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rA.ll Oakland Tribune, Sunday; Jan. 5, 1947 If Eggert to Head Lake Merritt's 'Light Necklace' To Make Peacetime Comeback A casual suggestion, which jfe-j removed, but a similar one win be veloped a spontaneous city-(installed under -plans now under wide project, brought to Oakland preparation by the Oakland Park one of the features for which it Department gained Nation-wide renown-Lake! PROMINENT BOLE P.G.E, Plans New Post Named for Richmond Home Alvarado Hero RICHMOND, Jan. 4. TJie Pacific! Marine Sgt Paul Edward Rivers, Gas and Electric Compaay disclosed first serviceman from Alvarado to today that its district cffice here lose his life in World War II, will be will occupy a new building at 13th honored Wednesday night when a Street and Nevin Avenue on new Veterans of foreign Wars Post, I i i 'I Kiwanis Club -i Merritt's "Necklace of Lights." April 16. I named in his memory, will be tnsti- Almost a war casualty were the t- poles donated by the citizens of the And: this year almost a quarter of a century after the late "William community, but a concerted cam Oist.

Manager Leigh H. Smith tuted in his home community, said' the company will? take overj The new unit, Paul Edward Riv-the- site on a 10-year lease from ers Post No. 7906. will be estab- Baccus, commissioner of revenue Paign was carried out which saved and finance, made his original pro- them from the scrap heap. Once be- posal 1922, the Park Department ieved useless by- one section of property who will erect one-story is pressing plans to restore and i thought in thecity.

they are destined modern building. It auaitor, ue "TVro -iftmifJi partment of Calif onua, V.F.W. modernize this lighting system- to play a promient part in the new Walter L. Eggert general manager of Moore Business Forms, will take over duties as president when new Kiwanis Club officers for 1947 are installed at a luncheon meeting! at noon tomorrow at the Hotel Leamington. Past president Dudley H.

Nebeker will be! the installing officer, assisted by past presidents J. Hunter Clark. Wade Snook, David Anderson and Ralph T. Fisher. Other officers to be installed include Dr.

Alfred E. Baker, first vice-president; Vernon C. McB-raith, second vice-president; Charles-W. Martin, secretary, and William D. Love, treasurer.

New directors will be Donald B. Rice, Alfred E. Baker, Kenneth C. Gillis, Len Johnson, Charles J. Taylor and William D.

Love. Retiring President Gordon A. (,.... developments on the lake. It was during the Shrine of 1922 that the first lights appeared around the tidal lake In the The present plans call for special lighting effects on the north, ast i 5 heart of the city, providing one of iand west sides of Lake Merritt, and clared, "will provide adequate fa-' wa at me ceremonies cijities for the company's expanding wm the mother of the dead hero, business in the Richmond! area.

Thej Rivers ot 144 Street, location will be convenient for the Alvarado. Paul was the youngest public as offices of the utility serv-l "fw Jren fc ices-gas and electricity, telephone and water as well as the Postoffice' Pt udent affairs, ath--all will be within two blocks on SS.a Washington Nevin Avenue." i 'F" vers a sound system to carry to all parts of the playground and picnic areas proceedings of programs of all types 9 A cross-section of the history of uakiand could be developed in dis cussing the backgrounds of the peo Construction will be started after XLT LZTl- if. vly' removal of an old ftwo-story iiPngsbe- pie who expended their money to the the feature artistic attractions of that famous gathering. CENTRAL FOUNTAIN This program, a huge undertaking for that day, included a fountain in the center of the lake illuminated by a huge searchlight mounted on the roof of the auditorium. The light was so powerful, pub-licify concerning it declared that it could change night into day in the inland valleys if installed at the crest of the Oakland hills.

The beauty which reflected from building from the site, I Corps in May, 1942. Woods will receive the past president's pin. bring to this city the lighting system on the lake. DONORS LISTED The poles they donated may be lo He jwent overseas immediatelv 4 cated by starting at No. 1, situated GRADUAL DECONTROL OF SUGAR URGED just north of the boathouse, and and was reported missing in action during the Solomon Islands campaign in August He was "presumed dead" in a Government letter of February 19, 1945, and was posthumously awarded the Purple counting clockwise about the lake Sgt Paul Edward Rivers of Alvarado, for whom a new Veterans of Foreign Wars post has been named.

,4 as you walk along the shore. Thei donors were: I each wave of Lake Merritt was first viewed the night of June 11, 1922, and so enthralled Baccus and other Gradual decontrol of sugar by the; v. It Dr. hi. M.

Enos. Irvine C. Lewis. John U.S. Department of Agriculture to! "uie in mgn scnooi, raul served Mrs.

J. A. Sullivan. lMHintr DalrlanH ritiron. nuiips, Canary Show Held At Claremont Today The Continental Roller Canary Association, will hold its grand championship show today from 10 am.

to 6 pjn. at Hotel Claremont The program is sponsored by the Oakland Continental Roller Canary Club 8nd the convention department of the Oakland Chamber cf Commerce. Several hundred trained roller (Jiuuj Arxnur ti urevent reoetition of the previous dis oi nis class in his junior rnc xnihnca rr titt -c-octar-' senior ears; as vice-Dresident were immediately promulgated forjan(l Laura Bancroft, Charles J. 'Heese-: a permenant installation. srJe7.

Berkeley Sea Scouts i i tttm OI the Future Farmprs nrpsirtpnt fi TESTS CONDUCTED the California and Hawaiian Sugar! lub a member of thej Plan Paper Drive RofinintT rnmrtr-tinn I i Student Council. He was a star I lilt, 1UC t-Jti Busiress Club, Everett J. Brown. Dr. M- M- Enos, Dwipht Hutchinson, Maury: I.

Diggs and George C. Jamieson; Heafev.i Moore and McNair; Fred Heed. Samuel i Typical of the suggestions which pourea into riaCCUS was One from BurtchaeU. Mrs. Joseph Loran Pease r-i rr varsitv football and hAh-ii: ivr aKftJiaxx, Jan.

4. -inemoers oi Wilson said he is writing allr oipaii ana DaseDoU plajer; nf rnnfrrP rein2 that i and actlve dramatics and public Sea Scout unit spon- i I sored by the Men's Club of North- i canaries will compete for singing thev do not act hastily hut permit sxauuaiea in iajy, idgar Xvl. banDorn, then VlCe-presi- Merritt Hospital Sta for Dr. Samuel dpnt ftf th TJoard Park nirprtnrc (iIerntl; "alter H. Leunert Theodore aeni me ooaru oi i-arK Directors.

Daniel o'Connell. Mri Peter N. In it he Said his group was disCUSS-jRenullard, Mahde! Goldwater. W. T.

awards, entries nave teen received inatiiuiiuu Leiemomes MPTnrxiiKT i nnrrn wi rnn- the Department of Agriculture to be held in Eagles HalL ing improvements and 'that a 1 at series of experiments were to Kohen and Rpatrir Mariafl vtrh an pe Tons oi ice, formed by the cold weather, threatened to destroy this tower and cut the water supply of approximately 100 families near Denver, depending on a small privately owned artesian system. AP Wirephoto. by air express from -Washington, Oregon, Utah and Ohio. Judge William Ragon will officiate at the show. Among those in charge of arrangements are Mrs.

J. H. Bid-die, president of the continental association and of the Oakland club, who is serving as secretary for the event and George Carson, general secretary of the association and of the local club, who is general manager of the show. duct a paper drive here today and tomorrow. Today paper will be collected in the area from Ashby Avenue- to University Avenue, between San Pablo and College Avenues.

Sunday collections will be made from University Avenue to the county line, in the area between Euclid and San Pablo Avenues. Proceeds will be used to buy uniforms for the troop. Sugar Stamp 53 Valid Spare Stamp No. 53 in Ration Book 4, will be good for five pounds of sugar until May was announced yesterday by th Office of Temporary Controls "in San Francisco yesterday. Stamps No.

51, 9 and 10 expired on December 31. work out a program in co-operation with the sugar industry He warned against fprecipitate action" which might cause recurrence of the 1920 situation when soaring sugar prices were followed by a disastrous collapse. The situation this yeal" is "even more critical than in 1S20, Wilson said. He added that the industry wants a return to a free market, bjit accomplished in such a manner as to assure reasonable $tability of prices and equitable distribution during the decontrol period. BERKELEY REBEKAHS WILL SEAT OFFICERS WEDNESDAY conducted to determine the best.

"One of these will be a scherie for indirect lighting in which the. foliage masses along the borders of the lake will be rxfade to take on alluring tints of fantastic light from concealed projectors, an effect which, combined with, the enhancement of reflection in the depths lof the waters of the lake, promises jto "produce all "the illusion of fairyland," Sanborn wrote. j' Taking up the suggestions of Baccus, numerous women's groups went to work on the fund raising campaign and soon had enough money subscribed to provide more than 100 of the originally suggested 560 poles. HIDDEN STANDARDS Joseph T. Hinch: Mr.

and Mrs. J. P. W. Sohst Dr.

William H. Strietmann and Dr. P. Adams, Mary Jane Veitch. George Clement and Ruth Parker Perkins.

Kenneth Norman Milucaa, James P. Taylor, Whltthorne Swann, Jackson Furniture Company, C. Capwell Company, Moneyback Caleb Otla and Margaret Arthurs Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Advocate No. 1378; Edward H. Kuhnle, Co.

8, 18th Irtfantry, First Division: J.Iargaret A. Cahill, Owners of. Delger The Exchange Club, S. JacKson, Mrs. George: L.

Nusbaumer, Isaac Hyde (2 polesj. John NichoU, Ruth Ann Boyd, Charles A. Beardsley, Hattie H. Dornin, Robert M. Fitzgerald, Henrica Illiohan-Tannock, E.

Mandana Abbott Rand and David Harriman Rand, Judge Mortimer Smith by Mrs. Mortimer Smith, Jeannie Gregory. Pricilla M. Dunn, Emily C. Louise R.

Fifield, A. K. Gibbs: Samuel Thomas. Martha Cooke and Mary Jane Alexander. Timothv Leonard and Mary Simpson Barker and Henrietta Clay Simpson, Hiram Tilford Bradley.

John A. Britton by P. G. and E. Service Employees.

John and Emilv R. FiUmauriee, Joseph V. Rodgers Daniel and Marparet Gilligan. August F. Child Education Ellen R.

Wells is program chair man. Amy Gilson, retiring noble grand, will preside at the business session which will precede the in stallation ceremonies. IIP llFF I tl pub -mm mimmi i umifure But the experiments mentioned by Sugar Stomps Expire ana Mary F. Dellit, William Edward and BERKELEY. Jan 4.

Berkeley Rebekah Lodge-No. 262 will hold its semi-annual installation of officers Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at Odd Fellows Hall, Bancroft Way and Fulton Street. Those who will take office are Margaret Merrill, noble grand; Jane Npro, vice grand; Amy Gilson, past noble grand; Mame S. Reddick, recording secretary; Stella A.

Hague, treasurer; Eliza Charlton, Nellie Wilson and Lucy Barlow, trustees; and Nina Darling, Frances Hodler, and Carol Button, friendship com Group Plans Meet A regular meeting of tfie Oakland branch of the Association for Childhood Education will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Hunter Hall in the School Administration Building, Second Avenue and East 10th Street. Dr. Herbert R. Stollz cf Children's Hospital will speak on ''Emotional Needs of Children in the Modern World." mm SsnDOtn btoukui xui lu iuc xiiidi i wiUiam Clark Bernard fir.rff The OPA announced that sugar stamps 51, 9 and 10 had expired at midnight December 31 and that spare stamp 53,, good for five pounds, would be valid until May 1.

plan to circle the lake With a series ignis- Martha Long. Mrs. Thomas P. of goose-necked standards, some of crSJvta liTti them hidden among the natural Shallue, Angela Jorgensen, Donald ajj rpore aesthetic 0akIand Konpers, Aaron Nathan vegetation to aaa more aestneuc wachs, Annie Nottie Wachs, Pioneer qualities to the decorations. 'Women of Oakland, J.

H. Warner, Charles After much discussion, it was u. tsmitn, Fleming Osborne, Bally settled that there WOUld be Capt. John R. Fleming.

Barclav and Mar- 126 poles, each spaced 125 feet apart rjaAAf and connected in two series, SO that land PoVt Nql 5 of the American Legion all Or half Of them COUld be lighted eie Kjfeft Nette Kraft. Piedmont t- i Parlpr No. 87 of Native Daughters of the at one time. Golden West: mittee. Cordelia" Hountree of district No.

70, district deputy president, will be installing officer. She is to be assisted by her marshal, Frances o) frjl Oflfal JO IS vb ik) -Work was started On the project Setilberger, John E. MUler. Wit-; Mam J. Baccus by Staff of Denartme 1 1 Kemp, and the Staff Of district of Streets.

W. Herbert Mann. 5th Train. tti in 1925, with Ro'maine Meyers, ap-: I. pointed by the City council as themg Battauon.

Signal Corps: Mrs. Louise rr Slatpir electrical engineer in charge of the: wafhSn ru rSnch s. Slater for Donald D. jCTlTm. TBlTl liLM im a.

i i fm -a Charles AlexsnderlFj designing' ana construction oi tne Aiameda countj-. County. lie'ht. iivunsner, Mrs. Abraham Jpne, Mem- i 1 1' Ders of the Ladies' Relfef Society, waist uiumciwuuu or American i eoman.

Mother Club-Soroptimist Club of Ala- NAMES INSCRIBED tv i 4. 4. mmm meaa t-ounry. O. Lawrence.

Mrs. at $7t Ofin nf whirh thp'ritv ra' J'Jn(l for Peter and Masdalena 0 set at i.uuu, oi wraen tne city Koch. james and iahfiia cnhfiidirfc Ta VACUUM CLEANERS Beautifully Rebuilt Guaranteed with New De Luxe Attachments ine Daiance was suDScnoea naries jj. aates Kahn's Employees'; by local residents, concerns and in- KS7" i suiuuuiu, muuc; uaum vvcic orome, wirs. upriir Ore Scnroetler I scribed on the pole for which they I Bisatw and William i MODEL 103 v.

-1 1 viU'J JL CI paid $125, iarta ire jjepartment. lieorge WU-; iiam dureens. uaxiana MasAnie Bodix It was a glorious night on August fj Place your order in time for John A. Hill, Mrs. B.

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xrcy it iht jnjMioHi way ih, ACTION mf tk 1 VAGUU1 27, 1925. when the individual lights were lighted for the first time. The occasion was a gigantic and colorful water parade staged by the Dons of Peralta, composed of members of pioneer families in this area. AESTHETIC JEFFECT L. S.

Kerfoot formerly superintendent of parks, writing in 1928, said the "desired effect from the look fen High Waves Lash Hawaiian Islands UAT-HANOUiAk end PEDALS an nrdinatd, etthoting ETS To 5th GROVE STRE 1 CLEAHERS )rth7 of 5 Eay Terms Arranged HONOLULU, Jan. 4. CJ.R) His mmmj waves; believed whipped up thi SNTIRi BODY GENTtf BUT HRMLY ye cf rs siorm a -mousana miles nor Oahu, lashed the Hawaiian aunng ine mgni causing some "Necklace of Lights around the lake was an aesthetic one rather than a direetlluminating system." "For this reason," he continued, the light standards were placed along the shore line instead'of along without mota. CSiltnfvibrctlonlttM motor doi thtwerk.) younger beach residents to move to higher ground. the driveways, and were hidden as eighf-oot waves that battered the far as possible behind trees andnorthern coast of Maui Island and Easy Parking Easy Terms Easy Everything Get an ear full of this honesrly if will take more than a January "CLEARANCE SALE" or "FIRE SALE" to compare with my everyday low-fower-Iowest furniture prices.

My big idea of cutting out all fancy displays and saving you the GREEN POCKET STUFFERS beats anything you ever heard about. I give you the best, furniture fresh out of BIG LONG RAILROAD BOX CARS too. WHAT COULD BE SWEETER? ARE YOU GETTING YOUR SHARE? shrubbery patches." J. UST fiftn minute day en th Exercyc! tokei off xcu wtight tft way green water poured7 over the Hilo breakwater, which is still damaged from last April's tidal wave. Residents of fashionable Lanikai Beach on Oahu said the tide was the highest there since last Am-il Amber colored lanterns were used In the lights "in orderto give a softer and more, pleasing effect" The standards are iron pipe sprayed with bronze lacquer, the fittings the standards and lanterns of bronze alloy.

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