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OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED AMD LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY NEWSPAPER lltMIITII MHIM.WIMMTI...WIIt MH Mt MIIIM Itltllt VOL CLXVII OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957 29 NO. 144 itilt oftkt City Thankuziviiiff ii. iui UJJ wy- ear is on, let it go. Now, let's ce wxjai arouna nere IT a li A A ir rv XL i lie 1 1 i A Commentary, Sad-Type: In the. old days, when pre-Big Game fervor was at fever pitch, tickets sold at fancy prices.

This year some holders are letting them go at the face $5 You know how hospitals list patients last name first? Children's Hospital of the E.B. the other day discharged Child Susan and Dear Red Cross Woman Steel Mast on Truck Rig Swings Across Highway, Plows fntoAuto; Three Others Perish in Traffic I HII I A San Francisco woman Red Cross executive was killed instantly yesterday in an auto-truck collision that cany Jttoy. Child Susan is, of course, Susan Child, Dear Baby Boy? The parents hadn't settled on a name for their newly-born, hence Baby Boy, Dear James F. Dickson who's a Lindsay optometrist, lives on South Mirage; you can see it better than North Mirage I guess Cal simply doesn't have the old Big Game spirit. In other years, anyone wearing red on Blue Monday was tossed into the tied up traffic for nearly an hour on Highway 40, west of Pinole.

Three other persons, including a Castro Valley woman, died in traffic ac- OAKLAND'S TRAFFIC TOLL kangaroo jail. Other night, on Blue Monday, when AIThltlM XIIM Iajan4 juugca piuvMniicu ucmcicy Liynn rawsun me nume-coming Queen, the emcee perched on a red-topped bar stool. A booboo that didn draw a boo. Judge Larry-Blake wore a red-striped tie. Silence.

(Of course, it's not too late to toss the barstool, Blake, and Chairman 1957 53 1,953 Ustv.ir 41 2,580 OOO DANCER ZONE East short Freeway at Fifth Ave. overpass. CHANGE lanes properly. Trikaa Bill Petrocelli into that jail and let them kangaroo cidents throughout Northern California yesterday and early today. oo Miss Mildred Samuelson, 44, community relations director for the San Francisco Red Cross chapter, was westbound on Highway 40, driving a Red Cross vehicle.

An eastbound truck-trailer, hauling an 80-foot steel light; standard on a dolly rig approached on the highway's eastbound lane. Suddenly, according to the Highway Patrol, a long bar connecting the dolly with the cab broke. The dolly and light FATAL ACCIDENT Mia Mfldrtd Lacflle Scanutlsoa, a ntar Plnolt whan cm S04oot tubular stMl most on a San Francisco Bd Cross offldd. was kuld fautanjly teuck-rcdl rig swung acroa (he road and hit auto. tne aayj 0 6 Nobody's Safe But the Pheasants What else? Well, City Manager Wayne Thompson couldn't say no to his son Wayne, 11.

Neither could VsllflIiisiwiiiiii over, pinning Bright under neath. OOO Mrs. Alfreds Blazer, 32, the mother of three children, was killed yesterday in a traffic Chief of Police Wyman Vernon refuse his boy Johnny, 10. And so oil the foursome went to the Livermore area, there to let the prides and joys have a taste of the pheasant hunting lor which they yearned. accident that occurred in The foursome bagged three 4 heavy foe on Highway 101 standard swung across the near Healdsburg.

highway, smashing into Miss Samuelson's car, 1 1 i I Hpr auto collided with a pheasants in no tune and were looking around for more-when-BANG! the inevitable shot happy hunter lumber truck-trailer driven by Leonard Canutti of Layton- The truck driver, Donald L. Miller, 30, of 778 San Miguel took a pot shot at the group, no doubt mistaking them for Road, Concord, was not in passenger' suffered minor deer. jured. The crash is under Johnny Vernon, young OOO Birhnrd Tiifn GoetL-1 Miss 1 Samuelson. who li' Wayne and senior Wayne were hit, the shot penetrat- 222 St, Martinez, was injured last night when his auto at 127 Leroy Place, San Francisco, was returning from a Red hit a guard rail on tne ignacio ing clothing but not break ing the skin.

Wyman Ver Cross meeting Travis Air Force Base. Valley Overpass in Walnut Creek. non merely heard the shot whiz bvn the OOO Mrs. Rita Flora Pearson, 48, hunter must have moaned, "I almost shot the chief Officers said that Goett lost control and struck an abut ment before crashing into the of 17951 Walnut Road, Castro of police! Valley was killed instantly I Tim trait. early today when her car Hunters were tromping about the dozen, stumbling over this and that, and tne marksman, a bashful souL did not volunteer that his was the crashed into a brick wall near Hayward.

erring aim. According to the Highway So the party returned to Oakland two small boys who had acquired a revised opinion of theP games- Patrol, the was eastbound on Laurel near Tanglewood tures of the hip and arm. Attendants at Kaiser Foundation Hospital said that his condition was good. 0 0 A Pacific Gas and Electric Company repairman was struck and seriously injured by an auto last night as he walked along a frontage road at a high rate of speed when she failed to negotiate a curve. Her auto skidded 105 feet mansnip 01 pneasani nunung.

a After all, all the Thompson-Vernon party had to show for the jaunt were three pheasants. The unknown hunter, however, can boast that he got two small boys CAUSE OFCBASH This tubular steel mast being baultd Oghwar 40. klQing hiv The tack drirtr tcdd bs before striking the walL by a truck rig smashtd Into Miss Saaraelscaft car on liered the accident was caused by mtchanical iaOare. Warren David Bright, 25, a Geyserville truck driver, died Anew ntDamme Ferryboat Begins Life learly-today when his auto paralleling the Bayshore Highway in Belmont Jack D. Hollenbeck, 37, of Stockton is in Sequoia Hospital in Redwoodity with-a fractured skull and a broken leg.

He was walking toward his parked car when he was struck by an auto driven by Roland and a city manager; That more than par for the course. 0 Chancey on Your Chances Spine-chilling StatisticsrFonmyfsmily with two or more children under the age of 21," officer David Chancey of the OPD traffic dep't is telling service clubmen7, "the chances are that before the youngsters aarh tVia am nf 91 at loact nno rtf tVlpm will Via VP hfn struck a telephone pole in So noma County. Embarks on Bright, according to the Highway Patrol, was north As Restaurant in Estuary New Cateer bound on Highway 101, two miles north of Winsor when Lampert 33, of 120 Fineview Drive, Menlo Park. .11 1 1i a i rnt. Kiiiea or injured as a resuu 01 a muiur acciaeni, xmii LamDert said that Houen- he lost control of his convert- The.

famous old ferryboat I ible auto. The vehicle sheared) beck unexpectedly appeared is I 1 Charts Van Damme will have churning paddle wheels in the front of him. off a telephone pole and turned estuary but will go nowhere. is, if we keep on driving -as we do today, bpine- chiHing? Heart-freezing 0 A About Elmer, theher morning did a fine job of knocking a CBS radio show off the formerly the flagship of the unior fdirors Quiz on. t-1 Richmond San' Rafael ferry LEGENDS lieet, the VeSet built in 1915 entered on a nefr career with a new name today at Jack -4W I SSSMM -I 4 London Square.

i air for some San Leandro homes, including that of Paui and Betty Fleischman. Henceforth, she is to be known as the "Paddle Wheel (They leaked over into the Restaurateur Patrick War- field of Berkeley says the completely-refurbished vessel will open in mid December and that electric motors will wrong wave length.) "Elmer, we can't hear you!" Betty Fleischman neard a voice importune. "Elmer, are youtere? We're going to be mobile in a'few minutes, Elmer. Elmer, can you contact those other fellows? Elmer, where ARE you?" turn the giant paddlewheels slowly. PADDLE WHEEL As a dining establishment, bar and nightclub, the "Paddle Wheel" replaces the old Oakland Showboat, which burned and sank on the site at the foot of Broadway a year ago.

4 If Elmer will contact the Fleischmans, who understand things like radio waves, they'll tell him "what "happened sb's" it "won't happen again. In return, they're dying to find out where Elmer WAS all that 0 A Pound Wise .1 An announcement: By University of California Friends of waffield and his wife, Polly, of 1041 Cragmont Berkeley, say the float ing restaurant should be named TrlkaM Mt Tat and Polly's Boat" PADDIW1IEEI3 AlTO SOUP Thc Thecbuple worked for two years aboard it, removing most of the utilitarian coat of paint, seeing the engines removed, and painting the 172-foot craft Press of its newly-published Annotatedindex to tne Cantos of Ezra John Edwards and William Vasse Jr. Mr. Pound being considered by some to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century and by others the most obscure, his work reeking as it does with historical and old ferryboat Charles Van Damme as (he 42-year-old vessel. is moored at Jack London Square, ready 'to open as the Paddle Wheel Restaurant next month.

Virtually a museum of feiryboatlng, boat was in Richmond-San Rafael and Martinei-Benlda sem Ice unta 1955. a gleaming white. Into the spotless engine literary allusions, foreign one of the 96 ferries that once room went a modern hotel-style kitchen, over the vehicu; plied the Bay. lar decking went a gunwale-to The Van Damme, named for DEATH CAR DRIVER PLEADS INNOCENT gunwale carpet, around the first president of the Rich vessel's new career. A chef of wide repute has been retained and Warfield says the "Paddle will be ready to turn out lunch and dinner menus for 164 persons seven days a week after the opening ceremonies.

phrases, historical dates of RejOiaisance rulers, and similar oddments, all incomprehensible to the layman. In their book Edwards Vasse have provided explanations for 8,000 such paddles was framed a glass enclosure. LONG BAR mond line, was taken off that run in 1941 when the Navy bought the craft for use in the WAS THERE A REAL JOHNNY APPIESEED? Behind many a legend there Is a bit of truth. But behind the story of Johnny Appleseed, which sounds almost like aciegend, there was a very real man. Johnny, whose" last name actually was Chatham, was born on a farm In Massachusetts during apple blossom time just before the Revolutionary war.

loving the woods and fields, he started to wander about the country when about 20 years old. While visiting an uncle at Qlean, N.Y., he decided to become an "apple missionary." Gathering apple seeds at a cider mill, he carried them with him and planted them by the roadside wherever he thought they would thrive, later he would return and tend his orchards. Unarmed end barefooted, accepting old clothes but little or no money for himself, he was a friend of the Indians, yet served the government as an Indian scout. He died in Warfield cut down the cen Vallejo-Mare island service. SAN LEANDRO, Nov.

21 ter island structure on the In. 1944, the State Highway system obtained the vessel for main deck to form the long bar, retaining part of the overhead sheeting as a hood. The items, which now need no longer baffle the citizenry. "We did the book because it's, something very much needed by people who want Fred Wooding Jr, 34, a Hay-ward postoffice employee, of 8778 Seaview Castro Valley, pleaded innocent te a misdemeanor manslaughter charge the Martmez-Benicia run, retiring the ferry in 1955 as no longer fast enough and too expensive to operate. The Highway 21 link since last year has had a newly-built heavy curbing is a footrail now, full of ancient scars of travel.

here yesterday. Diners will have a choice of Municipal Judge Gerald r. rnnnitt will at the date for three salons on two decks. Indiana when 3 years oia. There will be two- bars and Woodine't trial next Wedries- Diesel engine open-topped vessel, nicknamed "Little Toot," on the one-mile crossing.

Ynti run color this Dtcture oT Adult School Art Show Tomorrow SAN LEANDRO, Nov. 21 A competitive art show by students of the. San Leandro Adult School in Cooperation with the San Leandro Art Association will- be held tomorrow-and Saturday at the Pelton Shopping Center. Some 300 works in oils, water colors and mosaics will be displayed throughout the center. In addition, an "arts-in-action" section will be conducted from 9:30 to 11:30 am and from 1 to 9 p.m.

on Friday and from 920 sun. to 520 pjn, Saturday. day. The charge stems from cocktail lounges and a dance floor. Warfield, who bought the the death of Mrs.

Lucille wii-lemstein, 53, of 16355 Foothill to read the poems, explains William Vasse. You'd think that, after four years (off and on), hard work on their 350-page volume, the Berkeley writers wouW-jesettefly weary of the controversial poet? Edwards is already hard at work on a Pound biography. Vasse is hard at work on a doctoral dissertation on the theory of history in the Cantos. And you know where they're going for source material? Wny, to the Annotated Indexby Edwards and Vasse -THE KNAVE. "We are preserving the boat as a priceless part of the Bay's Van Damme from the state two years ago, worked on her at the Moore Drydock plant in I WIN (.

Johnny planting an apple tree, but better still, plan to plant an apple-tree of your own next spring if possible. It's better to plant a rooted tree from a nursery, however, than to depftrid on a seed. Mail a postcard with your qaestlon to Junior Editors, care The Tribune, P.O. Box 509, Oakland 4, and yon may win 111, as did Byron Bush of Pinole for today's idea. Blvd.

Mrs. Willemstein was struck by Wooding's car as she crossed Foothill Blvd. at 163rd glamorous past," says War-field. We feel that she is a memorial" Alameda. He gave the massive old enginef to the San Francisco Maritime Museum There will be a photograph Ave.

oa Nov. 9 police re gallery in which Warfield will ported. for a future exhibit' and invested all his savings in the have pictures of nearly every.