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THE FRESNO BEE THE REPUBLICAN VOL. 83, NO. 15139 Founded 1922 FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1964--48 PAGES -FOUR SECTIONS Phone 268-5221 By Carrier Delivery $2.50 Monthly. Per Copy, Daily 10c; Sunday 20c. Barry Eyes 'Must' Vote In LA Area LOS ANGELES AP Senator Barry Goldwater headed for the Los Angeles area today in a bid for votes in the state he has said is one of the four "must" states if he is to beat President Lyndon B.

Johnson. His campaign day began in Cheyenne, where he declared Johnson is "trying to reduce American politics to a popularity poll," and said the Democrats are letting the free world fall apart while United States prestige sinks. The Republican presidential candidate charged Johnson's foreign policy has lost. Turkey as a US ally. He said France is seeking new trade ties with the Soviet Union while Great Britain's new Labor government ponders US nuclear deterrent policies.

And the Communist world, said Goldwater, is "regrouping under tough new Called Ambitious Goldwater said Johnson "has proven to be a isolated from foreign policy behind a wall of political ambition and behind a wall of See Barry Page 13-A Climbers May Top El Capitan By Nightfall McClatchy Newspapers Service YO SEMITE NATIONAL PARK- A four man team, striving to conquer the hitherto unscaled North American Wall of massive El Capitan, were nearing success today, and there were some indications the top might be reached before dark. Halted temporarily by heavy rain yesterday, the climbers got off to a late start. Rain slick rock and a difficult overhang made for slow progress, but last night they were 2,700 feet above the Yosemite Valley floor with 300 feet still to go. By radio they told their ground crew "the worst is over." Making the climb are Yvon Chouinard, 25, of Burbank; Tom Frost, 28, of Orange, and Chuck Pratt, 25, and Royal Robbins, 29, of Berkeley. While this is Chouinard's first El Capitan ascent, Frost and Pratt have scaled the granite monolith five times and Robbins six--but not up the sheer wall whose natural markings resemble an outline of the North American Continent.

All other climbs--the first was made in 1958-have been near the center or nose of El Capitan, An idea of the overhang the team encountered yesterday was gained when a rock dropped from the 2,400 foot stopping point fell without touching the cliff below and landed 50 feet out from the base. 1964 TRAFFIC RECORD 21 102 City County Deaths Deaths This Year This Year 13 103 A Year Ago A Year Ago Slick tires are hazardous. In The Bee Today Amusements, Theaters 5-B Bridge Column 3-B Cartoon City News In Brief 4-B Classified To 11-D Comics 6-B Crossword Puzzle 5-D Editorials 12-D Financial 7-C Katherine Kitchen. 3-B Letters 7-B. 12-D Movie Times, 5-B Nason On Education.

News Behind News Obituaries 4-D Patterns 2-B Politics By 2-A Radio 7-C Sports Section Sylvia Porter 6-C Television 5-C Valley News 7-B Vital Statistics 5-D Weather 5-D Women's Activities Section Your Health The Bee Recommends ing recommendations on candidates for contested offices and propositions to be voted on at the general election November 3rd. Clip and take to the polls for reference, PRESIDENT Lyndon B. Johnson, incumbent As a guide to the electors, The Bee makes the follow. UNITED STATES SENATOR Pierre Salinger, incumbent CONGRESS Second District Harold T. Johnson, incumbent Sixteenth District B.

F. Sisk, incumbent Eighteenth District Harlan Hagen, incumbent ASSEMBLY Thirty second, Fresno, District George N. Zenovich, incumbent Thirty third, Fresno County, District Charles B. Garrigus, incumbent COUNTY SUPERVISORS Second District Jefferson E. Hahesy Third District Sloan P.

McCormick, incumbent STATE PROPOSITIONS 1-Park and recreation bonds. Vote YES 2-Higher education building bonds. Vote YES 3-Public school building aid bonds. Vote YES 4-Veterans tax exemption -residency. Vote YES 5-Veterans tax exemption -widows.

Vote NO 6-Retaliatory taxation of insurers. Vote YES 7-Investment of public retirement funds. Vote YES 8-Election of judges. Vote YES 9-Supervisorial district boundaries. Vote YES 10-State school fund.

Vote YES 11-Consolidating municipal functions. Vote YES 12-Disasters: property tax relief. Vote NO 13-Naming private corporations. Vote YES 14-Anti fair housing. Vote NO 15-Anti pay TV.

Vote NO 16-State lottery. Vote NO 17-Railroad train crews. Vote YES Record Road Budget Lists $6,989,000 For Fresno County ling $6,989,000 for Fresno to Governor Edmund G. year. County projects, has been sent Brown for the 1965-66 fiscal A record highway budget of $841,033,526, includ- County Bills Citizens For $62 Million Some 147,000 tax bills totaling nearly $62 million were mailed to Fresno County property owners today.

The deadline for first instalment payments is 5 PM December 10th. After that, a 6 per cent penalty will be added. The entire bill may be paid in the first instalment. Payments may be mailed to the county tax office in the hall of records. The tax bill also should be enclosed.

Property owners who do not receive bills should check to see what happened to them. The fact no bill is received does not excuse a taxpayer from payment. Steve Allen Kin Rites HOLLYWOOD -UPI -Funeral services were held yesterday for Belle Montrose, former vaudeville performer; and mother of entertainer Steve Allen, She died Sunday at age 78. Today's Chuckle It's getting harder and harder to reconcile our net income with our gross habits. LBJ: 'Your Vote Can Save World' By Frank Cormier DETROIT -AP- President Lyndon B.

Johnson, making a final campaign tour of the midwest, came up with a new slogan today: "The vote you cast will be your own and the world you save will be your own." Johnson unveiled this phrase in a speech prepared for an airport rally in Detroit. It was his latest move in a weeklong effort to picture himself as the candidate best equipped to preserve peace. The president, even while emphasizing questions of peace and war in every speech, still seeks opportunities to contrast his views with those of Republican rival Barry Goldwater. He did this anew last night in Philadelphia, taking issue with Goldwater on the role of clergymen in public affairs. Addressing a Democratic dinner, Johnson added to his text a challenge to a Goldwater statement questioning the propriety of political endorsements by members of See LBJ Page 5-A Bolivia Breaks Relations With Czechoslovakia LA PAZ, Bolivia AP Bolivia broke relations with Communist Czechoslovakia last night, accusing it of in-.

citing rebellion after new skirmishes in the capital killed at least three persons and wounded 23. The government accused the Czechoslovak embassy of slipping arms to student and miner rebels who have staged uprisings in wide areas of Bolivia. Quiet was restored in La Paz today and government troops are in firm control of Oruro, a city proclaimed the capital of rebellion by miners and students opposed to President Victor Paz Estenssoro. Oruro is 143 miles south of La Paz. But students and miners last were reported fighting troops 18 miles from Oruro.

Hold Miners Rebel miners still are in control of most of the tin mines in that area. Rebel outbreaks also are reported in Cochabamba, 310 miles southwest of La Paz. Paz in a radio speech last night blamed Communists for the uprising in the tin mining centers and declared he will resist demands of his foes that he resign. Possibly 50 persons have been killed in the various clashes throughout the country in the past few days. The fighting in La Paz raged for three hours between rebel university students and government forces last night.

The fight ended when 1 the students, barricaded in the 14 story university building, surrendered to government forces which included army troops, policemen and militia. Museum Burglary Largest Star Sapphire Is Stolen NEW YORK UPI A sure footed cat burglar broke into the American Museum of Natural History last night land made off with 22 jewels from the J. P. Morgan collection including the world's largest star sapphire and the renowned De Long ruby. The gems were valued at $200,000 when the financier gave them to the museum in 1905.

Museum officials were lat a loss to know their present market value, but they probably would be worth many times their original evaluation. The major loss was the Star of India sapphire, the largest blue star sapphire Smoke Kills 7 Inmates In Blazing Colusa Rest Home Victims Are Blinded By Fumes AP Wirephoto INFERNO-Colusa firemen battle flames sweeping through the Oak Manor rest home. Seven inmates died in the fire. PGE Cancels Application For Bodega Bay Atom Power Plant McClatchy Newspapers Service SAN FRANCISCO The Pacific Gas and Electric Company today withdrew its application for an atomic power plant on Bodega Bay, Sonoma County. PGE President Robert H.

Gerdes, when he made the announcement today, said the minority view of the atomic energy commission, that there is a lack of proof of the safety of the plant, "is sufficient cause for us to withdraw our application." said the decision to withdraw the Bodega Bay plant application does not PGE has lost its confidence in nuclear power plants. The announcement follows on the heels of a request from William M. Bennett, of the state public utilities commission, who asked PGE to reexamine the proposal for the plant. Bennett said he asked for a reexamination of the safety and cost factors in the light of "radical departures" from the original design. Governor Edmund G.

Brown, in another developjust prior to the announcement, said PGE should Comment In Fresno Bailey Bids Farewell To Thur Thurmond-Gladly By James John M. Bailey, the man campaign machinery running Johnson, calls South Carolina's mond's switch from the Party "the best thing that Speaking at a news conference last night, Bailey, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said: "It could cause us to lose South Carolina, but it's worth the gamble. "Thurmond has never supported the Democratic, program. He the party twice. "At least he is more honest than some southern members of congress who praise Barry Goldwater but stop short of joining the Republican Party because they do not want to lose their seniority on committees in congress." Thurmond led the States' Rights revolt against Demtheocratic President Harry Truman in 1948 and said he voted for Dwight D.

Eisenhower in 1952 when South Carolina voted for an inde- Sunday Is Last Day For Controversial Political Ads In Bee In accordance with custom, Sunday will be the last day The Bee will publish political advertisements which raise new issues or contain not previously published criticism of any candidate or proposition to be voted upon in next Tuesday's election, After Sunday, controversial ads will be accepted only if they have been published in The Bee so candidates or proposition proponents or opponents have had an opportunity to answer. Bee Photo KEYED UP--John Bailey, right, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, accepts a key to the city from Fresno Mayor Wallace D. Henderson. Bailey reminds Henderson there are only four days to go before the election. Your Health in The Bee Sunday.

Shop Tonight---Most Fresno Stores Will Be Open Until 9 abandon its plans to construct the Bodega Bay plant. Gerdes' complete statement is as follows: "We have repeatedly stated that if reasonable doubt exists about the safety of the proposed Bodega plant we would not consider going forward with it. "'The Bodega site and the engineering design of the plant were studied extensively and confirmed as safe by eminent consultants in geollogy, seismology and seismic design. The advisory committee on reactor safeguards, an independent group of 12 eminent scientists and engineers established by law to advise the atomic energy commission, came to the same con-, clusion. We are convinced that these views are sound.

"The regulatory staff of the AEC, however, has recently reported that it has some doubt 'at the present state of our knowledge' about the capability of the structure to withstand the maximum assumed earthquake. Although agreeing that 'the proposed engineering principles appear the staff has expressed concern over the lack of any experiments or experience and proof tests of them. "The doubt raised by the staff, although a minority view, is sufficient to cause us to withdraw our application. We would be the last See PGE Page 4-A COLUSA AP Seven elderly persons, groping blindly in thick clouds of smoke, were killed early today in a fast moving fire that burned down the Oak Manor rest home for the aged. "They were dead when the fire reached their bodies," said Colusa County Coroner Howard Moore, He attributed all the deaths to carbon monoxide poisoning.

The cause of the fire is being investigated. Moore said a caretaker, Ernest Linebaugh, 24, and an inmate, Mrs. Rosa Rourke, in her 50s, repeatedly ran into the burning one story wood frame building to bring out six other inmates. The dead were: Frank Yanez, 73, Princeton, Colusa County; Ella Reckers, 87, Williams, Colusa County; Christine Danley, 93, Maxwell, Colusa County; Maude Dietrick, no age given, Meridian, Sutter County; John Jansen, 87, and Frank Salambini, 73, both of Colusa; and Viviano Rodrigue, 80, of Grimes, Colusa County. Sounds Alarm Moore gave this account of the tragedy: Linebaugh was asleep in the ranch style building when one of the inmates, apparently Mrs.

Rourke, saw smoke in a rear wing and made an outcry. With the smoke thickening, Linebaugh pulled the home's fire alarm. It rang for three or four minutes then stopped, apparently because the power supply failed, The lights went out too, Moore said, Meantime, Linebaugh called the Colusa Fire Department. He and Mrs. Rourke rushed back and forth from the home to the lawn to bring out inmates.

Flames were shooting through the entire building. "I don't think any of them died in bed. It's just that the smoke got SO thick they couldn't tell where they were, doorways or anything." Moore theorized that those who later died had been aroused with the rest when the inside alarm went off. But by the time they were ready to come out the smoke got so thick they could not find their way. The rest home was inspected and relicensed by the state social welfare department last March.

The budget is $45,116,426: more than the 1964-65 budget and is divided into three segments: for state highway construction purposes, including rights of way and engineering. for maintenance, administration, landscaping, roadside rests, buildings a and land, highway research and development, honor camps and legislative. claims. for functions not under state highway jurisdiction, including $72,502,857 for construction and rights of way for and roads and $50,492,857 for improvements and maintenance work on city streets. Robert B.

Bradford, chairman of the state highway commission and administrator See Budget Page 6-A Ord Has 9th Meningitis Case FORT ORD AP Another soldier the 96th this year was stricken with meningitis last night at the big army training base and placed on the serious list. Lawrence W. Anderson, 18, of Everett, was admitted at 9:30 PM. He was in his eighth week of basic training. The base is closed to new trainees in an effort to stamp lout meningitis on the base.

ever found, listed: as $50,000. Other stolen gems included a smaller star sapphire called the Midnight sapphire, 000; an uncut diamond crystal from Eagle, $25,000, the De Long Ruby, an engraved emerald, several pieces of diamond jewelry and a $3,800 aquamarine. The museum said the jewels were not insured individually but may be covered by a blanket policy on the museum coliections. The police said the burglar apparently inched his way along a moulding of the museum's granite facade to a back window. The thief smashed three cases contain- Wrightson in charge of keeping the for President Lyndon B.

Senator J. Strom ThurDemocratic to the Republican ever happened." pendent slate pledged to Eisenhower. As national committee chairman, Bailey is responsible for the party's finances, setting up campaign headquarters, sending out advance men to smooth the way for the president's appearances, printing and distributing literature and See Bailey Page 4-A Weather the collection's most valuable stones and apparently left the way he entered. Dr. James A.

Oliver, museum director, said he had complained to city officials only last Monday that a lack of sufficient guards for the collection presented a "serious problem." The city provides guards for the institution, although it does not run the museum. Much of the collection, including the star sapphire, is pictured in color illustrations in the Encyclopedia Britannica's section on gems. The stolen jewels are SO well known they could not be sold intact, the police said. They would have to be recut. OFFICIAL FORECAST Fair through tomorrow with some afternoon clouds and patches of dense ground fog tomorrow morning.

Today's highs 65 to 70 degrees; tonight's lows 44 to 49. Gentle winds. FRESNO FACTS Yesterday's high-70. Today's low-49. Today's forecast-68, 46.

Today's normals-75, 44. Details on page 5-D Parade Features Messages From Johnson, Barry Tuesday, Americans again will have a privilege few people in history have enjoyed and millions today do not possessthe right to choose their own leaders. Yet millions of American voters will not take advantage of this right, which their forefathers and contemporaries fought and died for. President Lyndon B. Johnson a and Senator Barry Goldwater urge all Americans to perform their duties as citizens and vote on election day.

Read the presidential candidates' special messages in Parade magazine in The Bee Sunday..