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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 19

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19 Three Killed in Bill, a maintenance man for Stonestown apartments in San Francisco, borrowed the money for her to Imake her trip. Headon Crashes Allison, 19, of 851 California was critically injured early this morning when bis car rammed a giant crane in the Yerba Buena tunnel of the Bay Bridge. Her Dream Of Lourdes to Come True Mrs. Dolores Dullaghan's trip to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France will be made through the supervision, care and facilities of the Red Cross in Paris. The 21-year-old San Fran cisco girl's dream of going to the shrine to pray for a mira cle to save her paralyzed legs was in doubt because there was no one to help her get fiom Paris to Lourdes.

But Peter J. Murphy, San Francisco director of the Red Cross, made arrangements for her to be met at Paris, trans ferred to a plane for Bordeaux, driven to Lourdes and back. Mrs. Dullaghan's husband, 4 IT THaii i if Headon crashes have killed three Californians and injured three others, two of them seriously. Thomas Scanlon, 63, of San Carlos, and his wife Jane were killed yesterday two miles north of San Luis Obispo when their car was struck by one driven by Lawrence Martinez, 29, of Atascadero.

Martinez was injured. Another crash be tween Lodi and Stockton took the life of Edwin 0. Speaks-walking, 26, of Stockton. The driver of the other car, Mrs. Katherine Hanselman, 52, of Lodi, suffered major injuries A San Franciscan, Robert Welfare Law Aprogram designed to alert the visually handicapped to recent changes in the social welfare laws and local emDlovment ODDortuni- ties will be held Feb.

17 at the Eastbay Center for the Blind, 5433 Shattuck Ave. The day long seminar spon sored by the California Council of the Blind will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a report by Russell Kletzing, a sightless Sacramento attorney. He will discuss recent legislation. The afternoon session, led SHOP Piano Buyers Attention! SAVE $400 AND MORE! 7 W'vt ntvtr had tuch ula thb! Eittira stack of ntw KIMBALL PIANOS must tok) to uva taxtt! EXAMPLES: Model 25, regularly $959, sale $545, Model 7.

$445. Model 32, console, ail woods, regularly $1095, sale $695. Benches optional. All new fresh stock received just before Christmas. Dealers welcome.

Choice of 45 pianos. Terms, nothing down, 1 5 monthly. Eltfut Stytts frescli Pntiitial, Eirtj Aiericii, Itjlin. Pmiielal, itc THE PIANO STORE-TE 4-8343 801 -805 E. 14th Street, Oakland EL 7-1738 Fire turns an abandoned hall into a glowing skeleton at Knowland State 40 CATS CROWD OUT RED FEATHER'S MATE CHP officers said Allison was eastbound on the lower deck of the bridge when his car suddenly veered into the closed westbound lane and struck the crane, which is used to 1 remove sections of the roadway.

Allison was taken to Mission Emergency Hospital. Officers were continuing in vestigations of all three ac cidents. Seminar Slated by James McGinnis, newly elected president of the Coun cil, will be an open forum on employment break-throughs for the blind. Veteran of CHP Dies in Yuba City YUBA CITY' ffl Tal madgeTal Norwood, 67, a a member of the California Highway Patrol since it was formed, died today in Fre mont Hospital here of cancer, Caurott CHICAGO LB Quentin Lapash, complained to police last night that 40 spaghetti -eating cats kept by his wife, Red Feather, are making his life miserable. A policeman who went to the five-room Lapash apartment said he lost count because the cats jumped around too much, and, besides, they all looked gray.

Lapash said his wife, a 42-year-old Blackfoot Indian' It Took Us 12 Months to Collect Stones Fine Enough for Our Tradition Quality Standards at this Breath-taking Low $129 Monday, Thursday and Friday 9:30 a.m. 'til 9 pan. Other days 'til 5:30 p.m. Only 3 Candidates For Albany Council ALBANY With one week left before filings close, only three candidates have announced for the four City Council posts at stake in the April 10 city election. Deadline for filing is noon, Feb.

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P. Off. DDSammoinialliS E.E. Farwell Dies at Home In Alameda ALAMEDA Everett E. Farwell, 73, a member of the Alameda School District Board of Education for 10 years, died last night at his home at 2117 Otis Drive.

Mr. Farwell was a member of the school board from 1929 to 1939 and served as its president from 1934 to 1939. He also was a founder and past president of the California School Trustees Association and a past president of the Alameda Red Cross Chapter. Mr. Farwell was a member of Oak Grove Masonic Lodge 215, Oakland Scottish Rite Bodies, the Alameda Rotary Club, Aahmes Temple of the Shrine, the Alameda Business' men's Garden Club and Carita Chapter 115, 0.E.S.

A retired book store owner and nursery operator, Mr, Farwell lived moit of his life in Alameda. He is survived by his widow, Kathryn; a daughter, Mrs. Drusula Stehlow of Alameda; a son, Everett Jr. of Alameda; and four grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p.m.

tomorrow it the Fowler-Anderson Funeral Home, 2244 Santa Clara with the Rev. H. W. Van Delinder, pastor of the First Presby terian Church of Alameda, U.C. Students Will Borrow Artist Prints BERKELEY-There will be another, lineup of students on the University of California campus this Saturday, but un like the preclass enrollment queues las't weekend, no trou ble is anticipated.

The line in front of the main library will be composed of art lnvprs who want to bor row original prints from the graphic arts loan' collection for the spring semester. The University loans the art works to stimulate students enjoy ment of art. The program has grown in popularity so that students now stand in line well in ad vance of the opening hour for a chance to take home a Pi- cassoor or other work to deco rate their rooms. More than 280 works are available, including wood cuts, etchings, engravings, lithographs, silk screens and water colors. Three Eskimo stone sculptures are included Tat whose name, indeed, is Red Feather, has a degree in animal husbandry from Purdue University.

Red Feather loves animals, Lapash added. The cats' feed bill was extremely high, Lapash said, although they recently were put on reduced rations of spaghetti. "I like cats," Lapash, a factory worker, told policemen. "But I'm tired of living with 40 of them." Police took no immediate action. papers have been filed by incumbent Councilmen Joel W.

1050 Stannage and Lewis M. Howell, 1079 Peralta for four year terms. Joseph Egenberg 518 Stannage: has filed for one of the two-year terms to be contested. Incumbent Paul Boyich and George Hein have not announced their plans. Police Chief Ralph Jensen, 412 Evelyn will seek reelection, as will tliree incum: bent school board members, Charles A.

Pinkham, 535 Stannage; Dr. Thomas C. Cock, 1332 Portland and Max D. Kelley, 628 Stannage. Lawrence D.

Saler, 633 Stannage, has filed for the city attorney's job being vacated by his law partnf Rob ert Foley. Thursday, Feb. 15, is also the deadline for Albany resi dents to register to be eligible to vote. Engineers Host To Contestants Eastbay semi-finalists in the annual Engineers Week Scholarship Contest sponsored by the East Bay Engineers Chib will be introduced at noon tomorrow at a luncheon at 316 14th St. The young men and their high schools are: Bruce Reitz, Fremont; Earl Salo, Arroyo; Robert Jacobsen, Piedmont; Edward Graham, Acalanes; Victor Kayfetz, Pittsburg, and Roger Sturgeon, vallejo.

Contest winners will be air nounced Feb. 21 at the Engi neers Week banquet at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Prizes include $1,000 scholarship and $700 scholarships. The committee on finance agreed with this sum and indicated it could be met by individual memberships of $10 a year and sustaining mem-bersihps by service clubs. Named to the nominating committee, were Paul Baum-gart, Mrs.

Peter Jurs, Bob Ash, Charles Stevenson, Mrs. Ralph Fisher, the Rev. Thomas and Mrs. Beth Arboretum and Park Fire Razes Knowland Park Hall Fire that showered the un derbrush and nearby homes with flaming embecs de stroyed an abandoned recrea tion hall in the Knowland State Arboretum and Park shortly after midnight today Two alarms brought 38 fire men as flames climbed fur iously through the big frame building and turned it into a skeleton of glowing timber. An expensive sports car parked inside the structure was destroyed, and one fire man was injured.

CAUSE UNCERTAIN Battalion Chief Sam Gay said investigators have been unable to determine the cause of the blaze. Damage to the structure, 1,000 feet from the main gate at Mountain Blvd and Golf Links Road, was es timated at $8,500. City Park Director William Penn Jr. said the struc ture was closed to public use two years ago when the fire marshal labeled it a fire trap because of faulty wiring and its age. The building was con structed in 1890.

Until six months ago, part of it was used as a home for Effie the elephant. So furious was the blaze, and so widespread the shower of sparks, that residents of homes just outside the park were ordered to sprinkle their rooftops with water. TREES BURN Although flames leaped to some nearby trees, firemen kept it from spreading beyond that None of thezoo animals were endangered. It took the 38 firemen from 12 companies three hours to put down all of the hot spots. Hoseman Robert Mestro-vich, 45, suffered a severely cut hand, three stitches were taken at Merritt Hospital.

School Board Gives Land for Library RICHMOND The Richmond School District board last night deeded to the coun ty 26,400 square feet of land at the Kensington School site for the construction of a library for the community. The board imposed three conditions on tBe transaction, They are that the library building must cost a minimum of $100,000, that construction must begin within three years and that the county must maintain the first 200 feet of an access road serving both the school and the library. NEW PROGRAM FOR REGENTS' SCHOLARSHIPS SACRAMENTO (LTD -Gov. Edmund G. Brown and Dr.

Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, have announced. a new program for regents' scholarships to the university. Under the program appointments for two or four years would be made to entering freshmen, to continuing and transfer students beginning their junior year in the university and to students in the schools of medicine. ''few'- I-Ia i 1 III 1 Planners Seek Apartment Zone Changes Oakland's planning commission wants to tighten restrictions on construction of multiple dwellings in certain districts of the city. A public hearing on proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance will be held Feb.

21. The changes will affect zones in which four dwelling units can now be built on a lot With a conditional use permit, a builder can add another unit for each 1,000 square feet of lot. Fearing overdevelopment of such districts because of a large number of requests for conditional permits, the plan ning commission wants to: re quire a minimum of 1,500 square feet of land per unit, require 300 square feet of usable open space per unit and add other controls. Literacy Teacher Course to Open A course in teaching reading and writing to adult illiterates will- start Monday night at the Downtown Cen ter of San Francisco State College at 540 Powell St Robert Likins, field consult ant for the Laubach Literary Center in Berkeley, will teach the course, which will be of fered on 10 consecutive Mon days. same basic objectives and asked monthly meetings and drafting of by-laws.

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Why it Pays to Buy Diamonds at Sears? Because, since 1888, Sears has been known lor large style selection outstanding values and most of all for integrity as a seller of -diamonds for over 73 years. NO MONEY DOWN when you buy diamonds on Sears Easy Payment Plan Lifetime Trade-In Sears allows you full purchase price paid (exclusive of taxes) on any Tradition diamond ring in trade for higher priced Tradition ring at any time. Full-scale operation -of Oakland's Public Advisory Council on Education (PACE) under an annual $18,000 budget has been recommended by two special committees. Some 35 persons attending last night's session on PACE at the Lakeside Park Garden Center voted to follow through on the suggestions. The report on the group's future program called for the SHOP AT SEARS AND SAVE SEARS PARK FREE Wintoa at Freeway Harvard JE 8-4300.

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