The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 27

I Friday Klarth 1 1961 3-C NEWS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Areawide Junior College Plans Are Told In Madera MADERA Madera Co Fresno nnd Clovis Unified ation and the numher of Reports from the finance and Districts would make un aoneldcms now enrolled In grades boundaries and trustees areaL th eight to 12 rhH rnmmittAAa nf I7mbma vb win InieC liklnlCCS sub committees of the Fresno Girl Scout Post Is Taken Over By Emily Mast Emily Mast a Fresnan who for the last eight ycurs has state department of employ served as a professional Girlmcnt always looking for THE FRESNO BEE Planners Okeh Subdivision Of Wildwood Isle The Fresno County Plan-ning Commission yesterday college Association presents approved a final subdivision jits second annual jazz con-map for the division of 106 cert at 8:30 o'clock in the acres on Wildwood Island Fresno Memorial Auditorium Gillespie Concert Is Tomorrow Modern jazz at its finest will be the order tomorrow night when the Fresno State Principal Art Consultant Get City Sabbaticals Sabbatical leaves for 1963- ts He said each trustee would The subcommittee nominated from the dis alternate plans in case some trict but elected at large Scout worker a man to fit a is now 64 have been granted by the from coast tolooking for peace corpsmen Fresno City Board of Educa-coast has as- Willard Marsh the local of- tjnn to Gerald A Rosandcr sumed her new fice manager saida directivelprincipai 0f the Ericson from the Sacramento hNd-school and William David quarters reminds his offireMcLcllind lhe art 1a rnniNornfA uil th nnui: to with the cooperate peace corps in displaying posters furnishing information pro- viding questionnaires and giv ing other advice about the of the high school districts pull out of the formation This is their right Gold said until the final recommendations are made However each high school district in the state must be a member of a junior college district by February 1 1964 Wren said the trustee allotment was figured on the basis of area assessed valu- There must be one from each trustee area Gold said the entire district would have an assessed valuation of $874 million and would be the "wealthiest jun ior college district in the state" He said each student would have $164000 in valuation behind him $14000 more than the law requires corps Marsh said the peace corps is recruiting in all major occupations and particularly wants the employment ice to find applicants in Yosemite Survey Shows Snow Pack Not i Of YOSEMITE NATIONAL Yosemite rangers reporting on a snow survey taken yesterday confirmed what has been especially to skiers have the snow we had last The three courses for which' post as program adviser for the El-O-Win Council of Girl Scouts During the summer she will be the director of Camp El-O-Win Miss Mast a Mr and Mrs 4 Miss Mast daughter of Harry Mast Woodrow Avenue was grad- uated from the Fresno State College in 1953 with a hache lor of arts degree in psycho ogy and philosophy She has been a camp director for three summers in California and Virginia and for five summers in Illinois Pennsylvania Oregon and Michigan For a year and a half she was the district adviser for the Gold Trail Council in Sacramento Before that she was the executive director in Staunton Va and held professional positions in Woodland Yolo County and San Lorenzo Alameda County The new program director succeeds Mrs Harold O'Donnell who resigned to move with her family to Santa Barbara 13 Return From Inspection Of Bay Naval Facilities Thirteen members of the Fresno Council of the Navy League of the United States returned late yesterday from a two day inspection of naval facilities in the San Francisco Bay area Council President Lin-ville Munday Jr who headed the Fresno group said the men visited the aircraft carrier Coral Sea at the Alameda Naval Air Station the new missile frigate Halsey and destroyers converted to missile carrying vessels at Hunters Point and atomic submarines in various stages of construction at Mare Island The navy league is a civil ian organization which lends support to navy programs 2476 South 199 Tuolumne Meadows 8600 218 and 104 Lake Tenaya 8150 226 and 12 Rafferty Meadows 9600 51 and 244 The team members were Robert Flemming park engineer and Rangers Herb Ewing Wayne Merry and William Jones Body Is Sought In Canal After Tractor Mishap OROSI Tulare Co Dragging operations were continued along the Friant-Kem Canal southeast of Orosi today for the body of a tractor driver who presumably drowned after his tractor rolled down the canal bank yesterday The object of the search near Avenue 400 and Road 144 is Jesus Lara Medina about 42 of Santa Paula Ven tura County an employe of a Sepulveda Los Angeles County general contractor who is doing reconditioning work for the bureau of reclamation on 30 timber bridges on the canal between Friant Dam and Bakersfield Tractor Removed Scuba divers yesterday went into the canal and searched through the deep waters in the vicinity of the tractor in hope of finding the body nearby However there was no sign of Medina so the tractor was pulled out The bureau is using draglines and other heavy equipment and the sheriffs office said it had relinquished most of the search operations to reclamation crews The sheriffs department said Medina last was seen cleaning up the area around a bridge where work had just been completed about 11:30 AM yesterday by Butler a farm laborer in that area Search By Employee Earl Wilson the contractor started looking for Medina about noon and could not find either him or the tractor Wilson later saw where the tractor went down the side of the canal Wilson said Medina was on the first day at the job He theorized Medina was turning the tractor around on an operational road on the west side of the canal about 25 yards south of a bridge when the vehicle slid backward and overturned into the canal Orchestra Without Guest Star Shows Versatility County Committee on School District Organization given to the Madera Union High School trustees last night point to one conclusion The proposed areawide junior college while still in the tentative stage is taking shape Norman Gould county su-perintendent of schools and Rinaldo Wren principal and district supervisor of Madera High School made the reports They served on the finance sub committee Gould stressing that his was a "progress report" and in no way final said the junior college would cost resi- dents of 18 high school dis 'tricts stretching over five counties 36 cents for each $100 assessed valuation 1 Cent Over Maximum The 36 cent tax rate is 1 cent more than the maximum a junior college district is permitted by law to charge Gould says it can be handled if the voters approve 'an override tax He said the 36 cents represents a reduction from tuition taxes projected to 1964-65 for Fresno Tulare and Kings Counties residents students to a junior college when not a member of a district The rate would be a slight increase over estimated tuition taxes for Merced and Madera Counties Gold broke the tax rate into there sections Twenty six cents of the tax would be for assuming rental and operat-' ing costs of the existing city college and Reedley College plants An override tax of 5 cents would be needed to re- tire the bonded indebtedness of the two schools and another 5 cent override tax would be charged to pay accrued equity of the two $41 Million Equity The finance report shows an appraised value of almost $111 million for the Fresno and Reedley schools with $41 million in accrued equity Gould said the new district would receive about $28 mil-: lion in grants He said the actual cost of the district would be $8308-912 to be paid off on the 36 cent tax rate over the whole district The district itself also is taking shape Gould and Wren outlined a plan favored by the boun daries and trustees area subcommittee which divides the district into five zones Zone one would be comprised of the Madera Chow-chilla and Dos Palos High School Districts with one trustee representing it The Caruthers Central Fowler Latoii Washington Union of Easton and Kerman Districts make up area two with one trustee Area three has Selma Kingsburg Dinuba Parlier and Reedley with one trustee The Sierra Union and Sanger High School Districts would be aligned in district four with one trustee and the i Mild Quake Is Felt In Kern BAKERSFIELD Kern A mild earthquake apparently centering in the unpopulated 'desert area 100 miles south- -east of here was felt by much of Kern County late yesterday There were no reports of damage In Pasadena the California Institute of Technology said the temblor registered 45 on the Richter scale The quake hit at 4:26 PM Madera Automobile Dealer ExFresnan Dies Unexpectedly MADERA Madera Co Whitehead 57 the of Whitehead Ford Sales in Madera and a former Fresnan collapsed and -died in his home today apparently of a heart attack Whitehead and his wife Leona moved to Madera eight years ago from Fresno where he was connected with Motor Company He and his wife lived at 601 Bruce nue They had been married for 25 years Is He was a native of San Francisco and attended high school there He was a graduate of the University of California He was a member of a 'Masonic lodge in San Fran--cisco In addition to his widow he is survived by his mother Mrs Ella Whitehead of San Jose The Lisle Funeral Chapel in Fresno is in charge of the funeral arrangements into 126 lots The property Is near Centerville between the Piedra Road and the Kings River about one fourth of a mile north of the East Kings Canyon Road In other planning actions the commission: Aporavd a tonlalivd tuMivlitan tar Gotm Variation of 7 acrat kilo II IMi Nw norm nd Wttl rpwnmg Avtnut botwoon North Forknor and Norm West Avonun 10 Aero Tract Appravad tar Sullivan tho tanta-Hvo Diont to lubdivido 10 acres into J) tan naar Wail Escatan and Norm Cstanm Avanuas Aoorovod tow tentative mans for Cal Evans to subdivide 102 acres Into 00 tots near the northwest corner at East Noes and North Temperance Avenues Aooroved a variance tor Robert Clerk to Dormll him to erect an advar-Nwta slan at 4771 East Shields Avenue that will be laroor than normally permitted In the C2 community shoppum center lone Continued to RM March 14th a decision on a request by the slate aivl-i of highways tor a conditional use mil to develop a IS foot deep borrow pit on the south side of Davis Avenue between South Elm Avenue and the extension of East Avenue about tour miles northeast of Riverdale Nearing Continued Continued la 1 :30 RM March 2llh a hear me on a request by William Fedrau tor an expansion of an aula wrecking yard and removal of time limitations a previous conditional use permit covering property at 20720 Dinuba Avenue Reedley Approved a conditional use permit to allow Harry Kollgian to sell and service bicycles end lawn mowers an tho norm nto East Ash km Avenue between Norm Hornmef way and North Clovis Avenue Approved for victor Reanart a change tot toning from CA eenaral com-mercial to TP trailer park for prop-erty on the norm side of West Shields nwlntiimn tho Fresno Freeway and Norm Valentine Avenue Denied a variance tor Frtas-Han-M" A Co to operate a dry dump and a used materials salvage yard an about six octm formerly used as a borrow tho southwest corner of Norm Pflra end West Sarstow Avenues at Highway City Denies Request Denied a variance to permit John SedTHtan to have a house trailer occupied by a co re taker os a residence I as a business off lea on the oast 'hf of Norm Rlackstone Avenue between SuHard Avenue and Escalon Avenue ex- i vorlonce for Lee a Billie Bowen to canelruct a residence on a id df Friant Road naar the toot-htlle thd does not conform la me standards of the ordinance having accese an a public rood Approved a conditional use permit tor Robert Cooley far a eix months intension on a Previous permit idling up time lleniti far starting construction of a ihoopina cantor an the southeast corner East Belmont and Norm Clovis Avenues Denied an application by Andrew Cetr tor a change in ion ing from Rl tingle family residential to Rl multiple family residential on the norm tide of East Dakota Avenue between Millbrook and North Cedar Avanuee Aoorovod a variance fa permit the Clovn-Sanaer Cooperative Gin Inc to operate almond hutting equipment at the northwest corner of East Olivp and Norm McCdl Avenues 1980 Population Of County May Reach 613500 The state department of finance predicts Fresno Coun population will have climbed to 613500 by 1980 an increase of 245000 over the 368500 who lived in the county in 1960 Population rises forecast for other counties in the area from 1960 to 1968 include Kern from 294900 to 456900 Kings from 50500 to 95700 Madera from 40700 to 51-500 Mariposa from 5100 to 5300 Merced from 90900 to 123600 San Luis Obispo from 81900 to 178600 and Tulare from 169400 to 237-000 The department predicts the state population will go from the 15863000 in 1960 to 28137000 in 1980 The figures do not represent and therefore must be regarded only as provisional the department cautioned Juveniles Are Blamed For Cabin Burglary Sheriffs officers say merrymaking juveniles were responsible for the burglary of a Fresno couple's summer home on Indian Rock Road near Shaver Lake Mrs Charles McDaniel of 3917 North Safford Avenue discovered the breakin when she went to the cabin yesterday to prepare it for reopening The sheriffs office says someone forced a second floor door to get into the cabin ate most of the groceries drank assorted bottles of liquor broke up furniture for firewood and then slept in the beds Biola-Kerman Will Observe Prayer Day Biola-Kerman area churches will observe The World Day of Prayer tonight at a 7:30 service in the Biola Congregational United Church of Christ It was erroneously reported yesterday that the meeting was to be last night The speaker will be the Rev Elsworth Lewis of Visalia a former missionary to the Congo A trio from the Free Will Baptist Church of Kerman and Mrs John Allen wife of the Kerman Bethany Lutheran Church pastor will sing The big star will be Dizzy Gillespie who not only introduced a new style trumpet playing but a whole new approach to jazz Along the way he also introduced a new variation of the trumpet itself by tilting its bell to project the sound upward over the audience Also on the program will he the FSC dance band which will open the concert with a half hour segment under the direction of Arthur Barnes assistant professor of music Gary Slifman will do the vocals i Tickets for the concert are on sale in the Downtown Record Shop at 2025 Mariposa Street and the Record Center in the Manchester Shopping Center The prices are $4 $3 and $2 Burglar Causes $2500 Fire In Fresno Nursery A fire started by a burglar caused $2500 damage in the A Nursery at 3412 East McKinley Avenue early today The blaze was discovered at 1 AM by a private patrolman Hermon Donahoo who saw smoke coming from the building Battles Blaze Donahoo tried to extinguish the blaze himself before calling the fire department Detective George Langley reporteed the burglar had forced open the rear door of the building and searched drawers and filing cabinets strewing papers on the floor Whether the fire was started accidentally or deliberately -has not been determined Describes Damages Captain John Whitt Jr of the fire prevention bureau reported the loss includes $1-500 damage to the building and $1000 damage to nursery stock The owner Patrick Patter son said nothing apparently is missing Tenant Is Held After 5(000 Apartment Fire A fire caused about $4000 in damage in the second floor apartment of Barry Mayfield at 147 North Park Avenue last night The cause is undetermined The blaze was discovered by neighbors at about 8 o'clock Firemen confined the flames to the two room apartment Behind TV Set Inspector Robert Clark of the fire prevention bureau reported Mayfield said the fire started behind his television set igniting the window curtains Mayfield was found in a storeroom at the rear of the building Clark said Mayfield apparently could not remember how he got there He was booked on a drunk charge Council Orders Crackdown On 'Weed Patches' The city council has authorized a crackdown against owners of vacant lots who refuse to clear them of weeds and rubbish Under the new procedure the city fire marshal will have the work done and the cost will become part of the next regular tax bill There is a provision for notice and public hearing by the council before the work is ordered Honesty Pays $5000 Worth PARAMUS NJ AP Mrs Eleanor Brady of Birmingham Ala found $5000 in cash in the parking lot of a local restaurant seven months ago and turned it over to the police Of all the silly things to do the people said But Mrs Brady was rewarded for her honesty when the Borough council voted unanimously to give her the money after a search failed to turn up the original owner consultant Rosandcr will take a year 0 Pduate work at the Uni Ypr6y Southern California McLelland will study at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland A I stant Superintendent Lawrence Toddhunter said a substitute for Rosandcr has not been chosen There is some question he added whether any replacement will be named for McLelland In that case he said a committee would fill in on art consultant chores for the year Based On Service Under the new sabbatical leave policy in which compensation is based on length of service Rosandcr will receive 40 per cent of his salary for the leave year McLelland 50 per cent Both must agree to serve in the district for at least two years after they return from leave The board granted leave without pay to Charles Odle a mathematics teacher at McLane High School who has received a National Science Foundation grant to study at San Diego State College Odle has not been with the district seven years the minimum term of service to qualify for sabbatical leave The board also accepted several resignations including that of Mrs Bertha Woolver-ton former dean of girls at Fresno High School who has been on leave County Group Will Set Bullard Plan Hearing The Fresno County Planning Commission will schedule a new hearing probably about May 1st on the proposed Bullard Community Plan The commission yesterday heard members of the planning department report on meetings held with various groups and organizations in the area and ask for more time to work with the groups to attempt to meet their needs before a plan is adopted Community Area The Bullard Community Plan proposes detailed ideas for guiding future development in the area bounded by Ashlan and Blackstone Avenues the San Joaquin River and the Southern Pacific main line railroad tracks About 35 interested citizens from the area attended the meeting yesterday prepared to comment and criticise if the commission was to take action The original hearing in December was postponed to yesterday to permit the planning staff to meet with the interested groups to discuss problems Pinedale Opposition The Pinedale Chamber of Commerce sent in a resolution opposing the adoption of the portions of the plan that refer to Pinedale The resolution said the opposition is because the are so indefinite and so ambiguous that no one owner and no businessman will be able to make plans for the future until the specific ends of this plan and the methods to be used to bring them about are spelled out and some guarantees of stability are furnished" Plan Not Detailed Charles Preuss the commission chairman said the resolution was premature since the staff has not had the time to work out the details with the Pinedale chamber and with others in that community interested in the plan He urged other groups to withhold opposition until the adjustments have been made in the plan as a result of the staffs meetings with them REDWOOD FENCE STAIN ARMY SURPLUS SALES 1776 STRUT skilled semi skilled and ag- ricultural occupations The department of employment at 1050 Street has information about specific peace corps needs The phone i number is AM 8-4511 Group From Page 1-C Randolph of Merced treasurer Named to the board of directors are Mrs Richard Young of Hanford Mrs George Sayre of Tulare Mrs Florence Sorensen of Merced Leonard Ginsburg of Visalia Dr James Shelton of Porterville Tulare County and Mrs Geraldine Wheeler Quinn Millar and Dr Richard Simsarian all of Fresno Reelected to the board were Allan Grant of Visalia and Thomas Fawcett of Tulare Mardikian said the association has six basic plans ready to submit if and when it has the money to begin operations They range he said from the full station facilities down to a minimum production plan which would cost about $10000 a year The association took its first concrete steps last September when it launched a classroom series in conversational Spanish over KJEO channel 47 Coin Collection Taken Mrs Reba A Foore of 1452 North Farris Avenue reported three boxes containing a coin collection worth $30388 were stolen from a closet in her home The coins included 158 silver dollars The remainder of the collection consisted of pennies nickels and dimes tive piece of music He makes imaginative and melodic use of the material in the tone row which forms the basis for the work while carefully avoiding extreme dissonances in the harmonic structure It was played well by the orchestra and was warmly received by last small audience Vermel chose Brandenburg Concerto No 3 as a vehicle for the display of the string section While the strings still lack somewhat in the production of a mature sectional sound the Bach was played musically and with a bright buoyant feeling Alan Rea provided the harpsichord cadenza which separates the principal movements Berlioz1 main contribution to music was his imaginative orchestration and the adapta tion of program music to the traditional symphony form Both characteristics are evi dent in the Symphonie Fan tastique a long sometimes wearisome work charged with emotionalism and sentiment It is not an easy piece of music to perform but Vermel and the orchestra were for the most part equal to the task School From tage 1-C evaluate the of vocational planning in other words how realistic their plans are in light of their performance in school Dr McDaniel praised the Fresno district for the growth of its guidance and counseling program Under questioning he repeated his oft stated opinion that the elementary school guidance staff is undermanned There are two educational psychologists for 36000 elementary youngsters The district has said it cannot afford to add to its although Dr McDaniel said he understands that limitation may be removed in the proposed legislation extending the National Defense Education Act there are comparative figures show at best there is not a third of the amount of snow that the Sierra had last year at this time The rangers said one course at Ostrander Lake had to be skipped because there was no snow The survey shows Cast figures in parenthesis): Snow Flat 8700 feet 41 inches snow (13945) 20 inches water (4345) average 976 and 321 Gin Flat 7000 feet patches (13792) water content (757) average 757 and 292 Peregoy Meadows 7000 feet 175 inches snow (11444) 49 inches water (38) average 682 and 241 There were no comparative figures for the following courses on this date: Dana Meadows 9700 feet 537 inches snow 178 inches water Tioga Pass 9700 52 and 196 Rhinedollar Lake 9600 481 and 243 Saddlebag Lake 10000 525 and Probe Begins In Castle Jet Crash Which Killed 9 MERCED Merced Co Military and civilian experts today are sifting the wreckage of a KC135 refueling tanker to determine the cause of an explosion which the big Castle Air Force Base jet to shreds at Eielson Air Force Base Alaska Wednesday night killing nine persons The crew of seven all from Castle perished as did an Eielson air policeman and another airman so far unidentified The blast occurred on takeoff while the strato tanker was on a routine operational mission at Eielson Killed were Major John Harris the plane commander Captain John Weather-wax the copilot Captain Richard Hess navigator Technical Sergeant Daniel Cameron Technical Sergeant Harold Butler Airman First Class Ronald Hiley Airman Second Class Roy Hursey Airman Third Class Douglas Pettner and an unidentified airman presumably from Eielson Hursey was an air policeman on guard at the Eielson main gate The gatehouse was flattened by the explosion The KC135 the first Castle tanker ever to figure in a serious accident was from the 93rd Air Refueling Squad ron Colonel James Reardon commander of 93rd Bomb Wing flew to Eielson immediately after receiving word of the crash and whether the bodies of the victims wiir be brought here for funeral services will not be known until he returns Joining the military probers in the investigation of the crash are representatives of Boeing Aircraft manufacturer of the KC135 The investigation may take several weeks Each piece of remaining wreckage will be examined tagged and reassembled as well as possible The reports of each of the specialists will be studied separately and the accumulated data examined Ironically only two weeks ago Castle was honored for the second consecutive year for scoring the top safety record in the extensive Strategic Air Command ripped By James Bort Jr The 80 members of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra were the featured performers in last all orchestra concert in the Roosevelt High School auditorium And those who stayed home because the program did not indude a' guest star of name standing missed an interesting musical evening designed by conductor Paul Vermel to demonstrate the versatility and artistic competence of the orchestra The concert will be repeated tonight at 8:30 Tickets will be on sale in the high school auditorium box office Vermel programed Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique as the major work of the concert but the most interesting of the evening was heard prior to the intermission The first half of the program spanned four centuries of musical development from the 16th Century writing of Giovanni Gabrieli to the 20th Century compositions of Dr James Winter and Dr Arthur Bryon both members of the orchestra Dr Canzona For Double Brass Choir and Ga brieli's Sonata Pian Forte were presented to show off the orchestra's fine brass section The two works offer an interesting contrast in the handling of the two choirs the traditional 16th Century sounds of Gabrieli and the moderately dissount modem harmonies employed by Dr Winter Both served well to display the smooth full tone which the philharmonic brasses have been contributing to the or chestra over the years And both works have obvious merit as fine old and of antiphonal writing Dr work Pragma-tism No 1 takes its title from the effort to produce a practical piece of Home Grocery Breakins Yield Little For Thief A burglar apparently searching for money had little luck last night when he broke into a home aiid grocery store near Laton The thief kicked open a door to get into Riverside Store at Mt Whitney and Ganser Avenues Owner Henry Rutherford said the trespasser apparently searched shelves before leaving with a few cartons of cig-arets The electric clock was stopped at 10:30 Rutherford said the burglar pulled a switch turning off the clock and a light Sheriffs investigators believe the same thief broke into the home of Antonio Soares about a mile from the store at 6216 East Riverdale Avenue Cupboards and drawers were searched there but apparently nothing was taken Over 392000 people live in the homes that receive The Bee daily music easily enily performed without Lj? junior high and high schools lengthy rehearsal and adaptable to a variety of programing While Dr Bryon seemed to be aiming for simplicity he also achieved a very attrac-.