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THE ARGUS Page 2 Fremont Newark, California Thursday, July 27, 1967 Transit Anguish Subsides The roar of protest which greeted an announcement that Fremont may get snippped off the Bay Area Rapid Transit system has cooled to a mumble and a sigh of uncertainty. city con.ncilnieri Tuesday night expressed concern over an announcement last week that further BART commitments namely the Hayward to Fremont line would be scrapped until the district reevaluated its financial position. The move was announced by BART general manager B.R. Stokes in response to the failure of the McAteer Bill to clear the state legislature. The bill would have pumped about million into BART coffers to help offset iis expected 3151 million deficit.

I I I A REACTION i Stokes' announcement produced loud and immediate protest from Fremont and Newark offi- 11 cials. In Fremont, City Manager Don Driggs reacted by saying that BART could get hit with a taxpayers' suit for failure to perform. sli An angry Fremont Mayor Geoffrey Steel said that "he 1 would call a summit conference of South County Mayors. A CITY Manager Brace Altman pegged the action a "violation of the district's i commitment to the people of Ps this area." Leon Mezzetti. chairman of the Fremont Chamber of Com- ji Transportation Com- mittec.

cut loose with the stern- est blast by calling for a 11 Grand Jury investigation of BART finances. He said also that, if BART failed to meet its commitment, then the board of directors should be recalled. The initial cry of anguish has since died to a murmur. ONLY A handful of area residents have indicated they will attend today's meeting in San Francisco of BART directors. i Fremont representatives will include Driggs, and Councilmen Donald Dillon and Hugh Block.

II Mayor Steel said that he would 1 try to make the meeting. Neither Altman nor Mezzetti will attend the meeting. MEANWHILE, the Ciry of 1 Fremont legal staff has been ss asked to study Fremont's legal rights in relation to opposing the possible move by BART. This action prompted by May- or Steel Tuesday night was somewhat watered down by a statement from Steel indicating that the study was not meant as a threat but merely-intended to define Fremon's position and I whether or not the city could bargain from a position of strength of weakness. Councilmen also passed a motion asking residents of the city to contact members of the As-1 sembly and to urge'them to support the McAteer Bill or other means of legislation to lift? BART out of the red.

i i POSSIBLY THE strongest ex- pression to come out of Tues day's meeting was a third and final motion demanding a complete accounting of the district's financial status- Today's meeting of BART directors will be held at 2 p.m. at 314 Mission, San Francisco. Although the matter is not listed on today's agenda, Driggs said yesterday it will be brought up for discussion. TERM PAPER STARTED IT ALL Ed Zeldin Displays One Of His Business Assets Fremont 'Lobster King' Got Start In Classroom Two Killers Enter Death Row SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (UPI) --San Quentin's death row population increased to 59 Wednesday with the addition of two men who knifed a fellow inmate at Soledad State Prison.

William Michael Noah, 20, Santa Cruz, and Ralph Chacon. 23. an itinerant, were sentenced to death under a law providing the death penalty for life-terms convicted of assault. Noaa was imprisoned original- assault against Vocation in 1966 ly for forceful an officer at Institution at Deuel Tracv A Fremont man has parlayed a college term paper into a highly improbable, yet successful, business venture which has netted him the title of "lobster king" of the Bay Area. He is Ed Zeldin, 41, of 4174 Carol Fremont, owner of the Great Atlantic Lobster Company, which flies the only live Maine lobsters to the Baj' Area pounds every other day.

-Zeldin's business scheme was born in a classroom on the University of Santa Clara campus about four years ago. He was working toward a master of business administration degree, a goal he has since satisifed in the university's evening MBA program. "ONE OF MY professors," he recalled, "assigned a term project: Write a paper on a significant marketing problem. "I decided to do mine on the problem of getting live Maine lobsters to the greater San Francisco Bay Area. I knew that it was a tough problem because I had just tried, unsuccessfully, to get some sent to me.

No one in San Francisco had them. No one on the East Coast would guarantee live delivery if they shipped them." Zeldin began the research for his paper. He soon realized he had something besides a term paper on his line "Almost everyone I questioned restaurants, fish houses, individuals said they would buy live Maine lobsters if they were available," he said. "At that point I decided that if I could get one-tenth of 1 per cent of the Bay Area interested in lobsters, I would have a going concern." "NEXT I DID some research on previous ventures of this type. I could uncover only nine others since the turn of the century.

Each one had gone broke. I determined in my analysis that their main failure was because they didn't know enough about the Maine lobster. I discovered that some didn't even know it would die within 20 minutes in fresh water." His next step was to become a "lobster scholar." His path led to San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium, where the director's staff spent hours with tiim talking about lobsters. They also introduced him to an eight-foot-high stack of books on lobsters, mostly written by marine biologists. He devoured the books.

(In return for the aquarium staffs patience and thoroughness. Ed now keeps them supplied with fresh Main lobsters for their exhibits). New York and Boston were next on his Cuts Short outlined ininerary. He established the commercial ties for his scheme. He also met everyone he could who was remotely concerned with lobsters.

He posed every conceivable problem and sought out the solution. THERE WAS one he forgot to ask about. Last summer's long air strike! Normally, lobsters are caught in Maine and delivered the same morning to the Boston airport. They leave there on a 9:45 a.m. (EST) non-stop TWA flight to San Francisco where the Great Atlantic Lobster Company's refrigerated truck meets the plane at 12:30 p.m.

(PST) and rushes them to their salt water pools at the Clay Street Pier in Oakland. Zeldin's research also went into the construction of the pools. "I designed and built them from sketches and photographs I had taken of Eastern pools," he reported. "Our pool holds 3,000 gallons of salt water, and there is room for about 3,000 lobsters. We keep about 1,000 on hand.

A circulating pump supplies the necessary oxygen. The water is identical to the harbor water in Portland, where the lobsters are "We keep the temperature at a steady 34 degrees and we also have duplicated the salinity content and chemical analysis." WHEN THE Great Atlantic Lobster Company finally began its operation 18 months ago, Ed teamed up with his brother, Phil. Bachelor Phil, 32, quit his job as an aeronautical engineer to handle the chores of the Great Atlantic project full time. Ed, married with two children, keeps his post as an operations planning analyst at Lockheed Missiles Space Co. Phil maintains a regular delivery schedule in the Bay Area: San Jose Peninsula area: Wednesday and Thursday; Oakland-East Bay: Tuesday and Saturday San Francisco-Marin: Friday.

Besides the Clay Street pools, Great Atlantic has an office in San Francisco at 115 New Montgomery. "We sank 320,000 into our dream," Ed confided. "There were plenty of sleepless nights as we saw our capital ebb away during that initial period. Phil and I wondered if we had made the wrong decision. But now, we are gradually climbing back up.

Things look good!" In the next decade, Zeldin said the firm envisions a 12-man operation. "At least that's the prognosis I made in my term paper," he laughed. He got an A minus on that paper. Living Cost Up In June WASHINGTON (UPI) --A sharp increase in food prices helped push the cost of living up three-tenths of 1 per cent in June for the third consecutive month, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The consumer price index rose to 116 per cent of its 195759 average from 115.6 in May.

This means it cost in June to buy the same market basket of goods and services that cost nine years ago. The department also reported that wholesale prices rose five tenths of 1 per cent in June, forshadowing further advances in retail prices in the months ahead. President Johnson can be expected to point to June's rise in living costs as additional evidence that a increase is needed to fight inflation as well as to pay for the war in Vietnam. RECESSION? ff But Sen. William Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Senate-House economic eommit- i tee.

said Tuesday that higher taxes probably would not keep prices from rising and migh' even plunge the economy into a recession. Sf The June rise in consumer prices left the costs of living 2.7 pi per cent above a year ago. Food pj prices, which had been falling late last year and early this year, were up one-tenth of 1 per cent over the level of June 1966. Despite the increase in both retail and wholesale prices, the IH index of wholesale industrial commodity prices, which has not risen since February remained a a month- Is Arthur M. Ross, cornmission- er of labor statistics, called wholesale industrial commodity If prices the "most significant measure" of inflation.

FOOD jz Food prices led June's cost of living advance, rising nine- si tenths of 1 per cent. Not counting food prices, which tend to fluctuate season- El ally more than other prices, lithe cost .0 fliving rose tenths of 1 per cent last month. Meat prices rose 4.1 per cent If in June while fresh fruit and II vegetables went up 4.7 per cent. Club List Directory Available A choice of subject and flavor ig awaits Fremont residents eager to either join a club or find out which one is making all that jji racket next door. The Fremont Chamber of Commerce has composed a manuscript 31 pages titled "Fremont Organizations Directory," a listing of non profit organizations and associate tions within the city.

It gives names, addresses and yf telephone numbers of the presi- dents and secretaries of each II organization, along with meet- ing time and place and date of installation of officers. The secret's cut. De Gaulle Angers Canada MONTREAL (UPI) Gen Charles de Gaulle, displaying a majestic calm in the eye of the political hurricane he hac brewed in Canada flew home Wednesday after abruptly can- celling a scheduled visit to Ottawa and a meeting with Prime Minister Lester Pearson. The 76-year-old French president departed from Montreal a 4:10 DCS pm EDT jet after in his personal four days of a THE ARGUS Published by Jofanson Publications, Inc. Jack Moorhsad.

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915.00 per year. Published Daily, Except Sundays 122 Center Square. Fremont Cal. Phone 7W-Z7S scheduled five-day visit during which his endorsement French Canadian separatis sentiment brought a sharp formal rebuke from Pearson. De Gaulle fired a few parting salvoes at a lunch in the Montreal City Hall, the site of his climactic shouting of "long live a free Quebec" which led to Pearson's reply that Canada did not need to be liberated.

COMPREHENSION "There has been a sort of comprehension in this trip that neither you or I de Gaulle told could avoid," an audience which included Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and Quebec Provincial Premier Daniel Johnson. "It was elementary. We were seized by it. I think it is necessary to go to the bottom of things where the destiny of a people is involved--French Canadian or Canadian French as you wish--to go to the bottom of things in the only policy that wiii help us." De Gaulle's manner was calm and measured but he made no apology and, in fact, said obliquely that the tempest over his speeches was of no consequence in the long view of things. "My wishes are with you as I leave." he concluded.

"I would like when I have left that you keep the idea that de Gaulle in Quebec, a Quebec master of itself, can have contributed to your progress." UNDERSTANDABLE Prime Ottawa, Minister following Pearson in a cabinet meeting, said that "General de Gaulle's decision to cut short his visit to Canada is understandable under the circumstances but those circumstances, which are not of the government's making, are greatly to be regretted." De Gaulle himself said nothing publicly of why he had cut short his state visit but a French spokesman said: on by the Prime Minister of Canada, it has been held preferable to cancel the Ottawa trip and proceed to Paris." The federal Canadian government had an honor guard in uniform the famed 22nd Hoyal Canadian Regiment at the airport for de Gaulle's 'I may confirm that, account of the stand taken departure. The plane stood in a remote section of the field and police cordoned off the area so that no member of the public could approach. DECISION De Gaulle's decision to cancel his trip to Ottawa was made Tuesday night even as preparations were going ahead in the capital for the official welcome- French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville informed the Canadian ambassador to France, Jules Leger, at 1:30 a.m. that the general was going home. Leger had been traveling with the de Gaulle party since the arrival Sunday morning in Quebec City where he started the first of a series of speeches urging French Canadians to take their destiny into their own hands.

BUT, JUST to make sure that the club of your choice is readily at hand, there are 17 classifications which give a terse two- word description: Like "art organizations." However, this added sidelight often comes in handy, especially when the club's name gives no clue to what it's all about. HOW MANY people would know, for example, that the "Fremont Goofers" is a recreational organization or that the "Euealptus Nite Stand" is a service organization. The directory includes about 300 listings, classified under headings of art, athletic, business, charity, civic, cultural, educational, fraternal, historical, political, recreational, religious, service, social, sorority, veterans and youth. The directory is published each year by Fremont Chamber of Commerce as a public service and is available without! charge at the chamber 4725 Thornton. t.

Arvvs by jMk Brain Family Tree Grows A visit to Fremont by Mrs. Lillian Coronado (seated), 77, of Mexico brought together five generations and allowed Genardo Garcia, four months, to meet his great great grandmother for the first time. Other members of the family tree are (left to right) Mrs. Josie Vargas, 58, 37376 Joseph Mrs. Genardo Garcia, 16, 4171 Glenwood and Mrs.

Anita Martinez, 40, 43207 Continental Drive, all of Fremont. A Luncheon Honors FM Manager About 30 Newark Rotary Club members and friends of FMC plant manager Mike Cimino and his wife honored the pair at a going-away luncheon yesterday at Silver Pines Country Club. From left, above, are Mrs. Richard Nicklasson, Mr. and Mrs.

Cimino and Richard Niek- lasson, president of Newark Rotary. Cimino leaves Sunday after many years service to community for a post at Green River, Wyo. New manager of FMC in Newark will be Robert Love, manager of the Green River FMC plant and mine. Panel Axes Road Funds For South SACRAMENTO (UPI) An attempt to give Southern California a larger share of state highway funds died Wednesday in the Senate Transportation Committee. The committee, dominated by northerners, a "do pass" recommendation to a bil by Assemblyman E.

Richard Barnes, R-San Diego, that earlier had passed the Assembly. The split on gas tax revenues now is 55-45 hi favor of the south. The Barnes bill woulc have changed the division to per cent and 40 per cent- Arguing for the change before the committee was Francis McLaughlin, legislative advocate for Los Angeles County. He saic the 13 Southern California counties have 61 per cent of the state's population, more than 61 BEST BUYS i FOR YOUR HEALTH per cent of its assessed property valuation and 62 per cent of its registered vehicles. i "The whole thing, is totally a matter of equity," McLaughlin contended.

The "do pass" motion received the support of the three Southern California senators present for the committee meeting. Seven votes were required to get the bill out of the 13- member committee. Several bills providing for a a new split of highway funds were introduced during the current session of the Legislature but the Barnes bill was the one that advanced farthest in the legislative process. AH of the bills are now dead. Barnes said the south would try again next year to achieve a new distribution of funds.

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