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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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A A H. North Funeral Today funeral services were held here today for Hart Hyatt North, 78, pioneer California resident and former state 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 gold 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 honorary 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 until 1910.

During this period he organized the immigration par trol along the Mexican border." A recognized authority on marine law, he was active in his law practice until his death. Mr. North, a 50-year Mason, was a member of Oakland Lodge No. F. and A.

and the Sons of the American Revolution. Avidly interested in California history, he also was a member of the State Historical Society. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Morgan North, a son, Morgan North; a sister, Miss Maude Louise North, and a grandson. Services were under the direction of the Albert Brown Mortuery.

Ulysses G. Richards Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Ulysses Grant Richards, retired general manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company, who died Monday at his home, 788 Rosemount Road. A native of New York, Mr.

Richards came to this area 32 years ago. He was a member of the Claremont Country Club. Survivors include his widow, Edna Parker Richards; daughter, Mrs. Wesley Farrar, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Stanley Bee, all of Oakland.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. in the Tower Chapel of Mountain View Cemetery. To Describe Concerts ALAMEDA, April Pennell, president of Alameda Community Concerts, will decribe the work of his organization in a talk and motion picture exhibition at a luncheon of the Alameda Kiwanis Club tomorrow at the Hotel Alameda. Examing a road testing machine which is being used to determine the roughness of Oakland streets are (left to right) John W. Shupe, research assistant of the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at the University of California, which is conducting the tests; Charles A.

Reed, city engineer, and H. 8. Kaulbach, city Schools Contribute Civic Music Theater $1197 to Red Cross To Hold Open Meeting ALAMEDA, April of the Atameda school system have contributed $1197.61 to the Adameda Red Cross campaign, topping their $1000 quota, the Red Cross reported today. Otto Keim, campaign chairman, commended the efforts of Dr. William G.

Paden, Dr. Donald Roderick and their campaign volun-1 teers in the schools. Keim also announced that Alameda now has a total of $35,770 of its $45,000 goal. Alameda Grants 2 Building Permits ALAMEDA, April 18. Building permits for two new dwellings, one of them a duplex, were granted last week in Alameda, according to Building Inspector E.

H. Rogers. A permit for $17,000 was issued to Mrs. H. Neal for the duplex at San Antonio Avenue.

An $11,000 permit was issued to J. R. Harmola for a five-room home at 1010 Post Street. Total of all permits, including a number of repairs, alterations and minor additions, was $39,170. ALAMEDA, April 18.

The Alameda Civic Music Theater will hold an open meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Alameda High School Little Theater to discuss plans for a new musical variety program in June. Decision to present the summer program was taken as a result of the strong public support of the group's recent production of "The Desert Song," officials of the organization said. The program to be presented, an interlude before the fall of "The Vagabond King," will provide for a strong chorus, while still permitting individual singers to be heard. Selections will be made from operettas, operas and musical flights Daily to Major Cities LOWEST COST FLY AIRCOACH Call EAST 1 A.

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0L 3-4403 2420 TELEGRAPH AVE. TW3-1631 OPEN EVENINGS 0 P.M. Machine- Tests City's Streets A road-testing machine developed by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and improved by the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering of the 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 of the condition of the country's roads. On the single-wheeled machine, which is pulled by an automobile, are two dials one which indicates the roughness of the pavement in inches per mile and another which makes a graph of the roughness.

Oakland's best street has 60 inches of roughness per mile, while the worst street has 300 finches of roughness per mile, according to H. S. maintenance engineer. Kaulbach said that the city's roughest streets are scheduled for immediate repair. He pointed out that Oakland has resurfaced about 100 miles of streets the past.

10. years, most. of them in the residential areas. Operating the machine for the Oakland tests is John W. Shupe, research assistant of the U.C.

institute. Club to Meet Mizpah Sewing Club will meet at noon Thursday the home of Cecile Nelson, music. Park Avenue. comedies "Interwoven with popu- Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, April 18,.1950 AID SOUGHT FOR SUMMER CAMP ALAMEDA, April are being sought by the Alameda Social Service Board to aid its summer camp program for children. A two-week camp stay, costs $35 per child, Mrs.

Phyllis McCoskey, 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 program. 3 OU POND Gout a ENAMEL the easiest to use for FURNITURE WALLS AND WOODWORK DuPont Paint Service 828 Harrison Phone (Cor. 9th) HI 4-0634 Sponsors for 28 children have been secured thus far. this year.

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