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Bay Area Prepares For Flu Outbreak Oakland Tribune, Thursday Jan; 14, 1960 E' -3 Huge Oakland Apartmentis OK'd U.S. Protests DuPont-GM Court Ruling CHICAGO, Jan. 14-lUPl)- Bay Area health officers and any patient In health Institutions who need it Hrcpare44oday for -an, Inevit Dr. Sox suggested the same The largest apartment build procedure' to every hospital in San Francisco. ing in Oakland's history will be erected at 1537 Jackson St The government today filed a notice that it intends to appeal to the Supreme Court of Dr.

Sox did not suggest mass able outbreak of "Q-flu" identified yesterday ps Asian Flu. The virus is sweeping north, from Stanislaus, Fresno; Kern, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. The Los Angeles strain, which has' hit 56-unit Lake Royal Apartment at 177 l'Jth said his newest project will feature 'quality" apartments renting for from $100 to $175 a month. Costing $2,250,000, the three- vaccinations. He theorized that project will replace the Civic Center Hospital, which is moving to a tne united States the ruling of a district court here in the Du Pont-General Motors antitrust case.

not more than 30 per cent of the population would be hit by the Asian, flu, and it would require 100 per cent immunization to reduce the attack rate to 5 per cent. 500,000 persons, may also be the Asian Flu. new building early next month. iney will include 60 efficiency apartments, 96 24 two-bedroom and 12 luxury penthouse apart-, ments. In a ruling handed down last Plans were revealed yes terday as the City Planning Commlslson board of adjust November 17, U.S.

District Judge Walter J. Labuy ruled that E. I. Du Pont de Nemours RAPID SPRFJVD Dr. Harold L.

Fabcr, Fresno and General Motors must eliminate common directors County health officer, said there was an alarming in Architect is the San Francisco firm of Wurster, Ber-nardi and Emmons. Financing for project was arranged by Sol Gilberg, Oakland realtor, who nego and must transfer to stockholders the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont. But Labuy ruled against di tiated a loan of $1,450,000 with 7 tA 7 1 State Health Director Dr. Malcolm Merrill said his department's virus laboratory in Berkeley isolated the flu virus from blood samples taken from Southern California patients. The malady struck Americans two years ago, but most cases were mild.

It did, however, often lead to pneumonia. SYMPTOMS The symptoms are generally fever, aches and pains, sore throat and stomach upset. Dr. Merrill, noting the rapid spread of the disease, urged Caliiornians to consider immunization. Those who received two shots during the wunuv.

1.1111 UC OllU VA 1 CU vestiture disposal of the stock, on grounds that under present tax laws such action would be unnecessarily harsh and punitive and that the effects of the sale of the hold reientatives for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Gilberg said this is tne largest apartment house loan ever made in Oakland. The board granted Bakar a it ings would be unsettling in the stock market. ments granted a rear yard variance to Pacific Queen Investment owner and developer. HOSPTAL RAZING Gerson Bakar, builder, said the hospital building will be razed as Soon as the move is completed.

Construction on the apartment will follow immediately with completion scheduled for early fall. To be named Jackson Lake Apartments, the structure will provide 80 per cent offstreet parking a semi-basement below the main structure. The principal building, with 420 feet of frontage on Jackson will contain 174 units. A smaller three-story building of 18 units will extend through the block on a 50 foot lot between 1514 and 1528 Alice St. TWO POOLS The main' building will enclose three open-air inner courts with two swimming pools.

There will be four ele tui iuv.c iui a iciu vcai vaiu In its notice of appeal the government will ask the Su preme. Court to determine past epidemic need only a whether Labuy's final judgment grants the necessary re booster now. Others should where 10 feet 'is usually required. Dakar's project exceeds in size and cost the 144-unit Clinton Park Manor apartment complex at 12th Ave. and East 19th which at groundbreaking ceremonies last year was hailed as the lartrest in ritv histnrv.

get two. lief to remedy alleged violations of the.Clayton Act. This is the second time the crease in respiratory ailments. -The county's hospitals are admitting only those who have development pneumonia as a result of the virus. The situation is similar in other San Joaquin Valley hospitals.

Dr. Faber noted that absenteeism has jumped in the schools because of the Asian flu from a normal of four per cent to 15 per cent in the elementary schools; 14.1 per cent in junior highs; and 13.2 per cent in high" schools. ABSENTEEISM UP Absenteeism among industrially employed adults has reached 10 per cent in Fresno County, compared to a normal of about 1.5 per cent; Health officials in the Bay Area have reported a slight increase in the incidence of respiratory ailments and "flu-like" illnesses, but no serious epidemic. The U.S. Public Health Service said it does not expect the outbreak in.

eight other states to reach the size of the epidemic two years ago. Square Dance Class to Begin A new beginners' square case has landed in the Su preme court, rive years ago Trfbun pb.U The vaccine is avauaDie through private physicians, Dr. Merrill said. He advised those who already are sick to go to bed and call their doctors. Heart patients, those with lung disease, older people with chronic illnesses and ex Labuy ruled that Du Pont holdings in GM were not mon OAKLAND CRASH Car of Fred Dyer lies buried up to its hub caps after being hurled 200 feet by switch engine at High Street and Southern Pacific tracks.

Dyer, seriously injured, said be misunderstood signals of a flagman. Zinc States BOISE, Jan. 14-Idaho, New Jersey, Montana and Arizona lead the U.S. in zinc opolistic and refused to go along with the government's demand that Du Pont be vators. Bakar, who recently com- pectant mothers might be par stripped of the stock.

ticularly- hard-hit by the flu, Dr. Merrill said, and vaccina- 4,300 Acres Man Hurt as Auto, Switch EngineMeet tipps, might beespecially to portant for' them. He added that it might also be a good idea to immunize Ii a Iff yea 1 key workers in the community such as fire, police and which he was riding went through flashing signals in a health personnel. AGAINST MASS SHOTS In San Ramon Valley Bought The Nation's ICtti largest real estate development firm has purchased 4.300 acres in San Ramon Valley south of Walnut Creek. It- is the same property driving rainstorm at 12:40 a.m., and was hit by a north Contra Costa County Health Director Dr.

H. L. Blum said "I thought the signalman was. waving me across' the tracks, but I must have misunderstood." Fred Dyer, 27, of 2117 11th seriously1 injured in a switch engine-auto collision at bound Western Pacific freight train. dance class sponsored by the he a recommending mass inoculations because it Jess W.

Hays, 26, of 1272 Berkeley Club Squares will hold its first meeting on Mon would take one to two weeks 144th San Leandro, said to build up immunity after he saw neither the signals nor the Soutfieni Pacific High St. crossing last night, made that the shots and that would prob day. Qpen to single adults be tween 24 and 45, the instrue the' train as he approached ably be too late. the First Avenue crossing. tion will be offered every Hays suffered only minor statement to Patrolman Charles Raynor just before he was taken to Highland Hos He suggested thdse with chronic ailments see their miuries, but Kuzma was Monday night for 13 weeks at Oakland's Emerson School, private physicians for advice.

transferred to Highland Hos pital. This was echoed by pital with chest injuries after A. T7I 385 49th St. Classes begin at 8 p.m. But the engmeer, Clyde Barbara Dittmann, assistant emergency ireauneni ai air mont Hospital.

health officer for Alameda The engineer, Frame Lem on, 55, of Z141 uristma PurUe, 60, 5676 Vicente said it appeared to him that Dyer and another driver disregarded the signalman's warning and attempted to beat his locomotive to the crossing. Instructor i 1 1 be Jack Mann, one of the founders of the club. Perry president, says that registration in the class will be optional for the first three weeks. Stockton, said the tram was County. Dr.

Ellis D. Sox, San Francisco health officer, said he was proceeding immediately to vaccinate all employees of the city health department traveling at 35 miles an hour and that he had no opportun ity to stop. "It looked to me like all the traffic was stopped," Purtle said. "Then these cars started across the tracks. The first one made it; but the second one was -too- slow.

I was traveling about 30 miles an hour and had no chance which a second developer took under option last year for proposed model city of 29,000 homes and 105,000 people, complete with industries and commercial centers. An informed source says the new firm intends to go ahead with a similar development. The purchaser, Is the' Volk-Mcljain Company of Los Angeles, which built rand more than $30,000,000 worth of homes and real estate last year. Options on the property were obtained last year by the Carl M. Buck Co.

of Los Angeles, which had planned to develop its city on about 8,000 acre's from near San Ramon to southeast of Dublin in Alameda County. Buck's plans involved building jbout 3,000 homes a year for JO years, with a large easr of San Ramon between State Highway 21 and the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Itwas not known immediate what Volk-McLain's prospective timetable might be. Tribune was told it hopes to get construction started this spring or early summer. The firm announced it has reorganized its executive structure in connection with the new project, Kenneth Q.

VoUc Jr. and Robert B. Mc-Lain, the partners, were at all to stop." The signalman was identified by police only as P. E. Lawler.

His address was- not listed. Hospital authorities said Dyer was suffering from head and back injuries and possible "'t7'-; 1 1 Utt internal injuries. His car was pushed more than 200 feet, Hart Schaf finer Marx SUITS were $7935 to $11035 Beautiful women's suits featuring rich fabrics, exquisite detail-ing and figure flattering fit through proportioned sizes. Choose from a wide selection of colors and sizes. and his rear bumper scraped against a train parked 150Jeet east of High St.

In San Leandro, Pete Kuzma, 51, of .188 Joaquin San Leandro, was seriously hurt when the car in 59. 69. named to a new executive Molten Lava Inches Down Hawaii Slope Continued from Page 1 committee along with Ronald E. White, treasurer. Tjhey formed a management committee with George O.

Prussell as director of sales, HART SCHAFFNER MARX Domestic Fabric SUITS 5975 Superb values in fine worsteds, flannels and twists in a wide range of patterns and colors. Medium and dark ftytt tones.) Sizes to fit all men. Were $75, $85. Qu Edward Van Vleit, director of eruption. The- last of them production, Charles St.

John, left before 11 p.m. director. of engineering, and- Marvelous savings on BLOUSES Regularly An unusually large selection of Dacron. nylon, pure silk, Dacroncotton and cotton blouses in a wide choice of styles and colors. White as comptroller.

The firm already is develop The lava first appeared as a virtual curtain of fire, then broke into three separate Drastic Markdowns on BETTER DRESSES were $1935 to' $393 Choose yours from the season's most wanted fabrics and styles all in an excellent selection of colors and sizes! I5and23 ing a planned community of fountains from a long. rift. Carlton Hills Estates in San Imported Fabric SUITS Custom fromEngland. Small cinder cones formed 7975 around the fountains. Diego, with recreation faculties, parks, elementary and hieh schools, churches arid The eruption is far down the eastern slope of Kilauea four huge shopping centers volcano, near the eastern most point of the island.

The spot in the southern island is some 200 mileS from Hono and long-wearing herringbones from South America. Some Imported, reverse twist worsteds. Most are hand- QQ75 tailored, Silver Trumpeters. Were $95. $115.

V. Richly Tailored TOPCOATS Drastic reductions on domestic fabrics plus tweeds from Chic Year-around. StATE'S 1959 AUTO DEATHS UP TO 3,585 Traffic1 accidents in Calif The flow was about a mile and a half from the coast, steadily1 creeping seaward. Scotland, coverts from England and worsteds from Italy. Wide range of sizes and colors.

Were $85. ornia took 75 more lives in Five years ago a similar eruption in the same area caused about $1,000,000 in Famous Makers' WOOL SKIRTS were $12J95 to $16J95 Wonderful values in fine quality, beautifully tailored wool skirts all in an excellent assortment of fabrics and styles. i 8 and XO 1958 than in the preceding veal. damages. COATS Regularly $4535 to $7935 Select, quality fabrics in weights created for 12 month Bay Area wear.

All are Milium lined. Choose from many smart new styles in a galaxy of fresh colors. 29 and 49 Superb Quality SPORTGOATS Excellent reductions on famous sportcoats. Choose from herringbones, checks arid hqpsacks all in medium and charcoal tones. Were $50.

$60. The California Traffic Safety 'foundation reports 3,585 persons, died in state traffic accidents last year. The tally 35 4975 Mrs. Marcello Diggo of Kapoho said the earthquakes opened a two-foot fissure in the main street in front of her house and one side of the was swelled by 35 traffic street sank. i deaths during the Christmas period and 24 over the long New Year's weekend.

Seismologist Jerry Eaton said he believed the eruption was a development of the Pay 13 February, 13 March, 13 April -No service charge if paid imtiih 90 days. ALL SALES FINAL The most traffic deaths, for on month last year came in eruption at Kilauea Iki crater, at the top of the volcano, last November. The 376 fatalities recorded that month were the November. He said pressure, highest for a single, month building up underground since since December. 1956, the then, bad produced the new San Francisco: post kearny Oakland: 1560 broadway Stonestown: 77 stonestown mall foundation reported.

eruption. Through October of 1959 the OAKLAND ...1560 Broadway Franklin St Lou's Auto Park Downtown Mexcbuits Parking Lots The evacuated villagers were taken to Pahoa, about year's death rate was running below, that of 1958. five miles away..