Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 21

I I- City Firemen, Poli See ice Ulsiim ADnue Benefit Fund vC- Boulevard of Broken Schemes Forgive me if I stress that the slogan of King Nar-cisse, the Oakland spiritual leaderhas some basis in fact. His slogan is, "It's nice to be nice," and King Narcisse tools around town in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce. And Dorothy Hix thinks along those lines, too. For 15 years she's worked for Safeway she's now a checker in the newstore at 29th and Broadway and 10 years ago at a San Jose Safeway an elderly lady came up with a box of strawberries that weren't up to snuff. Dorothy got the woman another basket and the woman, Mrs.

Mabel Buschjost, was impressed and they QttMEhe i r8 i '4. Vrj i Cowell College, first unit of University of California at Santa Cruz, will look like this New 'Oxford of Pacific became friends. Five years ago Mrs. Buschjost's husband, a stockbroker, died and'since then Dorothy had gone out of her way to spend time with the older woman. Mrs.

Buschjost died two weeks ago and yesterday her will was filed for probate. A fnlran nf -frlanflctitn tat 4- fiv tin lYHjf I widow to her friend, the Safe-I I W3 c'er: ioom house in mmmmm mmmmmm an BILL FISET in furnishings, silver and antiques all tax free because the will provided also for payment of inheritance tax. By CARL IRVING Tribune Staff Writer SANTA CRUZ A few hun dred people are gathering on a knoll overlooking the sea and the redwoods here today to deck icate a supreme effort to get back something the University of California has lost elsewhere in the crowd student-teacher contacts. A bronze plaque is being driv en into a large chunk of limestone in a redwood grove, the very first construction on the latest U.C. doors will open, for the first 500 students next year.

Like all the U.C. campuses, it has to be big, and eventually will have as many students as now overflow Berkeley. But it will be different, because it will be split into 20 colleges, each limited to a few hundred students. In residence at each college will be more than a dozen pro fessors, in an effort to get back some of the old-time atmosphere, when a professor would know who his students were. There are lots of interested professors.

The Santa Cruz chancellor, Dean McHenry al ready has some 1,200 applications from which to choose 60 teachers. Dr. McHenry is pledged to do several startling things: He wants professors first obligations to be teaching and not research; he wants to maintain a ratio of one professor for every 16 students and he wants to concentrate first on undergraduates and liberal arts, with grad uate students and science to come later. Such things as big-time football will come later too, if at all: "The colleges will be student-oriented, but the atmosphere will be seriously intellectual. The academic program will be heavy, the hours long.

A determined effort will be made to reach the whole individual, and to occupy his entire attention during the academic week." A national magazine has already labeled U.C. at Santa Cruz as the "Oxford of the Pacific" but Dr. McHenry calls it the answer for- the 21st century." LOOK TO FUTURE There will be 20 colleges by 1990, grouped around a central campus area and spaced within a 15-minute walking circle. There will be no room for cars. What clinched the new plan was the stunning site: 2,000 acres of Redwood forests and limestone quarries overlooking Monterey Bay.

The university bought the land, part of the 100-year-old Cowell Ranch, following regent approval in 1964. Abandoned quarries usually are ugly, but limestone turns golden. One quarry is as big as the Berkeley Memorial Stadium, and will be used for sports. Another, higher up and surrounded by Redwoods and Pine trees, is a natural amphitheater, ideal for outdoor plays and concerts. Some of the old ranch buildings are being Their limestone walls make the still-rural area look like old Virginia in the spring.

They include the 0 0 0 0 And I knew it was bound to happen. A life insurance company is out with a full page ad in the current Newsweek offering lower premiums to people who haven't 'smoked a cigarette for a year, as preferred risks. Now, considering insurance fraud is a felony, could a guy go to jail for sneaking asmoke? Also, it's amazing how some items get a big reaction. I mentioned a couple of guys in Vallejo who just launched an oven-cleaning service and it brought a flood of letters from housewives here wondering if anything like that exists closer. It doesn't, as far as I know, although it seems a promising occupation.

And from Lafayette Mrs. John Shaw wonders if "they would care to divulge just WHAT they use get the ovens clean?" Search me, but I hear the new stoves with the automatic oven cleaning, by extreme heat, are too tricky to be worthwhile. 0 0 0 0 SinrA it's FVMnv nirfif nnrl vnii're in a hannv and Budget Includes $835,000 for Health, Welfare The City of Oakland has been asked to provide fringe benefits for its police and firemen that would total more than 000 a year. that would total more than $35, The Co-ordinating Council of the Oakland Police and Fire De partments presented the 1964-65 budget request, with a thick sheaf of figures and explana- uons to the City Council It was sent to the council's budget committee for study, al though Councilman Robert V. McKeen, commented, "I think it ought to be turned down right now.

Whew!" ADJUSTMENTS ASKED The request asked for these "fair and equitable" adjust ments: fl) City-paid health and med ical insurance premiums for all ranks, with an estimated aver age monthly payment of $22.59 for an employe with two de pendents. Yearly cost for the city's 617 police and 661 firemen was estimated at $346,440.24. (2) Longevity allowance for the ranks of patrolman and hoseman to come to $330,513.30 The allowance would amount to VA per cent of base pay for 5-10 years service; 5 per cent for 10-15 years, and per cent tor 15 years and over. (3) A clothing allowance of vh per cent of hoseman-patrol man base pay for all members of the police and fire depart ments. CLOTHES ALLOWANCE The clothing allowance would average $10.33 monthly per per son and total The request stated that some career inducement seems nec essary as resignations have become a problem, particularly in the police department, which is operating 31 men under the chief authorized strength.

"It is a rather dismal fact that in both the police and fire departments, a rather small percentage, 39 per cent in fire and 27 per-cent in the police, will ever hope -to be promoted be? yond the patrolman-hoseman level," the report stated. The co-ordinating council said the last "notable" fringe benefit consideration for Oakland's police and firemen was in 1958 when voters approved tieing their salary to Bay Area industrial worker parity. OTHER ACTION In other' action the council heard that the Dole Corporation is auctioning off the equipment and IVz acres of land at its cannery at 5733 San Leandro St. The council asked the city at torney to investigate ways the city can reclaim a 60-foot wide unused Seminary Avenue extension the city vacated for Dole's use four years ago. The cannery has issued auc tion notices for Tuesday and Wednesday.

To be included in the disposal are two buildings and two warehouses. "Any manufacturing possibil ities for this area are out the" window," said Councilman Robert L. Osborne. PARTIAL ACCESS The Seminary Avenue extension has been discussed as a possible partial access to the new Coliseum. Mayor John C.

Houlihan also nominated Clinton W. White for his third term on the Housing Advisory and Appeals Board. White, a Negro attorney, has served previous two and four-year terms and has twice been chairman of the board. PUG to Study Castro Street Crossing Cost RICHMOND Testimony on methods of financing and maintaining proposed safety signals at the Castro Street crossing of the Richmond Belt Railway has been taken under advisement by Public Utilities Commission examiner Jack E. Thompson.

It will cost about $29,800 to install signals at the crossing on the Point San Pablo rail line which is owned jointly by the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railways. Normally, the city would put up half and the railroad half, but Standard Oil on whose territory the crossing rests, has offered to contribute $12,000. The city and the railroads both claim they should get credit for the $12,000. Lake Planned April 17,1964 21 Row House Project Approved A steep-sloped, six-acre devel opment of "town houses" in East Oakland has won approval of the Oakland Planning Commission. The plan is offered bv the Grainger Land which failed in two previous attempts" to win approval of 172 and 98-unit apartment building projects for the sue.

The site, presently one- family zoned, is on a knoll rising in the 9800 block, between Stearns Ave. and Burr St. The commission approved plans for 66 dwelling units, built as nine groups of "row" houses. UP TO COUNCIL The plan will come before the City Council Thursday morning. The commission also set ADril 29 for another hearing on the proposed new zoning code for Oakland, after representatives of the outdoor advertisine busi ness and the Chamber of Com merce asked for a month's delay.

After hearing zoning code witnesses, the commission, sub jected to another barrage of protest by pigeon owners, de cided to drop a proposed limitation of 12 caged pets. FOR REGULATION Commissioner James Price was assured by an Alameda County Health Department spokeseman that any number of pets could be regulated if they were a health hazard. "Let's forget it," Price said. "I can't see sending the zoning staff out to find out how many cats there are in a house." The commission returned to the planning staff for study a new design for a proposed Mont- clair district shopping center at Mountain Boulevard and Scout Road. DRAWS PROTEST The application, by James Fernhoff drew protests from several area residents, but the commission made it clear that the city council already has approved a shopping center and the only issue now is that of design.

The newly proposed plan would be rectangular instead of L-shaped and would provide some roof-top parking. Also held over, at the request of Street Supt. James E. Mc- Carty, was a request to vacate Dana between Alcatraz and 65th Streets, for a playground for St. Augustine's Catholic church and school.

Candidates for State Senate Will Speak DANVILLE Barbara Heig- ho and W. C. J. van Mastrigt, candidates for the California State Senate, will address the San Ramon Valley Republican Women's Club meeting at 1 p.m. Monday in the Danville Women Club, Linda Mesa Avenue.

Escape to Suburbia oO For some it works. For others it means, frustration and debt. Read Don De-Main's "Suburbia a fascinating insight into suburbanite life. His series of articles starts Sunday. '-Mm Psychology, where Dr.

Mc Henry believes "there may be considerable opportunities for early in some fields with a nucleus of scholars possibly being recruited from the Palo Alto Center for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences; mathematics, with the proximity of San Jose's Inter national Business Machines Plant and the rapid changes that are in process. The new campus is bringing some change to the atmosphere of Santa Cruz. A community, for 60,000 persons is being planned with strong development controls around the campus. The city plans to annex almost all the area eventually and as few Redwoods and other trees as possible will be cut down to make room for people. VOICE CONCERN The regents have expressed some uneasiness about the whole idea.

One member recently worried out loud that the campus would too much resemble some thing like Yosemite's Camp Curry or even a series of hunting lodges. But they are in agreement with the chancellor's goals: Developing students who can think, are expert a cer tain field, have mastered i foreign language as well as their own, can read easily and wide ly, and possess historic and phil osophic perspective. There are educators around the nation watching to see if these goals will be fulfilled, a possible answer to big popula tions and an antidote for as sembly line instruction. Beautification of Hayward Planned HAYWARD-Owners of downtown property west of Foothill Boulevard are being asked to help beautify the area. Specifically, the property owners are being asked to keep unoccupied store fronts and sidewalks free of debris; paint store frtnts to blend in with the decor of window displays, and modernize older buildings.

counting house, where the Cow- ens would pay their hired hands once a year, in gold, the gran ary, the cook house and the coach house. These restored buildings will be used as office space, at least at first. The new buildings will be re lated by the architects to their surroundings with the use of copper and Redwood. Residen tial units will vary from two to four stories', and will be. organized around two courtyards, one for men and the other for women.

There will be vistas of Monterey Bay. Plans have been "approved for the first two colleges, and the regents yesterday gave preliminary approval to a this time for science students. It will be located near the Natural Sciences Building, which is already under construction. OTHER AREAS But; the emphasis will be on liberararts, especially art, mu sic, writing and foreign languages (sparked by the nearby Monterey Army Language School). Each college will go in a slightly different direction the first, Cowell, will concentrate on social science.

Other areas which Santa Cruz will concentrate on Include South Pacific studies, to supplement work on Far Eastern subjects already well developed on other U.C. campuses; conservation, a logical subject, with the campus near one of the last accessible wilderness areas, of California, including mountains, streams, forest and shoreline. f. dispensable to a series of National, Aeronautics and Space Administration meetings" to be held nationally. A $500 fine against him still stands.

The engineer was arrested after he tolrl a stfwarrlp at San Francisco Airport Feb. 5 that one relaxed frame of mind, consider this great bit of philosophy from one of America's finest poets. Oakland's Don Ibsen has mimeographed it and is sending it around. The poet delivered it on his 75th birthday like this: "Youth is not entirely a time of life it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or supple knees.

It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep' springs of life. It means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals The poet? Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

oooo The Oakland Jaycees came up with the bright idea, for fund-raising, of bringing Sid Kellner's James Brothers Circus into Frank Youell Field Sunday, complete with lions, elephants, trapeze artists and so on. This is the first time a circus has played in Youell Field since the early days of the Raiders. And sometimes even on college newspapers headline writers try to cram too much into their work. The Daily CaUfornian came out the other morning with a story under a head saying: "Cal Ski Lodge Has Successful Season; Carl Levy Resigns." oooo iftSa, Qinnr nitrii a tni-TiitiA Joe Knowiand office. Joe instead of fish Is that when utensils, oil and butter, cook Japanese companions, all a Japanese auto.

The forth trans-Pacific voyage seem Forgive an inside-the-newspaper-biz item, but our Andy Morgensen, the fishing expert, returned from a trip in his lme of work at (Pardee. Dam, a fishing excursion, and stopped for dinner on the way home. Later in the week he filed an expense account for the trip, including the dinner, and somehow the expense ac count found its way into New 18-Story Building Priced At $3.5 Million An 18-story apartment tower to cost $3.5 million is planned by Eichler Homes Inc. on the shores of Lake Merritt. In announcing the Joseph Eichler, firm presi dent, said construction is ex pected to start this summer.

A curving facade, to match the contour of the property at Lakeside Drive and 17th will distinguish the building. Although no formal application has been made to the Oak land Planning Commission, Eich ler engineers and architect Claude Oakland have conferred with the planning department on the project. The tower is to contain 126 units, including 54 studio, 54 one-bedroom and 18 two bedroom apartments. Rents will probably range from $180 to $400 monthly. A four-story parking garage will jut out from the rear of the tower at street level.

The high-rise building will entail a unique construction system, Eichler said. Reinforced concrete bearing walls will be "slipformed" for their entire height and will support pre-stressed concrete floor slabs. T. Y. Lin and Associates are structural engineers for the project.

Each apartment will have a spacious balcony overlooking the lake, Lakeside Park and the Oakland hills. The property is in a high density zone and a "lakeshore com bining" district, which leaves the maximum height of any structure to the discretion of the planning commission. At least two other high-rise apartments have been proposed for the land in the past, both by Piedmont attorney John B. Bates. Neither project was undertaken.

The Eichler company purchased the property from the Jacobsen Brothers Construction Co. of Palo Alto. The sale was handled by Grubb and Ellis real estate brokers. fired a note back to Andy asking, "What's wrong? Can't you eat one of the fish you catch? Kidding, of course, because it's Joe's contention Andy has never really caught a fish, that deep down in 6ide Andy doesn't like-fishing. Andy maintains the rea If lh K1 i 1 i ri i TTT mtKfmm' juaiiMmn t.f.f.jp son he smells of after shave he catches them he throws them back.

Anyway, Andy got Joe's note, so filled out a new expense account voucher, for equipment with which to. pre-nare future fish caught a rotisserie, charcoal, fuel; asbestos gloVe, condiments, book and napkins $89.40. And that didn't even include the price of admission to CURVED APARTMENT TOWER IS PROPOSED AT LAKE MERRITT Eichler Homes Inq. announced plans for 18-story project today a trout pond. oooo Kenichi Horie, the Japanese youth who sailed here Jail Sentence Dropped alone aboard his 19-foot boat two years ago, came back this week aboard the President Wilson this time a product of American enterprise.

With him were Truman Brooke, his American per sonal manager, and three wearing identical gray slacks and royal blue sports jackets with a crest on the pockets depicting the title of his book "Kodoku." The five will be at Richmond A government space engineer from Houston, has been excused from serving a 30-day jail term in connection with a bomb hoax. U.S. Dist. Judge William T. Sweigert yesterday deleted the jail sentence imposed Wednesday against Cecil Gibson, 29, when Gibson stated he was "In Yacht Harbor tomorrow afternoon, then leave for a cross country promotion tour in coming trip may make his like child's play.

or his companions had a bomrj in his bag..