected this demand. U. S. officials said that the principle involved was unhindered Western use of air, sea and land routes into Berlin. The Soviets have challenged the right of the Western powers even to continue then- Berlin occupation roles and have threatened to turn over control of the access routes across East German territory to the German Communist regime.

Fair and Warmer Weather Forecast- SAN FRANCISCO (IP) Fair and warmer is the weather outlook for most of California through the. weekend. The five-day forecast through next Monday said the central third could expect no rain; that there might be a little in the extreme north. Meanwhile on the home front, the proposal which Newsweek magazine said Macmillan had made during his visit in Washington, was being pushed by Gov. Brown and Mayor Christopher.

Sources in Washington confirmed that Macmillan had made the suggestion and that he had noted that San Francisco is the birthplace of the United Nations. Other sources admitted that Macmillan could have made the suggestion, although they did not hear it made. Wire to Ike Gov. Brown telegraphed President Eisenhower a formal invitation, noting "the beautiful city of San Francisco is already a symbol of peaceful negotiation throughout the world." Mayor Christopher telegraphed the President, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Vice President Nixon, a i a and Khrushchev. He suggested for the meeting either the Palace of the Legion of Honor or the Veterans Memorial building, where the UN charter signed.

"We have the proper environment," Christopher telegraphed, "and will make available every required facility to make this meeting a success within the world's fullest hope." There was unofficial word from Washington that Soviet Embassy officials looked with favor on the idea. French Embassy aides would say only there were "not adverse to San Francisco." Washington sources were known to be considering the security problem a responsibility that would fall upon the U.S. Secret Service should be meeting be held anywhere in the United States. Recall Mikoyan Visit It was recalled there were some disturbing incidents when the So- vit first deputy premier, Anastas Mikoyan, recently toured the United States. Eggs were thrown by Hungarian sympathizers at San Francisco's International Airport.

Newsweek said a i a (Please See Page 2, Column 1) Free Want Ads On Monday, May 25, the SAN MATED TIMES will celebrate its 70th anniversary. In honor the occasion, the TIMES will run every 70th want ad during April, ordered by a private individual, FREE of charge. There are no strings attached--it is just the TIMES' way ol saying thank yon to its many customers supporting the newspaper and helping it to grtw. So hurry in with your want ads you may be the lucky "seventieth." Or Call Dlamcnd 3-1831 tr EM 9-1791. Alcorn Quits As National GOPChairman A I Meade Alcorn resigned today as chairman of the Republican National committee, effective when the committee picks a successor next week.

Alcorn announced at a news conference that he had delivered a letter to President Eisenhower earlier in the day saying he is reluctantly giving up the chairmanship for personal reasons. He said he is returning to his law firm in Hartford, As for a successor, Alcorn said he has discussed a very large number of names with the President and many members of the committee. He declined, however, to evaluate the chances of any prospects. He conferred with Eisenhower at the White House in the morning but did not talk with newsmen at that time. His intentions had been reported earlier, however, and it was understood he had informed Eisenhower of his plans previously.

Sen. Thruston B. Morton (Ky) appeared to be a front runner for the job. Alcorn said he had heard many others mentioned, including State Chairman Ray C. Bliss of Ohio, Fred C.

Scribner, undersecretary of the treasury; David Kindell. an aide to Eisenhower; Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, and Charles H. Percy, young Chicago businessman who heads a 43-member committee recently named to draw up a long-range program of objectives for the party.

The Eisenhower-Alcorn session session was not announced in advance. SAHNATEO-BURLIHGAMrS OLDEST INSURED SAVINGS niuti tttt tur SAN MATEO MUTUAL SAVINGS 417 Stotk SM MTEt inn nriiiiinii mil. rum.