The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 45

THE FRESNO LEE Thursday August 30 1973 Page C7 Duffy Bill Would Start Fresno Medical School up to $25000 each to a feasibility study for such a facility The study proposed by resolution would be conducted by the Joint Committee on the Siting of Teaching Hospitals of which Duffy is a member He said he has been assured by committee chairman Assemblyman Willie Brown D-San Francisco the study could be completed by January The resolution states California ranks 48th among all states in un dergraduate medical school openings in relation to total Duffy said the aim of his study is to set up a priority for new medical schools in California with Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley hopefully being number one He said determination also must be made on who would run the hospital -the University of California in conjunction with the Fresno State University or some other agencies Fliers Search Sierra For Missing Planes McClatchy Nawtpaocr Servlet SACRAMENTO Assemblyman Gordon Duffy R-Hanford today introduced a resolution for a study of the possibility of opening a medical school in Fresno sponsored by the federal and state governments Duffy said the study if approved by the legislature would be completed by Jan 1 and would aim at utilizing federal funds already available to start 10 new medical schools in the United States in conjunction with Veterans Administration hospitals Duffy said Fresno's is the only large VA hospital in California not associated with a medical school He said he is working closely with Rep Sisk D-Fresno and Milo Rowell president of the San Joaquin Valley Area Health Center The community effort to establish a medical school in Fresno was spearheaded nearly 20 years ago by attorney Rowell and industrialist Leon Peters af Fresno Recent federal legislation allows medical schools to be built in connection with veterans hospitals A joint Fresno City Coundl-Fresno County Supervisors committee studying the feasibility of building a medical school In conjunction with VA Hospital recommended and earlier this month received city and county agreement to appropriate Valley Medical Center attendants and members of a helicopter crew transfer Kim Ellen Gal-breath 16 to a hospital gurney after she was flown from the Postpile area where she was stricken with acute appendecitis The Riverside girl was camping with a church group in the Helicopter Rescue Fish Creek Valley when she -went into a coma on the Fish Creek Trail about eight miles south of Bleadow A Lemoore Naval Air Station helicopter was dispatched by the Western Rescue Coordinating Center to fly hex out of the rugged back country Bee Photo Nears On Possible New Winery 9 II Decision By Jim Boren 'Stanford Wolf president of the Paul Masson Cqrp said he expects a decision will be made within on whether his company will build a $25 million winery near Beren-da'in Madera County Wolf said Paul Masson and Seagrams Distillers which holds a majority interest in the corporation have been discussing the proposal fjhe Madera County Board of Supcrvisorsvoted i' Subsidy Lack Hikes Price Paul Masson representatives are studying the feasibility of constructing the winery in Madera County but Wolf would not say what the study has shown The winery would employ about 70 persons on a year-around basis and would have a peak force of about 200 persons during the grape-crush season The facility would be a dessert winery producing vermouth for worldwide distribution Although Wolf would not Continued from Page Cl 346000 one-third quarts a la carte Milk is included in the 24000 lunches that are served daily by the district The subsidy was provided for the milk sold a la carte The Department of Agriculture Wednesday announced it was discontinuing Its subsidy program to all schools in the country with lunch programs All Fresno schools participate in the lunch program (the decision) hits the kindergarten pupils who have Poore: Seeks Educational TV Rebirth to allow Paul Masson to withdraw 70 acres of a 640-acre tract from provisions of the Williamson Land Conservation Act if it would pay a penalty of 50 per cent of the assessed value The winery would be built on the 70-acre plot The remaining acreage would be planted to grapes Paul Masson said if it decides to build the winery the conditions laid down by the board would be acceptable to video tape cameras a mobile unit and the like already owned by the county schools it won't be that easy of course" he said should raise about $100000 I know HEW officials in Washington and bend over backwards to help us all they can if we have all of the $10000 1 would go to Washington and ask them to help us But better if you have something in your Former commercial television station executive Woman Faces Hearing Jones was on a flight from Hayward to either Lake Tahoe or Carson City The pilot of the plane reported missing earlier was Richard Walker 43 a Bishop school teacher Inyo County Clerk Dan Brant ley 50 was a passenger and authorities said Walker may also have had an-' other passenger aboard Walker was on a flight from San Jose to Bishop Stoudt said neither plane was equipped with emergency locator transmitters Members of the Fresno County Sheriff's Air Squadron have been participating in the search with CAP planes The Madera County Sheriffs Office has called off a ground search the Board of Education may be asked to approve another boost In the costs of lunches Last month the board boosted lunch prices by 5 cents the first increase in the district since 1969 The change increased elementary school lunches from 40 to 45 cents and junior and senior high to 80 cents District officials have admitted another increase for lunches was probable next year But they now say they may be forced to seek another boost later this year although Trovato said it would be a In Shooting and tried to enter her house Saturday night She said he had broken off her relationship with Williams about one year ago and he threatened to beat her She said she fired two shots from a 22-caliber revolver through the screen door and a third shot at his car after he got into the vehicle Police said Williams was hit in the abdomen and was found outside his car at Woodward and Backer Avenues minutes after Miss Bleckley reported the shooting He is reported in satisfactory condition in Valley Medical Center AM to 4 PM commit himself Madera County officials have expressed optimism the winery will be built in the county John Bree a viticulture and management consultant from Modesto said Paul Masson headquartered in Saratoga has been looking for a winery site about six months and the Madera County location meets all conditions proposed by the firm The main reasons the site on Road 24 at the San- the audience his principal concern was in getting some kind of public station on the air quickly we move now the citizens the education community will have no input into a station because the cable will bring public television from somewhere A cable system for Fresno awaiting Federal Communications Commission approval would bring KQED in San Francisco into the area KQED now is broadcast in Fresno through a low-power translator on Channel 59 Investigators said Ditzler was linked to the robberies in statements given by witnesses at the stores and by Sexton's friends and relatives Officers learned Wednesday he was living at 3322 Clay Ave and surrounded the house! They were met by his wife who reported Ditzler was at work Officers said the suspect ta Fe railroad tracks is a good one are suitability of the soil for grapes the railroad running through the property and the proximity of Highway 99 and the Madera and Chowchilla airports The Paul Masson Corp has 3000 acres of vineyards planted in Monterey County smaller parcels elsewhere and is planting additional vineyards in Monterey County It also has wineries at Soledad and Monterey Kern Pilot Dies In Crop Duster Crash BAKERSFIELD (AP) A crop duster on a training flight was killed when his plane cartwheeled and crashed in a cotton field here Courtney Edens 28 Bakersfield was ejected when a wheel of his crop duster apparently caught on a branch of a cotton plant as he cruised the Reid at near-ground level officers said The engine was thrown 40 feet from the crash scene Edens who had recently attended a crop dusting school was taking a training flight Wednesday to spray a field next to the city sewer plant an official of Garriott Crop Dusting Service said He had been working as a mechanic for the firm Police said it was believed to be the first crop dusting fatality ever inside the city FI Hi ll MITII 887 XOT1CK OF JtrrUCATIOX On Augut 1873 application wa Tiled wuh me federal Ccnimu nicalion I'cmniiauun Waaiuigluti LC by Tel-Amrriva corp fur An air search continued today for two private planes one missing since Sunday and the other since Monday presumed down in the Sierra Civil Air Patrol Maj Le-land Stoudt said about a dozen planes participated in search on the west side of the Sierra concentrating on mountainous areas previously searched to no avail Stoudt said the CAP has established search bases at Bishop and San Jose in addition to Fresno He Identified the pilot of a plane missing since Monday as Dean Jones of Hayward who had a woman passenger aboard Her identity was not known milk Trovato said the kid who brings his bag lunch and the kindergarten kid who gets Although the quantity of milk will be reduced for junior high and high school students Trovato said the half pint they vriQ receive still meets all state mandated nutritional requirements -Trovato also said It there will be further cost increases to students this year He said with food costs soaring and the possibility of additional milk costs to the district Miss Meckley who was arrested Wednesday has pleaded Innocent to the charge She told police she shot Charles Williams 48 of 2132 Lilly Ave after he broke down a front door old record was 600 hours The marathon which is being played at Fresno Fashion Fair is sponsored by the Ecological Information Center of Fresno Team members are Dave Hollingsworth Larry and Michael Kella and Roberta Leon A preliminary hearing has been set for Sept 17 for Myrna Meckley 39 of 2629 Richert Ave who is charged with assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting Saturday of a former boyfriend Ping Pong Record Fresnans Claim World Title Sexfon Accomplice? Robbery Suspect Is Held Paul Bartlett said he did not like constant reference to Channel 18 as educational television badly need a public television station and we need to get together a broadly based public advisory committee to set it He suggested the county schools superintendent should not be licensee of a station And Bartlett said the station should be put on the air at lower power and sooner than the 16-month time frame Wiens outlined KFSN-TV General manager Philip Beuth told 7 robbery of the Mayfair Market at 917 Olive Ave and the Aug 14 robbery of the Safeway Store at 3031 Cedar Ave His bail was set at $24-000 Sexton died Aug 20 of smoke inhalation in a fire which broke out in his home at 3407 Lewis Ave during a 2-hour shootout with police Police Sgt Salvador Mosqueda was killed in the shootout and stabbed in the back apparently during the struggle for the knife ran from the scene but cot lapsed a few blocks away Both were listed in satisfactory condition at Valley Medical Center Another man involved in the attack fled pclice said Chon Herrera 23 of 2349 Clinton Ave toll Four Fresno youths have claimed a world's record for continuous table tennis play The three-man one-woman team has been playing continuously since Aug 3 and will end the marathon match Friday at noon after 672 hours The James Kenneth Ditzler 28 who police believe was ah accomplice of Charles Sexton in two Fresno armed robberies early this month was arrested Wednesday He was taken into custody shortly after 11:30 am at his place of employment at 3592 Franklin Ave by police and deputies Warrants issued Tuesday charged him with the Aug Continued from Page Cl ment of Health Education and Welfare Wiens told the audience better for us now beeause HEW is funding $3 fon every $1 of local -And he said now can include equipment necessary to put a public broadcast station on the air i Wiens said the activation of Channel 18 assigned many years ago as an educational outlet based in Fresno would help provide educational television throughout the valley to pre-schoolers through ad- ulp In addition the station would be a member of the public Broadcast System network Wiens said the station conceivably could be put oiuthe air with no local contribution other than more than $200000 in equipment the fair market value he has assigned Tjax Slash Is Eyed In Madera McClaldiy Nmwn Soviet -MADERA county tax rate is expected to drop 30 rtnts to $237 per $100 of assessed valuation figures compiled by County Auditor Glenn Jessing shows Board of Supervisors is scheduled to adopt the tax rate at Tuesday's meeting Jessing said federal revenue sharing funds are credited with lowering the tax rate The final county budget has been set at S191 mil-ken an increase of 827 million Revenue sharing fends will cover $23 mil-li-n of the budget increase Ti remainder of the increase will be offset by cash on state reimbursements or In meow tiers exempt iers and various ether reimbursements the will men Come To Wickes Lumber And Help Us Celebrate Our 119th Malaga Man Is Held In uxMtrwllon permit In chain: the KRP o( Station KAIL-TV operating on Channel Vi at Kresno Calil hi 28153 kw iiu) and VI I kw mural) to change transmitter krabon to 25 mi ol kieadw Lake on Bald Mountain and antenna height above ground to A complete copy ol uui application and mated material available lur public Tuilli-a ha ni rut fin at the otlicea of Par- ponce ne was pui on iue)chtin Krfhfc Renhr 4 Band left hand when he tried tO'omeyf at law urTeter indse Security Bank Bide till take the knife away from loot rmiw cahi between im Ramirr7 Vmra ol AM and I I'M Monday Aamirez through Frdsy Alvarez told investica- tAug a 53 -j ign tors he and his daughter Stabbing Register For Front Quarter of Beef Drawing To Be Held Mon 92 labor Day Winner Need Net le Present Te Win Ne Purdiese Nec FREE COFFEE CAKE FRI SAT SUN MON Domingo Nicacio Ramirez 54 of 3732 Harding Ave Malaga has been booked by proxy in the Fifcsno County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a stabbing Wednesday right at 1143 Tulare St According to police Ra- Will BE OPEN SUN MON 9 ua feiEjs -r- Sr were outside their home xnirrK to ninnrns when Ramirez and a con- nojk 2 is ri- 1 ciy A tm a-a'd btis lur Sr KIAKui-Ka AX'D panion walked up to tne tirk at Rucsrit llt kih kMiM vrlVH out SOT1P SCHOOL ill bi ojnrd in the Ol-nousr jciea out uo lhe 0 vvirar-t names at them and pro- io jrpirmtr it SiMi'ClK all 'll lh 14 III th YOKCl a IlaIt lOii ol me i'hiivtir nl P-sn-tw- 'r- i vatert Baum 2 IS Krrsno California I iuiLt irl-riraii-i! r-e-t- Oeorv Makd 217 i- ii Ra' tv- i-r officials P'- imut sciwoi sunplv in? 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