Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 101

Oattbnd Tribune, Sunday, Dec. 11, 1960 M-21 dinner. THEN ON RAINY PAYS, POCTOR, I ALWAYS GET THIS FAIN RI6HT THROUGH HERE 1 IT HARDTO BELIEVE THAT THOSE TWO WERE ONCE A -PART OF THE ROARINGCS. TW0 PRINKS. NO STORY-TELL1NG; LAYOFF THE APMINISTRATION, ANP PRJVIN6 HOME FOR ONCE ETHEL ANP I WERE PETERMINEP, TO ARRIVE ON TIME THIS WHOLE HOUSE WAS RALPHS OWN I PEA HE THINKS WOULPWU BEUEVEIXELAINE, I HAP 10 tJtfc HIM 10 COMt SflUVWNG FAVORITE STORY i pot USS Arizona's Rusty Hulk -A Challenge to Patriotism Tcarl Harbor "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to jrcrari tldiwi.

With those words a young sailor greets more than 50,000 visitors yearly on boat tours that annually become more popular despite the, fact that it has been 19 years since "Remember Pearl Harbor" luraTn wnrlri.a'iifo Hnftl Naming Our City Streets ly ALBERT E. NORMAN MANDANA BOULEVARD from Grand Avenue to Crocker Avenue in Piedmont, and RAND AVENUE from Lake Park Avenue to Mandana, were both named for Lila Mandana Havens, wife of Frank Havens. She was the daughter of David H. Rand, once Oakland's Captain of Police. While in office Rand lived ori Bay Place between Telegraph and Broadway.

His home prior to 1869 was at Seventh Street near Wood. Mrs. Havens was born in San Francisco and was educated to be a schoolteacher. Upon coming to Oakland she found employment inlhe telegraph office. One day a telegram bearing her excellent handwriting was delivered to Mr.

Havens, He went the telegraph office to meet the penman and upon seeing Miss Rand, hired her as his secretary and soon married her. She then became the social leader of Piedmont society. She and her husband developed Wildwood Gardens, a showplace with a house therein built of teakwood a Siamese temple they had removed from the Orient. Although she had no children of her own, she reigned over theHavens household that consisted of sons of Mr. Havens' former marriage, Wickham, Harold, Paul and Seyd.

Mrs. Havens passed away June 20, 1939, at the age of 72. A subscriber an earlier statement that Coolidge Ave. was named in 1909. She's right, of course the same was changed from PeraKa to Coolidge to AEN.

cry. The high point a visit' to Pearl Harbor is the battle ship Arizona, which lies much as the Japanese bombs left her. She was sunk at her berth along once famed "Battleship Row" with more than 1,100 officers and men entombed In the twisted wreckage. Construction finally has begun on a (500,000 memorial forHhe site. But after several public appeals and fund-rais- inc osmnaionc ihm Pnfifil going to Congress for them.

It seemed more fitting to him that the money should come directly from the people for whom the sacrifice was made. Chaplin told his fellow editors, "I am writing to you on behalf of more than 1,100 heroes. They went down with the battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor on that fateful Dec. 19 years ago. "Their remains are still entombed in the sunken hull of the ship, barely protruding above the water.

In contrast to magnificent monuments at other revered battlegrounds, their final resting place is a rusted mess of junk, a disgrace to the nation. "I am writing because as one who has stood on the rusted hulk of the USS Arizona," like thousands of others, visitors and local residents, I feel that no memorial to our war dead could be more fitting than to complete the enshrinement of USS Arizona." WOODEN PLATFORM Nearly everyone who has stood on the temporary wooden platform over the corroding outline of the Arizona has voiced sentiments similar to Chaplin's and has wondered hi amazement what keeps the I funds from rolling in. Many years ago it took the nation's school children only a few months and the savings of their pennies to raise the money necessary to preserve "Old Ironsides," the USS Con-' ititution of revolutionary war fame. Yet professional fund raii- ers, with the help of nationwide appeals, have fallen far short of the goal in three years of concerted efforts. For those who may have forgotten or for those too young to remember, the sailor-narrator on the Pearl Harbor tour -himself a toddler when the attack occurred can freshen your memory "And now," he says, "this brings us to the most famous ship in any Navy today.

And of course, I'm referring to the battleship USS Arizona. Here you may take pictures, but please keep your cameras aimed at the Arizona. We will make a complete turn here so, you people sitting on the right will have a chance to take pictures. NAVY NIGHTMARE "Hie Arizona suffered a Navy nightmare. Contrary to common belief a single bomb down the smokestack did not sink the Arizona.

She suffered many bomb hits. The bomb that finally broke her up hit her forward deck and penetrated down to her amrnuni tion and fuel storage areas where it exploded. The resultant fire spread to the black powder magazines and Arizona literally erupted like a volcano and went to the bottom in eight and a half minutes. people have always looked for heroes. Well, this morning you are passing by the final resting place of more than 1,100 true American heroes.

On the morning of December 7th there were 1,543 men serving aboard the ship. Today, more than 1,100 Kill i i t' War Memorial Commission still lacks $200,000 needed to complete the building. FUNDS NEEDED To editor George. Chaplin of the Honolulu Advertiser, i wis seemea wcreuiuie i years after the Japanese attack and IS years after the dedicated to the men aboard the ship. It is being preserved and will be placed in the memorial.

"It's a simple tribute from one sailor to another. The inscription reads 'Dedicated to the eternal memory of our gallant shipmates in the USS Arizona who gave their lives In action. From today on the USS Arizona will again fly our country's flag just as proudly as she did on 7 December 1941. I am tors the Arizona's crew win know and appreciate what we are doing. May God make his face to shine upon them, and grant them VMM Prat IrtwWMl remain entombed In her rusting hulk there is every rank and rate aboard from a rear admiral to an apprentice seaman.

The rear admiral is Isaac C. Kidd. STILL ON BOARD "The story goes that he was killed when trying to repel the enemy with a machine gun. The Arizona's commanding officer, Capt. Franklin Van Val-kenburgh, is also on board.

"The flag pole used to rest on her main deck house before it was cut away for the memorial. At the base of the flag 'staff there was a small plaque Navy asked and received per- mission from families of the entombed men to leave them In their ship and turn it into a shrine. Last week Chaplin sat down and wrote letters to every daily newspaper editor in the United States, asking editorial support in one last effort to. set the needed funds without.