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ST ALUNGS BACKS BOARD IN ROW 2 SAN MATEO TIMES WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1953 Shantytown to Be Fired October 28 Plumber Ends LifeinS.M. from Page 1 Home Beckons Returned POW (Continued From PagS 1) fused to answer most questions asked by reporters. Mom to Press "I don't think I should answer that question" was his stoek reply. He said it was his "own decision" not to answer the questions.

He declined to answer when asked if the Communists used force to prevent him from choosing Quarry Permit Ires Belmont (Continued From Page 1) ing room to discuss the situation, and one woman broke into tears as she tongue lashed Attorney John Filippi, representing Piombo. Belmont Accused Filippi told the commission that Belmont's sole motive in the annexation to seise control of the quarry and bar Its use. He said he had heard this said by the Belmont city attorney; Asked for a ruling an the effect of annexation upon the commission's action, District Attorney 4 Hurt in Truck Crash; Traffic Tied BRISBANE Oct. 21. Four per sons were injured, one seriously, today shortly after noon when a truck went off the edge of the road and down an; embankment after a three car accident just north of" Boneyard hill.

It caused a tie Ambulance attendants reported the driver, Suey Kay Ha, 31, of 1387 Bay road, East Palo Alto suffered facial cuts and possible internal injuries. His son, age 2, name unknown, also suffered face cuts. Injured in a' second car were Charles Rocca and Clara Wells, both of San Jose. fr All were taken to Kaiser Foundation hospital io South San Francisco. Highway patrolmen reported tile truck careened off the road after a collision involving two other S.M.

Mother Of Two Killed (Continued From Page 1) friend of Mrs. Macdonald's family, told highway patrol officers he heard the crash of the accident from his home two blocks away. At the accident scene. Bean discovered Mrs. Macdonald's car over turned on the highway and her body approximately feet away.

Deer Held Cause State highway patrol officers said Macdonald apparently lost control of her vehicle when a deer ran in front of her, or another car forced her off the road. Bean reported he saw no other autos in the vicinity, known as Fresh Pond, 20 miles east of Placerville. A resident of San Mateo 13 years, Mrs. Macdonald was a native of Topeka, Kan. Surviving are her two sons, Glen, 12, a.

student at Borel Junior High school, and Jack, 10, a student at Laurel elementary school; her mother, Mrs. Ruth Van Herwynen, of San Francisco; a brother, Adrian Van Herwynen, of San Francisco, and two sisters, Miss Doris Van Herwynen, of San Francisco, and Mrs, Shirley Decker, of Vallejo. Funeral services under the direction of the Rev. Douglas Hay ward of the Hillsdale Methodist church, will be held Friday at 2:30 p.m. from the Crosby N.

Gray chapel in Burlingame. Interment will follow at Olivet Memorial park, Colma. Hilton Called Li Divorce Suit (Continued From Page 1) Miss Russell, just the two of them, and went to her home Mrs. Wayne said he also told her he had given Miss Russell a down payment on an. automobile.

"I told Mr, Wayne I thought it very strange that spent the night with Gail Russell and then gave her the down payment on a car. He tried to say that he could dD that and that it was perfectly all right, and I should not be upset," Mrs. Wayne said. The actor said earlier he had only visited Miss Russell at her home and returned to his own home at 2 a.m. Following the party in 1949.

Mrs. Wayne, who seeks $8000 a month separate maintenance, testi fied that she nearly shot Wayne when he came home from the party and broke down a door to get "I thought it was a burglai til my mother shouted, 'Don't shoot, it's your husband'." She said Wayne was "very intoxicated," The actor said he broke the door because he was locked out. Wayne testified briefly at the opening of the session, because his wife arrived late in court. He accused her of leaving him just before Christmas in 1950 and going to Mexico City. "Mrs.

Wayne made it a practice, the last three years of our marriage, to find every possible excuse to.stay away from me," the 45 year old actor said. "1 pleaded with her to stay, but she told me, 'I'm leav ing you'." The Mexican actress cited a list of charges that the actor often became drunk, lost his temper and beat her. She said Wayne once became enraged because she blundered into a male nude swimming party at Aeapuleo, Mex. She declared he embarrassed her by demanding what she was doing on the beaqh even though she was wearing 4 swim suit. "He took it out on me for the conduct of his friends." she said.

She said their final separation occurred May 7, 1952, following a party in Honolulu at the home of a prominent sportswear manufacturer. On leaving the party, she said, Wayne became angry and threw her shawl in the mud. When they reached their hotel rooms he beat on the wall and cursed her, she said. North Traffic Jam Relieved BAYSHORE CITY, Oct 21. Early morning commuting traffic on Bayshore freeway was flowing freely northbound today as embarrassed state highway department and San Francisco police traffic officials turned their men out in force to prevent a reoccurrence of yesterdays' two hour traffic jamup.

Police motorcycle officers pa troled the Bayshore from Third street, where construction crews are working, to Geneva avenue in San Mateo county from 6:30 a. m. until 10 o'clock. Yesterday morning's traffic bumper to bumper parade was caused by the digging of a ditch by the Charles L. Harney Construction company, contractors across Bayshore just south of the intersection! in the northbound lane.

Two lanes were closed by the trench and a third was shut down by loitering ditch diggers, accord ing to B. W. Booker, assistant state hiehway engineer. "They weren't supposed to start that ditch until they could arrange to leave three northbound lanes 0Dn at all times," he said. "The contractor Intended to do It that way, too.

But some eager beaver down there yesterday morn ins went ahead and blocked off two lanes." He assured "Peninsula commut ers, however, that today at least three northbound lanes would be kept open at all costs. The hiehway department official said' the work in a continuation of plans to make the freeway an uninterrupted drive from the Peninsula Into San Francisco's downtown district. Mateo, uoder SUBSCUIPTCON RATES By CKTler I US Br Curler (Annual In Advance) Btnvlt Dally laiui Br Mall (FaymMt Quartarly In (Continued at the time to contradict what we bad to say. I don't at this time intend to en ter into conflict." Says Plans Shown Judges Stallir.gs' letter declares that the judges had been shown the plans ample time (this was disputed by the judges who said they had only seen rough sketches and were awaiting further plans when piles began to be driven on the hail of justice site). Changes could have been made earlier without the an ticipated cost, according to Stall ings, wtio further commented that at the time the plans were shown the officials their attention was occupied with providing' larger judges' chambers and improved private toilet facilities.

Sellings added, "While alteration of the to provide for the 32 foot courtrooms is not the only alternate and adequate solution to the problem, in my opinion, it appears to be the only solution which will meet with the approval of the superior court judges," Courthouse observers noted that the original rift between the city manager and the judges leading to increasingly strained relations began some time ago when the judges asked for quarters to house a fourth department of the superior court. This gave rise to considerable disagreement at the time the course of which Sellings offered to vacate his quarters for the judges. This prompted an immediate retort from the jurists. Board Defended Text of Stalling' letter follows: "Pursuant to decision arrived at October 13. between your board and the judges Df the superior court and the judges of the municipal court and representatives of the bar association, the archi tect for the above project has been directed to submit a proposal for the enlarging of the courtrooms from the presently designed 28 foot, two Inch width to a width of 32 feet as suggested by the judges of the superior court.

"The timing' of this suggestion by the superior court judges has resulted in unfortunate and mis placed criticism against your of supervisors. In reviewing and approving the various stages of the planning of the new hall of jus tice, your board In all good faith ha acted upon the advice that the plans as presented met with the general approval of the departments and activities concerned in the new building. This advice, usually given by the county manager to your board, was likewise given in good faith that the affected parties interposed no serious objections to the plan. Architect's Responsibility "When the architect for the hall of justice was selected, he was charged with the responsibility of preparing plans and specifications lor the hall of justice in accord ance with the program submitted to hini by the county through its representatives. Specifically, he was instructed to employ every modern device known to the architectural profession to conserve heretofore wasted space found in many buildings and to prepare plans and specifications for the hall of justice that would be within authorized financing for the project.

"In pursuing this responsibility, the architect has studied to make up the total cost of a structure such as that contemplated. The procedure followed consisted of meeting with the representatives of the various activities to be housed in the hall of justice, determining their basic needs, preparing preliminary sketches, submitting such sketches for criticism, making the desired corrections, and resubmit (ing sketches for further approval. No Serious Objection "Upon completion of the preliminary sketches, a composite set of plans, constituting the temporary plans for the structure was submitted to your board for approval. To my knowledge no serious objection was raised to proposal for the entire courtroom floor, with the 'exception expression of concern by some of the judges of the superior court that the chambers or offices for the judges were not large enough, that the suggested waiting room was unnecessary, and that a private toilet for each judge should be provided. Inasmuch as none of these factors affected the structural design of the building, additional time was taken to reconcile these differences.

"At a meeting with the judges, hoth the sunerior court and the court, on February 26, 1953, a proposed layout ol tne courtroom floor wbb reviewed. This olan. in addition to showing the iudses' chambers, the waiting room, prisoners' waiting room prisoners' toilet and connecting private corridor, showed a aewueu layout of two complete courtrooms. All the courtrooms being of simi Keith Sorenson said the jurisdiction and control of the land leaves the county and is taken over by Belmont as soon as annexation becomes effective, In about 30 days (Subsequently Nichols said the action would take 00 to 90 days. Piombo, meanwhile, has said, it is in desperate need of the fill source Immediately.) If today's commission action is approved by the supervisors it would go back to the planning commission on November 18, when a quarry permit would be issued.

However, conceivably by this time the county would lose jurisdiction and the quarry would have become a part of Belmont. Confusing Interests District Attorney Sorenson told the group that confusing interests enter the picture. He explained, "If the use permit is approved by the supervisors it puts the land in a use category, which is legal and proper." He further went on to explain that this could establish a nonconforming use effective even after annexation. If no use is made of the property by the applicants there would be no prejudice to the city, but if any quarry use is made then it becomes a nonconforming use, so that some preju dice to Belmont could develop if the use permit is granted and op erations begin, even without quarry permit. Cites Belmont Future It was apparent that Piombo in terests were urgently seeking just such a use, thus beating Belmont to the draw.

To support their case, Piombo's Representatives mltted subdivision layout of the land approved by Mrs. Don Alford, part owner, who viewed it as an expensive type of development becoming an asset to the city. She declared that progress could not be stopped, and that Belmont would some day be large city. movable shutters by famed HEINLEY the heritage look TSm Conntr Ntwe rl) BELMONT, Oct 21. Shanty town, Belmont's doomed "jungle" settlement east of Bayshore highway, near Ralston avenue, will be put to the torch next Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock, Harry Chamberlain, Belmont fire district chief, announced today.

We plan to burn Shantytown, rain or shine," the chief However, we will have to post pone the burning if the wind is blowing too hard, or is blowing towards Bayshore," he added. The chief was notified officially today by S. C. Dennis, right of way engineer for the state division of highways in San that everything was in readiness for the burning. Papers, ahsolving the fire department from liability in the burning, have been received from the division, uiamueriain said Traffic along Bayshore will be controlled by the highway patrol the day of burning, the chief stated.

No will be alloyed to stop on the freeway anywhere near the area. 'Life' Party KickoffSet (Continued From Page 1 rewesentative of the magazine, ex nressed appreciation to local lead ers for their co operation in the current campaign, and Kay Burt, chairman of the chamber ot commerce's merchants committee, pealed for all stores to keep their "build better business in Burlingame" campaign continuing. Luncheon Follows Mayor U. S. Simonds Jr.

welcomed all those attending. An equal number of persons attended a kickoff luncheon for the celebration at noon today at the women's club. Members of the Burlingame Rotary club, who attended the afair as part of their regular weekly meeting, promised co operation to make the affair a success. Chief Theuer said a police car will be sent to the Mark Hopkins hotel tomorrow afternoon to bring Spike Jones to Burlingame. The car, which will be driven by Police Capt John J.

Hartnett, will be kept in readiness to rush Jones back to the Curran theatre in time for his nightly variety show, which begins at 8:30 p. m. Starting time for tomorrow's pi rade will be p. m. mm BCra9 in the patio of the Forge 8 2322 lar design, the two courtroom were deemed to be sufficient to provide an adequate review of the seating capacity, arrangement of fixed furniture and fixtures such as the judges' bench, jury boxes and suggested placement of movable courtroom furniture.

No Question of Dimensions To the best of my knowledge and belief, no question was raised as to the over all dimensions of the courtrooms by the judges. They requested specifically accoustical treatment, good lighting and ade quate seating arrangement for the public. The detailed suggestions concerning chambers, waiting rooms and toilets were carried forward into additional sketches which were presented from time to time to be reviewed by both the judges and your board. "In every instance in which any plan was submitted to the superior court judges, for their review, including the plans for larger chambers and (he location of (Da private toilet to each judge's chambers, (2) a connecting toilet between two judges' chambers, and (3) two toilets for judges in the private corridor the plans likewise showed a similar detailed layout of the typical, courtrooms. Convenience Considered "It is, perfectly within reason' of human undertakings, of men as busily occupied as the superior court judges, that their review of the courtroom plans emphasized certain aspects of the plans to the exclusion of other aspects of the plans.

"Unfortunately, this appears to be the case in regard to the dimensions of the courtrooms, there being no evidence to deny the fact that the entire planning process of the courtroom suites was undertaken with all due regard for the convenience of the court operation, the comfort of the participants, and the cost to the taxpayer." "Detailed plans were pursued by the architect with the impression that no objection was interposed by the superior court judges on the dimensions of the courtrooms. Plans were submitted with recommendation for approval by your board through this office with the same impression. And certainly your board acted in absolute good faith in accepting the proposals of your designated assistants. Central County Airport Urged (Continued From Page I) Why is an airport needed? How can It pay its own way? How can it be financed initially? The committee will cite the need for an airport in national defense plans, the valuable training an air j5ort gives to future pilots, the tremendous recreational value of airports, and, perhaps most Important of all in San Mateo county, a means to broaden the tax base, Van Vliet declared. "We on the committee took as our first goal a balanced community, from the tax standpoint," said Van Vliet.

He stated that the supervisors will be shown how other airports are paying for themselves and actually making a profit. "Naturally, San Mateo county will not become bankrupt or disappear If an airport is not built," said the committee chairman. "There are, however, more than 6000 ports operating in the country Van Vliet was appointed chair man of the airport survey committee more than one year ago. Other members of the committee are Lew Freeman, BuchAdamson, Al John son, Clare Carey, George Cote, Les Kelley and Wes Reynolds. S.

S. F. School Election Called Tlie County Mm SMTlt) SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21. A special $1,250,000 school district bonding and school tax election were set by the unified school district board of trustees here last night for January 14.

The bonding election will be to bond the elementary school and buildings to capacity In order to make the district eligible for state building aid. Superintendent of Schools James C. Cherry stressed tnat mere win ba no increase in the tax rate of $2.15 as a result of vote approval of the bonding. This is because the district residents sxe already pay ing the state limit of 40 cents. Ben McGuire Weds Divorcee (Continued From Page 1) High school said McGuire had taken a leave ot absence upon the opening of the trial and had received a week! extension of the leave.

He is due to return to bis teaching dirties Monday. Remarriage of McGuire, who wai hitter in his attitude toward Herbert throughout the recent murder trial, came as a distinct surprise to the community. Herbert's slaying of his stepdaughter centered over custody of Herbert's daughter by a previous marriage, Jerrytann Herbert, 7. The little girl's custody has since been given to her mother, now Mrs. Ruth Wilson Banks.

Earle Carlson. 53, unemployed plumber, committed suicide early today by leading carbon monoxide from the exhaust pipe into bis closed car parked In the garage of his home, 1561 Shore view avenue, police reported. Carlson had been despondent re cently because of ill health brought on by a heart attack, his wife, said. However, Carlson's doctor, Dr. Eberhard Sogemeier, had told him that be was improv ing.and urged him to return to work with the E.

T. Has company, from which be hid resigned be cause of the illness. The inhalator squid under the direction of Fire Captain KIol Chanteloup worked an Carlson for 40 minutes. Funeral services for Carlson are pending at Crosby N. Gray chapel in Burlingame.

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It goes like this: Wisnom's have one heck of a lot of special dinner bells. Among them are a few with a special tone which will match the tone of our master bell. If the free dinner bell vou pick, up hap pens to match the tone of our master bell you automatically win a special priie worth $2.85. you are tone (leaf we hive no objection if you bring a tuning fork or a lrienaiy piano veacner with you so that you may do ire nf everything being on the up and up. We have personally tried out some of tnese pens and we could tell the difference in tone with one ear tiea ccnina our back.

We do not consider ourselves particularly mu but we nave cot preuy oig Whether the bell you pick out matches the tone of the master or not you will also receive a contest entry blank so that you may have the chance ot winning a beautiful new 1953 eleven cubic foot refrigerator by tell ing in 25 words or less why is so good. We have put all the dinner bells in one of these refrigerators so that we have to open it in order for you to pick your bell. This gives us the opportunity to show how really wonderful this refrigerator is. All you have to do is say tha Bame thing in less than 25 words and have the iury select YOUR essay and yon have got yourself a new GE refrigerator, If you should be so overcome by OUR story as to up and BUY one of these refrigerators and then win the contest we will be more than happy to fix things up so that your new frigerator cost you nothing, The price of this refrigerator incidentally Is $909.99 (practically $400.00 isn't It Is a new model that GE has juat added to their line. If you were nice enough to read this column last week you already know that we will be glad to allow you a minimum of $100,00 lor your old working refrigerator when you trade it in on this model or on any GE model priced $319.95 or more.

In addition to all this we have a special bonus prise for you If the dinner bell you pick out matches the tone of the bell or not. We promise you It will be worth your while to in to see us at 211 Second Ave nue, San Mateo. WISNOM APPLUNCW Jack Dreyfus, Hanagw repatriation, nor would he answer when asked if any of the other 22 Americans still held 'by the Communists were planning the same move. Earlier, he said it was "more than likely." He also refused to discuss the possibility of a falling out with other American prisoners, what their health was or if they had any means of communicating 'with the outside world. Good Sign When Dickenson, homesick and yearning for his mother's cooking, decided to return to the United States, his Indian guards told him to take his case to the neutral com mission, Lt.

Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian head of the commission, invited members of all five nations (India, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden) to an extraordinary session to hear Dickenson's plea. When the "striking" Polish and Czech delegates showed up, informed sources interpreted their return as a good sign that the Communists will not try to wreck the interview program.

The Czechs and Poles had walked out because Thimayya refused to permit some 7000 anti Communist North Korean prisoners of the Allies to be forced to attend interviews. May Change Minds In obvious good spirits, Disken son predicted that other Americans who rejected repatriation in August and September might weaken as the Christmas season nears, if not before then. They have until Christmas eve to make up their inds. Dickenson, ion of a partly crip pled Crackers Neck, farmer who can't do any heavy chores, had complained to the Indians that he missed American cigarets and American food after almost three years on Communist rations. His first big meal consisted of pork chops, creamed corn, sweet potatoes, and ice cream the regular Wednesday evening fare at the hospital near Seoul to which he was sent for examination.

Dickenson, 23, who left school in the fifth grade, spoke only eight words in exercising his right to go home. 1 desire to be repatriated to my homeland," Dickenson told members of the neutral nations' repatriation commission at an extraordi iry morning session. In less than 10 minutes, Dicken son's wish was granted by the five nation cffinmission and the slightly built Virginian walked through freedom gate," the same route to freedom taken by almost 3400 other Americans this summer, CRACKERS NECK, Va. OP) Mountain folk of this crossroads community joined a happy farm couple today, in celebrating their son's decision to leave the Commu nists and come home. $5000 Blaze In San Carlos (Timtl ConnlT Newt SAN CARLOS, Oct, 21.

Fire men today sought origin of a fire which last night destroyed a portion of a warehouse building in the 900 block of Terminal way, in the Industrial section of the city. Fire Captain Miller E. Thomas estimated the loss to the building and contents, owned by the Cal ray corporation, 762 El Camino Real, at $8000. The blaze was not discovered until flames had melted a corrugated metal roof of the building and hurst into the air. Bill Rodriguez, 1190 Alameda de lai Pul gas, in employe of the John F.

Kelly company, turned in the alarm at 7:23 p.m. He told firemen he was cleaning varnish tanks at the Kelly, company lot, 956 Branston way, about a block from the warehouse, when he looked up just In time to see the flames burst through the root Three fire trucks and 20 fire men responded. Fast action prevented flames from reaching lumber stored on two sides of the wood frame warehouse. Some of the lumber, owned by the O'Neil Lumber company was stacked as close as aix feet to the' burning building, aid. CUSTOMIZED CLOTH IS Featured exclusively in San Mateo by IS fflB PALL Accent the mellow iived in look of your home control light and ventilation at the touch of a finger.

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