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VOL NO 32906 Founded 1857 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 TWO SECTIONS Phone GI 2-5011 PRICE: 10c Per Copy Daily 15c Per Copy Sunday $2 Monthly By Carrier Britain Move Cultural Pact Macmillan Study Shows Downtown Preservation Depends On Concerted Planning Action Experts Fear Lack Of Cooperation Visit Bears First Fruit By Ralph Elagden The preservation and growth of the single highest tax yielding square mile in Sacramento County the Sacramento City central business district is shown by a study of the facts to depend upon the many groups with high stakes in downtown doing together much of what they are now doing separately This business cultural commercial and wealth producing heart of the Capital City the chief trading center of the Lawmaker Asks Cut In US Payroll WASHINGTON AP -Representative Clarence Can non chairman of the house appropriations committee called yesterday for a crackdown on what he described as payroll padding by government agencies millions of dollars can be saved by getting rid of some of the thousands of unnecessary the Missouri Democrat said in an inter view the agencies themselves likely to cooperate in an employment curtailment move congress must step He proposed that congress use its power of the purse string to get results Explains Provision Cannon said he will urge the house to include in its next appropriation bill a provision which wopld have th effect of cutting payrolls an estimated 20 per cent without being fired It would require that three out of every four vacancies occurring during the year be left vacant until an personnel roster dropped to 80 per cent of what it was in the preceding year The only exceptions would be vacancies occurring in policy level jobs requiring senate confirmation constitute one of the largest items of expense in the federal Cannon said we are going to cut down expenditures and balance the budget the payrolls are the best starting place the agencies have more employes than they need There is not a single one of them that do flurry caused a series of its job efficiently and ef fee-1 crackups on US Highway 40 tively with fewer employes to get in each Cites Provision Cannon noted that his committee has pending a bill appropriating extra funds for Russia For New Roselie Slatt tried to clear and Jim Brady got out a snowstorm struck Emigrant are of Marysville Yuba Holiday Mountain Thousands of cars continued highways today the last day North American ski championships California Highway Patrol said yesterday although a snow from Kingvale to the Donner Lake gate Captain Langner of the Auburn detachment said no major dents occurred in the Truckee-Squaw Valley area Close to the heart of the downtown Street at Ninth looking toward 10th Street Here is the of which makes up the central business district of American cities people cars buses wallowing in the traffic and the miscellany of street furniture signs awnings and the like but most importantly close packed-store frontage which is the chief lure of every downtown -'jfeuiX The Problem Confronted like all American cities by the decision of the overwhelming number of its people to be both urbanized and to use their cars Sacramento needs to study how its downtown can accommodate to these related facts How can it now healthy and prosperous avert either scattera-tion or strangulation? Affecting the downtown are state and city building programs redevelopment the individual plans of hundreds of merchants and the special interests of many civic groups An examination of some of problems and the means by which the interested parties may join to help solve them is the aim of this series snow from a rear window set of tire chains as the Gap Placer County They County Bee Photo Traffic Jams Highways to congest the mountain of a long weekend with the at Squaw Valley The no casualties were reported Picture on page A10 By Henry Shapiro MOSCOW UPI Russia and Britain agreed today to begin work on a new cultural affairs treaty linking the two nations British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided at their first formal conference to put the job of writing a cultural agreement in the hands qf a special committee Creation of the committee was the first concrete resist of summit visit to Moscow The two leaders conferred for two hours and 25 minutes Non Aggression Pact Report In London the Daily Mail said Macmillan told Khru- shchev in informal talks that Britain is ready to sign a non aggression treaty with Russia if he finds it would help ease east-west tensions British sources in Moscow said in connection with the report that purpose in visiting Moscow is not to negotiate but to exchange opinions Official sources in London said the possibility of a pact could not be ruled out Britain and Russia had such a pact from early in the last war until 1955 when Russia abrogated it An official Soviet news agency report on the opening session of the formal Anglo-Soviet talks said review was continued of questions of mutual interest" Has On Tall Hat Macmillan showed up for his meeting with Khrushchev wearing a foot high white fur hat he wore on his arrival in Moscow and which delighted Muscovites He also wore a borrowed fur coat Macmillan had on the hat which he bought in Russia in 1929 when he stepped from his plane at the Moscow airport Saturday It stood out like a beacon over the squat felt hats sported by Khrushchev and other members of the Soviet welcoming party British correspondents here to cover visit said it was a "wonderful glorious outrageous piece of Views Exchanged A British spokesman said Macmillan a full explanation of western thinking on the Soviet Union and its to Khrushchev at their informal talks outside of Moscow yesterday spoke extensively on what the Soviet Government thinks of the inci- numerous agencies much of iough 1577 cars with 5125 which is for pay raises voted Persons were counted enter- Cars on Street blocked by a slow' freight near 19th Street In some measure this means the downtown section is blocked by slow freight as well as passenger trains on this track Bisecting the city about equidistant between Front Street and Alhambra Boulevard this blockage can as the city grows throw congestion farther and farther back into the central business section impairing that mobility essential for downtowns It confronts Sacramento which has an especially elon- downtown with major problem Bee Photos vast Sacramento Valley is in need of a swift comprehensive and long range action plan Experts agree this is essential to assure our downtown now prosperous from experiencing the decline suffered by hundreds of other downtowns under the impact of congestion and surburban shopping cen- ters made so accessible by the automobile Many Separate Plans Working within the central district are numerous groups with plans of their own There is the state department of public works with its approximately $30000000 building program for the next fqv years The state division of beaches and parks has just spent several thousands of dollars to study historical landmarks in the central area The state division of highways and the federal government plan to spend upwards of $300000000 in Sacramento County much of it close to the downtown district and all of it having ah effect on that area Freeway Problem As essential as are the freeways the state is planning the elevated sections would ways likely would solve some problems at least of temporary mobility but they would accentuate the need for integrated planning to care for approximately double the number of automobile trips into and from the central commercial center De Leuw Cather Company estimates these trips will be 475400 by 1980 compared with 253689 in 1956 This does not include the trips beginning and ending entirely within the central section which now account for 000 with the city state and county- contributing one or both of the reports While this might seem to be an example of integrated planning it was rather a strictly engineering survey Had a study been made relating the freeway problem to the most desirable land uses the ideal population density the preservation of certain urban values and open spaces it is by no means certain the present freeway locations would have been selected New Problems As matters stand the free- set up long walls running north and south at 29th and 30th Streets and east and west through the city probably somewhere between and Streets The planned freeways would require the closing of at least 15 city streets in a city already bisected at 19th Street by the Western Pacific Railroad tracks which currently halt traffic for close to an hour in every 24 hour day These freeways would follow pretty much the recom-medations of the De Leuw Cather Company reports made at a cost of about $135- Continued on page A4 col 5 ing Squaw Valley from 8 AM to 3 PM yesterday Predict Fair Weather Generally fair weather is predicted to spread sunshine over the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra today The patrol is girding for more traffic congestion in the mountains with a force of 75 patrolmen in the area All major stores schools city county state and federal offices were closed today marking birthday anniversary Traditionally when a holiday falls on a Sunday it is observed the following Monday For the valley the fair weather is expected to last through tomorrow with weather bureau predicted high of 58 today and 65 tomorrow There may be some clouds and snow flurries in the northern reaches of the Sierra the bureau said and the bay area may have some morning fog Major Routes Open The major mountain highways are open but chains should be carried for travel on US 40 and US 50 State Route 89 along Lake Tahoe is closed from to Bliss Stats Park and chains should be carried The River Road State Route 16 is closed by high water in the Yolo Bypass six and one half miles east of Woodland Yolo County to five miles east of Woodland by congress last year Hiring Of Relatives Is Okeh With Hal leek WASHINGTON UPI House Republican Leader Charles A Halleck sees nothing wrong when congressmen hire their relatives as aides The Indiana Republican commented in a radio interview on the current furor over lawmakers who put their sons wives and other relatives on their office payrolls Halleck said he knows of no congressmen who have relatives on their staffs and could cite cases where they had done in getting excellent help front their families RoseviJIe Scout Chief Is Missing McClatchy Newspapers Service AUBURN Placer Co Chester Ellyson 34 field executive for the Boy Scouts in Roseville was reported missing today somewhere between Roseville and Squaw Valley where he was to have directed a group of Scouts during the weekend Ellyson the office was informed left Roseville about midnight Friday to drive to Boy Scout headquarters at Squaw Valley where Scouts are being used as messengers during the pre Olympic Games ski trials Robert Fitzpatrick Au- Folsom Convict Is Quizzed In Prison Stabbing Valentine Cisneros a 31 year old Folsom life term convict described by prison authorities as a was questioned today in the near fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate last night Guard Captain A Jacobs said Cisneros who was involved in a fatal stabbing at Folsom in 1953 was identified by Ezra Witham also a life term convict as the man who stabbed him in an argument over two cartons of cig-arets Jacobs said Cisneros admitted earlier he stabbed Witham but refused to talk when officers arrived at the prison to question him Story This is the story Witham 49 told Jacobs: Witham refused to give up two cartons of cigarets he admitted taking from Cisneros claiming that Cisneros previously had borrowed 26 packages from him They quarreled last night in Cell Block No 1 and Cisneros pulled a knife stabbing With am in the abdomen Subseqeuntly Cisneros threw the knife into the front corridor of the cell block where the guards later found it Witham examined at the prison hospital was found to have suffered a deep cut and for a time was in a critical condition Cisneros told the prison authorities he obtained the knife an ordinary table knife filed down to a dagger like point from a fellow convict He refused to identify him Sentenced In 1949 Cisneros was sentenced to Folsom in February 1949 from Santa Clara County after he was convicted of charges involving an assault with a deadly weapon In 1953 he was involved with two other inmates in the fatal stabbing af another convict Birchie Harvard Jordan and subsequently was convicted of second degree mur der Today's Temperatures 8 AM 47 9 AM 49 10 AM 51 11 AM 53 Post Urges State Shift Agericies To Capita -55 -57 -58 -58 12 Noon 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM In 24 hour period ended at 5:30 AM today the maximum was 54 the mini-njum 44 Forecast: Fair tonight and tomorrow Detailed report page B8 Continued on page A4 col 1 Pharmacist Shoots Self IsNearDeath Harold Leonard McAnaw 53 Sacramento pharmacist and drug store owner was reported to be near death today in the Sutter Hospital officers said McAnaw shot himself in the head with a rifle in the utility house near the swimming pool of his residence at 2668 La Via Way Arden District They had no other details of the shooting In The Bee Today Page B3 A8 By Tom Arden A sweeping reorganization to further Centralize state gov ernmental activities in Sacramento has been recommended to the legislature by A Alan Post legislative analyst Post told the lawmakers the state could save $100000 a year by combining the independent department of insurance division of corporations division of real estate state banking department and division of savings and loan in a single department Efficiency Economy Post said greater efficiency as well as economy would result if the five agencies were to be combined in a single department headed by a single director appointed by the governor of the desirable consequences of such a consolidation is that the resulting agency would be sufficiently on his proposal to consolidate the five agencies into one de-oartment Post said the real estate office should be returned to Sacramento 10077 of the Business and Professions Code" Post declared as follows: commissioner shall have his principal office in the City of Sacramento and may establish branch offices in the City and County of San Fram cisco the City of Los Angeles and in such other cities as the commissioner may deem essary subject to the approval Amusements Column -Bridge By Sheinwold -A15 Cartoon B16 Classified Educational TV Station Will Go On Air Tonight KVIE -educational television station will make its full fledged debut at 5:30 this evening with an 18 hour a week program schedule over channel 6 John Crabbe general manager of the new station announced the start of operations today after completing final technical checks KVIE the 34th educational TV station and the second in California will serve 1750000 potential viewers in 15 Northern California counties Stanislaus to Butte and from the bay to the Sierra Initially programs will be shown from Mondays through Thursdays from 5:30 to 9 PM and Fridays from 5:30 to 9:30 PM The schedule will be expanded next month when KVIE inaugurates programs for classroom viewing in primary and secondary grades and extension courses William Hopkins KVIE program director said at ieast half an hour a day will be devoted to shows Highlight The opening night highlight a one hour telecast at 7 of last will be starting Torrential Rains Continue In Peru Scout official reported tjaj rans continued in the in- E1vson faiied t0 check ini Saturday morning A searchlterior Provinces of the nec-1 wag sent tQ the Boy! try today Bodies of two more gCQUt camp pahatsi on thejflood victims were found chance he may have gone sending the total for the last Continued on page A6 col 1 1 there 'two weeks to 30 Firemen Rescue Ailing Miner 95 Premature Girl Dies AfterLiving48l2 Hours SAN A one pound 4 month premature girl died last night after 48'j hours of life The infant named Tina Lou Lutz had been kept alive in a hospital incubator She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Lutz of suburban National City who have three other children She was eight inches long large to warrant maintenance of its headquarters in Post said He noted the state superintendent of banks and commissioner corporations have their headquarters in San Francisco while the real estate insurance and savings and loan commissioners have headquarters in Los Angeles Cites Law Violation Post called attention to the fact the real estate commis 1959 Traffic Record- along the river between Grassi The alarm concerning Mar Valley and Colfax condition was sounded County by a son aged 74 The ambulance supplied) Members of the rescue with oxygen and first aid squad who took part in the litter carrying detail were Fire Chief Craig Davies Ted equipment stood by until department members could car County Deaths A Year Ago: 10 This Year: 11 City Deaths A Year Ago: 4 This Year: 3 McClatchy Newspapers Servics NEVADA CITY Nevada Co Ten members of the rescue squad of the Nevada City Volunteer Fire Department last night carried Sam Martin 95 victim of a stroke for more than three miles along a rough and rainsoaked foot-sioner is away from Sacra-1 path on the banks of the Bear mento in violation of state River to a waiting ambulance law Martin is a placer miner $gn if no action is taken vjio operated small claims Today's Chuckle President Eisenhower must still be a popular fellow Look at all the guys who are wearing their hair tjae way he does ry Martin who weighs more Sigourney rescue squad cap than 200 pounds to it for tain Edwprd Franz Ben Bar-transfer to the Nevada County ry Charles Thomas Carl Hospital His condition was Baker Albert Mirray Alton reported as good this morn- Davies Cameron Larsen and ing ICharlJs Gordon Beware of slick streets Continued on page A4 col 1.