Oroville Mercury Register from Oroville, California • 1

i3SS State Sen Paul Byrne Dies Rites Set Friday OROVILLE CALIFORNIA DAILY 10 CENTS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29 1962 VOL 89 NO 203 ontro State Sen Paul Byrne 5Z -a 10-year veteran of the upper home and winner thi year of a new tom died auddeniy Tuesday while at work in his downtown business office in Chico A physician said the Chico Re- and some 20 ranch Including most of cowboy singer Gene famed Melody Ranch scene of many movie and television films The fires were 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles Six fire fighters suffered minor injuries such as sprained ankles and slight burns but no serious cases were reported Perimeters of the two one in the Newhall-Placerita Canyon area and the other in the Castaic- LOS ANGELES (UPD- About 1 1300 fire tighten assisted by I bulldozers and borete bombers I fougfat a massive bedding action I today against two giant brush I blazes and prevented them from ljoining and spreading to more in- habited areas The two blazes which started I Tuesday afternoon almost simul-Itaneously charred more than 16-1500 acres by am PDT today I destroying a 8100000 clinical I building at Olive View Sanitorium The secretary of office said election code permits the Butte County Republican Central Committee to appoint a candidate to appear on the November general election ballot replacing Byrne But since Byrne also won the Democratic nomination by write- ins there was a question of whether the Democrats could also name a candidate in November A spokesman in the secretary's office said this political quea-T tion had already been put to the state attorney office Byrne was chairman of the Sen-S ate Fact-finding Committee on Agriculture and a member of the committees' on Education Finance Labor and Insurance and Financial Institutions Gov Edmund Brown commented that Byrne well and honorably in the Senate since 1950 to represent the people of his community senator was a leader in agricultural legislation but he also found time to lend his influence for the good in legislation such as that dealing with corrections and the early work on the Feather River the governor said Byrne was a Marine in the Pa-1 cific theatre during World War II He headed a general insurance business in Chico and was a member or officer of many civic groups Byrne is survived by his widow the former Elsie Faulkner and a sou Paul a student at Hastings College of Law Services are set for 11 am Friday at St Episcopa Church Chico with Father Gouk officiating lake Area Fires Cut Wide Path Hasley Canyon were oMyCastaic Mare encompasred a 28 four miles apart but there seemed I mile perimeter no immediate danger of a junc- BuUdozers and men using tion- shovels and sacks were concen- Separated by Highway trated on the southern edge of toe A county fire tnd set up fire spokesman pointed out that thelbreaks which averted a threat to Mazes were separated by UR 99Uhurban Chatsvrorth' b'Stovay rod zdded Hottest spot in toe blaze during JK at the eart end of don think there a possibility of NewhaU Haze fa 1 i Ptoetos Peak This phase of The Pnmeter of toe NewhaUL fire was about 27 miles and thevon i mjor segment of the fire fighting force was concen- trated there Gusty winds low humidity and -temperatures rising above 90 degrees caused fire officials great concern and no one would predict when the Mazes would be contained 4 No Threat to Towns There appeared to be no immediate threat to inhabited areas such as Burbank Glendale and Sylmar Six borate bombers Joined toe battle at dawn and five' others -Minding by Fifteen bulldozers an 111 fire trucks were thrown into the battle 1 Fire fighters indude 88 Indian experts 475 Mexican nationals and 160 Army men from Fort Irwin Calif in addition to crews from Los Angeles and Ventura counties toe city of Los Angeles and the Forest Service and toe -California Divirion of Forestry When toe Newhall blaze reached the vicinity of (Rive View Sanitorium Tuesday night some 700 patients were safely: evacuated An toe patients m- i nps a a eluding 60 children' were trena- More Fuel Added To Hot Middle Fork ControversyfcS'L facility went up in El Fotrero yesterday in Village At left attor- ney Ray Leonard looked out over a gathering of about 108 guests who heard Coakley speak 'Hie candidate is stumping northern counties this week LUNCHEON VISITORS Superior Judge Tom Coakley center Republican candidate for State Attorney General talked with George Kading right Chico attorney before a luncheon speech SENATOR PAUL BYRNE Mourned publican suffered a sudden and acute heart attack He was pronounced dead before resuscilators could be brought Byrne suffered a mild heart attack several weeks ago but had been permitted to leave Enloe Hospital and return to work Byrne was born in San Diego May 8 1910 but had lived in Butte County since childhood He was elected senator from the 6th District comprising the entire county in 1950 and was re-elected in 1954 and 1958 He won the June primary nomination on both Democratic and Republican tick- els this year Coakley Raps Mosk Connections i Philosophy As Soft On Crime LAKEPORT Fine fight-lers today contained a brush fire that burned 11200 acres in two days after flaring up in a that destroyed 14 homes and sent hundreds of vacationers fleeing from a resort area near Ihene- LAKEPORT Calif An army of 2500 men using hundreds I have been troubled for al longtime about a lot of things ay in them battle going on in government This "fl Mate has too many have acres of Northern California tim- The present administration and iand About 600 men aided by borate- wnfonnnt ouj ol the uSLra of local government Ia2e dangerously Some Bad close to thickly populated resort is firet in welfare! Irei fo Lake County circulation of pomogaphic Nearty 1000 and va literature and firet in nMJorLtk)flOTt who fled the dear Lake rei the height of the Our major crime rate twice Monday began returning that of the national average We hhesday The resort area is 80 re second only to Nevada I LaeB north of San Francisco think there is cause for alarm Two ranches and several home I am going to do whatlK burned but there were no can about it to change theK Ranchers in some cimate toe attorney gal drove' out livestock to 1950s has many many times honored with his 1 presence a whole host of organizations listed by the Congress of the United States as subversive organizations This shows a pattern in the man'a political buckshot scattered a wide pattern acoss stand on law enforcement narcotics control capital punishment wire lapping and the manner in which police may obtain evidence Addressing about 100 guests at a luncheon reception yesterday in Village Coakley stated his own views and Hof fa Union Lends Struck Airline Engineers 100000 WASHINGTON (UPD James pits and take him a step further Teamsters Union wss re- toward his announced goal of a wu due to toe inadequacy of the flames Tuesday night as toeNet district's distribution system IhaR Maze spread The reason the district didn't! Superior Judge Tom Coakley Republican candidate for atto-ney general yesterday criticized incumbent Stanley philosophy in law enforcement and life 25 years Mosk has identified himself with a long list of organizations known to be soft on Coakley said of Mosk Coakley charged that Mosk has been a friend" of the California Democratic Council and that for more than 19 years le has been with the jnerican Civil Liberties Union (American Civil Liberies Union and California Democratic Council) stand for the elimination of the loyalty oath they want to establish police review boards to second-guess lev cal police they would admit led China they oppose clearing bookstands of pornographic literature that police say is the first step to juvenile delinquency and they want to abolish he House Committee on Un-American These are groups my opponent ms been identified with and has refused to Coakley said Wrong Elaborating on his charge Coakley said: attorney general for years or hrough the 1910s and into the office of this Coakley said Coakley expressed his views on the topics he covered: 1 enforcement: am expand its distribution system he said is because has never refused the district water The testimony of the Richvale district's president also touched on the use of well water said had proved unsatisfactory in areas adjacent to the districts If the Richvale Irrigation Dis-I Uptoin Jimmy Jamison of Onv rict had a stable supply of water ve wake the initial splash (Continued on Page 4) a opening of the five- day Fun Fair sponsored by Lodge of Oroville A carnival will be in operation on the levee in conjunction with toe fair Jamison will dive 100 feet into six feet of water at the carnival rite on the levee to mark the start of a full schedule of events RERUN (UPD JHterv thLb' DF weekend He BERLIN (UPD perform his sensational dive Bcrimere feared today that toe each day a East West power struggle over fojr 10 ve wiD be pre ffJVlS that of tor "11 at niht wilh Jwison en-Wmved that out toe ydoped in fire according to Lee mgtocn Soviet Premier business agentfor toe Nikita Khroffchev and East Elkt 0n Satl the German leader Walter Ulbncht wiU mUi a UnL Russia Tuesday would come new efforts to ouM toe Western Allies levMf from West Berlin day mght will feature Delbert ported Tuesday night to have lent the Flight Engineers International Association (FEIA) 8100000 to help sustain its long strike against Eastern Air Lines a At the same time the flight engineers were reported to be talking of a possibk merger with giant transportation union Eastern which wu hit fay an engineers walkout June 23 and to- tally grounded for a month had no comment on either report Informed sources reported the 8100000 loan had been worked out with the Ttaunsters hoe last week It was the second time within four years the FEIA has received financial support from Hof union in a strike against Easton The teamster? guaranteed 8250000 loan since repaid during the 1958 strike against the fourth largest domestic air carrier Don Byrne a spokesman for the flight engineers disclosed that Ronald Brown FEIA president had conferred in New York this week with both the Teamsters and the International Longshoremen's Association He said he wu sure possibility of a merger had come up in their discussions" Brown who left New York for Boston Tuesday could not be con' (acted for comment Neither could Jack Robertson president of the Eastern chapter be reached immediately at his home in Miami A merger of the flight engineers with the teamsters could put Hoffa'a union into airliner cock save the animals from the flames Meanwhile 1500 men contained an 8000-acre fire near Lake Shasta and a Maze that swept over 7000 acres in Mariposa County £UIK UK out Mi Kl rr-r IMA the Civil Liberties Union and toe topped crew of 500 California Democratic Council I avor as I named them I A California Division of For- -Capital punishment: favor said one home capital punishment until Manposa someone cornea up with a better hut fire fighters saved solution I will be willing to con-10 her -aider any such solution I Fire crews were diverted from -Police informers: favor the Mariposa Mare to battle an toe use of informers especially I utoer which erupted Tuesday aft-n narcotics cases Informed and ernoon in the central Sierra Ne-expcrienccd policemen tell me illvada northeast of Fresno impossible to win narcotics I pnead over nearly 1000 acres convictions without informers I Two other fires were brough tapping: need uner control in the Wild Horse Sven Robert Kennedy certainly Caftyon area two miles eart of liberal has asked for One burned 400 acres am ion authorizing this I 350 acres Pornogaphy I am willing to stand a little censorship to con-rol pornographic literature this is one of am for the loyalty oath against police review boards Coakley also touched on the recent Supreme Court prayer decision saying he believes in separation of church and state but Ikl wrciM Jmlnnnunl nt WM UllS time not SOT- that a possible development of nmviit Worker Hurt lOn US 40A Job Another construction worker iously in Oroville today More fuel was added to red hot Middle Fork controversy this morning with Glen Harris Resident of the Richvale Irrigation District testifying the district could not afford to buy water from the Oroville Dam It is my judgment and the judgment of my board that we afford to pay the (nice for water from the Oroville teservoir Harris said Harris is testifying before the State Water' Rights Board here in the Butte County Courthouse on the behalf of the Joint Water districts proposal to develop the Middle Fork of the Fea i her River Harris said the contract with the state for water would bind the districts for a period of 75 years and the districts now fowe no cnowlcdge of what the price of water will be in future years Harris said it was hia understanding that the district would have to contract for the amount of water needed during lean years and then would have to pay for that amount of water every year whether the districts needed it or not The cost of water from the Oroville Dam for the districts is presently set at 8350 for each acre-foot and an additional $2 surcharge for acreage in excess 160 acres or 320 acres for a man and hia wife Yesterday afternoon Harold Cuhecn manager of the Joint Districts testified the districts have not had a water shortage during the paM four years Harris said this morning the Richvale district had to pro-rate its water during the years of 1952 1953 and 1954 when there were no limitations on the amount of rice acreage But on cross examination bt Adolph Moskovitz an attorney fin-toe opponents Harris testified that it was not a shortage of water lhal caused the rationing of water during 1952 and the distort made no attempt to purchase' water from (he Pacific Gas and Electric Company He said the rationing of water the Bump and his local band No single union representing realms of transportation The FEIA now is a member of he AFL GO from which the Teamsters Union was expelled Stocks Soften Near Close NEW YORK (UPD Stocks recovered most of the early losses and then began softening again near the dose today Electronics and other glamor lrowth stocks were toe first to feel tiie effects of the fresh selling bout near the clone The group closed mixed with IBM and Xerox down around 2 point Blue chip issues including motors leading oils and chemicals finished in a narrow scrsmble Steels were mostly down fractions were dunged reflecting a dividend slash by Wheeling which slumped dose to 4 points Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 60324 off 201 30 railroads 12282 off 100 15 utilities 12019 off 011 and 65 stocks 20993 off 079 Transients On Trial In Beating Robbery Two transients who are charged with beating and robbing Marysville grocery clerk and stealing his car July 22 and leaving him on a deserted rest near the Wentworth Ranch Palermo faced a non-jury trig today in superior court The suspects Willie Done 30 and Bobbie Joe McCtinton 27 are represented by attorney Nor ris Goodwin who is court appointed A prospective jury pane was dismissed by Judge JF Good after Goodwin and the suspects asked to have the case heard without a jury The complainant John Won 50 Marysville grocery clerk tes-tified this morning He- rlaimci the men beat and robbed him and took hia car but under cross examination by Goodwin admit tod he was pretty intoxicated at the time and his memory hazy Lucian yaiidogrift acting district attorney is trying Ihr case mil win ma- ffay Other attractions include a log- an important wternatiorl pressing conference called by toe dr by Junior Pageant Riders all through arrangements The Communists were vapic with Claude McCollum about toe Ulbncht Khrushchev Elka members wtil operate two meeting perhaps because Khrush- concession stands at the carnival chcv also met Tuesday with U0ne featuring games and another Thant acting secretary general of dispensing hot dogs and soft the United Nations drinks All proceeds will go into The East German and Soviet the charity fund news agencies merely said they The Elks hall on Myers Street discussed international will be toe scene of i holiday in a of com- dancing party Saturday night ad- toe ruling would mean no Christ- 45 of Gridley mas services in schools Christmas carols sung I hia foot at Medical Center Hospi-would ake every mbUnce of morning tnd spnlual value mil of the lives rived fte gJ0 of our children 1 Firms Hit By Liquor Charges Two Oroville businesses face tearings before the State Dept of hlcoholi' Beverage Control for alleged violations of the beverage control act Henry Long district administra tor of the Yuba CSty office of the department said the charges were fled in the Sacramento office today after- investigations into an auto accident fatal to two men on April 1 1962 Charged are Clara Banes doing business as the Bank Club 2053 Montgomery and Jack H-irown doing business as Dino's izza Huire 1863 Montgomery lie Bank club holds an on-sale jenferal license and an on-sale beer license Jones said The who died the early morning of April 1 as a result crash on Larkin Road near Ord Ranch Road were Janies Ilewitt 32 of Gridley and Fraiik Trunx Jr 20 of Richvale Severely injured was Samuel Brown 19 of Gridley Long said the department's complaint alleges that on the night of March 31 the Bank dub violated three counts of the control 1 Alleges they sold the 19-year-old Brown youth beer am distilled spirits 2 Permitted him to consume spirits in the establishment I Permitted him (a minor) to enter and remain without lawful business Long said the department's complaint alleges Dino's violated two counts: 1 Sold beer to Brown 2 Allowed him to consume the beer Hearings on the charges will bo hoard on a future dale Long sak before a hearing officer from the Slate office of administrative procedure The hearings will deter mine there is sufficient grounds for suspension or revocation of Long said He indicated the entering of the charges was made following investigations by the Highway Pa trot Butte Osinty Attorney's fire and investigators of the A coholic Beverage Control Dept Temperatures Seen Below Normal SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Five-day weather forecasts: Northern California: No rain hrlow iwrmal temperatures: normal low-high Sacramento 57-88 Red Bluff 02-93 Eureka 52-62 Blue Canyon 56-75 Sants Rosa 468L i Firm's License Gets Suspended 'f Henry Long district administrator of the department of alcoholic beverage control announced today that the beer and wine license of Clifford Scott 51 Route 1 will be suspended or 15 days beginning September 6 Scott proprietor of the Grandview Service Station on US 40A pleaded guilty last month in Oroville justice court to having liquor on premises licensed only for beer and wine According to Long the 15-day suspension will be followed by an indefinite suspension period until the premises are shown to be a bona fide eating establishment I such showing is not made within six months of the effective date of the decision the license will be revoked Turn To These Career-diplomat Kohler gels ready for Kremlin page Sojihia Loren rated most beautiful woman paie 2 Society page 5 Stonewall Jackson wins dubious victory page 8 1 Editorials page 18 Stale Fair opens with Tclslar greeting page 22 An employe of Lord and Bishop wilh live music and a program of variety entertainment Sheriff Larry Gillick will supervise a pancake breakfast to be served Sunday morning in the Elks Club dining room for the benefit of Oroville Teen Center picte understanding'1 BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPD President Kennedy today announced the retirement of Supreme Court Weather Oroville and Sacramento Valley: Fair through Thursday high both days 88-93 low (might 55-65 gentle winds Sierra Nevada: Fair and cooler through Thursday For additional weather data see Page 20 Coakley pledged to go before InC- rf Sacramento Sheata re-the stale legislature and take portedly caught his foot in a greas-commnn sense approach on jng rig he was working with much stronger line of law en- finn hai for frcmcnt and to limit the Su-toe rorffon of eleven bridges prome Court prayers decision be-llnd overpasses made necessary cause decisions are by the relocated segment of slowly whittling away at the 40A between Wicks Corner and great institutions of our Oroville Justice Felix Frankfurter and nd local Boy Scout troops the nelrdom of Labor Secretary I The public is invited to pirtid-Arthur Goldberg to replace I Pte in the fon kirn Mariner Ready To Reveal Venus Mysteries TRY MER-SHEEN Furniture Cleaner end Polish CLEANS POLISHES WAXES No oil good for wood or plastic finishts I Williams DDS Announces I The Re-Location of His Office For The Practice of GENERAL DENTISTRY From 1371 MYERS to 2220 Baldwin LE 34373 PASADENA Calif (UPD-The Mariner-1 spacecraft cm an epochal exploration journey to the mystery-shrouded planrt of Venus today neared a point in apace where il will begin revealing interplanetary secrete Scientists at Caltech' Id Propulsion laboratory (JPL) said they expected noon possibly Thursday or Friday to execute a command from Earth to trigger th first experiments to lie con-duHrcK on the historieal 180-mil lam mile space mission When they give the radio com mand the Mariner will Mart gatliering valnahie information on interplanetary magnetic fields charged particles cosmic dust and low energy protons from the suit All of Lite informaikm will place a significant role in fuiure interplanetary flights by manned space ships JPL scientists charged with guiding and a i the 447-pound instrument-loaded apace prolie said il would bn 409187 miles and traveling a speed of 7093 miles an knur noon PDT today Scientists said the important midcourse maneuver to correct a launching error that veered the Mariner 250000 miles off targiH probably would not come until this weekend or after A aurcess-curve the spacecraft on trajectory rtose to Venn JIA reported the space prolie continued to function perfectly and that telemetry communica- Venus was a Russian attempt in 1961 that shot within 62000 miles of the planet Scicntirts said the apace vehicle's last position and speed was calculated as of 6 pm EDT It was given as 325914 miles from earth and traveling at i speed of 7260 miles an hour The spacecraft's 8185 million ex pertinent in space was being monitored by JPL's Gokistone tracking station in toe nearby desert JPL officiate said the trajectory of the vchirle would Mill have to he rorrected wilh a crucial mid-course maneuver enabling it te swing within the desired range of Venus They said they expected trouble in performing the direction change lions from were and Tlie 181-million mile flight of the Marinrr-2 is programmed to take the vehicle on a within 10000 miles of Venn early in IVcemhcr An electronic eye will then peer thnsigh the mantle of cksid that perpetually shrouds the nearest planetary neigh bor and try to determine if the environment is compatible with any forms of life that we know Mariner-3 hailed as an amazing guidance Miccesx risild score dramatic jirestige victory for-the United Stales recently shaken by apeetarular feat of orbiting two manned spaceships simul UneiHisly The closo( previous fly by of OPHIR SHORT LEAGUE BOWLING STANDINGS GROUP I Won Lost Palermo Inn 24 Canyon Inn 21 13 HI Ho 21 15 Cliff's Pizza (IS 21 Dog House 14 22 The Hut 11 25 Games to be played September 9 2 PM4 at Dog House The Hut Canyon Inn Vi Sue's The Corral Tho House of Quality.