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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 11

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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P. T' T' 7 4 Oakland Tribune, Tuesdjy, April 8, 1950 I i i a 1 'i i. 1 AID SOUGHT FOR SUMMER CAMP Hart H. North Funeral Today Private funerajLfervices we're Sponsors, for 28 children have Organizations and private dti- --LAMEjJAAriL 18. Funds been secured- thus far this are being sought by the Alameda interested in thrwlrirtv All agencies dealing with family held here today for Hart Hyatt Social Service Board to aid its Machine-Tests City's Streets A road-lgsfihg machine de veloped by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and improved by the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering of (he University of California is being used to determine the roughness of Oakland streets.

The machine is one of 10 in operation throughout the United States used by the institute to compile a yearly composite report urged to contact the sodal strrteei office at 2228 'Santa. Clara At problems in Alameda have a hand in the selection of children to be sent to the camps. summer camp program for children. A two-week camp stay costs nue. $35 per child, Mrs.

Phyllis Mc-Coskey, executive secretary of the board, points out, and Alameda organizations are being contacted to aid in the program. Last year 71 children were sent to summer camps through the pro of the condition of the country's' gram. roads. On the single-wheeled machine, which is pulled by an automobile, are two dials one which indi North, 78, pioneer California resident and former itatt and Federal government official. He died of a heart attack Sunday at his home, 2414 Prospect Street, Berkeley.

A native of Marysville, Mr. North had personal memories of Gen. John A. Sutter, owner of the mill near Coloma where fold was discovered and builder of Sutter's Fort at Sacramento. His father was a close friend of Sutter and Mr.

North recalled the general's last visit to the state in the late 1870s when he stayed at the North home. of the oldest practicing attorneys in the state, Mr. North Was admitted to practice in 1892. He was a retired hbrnnsry member of the State Bar of California. "After representing Oakland in the State Legislature in 1896 and 1898, Mr.

North was named U.S. commissioner of immigration for the Western states, a post he held cates the roughness of the pave-j mem in incnei per nuie ana another which makes a graph of the roughness. 1 tiLj SaveOne-teil I OHIT 4 HOOtSI Vr5T 1 lew lor i Oakland's best street has 60 inches of roughness per mile. while the worst street has 300 'Ii'- 1 inches ot roughness per mile, ac cording to H. S.

Kaulbach, city; maintenance engineer. Kaulbach said that the city's ivugii.ei vvmi niv svitcuuivu AVI immediate repair. He pointed out that Oakland has resurfaced about 100 miles of streets in the past 1A year, niost fit Jhem in the residential areas. until 1910. During this period! I art.

I 3 fr- Operating the machihe for the! Oakland tests is John W. Shupe, research assistant of the U.C. institute. Examine a road testing machin which Is being used to determine the roughness of Oak DuPont Paint Service land afreets art- deft to light) John W. Shupe, rtaearch assistant of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at lbs University of California, which is conducting the.

tests; Charles A. Reed, city engineer, and 8. Xaulbach, city maintenance engineer. fe ejavtimHUgratlott ja trol along the Mexican border. A recognized authority on marine law, he was active in his law practice until his death.

North, a 50-year Mason, was a member of Oakland Lodge No. 188 F. and A and the Sons of the American Revolution. Avidly interested in California hjstory, ha also was a member of the State Historical Society. He is survived by his widowr Mrs.

Emma Morgan North, a son, Morgan North; a sister, Miss Maude Louis North, and a grandson. Services were under the direc Club to Meet ALAMEDA, April 18. Members of the Mizpah Sewing Club will meet at noon Thursday at 28 Harrison (Cor. 9th) Phone HI 4-0634 the' home of Cecile Nelson, 1121 comedies interwoven with popular music. Park Avenue.

Theater $1197 to Red Cross To Hold Open Meeting tion of the Albert Brown Mortu ary. 1 ALAMEDA, April 18. Em- ALAMEDA, April 18. The ployees of the Alameda school Alameda Civic Music Theater system have contributed $1197.61 will hold an open meeting at tn the Anmerla Red Cms ram- (if ii Ulysses G. Richards paign.

tripping their $1000 quota, 7:30 m- Monday at the Alameda the Red Cross reported today. High School Little Theater to Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Ulysses Grant-Richards, retired Reneral manager of Otto Keim, campaign chairman, I discuss clans for a new musical commended the efforts of Dr. Wil- the E. K. Wood Lumber Company, ham G.

Paden. Dr. Donald u.k. AiA k. their campaign vohm ue51on present me m- ti a tick and 3 teers in the schools, mer program was Uken as a re- loo noscmouni nnaa.

A native of New York, Mr Keim also announced that Ala-'sult of the strong public support Richards came to this 32 member of Tf." the group's recent production area years ago. He was a the Claremont Country Club. i Suntivors include his i T.Hn Porter wirh.rH.- rfK. Alameda vxranrs of "The Desert Song," officials of the organization said. The program to be presented, an interlude before the fall pro ter, Mrs.

Lesley Farrar, and a Dranddmiehter Mn Stanlev Ree 2 Building Permit! duction of 'The Vagabond King, all of Oakland. ALAMEDA, April 18. Build- wU1 provide for gtronf ch0ru's. Services will be held at 11 a permits for two new -tin n-rmittin Individual in the Tower Chapel of Mountain ltiP one of them duplex, werelgingers to be heard. View Cemetery.

(granted last weefcin Alameda.j Seition, wiu be madt from according to Building Inspector ttM ru and muglcal To Describe Concerts A permit for was issued ALAMEDA, April 18. Harry i to Mrs. H. Neal for the duplex at PennelL president of Alameda 2247 San Antonio Avenue. An it tllfkU mf Mmlt CHU LOWIST COST AltCOACH mm Community Concerts, will permit was issued to J.

R. Calf mm Aele DeSe cribe the work of his organize-tHarmola for a five-room home at tion in a talk and motion picturea1010 Post Street, exhibition at a luncheon of the' Total of all permit, including Alameda Kiwanis Club tomorrow a number of repairs, alterations at the Hotel Alameda. and minor additions, was $39170. eeesooeeits! you GET DOUBLE TRfiDE-IN ALLOWANCE DUnNG APRIL I V- "tf in COME WHERE THE COASTLINE'S ALWAYS A PICTURE! Each broad, inviting curve on the marine drives lnt the Erergreen Playground unfolds an ever changing spectacle of sheer beauty. Come where the majeetie peaks reach tor the heavena and fingers of land green with sylvan splendor point out and punctuate the Pacific.

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