The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 17

MJ.y. cccc O.gxamtttgr-Sec. I 17 City Moves to Get Police Station Site Five-Year Goal for Gateivay San Francisco's $60,000,000 Rapid Tvuns'U Bridge Passes Train Tests New Museum Plan For Portsmouth Sq. The Planning Commission' cleared the way yesterday for the city to pick up its option The plaza atjKearny and Fir to Haze Wartime Citv The Marin County Fire Department will put the torch to 108 hillside duplexes built in Marin City during World War II. Bert Klahn, executive director of the Marin County Redevelopment Agency, said yesterday the burning will start at 8:30 a.

m. Monday if the weather permits. No more than 10 duplexes will be burned each day. Clay Sts. is currently being on the Vallejo Street property selected for the new Central Police Station.

town up for the construction of an underground garage. By FRANCIS B. O'GARA The commission authorized It was learned that opposi was damaged some weeks ago the sale of the old Hall of tion to the custom house is A $44,000 replica of an early day Mexican Custom House was officially proposed for the northwest corner of historic Portsmouth Square Plaza here yesterday. The city would be expected to foot the bill as well as the annual maintenance cost estimated at $13,000 to $16,000. The proposal was set before the Recreation and Park Commission by Col.

Fred B. but only after the engineers had determined that the tube Justice, to be vacated next August. Philip L. Rezos, city would be "earthquake-proof," developing in some quarters of the Rec-Park Department Opponents feel the plaza, property director, said the at least as to shocks up to the action will allow the city to intensity of the San Fiancisco director, said the city should not take a "major piece of property and sell it like a four foot piece of right-of-way the city doesn't need." "If the property must be sold, it must be sold subject to two things," Herman said. "The usage of the property must be coordinated with the Golden Gateway redevelopment project, an dany building must be subject to design review.

Norman Murdoch, chief planner for the Redevelopment Agency, discussed the proposed modification of final plans for the Western Addition redevelopment area. The commission also approved a request by Safeway to use the remainder of its Marina District block for parking. exercise its $100,000 option on the Vallejo Street site. The commission asked the Rogers (USA, Ret.) who heads the Portsmouth Plaza Mu City Attorney's office wheth er restrictions on use of the lall of Justice site may be seum Board. The commission referred the plan to staff study.

Rogers told commissioners included in the bill of sale. when it is restored, should be used exclusively for a playground for the hundreds of Chinatown youngsters in the area. The commission also announced the new multi-million dollar Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park will be rented to civic and cultural groups. Formerly, it was available only to garden and flower clubs. Dong Kingman Dong Kingman, internationally known San Francisco watercolorist will be on hand at the San Francisco Academy of Art this evening to launch the academy's first fine arts students exhibit.

Kingman, who began his career as an instructor at the academy, now gives periodic special classes there. also requested that the building plans be reviewed by the commission and the temblor of 1906. The underwater instruments will continue in operation through next June 30. Transit directors were urged to proceed with all possible speed in a report by Arthur J. Dolan a San Francisco member of the board and chairman of the finance committee.

Dolan suggested that a bond election on the proposed rapid transit system cannot be held before the summer of 1962 at the earliest. In other action yesterday the custom house originally erected in 1848 and de Wind tunnel tests have confirmed a tentative decision by engineering experts that the Golden Gate Bridge can carry a rail rapid transit system, it was revealed yesterday. The wind tunnel tests were made on a reconstructed section model of the bridge, and the findings are now undergoing final analysis by Prof. F. B.

Farquharson of the University of Washington, A report submitted to directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District stated that these findings, made by the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, are ''most favorable" to the preliminary conclusion last May that a rapid transit system can be safely built on the bridge. N. Y. ENGINEERS This report, presented by a New York engineering firm retained to make the overall feasibility study, noted that a final decision will bo announced next month. It was indicated that sev Redevelopment Agency.

stroyed by fire in 1851 The action came after Jus would contain displays of in Herman, Redevelopment Golden Gateway will be a gleaming reality in less than five years if all goes well, its developers said yesterday, Robert H. Ryan, executive vice "resident of the Perini Corporation, announced the firm's timetable for the mammoth project at a luncheon honoring the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. "We expect to begin site acquisition in about 18 months or less and begin physical construction in another 36 months," Ryan said. THREE PHASES Construction of the project will be in three overlapping phases, he said, with the first residential sections scheduled for completion by 1963. "There's nothing here that scares us," Ryan said, although he admitted tieing the thousands of loose ends together to bring the project to reality would be a "tough job." Construction of the project will present no unusual difficulties except for the piling problem.

"We're fully prepared to run into hulks of old clipper ships and all that," he said. REAL SIGNIFICANCE The real significance of the mammoth project to San Francisco and to the Nation is the urban renewal on the scale of the Golden Gateway earlv San Franciseaena. me Doara unanimously reelected Adrien J. Falk of San Francisco as president and II. L.

Cummingsof Contra Costa County as vice-presi eral alternative plans for dent for 1961. Jury Lauds Civil Service Commission modification of the bridge to accommodate rapid transit will be proposed at that time The same engineering firm, headed by the late D. Steinman, pronounced the San Francisco's Civil Serv pip uW 11 I i i vv ry ry ice Commission on the whole is last becoming an eco nomic development program for cities," Ryan said. The luncheon was spon is doing a good job, the 1960 1 grand jury said yesterday, but it needs unspecified city charter revisions to do a better job. For one thing, said the jury bridge structurally strong enough, in the preliminary report, to support a lower deck with two rapid transit rails.

The wind tunnel tests were ordered to determine the aerodynamic stability of the bridge, under violent wind conditions, with the added sored by the Northern Cali fornia Chapter of the Amer ican Institute of Architects and was held in the Gold Ballroom of the Sheraton- in a year end report, city department heads should have Palace Hotel. mmm Everett Griffin, agency chairman, suggested to the more of a say in selection of new employes. Also these same department heads should exercise closer super I I I I. 4 ..4 audience that all future pub lie projects, whenever feasi k. 5 'i Wf iti fr rrm vision during probation peri ble, employ architectural weight.

EQUIPMENT DAMAGED Transit district directors yesterday also appropriated $28,000 to re-install quip-ment on the floor of the Bay for further study of the ef-f act of earthquakes on the projected underwater transit tub between San Francisco and Oakland. fv The recording equipment ods to weed out ineffective competitions of the type used workers. to select the winning Golden li ii Gateway plan. The jury praised the commission and George J. Grubb, 'Competitions are costly w---'- the director, for the manner aiiiilliMllil" k.

3 4 t.tlliiflttllllttMIIMti"f in which they have operated but they pay off," he said. Royal Measles i. L. a department' having juris IIIIIMMIIIIHMIMI 711 i i I 311 APPLIANCE BARGAINS 1MI i PASADENA, Dec. 8 (UPI) Morritl PMIct Miyfif mm tMr HstJinf TT Cindy Gillette, a pretty princess of the Tournament of Roses, had to skip some of the diction over 17,000 municipal workers.

The report was submitted by a committee consisting of John W. Sherry, chairman, and Abraham B. Johnson Jr. 1 VI festivities of the queen's court BTRiSinvw rrm today when she was bedded Csnwr 18th and Minion Strt with measles. and Richard M.

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