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OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER IITAIISMI MMUAUT II. 1(74 ASSICMTEI PRESS. 1AIIY IEWI FIREIII SERVICE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1955 NUESTRA SENORA DE LA Tribanc phUf SOLEDAD More than a thousand persona ruin of the Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad. The ceremony was the gathered yesterday for dedication of the Testored. chcrpel oi the aloomy 15-year effort by the Native Daughters of the Gojden West 3 Crackdown Cuts Number of Arrests 15 NO.

102 on Loitering stopped and questioned by officers, Vernon said. Twenty were taken into custody for such offenses as drunkenness, malicious mischief, burglary, car theft and escape from the California Youth Authority. The 20 include the two youth who tried to escape from the juvenile reception center Saturday and a counselor. that can be illustrated for color and cutouts. The idea can be either for a single panel or for series.

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Your favorite subject may be worth $10 and the chance to see your name in the paper. EDITORS There was a 50 per cent cut in juvenile violations during the second week of the Oakland Police Department's stepped-up enforcement of anti- loitering ordinances, Chief Wy- man W. Vernon reported todav. Vernon attributed the reduc tion over the first week to the cooperation of parents and organizations devoted to youth. Seventy-five were JUNIOR EDITORS Th(t Long Watch If the results of a survey conducted by Charles J.

Dirksen of the U. of Santa Clara hold true for the Bay Area, parents needn't worry too much about the effects of television on their offspring. Dirksen 's survey of the greater metropolitan San Jose Area shows that the Little Wonders spend only four hours a day watching the good guy slug the bad guy. And vice versa. Revealed also: Small fry are gazing at the one-eyed monster no more, no less, than they did a -year ago.

This is thing of a triumph in itself. Parents do not limit a child's television time. "Help yourself," they say: Many parents emphasized that their children read more, not less, since the advent of TV in their homes. (When, they didn't say.) are more avidly televiaion-minded than their children. Average daily viewing time: 4V2 hours.

That's 1,642 hours per year, or the equivalent of 205 eight-hour days. Yes. Junior is smarter than his parents. He only looks at television 1,456 hours a year, or 182 0 1880 'It isn't easy for today's travelers, rolling across the continent on sleek streamliners or aboard streamlined planes, to comprehend the excitement which filled a wayfarer in 1880 as, clutching a copy of New Overland Tourist, he clambored aboard one of the amazing Pullman Hotel Cars of the Chicago and Northwest-erji R'lway, bound for the Pacific Coast. 3 He would be, he was assured, traveling at 40 MILES AN HOUR! 40.

Geo. A. Crofutt's (then) monumental work was published to apprize transcontinental travelers of the country ahead of them. "One Thousand Two Hundred Cities, Towns, Villages, Stations, Government Fort and Camps, Mountains. Lakes, Rivers, Sulphur, Soda and Hot Springs, Scenery, Watering Places, and Summer Resorts.

The journey, travelers were assured, would be but certain admonitions should be kept in mind: Gold wasn't needed; greenbacks were accepted everywhere. Never purchase a ticket from a stranger on the street. "Provide yourself with at least one-third more money than your most liberal estimate would seem to require." Don't "lend money to strangers, or be induced to play at their games, if you do, you will surely be robbed." "Do not be a grumbler, or boisterous. Don't judge people by their clothes. "A millionaire may be in greasy buckskin; a college graduate in rags.

What was the Bay Area like 75 years ago? Oakland, Crofutt reported in awed tones, had increased its population in only eight years from 11,000 to $4,350,000 was invested in the manufacturing business! fjfayward's Station (pop. 1,000) was notable for two groves totaling 250,000 eucalyptus trees. Lorenzo (no population given) aroused Crofutt's enthusiasm because it was surrounded by land on which wis cultivated "fruit and vegetables, the size and weight of which are TRULY MARVELOUS." toren2ans, Crofutt were loaded with loot, since there was an enormous demand for currants (as large as filberts), cherries (three inches in circumference); carrots (three feet long and weighing 35 pounds); cabbages (75 pounds); onions (5 pounds); watermelons (85 pounds) pumpkins no scales can weigh THEM," Crofutt cried dazedly); beets HOODE-LUMS 200 It's no wonder that Easterners, reading this sort of thing, mortgaged the old family mansion and galloped for California and Lorenzo. Thus it's interesting to note that San Leandro (pop. 2,000) raised "the finest and largest vegetables in the state." Larger, presumably, than in Lorenzo.

Melrose, Crofutt noted, was' famous for Mills Seminary, and Alameda (pop. 1,600) for "good schools and churches and elegant private residences abounds in beautiful groves of oaks. if'What American man," woman or child does hot feel a heart-throb of exultation as they think of the glorious achievements of PROGRESS since the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, on staunch old Plymouth Rock!" exclaims Crofutt, gone slightly delirious. Well, it' nice country we have out here. But it'd be Interesting to see dhe of those 200-pound beet-.

Or even a HOODELUM. All About Cats Cat-lovers everywhere will be delighted to know that at. long last proof has been offered that there's no truth in the contention that the soft-footed animals destroy our fine feathered friends, de boids. Robert Lothar Kendall, president of the American Feline Society, has long felt that Vthe Cat is a victim of map's thoughtless abuse, vilification and maltreatment." '-Cats are, he asserts, always in danger of their nine lives because of small boys "who have developed an i almost unbelievable accuracy" with slingshots, zip guns nd'air rifles. Cats' have been considered fair game because "they kill birds." So Kendall now reports, in a bristling epistle, the findings of a sturdy of 193 cats killed in highway accident: The study showed that they ate mice, young rabbits, rats, table scraps, turtles and fish, pork, grasshoppers, chicken, bulk matter, grass and herbs.

But nary a bird. Cats simply don't kill birds, Kendall contends. He would like you to keep this in mind the next time your canary Peepsome disappears. vouclxim Old Mission Chapel Is Rededicafed Native Daughters' Effort Crowned With Success at Soledad By VIRGINIA DENNISON SOLEDAD, Oct. A little chapel lonely, windswept but magnificent in its inspiration gave new life today to a long forsaken and forgotten ruin, the Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad.

Restored through efforts of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, the chapel was hailed as a tribute to their perseverance and as an inspiring achievement which fulfills the words of Father Serra that something great will always come back. A mission with a tragic his tory, once called the "gloomiest, bleakest and most abject look ing spot in California," the Sole dad mission fell into ruin and decay, a short time after the Mexican secularization decree of 1834. Only a few crumbling walls remained when the Native Daughters began their fight to rescue the mission from obliv ion io years ago. Ana it was to their restoration fight that number of prominent speakers paid tribute today. CROWD OF 1,000 An overnow crowd of more than a thousand stood, as early Franciscan Padres and Indians must have similarly stood 164 years ago, deep in dust and whipped by wind, as the chapel was rededicated.

The ceremony appropriately took place on the 164th anniversary of the mission's found And the original mission bell, its tone still true, rang again from a newly restored arch to signal the beginning of the rites. Joseph R. KnowJand, chair-. man of the State Park Com mission and one of the main speakers, termed the restora tion a highlight in the story of the preservation of California missions "the most interesting and most 1 outstanding landmarks in the state." He also spoke briefly of other missions and the state's interest in their restoration. The Franciscans he called the pioneers of the state, the first to sow the seeds of civilization and establish settlements.

ORIGINALLY 21 "There were originally 21 California Franciscan missions," Knowland related, tracing the history of missionary California. He continued: "The remains of these buildings are among the oldest and most widely known historic landmarks in California. The founding of San Diego, the first of the mission chain, predates by three-rquatrters of a century the American occupation of California. "The Franciscan missionaries were caiiiornia original pioneers who established the first permanent settlements in what was then known as Alta California. "The first mission was erected at San Diego in 1769, and the last, in the far north, was founded at Sonoma in 1823." He said that Soledad is the last of the missions to be restored.

REPLICAS ERECTED "In the case of Santa Cruz and San Rafael," said Know- land, "replicas have been erected near where the original ancient structures "Two are owned by the State of California Sonoma and La Purisima Conception in Santa Barbara County. Title to these two missions has been acquired by the State of California, which legally permitted their restoration with state funds." The Very Rev. David Temple, You May Win $10 for Idea to Use in Column PLAQUE UNVEILED Mrs. Kittie Mullaney Oeft) unveiled the plaque. With her (from are Mrs.

Sallie R. Thaler, grand secretary, NDGW, and Mrs. Raymond M. Gian-nini past grand president oi the organization, and chairman oi the 15-year project. wiri irr.c mrit iiiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiiiiiini i i i niinirniiiMi r.

climax of a while Peter E. Mitchell, president of the Public Utilities Commission, extended the congratulations of Gov. Goodwin Knight. The address of welcome was made by Mrs. Giannini.

Mayor Alden Anderson of Soledad also welcomed the guests, and like the others, acknowledged the achievements of the Native Daughters-Robert E. Halsing, grand pres ident of the Native Sons, and Mrs. Theron Hodson, grand president of the Native Daugh ters, also were among the no table speakers. Participating in the plaque dedication, which concluded the ceremonies, were Mrs. Hodson Miss Doris M.

Gerrish past grand president: and Mrs. Au drey D. Brown, grand vice president. The plaque was unveiled by Mrs. Kittie Attention Junior Editors! Here's a chance for young readers of The Tribune to win $10, to see an idea of their own in print, and to have their name appear in the "Junior Editors" column, to boot.

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O.F.M., provincial of the Franciscan Order, province of Santa Barbara, spoke of Father Serra's beliefs that the great will return, and said the walls that had been raised again would proclaim a message as they did so long ago. "The mission dedicated to Our Lady of Solitude has risen again in the Valley of the Winds," he proclaimed. Last of the original 21 California missions to be restored, Soledad was the 13th of the Franciscan stations to be established but it endured more than its share of trials and tribulations and finally came to a sad end. SUFFERED MUCH Isolated and poor, the mission suffered much during its existence then was abandoned and forgotten the only mission in the state for which nothing had been done when the Native Daughters started the drive among themselves to raise the money for the Special tribute was paid during the ceremony to Mrs. Raymond Giannini of San Francisco, past grand president of the NDGW, who as chairman of the mission restoration project, spearheaded the fight dur- Ung the years.

Approval recently was given for a public fund-raising drive to complete the program of restoring the entire mission compound to it original state. The day's! events began with the blessingj and dedication of the chapel by Right Rev. Msgr. James Culleton, representing Bishop Aloysius J. Willinger of the Monterey-Fresno diocese.

The rededication of the church was followed by a solemn high mass, with the Franciscan Provincial as celebrant. GREETINGS FROM BISHOP During the program which followed, Msgri Culleton presented greetings irom. the tyswrr Vr nWrf rr iiJ v' Even if your Cat wears an unbelievably guilty smirK, he didn't do it. The cat may never again "relive the glory he enjoyed as deity in ancient Egypt," Kendall admits, but "IF man will cease sniping at him he'll help man create his purr-fect world." 0 Thl Hard Way The cute young airline hostess, sipping the refreshing ciip of tea at Oakland Airport, was telling her friend bout the incident. One of her passengers, a young fellow, was clearly frightened as the big plane slipped idown towards the runway.

"First flight?" the hostess asked. "There's nothing to be nervous about" The passenger gulped, mopped his brow and essayed" a smile. "I've done lots of flying," he groaned, "only I've never landed before." "Never landed!" the war," he explained, "I was a paratrooper." MEET YOUR PRESIDENT 1 This is the first of a week's series about your President. Color the pictures, cut them out on the heavy black lines so that they will stand up on your and save for 4 collection. A poor boy, Dwight David Eisenhower was born Octv 14 Abilene, Kan.

There he grew up in a white farm house at the edge of town and was nicknamed "Little Ike" by neighborhood boys; one of his elder brothers was called "Big He and his brothers worked hard doing chores; tending chickens, raising garden crops, selling eggs and vegetables. Before he was 18 he had read the Bible through twice. Ike had a great interest in sports. Tall and husky, he starred in baseball (inset above shows him wearing Abilene High School baseball uniform) and football. He thought he might be a railroad conductor or a.

baseball player. Actually he played some semi-pro baseball as well as doing odd jobs after graduation. Major league baseball always has interested him. He still likes to fish and play golf. JUNIOR EDITORS pays $10 for any reader's idea that is used.

Write your suggestion to "Junior Editors" co The Tribune, P.O. Box 509, Oakland 4. It cannot be acknowledged or returned. He made it down, the hostess added, mutterinff. "I'd SPEAKERS The mission ceremony took place on the ef the Native Sons: Mrs.

Theron Hodson, grand presi-164th anniversary el Ae mission's founding. Speakers' dent of the Native Daughters and the Very Rev. David included (from left) Robert E. Halsing. grand president Temple, OIM Franciscan provincial.

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