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-t- -t TK2 WIATHia STCSY EAY AREA Fair through Vanity xcept high fog mar tht ot extending inland mornings. Low temperatures thi morning 43 to 54, highs today from 60 to 7J. Wejterly wintfi to 24 m.p.h. VOL. 177, NO.

160 y- ii ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21. 1874 OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA 10 DAILY, 25 SUNDAY CCCCC SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1963 $2.25 A MONTH TEmplebar 2-6CC3 8,500 Hail bv. Wallace 1 i i Kennedy In Hawaii Call Up 1 CA0 ill iPL I I I ft To State Guard President to Speak To Conference of Mayors in Honolulu HONOLULU (1 President Compiled from AP and UPI TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Gov.

George C. Wallace said in a telegram to President Kennedy Saturday night that he would call up 500 National Guardsmen for standby to keep law and order in this week's integration showdown. Confirming reports from other sources, Wallace said his summoning of troops was aimed at fulfilling a pledge Eddie Sylvia, his wife, Audrey, and child, Ronnie, 4. Police say Sylvia caused accident that killed wife and four others Saturday. Nighivciv wdeir Charge Loom was the sequel to a horrible tragedy.

Just 12 hours earlier, Pat's sister, Mrs. Audrey Silvia, 21, and four others were killed in a shattering four-car smash-up on the Nimitz Freeway near Milpitas. Audrey's husband, Eddie, 0, who the California Highway Patrol say paused the accident, is being held for investigation of felony manslaughter. The Sylvias were to have been participants in the wedding ceremonyAudrey as a bridesmaid and Edward as an usher but they never made it California Highway Patrolman D. J.

Lancaster reconstructed the tragedy this way: The couple had been to the wedding rehearsal at the church on Friday night But later they went to a party, Sylvia observed his wife embracing his boss, Donald Gordon, 41, in Gordon's parked car in Fremont. Sylvia tried to pull Gordon from the auto but Gordon slammed the door and raced away and out onto the south-Continued Page Col. 3 chief investigator for the district attorney. A formal charge will be filed against Sylvia on Monday, Bergna said Meanwhile, the impact of five violent deaths wrapped a Fremont wedding in a somber cloud of gloom and sadness Saturday. When the ceremony at St.

Leonard's Catholic Church was over, there was no throwing of rice, joyful tears, laughing or shouting. For Pat McKay and Eddie Romero, now man and wife, and for Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Berger, parents -of the bride, it By ART VARGAS SAN JOSE-The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office Saturday, ordered Eddie Sylvia, 30, accused of triggering a chain-reaction crash that killed five persons, held for investigation of murder. Dist.

Atty. Louis P. Bergna said the murder booking was sub stituted for one of felonious manslaughter because of the premise of intentional killing." The change came following a conference Saturday morning with California Highway Patrol investigators and Doug Logan, Girl Scandal Stuns Britain; Medic Held Kennedy came to Hawaii Satur day night to push his civil rights program and started right out by shaking more than 1,000 hands in a sweep down the air port concourse. The President had a near-mis hap just before stepping off his plane from Los Angeles. As he neared the rear door of the blue, silver and white jet the portable ramp slipped its brakes and rolled, back five feet.

The President, three feet from the door, took a quick step backwards and smiled. Kennedy is in Hawaii at the end of a five-state western tour to deliver a talk to the National Mayors' Conference on the civil rights campaign his administra tion is mounting. He is due to speak to the mayors at Waikiki Beach today. Speaking briefly to an airport crowd estimated by police at 8,500, Kennedy said: "I have warm aloha to be back here in Hawaii today. We are proud of this city and this state." Earlier, in an out-and-out political speech at the Hollywood Paladium, the President was wildly cheered by a group of Democratic women who paid $10 apiece to breakfast with him.

Kennedy tied politics and the racial issue together in his speech. He promised that "we are going to meet our responsibility in the 1960s to provide equality of opportunity, to give every child. regardless of his color, a fair chance. And he said his proposed billion tax cut is vital to prevent economic strangulation and string of deeper and deeper re cessions. 1 There was a presidential assurance that continuation of I present economic trends through this year will bring the country into "the longest period of recovery from a recession which has taken place since the civil war." But it is the civil rights problem which is getting more presidential attention than any other domestic topic right now.

In this a speech Kennedy will deliver in Washington Monday is expected to be one of his most important in some time. It will be the commencement address at American University. And in the week ahead the administration may send Congress a request for new, more stringent civil rights laws. But factors are at work that could make for further delay, and the exact timing of, the rights message still was a tossup in advance of the Kennedy-Mansfield discussions en route to Hawaii. Mansfield showed up with Ken nedy at the political breakfast in Hollywood.

I They drove by but not through i racial picket lines at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and at the Palla-! dium, without incident and no obvious reaction. The committee on Racial Equality (CORE) established the lines for the duration of the President's stay in the Los Angeles area to emphasize an ap peal for. courageous leadership on his part to end what it says is a "racial nightmare." The $10 political breakfast was a big financial comedown from a Democratic fund raising dinner where the President table hopped Friday night and chatted with such entertainment stars as Jack Benny, Cary Grant, Rock Hud-i son and Marlon Brando. Some of the wealthier Demo cratic contributors were invited to the presidential suite at the Beverly Hilton Saturday morning. Afterward, Kennedy had a chance to rest and relax in Santa Monica at the beach front home of his sister, Patricia, and her husband, actor Peter Law-ford.

Aides said he welcomed the chance to ease up. The chief executive will be ending some 10,000 miles of travel in the West when he reaches Washington Monday. He was packing about three-fourths of this mileage into the last, roundabout leg of the tour from Los Angeles to Honolulu and then nine hours non-stop to Washington overnight Sunday to preserve peace. A tight security net was laid over the University of Alabama campuses here and at Huntsville as the gover- nor disclosed his plans to move guardsmen into Tuscaloosa. Meanwhile, state police arrest ed six white men Saturday night near the city and confiscated a cache of weapons that included clubs, -bayonets, baling hooks and six pistols.

The men were charged with carrying weapons without per mits and jailed. Police said they live in the Birmingham area. They did not tell police what the weapons were for. KLUXERS RALLY More than 1,500 cheering seg regationists gathered in a field near here Saturday in the light of a full moon and a burning 50-foot high cross for a Ku Klux Klan rally. Imperial Wizard Robert M.

Shelton Jr. appealed for people to stay away from the campus, but said, "I don't say there won't be violence in the future, Wallace reiterated earlier he will bar two Negroes from entering the main-campus at Tuscaloosa Tuesday. A third Negro will seek to enroll at Huntsville. The governor said steel-hel-meted National Guardsmen will back up, if; necessary, a huge force of. 825 state, county, city and campus policemen in Tusca loosa.

i THE TELEGRAM Wallace wired the President: "Out of an abundance of caution, I will call approximately 500 Alabama National Guardsmen effective Sunday These guardsmen will be quartered on the premises of Ft- Brandon National Guard Armory at Tuscaloosa to be used only in the event they are needed to maintain law and order and preserve the peace at the University of Alabama and in the Tuscaloosa area. "My sole purpose in this regard is to fulfill my pledge to preserve the peace. These guardsmen will be used for no other purpose." Wallace's action was a departure from precedent of defiance by other governors. U.S. ORDER READY Whether he hoped to avoid federalization of the National Guardsmen by.

the President, Wallace did not indicate. But the President already has had an order drafted federalizing the units as happened in the Arkansas and Mississippi integration crises. He has not signed it Unlike the crises in Little Rock, and Oxford, where National Guardsmen or state police barred Negroes, troops and policemen here are under orders only to prevent violence and keep mobs from forming. About 2,000 federal soldiers remain on standby at Ft. Mc- Clellan, 100 miles northeast of Tuscaloosa.

In Washington, the Army said Maj. Gen. Creighton Abrams had gone to Suscaloosa as liason officer with the Justice Department There were indications that Wallace, if he persists in his doorway stand, might manage to delay briefly the enrollment of the two Negroes. Government sources in Birmingham said U.S. marshals escorting the Negroes probably will make no effort to force their way past the governor.

Ifhe refuses to yield, these sources said, the federal officers will withdraw and federal troops probably will move in. A Washington spokesman said earlier in the week there would be no shoving match between marshals and state officers and whatever force needed would be used to enroll the students. Four of the governor's aides and a state investigator conferred with university authori ties and inspected security measures. Political Tug-of-War Over Oil By ED SALZMAN Off the shoreline of Long Beach sits the largest untapped pool of oil in the Umted States. This vast reservoir of petro leum is valued at $4.5 billion and is owned jointly by the State and the City of Long Beach.

Development of the underwater reserve can provide substantial relief to California taxpayers over a 35-year period as well as funds for the construction of a "dream" waterfront, in Long Beach. The oil could start gushing in 18 months. But it will never start flowing unless a political logjam involving the biggest names in the California Democratic Party can be broken. CAST OF PLAYERS Xast of leading players in the petroleum tug-of-war: Gov. Edmund G.

Brown, Lt. Gov; Glenn M. Anderson, Con troller Alan Cranston, Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh, pirec-tor of Finance Hale Champion, Sen. Virgil O'Sulliyan, Oilman, Edwin W.

Pauley, and Oscar Chapman, secretary of the interior during the Truman Administration. The existence of the huge oil reserve has been known for many years, but the current development plan was set in motion only 15 months ago. At that time, Long Beach voters lifted a ban against offshore drilling and approved a proposal for withdrawal of oil on a tightly- controlled basis. CALLS FOR LEASE The Long Beach plan calls for lease of the entire field to a single oil company or combine of firms. Operations would be confined to four attractive drilling islands.

Steps would be taken to prevent land sinkage, long a serious problem in the area. Oil companies seeking the lease would bid solely on a percentage of net profits. It has been estimated that the State and the city would get 90 per cent of the net revenue. Furthermore, the successful bidder would be required to make advance payments of $51 million. Long Beach wants the field developed by a single contractor because the city claims such a procedure would produce the.

highest bid. This decision to lease the field Continued Page 2, Col. 2 7 TV Life end Ann Landers On problems of love and life courtship and marriage going steady teen-age insecurity Ann's advice is wise and outspoken. Read her daily. Sfcrffs Tomsrrov On the Focus Page NIGHT Berkeley Police vs.

By JOHN i BERKELEY In the limelight a month ago because of a proposed fair housing ordinance, the city of Berkeley now is being watched closely by other municipalities on a touchy matter of pay for police and firemen. The issue is whether a police department patrolman should be paid more than a fire department hoseman. Traditionally, the two positions have carried the same salary. In Berkeley the range is from $584 to $644 a month. In most cities, when wage adjustments are made, they apply to all uniformed personnel with patrolmen and hosemen rated on an equal scale.

Berkeley's city Personnel Board now has come up with a recommendation for a special salary adjustment for patrolmen in order to meet "the very real and critical problem of recruitment and retention." The adjustment would be a five per cent pay increase effective July 1 for the consolidated classifications of patrolman-clerk and patrolman. This would push the top scale up from $644 to $676 a month. The personnel board also has urged a 2 per cent wage increase for. all city workers effective Dec. 29.

Patrolmen's salaries then would go up from the proposed $676 to $693 a month at the top level. Fire department hosemen would get thfeir first increase of the year, from the Weighs Fire Pay STUDLEY present $644 to $660 a month at the top. City Manager John Phillips concurs with the 4 Personnel Board recommendations and has urged the city council to grant the Special adjustment that would give patrolmen $33 more a month than hosemen. If the council approves, Berkeley would become the first city in the Bay Area to pay different salaries to its patrolmen and hosemen. Other cities are watching the Berkeley action with keen interest.

Oakland Police Chief E. M. Toothman, representing the Continued Page Cot Fire at Eureka Levels Sawmill EUREKA UR A fire so hot that it warped nearby railroad tracks destroyed a planing mill and one and one-half million board feet of lumber at the Lane-Portland Lumber Co. Saturday. Kenneth Jones, 32, a forklift operator at the company, discovered the blaze under a conveyer belt chain in the mill.

But in the two minutes it took him to report the fire, it engulfed the mill and quickly spread to stacks of lumber. The fire burned over a area next to U.S. 101 five miles north of Eureka. No one was injured. i FAMILY LIFE Astrology Autos Homes Gardens Knave Peale Stamps Travel TELEVISION Best Bets Humphrey Radio tV Mailbox U.S.

Will Automate Research By SPENCE CONLEY The Department of Defense, hoping to unclog the cluttered information lines of research and development a is planning a nationwide electronic information system. The Defense Documentation Center at the Oakland Army Terminal will be one of seven field offices tied into the main office of the Armed Services Technical Information Agency in Washington, D.C. With new computers in regional offices, questions about complex scientific projects could be fed into a large computer in Washington and the answer would be returned in an hour. An hour may seem' like a long time in this age of instantaneous communication, but consider that there are more than 750,000 documents on research, develop ment, tests and evaluation of particular projects. James L.

Ferguson, chief of the Oakland facility and a tech nical information specialist since World War II, notes that "We've got everything from Apple Sauce to Zilch everything that anybody has ever done for the Department of Defense." The information contained in the Defense Documents Center is available only to those individuals and firms working as prime or sub contractors on Defense Department programs. Chief users of the information in the Bay Area are Kaiser Industries, the University of California, Stanford University, Continued Page 7, Col, 2 Temples on Nile To Be Moved CAIRO WV- The United Arab Republic has accepted a plan to save the Abu Simbel Temples by cutting them up and moving them in segments from Nile banks to be flooded by the Aswan high dam. The project to cost $36 mil lion, calls for reassembly of the temples on high ground above the present site. A rival proposal to cut the temples from the hillside and float them to safety would have cost $58 million. MANY He claims that he qualified as an osteopath in America and is on the osteopathic register in that country.

In-addition to prominent persons he met in his practice he has said they also included movie actress Elizabeth Taylor and U.S. millionaire Paul Getty Ward claimed to have had a number of prominent sitters in his second vocation as an artist. Ward has named his sitters as, among others, Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II; Princess Margaret, the queen's sister; Lord Snowdon, Margaret's husband; Princess Marina, the queen's aunt; and Princess Alexandra, the queen's cousin. GOVT. EMBARRASSED As Ward was arrested, Conservative legislators spoke out frankly about the embarrassment the Profumo scandal holds for Macmillan and the government-John Cordle, Tory member, told constituents: "We -cannot afford to have bad security risks in high office in this country.

"Men who choose to live in adultery, men who are homosexual, or men whose moral influence is against the highest interests of our nation ought not to be appointed to serve queen and country." Harold Watkinson, minister of Continued Page Col. 3 Sunny Skies Promised in Bay Region Northern California will'bask under a warm sun today and Monday, tne weatnerman predicts. Morning fog near the coast and westerly winds from 12-24 m.p.h.. will help create predicted highs of 70 degrees in Oak 60 in Francisco and 79 in San Rafael. The high Saturday in Oakland was 62.

In the Sierra Nevada, the highway through Tioga Pass was reopened to traffic Saturday after being closed Friday by a 200-foot mud and rock slide. LONDON (J- A socialite i osteopath claiming acquaintance with the royal family was arrested Saturday in the government's sex scandal. He was accused of living off prostitutes' earnings. Unable to make bail, Dr. Stephen Ward, 43, was held in jail for a hearing Monday.

It was Ward who disclosed relations between ex-War Minister John Profumo and Christine Keeler, pretty, 22-year-old redhead described in Parliament as a call girl. The disclosure led to Pro-fumo's resignation Wednesday and touched off the scandal that has shaken Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government and might imperil its future. FAMED PATIENTS Ward, who says he has treated former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and half the British Cabinet formally was charged with living off prosti tution from Jan. 1, 1961, until now. No names of prostitutes were mentioned In the charges.

Ward was arrested in a north London suburb by Chief Inspector Samuel Herbert and Detec-tive-Sgt John Burrows of Scotland Yard. They have been leading a vice investigation that is reported to stretch into the British government and to Paris and New York. Ward has two homes. One is a cottage in the Harley Street area, where Britain's most eminent physicians live. LORD ASTOR'S POOL The other is a Swiss-style chalet on Lord Astor's estate at Cliveden, west of London.

Miss Keeler met Profumo and other famous men at Lord Astor's swimming pool. There, too, Ward and his friends entertained Capt Eugene Ivanov, assistant naval attache at the Soviet Embassy who has returned to Moscow. Profumo and Ivanov shared Miss Keeler's favors at Ward's apartment. A talkative man, Ward had disclosed in a television interview this week that he was the target of an investigation. He denied that his activities might be considered as procuring.

Ward says he is the son-of the late Canon Arthur Evelyn Ward of Rochester, England, who died in 1944. Sunday Tribune Index EL DORADO Art Books Bridge Crossword Music Night Clubs Photo Theaters ORLD OF WOMEN Clubs Martha Lee Causerie Society Guide to News Sections Churches 42 Real Estate Sec. Classified Sec. Sports 47-54 Editorials Vitals 44 Financial 55-57 Weather 37 STORES OPEN TOMORROW.

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