Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 13

11 Council OKs Horhe-Made Staff 23 Fl ies Flag 34 Years Interchange Freeway Piedmont Avenue School, brought the blooms for an assembly program yesterday, loaded them on city-owned trucks for delivery to the cemetery. FLORAL TRIBUTE Thousands of cut flowers decorate Mountain View Cemetery today a Memorial Day tribute by students from 79 Oakland schools. The youngsters, like these students from the Board Mulls PI 9 Hi For Aimort Motel FRED KLUSS 89, RAISES FLAG FOR MEMORIAL DAY Flagpole he made from a piling has become a landmark Indicted Doctor to Surrender An Oakland doctor, accused of performing illegal operations in his Berkeley office, will surrender to the Alameda County District Attorney's office tomorrow. Dr. William L.

Anderson, 47, of 562 Walavista has For One Slight Change in Mills Plans Construction of the pro posed Davenport Ave. interchange on the MacArthur Freeway, behind Mills Col lege, was endorsed with only one reservation by the Oakland City Council last night. State highway engineers will be asked to redesign the ramp leading to the underpass to minimize encroachment on the college campus if this can be done without increasing the cost of the project or delaying progress on the freeway. The reservation was recognition of the college effort to eliminate the interchange on the contention its ramp, only 95 feet from the Fine Arts Building, would cause a noise nuisance and disrupt the parklike character of the college campus. PRESIDENT'S PLEA Dr.

C. Easton Rothwell, Mills president, urged the council to make the redesign a condition of approving the underpass, but the motion by Councilman Robert L. Osborne makes it certain the underpass will be' built, whether or not the redesign of the ramp proves feasible from engineering or financial standpomts. This is directly in line with the findings of a conference yesterday morning, attended by city and college officials, and representatives of hill area residents to be served by the interchange. S.

J. Blair, president of the Leona Heights Improvement Association, endorsed the recommendation of Asst. City Mgr. John A. Morin which summarized the conference agreement.

FREEWAY LINK He emphasized that the in terchange is required to connect the Warren and Mac- Arthur Freeways and to serve the residential areas above the college campus. Blair said his association is agreeable to elimination of a connection to Davenport intended to serve resi dents of that neighborhood but opposed by them on the grounds it might increase traffic movement. He also urged consideration of efforts to minimize incursion of the college campus by moving the ramp closer to the ireeway, changing its ap proach to the underpass, or moving it toward the west. Petitions signed by 222 hill area residents backed this stand. Army, contacted in Washington, had second thoughts.

"Well," said a spokesman, "we never did claim the idea was new. We paid the boy for simplifying and proving it." "Proving it?" snorted Dix. "Do they think we'd be using it if it hadn't been proven?" The simplification of which the Army speaks apparently involves the lapse of time in WEDNESDAY, 1 3 MAY 30, 1962 McKeen Arques for few! IncomG Tsx Up to a 50 per cent cut in Oakland's property tax rate is envisioned by City Council supporters of the city "earnings tax" now under study. Councilman Robert V. McKeen, outspoken proponent of a modified income tax as a possible solution to the city's financial crisis, told fellow councilmen yesterday the levy would "not be just another burden on the taxpayer." Instead, McKeen said it could mean less total cost to property owners and could stimulate residential, commercial and industrial development which would in turn broaden the property tax base.

McKeen is one of seven councilmen who last week directed City Mgr. Wayne E. Thompson to study and make a recommendation on whether Oakland should adopt the "earnings tax." Faced with a possible 62 or 63 cent increase in the tax rate to support a record $42 million proposed budget for 1962-63, the council' is slashing all but absolutely essential items from the budget and looking desperately for other sources of revenue. Thompson said last week a tax of 1 per cent on the city's gross payroll would bring in about $10 million annually. This is about half of the $22.2 million in property tax reve nue needed to support the budget.

Councilman John H. Reading, who also voted for the study, said he. is warming to the idea. "The more I consider it, the more I favor it," he announced. Mayor John C.

Houlihan, who along with Councilman Dan Marovich voted against even studying the plan, said he was surprised to hear organized labor favors such a of financing city services. volved between marking the shadow-tips. Fifteen minutes, says the Army. Half a day, say the Boy Scouts. "Our way," says Dix, "is more accurate." The Department of A spokesman said the subject was well researched in the Library of Congress to determine its originality.

"Bosh," says Dix. said, and would cost about $800,000. The second phase would cost between $600,000 and 1700,000, he added. The board referred the two proposals to its finance and airport committees, the Coun ty Administrator, Auditor, District Attorney and Public Works Director for a report and recommendation in two weeks. It also set 10 a.m.

June 26 to open bids on a new fixed base operation at the field and approved an order advertising for proposals on the construction of 26 T-hang-ars on 2Vi acres near the airport administration building. School Board Joins in Tax Source Study The Oakland Board of Education has decided to participate in a state-wide study to explore future tax and income possibilities for public education in California. The board voted unani mously yesterday to spend ,433 as Oakland's share of a study to be conducted by Stanford Research Institute. Supt. of Schools Selmer H.

Berg said the study project will be completed by Decem ber so the results may be pre sented to the 1963 session of the State Legislature. Oakland Man Proud of His "Crazy Idea' Holidays are for displaying the Stars and Stripes and Memorial Day is no exception. Bright and early today Fred Kluss, who will be 89 come Sept. 21, was out hoisting his eight. by.

twelve foot banner to the top of the flagpole that has become a landmark in the 400 block of West MacArthur Blvd. Back in 1923 a 50-foot piling washed ashore in a storm-probably from the Berkeley pier wmcn was under construction then. Kluss, then working as a maintenance man at Pacific Meat pulled it from the water. "It was lust a crazy idea." he said, "but I began hacking it into a flagpole. Then with the help of fellow orkers he moved it to 468 West MacArthur where he had lived since 1922.

In the ensuing 3-i years neigh bors have come to expect to see the flag floating in the breeze on every holiday. Kluss, German-born but an I American citizen since short ly after he came to the United States with his par eris in 1889, is a retired shipwright He was with Alaska Packers for many years and acquired the big flag through a tormectioirwith that fishing fleet. missing two stars now," he commented, "but I put it up anyway." Board Names School for Ralph Bunche The Oakland Board of Edu cation has decided to name a new school at 18th and Union Streets after United Nations diplomat Ralph Bunche. But Dr. Robert L.

Nolan said he couldn't vote for the motion, because the school in question was a $540,000 tern porary facility designed to re lieve enrollment pressures at Cole and Lafayette Schools. "It is entirely appropriate to name a school after Ralph Bunche, but I can't help mg that it would be more fit' ting to give his name to a permanent facility." TIMELY GESTURE To emphasize his position Nolan suggested that the name of Skyline High Schoo! be changed to Ralph Bunche High School. "Then it would be integrated in name, if in no otner way." Nolan had voted against other members of the board last week when they decided to maintain present boundaries at Skyline and other high schools despite charges that present boundaries reinforce segregation in the community. HIGH TRIBUTE Board member Lorenzo N. Hoopes, who proposed that the 18th and Union Streets school be named for Bunche praised the Negro statesman's accomplishments and service to "his country and the world." Hoopes said he felt Bunche's name "would be worthy of the people who will be attending the new school when it opens next year." In response to Nolan's counter-proposal, Hoopes pointed out "it has long been our informal policy to name elementary schools after people and use other names for high schools." yond June 29, the final day of the 80-day cooling off period prescribed by the law, and that what the two sides do after that date is up to them.

Shipowners are represented in the dispute by the Pacific Maritime Association. The appellate court said also the chief concern of both parties should not center around resuming the strike, but on how to avoid such a blow to national health and safety." During the truce efforts of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Labor Department have failed to bring the shipowners and the unions together on terms of new labor contracts. been indicted by the Alameda County grand jury on charges of performing two abortions in his office at 2914 Sacramento Berkeley. His attorney, Clinton White, said the. doctor will surrender.

A Highland Hospital nurse's aide and an Oakland house wife, indicted by the grand jury Monday in another abortion case, are free on 000 bail. Dep. Dist. Atty. Thomas Buckley said Dr.

Anderson charged $150 for the opera tions. He said the patients were a 28-year-old divorcee and a 22-year-old unwed stenographer. Both operations took place last year. The women, Mrs. Ruth J.

Manuel, 37, of 2992 Newbury St Berkeley, and Mrs. Al- vern Henderson, 34, of 1081 54th allegedly performed an illegal operation on a 15- year-old high school girl. The pair charged $25 for the operation, which occurred in Mrs. Mauel's home April 20. Grim Reminder To lake Care Motorists along the Mac- Arthur Freeway got a grim eye opener this morning when they passed a black coffin north of the Broadway, Web ster Street approach.

White letters on the side of the box asked: "Going My Way?" The coffin was stolen from a Hayward service station at A St and Meekland Ave. last night. The State Division of Highways removed it from the freeway and took it to the Oakland City Dump. Port Board Adopts New L.dnd Policy The Oakland port commis sion last night declared a major new policy covering the development of industrial lands between the Metropolitan Oakland International Air port and the Nimitz Freeway. The port informed the city's Industrial Development Com mission that hereafter lands in the Port of Oakland Industrial Park will be available both for sale and for lease.

Previously, the port has been unwilling to sell lands in the 900-acre development. The new policy was announced by Peter M. Tripp, president of the commission and a prime proponent of the twin-pronged method of land disposal. William M. Harrison, executive director of the industrial development group, said he was delighted with the announcement.

"We'll go all out in merchandising this property," Harrison said. "We needed flexibility, and now we have it." The port has been criticized by members of the Oakland Real Estate Board for not sell-prospects for property purchase to the port. Tripp said that he Invited the city's top industrial realty men nine months ago to bring prospects for property purchase to the port. "We haven't even had a nibble," he reported. Agreement Halts Strike In Breweries A threatened strike has been averted in the California beer brewing industry.

Officials of the Teamsters Union and the California Brewers Association said a tentative agreement was reached on terms of a new statewide agreement covering about 5.000 brewers, bottlers, clerks, drivers and salesmen principally in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Details of the new agree ment were not disclosed, pend mg submission to the umon membership. The old contract expired on April 1. Bridge Percher Lands in Jail Lester Hawk's car stalled on the Bay Bridge last night and his efforts to find sale pedestrian standing room away from the whizzing tral fic landed him in San Fran cisco iail. Highway Patrolman F.

0. Kuderer said Hawk climed the bridge railing west of Yer-ba Buena Island and perched on a narrow ledge with a heavy metal rail between him self and traffic and nothing between himself and a long fall. Hawk, 27, of 1732 Webster St. was booked for being on an unauthorized section of the bridge. Officers said he had been drinking.

Ex-Sen. Barrett Dies CHEYENNE (TV Frank A Barrett, former U.S. senator and governor of Wyoming died today. Barrett, 69, had been ill from leukemia. MARTINEZ Contra Costa's Supervisors will decide June 12 who they will allow to build a million-dollar motel, restaurant and bar complex at Buchanan Field near Concord.

Yesterday, the board received two proposals for the project at the county airport one from the Signal Development Co. of Southern California and the other from a group of four Oakland men. James Stockman, operator of the Edgewater Inn at the Metropolitan Oakland Inter national Airport and six other hotels, said he would lease the facility proposed by Signal Development. He said the new hotel would also be called the Edgewater Inn. 100 ROOMS 'This is one of the finest hotel sites offered in Northern California," Stockman told the board.

"Our initial construction plans call for a 125- seat restaurant, 75-seat bar, banquet rooms for 600 and a 100-room hotel, including at east 10 executive suites." Planning would start im mediately, he added, and building costs would exceed SI million. "We expect 72 per cent oc cupancy," he explained, "and we predict food and bar sales will total about $850,000 the first year." He visualized a modern lux ury "air city" at tne airport, including shops, light industry and recreation. Oakland attorney Robert Burnstein said he and his three partners, who bid against Stockman, would build a similar installation. MOTEL PLANS Their plans call for a 172- unit motor hotel, with bar, restaurant and banquet rooms. Initial construction would include 100 rooms, he Land Gift to Aid Oakland Coliseum The port commission yes terday agreed to give the city council title to property worth $1 million in a plan to ease the city's financial burden in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex proposal.

The commission passed resolution of intent yesterday after a joint meeting with the city council in which an air of complete cooperation pre vailed. The agreement hinges on legal and engineering feasibility and in event the stadium complex does not ma terialize the land reverts to the port. Under the arrangement the council gets 157 acres of port land in the industrial park area. The city hopes to negotiate an exchange of this land with the East Bay Municipal Utility District for 105 acres for the'coliseum. The city will then be able to contribute "free" land to the project instead of cash that would affect the tax rate.

The land to be traded to EB-MUD will be retained in the port area and subject to port control in plans for Army Paid $500 to Learn What Scouts Already Knew ULS Auto Toll Gets Early Start America's 74 million motorists played a game with death today, winner take all. So far, 37 persons have paid with their lives on the nation's highways. The National Safety Council estimates that the toll, counted'between 6 p.m. yesterday and midnight tonight will be between 80 to 120. i Anywhere from 4,500 to 6,500 motorists, passengers and pedestrians will be maimed.

ONE-DAY HOLIDAY Today is the third one-day observance of Memorial Day since World War II. The others were in 1951 anti 1956, when 81 and 109 persons died on the highways. Police departments and highway patrol units throughout the United States have geared their efforts to keep the toll down. Spotter planes with public address systems are flying over Nevada's highways with pilots shouting warnings to speeding or apparently drowsy motorists. Missouri and Nebraska policemen asked motorists to "shine a light to save a life" drive with headlights on during the day as a safety reminder to others.

PROTECT LIVING Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Commissioner James Karns begged drivers to "honor the dead by protecting the living," adding that "there is no memorial honoring persons who fall victim to carelessness on the highways." Locally, law enforcement officers cracked down last night in the Bay Area with traffic checks. Roving police patrols in eight communities observed 18,122 cars and trucks, stopped 6,466 and issued 696 citations. Three drunk drivers were arrested and 31 drivers were warned about drinking. Two deaths have been reported around the Bay. Robert Charles Preston, 31, of 1420 Hearst Berkeley, died last night.

His wife Naomi, 25, was injured. INSPORTSCAR The Highway Patrol said the couple was driving in a sportscar along Sierra Drive, the road from San Jose to Calaveras Dam, about four miles east of Skyview Drive. Their car missed a curve, shot over a ledge and rolled end-over-end down a 200-foot embankment, landing upright. Both wore seatbelts. Preston was dead on arrival at San Jose Hospital.

His wife was not critically injured. A man was killed when his truck and trailer went over an embankment and overturned at the end of Camilla Drive in Lafayette. The man, whose identity was not immediately established, was crushed under the truck. In Pleasanton, an auto rammed into a power pole and knocked it over, blacking out i a wide area for 50 minutes One thousand feet of a volt line fell when the pole I went. Court Rules Seamen Can Resume Strike June 29 By AL MARTINEZ Tribune Military Writer The Army claims to have found a fine new way of -finding north, and has paid $500 for the idea.

What the Army didn't know, although it may know now, is that the Boy Scouts have been using the method since about 1915. Basically, it works this way: You poke about a four-foot stick in the ground, mark the top of its shadow, wait awhile, then again mark the tip of the shadow when the shadow moves. Then you draw a line from the base of the stick to a point midway between the shadow marks, and the line points north. Simple? Sure. And that's what the Department of the Armv in Washington.

D.C., thought when they paid $500 to 16-vear-old Robert Owen- doff of Falls Church, Va. The story brought immediate response from Boy Scouts everywhere. A spokesman for the Sixth Army in San Francisco said he knows it's been in the Boy Scout Handbook for at least two years, but things being what they are, he would rather not comment on a Department of the Army story. Oakland Area Boy Scout Council Executive Frank Dix was less reserved. He furnished conies of the handbook going back for several years and scoffed at the nation's mightiest military outfit finding out now what the Scouts have known all along.

The Department of the The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled in San Francisco that West Coast seamen can resume their strike on June 29 even though their ships have cargo to be unloaded. Howeverr the court declared that the seamen cannot refuse to sign articles for trips of a normal length of time during the current 80-day Taft-Hartley Act injunction ordered by U.S. District Judge George B. Harris on April 11.

The order was against the Sailors Union of the Pacific, the Marine Firemen and the Marine Cooks and Stewards. The U.S. Court of Appeals said yesterday the district court has no jurisdiction be FIND NORTH WITH A SHADOW BOY SCOUT WAY The Army paid $500 to "discover" the method 4..