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THE CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD A HOME-OWNED NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF CHICO AND THE GREAT MID-VALLEY AREA 113TH NO PHONE 342-2421 CHICO CALIFORNIA TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 7 15 10c $150 20 PAGES-2 SECTIONS Fighting Spreading Sept 20 Brown to Call Special Legislative Session The governor agreed with leg islative leaders in finding unpalatable the ruling that some senators and assembly men run in vast districts This provision was contained in the court's proposed redistricting to go into effect if the legislature fails to reapportion itself by the December deadline Brown said at-large elections would be expensive and for the candidates and expressed a hope that the lawmakers would establish districts which contain no such provision The governor told his weekly news conference that he did not SACRAMENTO (UPI) -Gov Edmund Brown today announced that he would call the Legislature into special session Sept 20 to comply with the state Supreme Court's order to reapportion both houses by Dec 9 The governor had been expected to call the session for late September or early October He said he wanted to give the lawmakers the time I possibly to comply with the court order The high bench ordered remapping of the 40-member Senate and 80-member Assembly in a decision handed down last Wednesday agree with Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh's expression of doubt that the legislature would be unable to reach agreement on Senate reapportionment don't think any legislator should come up here with the governor said Unruh Inglewood predicted last week that the Senate would be the major roadblock in redrawing its lines now based on geography along population lines as ordered by the court Disagreement between the two houses prevented enactment of a Senate reapportionment bill during the 1965 session although the lawmakers were under a July 1 deadline laid down by a three-judge federal court panel Brown 'said he would add medicare to the special call This would allow the lawmakers to consider bills to provide free medical insurance to state welfare recipients and others The plan would be financed with federal funds available under President Johnson's medicare bill The governor also covered these topics: A third term: Despite four inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada last weekend and his pledge to announce his plans with the first snowfall of this season Brown declined to comment Smiling he called the snow and said he (Continued on Page 3A Col 1) Guardsmen Relieved united press international The Negro George Metcalfe National Guardsmen Monday were relieved of their peacekeeping duties In Natchez Miss Gov Paul Johnson in ordering the Guardsmen disbanded said and tranquility now in the Mississippi river town where racial tension was high last week Johnson warned however that Guardsmen be ready to go back into any place where we feel there is a real threat of Johnson ordered 600 Guardsmen into Natchez last Thursday night following the bombing of a Negro car was hospitalized Negroes and whites staged separate demonstrations at Bo-galusa La Monday There was no trouble In Los Angeles California Gov Edmund Brown said the August rioting in south Los Angeles us that we cannot point a finger of shame at the South and say to ourselves it happen All across the nation Brown said who have been too long deprived of their simple rights are stirring striving and indeed sometimes striking out blindly at friend and foe alike in pursuit of those SHORT SESSION Ambassador to the Arthur Goldberg (right) this month's Security Council president opened this session while Secretary General Thant left) and Ralph Bunche (center) confer The special session lasted only four minutes and then recessed for private meetings Following the meeting Thant prepared to take the first available plane to India and Pakistan in a personal effort to halt (he rapidly escalating Kashmir war It is expected (hat Thant will leave for the war zone (onight See story on Kashmir at right (UPI Telephoto) Front Now Spans Over 2000 Miles By WALTER LOGAN (United Pr International) The undeclared war between India and Pakistan spread 2000 miles from Kashmir today to East arrd West Pakistan as each side unleased a series of air raids on a dozen cities and towns Communist China broadcast an official offer of to Pakistan and accused India of intrusions and provocations along the Indo-China border raising the fear of Communist Chinese intervention Pakistan claimed it destroyed 24 Indian planes today and 2 Monday and threatened to attack into the Indian state of Punjab where Sikhs have demanded independence from India The Pakistanis reported (hat Indian planes bombed Karachi the former Pakistani capital with heavy losses An Indian spokesman said Pakistani planes bombed Srinagar the capital of Kashmir and (he Kalaikunda air base 60 miles east of Calcutta An Indian spokesman said three Pakistani F86 Sabrejets were shot down in one air battle while Indian planes bombed Pakistani air bases and military installations A Pakistani spokesman in Rawalpindi reported Indian attacks today on Sargodha airfield 86 miles from Lahore where he said an Indian ground offensive had bogged down under heavy Pakistani counterattacks He said during the night Pakistani aircraft carried out I he biggest air operations so far on Indian air bases at Pathankot Adampur Halawan and ranging from the Kashmir area to the Rann of Kutch 80(1 miles to the south Pakistan claimed many Indian planes destroyed The Pakistani spokesman reported bombing of the old capital of Karachi and the interim capital of Rawalpindi No casualty figures were announced Other Indian attacks were reported on near Dacca the capital of East Pakistan and Chittagong Jessore Lalmunirhat and Rangpur Pakistan said eight Indian air force Canberra jet bombers hit the city of Karchi today killing persons India reported Pakistan air raids as far east as Calcutta As the scale of fighting increased constantly United Nations Secretary General Thant prepared to fly to Rawalpindi and New Delhi to try to halt the hostilities Pakistan asked the Soviet (Continued on Page 3A Col 8) NE of Saigon US Marines Viet Infantry Assault Cong Stronghold SAIGON (UPI) Thousands of Marines and Vietnamese infantrymen today launched a big offensive against a suspected Viet Cong stronghold on a narrow peninsula 20 miles outh of Chu Lai The Allied troops were trying to trap the guerrillas with their backs to the sea A military spokesman said today's assault was comparable in size to the 5000-man Marine campaign on the nearby Van Tuong Peninsula last month which killed 600 guerrillas in the biggest American victory of the war The Marines hit the beach at dawn today in amphibious tractors By mid-afternoon military spokesman reported the Leathernecks had seized a 600-foot hill which dominates the Ban Lang An Peninsula 345 miles northeast of Saigon Marine planes strafed the landing zone before dawn and a barrage of heavy artillery shells was fired into the peninsula from the cruiser Oklahoma City flagship of the 7th Fleet The offensive was dubbed after the man-eating South American fish In a separate action near Qui Nhon a military spokesman said the commander of a Marine battalion used tear gas today to drive suspected Viet Cong and women from caves and tunnels The spokesman said the commander apparently was unaware of the strict policy against the use of tear gas in such cases An investigation was underway to find out why The spokesman said the Viet Cong were using the women for shields He said the tear gas was effective and drove the suspected Communists and the women from their hiding places with nothing more serious than tear-filled eyes In Saigon a terrorist grenade killed one Vietnamese and wounded six others near the Tan Dinh police substation (Continued on Page 3A Col 5 Befsy Giving Nassau Rough Wind Lashing MIAMI (UPI) Hurricane Betsy standing almost stationary in the central Bahamas gave Nassau its worst beating in 36 years today-pounding the island capital hour after hour with ferocious winds and seas Authorities in Nassau said by telephone there was extensive damage but no loss of life reported Winds up to 130 miles an hour shrieked into the Bahamian capital and pounding seas leaped over the waterfront Bay Street the famed straw market tourist shopping center the telephoned reports said An eyewitness on one island reported by telephone (hat streets are deserted not Safe to be out the police are While the hurricane was not predicted to move more than 40 miles in any direction within the next 12 hours its fringe squalls threw high seas and winds against the southeast Florida coast A 60 mph gust was recorded in Miami Communications with Nassau were touch and go One cable link was knocked out but telephone calls were still getting through occasionally including one from United Press International at 10:30 am EST At 11 am EST the Weather Bureau reported Betsy's center was stationary a short distance north of near latitude 252 north longitude 774 west (Continued on Page 3A Col 4) OPENING Students at the new Pleasant Valley High School classes this morning after attending an opening day assembly in (backgroundi In its first day of operation the school reported and juniors Meanwhile in the entire Chico Unified School day total of 9009 students reported for classes See story below (Enterprise-Record Photo) Schools Open Today Enrollment Up Slightly Resignation Submitted by Ridge Trustee By CHARLES DUNCAN (Enttrprlit-Rtcora Staff Writer) Quiet neighborhoods lonesome dogs and noisy school grounds marked the annual first day of school as 9009 students filled classrooms today throughout the Chico Unified School District In the district's elementary schools (kindergarten through sixth grade) a total of 4970 students reported for the opening day Elementary schools in the Chico area (the old district within the unified district) re- Chico Plane Is Object Of Search Fog shrouded wooded areas near Willits are being combed today for a plane piloted by Chico building contractor Mitchell 38 and missing since Saturday on a flight from Chico to Ft Bragg Civil Air Patrol and Mendocino County department planes were joined by CAP ground units in a search initiated Saturday night and hampered by coastal fog and periodic thunderstorms According to Mrk Hazel Smith commander of CAP Group 5 headquartered at the Chico airport Mitchell left Saturday at 8:50 am in a tree-green Piper Super Cub and would normally have arrived in Ft Bragg by 10 am The Chico contractor was alone and bound for a family reunion Ft Bragg and when he did not arrive by evening anxious members of the family called the Chico Aviation Services where the flight originated The local group of the CAP was summoned and received permission from the Western Air Rescue Center at Hamilton Air Force fease to institute a search More than 100 CAIf1 personnel have participated in search of erations Mrs Smith noted that five CAP planes were in opera-tiomthis morning Ground art: from the Bay Area MiUail did not file a flight stroll to their the cafeteria an attendance ceived 50 more pupils than they did on opening day last year James Brien assistant superintendent of the unified distric' said attendance throughout the district had probably increased about 100 children over the number who reported last year is a modest growth which we had Brien commented The unified district in its first year encompasses Centerville Chico Cohasset Forest Ranch Nord Pleasant Valley and Shasta Union schools Also gotiating period which began last December when the union announced its contract goals and reached a climax last Friday when Johnson reported to the nation of the agreement The contract is effective Sept 1 and runs through Aug I 1968 It provides the 350000 -USW members employed in basic steel -with sizable pay raises permits retirement with full steel producers signed memorandums of agreement pending formulation of final contract language signings brought down of 510 sophomores District a first Russia Clash Over Nuclear Pact GENEVA (UPI) The United States and Russia today clashed over a neutral proposal for an unverified ban on large underground nuclear tests Moscow said it would sign such a pad "without delay The United States turned it down as half-way measure which may create The proposal was introduced by the United Arab Republic on Aug 17 at the 17-nation disar mament conference It suggests an unverified ban on underground tests above a seismic mapitude 'of 475 equivalent to the size of the Hiroshima atomic bomb together with a moratorium on smaller explosions Soviet disarmament negotiator Semyon Tsarapkin accusing the United States of a frozen attitude -towards a test ban by demanding said Moscow apees to such a treaty American negotiator William Foster said the United States a long-standing opposition to an unverified ban on nuclear -half way measures may create suspicions and not (Continued oo Industry Chiefs OK Pacts With United Steelworkers included in the unification Is the Chico High School district Attendance for grades seven through 12 totaled 4039 "Everyone in the entire northern state is watching us" Don Abbott principal of Pleasant Valley High School said in addressing the 540 students who reported to the new school This year the school is handling only sophomores and juniors while all seniors remain at Chico High School At Chico High School 1371 students in grades 10 through 12 attended the proud but old institution With the opening of Pleasant Valley High School the school obviously lost a large portion of pupils At one time last year Chico High School possessed an entoll-ment of approximately 2000 youths As compared to opening day a year ago the eombined totals for both secondary schools show an increase of 22 pupils Harvey Wilson head of the i i t's attendance division said that enrollment in the high schools would grow sub-stanlially in the next few weeks as new students and families become settled At the mushrooming junior high level both Bidweil and Chico Junior High Schools reported gains ip attendance Bid- Worst Traffic Record for a Summer Weekend 572 Die Bv SYLVIA COOKE (Entprprise-Record Stall Writer) PARADISE Mrs Sally Van-degrift trustee of the Paradise Unified School District who was named president of the board of educalion here July 1 submitted her resignation effective Sept 5 Mrs Vandegrift served one four year term as a member of Hie PUSD school board and was reelected to a new lour -year term last April She has been the presiding officer the past two months Her resignation was sub-mitled to Vice President Ray Nieland and to Doran Tregarth-en superintendent of schools She also mailed copies to news media serving the district In her letter Mrs Vandegrift said that with the youngest of her children in school a full day she was returning (o her former profession as a school teacher She has accepted a 'position as an elementary teacher in the Chico Unified School District fairness to my new employers the taxpayers of Chico and to the voters of the PUSD I feel compelled to submit my gna(ion as a trustee and as PITTSBURGH (UPI) -Tranquility a rare commodity in the past nine months pervaded the basic steel industry today The captains of the industry signed contracts and memorandums of agreement with the United Steelworkers union (USW) Monday night assuring labor peace for the next 35 months Bethlehem Sted Corp accented in full the settlement worked out in Washington last week under the admonishments of President Johnson The other nne (By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL) At least 572 Americans the most ever killed in traffic during a summer holiday died on the nation's highways during the Labor Day weekend The toll for the 78-hour period between 6 pm Friday and midnight Monday shot past the previous record of 561 traffic fatalities as casualty reports flowed in today The United Press Internation- Texas led the death toll with 48 traffic fatalities California had 46 Illinois 36 New York and Wisconsin 29 each North Carolina 26 Pennsylvania and Michigan 21 each and Ohio 20 The old record 4xth for a Labor Day holiday and- asum 1 i rt1.