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Guaranteed Paid Circulation of The SenUnel-News yesterday was 12,864 MISSED PAPEKJ you phone GA before 8:30 p. m. a special messenger will deliver Sentinel-News to you if you live within city limits. WTATHEB HEPORT Temperature for 24-hour period ended at 8 a. m.

today Maximum 36, minimum 37. Monterey Bay Area Clearing and fair through tomorrow; slightly colder tonight but warmer tomorrow; moderate west-northwest winds. 7 100th Year-No. 99 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1955 K- Sunday and DaQ fc Exceptant aturdyr FOURTEEN PAGES Af7 i vi (9JU fflFM) SJ This Was Groin Before Storm Struck Want; IPrswfi CMnese Mesls Are Sincere In Four New Suits Seek $322,500 From Davenport Cement Firm BBM For Settlement Washington (AP). Secretary of State Dulles said today "we intend to try to find out" whether the Chinese Con munists are sincere in wanting a peaceful Formosa settlement or are "merely playing a propaganda game." Dulles told a news conference the United States could hold direct talks with Communist China as Peiping has urged provided Nationalist China's interests are not direct-Ly at stake.

Be said such talks might be held on a cease-fire though he would prefer United Nations sponsorship. On the question of a peace set Santa Cruz Portland Cement company was named as defendant in four suits totaling $322,500 filed yesterday by plaintiffs who alleged that dust produced by the company's Davenport cement manufacturing plant had caused damage to crops and property values. Plaintiffs and amounts sought were: Tambellini Eros, and Company, growers, $120,000. A. Pera and Margaret Piana-villa, the A.

Pera company, growers, $51,000. Ocean View Ranch company, $73,500. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bella, operators of the Ocean View hotel, $78,000.

Tambellini Bros, and Company, asked $22,500 for unsalable produce; because of reduced salability; $22,500. crop damage; 530,000, because their crop is lim ited to sprouts: personal discomfort; $4500, extra work; $6000, extra Irrigation; and $9000 equipment damage. A. Pera company, asked $12,000 because only Brussels sprouts could be raised. $6000, physical discomfort; $2500 extra help; $2500 extra cultivation and irrigation; and $1500 equipment damage.

Ocean View Ranch sought for ruined produce; $12,000, crop damage; $12,000, lowered quality; $22,500 because only Brussels sprouts could be raised; $6000 personal discomfort; $3000, extra help: $3000, extra irrigation; and $3000, equipment damage. Ocean View Hotel asked depreciation in value of structure: $22,500, loss of patronage: $9000, physical discomforts; $5000, increased maintenance costs; and $2500 private property damage. Another suit filed against the cement firm by Coast Dairies and Land company for $150,000 is already pending. Public Schools Week Opens In Santa Cruz By Roberta King "Eternal vigilance is the erica tr a xt--x -c--- xx A i -V 'rstL 1 i vV; -IT 'J toi, 1 s- i- II iiMIWIM jinn i i i V- 1fitn il.ilmi im.nTiiT.-i ii. 1 i o4ibs! 9st9Wjhaiii En Consumer mrvey rawing tomorrow by joining this string with three similar ones and placing all four at once with the aid of an army landing craft and the big bulldozer at the left of the picture.

morning to reposition the string but Lieut. Neil Cline, platoon commander, was pessimistic that the correction might be undone today in the face of an incoming tide. A different approach will be made Winners in the consumers' survey drawing sponsored by the merchants' committee of the chamber of commerce were announced today. One dozen lucky names most of them feminine were pulled from a box at civic auditorium this morning before chamber staff members began leafing through the thousands of returned questionnaires registering the feelings of Santa Cruz shoppers. "The response was very gratifying," said Ralph Ring, manager-secretary of the chamber.

Shoppers found the questionnaires at 19 local food markets, filled them out and returned Missing Man Is Found Quickly James Shetsline, 56, spent only a few hours on the missing persons list yesterday before a sharp-eyed policeman found him in the heart of the downtown area. Shetsline disappeared from his home at 1015 Ocean street over the weekend, leaving behind a note threatening suicide and taking with him a .45 caliber automatic. Patrolman Jack Nelson spotted Shetsline near the courthouse annex yesterday afternoon. Shetsline was carrying a paper bag. Nelson looked inside and found the automatic.

Shetsline was released in custody of his former wife, a physician, and police retained the gun. USWV To Hold Mustering In Rites Today Members of the Santa Cruz department 92, United Spanish War Veterans, will hold their annual mustering in ceremonies this afternoon at the Veterans Memorial building. Today is the 57th anniversary of the calling in of the National Guard units to duty for the Spanish-American war. tlement in Europe, Dulles took the same line as with respect to the Far East. The United States also intends to find out "whether the Soviet Union is sincere" in its proposals for concluding an Austrian treaty, he said.

A statement with which the secretary opened his first news conference in two weeks declared that developments at the recent Asian-African conference at Bandung, and Russia's declared interest in winding up the Austrian controversy, may be "of decisive importantce" for world peace. Before Dulles' meeting with newsmen, Sen. George (D-Ga) said the absence of Nationalist China from the conference table should not prevent UJS. peace talks with Red China. Dulles pledged to protect and respect the interests of Nationalist China in what he called the proving of Red intentions.

He would not specify precise steps for clarification. He said nothing has been done yet that the whole program of action is only now being considered. George, who heads the senate foreign relations committee, went a step further than the state department has been willing to go up to this time, in renewing his proposal for a conference to seek a way to ease tensions in the Formosa area. The department's official position thus far has been that American representatives would not be willing to talk with Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unless Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government was represented too. In a new development, the united States was understood yesterday to have decided against any direct talks with Red China unless the Chinese Communists come through with more conciliatory gestures than they have made so far.

George, a chief Democratic spokesman on foreign policy, said he would be willing to waive the Nationalist representation condition, at least in exploratory discussions. At Taipei, Nationalist spokesmen have said they would not parley with the Reds. "All rights of both parties could be reserved at any conference that could be arranged," George said. "With those rights reserved, I think it would be advantageous to have preliminary talks with the Communists to learn if it is possible to make some approach to a peaceful settlement." MAN PLEADS GUILTY Wayne Hovis, 29, 133 Broadway, was given a 40-day sentence today on his plea of guilty to a charge of drunken vagrancy. He was arrested yesterday for disturbing residents of a Pacific avenue apartment house.

Municipal Judge James J. Scoppettone suspended one day of Hovis' sentence so he might later cut short the term provided Hovis exhibits good behavior. Executive ular visitings days will be announced for the plant in the near future to continue throughout the summer months. Holcomb, who personally greeted visitors of the plant today, has handled all the arrangements for the location and construction of the Wrigley plant in Saoia Cruz. of liberty, equality and freedom: eternal vigilance is the price of free public education," said Lloyd E.

Wilson, San Francisco youth leader, in an address at the civic auditorium last night. Wilson, grand secretary of the Masons of California, was the speaker at last night's county-wide rally, which formally opened Public Schools week in Santa Cruz with a well-received educational and musical program. Rev. Ed Cunningham, pastor of the First Congregational church. welcomed a crowd of about 500 students, parents and friends from all over Santa Cruz countv.

at master of ceremonies. Speaking on "Education for Freedom," Wilson pointed out that freedom is more than a written guarantee. It is rather a quality within that gives freedom of spirit, mind and life, he said. Looking out over the partly-filled auditorium, Wilson observed, "I have long ceased to Worry about empty seats; my greatest concern is the seats that are filled. If public schools were in danger, the auditorium would be filled.

To us who are here, it is the welfare of our children and grandchildren that brought us here." Commenting on the number of school bond issues that are voted down, the speaker said, "Perhaps we should give the recreation back to the department where it belongs and concentrate more time, money and buildings on education." The Santa Cruz high school orchestra, directed by Norman A. Walters, led off the musical program with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. After a program of orchestra selections, the audience heard the Watsonville high school A Cappella choir, directed by Dr. Ralph Kent. The program closed with spirited music played by the San Lorenzo Valley high school band, led by William Tyler.

Flood Control Conference Set Tonight Councilmen will meet with army engineers tonight to let the army know where the city stands on the proposed San Lorenzo river flood control project. City Manager Robert Klein, who tried unsuccessfully last week to set a date for the meeting, has arranged for it to take place in the council chamber tonight at 6:45 45 minutes before the regular council session opens. Army officials want to know how much of the overall San Lorenzo project the city want carried out in the near future and how much money the city can raise to help with financing. Local communities, according to federal law, must pay for 8.9 per cent of this type of project. Cost of the entire project, some parts of which have been completed, is estimated at $2,565,000.

Santa Cruz' share of this would come to $227,500. When the regular session gets under way councilmen will hear the salary requests of policemen and other city employes. Both groups are expected to present the same demands they made last week before the city civil service commission. The commission's recommendations in the matter also will be given the council. Two ordinances are up for final adoption.

One will cut in half the 10,000 square feet minimum lot requirements for an area adjoining the Bay street reservoir. The second declares the city's intention to abandon those portions of Owen and Watson streets fronting the Stokely-Van Camp cannery. Bids for a small street-patching roller will be opened and the contract awarded the low bidder. The city manager probably will be authorized to advertise for bids for a replacement street sweeper. New members will be appointed to the recreation and planning commissions to compensate for recent resignations and new coun-cilmen will draw posts as liaison members of various city commissions.

BAKERSFIELD MAYOR IS RE-ELECTED Bakersfield UP). Mayor Manuel Carnakis was re-elected to a second two-year term by members of the citv council last night. He I was the only man nominated. them. Those who included their names and addresses were eligible for this morning's drawing.

The winners: Mrs. Joseph Olsen, Rt. 1, Box 1126, Aptos, electric shaver from Bibbins Home and Auto Supply; Mrs. Catherine Rohan, 225 Fair-mount avenue, portable radio from Burdick TV; Mrs. E.

Allen, Felton, electric toaster from Ha-ber's Eastern Furniture; E. A. Watson, 4111 Nova drive, sport shirt from Leibbrandt's. A. E.

Blakely, 527 Bellevue avenue, garden hose from Santa Cruz Hardware; Mrs. Isabelle Millsap, Soquel, kitchen clock from Western Auto Supply; Mrs. Helen Lay, 232 Ocean View avenue, pen from Bowman-Forgey stationery store; Mrs. Helen Kar-ger, 416 Soquel avenue, cooker-fryer from Dysle's Eastside Home Appliance store; Lenna M. Nelms, 316 Broadway, lady's purse from Leask's; Mrs.

M. Hart, 204 Stanford avenue, men slacks from Morris Abrams; Lu cille Pepper, 707 Washington street, baseball glove from the Sportsman's Shop; Mrs. C. C. Gleason, 2 04 Roberts avenue.

camera kit from Wicklund's Sta tionery and Camera shop. A-Bomb Test Is Set Tomorrow Survival City, Nev. bt. The big civil defense atomic open shot will be set off tomorrow, weather permitting, the atomic energy commission said today. The elaborate test originally was scheduled for this morning, but had been postponed for 24 hours.

There will be another briefing at 9:30 tonight, the AEC said. Waning winds indicate the weather picture should be favorable tomorrow. Chicago at Pittsburgh, postponed, rain. St. Louis at Philadelphia, post poned, wet grounds.

sive promotional campaign in conjunction with the operation of the Santa Cruz plant. The open house held here this week was an unprecedented move in the history of gum manufacturing, the first time that visitors have ever been allowed to tour a gum plant A schedule of reg-O was quite a different one today changed radically by last night's storm. Wind and rough water knocked the "string" out of place, pushing it partly behind the rocky cliff at right. Soldiers worked mightily this WFily9 Hundreds of visitors thronged the new Wrigley plant on Mission street and their cars jammed curb space for blocks around as the company threw open the doors cf its model factory for public inspection. Exclamations of delight were wrung from visitors as they walked through the big glass doors fronting the main lobby and were enveloped in a delicious, spicy aroma compounded of equal parts of Spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Friut, the three flavors turned out at the plant.

The public, invited to inspect gum-making operations between the hours of 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, showed up in force and early, too. Knots of spectators had gathered by 8:15 this morning and though it was an hour and a quarter before the scheduled opening, Manager Ben Duerr ordered the doors opened and the two-day tour was on. Arrows and chain-link ropes guided men, women and children cf all ages through the various stages of manufacture from raw chicle to wrapped product.

Attractively-uniformed girls added to the scenery as they answered thousands of questions. Everyone connected with the manufacture of chewing gum seemed to wear some sort of clean, efficient uniform. Girls and women, hair tucked beneath caps, were evident in most phases of the operation. R. R.

Holcomb, Wrigley executive vice president who built the plant and who Is responsible for the operation of this and 18 other similar factories, was seen ambling along with visitors. Duerr disclosed that the Mission street operation turns out 7.000,000 sticks of chewing gum per eight-hour working day. Shipments go to eight western states and the entire Pacific area. Tours for groups of youngsters will be arranged later and will be guided by a hostess, but children of the Scotts Valley school a bus load of them jumped the gun and pulled up to the plant this morning. With their teachers they joined the tour.

Visitors, chewing their favorite flavor as they left the plant, paused between munches to admire the tasteful lines of the Luilding in its attractive setting. Inside, they had seen the infinite pains taken to assure cleanliness throughout all stages of production. Those questioned siid they were proud and glad to have the world's foremost chewing gum producer located in Santa Cruz. OAKLAND CHIEF SAYS SHOOTING JUSTIFIED Oakland Two police officers who shot and killed a Southern Pacific special agent Saturday were justified in investigating the agent's presence in the railroad yards, Chief Wyman W. Vernon said yesterday.

This is how the first section of the experimental groin going into the surf off Twin Lakes looked yesterday as army engineers filled the steel pontoons with sand ballast. The picture Rain, Hail, Snow Come With Storm Santa Cruz county might well have provided a good testing ground for fledgling mailmen last Eight, with a variety of storms. Hail pelted Davenport yesterday afternoon. It was replaced by a heavy wind last night. Strong gusts blew a bam down at Scotts Valley, according to unconfirmed reports.

At 10 p.m. the first of several heavy hail storms banged windows at Felton. Mount Hermon as peppered by hail through the aight, as well. Empire Grade residents were greeted by a thick blanket of snow on the ground. It still was snowing off and on there this morning, but not enough remained on the ground to make a good snowball.

Heaviest rainfall was reported at Aptos, where drenching storms came down at midnight and at 3 a.m. today. The 24-hour rainfall total there at 8 a.m. today was an inch and a half. In Santa Cruz the abrupt ffternoon storm brought down only .23 of an inch of rain.

No roads were blocked by storm damage in Santa Cruz county, bounty Road Commissioner Fred Pracht reported, although there were a few minor slides. Pracht had an anxious eye on the uncertain skies this morning. Nine road improvement jobs, started before the surprise spring rains started, remain closed down for the second week, while road crews try to keep new surfaces in condition to oil, the road commissioner said. The surfacing jobs, nearly completed when the rains came, include almost the length of Valencia road, and sections of Green alley road, Larkin Valley road, 30th avenue, Portola drive, Smith Grade, Felton Grade, the Lom-pico entrance and Riverside drive in Ben Lomond. Here are the rainfall figures supplied by weather stations, for the 24-hours to 8 a.m.

today: 24 hrs. 1955 1954 Santa Cruz .23 23.98 Live Oak .48 23.88 Fmpire Grade 1.27 50.15 Ben Lomond 1.20 41.98 Boulder Creek 1.41 46.51 Felton .70 35.54 Cave Gulch .60 32.60 Scotts Valley .65 35.56 Davenport .40 18.59 Capitola .50 21.28 Soquel .43 22 Aptos 1.50 3032 Ledyard Acres .78 22.58 ML Hermon .73 34.20 20.92 22.22 47.51 38.85 42.63 31.87 38.67 31.49 17.82 17.75 19.08 18.73 19.40 34.04 Index Amusements 8 Classified Section 10-11-12 Comics 9 Editorial Features 13 Home Ground 4 iunior Editor 13 larkets 12 Radio and TV Programs 8 Society, Club News 3 Sports 7 Vital Statistics 12 Waterfront 6 Mayor Congratulates Wrigley 4 le, 5 QHupit In Newport, R.I. An explosion at the navy's underwater ordnance station today left four men known dead, one missing and five injured. All were civilians, Rear Adm. Joseph H.

Wellings, naval base commander, announced. The blast was caused by highly compressed air and fluid used in testing torpedo heads. It occurred in the dynamometer room in the end of a building at Coddington Cove overlooking Ferry Landing. About 20 persons were at work in the building, a cement affair about 150 feet long. Wellings said there may be one or two more victims in the debris.

The blast was heard plainly on Jamestown Island nine miles away. Next of kin were being notified and the navy said no identification would be made immediately. The dynamometer room is used for testing torpedo parts, especially propulsion parts. 'Grand Ole Opry' May-Or May Not Show Here Civic Auditorium Manager Ray Judah will be more than a bit surprised if the "Grand Ole Opry" company shows up to keep its engagement tonight. Three telegrams and a number of telephone calls have failed to elicit a concrete reply from the touring hillbilly troupe, which booked the civic auditorium for tonight by telegraph last month when they were in Spokane.

The last attempt at contact was made yesterday, when the group was in Fresno. But, contrary to information sent Judah, no advance man has arrived, no publicity work has been done and no arrangements have been made for ticket sales. "We are assuming that the show is not appearing," Judah said at noon today. "There is no trace of these people at all. That's all I can say and that's all I know." SPORTS BULLETIN Cleveland Pitcher Bob Lemmon won his own ball game today, poking a home run in the fourth inning, as Cleveland's Indians trounced the Washington Senators 3-2.

A homer by Bob Avila, with a man on base, provided the Tribe's only other scoring. It was Lemon's fourth straight victory, with no losses. Washington 010 001 0002 9 0 Cleveland .200 001 0003 5 1 McDermott and Fitzgerald: Lemon and Hegan. and a half and he 22. Both husband and wife preached for two years in a church in Munday, and both "spoke in tongues," according to the testimony.

The prosecution in its cross-examination asked nearly every witness if the situation which obsessed Webb involved true facts. All admitted they did. Depositions Are Heard In Webb Trial The counsel for Henry Herman Webb continued this morning to build up testimony of witnesses from Texas who believed that the father of 10 children convicted of murdering Steven B. Kirkendoll Christmas morning was insane before and during the offense. Relatives, friends and business associates of the 46-year-old "sometime preacher" agreed that he slowly went insane following his financial troubles, the divorce from his wife, and the loss of his younger children.

One of the highlights of this morning's session was the testimony by deposition of J. B. Cotton of Seagraves, an attorney and former district attorney. The 68-year-old attorney said that Webb had consulted him six times for legal advice following his trouble, and formed the opinion that he was insane. "We would give him the information he wanted, but he would ask the same questions over and over.

He wanted to make a will because he said 'It was dangerous to go out yonder (California)'. He would ramble on and on, sometimes in a screaming tone of a woman. Another deposition testimony from G. C. Grider, a former judge and now an O'Donnell real estate man, was read.

He said he knew Webb for 25 years and was convinced that he was insane during the latter part of 1954. Every time I saw him he would tell me the same story, just revolving, about his family trouble, until he wore me out. In December he came to my office and wanted to sell his land, then he suddenly changed and wanted to buy. He did not know what he wanted. It was just a jumble of words," he said.

Both witnesses said that Webb's mental condition got worse as time ment on. Fifteen year old Marylin Wilson, a niece, said Webb would come around to a "Snow Cone" stand she and her mother ran in Rochester, and start telling his story to strangers who came to buy cones. Emmi Jean Webb, whose husband is Webb's cousin, took the stand to say she believed Webb to be insane December 25, "by the manner in which he expressed himself when he visited us." She gave the same story about Webb's constant talking about his wife and children. Dr. Julian Jacobson, 140 Rulof-son street, who examined Webb when the trial began April 5, said he believed Webb to be of the hysterical type and psycho-neurotic.

Assistant Prosecutor Oliver Ros-tain, who cross-examined the de-position witnesses in Texas brought out through his questions that Grider had been a casual business acquaintance and saw Webb about 25 times in 1954. Webb spent much of the morning staring down at the table in front of him. Yesterday it was brought out that Webb quit school when he finished the eighth grade and married Erma when she was 14 1 i Hx x. i It ft jx 1 Mayor Tom Polk Williams, right, congratulates R. R.

Holcomb, first vice president of the William Wrigley Jr. company, on the open house of the new gum manufacturing plant in Santa Cruz. Now producing Wrigley's famous brands for the west, in the west, the Wrigley company planning a exten.