San Mateo Times (Newspaper) - May 1, 1968, San Mateo, California DEMOCRATS leading country to verge of cal GOP says Page 5 BITTER legislative row over sectional lines on water project Page 9 ROCKEFELLER urges reversal of of Vietnam war Page 6 MILWAUKEE city council passes open Jaw 8 NATIONAL weather Page 5 POOR PEOPLE'S advance unit met ly in gets no promises Page 4 VENEMAN still hopeful on withholding tax Plan Page B CAPITOL Report Sacramento mary page 13 BIG NARCOTICS RAID in San Mateo Page 31 BEARDSLEY asking for 22 tickets in taking family to see movie of their life story night Page 13 TODAY IN YOUR TIMES Page 49 CLASSIFIED ADS Pages 55-60 TIMES Page 54 FEATURE Pages 50-51 PENINSULA NEWS Pages 31-32, 34 SPORTS SECTION Pages 45-47 BUSINESS Pages 48-49 FOSTER Page 53 THEATERS page 52 WORLD OF Pages 15-19 NO SUPERSONIC golf balls Page 45 BET ON the See Jack col- page 45 MPL BASEBALL race half over and locked 46 PROPER Proof gains more support as tucky Derby contender Page 47 DR. NASON tells why some students learn and others don't Page 51 PUBLIC Hard to tell whether boy Is fresh or doing research Page 50 DREW PEARSON tells why Frank Sinatra wasn't in the army Page 50 PAUL HARVEY points out youth should blame not country Page 50 THREE TYPES of contact lenses are ex- page 51 UNDER TWENTY interviews the singing Chambers Brothers Page 51 FINAL NEW YORK STOCKS Financial Vol. 68, No. 105 SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER A NEWSPAPER 5 Sections 72 PAGES SAN MAY 1, 1968 342-77 il WEATHER Late night and early morning low overcast be- coming mostly sunny by late tomorrow Low 48; high 66. Light ble winds night and morning b e c o m i ng northwesterly 15 to 35 mph in the lOc PER PER MONTH Consumers in Line for Refund e y An elderly Redwood was terrorized for nearly two hours early thi morning by three men who broke into their bent on Both were tied the woman was raped and the marauders made off with many of their including their The couple was repeatedly threatened throughout the epi- One of the the victims told them that he intended to make his living by breaking into homes at white people owe us for 350 years of he told Awakened by Noise The suspects were the victims but they were too frightened to give deputies The 74, and his 62. told Deputies Dean Sudbury and George Thorpe that they were awakened at a.m. by a loud which they learned later was the sound of the crashing through the back The culprits came into each of their want your one of them told the know yon have money in the The men went into wife's Sock to the where lied her ankles with He husband was then brought to the bathroom and was They were ordered to lii face down on the Again the robbers money and were told that there was none in the Laughter The couple could hear draw ers being pulled out am things being thrown the house as the robbers sacked the They heard the men laughing but could nol tell what made them After about 15 minutes one ol See Page 2, Column 3) 1968 Luxury Equipment Special Colors 50 MONTH During May Only 2-YR. INDIVIDUAL OR FLEET Service and Information Call Mgr. LEASE DIVISION 101 CALIFORNIA DR. Burlingame Dl 4-'II111 OPEN EVENINGS TALL AND SHORT HEROES President Johnson adjusts the Medal of Honor around the neck of Sgt. John F. Baker at the White House today alter presenting the same award to Capt. Robert F. The two Army cited for gallantry in Vietnam during action in 1966. Captain Fogey's home is in Fla. Sgt. Baker is from 111. Captain Folly's height is six feet seven Sgt. Baker's is five feet two and President Johnson's is six three Massachusetts Primary Rockefeller Scores A Stunning Victory By RICHARD GROSS BOSTON Nelson A. Rockefeller of New who polled a flood of write-in votes only hours after ing his today was declared the winner of the Massachusetts presidential pre- Police Nab Dragsters At Candlestick SAN FRANCISCO A force of 40 officers ed a weekly midnight drag race strip at Candlestick Park and rounded up 72 drivers and sp early on charges of All previous police efforts at halting the Tuesday midnight drag racing had The rod fans used spotters and a naming system giving their igh speed cars time to elude This time police closed all cross streets around the ane Oilman Avenue entry into he Candlestick parking ice estimated about 70 to 80 Please See Page 2, Column 1) ference primary in a startling The New York governor staged a stunning victory Tuesday over Gov. John A. Volpe of a favorite son candidate whose name was the only one on the GOP Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon was The win assured Rockefeller of 34 delegate votes on the first ballot at the Republican National Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota easily won the Democratic race as expected over Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New McCarthy's was the only name on the Democratic Vice President Hubert H. a write-in candidate finished Returns from 99 per cent of the state's precincts gave Rockefeller votes more than Volpe and more than The results dealt a staggering blow to Volpe who has been considered a possible vice presidential Rockefeller did not announce his presidential candidacy for- mally until 11 a.m. Commenting on the primary results in New See Page 2, Column 6) Eisenhower Progress Is Satisfactory MARCH Calif. Gen. D wight D. Eisenhower is very after suffering a mild heart seizure Monday but will remain in the cardiac care unit of the March AFB Hospital for four or five it was announced A released on the condition of the former president Eisenhower spent 77-year-old said that a restful See Page 2, Column 7) Approve Economy Packet Hope to Break Tax Deadlock WASHINGTON The House Appropriations Committee today Whit House economy plan ated to break a long budg et deadlock and free Presi dent Johnson's proposed tax hike for early congres Treasury Secretary Henry H Fowler estimated the economs package would save billion The actual saving could be less or It would depend on ap plication of the total of bil lion proposed in appropriation rescissions of appropriated and limita tions on spending in the new fis cal Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee declined to say immediately whether the plan satisfied his demands for big spending cuts to go along with the proposed 10 per cen tax Strategy Session Others concerned with the ac agreed on at a White House strategy session ias said Mills had bought the package and predicted he would now lend his support to the stalled tax Chairman George Mahon of the Committee said he believed the committee action would break the over the income tax The economy package See Page 2, Column 6) All Columbia Activity Ends By DAVID L. DUGAs YORK University was entirely closed clown today for the first since a student rebellion began April 23 as the result of a strike to protest he arrest of 720 students and Barnard the women's Please See Page 2, Column 2) More Times Game Cash the newspaper prize con- today with another in cash Winning bers appear on Page 53. certificates will be delivered with The Times or may be picked np at any Times office in the next few Winning bers for cash and dise awards will appear daily in The Times and will be ed at all Talks Site 1 Un W airship OK With WASHINGTON The White House agreed day to a suggestion by In- donesia that preliminary o r t h Vietnamese talks be held aboard an In- warship in the Gulf oJf Sources in Jakarta said no reply has been received from Indonesia's foreign Adam made the offer to Washington and Hanoi in an to help the two 3reak an over selectio of a location to discuss cond ions for peace Neither the United States no Vietnam has seemed in to sites propose Van Ness Avenue and the Eas Bay Commuters were the other George Whit House press said In offer of the Russian milt cruiser Irian accepta ble to the United States and yoi can be assured this would be Please See Page 2, Column 8 Precedent Set As FPC Rate Order Upheld By CHARLOTTE G. MOULTON WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today approved area rate-making for natural gas including rates and refunds ordered by the Federal Power Commission for the Permian Basiu in Texas and New The 1-i decision was a victory for California inter- where the bulk of the Permian Basin gas is The action will mean million of dollars in refunds for bot consumers and indu customers in Californ and will bring lower prices the future for gas users in Most of the California gas delivered to the Pacific Lightin for distribution in the Lo Angeles and to the Pacifi Gas and Electric sells it in northern Market St. Trams Stop SAN FRANCISCO Municipal Railway streetcars nd electric buses on came to a sudden uring the morning rush hour oday when a crane sliced a The loaded streetcars anc uses stopped at a.m. on Street lines between until supplementary Please See 2, 4) Communist World Shows Signs of Strain on May Day By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS May Day 1968 showed the lines of strain in the face of the Communist while the ar- mies and party chiefs of the viet Union and its hard-line marched and de- Czechoslovakia's new liberal leadership joked and signed In in East hi Warsaw the order of the day was displays of military strength and ing imperialism and the United With the hard-line Stalinists gone from Prague's party chief Alexander Dubcek used up one pencil signing bits of paper and fought to keep his head up under a barrage of There were no tough slogans and the atmosphere in Prague was that of country But a young boy sitting on his father's shoulders car a placard with a reminder for the new It me the truth now so I have to get it when I'm grown Communist China was in a a contrast to the mammoth oE past according to nese Hundreds of thousands marched to the music of brass bands in ing Chairman Mao who was absent from the Ho Chi 77, and according a North greeted celebrants in For workers in many non- See Page 2, Column 5) The gas is transported t California through the El Pas Natural Gas Co. and Trans Western Pipeline Co. Today's op way written by Justic John M. It explored a aspects of the complex rate making process in 75 Justice William 0. Dougla Justice Thurgoo Marshall did not The commission came up the area rate-making concept ir 1965 after the Court ha determined in a landmark 195 decision that wholesale rates o natural gas at the well head ar subject to FPC regulation Before 1954, only pipe lines hat Deen under government regula The FPC established a two vice system for the Permian Sasin in the hope of encourag ing natural gas The rate for gas from gas wells under contracts mad since Jan. 1, 1961, gas well was set at 16.5 cunts jer thousand cubic feet in Texas and 15.5 cents in New The rate for gas sold under older contracts or from oil wells was set at 14. cents in Texas and 13.5 cents in The commission held that the Please See Page 2, Column 1) Red Battalion Is Wiped Out By JACK WALSH SAIGON para- roopers wiped out a Vietnamese in a two- ay battle Tuesday and today md possibly saved the city of 3ue from a May Day ront dispatches ry fighting near Hue UPI Raymond Wilkinson said men of the Olst Airborne Division killed 17 Communists in their nal thrust against a battalion already had lost 217 o far this week the ists in that general area have ost 791 The paratroopers battling ear the village of Phuoc Yen Lower Rates And Rebates Will Result SAN FRANCISCO 5.5 million natural gas customers will receive million in refunds under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling the Public Utilities Com- mission The commission said the court order also would bring a 17.5 million annual rate ion to the customers of c Gas Electric Co. and Lighting Co. the spokesman said the refund to individual omers could not be determined as a would have to be devised since the amounts of purchased varied provides natural gas two million customers in Northern Pacific serves the Southern Larry a said it was ible to estimate when or LOW the firm's ners would get mount is up in the and will ave to be decided by the ral Power He noted Pacific Gas Please See Page 2, Column 1) BEFORE THE Please See Page 2, Column 4) Oldest locally founded one of ihe oldest in the Our 72-year Record of High Earnings with Complete Safety Is attracting new savers every Why don't you join lha OLD 5.13% your yield when our 5% current annual rate is com- daily and funds held a DAILY INTEREST compounded daily paid Funds received by 10lh earn from 1st. 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