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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 31

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SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA NEWS Page B3 WE SACRAMENTO BEE Monday May 30 1066 Roseville Man Cares For WMWOOd Memorial Day Service Ends Folsom Festival Girl's Lonely Sierra Grave Nevada Casino Musicians End 2-Day Strike I i Acy0'' 4 Y1: ''g4 8 t- --ik -6 1p '''4At 1 1 t451100 Nrcos ii" 41 a 'f' ----) i St1 1'i'Kot 11 '''4''! ts 444 "4 :1: sko 4 A4 'i i4: --si' -Akk- iiiii: i 4''''' i-- Jt i li igi ifi 4 004e 0001yt 1:11 it i 11)4 it 0' 4' ie is "'N Ig I I'L 'A' 04: i Po 'A 1 btt 4k A wr Nik i 44 it "4 ('7 zt Niii'i7 0" ji)'' place like that But the familyi probably just didn't have any choice" Hunter began putting flowers and hushes on the grave when he started working on the SP trains When the train he was working on stopped to refuel with water at Mystic he would trot down to the grave to pay his respects "I don't know why I did it It was just something hard to explain now She was all alone and just had the deer for company" Hunter was unable to visit the grave this Memorial Day so he visited the spot on Friday He brought some roses tulips and purple leaf plum plants from his garden and put them on the grave MYSTIC Nevada Co Mil-land Truckee when by golly I lions of Americans entered looked down and there that little churches and cemeteries this monument was he recalls Memorial Day to honor their "There was a rough-hewn timwar dead and to mourn lost relatives and friends her about five feet high with Walter Hunter of Roseville a cross-timber with some words spends the day when he can and numbers carved on it traveling nearly 100 miles into "It said 1365 the name of the the Sierra to lay flowers on girl and listed her age as nine the grave of an unknown nine- I can't remember her name but year-old girl I vaguely recall it was some-Quite a trip for a 69-year-old thing like Mary Stephens" retired Southern Pacific rail- He still has not determined road conductor who the girl might be but he Hunter has been visiting the surmises she was a member gravesite off-and-on for the last of an early day family which 47 years ever since he stumbled barely got her across the Ne across it in 1919 while working vada border into California be-on signal equipment for the fore she died railroad in the Truckee River "Well I got to thinking if I Canyon ever had a daughter like that "We were working on signal how tough it would have been poles between Sparks (Nev)ito bury her in a God-forsaken FOLSOM A Memorial Day service for 1 pm today in the city park concluded Folsom's Centennial Ten Celebration The celebration opened Saturday when 300 persons attended a reception honoring Mrs Anna Sutter Young granddaughter of the founder of Sutter's Fort Capt John Sutter The Triangle Park in old Folsom was dedicated as Leidesdorff Plaza in honor of Folsom pioneer William Alexander Leidesdorff and a bronze plaque commemorating som's role in the activity of the Central Overland Pony Express was dedicated during the celebration Also yesterday the day's pro-ram opened with a dragon parade at 10 am A Negro dance team performed on Sutter Street and there were gold panning exhibitions The day ended with a barbecue plus tours of historic homes and churches a rolling pin throwing contest band concert and high school reunions The celebration commemorated the 110th year since Folsom the local newspaper and the Sacramento Valley Railroad were founded RENO Nev The shows went on last night full scale a late afternoon agreement was reached between the local musicians union and three area casinos to end a two-night stretch of makeshift music behind some of the country's best known entertainers The casinos affected by the musicians walkout Friday agreed to a $12-a-week raise for "sidemen" raising a band member's base pay from $177 to $189 weekly Wages for band leaders were raised proportionately about 7 per cent a week Also included in the agreement was a pledge by casinos not to replace a house band with traveling bands Terms of the agreement reached about 5 pm yesterday conformed to those demanded by Reno Local 368 of the American Federation of Musicians when the union informed the casinos by wire Friday that musicians would not show Edmond McGoldrick secretary-treasurer of the local said the biggest issue at stake was 1 what he termed a management "threat" to replace house musicians with traveling musicians if the union held out for a wage increase Artist William Murry left presented a portrait of Folsom pioneer William Alexander Leidesdorlf to Folsom Mayor Jack Kipp during the city's Centennial Ten Celebration yesterday lmotomoltweakt l'e 1 Alta Only Wild Flowers Mark Graves 01 Troopers Killed In Indian Battle Trail as he made a trip into the Red Rock Canyon for the Oregon Geological Society according to Mrs Evelyn Watson of Shady Cove The spot can be reached only by hiking 8 miles and the ceremonies of a Memorial Day do not disturb the serenity of the site amid canyons and rock formations the 13 men buried in the remote but beautiful spot were members of a troop of soldiers which rode out of Jacksonville in pursuit of a band of marauding Indians A battle apparently ensued and the surviving soldiers probably buried their fallen comrades near the battle scene At some time burial services must have been conducted perhaps comrades of the 13 returned later for the graves had been marked with small American Flags encased in glass It is these small Flags which support the theory the dead were soldiers The graves were rediscovered in 1939 by Allen Rodgers of McCiatchv Newspapers Service EDF 0 Ore The graves of thousands of American servicemen will be marked today throughout the nation but 13 graves in a remote canyon area of Southern Oregon likely will go unmarked this Memorial Day except for the wild flowers growing there The graves are believed to be those of 13 cavalrymen killed in a battle with Indians during the fiery frontier days when the graves of fighting men soon became lost in the vastness of an unsettled country Residents of the small communities of Trail and Shady Cove near the Crater Lake Highway in Jackson County say Bodies Of Two Crash Victims Go To Redding South Tahoe Plane Crash Injures Two iv' 'itoopt '1 0 --ilt At rtk4 AI--' 7 i xi i 1l A- -10 i t71 4 ''441' 71 4 4 't -tolp 4 A 4 1- 1I tit p-10If 4 i 4or ta 4106 '4 A i S4 't ''''-'''TPCN A -1: e4042: 1: ik- foitA7- 4A-441: 4 :::440 i': )-4'''-444471i-''''' ''-'7''''''''1 ix'" 4 1 11'00 'w -0 4 p1 ::0 'G 4 '4M414ee 4 ''k: )4 7 71 0 zt kt 1 7i 69-1k ::::::44 i- 41 4 41: -4 fk w-A -i 7 '''-''1 '1o--t 1:::::: A :4 1 t'- tp--i trIi '150 'i-- 41 -'1 1 kf 1 1v l' r-: I 4 4 so High School Juniors Will Attend Program Mc Catchy Newspapers Service SOUTH LAKE Rydberg the pilot of a light single-engine plane and his passenger Don I Frost both of Santa Rosa were injured seriously when their craft crashed near Little Norway in Lightning Scatters Fire Through Forest Timber DAVIS Fifty high school juniors from throughout California have been selected from 80 students in 330 high schools to El Dorado County late yester-I participate in a summer workday program at the UniDon Peterson Little Norwaylversity of California here proprietor who witnessed the The youths who have yet to crash and was first on the be notified were selected on the scene said the plane's engine of academic record and vo ELKO Nev (AP) bodies of two women killed in a plane crash last Thursday are en route to Redding Calif today for funeral services The victims were Mrs Beatrice Morris 28 of Manhattan Kan and Mrs Daisy McCurdy 70 of Chico They were killed and three relatives injured when their single-engine plane crashed in the Toana Mountains 20 miles west of the Nevada-Utah border at Wendover Still hospitalized yesterday were Clifford Morris 25 of Redding the pilot and Mrs Virginia Theresa Jessop 48 of Central Valley Calif Their condition was satisfactory Released from the hospital Saturday was 17- month old Chanda Morris the daughter of Beatrice Morris The women had been visiting relatives in Kansas Morris was returning them to California when the plane disappeared The wreckage was discovered nearly 24 hours after the plane got caught in a downdraft and rashed fires are expected to be spotted during the day The largest fire about four acres was on Clear Creek south of Happy Camp The others were considerably smaller Air tankers smoke jumpers and 120 men in ground crews were in the fire lines The Happy Camp district was hit hardest Howard said because Saturday night's storm carried no rain In other parts of the forest rain accompanied the lightning and helped quell the fires before they could spread 4tIts4- 1 Shasta-Trinity a Klamath 1444141 0' National Forests crews today li patrolled or worked to control a rash of 65 fires started by eekend lightning storms The Shasta Trinity reported 36 and 1 the Klamath 29 Waddell Smith left great-grandson of one of the founders of the Pony Ex- 1 The Shasta-Trinity blazes were press and Folsom Vice-Mayor Johnnie Thorne remove a cloth to unveil a plaque commemorating the Pony Express Some spectators are in the concentrated in Trinity County and started flaring up Friday background Bee Photos night They are being fought by 100 men including smoke- jumpers five airplanes and two HliLirlay Water Road Acci den 1 'helicopters The fires were re- CI a I II I I Iported as one-quarter acre or I eN a 1 rk ii Iless each '-'i scT 'O i '4 f'" Iv -4- 1i --IN was "popping" before the craft rammed a bluff about one-quarter mile south of his place and 200 yards west of US 50 Both men got out of the wreckage unaided but were carried by Highway Patrolmen Sam Lake and Gary Grussing to waiting ambulances They were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital The plane was demolished Sheriff's deputies identified Rydberg as a Sonoma County airport operator cational interest science skills a experience background They will earn a salary eight weeks of room and board and a unit of college credit while working on research projects in the College of Agriculture The program will provide seminars lectures surveys of research facilities in the various departments and participation in the research projects Prof Norman Gary chairman said the program is considered unique to youths anticipating a career in biological or agricultural sciences Ives ur i rersons In Kegion tar us Slates rests For Academy Spots Oregon Clerk Likes Voting Machine Ebbetts Pass Group WillHearCVCAide Thirty men from the California Division of Forestry last night controlled a three-acre brush and grass fire in the Jones Valley area northwest of Redding It was believed to have been started by children playing with matches Howard fire control officer of the Klamath Forest said new storms began striking the western section of Siskiyou! County last night and additional! WASHINGTON -Rep Tfa'rold Johnson D-Calif said he has been advised by the Civil Service Commission that a writ hump in the highway and off a utility pole Three! teen-agers suffered minori in the crash Mrs Steckter died last night! when the car driven by her hus-1 'band John 42 ran off a sharp: 'curve on Old Adobe Road in the 1 Petaluma Sonoma County area' and struck a bank Steckter was treated in the Petaluma General' 1 1 Hendricks drowned late Saturday in the Cross Canal near lVerona Sutter County where he was fishing with Jim Richardson of Rio Linda when he decided to take a swim The latter said Hendricks dived in land disappeared His body was trecovered late Saturday night by Sutter sheriff's deputies Fell From Boat MEDFORD Ore Jackson County Clerk Marvin Madden stated he was "delighted with the performance" of the vote machine system of voting used for the first time in Jackson County in Tuesday's primary election Lassen Sentences Man For Burglary MANVILLE Lassen Co Louie Quinn 46 of McArthur Shasta County pleaded guilty in Superior Court to three counts of burglary and was sentenced to six months in the Lassen County jail will be conduct-appointment to ademies those interested ten examination ed July 11 for the military ac Re urged all ANGELS CAMP Calaveras Co Francis Wallace California State Chamber of Commerce director of recreation will speak at the quarterly dinner meeting sponsored by the Ebbetts Pass Wonderland Association Thursday in the Frog-town cafeteria Hospital The Hoyt child San Joaquin The names of Herbert Hen- sheriff's depu I le reported Superior California Vital Statistics MARRIAGE LICENSES 'in taking the competitive exam-I Haircuts In Reno ination to notify him prior tol June 9 Those who wish to par- ticipate in the test should write' May Go Up To $2 75 to Rep Johnson Room 1031 Longworth House Office Build- ing Washington DC 20515 dricks 36 of Elverta and Patty Hoyt 3 of El Cerrito Contra Costa County are the latest additions to the water victim list tty tra Traffic and water accidents have taken 10 lives in Superior California so far during the long Memoria 1 Day weekend The toll is expected to rise as the thousands who crowded mountain lake and river holiday spots start homeward late today and tonight Of the deaths reported so far traffic accidents caused six and water mishaps accounted for four The latest traffic deaths reported are those of Vernon Harley Russell 29 of Chico Federico Hernandez 25 of Gridley Butte County Adele Steckter 40 of Windsor Sonoma County Edward Barker Jr 24 of' Sunnyvale Santa Clara County and Ann Arcady 19 of Menlo Park San Mateo County Car Overturns Russell was killed about 9 o'clock last night near Butte Meadows when his small German-made car went out cr control near Highway 32 and overturned Hernandez the highway patrol said lost control of his vehicle two miles south of Grid Auburn May 251 IMO to George Carvan 44 and I Ruth Vogel 40 both of North High- taros laros IL SAVINGS A NOW! OH drowned in Potato Slough near Rio Vista So lano County when she tell from her istlfather's small boat Austin Thomas Jenson 59 of dDemtir Stanislaus County was killed in a Calaveras County accident reported earlier Iand Mark Gray 5 of 441 Del 'Paso Blvd Sacramento and 1 Chetvl Johnson 21 of Medrhel 'lord Ore were victims of waloollter mishaps reported earlier Stanislaus County was lkilled in a Calaveras County accident reported earlier Lca im3liao lupt ttu earlier ShastaSchoolBond I I 111 it ri th Placerville May 27 1966 to Harold Plubell 20 of Placerville and Susan Lee McCabe 2i of 10531 Mills Tower Road Rancho Cordova DIVORCES Woodland May 27 1966 Larry against Norma suit filed Woodland May 27 I9M David against Melva Gean Stacy suit filed Woodland May 27 19M Jean A against Michael interiocu III be uiscusse RENO Nev A union official predicts "eventually" Wa-1 shoe County barbers will in-1 crease the price of a haircut to $275 to match the price increase voted last week in Las Vegas1 Tom Walmsley secretary-i treasurer of Barbers Local 6001 said an increase "has been' mentioned now and then but nobody seems too strong about WI at present" But he added "'I suppose eventually it will happen here too but I have no idea how long it will take" RENO Nev A union of- BURNEY Shasta Co The 1 Fall River Joint Unified School Marijuana Suspect Is Held In Shasta CENTRAL VALLEY Shasta Carl Butler 28 who says he has been a niember of the Sacramento branch of Hell's Angels is being held in the county jail on charges of possessing marijuana Sheriff's deputies say they found the drug in a small vial in his home District will hold two open concerning the June 7 9 Davis Boys Are school bond election 1 The first will be held in Burglary Suspects DAVIS The police a I Mount Burney Elementary cie" i to the county probation office on burglary offenses nine oys aged II through 14 in con- with at least a dozen 1 I 1 entries of the snack bar of the ley early today and it rolled over several times His passenger Marie Gonzales 24 also of Gridley is in the Butte County Hospital with injuries described as not serious School at 7:30 pm tomorrow Second meeting will be held in Fall River Elementary School at 8 pm Friday Members of the school board School at 7:30 pm tomorrow Second meeting will be held! in Fall River Elementary School at 8 pm Friday 11ambrc if bI I A 0 'To 7" State Chamber Will Hear Regional Highway Needs CURRENT ANNUAL RATE COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY CURRI ANNI COMPOUNI QUARIEl Barker and Miss Arcady died the district superintendent andDavis Senior High School in a crash of their sports earl cochairmen of the "Committee Four of the youngsters were driven by Barker on State Routei for Better Education" will an- caught at the school during the DEATHS- BROWNFIELD In Chico May 27 1966 Mrs Esther Brownfield of San Francisco wife of Israel of San Francisco mother of Sidney of Sacramento and Mrs Frances Jessee of Chico grandmother of four a native of Poland aged 73 years Funeral services under the direction of the Timmons-Van Hook Funeral Chapel will be held at 1 pm tomorrow in Emanuel Chapel at the Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma San Mateo County Officiating will be Rabbi Richard Zionts and Cantor Joseph Port roy Interment will be in Home of Peace Cemetery Placerville May 27 1966 Mrs Johanna Buhlman mother of George of Sacramento Rudolph of Antioch Contra Costa County Mrs Mart Bartleman of Carmichael and Mrs Anna Ekenberg of Ukiah Mendocino County sister ot Walter and Kurt Mertens of Santa Rosa Mrs Rosa Preuss of Salt Lake City and Mrs Magda Brews of Brigham City both in Utah grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of six a native of Germany aged 76 years Funeral services will be held in the Memory Chapel tomorrow at 2 pm Cremation will be In the East Lawn Mausoleum in Sacramento MCCULLEY In Chico Butte County May 27 1966 Mrs Mattie Sarah McCulley mother of Mrs Ned (Lucien) Richardson of Chico and Mark of Sacramento sister of Net Muriel Hancock of Chico Mrs Flo Campbell of Hollywood and Mrs Beth Brock of Topeka Kan grandmother of four and greafgrandmother of 10 a native of Holt County Missouri aged 82 years Funeral services will be held at 2 pm tomorrow in the Timmons-Van Hook Funeral Chapel Burial will be in Chico Cemetery The family reouests that any remembrance be sent to the "Mat McCulley Scholarship Fund" at Chico State College Walnut Grove May 26 194 on Aubrey Mendenhall of walnut son of Mrs Margaret Mend usband of Joyce father 4116 of Mic I of Walnut Grove broth- er of umphrev of Sacramento grandson of Mrs Matie Berry of Rude a native of Sacramento aged 33 years a member of Franklin Masanic Lodge 116 west of Monte Rio questions regarding ekend bv A meeting at 10:30 am to-1131uff Chamber of Commerce 'we a custodian and a custodian and County Saturday night million bond issue car went out of control at $3 million bond issue morrow in Red Bluff will open' a series of meetings sponsoredi by the California State Chamber of Commerce in which the in Red 13tutt will open a series of meetings sponsored i the California State Cham- of Commerce in which the Other meetings scheduled: 1 they implicated the others Wednesday at 11 am Susan- Police investigation showedby ville Lassen county Veterans the youths had been slippingter Memorial Building and 7 pm the bolt on the door lock to gain'ihighway needs of 19 Northern' in Chester Plumas County in entry during the last several California counties will be dis- Ithe Golden Bear Restaurant Reno School Bids Roseville Safety Advertising Is Set Reno School Bids Advertising Is Set KENO Nev cussecl Event Draws 650 County School Board will ad-! Cnntiv nnd irp ernn ill nf to-' T'hn RENO Nev The Washoel 1111J11111S Icussea 'County School Board will ad- candy and ice cream of a to- The Thursday at 10:30 am in Red- public meetings are ding in the Shasta County Super No minimum balance No time limit No withdrawal restrictions SavebyMall Postage paid No minimum balance INSURED cr 9 JA A 4CE 111 vertise for bids for construction tat value of approximately $101 ROSEVILLE Nearly 651:01 the new Procter Hug High'were taken grade school students par- on Aug 1 The boys were identified as ticipated in the City of Rose-i Patrick II and Tom Butler' Bids for the sprinkler and: -I '12 Joseph DeVay 12 Jeffrey vine's second annual bike safe ilandscaping systems will be ad111 and Daniel Gagnon 14 i ty program according to rec-ivertised next March the board Craig Giannini 12 Mark Es-! reation supervisor Mike said to have the ground ready! I lremera 11: Michael Moore 14! mm iuraig ulan i ark a i supervisor Mike lsaid to have the ground ready tremera 11: Nlichael Moore I visors Chambers and at 7 pm' in the Blue Gum Restaurant' near Willows Glenn County June 6 at noon in Fairfield the Rockville Inn June 8 at noon in Marysville Hotel Marysville and at 7 pm in Nevada City in the National Hotel June 9 at noon in Auburn in Club 40 June 10 at noon in the Mansion Inn in Sacramento 'aimed at giving each local community in the area a voice in fiscal year highway allocations' The state chamber conducts' the meetings in all 58 counties of the state and compiles the i ilocal recommendations in bound volume and offers that as a formal chamber recommendation to the State Highway' 'Commission The Red Bluff meeting will be in the offices of the Redi Dorado savings AND OAN ASSOCIATION ORG io Patrick and Funerai services were held Saturday in the Stewart Funeral Chapel Vista Solano CountY Colusa Colusa County MaTj Ucovich I for the opening of school in' 23 1966 Mrs Jennie Trent of Ar- and Douglas Rose 12 buckle Ccousa Ccurify wife of Douglas' Events included written ancL September 1968 Officers said DeVay Pat sister of Mrs Amelia Llooincott of Menlo Park San Mateo County grand- mothel of Mrs Arzell Mazzuchi of Sac- practical driving tests safetyl Construction of the i and Tom Butter Giannini ramento a native of Cottonwood Shas- checks and skill performance I school is scheduled to begin in Rose were involved only i ta County aged 82 years Funeral services will be held at 1010 am tomor- contests About 225 bikes wereFebruary with construction ex-Saturday incident a row In the Arbuckle Methodist Church with interment in the Arbuckle Ceme-Iliceped ipected to take 14 or 15 months over several months ticr-v and Douglas Rose Officers said De Vay and Tom Butter Giannini checks and skill performance school is scheduled to begin in Rose were involved only contests About 225 bikes wereFebruary with construction ex-Saturday incident a liceped pected to take 14 or 15 months over several months Of3LID I 50 AND CENTER LACER VI in the! 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