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the the of of of of of of of of of of Oakland Tribune April 29, 1964 Schools Get Praise, Scorn in Race Issue The Oakland Board of Educa-1 tion received praise and condemnation in equal measure Cast night for the manner in which it has handled the problem of racial imbalance in the Oakland schools. The kudos came from the Redwood Heights Improvement Association, Inc. The brickbats came from a group identified as Castlemont Area Homeowners. Paul W. DeLeon, president of the Redwood Heights group, read a letter to the board which said in part: "The Oakland public schools have historically followed the premise a student attending the school within the geographical area of his home." The letter, pointing out that the percentage of Negroes in Oakland has risen from 8 per cent to 28 per cent in the postwar era declares: "Since the pattern, which is not peculiar to Oakland, is for certain ethnic groups to gravitate together in urban areas, it would follow that if a youngster lives in a predominantly Negro neighborhood, the school which he attends will be predoninantly Negro.

"The claimants of de facto segregation hold that this is evil and the result of design by the board of education. They ignore the fact that it was on this basis that Negro and white pupils have attended schools here together for more than 40 years." 500 Hear Plan for Enrollment Continued from Page 1 schools," the Rev. Mr. Bloom said. He added that his group believes the board should change attendance boundaries at Skyline, but he praised Phillips' open enrollment proposal as a "hopeful beginning" and urged the board to adopt it.

Under Phillips' plan, students from 15 of the city's 16 junior high schools would be allowed to attend Skyline on a quota basis. Phillips offered two alternatives for implementing the open enrollment. One plan would be to accept students from each school at the rate of 5.2 per cent of each school's tenth grade class. He explained another approach would be to accept a larger percentage of students from junior high schools feeding into Castlemont and Fremont High Schools. Under the second plan, mont and Fremont "feeder schools" would be allowed to send 8 per cent of their graduating ninth graders to Skyline.

Other junior high schools would be allowed a quota equal to 2.5 per cent. Phillips estimated it would cost approximately $70,000 to move portables, classroom furniture and supplies to Skyline to house the increased enrollment his plan would bring to Maintaining that the level of instruction, textbooks, supplies and equipment is "uniformly even in distribution, even though the ethnic distribution the community is not," DeLeon's ter contends racial imbalance is a community problem and not the responsibility of the schools. "Oakland schools have always been integrated." A different point of view was expressed in the letter from the Castlemont group, which was read to the board by Mrs. Cyril Fabio of 9009 Seneca St. This group criticized the board for "its lax manner of dealing with the pitiable state of educational opportunities for the majority of its students." The letter points out the group once "felt, generally, that any given child.

would receive the best possible education leading to the best possible choice of vocation based on his abilities, aspirations and the energy expended in academic pursuits; now, we are sorely disillusioned to find undemocratic factors which make the system work against him. "Witnessing the disintegrating effects of marking time, attempts to appease the power structure and maintain the status quo at all costs, denials of obvious existing we are forced to re-evaluate our position and our loyalties and to question the validity of our past faith in the existing system." The letter goes on to plain that Skyline boundaries have drained off academic, economic and socially "advantaged" young people who used to attend Castlemont. The boundaries, combined with the relocation of large numbers of Negro families from urban renewal projects in West Oakland, are making Castlemont the "McClymonds of East Oakland" the letter charges. "We are not interested as a I group in attending Skyline High School. We are loyal to and proud of Castlemont and its achievements; we are, however, interested in maintaining a socio-economically, racially and academically well balanced student body." Mrs.

Kennedy to Testify in Probe the school. Hall Syndicate, inc. SIT-IN HASSLE Mulford Tells U.C. To Enforce Rules Tribune Capital Bureau SACRAMENTO -Assembly- spokesman for his office said the man Don Mulford of Oakland rule book to which Mulford retoday called on the University ferred was written in the 1930's of California to use its own rule- and that the Assemblyman was book in dealing with students citing the last revision in Sepwho participate in illegal sit-in tember.) demonstrations. Among the sections of the Mulford said he has learned manual quoted by the Assemblythat a manual issued by man: President Clark Kerr last Sep- University of Califortember provides for possible ex- nia is the creature of the state pulsion of students who break and its loyalty to the state will state laws.

never waver. It will not aid nor "I now ask why President trary to the laws of the state." Kerr is doing nothing to imple- will it condone actions conment his own rules when stu- trary to the laws of the dents are in fact violating the is taken for granted very laws for which penalties that all students and student orare prescribed in his own rules- ganizations will set and observe of-conduct book," Mulford de- among themselves proper standclared. ards of conduct and good taste, The assemblyman last week obey the laws of the state and asked the UC regents to create community." a mechanism to discipline stu- and student ordents who violate laws on or ganizations which fail to make off the campus. proper use of the opportunities It now appears, Mulford said, freely given to them by the unithat the Kerr manual provides their privileges curtailed or withchief campus officers "sufficient versity must expect to have authority to take action against their privileges curtailed or withlawbreakers identified with the procedures recommended by Mulford said that among the university, without additional penalties authorized in the manprocedures recommended by ual are expulsion, suspension me." and censure. (U.C.

Chancellor Edward W. The assemblyman emphasizStrong said today it was "up to ed that "academic freedom is President Kerr to talk about not a license to violate--a such matters." violate repeatedly the crim(Kerr was out of town. A inal and civil codes of the Continued from Page 1 wald. Kohler returned to Moscow recently after consultations in Washington. Russia has provided some data regarding the assassin, but the commission deems it very inadequate.

Within the commission there sharp difference of view over high-ranking Soviet secret police interrogating Yuri Nossenko, official who defected to the U.S. in Geneva early this year. Nossenko specialized in the "American section" of the KGB, and is credited with knowing about Oswald. Former CIA Director Allen Dulles, a commission member, is strongly opposing the summoning of Nossenko. Dulles has indicated he is expressing the view of CIA authorities.

Distributed 1964 By The Hall Syndicate, inc. Brown Hits 'Filibuster' On Budget SACRAMENTO (P) Assembly Republicans were accused by Gov. Brown today of staging a "silent filibuster" against his $3.67 billion budgThe Democratic governor called demands of the GOP caucus for $45 million in budget cuts "a clear case of the minority trying to impose its will on the "The minority's views are supported by no one but Brown told his news conference. "'The governor can't retreat when all the facts are on his side." SUPPORT REFUSED The lower house Republican caucus has refused to support the administration's budget for the year starting July 1 unless its demands for reductions are met. Democrats have a 51-28 majority but need three Republican votes for the required twothirds approval of the budget.

"That's a real filibuster," Brown said, "a silent filibuster, but a real one." The governor, commenting on the Democratic U.S. Senate primary campaign, said he would like to see a thorough overhaul California's elections laws. GENERAL SESSION The governor said, however, he thought a complete reform should await next year's general legislative session. A presidential primary along the of Oregon's with the names of all known candidates on the ballot, would be preferable, Brown said. Under the Oregon system, a person must declare he is not a candidate in order to have his name removed from the ballot.

The governor had these comments on other subjects: Education--He still hopes to see a countywide school tax enacted, but conceded it will be difficult to overcome strong Senate opposition. Red China Brown spoke only for himself when he advocated trade of peaceful goods with Red China, and hopes it will come to pass. Travel He rejected Restate publican travels criticism during of the his out legisla- ture's budget stalemate as "another Republican effort to find an issue in the same category as calls for special sessions to end sin in the United States." Mansion Said that he personally prefers a legislative proposal for a new Executive Mansion in the suburbs, but as governor he believes a more costly mansion including public features should be built near the Capitol. Kaye, 'Mr. Novak' Win TV Honors NEW YORK (P) The Colum- bia Broadcasting System's "The Danny Kaye Show" and "Mr.

Novak" of the National Broadcasting Co. today shared the 1963 George Foster Peabody Award for television entertainment. Peabody Award winners were announced for distinguished achievement in television and radio by Bennett Cerf, Peabody board chairman. The Peabody board and the University of Georgia's School of Journalism administer the awards, which are now in their 24th year. JESS ABRAMOVITZ 2 Eastbay Men Die in Air Crash Two Eastbay men were killed Tuesday when their single-engine plane crashed into a bluff above La Selva Beach near Watsonville.

They were Jess Abramovitz, 30, of 273 Santa Fe Drive, Walnut Creek, an attorney with the firm of Burnstein Abramovitz and Starr in Oakland, and L. B. Duncan, 54, of 21007 Nunes Castro Valley, designer and owner of the firm of Duncan Homes. The plane, a red and white Cessna 210 which only last Saturday came in second in the Hayward-Las Vegas Air Race, was registered to Western Aircraft and Engine Co. of Hayward.

Duncan was one of the five owners of the plane. He was piloting when it crashed. The two men were on a business trip to Monterey. Abramovitz was active in Jewish community affairs and was chairman of the Contra Costa County United Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal in 1961. A native of San Francisco, he attended the University of California and Boalt Law School at U.C.

He: is survived by his wife, Tiann, and two children, David, 3, and Marla, 5. Duncan's wife, Lillian, is a kindergarten teacher at Vannoy School in Castro Valley. Tighter Oakland Charter Proposed Conitnued from Page 1 too, would be affected by another change which would limit terms on all the city's boards to four years. Civil service, park, recreation, library and museum commissioners now serve six-year terms. This provision also strengthens the mayor's position by increasing his appointments.

At least once during the mayor's four-year term, every position on the city's boards and commissions would fall vacant. In another proposal, the status of the voter-elected fiscal watchdog, the auditor-controller, would change. He would be made a sevenyear council appointee, called a city auditor, and be concerned mostly with "post-audit" functions. The city manager would assume most other fiscal operations. The board of education has opposed any change in the present law which gives the council the power to supporting taxes for education.

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4 p.m. OAKLAND: 1212 BROADWAY (SUITE 520) BERKELEY: 2171 SHATTUCK AVE. (SUITE 202) Democrats In Power Struggle Continued from Page 1 unsuccessful in Senate campaigns, declared for Cranston. In Washington, Rep. George P.

Miller, Alameda, and Rep. James Roosevelt, Los Angeles, predicted Cranston will gain most from Engle's withdrawal. Engle, yielding to his doctor's advice, announced in a telegram Tuesday that he would drop his campaign and serve out the remaining months of his term. Two brain operations forced him to end a 30-year career in life. The 52-year-old senator, formerly political a figure, vibrant, remained quipping tral in the Senate race.

His campaign chairman, assemblyman Tom Carrell of San Fernando, said he himself probably would vote for Cranston. Jordan confirmed it was too late to remove Engle from the ballot, but state Sen. Edwin J. Regan, D-Weaverville, introduced a bill in the legislature to permit Engle's name to be stricken, by his written request, at least 24 days before the primary. Transport Lacking One of the biggest problems faced by the tiny African state of Gabon is lack of modern transportation.

Hiroshima A Survivors Visit A survivor of the Hiroshima atom bombing said today that for America to disarm before other nations would be "not realistic and too idealistic." Dr. Takuo Matsumoto, 75-year old college president and Christian leader in Japan, said, however, that there must be "some start in disarmament if the world is to see peace." Matsumoto was spokesman at a San Francisco press conference at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park for 25 survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group arrived in the Bay Area I last night. They are on a lengthy tour of the United States in behalf of the World Peace Study Mission. They will also visit France, Russia and Great Britain.

"Mankind should learn that war does not solve said Matsumoto. He said he did not consider the United States warlike "far from it, -but I realize that America has a tremendous responsibility for maintaining the peace throughout the Dr. Matsumoto said there are more than 100 survivors of the atom bombings now living in the Bay Area. "We survivors have memories no other human being can imagine. Effects of the bomb still shadow our lives, and the Actions by De Gaulle Peril NATO fear of future effects haunt us always," he stated.

Some of the visitors will speak at 8 p.m. today at Burbank Junior High School, 1222 University Berkeley, and at Diablo Junior College on Golf Club Road in Pleasant Hill. Members of the group make five Eastbay appearances tomorrow. Mrs. Tokie Kawamoto, a youth leader, will speak at Oakland High School at 3:30 p.m.

in room 310. Two others will speak at a public dinner sponsored by the California Writers' Club at 7 p.m. at the Hotel Shattuck, Berkeley. Others of the group will speak at the 7:30 p.m. programs tomorrow at the Japanese Free Methodist Church, 1521 Derby Berkeley, and at the Buddhist Church at Ninth and Jackson Streets, Oakland.

Several of the survivors will also speak at the 8 p.m. meeting of the United World Federalists at the Friends meeting house, Walnut and Vine Streets, Berkeley. Prime Minister Dies FREETOWN, Sierra Leon (AP)-Sir Milton Margai, 67, who has been prime minister of Sierra Leone since it attained self government in 1960, died Tuesday night. of long-range planning to convert the alliance into a more effective instrument to meet changed circumstances. Apparently the United States hopes to broaden the political and economic aspects of the alliance.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk this month said "new patterns of collective action will be needed." But no new ideas have been forthcoming and there is growing fear in Europe that the United States, with its own intercontinental defenses against missiles, will never come to the defense of the continent if it is subject to nuclear attack. That's the crux of the whole matter: Will the United States, for example, defend Paris as it would Washington? De Gaulle apparently says no and has embarked on development of his own nuclear striking force. If, then, NATO has really become obsolete in the face of changed conditions, what is the alternative? No answers have yet come from Washington. Continued from Page 1 Pacific Concentration Regions of seismic and related volcanic activity are concentrated along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. NOW 7th LARGEST IN AMERICA OVER HALF-A-BILLION DOLLARS STRONG In just one year, over 40,000 new savers helped us grow to resources of well over half -a- billion dollars, to become 7th largest of America's 6,400 savings and loan associations.

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