Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 21

V. Priorities 3J-- Wen AHvo if Asked for Marinas Supervisors Urged To Earmark 67 Pet. Of State Park Bonds The Anti-Social Swim The weirdo Viet Nam Day Committee, picketing Jeffery Cohelan's office in the Latham Square Building about troop isn't getting much support in Oakland, They started handing out leaflets but almost I no takers. One little old lady nearly caneda picket with Alameda County supervisors are being urged to spend more than two-thirds of the county's ner umDrena Atty. Mike Ballachey, defending a Negro in a trial here, questioned jurors about whether "the events in Los Angeles' would prejudice them against "his client firVt backlash of Watts up here.

1 You can credit the Alameda County Assessor's Office with a little stupidity, regardless of what else. The reason for the furor over Michael McLaughlin's not recognizing. his suspension notice: It was sent to his home registered mail, the receipt was signed by Mc THIRD GRADERS USE "PRIMO-TEC METHOD, TAPED RECORD OF BOOK They follow printed text as jhey hear it, in one of new teaching techniques Laughlin's wife and returned to the Assessor's Office where it was lost. Mrs. McLaughlin wouldn't sign a duplicate, natch And Charlie Bock, chief Municipal Court clerk here, has a guy who drove up to the Bay Bridge toll plaza, stopped and said: "Fill 'er up." He's in for drunk, driving.

(Speaking of toll takers, one stands there singing opera to himself, doesn't quit even-when a -car pulls up. One woman yesterday recognized 1 1 1 KINDERGARTENERS TELL STORY IN SNAPSHOTS Experimental summer reading program a success BILL FISET i -f ill "La Boheme," says the guy has a great voice.) 0 0 0 Out in Concord Jerry Bassett, president of KCFT, the new UHF television station to open in November, has gone through the agonies securing dozens of permits, it. licenses and so on from various agencies. Only oneiiion request for land acquisition f. PICTURES MAKE WORDS COME ALIVE First step for kindergartener learning to read SIXTH GRADER DECODES SOUND AND LETTER COMBINATIONS Improvements noted in Emeryville program may lead to change in curriculum Johnny, Jane Read Better share of a state park bond issue to develop marinas and aquatic parks In Berkeley, San Leandro and Fremont The ten-member Alameda County Parks Advisory Commission last night recom-mended: 1-That $816,500 be spent to buy 671 acres of land for the proposed Coyote Hills Aquatic Park in the bayshore at mouth of Alameda Creek in the Fremont-Newark area, BOAT LAGOONS 2 That Berkeley-be given $324,250 to buy another 35 acres south of its present marina and to build dikes and conduct dredging for a small boat lagoon.

3 That San Leandro be awarded $345,000 for development of a small boat lagoon and a 22 acre park on land the city already owns south of its marina. -That the remaining which would be unspent from the total $1,856,400 bind issue allocation, be saved for other projects in later years. Money requests which were not given the park commission's endorsement were the Oakland Redevelopment Agency's $1 mil- and development of a Lake Mer ritt-Estuary Park; Fremont's request for $1,375,000 for a central park and wildlife refuge; and Livermore Area Recreation and Park District's request for $430,000 for the purchase of 427 acres along the Arroyo del Valle Creek for camping and picnic-ing facilities. Also not recommended was Hayward Area Recreation and Park District's proposed 500 for shoreline development from San Lorenzo to the San Mateo bridge. That proposal was not given formal considera tion because it was received after the July 1 deadline and was not submitted as a formal request.

UNANIMOUS REJECTION The Fremont and Livermore requests were rejected unani mously by the nine commissioners present. Commissioners noted that the state money is supposed to be spent on projects of a regional nature likely to be used by residents of the entire county. They questioned whether Fremont's project is regional in scope. The Livermore project was turned down primarily because it is not yet included in the county master plan of developmentanother state requirement. MERRITT PROJECT The Lake Merritt project was turned down by a 5-4 vote.

The majority also felt it was not of a regional nature. It contemplates development of an estuary park from the 12th Street dam at Lake Merritt down the canal to the Estuary and then nprtbwayd to Jack London Square. The money comes from last year's $150 million Proposition One a state beach, park and recreational bond issue. Of the total $40 million is to be allocated to counties for local projects. The final recommendation on how Alameda County's will be spent will come from the board of supervisors.

They miist make a recommendation by October 1 to get the money by July 1, 1966. AH three projects recommended represent reductions in original requests. East Bay Regional Park District had initially asked for the full for the Coyote Hills Aquatic Park; San Leandro requested $500,000 for its' marina; and Berkeley asked for up to $742,500. Special Tax For Schools May Go Up A special J-cent tax for schools, ordered by the State Board of Equalization to offset low assessment ratios, appears certain to be continued in Alameda County this year and may be increased. The State Board today reported that assessment in the county is at 20.2 per cent of full cash value, substantially below the state average of 21.8 percent.

The 9-cent levy was imposed last year when the difference wai smaller 21.7 for Alameda County comparison to the statewide average of 22.1. of New Program As Result EMERYVILLE An experi mental summer reading pro gram in the Emeryville schools may lead to a far-reaching change in the curriculum. The 10 teachers who took part all reported the 100 children involved in the project made marked improvement in reading ability. The six-week pilot program is at Anna Yates' Elemen tary School. Three newly developed tech niques were teste Programmed reading, a type of highly individualized instruct tion; "Words in Color," a method of using colors to represent sounds of various letters and then combining these colored letters into words; and "Prime-O-Tec," a method by I I A JbL permit came easily: a rezoning to allow construction of the TV tower, granted in one day.

Except the next day the tower permit was cancelled by FAA. It would be in the landing pattern of Buchanan Field And 1 mentioned the wild rock 'n' roll group playing Monday nights at Casuals on the Square, called "Stark Naked and the Car Thieves?" Well, I went. They're' good, good, good Also good is the cartoon in the current SatEvePost showing the guy in his club, talking over his newspaper saying: "I for one would like a clearer definition of what they mean by 00 0 Joseph Ullery, who gained fame as an artist in prison and has prospered since his release two years ago, has a current one-man show at Skylight Gallery in San Francisco The prettiest exterior on any building I've seen in the Eastbay is the little Casa de Eva' Mexican restaurant, on Telegraph near Stuart in Berkeley Maybe the busiest Mexican restaurant around is El Abode, at Eight Avenue and East 14th, hangout of the Hell's Angeles. On weekends you'll see 100 cyclists in front and 20 cops around the corner. In El Cerrito poor Norman "Buzz" Pryde was rousted out of bed at 3 a.m.

by the phone ringing. A girl's voice asked for Mr. Pryde. "This is him, but are you sure I'm the one you want?" The girl asked how old he was. "Sixty," said Pryde.

Then he heard the girl say to someone on her end: "He says he's 60." The woman's voice in the background: "Tell him to go back to sleep." ooo Undfersheriff Dick Foudy, hard at work staring out his office window, spotted some little kids batting at geese on the shore of Lake Merritt with their skateboards. The kids were brutal so Foudy hauled them in, then called for juvenile officers. A cop arrived, told Foudy he was there in response to a report of kids "glue-sniffing, but these kids look too young." "These kids," retorted Foudy, "are here for goose-nipping" Harold Reisfelt manages a Little League team and his own son, natch, has been clean-up batter. Except the son, Mark, hadn't gotten a-hit in 15 times up so Reisfelt, moved him back in the lineup. Mark got a himself off standing on first, and yelled at his dad: "Move me back up.

I'm hitting now." India's Sharad Pandya gave prepared goodbye speech before the Diablo Toastmasters'. the other night without changing a line. "I hope all new nations in the world can achieve the American type -of federated democracy without violence." And I hope no one showed him a newspaper before he boarded his plane A drunk was sitting at the bar in Joe Maita's Golden West Restaurant when one of those large, large families trouped in to have dinner. "Who are they?" the drunk asked. "The King Family?" 0 0 In Walnut Creek Atty.

Lester Meggs has a rare client, a guy being sued by a girl for paternity. The client's wife, meanwhile, is after a divorce charging him with impotence Michael Jackson, who made it big with a late night talk show on an Oakland radio station a while back, said of Beatle-like groups the other night: attired in erotic costumes, silently mouthing the words to hoked-up records jangling with electronic gimmick noises. The dance floors packed with adolescent pimpled Americans of all colors and creeds doing rain dances or fertility rites t- with deadpan, trancelike expressions and movements." Speaking of music, there's the other extreme. KNBR's Doug Pledger does commercials for Mi-Wuk Village in the Sierra, points out he has a house there and makes it in less than three hours. If his car were as old as the polkas he plays it would take twice that long In San Lorenzo Jay Tinti stayed home from work with a strep throat, started feeling better so went out to paint his house.

He opened a new gallon of white paint, set it on top of a ladder, moved the ladder and couldn't have been hit more squarely. He stayed home the next day, too, feeling pale When Mayor Houlihan slips away with his wife for a few days, as they do, they check in at the Tickle Pink Motel iif Carmel, "We love it there." The power of a name. MATT H. MURPHY JR. 'Man of Action' Award Pacifists Will Try to Block Ships Two young pacifists, repelled by the U.S.

Coast Guard yester day, plan to blockade military ships leaving the Oakland harbor Monday with their home made 16-foot sailboat. Craig T. 20, of 2408 DeKoxen Belmont, an aba-lone diver in Half Moon Bay, said he and John K. White, 29, same address, will sail in front of any ship leaving the Oakland Army Base or the Oakland Naval Supply Center Monday. COURT ARREST "We'll either stop the ships or be arrested, Young said.

Ua cniA ha anri VJYiita ruhn i on a six-month leave of absence from the University of Chicago where he is a research supervis or, are members of the Committee for Non-Violent Action. A. 40-foot Coast Guard cutter stopped Young and White in the Estuary last night at the en trance to the Oakland Army Base. They were aboard a small outrigger sailboat built in Chi cago by White. The pair left after Coast Guardsmen explained they were entering a restricted harbor zone and would be subject to arrest.

TIMETABLE Today, however, Young said they would sail into the restricted zone Monday after launching their portable boat from the Grand Street boat landing in Alameda about 10 a.m. The sailboat name, Satya- Grahi, was coined by Ghandi and means non-violent disobe dience, he. said. Young said he plans to become a conscientious objector when drafted. Transformer Award SACRAMENTO (UPI) The State Water Resources Department yesterday awarded a purchase order to Westing-house Electric Sacramento, for power transformers for a power plant near the Oro-ville dam.

For Triple-Tube Plan Inventing the hobby provements on mechanical de- Aug. 20, 1965 21 Oakland Sued For $125,000 In Shooting The parents of a 15-year-old boy shot and'killed by a police officer today sued the City of Oakland for $125,000. The youth, Michael Corcoran, was shot in the head and thigh bv Patrolman Ravmond Deaton ofiar tha hnu frnm a OIU1CII HI ailU Jail Deaton halted the car, driven by another 15-year-old, on College Ave. near Broadway in the early morning hours of March 22. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of "lawful homicide" in the case, following an inquiry.

Corcoran's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Corcoran of 5747 Shafter charged in an Alameda County Superior Court complaint that the shooting was without lawful reason and warning. Co-defendants in the lawsuit are Deaton, Chief Edward Toothman and City Manager Wayne Thompson. I The suit asks $100,000 for the loss of the companionship and $25,000 for estate administration and medical and funeral costs.

HISSED on LATE DELIVERIES? Just call our circulation department before 7 p.m. daily or12 noon Sundays a Tribune will be delivered promptly. 273-2323 which pupils follow a taped recording of a book with the printed text. The children, ranging up to the eighth grade, were largely allowed to proceed at their own speed, promoting a sense of confidence and enthusiasm for reading. They were tested on reading prior to the summer school and will be tested again at the com pletion of the school in the fall.

mi- a i i i i me jeauiers wnu participated will make use of some of the techniques jn their classrooms this fall. A co-ordinating committee will study the effectiveness of the various techniques in terms of both short-rance and long-range goals for the purpose of making permanent curricu-I lum changes. vices. In 1934 father and son were first mentioned in a Tribune story about a semi-Diesel engine they had worked on, saying they "have been known for some years as inventors. Today Brooks Walker holds patents on more than 125 inventions.

Some- of them were dreamed up for the armed forces in World War IL A recent success was a new type of shock absorber, and the latest was his "clean air packet" which makes his the only smog-free auto in the Bay Area. He is still working on the smog device, and a variation M. his invention is expected to on new cars next year. Walker is married to the former Marjorie Walker, daughter of another Piedmont Walker family, the late Mr. and Mrs.

Percival Walker. They have two sons, Brooks president of United States Leasing-, and John, a San Francisco architect. Klan Lawyer Dies in Crash Near Shooting TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (UPI) -Matt Murphy, the Ku Klux -Klan's flamboyant attorney, was killed in an auto accident today on a highway where a night-rider shooting occurred two hours earlier. Both the accident and the shooting happened near Tuscaloosa, about 45 miles southwest of Birmingham, where Murphy had his practice.

Murphy was killed at 4 a.m. and the shooting occurred at 2 am. It was not known whether the two happenings in the same area were coincidental or whether Murphy had been advised of the shooting and was on his way to investigate. The victim of the shooting was, a white woman, Miss Mary Jo Stanford, who was hit in the face with a shotgun blast. She suffered a serious eye injury and was taken to' Birmingham Hospital, he shared with his father in their Piedmont home when he was a young man, led indirectly to an honor for Brooks Walker Sr.

this week. He was selected as the first recipient of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's "Man of Action" awards. Chamber officials said the award recognized his dedicated service to the community. It also reflected his engineer ing inventiveness, because he was cited as "the moving force" behind the triple-tube plan for the Golden Gate Freeway in San Francisco. His proposal is the only one approved by the Board of Super visors.

Walker, of 807 Francisco Street, San Francisco, is president of Shasta "Forests one of the largest timber holding firms in the state. This also is a family tradition. The Walkers were timber owners in Minnesota before coming to California. 'His father, the late Clinton Walker, also varied his occupation by experimenting with im- 7 i '4 'i.