Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 16

"16 akUnHifcaCribune 1965. Park Area Vi tr I'll i A Hlmassmh inr Strike ft 'A A Expands In Eastbay Union-Plans ill1' I xiJTv-1'-'" ''x'z TyPf-rrx lik 3,000 Acres Added To Challenge Mass Arrests To Empire of 1 msmsp atmf Regional District The East Bay Regional Park District extended its green empire by more than 3.000 acres of prime parkland yesterday. In one move, the district took over title to the John F. Kennedy Grove near El Sobrante, one of the fineststands of eucalyptus trees in the Bay Area. General manager William Penn Mott Jr.

said the grove will be used primarily as a picnic area for large groups. The 95-acre sit is bounded bv San PabIo-Reser-voirani UNIDENTIFIED EMPLOYE PEERS FROM BEHIND BROKEN WINDOW PANE Violence broke out at the Colony Furniture Company in Richmond DELANO (UPIi Union leaders today said the arrest of 44 persons demonstrating their support for striking grape pickers yesterday constituted "har- assmentythe Kern County sheriff's office and would be tested in court The National Farm Workers Association said yesterday's mass arrest has-boosted its cause in the six-week-old drive jfor unionization and improved "fages "for the farm laborers. The 44 persons, including nine California clergymen, 12 women and civil rights workers, were scheduled to be arraiped in Delano justice court later today on charges of failing to Jeave an unlawful assembly. BAY AREA CLERGY arrested included Five Bay Area ministers: the Revs. Francis Geddes, 42, San Francisco; Don Schilling, 32, Marin City; Jack Bartlett, 35, Mill Valley; Roger Ridgeway, Hay-ward, and Carl A.

Smith, Palo Alto. The Rev. James Drake, a migrant minister and strike organizer, said picketing continued in Tulare County today "where we are allowed to talk out loud." Drake charged that pressure was put on the Kern County sheriff by the growers to halt ihe picketing and demonstrations. COMPLAINTS Kern County sheriff's chief I San Pablo Dam Road on two sides, with a deep creek bed and hills on the other two sides. The district took over title to tbe grove from the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, which formally voted to make the transfer at the regular meeting in Martinez yesterday moming.

In another action, the park commissioners signed an agreement with Contra Costa County which will soon' give them title to eight out of 10 parcels of wilderness area northeast of the Briones Reservoir. Boilermakers Resume Talks With Contractors ADMIRAL AT THROTTLE Rear Adm. tar, nine-story Oakland Naval Hospital. Harold J. Cokely mans a bulldozer to Demolition is to be complete in two start demolition of old buildings that weeks, with construction of the 650- occupy site for new multi-million dol- bed hospital to begin in December.

Landlords Hear Profitable Tips Picket Line Violence in Richmond Negotiators for the Boilermakers Union and contractors made another attempt today to settle the 20-day strike which hes stopped more than a billion dollars worth of construction and put 20,000 men out of work in seven Western states. Federal Mediator Anthony Vavrus said the bargainers met The agreement also gives the district an option to purchase the remaining 'wo parcels, which will bring the total area of the Briones park to 3,100 lucres. Contra Costa County had al-! ready bought the eight parcels from the East Bay Municipal 'Utilities District and is expect By WILLIAM DOYLE Tribune Real Estate Writer of four boilermen by name. Spokesmen for, the Western Field Construction Negotiating Committee, representing about 150 employers, and the union said they believed agreement could be reached quickly on wages once the non-monetary issues are settled. The union is demanding a 50-cent hourly pay raise in a one-year contratc.

Employers offered 95 cents spread over the years. Under the old agreement the boilermen received $5.25 an hour in California. Church Events briefly yesterday but made little progress toward resolving three principal issues the em ployers' demand for the right to transfer men from job to job, to assign up to three key men anywhere and to select one out RICHMOND One person was injured and three cars damaged today as violence erupted on the picket line at Colony Furniture Company. Police said that at 6:20 a.m. Dennis Alexander, 18, attempted to drive through the picket line to work and was dragged from the vehicle and beaten on the face and chest by up to 15 Alexander was able to break away and suffered only bruises.

He was treated at Brookside Hospital and released. Several windows in his car were broken and the vehicle was splattered with paint. Cars of two other workers were also damaged. One was almost tipped over. Some 15 police officers were dispatched tothe scene to restore order.

No arrests were made, "A window in the plant was broken with a roc k. ed to turn them over to the park district within a few Weeks. The park district plans to buy the ninth parcel next December, and the tenth, on Feb. 1, 1966. Jotal cost will be $112,000.

Wheiv the Briones property-is secured, it will connect with the Three Lakes Ranch, a 1,100 acre park site purchased by the district last March. The ranch is still occupied by the former owner. Richard E. Townsend, but the purchase agreement calls for him to vacate the premises bv December, 1966. Mott said it will probably take a year or more to develop a master park plan for the new lands.

Facilities are expected to include horseback riding, hiking, and day camping facilities. New Church Curate The Rev. Lyle Grosjean of San Francisco is the new curate of All Souls Episcopal Church, Berkeley. He has served as the assistant Protestant chaplain at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville. He is a graduate of San Francisco State College and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Lecture Scheduled Herbert Rieke of Indianapolis will lecture on "Who Is Your Maker?" at 8 p.m. Friday at the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, 1330 Lakeshore Ave. He was an Air Force chaplain during World War II. A Name For BART Station? owner to increase rents and add to his grosss income. He advocated installation of furniture and said it provides a competitive edge in today's market where most new units are furnished.

According to Nickerson the increased rents will pay for the furniture if it is purchased at available discounts in two to three years. THE MANAGER Nickerman said the most important single factor in making money is a competent, personable, resident manager. He suggested that the manager be reimbursed on a percentage of the gross rents and said this is a strong incentive. A manager who can do routine maintenance work also is a plus, according to Nickerson. Nickerson also advocated having every prospective tenant fill out a credit and character reference form and said this device will keep many undesirable prospects away.

NEW OFFICERS The association concluded its three-day convention' by installing Emerson G. Reinsch of Ar Association, a Mexican-American social welfare organization, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. AFL-CIO participated in the strike. For six weeks now the strikers have been trying to organize the grape pickers. The unions are demanding $1.40 an hour, a 25-cent piece rate and union representation for the grape pickers.

Growers deny union claims that the present pay is $1.20 an hour and a 10-cent piece rate. They claim they are paving $1.52 an hour. You can still make a million dollars in real estate, according to William Nickerson, author of "How I Turned $1,000 into $1 Million in Real Estate in My Spare Time." Nickerson, in an appearance at the installation dinner of the National Association of Apartment Owners at the Claremont Hpetl last night, told those in attendance some of the things that can be done in apartment house management to accomplish that goal. He said his specialty is taking run down, money-losing properties and making them money makers. SALESMANSHIP The author said salesmanship and modernization of properties are the key tools when he starts' with a property.

Nickerson said prospective tenants must be sold on entering the building in the first place and that an attractive exterior and entrance are essential. The lobby and hallways must also be attractive or the prospect may never see the inside of the apartments no matter how well they would meet his needs, according to Nickerson. MODERNIZATION He reminded apartment owners that they are competing against all of the expenditures a prospect will make, not just his rent cost, and pointed out that-the-tenant- may -choose-a less expensive apartment so he can spend for something else. Nickerson said modernization of a structure is valuable because it makes a tenant feel that he wants to live in the building and because it allows the The "name-calling" commit? tee for Bay Area Rapid Transit District BART) stations in Oakland is ready to try out its selections on the full board. Meeting yesterday the three-man committee came up with "Lake Merritt" for the station at Oak Street which will serve Leaders in Address Three leaders from Mormon Church headquarters in Salt Lake City will speak at the quarterly conference of the Walnut Creek Stake of the Church at the Mormon Eastbay Interstake criminal investigator Loren Fote said there had been complaints from growers and some workers about the mass picketing.

Fote said he allowed the mass picketing originally, but now it was "not serving any worthwhile cause" because the workers in the fields already know of the strike. The head of the National Farm Workers Association spoke at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley yesterday urging students to skip classes, and join pickets at 30 ranches comprising about 400 square miles of farm land. 'GREAT BOOST" When these people learned of the violation of our freedom of speech they were outraged," he said. "It was a great boost to just how many friends farm workers do have." Kern County sheriff's Sgt. Gerald Dodd ordered "the demonstrators arrested when they continued to shout "Huelga! Huel-ga!" (Strike! Strike!) at a group of workers still picking in spite of the strike.

The sheriff's office said the arrest was ordered when the pickets began a new clamor as Dodd went to his patrol car to receive instructions as to how to handle the situation. The noise, tfie sheriffs office said, prevented Dfldtf from using his adio. CHRISTIAN CONCERN' The Rev. M. Geddes, a United Church of Christ minister, said he organized the demonstration as "the day of Christian for the plight of the farm laborers.

The National Farm Workers the courthouse museum audi i uenier, warren rreeway ana torium area. It will also be BART headquarters. The West Oakland station would be "Oakland West." the one at Fruitvale Avenue, "Fruit-vale," and the station at 73rd Avenue would be called The two downtown stations would be 12th Street and 19th Street, the one at MacArthur Boulevard, heading north would be "MacArthur," and the one at College Avenue, "Rockridge." lington, Va. as president for his second consecutive term. Walter Davidson of Belmont, and Ralph Hirsh of Cleveland, Ohio, were reelected secretary and treasurer respectively, while Samuel Lackman of Long Beach succeeded Robert Snell of Oakland as- vice, president.

The California Apartment Owners Association opened a two-day meet today at the Clare-mont It wHl- concIude-with- an appearance by Ronald Reagan tomorrow night. Dump Rejected As Rodeo Site LIVERMORE Livermore Stockmen's Rodeo Association last night rejected the former city dump grounds oh Raymond Road as a rodeo stadium site and unanimously recommended instead a new site near the proposed civic center. -Association president John F. Jensen said the proposed new site would accommodate a much Larger stadium is more readily accessible to' traffic and is more centrally located. "I think it will make a desirable spot for our stadium," he said.

Jensen said the site is on property owned by the Liver-more SanitariunTand is south of Rodeo Lane and west of Liver-more Avenue. Councilman. Felix -ChialvaJ Lincoln Ave. They are Elder Bruce McConkie of the First Council of the Seventy, Elder Paul Royall and Elder J. Hol-man Waters.

Stake President Kenneth Jlensen of Walnut Creek will preside Illustrated Talk Set Dr. Anne Watkins will present an illustrated talk today at St. Andrew's Episcopal ChufchV 5201 Hillen on "The Ship Hope and Medical Work in Africa and South America." Her talk will follow the 6:30 p.m. supper. Professor to Speak Professor Jay McCullough of San Jose State College-will speak Problems of Americans in the Light of Eastern Thought" at 8 p.m.

Friday ar the Buddhist Study Center, -2121 Channing Way, Berkeley. also a BART director, held out for the Mac-Arthur station but was outvoted by George Silliman and Arnold Anderson, of Newark and Castro Valley, respectively. The recommendations go to the full BART board at its Oct. 28 meeting. Schoolgirl Suing To Return to Class Automated 6, 1964.

without reason and that the school had refused to allow Has McDougal's Luck Run Out? Paint Plant For Boysen PARK PACT Thomas J. Coll signs agreement bring-, incfKennedy Grove near El Sobrante into East Bay Regional Park District as Clyde R. Woolridge, Al- -fred AA. Dias and. Fred C.

(from left) i look on. Death Takes Ex-Wife of Geo. Killion LIVERMORE Mr. McDoug al's luck finally may have run out. A.

junior high school student has sued the Oakland Board of back into school. The directors, served with show cause orders by a process server at yesterday's school board meeting, said "Fine, we've been looking for her. We'll be glad to have her." The orders, signed by Presiding Alameda County Superior Court Judge Monroe Friedman, set a hearing for Nov. 22 for the board to show cause why Pamela Dyer, 14, 2631 East 25th should not be admitted to school. The suit, filed on behalf of the girl by her mother, Mrs.

Enola Dyer Young, charged that Pamela had been excluded from Bret Harte Junior High School on Oct. McDougal is a hapless mutt Court Kills with a. mixed background and an uncanny knack for getting her to inspect their records to ascertain the reason. Dr. Forrest C.

Michell, assistant superintendent fn charge of administration and special services, who was also named in the suit, said the girl had been excluded for slapping and scratching vice-principal Lawrence Martin after he had directed her to have a seat in his office. Both the- girl- and -herraother were well aware of the reason for the exclusion, said Michell Furthermore, said Dr. Michell, three different appointments had been set up for testing to determine the girl's placement in school and she had failed to show up each time. The suit charges that the girl had maintained passing grades, obeyed rules and never given any offense to cause expulsion. into trouble.

Now he has disap peared for what may be his last Writ Freeing Quentin Felon EMERYVILLE A fully automated paint: production plant will be built here this year by the Industrial Finishes Division of the W. N. Boysen Company. The paint firm, with home offices and plant in Oakland, is starting immediate construction of a 20,000 square foot building to replace the Industrial Finishes Division plant that burned in San Francisco earlier this year. Purchase of the plant site was announced by, Walter Boysen, company president.

It is located in the Von Bokkelen Cole Company Emeryville Industrial Park. The plant will employ about 15 persons with an annual payroll expected to be about great adventure. led to an infection and McDoug: al had to have his shoulder lanced. -The veterinarian gave the animal a penicillin shot and McDougal promptly out in a rash of lumps and bumps over all his body. "One out of 100,000 dogs are allergic to such shots and, of course, McDougal had to be the unlucky one," Jenkins said.

The dog then developed what one vet called "a classic case of sebaceous ringworm" on i muzzle. He was cured of that but "soon afterward developed a fungus infection which left bald patches on his body. While still under treatment for "This time he's really got us worried, says his master Wil New District Director Of Customs George K. Brokaw of Berke-key director of customs in San Francisco since 1961, has been named to head the U.S. Customs Bureaus' San Francisco District under its new reorgan-izational plan.

Brokaw, 54. a graduate of the liam Jenkins, of.570 Escondido Circle. Mrs. Grace Harris Killion, former-wife of George KiHionrpres-" ident of the American President Lines, died yesterday in Santa Barbara after a long illness. She was 65.

She was divorced from Killion in 1960 after a 38-year marriage. The Killions had lived in Oakland during most of this period. She moved to Santa Barbara in 1962. She was a native of Kansas. Her principal interest was her church, the Church of Christ, Scientist.

She is survived by a son, James, of Atherton; her mother. Mrs. R. H. Harris of Paso Ro- The Jenkins family calls McDougal "the unluckiest dog in town" because of the number of mishaps the mutt has had A writ of habeas corpus granted to a Santa Clara County bank robber releasing him from San Quentin prison was withdrawn by order of the U.S.

Court of Appeals. Fred Harris, who had not actually been released pending appeal, will have another chance, however, at a writ. The court yesterday ordered the writ set aside but instructed the U.S. the fungus infection, McDougal was again sideswiped by a car and was limping from that acci Union Voted dent when somebody threw a i bles; three brothers, Clarence pan of lye water in his face. After that episode he disap peared from home but returned a few days later.

Talks Resume in Radio Strike Discussions aimed at settling the five-day strike by the American Radio Association against West Coast shipowners resumed in San Francisco today. The walkout has tied up about 15 freighters in ports from Wilmington to Seattle and Hawaii. Union and Pacific Maritime Association negotiators- were deadlocked over the method of arbitrating four issues which both sides had agreed to put to arbitration. As many as 100 ships could be-idled if the strike continues. Passenger liners and ships with military cargo have been exempted by the union from the strike.

and Frank Harris of San Diego and Truman of Paso Robles; and a sister, Mrs. Harold Branch of Paso Robles. Funeral services will be held Brown Funeral Chapel, 3476 at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Albert Piedmont since the Jenkins first acquired him 10 years ago. "But now it looks like his luck, bad as it has been, has finally run out." Jenkins lamented.

McDougal, a cross between a beagle and a boxer, disappeared from the family home in Granada Woods shortly after the Jenkins moved there from another part of town. The family has patrolled the old neighborhood without success and has notified the poundmaster. "He and Doug-ie are old friends," Jenkins said. Shortly after the family acquired the tan, bull dog-sized mutt, he was sideswiped by a car, bruising him and knocking out a lew front teeth. He re-ti'ived a rabies shot.

The shot "We have researched the entire Bay Area and find our new location close to all transportation, most favorable tax wise and close to our home offices," Boysen said. The firm sells its line of house paints and specialized coatings throughout the Western states, and in Tahiti, Guam and The Philippines. Water Plan Sought FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -Groundwork for a long-range Kentucky water conservation Now he's gone again. "This is his ninth serious mis At Hospital Employes of the Essex Convalescent Hospital, 1833 10th chose Hospital and Institutional Workers Local 250 as their bargaining agent in a representation election held under the direction of the State Conciliation Service.

iTom Nicolopulos, director of the service said the vote was 15 for the union to six against. Negotiations for contract hap and I'm afraid no animal, University of California and a former consulting engineer, will be one of six district directors in the San Francisco Custom Region. Others will be in Honolulu, Seattle, Portland, Juneau, Alaska, and Great Falls, Mont. Nine regional Offices have been formed under the bureau's reorganizational plan including a Los Angeles Region. Field activities are being consolidated, and the bureau has been, under civil service, eliminating presidentially-appointed collectors.

not even a cat, can live through the ninth life," Jenkins' said. District Court to hold evidentiary hearings on whether Harris legally waived his rights to an attorney in the California courts. U.S. District Court Judge Stanley A. Weigel of San Francisco ordered Harris "released forthwith" last March 5 after a hearing into the man's claim, supported by transcript of the proceedings, that he had no attorney when he pleaded guilty fh April 1959 to a charge of robbing Franco Market in San Jose of $5,500 while armed with an unloaded pistol.

But with a name like McDoug al and such characteristic determination to survive, knows that he won't come through this latest episode in his dog's life. Farm Populact MEXICO CITY-About 70 per cent of Mexico's workers are farmers but they live on only about 10 per cent of the land. covering the workers are ex-J program jnay be formed at a i conference of public and private peeled to start soon, a union spokesman said. agencies on Oct. 26..