The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 15

GRANITE EVERYWHERE--A workman eating National Park. Grading is under way here in one of his lunch looks at spectators scenery in rugged Tenaya Yosemite Road Projects Solve Overcrowding By Karl M. Kidder Fresno Bee staff writer YOSEMITENATIONAL PARK Park Superintendent John C. Preston's problem of diverting some visitors from the overcrowded valley to the uplands may be solved partially about this time next year. The solution is manifold.

One portion involves 21 miles of new, and scenic highway between Tioga Pass and Crane Flat. Another lies in concentrated attention to filling campground needs between those two points. Eight Mile Project A third, but considerably longer range solution, may be found in the proposed construction of eight miles of new highway between Crane Flat and Carl Inn by way of the old Hodgdon Ranch. This project, to replace the twistAng and narrow route the Big Oak Flat Road, will cost about $1,000,000, "We plan to advertise this job next year," says Volney J. Westley, the park landscape architect, He also is in charge of the campground improvement and expansion programs, as well as Tioga Road's construction.

Three Year Job "It quite likely will take three years to wind up the new road by way of the ranch." Westley says. "But when it is completed, visitors can enter the park from the west and either travel through the park by way of Tuolumne Meadows and Tioga Pass, or enter from the east by way of Tioga and exit through Crane Flat. "Either course will provide through travel without having Continued on page 2-B, col. 3 Victorian CIGARETTE TABLE 19.95 Hand carved of solid Honduras mahogany topped with rare imported Carrara marble. A lovely and useful chairside table! OPEN TOMORROW EVENING hopins 1028 No.

Fulton Dist. Giffen, Provost Laud Work Of Miss Erskine Praise for Winifred Erskine's work with the West Side health clinics was given today by West Side rancher Russell H. Giffen and Ray Provost, a vice president of the Producers Cotton Oil Company. Giffen and Provost fied on Miss Erskine's behalf at a hearing before the county civil service commission. The commission is hearing Miss Erskine's appeal of her ouster as the director of public health nursing in the county health department.

She was charged with neglect of duty, insubordination and incompetence by Health Officer Dr. Gerold L. Faber and fired August 15th. 'Did Excellent Job' Giffen told the commission: "Our experience with Miss Erskine and her associates at the West Side clinic was nothing but pleasant. She did an excellent job." Provost testified: "Few people could have convinced me to participate in the clinics to the extent I did, but Miss Erskine did it.

She has a talent for getting people to work and she has gained the respect of the public. We need her leadership." County Counsel Robert M. Wash, representing Dr. Faber, said there -is no indication that the West Side clinics a are not properly run. Denies Implication Commissioner Carl P.

Fuller asked Miss Erskine if the West Side clinics were an issue in her dismissal. "Dr. Faber told me he tried to disassociate my name from the West Side health clinics Continued on page 7-B, col. 1 Dr. Deffebach, Fresno Dentist, Succumbs At 34 Chuarens Hos-Dr.

Deffebach pitals. After he was graduated from the University of Southern California in 1950 he participated in the residency program at the general hospital. He opened his dental office in September, 1951. Dr. Deffebach was president of the North Fresno Kiwanis Club.

His survivors include his widow, Mrs. Marion Ruth Deffebach; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O.

Deffebach; two sons, Douglas and Robert, and a. daughter, Kristi, Hall of Fresno, and three sisters, Mrs. Gladys DeFoe and Judy Deffebach, both of Fresno, and Mrs. Frances Dern of Selma. Stephens Bean will announce the funeral services.

The family requests that any remembrances be sent to the Fresno chapter of the American Cancer Society. Dr. Marion J. Deffebach, 34, a Fresno dentist, died last night in a local hospital after a long illness. He had lived lat 135 West Keats Avenue.

A native of Reedley, Dr. Deffeba ch was graduated from the Roosevelt High School. He was on the visiting dental staff of the Fresno County General and Valley, Chuarens Hos-Dr. Deffebach Teachers Are Urged Not To Destroy Creativity By Verne How do you develop "You don't," declares "Children are naturally making an effort not to Hogan, supervisor of the teaching of English and foreign languages at the University of California at Berkeley, was the main speaker at this morning's session of the 15th annual workshop on creative expression for Fresno County teachers. The three day workshop in the Fresno State College ended today.

Hogan said teachers must be creative to work effectively with creative children. Paralyze Ability "Sometimes we worry students so much about committing errors of grammar or punctuation that we virtually paralyze their creative ability. "In many cases a pupil becomes so worried his compositions become a series of Tioga Pass Road being Tenaya Lake. Bee Photos of way. A power shovel rock.

The going here Bandits Grab $200, Leave Victim Pantless J. D. Hutson, a transient, was robbed of his pants and $200 in a holdup at North Street and Harrison Avenue at 5:15 AM today. The two men who robbed him are believed to be the same ones who took a wrist watch, 8 cents' and a bus ticket from Weber E. Cooper of 1244 China Alley near that Continued on page 7-B, col.

Cole creativity in children? educator Robert Hogan. creative. It's just a matter of destroy that creativity." Continued on page 2-B, col. Robert Hogan Robert Hogan Air Station Haulers, Irked At Boss, Stage Brief Strike A brief wildcat strike by 23 truck drivers based on resentment toward their job superintendent, last night halted the delivery of rock aggregate the Lemoore Naval Air Station construction job for about six hours. The drivers, employes of the Miles Sons Trucking Service of Merced, quit work 6 PM, pulling their heavy double trailer rigs off the road on State Highway 41 near Pinedale after pick- Photo On Page 1-A ing up their first load of rock at a crushing plant on the San Joaquin River.

They went back to work around midnight after airing their grievances before company officials and a teamsters union representative in an informal roadside meeting. Fourth Discussion Paul Smith. the business agent for Fresno Local 431 of the union, said he will meet with a company committee and possibly a group representing the drivers today to further discuss the drivers' gripes. The drivers complained the superintendent, Robert Cheek, was using highhanded methods in his treatment of them. Cheek, said a spokesman for the drivers, was "pushing "The drivers are not them too hard" in an attempt to speed or to break the to keep production up.

and if they run a stop sign The drivers he wanted them to complete four 100 it is think their responsibility. mile round trips to the air Mechanical defects we station in 11 hours. This, the care of as soon as the drivers drivers contend, cannot be report them. We are trying done without breaking speed to run a safe job, and laws. Speeding Tickets of our drivers are contributing Several said had their skill and abilities to they received speeding citations.

A by driving well and reporting the condition of their trucks few said they were given tickfor defective accurately each day." but Cheek refused to author- A petition signed by lets equipment, of the drivers including some lize company payment the day shift--called for fines. Cheek this morning said the company "investigation of drivers are a little long on antagonistic and belligerent their mileage estimate. conduct" of the superintendsaid the round trip for Helen and demanded steps trucks is 92 miles, or a total taken "to correct his attitude for four hauls of 368, or replace him on the job." He also declared, "We have Other grievances of a mechanical shop at each drivers included alleged end of the run and service treatment of the drivers men in pickup trucks who some complaints about will perform emergency re- condition of equipment. pairs at any point on the run. emphasized the All the- driver has to do is They call the collect, and was not against the navy job, wel the the Griffith Company, dispatch service man.

general contractors for "Any truck deficiencies base job. They also stressed which the drivers report, and the short strike was not they are required to report them at the end of each shift, tioned by the union. or sooner if they are vital, Smith said future are repaired in our shops be- plaints will be handled fore the truck goes back into through the routine service. grievance procedure. THE FRESNO NO BEE THE REPUBLICAN FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959 PAGE 1-B Fresno Dance Teacher Dies In Auto Plunge Andrea Littick, 19, of 5475 North Seventh Street, a dance instructor, was killed last night when the sports car she was driving plunged over a 40 foot embankment and smashed into a tree.

A companion, James P. Cullen, 21, of San Francisco, escaped with minor Members of her family said Andrea she and Cullen Littick had driven to Santa Cruz and were returning to San Francisco when the fatal accident occurred at 7:20 PM on Skyline Boulevard near King's Mountain Road in San Mateo County. Miss Littick was living in San Francisco while attending ballet classes. She taught dancing in the Littick School of Dance and Music at 524 West Clinton Avenue. It is operated by her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Lucien W. Littick of the Seventh Street address. Native Of LA She was a native of Los Angeles who was reared in Kansas City, and who had lived in Fresno since 1955. She was.

a 1958 graduate of Bullard High School, where she was a rally girl, and attended Fresno High School, Fresno City College and Fresno State College. She attended St. James' Episcopal Cathedral. Besides her parents, she is survived by a sister, Luanice, also a dance instructor. Yost Webb will announce the final rites.

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I take most it 40- a the be the misand the strike or the the sanc- com- union who are looking at the the last sections of the new Canyon in the Yosemite built. In the background is HEAVE HO! One truck anchors struction right another as it gets a four ton load of maneuvers the rock along the Tioga Pass Road con- is heavy. Group Organizes To Get Educational TV Itional television station to last night voted to file articles Spokesmen for the San Joa-1 quin Valley Community Television Association, a non profit organization, said the action will allow the group to proceed with plans for the station. effective Incorporation will become when the articles are accepted by the secretary of state. Makes 3 Year Study The group, working as steering committee, has been studying and planning the project for three years.

It originally was composed of representatives from Fresno, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced and Tulare Counties. Impetus to the project was given by the state office of the American Association of University Women, which appointed Mrs. Lois Tarkanian of Fresno as chairman of a committee to investigate the possibilities of establishing such a station in the San Joaquin Valley. Elect Officers Officers elected to begin their duties when the incor- A group proposing the establishment of an educa- serve the San Joaquin Valley of incorporation. becomes effective poration Mrs.

Tarkanian, president; Thomas F. Fawcett, Visalia, vice president; Robert Mardikian, Fresno, recording secretary; Mrs. P. K. McCain, Visalia, corresponding secretary, and Mrs.

Norman A. Strauss, Fresno, treasurer. The articles of incorpora-1 altion say the organization is formed "exclusively for educational purposes." Seek Written Backing Mardikian asked members of the steering committee to get written backing from clubs, organizations, schools school boards for inclusion with a report to be filed with the federal communications commission and asking the allocation of a VHF channel, particularly channel 7, for the for proposed station. will be A request a permit filed with the FCC before September 23rd. UHF channel 18 now is re- Continued on page 2-B, col.

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Postmaster Scott K. Wood explained collections will be made earlier and more frequently from the city mail deContinued on page 2-B, col. Auto Overturns Dioniscio Evarro Alvarado of Five Points escaped with minor injuries when the automobile he was driving overturned on the Coalinga Road near Avenue in the Five Points district early last night. Alva-. rado said he was forced off the road by another car.

Boy, 'Crocked' On Wine, Packs Beer Recipe Home brew, anyone? Here is the recipe found in the possession of a 13 year old boy picked up at Fresno and Fulton Streets last night: One gallon of water, two cups of corn meal, one cake of yeast, two cups of sugar and two peaches. Stir and let sit in a dark room three days. The 13 year old admitted to Patrolman Charles H. Gellhoed he had not tried the recipe. He did not need to.

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