Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 7

OlklandTribunSunFebSJSSl 7, DECLINE -t BOUNDARIES SET FOR SKY HIGH Pear Crop Faces Year Of Crisis; L. A warning that this may be 1 HIGH SCHOOL the most critical year in California; pear, history "wilT be sounded at the annual meeting Civic Leaders Leave on Missile Tour i Civic and business leaders of the Bay Area wfll see Nike guided missiles in action this week at White Sands, N.M. i-The group- leaves- Tuesday as guests of the 40th Artillery Brigade. They wfll see Nike Ajax and Hercules missiles fired against aerial targets and also win tour new Nike Zeus anti-ICBM missile installations. The tour includes stops at Ft Bliss, and Colorado Springs, Colo.

Eastbay men on the tour wfll include Norris Nash, vice A SEVEN-PART SERIES "'z Starts Today in Thp Tribuno's "YOUR TOWN MAGAZINE" Of the fianning Pear Association Friday In Sacra mento, Robert Collins of Walnut Grove; association president, win ten 400 grower-delegates that the number one problem before the industry is the impact of the pear decline on the state's economy.1 Some orchards. Collins has Civil Service Exams Set for City Engineer, Attorney Posts 1 1 The City of Oakland is look $241 to $340 a month. Deadline- for applying is March 3. pointed out, have already been Fun information on these- ing for candidates for professional positions of deputy city attorney and senior engineer. Civil Service examinations hit heavily by pear decline, When Skyline High School opens in September, students will be attending from within the boundary line shown As adopted by- the; Board of Education, the attendance area is designed to give a first year enrollment of 1,626 the capacity of the school.

However, incoming seniors will be given the option of finishing' their education at present high' schools end -school officials expect about 100 to'remain at their old schools. The new plant has been designed to relieved Castlembnt, Fre moved to the new campus by the fall of 1962. George C. Bliss, for- mar principal, at Oakland Technical, has been named to head- the new facility and is now. working on- other faculty appointments are expected to be made during the spring and mont, Oakland High and Oakland.

Technical which are presently overloaded to the extent of nearly 2,000 students. Even with the relief from: Skyline, other schools will have to con tinue to -use" portable classrooms "to supplement per manent buildings and some portables may have to be with 150,000 trees lost last year and other city joba can be oh-: tained at the Civfl Service of-, fice, Room 100, City Hafl, 14tli president of Kaiser Industries have been scheduled for alone. Collins will also discuss an other problem facing pear growers the current farm labor situation. March 27 for the attorney position- which has a salary range of $790 to $914, and March 11 for senior engineer which pays $785 to $903. Deadline for filing appUca-tions is March 3 for engineer and March 10 for attorney.

Cameron Girton of San Alameda Superior Court Judge Richard Chamberlain; John Hanson Jr. of the Alameda Junior Chamber of Commerce; 'Mills Bouchard, chairman of the civil defense and safety tximmittee, Castro Vafley arid John J. Maggi, Francisco, association man and Washington Streets. Gen.R. W.

Beasley Dies ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 25, (Retired Army Maj. Rex Webb Beasley, who par- ticipated fa aU five major campaigns of World War 11, died in a hospital here today; He was 68. State Demos Pick Hayward ager, win review association operations during the past year when canned pear pack dropped over a half million State Solon Asks for Facts On Lethal Chemical Weapon The city is also offering work as a page, primarily at president of the San Leandro Manufacturers Association. the I main library Salary is cases.

Man for Post Van A. Demnsev of Hav- -BJr DON THOMAS Tribune Political Editor Special Purchasel ward, field secretary for the California Democratic' State causing death or permanent disability. It would also ask Central Committee, has been promoted to executive secre consideration (or expanding and increasing the scope of the chemical, warfare corps. 'Most authorities believe the Soviet Union will not risk tary of the committee for Northern California, Roger Kent, state chairman, announced yesterday." A graduate of Principia College, HL, Dempsey also took courses in business administration at the University of A California-1, He was secretary treasurer of the all-out nuclear war if they can bleed America white over a period of years by instigating civil wars, riots and disturbances -throughout the SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25 -Congressional "study of the possibility of utilizing non-lethal chemical warfare in combating communist-inspired' uprisings throughout the world will be asked in a resolution to be introduced in the Legislature Monday.

The measure was drawn today, by i Assemblyman Charles" Conrad of Sherman Oaks, who saw service in chemical warfare in the South Pacific during World War II. If asks Congress to give the people the facts on chemical particularly recent development of gases which incapacitate without niques is bojth efficient and humane. There is no mortality or damage to crops or land and when order has been restored the normal way of life may be resumed. Since the United States did not fatify the Geneva Convention outlawing; chemical warfare it is both legally and morally free to develop the modern concept of such warfare, he said. As the Assemblyman understands -it there are at least two nerve gases which act as depressants and others which cause temporary loss of motor control but have no lasting effect.

The gases have been tested on humans, he said, and no after effects have been noted. SEE THE FINE REPRODUCTIONS THIRD FLOOR SEE BAY-AREA ARTISTS- AT WORK, THIRD FLOOR EXHIBITION OF WELL KNOWN BAY-AREA ARTISTS WORKS! world," Conrad said. Northern California CIO Coun "In such riots it is some cil and an officer of the United Auto Workers i LocaT before times impossible to divide combatants from civilians, pro-communists from anti-communists. Traditional joining the Democratic committee in 1954. He has been in charge of -registration, get-out-the-vote dnd has served in special elections and recounts.

weapons may inflict death on nend and foe alike and al ways result in devastation." In contrast, he said, use of new chemical warfare tech- Britain With U.S. For Better, Worse I i LONDON, Feb. 25 UB Prime Minister Harold Mac Grant to Provide Summer! Science Course for Girls mfllan said today Britain stands with America "in good times or bad" and declared Talented" high school gjrls Its major purpose will be to introduce students of high he is encouraged by President Kennedy's new efforts' to from eight western states will Law May Reduce School Bus Stops More rigid enforcement of the state law governing visibility near jchool bus stops is causing a re-evaluation study by school districts throughout Contra Costa Literal application of the law is expected to eliminate a considerable number "of ability to study of microbiol be able to attend a special achieve East-West disarmament But Macmfllan warned: ogy and will include lectures, program at College of the Holy Names this summer with the laboratory assignments, li "We must face the dangers of a long struggle against communist ambitions with brary work, research and aid of $9,070 grant from the National Science Foundation. field trips. strong nerves and sober con The program will be held Sister Mary Baptista directed a similar program in the summefof-1959.

She will fidence and as much unity as we can command. The more My we recognize whatvwe are up against, the stronger from June 26 to Aug. 4 under the direction of Sister Mary be assisted by members of the college faculty and guest Baptista, assistant professor of science, and will be open to 32 junior and senior girls. and more effective our response is likely to be." school bus stops injhe Orinda-Lafayette-Moraga area where hilly terrain is encountered. The law requires that school lecturers from the Bay Area buses stopping on the main traveled portion of a road for pickup or discharge of pas sengers have 400 feet of visibility in front and back.

OAKLAND 14th St. and 29th Av. Ml RICHMOND MacdMakt at th Fmway II Where turnout space off the main portion of the road is Daily 9:10 to 1:30 Maa, Thurt fri. Ml 1 available, only 250 feet of vis lbility front and back is re quired. topper igjjys hafi1 VIUYL VITII THE LOOK OF LEATHER The visibility problem is more critical in areas such as Orinda where narrow, winding roads and shrubbery-covered turns cut down the.

roadway view. Capt Ed Jelich of the Contra Costa squad of the Cali fornia Highway Patrol, said "a recent incident" has caused us to ask all school I CHARGE IT! districts to re-evaluate their bus stops. Districts having more acute Cte? visibility problems because of the natural topography of the areas they serve, are making studies and win review their findings with the. State Patrol office to work out a solution. The problem is not so acute In flatter areas of tne county.

SPECIAV Doctor Conant To Give Public Talks at U.C. BERKELEY, Feb. 25 Dr. James B. Conant will give public lectures at the Univer sity of California on Wednes Beyond a doubt, one of the most impressive assemblies of wall day March 1, and on Friday, 'decor we've ever presented at one time.

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THIRD FLOOR Tonic for Wednesday's lec tore is education for the Learned Professions on-the s2 Two Sides of the Atlantic. The 'March 17 topic is Science and. Social. Science in European and American Education." Conant, president emeritus of Harvard University, wfll Just received! New Shipment of mirror backed Curio Cabinets! Two Sensational Groups at $20 and $25 remain at U.C. through March 24 as regents and 'wm confer, with faculty and students.

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