Corona Daily Independent (Newspaper) - July 8, 1952, Corona, California 1234 before 6:15 paper is not Daily Independent maintains a man with a car who knows all delivery routes in If you don't get your Independent please telephone by 6:15 p.m. and it will be delivered at 6:30 2S We Believe Opposing Anxious to Correct high tains and and and morning fog or low coast but A little in most of and mediate valleys in High 90; low 6t 90. JULY 8, 1952. Council Decides ' to Participate in Cost of Survey for the city councilmen last night expressed their faith in. owned water source and distribution system by voting to have no connection with the Study Board of Riverside and San Bernardino The council decided against contributing toward the cost of a water survey ordered by the board determine the need for joining the Metropolitan District and instructed the council's representative on the A. K. to resign his This action was taken after * reading a report and recommendation submitted by Joy Jampson of the Water Company Mr. the given the council and results of inspection of the existing water said that the community has adequate water for the present and the forseeable that the quality of water is superior to that of any other presently known that importing water would mean lowering of He advised this city's participation in the water plans of the Upper Santa Ana River Karl Erickson said that there was not use in going to the expense of contributing toward water survey report in view of the and information received from the local water Councilman Ben Sampselle commenting that the cost to to in plans and join the MWD would be He said that it is his understanding that MWD is not too good for its city manager was instructed to inform the water study board that Corona np further connection with the water study who was representative on the said he is convinced that are very Youth's Body Cut in Two By Freight JENKINS WEDS JIM HODGSON of the immediate family witnessed the wedding last Sunday morning of Miss Wanda Jenkins and Jim Hodgson in Ariz. Parents of the young Mr. and Mrs. Chester Jenkins of Canyon and Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hodgson Mira accompanied them and served as Wanda's Mary was also in the wedding bride wore a navy blue suit with white accessories and was given in marriage by her and Jim were members of the 1952 graduating class of Corona high will make their home in where Mr. Hodgson is May Ask For Bids For Trash H. 21, of 403 Blaine was killed instantly last evening when struck by freight train near the Cota street Santa Fe Engineer Gene Patton of San Bernardino told he saw the youth lying the tracks and made an emergency stop but was unable to Tlie body was cut in The youth leaves his p a r e n t s and Mrs. Raymundo Avila four brothers and four He was born in this community January 16,1931 j and attended said the youth apparently good spirits he left home a few hours before the tragedy that occurred about 7:56 p.m. An inquest is to be according to Deputy Coroner Arvid M. The body was taken to the will be lield Wednesday at 8: p.m. at the chapel and requiem mass Thursday at 9 a.m. at Catholic Church with Roberto Interment be at Avila leaves besides his four Jess and four Concha A Carmen and Lupe Avila all of Corona and Margarita Gonzaes of San Aso surviving is the paternal Maria of AS GIFT PLEASED COURT Bemice justice court was proudly displaying an unusual birthday present The a huge frog was given her by fellow workers at caty Far from being dismayed by the highly unconventional Miss Fink was planning to make the frog feel at home in her f fish Just where and how the croaker was captured a the near future the city may ask for bids on garbage collection City Councilman Ben Sampselle suggested this change in policy while approving the renewal of the agreement with C. G. Stewart who collects garbage The contract with Mr. is subject to cancellation on 30 notice by either city pays a month and he provides his own truck and gets whatever hie can from sale of the Mr. Sampselle said that there was no dissatisfaction with present service the city is he said that he felt the city should explore the possibility of asking for bids for garbage He said that the city manager might let it be that the city might be receptive to bids and watch for Manager Mount said that he doubted strongly that any other contractors could beat the present iif trash collection were contracted out by He said that the city is over backward to satisfy the in trash collection service and that the ordinance is not being observed very agreement with Mr. Stewart was renewed with unanimous At the same time the attitude of the council in general toward the suggestion that in the future bids for collection and perhaps Has Only Sky Watch Post In Corona Volunteers Needed Should Be from is little Corona can do now to aid the Defense Office in its operation it was revealed at the city council meeting last The nearest ground observation post in this area is in It takes about 50 volunteers to keep one post going and they must be recruited in the Im mediate points were brought out following ihe reading of a letter from Thomas K. secretary of the Air asking in activating ground observation to meet the threat of possible attack from the posts are laid out in a grid pattern and the one nearest to Corona is Corona can help most by with the observation post Mrs. Helene Who is at present trying to recruit City Manager William Mount is an awful job and a difficult one to volunteers now .It wasn't easy in war Councilman Sampselle said he is in favor of in the but that many volunteers are needed to keep two people at such posts around the Manager Mount who is head of the civilian defense within the said that the reserves organization designed as a civil defense measure is Well underway and that organization of a reserve corps of firemen is to start communication from the Air Force at Hamilton Base acquainting the council with the reservists survey that got underway July 7, was All Air Force reservists are to be interviewed to determine tiie man-power potential and bring records up to MAIRY engagement of Mary Sadler to Fisher was announced at a dinner given recently by Mr. and Mrs. W. B. parents of the is a native of She was graduated with high scholastic honors with the class of 1952 at Corona High prospective son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Fisher of of was a graduate with the Corona class of 1949. He is now a member of the faculty of the West Coast Bible School in wedding date is set for August 1, at Church of 1112 S. Main by Gene DIVISION EXECUTIVES 0O6H0LIDAYS,$ALESDAYS for Tait Slip as Ike Pioneer in Died in be was It was agreed that the council should be to reject all bids if it desired and that contracts should contain a for DESTROYS HOUSE ON RESERVOIR DRIVE IN unoccupied house owned by Charles Garwood at 2130 Reservoir drive in Norco burned to the ground about 9 o'clock last The which apparently was started from is to have smoldered for an hour or more before it broke out and was noticed and the State was firemen said the valued at was all afire and the roof fell in when they Tho owner was living in a trailer house on the front of the lot and was redecorating the The fire was thought to have started by of paint rags and paint left in the State crews put out a fire in a stubble field at 4606- California About a of an acre four presidential D. Roosevelt roiled 1,876 electoral votes against a combined total of 248 for his Joy member of a pioneered de velopment of Corona in 1888, died June 28 in Pasadena at the age of 81. His death from a heart attack followed a brief Ho was buried in the family plot in Cemetery in Hudson family was one of the three families who bought the land and water company and laid out the town of then known as South Joy a cousin of Joy Jameson of moved with his family to Pasadena in 1924 and retired in 1937 from the Santa Fe Railway company after a service of 40 He was a native of St. born Dec. 28, 1870. Railroad Career The late Pasadenan had a nursery in Corona in the early 1890's and grew from seed 40,000 navel orange trees which was a beginning of this important branch of the citrus Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were married 6n Nov. 10, 1893, in Corona and eight years ago celebrated their golden wedding at their 1896 he went with the Santa Fe and was sent to and later to N. where he had many colorful experiences as a railroad agent in these pioneer railroad towns which were in Indian he was a Santa Fe trainmaster at San Francisco and transportation inspector jn Southern California until his include the Mrs. Nellie E. two William Lester Hudson and Nathaniel Delos both of a Mrs. Glenn R. Furbush of Los Angeles and six Conducting the funeral service was Rev. George minister of First Baptist of which Mr. Hudson had been a faithful member since 1924. new executive committee of the retail division of the Corona Chamber of Commerce met this morning in the Chamber of Commerce office with E. E. committee composed of Leo N. M. Ben R. J. Morris Hemphill and including retail mambers Harold Bob Snedecor and Chamber President W. L. Bennington and B. A. approved six official legal holidays for the coming fiscal year for store Labor New Year's Decoration Day and the Fourth of Wilson was appointed as this chairman of the decorations Hammond requested that monthly noon meetings of the retail division bo abolished due to the fact that so many retailers cannot do so because of After consideration committee it decided to nold regular monthly meetings of the executive committee on second Tuesday of each month at 8 a.m. at the Chamber of Commerce This meeting open to every member of the Retail division who desires to addition to the monthly morning at least general assembly meetings will be held during the year featuring outstanding in the fields of advertising and store To allow store employees to evening assemblies are being first city-wide event planned for the new fiscal year Will be Dollar Days in dates will be GEMS OF MISS BELGIUM ARE FOUND IN AFTER LONG BEACH HOTEL Miss Belgium in the recent Miss Universe beauty contest in Long can go home now because her missing jewels have been The family heirlooms valued were found in ashes in the incinerator of a Long Beach hotel whore the Belgian beauty Police say they believe a thief stole the removed and threw the bag in the incinerator without realizing that it contained the AS BLAST HURLS HIM INTO W. 63, was in serious condition today at Long Beach Seaside hospital with injuries suffered whop an gas main knocking him into a was burning dry grass and weeds near the manhole on a parkway yesterday when escaping gas He was blown into the air and landed inside the suffered a fractured ankle and bums on his arms and REJECT TRUCE Peiping announced today that the Communists have rejected a United Nations compromise formula for solving the truce deadlock over repatriation of The Chinese Communist broadcast appeared to be a flagrant violation of the agreement last Friday at Red request to keep of Korean Truce negotiations secret until further the U.N. made no immediate HURL CAPTURED U.S. AND TANKS AGAINST UNITED NATIONS first dark horse presidential candidate to be nominated and elected was James K. Polk in 1844. Communists forces have mounted their biggest tank in more than one year but U.N. lines are The Reds sent 14 tanks against a U.N. hill southeast of but they were met by rifle fire and withdrew an estimated 59 Communists hurled captured American and their biggest concentration of tanks in more than a year against the United Nations N. Troops gave up a hill to tiie enemy's but repulsed the 14-tank armored farther Red infantry who to follow up the tank thrust were bayonetted or routed with rifle butts and even by the U. N. Communists launched their captured against a hill lost shortly before in a brief just of the They also were supported by submachine guns and heavy LYLie C. Press Political p. managers went ail oyt tOr day to parlay victory on Republican National convention rules into tiie General's nomination for Sen. Robert A was ground as the convention went into its second But tho Senator retained control of the Convention committee where the battle of the o n was resumed this United Press counted 543 delegates planning to vote for Taft on the first 447 known to bo Ike's and 215 still uncommitted or backing one of the dark horse Needed to 604. had 658 votes yesterday on tho showdown Taft 548 votes on that Taft's Peak Reached ' thQ vote represented the mark of Taft's and said it the Senator's claims to enough strength for a nomination men retorted that their man still has tho votes to clinch the big although some of them conceded privately that might not hold true if he should lost 42 contested delegates is trying to wrest from convention marked time with formalities while its credentials committee prepared for televised hearings on the blazing delegate Douglas MacArthur the to battle last night in the first of the big But it was difficult for delegates to concentrate on their war with Democrats until they were through clubbing fellow Republicans with of fraud and Democrats Called War Party and called the party In power and he reached way back to tho Supreme Court rukus of 1937 to show that Franklin Roosevelt began what the General saw as a trend toward the end of freedom for He cited the Democrats as the of the United reminding his listeners that World War I and 11 came in Democratic plus the deadly police action now current In talked 59 The concensus was thot his speech would not greatly change the shape of things to come in this President Herbert Hoover is star and the schedule is Republicans will begin balloting on a candidate tomorrow platform committee was having some trouble with its civil rights the key to the big Negro vote and an issue upon which both parties generally play a lot of All hards apparently are agreed at least In principle on a foreign policy plank which endorses collective security and some skin off the Truman administration Two to Ike Two New Negro delegates to Senator Taft have switched their support to said they switched their Guard Republicans are opposing a strong civil would put yie New York delegation at 85, for 10 for Taft and one changes in the the - delegate box score now 543, 447. Needed to 604. Cheered By But Ohioan Vote of United slight loss of Taft votes to Eisenhower are cheering the General's supporters today at the GOP national But the Eisenhower people have lost two battles In the credentials by Taft given indications it will rule on the 68 contested Southern delegates just the way the Republican National committee dW In secret voUng last The national gave 42 of the contested delegates to This brought charges of a Taft from tho Eisenhower the Credentials handed down Its first on It handed Taft 1(5 General Eisenhower and seated one There are six other disputed cases still the big ones in Louisiana today the Republican convention credentials voted 30 to 21 against a delegation from SUPPORTERS HOPE FOR A 42-SEAT Republican National committee gave 50 seats to the Senator and 18 to the supporters are gunning for a maximum of 42 of tho disputed convention this because the credentials committee is heavily loaded with Taft they don't expect to And the three key disputes will bo taken to the floor of the for a final ruling The credentials committee had planned Cb report to tho convention But now the committee members have decided need more time and won't have their report ready until ' the the Eisenhower men figure they have the They say the decision by the convention to forbid certain disputed delegations from voting on other delegations will give them most of the 42 delegates they riding on a wave of confidence The ho clears the way for what he called a Republican in of a battle that might win the White House and Ipso control of BRIDGES ASKS UNITY BY Republican party has been told to line up solidly one or loso out In Senator Londor New that If bitterness between Taft and Eisenhower forces will almost certainly go to defeat in says tho entire nation Is by the disunity now shown In the nomination James Kem of Missouri says the Democrats are responsible for what ho called bankrupt policy in says the Korean was is unconstitutional without consent of MAY LAST TILL FRIDAY OR the hot delegate contests are going to upset the convention's timetable Reports from three major committees had been expected this Now it's announced that they won't be forthcoming till All of which prompts GOP National Chairman Guy to say he believes the windup of the convention will bo delayed to Friday and maybe had been expected that the Republicans could wind up Thursday convention has now recessed till tonight at 6:30, Pacific GIVEN BY KOREAN KILLS U.S. body of an American soldier killed by an overdose of narcotics was dug from a crudo grave near Sendai today by a Japanese police and American military soldier the 24th Infantry was killed by an overdose of opium administered by a police autopsy at an American Army hospital showed the soldier died July 2, 'EMPTY KEFAUVER SAYS OF ADDRESS BEFORE REPUBLICANS BY GENERAL candidate for tho Democratic presidential Senator says General MacArthur when he keynoted the Republican national convention last Kefauver says MacArthur's address was one of and touring said in Duluth that Democrats for being the party that brought about says policies In the Far East would have thrown this nation Into the greatest war the world has ever SOLICITOR GENERAL QUITS HIS White House has announced the resignation of Philip veteran solicitor Perlman recently battled vainly before the Supreme Court to defend President seizure of steel ho gave no reason for It's understood he's been disappointed because he wasn't named attorney general when Howard McGrath was fired last There's no indication who may be in line Perlman's PLANE MISSING ON FLIGHT FROM Navy plane is missing on a flight from Florida to Air Force Base near N. M. think it crashed in the mountains jeast of at say the plane had six persons aboard when it left Wichita after on its way from Officials at Wichita Falls say five were INDUSTRY TO ASK ClO'S MURRAY IF IT CAN MOVE IRON ORE TO HAVE FOR THE steel industry is going to appeal to CIO President Philip Murray to allow the immediate of iron ore to milla to prevent a shortage of raw materials after the nationwide walkout President Benjamin Fairless of U.S. Steel says Murray will be asked to meet with top steel executives as as
