Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 13

OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED r-. DAILY NEWSPAPER yOL CLXXIII THIS SECTION EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGJES, COMICS, RADIO AND TELEVISION llllINl MIIUAI If ASSOCIATE INTIIN ATIOH Al CHlC0 DAILY fOHIt ttlVICI OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1960 13 NO. 47 Wrecker Uses Sherman Tank to Blitz Old Homes 6" It Wastes No Time Clea ring Postal Site 1 1 i 4 1 i yj; Ji 7 f- -f i -im 1 i 4., s- 1 -I- Postal officials were per plexed whep building wrecker Abdo S. Allen submitted a low bid of $64,000 for clearing the 20-acre site for Project Gate waythe $13,000,000. postal annex in West Oakland.

Era f-vi If Fa I I I I i tl JT S' hiJ4 He was $1,000 below the r7 1 i-" I next lowest bidder and (50,000 below the high bidder. How was he going to ctear the 11-block area of its ramshackle houses and still clear a profit? "I ve got an idea," Allen, TrlbwiM phot a support pole for a high voltage line and blocking, SKerwin Ave. untiJ late today. The car's wheels were car OFF THE TRACKS-'ltl loaded with a one-time midget race track driver, explained. lum His idea consisted of pur partially torn off but-there were no injuries and ber was pushed off the end of a Southern Pacific chasing, for $2,000, a surplus spur line on Sherwin Ave.

last night, knocking down power was not disrupted. Sherman Tank of World War II vintage, a 73,000 pound dreadnaught powered by a 500 A tank prepares to attack first house in new post office site clearance plan. Shotgun 'Girl' Due EARLY BIRTH OF TRIPLETS SAVES LIVES OF FAMILY horsepower engine. RIGHT REASONING The tank would be much more powerful than the usual derrick-operated claw scoop, he reasoned. And it would be For Slashings Quiz HAYWARD, Aug.

Hayward police want to ques safer and faster too. 1. I He was right Yesterday Allen, 41, donned tion a man jailed in Contra Costa County to see if he had any connection with the Palma Ceia slashings. a racing driver's safety hel Mrs. Ardolino, who had expected to give birth in September, was taken to the hospital Sunday night with premature labor pains.

The Ardolino's two other children, Ann, 5, and Connie, 3, were sent to" a brother's home. The plane smashed Into the living room at 6:29 p.m. the time the entire family A nighttime prowler has cut and beaten two women and attempted to strangle an 11-year-old girl in the tract met and climbed into his tank, which had been brought by truck to Third and Peralta Streets. during the past six weeks. BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug.

16 iff) The premature birth of triplets took a family away from its house just before an airplane crashed into it last night. Raymond Ardolino said the births had saved his family from possible death. No one was home when the private plane hurtled into the house. The crash ofJhe Beech-cf aft Bonanza Injured the pilot, John Kiraly, 34, of Woodbridge, and the owner, Joseph Mascio, of Menlo Park. Police Chief George Forth Before him stood a forlorn row of six two-story frame usually, gathered each night houses.

ft ft 'ft i Loan Office 'Patron' Takes $150 Instead I to watch cartoons on television in the living room. Mother and triplets were doing satisfactorily at the hospital. said said he is definitely interested in questioning Richard Douglas Harrison, 25, of 20551 Wisteria Castro Valley. MENTIONS SLASHINGS Harrison was caught early Saturday morning dressed in women's clothing in the parking lot of the Alamo Plaza shopping center. He had a WARMS UP ON TREE He gunned the engine and set the tank in motion.

Looking on were some 40 curious spectators, including Mayor i Li i i Clifford Rishell and a handful of reporters and cameramen. I i Million-Dollar Fires He headed straight for a tree in front of one of the houses. It looked like a pretty for midable object to start on, Blacken Forests and considerably sturdier than any tof the houses. SAN LEANDRO, Aug. 16 A scar-faced gunman held up the San Leandro branch of the Household Finance Corp.

shortly after poon yesterday and escaped with approximately. in cash. The man, described as tall, about 29 years old, weighing 160 pounds with a scar on his nose, entered the branch office, at 1217 Washington and introduced himself as a Snap! Down went the tree. A half-dozen forest fires sawed-off shotgun in the car but offered no resistance to deputy sheriffs making the arrest. "Frankly, I think he wanted to be picked up," said Sheriff's Detective Sgt.

Arthur Ojaska. "He has given no explanation of why he was in the parking lot dressed as he was." "You're not going to connect me with the Palma Ceia Without pausing, the tank ground into the first house and bored its own tunnel right through." The second story "Whim! The Old, West Oakland structure shudders as the huge tank bites into itl remained intact but barely so. It was shakily supported Mr. Cartwright" seeking a loan. by the side walls.

I The man waited for another Homes slashings," Harrison told Ojaska. Allen piloted the tank around to the front of the house again customer to leave then produced a pistol and ordered The said he'd not The tank was covered with acting Mgr. William Finn, 23, even mehtionM the 'slashings when Harrison made the debris and dust, but was otherwise unmarked. If which already have consumed several million dollars worth of timber, continued to plague Northern California today. The worst of the blazes was located 20 miles east of Quincy in the Plumas National Forest, where more than 2,700 acres of timber have been blackened.

The fire started yesterday from an unknown cause near Highway 40-A at the head of the Feather River Canyon. Winds and low humidity combined to make control of the fire difficult Not far away, two small fires which started last Saturday joined near Mosquito Creek. The- blaze, totaling 3,600 acres, was reported to be less than 50 per cent con of 173 Bohnas Road, Fairfax; and clerk, Jo Ann Shirer, 17, of 2123 Church Oakland, Again he aimed at the house. This time there was a Ojaska said Harrison, who to put the money from a cash roar as the second story came has admitted to a Danville burglary and others he has drawer and safe into a brown paper bag he handed them. not yet fully described, worked for a time as a door- Finn and Miss Shirer were to-door salesman in the Palma then ordered to the rear of the building and told not to come Ceia area.

Of the 600 men fighting the two Tahoe Forest fires, nearly half were Zuni Indians, flown in from New Mexico and Arizona. Seven tanker planes were being used to drop a flame-retarding borate solution on the hot spots. Downievijle was not threatened by either of the fires. A 150-acre fire northwest of town was controlled late yesterday. In the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, some 30 miles south of Hayfork (Trinity County), a blaze had consumed more than 800 acres of timber nearly 12,000,000 board feet.

Combined damage to timber in Northern California during the past three days was estimated to be in excess of $3,000,000 with fire-fighting costs adding up to another $1,000,000. Retired Kodak Vice President Dies ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 16 (Dr. C. E.

Kenneth Mees, 78, retired vice president of the Eastman Kodak and one of the company's former leading researchers, died in Honolulu early today, it was reported here. out until the robber had a Yesterday afternoon, he was 1 fv-v -sfc yx jftS5t. jrvf Vv ll If! held to answer to Superior chance to escape. Finn waited a few minutes and summoned police. trolled, however.

Court for th burglary of the home of William Silva at 535 Bobbie Drive, Danville, on July 25. Harrison said he had gotten only foodstuffs in the burglary. HAYWARD GUN THEFT I if LJF'f vW i Man Wounded by Ex-Girl Friend EMERYVILLE, Aug. 16 plunging down, burying the tank, but only momentarily. 10 MINUTES FLAT The elapsed time from the first resounding snap to the last dusty roar was 10 minutes.

Some 90 minutes all six houses were leveled and a tractor-scoop was handling the' more pedestrian task of breaking up the debris into little pieces. Allen stepped from bis tank with a beaming smile. He was covered with black dust and perspiration dripped from his face. In an hour and a half he had accomplished a task that would take conventional equipment two days to do. How was he going to make a profit? He patted the un-wrinkled fender of the tank.

"That's how," he said. Lonnie Bill Roberts, 24, of 5108 Ojaska said Harrison told of getting the shotgun he had in his car at the time of his ar Grove is in serious condi tion in Highland Hospital after being shot in the abdomen Some 800 on men were on the firelines of the two Plumas County fires. To the southwest, in Tahoe National Forest, two large fires burned near Downievil-le. In Wolf Creek, seven miles from the Sierra County community, a lightning-spawned blaze0 grew to 1,600 acres. Two miles to the east, another fire had spread across 800 acres of timber in New York Ravine, rest from a burglary "somer where" in Hayward.

during a bar room argument "I'm skeptical of the guy," Ojaska said. "He seems to with his ex-girl friend. Booked at the Oakland jail want to get into prison and 1 avoid further questioning." The slasher being sougth In for assault with a deadly weapon is Betty Jean Lewis, 24, of 834 Virginia Berkeley. the Hayward area has been described by his victims as being tall and very dark com- plexioned. Such 'a description Barely visible now, the big tank eats its way into the heart of the old home.

might have been the result of a disguise, Ojaska said. Har Miss Lewis told Police Sgt. Robert Steeves she shot Roberts with a borrowed revolver during an argument last night in a tavern at 1202 53rd St. Police said Miss Lewis told them she had taken the gun away from a drunken friend rison is five feet, nine inches tall and lieht comDlected. The detective said Harrisonl claims to be an actor and ex I I i JLL'-; plains he commits burglary to relieve pent-up emotions Contra Costa detectives are taking Harrison today to the scene of various unsolved several days ago to "keep him from hurting anyone." Survey Slated For Emeryville EMERYVILLE, 16- burglaries.

City Engineer Julius Lucoff Prison to Help Inmates Adjust SAN QUENTIN, Aug. 16-An intensive care unit f6r inmates of San Quentin State Prison is in operation today with the has been authorized to call bids for surveying the northwest, portion of the city. The action was taken by the city council last night after Lucoff called survey lines in that part of the city "a mess." Some lines, he said, are off 10 to 20 feet. He estimated the work would cost $3,000 and recommended it be done over a period of four years. The city survey will involve nnlv rentpr lines and Mnrlc opening of a $721,000 building to house inmates who have difficulty adjusting themselves to prison life.

ine new building, a "prison within a prison," has facilities for "101 inmates. Each will have a separate cell and coun 4 seling, group psychiatry, and other aids aimed at adjusting corners, Lucoff Surveying of Individual lots will be the responsibility of property owners. I i -vV i'w)(niLy-' the prisoner to prisoailfe will Trlbunt photo by Ktlth DmiiHim Dust, debris and splintered wood ire all that's left of the ancient dwelHng. be available. Its doom sealed, the fnmestructure begins to fall ai the' tank pushes through -k.