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30-31 1 Clearance Of Suez Completed CAIRO (P) U. N. salvage crews today completed clearance of the Suez Canal by lifting and hauling away the sunken Egyptian frigate Abukir. The Abukir, last major block in the 103-mile waterway, was towed to a dumping ground in the Bitter Lakes north of Suez. Removal of the freighter opens the canal to ships up to 20.000 0.000 tons provided the Egyptian government gives its permission.

Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, chief of the clearance operation is expected to send word to U. N.

Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, who will notify the General Assembly. The tion Assembly authorized the canal clearance after the ceasefire which halted the BritishFrench- invasion of Egypt last fall. Gen. Wheeler's team still has some work to do on one wreck outside the channel and additional repairs on lighting, communications and navigational aids. 5497 Population At State Hospital The Napa State Hospital census report for the month ending March 31 shows patient population is now 5497 or 54 less than for the preceding month.

Ratio of sexes is 2836 women and 2661 men. There were 303 new patients admitted to the hospital within the month; 788 were granted short visits with their families; 90 were given indefinite leave of adsence and 183 discharged as recovered. Transferred here from other state hospitals were 10 patients, with one transferred out for continued treatment and one discharged to the Veterans Administration. Deaths occurring during the month totaled 45. Suit Filed Over School Paint Job A controversy over painting done at Ridgeview Junior High School wound up in the Superior Court today with a $394.81 suit on file with County Clerk Sam Shippy.

Henry Duser, doing business as the Napa Paint and Wallpaper charges that the amount is being held by County Auditor Robert Benning as a result of the dispute. Named as defendants with Benning are Virgil Downs, who did the painting, Trewhitt, Shields Fisher, general contractors, and the Napa Union High School District. Francis H. Frisch represents Duser. 3rd Snow Storm Hits Wide Area By The Associated Press The third major spring storm to plunge eastward from the Rockies left a heavy belt of snow across parts of Indiana.

Michigan. Ohio and New York State today. Some schools were closed. power lines were snapped and traffic was snarled. The snowfall ranged from 3 to 12 inches.

-plagued sections of the Great Plains breathed easier as the storm moved eastward. Skies were clearing in the plains. TREADWAY WIGGER Funeral Chapel 623 Coombs Napa DEPENDABLE SERVICE BA 6-5262 frene( 1 INVITATION Cuff and Pierce Funeral Service 1143 THIRD ST. RICHARD J. PIERCE TELEPHONE BA 6-7445 Mrs.

Heisch, Napa Resident, Dies Mrs. Ida Heisch, wife of the late Henry W. Heisch, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fussell of 4067 Big Ranch Rd. She was seventy-four.

A native of Germany, Mrs. Heisch came to Glenn County in 1908 and resided there until 1910, when she moved to Napa. Her husband, a rancher in the Salvador district for many years, died in 1941. Since his death she had resided with Mrs. Fussell.

Surviving, in addition to Mrs. Fussell, is another daughter, Mrs. Martha Johnson of Napa; grandchildren. Dorothy Ubaldi, Robert W. Johnson.

Betty Corning, Arthur C. Fussell and Yvone Fussell, all of Napa; and the following great grandchildren, Michael John Ubaldi, Rose Mary Lynn Ubaldi, Steven Johnson, and Thomas G. Cornall of Napa. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Garden Chapel of the Treadway and Wigger Funeral Service.

with Rev. Earl Soiland officiating. Burial will be in Tulocay Cem-1 etery. $16,153 Collected By Shippy Office Boosted by annual P.G.&E. franchise payments, fees collected in the office of County Clerk Sam Shippy during March totaled $16.153.90.

The P.G.&E. payments, based on gas and electricity sales, totaled $13.357.90. Fees ACcounted for $2677 of the total, marriage licenses for $15, and certified copies for $104. During the month, there were 30 civil cases. 27 divorces, and one annulment filed and 26 probate petitions.

Thirty-four' divorces were granted. A total of 34 insanity and inebriate petitions, seven criminal actions, and six juvenile actions were filed. 2 Fishing Near Antioch Drown ANTIOCH (P Rene Alvarado 12, El Cerrito, and Daniel Chew, 23, San Francisco City College student, were drowned in separate accidents on the Sacramento River during the weekend. The Alvarado boy was fishing at Ryer Island. 10 miles from Rio Vista, when he fell into the water.

Two uncles. Herman Chaves. El Cerrito, and Vincent Chave, Oakland. went to the boy's rescue and were nearly drowned themselves. A passing boat saved them.

Chew was drowned Saturday when a skiff overturned while he was fishing. Vital Statistics BIRTHS 7 Nada. a daughter. Sharon Loree, Dr. pounds.

9 ounces. HARVEY -In Kaiser Foundation Hospital. Vallejo. April 3, 1957. to Mr and Larry Harvey.

2147 May air DEATHS HEISCH4 In Napa. Sundav. April 7. 1957. Mrs.

Ida Heisch. mother of Mrs. Elizabeth Fussell and Mrs. Martha Johnson. bo'h of Napa: grandmother of Dorothy Ubaldi, Robert W.

Johnson. Betty Corning. Arthur C. Fussell and Yvone Fussell. all of Nana: greatgrandmother of Michael John Ubaldl.

Rose Mary Lynn Ubaldi. Steven Johnson and Thomas G. Corning all of A native of Germany. Aged 74 vears. Friends are invited to attend funeral services Tuesday.

April 9. at 10 o'clock A at the Garden Chapel of the Treadwar and Wigger Funeral Service Interment in Tulocav Cemetery. GLOS In Rutherford. Sunday. April 1957.

Charles Glos. devoted husband of Mabel L. Glos of Rutherford; loving father of Orville Glos and Mrs Lovella L. Maquez of St. Helena.

Elton Glos and Mrs. Helen Ross of Vallejo. Mrs. Lorna B. Wagner of Rutherford.

Mrs. Arline E. Pina of Oakville and Vernon L. Glos of Napa: loving brother of Mrs. Louisa Jackson and Edward J.

Glos of Nana, Lester T. Glos of Rutherford and Mrs. Virginia Wichels of Valleio: 17 grandchildren also survive A native of Napa County. Aged 73 vears. Friends are invited to attend funeral services Tuesdav.

April 9. at 2:30 o'clock m. at Morrison's Funeral Chapel in St. Helena. Cremation in Tulocav Crematory in Napa.

CLASON- In Napa. Sundav. April 7. 1957. George S.

Clason, beloved husband of Ann V. Clason of Napa: loving father of Clyde B. Clason of York. Pa. Mrs.

Robin McKown of New York City: and, brother of the late Horace Clason. A native of Missouri. Aged 82 vears A member of Retired Men's Club of Napa Funeral arrangements pending at the Chapel of Cuff Pierce Funeral Service CLAFFEY AND ROTA Funeral Home DIGNIFIED PERSONAL SERVICE 1975 Main Street, Corner of G. Napa Phone BA 4-5210 France Greets Elizabeth, Duke PARIS P) Queen Elizabeth Il of Britain and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Paris today for a four-day official visit. France was determined to make her stay the most colorful pageant the republic has ever staged for a monarch.

President Rene Coty and a host of top hatted French dignitaries beamed as the Viscount airliner landed the voung queen and her husband at flag-bedecked Orly Airfield. About 1.000 000 persons were in the official welcoming party. A huge audience watched on television. The drive the airport and streets on the queen's route were jammed with crowds waving small British and French flags. A bright sun shone and a brisk breeze was blowing from the direction of the English Channel.

The queen stepped smiling from the four-engine plane in a beige ensemble. Prince Philip wore the uniform of a Royal Air Force marshal. Youth Sought In Check Case Caught At Bar The tavern owners' mutual protection society tripped up a 19-year-old Napan over the weekend, landing him in the county jail on a check charge. Charles O'Dell Hodges, painter's helper and sometime restaurant employe living at 5024- A Big Ranch was arrested Napa police a few minutes before midnight Saturday. Officers were tipped by a phone call from Theodore Cyrus Lowry, operator of The Corral at First and Main that a man who had forged a check a few days earlier at Walker's Cafe was in Lowry's place.

OFficers John Mahoney. Ed Elias and Lawrence Antonini rushed to The Corral and took Hodges into custody. The youth allegedly made out a $48 check payable to himself and signed W. Walker." then cashed it himself from the bar cash register, police said. Lowry got the word via the grapevine and called the police department.

N. Y. STOCKS 3 Charged With NEW YORK (AP) Western Attack On Girl railroads, hit by a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, paced a stock market decline today.

Volume for the day was estimated at around 2,000.000 shares compared with 1.830.000 on Friday. The Western carrier underwent heavy selling on news that the court had ruled railroads cannot drill oil and gas deposits along their rights of way. Northern Pacific was the worst sufferer, down more than 2 points at one time. Union Pacific, directly involved in the court decision, took only a fractional loss. A spokesman for the road said the court ruling on -ofway drilling will be negligible.

The Association Press average of 60 stocks at noon was up 10 cents to $175.80 with the industrials up 30 cents, the rails up 20 cents and the utilities unchang ed. On the American Stock Exchange ices were irregularly higher. -Jones 2 p. m. stock aver ages: 30 industrials 477.49.

off 0.12; 20 railroads 145.04. off 0.04; 15 utilities 71.20. off 0.33. and 65 stocks 168.70, off 0.29. George Clason, Author, Dies George S.

Clason. Napa author, died in his home at 2249 First St. yesterday after a long illness. He was 82. Mr.

Clason came to Napa in 1949 from Denver. where he had headed the Clason Publishing and Map Company. He was the author of several books, the best known of which was "The Richest Man in Babylon." He was one of the founders of the Retired Men's Club of Napa. Missouri was his native state. Surviving Mr.

Clason are his wife, Mrs. Ann V. Clason; a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde B.

Clason of York. and a daughter, Mrs. Robin McKown of New York City. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Chapel of the Cuff and Pierce Funeral Service. Double-Decker Freeway Opens SAN FRANCISCO (P California's first double decker treeway.

the initial section of the Embarcadero Freeway, was opened to traffic Monday after nearly two years of construction. The $5,400.000 project bring Peninsula and East Bay traffic closer to the heart of San Francisco. Public Review Of Union Ethics Set ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.

(AP) The United Auto Workers convention today amended the union's constitution to set up a public review board of private citizens to act as a watchdog on union ethics. President Walter P. Reuther announced the show of hands vote was 97 per cent in favor of the action. S. F.

Markets EGGS Prices 10 Poultry Producers Large A4 39-40 large A 38- 40. medium A 32-33. small A 28-29 BUTTER No sales CHEESE No sales LIVE POULTRY Broilers be fryers heavv pe 1hs 20-22 22-23: roasters heavy type ha and over. fowl hens lien: all wits fowl heavy TY DP 1112-12, wt8 18-19: old roosters, all wts. 10-11: squabs, all wta 65.

Girl Injured As Car Hits Tree A 15-year-old Napa girl sustained minor injuries early yes terday morning in the only auto injury accident in Napa Valley over the weekend. Frances Gasser. 1018 Underhill suffered cuts and bruises when the car in which she was riding went wide on a turn and plowed into a tree on 1 Mt. Veeder two miles west of Redwood throwing her from the auto. The coupe's driver was Edward Ortiz.

16. amusement park employe of 3294 Vichy Ave. He was not hurt but was cited bv the California Highway Patrol for driving on the wrong side of the road. Young Ortiz was driving east on the county road when the car went wide on a right turn, skidded in loose soil on the westbound shoulder, and smashed into the tree. Impact sprung the right door open and Miss Gasser was hurled to the ground.

She was taken by a passing motorist to Parks Victory Hospital, where she was given first aid and was released. Traffic accidents killed five persons over the weekend in Northern and Central California. Cancer Drive Pair On Air Tuesday Dr. Herbert Waechtler, educaItional chairman of the Napa County branch of the American Cancer Society, and Robert Zeller, one of the chairmen of the local cancer drive, speak tomorrow morning at 10 a. m.

over Napa station KVON. Waechtler will report on research progress, and Zeller on how the county will benefit directly from the cancer drive. the 1957 with DENISON, Tex. (P) Three Negroes raped a 17-year-old white girl last night while her boy friend was held at gunpoint and charges were filed against two of them today, Police Chief Paul Borum said. It was the first such rape in Grayson County since a mob burned down the courthouse at Sherman in 1931 and hanged the charred body of a Negro accused of raping a white housewife.

Your Handyman is at the end of your phone. The connecting link is Register Classified Ads. BA 6-3711. is a new Tools Valued As $383 Taken On School Job A wave of tool thefts which has plagued the Napa area for the past two months continued last weekend with theft of $383 In equipment from two tool sheds at the site of the new Redwood Junior High Schoo I on Redwood Rd. Police Sgt.

Dewey Burnsed said burglars apparently snipped off padlocks securing the shed doors and made their picks from tools stored inside by Pacific Coast Builders. contractors on the school job. "They were pretty selective. he added. "They left as much stuff as they took." The loot consisted of two Skilsaws, one valued at $120 and the other at $100; a quarter- inch drill worth $48, power screwdriver valued at $50.

$65 halfinch drill and 250 feet of three wire cord worth $30. The break-ins were discovered Saturday night by Police Officers Ed Elias and Bert Hunter as they made a routine check of school grounds. Della B. Fawver Funeral services for Mrs. Della Bales Fawver, a Napa resident for most of her life, were held Saturday at the and Wigger Garden Chapel with Rev.

Merrill Follansbee officiating. Pall bearers were Ralph Trower. Ben Skillings, George Heid. Gene Webber. Ray Sneed and Fred Abruzzini.

Burial was in Tulocay Cemetery. Mrs. Fawver died Thursday at her home following a threemonth illness. Page 7-NAPA REGISTER Protests Before Board Tuesday Four protest hearings will come before the Napa County Board of Supervisors in a meeting at 10 a. m.

tomorrow in the Courthouse. They are the Napa Sanitation District annexations of the Salvador and Valley Glen areas. the proposed abandonment of Summit Lake Rd. on Howell Mountain, and purchase of 20 acres from Louis Abbattino for the Napa County Fairgrounds. Also on the agenda is approval of the paving plans and specifications for a 17-mile stretch of the relocated Berryessa Valley Rd.

If approval IS granted, County Engineer R. O'Neill said bids would be opened May 21 for the project. The proposed joint project by the city and county to improve drainage in the area of Beard Rd. and Pueblo Ave also will be discussed. State Vote Urged On Death Penalty SACRAMENTO A special Assembly subcommittee recommended today that any legislation to abolish capital punishment in California be submitted to the state's voters for a decision.

The -man group headed by Assemblyman John Busterd (R- Francisco) drafted a proposed constitutional amendment which would repeal the death penalty except in kidnap-murders and where a person is twice, convicted of first degree murder. Most ancient Greek discuses Each subscriber to The Register is a potential buyer of your offers were made of stone, according in the Classified Ads. to the Encyclopedia Britannica. superfuel Mobilgas Special pass-power octanes fuel for today's high-horsepower FEEL IT PERFORM SPEED HIGHWAYS. Kenneth Rose Tops Field In Kite Contest Monday, April 8, 1957 Winners of the fifth annual Napa 20-30 Club kite contest held yesterday at Ridgeview Junior High School were announced today.

Kenneth Rose garnered the top prize, a gift of his own selection, for the most outstanding kite with a rocket-like rig of original design. Other winners, listed in order of their prizes, were: Senior division: most artistic, Martha Jacobsen, Martin Jacobsen and Gary Rose: smallest kite, John Batto and. Phillip Troiani; highest flyer, Mike Swank, Paul Batto and Clara Jacobsen. Junior division: most artistic Clara Jacobsen, Jimmy Ashley and Frances McDonald; smallest, Phoebe Troiani, David Potts and Ted Wigger; highest flyer, Bill Robinson, Allen Brandt and Barbara Hendrickson. First prize trophies were donated by the 20-30 Club; seconds, movie passes, by the Uptown Theatre: and thirds, milkshakes, by Lakeside Dairy.

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