Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

11 mm. cues IT ty ecs In April of 13C2 there; were 4,300 persona living in a 50-block area of West Oakland that to-( day has been swept clean and lies bare. All tut a few of the 610 old dwellings- and business structures then standing have been I crushed to splinters and hauled i away. of the people? When the full force of -the city's first redevelopment pro-, ject Acorn hit them, where did they go? According to thd Oakland lie-development Agency, 64 per cent of the total number of people living in Acorn in 1962 moved into homes or apartments that conform to building and housing codes Only 20 per cent had been in standard housing in Acorn, according to the agency. Eighty per cent lived in substandard dwellings.

Substandard means the dwellings did not have adequate living space, windows or ventilation. Many were rat infested. The plumbing didn't work. Rooms awere festooned with illegal wir- "ing creating fire hazards. So the buildings came down.

were cleared away. But not before the 814 families and 610 individuals living in the area bounded by Brush, Union, First and 10th Streets werj relocated. a city can begin a redevelopment project it must have a relocation plan approved by the Federal Urban Renewal Administration. The plan must explain how the agency will assist the uprooted residents find decent, safe and sanitary housing. One man living in West Oakland didn't think 4he local agency's plan was any good.

His name is Wade Johnson. Jcihnson is president 'of the United Taxpayers and Voters Unionr foe-He filed suiLin June of 1962 asking that the' project -be stopped claiming that the agency did not have a feasible relocation plan. He lost and successively appealed and lost to higher courts until he lost the final round before the United States Supreme Court in November, 1961 The agency says the litigation cost it $160,000 in higher interest rates it had to pay for the money borrowed to get the pro-, gram into execution. Today, Johnson says he was -correct three years ago in challenging the relocation plan. He claims 30 per cent of the Acorn, residents relocated themselves.

And he says IS per cent "moved one ghetto to another." According to the agency's re--fjort on the success of its relocation plan, Johnson is partially Continued Page 4, CoL 1 IT MAIN OFFICE CIRCULATION 7. 273-2323 CLASSIFIED V. BRANCHES PAGE 33 ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21.1874 OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA 10 DAILY, 25 SUNDAY $2.25 A MONTH x' FRIDAY JULY 2, 1965 Strike; nipyar achinists IV 1 4 JZ 1 VOL Legislature Ends Battle To Adjourn Unruh: Threat of 'Tuesday Get-Away By ED SALZMAN Tribune Capital Bureau v- SACRAMENTO The Legislature today tbroke its unprece dented deadlock over adjournment of the wee-old special session after? Assembly Speaker Jesse M. ynruh; threatened to call a sit-in demonstration of the lower house, The Senate and As em bly agreed to quit at Midnight Tues day alter taking up a mil wnicn would create -a new state, park at' Sugar Pine Point on, Lake Tahoe.

Unryhrsaid Gov.t Edmund G. -vBrowii has made a flat commitment to call another special ses sion later in the year for action on a California "medicare" bill, i LONG HASSLE The threat of an Assembly sit- in demonstration months of fierce inter-house wrangling on major issues. In retaliation, the Senate was preparing to execute an equally dramatic maneuver a self-imposed lockout to thwart the Speaker The Assembly yesterday approved an Unruh plan for recess until tkt. i The speaker wanted lawmakers to return on that date find tackle medical care for ON THE INSIDE California's Growth Governor wants to explain facts t)f life about population crisis. -Page 6.

Sex Problems Tradition and nature play cruel trick on a says author. Page Atom Bomb Makers Head of Livermore laboratory explains some of work being done. -Page 17. Free Vietnamese Marguerite Higgins says Americans' instant, democracy notions about Saigon are dangerous. Page 26.

Bob MacKenzie Reviews Belmondo dling a pair of tycoons out of their ill-gained cash. Page 53. i fry Ki1 1 Tito Joins Lone man sits in unfinished Coliseum Arena, where work was halted yesterday by construction strike Anti-China Lineup SovietTwin Traffic- Holiday By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign Nw Analyst Gloomy Forecast Battle of Fences on New Front By DICK RICCA The "battle of the backyard fences" has spread to a second Oakland Housing Project Tenants in Peralta Villa in West Oakland are mobilizing to stop the Oakland Housing Authority from tearing down their fences and replacing their backyards with turfed open space. Residents of the Lockwood Gardens Project in East Oakland blocked similar plans for their area early this week, i Richard York, spokesman for 80 Peralta. Villa tenants who met last night at Cole Elementary School, said fences started coming down in the West Oakland Project Monday, i "When they were stopped at Lockwood Gardens, the work crews came out here and started removing fences," York said.

"I came home at noon Monday and our backyard was already gone." The work crews are recruits Continued Page 2, Col. 1 the taxation and other issues. The Senate pigeon-holed that plan and approved its own -final adjournment today. Most senators left Sacramento this afternoon. Only Assembly action is needed on the Lake Tahoe measure, THREAT MADE Yesterday Unruh said he-was -prepared-to call the Assembly Kremlin attacks on the Soviet Union, extending them even to the territorial and economic fields.

The March conference was inconclusive, except to agree to hold occasional consultative meetings that would eventually end in a Communist summit meeting. Now, it appears that Tito is willing to join in even the con- sultative conferences, which he-has previously shunned. 4 Tito has always insisted on "national communism" ior Yugoslavia, which, because of the circumstances under which its independence was established, has been in a different position from the satellite countries. BASIS OF DIFFERENCE Thus, he broke with the So-' viet Union under Stalin and was only partly won back by Khrushchev and never succumbed io Moscow domination. The differ- -ences were over political-eco- nomicrsubjugatiorrof independence rather than Communist ideology.

Now, the central issue in the Communist world is the Sino- Continued Page 2, Col. THE WEATHER STORY BAY AREA Fair tonight and tomorrow txcept for fog 1 txttnding inland tomorrow morning. Low tonight 48 to 55. Westerly winds 10 to 20 m.p.h. 2,000 Out From Bay To Seattle By LEONARD BLAIKIE Tribune Labor Writer i Machinists went on strike against private shipyards along the Pacific Coast The walkout by about 2,0001 members of International Association of Machinists lodges from the Bay Area to Seattle will idle thousands of other workers and halt ship construction and This strike' came as labor problems in Northern and Central California's billion dollar construction i eased somewhat with settlement of a one-day Laborers Union walkout.

Stan Jensen, business repre- jsentativfr ior- Machinists Lodge 68 in san Francisco, saia tne strike was principally lover wages. OFFER REJECTED The lodges turned down a 39-cent hourly-pay in(rease over the nqxt three years, a package which -was accepted recently by other unions which have workmen in the shipyards. Shipyard machinists, whose base pay is now $3.30 art hour, want parity with machinists in other industries, Jensen said. can't have our waterfront machinists working as second class citizens with less wage holidays, vacations, health and welfare and other fringe benefits." $1.05 INCREASE The 35,000 laborers won a $1.05 hourly increase in wages and fringe benefits in their new three-year agreement. 7- Although settlement of 1 the new three year contract ended one threat against the billion-dollar construction industry in Northern and Central California, the region's labor troubles were far from over: PAINTERS IDLE Construction of the $25.5 million Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and the $5.5 million Oakland museum was stopped by cement masons picketklNu-merous freeway, jobs also were slowed down by this dispute.

About 8,800 painters are idled under a union "no contract, no work" policy from Santa Cruz to Lake counties. Workers walked off the job at Continued Page 2, Col. 2 He and others who managed to escape a guerrilla force commanded by Col. Gyles M. Merrill (now dead) and Peter D.

Calyer. From their escape until the liberation on Jan. 29, 194S, Beck and the others lived entirely by their wits in the Philippine "For two years and 10 months," Beck says, "we went barefoot, were constantly harassed by the enemy, and were cut off from any source of livelihood except what' we stumbled upon. "Until we were reunited with the American forces three years later we lived by wits alone." When Beck returned to the states he sought prisoner-of-war pay under the War Claims Act of 1948 and Public Law 303, and was paid $1,027 in 1950. Beck already had been paid 1 Continued Page 29 CoL 1 The Soviet Union has acquired an important ally, in its world conflict over control of the internationaTCqm-munist movement.

This Is the main point of a joint SovietrYugoslav communique issued after President Tito's two-week visit to Moscow, which has just been concluded, Tito agreed, the communique said, on file need for "comradely among all Communist nations "on the most vital problems of the day and their solution on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and socialist internationalism." KREMLIN VICTORY This is a victory for the Kremlin leadership, since Tito has ignored similar conferences since 1957 and was not even invited to the party gathering held in Moscow in 1964. The subject of conferences among the world parties is important becauseiUs an element in the conflict between Moscow and Peking, r1: Moscow called a conference of 19 Communist nations for March 1964, i was to lay the groundwork for a more general meeting of all parties that was expected to be the scene for a showdown with Red China and perhaps its expulsion from the movement CHINA OBSTINATE The Chinese Communist leaders objected strenuously to the meetings and intensified their Bay Area residents officially begin another safe and, sane Fourth" at 6 pjn, today, hoping to honor the nation Independ ence at least by surviving tne holiday Unfortunately, the National Safety Council fears at least 470 to 570 persons will not survive across the United Cali fornia might have more than 80 dead. Safety council officials re leased the glum forecast that the 78-hcur. holiday weekend could result in a record traffic toll, surpassing last year's mark of 510 fatalities. HEAVY TRAFFIC The council bases its fore casts on weather, road construe tion, national attitudes and eco All signs apparently point to heavy traffic and wide travel for the weekend.

i i California Highway Patrol officials pleaded with motorists to cut last year's toll of 84 for the same three-day 1 most important contri TEMPERATURES tU-tmr ptrM Mtfkif it lody) I Oak. Downtown 72 55 Airport 70 56 S.F. Downtown 63 1 53 Airport 68 52 .01 1 Orbit May Be Manned BOCHUM, Germany (UPI)-The Soviets today launched two space vehicles which may be manned, the West German Institute for Space and Satellite Research It based the report on monitored radio signals. The official Soviet news agency Tass made no mention of any Russian space projects. The Russians have launched several unmanned satellites in recent weeks.

VV- Heinz Kaminski, -director of the German research "organization, said his equipment tracked two Russian vehicles and monitored voice communications. (In Tokyo, the Electric Wave Institute of Japan's Postal Ministry, said its equipment monitored voice communications for almost two hours on 19,995 megacycles, the: frequency used for previous Soviet manned shots. (Yoshiaka Nakata, chief of the Japanese institute, said the voices heard were apparently coming from a land station. LEON 0. BECK 4942.

I spent 13 days as a prisoner, and during that entire time got only two meals, both of them a handful of hot rice." v'- i 7 1 i 1 1 i oacK oauraineniu itiesuay for the start of what amounts to a sit-in demonstration. The strains of "We Shall Over- 1-J 1 A come were sounaea oy w. semblyman Don Allen 1 Los Angeles. The upper house was equally as adamant. Declared Sen." J.

Eugene McAteer of San Francisco: "We're going home. The hell with: them. If they want to come up here and collect per diems, they can." Senate thus was "challeng ing the Assembly to congregate in Sacramento and: collect $21 a day in expenses while accomplishing nothing. upper house even made 1 Continued on Page i Col. 1 te WHERE Astrology Aunt Elfit Bridgo Classified Ads Comics Editorial Financial Bill Fiset Focus Ann Landers Al Martinez Parry Phillips Riasol Sports Theaters Wathtr World of Womtn .2, SPECIAL Tripped Generation" 7 TO FIND IT .47 7, 52-53 bution to cutting the toll will be made by drivers.

Police can't do the job single-handedly'. Highway Patrol Commissioner Bradford M. Crittenden said. "All those 'other guys' you will meet on the road; sure, it their responsibility' Crittendenf said. "But most important, it's your responsibility.

How you act and react on the highway will be the key to fewer accidents." A 15-ship task force of the Navy's First Fleet sailed under the Golden1 Gate Bridge today with 6,000 officers, midshipmen and enlisted men bound for July 4 ledve. SUMMER CRUISE The ships are part of the Pacific Fleet Midshipmen Training Squadron, which is conducting a summer cruise for 1,000 Naval Academy and NROTC midshipmen. Two of the ships," the helicopter assault vessel Princeton and the attack transport Montrose, docked at Alameda Naval Air Station. Two others sailed to Sacramento, and the remaining eleven docked in Saij Francisco. They are the cruiser Columbus, the guided missile frigate Coontz, the destroyers Rogers, Parsons, Bausell, Wedder-burn, Hopewell and Portfield, the guided missile destroyer McCormick and the submarine Redfish.

All will be -open Jo thepublic from I to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday and Monday, LIGHTS FOR SAFETY The nation's truckers plan to keep headlights on throughout the holiday in "Lights on for Safety! campaign.1 Headlighted vehicles apparently are more clearly visible to oncoming traffic, even during daylight. Further; the shining headlights serve as an added "reminder" for safe Actually, the safest way to spend the holiday might also be the, wisest. A host of weekend festivities were slated for East-bay localities, requiring a minimum of driving Oakland's' parks will abound with the Spirit of A special patriotic program is oft tab for Children's Fairyland for both Sunday, the Fourth, and Monday, the "workday" There will be flags and nar- Continued Page 2, Col. 4 Escaped POW Seeks Help Against U.S.

Debt Claim V'T'k' A HERE'SyOUR NINETEENTH -A TRIP CLUE 'first one that asks -what new gets a PUNCH IN THE NOSE FLIGHT TO HAWAII for two plus $500.00 By BOB CARR FREMONTA retired master sergeant who survived the Ba-taan "death march" in 1942 today faces a United States court action for recovery of $992 "erroneously" paid him for time served as -a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines." 1 Leon O. Beck, 43, of 40735 Creston has drafted a letter to Sen. Thomas Kuchcl and will try to enlist the aid of the Amer ican Legion in efforts to seek relief from the debt the government says he owes. Beck's story goes- back to March 1940 when he enlisted in the Army as a private at. age 18.

He was with the antitank company, 31st Infantry Regiment, when American forces surrendered on Bataan April 9, 1942. 'A Beck says, "and managed to escape from the Japanese in Japanese Panpanga Province on April 22, IMI11ir nmnnuitniiuiiiMnmiiiuH jnniiiiMMiuiiiMimuinui.jiwitf W'Ui'Q If you've reached your flaming forties, Old soap operas you'll recall. They weren't as slick as "Peyton Place," But washers then weren't "ten feet tall!" (For Bonus Clue Check Pago 9).