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-4fi. Feb. 12,1966 3-3? Bunche Schoo at 1 That Bears Name 4 mm 11 I' By JOHN BURKS "He's real nice. I liked the way he talked," said Claudia Mason, lo. "He's an intelligent man," said Wayne Jackson, 12.

"He's a smart said Michael Johnsonrll. "He's a good man," said Felicia Keys, 12. Ralph J. Bunche was the man these children at the Ralph J. Bunche School were talking about, and they should know, for they had just heard him speak to them on the blacktop playground behind the Oakland school.

"I have been wanting to come and see you since the school was established," Dr. Bunche, Undersecretary of the United Nations, told the 450 children. HONORABLE RISK "I have always been a little World Body's No. 2 Man Assesses Viet Ralph Bunche, United Nations under secretary for special political affairs, said yesterday "the Viet, Nam situation is the most difficult, most complex and most frustrating problem we've The worst aspect of the situation, Bunche told aluncheon meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California, is' "lack of encouraging sign from Hanoi." But there is "new cause for hope," he said, now mat the matter is before the U.N. Security Council.

He said basis of worried about giving my name to such a fine school as this, he said. "You never know, when you his "professional optimism" is choose the name of a fellow that's still living, whether he the U.N. settlements in Kashmir, the Congo and Cyprus. "I believe most emphatically might embarrass you some day. But I'll try not to -do anything that would embarrass you." The children noted this with solemn appreciation.

With the school honor guard we can achieve peace," he said, "if only because war in this nuclear age is so obsolete." standing smartly at attention RALPH J. BUNCHE GREETS CHILDREN AT SCHOOL NAMED FOR HIM 'Play a lot, work hard at education U.N. undersecretary told youngsters the flags of the United States, SEX IN COLLEGE Anne Mallalieo, versity, England, will change the sex 20 (left), and Suzy Menkes, 22, hope attitudes of the campus. Anne is the a series of articles by Anne in the daughter of an English undersecretary; campus newspaper at Cambridge Uni- of the navy. (AP) the State of California and the of its principal, Dr.

William D. green and white colors of the Ralph J. Bunche School rippling Grafft, 36. On learning that Dr. Bunche Air Attacks -the breeze the peacemaker is Going More Troop explained wnat he does for a was coming to the area to make yJl 'living.

speech, Dr. Grafft phoned Redwood Theaters1 U.N. OBJECTIVES Humphrey On North "It's' all very simple," Dr. To War, LBJ Says him in New York, at U.N, headquarters, and invited Dr. Bunche to visit the school.

Bunche said. "The 117 members Dr. Bunche was not certain George Mann Dies of the United Nations have banded together for two. important reasons. "First, to improve human dig Tells of Big 'Social War': he could make it, he said, but he'd try.

nity, human relations, to make George M. Mann, who founded SPEECH IN S.F. a better way of life for all pefev the Redwood Theaters chain in Yesterday, Dr. Grafft went to SAIGON, South Viet' Nam pie. And second, to save the world for peace.

Northern California and Oregon, died in his San Francisco home at the age of 90. We try to convince people (AP) Vfce President Hubert H. Humphrey said today there the Commonwealth Club speech in San Francisco, afterward approached Dr. and eventually the two men were in Dr. Grafft's automobile headed toward the Ralph J.

Bunche mat the best way to handle disputes is to. talk them out, not has been tremendous progress Mr. Mann, who suffered a stroke 17 months ago, succumbed Thursday night He abandoned a budding law practice in 1912 to enter the in fant film industry and established the first film booking house in the nation. A graduate of Georgetown University in 1908, he was practicing law in Philadelphia when he decided to enter show business and opened a booking firm. in the military phase of "the shoot them out with guns.

"It's always better, to talk Continued from Page 1 west of Hanoi, leaving it "unserviceable." The Air Force1 jets also destroyed a' building at the airfield. An attack on a storage area at Dien Bien Phu set off several secondary indicating that ammunition was hit. Air Force planes left the area covered with flames and billowing black smoke. Air Force planes also attacked Stiff Penalty ered and no one will have any trouble hearing them," he said. "If you are prepared to produce Hanoi, I am prepared to negotiate." President Visits Lincoln Memorial WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-.

dent Johnson decided to visit the Lincoln Memorial today to join in tribute to the nation's Civil War president on the 157th anniversary of his birth. Some ceremonies had been scheduled previously at the shrine. Johnson's part in a midday event consisted of laying a wreath at the -monument, with, no speech-making. A highlight of the ceremony School. than to shoot.

That's what we're Vietnamese war, but that only a' beginning has been made onjhe. Though there are dozens of schools named in honor of Dr. economic-social tront. trying to do in Viet Nam." 'PLAY A LOT Then Dr. Bunche told the children, at least 90 per cent of Bunche, he especially liked the one he saw at the corner of 18th Urged for 2 Russ Authors The following year he founded Humphrey gave this appraisal at a news conference after his second day of helicopter-hopping around areas near Saigon; where -military and civic action them Negro, that what they are the first film exchange for Par Continued from Page 1 sia George M.

Kennan, who said the United States should seek to avoid escalating the war and await a better climate for negotiations. President said he gathered Gavin's testimony that "there is not a great deal of difference between what he and Kennan are saying and what the government is doing if there is, I guess in their report they will recommend the pnv gram. Whatever it is, we will be glad to consider what any senator says "I think the country overwhelmingly supports the position that we have taken. I believe that the members of the House and Senate do likewise." Johnson said that in the debate in recent weeks on Viet Nam "I don't see any real program that anyone has presented that offers a clear alternative to recommend itself in preference to what we are In response to a question, Johnson also said he saw no reason to go back to Congress for another mandate of support in Viet Nam. He said the resolution passed" after the incidents in the Tonkin Gulf in August, 1964, was a clear expression of and Adeline.

'I'm very happy," he told the children, "and very proud that this school exists in my name. It's a fine school." (API A Soviet doing now is the most important thing in their lives. amount Pictures. BOOKING MANAGER lancets in the Vinh area with mfe in progress. i i He came to California in "Play a lot," he said.

"But when you get to be my age prosecutor demanded today the maximum penalty of seven years at hard labor and five 750-pound bombs and 20-mm cannon, damaging a The kids thought Dr. Bunche was all right, himself. Navy planes from the carriers was reading of Lincoln's Gettys grandpappa age you will find that getting a good education is and was appointed western district booking manager for Fox Film Corp. "He's a real fine gentleman," years exile for author Andrei D. Ticonderoga and Ranger bombed a very serious thing.

Work hard said Wayne Johnson, 10, as Dr ims was a aay aevoiea mostly to U.S. military forces, "although Humphrey spent time also with Korean and Australian elements Involved against the Viet. He reached the Australian infantry regiment's position roads in 17 places. They de In 1920 Mr. Mann resigned to Sinyavsky, Tass reported.

The prosecutor, Olee P. Tem Bunche stood surrounded by atlt.V mi i stroyed "thrertrucksr damaged ine woDei feace win cnudren in the lengthening two bridges" and sank a junk. ushkin, asked the Supreme ner spent half an hour shaking snadows, patiently honoring all purchase interests in theaters in San Francisco and Eureka. These were the first in the 22-theater Redwood chain, which i Both Air "Force and Navy hands with all the children and Court for five years in a labor requests tor autographs. only a few hours after one of the signing autographs.

He seemed i i i colony for codefendant- Yuli he operated until illness forced AUSSies was wounuea oy nea to enjoy this part of the visit Daniel, the Soviet news agency him to retire. most. A VALENTINE Mr. Mann, who lived at 100 "Hi, Buddy," said one young said. Sinyavsky and Daniel are ac where the vice president walked.

Asked at his news conference admirer. San Buenaventura Way, San Francisco, wasa former direc Hi, Buddy," said the distin cused of publishing anti-Soviet propaganda in stories they how he felt about the close secu- tor of the Cow Palace, the Co- guished, graying U.N. diplomat. burg Address by Sen. John F.

Sparkman, D-Ala. Atomic Vials Head for Home SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Four bullet sized radioactive containers were "being prepared today for the final leg of a trip to Idaho Falls, Idaho, after they were found on the grounds of a Salt Lake City freight yard. The vials, first reported missing were found by an eight-man radiological team from Hill Air Force Base. They had fallen from a lead and steel shipping cask, apparently when it tipped while being transferred between freight cars. rity guard under which he traveled, Humphrey said "I didn3 umbia Park Boys Club and a What's new- at the U.N., smuggled abroad for publication under pen names.

national vice president of the Buddy?" shot back the young give it a moment's thought." 2-Year-Old Takes LBJ Over Jumps WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi- The official Soviet press has planes encountered light to moderate antiaircroft but no planes were lost. An Air Force spokesman said today the United States has lost 265 planes in combat in Viet Nam, 176 of them in raids on North Viet Nam. On the ground, no other significant contact between U.S. and Communist forces was reported in the 24 hours ending cjirly todsy In South Viet Nam, B52 jet bombers from Guam plastered suspected Viet Cong targets in western Quang Nam Province, about 340 miles northeast of Sai- gon. Details were withheld for security reasons.

Georgetown Alumni Association. man. made it clear that they are "Trouble," Dr. Bunche said. FIVE CHILDREN He is survived by his widow, "There's always new trouble, but we try to do our best." deemed, guilty and the only question for the court is how heavy to make the sentences.

Neva, and five children, John Mann of Washington, D. His new buddy found that an Congressional support. The President also was asked if the refusal of South Vietnam-mese officials to consider negotiations wjth the Viet Cong guerrillas would be a problem if peace talks should develop. "When you get Hanoi ready to negotiate, I think that the viewpoint of all the people interested in negotiations can be consid jhe courtroom is closed to all acceptable answer, and laughed reporters except a few Soviet George Mann of San Francisco, Mrs. James Martin of.

Oakland, right out loud. dent Johnson doesn't have to take orders from anyone but there's one 2-year-oW who can wrap him around her finger ones, who have not made public That Dr. Bunche was able to any defense pleas for the two 40- Mrs. Gordon Masses of Scars-dale, N. and Mrs.

Robert Barry of Los Altos. visit the school was accomplished through the enterprise year-old writers. She is Courtenay Lynda Valen- What has been published indi ti, who gave the President a Valentine Friday." Afterward, A Requiem High Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Mon she and he met the press, posed cates Sinyavsky and Daniel argued strongly for freedom for intellectuals to express themselves artistically without being day in St. Ignatius Church, Ash- Lincoln's Hands Shaped US.

Destiny for pictures, and frolicked with the two White House beagle judged politically. The case pups, Freckles and Kim. Bandits Get $150,000 in Gems, Cash PACIFIC PALISADES (UPIV Two masked robbers earlj; today escaped with an estimated in jewels and cash from a home in this exclusive Los Angeles suburb, police said. The occupants of the home, Neil Toriello, a meat packer, and his wife, were asleep when, the thieves woke them by shin'; ing a flashlight in their eyesJ Toriellos were bound witK bedsheets -and sashcords and the two thieves ransacked the house. Onlv 15AO nf thp lonl was irf ton Street and DeMontford Avenue.

The Rosary will be recited at :30 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel of Carew and English, 350 Masonic Ave. At one pomt Courtenay, By PHILIP R. SMITH JR. against them has been that their satires on Soviet society were used by enemies of this country daughter of special presidential assistant Jack Valenti, had to defame it.

trouble holding the two pups on The law provides for prison their when they tried to grab the crackers she was terms of six months to seven years, with subsequent exile within the Soviet Union of two to WASHINGTON Awed by the brooding serenity of the face of Daniel Chester French's great statue of Abraham Lincoln few visitors to the Lincoln Memorial notice the hands of this famous work. French had spent much time and effort in sculpting the hand of thp stfltnp hpoausp he munching. "Here, hold this," she com five years, or prison, or manded the President, turning life casts of Lincoln's hands. These casts were done by Douglas Volk, another sculptor on May 21, 1860. They are today displayed in the Smithsonian Institution.

Coincidentally, May 21, 1860 was the same day on which Lincoln had learned of his nomination, for the Presidency and his right" hand was swollen from shaking the hands of hundreds of well-wishers. Before making the cast of Lincoln's right hand Volk had Lincoln saw off a piece of a broom stick. The cast was made witlt Lincoln holding the stick in his fingers naturally flexed. In the course of the sitting Lincoln called attention to a scar.on his thumb resulting from the glancing blow of an ax the year before. In his great work Daniel Chester French relied greatly on the Bells Welcome Royalty GRENADA, Windward Islands (UPI) Church bells rang Friday to greet Queen Elizabeth II when she arrived at this tiny British island cn her Caribbean tour.

The queen, accompanied by just exile. the beagles over to him. Temushkm closing state At another point she asked the President to lift her up, and ment came after a Soviet novelist and satirical writer, Arkady he promptly did so. Vasilyev, said his literary cot- had always felt that hands were richly expressive of personality. Before beginning work on the statue he studied copies of the Courtenay brought along a red leagues had committed "the heart-shaped valentine which Prince Philip, landed at the cash.

The rest was jewelry, in-Princess Margaret jetty, na dung a $35,000 bracelet and a for her sister when she visited $23,000 ring, officers said. i Grenada 11 years ago. gravest crimes." He asked "a rigorous punishment." said: "We can make music together, dear." Childish scribbling was on the back. When the puppies persisted in trying to eat Courtenay's crackers, Johnson put them in his pocket. Courtenay didn't like it a bit.

Volk life casts of Lincoln's hands and attempted to show the strength, power and tension as well as relaxed character that he was attempting to put into the whole figure. After a study of Volk's life castings and talks with Robert Lincoln, the President's ri, French disagreed with Volk over whether Lincoln's hands were In perfect proportion to his large frame. Volk in meeting Lincoln described his hands, "Grasping my hand in both his large hands with a vise-like grip." French in his great work, has portrayed Lincoln's hands as being in proportion to his body. Lincoln himself may shed some light on the controversy through a short autobiography written for the campaign of 1860 when he wrote, "Abraham though very young, was large of his age, and had an ax put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twenty-third year he was almost constantly handling that most useful Herein may lie the answer, the hands of the great rail splitter were shaped by the hard physical labor of his younger years. It is Lincoln the rail splitter, the farmer the working, man that Daniel Chester French has portrayed.

A lasting testimonial to that great American dream that no matter how humble the origin, with ambition and cour At one point, Johnson asked her: "Whose angel are you?" "The prez's angel," she re plied. Johnson called for a big 103th MacArthur "Tun iff MacArthur Freeway at 1 QStk JUeaae FOOTHILL SQUARE EAST OAKLAND hug and Courtenay obliged. Ambush Wounds Sacramento Man SACRAMENTO (UPI) A Sunday Only Coupon Specials! OPEN SUNDAY 11 a.m. to p.m. OPEN SUNDAY 1 1 a.m.

to 5 p.m." convalescent hospital aide was cut down by rifle fire from an ft i ROSES GRADE 1 Vi MIXED NUTS 11 alley last night as he sat in a car in front of the hospital, police said. William Walker, 30, was ser 6r 6nMiM, Calif. 4 irw. iously woundid five times in 1-yr. mi like IlltJ lI.

CM, mi fKktt, win pusiic rtpliciMMt etm. "Sw.frt.11 the back by bullets I Mi 5 Pmc.UwII that ripped through his parked 55 'ex XX Oily! Irmi age, every American has the UMJT 3 CANS car, police said. Walker, an orderly at the Park Sutter Convalescent Hospital, had just left work and was waiting to give a nurse friend a ride home when the sniper opened fire from the alley across the street, police said. PI COUPON ria iuupon same opportunity to become a leader of his country. Thus it was that the calloused hands of Lincoln shaped the destiny of our nation.

wmwm 31 1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN LOOKS OUT ON HIS COUNTRY FROM THE MEMORIAL the great work by sculptor Daniel Chester French shows strength and pity.

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