The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 1

BUSINESS AREAS UNITE ON 19TH AVE. Racing Cars Kill Officer at Track; Weekend Toll 4 Four persons, died in -fie accidents -in San Mateo county over the week end, including 46-year-old Special Officer Stephen Clark of San Mateo, who was killed before i 1,074 horrified spectators yesterday at Bay Meadows race track as he ran into the path of a racing stock car ind was run over by three other speeding autos. Clark was attempting to give aid at a wreck at the south turn when he was struck and catapulted into the air by the racing cars. A fifth fatality occurred in Ar- 'cata yesterday when William H. Snell of San Carlos was killed at sports car races at Arcata airport.

His car turned over times on a curve. The week-end carnage on the county highways brought the death toll this year up to its all- time high of 55 traffic fatalities. Total for the entire year of was only 50. Last year at this date there were 29 traffic Latest victim of the mounting traffic death toll was claimed this morning as 50-year-old Ellis Harrison of San Francisco was hit by one car and run rover by another on Bayshore freeway near Tunnel just north of South San Francisco. Vacationers' Killed Saturday night a vacationing New Mexico couple.

Alphonse Landavazo, 42, of Albuquerque and his wife Nela, 35 were killed in a four car crash on Bayshore freeway at Brittain avenue, San Carlos. They were en route from San Diego to Treasure Island where they were taking their 19ryear-old son Moses. Clark's death'' yesterday came, assistance in keeping the crowd off STEPHEN CLARK Officer Killed Showdown Suez Seen Near LONDON The 22-nation down stage today with Egypt and the West still miles -apart. But Sue? conference reached a show- some delegates said the danger of a shooting war is 'fading. India's V.

K. Krishna drew up a climactic bid with the hope of bringing the West and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser together. This afternoon's session was de- I I A LEADING A DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER OF SAN MATEO COUNTY UNITED AND ASSOCIATED PRESS. DIRECT WIRES Vol. 56-No.

198 Two Sections-28 Pag.i SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1956 WEATHER Fair tonight ind Tuesday. Warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 54 degrees; high Tuesday 82. Northwest winds, 7 to 15 miles per hour. 5c PER PER MONTH GOP CONCLAVE HERE STARTS OFF WITH ROAR of State Soviet Foreign Dulles met with fill an international authority the dangerous track as streams of people began running to the spot erate the canal.

him for to op- where a crash on the south turn had occurred. No one was injured in the wreck, it was later learned. As he ran, Clark out to a fellow officer, "You take the jjutside fence and keep those people away off the track, and I'll take the inside." -These, were his-' last words. Driver of the car which struck the running officer, Scott Hunter Cain, 36, Culver City, told Ser(Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Survey Shows Nixon Winner SAN FRANCISCO (UP)-Harold Stassen found few delegates to the Republican' National Convention today ready to back Ins drive to knock Vice President Richard Nbcon off the GOP ticket. A United Press survey showed that Nixon had almost solid delegate backing.

Despite the Nixon bandwagon, Stassen worked into the early morning hours, trying to convince delegates to withhold any definite commitment to a vice presidential candidate untU President Ei- icnhower comes to town Tuesday sight. Stassen hoped the chief execu- -would circulate a list of a considerable number" of top Republicans acceptable to him as a -running mate. Stassen also hoped that such a list would include the -man he is backing for the nomi- Massachusetts Gov. Chns- -tian A Herter. However, a high ranking White House staff member said this morning there was no plan whatever for Mr.

Eisenhower to circulate a list of acceptable vice presidential nominees. This Egypt has already rejected. There were indications the document which would emerge from the conference would contain a variety of viewpoints but with-a majority of the delegates supporting the Dulles plan: Whatever the immediate outcome of the conference, one high Western official. said he is convinced military action in the Mediterranean is now remote. He said Prime" Minister Anthony Eden is now thinking in terms of moral rather than military persuasion.

Menon, it was reported, has been unable to sell his compromise plan completely to either side. Race Crash Kills S-GMah William H. Snell, San Francisco sports, car enthusiast and owner of a San Carlos 'auto parts firm, was fatally injured yesterday when his sports car crashed on a turn during the running of the Redwood Empire sports car races al the Arcata airport. Snell's car, a Triumph TR-3, flipped over three times during the fifth race. He was first aid at the scene by MOST DELICIOUS, SAHIB Lonai'f Indian Curry truly In ef word.

With all tug- you try thii dtlight- soon. to Lanal Saturday, 6:30 p.m. KFRC of the California National guard and taken to Trinity hospital in Arcata, where he died an hour later, of a fractured skull and severe head lacerations. Snell, 40, had operated Snell's Auto Service, 1580 El Camino Real, in San Carlos, since 1951. He resided in San Francisco at 175 Greystone terrace.

In the race, Snell was driving a car owned by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lewis of Redwood City. According to witnesses, Snell and two other drivers, Emil Pardee of Palo Alto, and Jere Curry of Sacramento, both driving Porsche Spyders, tried to negotiate the turn at 80 miles an hour. One of the cars bumped the rear of SnelF's car and the latter vehicle careened into a hay bale alongside the track.

He was pinned in the wreckage. Neither Pardee nor Curry were injured, and Pardee was able to finish the race. The curve on which the fatal accident occurred was the scene of a similar accident during the time trials Saturday. Jack Graham of San Jose injury when his Aston Martin flipped over and was able to compete in Two City Areas Unite on Plans For 19th Ave. Will Join Forces to Get State to Add Fourth Loop An unprecedented meeting of downtown merchants, city developers, and Hillsdale business leaders today resulted in an amicable and unanimous agreement to join forces in a united front lending mutual aid, and co-operation promoting Nineteenth avenue as a freeway, vital to the economic progress of the city and county as a whole, and to the people' of the Peninsula.

The session was called by a i 'Downtown at the Benjamin Franklin and was hailed as tory conference well to lay. the foundation for an era broader-understanding among all city business interests. As a result the group agreed to undertake a joint effort to convince the state divisior. of highways it should add a fourth loop to the dis- puted'cloverleaf design for Nineteenth avenue and El Camino Real, insuring channelling to traffic northward. Chamber Spokesman First action will be to.

speak in unison, using the of Commerce as a representative of all business and professional interests when the issue is heard by the state on September 6. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce board of directors will-be asked to adopt a resolution formally asking the state to restudy its cloverleaf plan. The resolution will be submitted to the board at its meeting this Friday. Foregoing factional differences, the group of some 20 top business leaders of the community heard given developer David D. Bohannon unit stress that the welfarejof downtown San Mateo is essential to the progress of his Hillsdale shopping district.

He and developer L. C. Smith joined to sound a warning that loss of. Nineteenth avenue by misdirected criticism on detailing of th. highway would be suicidal for all merchants of the community.

They noted channelling of traffic from the coast and valley through the heart of the Peninsula would Sunday's races. Snell, considered one of the best and most experienced drivers in the sports car circuit, is survived by his widow, Marjorie. Index Page Classified 25, 26, 27 Comics 21 Editorial ........22 Obituaries 24 Peninsula News -15, 16 Radio, Television-----21 Society 12, 13 Sports 18, 20 promote the kind of buying power nowjlacking. Over Developed San Mateo at this point is overbuilt with commercial centers and needs a strong shopping public which will settle in this area with the opening up of hillside development spurred by construction of a freeway, they said. Downtown merchants Geoffrey Bromfield, Jud Green, and John Markuson, Wisnom a ny spokesman, appealed directly to the representatives of the southern city interests to lend a hand in solving their problem on the fourth loop, and they received it.

Both Bohannon and Smith declared they would give "100 per cent support to the downtown merchants in solving-that problem." However, all also joined to i.ote that if omission oi the loop threatens development of the project, then it should, be con- cidered from the standpoint. of construction at a later date, and the state should asked to plan for its ultimate inclusion now. In the event its construction ii a financial-impossibility now, ant 1 cannot be justified by the division to Sacramento headquarters, then at least engineering must be done now, and property owners on the corner involved be notified to bar future developments increasing the cost of ultimate acquisition. Bohannon Pltdfes Aid: The body down in plain (Tirm to I. Gtfnu 4), Nixon Seen as Shoo-in for VP Position Knight Starts Convention Jumping; Victory Feeling By RAYMOND LAHR (UP Staff Correspondent) Republicans i off.

their "Ike and Dick" re-election campaign today with a mightly shout of happiness. 'Republican national chairman Leonard T. Hall started the opening session of the streamlined four-day convention with a question: "Is eyerybody.happy?" The delegates responded great; roar of assent. If anybody in the mammoth Cow Palace, scene of the Republicans' 1956 meeting, was feeling sorrow, it was; Harold E. Stassen, seated in'' "honored guests" section.

His campaign, to JNixon off the ticket bad.fiz- zled and the youthful vice- president was certain to be I overwhelmingly nominated a second 'campaign as President Eisenhower's running mate. opening session was devoted to; welcoming speeches and music with television carrying the show to screens across the land. The day's biggest burst of oratory will come in the early 'evening session when Washington Gov. Arthur B. Langlie delivers the: keynote address.

This is I the speech each four years which is suppossed to sharpen the party's lust for Democratic blood in the forthcoming campaign. Knight Starts It But Gov. Goodwin J. Knight California got the delegates roaring in advance with a welcom-' ing address which predicted that an "inspired, determined, and unified" GOP will win "overwhelming" victory in November. Mr.oEisenhower is coming here Late Race Results SARATOGA ALA-FLASH 7.50 3.90 3.40 MERRY LIFE 3-90 3.20 BLUE LYRIC 8 SECOyD--- dh-HETCIA U.M 10.30 .5.90 dh-ROYAL 4.90 5.00 4.00 MAINTENON db--Dead htif to win.

WASHINGTON FIRST-EASY 11.80 3.00 8.40 MADE P. 20.20 11JO AURORA BELLE 18.60 This was the setting around the speaker's rostrum as GOP National Chairman Leonard Hall called Republican convention to order today. Standing: before rostrum is color guard which paraded to front of Wirephoto). Minnesota Group Applauds Nixon SAN FRANCISCO (UP)- Vice President Richard M. Nixon won a rousing ovation today from Harold E.

Stassen's home state Minnesota delegation as he swung into a day of whirlwind campaign-type visits to state of Stassen's staunchest oldtime Edward J. Thye (R-Minn.) and Dan Gainer, longtime Minnesota GOP leader, Nixon as he -attended a Minnesota delegation- breakfast fit Ike Due Here Tomorrow By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON HI--A change in his -plans i a tes. tional Convention. He.

said Eisenhower wants more time visit with many of his friends who are senhdwer in San Francisco in time to take a personal hand, if- he wants, in the designation of his vice presidential running mate. But there was no new indication he plans to do to. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said yesterday Eisenhower will tomorrow --24 houri earlier than had planntd--(or tht lUpoblicam Na- A key administration 'official who asked not to be named said the change in plans was "in no way related" to the second-spot The nomination is expected, go to Vice President Nixon despite Harold E. Stassen's effort! to ott ticket.

One Feared Trapped In Marysville Fire MARYSVTLLE Fire destroyed two 'stores and spread into the Hotel today, with one person believed trapped in the hotel. The flames were still out of control at noon. -The Payless Drug Store and National Dollar Store in the old landmark section of city, a 2nd and streets, were destroyed Other businesses in the block were evacuated. lOU benefit from BO years of experience 417 Street San Mateo 01.