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5 CCCC Chinatown Gate Closed $750-Month Won By Coffee Heiress 2 Airliners' Brush With Disaster The Mayor's Citizens Com Jury Rips 'Too Mucli Welfare' The 1961 Alameda County mittee to Improve Chinatown yesterday wiped the slate clean on six years of effort doomed, actually, two wecki ago when Chief Administrative Officer Sherman P. Duckcl refused to allow $100,. 000 toward construction. The city has set aside $33,. 000 for a Chinatown gateway project.

But all plans so far devised by architect Eugene Chinn failed to fit thia purse. Says Husband ii: project and try, instead, to kindle interest in a Grant Ave. ornamental arch. It would be situated on Grant, between Clay and Washington near the center of the famous foreign quarter. Instead of being just a glamorous tourist eye-catcher, the arch would be a form of commemorative structure, to call attention to the Chinese contribution to the last century of California history.

Regretfully the Mayor's group tabled the familiar Bush St. gate concept. It was to acquire a Chinatown gate Was Violent Bush St. and Grant Ave. The group headed by the Grand Jury Issued a final re port yesterday that was criti Rev.

T. T. Taam decided to abandon the Chinatown gate cal of many facets of the county's administration, but was most sharp about public SAM FRANCISCO-HIUSDAll welfare outlays. A 52 page report was sub mitted by jury foreman Wil- 1am F. Knowland, former Senator and unsuccessful can W' viiiillilj I iff didate for Governor.

Guatemala coffee plantation heiress Anna Maria liar rington won $730 a month temporary support for herself and two children at a preliminary divorce hearing yesterday. The attractive brunette, active in charity work here, is seeking a divorce from her husband, Ralph Harrington, 59, wealthy millinery manu facturer'a representative, on charges of extreme cruelty. Mrs. Harrington, 39, is also asking for custody of the couple's sons, Peter, IS, and Kent. 9, half of "more than $300,000" in community "Almost half the county tax dollar Is committed to welfare and the aid to needy children program Is the one most vulnerable to attack," the report said.

"The ANC program has been in effect in California for a quarter of a century. and (has) degenerated into ittle more than a Ob WASHINGTON, April 19. 4UPI) Two airliners with 61 persons aboard flirted with death for 42 minutes recently vthen they accidently vere assigned to the same "holding" altitude in a thick overcast, It was revealed. The near-tragedy occurred near Washington National Airport March 21. The Fed-: eral Aviation Agency confirmed the incident but declined to comment further, pending a news conference Friday at which FAA Administrator Najeeb E.

Halaby was expected to reveal additional details. ONLY A MIRACLE Reliable sources said only a miracle kept the two planes from colliding. They both were told to hold over Springfield, at 7.000 feet. They flew a normal "race track" holding pattern for nearly an hour without realizing, they were at the same altitude. CIRCLING SLOW The two aircraft had been ordered to fly a one-minute holding pattern, making a 90-degree turn every 60 seconds.

Inasmuch as a Viscount has less fuel capacity than an Electra, it undoubtedly was circling slower to conserve fuel. This meant the larger and faster aircraft could have passed it at least four times during the 42-minute brush with potential catastrophe. property, and $1,500 a month support. In the complaint her attor viously unfit mothers are allowed to raise children in ney. Morns Lowentnat, filed mmoral and unwholesome is safe for all your fragile fabrics atmosphere.

OVERLAPS in January, Mrs. Harrington charged her husband "violently struck" her on several occasions. "It Is not unusual to find 11.11 II.UJWll lllll II I HI II Hill III from two to four depart Superior Judge Joseph ments servicing the same Karesh continued in effect a restraining order preventing family or individual members thereof; each setting up its own forms, rendering its own Now'Only Harrington from disposing oi or some service common to any of the couple's property, the other departments, and molesting or coming to maintaining its exclusive 95 files." their home at 110 San Benito Way, pending outcome of their divorce trial. Also raised was the ques 1 th trade tion of whether the county is collecting more money from Mrs. Harrington, the former Anna Maria Aguilar, was left part of her family'! the public than it needs.

The jury said "considerably more msitty down, 11.10 monthly coffee plantation holdings identification and justification" is needed for the $18,324,925 listed as "unap The first indication either propriated surplus" and the $53,900,000 in inactive bank accounts. pilot had of the other's presence came when the United captain heard Eastern report he was leaving 7,000 feet Some sources believed the and subsequently sold her interest to pay household expenses since her Dec. 7, 1945 marriage because her husband "wouldn't allow her enough," Lowenthal said. Ship Tickets SEATTLE, April Fifty pickets who said they were just "good American etizens" picketed the Polish ship Anista L. Thursday as she loaded grain for Toland.

Nevada Calls SP Service only reason they did not collide was the fact that a Viscount has shorter turning radius and probably stayed 'Infc nor HEIRESS IN COURT Anna Marie Marring ton the won divorce. slightly Inside the Electra's RENO, April 19. Nevada Public Service Commission accused the This 2-speed, 2-cycle washer fates tender care of ALL your clothes! One cycle gives sheets, towels, and heavily soiled work and play clothes the high speed, vigorous scrubbing they need. And it has a slow speed, gentle action that pampers your frail nylon pretties to fresh, new sparklel See how controls are grouped on one panel for ease of operation. Three wash-rinse water temperatures protect every fabric.

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Model UA-33 Other RCA Whirlpool other at Redllckt From 199.9S to 399.95 George Allard, PSC chair man, told a hearing of the Interstate commerce commis Cathey recalled that each pier is about the size of a 10-story building. He told also of "bombing" sion that the cleanliness of the cars had decreased since the ocean floor to dig craters January, 1961, and the sched In lovcr-osf Obiorvaoeo of" Good Friday of KoaVlcki Sforoi Will ft Cfoiotf From 12 Noo intlt p.m. a.m. fo Noon p.m. to 9 p.m.

ule of the train was "highly inconvenient." The SP is seeking to aban for the fenders within which the piers are set. Others described the business of feeding white-hot don runs 27 and 28. The line claims it is losing $1.5 million a year because of lack of customers. rivets through pneumatic tubes to men working on the to safety. Two men working in the net went with those on the scaffold.

Ten men died. of the all-star KPIX cast, in addition to Cathey: Capt. Randolph Rudy Pct-tersen, 74, retired former Sausalito councilman and Marin County supervisor; Charles Bender, 54, estimator for an a 1 a structural steel painting firm; Howard Schirmer, 60, sales manager for Bethlehem Sttel's fabricated steel construction division. Erwln Kurtz, 63, operations manager for Bethlehem's Pacific Coast fabricating division; Wesley Getts, 51, chief engineer of the Hetch Hetchy water supply division; Charles Hepworth, 68, retired foundry executive; Richard Evans. 73, retired operator of Welding Service Sales.

REDLICKS Park Free 17th and Mission- San Francisco El Camino near 28th Ave. 1 towers, the violent seasickness of the tower "steeple jacks" when an earthquake Eight men who played important roles In construction of the Golden Gate Bridge had a picnic aboard the Harbor King yesterday. One of the arguments against th bridge, they were reminded, was that San Francisco would be overrun by picnickers from Marin County. This got a laugh from others aboard that rocked the boat but the eight guests of honor didn't seem to think it was too funny. The occasion was sort of an advance observance of the 25th anniversary of the bridge, which was opened to traffic on May 28, 1937.

PREVIEW OF FILM KPIX gave the picnic. KPIX picked up the tab for all the champagne and box lunches because KPIX is doing a documentary on the bridge at 7:30 p. m. May 1. And the picnic included a preview of the documentary film, as the Harbor King cruised by the bridge.

The film made daredevil hit, the spinning of the cables from tower to tower, the plight of a watchman marooned overnight on a single plank walkway between the towers. The eight picinickers also recalled in dramatic detail the tragedy of Feb. 17, 1937, when a traveling scaffold with 11 men aboard jumped the The cult of Isis, whleh track and plummeted through a safety net 220 feet into the sea. One man leaped for a gird promised immortality and bodily resurrection, challeng ing Christianity for a time er and hung on until hoisted Jet Ride for Blind Kids heroes, not of the picnicking guests of honor, but of the forgotten men who risked life and limb ih building the bridge that couldn't be built The guests of honor, all con struction supervisors and foremen, risked their lives too. But they all survived to Trans World Airlines' sleek new Boeing StarSteram whispered through the skies over Grand Canyon only 90 minutes after leaving San Francisco yesterday.

Little Bruce Hilderbrand sat in the cockpit as the jet wheeled at 35,000 feet to begin the homeward flight. "Gosh, this is beautiful," the 9 year old exclaimed. play leading roles in the docu mentary film. One of them, Walter Ca they, 63, now a Sacramento engineering contractor, super He was not referring to the awe-inspiring panorama of Grand Canyon but to the huge jet. For beauty comes to Bruce only through his sense of feel, hearing and sound.

Bruce was one of several sightless boys and girls in a group of 41 handicapped San Francisco children invited by TWA to participate in its preview flight of the Star-Stream. The 121-passenger giant goes into its regular service on TWA's San Francisco-New York run April 27. vised construction of the mamouth piers that house Discover tht Practical Power Of Prayer based on spiritual understanding of God Attend tht FREE LECTURE on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE "Christian Science: The Enlightened Way" GERTRUDE E. VELGUTh' C.S., of Flint, Michigan MstbHot it th Board of Lwrloronhlp of Th Vnttwr Church, Th First Church of Chrlut, Scientist, la Boston. Uui Friday, April 20 at 1:00 P.M.

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