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State Fails To Sway Publishers SACRAMENTO (IPs Roy E. Simpson, state superintendent of public Instruction, said yesterday a meeting with four major book publishers apparently failed to alter their opposition to state printing of elementary textbooks in California. Simpson, accompanied by two aides, and Assemblyman Donald Doyle (R-Lafayette) conferred with the publisher representatives in Atlantic City last week. The firms included Ginn and Scott Foresman and Rand McNally and Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co.

These publishers, among others, have refused to lease their textbook plates to the state on a royalty basis. They want to print the books and sell them directly to the state. Doyle is chairman of an Assembly investigating committee which recently criticized the state program. Simpson said of the Atlantic City meeting: was an opportunity for us to present to them the point of view of the state of California, but I think we arrived at any conclusions that would change their attitudes on doing business with The state superintendent said any changes in the long-established system of state-printed textbooks would have to be made by the Legislature and a vote of the people to amend the state Constitution. Trustees Delay Meet Dist.

Supt. Kenneth M. Forry announced the meeting of the San Anselmo Elementary School District trustees has been postponed until 8 pm. Thursday in the Yo- lansdale School. The regular meeting was previously scheduled for tomorrow.

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28, 1956 3 MAGAZINE Pentagon Red Tape Snarls Air Ranch Purchased For $900,000 HOLLISTER (JP) A ranch has been purchased by the Almaden Vineyard Co. for more $900,000, biggest such transaction ever recorded in San Benito bounty. The property is the Sykes Ranch 20 miles south of here. It includes range land, orchards and other crop land. The ranch has been operated by Mrs.

George Sykes, a widow. Guide Dog Fund Drive Guide Dogs for the Blind, near San Rafael, will conduct its 1956 fund drive in Marin County in May, and in San Francisco in April. WASHINGTON (U.R)—Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (D-WVa) died today suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was 63. Kilgore, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, entered the hospital Feb. 13 for a physical checkup and treatment for high blood pressure. He unexpectedly suffered a stroke last Saturday afternoon and was in a state of semi-coma almost continuously until his death at 11:23 last night. His administrative assist ant, Harold C.

Miller, said only a doctor was present when death came. Members of the family were with him during the day. death narrows the razor thin division in the Senate to 48 Democrats and 47 Republicans. Kilgore, a big, slow-moving West Virginian, maintained a continuing interest in social legislation. As the first man to survive West turbulent politics for three successive Senate terms, Kilgore gained seniority and in 1955 became chairman of the powerful Judiciary Com i 11 which handles nearly half the bills, He was also a member of the Appropriations Committee and chairman of its subcommittee which held the pursestrings on thq State and Justice departments and the federal Judiciary.

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WASHINGTON (U.R)—Air Force Magazine charged today airplane research "is being strangled in the plush front offices of the The magazine, unofficial publication of the Air Force said of the research problem is the Defense Department of interlocking committees, of endless reviews, of watchdogs and Research is a system which places a premium on foot-dragging and on the ability to find some small thing with a major program the magazine sald. is a system which places 2 800 persons on the Department of Defense level in a position to say leaving only a handful who can say with finality, and no one at all who ever says more, do it Macys spring slip story SAN RAFAEL Of Dies BEVERLY HILLS (JP) Death has taken Elsie Janis, who sang and danced her way into the hearts of New York, London, Hollywood, and the doughboys of World War I. She died Sunday night, as quietly as she had lived during the past decade, in her home here. Friends disclosed her passing in an announcement yesterday. She would have been 67 next Tuesday.

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