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OAKLAND'S 1 LOCALLY AND LOCALLY CONTROLLED 7. DAILY NEWSPAPER THIS SECTIONS EDITORIAL AND FETUtc PAGES, COMICS, RADIO AND TELEVISION j- HTHIIUIIIO ASSOCIATED UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL CLXXV OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1961 EM 13 NO. 46 TT1T I I Boy Charged Mother Hits rotests Invited Murder Girl Custody nd Center On Bli Case Action Of Girl, 15 Sonoma Sheriff Reports Confession By Schoolmate State Tells El Cerrito 'Valid Objections' Will Be Considered Ex-Mate's Plea Just Says Mrs. Henderson Mrs. Eileen Henderson said EL CERRITO, Aug.

15 -r- Unles sthe city comes tip SANTA ROSA, Aug. 15-A murder charge has beenJiled today she does not regard her with "valid objections," the state will move aheadJwitbr against Dean Ross, 15, who ex-husband's request that its plan to locate the Oakland Orientation Center for the Blind in El Cerrito. brought her release from Santa Rita prison farm "as sensitive to public reaction, but any objec-1 tions put forth must have merit," Donald Perkins, land any gesture except as a ma neiiver." agent the property acquisition division of the State Department Finance, last Mrs. Henderson was freed yesterday after a two weeks night informed the -city Friend Shot council. stay for contempt of court for failing to produce the passports of her two daughters, He said he could not alab- orate on the statement, insists he does not know why he beat, choked and slashed to death hfs' schoolmate girl friend.

Sonoma County Sheriff John Ellis, who signed the murder complaint, said Ross confessed the slaying of Edna Doreen Harris, 15, of Graton yesterday. The boy said he knocked her down with his fists, feroke a bottle over her head, choked her, then stabbed her five times; fioss, although he burst into tears when visited by his family, has -persistently told deputies, "If I knew why I had done it I would tell you." Denise, 15, and Barbara, 14, claiming that the question of Wife in Car, so they could visit their father, Di. William Douglas, overriding the city's wishes would be up to the State Pub- in Pans MrsrUenderson, who was ic Works Board Husband Say adamant in her stand in jail, Avoiding a pre-judgement remained "as much so today back at her home at 1604 Alameda of the controversial issue, the council majority concerned County sheriff's Capistrano Berkeley. deputies are looking for a said she Jiad-really Richmond motorcyclist ac- wanted to wait for the rul itself with the manner in which the state communicated with the city regarding plans cused of shooting a 21-year-old ing of the State Supreme Hayward woman during an Court on her attorney's petition for a writ of habeas 1 1 11111,1 ''j 5 1 IV sxrJit rA JlJit for the proposed $1 million argument near Sunol about 4 hlind training center a.m. today.

The only contact until last "Thegirls are not home. A lot still has to happen," she Dean Vance Morrow, 21, a night was an informal presen said. pipefitterof 982 E. Lewelling tation of plans to the city Planning Commission on She said 'naturally she will fight the new petition filed for Dr. Douglas for custody of Hayward, told deputies his wife, Nancy, was shot below the right eye by an ac- Tnbunt photo 2.

LED DEPUTIES He led deputies to the body in the laundry, room of her home yesterday afternoon, a little more than an hour jifter the slaying. Heboid deputies he had quarredel with Edna Doreen, his schoolmate in Pacific Christian Academy in Granton, struck her the first time as she bent to put soiled clothing into the family washing machine. He then stabbed her with an eight-inch boning knife, he said, continuing to slash her even after the knife blade broke. He later washed his hands, hitch-hiked 15 miles to Santa Rosa and turned himself in. Edna Doreen, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Oris Harris AN 'ERROR' their two girls. RELEASED YESTERDAY OAKLANDER R. J. CUNEO, HAND ON FOREHEAD, CONCENTRATES ON HIS GAME WITH PAL BENKO Nearly 200 competing for U.S.

Open chess championship as first round gets under way in San Francisco Mayor W. R. Crowe said this while and his wife argued in a car outside a soft drink stand IV method of procedure was an Superior Judge S. Victor error and Councilman Leo Wagler issued an order yes terday releasing Mrs. Hender Armstrong termed it "dis Reservoir Play Chess Tourney miles west of Sunol on Niles Canyon Road.

courteous." son when Qr. Douglas' attor ney, Kurt Melchoir, made the Councilman John Dunn said, Mrs. Morrow is in fair con request for Dr. Douglas AID OFFERED COUPLE IN ADOPTION EL CERRITO, Aug. 15-Hopes of an El Cerrito couple to adopt a 2-months-old Tahi- dition in Eden Hospital, Cas "I am embarrassed to sit on this council and discuss this Area Plan Up Starts 2nd Day tro Valley.

holding her imprisonment served no useful purpose since the visiting period set forth tremendous project in this manner. To balance it on the To Rec. Board as the month of August has scale of 'who went where tournament will run through virtually passed. first' is imbecilic." Aug. 26, with 12 rounds to be of Santa Rosa, was a sophomore at the academy, operated by the Church of Christ, tian girl were spurred today with a pledge of assistance At the same time Dr.

Doug Morrow said the man joined in the dispute. When Mrs. Morrow objected, the man pulled out a .32 caliber pistol and shot her, the bullet striking her below the eye, according to Morrow. Detective Gordon Nelson This comment drew a round played at the Sheraton- KEJ-EAug of applause from a segment om Rep. John F.

Baldwin. "whFreRossroTrotMr: of 75 persons in the audience Three proposals with the potential of providing the city The U.S. Open Chess Championship goes into its second day of play today in San Francisco. With 196 players registered, the tournament is the largest Open in the 62-year history of the annual event. Top-flight players from all over the country are competing.

The las' attorney- filed a petition asking that permanent custody of the girls be given him. Judge Wagler set Aug. 25 for hearing Dr. Douglas' many of them blind. A group -Baldwin introduced a bill in Congress to speed the arrival here of the child sought by Dr.

and Mrs. Robert Diet- of protesting residents who with more than 30 acres for rerrani inn iinlT Ko rAnciHprAH Palace Hotel. Twelve year old George Kane of' Redwood City pulled the first big upset in the opening round last night, defeating veteran Jack F. Shaw of Albuquerque in 36 moves. Young live near the proposed site said he was questioning Mor-' row further to learn more about the shooting and also what the trio was doing at the lt r.

"ch Bright of 1415 Devonshire by the Recreation Commis- Drive sion when it meets at 8 p.m. on Schmidt Lane sat quietly throughout the meeting. They hearrTAUen Jenkins, administrator at the Oakland soft drink stand at the early Thursday in the city council i Kane used a Sicilian defense. hour. -4n one of the featured chambers.

Deputies said Morrbw was Michael Pocha, 16, center, which must move because of freeway construction, describe the facility as "the Gene Saalwaechter, director being held for a Los Gatos traffic warrant charging five games of the evenmg, Raymond Cuneo of Oakland met top-rated Pal Benko of New violations. of recreation and parks, has informed the commission that officials of the EBMUD has contacted the city to deter only one of its kind in the state and one which will bring national reputation to El Cer Scientific Winner Mrs. Evan Ross, was a junior. Ross said they had dated steadily for several months. ALONE AT HOME The who often sang at weddings, was home alone yesterday.

Her father operates a Graton shoe store and "her mother works in a cannery. They live at 215 Bush St. in Graton. Ross said he arrived shortly after noon to find the girl washing dishes. They talked and he borrowed the boning knife to cut a piece of string but instead of returning the knifeL he put it in his pocket.

Ross is being held in Santa Rosa juvenile hall pending psychiatric observation. MORE PICKETS Judge Issues Restrainer in Physicians mine if it is interested in Bv C. H. GUSTAFSON. transferring two Berkeley hill reservoirs into play areas.

SAN LEANDRO, Aug. 15- petition. The girls are at Snedigar Cottage, the Alameda County detention home for non-delinquent girls, and will remain there until the hearing. STILL CONTEMPT In his release order, Judge Wagler continued to hold Mrs. Henderson in contempt of court but added she could purge herself by turaing in the girls' passports.

However, her ren Toomajin, held that Mrs. Henderson "absolutely feels she is not in contempt. She wasn't holding the children back. The children themselves didn't want to go" (to France to visit their father). Toomajin insisted the judge's order was on his own motion, rather than Dr.

Douglas'. But the judge acted only when the petition of the father's attorney brought the EBMUD wants to know, Learn to Spot Saalwaechter says, if the city Michael 4Mickey) Pocha, 16, son of-Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Pocha of 312 Warren has York on table one.

Other Eastbay players registered for the championships are: William "Currie, Marshall McLennan, Fred Cook, Curtis Wilson, Raymond Cuneo, Russell Freeman and Frank Weinberg, all of Oakland. Eugene Lien, George Farly, Ben Carter, Lee Hyder, Ralph Lamon, Paul Nielsen, David Weamer, Robert Henderson and Donald Thompson, all of Berkeley. Neil Falconer, Robert Bin-ger, James Dacus and 'Robert Henry of Lafayette; Julius yo, a 1960 San Leandro High graduate, who was one of last year's top winners. Two other entries from San Leandro High School also won recognition in this year's contest. Second place regional awards went to James Griffith Mental Illness been named a top national winner in the annual "Craftsmen's Fair," contest cospon-sored by the American Indus is still interested in Betryman Reservoir adjoining Codor-nices Park at Euclid Ave.

and Bayview Place. It has been suggested that damming the north end of the reservoir to reduce its size would provide approximately two acres of playfield at a cost of $130,000. rito." QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD Jenkins said the state favored the El Cerrito site over 40 to 50 others considered because it is near cultural, medical and community facilities, it is in a quiet neighborhood and the price is right. Armstrong told Perkins, "The area is now carrying all it can in the way of special uses," and. Crowe added, "The council is hard put to look favorably on the center." The center and another institution, California Industries for the Blind, must vacate buildings on Telegraph Ave.

at 36th St. in Oakland, by Sept. 1, 1962. A program which trains for his intercontinental missile trial Arts Association and then general practice physicians to spot and treat mental illness control and Ronald Christen- has been highly successful," sen for his electrical repulsion Saalwaechter also revealed coil. that the utility district is con Ford Motor Co.

Interested in electronics for only the past two years, Mickey, a student of Nicholas Saba at the San Leandro High A total of 40.000 entries sub Loftsson and Ronald Thacker the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education was told in San Francisco yesterday at the opening ses mitted by students of the er Mrnce sidering covering Summit Reservoir at the head of Spruce St. and wants to know of Richmond; Lowell Tullis of San Lorenzo, Richard Plock United States. Canada and matter back into court. And the judge specified the girls are to remain in custody of detention authorities. MARTINEZ, Aug.

15-A pre Puerto Rico were judged in of Livermore and Tom Maser School, designed and built a if the city would be interested the contest. of Pleasant Hill. sion of the annual meeting. in taking over maintenance of Ward Holbrook, director of liminary injunction against striking pressman of the Contra Costa Gazette was issued late yesterday by Superior the roof and adjoining property as a play area at a cost the Department of Institutions in Utah, told commissioners of approximately $17,600 a Judge Vernon Stoll. from 13 Western States that year.

However, he raised from, psychiatric seminars for gen The reservoir itself is 6.9 four to six the number of acres and is adjoined by a pickets permitted, at the re eral practioners, riincluding many rural physicians, has cut his state's total 1.800 landscaped park of some 8.9 quest of Paul Paduck, coun acres to the west. piece of gear that was chosen as one of 20 winners from 40,000 entries. IN-CIRCUIT ANALYST Called an "in-circuit analyzer," the instrument is described as being capable of taking any conceivable measurement without electrically disrupting any radio, television or any other circuit. The $75 prize Mickey won is less important to Mickey than a letter from Kenneth E. Dawson, executive secretary of the Industrial Arts Association, a department of the National Educa The commission also will mental patients by one half.

sel for. Oakland Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union, Local 39. which struck the Dr. Victor Howery, deanof discuss a query from the State of California on a previous newspaper on July 26. the school of social work at, the University of Washington, offer of 68 acres of'state sur He had limited the pickets plus property behind the School for the Deaf and Blind on representations by attorney Gordon B.

Turner, that 18 to 25 persons had blocked movement of employees and for $30,000. said a 10 week summer session at various state colleges was a great aid in drawing students into the field of mental health. Saalwaechter recommends patrons. that -the ask the state if it would be willing to sell 12.9 In modifying the order. University of the Pacific- tional Association of the acres of school property, Judge Stoll specified that not United States which would be developed as was cited as one of three Western colleges in rhich the more than: two pickets may It says in part: "You have be posted at any of the six en enrollment has doubled, in every right to be proud of your achievement.

Your mental health courses. Jr 1 j. -M i-drVi rZjuK trances to the daily news paper. a neighborhood recreation area and would adjoin the 68 acre plot, which might be taken over by the East Bay Regional Park District. Each state is represented' work will be displayed for one Counsel for the union asked by three commissioners.

The meeting ends today. dismissal of the complaint but a ruling was held in abey month at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C., where thousands of people' ance. The pressmen are stnk from all over the world will ing to obtain a contract with thejublisher view it." EIGHT YEARS AGO Loss of Transit Terminal Feared RICHMOND. Aug. 15-Councilman William Cannon asked last night whether the Executive Named To Stanford Board Mickey arrived in the United States from his native India only eight years ago.

He opposition of El Cemto to MENLO PARK, Aug. 15 will be given a plane trip to proposed route jf the Thomas V. Jones, president Washington, D.C., Sept 1 to and chief executive officer 0: Area Rapid Transit Distmct receive his recognition at an Buena Vista Ave. Job To Detour Traffic- ALAMEDA, Aug. 15-tfruck and auto traffic on.

a large parr of Buena Visti.Ave. will be detoured to Lincoln Ave. for three weeks due to street construction work. Assistant City Engineei1 Lee Eichelberger said trucks will, be barred from Buena Vista Ave. between Park St.

and Grand St. Auto traffic wTH be closed between Park St. and. Walnut St. Part of the street i being reconstructed, and the rest repaved.

may be injurious to Rich Northrop Corporation of Bev awards banquet. mond. erly Hills and former tech A B-plus average student, Mickey is a member of the San Leandro Hieh School ten Trlbwm phota Cannon said he fears the efforts of El Cerrito to change the route to the waterfront from the proposed line along the Santa Fe right-of-way nis Star Scout, he is BANK "BRAIN" BUILDING Double-pointed arrow shows nical adviser- to tfte Brazilian ministry, has accepted an appointment to the board of directors of the Re-search Institute, Stanford also a member of Explorer! the future Broadway frontage of the Wells Fargo Bank- Scout Post No. 508. America! Trust Company's Eastbay aecountina center.

The left is Town House, Hotel At right is the Kaiser Building, which, formerly was that firm's headquarters and now houses offices of the yarious Kaiser medical groups. The site, covering 57,600 square feet, wassold for $1 million. (See story, Page One);" ireenrJrtrWallaeeTSterniay Mickey Mas duplicated uie bunding will house a multitude of electronic "brain" for a downtown terminal. record of Robert (Dale) Shon- machines to process daily accounts and records, luildino ling said today..