The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 21

Sierra Club Will Seek To Bar Mineral King Development ing and hiking would be obliterated by the ski resort Harper contends the Disney plan is for a ski resort and that talk of summer recreation activities is a smoke screen to this fact (Disney projects the bulk of the visitor use will be in the summer estimating 25 million visitors a year) Forest officials point out the See Club Page 7-B ficially has "written the governor deploring the state's outlay millions of dollars for this road We have written letters to lambers of commerces all over le state reminding them there are other roads that need this John Harper a Kern Kaweah chapter member of the Sierra Club acknowledged he sent letters out to all of the chambers of commerce and county boards of supervisors "except those in Tulare where the development is taking place However letter is signed by him as an individual and he said he spoke as an individual The letter contends the Disney proposal will ruin Mineral King as a recreation area that its existing camping fish By Ron Taylor The Sierra Club is launching an open campaign to scuttle Walt $40 million development of Mineral King by opposing construction of the $25 million all-year highway into the alpine valley A letter campaign against highway construction will be backed up next by direct testimony from Sierra Club officers at the Nov 21 and 22 Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Paris wilderness boundary hearing in Fresno National Park Service officials in establishing proposed THE FRESNO BEE THE REPUBLICAN 1-B Fresno California Tuesday Evening Novembers 1966 wishes for good hunting by Charles Wrightson his owner mentor crew chief navigator intelligence officer and creator YOU RED to strike another blow behalf of everything worth fighting for is the intrepid World War I fighter pilot being bade a fond farewell and Woodpeckers Threaten wilderness boundaries within the parks left a corridor open for the proposed all year Mineral King Highway The Sierra Club wants this corridor narrowed to the existing 60 foot right-of-way on the 25-mile long crooked dirt and oil summer road that now exists An all-weather highway could not be built within this crooked confine Sequoia-Kings Canyon Park SupL Frank Kowski and Sequoia National Forest Supervisor Lawrence Whitfield were in Los Angeles today meeting with Mineral King staff to discuss this and other matters pertaining to construction of the lighway across 11 miles of Sequoia National Park lands In San Francisco Mike Mo-Closkey Sierra Club official reported he would lead the club witnesses hi testimony at the Fresno hearing Mineral King ought not be he said "It should become part of Sequoia National Park Disneylands can be developed in all sorts of non attractive spots but a massive development such as this would make Mineral King far les McCloskey said the club of Snoopy Battles Baron In Dakota Ave Craft Tallyho chaps the World War I fighter pilot flies again zipping in at treetop level over the lowlands at Dakota and Maple Avenues dropping down from out of the sun seeking out and blasting from the skies the dastardly enemy setting aflutter the hearts of all the mademoiselles and causing Charles Wrightson to worry about the woodpeckers "A couple of them have been eyeing him said Wrightson whose plywood Snoopy complete with scarf and helmet and goggles is mounted on a plane-like wea-thervane in a lot next to his home at 4608 Dakota So far though the feathered Red Barons disguised as woodpeckers have kept a respectful istance acting like chickens in the face of the gallant old dog tough no question about said Wrightson "The storm caused him a little trou-)le but he rode it Like the ace he is Unlike the real Snoopy who lies over no land in a Sop with Camel creation rides what bears a greater resemblance to an old French Moraine a World War I monoplane with an uncovered fuselage Wrightson customer1 services manager for United Air Lines in Fresno and an oldtime aviation enthusiast bought the craft 10 years ago from an Amador County antique dealer Judging from the aluminum foil it had in it originally he thinks it was used during World War II in radar-jamming experiments Or perhaps as a target drone During his recent vacation Wrightson decided to do something with the frame attachec an old lawnmower engine am propellor to it then mounted the whole works including See Snoopy Page 7-B City College Speaker Series Moves To Gym The demand for tickets to the Fresno City Sunday Evening Series continues to be so great that the college has switched the site of the lectures from the CC cafeteria to the college gymnasium to allow more seating Gore Vidal novelist playwright and political commentator will open the free series Sunday This gymnasium doors will be opened at 7 pm and Vidal will speak at 7:30 Free tickets for the series all of which had been reserved shortly after the series was announced are available again and may be obtained by telephoning 264-4621 between 1 and 5 pm or by writing to the Sunday Evening Series 1101 University Ave The ticket office telephone will be answered Friday afternoon during the Veterans Day school holiday College officials said block seating for small groups may be arranged by calling the ticket office i The cafeteria would havfe seated' only TOO persons and CC spokesmen said twice number have requested tickets The gymnasium will seat more than 1500 with about 500 chairs on the floor and more than 1000 seats in the bleachers The speakers who will follow Vidal in the series are Buckminster Fuller Jan 8 Sir Alexander Douglas-Home Feb 19 Harry Golden March 19 Sir Bernard Lovell April 16 and Jessica Mitford May 7 FSC Bids Will Be Opened Dec 6 Bids for air conditioning the Fresno State College industrial arts building will be opened in the State Office of Architecture and Construction In Sacramento Dec! 6 The estimated construction cost is $175000 The Job represents part of the continuing program to air condition ill buildings at FSC Drunk Driving Cases Robert mJSTff 1 Church Ave et Fretne end A itreeli yetlerdev Bell Will Seek 50-Cent Parking Fee For Center City Councilman Elvin Bell today said he will ask the council Thursday to adopt an across-the-board 50-cent fee for parking at the Fresno Community Convention Center lot Both City Manager John Taylor and Convention Center Manager Robert A Schoettler originally recommended a maximum fee of 50 cents In the past Bell has been sensitive to news stories which pointed out that the lot consist entiy is not more than half filled during events at the center Although the rate 50 cents the numerous specia circumstances in the adoptee resolution have resulted In $1 parking for most events Bell said he decided to push for the flat 50-cent rate after "carefully studying the parking situation at the center durin each event held there to date' It appears there are at least four votes on the council for the change During the original parking fee discussions some of the 1 1 members especially Curtis Nagel and Paul Wasemiller emphasized any fee was on trial basis to be changed in light of actual experience Needed For Bonds Nagel has said moreover that he would even like to see "free if it were not that the return from parking is part of the income needed to pay off the revenue bonds which financed the center Revenue bond financing was used because of a previous commitment to the public that general tax money would not build the center Among the most vigorous defenders of the $1 fee for many events have been Counciimen Ted Wilis and James Man-della Mandella appears to have softened and has said that he is ready to consider very seriously a straight 50-cent rate Councilman Camaroda has tried unsuccessfully in the past to get the council to change the fee Bell would retain the provision that convention delegates park for 50 cents a day with a $1 maximum if the convention is two or more days up to a week MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Esther Norgard coordinator of the Fresno County Chapter of the Red Cross county program development left and Susan Harden coordinator of the safety services make a last-minute check as 1000 ditty bags for servicemen in Viet Nam are loaded on two trucks In the background Willie Sosa left and Jude Kemp both of the Neighborhood Youth Corps load boxes Supervisors Reject Alcoholism Proposal By Gene Grigg Fresno County supervisors today turned down Municipal Judge George A proposal for a pilot treatment program for alcoholics but approved the concept of an information center on alcoholism They acted on the recommendation of County Admlnistra-tive Officer Phillip Sanchez to whom they had referred the matter for a report last week Clovis Sets Session On School Sale The Clovis City Council and the Clovis Unified School District trustees will hold a Joint meeting early next year on proposal to have the city purchase a block of school property The council was expected to make a decision last night on the issue which has been discussed separately by the two boards for several months However Mayor Glenn Reavis said some school trustees called him recently about delaying a decision until after a joint meeting After the meeting Reavis and Douglas Dresser president of the school trustees agreed to hold the joint session the first of the The block bounded by Fourth and Fifth Streets and Hughes and Baron Avenues will be sold by the school district after a new high school is built The price to the city is $34500 Dresser said the trustees originally thought the land had to be sold now to reduce the square footage and thereby qualify the district for state aid However a resolution the trustees adopted last week signifying their Intent to dispose of the land satisfied the qualification for state aid Dresser added Red Cross Tops Goal For Gifts To Viet GIs The Fresno County Chapter of the Red Cross reached its goal for "Operation Shop a project to send 1000 ditty bags to servicemen in Viet Nam and today dispatched the items on the first leg of their journey The local drive is part of a nationwide effort of the Red Cross to provide the bags filled with personal items for the men in Viet Nam and the sick and wounded servicemen spending the holidays in military and Veterans Administration hospitals Fresno individuals and groups came to the aid of the chapter to gather items and fill the bags Among the contributors were See Gifu Page 7-B after the County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism urged approval Backs Information Center Sanchez supported the establishment of an information center noting it is recommended in the master plan for alcoholic rehabilitation which was drawn up about five years ago by Sanchez himself He counseled rejection of plan on the ground that the county does not now have the available professional personnel to carry it out He also reported that Dr William A DeFries the county health officer had made estimate that it would cost the county three quarters of a million dollars to staff the See Board Page 7-B Fashion Fair Public Hearing Is Proposed Mayor Floyd Hyde today said the City Council should hold a full-scale public hearing on the proposed Fresno Fashion Fair at North First Street and East Shaw Avenue Hyde said he will discuss with the council Thursday whether the hearing should be on a regular council meeting day with a restricted agenda or whether there should be a special council session Hyde said the council dec! sion should not "drag on but the issue should be settled certainly by the first of the year' Under normal procedure the planning commission's action will be reported to the City Council on Nov 17 Approved By Planners Last Friday the City Planning Commission approved the rezoning for the proposed center by a 5-1 vote with one member absent On a previous occasion last December the commission approved the proposed regionu shopping center by a 4-3 vote only to have the council vote 6-1 against the recommendation following a marathon day and night hearing in January is a most significant planning decision" said Hyde really at stake is whether the adopted planning goals of our community are compatible with the goals of developers should have a full-scale Hiblic review with full opportunity for staff Staff Still Opposed The staff has not budged from its position of last year that a regional shopping center as proposed is in with the College Community rian This position was contained in the Fast Shaw Avenue Development Policy which was approved by the commission last Friday and then violated 30 minuies later by the same commission See Hearing Page 7-B PAL Planes Are Grounded As Talks Continue A strike against Pacific Air Lines entered its second day as negotiators resumed talks today with hope of an early settlement The line which serves Fresno and 36 other cities in California Nevada and Oregon was struck at 12:01 am yesterday In a dis-mte over wages and fringe tenefils in proposed new contract A Myhre Pacific's execu tlve vice president and general manager said he was hopeful the strike would be of short duration but admitted talks produced "nothing Robert Quick president of the International Association of Machinists local involved in the strike said his members want wage settlement "a little the 5 per cent recently granted United Air Lines mechanics Meanwhile James Zamen sky the company's local manager reported all of Pacific's Fresno flights today and tomorrow have been canceled as have the first two for Thursday At present he said Thursday's 8:58 am flight to Los Angeles still is scheduled IN COURT Timothy Cook ol Vi Almv AvO four vo ki lull fhrvo vMn Scntowod it Municipal Cowl Judpo Don 'jonslnilorrl of Madora dlunlwad for lack of ovldonca by Municipal Court Judoo Gaoryo Huffman at ttio laquoit et tha district attorney'! llco Jot Rodrlquci at XUO 1 Aua four davi In Jail ra Vnrprt-bat ion lontoncad by Judo Evmann 'State Route' Signs Go Up On Shorter 99 By Karl Kidder That route once known statewide as the Valley Route and later the Golden State Highway and US 99 is only a few signs away from still another designation not to mention the amputation of several hundred miles of its length State Division of Highways crews are about 80 per cent along In their task of removing nil the old US 99 signs or shields along the highway from the Tehachapl to the Merced County line In District VI In the Fresno district Webb estimates there are 1043 locations where new signs had to be erected to replace the old These ncluded the shields along the raveled way as well as the arge overhead signs on the highway and the route markers on ntersecting roads The cost in District VI alone will approximate $250000 when the changeover has been com plcted What the costs wil amount to in ocher districts is not known here Webb believes the district's share of the tot a Job probably will be completed before Jan 1st Fire Calls GOOD USED ROOM HEATERS VENTED Tha Fnw Sift rvMflmrnl amrd tbt lollnwina cull Palawan notn day ml noun idny: 1:41 am-141 Myr AM fd a tW tlnrnrtorn tflS Sm RMt Avrnurs fKa a'arm I'M Nuiffi Flrtl Miyrl nl Hnrvry Avtnuf- laltt alarm pm-lPi i Mriht Avt rtMrtri alar IM I 41 lilt Pluma rar pra II II Garland Anua and nr Hi Orihwd Siftt-t (tia alarm It is a matter of historic interest perhaps that the latter designation was applied to Valley Route as the outcome of a contest conducted by the San Joaquin Valley Tourist and Travel Association as a publicity stunt in 1927 Nearly 10000 names were submitted in the 20 days of the contest and a Fresno area rancher James Anderson a disabled veteran of World War I won It with his suggestion of Golden State Highway He and his wife spent a week In Yoscmlte Na tional Park ns guests of the association for their prize There still are a few signs here and there noting this designation but the I State Highway appclatlon never came more than a high-sound ing title It never became the I gal name of the highway an more's the pity Webb notes the change to California 99 recognizes the status of the highway that no longer links any of the neighboring states The sections of old US 99 through Oregon Washington have long been named mostly as buelnei route and re- In their place the workmen are erecting new blue signs which indicate the highway now is to be known as California 99 but only from about Red Bluff In Tehama County to windswept section of southern Kern County known as Wheeler Ridge "In other words several hundred miles of the old route through Oregon and Washington and south to the Mexican border will never again be known as 99 said Paul Webb a District VI official who is In charge of replacing the old white and black shields with the new blue and white ones Interstate 5 the multilancd multimlllion dollar route now being built along the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley Is largely to blame for the loss of status of the old Valley Route Webb explains that Interstate 5 will Join old 99 at Wheeler Ridge From that point on south Interstate 5 has the nod Old 99 will cease to exist under that name In the minds of many the main north south I ay through Central California hns since 1927 carried the much more glamorous designation the Golden State Highway PLASTIC PIPE 10 II Fiiiuh rnoo it iso Vioo ft 400 1 "100 IL 025 l'rioo it sio9s uviooil suss 2 "100 ft $2595 Irancisco" LINEN WALL 95 HANGING 14 Gililo cars Chinatown hriilgn and Iwy nil arc in tills lovely wall piece In huppilv hung over sol'd eliest desk! is no oil meat linen suswnded wilh walnut moulding Chtfosc yours luhhiegreon or limwntiinhluek cntnlil-iial ion Sen and hundreds oi oilier unusual wall piece at our WAlIj DKUHl SI 10W now Old For A DIAMOND Christmas Fresno Auto 3Parts REPLACEMENT GLASS (or almost every make and model auto We've tot It! 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