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i THE1VEATHER STORY BAY AREA Hvy rain today. Showers tonight. Scattered tomorrow. Smatl craft warnings for southerly winds up to 20-40 m.p.h. today i ESTABUSUDFC RU AY 1 74 OA KUND, OLirO R.N.t VOL 176, NO.

286 10 DAILY, 25C SUNDAY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1962 $2.25 A MONTH TEmplebar 2-6000 Bus Line of Mud Kills j. ma Storm's Hostage Firemen work to free Mrs. Peter Gordon, pinned to the" ground and trapped be Neutral on tween a home-and a crumbling retain Girl Disaster ing wall at 181 76 Walnut Road, Castro Valley. The four-foot wall gave way after peltinq rains softened earth. 1 row 1 Tritant phot by Bill Crwck All :1 '8 Cull Canyon Dam Nears Break Point Portland Paralyzed By Storm Bond Issue Coordination Promised If Plan Approved AC Transit will not take a position for or against the $792 million Bay Area rapid transit bond issue on the ballot in November.

But if Voters do approve the 75 mile train system, AC Transit will make every effort to coordinate its operations with the three county network. That summary of the East- Records Broken Here The current storm has The Pacific Coast from washed out all previous rain all records. British Columbia to the San Francisco Bay was reeling today-from a howline storm The reason for the area- By ELINOR HAYES The worsening storm grew vicious in the Eastbay today, piling disaster on disaster. Diane Dobson, 5, was killed under an onrushing sea of. mud as she clung to her -mother's hand to leave theif wide catastrophe is evident in that took a heavy toll in death S.

Weather -Bureau figures. ana devastation. A total of 4.47 inches of rain I Portland was left virtually paralyzed. Most power and ell in the 24 hours up to 1 bay bus company's position was presented to the Oakland m. today, according to the Central Business District As Crestmont development home.

telephone lines were broken and the city sprawled in the Weather Bureau at sociation yesterday by AC City Manager Wayne Thomp darkness last night Metropolitan Oakland International Airport. President William J. Betten-court. son summoned recreation department crews and trucks, and all off duty police and re It was the same along the The total has been 7.31 entire Oregon coastline and He emphasized that the rap nches since Wednesday. much of Northern California.

serves. RALLIES MANPOWER id transit bond issue is being submitted to the people by the By midnight, however, the The most rain during any Area Rapid Transit Dis He was attempting to add worst appeared to be over in Oregon and Washington. The previous all 31 days since records have trict not AC Transit, which is an entirely different public effect of heavy rains lingered been kept was 3.08 Inches. an additional force of 200 men, employes of private contractors. All off duty firemen were told to stand by for probable on although the storm was The last 24 hour figure Is agency.

INVITED TO TALK ebbing. the heaviest downpour ever auty. Bettencourt and other AC ine storms aove-taiieo so that to the layman it was experienced in any 24 hour period in Oakland's recorded He said he plans to use representatives were invited to tell the association what ef just one gigantic downpour history. that left at least 35 dead boats from Lake Merritt for evacuation of homes. He called in all city department fects the proposad network It is more than that for any its fury and made playthings previous total month of Octo of man-made power, dams will have on the bus company De Leuw, Cather and Co.

i ber. automobiles, homes and even one town. OREGON BATTERED i consulting engineers, have predicted that inauguration of the rapid transit system 9 heads for emergency planning. A large section of East, Oakland was evacuated with fire trucks taking families to schools where the Red Cross set up emergency stations. The Impending probability that Cull Canyon Dam in Oregon's GoV.

Mark Hat would reduce AC Transit rev- I 4 Man Finds enues by some $3,355,000 in field declared a state of emer gency, called out Nationa the year I960. wrv" Guard units Portland ana That figure was based on -notified President Kennedy Wife Slain tro Valley would collapse as the1 assumptions that AC will give up all transbay service, help might be needed. Hat field called It "the worst ca heavy water poured through that AC would provide feeder lines to all transit stations tastrophe in the state's his Storm Pictures Page 3 In Home tory." MAYOR ATTENDS and that no split of fares One of the dead, Larry Cardinals Put Off Balloting would exist on transbay serv its a main wall caused evacuation of a dozen Johnson, 22, a graduate stu ices. dent at the University of Ore families living between the Three Eastbay women In as many days have been murdered in their homes. In response to a question, gon at Eugene, was kuled Bettencourt conceded that dam and Old Dublin Road.

Highway 24, the main link A when a piece of glass pierced In Matican Electoral Dispute these assumptions leave room his heart as he attempted Our Sister Gity in Japan Celebrates iThe Jatest Jlctim Js Mrs, for: negotiations between the place cardboard over a window during the violent storm two public agencies. Patricia Vernard, 38, of 1517 24th who police say was stand that these solemn con VATICAN CITYv-i-M Eu between uaioana ana wmtrr Costa County was closed-to traffic in both directions in early afternoon. A "river" of water-wM flowing across the also was seconding the motion on behalf of Bernard Jan Al- lie said that possible severance damages or reim- cilia cessions are primarily stabbed. Her unclothed body ropean Cardinals brought the first working session of the Roman Catholic Ecumenical rink, archbishop of Utrecht, religious and spiritual." was found on the bedroom Dursement for lost revenues The Pontiff then discussed Holland; Julius Doepfn'er, FUKUO'kA, Japan --This southern Japan city took could be negotiated. The storm was felt from northern California to British Columbia, but Oregon caught the worst of it.

Portland was in darkness. Looting started after the wind smashed hundreds of store prejudices concerning his "I believe in rapid on a festive look Saturday as archbishop of Munich; and Franziskus Koenig, archbishop of Vienna. church, saying they "rest most often on-inaccurate -or hedeclared.UUunk it's go highway one mile east of the Caldecott 1 at a construction site. A huge rain- -filled lake-covered-alHhree westbound lanes and as spreading. MAJOR CALAMITY Council to an abrupt close today with a swift move to head ofHvhat tme informant called automatic election to the council's commissions, vi beganjyhich-will culminate in linking it to Oak- ing to come in some form.

Is incomplete information." The source said the council this the plan? We re not look and as a sister city. People attribute to windows. National Guard units and all available police secretariat had distributed ing for any quarrels. We put Mayor Joan C. Houlihan of lists of suggested candidates At the same time Pope John Church doctrines which she does not profess," he said.

things out to you and. let you floor by her husband, Kenneth E. Vernard, 38, when he came home from work at 5:30 pjn. yesterday. A trail of blood led from the front room, where a seven inch butcher knife was found, to Mrs.

Vemard's body. Two half-filled cups of liquor were also found in the front room. Inspector Ralph Weathcrby said the woman appeared to have been killed between noon the, council fathers. This Of all the homes in danger XXIII, speaking in the Sistine were called out to halt thievery WORST OVER Oakland and a party of 40 other Oaklanders have arrived for the gala celebrations The Pope touched briefly on make the decision. TOO EARLY YET informant added that Cardi and damaged and their Chapel, urged journalists from the question of world peace to nal Lienart declared not all total runs into the thousands one of the major calamities The AC president reported It was the same along the scheduled to mark the event.

With him is Nils Eklund, pres the suggested candidates were around the world to tell the public "there are no political machinations afoot" in "the council. that negotiations between AC Oregon coast and in a number of Oregon communities up the wen known to all bishops. DISCUSSIONS SET and BARTD have never taken ident of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce who is a vice president of Kaiser Industries. Willamette Valley in Western was to that of Maurice Logan, famous artist and secretary of the Board of trustees -of the College of Arts and Crafts whose 50-year old place. "Presumably that's going to be done after the elec As he spoke, the first work Many wshops were reported and 2 p.m.

yesterday. Her Oregon. which he devoted a strong appeal; yesterday to world leaders. 'In serving the' truth," he said today, "you will at the same time have assisted that 'interior disarmament' which is the absolutely necessary condition for the establishment of true peace on earth. ing session ol the council tion," he declared.

"If it had By midnight the worst was husband is a retired Navy man working at Mare Island 4, In addition to the sister city program, Oakland's KTVU television station will enter on bogged down in electoral pro planning to assemble tonight in national groups to discuss candidates they would like to been done, I think your AC home, at- 7117 Chabot Road over. Winds were diminishing everywhere and the Mather cedure. board would have taken a Naval Shipyard. suffered $75,000 loss, not In- similar relationshix i see on the commissions. SHORT MEETIN stand." bureau--said nothing worse, Ponce and Vernard eluding paintings.

Fukuoka's RKB station. Wil than winds of 25-30 miles an Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, The meeting oft the 2,700 In widespread locations tramped through rain lashed neighborhood streets last French-born dean of the Col- hour were expected on the council fathers in Kt. Peter's liam DPabst, general manager of KTVU, and Quentin throughout Oakland at least a score of houses were re two members of the association, R. W. Breuner and Y.

C. (Chet) Soda, urged the bus company to take a stand coast today. They will di ege ot. Cardinals, presided at "These, gentlemen, are our hopes, our incentives and our desires. Permit us to add a word of gratitude.

For we ap night searching for someone who may have seen Mrs. Ver Basilica lasted onlyVan hour, half of it taken up bvSMass. Kelly, its press director, are minish still further Sunday. the opening session. ported slipping from their foundations.

One was said, to here for this aspect of the At Astoria at the mouth of The council fathers will The fathers were supposed to against the bond issue. nard alive yesterday. Police are continuing the search to preciate your efforts to inform be tumbling into a creek. ceremonies. They are guests of RKB president Hidezo Ka- meet again Tuesday, presum Breuner said he favored the Columbia River where the storm apparently cen the public the mamfesta day.

Mrs. Peter Gordon, of 18176 ably to start voting for mem neko. Earlier murder victims Walnut Road, Castro Valley, have started voting for 160 members of 10 working comv missions which, will, debate the far-ranging- issues Pope John has listed to be studied. bers of the commissions. tered- a fish cannery was flattened.

tion of the Church's life and we have, on our own account good reason for satisfaction the construction of a rapid transit line exclusively in the Soda added that the BARTD network would "sab were Judith Solis, whose teen was pinned to the- ground KTVU wiii program two hours of today's celebrations The voting was to have end The weather bureau said age husband admitted shoot when a large section of a four- for Northern California view the storm like the one that ing her In Alameda Thurs ed Oct 20, but it now appeared likely that it would last in the respectful understanding with which you have, in otage our present system. I But a communique issued ers and has a news team here foot retaining wall fell on her. FREEWAYS CLOSED day, and Mrs. Helen Sawyer, preceded it by 24 hours formed 900 miles off San the onger and that actual coun for that purpose. general, spoken of our own can't understand the overlap- after the meeting said: ping of the two." -'l council si prominent Oakland clubwom Both the Nlmitz and East- start cil debates would not get un humble person." ranciscfo, moved easterly, an, whose suspected slayer ing to vote, agreed to a mo shore Freeways were closed Bettencourt told the busi der way until late this month.

Concluding, the Pope said then shifted to the Northwest. was arrested Wednesday the first time in memory. ness group that the assump "We ask no more than that The Pope seemed in good 4 Berlin Refugees Escape From Reds IURRICANE FORCE tions made by the transit en you mayjdways and on every tion to adjourn until Tuesday in order to give council par-ticipants a chance to acquire "a better knowledge of the The first storm also had Bomb Blast Kills Red gineers do not necessarily BERLIN -WV- West Berlin occasion a 1 to write humor as he read his speech to newsmen in pausing once to apologize for any hurricane-force gusts, but it Throughout Oakland major -streets were closed one after the other as they became virtual rivers." MacArthur Blvd. was the represent policy decisions by down as our single and true Custom? Official, was not as fierce as the sec police reported the escape of four refugees last night despite the AC directors. title of honor: He was a priest MACAO A bomb ex- ond storm.

Weather bureau Achille Cardinal Lienart. He said, for example, that orecasters a i the second before God and before the people, a true and sincere errors his use of this language. The 807 newsmen in the chapel applauded fdr two minutes when he finished. new precautions by the, communists' people's police. Lonly.

major crosstown artery ploded today In Communist territory across the Macao one was intensified when cold AC might decide to continue bishop of France made running buses across the Bay the motion, the communique friend of all the nations." No details were given about border, killing one customs air from the Bering Sea He finished by giving the the refugees or their means SERVING TRUTH official, travelers from-Red Bridge after the transbay tube is built if there are enough i said. Joseph Cardinal Fnngs, archbishop of Cologne, sec newsmen his blessing of escape. Continued Page 2, Col. 3 China reported. The pontiff told them: "You arv at the service of passengers who want coach onded it.

Cardinal Flings, an They said the was service. informant reported, said he bund by a Communist secur Russ Demand open. City Manager Wayne Thompson called an emergency meeting of street defense and police department officials, to deal with the mounting necessity for action. He ordered radio stations to issue a sigalert (highway pa-Continued Page CoL 4 ity policeman in, luggage be- Congress Plans to truth and you come up to men's expectations insofar as you serve; it faithfully. We speak-Purposely of the ex onging to a woman visitor rom this Portuguese colony.

West Berlin IsWSf'lxsftComsv le threw it into a paddy field pectations of men of men, where it exploded, killing the that is, in general i Adjourn Tonight customs official. though the press may have Wall Guard TEMPERATURES at one time reached no more (M hour ptrit4 widnf at mm today) WASHINGTON IUPD The than, a select few, it is obvi resent the House at the fu UNITED STATES, N.Y.- ous that today it directs the neral in California of Rep Senate adjourned sine die at EMERGENCY EXISTS; UB Soviet foreign Minister thoughts and feelings and Clem Miller canceled its de 40 p.m., EDT. 51 57 1.89 56 1.91 57 1.98 Oakland Downtown 67 Airport 68 S.F. Downtown 67 Airport 68 emotions of a great part of parture' plans to stay for the session. WASHINGTON (0 The mankind.

"For mis reason the distor Andrei A. Gromyko demanded today that a guard be established by the Western Powers to end the "dangerous and provocative acts" along the TRAVEL BAN HERE House mustered a quorum of major pending business is a 15 billion Public Works tion of truth by the organs of information can have in- Appropriation Bill to which Its members for business today and its leaders announced plans to adjourn the 87th Con western side of. the Berlin calculable consequences. Oakland was in a state of emergency.with a Sigalert the House has added seven SEASONAL RAINFALL Us DaM Normal Yr. Oakland Apt.

4.98 .31 .42 S.F. Airport ..5.56 .46 MORI WIATHEK TABLES ON PA6I Jl WHERE. TO FIND IT wall. There is admittedly a great local water projects now in warning all travelers to- stay out of the city. The Soviet leader did no temptation to pander to the gress later in the day.

It had to halt its proceed cluded in a separate bill which spell out the proposal in de MacArthur Blvd. was the only mam east-west route open across the city. The Nimitz Freeway was blocked. may be dropped. ings last night when only 204 tastes of a particular section, to be more concerned with speed than accuracy, to be tail but he told a news conference such steps were nec The Senate meanwhile was prepared to meet and recess to await the House action.

The members answered a roll caTL: Residents of the East Oakland area south of East 14th to the San Leandro line were being advised to evacuate. -1 Jl It. i essary to ease the tension more interested in the sen over the Berlin problem. Senate still has to act on Democratic Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma and Repub sational than, in the objec Uve Astrology 5 Clawified Ads 14 Comics 4 Crossword Pualt 5 Dossier 13 -Sports 9 Thoators :13 lican Leader Charles Hal- It appeared that suggesting that the Western should establish a mill-. Pope John dwelt on the leek of Indiana pleaded with Ecumenical Council and the Mua siiaes were causing aeaia ana wiaespreaa destruction throughout the city; The Cull Canyon Dam northeast of Castro Valley was crumbling and residents of the canyon fled.

I Areas below East 14th St. from Seminary Ave. to 77th Ave. were under water four feet high in some members to remain on hand tary zone alone the western role newsmen will play. compromise bill to authorize 2.4 billion more in public works projects for later construction, but was holding up on that until the House agrees to a money bill satisfactory to the Senate Of cours thtyro not side of the wall to keep Wes "We ask of all of you," he 5 21 so business could be com pleted.

Vitals said, "an effort to understand otnpty, comradt. Thsy'ro -full of Cuban sugar." German demonstrators at distance. World of Women 6 ana to maxe otners unoer- A delegation named to rep 'TV.

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