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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 15

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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1 Oakland Tribune, Thursday, April 4, 1957 13 BILL SEEKS RESTORATION OF 2 Billion School Aid SAN LORENZO CEMETERY Navy Tries Helicopters As Flying File Engines Special to The Tribune Approved EL CENTRO, April 4 WASHINGTON. April 4 The Navy disclosed today it is experimenting in the use of helicopters as flying fire engines. A House Education Subcommit tee today approved a five-year, The pilot, Vernon R- Sampair, sprayed a stream of blue white powder 150 pounds of it-through a long nozzle to subdue flames sufficiently to enable 'rescuers" to remove pretended victims from a simulated airplane (ire crash. The new technique demon two billion dollar program of federal grants to the states to strated here employed a Sikor SACRAMENTO. April 4 Conversion of the San Lorenzo Cemetery to Pioneer Memo-rill Park would be permitted under a bill recommended to the Assembly today by its Committee on Public Health.

Authored by Assemblyman Carlos Bee of Hayward, the measure would permit iny city or county to declare abandoned any non-endowment care cemetery in which no bodies have been interred for IS yean. The city or county would thereafter maintain the cemetery as a Memorial Park and erect "a suitable central memorial" to the pioneers interred therein. Although the bill was In general language. Supervisor Francis Dunn Jr. told the committee that it was designed primarily to facilitate restoration of the San Lorenzo Cemetery which has not been maintained for 20 years.

4 sky helicopter equipped with a help build schools. 500-pound fire extinguisher The measure, approved 8-1 by the subcommittee, now foes to the full committee, scheduled to meet next Thursday. The measure as it emerged is compromise between the Ei senhower administration pro posal for a four-year, program and a rival Democratic maasure calling for Chinese Chapter of Alumni To Hold Open House Tea pl iWl '-lr i a. six-year, $3,600,000,000 plan of aid. Prospects for final enactment BERKELEY, April 4 An DOWNTOWN OAKLAND ONLY Student Club's "Spring Informal" queen contest will be introduced to the alumni mem: bers.

eitimated 300 members and friends of the California Alumni in the present atmosphere of economy in Congress are uncertain, although President Eisenhower has plugged for It Association's Chinese Chapter are expected to attend an "Open House Tea" at the Alumni House Representative Frelinghuysen at 2 p.m. Sunday. N.J.), a subcommittee mem Improviser LINDEN, N.J.. April 4-m A patrolman used a bone instead of a club to restore the peace. The tea is the first to be held LAST DAYS-School board number Peter Juxt aft) and Principal Robert Taylor cbsenre Mist Elisabeth FaddV crowded kindergarten class which will be able to more in three yean.

ber, told reporters he thinks the "President1 continued support is going to be of great value I Donald M. Yee, president of Jrom foyer of auditorium to roomy new classrooms in reconstructed Whlttter SchooL would anticipate pretty good the chapter, said that the day's Officer Fred Heiss had received complaints of a howling dog. Finding the animal's owner away for the night, he went to a chances of passage in spite of the program will be under the di economy drive. rection of Keith Chun and Mrs. Dorothy Louie, both of San Francisco.

Representative Bailey nearby diner and got a ham Reconstructed Whittier W.V.), subcommittee chairman, bone. He drew the ham bone and fired it over the fence to said: "1 tay we're going to do it Chinese-American co-eds who (get the bill through Congress)." are candidates for the Chinese the animal. Silence prevailed. School Ready to Reopen mm Gatiat Twutttuw lam Whittier School, closed since school in 1952. They will move tomorrow in the school audito rium, 6328 East 17th St.

OAKLAND being declared an earthquake hazard in 1953, will be reopened back to the rebuilt main build' ing late next week. LAFAYETTE 3707 MT. DIABLO BOULEVARD TELEGRAPH AT TWENTY-FIFTH The main School- building, opened in 1928, was one of four Oakland schools closed in Sep next week following completion rf a $376,722 reconstruction project. Basic structural repairs such as strengthening of walls alone cost in excess of $150,000. In addition new electrical, heating School officials, students and tember, 1953.

Since then students have been housed in portable classrooms and in the auditorium, added to the original parents will join in a public re-dedication ceremony at 8 p.m. and plumbing systems were in stalled; the building painted and replastered; new floors and mi i i iii acoustical tile installed, and 11,000 square feet of added Feminint flattery by-th-yard! "COURTURIEiT PRINTS! space in the basement converted 1 1 n- ifj fp i i to a cafeteria and special class rooms, 5 or Money for the reconstruction J' project was set aside by the Fresh, provocative design like you've never seen before en toft acetate faille! Alive with charm, these distinctive Penney beau-ties and all 45 inches wide. Board of Education from the ii ii ii ii i ii 'rai I4 $1,400,00 unexpected revenue YARD -rrrt me district gained in 1955 when trie biate Board of Equalization law." I hiked lnml nrnnprtv It tfsv TV ininiiMT MJinn 'iii nil I niBr irMim.i"ilT(iijlij.illiiiiiiyiiilpl tember under direction of architects Arthur W. Anderson and nlrtrr' ULj -jlJ nfTYTtJTl I I I I I iTJ Wmfield H. Hyde.

The new building has IS class rooms, library, cafeteria, kinder garten, administrative offices, and service facilities. It's io easy te do-lt-yourielfl SAVI WITHOUT SIWING, tool Guests at the dedication will be welcomed by Supt. Selmer Berg. Mrs. Marjorie Hirschler, president of the Board of Edu Thot's right No sewing, no fitting, ne hits with KIILYS famed decorator designed garden furniture recovers.

Beautiful fabrics and gay, sunny patterns I Ail. make your eld furniture NEW again! And yew save cation, will present the school fit will be accepted for students more, toe, with new lower priceil REG. $14.95 BELMONT stripe recovers for all stand 8 by Randy Lieu, student body president; for the teachers by 'LSI 1 1 w-n fc ard lawn swings. Set includes canopy, seat, back, armrests end spring skirt covers Three rich petterns in blue, green or rust. REG.

$24.95 VAT DYE recovers In luxurious Lido Principal Robert E. Taylor, and for the community by Mrs. Donald Conners, president of the Whittier P-TA and Gilbert Baptist, president of the Whittier Dads Club. Others on the program will be Diane Santos, former student; cloth Covered canopy ends. Solid cplort in blue, green, ruil, yellow.

fQ88 REG. $10.95 UMBRELLA recovers in gory Riviera stripes. 7 8 rib design. BELMONT patterns in blue, green or rust. 3 7 It si the Rev.

Paul Armstrong, the I Rev. C. A Davenport, the school tssw REG. $2.95 OFFICER CHAIR recovers, sturdily con orchestra and choir, and Boy and Girl Scouts. Chief to Attend Meet structed of heavy duty vet dye duck.

Solid colors in blue, green, rust, yellow. h. US FREMONT, April 4 Fremont Fire Chief Frank Madruga will KEILYS nationally famous 1ZZ- attend the California Association! of Fire Chiefs at Chico on Sat-! Crease-shunning! Machine washable! recovers are available for many other garden furniture pieces urday. BUTCHER RAYON Trlbane phtioi NEW School board John King (left) and Edward Rust, director of architecture, inspect cafeteria in newly-reconstructed "Whittier School on East I7th St. The look of fine linen Is captured in Pennty't butcher rayon! Look fashionably fresh in this create resistant.

miichiniwiih 78' 2 MATTRESSES 2 EOX SPRINGS Convict Turns Down Parole DAY 3- able fabric. Pale and bold col- YARD ors for your smartest Spring" and Summer dresses, and casual wear. To Help Fellow Inmates ALL 4 PIECES FOR THI LOW PRICE OF ONLY m3 find work?" SANTA FE, N.M., April A young convict has refused Al He said he doesn't want to leave the prison until his elec tronics course is organized and can be carried on. parole for the state prison be-rause, he says, he feelsJt is his mission to help 34 other convicts to a fair chance a a decent life. WEDNESDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Corpier said the class badly needs additional equipment especially television equipment to carry on its instructions John a former efficiently.

He" said the most visinn store manager who will badly needed equipment in be 33 next month, first became eligible for a parole hearing last. eludes an oscilloscope, a tele vision repair kit and old tele FBM-A-Pedic vision sets on which to work. month. But before the parole board acted, he said he preferred to remain in prison long Unfortunately for Corpier and IXTItA Htm his students, four television sets enough to launch his radio- television electronics class fori Mattress ft Bex Spring owned by the prison are vir tually brand new. First Quality -Nationally Advertised FOAM RUBBER MATTRESSES inmates: rather than return soon to his home town of Las ADVESTISCMENT 2 MATTRESSES Cruces.

The board then denied him parole knd rescheduled him for hearing at a later date. Cor-i Fier was committed last July for 2 to 3 years on a charge of i l'suing a bad check. I "These men wouldn't be here' if they had even had a chance 1 BOX SPRINGS 2 SETS LEGS V. v. ir' 1 -Q Cj only 'a get an education and make a decent living," Corpier said, waving a hand at his class.

"If 'hey can learn this electronics trade and get a Class 8 license from the Federal Communications Commission, it means they illihave their chance for the first! time. And they won't be Murvon Ml nuMts u.n Yoa Sive SA190 Special Purchase! 00 SQUARE PERCALES I Bt But im Tmttm Arm Npvr lmdrld 22) YtVN be Mii at tx km ackee' tnt this tcli pvnhtm. tt Mediae wsiKikl eattM ptttUt'. Ntw mmm prints in int colors I of Sprint $5 $170.99 YALI SPECIAL NOW TWIN er FULL SIZI and Summer! Bay ihcad now at Mvinfi yi lop quality lor Iwtl Y4R01CE, miHO FLOOR fays Income tax with $IBS loan mi Im hat 14 SAN FRANCISCO 2146 Mission Street Phone: UN. 1-9694 Opea MM.iFH.ttef OAKLAND STCnt FACTORY 2201 East 14th St.

Phone: AN. 11241 Cptt Moa. tt Tears, tte Back; here again. "I'm one of the lucky ones," the convict-teacher added. "1'vi tot a job waiting for me in Las truces.

But there are more! than 50 men in here right now) with paroles waiting for them' ho can't get out because they! fan't find a job. I "It's pretty hopeless for them if no one is willing to help. Howj can a man go straight if he caa'tl Mi 11 ym ft He ay. WW MORRIS PL2XH 1761 freadwer. T6TJttar MMI WALNUT CRUX.

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