The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 1

SXO Store Sc lie in omorrow The Tides May 1ft pjil 32 ft 11:18 pjiL 56 ft Low 6:00 s-m -14 ft 5:05 pan 18 ft May 15: 17 pjil 51 ft 11:59 pm ft 6:48 an -11 ft 5:46 pan 21 ft Sunrise 5:59 am May 14 Snnwt 8:00 pan (All Times Daylight Saving Time) £anjfiuu Ckuafij file 5c Per Copy Office hours of The Telegram-Tribute are from 8 nan to 550 pan City subscribers who for some fall to receive their papers by 5:15 asked to telephone the Telegram-Tribune 1901 before 6 pan to assure delivery the same day 84TH YEAR NO 223 PHONE 1901 YESTERDAY'S PAID 10872 WEDNESDAY MAY 13 1953 Iecid Sodciif 3 dld Sor Special Z)a XJah Wram Ridgway and Gruenther See No Letup in Soviet Threat PARIS May 13 Gens Matthew Ridgway and Alfred Gruenther agreed today that there has been no letup in the Russian threat to Europe and said American atomic weapons will be available in case of war Ridgway retiring allied supreme commander in Europe and Gruenther who has been Test Pattern On Air at Noon Today Test pattern transmission was accomplished at noon today from San Luis Obispo's television station marking the advent of TV into an area previously deprived of video The pattern a grouping of lines circles and tbs call letters of was being received on ths screens of various seta scattered about the city during the noon hour Tests will be' intermittent from now on until actual program transmission on Satur day Ted Davies local TV dealer said that he had received a long distance telephone call at 12:30 pm from Terry Hayward Emerson TV factory representative from Sanger Calif 50 miles east of Fresno saying that the tests were providing "perfect at that distant point Dumont engineers were assisting the KVEC-TV engineer at the transmitter The transmitting equip and antenna were installed early this week following completion of the building to house the operation by the Maino Construction Co The site is located atop a summit of the Cuesta In the Los Tadres national forest Xt is located about seven miles north and west of San Lula Obispo The tip of the antenna rises 2690 feet above sea level The station will transmit on a video power of 19800 watts while the audio power was set by the federal communications commission at 9900 watts It will send Its signal on a frequency of 82-88 megacycles which la channel six Interest In the test pattern transmission was high throughout San Luis Obispo county and as far away as Fresno Some sets In various showrooms of television dealers were left on con stantly in anticipation of a FIESTA PARADE JUDGES Mrs Richard Willett parade judge and wife of the county supervisor holds the Fiesta crown for Inspection by (from left) parade Judge Dr Tlbor A Be res If parade vice chairman Asher Shaw and parade judge Paul Davis when the group met yesterday to discuss plans for event The assortment of handsome trophies mill be awarded to the parade winners In various classes (Telegram-Tribune photo) Crowned Mission chosen to take his place expressed Ridgway their views at a joint press con- As he spoke he pointed to a ference at allied headquarters I map of Europe behind him on near Paris I which the Iron Curtain showed as The two four-star generals were a broad red line dividing the con-asked their opinion of the latest! tinent Soviet "peace I (I Gruen- Gruenther and I see alike I ther with the broad grin that on this Soviet peace offensive bas become his trademark in and a a soldiers there is no infor-lvears as chief of staff of ths situation known to us to Indicate a lied command lessening of the (Russian) weapons Ridgway 'said that we are attacked I take it that every weapon in our arsenal will be He emphasized that the atomic training courses now being given allied officers In Germany are defensive" Gruenther added that the officers are being to the use of all types of atomic weapons for tactical Gruenther said ha is aware of the difficult task of following in the footsteps of President Eisenhower and General Ridgway" In the top European command I He said he plane to concentrate on two problems which are now the weakest links in allied defenses 1 No 1 is the air problem" he said probably are farther behind on air then in any other field" 2 the problem of supplying armies navies and air forces strung along a 3 000-mlle front Ridgway who la leaving to become 8 army ehief of staff said he aeee no Indication of hostilities" Fiesta Queen to In Ceremony at Miki Rhodes will reign as quec at Friday coronation nail veterans memorial building She Old Mission church steps at 8:3 will start at 9 In her grand entry to the ball Queen procession with her princesses and escorts costumed in the splendor of early Spanish royalty The coronation ball la one of the social highlights of every Fiesta Numerous entertainment attractions and excellent dance music are promised for the Friday night event Clyde circus will par rade through the city on Friday which will be the first circus pa Air Policies Due for Examination WASHINGTON May 13 (UP) Adra Arthur nomination as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff set the stage in congress today for an epic new unification fight and a bitter wrangle over the GOP administration's military plana The Pacific fleet commander who led the revolt" against unification policies in 1949 was expected to win senate confirmation But powerful Democrats on the senate armed services committee said he will first be "thoroughly on his views on the air strategic air command keystone up to now of American retaliatory striking powrer Old Battle Old unification sores are certain to be gouged in these sessions And the controversies will spill over into appropriations hearings w-here Democrats are preparing an assault on defense secretary Charles Wilson's proposal to slash projected air force goals from 143 to 120 wings Informed sources said Wilson will be the main target of Democratic fire The argument will be made on Capitol Hill that Radford was his personal choice to head the joint chiefs and that the selection was not cleared In advance with other Pentagon officials Including secretary of the navy Robert Anderson President Eisenhower sent nomination to the senate yesterday along with that of Gen Matthew Ridgway present North Atlantic pact commander to be army chief of staff Mr Eisenhower said he also will name Adm Robert Carney 6th Fleet commander and chief of NATO forces in southern Europe to replace Adm William Fechteler as chief of naval operations Fechteler apparently will leave the post soon although he had been appointed to a four-vear term expiring in August 1955 Camev supported Radford in the 1949 fight against the Pentagon emphasis on strategic bombing planning Ail New Staff In view of last week's nomination of Gen Nathan Twining to succeed Gen Hoyt Vanden-berg as air force chief of staff announcement means that a comnletely new joint chiefs of staff will soon take over Republicans generally praised the nominations Senate Republican leader Robert A Taft said the new chiefs would be able to give a "complete new look to 'our military Taft has been urging a thorough turn-over of the joint chiefs for some time Radford will succeed Gen Omar Bradley who called the admiral and his followers "Fancy Dans" when they attacked unification policies and the B-3S bomber program in 1949 Waco Devastation Equals War Time Bombed Out Cities TVACO Tql May -8 The devastation In Waco la as bad as that in bombed German cities during World war MaJ Gen I Doan said today Doan commanding general of Fbrt Hood Tex la fat charge of troops digging out bodies in the ruins of tornado-wrecked Waco The soldiers of the First armored division will continue at least through today in helping with rescue operations traffic and guard work The troops set up a command post in Baylor university stadium and spread sleeping bags on the concrete floor under the stadium to get rest They have been working since Monday night 92 Bodies Are Recovered in Texas Disaster WACO Tex May 13 OJO Bulldozers and power shovels bit deeper today in to the ruins of buildings flattened by a deathdealing tornado The bodies of at least 92 victims of twisters had been recovered 83 here and nine at San Angelo Tex Another person was killed yesterday when a tornado hit a church at Colfax La The Red Cross said 50 persons were missing in Waco (The nationwide death toll caused by violent weather since Saturday stood at 119 with six Great Lakes seamen missing and feared dead) Meanwhile the Houston Tex weather bureau warned the Brazos river would flood here sometime today reaching a stage of 28 feet three feet below the top of city by 7 am CST The Red Cross evacuated 150 persona from the danger zone There was little hope that any persons were still alive in the crumpled ruins of downtown Waco The appearance of the bulldozers and power shovels signaled that authorities had all but abandoned hope for the still-trapped victims Previously the rubble had been removed brick-by-brick to protect the Injured from further cave-ins Two bodies were uncovered high in the rubble of the Dennis Furniture store A bulldozer clearing the wreckage uncovered the bodies at 2:25 am (CST) after being brought in to clear away major wreckage Two men walked in front of the bulldozer with search lights watching for other remains which might be hidden A minlmnm school day ending at 1 pm wlU be conducted in San Luis Obispo city schools Friday as a result of action taken at a special board of education meeting held Monday school superintendent Re-gier said today Fiesta association representatives and a group of local businessmen made the request for school action so that studenta would have an opportunity to see the circus parade and Tldelands Bill To White House WASHINGTON May 13 The tidelanda bill giving coastal states title to offshore lands that may hold fabulous oil treasures won final congressional approval today The house approved the senate version of the bill and it now goes to President Eisenhower for his promised signature The roll call vote was 278 to 116 for the bill The measure gives coastal states clear title to submerged lands out to their historic seaward boundaries These are three miles offshore for all but Texas and Florida which have boundaries 10 miles Into the Gulf of Mexico Shortly before It acted on the bill the house passed on a 309 to 91 roll call a comnanion measure declaring the federal government has rights to development of oil gas and mineral resources on the continental shelf beyond the states boundaries Economy Try Bogging Down WASHINGTON May 13 Congress economy drive slowed a bit today when the house appropriations committee approved a 53444145000 treasury-poet office money bill This was or only 35 per cent less than former President Truman had requeste in appropriations for the 1954 fiscal year beginning July 1 It was only or one-seventh of one per cent less than the Eisenhower adxninlstra- FLOAT MAKERS Finishing a section of their Fiesta float a group of Beta Sigma put the final touches on a colorful bike rider The happy foursome includes (from left) Mrs Jack Feliciano Mrs Boy Hendrickson Mrs Gil Brown and Mrs Ronald Duncan Club members met yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr and Sin Gil Brown 1418 Marsh street to work on their project (Telegram-Tribune photo) Knowland Slaps Great Britain With Charge of New 'Munich' WASHINGTON May 13 Sen William Know-land (R-Calif) charged today that Britain is preparing for "a Far Eastern Munich" which Knowland contended will make World war HI "inevitable" He said also that the recent policy speeches of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Bohlen Makes Call At Molotov Office MOSCOW May 13 US Ambassador Charles Bohlen said today he had conferred 20 minutes with Soviet foreign min' ister Vyacheslav Molotov on certain concrete question pending between the United States and the U8SR" Molotov received Bohlen yesterday It was Bohlen's second visit with Molotov but the first was a protocol call concerned with presentation of his credentials rade local residents have had an opporunity to see in many years Clowns elephants lions and other wild animals will be included Efforts are being made by parade chairman Odis Doyle to postpone the previously announced starting time for the circus parade from noon to 2 pm so that school children Will see the performance City schools will have a minimum school day Friday letting out at 1 pm Saturday morning's Fiesta parade will be a featured attraction and will include marching bands from many sections of the county and state Gay colorful floats and mounted parade hones with their riders dressed in Spanish or western attire will compete for the several trophies offered this year The parade will begin its tour through San Lula Obispo at 10 o'clock Three days and nights of "marvelous" entertainment and merriment await Fiesta celebrants this year association president Bert Franklin said today A stage located In the Mission Gardens will be the scene of many acta of mu steal entertainment during two two-hour shows Sunday afternoon and evening Dances exhibits concessions circus entertainment programs and a horse show are planned for this Fiesta de las Floras the theme of which la "Lest We Fiesta parade chairman Odis Doyle reported today that the Culinary Alliance and Bartenders union local 703 of San Luis Obispo is the sole sponsor of the float Mrs Marie Birdsong secretary for the union told Doyle this morning that her organization would finance the float being assembled in Fresno First Floor Test on Highway Proposals May Come Today SACRAMENTO May 13 (UP) First floor test in the assembly on proposals to raise the state gasoline tax to build more highways loomed today in the legislature Pending in the lower house was a motion by assembly-man Luther Lincoln (R-Oakland) to withdraw from committee his AB1237 which Commumsts See No Good in Klau INI PrfinncAl tion requested in its revised bitdg-lew UM rropvjsai I et And it was the fourth regular ir I fiscal 1954 money bill to reach PANMUNJOM Korea May 13 1 the house floor and the first In (UJ9 The United Nations gave I which the Eisenhower adminis-tho Communists a detailed or- appropriation requests I had escaped almost unscathed mula for ending the Korean fK)m the economy truce deadlock today and after hearing and reading It the Com- The measure on which the munists said the proposal threat- house will act later this week ened to wreck the entire armis-1 foreshadowed an inevitable sharp tioe negotiations I drop in the economy bat- Lt Gen William Harrison ting average So far the house chief UN negotiator handed the I has approved 52000297638 in Washington-approved plan to i95 appropriations a cut North Korean Gen Nam the of almost 40 per cent from the Communist chief delegate at a Tnan requests meeting in the truce hut I House passage of the commjt- new bill would reduce the over-all percentage cut to about UN Far East commander fll brought the plan a counter-pro- 5en Pew JV" dramatic flight yesterday to the I CQQpanson allied base at Munsan I II Ilf "The Communists did not likelPollOCK riGdrillQ It but suggested we meet again I tomorrow" Harrison said after of TflllflOPfOW the one hour and 40 minute 1 meeting I A charge ofmurder will come The UN truce formula con- K' I justice court at 2 tun tomorrow in addttllfn to manfbla! when preliminary hearing is heW on a that stemmed from The Communist plan contained aUt-red altercation in a local ht paragraphs which the offlce May 3 UN considered vague Royal Pollock 23 a San The allied plan calls for re-1 Luis Obispo taxi driver Is patriation within two months af-1 charged with the death of a Camp ter an armistice of all prisoners! San Lula Obispo soldier SgL who want to go and re-1 Thomas Kelley Pollock was lease on the effective date of an I arrested Friday night after two armistice of all Korean prison-1 soldiers told officers at the camp era refusing to be repatriated (that they had seen the driver The plan would turn over to I strike Kelley The death a five-nation neutral commission I had at first been ascribed to a proposed by the Communists all I toll from a table In the taxi of-Chlnese prisoners who refuse tolice on Monterey street go home Ind'a would serve as Pollock la charged with viola-chairman of the commission and I on section 187 of the state supply armed military police 1 Pn-1 code The section states forces Poland Czechoslovakia I "Murder is the unlawful killing Sweden and Switzerland would human being with malice serve as commission members I Whereas the Communist plan! proposed that the commission op-1 erate on a majority-rule basis! the allied proposal called for de- clsion of policy matters-within! the commission upon a of I Thus the UN plant would give veto' powers to any) of the neutral nations Temperatures: 24-hour period ending aft 7 am lowest 48 highest 75 Forecast: Fair today to night and Thursday Cooler man Thomas A Maloney and Ed- ward Elliott while Chairman Frank Belotti and Charles Conrad voted against The bill 'had to get three votes to past the committee The fifth mefhber of the committee Charles Lyon was absent when ths roll was taken Disabled Aid A committee of the lower house voted unanimous approval of a new but restricted program of state aid to needy permanently and totally would increase the gas tax by one cent and boost other highway user levies by 22 per cent Hie assembly revenue and taxation committee refused to pass the bill last week Although highways have been the number one issue in the present session no highway revenue proposal in either house yet has gotten as far as the floor of the senate or assembly Lincoln faced opposition in his attempt to withdraw his bill from Brotherhood of Locomo-Dragon tive Engineers auxiliary Gold 7:30 Old Mission Altar society parish rectory Disabled American Veterans Memorial chapter No 45: auxiliary veterans' memorial building Duplicate Bridge club city recreation building auditorium King David lodge No 209 Masonic temple 8 Camera club city recreation building 8 Neighbors of Woodcraft public card party grange hall 8 Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie No 648 Mission hall and labor party leader Clement Attlee Indicate the United States wlU be left in a position of "going it alone" in fighting Communists in Asia Knowland In a speech preparec for senate delivery condemned the British speeches and predicted that the upshot will be an effort to seat Communist China In the United Nations Knowland chairman of the senate Republican policy committee used some of the harshest language heard about Britain In many years Other senators meanwhile spoke warnings against a Communist "trap" in the current Korean armistice talks Knowland said ths United States should not accept a Korean cease-fire agreement without first getting a "binding pledge" from Russia and Communist China of free elections in North Korea Unless this is done he said hope of ever getting a United Korea is non-existent at worst and very remote at best' He assailed suggestion that no matter of separates the UN negotiators and the Reds at Panmunjom He also criticized speech yesterday charging that some elements in this country do not want a Korean settlement Referring to ths house of commons debate Knowland said: effect what they have told us la that if we do not accept their advice and the Chinese Communists persist in the war we must be prepared to it alone "So be Knowland stud are now face to face with the problem that our chief ally has joined with certain other United Nations' members In urging a Far Eastern Munich chief allies in the United Nations are prepared to urge and to insist upon the admission of (Torn to Page Two) Full Time Guard At Crossing on Hathway Avenue Safety precautions at the Hathway avenue San Lula Obispo freeway construction intersection have been taken 'as a result of action from' city engineer Homer Hamlin it was learned today A full time crossing guard has been furnished by a freeway contractor Hamlin who has been receiving criticism from residents in the area worried over the safety of their children was also criticized by the local division of office when he halted a operations for not having a city permit to work on Hathway avenue Highway office officials expressed the view that city government had no jurisdiction over a state construction project and that it was therefore their responsibility to control the private activities -The city engineer said he would continue to keep a close watch on construction operations in the belief that public safety Is the concern of city government Bill Would Require Specific Motel Rates SACRAMENTO May 13 A bill making It a misdemeanor for motels and motor courts to display outdoor advertising signs listing rates with an up" tag was given final passage by the senate yesterday The bill by Assemblyman Ernest Geddes (R-Oaremont) provides that outdoor signs advertising motels must if they list rates give the maximum and minimum prices committee from Democrats who disabled The bill by Thomas A voted unanimously in a caucus Maloney fR-San Francisco) would yesterday not to support his move -grant state-federal-county aid av-to revive AB1237 The Demo- eraging 575 a month to persons crats already have gone on rec-j bedfast or chairbound and unable City Traffic Survey Tomorrow to help themselves State officials estimated the program would cost a total of 58000000 In full operation considerable less than the 531000000 estimated cost of the program under a more liberal definition of a disabled person Loyalty Oaths: An amended version of a bill that in Its original form would have required everyone claiming a tax exemption to take a loyalty oath was revealed In the lower house The new version of AB923 by Lee Backstrand (R-Riveraide) and Harold Levering (R-Los Angeles) restricts the loyalty oath requirement to organizations and exempts individuals ord favoring a one-cent gas tax Increase but they prefer to back what they call their own "insurance" bill authored by Stanford Shaw (D-Ontarlo) Other developments in the legislate Old Age Pensions: An assem My committee failed to approve a proposal by Assemblyman Augustus Hawkins (D-Los Angles) to submit to the people a institutional amendment to set 1100 a month minimum old age i ind blind pensions The committee on constitutional amendments split on the bill with two members for It and two opposed Voting in favor were Assembly- All automobile traffic entering and leaving San Luis Obispo will be halted at four locations tomorrow for a city conducted traffic survey city engineer Homer Hamlin announced today Recommended by Redwood City planning cortsultant Larry Wise in conjunction with San Luis master street plan motorists will be asked their origin and destination Roag blocks for ths survey will be set up near the northern city limits on Monterey street southern limits at the intersection of Marsh and Higuera streets western limits on Santa Rosa street and near the south-eastern city limits on Broad street Traffic will be stopped between 8 am and 6 pm A traffic count will be taken on Friday although the motorists will not be stopped Hamlin said.