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WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24 hour period ended at 8 a. m. today Maximum 78, minimum 43. Monterey Bay Area Fair through Thursday with patches of morning fog; little temperature change: northwesterly winds 7-15 m.p.h. in afternoons.

Guaranteed Paid Circulation of Tha Sentinel-News vesterday was 12,687 MISSED PAPILKT rou phone MOO before 8 JO p. epeclal cnessenieer will deliver a Sentinel-News to you tf rou lire within the dry limits. 99th Year-No. 171 SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1954 5c Sunday and Dally Excepting Saturday FOURTEEN PAGES Slips On Trestle, Lands In San Lorenzo River Reds Want To Use Indochina Plan For Korean Settlement 5000 Acres Burned Over Susanville, Calif. (A.P.V A wind-swept fire in the Tahoe and Tayable National forests, on the California-Nevada border, had burned over about 5000 acres today.

About two million feet of pine timber had been destroyed, but the biggest immediate damage was destruction of th winter deer range, forestry offi President Says He Does Not Believe Communists Want War Park Commission Will Hold State Meeting Here $fc 7 Full membership of the state park commission will be here to participate in the dedication of Henry Cowell Redwoods state park, Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge disclosed today. Coolidge said the commission will hold its next meeting on August 13 in Santa Cruz's Palomar hotel. The next day Coolidge plans to show the commission all the state-owned beaches and parks in Santa Cruz county and recreation areas, such as Twin Lakes, which have been proposed for state ownership and development. Sunday, August 15, is the day Park Commission Chairman Joseph R.

Knowland will formally accept the deeds for 1600 acres of Valley Redwood land from a representative of Harry Cowell, who gave most of it for public use, and from Phil Rowe, board of supervisors chairman who will hand over the title for the old County Big Trees park. The other commissioners who will tour the county and participate in the park dedication ceremonies are Guilford H. Whitnev of San Diego, Charles Kasch of Ukiah, Dr. Robert E. Burns of Stockton and Leo Carnllo of Santa Monica.

A reporter asked what significance the president attached to the fact that, for just about the first time in 20 years, there isn't a war going on somewhere in the world. Thoughtfully, Eisenhower said he never has felt that except for satellite excursions the Communist world wants war with the West at this time. He went on to say he does not believe the Kremlin intends to make a deliberate challenge to the free world a challenge to a war of exhaustion. Eisenhower also said anybody who accuses him of trying to destroy the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is in error to put it as mildly as possible. The administration's attitude toward TVA has come under hot debate in the senate, revolving about an Eisenhower-endorsed proposal for a new private power source in the Tennessee valley.

As for his legislative program in general, Eisenhower said he thinks it is coming along in good shape although congress is not giving him everything he asked for. He spoke without rancor of yesterday's house vote turning down his four-year public housing program, and said simply he will make recommendations to the next congress aimed at meeting the housing needs which will exist at that time. Washington President Eisenhower, commenting on the Indochina cease-fire agreement, said today he does not believe the Communists want war at this time. Eisenhower said in a formal statement at his news conference the agreement "contains features which we do not like but a great deal depends on how they work in practice." He said the United States is working actively with other free nations to organize rapidly a "collective defense in Southeast Asia in order to prevent further, direct or indirect Communist ag gression in that general area." Although the president said he didn't wish to discuss Indochina beyond the formal statement, because of the delicacy of the situation, he did say later on that if there is one good to come out of the settlement it is this: It may get the free world to look facts in the face and determine what sacrifices it would be willing to make in the cause of preserving freedom. The president began his news conference with a prepared statement saying he was glad agreement to stop the bloodshed in Indochina had been reached, although "the agreement contains features which we do not like." Eisenhower said "any renewal of Communist aggression would be viewed by us as a matter of grave concern." Supervisors Conclude Hearings On Assessments After Calling Deputy To Maintain Order Live Oak Fire Chief Assails Motorists Who Blocked Firemen From Reaching Workshop Blaze Gale Yount, 10, of 324 Pennsylvania avenue, followed the course marked out above late yesterday slipping through the and friend, escaped with minor injuries and today was none the worse for his 30 to 40 foot unge.

The arrow shows the fall route. ties of the railroad trestle and plunging down into the San Lorenzo river. The boy, who was on his way home from an afternoon of fishing with his brothers It Was Fine Day For Fishing, But Going Home Was Boy Falls From Railroad Trestle Pact CaMs For Mecittosi London (JP). Red China's Premier Chou En-lai and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov declared tonight the Geneva settlement on Indochina points the way for a similar settlement in Korea. The Moscow Radio broadcast statements made by the two Red leaders at the end of the Geneva talks. "This gives new hope for the peaceful settlement of the Korean problem," Chou said. MolotOV hailed th agreement as "a stride along the path of relaxation of tension in international relations," and added "As has been shown by the Geneva conference, the path for negotiations (on Korea) between the states concerned could under certain conditions produce such results as are in accordance with the interests of nations and the interest of strengthening universal peace." By Lynn Heinzerling Geneva (JP). France and the three Associated States of Indochina signed armistice agreements with the Communists today that extend the Iron Curtain around north Viet Nam, a land of 13 million.

The United States warned it would view "with grave concern" any revival of agression violating the agreements. The warning was delivered by U. S. Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith at the closing session of the conference in the Palace of Nations after other dele gates had taken note of a final declaration wrapping up the various pacts to end the 7V2 -year-old war. It was taken as clear notice to the Asian Communists that the United States intends to proceed with its old plans for establishment of a security system in Southeast Asia.

Repeating a declaration made three days ago that the United States would not use force to disturb the agreements, Smith said it would regard any fresh aggression in the Indochina theater as "seriously threatening peace and security." He said the United States would still seek United Nations supervision of elections to be held in Viet Nam, though the Communists have rejected such supervision. Smith told the conference the United States was not prepared to "join in a declaration by the conference such as is submitted." The final declaration of the conference was a three-page document, listing in 13 paragraphs the various agreements reached here for establishing peace. Gen. Georges Delteil of France and Gen. Ta Quang Buu of the Vietminh rebels signed armistice agreements covering Viet Nam and Laos just 3 hours and 50 minutes after the Tuesday midnight deadline French Premier Pierre Mendes France had set for peace or his resignation.

A truce for the third Indochina state, Cambodia, was signed with the Vietminh later today. Representatives of all parties to the Indochina conference gathered ior the ceremony. But the big event had come nine hours earlier in the signing of the agreement on Viet Nam and Laos. The simple signing ceremony, under a blaze of photographers' lights in the former home of the League of Nations, called a halt to an eight-year war in which 92,000 soldiers of the French Union expeditionary corps died or disappeared. It also laid a Korea-like partition across the 42-mile waist of Viet Nam, Indochina's largest, richest and most populous state, about at the 17th parallel of latitude.

Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh will take over the destinies of the residents north of the line. The 10 million Vietnamese below the partition will live under the pro-Western regime of chief of state Bao Dai. All-Vietnamese elections, not earlier than one year from today and not later than two years, are supposed to reunite the divided country. But Western officials here generally conceded the "temporary" partition, line probably will become a political and ideological frontier like those which split Germany and Korea. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 500 2 New York 200 0 Cleveland 000 43 Boston 024 00 Baltimore at Washington, Detroit at Philadelphia, night games.

NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 10 Chicago 001 00 Brooklyn at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at Milwaukee, Pittsburgh at St. Louis, night games. cials said. The man-caused fire started about five miles east of Loyalton in Smithneck Creek. It burned over timberland which had been cut some years ago.

Some 300 men, including many from a San Quentin prison camp, were fighting the flames. They had controlled about 50 per cent of the fire's perimeter. "We do not expected to control the blaze until tomorrow, if. then, because we are faced with nasty winds," a forestry official said. He said the bitter brash on which deer feed does not grow again after a fire.

Four other blazes had burned over more than 25 square miles of California and Nevada timber and ranchland. By far the most spectacular blaze blackened over 10,000 acres about 50 miles east of here, centering around Hallelujah Junction. It wat visible in Reno, 30 miles southeast. About 150 men had the blaze under control last midnight. But firefighters from both states had controlled the fire Monday midnight only to see flames jump fire lanes and race northward on 25-to-30 mile winds yesterday before being brought to a haft for the second time.

Petition unon motion nt TTarts onded by Gregory. Other netit.inns nrpspntprf hv Hf. Hugh were all denied. These included his nrnnprtv at RM Miccinn street, his property at Brookdale, 1.1 A. tir'ii' i mat oi wniiam uiapp and Francis E.

T)ir at R31 Ha street and Milton Roy and Lena May Struble of 2-1601 East Cliff anve. The petitions were all denied on the grounds no requests were made and no comparisons were submitted as to like property. McHugh contended that all property within certain radii of Santa Cruz were comparable. The board maintained it should be adjacent, or nearly so. "I'd like to remark that Mr.

McHugh likes to put on a show every year," Rowe said at one time. "This is the last year I'll be putting on a show in front of you, Mr. Rowe," McHugh retorted. As he finished his presentation, McHugh attempted to sum up the reasons the board would not act on the petitions. "I'd like to have the board sign such a statement," McHugh said.

"You're just wasting your time, I wouldn't sign any statement," Rowe said. Other board members nodded their heads in agreement. Sommer's problem was a little different. He said his land was assessed at $1640 and his improvements at $340Q at 608 Mission street He wanted to know why there was an increase of $720 on his improvements. Deputy Assessor Duke Eskridge, in reciting a history of the property, said that apparently after March 1, 1948, the existing garage was remodeled into living quarters and a new garage built "This is the first year the men checked any new additions that might have been made," Eskridge stated.

He said the appraiser, upon his first visit to the property, was refused admittance, but that after he was ordered to return to the place and make an appraisal he was allowed to do so by Sommer. "There is a total appraised value of $12,630 on the property, Eskridge reported. "There is a reflected sale of $21,500 and I understand the property is up for sale at $25,000." Sommer wanted to know why the property hadn't been put on the assessment rolls prior to this year. The board and Mellon answered that it had been discovered just this year, and that there were a number of like instance. It was then that Sommer expressed his opinion regarding the character of the board.

Tulare Bus Line To Abandon Service San Francisco UD. The state public utilities commission yesterday authorized the Tulare Bus Lines, which operates in and around Tulare, to abandon all service immediately. In a petition filed last June 20 the company said it had suffered heavy losses in revenue the first four months of the year, averaging two or less passengers per load. It sought permission to go out of business as soon as possible. County supervisors wound up their annual marathon sitting as the county board of equalization to hear protests on the 1594-55 assessment rolls this morning at 11:40, but not before they called the sheriff's office to keep order in their chambers.

The hubbub and consequent confusion came when Tom McHugh and John J. Sommer appeared to protest their assessments and those of other persons for whom they appeared as agents. Sommer had just been turned down on his application for a reduction on his property. "This is a rotten bunch of an outfit," Sommer exploded as he left the chair he was occupying inside the railing during his hearing. "Okay, I'll take it up with the whatchamacallit I'll take you all into court." "That's pretty close to contempt," Supervisor C.

B. Harts commented. "In contempt of what?" McHugh wanted to know. "It seems to me there are all kinds of snide remarks flying around," Sommer said as he took a seat in the audience. "3Ir.

Rowe, will you call the sheriff and have him place a man in here?" Supervisor Frank Clement shouted over the ensuing babble. "I'll clear the room, believe me," Board Chairman Phil Rowe answered. McHugh was sworn in as agent for J. F. Simonet with property at 217 National street.

The petition, which stated the land was assessed a $350 and the improvements at $700, claimed the assessments to be arbitrary, unjust and unequalized. According to the applicant, $3 million in assessments had been transferred from the most valuable lands in the county to the poorest lands, the tidelands should revert to the nub- lic and action undertaken to bring mis apout locally, and assessments had not been equalized in five years. "There's no reduction requested?" Supervisor Alvin Gregory wanted to know. "None," Clement answered, "and no comparisons of like property have been supplied." "I came here to make a statement and I'll make it," McHugh said. "I contend no equalization of assessments has been made since 1949 The community has already elected a new assessor and these protests are made with the purpose of going elsewhere with them." "None of this is pertinent," the board said in chorus.

"I'll ask you to confine your remarks to the petition at hand," Rowe told McHugh. McHugh began quoting from the methods of procedure and court decisions regarding boards of equalization and Rowe, after making an unsuccessful attempt to phone the sheriff, got up and left the room. He returned shortly with Deputy Ferd Tihista, who remained in the room during the remainder of the hearing. McHugh attempted to elicit information from Mellon on how- he arrived at his assessments. "Your petition is so far out of order that we shouldn't listen to you at all," Rowe commented.

Following more discussion in a similar vein, the board denied the jam created, he said, by motorists attracted by the fire. "I regret that I had to take such action," Hansen said this morning, "but the road to the fire was completely blocked by sightseers and emergency traffic would not have been possible. "I feel that it is necessary to bring this matter to the attention of those in this district who may feel it their duty to attend a "The 25 men on my roster are capable and therefore, unless I call for special assistance, I do not need volunteers." Hansen said while he was talcing license numbers, he was questioned by several persons as to his right to take the law into his own hands. Hansen said that Captain H. F.

Calhoun of the highway patrol assured him that the highway patrol would back him up 100 per cent in his actions. Calhoun said this morning: "Hansen does have definite authority to make arrests if he deems it necessary to maintain order at a fire." He said there are many laws concerning the public following fire units to the scene of the fire. Hansen said that Furlong had insurance on the buildings. IBMIdnimg Permits Eight new homes were among 45 building permits with a total valuation of $94,301 issued here during the week of July 14 to 21, the city building department an nounced today. Five television aerials were included.

New home construction for which permits were issued included the following: Harry Fegan, 139 Catalpa street, $9544; Glen B. Craig, 211 Frederick street, $6976; H. A. Sherwood, 229 Forest avenue, $3765; Ed Kingham, 112 Third avenue, 988; Leland Stevens, 903 Laurent, George Skoegard, 115 Belvedere Terrace, Albert Kensinger, 616 Columbia street, $5760; R. L.

Nowlen, 432 Effey street, $6733. Will Reactivate Parks Air Force Base September 7 Oakland Parks Air Force Base will be reactivated as the Western basic training center for the air force on September 7. Base Commander Col. William E. Carpenter said yesterday new airmen from California, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Utah would be trained there.

The base has been a processing center since last September. Its personnel will rise from 10,000 to 15,000 under the new plan. ThA T.ivp Oak volunteer fire rhipf who couldn't get within a half-mile of a fire last night be cause of fire-cnasing motorists, leu his car and walked to the blaze, taking the license numbers of 76 automobiles on the way and turn ed them over to tne mgnway patrol. The fire, which started from an unknown cause in an empty apartment above a double garage and workshop owned by II. A.

Furlong, 3165 Gross road off 41st avenue, completely gutted the buildings before the Live Oak volunteer fire department could nudge its rig through the clutter of curious motorists to bring it under control. Fire Chief Howard Hansen said that the rig was halted several times while motorists moved their cars, out of the right-of-way. One fireman, Assistant Chief Richard Pound, damaged his car when he had to pull into a ditch to get around the line of cars blocking the dead-end street, according to Hansen. Flames which brightened the Live Oak area about 8:50 o'clock, destroyed an apartment full of wedding gifts of the owner's son, Glen Furlong and his wife along with many tools and equipment in the work shop. A tractor, truck and auto was saved from the garage behind the Furlongs' home.

Sixteen 'volunteers fought to prevent the fire from destroying a chicken house nearby housing 3000 chickens. The building was aflame when the firemen arrived. A refill of the rig's water tanks was required during the battle. Hansen and other Live Oak volunteers were taking a swimming life-saving course at the Santa Cruz Athletic club when the alarm was sounded. He drove to within a half-mile of the fire when he ran into a road Mary T.

Dietz, Ben Lomond Pioneer, Dies Mary Theresa Dietz, 88, who was active in Ben Lomond community affairs for nearly half a century, died today at a local rest home. She had been ill for the past several months. A resident of Ben Lomond for 55 years, Mrs. Dietz participated in civic functions until the last few years. She was especially well known for her work with the firemen's dances, helping organize committees and providing refreshments for the benefit affairs.

Surviving her are three daughters, Mrs. Vera Williams of Honolulu, Mrs. Olga Snell and Mrs. Adiene Jones of Ben Lomond; also three grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. She was a native of Liverpool, England.

Private services will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. at the Brenk-witz mortuary, with Msgr. William MacLoughlin officiating. Burial will be at. Holy Cross cemetery.

Junior College Cost Will Go Up In County Santa Cruz county taxpayers will pay $173,091.75 this fiscal year in tuition for students here who last year attended 12 different junior colleges in California, County Schools Superintendent Fikes said today. Of this total, 8157,091.76 must be raised by junior college tuition tax this year; the balance repre sents a surplus over last year's estimates, largely because of raises in evaluation and delinquent tax payments. Miss Fikes reported. She pointed to a steady increase in cost of sending students out of the county for their junior college education, recalling that Santa Cruz county taxpayers payed a to tal of $168,286.38 last year in tui tion due nine colleges for the fiscal year 1952-53. In 1951-52, 14 colleges collected $143,239, Miss Fikes said, and for 1939-51 the amount was She compared the steady rise in total amounts to be sent out of the county each year for junior college tuition to the number grad uating from three high schools in Santa Cruz county, to show the rise in costs.

In 1951, the schools superintend ent reported, 478 graduated from Santa. Cruz county high schools; 503 in 1952; 475 in 1953, and 518 in 1954. She gave this budget breakdown on county tuition tax money due now: City College of San Francis co, average daily attendance last vear, 6.939, College of San Mateo, ada 1.120, College of the Sequoias, ada 1.139, 8557.83; Contra Costa junior college, ada .92, Fullerton district junior college, ada .0895, Glendale junior college, ada 1.95, Hartnell junior college, ada 138.80, $104,680.10 (minus $175 credit due the county for money paid on GI tuition); Los Angeles city junior college, ada .74, Monterey Peninsula lun ior college, ada 97.085, San Jose junior college, ada 5.818, Stockton junior college, ada 1.2438, Yuba county junior college, ada 1.379, $771.54. Scouts Get Out Of Burning Bus Without Incident Sacramento W. A passing motorist yelled to John Wales that his bus was burning and in seconds 32 Berkeley-bound Girl Scouts were guided from the vehicle.

Wales was taking the girls home yesterday from a Sierra camping trip when the fire was noticed at a Sacramento intersection. The blaze, caused by a faulty carburetor, was under control before the fire department arrived. The girls were transferred to other buses in the scout convoy. It was a swell day for fishing yesterday so the gang went down to the end of the municipal wharf to try their luck. There was Gale Yount, who is 10, and his brothers, Dickie and Darryl, and there was Norman Black, their pal, who also lives out on Pennsylvania avenue.

All kids, but all growing up fast. They had pretty good luck off the wharf. Gale caught a couple of them, perch and torn cod, for example. But most of all, the gang had fun, out in the open under a hot sun, dropping their lines in the ocean, and, when they caught one, putting it in a box in the baskets on their bikes. It was on their way home that bad luck overtook them.

Gale, anyhow. They were moving in single file, pushing their bikes over the railroad trestle runs high above the San Lorenzo river from the beach to the cliff under East Cliff drive. That's when it happened. "We were stepping on the ties and pushing our bikes," Gale told it. "Something got caught on my pedal and 1 reached down to fix it.

"Next thing I knew I was in the river!" Gale, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Yount, 324 Pennsylvania avenue, made it sound pretty easy, but it wasn't quite that simple. What happened, according to the police, was this: Somehow, as Gale was fixing the pedal, he slipped.

Nine times out of 10, he would have been saved by the ties that are placed pretty close together on the trestle. This time, being a little fellow and with fate working overtime, he landed the other way and slipped down between the ties. Then he plummeted the 30 or 40 feet into the San Lorenzo river. The water was fairly deep at the point where Gale landed, and the waterbed is soft too, and, anyhow, police reasoned, he must have landed the right way. James Gen-illa, the lifeguard there, helped him to shore.

Meantime, up on the trestle, his pals were scared green. It was pretty hard to figure out what to do. But when they saw Gale start wading toward shore, one of them grabbed his bike and pushed it Index Page Amusements 8 Classified Section 10-11 Comics 9 Editorial Features 13 Markets 12 Radio and TV Programs 12 Society, Club News 3 Sports 7 Vital Statistics 12 Waterfront 8 along, and all of them made a beeline for the path that leads down to the river. "I don't know what happened," Gale said. "As you say, it was pretty fast, I guess.

First thing I knew, somebody told me to lie down." After more grownups came, Gale taken to Beach Police Station No. 2 and then in a lifeguard jeep to a doctor's office. All that the doctor could find wrong with him was a bruised and cut forehead (two stitches) and he was all right today. Not even scared, any more. The fish? "Yeah, I got 'em home," Gale said.

"But I think I'm going to give 'em away. Am I all right? Gosh, sur yeah." Expand Program To Keep Local Beaches Clean A campaign to keep the municipal wharf, the beaches and the surf free of refuse was started today by the city of Santa Cruz. Taking the first step, City Manager Robert N. Klein announced that warning signs would be posted along the wharf and throughout the beach area asking public cooperation. Further, he said, additional containers for refuse, papers, picnic left-overs and other items that add to unsanitary and unsightly aspects would be placed in the area for the convenience of beach visitors.

Beach residents and those engaged in work along the beaches will be asked to cooperate. Primarily, however, it was pointed out, the program is one of "public education" and means to extend this phase will be considered. Board Approves Library Contract Yesterday county supervisors approved the execution of the library contract between the county and the city library board for $36,710 for the current year, based upon a cost of 20 cents per book for handling. The figure was based on a county book circulation of 183,000 for the past year. In bringing the long drawn out controversy to an end, at least for this year, supervisors wanted it understood that they were not happy about the city library's current stepped up program for summer reading.

"The more books they read, the more it will cost thee ounty," Su-more it will cost the county," Su-Board members agreed with him..