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a a 1. a NEWSPAPERS SERVICE Page 16 SATURDAY, MARCH 1947 THE BEE'S SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA NEWS McCLATCHY Sacramento, California Pupils Petition To Attend Next Tenney Hearing CHICO (Butte March Principal Stuart Mitchell of the Chico High School has on file a petition signed by 125 senior stuasking representation if the Tenney joint legislative committee on unAmerican activities holds further hearings here on the Chico school situation. group of 75 high school students came to the afternoon session of the first hearing, held this week, but Senator Tenney asked them to leave because "unfit" portions of controversial books were to introduced into the committee's, recordaission The students, most of them seniors, were given permission to attend by school authorities, provided their parents signified approval. Senator Tenney said after the hearing the committee will return for further investigation. He was unable to give any date save that it will be after the close of the legislative session.

Meanwhile the senior class asked two teachers to return to their positions as advisers, and asked Don Chambers to return as class president. Voted To Remove The day before the, students had voted 59 to 50 for removal of George Gourdier as class adviser, charging he is not aggressive enough in advancing the students' desire to attend the Tenney hearing and to obtain the use of the Chico State College auditorium for their annual senior play. College authorities had informed the seniors the college auditorium would not be available to them until after the close of the college term. Clarence Kindig, another senior class adviser, resigned after learning of the ouster of Gourdier, and Chambers resigned as president of the class. both due to the lack of confidence in Gourdier.

Yesterday after tempers had cooled the students voted to ask advisers. Ray a Fuller, class vice Gourdier and Kindig to resume as president who succeeded to Chambers' post as president, said the invitation to the teachers was unanimous. It was decided to hold the senior play June 13th, in the college auditorium. Klumpp Will Be Asked To Speak In Chico On Mayors' Conclave MARYSVILLE. (Yuba L.

Klumpp March of Sacramento will be invited to report on the recent National Mayors Convention in New York. He will be asked to give the report in Chico on Tuesday evening. At the quarterly meeting of the California Sacramento Valley Division of Cities. The announcement of Klumpp's invitation came from Marysville Councilman Harold J. Sperbeck, league president for this division.

Sperbeck also said L. B. Carpenter of the league's legal staff will be the principal speaker, He will discuss laws pending in the legislature affecting California cities. Mayor E. R.

Bevins of Chico will be host to the session. Napa Woman Lies On Floor Of Home For 24 Hours After Fall NAPA (Napa March 1-The visit of a friend is credited with saving the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, elderly resident of Napa Soda Springs, who was found near delirium on the floor of her living room, where she had lain for more than 24 hours after her hip was injured in a fall. Mrs. Jackson, who lives alone, was found by Mrs.

Louis Paine of Napa, who makes a call each week to the Jackson home. From incoherent statements made by the e.derly woman, it is believed she fell in the kitchen and crawled to a point near the fireplace. She is suffering from shock and exposure. She had been without food or water for a day and a night. She was hospitalized.

Sheep Dog Trials Will Be Held In S. F. March SAN FRANCISCO, March (UP)- Twelve of the West's greatest sheep dogs will compete in the first annual grand national sheep dog trials in the Cow Palace here March 29th. The trials, to be conducted by the California Sheep Dog Society, will be held on the first afternoon of the Grand National Junior Livestock Exposition and arena show. Dogs already entered include: Tweed, owned by, James Palmer, Dixon: Bob, owned A.

Nicolson, Willows; Queen, owned by William Hosselkus, Dixie, Foster, Cloverdale; Mane, Richard McCloskey, Dixon; Ring, Godfrey Priddy, Dixon, and Sweep, Wesley Wooden. Birds Landing. Bakers In Humboldt Reject Wage Proposal EUREKA (Humboldt March a vote of 40 to 5, Bakers the Union Local No. 195 rejected latest proposal of Eureka and Arcata bakery operators and decided to take strike action "if a satisfactory proposal is not forthcoming." The union set today as the deadline. They have asked for a 15 cents an hour wage increase, across the board, and the operators had offered them 12 cents.

State Seeks To Suspend Yoloan's Liquor Permit William A. Smith, district liquor control administrator, today filed a complaint with the state board of equalization seeking to suspend or revoke the offsale liquor license of the Esparto Drug Store, Esparto, Yolo County. Smith charges the store sold liquor to high school students on February 18th. W. W.

Harris, proprietor, was arrested and paid a $50 fine in a justice court. Teacher Will Be Auburn Forty Niner Speaker AUBURN (Placer March 1. Elmer Stevens, Grass Valley High School teacher, and former president of the Nevada Historical Society, will be the speaker at the Auburn Forty Niner Association dinner in the Hotel Auburn Wednesday evening. An outline of plans for the 1947 Gold Rush Revival in Auburn June will be presented by President Ray Dorer. CREEK IS CLEANED AMADOR CITY (Amador March The section of Amador Creek which runs through the city is cleaned order of the city council.

Jim Busi of Jackson is in charge of the work. Rodent, Predator Control Fund Is Urged By Engle WASHINGTON, March minimum $1,500,000 federal fund for the control of predatory animals and injurious rodents during the next year was urged today by Representative Clair Engle of the second, Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains, district. In statement filed with the house appropriations committee, Engle asked that the appropriation be boosted over the $1,000,000 recommended in President Truman's budget in order to cut livestock and crop losses. Held Down Losses Engle declared that prior to the war, the federal fish and wildlife service working cooperation with the states, counties, stockmen and other groups effectively held down livestock losses due to predatory animals. "However, during the war," Engle said, "reductions in hunters and trappers, together with a shortage of funds, resulted in heavy increases in the population of coyotes and other destructive animals with resultant increases in livestock losses.

"Stockmen, especially those ing the federal grazing and forest lands of the West, now are faced with a further increase in losses from predators unless sufficient appropriations are made available for expansion of control work." Restore Control Work Engle declared that of the (000 requested, $1,250,000 would be required to level restore of control effectiveness. work The to remainder, he said, would be used to control an unusual war time increase of predatory animals, search and I test new chemicals and methods and replace equipment worn out during the war years. State, county and private groups presently are contributing $4.11 for every federal dollar spent, Engle declared, while before the war they paid only $1.86. Isleton Landowners Oppose Port District ISLETON (Sacramento March of southern Sacramento County opposed to hav. ing that area included in the SacPort District will meet here Tuesday in the office of John L.

Lewallen, prominent landowner and businessman. Direct steps will be taken at the meeting for subsequent action against the district. It is planned to launch a campaign to raise funds to oppose the port. Opposed To Plan Lewallen, acting as spokesman for the group, said "southern Sacramento County taxpayers are posed to the plan because they feel they would not benefit from the project inasmuch as their already border deep water channels in connection with the Stockton port canal. "We did not realize that Sacra.

mento County supervisors were including us in the boundaries of the port district. We plan a campaign to raise funds to oppose the port. Our purpose is not to injure the port district but to see that our area is excluded from the district. The only way out we can see is to defeat the election unless we are The territory represented by the group extends from Walnut Grove south to the Antioch Bridge. Jensen Is Chairman George Jensen of Walnut Grove is chairman of the group and John Wilcox of Brandon is treasurer.

On the board of directors are Lewallen, Paul De Back of Isleton, Clifford Totman of Sherman (Island, Wallace McCormack Rio Vista, J. S. Brown, of Walnut Grove, Russell Graham of Grand Island, Marion Brown of Walnut Grove, Joe Lopes of Grand Island, and Jensen and Wilcox. Placer Jury Rules Man Was Murdered AUBURN (Placer March 1. A coroner's jury probing the death of Ed Corrigan, whose body was found in an abandoned mine tunnel near Newcastle February 14th, returned a verdict he met death as the result of a .380 caliber bullet having been fired into his brain by a person or person sunknown.

The inquest was conducted yesterday by Coroner Francis West. Roger Green and Albert Chapman of the state bureau of criminal identification said positive identification was established by comparison of finger prints wth police ords in Sacramento and Riverside, where Corrigan formerly was jailed on vagrancy charges. Albert Saladana of Newcastle tes. tified he paid Corrigan for ranch work on September 9th. He said Corrigan told him at that time he was going south to pick grapes.

This was the last time Corrigan was known to have been seen alive. Directors Are Elected By Farm Shipping Body STOCKTON (San Joaquin March were elected at a meeting here of the Farm Bureau Livestock Shipping Association. Three of the directors were reelected. Those reelected include Emde of Lodi and Otto Finkbonner and Albert Muller, both Stockton. E.

H. Wilcox of Anderson and Robert Lewallen of Linden are the new directors. POLIO DRIVE IS HELD SIERRAVILLE (Sierra March -The sum of $126.70 was donated to the Sierra County Chapter of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis Fund in this small community. Mrs. Dave Roberts, who solicited here, said 50 per cent of the total contributions will remain in the county to be used by any polio victim in Sierra County.

The balance will be sent to the national headquarters of the fund. MOTEL IS SOLD NAPA (Napa March Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Streng of Napa have purchased the California Motel on Highway 99 near Merfor $175,000 and will take possession on July 1st.

The motel contains 33 living units in addition to owner's quarters, offices and lobby. HOUSE IS DESTROYED SLOAT (Plumas March 1- Fire of undetermined origin dea house belonging to the Quincy Lumber Company and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth pington. Few of the contents were saved.

OROVALESE IS Jay E. NAMED Partridge. superintendent of the Butte County schools, has announced the appointment of Mrs. Helen Wright of Paradise as county school nurse. Nevada Senate Receives New Fish, Game Bill CARSON CITY March The Nevada senate received the new fish and game bill today, following its passage in the assembly yesterday.

If the senate acts favorably and the governor adds his signature, this state will be in a position to participate in benefits accorded under the Pittman Robertson Act. There was only one negative vote of a 17 member fish and game measure, which calis for establishment of a 1 7member fish and game commission and permits ticipation in federal funds approximating $60.000 annually. Picketing Measure is Legalization of peaceful picketing sought in a measure sent to assembly committee on labor yesterday. The bill also would prohibit issuance of any court or restraining order or injunctions against picketing. Another feature of the measure would prevent the outlawing strike agreements.

Also contained of in the bill is a provision which would require payment of unemployment compensation benefits to all strikers. The senate, as a body, was idle but several senate committees were in session. Liquor Sales Three bills providing alties for the sale of liquor to minors were thrown into the assembly hopper yesterday, One bill would penalize any minor who purchased or consumed intoxicants; another would penalize anyone selling or giving liquor to minors and the third would repeal a clause in an existing law which permits any person to file charges involving sale of liquor to minors against any saloon keeper or bartender. Third Reno Judge A bill introduced in the Nevada assembly vesterday by the Washoe County delegation would provide for third judge in the Reno district. As 4 salary of $7,200 annually.

The measure was referred to the judiciary committee and Washoe County delegation. Some Reno attorneys have declared there is need for a third judge in Reno: that calenders are crowded and the present judges overburdened. Baby Clinic Will Be Held In Walnut Grove School On Wednesday WALNUT GROVE (Sacramento March well baby clinic will be conducted by the Walnut Grove Parent-Teacher Association in conjunction with the County Health Department and the state bureau of child hygiene. The first clinic will be Wednesday from 9 to 11:30 sheld the Walnut Grove brick school opposite Georgiana Slough. The clinic will be free of charge to residents of the Walnut Grove and Courtland areas.

Infants from birth and preschool, children will be examined, infant feeding supervised and mothers instructed in child care. Preventative inoculations fo whooping cough and diphtheria will be available at the clinic for the 6 month to 6 year age groups. Later a dental service will be a part of the program. Volunteer workers from the PTA have prepared the clinic room and are being trained to assist in the work. Among them are Mesdames Dixie Malcolm, Beth McCarthy, Mary Lou Judy, Florence Bates, Nancy Noble, Elizabeth Lyon, Peggy Brown and Darcys Burchell.

In order to avoid delay, mothers for are urged to make appointments the first clinic with Mrs. Carthy, telephone Walnut Grove 2682. Yuba Judge Sentences Oroville Woman Drunk Driver To Jail Term MARYSVILLE (Yuba March -Callie Elizabeth Parker of Oroville was sentenced to serve eight months in the county jail by Judge Warren Steel on her conviction of drunken driving involving personal injury. The judge sentenced the woman after overruling the recommendations of Probation Officer Thomas E. Mathews for probation.

The Oroville woman was driving an automobile which was involved in a two car collision on the Oroville Highway near here on February soldier 14th from when a Camp recently Beale discharged jured seriously. He had been given lift by the woman while he was hitchhiking. Prospector, Dead Two Days, Is Found In Cabin March -Jack Waugh, 64, prospector, was found dead yesterday in his cabin at Purdon's Bridge on the South Yuba River. He had been dead for two days, according to Don R. Ritchie, a neighbor, who said he saw Waugh about 4 P.

M. on February 27th. A post mortem this morning revealed that Waugh died of natural causes. Surviving is his brother, Nolan D. Waugh of Lake Vera, a few miles from Purdon's Bridge.

Funeral services will be held at 2 P. M. on Monday in Holmes Fuperal, Home Miller in will Nevada conduct City. the Rev. serv- East Cremation be in Lawn in Sacramento.

NEVADA CITY (Nevada AUBURN: Check Charge Is Filed J. B. Stevenson, 45, was booked in the Placer County Jail on a ficticious check charge, following his arrest by City Policeman James Kauffman. The complaint was sworn to by Clifford Howard, Auburn grocer. If You Want Action List with us and Start Packing" E.

R. Lyons Realty, 918 8th Dial 2-9013 (adv) Bert Young, 17 year old senior, has been elected president of the Marysville Union High School student body for second semester. He is the 8011 of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L.

Young of Loma Rica. Norwegian Wins National Ski Jumping Title ISHPEMING March 1. (UP)-Arnold Kongsgaard, Norwegian ski expert, wore the American ski jumping crown today. Kongsgaard easily outdistanced Class A skiers with jumps of 239 and 230 feet off Ishpeming's suicide hill yesterday to win the much postponed forty third annual national meet. Ragnar Baklid, fellow countryman of the champion, was second; Joe Perrault, jumping on his home hill, was third and Ralph Bietila, also of Ishpeming, was fourth.

Tournament officials made changes in the course which cut down the distance of the jumps after blizzards and winds up, to 35 miles per hour this week had made the full route dangerous. Because of adverse weather the meet, originally scheduled for last Saturday, had been postponed six times. Sig Ulland, Oakland, placed tenth in the Class division with jumps of 207 and 209 feet for point total of 206.15. Tahoe City Ski Jumper Is Injured In Fall TAHOE CITY (Lake Tahoe), March Vanni, jumper, was injured late yesterday afternoon when he fell on his back while making a practice ski jump at Olympic Hill. He was taken to the highway on a sled by a companion and thence to St.

Mary's Hospital in Reno, where attendants reported a vertebra was fractured. Saw Amputates Legs, Kills Humboldt Man COLUSA (Colusa March 1. The body of Leland Jeffreys, 64, was brought here yesterday from Fortuna, Humboldt County, by the D. McNary Son Funeral Home for services. Jeffreys died Thursday morning in Garberville after both legs were severed in a sawmill accident at Piercy, 12 miles from Garberville.

Jeffreys' clothing became entangled in the head rig of a circular saw and his body was pulled into the blade. He died later in a Garberville hospital. Jeffreys was born in Sycamore, Colusa County. He had resided in Spyrock, Mendocino County, since 1937, where he purchased a ranch, but for the last three years had been employed by the Indian Creek Lumber Company in Piercy, The survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ethel Schoonover Jeffreys, his daughters, Mrs.

Marjorie Leake of Live Oak. Sutter County, and Mrs. F. M. Crosely of Denver, a son, Temple Jeffreys of Santa Cruz.

a brother, Lawrence Jeffreys, and two sisters, Miss Ann Jeffreys and Mrs. Grover Baker, all of Colusa, Eight Counties Are Represented At Farm Body Parley In Yuba MARYSVILLE (Yuba March -Clifford Hite, regional director of the California Federation of Farm Bureaus, told delegates to the area convention here "our slogan members in '47' not only rhymes but it makes sense because it looks as if we are not going to have any trouble in putting it over. The eight counties including Yuba and Sutter, making up the sixth region of the federation already have achieved nearly 80 per cent of their goals in 1947 membership. Approximately 90 representatives from the eight counties and from the Sacramento and Solano County bureaus, which are outside the sixth region, met to consider legislation other problems vitally affecting the welfare of farmers in fornia. GREENVILLE: 150 Tickets Are Sold More than 150 tickets were disposed of in behalf of the Parents Club card party staged in the Masonic Hall as a benefit for the elementary school hot lunch progran.

MAN IS SENTENCED YREKA (Siskiyou March Robert C. A Holloran of McCloud has been sentenced to Prison for car stealing result Sans Quentin of breaking probation. Faculty Orders Crackdown In Disorders In Yreka School YREKA (Siskiyou March A week of student disturbances, both open and subsurface at Yreka High School, ended with the announcement of a crackdown by the faculty. As a result, students semester grades are expected to be lower this marking period and Individual discipline will be stricter. Vote Is Unanimous Teachers announced after a faculty meeting that "come what may" they had decided by unanimous vote to "clamp down on grades and discipline." Principal Loren A.

Wann then posted a school bulletin which said: "Scholarship generally will be lower this marking period as a result of the conduct of a few students disrupting the essential work of the whole school. Better Mattress Will Be New Evidence In Jones Trial OROVILLE (Butte March murder trial of Albert Jones, The will take theatrical turn Tues14, when defense attorneys bring day into a cotton mattress from which county claim they extracted A German Luger bullet. The lawyers, Arthur De Beau Carr and Kenneth W. Donelson of Sacramento, said they will offer the mattress and bullet in substantiation of the youthful defendant's statement a boy known to him only Jack murdered Patricia Crandall, as 15 year old Chico High School girl. Albert is charged with murder in the death of the Crandall girl and in the fatal shooting of Mrs.

Myrtle Nielsen, Chico housewife, In addition he is charged with assault with intent to kill Betty Nielsen, 21, and Barbara Searle, for 7, firing and with shot at- at tempted murder dead a H. J. Nielsen, the woman's husband. Repudiated Confession The boy, who previously had admitted he strangled and burned Patricia in her cabin court home on June 18th, repudiated his contession In a surprise defense move Thursday and told the jury the Crandall girl was slugged unconscious by Jack, who then set her on fire. A week after Patricia's death, he said, Jack called at the Jones home in Chico and demanded a German Luger pistol which Albert had stolen from the home of an uncle, William Attebury, Albert testified he struggled with Jack for possession of the gun and it was discharged, the bullet lodging in the mattress.

He said Jack then left without the gun and he has not seen or heard of him since. A bullet from the same gun, held In Albert's hand, caused the death of Mrs. Nielsen when she was shot in the back In the kitchen of her home on July 16th while the boy was visiting there. He also repudiated from the ness stand that portion of his fession in which he admitted he decolt: liberately shot Mrs. Nielsen in the back.

He told the jury the shooting was accidental, that he thought the safety catch was set on the gun when he pulled the trigger. Found Bullet Carr and Donelson said they ripped the mattress apart in the Jones home in Chico on Thursday night and found the bullet in one end of the cotton pad "This." Carr said, "substantiates at least A part of the boy's testlmony." The defense lawyers said they also will place Albert on the wit. ness stand again when his trial resumes to relate the story he told them in the Butte County Jail Thursday night that he stopped at the Nielsen home on the day Mrs. Nielsen was shot to tell Betty about the Crandall girl's death and to ask her advice about reporting what he knew to the police. Changed Mind "When the gun went off." the lawyers quote him as saying.

wt was just as scared as she was, and I changed my mind about telling her." The attorneys said Albert has requested them to urge Betty to visit him In the county jail so he can tell her "how sorry he is" for the death of her mother and to deavor to convince her the shooting was accidental. Redding Will Refuse To Barter With AFL REDDING (Shasta March Attorney Daniel S. Carlton said today the American Federaof Labor's electrical union tion will be advised the city council does not want to enter into form of "simply any negotiations." Carlton Is preparing a letter to be sent to Charles Crawford, business agent of the union, whose main office is in Sacramento, to this effect. Employes of the city water and electrical department signed an agreement with the union last week. City Manager, James received from Crawford yesterday asking him to call a special meeting of the council to consider wage increases for the employes of the water and electrical departments.

Neal turned the letter over to Mayor Joseph Buchea. Carlton said he is studying the state labor code to determine whether a city government is required to enter into a contract with a union. Rural Area Traffic Deaths Are Fewer Traffic deaths in rural Sacramento County are occurring at less than half the rate of last year. This was disclosed today by Captain Flovd G. Yoder of the Sacramento County squad.

California Highway Patrol, who reported only three persons have been killed so far in 1947 as against seven for the first two months of 1946. Yoder said there were two fatalities in January and one on February 1st. it Although the 27 day period without traffic death is unusual. said Yoder, there is a longi way to go to equal the 62 day stretch without a fatality last Summer. The highway patrol's accident records cover only the unincorporated areas of the county.

Yoder said statistics on injuries for February are not tabulated. Colusan's Confession Clears Burglary Case COLUSA (Colusa March 1, Danny Mitchem. 22, yesterday confessed to Sheriff George R. Houx that he burglarized the Ray Ottenwalter home at the B. H.

Mitchell Ranch north of Colusa. Mitchem's arrest and confession clears up burglaries at the Ottenwalter home, which were committed last October and in January of this year. The sheriff said each Mitchem obtained women's time, under. garments and other clothing and "also some money. LOGGING WILL BE STARTED GREENVILLE (Plumas March 1-Pete Narbaitz intends to start logging, operations on the west side of Lake Almanor for the Gulf Red Cedar Company about March 15th, weather permitting.

MILL IS REPAIRED SLOAT (Plumas March The Quincy Lumber Company is making extensive repairs in its sawmill here. A new conveyor from the mill to the burner is among the additions in preparation for an learly season. A Mis libr cha of Ma wi thi the pri Le ou wa lar tr: aci pa pri ag, lik ga go its it ou in 8348858.1 Bi Lo sai aS agi be COr kn hit be shi ret ge tal he yet wi sic If go Os Fa me PC pit ort the cal on be CH tio va sei ba 'St rel the cel Ed Le all tel bit SC sp tri of Pa ve Co lis a ur it co ba WI EP 0 br ba Ja 5A9: in 20 fo 8847A38 al FEW OS RAP 4 TRES AT has bee Ma in unt dis Est a nai Sac Tu Th Pete Cassinelli Kit Carson Mountain Men Organize Posse JACKSON (Amador March The Kit Carson Mountain Men have organized their mounted posse with Bill Davis as permanent chairman. The club voted for a 24 man posse and six alternates. outfits will be coonskin plaid shirts, overalls and boots.

The next meeting of the Kit Carson Mountain Men will be held on Tuesday night with Pete Cassinelli, president, presiding. His office as head of the organization is designated as Kit Carson. Plans for the parade to be held in Jackson on June 1st by the Mountain Men are shaping up. One thousand dollars in prizes will be distributed among the contestants. Humboldt Man, 78, Is Convicted Of Murdering Son EUREKA (Humboldt March Hadley, 78, was convicted last night of second degree murder in the shooting of his son, Herbert- whose pinochle bidding had provoked the argument ending in Herbert's death in a mountain cabin January 2nd.

Herbert's son, Herbert Hadley, 9, testified against his grandfather, telling the seven men five women on the jury that "grandpa shot him right in the The jury was out more than five hours. Hadley's attorneys filed a motion for a new trial, and Superior Judge Delos Mace it for hearing March 4th. The conviction carries a sentence of five years to life. Increased Control Of Plums Is Proposed WASHINGTON, March 1. The United States Department of Agriculture today announced it is considering a proposal to provide greater control over less than carlot and less than trucklot shipments of plums from certain California counties to out of state markets.

Counties which would be affected are Sacramento, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, San Francisco, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego. The proposal, the department said, was submitted by the control committee and the plum commodity committee established under the California tree fruit agreement and forder. Death Claims Early Day Virginia City Resident CARSON CITY March Thomas Sullivan, 84, early day resident of Virginia City, died there Thursday. Sullivan is credited with first stallation of electric powered pumps in the deep mines of the Comstock. He arrived in Virginia City in the year before the bonanza ore was struck in the Consolidated Virginia Mine.

He is survived by a son and a daughter. Reno Councilman Will Be Mayor Candidate RENO March 1. G. A. Rogers, first ward councilman in Reno, announced today he will seek the mayoralty at the May election.

Rogers has been a member of the council for four years. He is a mortician. His announcement is the third for the mayoralty. Francis M. Smith, member of the legislature, and Patrick dealer, McCarty, vending machine previously announced.

Pigeon Creek Election is Set For March 28th PIGEON CREEK (Amador March 1. Superintendent Charles Atkins has set March 28th as the date for the recall election in the Pigeon Creek Elementary School District. According to the superintendent's office. there are 60 registered voters. Mr.

and Mrs. J. J. Murphy of Weed, Siskiyou County, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary February 24th. A reception was given in their honor in the Weed Community Church in the evening.

The Murphys have lived in Siskiyou County since 1911. siti bee mo tail the in in des me The male members of the Cunningham family all four named Jack- are shown above. Each four is an only child. And each, with the exception of the youngest, has followed in the steps of his father, up to the senior Cunningham, in being employed by the Southern Pacific Company. Seated to the left is Jack Cunningham, of Dunsmuir, a retired conductor.

Standing is his son, a switchman working in Roseville. At the right is Jack Cunningham, Ill, of Dunsmuir, who is employed in the transportation department. He is holding his son, who was born last September 13th in Duns- Live Oak Youth Is Severely Injured In Auto Accident LIVE OAK (Sutter March -Gordon S. Taylor, 17, a Live Oak youth, is in the Sutter County Hospital with injuries suffered in an automobile accident. The youth was driving a car on the Pennington road near the Hedger school when he apparently lost control and the car struck a power pole.

The car ended up in a ditch partially filled with water. Taylor's condition is described as "serious." Frances Sullivan, 14, a passenger, also of Live Oak, was injured slightly but left the hospital after first aid treatment. Napan Is Hurt When Car Hits Power Pole NAPA (Napa March E. Williams, 52, of Calistoga, a manager for the Pacific Gas and Electrie Company in Napa County, is in the Victory Hospital here with injuries struck a suffered power when pole his north automobile Williams received chest and back injuries in the accident, which he told patrolmen occurred when he was blinded by the lights of an approaching car. He said he lost trol of the car and was unable to steer it back onto the pavement.

The pole was sheared off by the impact. Physicians said his condition is not critical. Sleepiness Sends Sutter Driver To Hospital YUBA CITY (Sutter March Ira Hannigan, 20, of Woodland was taken to the Sutter County Hospital last night after his car left the highway near Oswald. Hannigan was driving a car registered to the Club Taxi Company of Woodland. He told officers he dozed at the wheel and the car left the road and overturned.

Attendants in the Sutter County Hospital said he will be able to leave the hospital late today, CCA Gives Approval 29 For Church In Florin WASHINGTON, March 1. The Civilian Construction Administration has approved an $8,000 construction expenditure by the Church of the Nazarene in Florin, Sacramento County. The CPA said the case was regarded as one of hardship in that the church was evicted from its quarters. Amador Bank Worker Is Given Promotion SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. -L.

M. Giannini, president of the Bank of America, has announced D. Natucci of Sutter Creek Bank of America has' been promoted to the post of assistant cashier. Natucci started with the institution in San Francisco in 1930. Transferred to Los Banos in the same year, he served that community until 1937 when he was assigned Sonora.

He was promoted to proassistant cashier and transferred Sutter Creek in 1944. LASSEN SPEAKER WINS SUSANVILLE (Lassen March Zangger, president of the Susanville Future Farmers of America chapter, took first place in the sectional FFA public speaking contest in Alturas. Elk Grove Pioneer Will Mark 100th Birthday ELK GROVE (Sacramento March 1. Mrs. Alice McCauley Valensin, a Caliofrnia pioneer born in Independence, will celebrate her one hundredth birthday anniversary tomorrow.

occasion will be observed with an open house in her home on Stockton Boulevard here. Mrs. Valensin was brought to California in 1851 by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sand McCauley, who settled in the Joaquin County.

was taken to Europe. While During the Civil War period shel Italy she met Guilo Valensin, who became her husband. Upon the couple's return to the United States in the 1870s, father gave them the house in which she now lives. Friends describe her as active despite her age, and report that she still cares for her flower garden. Idaho County Wants To Secede And Annex To State Of Nevada CARSON CITY 1.

(INS)-Twin Falls County, Idaho, wants to become part of Nevada and Governor Pittman approves. Nevada's governor has received and answered a petition of numerjous Twin Falls citizens saying they had "petitioned the Idaho Legislature to enact a law detaching Twin Falls County from the State of Idaho and permitting it to to and become part of the of Governor Pittman sent this answer: I wish to compliment Twin Fallians on their excellent judgment and perception in recognizing the manifold blessings accorded to those living in the great State of Nevada, assured if favorable action is received on the demands, we would be glad to welcome this addition to the State of Nevada. Yuba Sheriff Probes Shooting At Traffic MARYSVILLE (Yuba March Sheriff John R. Dower has in investigating a three reports of joined with the Marysville police shots being fired at motorists. The latest, Alfred Marion Myers of Olivehurst, said a shot was fired Thursday from a parked car which failed to penetrate his windshield.

He turned and gave chase but was outdistanced. On Wednesday Miles of Live Oak, Sutter County, said a shot was fired at his car as he approached the Fifth Street subway. On Tuesday Lyton W. Brent of Los Angeles said he was fired upon while driving on Twelfth Street, Killing Of Hogs Costs Yolo Rancher $157.20 WOODLAND (Yolo March 1. Superior Judge C.

C. McDonald ruled in favor of the plaintiff in the damage suit of Clarence H. Brackett against L. Seright. The suit which originally was heard in Woodland Justice Court last December, was appealed to the superior court by the defendant after Justice James L.

Hare awarded the plaintiff $250 damages. Brackett asked damages for the killing of three hogs and the wounding of two others. Judge McDonald reduced the amount of damages to $157.20, which he said was a fair price for the loss of two pigs. Eurekans Ponder Problem Of Withheld Utility Bills EUREKA (Humboldt 1-Eurekans are pondering the prospects of a situation which may ensue should the city continue to withhold payment for past utilities service. As the situation stands, the city government refuses to pay current bills of the Pacific Gas Electric Company, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company on the ground officials and employes of the concerns are serving on various local commissions and boards and, therefore, are barred from engaging in business transactions with the city.

Bars Business Deals This attitude of city officials is based upon the interpretation of an old city ordinance, given by City Attorney Frank Thompson at the request of City Clerk J. C. Barkdull, that the ordinance prohibits the city from engaging in business transactions with a firm whose personnel, or any part thereof, is acting in the service of the city. considering the future prosIpect, should the ordinance be car- 1.10 501 ba scl of Ar muir. Ja rel Ju 50 st ba hi 15 at so is 1, to the full extent of its application, some observers pointed out it virtually would cripple the community.

Some employe of almost every centerprise works on some city project, only the volunteer fire department. This firemen department serves without pay, but are covered by the city's employment insurance while on actual duty, serving and under the present ruling are illegally. Might Affect Stamps Others point out the full applition of the ruling might prohibit the city from paying for stamps inasmuch as some employes of the post office are members of some city committee or commis-troyed sion. Although local P. G.

E. officials denied any such action as cutting off the service had been discussed, it was revealed by Angelo Franceschi, acting mayor, that a request for additional service at the housing project had been made and that the request had been referred to the San Francisco office in view of the city's unpaid bills, arship will be possible only through improvement of discipline and attitude." Students Led Strike The bulletin added grading will be "fair," impartial and impersonal" teachers "will be glad to discuss individual scholarship problems with parents and students." members United action of the faculty came one week after a group of senior class members were declared responsible for agitating a "strike" move under which more than half the student body remained outside on the grounds when noon recess ended February 20th. The move was grounded on opposition to a socalled merit system voted into use by the students at the start of the current semester. The system was voted out last week by the students. of to is the the an.