The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 3

Pastor Dies at Sunday School Iteilwnort City Huron) REDWOOD CITY, Jan. William E. Gray, 79, retired Baptist minister, slumped over dead from a heart attack" Sunday morn- Ing near the close of the Sunday school session of Assembly of God Full Gospel church, 473 Roosevelt avenue, Redwood City. The retired minister died in the arms of his wife, seated next to him, his head dropping on her shoulder. She prevented his fall to the floor.

Few of the children realized what had happened. Mrs. Stanley Roudall, Sunday school superintendent, offered a brief prayer and then summoned adults to carry Rev. Gray to an ante room of the Sunday school. Rev.

Gray, residing at 2942 Cedar avenue, Redwood City, had! been a resident of the community for the past 15 years. His last pastorate was at Covelo, Mendocino county. During his residence in Redwood City since his retirement he had! assisted Rev. E. R.

Gomes, pastor! of Assembly of God church, in; several services and had been! active in the church, not far distanti from his home. Rev. Gray evidently had a premonition that his end was near for he told both Mrs. Gray and Rev. Gomes that should he die his final rites should be in a church.

His request will be carried out. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon in the Assembly of God church at 2 o'clock, with Rev. E. R. Gomes officiating.

Two recent requests, also indicating a premonition of the end being near, were that two songs, "Nearer to the Heart of God," and "0 Love of God" be rendered. It was the second one, "0 Love of God," which Rev. Giay heard during a radio concert that was his favorite. He asked his wife to have that one played should he pass on. Funeral arrangements are being made by Franklin, Crowe and Lauritzen for the requested church service.

Interment will be at Alta Mesa cemetery. Rev. Gray is survived by his Mrs. Elsie Bell Gray; a daughter, Erma Gray, of San Francisco; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Forsythe, of San Francisco; a son, Richard Gray, of Los Angeles, and a sister, Mrs.

George Woods, of Los Angeles. Taxi Strike Enters 3rd Day (Continued from Page 1) since Friday midnight, when union contracts were terminated with five companies--Yellow, De Soto, Veterans, Eagle and Plymouth. Some cabs are operating. Un- struck are the Luxor and Red and White Cab companies. In addition, there are several score independently operated jitneys.

Priorities were given by Luxor and Red and White to emergency calls to hospitals and doctors. Seek $10 Wages are the main dispute. The union wants a $10 minimum daily guarantee, or 50 per cent of the day's receipts, whichever is greater. Drivers have received $9 per day. The companies have offered have refused to increase the present percentage alternative of 49 per cent.

Other questions involved are rights of firms to discharge drivers, length of contract, penalties for breaking company rules and an employer demand that veterans' cabs be considered owner-operated. Bedell Smith Asks to Give Up Russian Post WASHINGTON, Jan. Bedell Smith asked President Truman today to relieve him of his post of ambassador to Russia. No decision apparently has been reached by Mr. Truman.

Smith said previously he wanted to be relieved. However, during the presidential campaign Mr. Truman asked the wartime chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to remain on the job until after the election.

'-Fairy Barge," float catered Ja Tournament of Roses pageant by city of Long Beach, won sweepstakes prize. Winning float portrays a fairy print-Cos her tin-one, borne along on a barge manned by six sprites. The peacock's swaying tail is made of many-hued orchids. Boy Burglar NabbedinHotel (Continued from Page 1) 700 block on Willetts and one from a house near the Jefferson High school swimming pool. Hit Daly City Checking with Daly City police, local officers learned the articles corresponded with known loot, and that burglarier of two other homes were being investigated.

The boy's method, Daly City police said, was to ring a doorbell and if no one answered to force open a window for entry. In his cell here, the youth said he had been in trouble in Gilroy and Martinez, and was at present on probation from the San Matco juvenile court. Turned Over to Daly City There being no crime chargeable to him in San Mateo, he was turned over to Daly City police. He said he had come south by street car Sunday night, gone to a movie, spent some time in a bowling alley and then decided to scout around the hotel. Living Fossil Found in India NEW DELHI, India.

--UP) A "Living Fossil" has been discovered in the wells of the Hindu holy city of Benares in the form of a tiny, transparent centipede-like shrimp. Dr. B. N. Chopra, formerly officiating director of the zoological survey of India, said that its ancestors seemed to have flourished during Mesozoic period of the earth's history over 100,000,000 years ago.

Other representatives of this ancient group (PHREATOIDEA: ISO- PODA) are now confined to Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Cape Province of South Africa. Ke its discovery in India lent support to the view about the existence of the Gondwana land, when Australia, Tasmania, New Southern Asia, South Africa and South America formed one big southern land mass. Old Equipment Told BIRMINGHAM, and indifferent electrical appliances are wasting a lot of Britain's iivad- i equate power supplies, I. A. R.

Stedeford, chairman of Tube Investments, told a company meeting here. "A tremendous amount of such equipment, including a million electric cookers, has been in service now for 10 or 15 years and by present standards is very inefficient and uneconomical, both in electricity consumption and maintenance and replacement," he said. Acrosonic, Built by the Baldwin Piano Company, It first in quality and In LIT US Tilt YOU AIOOT THI IALDWIN PUN Lester Grand Pianos Betsy Ross Spinets E. J. TUNING and REPAIRING Diamond 3-3054 1224 Burlingame Avc.

Burlingame FREE PARKING SOFTENS PAIN OF BENNY'S TAX BILL HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3. (UP.) -Jack Benny expected a letter from the government today telling him he's going to make about $1.000,000 less than he expected on his switch from NBC to CBS. But he picked up an unexpected four-bits on the deal. He said he would save a 50-ccnt parking fee by moving his broadcast the half-block from the National to the Columbia broadcasting studios.

Free Parking Now "Doesn't cost rne a cent to park now," he cracked. "I paid NBC 50 cents a week for 17 years." That, he said, softened the blow dealt him by the internal revenue collectors. The tax men were about to notify Benny that instead of paying only 25 per cent capital gains tax on the $2,260,000 paid him by CBS, he'll have to pay 75 per cent --about personal income tax. Benny's writers ignored the fact that he had a free parking space behind studio reserved for his shiny blue Cadillac convertible. Their script had him trying to track down CBS President William Paley to validate his parking ticket.

Other Advantages The comic said there were other advantages to the CBS deal besides the big fee paid him and the free parking. "This studio has 54 more scats than my old one," he said. "And do you know this is the first time my show will be heard in Alaska?" Band Leader Phil Harris, whose own NBC show immediately follows Benny's, had to duck out aflcr his last speaking line on Benny's CBS show to be in the rival studio when his program went on the air. NBC is located two blocks away and Harris makes it by car in 30 seconds. Columbia also allows Benny to make jokes about comedians on other networks.

Singer Dennis Day remarked last night that he lost his pants because they walked into NBC without him because of habit. Even Skywriters The network's billboards and spot announcements heralded Benny's shift all week. Skywriters scribbled "Jack Benny's on CBS" over the Pasadena Rose Bowl on New Year's day. NBC, which lost Benny, Edgar Bergen and Amos and Andy during the CBS assault, put Horace Heidi on to compete with Benny. It had three low-planes up pulling a huge streamer announcing, "Horace Heidt has the No.

1 spot." WASHINGTON, Jan. The treasury ruled today that proposals of radio artists and others to sell their personal services as prop erly cannot be treated as capital gains in order to lake advantage of lower taxes. Effected by Realities The internal revenue bureau did not name any one. But it obviously ruled in connection with the recent sale by Radio Comedian Jack Benny of his services to Columbia broadcasting system. The bureau said pointedly "the tax effect of any business transaction is determined by its realities." The bureau did not state specifically whether it had even acted on Benny's reported request to pay the lower capital gains tax on the sale of a corporation he controls to CBS.

The capital gains provisions of the tax laws require a tax of 25 per cent on the gain. But ordinary personal income taxes would require a much higher payment. Benny, in switching from NBC to CBS, was to be paid $2,260.000 by CBS. If he could have qualified under the capital gains provision of the lax code, he would have had to pay only 25 per cent of that. But the Ireasury's ruling meanl that he will have to pay 77 per cent of the about personal income tax.

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Thew exist, the committee said, despite the fact that university incomes have more than doubled in the 12 years covered by the report. Most of the money is provided by the government. Most popular university courses since the war are in science and technology, the number of students in these studies almost doubling in two years. The committee said that increased enrollment since the war has "in most universities overwhelmed the existing accommodation and the shortage of teaching staff due to the intermission of training and recruitment during the war will only correct itself gradually." "Unless additional accommodation can be speedily provided," it continued, "the present student numbers cannot be maintained without grave risk of impaling, not only academic standards which can be measured directly by examination results, but also those imponderable elements which form so valuable a part cf university life." HEALTH IN ENGLAND The modern public health movement was started in England in 1848 with passage of the first public health act and setting up of the general board of health in London. IN WOODED PLACES Some huge rhododendrons plants grow to heights of 30 to GO feet.

Prop. 4 Gives S.M.Rig Surplus San Mateo county will have a windfall of 5116,950 as a result of the state taking over administration of aid to the needy aged and blind on January 1 under the terms of Prop. No. 4, California Taxpayers' association estimated today." The estimated surplus includes $88,127 budgeted for the county's share of aid to the needy aged for the January to June, 1949, period, and $4017 budgeted for aid to the blind, together with $24,806 budgeted for administrative costs for aged and blind aid for December, 1948 through June, 1949. Taxes have already been levied to raise this $116,950 and are included in the $4,417,850 property tax levy for general county purposes for 1948-49, the Taxpayers' association pointed out.

Over the state as a whole, the counties will have a surplus estimated at $9,066 136 resulting from state administration of aged and blind aid. Of this, $6.331,955 will be in funds raised for aid to the needy aged, $566,295 for the needy blind, and $2,167,886 for administrative costs for these two kinds of relief to the needy. The $9,066,136 is included in the $254,634,097 property tax i levy for general county purposes for 1S48-49. "The state director of finance the first six months alone will increased by $27,994.000, with full i creasd by $27,994,000, wih full I impact a year or so away." the Taxpayers' association said. STEADY JOB Eight hundred years ago a monk in Egypt asked to hold his job for! life.

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