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"lis Records 41 in ib The Aka obfe Lien Alive Life in an item Factory I Ssys i 'I II II -4 erf home Silv John Barni, the real estate man, had coffee the other morning Avith Dave Codiga, of Good Chevrolet, and- Co-diga spent the whole coffee break'telling Barni he should trade in his 2-year-old Cadillac and either buy or lease a new thevy. Nonsense, said Barni, his old car was Banker Charges Four Directors Broke Into Desk didn't repeat, didn't running dandy and neea a new one. So he got he coffee shop and his car had been stolen. up and walked out of the Chevrolet in Albany Frank thinks like a Hollywood cast And. out at.

East Bay Meads, the sales manager, ing has Jimmy Durante and Jack London on the payroll and the other day. hired Charlie Mc WASHINGTON Don Silverthorne charged today that four directors of the San Francisco National Bank broke into his desk and took his records after he was fired as its president. Making his second appearance before the Senate rackets investigating subcommittee, the portly, 60-year-old former bank president testified the records indiirfpd nroof that he turned over to the now-defunct Dr- RalPh C. Teall, a Sacra-all fppR and pommissinns he niento physician, has been in- ti4 4 i 1. 1 Jii i Carthy.

Oakland's Mrs. Frances Michel, meanwhile, scheduled a "sympathy party" for a woman friend whose husband just retired as a U. electrician. "The idea being," explained Mrs. Michel, "that she now has twice as much husband around tffe house with half as much income.

She needs all our sympathy." OOO 0 I suppose it's a sign of austerity that Martin Meyer-son, the new U. C. chancellor, is using up the old sta Wallace Martin views charred hull of boat used by two missing fishermen IP tionery of his predecessor, listing E. Strong as chancellor. Mrs.

Mildred Turner in recent weeks has gradually added to the display of plastic flowers on the grave of her husband, who died last IT tery I tne decoration and discovered aU had been stolen. That, friends; 1 is downright ghoulish. TRI-MOTOR FOKKER WAS FIRST OAKLAND-LOS Fully modernized Western Airlines starts all-jet BILL FISET Bob Ennis of oDanviUe, the American Airlines pilot, had his two sons, Mike and Pat, back in Chicago with him and zipping around there the kids kept asking how come he- never got lost in a strange city. Bob kept answering, "You never get lost, son, Just temporarily confused." So they flew back to San Francisco and Ennis let Mike drive the family car home from the airport. Somehow Mike took the wrong turn and they-ended up in Haywardthe iatherl)iting his lip to remain silent.

But after 25 minutes of wandering aimlessly around Hayward, Ennis could keep quiet no longer, and asked where -they we're. "We're temporarily confused," said Mike, "Temporarily confused my snorteEnnis. "We're lost!" collected from borrowers, Silverthorne identified the di- rectors as Cecil Whitebone, A. L. Johnson, J.

E.r Ehrlich and Carl McConnell. Without his records, Silver thorne said, he had no figures. to dispute allegations "by other witnesses that he kept fees and commissions for his own use. He added, however, that bank records would verify that he gave the bank "more than I legally or morally obligated to." HIGHLIGHT Silverthorne's charge against the directors he personally had selected highlighted the hearings as the subcommittee resumed its inquiry into the recent rise in bank failures. Mn addition, Silverthorne charged that the Comptroller General's office was twice as corrupt as the San Francisco National Bank had been and engegtd' in another shouting match with subcommittee chairman John L.

McClellan, D-Ark. Silverthorne" also revealed he served as co-chairman of the finance committee (or the "I guess, Johnson for President Committee" in the Bay Area. Sen Karl Mundt, asked "you, guess was it Gold- water." "No, no," silverthorne re plied, "not Goldwater." COMMENT buvertnorne denunciation the comptrollers office came after Sen. Carl T. Curtis, asked him to comment on statement by Comptroller James J.

Saxon that the San Francisco banked was "so murked in plain rot and corruption, there just was no hope." 4 No, its not true, its untrue," Silverthorne said. "I can say the same thing about the comp troller's department and double spades he's talking out of his head." Gold Stocks Decline in February WASHINGTON (AP) The ederal Reserve Board today released official figures showing that the stock dropped $215 million during ebruary. Authorities have already indi cated 'that another $350 million worth of gold was sold during the first part of March. Together with a January loss of $263 million, this brought the total decline so far this year the U.Sgold stock to some $828 million. In all of 1964.

only $125 million in gold was losL Treasury figures, published daily, show the u.s.N gold stock Pinole Fire Chjef Youth Saw Lost Men, Boat Fire RICHMOND-A young fisher man saw two missing Richmond service station owners just 40 minutes before they vanished when their fishing boat burned to the waterline Sunday night. Ronald Pedersen, 18, of 3110 Benjamin Drive, told The Tribune today he was acquainted with bpth men, Ancel Ray Han dy, 27, of 459 Christine Montalvin and Herman Cochran, 24, of 2314 17th St. He said he traded with Cochran at his service station at 3108 Shane San Pablo. He related this story: "Sunday night at about 6:30 iwasJishing from shore at Point Wilson near Pinole when I saw Ray and Herman walking on the beach a few hundred feet away. They carried gas cans and walked to their boat, loaded the gas aboard and shoved off with a water ski.

TOO SHALLOW "It was too shallow for them to start the engine so Herman held the engine up and Ray starte4.it. Herman let the engine-down in the water half way and the boat took off for the open bay. "Ten minutes later I saw the men in the boat and it was drifting intoward shore. "It getting dark so I started breaking, down my fishing pole ami I lost sight of them. "About 7:15 I saw a fire in the water near -where I saw them.

It looked at first like a campfire but it kept growing and 'LEADS FOLLOWED "At the same time I saw the fire I saw two cars pull out to the point where this fire was. I checked with officials later and they told me'they weren't official cars." Pedersen. who is a service station attendant at a Standard Oil station in Oakland, said he had related the information to Pinole Chief of Polka Hugh Young said today that "we have followed all the leads we can we'll just have to wait until they turn up somewhere," ranme 15 CMA Installs Dr. Teall As President (stalled as president of the Cali- fornia Medical Association. Dr.

James C. MacLaggan, San Diego pediatrician, has been chosed president-elect? and will become CMA president next year. Dr. Samuel R. Sherman and Dr.

Henry Gibbons III, of San Francikfr have been re-elected Northern California delegates to the American Medical Association. Alternate delegates are: Dr. Albert G. Miller, of San Mateo, Dr. Donald Dodds, of Oakland, Dr.

Robert Combs, of San Francisco, and Walter of St. Helena. California Leads Fight On Poverty SACRAMENTO (UPI) Sar- gent Shriver, director of Presi dent war onxpoverty, said today that his federal war riors spending more mnnAU in Palifnmia than qti other state the nation. tun ivri i 11 in 1 1 run run ference with Gov. Edmund G.

Brown said that the anti-poverty program had allocated $27.8 million lor California projects since me ijim itutTdi uiwicy uc- cdme available last November. "The truth of the matter is that California responds more quickly and Intelligently than any other 'state, 'K he said. Shriver said that Califonuans also responded quickly to the Peace Corps program, which he also directs. He said the sta'e produced more Peace Corps vol unteers than any other in the nation. Shriver said that the state's anti-poverty money was allocated in five general categories: million to-aid migrant workers, who, in this state, are employed mostly on the farm.

$18.5 million for Jobs Corps centers, designed to hetp 16 to 22-year-old youths by setting up rural and urban training centers. $1 million for adult basic education, which he described as literacy $1.5 million to help top high school graduates finance their way through college. million for neighborhood Youth Corps centers to provide part time work for unemployed 16 to 22-year-oldsSn their home areas. Shriver also addressed a joint session of the legislature and told the lawmakers of a new nti-poverty 'head start' project. He said it was designed to 4: 131116 other day she took out last ouncn to comoiete the Huge Lake Area Apt.

Building PermaBilt Investment Co, has applied for a city building permit for construction of a 25- story, $4.5 million; apartment building overlooking Lake Mer ritt. It will be the tallest building designed for Oakland since Kaiser Center. The 280-foot structure will con tain 153 apartments, with five one-btedroom $nd three two-bed-room units on each floor. It will be situated on the northeast corner of Bellevue Ave. and Perkins St.

in the Adams Point area of the lake. According to Daniel Schwartz, Perma-Bilt president, there will be a landscaped sixth floor plaza with recreational facilities including sauna baths, a game room with bar, an outdoor sun and lounge area and heated indoor swimming pool. There will be a 162-car garage with attendant parking, Schwartz said. Schwartz, said the firm expects to start construction in early summer with completion scheduled in 18 months. The building will have a struc tural steel frame with pre-cast and sandblasted concrete exterior panels.

Fisher, Friedman Associates of Burlingame and San Francisco are prchitects in association with Leo'Stillman of New York: 0000 Several hundred members of the California Art Education Association converge on Pittsburg Saturday for a spring meeting and to take in an art exhibit at Heights Elementary School. The most exotic piede of work in the exhibit is an oil by Don Harris, the school assistant custodian, and experts say it's 'bound to win'an award for abstract art. The item is that Harris didn't intend all this. The kids were having a kite-flying contest and Harris made them a kite, then as an afterthought daubed some colorful oil paint on it. It didn't fly too well and they started 'calling it "The Plunger." That's how mas-terworks are born.

Today's suggestion is for the Alameda County Blood Bank, which plays soft background music to soothe those making contributions: remove that slow rendition of "I'm Heading for the Last Roundup." It's giving donors the shivering fits and in Castro Valley Mrs. Glen Moffitt has anidea bound to help school bond issues pass: don't build schools without proper auditoriums. Any parent who sits through a three-hour student concert on gymnasium plank seats is bound to have back 3s. Hum ill; ANGELES AIRLINER service tomorrow All-Jet Hops Will Start Here Western which pio neered Oakland-tp-Los Angeles air-service 37 years ago, wil. put its first all-jet airliners in service on that route Western is superseding "Thriftair" service in piston- engine DC-6B planes with' four- epgine jetliners, Boeing The big Boeings will begin with two rountdrips each, day, departing Oakland at 12:30 p.m.

and 5:30 p.m.,. and leaving Los Angeles daily at 11 a.m. and 4 The jets will make the trip in 58 minutes, each way, and each plane will lift up to 146 passengers. Tomorrow's jet flights mark something of an anniversary for Western. It was in 1928 that Western's progenitor, Western Air Express, began Oakland-Los Angeles flights.

WAE, inx1927, wa? named to operate the first "modelair-way" the Oakland-Los Angeles route with "the new tri-motored Fokker F-10 airliner to-demonstrate the progressed potential of air travel. The airplane was chosen by Harry Guggenheim, Charles A. Lindbergh and officials of WAE for the experiment, and 38 years ago the 10-passenger Fokker was theh best machhine known; In its first year this, "Guggenheim Foundation Model Airway" carried 10,000 passen gers. Now, after 37 years, an estimated 2.6 million passengers will fly this year between Bay Area and Los Angeles. But today the Western Airlines jets can cover the 450-odd miles at upwards of 600 miles an hour, carrying 15 times the number of passengers the old Fokker could.

1 (4witf 250 IDLE No Break in Salt Plant A strike by Teamsters which has idled three Bay Area plants of the Leslie Salt Co. is in its second day with no prospect of settlement in sight" -Spokesmen for the company and Teamsters Union Local 70 said contract negotiations in volving 22 truck drivers broke down yesterday. Union officials said today they would be willing to reopen ne gotiations immediately. Newark plant manager Walt ChalbejSg said no new meetings were planned right 'a way. The strike has idled about 250 employes at plants in Newark, Mt.

Eden and Redwood City. Contract talks have been tin- derway since a National Labor Relations Board election several months ago gave Local 70 the right to represent drivers who haul salt between the Eastbay and Redwood City. A union spokesman said today. the drivers are seeking higher salaries, night differential pay and more vacation time. Drug Firm Pleads Guilty to Fraud NEW YORK WV-The Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.

pleaded guilty in Federal Court today of conspiracy to defraud the U.S foreign aid program in sale of drugs to Viet Nam and Cambodia. The charges covered foreign aid financing of drug sales from 1958 through 1963. The guilty plea was made to U.S. Dist. Judge Harlold F.

Tyler five days before the corporation was to go on trial, along with two other, corporations and two individuals. 1- rS 11. iruuuie ciiiu a uciu aiuiuuc. now stands at about provide pre-school training for 000. i5 and 6-year-olds from poverty- Last year the United States stricken homes who need the ex-spent, invested or gave away tra training to benefit from la-some $3 billion more than re- ter training in school, ceived from abroad.

But it con- i He said that 265 local govern-served its gold supply by selling ment and private groups in bonds to foreign govern- ifornia had already responded ments and drawing on the U.S. I to the idea with plans covering' account in the International nearly 58,000 California young-Monetary Fund. 1 sters, 'sW44 wm'i 1 I IlillS Sis WtMi i 1 -a i frrriifn Oakland's Art and Pauline Simpson traded in their battered old portable typewriter pirca 1933, for a new one and made a friend. The other day they got a labori-qusly typewritten letter from a Filipino merchant sea-ihan who'd bought their old machine used and found, down, inside, a gummed return address sticker. He wrote the Simpsons to let them know their old machine had found a kind and loving owner.

0 0 0 0 i Oakland's Nancy 'Arena, an unmarried medical secretary, just bought a power cruiser fron Elly Dovyd at Pacific Marina and took her two cats, Smoky and Sunshine, aboard for their first cruise. At docksicfe Smoky a gray cat with white paws and a white chest took off and hasn't been seen since. "And, from Nancy: "I only bought the boat to make the cats happy." Gary and Jan Tibbetts, of Pleasant Hill, spent Sunday with friends in the Virginia Hills section of They spotted a lion on an watche it through binoculars, and calllcl police. A cop-came out and looked, a crowd grew and two guys started banging away at it with rifles. The big "caLilnally came down the hill in huge leaps, jumped a fence and into a yard.

The woman came out of her house arid screamed "My cat! You're shooting at my cat!" -Yup. Itnas a domesticr household pet, just big and i LEANING TOWER Workmen toppled this water tower at the old Chevrolet assembly plant at 73rd Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. Site otehe. plant is being cleared to way for a rvf3mrrier-cial.