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1 2 ccccc Oaklmd Tribune, Sunday, Aug. 24, 1 958 County Eyes Plan For Bond Election Jupiter Carries New 'Moon' Aloft Continued from Page 1 BOMB BLASTS HAVANA HOTEL ANTIQUE SHOP HAVANA, Aug. 25 'JiA powerful bomb went off late today in a shop on the ground floor of the Hotel Havana Hilton, causing heavy damage. The bomb was placed in an antique shop, which was destroyed. Show windows in nearby itiops were shattered.

The property toll was estimated at several thousand dollars. There was no immediate report of any injuries. Police made several arrests. Bond Issues Up for Vote In Five Cities Continued from Pf 1 the municipal golf cour from 9 to 18 holes, install water and sewer systems and build a clubhouse. Backers say golf fees will pay for the measure.

The Antioch council has given preliminary approval to the measure but supervisors have not received it as yet. MAJOR PROJECTS El Cerrito $2,100,000 for eight major projects including a new city hall, fire station, police station, community rcc-roution center, swimming pool, relocation of the city corporation yard, enlargement of the city library and street and The largest bond issue ever sold for general government purpotes in Alameda County was in 1923 when the Po.ey tube was built Bonds totaling $4,322,000 were sold at an Interest rate of 5 per cent. paid orr IN 1941 The interest payments for the tube totaled $1,742,725 and the final payment was made June 22, 1943. The smallest bond Issue came in 1874 when bonds totaling $150,000 were sold to build the county its first jail and courthouse in Oakland. The jail issue was $50,000 and the interest rate was 2.85 per cent, according to yellowed records still maintained in the office of County Clerk Jack G.

Blue. V' $35 cesses in four trie up to today. The added weigni in u. new Satellite resulted from increasing the amount of protective lead shielding around one of the four radiation counters in the instrument load. Although Explorer IV is doing an exceptional job, it was discovered that the radiation energy was so high, above thkt it merced the one-slxteenth-of-an-inch lead shield like paper.

The protective coating was made three times thicker in Explorer in an effort to cut thr. severe Dcnetration of the rays on a geiger counter inside the shield. Scientists want to compare the radiation amounts absorbed by the shielded and non-shielded instruments. Red Offices Raided MEXICO CITY, Aug. 23 Lfl Police raided national headquarters of the communist party today and carted off literature and documents.

OAKLAND'S TRAFFIC TOLL Al Tbli Dlf KI1U4 Injurr 1958 27 1,359 last Year 32 1,466 0 0 0 DANGER ZONE Mac Arthur Blvd. and Telegraph Ave. VIOLATION the tube terminals and to repair the old bridge. In 1924 the county finally voted $1,800,000 to build the Highland HospitaL 5 per cent interest rate again was paid and the bonds were retired in November, 1944, after $1,058,500 had been paid in interest, according to records in the office of County Auditor Eugene Waring. DEPRESSION HITS For nearly a decade the bond Issue was missing from county government records.

But then came the depression. On Jan. 1, 1933, the county sold $3,000,000 in bonds to finance a relief program. Interest rate for this issue varied from 3.25 per cent to 5 per cent and a total of $1,409,662 was charged in interest before the total was paid off March 31, 1952. Then came the courthouse bonds of 1934 and when War-ings office makes the final payment on that $1,712,000 issue next May 1, the total interest will be $886,800 or 51.3 per cent of the total.

STRIKE INCIDENT Mr. Anita Wilson (left) touches her bruit fact and Mri. Eva Neudorfer thowi wrist broken yeitexday In Alameda Hospital Incident with pickets. New Parley Slated In Hospital Tieup Milium linid Boy Coat S5 wool, 15 camel hair: back-belted, saddle-stitched, Milium-i nsula ted Camel, red, navy. T-sizes IO-20.

17th 1 T.Ljnph HI 44)4f 2nd Fleer Abeve Ilw4t ft- If Alameda County decides to conduct a bond election for new juvenile detention facilities, it will mark the firt county-government bond vote in nearly 25 years and only tha eighth in 104 years. The county probation committee, announcing need for ex tensive new facilities Ut week. will meet soon with the Board of Supervisors to discuss building priorities and consider fi nancing methods, including a possible bond issue proposal Bond financing of public improvements has become increasingly popular in California even though Alameda County seldom has used this method of financing improvements. This county instead has preferred the pay-as-you-go program, a survey of the financial records since 1854 indicated. BONDING PROGRAMS As a result, taxpayers have saved money on interest payments that accompany bonding programs.

But on the other hand the cost of public improvements have been borne almost entirely by one generation rather than spreading them out over longer periods. This is the classical financial argument of bonds versus the pay-as-you-go plan. The bond proponents say several generations will benefit from a public building, and therefore the long term financing is more equitable even though it involves paying interest Pay-as-you-go advocates cite the interest costs and claim that each generation should and generally does contribute a new public improvement for which it pays. Therefore it balances, they say. SOUND CONDITION Currently Alameda County's debt ledger is in better shape than any other major California county.

At the end of the present fiscal year, the county will be debt free. There are two payments of $6,000 each remaining on a $1,712,000 bond issue that was sold in 1934 to finance the courthouse, a WPA project that was undertaken jointly with the Federal Government. Most of California's so-called cow counties are debt free but the major population counties have large debts in most cases. Los Angeles, for example, owes $49,000,000, San Diego, $8,339,000, San Francisco Santa Clara $6,180,000. an hour to any volunteer whose work infringes on that done by members of Local 250.

Cool and comfortable. Stetson's lightweight PLAYBOY He said records are being kept and any of the volunteers who want to bi paid will be. The problem arose yesterday after Mrs. Effie Sparling, agent of the State Division of Industrial Welfare, said it is mandatory that the minimum hourly wage of $1 be paid the volunteers. She added there's nothing to prevent them from donating their wages back to the hospital.

NO REPLIES Richard Groulx, assistant secretary of the Alameda County Central Labor Council, said last night he had received no replies to telegrams sent to the administrators of the eight hospitals. He urged an immediate meeting to discuss the welfare needs of the hospitals' 1,100 patients. The Labor Council will act Monday on a recommendation from its executive board to sanction the strike, Executives were reported to have brought supplies into some of the hospitals and also to have carried deliveries inside from the sidewalk. Oakland police investigated another incident at Providence Hospital last night. A woman picket complained a "sticky" substance was thrown on her following an exchange of words with a Police said the picket refused to give her name, however, or make an official complaint.

Wear glasses that look like these! A 3 per cent interest rate was paid for the $100,000 issue that financed the courthouse at 5th and Broadway, the building that still is in use as headquarters for the Welfare Department REVIEWED IN 1911 After the 1874 issue, which was the county's first, the bond method was not used again until 1911 when the supervisors asked the voters to approve $500,000 for a county hospital. The vote was 4,193 in favor of and 2,311 against not the required two-thirds majority, so the bonds were not approved. Again in 1915 the supervisors turned to the voters and asked approval of a $1,000,000 bond issue to finance an Alameda County exhibit at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Again the voters chorused "no." Next bond venture came In 1917 when the board asked for $900,000 for a new Webster Street bridge over the estuary, $1,000,000 for a county hospital and $1,000,000 for a poor farm. BRIDGE ISSUE OK'd The hospital and poor farm issues were beaten but the voters approved the bridge proposal.

After the election, however, a big ship steamed up the estuary and whacked the old Webster St. bridge, causing extensive damage. This set the engineers to thinking. As it turned out, the bridge never was built and instead the board waited until 1923 to sell more bonds but for a tube instead of a bridge. Some $200,000 of the bridge issue was used to buy land for I I 2 for $99 i 1 drainage improvements.

The measure has been approved by the supervisors for the November ballot. El Cerrito city officials say the program can be financed without increasing the city tax rate. Contra Costa County Supervisors will decide Sept. 2 whether to put a $2,550,000 bond issue on the ballot. As proposed by County Administrator D.

M. Teeter, $1,000,000 would be used for a foot addition to the administration building in Martinez and consolidation of phone facilities and heating plants in the building. Teeter says office space is now being rented in Martinez because of cramped quarters and that consolidation of utilities would save expenses because of greater volume purchasing through a single meter. The remainder of the issue would go to buy three county buildings now being purchased on a lease-purchase plan. Teeter estimates the outright purchase of the buildings would save $171,000 over the next 14 years.

STATE PROPOSITIONS The four state propositions on the ballot are: 1 $300,000,000 to continue the Cal-Vet farm and home purchase act. 2 $220,000,000 for loans and grants to school districts for school construction and for special aid to handicapped children. 3 $200,000,000 for state educational facilities, mental and correctional institutions. 4 $60,000,000 for harbor development including for State Harbor facilities in San Francisco Bay and up to $10,000,000 for loans to develop small craft harbors throughout California. Pianist Secon Dies NEW YORK, Aug.

23 Of) Norman Secon, 52, concert pianist, died today of a liver ailment. Secon appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony under Pierre Mon-teux. extreme spectacle correction Fitting Since 193( jlgjllgf I Continued from Pare 1 the Clinton Ave. side. Mrs.

Brice told the officer Mrs. Williams struck her first During a struggle, Mrs. Williams received bruises of the right arm and left leg and Mrs. Brlce'a glasses were broken on the sidewalk, Brecke reported. POLICE ABSENT There was no policeman at the hospital when the incidents occurred yesterday morning.

One officer was stationed at the main entrance when two subsequent shifts ieported but there was no further trouble, and the officer was withdrawn. Sgt. George Rasmussen said the women's statements will referred to the district at torney's office, but that further action is doubtful unless one or more of the three sign complaints. The strikers are kitchen workers, housekeeping employees, maintenance and laundry workers and nursing aides. They walked out to support demands for a union shop and a raise of approximately $30 a month.

The hospitals affected are Alta Bates and Herrick Memorial in Berkeley, East Oakland, Merritt, Providence, Peralta and Children's Hospital of the East Bay in Oakland and Alameda Hospital. REGULARS RETURN Meanwhile, Corbett said volunteers associated with hospital guilds and auxiliaries are gradually reducing the amount of work they have taken over in the hospitals as a result of the strike. He said more of the regular workers were on the job yesterday than at any time since the strike started. Kelly said the union considers the volunteers strikebreakers. "We think they should observe our picket lines," he said.

Corbett said last night the hospitals are complying with the law by offering to pay $1 U.S. BOY TIES RUSS CHAMP IN CHESS DUEL PORTOROZ, Yugoslavia, Aug. 23 OP Fifteen-year-old Bobby Fischer of New York and Russian champion Mikhail Talj tangled in one of the most exciting matches of the inter-zone chess tournament today without reaching a decision. Their 12th round match was adjourned by Fischer. For a long time the position was balanced and both masters played for victory.

At one time Fischer had a draw but he didn't want it. Experts, however, believe the young American should have been content with a draw and believe that now Fischer will have to fight for a draw. Woman Killed in Hit-Run Crash WOODLAND, Aug. 23 Wl Mrs. Isabell Monge, 53, of Los Angeles, was killed Saturday in a hit and run highway collision, Coroner W.

C. McNary reported. McNary said a car driven by Albert Monge, the victim's husband, crashed into a telephone pole after being hit by a truck at the junction of Highway 99W and 95 northwest of Woodland. A broke piece of the truck's bumper was recovered. McNary said the driver fled.

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