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HT TULARE The Weather For A-R's Food Page ADVANCE REGISTER Friday 70-78. Low tonight 46-53. Tulare temHungry? Today's the Day Fair today and tonight. Increasing high cloudiness and cooler Friday, High today 78-88, peratures: Thursday-50 low, 82 high to 1 (Turn to Page 9, Please) p.m.; final high Wednesday 81. AND TULARE TIMES Volume 70, Number 82 TULARE, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1952 5 Cents Per Copy Party Line By Tom Hennion We valleyites are downright lucky people in springtime.

The best scenery in the world is ours for the looking. There's a lot of Sunday driving to be done these days. Take off in one direction and you'll climb up into the mountains where you can frolic in the snow. Take off in another and you'll see a gorgeous display of wildflowers. Not to forget the third direction, to the west, where Tulare lake is filling up again and drawing a record throng of motorists week after week.

In the wildflower department, you'll find them at their height right now on the Tulare Indian reservation east of Porterville. If you're wandering around down Kern county way, you'll find oodles of 'em in the Arvin and Edison districts. Are you a souvenir hunter? Me too. Somehow it's darned near impossible to resist those handsome imprinted ashtrays that decorate the rooms of most hotels. Now along comes a man to tell just how much that sort of stuff costs hotels because of guys, like name you is and Robert me.

Christenberry and he runs the Astor hotel in New York City. Last year's inventory disclosed that some 4,112 bath towels, 7,570 face towels, 12,613 napkins and 19,292 silver teaspoons went the way of vanishing cream. That sort of thing, however, does not irk the hotel keeper, Christenberry insists. He contends that these imprinted souvenirs are picked up by the cash customers and toted off to their homes "in a spirit of remembrance" and is good advertising for the hosterly to a point, that is. Christenberry's real complaint is against the jerk who decides to walk away with everything else but the hotel.

Like the three men in overalls who showed up in the Astor lobby one day not long ago, told the bellhop they were from "rug service" and tried to take the huge carpet to a waiting truck on the pretext of having i it cleaned. They might have gotten away with it, too, except that it was the third time within a year that men from "rug service" had tried the same stunt. But don't get the idea that it's only the "let's take a souvenir home" folks and the outright crooks who cause the hotels headaches. Take New York's City's mammoth 1,200 room Henry Hudson hotel, for example. Two hundred Boy Scouts checked into that hotel.

They didn't swipe any ashtrays or towels or even teaspoons. Not on your Scout oath. On the other hand, being the good little guys that they are, they decided to perform their good deed for the day by making up their own beds and sparing the chambermaids the trouble. Good idea, too, except they made them all up wrong and so tight that only an eel could have slipped in. The maids worked hours overtime that day, unfolding beds and remaking them.

Mill Creek Channel Clearing Job Planned The prospects of a heavy spring runoff this year have caused county authorities to make plans for clearing Mill creek channel west of Visalia. The project, which is expected to operative cost effort $10,000, on will the be part a co: the city of Visalia, Tulare county, water conservation district and possibly the St. Johns levee district. Man Says Innocent SAN FRANCISCO. (AP) Ro- man Rodriguez pleaded innocent today to a charge that he murdered a 17-year-old girl in Mission park Sunday night.

These Registered MRS. LERA SOUZA, out gardening. PAULA LONGACRE, buying 200 blue postage stamps especially to match wedding invitations. AL HOLLAND, humbly accepting congratulations on his reelection to the memorial district board of directors. Assembly Defeats Highway County Employes Given Raises in Wages on May 1 A majority of Tulare county employes will receive 5.6 percent salary increases Mav: 1, but must give up all private employment in which they may now be engaged, the county supervisors announced yesterday afternoon.

The pay increases will cost 1 1, the date most of the county, $20,000 between May the raises would have become effective without board action. The board in detailing amendments county salary ordinance which will be approved at the regular board meeting next Tuesday, said they provide: 1. Reclassification or step increases for most employes. 2. No raises for those few employes now drawing maximum salaries, who were not reclassified to a higher pay range.

3. Similar pay raises for all elective officials with the exception of the district attorney, superior court judges, auditor, superintendent of schools and supervisors, whose salaries are set by state law. 4. Fees now allowed to be retained by county employes will be paid into the county treasury in the future, with the exception of constables, who will be allowed to keep fees paid them for serving civil papers, and justices (See WAGES, Page 8) Readers Continue To Make Their Wishes Known "I wish you'd discontinue "I'd like to see you add These phrases, with a variety of features and departments mentioned, continued to roll into The Advance-Register office today. Our readers are responding splendidly to our request last Friday that they let us know, on a survey sheet enclosed with Friday's paper, what they like and dislike about The AdvanceRegister.

It's your chnace to have your say on what's to be in your daily newspaper. If you haven't returned your survey blank yet, please do it today. Plane Lands In Flames HUGOTON, Kas. (AP) Two pilots guided a flaming airliner with 49 persons aboard to a pergu fect landing in a wheat field yesterday, then brushed off the feat as an ordinary job. The Braniff Airlines DC-4 came down with one of its four engines gone and a wing in flames.

Only one passenger was injured. Chief Pilot Jack Stanford commented tersely: "The only sensible thing to do was land." Minutes after the 45 passengers and four crew members scurried out, flames consumed virtually the entire plane. Marshia Loar Wins Top Speech Honors Marshia Loar, Tulare high school pupil and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.

D. (Del) Loar, Tulare, last night won the annual speech contest of the Tipton Lions club. Tuesday she will compete with other club winners in a district meet at Alpaugh. Miss Loar was accompanied to Tipton by George Pappas, speech coach at Tulare high, and Rosemary Lynch, who also competed. E.

Carston Keefe was chairman of the Tipton contest. Searchers Fear Woman May Have Had a Fall OJAI. (AP). Searchers believe Mrs. Simonne Manson, missing in the upper Ojai valley since Sunday, may have slipped over the edge of a bluff.

Mrs. Manson, 45-year-old grammar school teacher, hiked alone into the rugged Topa Topa range. Sheriff's deputies said the remains of her lunch, and its paper wrapping, were found not far from the top of Topa Topa bluff. Nearby were signs of recent snow and rock slides. Warren Bidding For Eisenhower Support Tuesday MILWAUKEE.

(AP) Gov. Earl Warren of California said today Eisenhower supporters "can best serve their own integrity" by voting for Warren in Tuesday's Republican presidential primary. The California governor, whose 30 delegate candidates already have served they de will support Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower if Warren drops out of the race, thus joined former Gov.

Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota in bidding for Eisenhower backing in a race general's name is not entered. Warren was asked from the audience after a campaign speech at Beloit whether a voter who wants to see Eisenhower get the party's nomination should support him or Stassen, as opposed to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

"My immodesty makes me say that any Wisconsin voter can best serve his own integrity by voting for me," Warren replied. His reply was interpreted as applying specifically to Eisenhower supporters as well as others because of the form of the question. Earlier, however, Warren had made it clear he expects delegates elected for him to support him at the convention. He has saild if he can't make the grade for the nomination he will release them without strings. The untested Eisenhower strength in the state apparently also may result in a surge of Democratic crossovers into the Republican primary.

Politicians here now figure Warren, who resumed touring the state today after a speech at Janesville last night, will be the chief beneficiary of any Dem- ocratic over and may outStassen among Republicans with Eisenhower leanings. Ho rever, Warren told a news conference at Janesville he is not willing to share with Eisenhower any delegates elected in his name. The California governor indicated this attitude holds at least through the first vote at the convention in Chicago, although he did not foreclose a change of mind after that ballot if his chances of getting the nomination then do not appear to be good. "I would expect any delegate pledged to me to go to vention and on the roll call to vote for me," Warren said. Earlier, Carl B.

Rix, head of the Warren slate of delegates, told a crowd at Janesville that he and his colleagues "make no pretense of the fact that our alternate choice in the convention is Gen. Eisenhower." "The people of Wisconsin for the first time have a chance to express at the polls an alternate choice," he said. Rix added, however, that the delegates "certainly will not ask for any release before we are elected." This was interpreted as a jab at Stassen's action in promising to release half of any delegates elected in his name, even before he knows whether any will be chosen in next Tuesday's vote. Warren declined to say whether he believes his views on eign policy parallel those of Eisenhower. He said he is running strictly on his own, without reference to any other candidate, adding: "I'm not going.

to run on somebody's else's name. I've never done that in my life." Any benefit Warren receives from a Democratic cross-over could make him the closest con(See WARREN, Page 6) Senate Hopes to Cut Increased Budget Bill SACRAMENTO. (AP) A ing in California through sale assembly today, 36 to 32. The bill, by Assemblyman San Francisco), proposed to San Joaquin May Not Need Water From Sacramento CHICO. (AP) California has had so much rain it may not be necessary for the Central Valley project to transfer much Sacramento river water to the San Joaquin valley this year, says Marshall Jones, district manager the U.

S. recla lamation bureau. Jones said the Shasta dam now is impounding 3,770,074 acre feet. Its capacity is 000. Farmers Blamed For Flood Harm Much of the flood damage anticipated by Tulare county's lowland farmers will be their own fault, according to T.

Wayne Switzer. Tulare county surveyor and road commissioner. In a letter to the board of supervisors yesterday Switzer declared he feels the landowners are responsible for their plight and that the county should give only emergency aid where necessary to protect county property from the expected flood waters. Natural drainage channels in the county have been filled, realigned or restricted to the extent that the channels will no longer handle the drainage in their particular areas," Switzer said. "Many channels have been filled in and obliterated for great distances (in some cases several miles).

When a runoff does occur the flood waters cause considerable damage to property and roads at new locations which never flooded before. "In many cases the drainage structures are high and dry. That creates a never ending problem in maintaining county (See FLOOD, Page 6) High of 81 Here Yesterday Top 1952 Reading The sun continued its onslaught on Tulare yesterday as summer breezes fanned the temperature to 81, the hottest day of 1952 so far. Yesterday was the warmest day since Nov. 7, 1951, when the mercury skipped to an 82 reading.

It was the hottest March 26 since 1947, when the temperature climbed to 89, the all-time high for that date. Jess B. Bartlett, 82, Dies Here This Morning Jess B. Bartlett, 82, resident of Tulare for years, died this morning at his home, 1255 E. Kern street.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Bartlett came to California in 1910, settling in Tulare in 1919. He was a retired farmer. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. May Bartlett. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m.

tomorrow at Goble chapel, the Rev. J. A. Phillips, minister of the Church of God in Holiness, presiding. Interment will be in Tulare cemetery.

Nation's Oldest Triplets? Women 84 Years Old Today MARLBORO, Mass. (AP) Three possibly the country's oldest triplets are observing their 84th birthday today. The former Faith, Hope and Charity Coughlin are identical triplets. They looked so much alike when they started school in their native North Brookfield their mother put them into dif- plan to expedite highway buildof bonds was defeated by the Richard J. Dolwig (R-South allow counties to commit state highway funds for the next 10 years for immediate projects.

Bond money would finance the work and gas tax revenue would repay it. Dolwig argued "why wait?" to. take care of critical highway deficiencies on a year, to year. basis. For instance, he said under present conditions "bloody bayshore" highway from San Jose won't be completed for another eight years.

But traffic conditions, he said, demand eight-laning the road right away. Assemblyman Bernard Brady (D-San Francisco) objected: "I don't care how much a road is needed, it's too much power to give the boards of supervisors." CAMP FIRE GIRLS TO TRAVEL -Five Tulare Camp Fire Girls, members of the Blue Horizon club, will leave tomorrow for Asilmar, Pacific Grove, for a three day meeting of Horizon groups, organization for senior girls. Left to right, seated, are Donna Beck, Joyce Ann Baumgarten and Gail Frymire. Standing are Jo Anne Henderson, Peggy Null and Leaders Guy Stiles and Mrs. Ethel Brazil.

(Advance-Register photo.) GOP Planning For Nebraska By The Associated Press Republicans, waging a stiff presidential nomination battle in Wisconsin, today stepped up their efforts to make Nebraska also a prime popularity testing ground. Both states hold primaries Tuesday to choose GOP and Democratic convention delegates. Backers of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio drummed up a write-in campaign in Nebraska they hope can offset his losses in New Hampshire and Minnesota.

And supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower tried to match the Taft drive. Two weeks ago the Nebraska primary appeared of little national 1 significance in the Republican picture, with only Harold Stassen and Mrs. Mary Kenny, Lincoln housewife and backer of Gen.

Douglas MacArthur, entered. Taft's forces called in retired Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, a native Nebraskan, to give their campaign a shot in the arm.

Wedemeyer told newsmen he considered Taft "the best qualified avowed candidate for the presidency considering the conditions faced by our country today." He said Eisenhower is "an avowed candidate," but not MacArthur. In the Democratic race Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee returned from Wisconsin to resume his Nebraska campaigning. Sen. Robert S.

Kerr of Oklahoma, his April 1, opponent, told newsmen in Lincoln last night he thought "we are gaining on Kefauver." Sen. Fefauver said in effect that President Truman should not try to hand-pick his successor in the White House. Kefauver made his comment after reading reports that Truman has asked Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to become the administration candidate for president. The Chicago Daily Sun-Times, copyright dispatch from Washington, said Gov.

Adlai Stevenson of Illinois has "firmly declined President Truman's invitation to seek the Democratic presidential nomination." Elliott Not To Run For Congress Alfred J. Elliott, former congressman from Tulare, Kings and Kern counties district, announced today he definitely will not candidate for congress in the June 3 primary election. Elliott said he had reached erationision after requests lengthy by friends considthat he seek to regain the office he vacated in 1948. Meantime, it was reported that Rep. Thomas Werdel, Bakersfield Republican who has held the post since Elliott's retirement, would file his nomination papers late this afternoon in Bakersfield.

Two Democrats already have announced their intentions of opposing Werdel. They are State Assemblyman Harlen Hagen of Hanford and Roy L. Riales, acting postmaster of Tulare. Temperatures Remain High Temperatures in the Sierra barely reached the freezing mark last night, further speeding the runoff of the record snowpack, park and forest rangers said. However, river and creek levels remained far below flood stage today, although snow levels are droppnig as much as six inches each 24 hours.

Warm sun and clear skies are predicted for the mountains today and tomorrow, with temperatures expected to reach 60 degrees in the covered areas. Snow levels at forest are now down to 123 inches from their peak of 150 inches March 16. At Grant grove snow on the ground measures 134 inches, 30 inches below its peak measured on the same date. The Kaweah and Tule rivers were reported becoming muddy as the runoff increased, but no immediate flood danger was predicted. Planning Commission Considers Tulare Zones Tulare county's planning commission placed on its work agenda yesterday a request that it study the possibility of establishing industrial zones around the city of Tulare.

The request was in a letter lo the commission from the Tulare chamber of commerce. Pixley Infant Dies From Suffocation in His Bed Eight-months-old Timothy Dil-, lon suffocated in his bed at an auto court south of Pixley yesterday afternoon. His mother, Mrs. Edward Dillon, said he had been taking his nap and had been in bed only a short time when she found him rolled up in the bedclothes, with his head hanging over the edge of the bed. Tulare fire department's in- Tulare Fashions Parade Tonight Tulare merchants bureau's annual spring fashion show will be presented to patrons at the Tulare theater this evening, immediately after the first feature picture.

Sports, casual and informal dress and evening clothes for men, women and children will be shown by local clothing stores. Setting for the show is a Paris street, with four scenes providing atmosphere for as many periods of the day. "Easter Parade" is the set for dressy daytime apparel. "Eve. ning in Paris" bring cocktail dresses, formals and dinner jackets.

A bride ushers in "Day Dream," with its filmy negligees, hand knit dresses and other costumes out of the ordinary. The show is climaxed with "Afternoon in the Park," setting for play clothes, western togs and washable frocks of new and interesting materials. Mrs. Jean Lanning is commentator. Stage properties and decorations are being handled by Vern Kirschler.

George Brink, president of the merchants bureau, is general chairman. Local Yo-Yo Champ Will Compete in State Tourney Monte McFadden, 12, is in for a big weekend in Los Angeles. He and Al Harper, recreation will leave tomorrow Los Anchief at Cherry Avenue, school, geles, where McFadden will in the state yo-yo championships. He was winner of the Tulare city title in a contest sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce. March 8 he competed in a district meet at San Jose.

Harper and McFadden will headquarter at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Saturday they will have two bus tours and lunch Griffith park, where the tournament will be held. The boys will also be guests of Doy O'Dell on a KTLA-TV program at 5:30 p. m. Frontage Road Program Draws No Protests No one appeared before the county planning commission to protest the official plan for development of a frontage road along the east side of highway 99 between Kern and Barbara streets.

The plan calls for a building line setback and an alley to serve the buildings fronting on the access road to the section of the new highway now being completed. The commission's recom mendations will now go to the board of supervisors for final approval. School Money Studied SACRAMENTO. (P) Legislators gave close study today to proposed terms for spending an additional $22,000,000 in state support of public schools. "This bill has been hurried too fast," said Assemblyman Julian Beck (D-San Fernando).

"Let's wait until next year. It was only introduced last Friday and no adequate committee hearing has been held." The assembly gave unanimous passage to a bill to exempt sale of bibles from the 3 percent state sales tax. The measure now joins other house-approved tax reduction measures in the senate. A demand to halt "this wild spending spree" came from the senate in the legislature's 000,000 deadlock over the biggest state budget ever proposed in California. Sen.

Ben Hulse (R-El Centro), calling for a cutback in appropriations voted by the assembly, indicated his senate finance committee will move to scrap the lower house's puffed up version of the budget for its own. The assembly, late yesterday passed the senate, 48 to 19, a bill carrying $1,235,650,000 to pay the state's way for the year beginning July 1. This is $50,000,000 more than asked by Gov. Earl Warren. The Hulse committee cut the governor's original budget by $15,000,000.

Its bill, as sent to the senate floor, seeks a total of $1,170,957,224. Thus the two houses are 65 million apart. Leaders of both houses recognized they'll have to hurry steps to negotiate a truce in the money tangle. The budget seasion ends by law at midnight Tuesday. Castroville Motorist Fined in Local Court Pleading guilty to drunk driving charges, Juan O.

Quintana, 42, Castroville, was given six months' suspended sentence and fined $250 by Judge Ward G. Rush in court here today. Quintana was arrested at -1 a.m. today in the 200 block of No. street when police noticed.

his car driving on the wrong side of the street. Judge Rush bound over to superior court James Joseph Atkinson, 53, route 4, box 375, on charges of drunk driving with a prior conviction on the same charge. Atkinson was arrested Feb. 27. He will appear in superior court Friday, April 4.

Preliminary hearing for Robert E. Malin, route 4, box 345, on a bad check charge, was continued to April 9. County Sheriffs Bag Over 185 Wetbacks Tulare county's deputy sheriffs ran their bag of Mexican nationals beyond the 185 mark during the past week with the arrest of 20 wetbacks near Woodlake last night. The officers are seeking Dane Martinez, 25, Salinas, wanted for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting of Jesus A. Hernandez, 36, Sacramento, in a Cutler cafe March 19.

halator worked on the baby for over an hour before giving up. The body is at the Leewer Funeral home here. The child, born last July 1 at Weed, is survived by his parents, two brothers, Donnie Dillon and Edward Dillon, a sister, Gwendolyn Dillon, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Keller, Weed.

ferent dresses to give the teach. ers a break. When they wear identical dresses nowadays, even old neighbors get confused. But they only put them on for special occasions. All widows, the three live together here now, although they never were too far apart to visit each other- frequently during their married lives.

The Bright Spot BALTIMORE. (AP) Some people have been saying it's about time the city replaced. its old street lamps. Yesterday James Metzger, 12, was leaning against one when it snapped off. It pinned him underneath an passersby had to rescue him..