Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 1

WEATHER POM CAST (By Associated Pi ess) Bay Region- Fair tonifclit ami Wednesday. Westerly winds 8-15 mph Wednesday afternoon, Low tonight 48-55. Stena Nevada: Fajr tonight and Wednesday. Slightly wai trier today. SAN RAFAEL RAMP ALL Totil to date This date list yr Seasonal average l.ttl Tempeiaturei: High at noon today DAILY EsU861 V' SERVING AX Of MARIN COUNTY High yesterday Low last night 7 90TH YEAR SAN RAFAEL.

CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950 $1.25 A MONTH BY CARRIER 3.171 President, MacArthur Plan Weekend Korea Conference In Pacific Red Arsenal City Seized By Allies TOKYO (P) South Koreans capiured the prue Red Korean poit and aiscnal city of Woman today alter smashing the hravr est opposition they lue encountered aboxe parallel 18. To the southwest, 1). S. First Cavalry foot troopeu ran into ficice resistance just north of 38. The Cavahy's at vance with tank, artillcrv and air support, was slowed to a craw against log pillbox positions set up befor war.

This is the line th Cem- AND DONT FLAY WITH MATCHES Corte Madera Fire Chief Frank Nelson yesterday passed out comic books, oranges and bubble gum to Corte Madera children, and cautioned them against carelessness with fire. The chief made the gifts as part of the Corte Madera Fire Department's observation of Fire Prevention Week, The department built a model ot a burning building, and had It decorated by Stan Ferguson, commercial artist and member ot the department. (Independent-Journal Photo) munist Insisted waa tor diNim" Supervisors Delay Decision On Lease Of Angel Island League Will Continue Fight For Angel Island Arigel Island will not be "lost" to the enjoyment the public," promised Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, of Ross, president of both Marin Conservation League and Marin Art and Garden Center, at the annual membership meeting of the Center last night at the center in Ross.

For two years, she declared, the Conservation League has been working to obtain the historical island to preserve its READY THE MET Oorte Madsr Hi Department went all out In lta fire prevention display, even going so far to throw a dummy out three -story window of a model building constructed In front of the ttr house. The model and the dummy tilling out the window can be aeen all during Firs Prevention Week. Belvedere Rejects Subdivision Plan Belvedere city council stood behind the city planning commission last night in disapproving the tentative Reedport properties, subdivision map. The subdividcrs had appeared before the council last Monday night to appetl the lecommendation made by the commission and to statt their case befoic the city council. John Rockwell, attorney for Reedport, claimed that the Truman Announces 'Other Matters' Face Discussion at Meet WASHINGTON (P)-Piesi-dent Truman announced today lie will meet ilns weekend with (Jen.

Douglas MacAithur in the Pacific to discuss "the final phase of United Nations action in Korea." Truman said in a statement that he will also discuss with MacArthur "other matter within his responsibility." He did not say what these were. Truman's staement did not say where he would meet with the United Nations commander. WEST OF HAWAII The White ouse withheld an announcement the place of the meeting, but I was presumed to be somewhere west of Hawaii. Truman will take off from St. Louis Thursday in the White House plane, the "Independence" for Hawaii, the first stop on a trip expected to last ibout a week.

He Is going to St. Louis tomorrow to witness the Installation of his sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, as worthy grand matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. Accompanying the President to the meeting lth MacArthur will be Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint ch efs of staff; W. Av- forelgn affairs; Philip C.

Jessup, state department roving ambassador -at large and Dean Bosk, autsUnt secretary of state fer far cistern affairs. Score. tary of the Army Face may ah make the trip Mr. Truman will leave St Louis 3 p. m.

(PST) Thursday for Fair-fleld-Suisun Force base in California between San Francisco and Sacramento. Arriving there at 10 p. m. (Pacific Standard rime) Thursday, he will leave two hours later for Hlcfc-am Air FlelC base in Honolulu where he is due at 7:30 a. at.

Friday, Hawaiian Time. RETURN OCSTOBKR 18 The White iouse refused to say the ultimate place of meeting or give any other details except to say Mr. Truman will return to Washington Wednesday, October 18. Mr. Truman, in his statement, said that In the final phiase of UN action, MacArthur's command 'will be working closely with the United Nations commission which has Just (Continued on Page Two) Marin Folk Urged To Bundle Papers For Scouts Drive Clean old papers from your basements and attics and help yourself and the Boy Scouts at the same time, was the advice Issued this morning by Marin County Fire Chief Camlllo Mello.

The semi-annual paper pickup of Marin Count Council of the Boy Scouts of America will be held on Saturday ant Sunday, in the following communities: San Rafael, Novato, Santa Venetla, Ross Valley, Sausalito, Mill Valley, Stiimon Beach, and Tiburon. Householders should Jpave old papers and magazines in 25 pound bundles and leave them on curbs. The Scouts pick them up on Saturday and Sunday. Mello state that the combination of Fire Preentlon Week and the paper drive will benefit both groups. Scouts will benefit from the proceeds of one sale of the paper, and home oimers will get rid of a serious fire hazard, he explained.

find increases In their lax bills. For Instance, taxpayers living in the Tamalpuls union high school district votec to expand the school district's genjral fund. Tax rBte for the fund for 1B50-51 will bi $125 as compared, to $1.16 for 1949-80. Although there was a bond issue passed In the North Marin Water District, the tax rate there has dropped two cents, from its former 79 to 77 certs. This occur ed, de Lisle explained, because a former operating cost of 44 cents wis dropped this year.

However, extra bonds costs keep the grounds lor turning down the appll- I a ps i.irnmr Leaves Money There must have been at least one person Marin county last night 10 really needed a drink and as out to get it and nothing se. When owner Moo Salaskt opened his Drake's Inn in Fairfax this morning he found $340 worth of liquor had stolen. But $250 In cash was shoved aside In the burglar" and apparently not wanted Chief ot Police Andy Perl said this morning that the burglar had removes a money bag containing the '50 from a case full of beer bottles, taken the beer out ot the case, and filled it with liquor. The money bag was then returned to lta previous position. Perl said he thovtht It was an inside Job, tfa tfglar hit tng remained In ttu tatdVn after closing hour, and then coming out to make the theft.

San Rafael Lady Struck By Auto; Driver Is Held Mrs. Anna Marie 8- SOB street, San Ra ael, la being treated at San Rafael General Hos pital for Injuries lecelved this morning In a pedestri in and automobile accident at S. cond and streets, San Rafael. San Rafael police cited driver Donald John Johnson 24, of 75 Al-lyn avenue, San Anselmo, on a charge of driving wltl out due cau tion Accident occurred at 7:30 The hospital said Mrs. Vignau sustained a sprained inkle and an undetei mined back In mry.

She said in a statement to poll that Johnson did not stop at a top sign. Johnson's statement to police said that he stopped then started again In low gear and that he did not see Mrs. Vagnau because the sun blinded him. Police said there was a brief tie-up in traffic Medics Registration Office In San Ra fuel SAN FRANCISCO (J.B Registra tion headquarters for medical, dental and allied special! ts were listed today by Major Geoige R. Ferrlll, coordinator of District, No.

3, selective service system. Marin county open Mon day, Oct. 16 fiom i to 5 pm, Is 1520 Fourt stiect, Rafael. (Earlier Story Page 3) BARKLbY BAI REDS LOS ANGELES (UD Vice Presi dent Alben W. BarUcy says the raglc cost of Koiea will be worth while if it shows the aggressors of the world they can't liave their way.

The Mann Hospit 1 District tax alho pays only foi bo id redemption. Die seven cent tax fur the whole ot the county docs uic'ude operating costs These expense are met out of formerly accumuli tod funds Taxpayers In Mirln will get further explanation of some of these tax complexities about the time the tax collecto) sends out his bills. Donohue says public notice of tax money collections will be made. Most persons are e- pec ted fb start paying their bUIs early In November, but It will be late In December before the county offices know Just how much can be expected in total but ww w. coast, is the first major CnmnwnUt-ruled center taken by the RspuhU of Korea's (ROK) Ubnttioa tores on their 10-day -old sally into th northern Red country.

Wonsan Is about 108 nUtss north of St and 9t muss almost duo of the Communist capital. Pyongyang. waa the center of oil rsflatnt In Korea befor repeat aVat strikes smashed it Industrial ta-cilltles. Th port has on ot th Woman's tut aid was one Jan. ansae naval sir station Wonsan had bssn redpssuatted.

said Communist prisoners a-gta where North Korean tocos ba to soak major date irgaa But tU attar a 4f shaping up the harbor and oaptursd airport for us quickly. Th part as reported 80 per cent Intact attar Hied bombings earlier la th war. On th western ran at th Up. Ue battlefront, the Ma stalk the first cross-border smash of Am erican troops along a 38 mil front sar Kassong. DRIVE BLUNTED Twenty thousand other Red Ko rean forces blunted the ROK driv in the center of th Peninsula about five miles north of the border.

While fighting raged all along th Red Korean battlefront, an Allied transport plane flew a loud-pakr over isolated Red pockets, caning to surrender. It promised fair and humane treatment. Genera) MacArthur's "last Urn irender ultimatum boomed out er the airborne hailer in a new phase of psychological warfare The Red high command has ig nored the ultimatum. But Communist troops were surrendering in In creasing numbers thai, liave swelled the Allied prisoner bag to mora than 88,000 Many Reds tied north and north west of Wonsan. Uncounted bund- i surrendered.

Prisoners said other hold-out grouito wanted to give up but hadn't loucd the opportunity. INDEPLNDEM'E DAT TAIPEI, Fomosa WPt Nationalist China observed its independence (Continued on Page Two) Progressive Group At Homestead Fights Annexation Proposal Homestead Progressive club again repeated its opposition to any mov that would annex Homestead to Mill Valley last night. Approximately 50 persons dis issed taxation, roao, firs protec tion and insurance rats a they might be under Mill Valley administration. Everyone present opposed annexation v. 1th the exception ot Kenneth Evans, a sanitary board member, who was among the group that requested the Mill Valley cup council for annexation last week- Club members again based that opposition on a report mod tor by Oeraid Hill, sausalito Stan ford student, on th proa and cow of annexation last year.

A post card sampling taken at that tun by 310 parsons listed 14 opposed to annexation and ttvs ta favor ot It. There wet in post Recreation Corporation Gets Further Hearing Tomorrow Afternoon Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon decided to drag out the Angel Island matter another two days. Hearing by the Angel Island Recreation corporation was continued to 2 p.m. tomorrow. It ha'd been orglnally announced that the hearing would be continued to 10 am.

Thursday, but County Clerk George Jones later discovered that Thursday la a legal holiday and the hearing time waa changed. The county's option on Angel Is land expires Friday, and it was in dicated yesterday morning that the board would not consider -dealing with the recreation corporation or Angel Island Foundation. HEAR MATTER OUT But lengthy pleas by representa tives of the corporation yesterday afternoon threatened to carry the icsion into a late hour. Finally Fred Bagshaw, chairman of the board, agreed that the hearing should be continued. On this he commented, "so we won't be put In the position that we haven't heard the whole matter out." Along with this development, a shade of secrecy dropped over the dealings.

Much of the discussion involved $280,000 In stock that the corporation proposed to sell If granted a sub-lease. The board said it wanted to know who would buy the stock, thereby knowing more definitely with whom it was to deal. Gelston C. Judah, treasurer of the corporation, and Henry Nathan, at- (Contlnued on Page Two) 3 Bandit Suspects Due In Justice Court Three men who early yesterday robbed Bartender Wallace Blese in San Rafael, have been placed In the county Jail under $5,000 bail each and were scheduled to appear In San Rafael Justice court late today where date for a preliminary hearing will be set. They were arraigned in justice court yesterday with San Rafael City Judge Guy A.

Ciocca, acting tor the regular Justice who was ab- Billy Roe Coe, 21; Walteal Merle Ooston, 20, and Bille Bob Jackson, 23, all of Corte Madera. The trio, armed with a .38 revolver, took 36 cents and a wallet from Blese, and left $200 In Biese's pocket, on their street, or they may have recently become a member of a new sewer maintenance district. Added to basic rates imposed by the county on each of the cities on in unincorporated communities, are tax rates levied to pare for any special district that may cut through the community. Basic county tax rates for the cities, Including the average amount ot tax for special district are: Belvedere, Fairfax, Larkspur, Oorte Madera, Ross, San Anselmo, $8 64; San Rafael, Sausalito, $4.88. The basis of a taxing district Is the school district, but as already natural Beauty, ana its beaches so that it will-not be "cheapened and exploited by private The League, she said, wants the Island to be developed by a nonprofit foundation under supervision of the National Park service.

"It took us five years to get Camp Taylor for Marin county, and we won't give up on Angel Island," she said. Indications were that "Mrs. Liver-more and her group would continue negotiations to save the Island by dealing with the federal government Instead of with county officials from now on. A small percentage of the thousands of new members and former members attended the meeting. They heard reports on the recent Marin Art and Garden Show, on the various cultural groups of the county making up the Center, and voted on one member of the board of directors.

Mrs. A. E. Rucker, Kentfleld, the Incumbent, defeated Paul Romer of San Anselmo. Both are members of the Marin Society of Artists.

Mrs. Rucker was re-elected to continue on the board for four more years. It was reported to the member-(Conttnued on Page Two) Car Abandoned Auto Stolen In Sausalito One car was stolen and another abandoned, yesterday In Sausalito reported Police Chief James Doyle this morning. Thomas Richardson of Marin City told police he gave a sailor a lift from the Golden Gate bridge toll plaza. When he parked In Sausalito, he placed the car keys under the seat, let the sailor out.

When he returned the oar was gone. The abandoned car was found stripped of radio, generator, carburetor and atarter on Upper Marion avenue. It was registered to BUly j. catlatt of Richmond. security program, which by state law Is handled again by the county.

The welfare and security rate for 1940-50 was sUghtly more than 30 cents. Now the rate is more than 50 cents. The new county rate also includes new rates to support the county master highway plan (2.5 cents) and seven cents for retirement of county employees. The retirement tax comes as a result of voters approved county retirement plan at an election last November. The plan became effective last July.

Taxpayers who live in school districts where bond issues were passed recently, or where special district Corte MaderaOKs One Annexation, Rejects 4 Others Corte Madera quietly completed lis annexation plans last night with tne acceptance of one of their five possible expansions, and rejection of four others. Ordinance was introduced last night that would annex the property known as the Flfer-Moore addition It Is situated on Richardson's Island and has a narrow connecting corridor with the present Corte Madera boundaries. The four other possible expansions could not be completed, City Attorney John Ehlen said, because they were not adjoining present city limits or property owners wlth-ln the areas objected. It was announced last night that winejation of the Wilson-United Housing property, the hill excavation area west of the town, is. complete and the area is now a part of Corte Madera.

Only other action taken at last night's special meeting was the introduction of an ordinance calling for a special election for a street Improvement bond Issue. The special election will be held long with the general election on November 7. Councilman Charles Vwe, upon whose survey of the Corte Madera street situation the issue was based, introduced the ordinance. The council will meet in special session next Monday at p.m. AFL PLEDGES SUPPORT SANTA BARBARA IJP) A foi eign policy statement calling for all out support of the war effort to suppress "Communist brigands" in Korea waa adopted today by the California State Federation of noted when a new special district Is created, overlapping the boundaries of the school district, a new tax must be figured.

Hence, the 108 tax code districts In Marin. De Lisle says there may be more next year, because new sewer maintenance districts are being formed. Many of them are formed with the building of a new subdivision. Everybody knows that taxes In Marin are higher this year than last. For Instance the basic county rate of $1.48 for the fiscal year, 1949-60, increased 30 cents for the current year.

Moat of this increase will pay He con- tlnued to say that according to state law and code sufficient data concerning the tentative map had been given the commission at the time of the application. This was one of the reasons the council had for turning the application down. Jams Michael, councilman, told the group that there was nothing to keep from preparing a more detailed map with more complete data on engineering, drainage and such. It this is done, Michael said, a new application of subdivision approval could be submitted to the No comment from Reedport Properties, was forthcoming at this time, but a spokesman for the group said that a revised statement would be given as to the company's future development plans. The company owns approximately 900 acres in the Richardson Bay area.

Alter a brief recess, ihe matter of a 323 name petition presented to the city council and the planning the city acquire the land in ques-(Oontinued on Page Two) MARIN MUSINGS' By Rafael Marin We Marlnitee arc happy that we live over on the sunrg- aide of the Golden Gate, and were anxious to retain our semi-rural and suburban atmosphere. But clvio pride sometimes gets the best of us. On Sunday, we liki many a fel low resident were st.irtled to read in a Ran Francisco newspaper's magazine section thai the ralrhllla district of San Rafael Is "only five minutes drive from the village center." The suggestion may bo out of or- der, but someday we'd be most happy to give the metropolitan writ-era a tour of Marin county and of San Rafael. Then we'd convince them that things have been going on over here since they locked themselves in their little cubicle at Fifth and Mission. Family friends of ours in the vicinity of Gentle Park, San Rafael, are searching these days through the city planning laws, hopeful that their gntde school offspring Isn't getting I hem in dutch with the powers that be.

Seems as though sonny la running a cemetery for family pets and the other day established himself more firmly in the mortician business by talcing In an unidentified and departed feline which had never become member of chc clan. Neighbors who know of the activity can be assured of one thing, however. Sonny nan been put on notice that he la not to establish a FotterV Field for the neighborhood's animal'). From now on, It'll be a family plot alone and the family and lively. 105 Different Tax Rates Have Been Set By County Alone While the rate charged to the city of Fairfax from the county and the various district is $8.31.

the same rate doea not apply to other cities. In fact, then are 106 different rate set up by the county. The reason for this, explains da Lisle, it because of the overlapping of special assessment districts. Although two persons living in the same oom- hnuntty may have identically asses- sec, noroes, their tax bills may not be the same. Reason: One of them may be pay-.