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TRAFFIC DEATHS Four Die In County Accidents SANTA ANA (OCNS) — Four were killed and 28 injured in Independence Day weekend traffic on Orange County's jampacked rural roads, the Highway Patrol reported today. The quartet of deaths resulted in two separate collisions. Three drunk driving arrests were made by the patrol. Another half dozen persons were arrested on drunk-in-auto charges, a CHP representative said. Up to 6 a.m. today, a total of 284 moving traffic violations had been issued by alert patrolmen within this county's borders. That covered the period between Friday noon and 6 a.m. today. Sudden death came to Joseph Cleveland Smith, 19, of Van Nuys when his vehicle was struck by a truck as he (Smith) tried a U-turn from an outside lane, the patrol said. The accident occurred on Manchester Ave. near Orangewood at 3 a.m. Sunday. Smith's body was ordered to Brown Colonial Mortuary here by the Coroner's office. WALLA WALLA, Wash. (UP)—Thirty five "maximum security" convicts armed with knives and razor blades rioted in the Washington State Prison here today and took eight guards hostage after beating recreational director. The convicts were blocked off in the maximum security wing of the penitentiary. State police, off-duty guards and Walla Walla city policemen were ordered to the scene. Prison business manager William Connell said "The guards apparently have not been harmed." "I talked with one of them, Theodore Berezeriges, and he said the convicts wanted to present their grievances at three o'clock this afternoon," Connell said. That covered the period between Friday noon and 6 a.m. today. Sudden death came to Joseph Cleveland Smith, 19, of Van Nuys when his vehicle was struck by a truck as he (Smith) tried a U-turn from an outside lane, the patrol said. The accident occurred on Manchester Ave. near Orangewood at 3 a.m. Sunday. Smith's body was ordered to Brown Colonial Mortuary here by the Coroner's office. Hit Broadside Driver of the tractor-trailer style truck was Lacey E. Robinson, 41, of Colton. He reportedly told the patrol he was starting to pass Smith's car on the inside lane. Smith began to wheel around, according to Robinson, and he was unable to avoid broadsiding the victim. Kenneth Tenneson, 19, of Encino, riding with Smith suffered minor injuries and was taken to Santa Ana Community Hospital. Three were injured fatally in a head-on crash Friday night on Highway 101, near San Juan Capistrano. Everette E. Rollins, 35, of Bell Gardens and Mrs. Daniel Calledo of Los Angeles were killed instantly. Their bodies were taken to Divel's Mortuary, San Clemente. Sailor Robert D. Potter was seriously injured in the accident and died later, the patrol said. Four others sustained major injuries in the collision. Woman Injured Mrs. Mamie L. Vance, 60, of Long Beach, riding with her husband Fred S. Vance, 68, sustained possible major injuries when their car collided with one driven by Philip J. Donoghue, 41, 14072 S. Olive St., Westminster, at Highway 39 and Garden Grove Blvd. last night. Driver Laurence M. Garlepy, 56, of Long Beach suffered minor injuries and was ambulanced to Anaheim Community Hospital yesterday afternoon after his car tangled with one driven by Richard E. Wahl, 28, of Long Beach at Lincoln Ave. and Miller St. Motorcyclist Wilbur Raymond Stoltz, 32, 8912 Carol Dr., Anaheim, went to St. Joseph Hospital for treatment of possible major injuries shortly after noon yesterday when his machine ripped off the right side of Santa Ana Canyon Rd. near High (Continued on Page 6) Silver Bonus Pot Total Now $50 No one has taken the Silver Bonus jackpot twice, therefore, every shopper who seeks out a Silver Bonus store is in the running. Last week's total of $157 was claimed, which means the Silver Bonus jackpot this week starts again at $50. If your sales slip shows a Silver Bonus store has $5 or more and the sentative calls, the yours. But a sales slip less than $5 will still bring you half the jackpot details, see page 8 of article Bulletin. Disney Holds Preview For Studio Members Walt Disney had an open house of what opening day would be might be like yesterday. His greeted members of Disney Studio in Burbank first visit to his magic house. Minor Fire Put Out At Disneyland Site A minor fire in the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland this morning gave the Anaheim fire department an opportunity to test the speed of racing from the station to the giant amusement park. The fire, reportedly started by a welder's torch in one of the structures in Tomorrowland, was quickly extinguished by the Disneyland fire department before the Anaheim units arrived on the scene. The fire caused very minor damage, it was reported. Disney Holds Preview For Studio Members Walt Disney had an early alliance of what opening day would mean might be like yesterday. He greeted members of his studio in Burbank and first visit to his magic museum. Anaheim. Purpose of the trip was to film footage which he incorporated in the pre-production over ABC-TV Sunday, June 17. Enthusiastic guests members of the "Penthouse Club" arrived at 10 a.m. Moodley and were treated to rides on the Santa Fe and Disneyland passenger and freight trains, on the scenic drawn street car, on the "World Twain" as it sailed the River of America from its Frontierland dock, and on the various stage, wagon and buggy rides. Youngsters took full advantage of the pack mules and several such trains made their way through Frontierland's Painted Desert. The entire party was served lunch at a special tent at Disneyland. By ROBERT BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent PANMUNJOM, Korea (UK) The United Nations military mand today refused to American and other U.N. men to attend a precedent-shifting press conference with Gen. Lee Sang Cho, senior munist delegate to the Joint Military Armistice Commission. An invitation to meet with was relayed by four North Korean newsmen outside the bus where the commission was ing. They said Lee would answer questions from the U.N. new COULDN'T PULL 'EM OUT Baffled Owners of Burrowing Garden Hoses Finally Gifted By UNITED PRESS Two more hoses ran away from home today by burrowing into their owners' lawns. The baffled masters of two other sinking hoses meanwhile admitted defeat and either cut them off or dug them up. The sudden impulse of garden hoses to get away from it all has attracted nationwide attention and prompted scores of explanations. Hoses were still trying to get to China the hard way today at Downey, Calif., and Duluth, Minn. Robert Breeze of Downey reported his hose had appropriately chosen a gopher hole in which to dive. At Duluth, 15 feet of Robert A. Wombacher's house had gone underground. Nobody could pull the two hoses out. Every now and then they'd give a wriggling motion a little deeper. The most famous sinking hoses was measured for free, to roam where it needed to enter the underworld. George DiPeso of Downey cut his plastic, nose-diving hose because "sightseeing long calls have been driving us nuts." DiPeso became familiar when his hose started abruptly appearing fad. He had no idea that his hose was leaving him and its original-ly planned to dig to the bottom the mystery. But he changed his mind because the hole would ruin his lawn. "I still don't know what I'm going down like that," he said. I wish it had never happened. The earth in the Downey seemed particularly attractive hoses, since Calvin Barham's also started burrowing in near Norwalk. Barham had left the watering overnight to irrigate a and when he inspected the next morning it was five under. But Braham didn't lhose get away with it. He dug DEATHS SET NE VOL XXXII N Anaheim Bulletin EST. 1923 ty Plain Dealer ☆ ☆ Anaheim Daily-Herald FIVE CENTS ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 19 eize Guards in Washington Pris NEWS OF THE DEEP—The Anaheim Chamber of Commerce entitled 'Queens of the Deep' won the first triple 'A' presi- tive float trophy award in yesterday's Huntington Beach parade. Anaheim's entry (above), featuring Miss Heim, Marjorie Boyd, and her two princesses, Carol Haney and Lorraine Otwell, was one of 308 units in the pa- rade Rodeo riding club of Placentia took first place for mixed ed groups. Denver Richardson of Buena Park took first Shetland Pony class. Allan Cox of Anaheim took thir- in men's plain western. (Bulletin Photo) NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF OPERATING ENGINEERS VOTE ON NEW CONTRACT LOS ANGELES — Members of the AFL Operating Engi- ness and four employer associations were scheduled to vote on a new contract which, if ratified, would end a strike that has slowed or halted $100,000,000 worth of con- truction projects in 11 Southern California counties. FIVE DIE IN HEAD-ON TRAIN CRASH WAUGHN, N.M. — Two Santa Fe Railroad freight trains collided head-on with terrific force near here today killing six crew members and injuring three others. The accident occurred at about 1 a.m. MST at a switch known as Gardenas action about 21 miles east of here. COAST GUARD RESCUES MORE THAN 50 PERSONS LONG BEACH — The Coast Guard reported today that Fourth of July holiday "long" week end kept its men and equipment very busy. More than 50 persons aboard nine ships were rescued in Southern California coastal waters. The Coast Guard answered 15 calls for help in the San Pedro channel, which was cluttured with more than 1,500 vessels. PERON CALLS FOR TRUCE BUENOS AIRES — President Juan D. Peron called upon enemies for a political truce today. His call for a truce did an end to what he called "fighting psychosis" coincided reports from Vatican City that Argentina had communi- ced to the Vatican through "normal diplomatic channels" and that two expelled prelates would be permitted to return Buenos Aires. Top Russ Officials VisiU.S. Embassy in MoscBy KENNETH BRODNEY United Press Staff Corerspondent MOSCOW — Soviet "strong man" Nikita Khrushchev paid a precedent-shattering visit to the U.S. Embassy day to tell the western powers that "something will co- the Geneva Big Four conference, if the West negotiat- Russia "as an equal." Khrushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and six others of Russia's topmost lead- ers, paid their visit during the embassy's Independence Day garden party. The Soviet leader, in a lengthy, carefully prepared statement of Soviet policy, warned the West against believing that Russia would go to Geneva from weakness. In "Solid Position" "The Soviet Union," he said, "has never been in a more solid position." His lengthy remarks, addressed to U.S. charge D'Affaires Walter N. Walmsley, were obviously directed to the governments of the United States, Britain and France. Khrushchev told Walmsley frankly that what he had to say was Possible Rabid DoSought in Anahein A possible rabid dog sought today in connect- a bite received by a 1 boy, Charles Wagner, f more street, yesterday 9:30 p.m. According to Mrs. Wa- dog was a small terrier imal with brown spice white coat. The boy cl- had never seen the dog and the Wagners cla animal had no collar. Apparently fright- fireworks, the small Our Newsmen From Meet With Top Delegate of Armistice Group BY ROBERT BROWN Head Press Staff Correspondent UNMUNJOM, Korea (UP) — United Nations military command today refused to allow American and other U.N. news to attend a precedent-shatter-press conference with Lt. Lee Sang Cho, senior delegate to the Jont Milli-Armistice Commission. Invitation to meet with Lee relayed by four North Korean men outside the building of the commission was met. Lee said Lee would answer questions from the U.N. newsmen after the commission meeting. Communist correspondents also asked permission to attend the U.N. press briefing after the commission meeting, but not as a condition for the Lee press conference. But U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks, senior U.N. delegate, put his foot down. "I do not consider it appropriate that representatives of the enemy enter my camp for a news conference and conversely I do not approve of accredited correspondents entering their camp for similar purposes." Pay Increase Approved For City Employes City Council met briefly Friday to approve several proposals, one of which will increase city employers' pay an average of about five per cent. City Administrator, Keith Murdoch, said this morning that Anaheim has been steadily falling behind, salary and wage-wise, but the approved raise in pay for city employees will bring Anaheim back into line with other Orange County cities. Basis for the general raise was founded on a range provided in a recent survey made by the county; Also, as directed by the survey, several key positions in city government will enjoy a 10 per cent increase. Council also approved a motion to allow three weeks vacation to city employees with 10 years or more seniority. Weather Mostly sunny today and Wednesday but some late night and early morning low clouds. Slightly warmer afternoons. High today Plumbers Call Strike In Orange County SANTA ANA (OCNS) 300 members of the land and Steamfitters Union hind closed doors in SANTA ANA today as a county-wide membership went first full day. Two OCNS were refused admissions at the American Hall. The strike began when than 50 firms belonged Plumbing, Heating and Employers Council work as the result of their union locals' strike range County and then nando Valley. According to Jeanney, labor is sufficient for the plumbing tory, more than 200 plants go the walkout Friday termed the council's strike against one strike against all." Angry voices could shouting inside the L.A. as the membership gave a morning session. NEW MARK VOL XXXII NO. 277 etin Daily-Herald TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1955 Fear Final Holiday Tally May Top 400 Killed By UNITED PRESS The nation "celebrated" Independence Day by setting a new record for traffic deaths during a three-day Fourth of July weekend. Motorists ignored the pleas of safety officials and broke the record of 356 deaths set in 1952. The National Safety Council feared the final count might pass 400. A United Press survey since 6 p.m. Friday until midnight last night showed 379 persons had been killed in traffic accidents. A vast heat wave sent drownings zooming to 224. Fireworks killed only one, but 13 died in plane crashes and 126 miscellaneous accidents for a total of 743. California had the worst record with 42 traffic deaths. Michigan had 21, Pennsylvania 18, and Iowa, where a single smashup killed eight persons. Only North Dakota, Vermont and the District of Columbia had deathless traffic records. One American died on the highways every 15 minutes during the weekend slaughter. An estimated 40 million cars clogged the roads, causing one of the biggest traffic pileups in the nation's Most Americans Sweltered Most Americans sweltered through the glorious fourth, baked by the summer's first big heat wave. Temperatures went close to the 100s in the eastern half and were well into the 90s in vast areas. Anaheim Celebrates Quiet Fourth of July Anaheim celebrated one of the quietest Fourth of July's in its history with no reports of injuries due to fireworks. Most serious of reports to the police came from Richard Callahan, 510 South Indiana, at 10:21 p.m. yesterday when he called in that someone had blown up his mail box, a slot-type receptacle near the front door. The explosive "Cherry Bomb" had ripped plaster off the wall, both inside and out more than a foot radius from the box opening, he told police. County to Resume Pelio Incubation Of 308 units in the parade. Elook first place for mixed mount-of Buena Park took first in the of Anaheim took third place (Photo) Officials Visit Day in Moscow RODNEY Correrspondent g man" Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S. Embassy yesterthat "something will come" of if the West negotiates with Possible Rabid Dog Sought in Anaheim A possible rabid dog is being sought today in connection with a bite received by a 10-year-old boy, Charles Wagner, 9942 Kenmore street, yesterday at about 9:30 p.m. According to Mrs. Wagner the dog was a small terrier-type animal with brown spots on a white coat. The boy claimed he had never seen the dog before, and the Wagners claimed the animal had no collar. Apparently frightened by fireworks, the small dog had traffic records. One American died on the highways every 15 minutes during the weekend slaughter. An estimated 40 million cars clogged the roads, causing one of the biggest traffic pileups in the nation's Most Americans Sweltered Most Americans sweltered through the glorious fourth, baked by the summer's first big heat wave. Temperatures went close to the 100s in the eastern half and were well into the 90s in vast areas of the West. The heat and the holiday resulted in record millions at New York city beaches, at least one heat prostration death in Michigan, and frayed nerves on the highways. At Pittsfield, Mass., 37 persons suffered heat exhaustion during a two-hour parade. A Detroit man sprinkled passersby as well as his lawn, but police let him continue saying his actions were "more thoughtful than malicious." The holiday's greatest tragedies stemmed from an Iowa crash which virtually wiped out two families and a broken bridge at the Cherokee, N.C., Indian Reservation. Two Families In Collision Near Iowa City Sunday night, the Max Williams family was on a holiday trip from Moline, Ill., and the Clarence Weichmann family was returning to Homestead, Iowa from a picnic. Their cars crashed and eight persons died — Mrs. Weichmann and her three small daughters, the Williams couple and their daughter, and a friend of the Williams family. Also on Sunday, 100 tourists pushed past guards on to a foot bridge over a shallow, rock-lined river. The bridge collapsed, sending two persons to their deaths and injuring 20. Despite the highway carnage, the nation could at least take credit for the fact that fireworks—once the major killer on July 4th—had killed only one person. The sole victim was a 6-year-old Seattle, Wash., boy who tossed a firecracker into a large kerosene can. California, as usual, today held (Continued on Page 6) Traffic Signals Okayed For Euclid Crossings At a special meeting Friday, City Council approved the installa- County to Resume Polio Inoculation Program July 18 SANTA ANA (OCNS) — Orange County's anti-polio inoculation program will be reactivated July 18 and completed July 22, Dr. E.L. Russell, health officer, announced today. Dr. Russell emphasized that the series of clinics will be for those who have received their first shots, but not their second dose of the Salk anti-polio vaccine. The doctor said 7366 first and second graders have yet to be vaccinated the second time. The program was curtalled because of lack of material. Enough vaccine now has been assured to inoculate those students who have received their first injection. No first shots will be given, it was pointed out. Clinics will be operated in selected school from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. one date only. No make-up clinics will be held. If the child misses the clinic in his region, he cannot make it up at another school. Dr. Russell said 15 general area clinics have been set up. The schedule: July 18—Brea clinic, to serve Brea, La Habra, Placentia, Yorba Linda and Olinda areas; Buena Park clinic, for Buena Park; Fullerton clinic, for Fullerton. July 19—Anaheim Clinic, for Anaheim and Katella areas; Alamitos clinic, for Alamitos, Savanna, Cypress, Centralla and Los Alamitos areas. July 20—Garden Grove clinic, for Garden Grove; Orange clinic, for Orange area. July 21—Magnolia School clinic, for Magnolia No. 1 and No. 2 districts. Ex-Eldred Employe According to Mrs. Wagner the dog was a small terrier-type animal with brown spots on a white coat. The boy claimed he had never seen the dog before, and the Wagners claimed the animal had no collar. Apparently frightened by fireworks, the small dog had run into the Wagner house, and was being enclosed out the kitchen door when it jumped and bit young Charles just below the eye, then disappeared in the dark. If the dog is not found within a period of two weeks the Wagner boy will be subjected to the Pasteur Rabies Preventative Treatment. Plumbers Call Strike In Orange County SANTA ANA (OCNS)—Some 300 members of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union met behind closed doors in Santa Ana today as a county-wide strike of the membership went into its first full day. Two OCNS reporters were refused admission by guards at the American Legion Hall. The strike began when more than 50 firms belonging to the Plumbing, Heating and Piping Employers Council terminated work as the result of the Plumbers Union locals' strike in Orange County and the San Fernando Valley. According to Milton Jeanney, labor relations consultant for the plumbing industry, more than 200 plumbers began the walkout Friday. Jeanney termed the council's view as "a strike against one firm is a strike against all." Angry voices could be heard shouting inside the Legion Hall as the membership gathered for a morning session. Traffic Signals Okayed For Euclid Crossings At a special meeting Friday, City Council approved the installation of electric traffic signals at the intersections of Manchester and Euclid and Ball Road and Euclid, to be installed and in operation by July 12. The firm from which the construction bid was accepted, (about $5,100 for the Manchester-Euclid and $5,300 for Ball-Euclid signals), was the Electric and Machinery Service Company of South Gate. Ex-Eldred Employee On Witness Stand SANTA ANA (OCNS)—Arthur F. Munaper, former Eldred Co. employee, faced defense cross-examination today as the conspiracy-to-obstruct-justice trial of Herman Pause, Takeo Takekoshi and Arthur Gordon Eldred plodded into its seventh week in Superior Court here. Searchers Find Girl Mother Claims Was Kidnaped by Grizzly Bear LIBBY; Mont. (UP)—The mother of 2-year-old Ida Mae Curtis insisted today that a bear kidnapped the little girl, found unharmed near a lumber camp in the wild Kootenai National Forest by a search party. The searchers found Ida Mae Monday in a small hole only 300 yards from the camp where Mrs. Curtis said the bear — possibly a grizzly — grabbed the baby Saturday night. The child was taken to Libby Hospital. A physician said she suffered only minor cuts and bruises after her 21-hour exposure in wilds of northwest Montana. "Thank God, thank God," Mrs. Curtis sobbed when she learned her daughter was found. "I can't believe it." Her father said he had given up hope of ever seeing the little girl alive again. Some of the 350 men who took part in the nightlong search for Ida Mae expressed skepticism that she really had been carried off by a bear. One of these was Lincoln County Sheriff Ray Frost, who said a bear might have frightened the child and caused her to run away. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were staying at the lumber camp with their eight children. Curtis, 40, is a woodworker. On Saturday night, two of the older children said they saw a bear enter the family tent. They ran down the road to tell their mother. Their father was working in the woods a short distance away. Mrs. Curtis said she returned in time to see a huge bear, holding the child in its front paw, run on three legs into the thicket. She said she didn't have the slightest idea of what a bear really looked like, but the description she gave tallied with that of a grizzly.