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Sen Francisco Bxemlncr P-8 Thursday, April 16, 1987 Judge delays Brentwood test of gene-altered frost inhibitor 8 by 90 feet Julie Lindemann, the Frostban Project Leader for Advanced Ge ing until an environmental report could be completed, a process that might take another year. Frostban has been shown In laboratory trials to knock out frost-promoting bacteria and protect plants from frost damage at tern-peratures as low as 23 degrees Fahrenheit. Frost damage costs U.S. farmers an estimated $1.6 billion annually. Advanced Genetic already has received a green light from the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Food and Agriculture and the state Department of Health Services. Karry Fitch, executive director of Californians for Responsible Toxics Management, wasn't convinced enough testing had been done on the microbes before they are loosed upon the world. "We really don't know what effect it will have on other vegetation or even the people in the area," he said. "The workers are going to be guinea pigs. We're not against biotechnology; we just want to see that basic safeguards are Instituted." The company has engineered two strains of bacteria to protect crops from frost damage.

It wants By Craig Marina OF THE EXAMINER STAFF MARTINEZ The town of Brentwood will have to wait at least another week to find whether It will take its place in the history of genetic science. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Darrel Lewis decided Wednesday to delay until April 23 his ruling on whether Advanced Genetic Sciences Inc. of Oakland can begin testing genetically altered bacteria on a strawberry patch just outside the rural Contra Costa County town. If the spraying is allowed, it would be the first authorized release of a genetically altered microorganism into the environment Advanced Genetic had planned to begin Its experiments Friday. Lawyers representing Califor-nians for Responsible Toxics Management hope Lewis will agree that Advanced Genetic should file a formal environmental impact report before being allowed to begin experiments with the pseudomonas syringae bacteria known as Frost-ban.

The environmental group went into Lewis' courtroom hoping he would grant a temporary restraining order halting the test Suicide of to test them on 2,400 strawberry plants in a patch that is roughly 90 former police recruit i r- iK, A MvSr while being booked is Our friend, the goat Note the sleek coat, bright eyes and almost with a bag of popcorn in your hand and that rotund form of this goat at the S.F. Zoo's petting popcorn including the bag if there's any butter zoo. Goats don't get this way by eating hay, no sir. on it is history. Fortunately, these young zoo This is a goat raised on hot dogs, candy bars and visitors came bearing only good wishes, so Mr.

pganuts. You get this close to a petting zoo goat Goat stood patiently awaiting greener pastures. Murder defense: There was no murder The two officers, Robert Maffei and John Smith, said Moreno failed a roadside sobriety test. Moreno demanded another form of sobriety test. A blood test at Central Emergency Hospital showed his blood alcohol level at .19 about twice the level a'person is considered intoxicated.

According to CHP Sgt. Larry Gomes, Moreno told police that he "had had a dream" during which he "met the devil. But he wasn't really the devil. I shook hands with him and he was the devil, but he's just like me a magician, sleight of hand." After, being taken to the Hall of Justice for booking, Moreno was told to empty his pockets. Homicide Inspectors Frank Fal-zon and Carl Klotz said Moreno reached into his pocket, withdrew some change and slammed it down onto the counter.

As he did so, Falzon said, Moreno turned and bolted toward the door. "He popped something into his netic, said no experiment has been so thoroughly tested before its field application. Eager to begin the spraying, the 33-year-old Lindemann would be the "guinea pig" Fitch referred to because she would be doing the actual handling of bacteria. "There is absolutely no danger in this," she said firmly. "I wouldn't even wear the protective clothing if it wasn't a requirement for being able to hold the experiment I've been working with these types of organisms for 10 years now.

The others who will be watching the experiment won't be wearing any protective clothing. Frostban is not hazardous to human health." John Bedbrook of Advanced Genetic said that, while the company would have liked to begin its experiments on schedule, he was pleased with the judge's decision. "We're happy that the judge felt he should take the time to make a rational decision based on the merits of the issue rather than, in his haste, grant a temporary restraining order," he said. "We are confident that we will soon be able to begin our tests." mouth as he ran," Falzon said, "and when he turned back to face the officers, blood was coming out of his mouth. "He stopped, yelled 'Allah Ak-bar' (AllahGod is great) and collapsed," Falzon said.

Although death appeared to be almost immediate, Moreno was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:41 a.m. Police said they had found a loaded revolver and a knife in Moreno's pocket when he was stopped. A shotgun and loaded derringer, plus more than 200 rounds of assorted ammunition, also were found in the trunk of his car. -u Investigators believe Moreno, may have obtained cyanide from chemical stores at his father's jewelry business in Daly City. Moreno worked in his father's business before and after his stint in the Police Department.

pavilion and dispensed justice with a gavel in one hand and an orange soda in the other Tuesday. Banks and court clerk Kay Choate sat at a folding table and chairs borrowed from City Hall. Banks said the spring weather, with temperatures reaching the low 80s, prompted the move from usual court chambers in City Hall or the police station. He was also president of the Alameda County Lawyer's Club and an honorary life member of the Alameda County Legal Secretaries Association. Mr.

Nebeker leaves his wife, Harriet; a daughter, Nancy E. Nebeker of San Francisco; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Services will be private. SLOSS, Katharine J. member of prominent SF pioneer family, died in Atherton, April 14, 1987, after a protracted Illness; she was 73; Mrs.

Sloss was active In various civic activities including the Little Gym Club of Children's Hospital. Emanu-EI Sisterhood, Mt. Zion Children's Hospital at Stanford; she is survived by Henry E. Sloss, her husband for nearly 48 years, children Henry Sloss Jr. of Annapolis.

MD, Victoria Franken of Lake Oswego, OR and Thomas Sloss of Fountain Valley, also survived by seven grandchildren. Those wishing to pay respects may come to 74 Atherton Atherton, CA on April 18. 1987 between 1 and p.m. Please, no flowers. Contributions preferred to the American Cancer Society.

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Barens compared the case to Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" in the 1930s, during which many listeners believed Martians actually had landed in New Jersey. "Despite the fact there was no corroborating facts, millions of people rose to a panic," the lawyer said. He suggested that Wapner was doing the same in this trial, trying to convince jurors that Levin was murdered although there is no physical evidence to support that claim. Levin's body has never been found.

University. They hadn't planned to stay when he accepted the job with the Oakland YMCA in 1939, his wife said. They were just curious to see California, but by then there were two children, and "education opportunities were so golden, with the schools and the University of California." They had offers from YMCAs in other cities in the early years, she said. "That's how you advanced in the YMCA." But they stayed. In Oakland, he became an associate director of the YMCA, in charge of administration, in the last few years until he retired in 1967.

The Oakland NAACP devoted its annual Freedom Fund banquet to him that year, and he was lauded for many achievements in his profession and his city. "He didn't see himself as a great person," Virginia Rose said. "But he was a very good person." He leaves his wife and three children in Oakland, Virginia Niles, Mary Ellen Butler and Richard Rose. There are 10 grandchildren. Dudley H.

Nebeker EXAMINER STAFF REPORT Dudley H. Nebeker, former Piedmont Municipal Court judge and UJS. commissioner for Oakland, died of cancer Tuesday in his Piedmont home. He was 80. Mr.

Nebeker was appointed to follow his father, Frank O. Nebeker, as both U.S. commissioner in Oakland and as municipal judge in Piedmont when his father resigned in 1934. "He even used the same desk," said his daughter, Nancy. He took the desk into private ft Spring weather moves the court By Malcolm Glover OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Former San Francisco police recruit Robert F.

Moreno popped a glass vial into his mouth after he was arrested on two misdemeanor charges. Then he died. 1 Investigators believe the vial contained poisonous cyanide and are conducting tests. His family was unable to explain why Moreno would take his life, although they said he had been depressed and drinking heavily after a recent breakup with his girlfriend. Moreno, 28, of Daly City, killed himself early Wednesday while he was being booked at City Prison after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving and carrying a.

concealed weapon, police said. Moreno had joined the Police Department in March 1981 but resigned nine months later after receiving unfavorable field-training grades. A cousin, police Capt. Frank Reed, said he and Moreno's family were "at a loss to explain his actions. He was only picked up on two misdemeanors.

We are devastated by this. We really don't understand how something like this could have happened." Moreno was stopped at Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue by two Highway Patrol officers who reported seeing his automobile weaving on Highway 101 at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday. practice with him when he left the bench in 1951, and continued to work in his downtown Oakland office until last December. Mr.

Nebeker was a graduate of Piedmont High School, where he knew his future wife, Harriet Cath-cart They went to UC-Berkeley together and were married in 1929. He was a 1931 graduate of Has I Funerals CARPENTER, Karen Anne GENDAR, Stephen C. MARKS. LeslieL MEDAL, Carlos Jose PETERSEN, Eileen Mahoney Leahy CARPENTER, Karen Anne April 12, 1987; beloved daughter of Sandra and John; sister Tabitha Carpenter; grand-daughter of Glenn Arthur the late Virginia Arthur. No services.

Neptune Society, SF. GENDAR, Stephen C.af rest in SF, CA, April 13, 1987; loving husband of Elise Gendar of SF; father of Jeannine GendarLawson of Davis, Andrew C. Gendar of Seattle. WA; step-father of Linda Kaplan of Millbrae, Philip Risch of CO and Joyce Wadklns of Mt. View; brother of Frances Basten of Lodi; also survived by nine grandchildren; a native of Grass Valley, age 74 years; a past master of Balder Lodge 393, SF, Friends are invited to attend Memorial Services 2 p.m.

April 18, 1987 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 19th Ave. and Sloat SF. Arrangements by CUSI-MANO FAMILY TAYLOR HAYES COLONIAL MORTUARY. Mt. View.

MARKS, Leslie L. In Greenbrae, April 12, 1987; a resident of theTamaipais; widow of the lateMarion H. Marks 19751: survived by sons Stephen Marks of Oobbs Ferry. NY and Peters Marks of San Rafael; also survived by grandchildren Matthew. Joshua, Christopher 4 Emmanuel; born in SF 52706.

Friends are invited to gather and remember her in the auditorium at The Tamaipais. S01 Via Casitas, Greenbrae at 3 p.m. on April 18, 1987. Contributions may be sent to the Arthritis Foundation, 1010 Lootens 14, San Rafael 94901. In Memoriom ANNAM.

DENBY In loving memory of our beloved mother on the anniversary of her reunion with the Lord. We will forever etierish and honor her memory which lives on in our hearts and brines consolation toour Souls the lonely moments of our daily lives. tures and investment plans. Deputy District Attorney Fred Wapner says Hunt and Jim Pitt-man, the club's security chief, killed Levin on June 6, 1984, over a joke Levin played that left Hunt believing he had turned a $5 million commodity investment into $13 million. "There's not a single word, not a single section, not a phrase on murder, on a plan for murder," Barens said of the seven-page document.

"There's not a word about shooting Levin, not a word about guns and their use, not one word about a silencer." The list was found at Levin's apartment and included instructions such as "kill dog," "tape mouth" and "close blinds." But Barens said that 36 out of the 40 instructions on the list were not carried out. the North Oakland YMCA, then called "the colored branch," his wife said. "He saw the end of that. Soon the branches were open to everyone," she said. Before Mr.

Rose had been in Oakland for 10 years, he helped finance and plan a new YMCA center and gymnasium, and in 1947 was appointed to the five-member Oakland Recreation Commission. In 1964 he was appointed to the Oakland City Council by Mayor John Houlihan, and the next year was elected to a four-year term. Also in 1965, he was named to the prestigious National Recreation and Park Association board of governors along with William Penn Mott director of the National Park Service. Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson, who is black, said Tuesday: "Josh was a symbol for us. A symbol of success." Mr.

Rose was born the son of George and Mary Charles Rose. His father died when he was young, and his family moved to Pittsburgh, where he went to the public schools. He and his wife met while they were students at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked his way through school part of the time as a clerk for the YMCA that served the black neighborhoods near the university. After graduating with a degree in business administration, Mr.

Rose went to work full time at the YMCA, where his wife-to-be's father, Henry K. Craft, was then branch manager. The couple married in 1934. and he took a job at a YMCA at Mont-clair, N.J., and did postgraduate work in economics at New York ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA MONICA A document the prosecution views as a "recipe for murder" is worthless because there was no murder, the defense said Wednesday in the trial of the head of a social-investment group of former prep-school buddies. In his closing statement, attorney Arthur Barens picked apart a seven-page "recipe for murder" the prosecution says was Joe Hunt's blueprint to kill Beverly Hills con man Ron Levin.

Hunt was the leader of a group of former prep-school buddies who called themselves the Billionaire Boys Club. Hunt organized the club to make its members, many from Southern California's most elite families, richer than their parents through ambitious business ven I Obituaries Joshua Rose First black member of the Oakland City Council Joshua R. Rose By James Schermerhorn OF THE EXAMINER STAFF Services for Joshua R. Rose, Oakland's first black city councilman, will be held April 25 at 2 p.m. at St.

Augustine Episcopal Church, 29th Street and Telegraph Avenue, Oakland. Mr. Rose, who retired from the council in 1977, died Monday at age 80, after several years with Parkinson's disease. Mr. Rose was born in Lexington, and educated at the University of Pittsburgh and New York University.

He was a career executive for the YMCA and served Oakland 30 years as a councilman and a recreation commissioner. He was appointed to the council in 1964, where he became known for his progressive ideas, then ran successfully for three more terms before stepping down in 1977. "In one election, he received more votes than anyone else on the ballot. He truly represented his community," said Virginia Craft Rose, his wife of 53 years. "He saw blacks come into positions of responsibility." she said.

"For people of his generation, that was the goal to see those barriers come down." Mr. Rose went to Oakland in 1939 to accept a job as administrator in -'j UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE STATION, Texas A municipal judge apparently running a spring fever donned a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, sunglasses and tennis shoes and convened court outdoors. Municipal Judge Philip Banks held court in a covered city park tings College. He served for 25 years as a trustee of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, was president of the Alameda County Crippled Children's Society, and served on the advisory board of the Salvation Army. In addition, Mr.

Nebeker was a trustee of the Piedmont Community Church. MEDAL, Carlos Jose In SF, April 14, 1987; beloved husband of Diana Medal; loving son of Carlos Sr. and Maria Medal; adored father of Michael Carlos and Mario Medal; loving brother of Maria Lyida (Dickerson); dearest grandfather of Christopher Erik; dear father-in-law of Michele Jean also survived by many loving nieces, nephews, relatives and friends; long standing em-' ployee of Wells Fargo Bank. Friends may call after 5 p.m. Thur.

and are invited to attend Services Frl. 10 a.m. at DUGGAN'S SERRA MORTUARY, 500 Westlake DC. Private interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Rosary Thur.

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