Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 16

1 6 Dec. 22, 1 1965 BART Considers Fleeing Prisoner Wy I -V; Low Bid Subway The board directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District has declined to reject out of hand a low bid of $61.5 million for construction of the Broadway subway in Oakland. Instead, the directors decided yesterday to hold another meeting on Jan. 13 to give themselves time to study the matter further and to allow the dis Station Problem In San Leandro Wounded MARTINE2VA fleeing prisoner was wounded by sheriffs deputies late yesterday afternoon in a chase following an escape from a county work detail in the Antioch Fairgrounds. His fellow escapee was taken into custody without a struggle.

Deputies said that Thomas Watson, 21, of Sanger and Donald McClure, 19, were working in the detail at 3:05 p.m. yesterday when they hopped in a county pickup truck and fled. Several hours later, deputy Martin Day sighted the truck and the two escapees on Loftus Road in West Pittsburg. The pair saw the patrol car at the same time and Watson pulled into a nearby driveway and fled on foot. Deputy Day shouted a command to halt, then fired two shots from a shotgun, one of which hit Watson in the shoulder.

The prisoner was taken to Contra Costa County Hospital in Martinez, where he is in good condition. McClure, who remained in the truck, was returned to County Jail. Population Gains LONDON (UPI) The population of England and Wales jumped up by 361,000 in the past year, the government said today. Most of it was due to immigration and not births. The annual estimate of the registrar general put the population of Britain and Wales to 47.8 million to June 30, 1965.

at holiday struction was 28 per cent higher than the $48 million estimate by district engineers. Arnold C. Anderson of Castro Valley, chairman of the engineering committee, predicted that there is a "100-to-l" chance the bid will be finally rejected. The chief opposition to outright rejection came from director Roger Lapham Jr. of San the board might negotiate with the low bidder on possible Francisco, who suggested that changes that might bring the cost down.

Alfred Allen, Perini Corp. executive, urged the board to hear the position of the construction firms before deciding to reject the bid. SMALLER CONTRACTS Stokes recommended that the contract might be broken up into several smaller contracts, with possible design changes. He attributed the high level of the bids to rising labor costs, the Viet Nam war which is drawing off a lot of the West Coast's personnel and heavy construction equipment, and the fear of some contractors of "the unknown factors of the construction involved." The only other bid, by a combine of Peter Kiewit arid Sons, Fred Early, L.E. Dixson and McDonald-Kruse, was 50 per cent higher than the district engineering estimate.

Very big 0 Do these girls look familiar? They should. Each is a Doris Day alike. They are three of 18 international beauties chosen for their resemblance to the blonde movie star as part of the promotion for Miss Day's new movie, "Do Not Disturb." The closest look-alike, in the judge's opinion, was Miss Tuula Mattila (center) of Finland. Second-place went to (left) Wenche Kullander of Norway. Miss Heitje Bendixen (right), the San Francisco area winner, played host for the 1 8 girls at a reception yesterday in San Francisco.

FUND CHAIRMAN Mrs. Paul J. Kroll of San Leandro has been named Northern Alameda County chairman of the American Cancer Society's April residential fund-raising campaign. Muni Power Cut Halts S.F. Traffic Power disruptions of undeter" mined cause halted Muni Railway trafficalong SanFrancisco's Market Street three times this morning.

The streetcars and electric buses were first stopped at 8:14 a.m. After 15 minutes the power flow resumed, only to stop again seven minutes later. Traffic moved for 12 minutes before the third stoppage at 8:56. After the final 14-minute disruption, power returned and the Muni system operated without further trouble. The Muni system has separate service lines so the power disruption did not affect business houses or traffic lights along Market Street.

parties- 00 0 Poverty Council Approves Requests for $800,000 3-1 grams to be financed as much as possible from Elementary-Secondary funds, rather than Economic Opportunities Act money. Council members said they want full information on school department plans for spending some $2.5 million Elementary-Secondary act funds allocated to Oakland. REQUESTS The requests approved in clude: Family planning clinics, Parochial school compensatory education, Legal aid services, Family counselling services, Neighborhood organizational programs, Administration, coordination and op eration of service centers, dropout remedial schools, $97,000. The Legal Aid Service funds included enough to add four ad ditional attorneys and two addi tional secretaries to the staff. FAMILY CLINICS The family clinic program, administered by the county health department, was expanded bv an additional $9,200 to allow service for 300 more women with low incomp.

Council members requested that more effort be made to hire Spanish-speaking personnel to work in lamiiy planning and other personal counselling programs. Requests for several top additions to the Department of Human Relations administrative staff were held over for study by the council l3)L SAN LEANDRO City officials met today with representatives of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District seeking apian to forestall potential problems in the vicinity of BART's projected Hesperian (Bay Fair) station. San Leandro home owners on Western Avenue have been alarmed by announcement that the transit district plans to cut 16 feet off the rear of 44 lots on Western Avenue south of 147th in extending the transit line along the Western Pacific right of way. In addition, residents have learned that BART wiM require a two year construction easement on an additional 14 feet of most of theselots, cutting close to their back doors and preventing use of garages. A delegation of homeowners, headed by Harold Hull, insurance counselor, of 14943 Western has asked the city to urge BART to acquire the total lots involved, rather than parts of them.

Mayor Jack T. Maltester said the city has adequate zoning controls and can offer the district an attractive alternative to decimating the properties. He proposed that the district acquire the lots in full, remove the improvements, reparcel the land to meet zoning standards and offer it to the public for controlled multiple residential development compatible with the adjacent single family residential properties. Councilman Gregory Pomar-es, who represents the Halcyon NEW HEARING Bus Dispute Reopened The State Public Utilities Commission has voted 4-1 to order new hearings in the year-old dispute over bus service between San Francisco International Airport and the University of California Berkeley campus. Three Berkeley students had proposed the bus service but last month the franchise was award ed to Barrett Transportation Co.

which runs buses between down-1 town and the airport. The students, led by Peter Madian, 21, appealed the decision three weeks ago, asking for new hearings on grounds that Barrett's service over the Thanksgiving holiday was allegedly insufficient. Madian is founder of the students' plan to transport customers between the campus and the airport aTthe beginning and end of holidays and semester breaks. 0 fund request-; schedulr-J lo be consiied at the couno-i's next meeting on Jan. 2(i.

Youth Service Director Named SACRAMENTO (AP)-Thom-as A. Rowe of San Francisco was named director today of a statewide program to train students for youth service work. Waldie Flays 'McCarthy ite7. Threat to U.C. SACRAMENTO (UPI) The Democratic floor leader in the Assembly warned today that the tradition of an independent University of California "is as seriously threatened today as it has been at any time since the hysteria of the McCarthy Assemblyman Jerome R.

Waldie. D-Antioch, said the Iegisla- ture nad already taken "puni tive actions against the university because of student unrest and disturbances in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an example, he cited budget cuts of appropriations for teaching assistants. But, he said, based on his reading of newspaper editorial comment, letters to the editor getting to the point where they will demand legislative interference with university operations." Waldie said that a legislative higher education study committee, formed by Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh, D-Inglewood, and Senate President Pro Tern Hugh Burns, D-Fresno, "could be a threat to the university, except that the men on it have acted with re-' straint." Waldie recalled that he opposed creation of the committee during the 1965 legislature because it would be in a "position to act extremely demogogic." However, he said the group had done little more than absorb much impatience with the university.

land because McKinley Continuation school, on Dwight Way between Dana Street and Telegraph Avenue, will eventually be taken over the the University of California in its. campus pansion program. The school board will seek to have the government declare the Navy land surplus property and sell it for a very small amount, according to Dr. Thomas Wogaman, assistant to Superintendent Neill Sullivan. trict's staff to prepare alternatives to the present specifications.

28 PCT. HIGHER The district general manager, B.R. Stokes, and the engineering committee of the board had recommended rejection of the low bid. The bid, submitted by a combine of Con- area, involved in the problem, said the mayor's proposal would maintain property values in the area and offered a practical solution to avoid deterioration of the existing residential community. Priority on 2 Eastbay Crossings Two Eastbay projects top the California Public Utility Commission's priority list of railroad highway grade crossings to be altered or reconstructed in 1966.

The annual list was released by the PUC in San Francisco yesterday and recommends the sequence of jobs to be participated in by the State Division of Highways. Number one priority went to the Southern Pacific crossing at Kearny Street, Richmond, at an estimated cost of $1 million; number two priority went for the SP Powell Street crossing in Emeryville at a cost of $1.6 million. Number five on the list was for SP's Barrett Avenue crossing in Richmond at a cost of $1.3 million. Forty-fourth on the list was the $2.2 million reconstruction of SP's Adeline Street crossing in Oakland. The priority list indicates the sequence in which the work will be done but doesn't necessarily mean that the work will be done during 1966.

The figures given represent the total cost of the projects. The State Public Works Department will put up half of the amounts $5 million annually with the county and local agencies involved putting up the remainder. The PUC report noted that in cases where the Bay Area Rapid Transit District tracks cross over railroad tracks in Richmond and Hayward, the additional costs involved will be borne by BART. Other crossings, well down on the priority list, include: Harder Road, Hayward, $1.3 million; 37th Street, Richmond, Orchard Avenue, Hay ward, $1.4 million; Street, Hayward, Industrial Parkway, Hayward, Calaveras Road, Milpitas, $3 million; Tennyon Road, Hayward, $1.2 million; 23rd Street, Richmond, $2 million; 29th Avenue, Oakland, $2 million; Railroad Avenue, Pittsburg, $2 million (37th priority); Cutting Boulevard, Richmond, Fruitvale Avenue, Oakland, $4 million. of his mother and father, Mr.

and Mrs. David Lundquist of Galesburg, 111. and two brothers, Robert of Denver, and Carl of Long Island, N. Y. Chester D.

Lafferty Funeral services were held today for Chester D. Lafferty, 71, former Southern Pacific Railroad industrial agent, who died Monday. Mr. Lafferty, who started with Southern Pacific in 1912 as a warehouseman, was. responsible for locating more than 5,500 industries along the railroad's Western United States tracks.

As manager of the industrial department for 14 years, he purchased more than $17 million in property, which was developed and turned over to such industries as food processing, auloassembly7and paper mills. He retired in 1959, and had been active in the industrial real estate business with his son, Charles D. Lafferty of San Carlos. He also leaves his widow, Susan, of 198 Ravenswood Menlo Park. WW The Oakland Economic Development Council today authorized requests for some $800,000 in federal funds to carry parts of the local War on Poverty through next year.

The council delayed approval of requests for about $580,000 in federal funds to finance War on Poverty educational programs of Oakland schools. Judge Lionel Wilson, chairman of the council, asked for a meeting with the school department to determine which of the council's present programs in the education field may be transferred to funding from the recently enacted Elementary-Secondary Schools Act. SCHOOL FUNDS Members of the council indicated they desired school pro- Body in Lake Is Identified ZEPHYR COVE, Nev. The body of a man who had been shot three times and dumped into Lake Tahoe was identified by Douglas County sheriff's dep-uites today as that of a San Francisco hotel executive. Don-: aid Leasiire Fitting.

47. The well-dressed man was: found Monday on the shoreline! beneath a 60-foot cliff at Cave Rock Tunnel near Zephyr Cove. I He had been dead about two i days. According to Sheriff's Lt. George Brautovich, that means! he was shot very soon after ar- riving by plane at Tahoe Air-1 port at 5 p.m.

Saturday. 1 in Educational and other fderaUand. own ma'l "people are AMVER System Is Lifesaver To Sailor Stricken At Sea Divinity School Aide David Lundquist Dies Apprentice Seaman John A. Johnson, 26, is in a hospital today, the aftermath to a genuine saga at sea. Johnson, of Sault Ste.

Marie, became desperately ill last Friday ort the doctorless Coast Guard cutter Gresham, at sea midway between San Francisco and Hawaii. Through an intricate system known as AMVER (Automated Merchant Vessel Report System), started last summer, an inward-bound ship was located, and the next day Johnson was transferred to the Navy's Barrett. The Barrett docked Tuesday at the Naval Supply Center here. Its sick passenger was taken to the U. S.

Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco, where he is receiving treatment for paralytic poliomelitis. Savo Island land for the privately owned Estuary Housing Project land in Alameda. The swap of the Berkeley property- for -36 -acreS-ofthe Alameda land will not be final until approval comes from Washineton. The board also vot ed to ask Congressman Jeffery uoneian to protect tne scnooi district's "interests" in the property. The school board need the Berkeley Seeks Navy Housing Property for New School Site BERKELEY David Lund quist, business manager of Berkeley Baptist Divinity School since 1952, is dead at age 58.

Mr. Lundquist, challenged by his pastor to be "a soldier of the Cross," gave up his job as district office manager for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in Sacramento in 1949, to accept a position as business manager in his church. Five years after he accepted the seminary, position his pastor. Dr.

Ralph Johnson, was Installed as president of the American Baptist institution. When Mr. Lundquist took a leave of absence from his job a month ago because of ill health, the seminary named Donald Dickerson, business manager of the American Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, for the pajrt nine years, to succeed him. Mr. Lundquist was a native of Kansas City, Kansas, where he will be buried.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Virginia M. Lundquist of 100 Windsor Kensington; a daughter, Mrs. Karen Kahn THE SPACE-SAVIN' COMPACT PACK! BERKELEY The Berkeley School Board hopes to acquire the Navy's Savo Island Housing Project property as a site for a new school." The board last night approved a resolution asking the Federal Government not to dispose of the 13-acre property before con-tulting with them. -The board's resolution was in response to an agreement made public last month proposing a swap of the.