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Council of Governors Shelley Takes Oath As 33rd S.F. Mayor Used 'IT MAY BE NIXON BROWN COMMENTS Rights Drive Proposed sion. He said other appoint- mnnte tiritK crtma OA' irvl-ta in. Success Of Project Acorn Told Continued from Page 1 rapid relocation operation can be attributed to cooperation from the Oakland Housing Authority, the availability of rental units throughout the community arid efficient handling of cases by his staff at the Acorn site office. "The true test of a relocation operation," Bell added, "isn't the speed but the number of families moving into sub-standard housing.

The national average is 20 per cent; in Acorn it's five per cent." The agency still has not offered its industrial land for sale formally; But four parcels have been sold and to such customers as Mack Trucks and U.S. Plywood. The official offering of 18 remaining parcels covering -22 acres will start Jan. 20. And Bell expects no trouble marketing the land.

news conference when Brown said to Peabody, "I see we agree on this issue of capital punishment." Brown and Peabody have unsuccessfully attempted to repeal the death penalty in their states. Brown got in a plug for California weather when he commented that the temperature for the Rose Bowl football game New Year's Day was 85. Peabody quipped, "we saw terrible game in San Diego the other day," in a reference to the San Diego Chargers' 55-10 victory over the Boston Patriots in the American Football League playoff game last weekend. Brown said he plans to attend a California Day exhibit in New York Thursday and go on to a meeting of the. Democratic National Committee in Washington this weekend.

The California governor said he also plans to confer with Secretary of Defense Robert S. Mc Namara over reports of possible shipyard closings in California. be filled will be made in due time. "I am not going to rush matters," he declared. a.

SheJIey left his horse-drawn bakery Wagon many years ago to go to sea and returned to become a leader in labor circles, rising to president of -the San Francisco Central Labor Council. He served in the State Senate for eight years and was elected in 1949 to the House of Representatives. He is the first Demo-, crat to win the San Francisco mayoralty in 55 years. Laborite Looking For Doctor LONDON (UPI) When form- or Momhar nf Parliamonf Lewis was arrested on drunken driving charges, he insisted that his own doctor be called, a court was told Tuesday. "Well," said Lewis, "what am the doctor, "are drunk." iviy uoa, saia tewisf wnat are you saying?" a nner Labw party' legislator," was "ordered to -i i .1 1 living.

Police said that, when arrested, Lewis said, "I made all these laws in my time." Library Free Film Programs Friday iwu ii ee iiiiii iuidiiia win be held Friday in the west auditorium of theOakland Public Li brary, 14th and Madison Streets. "High Road to Yosemite" and "New England Calling" will be shown at 2 p.m.; "Way of the Navflin" and the New Ensland film will be shown at 30 p.m. BOSTON Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California told a press conference at the Massachusetts State House today that he "wouldn't be a bit surprised to see" former Vice President Richard M.

Nixon become the 1964 Republican presidential nominee. Brown described Nixon as "a very competent man." He expressed the opinion that Sen. Barry Goldwater, appears to be in the lead for the California Republican primary in which he is opposed by New York Gov. Nelson However, Brown said, he expects Rockefeller to pick up considerable ground when he goes to the West Coast state to campaign. Brown Is here to speak at Harvard University.

He and Mrs. Brown went to the State House to call on Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Endicott Peabody. A problem that has plagued both governors cattle up at the terstate-compacts and-others are met with special purpose districts, the governor said. -Theser he addeddoften remove ther from the governor office and the people.

NEW PROBLEMS Brown said he made the two proposals with full knowledge of the new problem of procedure and protocol they would create, but with confidence that "some action of this kind is necessary if federalism is to make its -maximumcontribution to -both the nation and the states.w The two steps, Brown concluded, are logical beginnings for a reform of the federal His lecture wasDne of a con- nz Special to the Tribune CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -State governors must be given a more direct voice in policy making at the federal level and ground rules must be established for attacking problems on a regional level. Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California made those points in an address to Harvard University students this afternoon.

To implement his proposals, Brown suggested: 1-Creation of a Council of Governors staffed and operating as does the present Council of Economic Advisors. t-Use of regional resource planning commissions under federal "authority. The council plan, he said, would provide "a direct conduit through which governors could both offer and receive sugges tions on a wide range of subject matter of great importance to them before rather than after federal executive policy has been established." BI-PARTISAN It might work best if admin istered by a council of five gov appointed by the president, with rotating representation of a bipartisan and sectioal basis, the governor said. The present Governor's Con-ferece, Brown observed, exists as a kind of open forum which can never act-as a policy body and is designed primarily for "group therapy sessions" for "50 men who know that nobody else really understands them or The Governor admitted there undoubtedly would be a certain amount of political maneuvering on the council, but he expressed belief that the advantages of a forum of men who know state problems best would outweigh such disadvantages. INDIRECT WAY He noted that an increasing number of services are provided under joint state-federal programs, but that the tovernor who will ultimately be responsible for such programs is brought into policy-making dis cussions only in an infrequent, informal and haphazard -way Some regional problems-are now met by "cumbersome in- The former -Southern California congressman discussed "Civil Rights-Communist Betrayal of a Good Cause" at the Veterans Memorial Building.

An overflow audience of more than 400 attended: TOMENTATION THE KEY "Fomentation of racial conflict is a key program of the American Communist Party," he declared. Many of the racial movement's leaders have been identified with Communist front' organizations, he said, and some of them openly admit it "Their strategy is to establish a climate of terror to obtain federal intervention" and usher in "scandalous" civil igh ts legislation, He continued. The Communists have declared they will "spare no sacrifice" in bringing the total Negro revolt under their command, Rousselot said. a NIKITA'S CARD "Our liberal friends ask us if we have seen the Communists: party card. No.

and I haven't seenNikita's card, either." The Administration's civil rights billrhe-saidrpouldln posrimconstitutional extension of federal executive power. But America's forefathers, he declared, "made it clear from the start that individual civil rights is. not the exclusive con cern of the federal government." The American Communist Party has declared openly that tne civu ngnis dm "wui place the role of federal government in-a-new and constitute a major advancement" for communism, the former congress man said. DIFFERENT TACTICS Rousselot urged Americans to work for civil rights but with different tactics: "The Negro should be encouraged to take full advantage of educational facilities already available. "Patronize the organizations and stores which practice nondiscrimination on a voluntary basis, "Encourage the Negro to help himself.

"And fight the so-called civil rights bill with all your efforts," Rousselot concluded. HAYWARD Communists "brazenlv" are redefininz the traditional American concept of civil rants through penetration and control of the racial move ments John Rousselot said last night 1 Rousselot, western district governor of the John Birch So ciety, said civil rights has been i'highly successful target" for the Communists since 1920. In Fair Says Engle LOS ANGELES (AP) Sen. Clair Engle, in his first newspaper interview since undergoing brain surgery last August, says his health is "fair to mid-Uinv and he is in the 1964 Spnata race. from Red Bluff, announced Monday right iaLiele-.

Itfsion film that he will run for The announcement drew requests from California Democrats for medical evidence that he is well enough to serve another term. Engle said in a cppyright interview in the Los Angeles Times Tuesday: "The (medical) prognosis is fair to middlin'. We'll have sub--slantial improvement during Uionths ahead and we 11 justify our campaign on that." 1 Mrs. Engle said that although the senator now speaks haltingly; in another couple of months "the senator-will have the lull faculty of speech back." said the neurosurgeon who operated on Engle told her there was no reason why Engle should not run again. -She quoted him as saying: "I'm a Republican and I'd be billing to go on television and say so." Amnesty in Greece ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -The government released 42 political prisoners Tuesday.

Thnt.fl hAraiicA Arnm i ln- cated on both sides of the Nim-itz Freeway between BrusLand. Union Streets at the geographical centeLOf the Bay Area and with easy access" ton all forms of transportation. Theresidential.nropi I)ertyalsal wilLbe offered withina few: weeks." Contracts to developers should be awarded about the middle of the year, and families could be moving into new apartments by May, 1965 the third anniversary of the project. Metric System Hearing WASHINGTON (UPI) The first Senate committee hearing of the new session of Congress Tuesday dealt with proposals to abandon the foot-pound-gallon system of English measurement and put the United States on the metric system. No final action was taken.

nn I jr a 1 1 II John F. Shelley, a former San Francisco bakery wagon driver, became the 33rd mayor ot nis native city today. Shelley, 58, repeated the rath of office administered by Chief Justice Phil qibson of the California Supreme Court at a noon ceremony in the rotunda of the San Francisco City Hall. He was immediately escorted to the second floor office that retiring Mayor George Christopher has occupied for the past eight vears for a reception at which hundreds of supporters extended felicitations. PRAISE BY HOULIHAN Oakland Mavor John C.

Houli han sent his congratulations by I telegram. He praised Shelley's announcement that San Francisco will join the Association of Bay Area Governments as assurance the new San Francisco administration will take an ac tive role in helping solve arear wide problems. Participating in the official ceremony were Rep. William S. Mailliard, State Senate Majoritsrteader Hit Jft outgoing toartf'president, and Consul General -Fernando deaofthetonsurcorpsr MORE- Earlier, six supervisors who Had been elected in November werexsworn into office.

They included two newcomersrGeorge Moscone and Leo McCarthy, and four incumbents, John Jay Fer-don, Clarissa McMahdn, Joseph Casey and Dr. Charles Ertola. FIRST ACTION Ferdon, top: vote-getter at election, is slated to become the new board chairman. Shelley's first official act was to appoint J. W.

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Union Official on Hospital Council SACRAMENTO UPV-Chester H. Leonard, a North Hollywood union official, was named by Gov. Brown Tuesday to the Advisory Hospital Council. Reappointed were: Sister Maryt Eucharia, administrator otiaiJDiego'sJMercy-JIospital Dr. Thomas H.

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