Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 9

Oikland Tribune Bir 9 10, 1959 State College Cities, County Ask FREEWAY U-TURN DRAWS COP TICKET Face Courses Dist Out ransif Probe Board FIRST COPTER The California Highway Pa trol sent out its first citation yesterday for a traffic violation witnessed from a heli copter. J. R. in spector, said he and Lt. Earl Pugh looked down in astonishment last Friday morning at a big truck and trailer rig making a U-turn on the six-lane Nimitz Freeway outside of Eastbay Indians Plan Birthday Tea The Intertribal Friendship House, gathering place for American ndians in the East-bay, will hold a "birthday tea and housewarming tomorrow in its new quarters at 51 Ninth The public is invited to attend the event from 3 to 5 p.m., according to Wesley Huss, director.

State Supreme Court Justice Raymond E. Peters of Oakland, chairman of the governing board, said the house provides social and counseling services to the many American Indians coming from reservations into the Eastbay. Tomorrow's tea marks the fifth birthday of the organization which moved into the former Ming 9uonB Home on July 1. The center was formerly at 2964 Telegraph Ave. The house is operated by the American Friends Service Committee and is financed partly by funds contributed by Indian people.

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION EXTENDED WASHINGTON, July 10-W A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee voted 4-3 today to eje-tend the life of the Civil Rights Commission until Jan. 31, 1961. The commission's final report now is due Sept. 9, 1959. By another 4-3 vote, the subcommittee rejected a bill of Sen.

Paul H. Douglas 111.) to provide federal grants to help states in complying with the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision. Sen. Roman L. Hruska Neb.) lined up with southern opponents to defeat the Douglas bill but supported the move to extend the Civil Rights Commission.

Chairman Thomas C. Hen-nings Jr. Mo.) said he had called another meeting of the subcommittee for next Wednesday. Bail Jumper Arrested in Manteca MANTECA, July 10 Robert James Emmet 29, who jumped $11,000 bail nosted bv an Oakland bail bond agency, was in custody here today. Emmett, wanted on burelarv or narcotics charces bv half a dozen law enforcement agen cies in Northern California including Berkeley and San Francisco police earlier this OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TIL 9, OPEN SUNDAY 11 TO 5 i 1 BEPEOT1D BY EQUEST! WESTERN' Voir Get ior 1 WITH PUBCHASE OF.

Mattress Spring Frame 2 Vanity Lamps Y-2 2 Throwrugs BEDROOM SUITE Includes: Mr. and Mrs. Dresser, Mirror and Bookcase Headboard i Living Room Suite Hayward. King and Pugh, on a flight testing the effectiveness of helicopter observation of traffic, pursued the truck and noted its identifying markings. The driver! Eric Tell of Santa Maria, explained he had forgotten a cargo ticket dn San Leandro and turned back to get it.

The citation charges Tell with making an illegal U-turn. week had escaped a sheriffs trap at a chicken ranch near Tracy. Police arrested Emmett here yesterday on the street. He offered no resistance. Emmett is awaiting sentence on a Berkeley drug store burglary conviction and also faces trial on state and federal narcotics charges in San Francisco.

TH Divan and Sir Club Chair From fi 1 Oakland Steel Plant Struck One Oakland steel fabricaja ing plant is closed by a striki and another is threatened. wit a shutdown Monday in con tract disputes with United Steelworkers locals. About 70 workers are Idled by a strike called, by the un. ion's Local 1798 against Mala-bary Manufacturing 84S 92nd which produces high pressure cleaning equip ment. The union is demanding a 23.

cent hourly pay hike and the company has offered from" to 8 cents, according to John Cantwell of United Employers which represents the com. pany. The Monday strike threat was made by Steelworkers Local 1304 to enforce a demand for a 27-cent hourly wage increase against Elrick Rim 70 Hegenberger Loop. pad box spring i to Match 1' Pol City, Stockton 2 Table Lamps 2 2 End Tables V-2 Coffee Table 1 Picture against remaining under district jurisdiction. After listening to the arguments, transit directors continued a public hearing on the withdrawal requests to Aug.

12. A decision probably will be reached then, District President Robert K. Barber said. ELECTION REQUIRED The transit board has the power to agree and lop the areas from the district. If it rejects all or part of exclusion petitions filed by the two cities and the county, the district must call and pay for an election on the question in areas denied.

Regardless of the decision, property owners still will pay the estimated 2.8 cent tax rate for 1959-60. Even if the areas are excluded, the tax must be collected because the property was in the district on the first Monday in March. Both city councils and the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors held public hearings before filing the petitions for exclusion. PEOPLE ANXIOUS' Supervisor Thomas J. Coll, who led the delegation, said, The people in our area are all anxious to be excluded." They indicated it, he said, when they rejected the district's proposed $16,900,000 bond issue last No vember.

Supervisors James P. Kenny, Concord City Atty. Thomas McBride and Walnut Creek Councilman Douglas R. Page agreed. They were backed up by Kenneth Forsman, secretary of the Lafayette Improvement Association, who said he also represented Supervisor Mel F.

Nielsen, and by Harry L. Morrison executive secretary of the Contra Costa County Taxpayers' Association. Morrison said, "Not one, single organized group in the county requested inclusion in this district -DISTRICT OPPOSED He recalled that the board of supervisors opposed formation of the district; that a transit council was formed and waged a successful fight for a court ruling that Richmond and San Pablo were never legally in the district; that 50 square miles of unincorporated territory have been excluded by the district earlier, and that supervisors and civic groups opposed the bond measure. Votes in Contra Costa County in favor of creating the district when it was formed resulted from public confusion about the district and the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Page said. Transit director William Co-burn noted that although the bond issue was defeated, 40 per cent of Contra Costa voters cast "yes" ballots.

"How can all of you stand here and say the people are unanimously against the district when seven months ago 40 per cent of them were willing to put up to get buses?" 'STILL PROBLEMS Barber said the issue is: "Are we to continue the responsibility for transit or are you people going to do it? There are still transit problems." Page replied, "1 realize there is a shift of responsibility and I'm willing to accept it" Coll "There's no question we must provide transportation one way or another." But, he said, as elected officials the spokesmen feel they know- what the people think about remaining in the district "If there's any question in your mind, you ought to put it to a vote of the people," Coll told the directors. Additional exclusion peti tions are expected from Rich-fmand, Hercules and Martinez. Although none of the cities is within the district, some scattered parcels annexed to the cities' after the district was formed are still legally parts of the district. 5, Includes: Matching Tightening of 'admissior standards and a closer look at some of the courses in the state colleges are going to be too oriority items for future State Board of Education meetings. The board, which ends its two-day session at San Francisco State College today, spent considerable time on discussing the matters yesterday afternoon.

The uneradinff of admission standards particularly those of students transferring from junior colleges will probably be put up to a formal vote at the board's September meeting. Dr. Dorothy KnoelL higher education specialist for the State Department of Education, reviewed present stand ards and reported that tne residents of the state colleges have already asked that the transfer provisions be bolstered. 10,000 TRANSFERS Dr. Knoell reported that some 10,000 junior college transfers are hanctted by the state colleges each year.

Half of these would not have been eligible to come to the state colleges when they graduated from high school, she said and many in this group still have difficulty in meeting the college standards. The proposed revisions would require that these trans fer students either earn higher grade averages in the junior colleees or remain there longer before transferring. Dr. Knoell said nresent standards for in coming freshmen are selective enough to maintain a high level of achievement RAISES QUESTION The tvoe of courses being taught were questioned by board member Thomas Eraden of Oceanside who asked if degrees in real estate and print ing management were educationally sound. "Surely printing management is pretty close to a trade course," Braden said.

He was told that a percentage of real estate license fees were set aside for the first course. "I think this is another program handed to us by the legislature," commented Raymond J. Daba of Atherton. The members were remind ed that a master, plan survey now being undertaken by the University of California, the state colleges, private institutions and junior colleges is designed to determine which schools should teach the various courses and avoid duplication. ALL-INCLUSIVE The survey' is to be finished by next January and will include functions of the various educational facilities, new campuses and financing of higher education.

was given to a six-point program designed to hike the salary, of state college faculty members by 12 V4 per cent instead of the 5 per' cent approved by the legislature. Carradine's Son Freed of Charges John Arthur Carradine, 22, actor son of the actor by the same" name; has been found innocent of charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest in San Francisco last May 1. A jury in the court of San Francisco Municipal Judge Carl H. Allen yesterday cleared young Carradine after 40 minutes of deliberation. Carradine, who lives at 1624 Milvia Berkeley, was jailed after an altercation with San' Francisco police inspectors Robert Quinn and Mike Dower at Third and Tehama Streets.

The officers said they had to hit Carradine with a flashlight to subdue him. AT YOUR FORD DEALER'S -HIS fl7uscn cabs give you a new il KIND OF PROTECTION WHEN YOU. BUY I A plea made last night ihnt all Contra Costa County territory be dropped from the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, except El Cerrito and Kensington. Walnut Creek, Concord and Contra Costa County official united to ask that both cities and 190 square miles of unin- nroprated area be excluded. They said of residents is overwhelmingly $450,000 for Tube Quake Study Olfd Directors of the Bay Area Hapid Transit District have approved a $450,000 contract for engineering studies of how in build a transbay tube free ct earthquake hazards.

Engineers already have concluded it can be done. But they are not yet certain how 'deeply under the bay it must be placed and precisely how to design it. District directors approved 1he contract yesterday after a long debate over whether to refer it back to th engineering committee for more study. Director Thomas F. Casey Jr.

of San Mateo County argued hat the contract should spell out the total cost, instead of being on a cost-plus percent-se basis with a $450,000 ceiling that can be raised by the hoard if necessary. COST-PLUS FAVORED The majority agreed with Vice President John C. Beckett of Marin County who argued the cost-plus system could result in a saving. The contract is with three engineering firms which jointly also have a $600,000 contract to draw detailed plans for the remainder of a five county transit system. Gov.

Edmund G. Brown week signed a law pledging $115,000,000 from Bay BrMee tolls for the tube construrtiorh providing the district passes a half-billion-dollar bond issue to finance the remainder of the system. PAY HIKE GRANTED In other action, directors: 1 Gave a per cent pay raise to their administrative and clerical workers effective July 1 to bring them in line with new state salaries for the same posts. I Established, but did not Immediately fill, eight new job including the post of assistant chief engineer at a salary of $16,000 to $20,000. per year.

3 Authorized eTf ent Clair W. MacLeod of Alameda County and General Manager John M. Peirce to go to Washington, D.C., to seek a change in federal law so the Bay Bridge money offered by the state for a tube can be used. A federal restriction now limits use of tolls to building two additional bridges for automobiles. .0 TT 3 1L.

nediu i ii engineers say the Bay Area has a chance to open new horizons in transportation by developing a highly automatic train system. Dr. Ellsworth D. Cook, transit consulting engineer for the General Electric said researchers need specifications for the kind of transit equipment desired early so the concepts can be converted into usable machinery. Another GE engineer, John C.

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