Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 95

A. LETTER From HOME WRITTEN FOR THE TRIBUNE BY RAY HAYWOOD A' A A 'A AAA 'A A OAKLAND: CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY. DEC 5. 1954 i A Ka.h AV A a i 1 i i iff 7Jff, ft t- Jf Ai '4 v.

jtf jj? 3 4 v.v?j: sll jr I I I "4 13 I 1 MX I til 1 1 J. 1 Only 17 shopping days remain before Christmas, "but one doesn't need the calendar to tell him that the Yule-tide approaches on a. flood of canceled checks. There is a festive feeling in the nippy air. Christmas decorations are appearing on the streets, department stores have their annual tableaus in place and generally everything has been made attractive for the attack on the wage earner's budget Children are on their, good behavior as they temporarily practice the doctrine which holds they should be seen, not-heard.

If lured into conversation they have little to say beyond some pertinent observation on such intriguing inventions as the electric train, the new lightweight bicycle or the. advisability of adopting a puppy to serve as a watchdog. Wives who declare they don't want any personal presents are seen inspecting the latest in fur stoles. Husbands, who would rather give than receive, say nothing but can be caught studying ads for golf clubs, fishing tackle or. the latest in 35 mm cameras.

If everyone gets everything he and she make believe they don't want everyone will be broke but everyone will be happy which perhaps is as it should be, but so seldom is. Burglars broke open a safe in the Maxwell Ilardware Company which now is liquidating preparatory to going out of business. There was no money in the safe. That Is the exact reason, incidentally, why Maxwell's is going out of business. Not enough money In the safe.

They-can accuse the man who visited the home of Mrs. Dorothy Checchinl at 2295 28th Avenue, SF, of being a thief, but they can't say he was a liar. The man flashed a "detective" badge and said: I understand your home is going to be burglarised." lie was correct The visitor produced a pistol and took $130 cash and a $1,000 diamond ring. They don't know if it was the turkey or the trimmings but something about the Thanksgiving dinner didn't agree with 77 University of California students who reside in campus cooper-tive living units. They came down with food poisoning miseries featuring high temperatures uncomfortable but far frbm fatal.

San Leandro and" Oakland are considering action to halt sale of a type of literature of a highly unliterary type. San Leandro has given first reading to an ordinance which will prohibit sale of horror and crime-type comic books to children under 18. The ordinance was proposed by the newly formed San Leandro Junior Women's Club. In Oakland the City Council discussed comic books, nudist magazines and so-called art picture books. The concensus was that control of sales was desirable, but the catch came in finding a legal manner of control.

Pea soup was thin compared with the siege of fog which visited the West Coast earlier in the week. Air traffic was grounded from San Diego to Seattle and numerous traffic accidents were caused by the. lack of visibility. Speaking of the weather, the mercury headed for the storm cellar as the coldest day of the young winter hit our area. Orinda reported a low of 24 degrees on Monday, while downtown Oakland shivered at 40 degrees.

It was a rough night on hardy fuchsias and tender perennials. An alleged publicity stunt proved to be a monumental success in a reverse sort of way for Charles (Boots) Erb, Oakland waterfront restaurateur and Jack Hendrickson, a publicity man. Both deposited $500 bail after being charged with mail-cious mischief as the aftermath of a Big Game incident during which a bust of Jack London was smeared with red paint Police seemed to think that Erb, a former California quarterback, and Hendrickson, knew more about the painting, which included several S's, than the Stanford students who were expected to receive the blame. Erb operates a restaurant in Jack London Square where the author's bust has been placed. Over-taxed schoolroom facilities apparently will cause double-shift classes in four Oakland elementary schools next semester.

The double sessions, the first in Oakland history-emergencies excepted will be held for first graders at Lafayette, Montclair, Santa Fe and Manzanita schools. In connection with school congestion. Contra Costa County reports that four students enroll in the first grade for every single student who graduates from the already crowded high schools. Concord police made the catch of the year when they put the arm on John Francis Waitkunas, 38, who is alleged to have cashed bad checks good for $150,000 during the past seven years, Waitkunas, a former Los Angeles professional football player, who Is wanted In cities from Florida to California. His arrest was caused by an artist's sketch drawn from victims' descriptions and by an alert storekeeper.

Mrs. Herb Minster, who had seen the poster previously, became sus-spicious when Waitkunas attempted to cash an $86 check in her husband's Concord paint store. Waitkunas was arrested by Officer James Deala who said he admitted being the forger who achieved national fame by signing the name, "Walter Demeter." Waitkunas said it was easy to cash bad checks because merchants are too interested In making a sale to insist on positive identification. Waitkunas said his family wife and two children believed he made his money betting on horse races. Oakland intends to pioneer an experiment which might help reduce the number of serious traffic law violations.

It will use psychology. Beginning this week. Municipal Judge Homer W. Buckley will refer those who have had four or more serious citations within a 12-month period to a special study group which includes Dr. Winfield Wickham, consulting psychologist on the Alameda County Juvenile Home staff.

The investigators will attempt to find the hidden reasons which make the chronic violator disregard his own safety as well as that of others. Build a better rat trap and the rats are apt to beat a path to your door. At least that is the opinion of Mrs Mayetta Holman, Alameda County home advisor and an authority on rodent removal. She says science has yet to perfect a replacement 'for the old-fashioned spring snapper which has taken its toll since the mice began to move in with the homesteaders. Mrs H.

also scoffs at the tradition which holds that mice and rats are suckers for cheese. They would rather have rolled oats, bread crumbs or any cereal than liederkranz, she says. The usual pre-Christmas and New Year's parties ii state build-ings in Sacramento, will be unusually quiet this year. The boss. Gov.

Goodwin J. Knight has banned the serving of liquor at all such gatherings. "Ice cream will be OK, though, he added. The sports are shorts The Oakland-SF 49ers were home from the wars and the worse for wear today to play the ultra-tough Green Bay Packers In Keiar Stadium. The Packers last week outplayed the Detroit Lions but lost a heart-breaker.

Observers feel they should be favored over the 49ers. who lost 17-13. to the Baltimore Colts last week. It was a familiar and sad story. For the second time this season a last-second pass did the work.

Gary Kerkorian, former Stanford QB, threw the baU to back Royce Womble. The play was good for 78 yards and victory. Earlier In the season, the Chicago Bears completed a similar play to defeat the 49ers. At any rate. recent losses to Detroit Chicago and the Colts have cost the 49ers their chance for the league title.

Coach Buck Shaw, who was the toast of the town during the early season winning streak, now is being roasted by those who forget that the 49ers troubles are caused by loss of men because of injuries. A new apprentice riding sensation has appeared at Golden Gate Fields, the Albany horse-go-round. He is LeRoy Nelson, 17 of Albuquerque, N.M. Nelson mounted his 21st winner during the week to go ahead of Willie Shoemaker, who i havl9 trips to the GGF wire. Basketball season opened here 'this week with California, Stanford, Santa Clara, St Mary's and USF all represented by tall and competent appearing squads.

However, football wasn't willing to step from the local limelight In addition to the pro game, there is still the Shrine East-West game. Both squads will be loaded with talentM usual. The East features such names as Leroy BolderCMichi-gan State; Ron Drzewiecki, Marquette; Bob McNamara, Minnesota, and Ralph Guglielmi, Dan Shannon and Joe Heap, all Notre Dame. The West will call on Oregon's George Shaw, California's Paul Larson. Rke's Dick Moegle, and Texas Chris-tian's Ronnie Clinkseale among, other outstanding backs.

Western linemen will include center Matt Hazeltine and end Jim Hanifan, both of California. And once again that brings us to the bottom. See you next week. lira; "jy T-Ai Ai -A jf V. A w- v- a.

i ii 4 '-re. 1 A ii 1 I ft A -X -t C. These Jaycee Yule tree pictures are typical scenes from agency files; children are not necessarily camporship recipients. Let's Make These Dream Pictures Come True He was a small boy, polka-dotted with freckles and full of that enemy of ulcers, the joy of living. It was his first time at summer camp.

The last luminous embers of the camp-fire had been blotted out and the only light now was from the large friendly stars. Gazing tip through the branches of a giant pine tree, the small boy said, Gee! This is just the way I pictured it in my mind." Tirtiir vivirflv- rrsistentlv and believ By JACK BURROUGHS up at your camp. I wish to thank the persons who sent me to this beautiful camp." "I am enjoying being here playing football, baseball and many other things. I thank the persons who sent me here. I wish I could do as much for them as they did for me.

Thank you." I hope I can come back to camp. Everyone is so' nice." 'I enjoy it very much to be at your camp. I had very much fun and always there was something to do or play. I liked the craft room and swimming best Thanks very much." "I am very glad I came to camp because I had; a wonderful time and I hope that I can come again next year." appreciated your sending me to camp way down deep inside of me, my heart tells me so. Again I want to thank you with aU my heart and souland the rest of the people who send little boys to camp." I sure did like the camp and I needed the experience." i "Would you please tell the men who sent me to camp, I sure did enjoy myself.

I had the best time I have ever had." YMCA, YWCA, Jewish Community Center, Catholic Social Service, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts and Boy Scours. The Jaycees Youth Welfare Committee, headed by James Schramm, directs this year's sale. John Kyle and A. H. (Nick) Nicpli, are co-chairmen of the project.

The "kickoff for the tree sale takes place today. Through the course of the sale, which will continue through Dee. 24, television, radio, stage and sports celebrities will appear as Christmas tree salesmen. Once the sale gets under way the Jaycees Christmas tree lot will be open, for business every day from 8 ajn. to 10 p.m.

How do the youngsters who have received camperships feel about the camp experience made possible by the Jaycees Christmas tree sale? Here are a few of the many expressions of "The food at the camp, was very good. Tell the cooks I said so, I wish I was up there now; I am hoping and praying to go next year." "I really enjoyed this camping trip. I never went on a camp before, so thanks a lot" 5 "I wish to thank you for this opportunity to take part in the many wonderful activities Oakland's Jaycees have conducted their Yule tree sales. If the problem of where, to buy your Christmas tree this year is proving something of a poser, the Junior Chamber is right "there with an immediate solution. is -right Atv the JCCs lot, 73rd Ave, Foothill and MacArthur Boulevards.

Your purchase of a Junior Chamber tree (at prevailing prices) will give you heartfelt satisfaction on two counts the beauty of the tree itself and all it stands for, and also the knowledge that you are thereby helping some boy or girl to enjoy a trip to a vacation camp which would otherwise be an impossible dream. This is the reverse of the standard procedure ef storing up something In summer against the riror of winter. The Junior Chamber's Christmas tree sale stores up happiness fat the winter to be enjoyed by the youngsters the following summer. 1 The Junior Chamber's Christmas tree sales last year made it possible-, for nine agencies to share in a total allocation of $1,480 which enabled many boys, and girls to enjoy a week or more in camp. Agencies receiving funds from this "source included the Oakland Recreation Department, Oakland Boys Clubs, ingly cherished, have a way of coming true.

One of the ways in which these dream pictures are made to materialize is set forth in today's Your Town column and the montage cartoon by Frank Kettlewell which accompanies iL These photographs are typical scenes and were furnished from the files some ef the agencies helped by funds raised in Jayeee Christmas tree sales. The children in. these-; particular photos are not necessarily children who have actually received camperships as the result Tale tree sales. Each year Your Town's Junior Chamber of Commerce holds a Christmas tree sale to pro- As Ever Dec 5, 1954. mer camps cf the community's established agencies." This is the third crnsecutive rr in-which.