The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 15

liirw1 Local Sports Financial and Superior California News THE SACRAMENTO BEE The Bee by Carrier $200 Per Month Daily And Sunday Dial GI 2-5011 Sacramento California Monday February 16 1959 Page B-l wifi1 1 1 mwmmw' ujj 'Jt'Jt1 nn Smedberg Clears Schools In Annex Financial Issue ke- Jr k' 4 if I rnriiTfti A mrrgfrlF-iiaira Jjtf a -Tr 'xurV 4jhI Smedberg county superintendent of schools told the board of supervisors today no school money was spent to defeat the Hagginwood annexation proposal Smedberg reported at the request of the supervisors who referred the matter to him three weeks ago after John Mogan and other north area residents charged irregularities on the part of school officials Audited Annually Smedberg pointed out school funds are audited annually and their books are open to public inspection He said he checked with El-1 The murder trial of Sperio wood Keema superintendent Gus Drulias resumed today of the Grant Union High in the court of Superior Judge Ray Rusk chief clerk of the state division of highways in Yuba City Sutter County has been elected president of the California State Employes Association In its annual general council in San Jose the CSEA also voiced strong support of Governor Edmund tax program In a resolution adopted yesterday the CSEA whose membership tops 70006 praised Brown his personal courage in facing the extremely difficult fiscal policies of California government today by proposing tax increases necessary to pay for services demanded by the The association also went on record against legislation authorizing collective bar gaining in state agencies It asked recognition as spokesman for state workers In addition the CSEA asked Brown for a detailed study of state management practises to achieve utiliza- 1 Robert Wiley left general chairman of the Retail Credit Association convention in Sacramento introduces Donnell Davis right district president of RCA to Governor Edmund Brown Bee Photo Stanford University affairs undoubtedly are the subject of conversation between Lucy Ritter seated at the left of Sacramento David Packard standing at the left Mrs Packard and Fred Rohnert Packard of Palo Alto is president of the board of trustees and Rohnert also of Palo Alto is president of the alumni association Bee Photo Retail Credit Delegates Hear Brown RacialRulinglsCalledVital Assertion Of Court Power By Richard Rodda Robert A Horn associate professor of political science at Stanford University told an alumni audience yesterday the United States Supreme desegregation decision may well become the most significant assertion of power the 20th Century Horn in repre-sented a to in School District Richard Brown superintendent of the Roblas School District Henry Kossow superintendent of the Del Paso Heights School District and Fred Robinson superintendent of the North Sacramento School District Smedberg said each superintendent emphatically denied school funds were used for printing or distribution of literature in the annexation battle Forwards Letter Smedberg also forwarded a letter from County Auditor James Hastings and from James Postle business manager in office Hastings said he traced printed documents to the printers and found the printing was paid in cash by a group called the Citizens Committee for No On Annexation Hastings said any claim for such expenditure by the school district would be denied by his office Postle said no claims have been presented to him for such payments and he likewise would disapprove any such expenditure The board ordered a copy of the report be sent to Mogan and the matter be dropped Board Will Honor Farrell On Retiring The supervisors will send a letter of commendation to Dr Leo Farrell who is retir ing after 29 years as medical director of the Sacramento Hospital The board also plans to LI hold a dinner in hon-ir6Sri3n lO Fi 030 or and present him with a' formal resolution and a Albert Mundt with further testimony concerning the fight in which wealthy Charles Vanmeter was killed The morning was taken up largely by the reading of statements made by Drulias to the authorities shortly after his arrest Went To Get Job Drulias was quoted as say ing that he went to house in Gardenland last December 13th in an attempt to get Vanmeter to employ him to repair a water softener According to the statement they became involved in an argument and Vanmeter suddenly swung at Drulias with a skillet In the ensuing fight Drulias said he picked up six different hammers and struck the old man on the head and face Defense Drulias has admitted that he killed Vanmeter in the scuffle but has pleaded innocent on the basis that he acted in self defense He is by Assistant Public Defender Floyd Gibbert Deputy District Attorney Gloyd Clowdus is seeking first degree murder conviction on the contention Drulias intentionally killed the 81 year old man Clowdus also has indicated he will attempt prove the murder occurred an attempt by Drulias to rob Vanmeter Patron Services Governor Edmund Brown today addressed the 600 delegates of the 22nd annual convention of the National Retail Credit 11th District in the Hotel Senator The governor welcomed the group and noted the role of their organizations is a vital one in commerce The rise of consumer credit as a principal factor in the economy makes all the more important Brown said the work of the retail credit association both for the merchant and the consumer Keynote Address After talk the keynote address on the topic Tomorrow Is Arriving was given by Dr Ballentine Henley Henley an educator civic leader and acting dean of the school of government at the University of Southern California discussed new trends in business and government and their relation to the economy General Chairman Robert JdpdD Wylie also introduced John Yoshitaro Kato 78 Donnell Davis of Long long time resident of Sacra Beach president of the asso- COMMISSIONER Arthur in by Assistant Secretary as a member of the state an agent in the Sacramento States Life John Bronson also of expired mento before he returned to Man Arrested In Narcotics Roundup Dies Angel Ramirez 30 of 5400 Enrico Boulevard one of 23 men and women rounded up in narcotics raids January 30th died last night in-the Sacramento Hospital A week after his arrest by police detectives and state narcotics agents Ramirez complained to jailers in his county jail cell that was ill and he was sent to the hospital Doctors have ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death Ramirez was arrested on a charge of narcotics addiction Luddy rigb is sworn of State Charles Haggerty highway commission Luddy office of California-Western Insurance Company replaces Sacramento whose term Bee Photo Ray Rusk tion of employe ability and ideas" Other new statewide officers of the CSEA include: Francis Stanton Patton State Hospital vice president Albert Ricksecker department of social welfare Sacramento secretary treasurer Robert Formhals division of architecture Sacramento director of personnel Donald Doty department of motor vehicles Santa Monica director of general welfare and Glenn Denney University of California at Berkeley director of organizational described United States Chief Justice Earl Warren as a man who exercised great intellectual candor in writing the decision The speaker added there is a grave question whether President Dwght Eisenhower has exercised the effective leadership he could or should as a result of the decision Professor Horn was one of a series of faculty speakers at the annual Stanford Conference in Hotel El Dorado More than 300 alumni from all parts of Superior California attended Attacks The speaker said that to him attacks on the high court are ludicrous paradoxical and disturbing attacks are from organizations and individuals who deem themselves to be conservative But they talk like the most hell raising segment of the populous in the days of William Jennings Bryan attacks are against one of the most conservative forces in the United States the power of judicial review The court initiate it has only a veto Horn commended the court for taking a stand on a problem which after congress and president after president have Called Political Football Horn also said both political parties cynically have made civil rights a political football which they have dropped between campaigns plaque honoring his years of service to the county Farrell announced Saturday he will retire next July 1st Industrial Tract Issue Is Delayed A proposed 23 acre industrial tract north of Florin Road and west of the Western Pacific Railroad Track was continued until March 30th for consideration of an industrial map by the planning commission County Planning Director Earl Fraser pointed out his native Japan in the 1940s died recently at his family farm home in Chiba-Ken 40 miles outside of Tokyo Word of death was received today by Sacramento friends He apparently suffered a stroke early this year There were no other details Kato came to the United States when he was a young man and worked in the Sacramento area 35 years before returning to Japan He was widely known in the Sacramento Japanese community Jack Behrman of Fresno has been named assistant vice president and manager of the Bank of customer services center in Sacramento Bank President Clark Beise said first job will be to supervise the recently announced charge account plan for the capital area Since 1956 Behrman has been assistant vice president and operations officer at the Fresno Main Office To assist Behrman the bank named Frederic Skoufis lending officer at the Kerman Fresno County branch to the post of branch liaison representative at the customer services center with offices in Stockton San Joaquin County Skoufis is a graduate of Sacramento High School He was with the bank in Kerman for almost 23 years Federation Asks 3 Part Exam For Teachers The California Federation or Teachers today urged the state to demand a three part examination of every candidate for a teaching credential in California schools The federation made the suggestion in a formal statement filed with the California State Board of Education and urged it to assure in the profession The three part examination would include: 1 An examination in general subject matter for an elementary credential and an examination in specific major The air force announced subject fields for a secondary today that Airman First Class1 or junior college credential Mack Sanders Jr 25 of 2 An examination in the 707 Warner Street a s' liberal arts for all cerdentials killed Saturday near Seoul I 3 An examinatj0n in psy-South Korea when the truck jQgy as rejates to leam-he was driving overturned philosophies of educa-and plunged down a 40 tJ suggested Sacramento Airman embankment The federation activities 11th district Group Discussions The three day convention Freeway Foes Which will end tomorrow featured group discussion ses- Mav Send 0rOUD sions last ni8ht on banking I LJ and finance building ma- TODridqeHearinq terials dairies bakeries de- proposed east-west freeway bu-fin houses through Sacramento tonight Sponsoring the convention may name a committee to rep- with the 11th district are the resent the group at a hearing Credit Womens Breakfast oil the Street bridge across Clubs of the Golden West the Sacramento River The Council and the Associated bridge is a feature of the pro- Credit Bureaus of the Pacific posed freeway Southwest Otto Pearson president of Local officials assisting the club said naming of the Wylie are Joseph McTer committee probably will be nan finance Robert Peters The sneakesaid that whi1elconsidered at the Publicityi a 1 G- Casey lining at 7:30 in the group sessions and Willie Newton Booth School 26th Rogers reservations recent integration in the of the south has been Library Will Show Films For Children The McKinley branch of the city library will present a free film program for children Thursday at 4' PM in the Clu-nie Clubhouse auditorium Alhambra Boulevard and Street Films to be shown are Smoke Jumpers describing the parachute training of United States Forestry Service fire fighting teams and Navajo a color presentation contrasting Indian life in the family hogan and the modern ways taught in schools of the Navajo Indian Reservation The program will include a color cartoon Town Musicians The showing is part of a monthly series sponsored by the library Parents are invited to accompany their children both the county and city planning staffs are opposed to the industrial zoning unless protection is given to the adjacent residential area to prevent industrial traffic The area also is seeking annexation to the city Engle Agrees To Cosponsor Bill The board also: Received a telegram from United States Senator Clair Engle agreeing to cosponsor Senate Bill 910 which would payments to local governments ml taxes on certain government facilities Filed a letter from Neman Stark director of the California Youth Authority stating a boys' camp site east of Mather Air Force Baso has been inspected and approved for state funds Heard Sterling Nelson district sales manager for United Air Lines describe future plans for air service expansion in Sacramento North City Will Consider Annex Plan Protest and Streets The army corps of neers has scheduled a meeting for 10 AM March 3rd in Room 127 agriculture Building to hear views on the bridge are not opposed to construction of the Pearson said today need more bridges across the Sacramento River" rh SrHl The North Sacramento City th0 tonight will consider inK5Klclaa'm Jformal protests by property 26 105 owners against the proposed the first examination count 60 per cent toward a credential the second examination 30 per cent and the third 10 per cent should schools only on a token basis there are hopeful signs particularly in the attitude it will not defy the federal government Horn had a good word for Eisenhower saying he made one decision clear when he sent troops to Little Rock and he meant what he said The speaker said Chief Justice resignation from the American Bar Association undoubtedly was due to the criticism of the court by the association Discusses Space Age David Packard of Palo Alto president of the Stanford wit-1 Board of Trustees was the speaker at a banquet which PubicCdunty Planners Will Meet Tonight A special meeting of the county planning commission will be held tonight at 7:30 to discuss long range planning projects The session will be held in the county administration building at 7th and I Streets On the agenda will be discussion of county building projects for the next fiscal year the revised county highway plan in the northwest part of the county and land use planning studies Right Of Way Group Will Meet John Horgan an attorney for the state department of public works will address a noon meeting of the Sacramento affiliate of the American Right of Way Association Wednesday in the Hotel El Mirador Horgan a specialist in state condemnation law will outline methods of presenting testimony from expert nesses The passenger in the five ton truck Frank Harrelson 19 of Chicago 111 suffered minor injuries to his head The accident occurred on the main supply route about two miles south of An Yang Ni Sanders tried to shift gears lost control and the truck went down the embankment Both men were assigned to the 5th Motor Transportation Squadron Society Will Meet Grant Pasley will demonstrate aquarium arrangements at the Sacramento Aquarium Society meeting Wednesday in the Sacramento Junior Museum A film also will be shown Awarded Colter a $23 569 contract for installing traffic signals at various Intersections Awarded a $31380 contract to the Lentz Construction Company for Improvements in the Rancho Grande Unit No 2 as a commissioner Recreation Babcock apartments and north of Oewey Drive for a closing of a of Elk Chamber burning that the possible purchase delta area a park and sale of the state has Island with of $5226 annexation of the Swanston area Attorney John Malone representing the bulk of the owners said sufficient protests have been filed to block the annexation The area includes the Sears Roebuck Company store and the Arden Fair shopping center development i The council also is expected to call a protest hearing for the proposed annexation of the 850 acre Taylor Street area The meeting will start at in the council chambet at 400 Arden Way Two Are Accused Of Child Neglect Mrs Charlotte Badeker and Robert Wilder were booked in the county jail on child neglect charges yesterday when three Badeker and three Wilder children were found alone in the Badeker house at 405 Cleveland Avenue Gardenland A neighbor called deputy sheriffs who said the found I the six children ranging from LODGZ '-To D6 in iha hniicA Assessment District Appointed Robert A Keck in the Hagginwood and Park District to succeed who resigned Rezoned for garden duplexes a parcel of property Greenback Lane and east of owned by Joseph Bmet Asked the county executive recommendation on the Sarbage dump one mile north -rove after the Elk Grove of Commerce protested rubbish is adding to air pollution Voted to Inform the state county is interested in the of Chain Island In the for possible development as asked the state to delay tne Island lor two weeks The advertised for bids on the a minimum purchase price for the 41 acre property Cranston Picks 2 to 8 in the house closed the conference He talked on Stanford and the Space Age Packard said that while the tuition at Stanford has risen Members will discuss plans for a charter night dinner March 12th The organization will be inducted as Chapter 27 of the Mayor Backs Suggestion For Probe Of City Schools By Citizens' Group Teachers will have to be con- the committee national association Thenewto more than $1000 a year chapter will serve the Sacra-1 there are more job opportuni mento and San Joaquin Val- ties and scholarships for un-leys the Mother Lode area'dergraduates and Nevada the still is not a rich school in any sense of the said Packard He said the prestige of Stan- Drunk Driving Cases Arrested Glen Johnson of 401 21st t6tt and Streets after minor accident 124! Deputies said they noticed Cranston today appointed glm Busier ot fni7Mar4tv years They said the children and house were dirty Mayor Clarence Azeve-do said today personally think be all to set up a 15 member committee to study Sacramento schools Mrs MacMillan president of the city board of education said the plan ill receive from the board All Must Study However both stressed the proposal advanced by the Sacramento local of the sidered fully by all council-men and board members before it can receive official sanction The AFT local adopted a resolution Friday night calling for a lay group to study all aspects of public education in Sacramento hold frequent public hearings and make periodic recommendations The resolution asks that the council and the board These 10 in turn would name five more Appropriation Asked The work of the committee would be financed with a $5000 appropriation from the council and the board The group would be patterned after the state commission on the public schools created by the 1958 legislature at the editorial suggestion of the McClatchy newspapers dent last night Gordon Gatewood Crowais of 2626 Street 6th and Streets last nioht Fire Calls The fire department responded to the following calls iford in law engineering med-from midnight Saturday to icine other fields in gaining throughout the country Several other faculty representatives addressed the conference Robert Cole and Jessie Gray were conference cochairmen and John Cox was toastmaster noon today: Yasterday 8 21 24th and Streets automobile 8 i4 1822 Street smoke scare 2 PM 3410 Land Park 6rive dwellln electrical appliance 11 40 PM 2251 51 nt Avenue dwelling elective cl-'mnev Today 3 12 Alhambra Boulevard and I ttreet no service Wilder and Mrs Badeker iHenrv Lonez Democratic Avenue cYrmTch'i' on ricmy $acrmento Boulevard after an accl drive away from a Garden-j nominee for secretary of state in the November election a state inheritance tax appraiser for Los Angeles County The appointment increases the number of appraisers in Los Angeles County to 22 Lester Lewis ot 927 17th Street 12th and Streets after an accident fas) nisht Samuel Richard Mathews ot 114 Santa Ana Avenue Del Paso Heiqhts Bell Avenue end Rio Linda Boulevard after ar accident lest night Wllllem Robert Doneidson of Roseville Plecer County on the 3300 blocK Fair Oaks Boulevard yasterday 01 American Federation of each appoint five members of 4.