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F. Thursday, Mar. 18, 1965 Gas Tax Hike Clears Hurdle Examiner SACRAMENTO A posal to boost State gasoline taxes 1 cent temporarily to finance reconstruction of storm-ravaged highways) passed its first Assembly hourdle by an overwhelming vote yesterday. The measure, already passed by the Senate, would add the penny per gallon to the motorist's gasoline bill for nine months after adoption. The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee recommended approval of the Capitol Bureau measure by a 17-1 vote.

Assembly man Charles. E. Chapel, San Diego County Republican, cast the sole dissenting vote. It is estimated that the tax would raise some $58 million to help pay for replacement of roads and bridges destroyed during last December's floods in northwestern California. Observers noted that the little opposition indicated speedy passage by the full Assembly when the bill reaches the floor.

A UC Poll-Student Backing for Savio A survey of student atti-1 tudes toward the University of California free speech controvery taken last fall among 285 selected students -revealed that Mario Savio had substantial support among students. Robert H. Sommers, sociology professor, released these results of a research project yesterday: 63 percent of favored the goals of the Free Speech Movement demontrators. 34 percent favored civil disobedience methods employed. Girl, 7, May Be 1st Polio Victim of '65 Laboratory tests on a Red Bluff child who may be the first polio victim in California this year will not be completed until next week, it was announced yesterday.

Patricia Ann Bell, 7, is in the University of California Medical Center for treatment of a disease described as Muscles in her right leg have been damaged. The girl's mother, Mrs. Bea Bell, a Red Bluff restaurant operator, said the child took the full course of Salk cine. Only three paralytic polio cases were reported in California last year, in comparison with 1954's 2,600 cases. The reduction is due to the Salk and Sabin vaccines.

Salinas Girl Stricken by Meningitis SALINAS (Special) A two year old girl was diagnosed yesterday as the second recent meningitis case in this community 15 miles east of Fort Ord, where a meningitis epidemic suspended basic training last fall. Kathleen Watkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Watkins of Salinas, was reported in fair condition in a Salinas Hospital. On Saturday, Merle D.

Pearson, 18, a Hartnell College student, died here from the disease which affects the membrane covering the spinal cord and brain. Army authorities had scheduled a resumption of recruit training at Ford Ord on April 1. Sartre Adopts An Algerian PARIS (AP) -A Paris court approved yesterday the adoption of Arlette el Kaim, 28, by Jean-Paul Sartre, author and playwright who last year turned down the Nobel Prize for literature. Miss el Kaim, an Algerian, will take Sartre's name and will inherit his estate. She has been working as a movie critic at a magazine sponhas never been married.

sored by Sartre. Sartre, 59, Reynolds, Famed Newsman Quentin Reynolds, one of the nation's best-known journalists, died at Travis Air Force Base hospital yesterday of cancer. Reynolds, 62, was stricken six weeks ago with pneumonia in the Philippines while working on a biography of President Diosdado Macapagal. He was flown here Wednesday by military jet when his condition worsened. The fact that he had terminal cancer, "primarily the stomach," according to Air Force surgeons, was not suspected until it was too late.

GREATEST STORIES published two years ago. THE PEGLER SUIT Reynolds, known his admirers as well as his critics as "Quent," was probably second only to the late Ernie Pyle in his popularity as a correspondent during World War II. He "covered" the war from its beginnings in Europe for the now-defunct Colliers magazine. His greatest reporting was of the illfated Allied Dieppe raid, the breakthrough of the British Eighth Army in North and the American landings in Sicily and Italy. He was a prolific writer.

His articles in Colliers, and other magazines, numbered almost 400 since 1933. He was the author of some books, one of the most popular being his autobiography Reynolds was last prominently in the headlines when he took vitriolic columnist Westbrook Pegler to court in the early 1950s for libel. Pegler, one-time poker playing crony of Reynolds, blasted his former friend as a coward, absentee war and a few other choice detractions in a 1949 column. Reynolds won a $175,000 judgment, one of the largest libel awards on record. Quentin Reynolds was born in the Bronx on April 11, 1902, son of a Brooklyn school principal.

He was just another underpaid and overworked sportswriter in New York when he caught the eye of Ex-Con Held In Fillmore Shooting Two foot-patrolmen arrested a 32 year old ex-convict early yesterday after he fired a gun and Fillmore Streets. Calvin L. Barnes of 1440 Golden Gate Ave. was questioned at length about the incident because a 19 year girl who was a witness in a recent Grand Jury vice case also was involved. It was at first theorized that Barnes may have shot at the girl, Jeannette Keys, and that this may have had some connection with the vice case.

Under questioning, however, the girl said she did not know Barnes and did not believe the incident had any connection with the vice case. Barnes himself said he fired a shot in the air after) the girl threw a bottle which shattered at his feet. He said he fired in the air "just to scare her." Barnes, who served a sentence on a 1962 burglary conviction, was booked charges of assault with intent to commit murder, resisting arrest and being a felon in possession of a gun. Meg Visits a Leper Colony KUMI (Uganda) -(AP)Touring British Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, mixed with leper children yesterday at a settlement here. The couple ignored warnings by doctors to keep clear of the patients because measles had just hit the setItlement.

HIS STORY OF WINNING FIGHT Marland's War on Alcohol A reporter recently found William C. Marland, 46, former Governor of West Virginia, driving a cab in Chicago. The exGovernor tells here how drinking caused his downfall, how he literally lost himself in a big city and how he found himself again before the newsmen did. By WILLIAM C. MARLAND Distributed by the Associated Press CHICAGO When stepped down from the governor's office in West Virginia in 1957, I opened an office in Charleston where I practiced law and engaged in industrial development.

The next year I campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. My thoughts then turned to industry and I became director of sales for the Western Kentucky Coal Co. I came to Chicago in that capacity Jan. 1, 1959.

Shortly after I arrived in Chicago, my drinking had resolved itself into a 24-hour-aday proposition, with all the attendant evils and a significant reduction in ability to handle my duties, LOST HIS JOB I neither cared then nor since as to why this had taken place. I made sporadic attempts to go on the wagon, with little success. Finally, it was clear to all concerned, that my association with that company should be terminated. So it was. Immediately thereafter, I sought refuge in the alcoholic ward of a mental institution.

As the days passed I seemed to gain some capacity to think through my problem in a somewhat better fashion than ever before. After 30 days I was able to walk out with some conviction and hope that there might be a chance for me to arrest the march of this disease called alcoholism, MORE CONFIDENCE My first attempt at employment was in a position that entailed considerable travel. Traveling has always been an occasion for rather excessive consumption of alcohol. But now I was able to spend many days on the road without the slightest help from John Barleycorn. This gave me added confidence.

While not without an occasional temptation to have a drink, I found it more and more easy to resist the idea. However, I was not yet able' William Marland's family suburb where he visits them Mrs. Marland, sons Casey, daughter, Susan, 18. to do the job satisfactorily and I quit late in 1961. A firm conviction settled upon me that I must, as it were, begin from the beginning.

However, there was the practical problem of maintaining a livelihood for my family--my wife and four children. It occurred to me that a certain anonymity and retirement could be achieved 1 best by handling a taxi on the streets of Chicago. I went to work in the summer of 1962 and at first I was afraid of a new and strange job, so completely divorced from any I had ever had, and my ignorance of the mechanics of such a job. I was gratified and happy to notice, after the first two or three weeks, that this job could be done. This new-found elation was short-lived because the more proficient I became at the mechanics, the more irritated I became at the mistakes anyone makes at any job every day.

I usually magnified my own out of all proportion to the seriousness. TOSSUP FOR YEAR For a year, at least, it was a tossup as to which side of my character would win. But after about a year I began to discover that I was consciously considering the advisability of doing the right thing rather than intuitively doing the wrong thing. And I must admit the more or less independent life of a cab driver appealed to me more and more. Almost imperceptibly a change Russ Space 'Bus' Launch Imminent MOSCOW-(UPI)-The launching of a new Soviet manned space spectacular is imminent, usually reliable sources said last night.

The new space bus is expected to carry at least men-but no cosmonette. It may be launched before the American Gemini shot scheduled for next Tuesdayand probably will be dedicated to the fourth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic first space voyage April 12, 1961. Moscow reports were matched by a prediction by Dr. Heinz Kaminsky, director of West Germany's Bochum Stroke Kills Driver' Leland Trobock. 54, a salesman was released at 5 a.

m. yesterday from the Daly City jail where he had spent the night on a drunk driving charge. Two hours and 27 minutes later, he died in his home, 58 West Park of a heart attack. Trobock was arrested Tuesday evening when Police Officer Bert Hunter said he noticed him driving erratically along an access road above Thornton Beach and parallel to the western limits of Westlake. A It was like an unarmed bomb.

It seemed to have lost its capacity to gather enough strength to plant its own fuse. POSITIVE ATTITUDE QUENTIN REYNOLDS A prolific reporter Damon Runyon in 1932. From there it was a steady climb to the top fthe Everest. Reynolds first went to Europe as Berlin correspondent for Hearst's International News Service. In 1934 he became an associate editor and European correspondent for Colliers.

WAR EXPERIENCE Most of his books were based on his experience as a correspondent. Best remembered are "Dress Rehearsal," "'The Curtain Rises" and "Only the Stars Are Neutral." Reynolds had no children. His marriage to the former Virginia Peine ended in divorce shortly after the Pegler libel suit. His brother, James Rey. nolds, is assistant secretary of labor.

James Reynolds flew to Travis from Washington Tuesday to be at the writer's side as he was moved from the Military Air Transport Service jet to the base hospital intensive care unit. PRIVATE SERVICES Death came at 5 a. m. for Quentin Reynolds, barely 12 hours after his arrival here. At first, the cause of death was listed as "complications of pneumonia." Later in the day Col.

Oliver C. Hood, director of hospital services at Travis, announced Reynolds died "primarily of abdominal cancer." In addition to his brother James, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Ralph J. Furey and Mrs. William Kirk of New York.

His body will be flown to New York for private services. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn. Richmond's New School Unit Chief Dr. James L. Merrihew, superintendent of Richmond's elementary and high school districts, last night was selected to be superintendent of that city's unified school district when unification 0c- curs July 1.

Merrihew will get $26,000 a year in his new post. The new district will have about 42.500 students. Netherlands Ambassador Here Today The Netherlands Ambassador to the United States will visit San Francisco today and tomorrow. Ambassador Carl Schurmann and his wife will be honored tonight at 7 at a dinner given by the San Francisco Area World Trade Association and the Affairs Council of Northern California at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Schumann will discuss "Holland and the Future of Europe." Slight Increase In VD Cases ATLANTA -(AP)- The Public Health Service reports a 3.1 percent increase in the number of infectious syphilis cases in the United States.

The service's communicable disease center said there were 22,733 cases in 1964 compared to 22,045 the year before. -Associated Press Wirephoto. in their home in a Chicago on weekends. From left: John, 14; Allen, 22, and in my whole personality, took place. Meanwhile, the business of whisky on occasion of irritation or momentary glimpse of prosperity faded further and further until it seemed to have no part in my conscious picture.

I would say that its threat, while always recognized, lost its potency. I This neutrality persisted until about six months ago, when my thoughts, began turning more and more to a positive attitude. Finally, on Jan. 1, 1965, 1 I took an extended leave from the Flash Cab Co. I spent several weeks in quiet contemplation of what direction my future should take.

I also discovered that my confidence that: I could operate on another plateau had congealed. So, when I' returned to my cab driving, my thoughts were primarily on the mechanics of leaving that for something more challenging. By one of those twists of fate the mechanics were abruptly thrown into motion by an inquiring reporter. The hue and cry that followed the discovery that an ex was roving the streets of Chicago in the guise of a cab driver called for some rather swift adjustment. But from the very first moment I had complete confidence in my ability to effect the necessary adjustment.

82 percent believed the campus administration was reacting to pressure from outside when imposing a ban on political activity. 66 percent were convinced there was a genuine issue of free speech in the demonstration. Each of the 50 upper division students in Sommers' class interviewed six selected students and posed 15 questions last November after the sit-in around the police Oct. 1-but before the Sproul Hall sit-in Dec. 2, the mass arrest and the strike.

Campus Anti Rules OKd INGLEWOOD (UPI) The right of the University of California regents and the State College trustees to supervise campus sororities and fraternities with regard to racial discrimination has been upheld by Superior Judge Newell Barrett. Barrett Tuesday sustained the governing bodies against a suit challenging their authority. University of California Vice President and General Counsel Thomas J. Cunning. ham said after the decision, "We are grateful that the court has upheld the right of the university to work with its student groups toward elimination of discrimination on campus." The Low Bid For St.

Mary Center The F. P. Lathrop Construction Co. of Berkeley was low bidder. yesterday on the $1,250,000 St.

Mary's HospiItal Diagnosis and Treatment Center to be constructed opposite the hospital on Hayes Street. The five-story structure of reinforced concrete will include out-patient medical facilities and parking for the hospital. It will require approximately a year and a half to build. Frank W. Trabucco, architect who announced the low bidder, said provision will be made for expanding the center by two floors.

The center will be named in memory of the late Sister M. Philippa, for many years the hospital administrator. Red Guerrillas Kill Teacher CARACAS (Venezuela) (AP)-Pro-Communist guerrillas raided a village in western Venezuela early yesterday, killed a school teacher and left three policemen naked and bound. The guerrillas surprised the police in Masparrito, in the state of Barinas, binding the policemen and stealing weapons and cash. Then they began looting homes.

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