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OAKLAND'S DAILY NEWSPAPER LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED QgJlRJ Ml My Pal! UtlCUTH ISTAIUSMf MIIUAtV 11. It4 NICI HILT lEWt MtCIII SCRVICf OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1955 17 Ferry Vs. Freeway Elevated Structure Would Hide Proposed Park; Say Proponents of Project San Francisco was torn today between desire for a "py state park at the Ferry Building, and plans for an elevated freeway that would fence off view of the building. A series of conferences is being held in an effort to make the two projects compatible. sSZuAiu NO.

146 METERS LATE SO DRIVERS PARK FREE BERKELEY, Nov. 23 1W wasn't planned this way but the City of Berkeley is play ing an early Santa Claus role for downtown parkers. Because meters have not arrived for the new Fulton Kittredge parking lot motor ists are getting free use of the area. But, warned City Manager John D. Phillips, better get those nickels and dimes ready because meters are due the end" of the week and the "free ride" will be over.

Meters and lights are all that are needed to have the lot in pay-operation for the holiday shopping season. Due to inclement weather development of the second downtown lot on Berkeley Way westerly of Shattuck Ave. has fallen slightly behind schedule. However, this area is expecter to be ready for long-term parking shortly. Man Gets 90-Day Term for Battery NILES, Nov.

23 Lupe Mon-tez, 23, of 1122 Maiden Lane, has been sentenced to 90 days, in the Alameda County jail on" charges of battery here. The District Attorney's office dropped charges of assault with a deadly weapon here in the Niles-Centerville Judicial Dis-trict Court. Montez pleaded guilty to the battery charge here yesterday. He alledgedly assaulted Man uel Baca, 26, of Decoto with a knife at a public dance in Newark Nov. 5.

Water Problem Bldg. Below is a sketch of an alternate plan, which would hare 1 A proposal to establish the Ferry Building as an his torical monument, and sur round it with a $2,000,000 park, was presented recently to the State Park Commission. The proposal clashed with plans for the Embarcadero Freeway, now designed to run close to the building along its entire length, at a height nearly equal to the building itself. Suggestions that the freeway might be curved away from the building, to preserve a park setting, have produced objections by state highway engineers. They maintain redesign ing would delay the freeway project three years and increase its cost by $3,000,000.

State Highway Engineer B. W. Booker told city officials yesterday that $8,000,000 has al ready been budgeted for the freeway and that the first contract is scheduled to be let next month. San Francisco planning offi cials are meeting again today with Booker in an effort to correlate the two projects. New Guatemala Flights Listed Pan American World Airways announced today that on Nov 30 it will inaugurate direct 11- hour service between San Fran cisco and Guatemala.

Eight tourist flights a week by 62-passenger Super 6 Clippers will span the 2,600 miles with a stop only at Los Angeles. Be yond Guatemala, the flights will continue as one-plane service to major cities in Central America, Panama and along the north coast of South: America. Leaving San Francisco at 5 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednes day and Saturday, southbound Clippers arrive in Los Angeles at 6:40 p.m. and in Guatemala City the next day at 6 a.m., local time.

Pan American also announced a new all-cargo service linking San Francisco with Latin America via Los Angeles, which will be introduced Dec. 1. TODAY ASSIGNMENT JUNIOR VOL CLXIII FREEWAY BATTLE-TJxs Itwil'. Lm uvn iu tuuyunu barcadero would fence off S3? I IN If' if Berkeley Parking BERKELEY. Nov.

23 "To preserve the cnaracter 01 tne cfty of Berkeley there will be no more parking in front yards or in concrete paving which apartment house builders, especially, have began to substitute for lawn and garden. The city council last night adopted such a recommendation from the Planning Commission. Objection? by several build ers and apartment house own ers brought from Vice Mayor Arthur K. Beckley this answer: "We want to keep the type of city we have had through the years we: like it that way." 4 AMENDMENTS OK'D Four amendments were adopted to the zoning ordinance, applicable to any new or altered residential construction ranging from duplexes to homes cort-verted to multiple units and apartment houses. They are: 1 No offstreet parking places in front yards as a result of a growing tendency for builders of apartment houses to substi; tute concrete paving for garden areas.

2 Elimination of differential in required parking spaces be tween one-room and other apartments so that three out of four of all tenants, regardless of size of apartment, are provided off-street parking. 3 "Tandem" parking, where one car is parked behind another in driveways or otner spaces, outlawed as not meeting, re quirements for off-street park ing. 4 Parking spaces must be sur faced so that they can be avail able in all types of weather, "This action will constitute no problem lor single, family- dwell latfufc-' Mi'" 1 1 the Placerville Atty. Charles Fogerty knew what to do when he ran out of dollars at the Stateline resort, The Wagon Wheel. He asked to cash a check, "What identification you got?" demanded the head cashier and sometime drink dispenser.

"Well, here's my state bar association card," Fogerty responded. i i f( "Man, your credit's good as gold!" cried the cashier. We re in the same business I'm a bartender too!" Red, White and Blue Shield Sign-spotter Walter J. Johnston, strolling the boulevards, came upon the street sign. It read "Campbell St." On the sign was a white and blue shield at the center of which was a gold star.

Why the emblem? Johnston asked dozens of friends. No one knew. His detective instincts Johnston ferreted out the answer. Shortly after World War I the Oakland City Council ruled that streets named for Oaklanders killed in that war, or any subsequent war, should carry the insignia. The procedure continues to this day.

Kin of war dead may request that a street be -so named and, rif this is possible and practical, it's done when a street is renamed by the city. i When subdividers in Trill areas are at a loss for a suitable name the street department suggests a dead veteran's name, says Frank Atwill, supervising civil engineer in the engineering department. It isn't always possible; duplications or difficult spelling may rule out a name. Even so, whenever possible the veteran's name is used. Ninety-seven Oakland streets are named for World War I dead; seven for those of World War II.

Montclair's Krohn Lane is the only street named for a Korean War casualty; it is.named for Second Lt. Jered Krohn, killed in Korea in 1951. 0 I On Dog-Sitting What could be the world's first dog-sitters have in some sorrow given up their unique avocation. The dog-sitters, a husband and wife, kind of slipped into their hobby to help out a friend whose dog, a temperamental beast, howled lugubriously whenever his mistress left home, thus infuriating the neighbors. With the dog-sitters the sittee was definitely antisocial.

Although it made no overt gestures, the pooch simply sat there all night, transfixing the humans with a moody but penetrating gaze. This made the dog-sitters nervous. What was the dog thinking? Why didn't it blink, or scowl, or Show its teeth, or, preferably, sleep? Was it really neurotic? Why couldn't it be like other friendly dogs? The dog-sitters took it just as long as they could. Now, practically nervous wrecks, they refuse absolutely to dog-sit. That is all there is to this item; but remember, if you read of dog-sitting elsewhere, WE had the world's first dog-sitters.

0 Colored Seals Problems, problems, nothing but problems. The little old lady (judging by her voice), called the Alameda County Tuberculosis and Health Association, the outfit which sells Christmas Seals. "Each year I have my holiday stationery printed on paper the same color as the stamps," she volunteered. "What color will they be this year?" Fifty of each lOCf stamps would be blue, she was told. The other 50, chartreuse.

-1 "Oh, dear, dear" sighed the sweet little old lady. NOW what do I do?" Everybody's Right People who had never heard of mitosis before, and hope never to hear) of it again, will be delighted to learn that the great mitosis controversy has. come to a happy ending. Writes Lafayette's George W. Ely: "Mitosis happens to be the name given to the division of the nucleus -of a living cell.

"It is because mitosis involves the splitting of chromosomes in the nucleus that it is easy to observe mitosis in the salivary glands of the Drosophila Melonagaster, better known as the fruit fly. It is also readily observable in the blastula of whitefish." This, manifestly, leads Ely to only one conclusion: f'Both Williamson and Bullwinkel are You can't have a happier end to a controversy than that. V. Tin Geese Fred G. McElwain, now airport superintendent at Oakland Airport, can remember that Big Game day back in 1932.

It was made memorable by the fact that 17 Ford tri-motor "tin geese" flew into town from Los Angeles carrying a cargo of ardent Stanford alumni. You, remember i the trimotor plane, with its corrugated metal construction? i It's still remembered as one of the best planes ever built from a freight-carrying viewpoint Although a Tin Goose last landed at Oakland Airport more than two years ago, McElwain reports that they're still being flown on the West Coast after 30 years. There's a tri-motor Ford at Bakersfield, and one is being used at Orofino, Idaho, by the Forestry Service. 0 0 0 The Service, says Chief Pilot Cal Ferris, likes the old planes" because they are slow. Men can parachute from Jthe plane at 70 m.p.h.

without the shock usually felt When dropping from faster planes. 'There were 11 of the planes still flying in 1953," says Ferris. "They're used a lot in South America and, despite lousy maintenance and terrific use, they've never lost a tail or a wing. There's never been a confirmed materiel failure in any part of the 1,300 Tin Geese manufactured." After all these years, the Tin Goose is going back into production. One hundred revitalized tri-motors, almost exact duplicates of the original Tin Goose manufactured 30 years ago, will soon go into production at Bellflower, Calif.

They'll be called Stout Bushmasters. 10 0 0 0 That's because they'll be intended primarily for use in the bush country 'of Canada, Mexico and the jungle strips of Central and South America. The planes can take off on runways (against the Oakland Airport runway needed for today's big planes). And the plane's bigger landing wheels enable it to roll through ditches, streams and over logs that would rip a modern small-wheeled gear to shreds. All of which tends to prove that, even when the air industry was in its infancy, it was turning out mighty good planes.

i 4 Frustration City The. street department worker in Sacramento laughed, and laughed, and laughed as he installed the speed-limit signs through the center of the town 25 m.p.h. He was still chuckling diabolically as he put up the sister signs "Lights set for 28 m.p.h. THE KNAVE LAKEPORT, Nov. 24 Paul Mason, Gov.

Goodwin J. Knight's legislative secretary, assured a Lake County group last night that their water problem, "Almost certainly" be brought up at a special ies-IJ: sion of the Legislature. irom ine mstoricai strucrure. a $2,000,000 park. in B11 L.

1 1 1 Another Raft tehf Planned PETALUMA, Nov. 23 Ml Remember the rafts, Lehi and Lehi II? It looks like there's going to be a Lehi III. Mrs. DeVere Baker, wife of the persistent Petaluma raft builder, says he is planning a third craft on which he still hopes to drift to Hawaii. It will be built in the Los Angeles area, Mrs.

Baker said, with the backing of an un named Hollywood man who hopes to recoup from movies taken of the venture. The first Lehi was built in Sausalito two years ago. The second put to sea from a ship building yard in Petaluma. Baker abandoned his rafts each time in less than a week after he sailed out of the Golden Gate. His wife said he now has paid all of the debts arising from the first two ventures, through proceeds of motion pictures.

Baker still expects to reach Hawaii, his wife told reporters, and once there will load the raft on a freighter and take it to the Persian Gulf. From there he hopes to sail and drift to Philippines and Japan, and across the Pacific, to land even tually in Central America. The Petaluma man is trying! to prove a theory that centuries ago a Semitic prophet named Lehi brought many people of his tribe to the new world by raft. He also will test various types of survival equipment Baker is in Los Angeles. $25 Duck Fine William Henry Ledger, of 367 63rd SU was fined $25 by U.S.

Commissioner Adellia C. Mc- Cabe in Sacramento yesterday after pleading guilty to possess ing mors than the legal limit of ducks. ii i 1 EDITORS architect's sketch above Ulus- A wuwo uMwoy on in em' view of tht Ferry Building. it iii Tin 1 A ex Orders in Front ings but a duplex must, in the future, have two parking spaces," City Manager John D. Phillips explained.

LOOP HOLE REPORT City Atty. Fred 'Hutchinson was instructed the council to present a report in: two weeks on a "loop hole' in) the zoning ordinance, whereby guilders of apartment houses in commercial zones are not required to pro vide off-street parking for tenants. James Barnes, city planning consultant, told the council that this matter was under study by the planning commission with current construction of four apartment houses in business areas where no parking is being provided. "There's a legal question in volved as to whether we can force apartments to have park' ing in a zone where business is not so required toi do," said Barnes. lr Eight of nine council mem bers who voted for the new regulations declared that not only must Berkeley's presidential character be preserved but steps must be taken to get as many cars off city; streets as possible in view of Ji increasing traffic problems.

i Councilman John De Boms passed his vote because of al leged "discrimination" against certain types of low-cost multiple housing and lack of reg ulation in commercial zones. Other business transacted in cluded: i Call for bids to be opened at 10 a.m. Dec. 12 for, electrolier extensions, ballasts and lumi- naires to modernize street light ing on University Ave between Oxford and California Streets similar to that done on Shat- tuck Ave. between University and Durant Avenues; estimated cost $12,000.

Authorized City Manager Phillips to negotiate in open market lor sal of six old semi ireewoy curving away and permit establishment of mari pre i esc -j Halt to Yards trailer units discarded by municipal' garbage collection de partment inasmuch as no bids were received at a public auction held recently. Adopted agreement with the Berkeley Unified School Dis trict setting up procedures for payment of $435,627 from city funds for support of school activities designated as municipal functions in lieu of former tax held illegal by city attorney. Navy Seaplane Tender Back From Far East ALAMEDA, Nov. 23 The Navy seaplane tender USS Gardiners Bay arrived at the Alameda Naval Air Station today after a cruise in the Far East. During the cruise, the ship served as a station ship at Hong Kong for three months.

Since no U.S. Naval units are based ashore in Hong Kong, a station ship serves as a floating Naval Station, rendering administra tive and auxiliary services to the Seventh Fleet. Along with her station ship duties, the Gardiners Bay made a 10-day trip to South Viet Nam to aid an American patrol sea plane which was forced down at sea after experiencing engine trouble. The aircraft was buffeted by high winds and waves for 26 hours before the ship towed it to shelter in Nha Trang harbor. The ship, which is commanded by Cant.

Wallace C. Short Jr. of New York, tended seaplanes in other remote har bors of the Far East during the cruise. 1 AMERICA GIVES THANKS THE FIRST THANKSGIVING The little band of Pilgrims in Plymouth worked hard to make a life in the wilderness. Early in the fall of 1621 they held a three-day festival to celebrate their fortune in having good crops.

Their Indian friends attended, with Chief Massasoit sitting" at the table beside Gov. William Bradford. Governor Bradford said grace over the food and all of them, Indians and Pilgrims, feasted together. Then the Indians danced and the Pilgrims A played the. games of their native England.

The Indians brought much food to the feast. Here an In dian boy has brought a young turkey to his Pilgrim friend. Paste this picture on cardboard and color it with crayons Cut it out. Cut the slits in the hands of both boys. Fold the picture forward on the dotted line at the center and" the boys will stand, so that You can place it in your collec- tion of Thanksgiving cutouts.

Slip the tab on the turkey's feet into-the slot in the Indian boy's hands and fold It back. Now he's holding the turkey. Later when he gives it to the Pilgrim '-'r -boy, he can hold it the same way. JUNIOR EDITORS payi for reader'! idea fist fcv, used. Write your suggestion to "Junior Editors" la care at fids newspaper; ttMuiot be jacknowtedgeder retaraed.

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