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VISALIA TIMES-DELTA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1953. PAGE 9. MORE NEWS ABOUT TULARE COUNTY THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER First In Pictures First In News For Results Use Classified Ads Drought Losses Pile High County Safety Council Plan Is Proposed Many Dearths Blamed On Weather, Threats Grow To Midwest Farm Areas (By The Associated Press) The Eastern half of the Nation broiled today under a relentless sun with no sign of general relief. The heat wave, nearly two weeks old, has taken a heavy toll At least 58 deaths attributed directly to the heat. Thousands suffered from temporary heat prostration.

A serious water shortage in many sections because of Accident Victim Succumbs To Crash Injuries Mrs. Jewell French, 53, rural Porterville, died early today in Tulare District Hospital as the result of injuries sustained Monday afternoon in an intersection collision on county roads two miles west of Pixley. She was the 38th person to die this year in automobile accidents in rural areas of the county, according to highway patrol records. Two others injured in the same accident were reported by Tulare District Hospital attendants to be in fair condition. They are Ronald Ballew, 13, Porterville, and Mrs.

Nellie Clubb, 43, Pixley. Young Ballew has a brain concussion, an attendant said. No Accidents Monday No one was injured in accidents yesterday in rural Tulare County, the patrol reported. The injuries in the fatal accident lesulted from a collision at 3:20 p. m.

of a station wagon driven north on Road 14 by Mrs. Clubb and a panel truck driven east on Road 13E by Mrs. French, Ballew was riding in the truck. According to the patrol, the ve-' hides hit in about the middle of the roadway. California Highway Patrol investigation of the accident was reported today as complete with no citations issued.

Funeral arrangements for Mrs. French will be announced by Hamilton Peers, Tulare. I Surviving Mrs. French is her! husband, E. J.

French. Father Held To Face Charges Of Beating Son For the alleged brutal beating of his 12-year-old son, Joe, on Aug. 24, with two lengths of garden hose, Juan Trujillo, Strathmore, was held in Lindsay before Judicial District Judge R. D. Baird, to answer in superior court on the felony charge of inflicting cruel and inhuman punishment on a human being.

Trujillo, according to Deputy District Attorney Oliver Rostain admitted whipping his son for disobedience and asserted his right to correot his children when he deemed it necessary. Rostain said Trujillo started the punishment of his son in the house using a piece of hose. The boy broke and ran from his father who caught him in the back yard and picking up another piece of hose continued the beating. Photos of the back and legs of the injured boy taken by the office of the district attorney show the black and blue welts of the hose marks many of them with broken skin. ROUNDUP ON S.

TIPTON ST. Officer Frank Rose places a yearling calf into a trailer to climax a cross-town chase of the runaway animal yesterday afternoon. On horseback are shown A1 Hifner (left) and Sonny McGrew, Farm Bureau Auction Yard employes, called in for the actual roping after the calf was cornered by policemen at 415 S. Tipton st. Behind the trailer is Walter Caskey, whose son owns the calf.

In the right foreground is an unidentified youngster, one of several who helped in the roundup. (Times-Delta photo.) 'Old West Breaks Loose Briefly In City Limits Two city patrolmen turned calf-ropers yesterday in an hour-long chase of a runaway yearling calf from the Sierra School to S. Tipton a distance of more than a mile. The calf, a good-sized creature of some 500 pounds, was first reported to police at about noon at the Sierra Vista school. There followed a chase in patrol cars by Officers Keith Pepper, Frank Rose and Floyd Depew, down Mineral King through side ave.

Plan Campaign To Cut Down Accident Rates Plans are being made for a Tulare County Safety Council which will investigate causes of accidental deaths and to help make county residents safety conscious, it was announced today by Maurice Hogan, county farm advisor The farm advisor said that groups from all communities in the county will be invited to help organize the Safety Council at a meeting in the county chamber of commerce office in the municipal auditorium. The date of the meeting will be announced later, Mr. Hogan declared. According to the farm advisor, organizations to be invited to the organization meeting are the Farm Bureau, granges, 4-H clubs, Fuure Farmers of America, Boys and Girls Scouts, Parent-Teachers city and county governments, county and city school systems, the Red Cross, representatives from farm implement dealers, the Highway Patrol, insurance companies, and various men's and womens clubs. Cite Accident Death Toll In a statement accompanying the announcement of the council plans, Mr.

Hogan said that 28 children in the county between one and 12 years of age lost their lives in preventable accidents during the year ending last July 1, according to health department data. The causes of these accidents, and the number of deaths attributable to each, include drowning, eight; auto accidents in which children were pedestrians on streets or highways, five; house fires, four; other automobile accidents, three; carbon monoxide poisoning from automobiles, two, and six types of accidents with one death each: clothing burns, bathing, collapse of a chicken house, accidental shooting, falling off a bicycle, and suffocation. This death toll of our children because of someones carelessness is simply appalling, Farm Advisor Hogan said. It should be the serious concern of every father and mother, every child, every citizen, every organization in the county, he declared. And we are going to do something about it, Mr.

Hogan added. Safety in the home, on the farm and on the highway will be stressed by the proposed safety council, Farm Advisor Hogan said. When our program gets into high year, Mr. Hogan continued, we hopet make every day safety day for each man, woman and child in the county. Directing his thoughts to parents, the farm advisor added to the National Safety Councils slogan The life you save may be your own.

He declared that such a life saved may be your childs. Porterville City Clerk Succumbs PORTERVILLE Funeral services will be held here at 10 a. m. tomorrow for Jap Elledge, 59, city clerk and assessor, who died Monday afternoon in a doctors office following a heart attack. Mr.

Elledge, who became ill at his home early Monday afternoon, was on vacation from his city duties at the time of his death. A native of Clayton County, Mr. Elledge had resided in Porterville for 30 years and had served as city clerk and city assessor since 1940. He was a past super excellent master of the Visalia council of the Royal Arch Lodge. The services will be held at the Loyd Chapel with burial in the Hillcrest Memorial Park.

Members of his family have requested that contributions be made to the Heart Fund in lieu of flowers. Mr. Elledge is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude Elledge; a daughter, two sons, four brothers, and four grandchildren. WEATHER Minimum today 60 Maximum yesterday 94 -Minimum vesterdav 59 KAWKAH RIVKR RUNOFF a.

rn. today 38 sec. ft. 8 p. m.

yesterday 38 sec.ft. KINGS R1VKR RUNOFF 8 a. m. today 323 sec. ft.

8 p. m. yesterday 309 sec. ft. Rv Associated Press) Northern and Central California: fog nigdit and morning-, otherwise fair through Thursday; slightly warmer interior.

Francisco Ray area: Fair through Thursday but fog on coast extending inland mornings; continued mild. Sacramento, San Joaquin, Ldver-more Valleys: Fair through Thurs-i so in ew liH. warmer. t)i ern California: Generally clear this afternoon, tonight and liuirsi av but night and morning oouds or fog coastal area. lightly warmer this afternoon except little change in temperature near coast.

the lack of rain. Millions of dollars lost in crops and livestock sold earlier than normal to beat drought conditions. A serious blow to already crippled farm income. In New York City the heat produced a sharp rise over normal summertime deaths. During the 24 hours ending at 9 a.

m. Tuesday, there were 414 deaths, the Department of Health reported. The normal daily average was 185. The above average total was attributed to the heat. New heat records piled up in most states.

In Chicago, where there has been no measurable rain for 21 days, each 24-hour period produced a new record. Other Midwest cities a them Milwaukee, Detroit, Kalamazoo and Flint, Mich. had new high readings. Scattered sections received small periodic rainfall, usually followed by a dense cover of humidity. Some Rain Reported Some rain fell early today and Tuesday in Texas and Florida, and in Upper Great Lakes sections.

No general relief from the tropical oppressiveness was sighted. Damage to crops in several states appeared soaring into the millions of dollars. In Missouri alone, officials estimated the farm income loss from drought would total 150 million dollars. In Iowa, one of the leading corn states, a Farm Bureau official said the hot weather of the last week alone had cut the states prospective corn yield by at least 15 percent. Corn damage also was reported in Illinois, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio.

No general relief froi the hot and sticky weather was predicted for the bulk of the area enveloped in the hot air mass Some cool air moved into northern parts of Minnesota. It was expected to move slowly across northern sections of Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa by tomorrow. Outlook is Uncertain But hot and humid weather was predicted for today and tomorrow for areas south and east of the slowly advancing cooler air mass. And in Washington, the Weather Bureau forecast hot and dry weather was the outlook for the northeast part of the country during September. Farmers were worried about the lack of rainfall as they surveyed brown pastures and lean livestock.

In cities, millions were Incon- nienced by lack of water as venienced by overheated pumps broke down. The stifling heat in offices and factories brought early closing in many cities again yesterday. The hottest cities yesterday were Louisville and Jackson, with 103 while Chicagos 101 marked the eighth straight day of temperatures above 95. It also was 101 in Cleveland, 2 degrees below the citys hottest day in history. Deaths Caused By Heat In St.

Louis, two members of the American Legion collapsed and died during the 10-hour parade as temperatures soared to 101. About 150 other paraders and marchers were overcome by the heat. There have been 28 heat prostration deaths in St. Louis this summer. Of the 50 deaths attributed to the heat, there were 12 in Chicago in a 12-hour neriod yesterday, the hottest Sept.

1 on record. The death toll in Illinois was 14. Seventeen persons died in Pennsylvania from heat exhaustion or heart conditions aggravated by hot weather. There were 6 in New York; 3 in Texas; 2 each in Michigan, Missouri and Massachusetts, and 1 each in Indiana, Maine, Wisconsin and Maryland. Everything for the Dove Hunter All popular makes of SHOTGUNS Complete stock of AMMUNITION HUNTING VESTS GAME BAGS Rental of Shotguns and Rifles EVERYTHING For the Dove Hunter FLED FROM REDS John Rees will speak here three times next week to local groups on his first-hand experience behind the Iron Curtain, in Lithuania, before he became a refugee from that country.

He will speak at a union Sunday evening service at the First Christian Church, to the Kiwanis Club on Tuesday and to Rotary Club on Wednesday. Speaker Signed For Series Of Visalia Lectures John Rees, a Lithuanian refugee, will speak on his experiences behind the Communists Iron Curtain at a union church service meeting Sunday night and at two local service clubs meeting. The speaker, whose legal name is Vladas Hriskevicius, will address audiences at the First Christian Church when that congregation gathers with Presbyterians and Methodists, at the Kiwanis Club Tuesday noon at a special ladies day program, and at the Rotary Club on Wednesday noon. The Sunday church service will be held at 8 p. m.

Site of the church is the intersection of N. Court and School streets. The host pastor, the Rev. George Tolman, said the evening service will be the next to the last union services of the First Christian, First Methodists, and the First Presbyterian churches. The public is invited to the service, the pastor said.

Fleurs PEOPLE IL. J( now ADELE OUST has returned home from Miami, where she attended the 65th International Convention of the Loyal Order of the Moose. On her return, Mrs. Oust stopped over in Los Angeles, for a few days, to visit with her daughter and two grandsons, Bruce and Wesley Jones. HAZEL PALMER of 105 Club Drive, returned from a weeks vacation spent in Jackson, visiting with relatives.

BOB ROBERTS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Roberts, Rt. 6, Box 419, Visalia, left yesterday for Los Angeles, where he will enroll in the College of National Schools. MISS DEANNA McFADZEN of 819 N.

Divisadero st. is visiting a few days with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L.

Jern-igan in Porterville. MISS MARGARET POYORENO of 817 W. Acequia st. spent part of last week visiting Mr. and Mrs.

W. L. Jernigan, W. Morton Porterville. Tulare-Visalia Lions Session Visalia Lions Club members turned the tables on their hosts, the Tulare Lions, and defeated them in a close 8-7 softball game in conjunction with their annual stag picnic last night at Mooneys Grove.

The Tulare club was host at the affair, a fish fry, attended by 70 Lions. Last weekend the Tular-eans caught the fish in a deep sea expedition off Cayucos. Mrs. John Dotson Passes In North Mrs. Leah Wells left this morning for San Francisco to attend the funeral of her aunt, Mrs.

John Dotson, 83, a native of Tulare County. Mrs. Dotson, who was born in the Union District and attended the Union School, moved from this area 50 -years ago. She died this morning in San Francisco. In addition to Mrs.

Wells, Mrs. Dotson is survived by several other nieces and nephews in this area. Stated Fair Set To Open On Thursday SACRAMENTO Iff) Eleven days of polished apples, curried cows and soda pop in the sunshine open tomorrow. It will be State Fair time in Californias capital. The fairs theme will be California Magic and a 15-foot Golden Bear on a flying yellow carpet will greet the visitors.

There will be a maid of magic, too: pretty brunette Barbara Lee Nutter of Tulare. Forty-one of the 58 counties will exhibit their agricultural and industrial magic and the best will the big sweepstakes cup. Sonoma County was last years winner and if it wins again this time ithe cup will go to Santa Rosa for keeps. These eight foreign countries will also show their wares: Great Britain, Finland, Norway, Sweden, India, Pakistan, West Germany and Denmark. Kern Men Face Federal Terms Two men from Bakersfield Andrew Luis Billy, 39, and Robert Madison Bush, 31 today were under federal sentences of five years in prison for smuggling Mexican wetbacks.

The sentences, imposed yesterday by District Judge Pierson M. Hall in San Diego were among the most severe imposed for the Immigration officers said Billy and Bush smuggled aliens to Central and Northern California for prices varying from $35 to $65 each for a total of at least $1,000 before they were arrested. Jr. Chamber Secs Sea Life Films Motion pictures of Sea Life on Pacific Shores were shown to members of the Visalia Junior Chamber of Commerce last night at a dinner meeting at Hotel Johnson. The narration was by Merton E.

Hinshaw, curator of the museum at Pacific Grove, and Delbert Kramm, biology instructor at Pacific Grove High School. The program was arranged by Roy Brooks. Roger Willson was elected a new director of the chamber in a special election held last night. Fiora Joseph, president of the Jaycees, presided at the session. Cause Cited For Train Accident Interstate Commerce Commission says a collision between a passenger train 'and a freight train at Merced on June 23 was caused by the passenger train overrunning a siding and blocking the main track.

Three persons w.re killed in the accident the engineer of the passenger, the fireman of the freight, and a man bumming a ride on the freight. Six were injured. Physicals Set Free physical examinations for prospective athletes as Visalia Union High School will be given tomorrow starting at 8 a. m. in the gym.

Gill Group Buys Large Acreage Sale of 34 -parcels of land comprising 6,300 acres lying in the area south and east of Exeter was recorded in the office of County "Recorder Walter Sunkel yesterday. Sale of the property for an approximate $350,000 was made by Alex Anderson to Fred Gill and Sons. The property lies in the area in which the Gill interests control other thousands of acres grazing land, it was noted in checking location of the parcels. It was also reported the sale Included some $150,000 worth of livestock which with land and buildings included in the sale totaled $500,000. August Marriages pl kjpiif UpfArrlr liGVV IXvLUIUj Kid Cupid bettered his August score in his continuing game of darts to the heart which send the happy victims scampering to the marriage license clerk for surcease from their sweet sorrow, according to County Clerk Claud Grant.

Marriage license records in his office show that 87 couples were directly hit by cupids darts in the month just ended against 85 for August of 1952. Records compiled by Miss Alice Turner, deputy clerk, disclose legendary marksman failed to match his July score when during that month 85 couples obtained licenses to wed. LWV Representatives Attend Board Meeting Two members of the League of Women Voters sat in oathe morning session of the county hoard of supervisors in session yesterday. The ladies, Mrs. Monroe Mauld-ing and Miss Laura Julien, met members of the hoard of supervisors introduced by Chairman Rodgers Moore.

They sat throughout the morning taking notes. I I 31 GET YOUR UNTING LICENSE HERE! Supply Co. SPORTING GOODS 1311 W. Mineral King Phone 4-3629 Grand Jury Group Study Tulare's Judicial Dispute Law enforcement committee of the county grand jury of which Otto Hemphill, Porterville, is foreman, Monday night started its secret probe of the previously widely publicized clash between Judge Ward Rush of Tulare district court and the Tulare Police department. That the committee met in the office of District Attorney Robert K.

Meyers was disclosed by that official this morning. Previously the committee gathered on false information that their services had been sought by the Tulare City council. At that time Mr. Meyers checked the ru-imor only to announce that he was informed by the Tulare City Clerk that she had received no instruction from anyone to send a copy of the resolution seeking service of the grand jury to anyone. Next day Tulare Mayor Jim Ingle corrected the error by personally mailing copies of the resolution to the grand jury.

Mr. Meyers said this morning when releasing information that the committee met on Monday night said he had been told there was no other statement to be made. GETS MADERA POST Lyman Patterson, son of Assemblyman and Mrs. Roscoe Patterson of Visalia, has been appointed director of recreation for the city of Madera, it was learned here today. In recent months, Mr.

Patterson has been living in Los Angeles. He was educated in the Visalia schools and achieved considerable prominence as a singer. He played the male lead in the COS production of Rio Rita two years ago. streets, alleys, and across private property, including a supermarket lot, through two fences, and finally to S. Tipton a block east of the Santa Fe tracks.

There the patrolmen cornered the frightened, tired calf under a fig tree in the back yard of the home of Don Brown. But they couldnt rope the calf, they reported. After four or five passes by Officers Pepper and Rose, the farm bureau auction yard was called. To the rescue came A1 Hifner and Sonny McGrew, real live cow hands, who allowed the calf a little elbow room and nailed him about 100 yards away in a field near an irrigation ditch. On its journey across town, the calf tore up flower beds and tore through two hog-wire fences, police said.

Helping the police were some 10 to 15 youngsters, who chased the calf in attempts to corner him. Officer Pepper got his lariat for the chase from a son of Councilman John Copley, who lives in the neighborhood through which the chase occurred. Officer Rose happened to have a rope on hand, which he normally uses for general household purposes not usually for calf roping. The calf, owned by the son of Walter Caskey. Second ave.

W. resident, was taken to the farm bureau auction yard. Chief Frank Bentzen said it was later turned over to a state branding inspector. Antonio Corona To Face Judge Antonio Corona, 23, alleged slayer of a fellow Mexican National, Frank Tapia near Tagus ranch cabins last Aug. 16 will be arraigned on a charge of murder before Superior Judge Glenn L.

Moran this afternoon. District Attorney Robert K. Meyers who personally has handled investigation into prosecution of the charge stated he is willing to accept a plea of guilty to second degree murder which removes possibility of the death penalty. He said he had unearthed evidence that Corona had been drinking heavily prior to the murder of the fellow camp resident. Tapia was slain with a 12-inch blade which hit him just above the heart.

Bible School Group Flan Friday Program Children of the Daily Vacation Bible School, now convening daily at the Parkside Chapel at Main and Dolner cordially invite the public to attend their pro-gram Friday evening at 7:30 oclock. One of the program numbers will be a motion picture, according to Mrs. Ruth Dickson, super-intendant of the Sunday school and Bible school. kings river report FRESNO. (P) Kings River runoff; last night, 309 second feet; this morning, 323 second feet.

VUHS Youths Compete At State Fair Ten Visalia High School youths left this morning for the California State Fair which opens tomorrow in Sacramento. The ten will compete in a judging contest for Future Farmers. The group will return to Visalia Saturday night. During the time they are in Sacramento, they will stay at Camp Lillard, an FFA camp on the state fair grounds. The trip to the State Fair is an annual educational tour for Visalia High School FFA boys.

Making the trip are Bill Woods, Mike Hasebe, Floyd Ritchie, Murray Grant, Larry Williams, Gilbert Drysdale, Jerry Wolfe, Norman Phillips, Richard McCarthy and Jim Hayden. Two high school ag instructors, Frank Lawhorn and Robert Tom-asevich, will accompany the youngsters. Natural History Pictures Shown Colored slides on Pacific Coast natural life were shown to Kiwanis and Exchange Club members yesterday by Merton E. Hinslaw, curator of the Museum of Natural History owned and operated by the City of Pacific Grove. Program chairman was Roy Brooks.

The Exchange Club members were guests at the Kiwanians luncheon program in the Hotel Johnson. Mr. Hinslaw showed his slides at last nights Visalia Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting in the Hotel. Jack Benny's Aide Becomes A Mother LOS ANGELES Iff) Radio comedienne Sara Berner and her husband, Milt Rosner, theatrical agent are parents today. Yesterday they formally adopted 8-month-old Eugenie, whom they have had since she was a month old.

Miss Berner, voice of telephone operator Mabel on the Jack Benny program, recently recorded The Littlest Stork. Funeral Services For Ewell Sims Funeral services for Ewell Sims, 52, who died last Sunday, will be held Friday morning at 10:30 oclock in the Brooks Funeral Home in Visalia. The Rev. E. F.

Baker will officiate. Burial will follow in. the Visalia Cemetery. Hunt College Site 9 VAN NUYS iff) Members of the State Public Works Board are inspecting sites in the San Fernando Valley for the proposed Los Angeles State College. i.