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THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA, fair tomghf and tomorrow except for high fog near the ocean extending inland mornings. Low tonight 44 to 52, Westerly winds 1 0 to, 20 m.p.h in the afternoons. EDtfDM ESTABLISHED rEBRUARY 21. 1874 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA VOL. 179, NO.

266 Iron Worker Walkout Halts Jobs Wildcat Strike.Hits. Heavy Construction, Including Coliseum TmURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. naifv ttj ciiMnnv oe umiru HHIt I 4Ulim I A fVkWIlin w-w Continue h'Ss rT cyS- r-Vr i LEONARD BLAIKIE Tribune Labor Writer Iron workers went on pat strike throughout Northern and Central. California' today, stopping -or slowing down lions of dollars worth 'of heavy ON THE INSIDE Kir jsi Wi II Innnrp Boa to Beau U.C.

snake as a writhing friend. Page 24. Assessor Problem State official puts some blame on county boards of equalization. By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign New Analyst Guerrillas in the Indian section of disputed Kashmir today vowed to continue their war of -rage 21. Debris in wake of Montclair business district flood caused when a bulldozer dug up 12-inch water main Dennis Powers Finds a powerful Negro drama is exciting, "rewarding entertainment.

Page 18. Wonderful Space Bob MacKenzie finds TV program ignores elementary scientific facts known even to 6-year-olds. Page 20. Poor Win Poor Win Victory In Poverty Setup Vietnrv co-ed buys a four-foot surprise, for her boy All Goldberg Flays Peking Compiled from AP and UPI UNITED ftATTONS, N.Y. The United States today renewed its appear to all U.N.

construction projects. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is among the many Jobs affected. A spokesman for the Associ-. a ted General Contractors said the dispute apparently is within the union. "It's a struggle between several business agents-and the in ternationah representative," the spokesman said.

RECENT PACT A settlement was reached between the union alid the AGC, representing the ma jor. heavy construction tractors, providing for wage increases of $1.80 to $1.94 an hour, spread over the next five years. Larry business representative of Iron Workers Local 377: in San Francisco, said the. walkout is not by the union and commented, "the men apparently went fishingr" He said 'the five-year settle-; ment was voted down by "large majorities" in six of the eight locals in the state, but the Dis-; trict Council went ahead and signed it. i Ironically, the only place where pickets were posted was In front of the District Council of Iron Workers at 995 Market St, San Francisco, Hiey carried placards stating "The District Council is unfair to iron work- S.

Asks To Join Peace Bid members to use all means to persuade the Crnmunists to negotiate Viet Nam settlement. in his first ma for rolirY- A spokesman for the District Council and the international an-' ion branded the work stoppage 60'illegaT and said steps will be taken to get the men back work under a memorandum of agreement signed on Sept 5. One of the controversial is- wesHJurmg-lengthy-iargaining which preceded the settlement ti the long-standing 25-cent hourly Cut Water Line Brings Flash Flood AJiigh-pressure water ain accidentally brokeitrby-abulK dozer sent tens of thousands of gallons of water, mud and rocks cascading through the Montclair business district yesterday. No injuries were reported, al though the flash caused an undetermined a of property damage. A me june was severed lira bulldozer-which was- eradine a new parking lot at 'Lucas and LaSalle Avenues, The blade of the- big 'earthmover ripped up four feet of, a u-mch cast iron water main, sending up twin geysers PHONES DISRUPTED Telephone communications in the district were disrupted as the freshet carried 50 tons of rnud, rocks and debris down jUSaue.MojtheJwsiness.area below.

Water and mud entered sev eral storesrand the intersection of La Salle and Moraga Ave nues was closed. Cars parked along the street had mud up to the hubcaps. Hardest hit Raimondi's Paint Store, 2042 Mountain which Is located at the intersection of Mountain and La-Salle. 1 1 "It came down through the back, side and front of the store, said John Raimondi. 'We're still cleaning the mud away from the front door." IT GETS AROUND Other store owners found that mud gets around one way or another.

"We didn't have any washed in by the water," explained own er Lou Feldman or Jeffrey's clothing store, 6101 La Salle. "The mud was all tracked in afterwards by people coming in from the street. The East Bay Municipal Utili ty District sent a dozen men to Montclair to clean up the mess, while another crew worx- ed to repair the Water service to the area was restored in less than an hour by diverting water, from alternate lines into the busy commercial area. sPec" General Assem- Diy, aeuverea a seaming aiuck on Communist China and its policy of revolution proclaimed recently- by Marshal rlJn Piaoy Peking's- defense minister. urged the United Nations to deny-fied China- seat-in-the organization.

Goldberg, who presided over the Security undldiscussions which brought Indian and Paki stani agreement to a cease-fire In their Kashmir warfare, told the Assembly that the conflict was 'the eravest in the history of this organization." REBUFF TO CYNICS "Once he said. again," he said, "in rebuttal of skeptics and cynics. the United Nations has proved to decisive ipeace-lhakerTff1 1 "7 despite Ihencease- fire. The UN. Security Council's cease-fire orderr formally went into effect but both India and Pakistan sought to gain as much ground as possible before the guns were silenced.

The order freezes both armies at the po sitions they now bold. The guerillas' radio, as heard in Rawalpindi, capital of Paki stan, declared: It is for us to make the de cision and that, decision is to continue the fight." REVOLUTION COUNCIL The broadcast supposedly Tame- from the- Revolutionary Council that helped promote the series of attacks on the Indian part of divided Kashmir. These outbreaks were a prelude to the latest Indian-Pakistan conflict. Long and difficult negotiations are expected before Indian and Pakistani troops leave each oth ers country. Intermittent artil lery fire and bomBlngs" contin ued until the cease-fire deadline.

Both sides charged -de other with, ground; fighting" op to the last minute. T. Indian i tfefense ministry, charged Pakistan bombed the sacred city of Amritsar three hours after the deadline. Also, Indian Defense Minister Chavan said operations to haul date armed PakistaM infiltrat- ors into Indian sectors of Kash- rair. would continue.

QUESTION UNSOLVED Moreover, the big question of Kashrrtuy wluco-Ji one of. tne toughest in the world today, remains' unsolved, despite formal compliance with the cease-fire order. The question turns on a plebi scite in the disputed and divided region between India: and Paki stan, i Pakistan demands a jyote. by the predominantly Moslem popu lation on which country it wants to ioin. India contends that Kashmir is- an integral part of India and rejects any popular vote On the other big question, Red China failed to break the peace in the frontier crisis, as India expected.

But Indian authorities said that the Chinese Communists appeared to be building a Himalayan version of jpe Ber lin wall. WALL GOING UP The AP reported from New Delhi: Cement and stone were re ported being used to put up a wall near Julep pass, one of the contested high routes connecting the Indian" protectorate of Sikkim with Chinese-ruled Tibet -----rr Actually, such a barrier is Continued Page 2, CoL 3 Completion of the MacArthur Freeway will provide a 15-mile route through the center of Oakland and along the edge of San Leandro, from the Bay Bridge to Castto Valley. Progress reports on other Eastbay highway projects were also made today by Alan 5. Hart, district engineer." His customary quarterly re view, scheduled for October 1, was released early to coincide with National Highway Week, now in oroeress. Hart said the weeK is ob served to focus attention on the importance of highway Improve ments and the benefits they re turn to the public.

"Our concern is and always will be with people, since it is for them for tin commuter, the GM Slashes New Cars $52 to $136 DETROIT- (AP General Motors Cofpr announced -price cuts Wednesday for its 1966 cars, in which the firm said it passes on to the buyer the full excise tax reduction and also gives him a price break on safe ty equipment made standard for the first time. V-'ili The announcement by the largest of the auto makers fol7 towed statement of higher car prices by Chrysler Corp. GM said its prices on its lines New ar price analysis, Page 26 reduced from $52 to, $136, depending on the car. The firm said this is an average $72 price cut for all its cars. The GM price schedule was hailed by President Johnson's chief economic adviser, Dr.

Gardner Ackley, as a 5 "clear-cut" reduction, For example, ones, 1965 GM model carried a sticker price of $2,263.60, including the six op- tional safety, items which the firm now has made standard. That was the price tag before the excise tax cut. The 1966 model of this car carries" anprice tag- of $2,202, a reduction $61.60. Of $48.65 was attributed to the federal excise tax reduction' approved by Congress and the President, and $12.95 was attributed to a price cut by GM on the previously optional safety items. "The major part of the overall reduction reflects the full amount of the excise tax GM said.

The excise tax was reduced from 10 to 7 perl i 1 L. AA ceni lasi oune Li, reiruatuve 10 May 15. "The remainder of the reductions," GM said, "includes de creases for the safety items made standard yV yr 0. 9 viit Wl fj A XVfJ 0 I r''WV))JJ Wl Jl II VWr BUT WHAT'lL YOU DO FOB AN ENCORE TEMPERATURES (WHMr M(lnt ft Oak. Downtown 67 50-' AJrport 69 58 S.F.

Downtown 65 55 Airport 8 53 33 Bay of Pigs 'He had in fact ap-. proved plan bearing little, resemblance to what; he thought he had approved. Therein the key. to the pay: of. Pigs Ted Sorenson tells fV Kennedy was misled yet made many and serious mistakes himself.

Pag 13-F Three U.S. marshals used, a Coast Guard cutter to intercept ancLkeepthe.collsion-damaged tanker Intercontinent from leaving the Bay after' a $2 million adrnlraltydamage suit was tuea against its owners. The Liberian-reeistered tanker headed to sea despite a 15-foot jagged hole in her bow, was boarded by U.S. Marshal Ed ward A. Heslep, Chief Deputy Marshal G.

Blazzard and Wil liam Locklear, the marshal's maritime just west of Mile Rock last night. COURT ORDER The marshals served a federal court seizure order and the In tercontinent returned to an An chorage 7 quarantine area off Treasure Island Blazzarxi said were un happy aboard the ship when we served the papers, but they were verv cooperative. The Norweeian owners of the freighter Berganger badly dam aged in the collision, liled tne damage suit against the Inter continent to prevent it irom BOND SOUGHT Attorneys for Westfal, Larsen and Co. the Berganger'j own- i it ers, said tne tanner couiq sau if it first put up a bond for the amount of the damage to the Bereaneer. The half loaded, 6SKoot tanker and the freight- Continued Page 3, Col.

2 House Approves Gl Insurance WASHINGTON (UPI) The House today approved and sent to the White House legislation to let all U.S. servicemen buy 000 erouo life insurance policie: at a cost ol about permonin The administration was report ed poised to put the plan into effect within a matter of days. Initially, all men in service wi: be covered automatically. The coverage will continue except for those who later ask in writing $2 Mil ion Lawsuit in Ship Crash Recipients To Get Vote The Oakland Economic Development Council (OEDC) ex ecutive committee last night made jtwo recommendations to avert a threatened rift between West Oakland area poverty pro gram recipients and non-resident administrators. i.TJiecommiilee,recommended that in addition to nine exist ing executive posts, four be added -and-fiUed by members-be.

londnff to each of Oakland four poverty target areas. It also recommended that ad ditional members from the areas be added to the OEDC. Both recommendations fe unanimously approved by the council. TARGET AREA No members of the present executive committee reside in the areas the war on poverty program serves. The committee recommenda tions last night were to stem a rising tide of discontent among target area residents who com plain they lack voice in pro gram planning and expenditure of poverty funds.

The meeting last night at Prescott School, 920 Campbell in West was-4he firstjobe held in "Target Area in which Negroes comprise 65.5 per cent of a population of 37,621. Mrs. Joan Sparks, Fnutvale Advisory (mrnittee member of the OEDC, charged the present executive cornmlttee had re vised actions passed by the full council without consulting the council as a body. She also charged appointments to Small Business Committee proj ect had been made by the executive committee without con sultation with the full council COUNCIL CONSENT Norvel Smith, executive '-di rector of the Department of Hu man Resources and OEDC sec retary, said the appointive ac tions taken, by the committee Continued Page 2. Col.

1 Consumers Warned of Bad Cheese The State Department of Pub lic Health has issued a warning to all persons who have purchased "Kuminost Natural Cheese" in Northern California. The health department report said people who ate the cheese contracted staphylococcus uuec- tions. became nauseated and vomited three to four hours after eating It The report said those who became ill later recovered. Safeway Stores, distributors of the product, has withdrawn all the cheese from its stores. The purpose of the warning is to advise all buyers of the cheese who have not yet eaten it not to do so.

Two cases of staphylococcus infection were reported in Sac ramento County, two in San Francisco County and one in 'Once again, not for the first time, I would like to em phasize, the voice of the United Nations has been heeded and respected and now the task of the United Nations is to seize this great opportunity, this breathing spell, this great and inescapable responsibility, to help reinforce' and solidify this gain so the cease-fire will not be transitory and ephemeral." Secretary General Thant and his staff were working on the creation of a U.N. India-Pakistan Observe -Mission (UNIPOM) to supervise the Kashmir cease-f Goldberg repeated U.S. will Viet Red Arms Cache Seized Compiled from AP and UPI SAIGON Thousands ot allied troops, sweeping a --Communist' stronghold 40 Saigon, today captured the. larg est, enemy arsenal discovered during the war. Theyiilied it Viet Cong.

The American, New Zealand and Vietnamese troops also found a second large medkal-depot 4he -second two. days-a and a five-ton cache of rice. Allied casualties were de scribed as "light" on the I2th day of the massive search-and-destroy operation near the vil lage of Ben Cat. The bag of 20 guerrillas brought the total kill for the operation to 44. The arms cacne mciuaea new weapons described only as Tear Ga See Page 3 being of Asian make; grenades.

torpedoes and explosives. In another development, tne head of a Viet Cong delegation to Hungary said that massive landings by S. forces in Viet Nam have caused the'guemuas "certain difficulties." Dane Kuane Minn, described as a member of the Viet Cong Central Committee, told a news man in Budapest the Viet Cong nevertheless are certain about "the Inevitable defeat of Ameri can intervention forces." The Viet Cong officials added: If our difficulties are greater our victories have also assumed larger dimensions since being confronted with massive American formations." Guerrillas, struck the. Mekong River delta Wednesday night, raiding two government outposts. U.S.

war. planes ranged over North Viet Nam, bombing boats and bridges. et school the trucker, the housewife, and others that we build today's and tomorrow roads," Hart Reporting on other major proj ects, Hart said interstate freeway cutting across Ala meda and Contra Costa County, from Fremont to Martinez, is entering its final Stage, Contract is now being kt for the last link, from Scott's Cor ner near Sunol to Dublin, an 8.7-mile stretch costing $7.9 mil lion. Slated for completion late this year is a 3-miie section cosung $5.3 minion, through tne uuDiin- San Ramon Village area. This includes an Interchange and crossings of Interstate 580 (for Continued Page 2, CoL I bleS yJobs -t between structural 'end reinforcement iron workers, an AGC spokesman said.

The agreement provided for a gradual, year-by-year equalizing adjustment. DAM JOBS While the walkout affects only 5D0 to 1 ,000 men, work was halted on many major projects including-the-Oroville chequer dams, the San Luis "projectr SanFrancisco's Golden and major-oil refinery expansions In Contra Costa counties. Thousands of other construc tion workers face layoffs. Men who walked out this mora lng belong to Iron Workers Lo- i ifals 378 in Oakland, 377 in San Francisco, 118 in Sacramento 115 in Fresno. Ironworkers previous pay stales.ranged from $4.82 to $5.07 an hour.

The "construction industry was plagued by a series- of strikes during the summer including cement jnasons. and painters WHERE TO FIND IT-Astrology 25-F Bridge 16-F Classified Ads ..27 Comics Crossword Punle 29 Editorial 22 Financial U6 Bill Fiset 1 5 Focus 23 Ann landers 23 Al Martinex .23 Sports Theaters 18 IV and Radio 20 Vitals ........36 Vf! World of Women io-p SPECIALS: V. Kennedy 1 3-F Autos 25 Fashions 1-F ingness to jota the Soviet Union -In nuclear disarmament by mutually reducing the number of their carriers of nuclear weapons, halting production of fissionable material and destroy Completion Timeta For AAacArthur Freewa ing nuclear arms from their re spective arsenals. RENEWS OFFER He renewed Washington's of fer to transfer 60,000 kilograms of U-235, the basic material of hydrogen weapons to the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency for peaceful uses if the Soviet Union would transfer 40,000 kilograms. He said tne united states stood firmly in favor of international treaties to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and favored a comprenensive ran on all nuclear weapons tests.

State highway engineers today set a timetable for com pletion of the MacArtnur free way, The key section the 4.5-mile, $12 million stretch in the rear of Mills College, from Bueu street to Durant Avenue is to be opened for traffic fa November. The last remaining section 3 miles, costing $5.5 million from Sybil Avenue in San Lean- dro to the Castro Valley junction, will be finished late next swine. Coincidentally the last unit of the Warren Freeway, from Red wood Road to the junction with the MacArthur Freeway in huge interchange at Calaveras Avenue, will be completed. This 1.3-mile section is costing $1.7 On South Viet Nam, Goldberg declared the UJS. Is trying to prevent Viet Nam from becoming the first victim of Communist China's attempt at world domination.

Guerrillas Slain RANGOON, Burma (AP) -Burma army troops killed 12 rebel guerrillas Monday, according to delayed reports reaching here today. million for to be excluded. Marin County: 6.