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Board Park New Scans Budget Plan VoteUrged On Police WageHike A proposed East Bay Regional Park budget of $3,181,457, including money for stepped up land, acquisition in Contra Costa County, has been presented to the district's board of directors. The district's spending plan, presented by Robert L. Herman, the district's controller, is up about 4 per cent over, last year. The district's tax rate, set by the state legislature, remams at 10 cents per $100 in assessed valuation, 1 Oakland's police recruiting problems could be eased by asking voters, to permit the 3 7 council to boost police wages, City Personnel Director James Newman said yesterday. Newman made the suggestion as the Civil Service Commisson once again tangled with the thorny, lengthy dispute over sergeants' serving as inspectors without the extra pay.

His idea found immediate support from Commissioner Charles W. Goady, but its fate was left undecided by a commission all-absorbed in the five-year-old sergeant dispute. Urging a broader view of Oakland police problems, in effect, Newman noted that the department was unable to fill 40 vacancies with recruits, that 18 other major California cities ERRANT AUTO KNOCKS ANOTHER HOLE IN THE CENTER FENCE Barrier prevents car from smashing into oncoming traffic i Little Time to -Elelcrx CREW DRILLS IN BEGINNING STAGE OF BARRIER Their 'office' is the center lane of busy freeway The basic 5-cent rate is coupled with an additional 5-cent levy, authorized for a 5-year period ending 1969, to finance new parks and capital By far the largest chunk of the is proposed for land acquisition and capital improvements. Of the $930,000 set aside for land purchases, nearly two-thirds will go toward buying new park sites, primarily in Contra Costa. Within that amount, funds of $100,000 each are set aside for the purchase of a shoreline park in Contra Costa, and for land and improvements at the proposed Alameda Creek-Coyote Hills Aquatic Park.

Another $364,000 will go toward payments on land purchases at Garin Ranch, Lake Chabot, the Erickson ranch property near Fremont, and the Townsend property (3 Lakes Ranch) in Contra Costa County. In all, $565,000 is earmarked to buy land in Contra Costa, compared with $365,263 for purchases in Alameda Coutny. Of this amount, $41,000 will go toward operating two new parks set for opening during the coming year the Kennedy Grove Recreational Are a in Contra Costa County and Alameda Beach, if that beach is turned nupr in tho rfistrirt hv tllA state pay pairounen more money ana that pay scales for lieutenants and sergeants also lag behind other cities. Newman suggested that 6 the board support asking the voters in the November general election to authorize the city council to pay police salaries "over and above" those now fixed by Proposition C. That proposition gears salaries of police and firemen to the average wages of Bay Area industrial workers.

Approval of the measure, Newman said, would help solve the city's police-recruiting failure and also eliminate pay ine They are used to the danger of their job. "I've had to climb a few fences, but it isn't too bad," said one. Al Booker, one of the lead men who pull the bent poles, doesn't mind the possibility of danger. "I worked for 10 years in an ammunition dump and 13 years in a chemical warehouse, so it doesn't bother me." Some of the others, however, still are uneasy about their vulnerability. "Just think, one car could wipe us all out," a worker said.

"It may be dangerous," said another. "But it's interesting. There's something new every day." Specialized equipment pulls out the bent fence posts, much like a dentist pulling a tooth. A new pole is set in concrete, and new fencing strung. The real life-savers are the frustrating task, for the crew never catches up with the accidents, and more often than not they mend one section one day, only to return and fix it again the next.

The normal procedure is to off one of the center lanes in the middle of the day when traffic is relatively light, while repairs are made. On the two types of barriers used: A chain-link fence supported by cables, and metal bumper guards mounted on wooden posts. The work day runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to avoid rush-" hour traffic.

"We try to be gone before then," Morrison said. The crew eats lunch in the middle of the freeway. "We have to be sure to bring everything with us," one of the men said. "If we run out of cigarettes, we can't run out to the corner store." strong cables on both sides of the fence. Once a car was kept by the cable from falling over a cliff, even though the wire fence was flattened.

"I've never seen the cable break or have to be replaced," one of the workers said; He stood back to look at the gleaming new wire fence jusV? put up. He turned to get onto the truck to move up the line to the next break. There was a loud crash. The crew turned to see a car swerve across the closed lane and through the fence, making a new hole in the section the men had just finished fixing. The woman driver was unhurt, thanks to the barrier, and the car was soon removed.

The freeway fence fixers turned back to repair the new break. 1 1," Morrison Shrugged philosophically," "That's how it goes out here." been in existence since 1961 when the chain length barriers went up as an experiment. The barriers have long since proved their value in saving lives. Morrison, a former forest ranger, doesn't seem to mind the noisy contrast of freeway maintenance with the solitude of wilderness. Except, perhaps, for last year when he was the victim of an errant auto.

Morrison was the first crew member to be injured in the line of duty. He was sent to the hospital with two broken ankles and was off the job for five months. "I thought about quitting then," he said, but decided not to. Accidents happen on other jobs, too, even in the forest." He returned to the "wars," and the effort to keep the fences in shape. It's a futile, By RANDY WOODS The man in the hard helmet and bright orange blazer stood back to survey a newly patched hole in the chain link fence.

He seems oblivious to the fact he was standing in the inside lane of one of the state's busiest freeways, the Nimitz. Cars whizzed just a few feet behind him in an endless succession of "whooshes." A slight twitch of the wheel by any of the drivers and the man in the orange blazer would be oblivious to But for Henry Morrison this daily role as a freeway matador is all part of a day's work. Morrison is foreman of-a special ten-man crew who daily risk their lives to help save others. The repair crew, part of the State Division of Highways maintenance department, has as anticipated. Herman said the total salaries for the district's 140 employes quities within the department.

outside the revenue producing Goady immediately supported projects, are projected at more than $1.1 million to include an tne suggestion. Trespasser Alameda's Budget Set at $5,543,645 'Dear Mr. Johnson, Stop Hill Spoilers' estimated $41,344 available for wage increases and increased fringe benefits estimated at 16 per cent of salaries. This allows average wage hikes of 5.85 per cent, Herman said, ranging from 2.9 per cent for a trainee to 12.68 per cent for plumbers. Proposed, too, are increases ranging from $40 to $65 monthly for seven department heads.

District Gen. Mgr. William Perm Mott whose salary was raised $2,500 to $22,500 several months ago, was not proposed for a raise in the budget. However, the directors may consider a raise for Mott on their own initiative. Next public hearing on the proposed budget will be at the board's next meeting at 2 p.m.

June 21, 11500 Skyline Blvd. '(St II I many people like us, are doing everything we can to set aside parks and to keep open spaces so that at least you will have soms place to go and enjoy nature when every bit of it around your home has been turned into streets and yards." Ordered to Start Term Mark Comfort, who lost a bid for the Democratic nomination in the 15th Assembly District last Tuesday, was ordered to begin a six-months jail sentence today for trespassing during demonstrations against The Trifc une in 1964. I Comfort had been scheduled to begin serving the sentence May 16, but it was continued until today to allow him time to campaign before the election. Today, Judge William W. Hoffman denied a motion by attorney Malcolm Burnstein for a further stay of execution.

Burnstein explained that be has petitioned U.S. Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas for a stay pending an appeal, but Judge Hoffman refused to let Comfort remain free. ALAMEDA A tentative 1966-67 budget of $5,543,645, based on a continuation of the current $2.40 ta. rate, was submitted last night to the City Council by City Manager H.

D. Weller. This preliminary figure is nearly $40,000 under the current operating budget. However, it does not include provisions for $117,000 in salary increases recommended by the city's Civil Service Board. The proposed budget is based on an estimated total assessed valuation of $86.2 million roughly $5 million increase over the 1965-66 figure.

The $2.40 tax rate has been in effect in Alameda since 1960-61. Grant School 'Too Costly To Continue1 Grant Elementary School at 417 29th St. next year- it will probably be used for adult edu-cation or as a continuation school. Superintendent Stuart S. Phillips told the Board of Education yesterday that the enrollment has been in continual decline and its continued operation is not economically feasible.

The school, located between Telegraph Avenue and Broadway, is virtually swallowed in the Medical Hill complex. Most of the 132 pupils who would return to the school next year and the 20 kindergarteners who would enter will go instead, by choice, to Durant, Edison, Longfellow, Piedmont -Avenue or Emerson Elementary Schools. Director Seymour M. Rose suggested that the parents of Negro pupils at Grant (67 per cent Negro) be encouraged to send their children to Edison or Piedmont Avenue Schools to achieve greater integration rather than to the already heavily-Negro (90 per cent) Longfellow and Durant schools. WASHINGTON (AP) -Young Robert Douglass Jr.

lives by the hills and loves them. He wrote a letter of protest to President Johnson because "the men are wrecking the hill to make room for the people." He got a Cabinet-level reply. This was the penciled letter, complete with spelling, from Robert, 8 who lives at 1200 Lynnwood Drive, Novate, M. R. Jonstion.

How could we keep people from coming in to California and Marin countly. Because people come in and the men have to wreck our hills and fills, and our rivers and woods to make room. An-amals get killed and then we don't have any anamals. It only takes the men 30 seconds to wreck the Indian mound and it took the Indian 300 year to build the mounds. "I love the hill and and fills and river because I live by hills and the men are wrecking the hill to make room for the people." REPLY BY UDALL The White House referred the DR.

THOMAS MacCALLA New Aide In School Three Park Sites Eyed By District The East Bay Regional Park District will begin negotiations that could lead to purchase of a park on Las Trampas Ridge in the Danville area years ahead of schedule. The district staff also will make a two-week study of a possible park site on Pt. Richmond, and will start a general survey for a shoreline park site between Port Costa and Mar The city must raise about 930,645 of the proposed budget, with the remainder to come from gas tax and other funds. Education Tax Aid Tribune Capital Bureau SACRAMENTO Gov. Edmund G.

Brown today signed into law a bill by Assemblyman Nicholas C. Petris of Oakand granting property tax exemptions to educational television and radio stations. This is $24,000 more than was Body Found Half Buried In Mudflat ALAMEDA The body of Deo-tis Rushing, 59, who had been missing from his Richmond home since May 22, was found buried to the waist in the mudflats of Bay Farm Island last night. The discovery was made by a group of high school students who were walking on the beach. Rushing's body was in a sitting position, rising out of the mud.

Rushing, of 5118 Cypress Richmond, vanished from his home May 22, according to his wife, Mable. She reported his disappearance to police the following day. The cause of death will not be determined until laboratory tests are complete. Pathologists estimate Rushing died on May 30. required for the current budget of $5,591,900.

Most of the decrease in the proposed operating budget is due to a drop in the amount the city is required to contribute to retirement funds for police and firemen, Weller said. The budget was taken under submission by the council, which already has pledged to tinez. These actions were authorized yesterday by the district's board of directors. study civil service recommendations for a salary hike. In other action, the council voted to form a committee to study the feasibility of a city application for War on Poverty funds.

The group, to be named by Mayor William S. Godfrey, will look at the possibility of city participation in the federal program aimed at helping minority and lower income groups. Members will determine what the cost of a detailed study would be, and determine what areas should come under the program. Complaint Filed Against Bay Firm A complaint to enjoin Dividend Security 1122 East 14th San Leandro, and its president, Herbert R. Lee, from engaging in the securities business has been filed in the U.S.

District Court in San Francisco by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arthur E. Pennekamp, administrator of the regional office of the SEC, said the firm has violated the Commission's net capital rule and record keeping requirements. U.S. District Judge Albert C.

Wollenberg has signed an order restraining the firm from further violations and scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on the Commission's motion for a preliminary injunction. Pennekamp said the net capital rule adopted under the Securities Exchange Act requires brokers and dealers "to adhere to specified standards of liquidity and financial responsibility for the protection of members of the investing public." Basically, it means they must have $1 in cash or liquid assets for each $20 in liabilities. As of April 30, said Commission Investigator John R. Asher, Dividend Security had a net capital1 deficit of $4,300. Ash-er's affidavit also states that as of Dec.

31 end April 30, Lee appropriated certain securities be-louging to the firm for his own use. County Names Topic for Talk "Alameda County Place Names" will be the topic of a talk bv Carter Keane at 2 p.m. Lockwood Library Plea Made to School Board Department Dr. Thomas A. MacCalla has been hired as Director of Special Urban Education Services for the Oakland schools.

Dr. MacCalla, who is presently with the San Diego County school system, will replace Robert R. Wheeler who has taken a position as assistant superintendent in Kansas City. Dr. MacCalla's appointment was only one of a lengthy list oi personnel changes and appointments approved by the Board of Education yesterday.

The changes are partially attributable to the retirement this year of four principals: Roger Capri, Horace Mann Elementary School; William A. Connolly, Washington; Terence H. Ellsworth, Roosevelt, and Mrs. Zelda P. Patrick, Sequoia.

Dr. MacCalla will oversee most of the special programs directed to the education of disadvantaged children. Dr. MacCalla, 36, received his undergraduate education in Connecticut and taught there prior to coming to California. He received his doctorate in education from UCLA and was a teacher at the high school and college level in Santa Monica.

tomorrow in the Oakland Public Waldie Eager To Begin Job In Congress ANTIOCH-Jerome R. Waldie, elected Tuesday to the short term as 14th District Congressman and nominated on the Democratic ballot for the full term, is eager tosget on with his new job in Washington, D.C The veteran Antioch Assem-blymtm said he is "elated" that Contra Costa voters chose him to succeed the late Rep. John F. Baldwin. "I am deeply aware of the immense responsibility," Waldie commented.

Expressing the hope he may be able to leave Tuesday for the a 1 1 's capital, he said he wishes "to be sworn in as quickly as possible" to assume his new duties. "I will do my best," he pleged, "to provide Contra Costa County residents with the personal and effective representation they enjoyed in Congressman Baldwin" Library, 125 Fourth St. Keane, a member of the California Historical Society and west coast president of the Society of Architectural Historians, will give a brief history of the county and trace the origin of the names of its cities and towns. Two films, "Comparison: Courtship to Marriage" and "Scotland Dances," will follow his talk. letter to Secretary of the Interior Stewart L.

Udall. His reply, made available to reporters today, said in part: "It is with a feeling of mingled pleasure and sadness that I writo in answer to your fine letter to President Johnson. I am sorry that your hill and fields are under the bulldozers' tracks and am very pleased and impressed with your mature reaction. "When you say 'I live by hills' you are expressing something deeply imbedded in your nature as well as a statement of geographical fact. For countless centuries men have 'lived by' hills and fields and rivers, and when these things are covered up by a cement and steel and glass topping, we feel rootless and uncomfortable.

THE PROBLEM "You have put your finger 'precisely on the problem when you say 'to make room for the and unfortunately no one yet has figured out how to 'keep people from I do, however, have a deep appreciation for the frustration you feel at seeing your natural surroundings disappearing to make room for more and more people. "The President and and A plea for a library to serve the Lockwood area was made yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz on behalf of the Lockwood Improvement Association. The plea was not to the Library Commission nor the City Council but to the Oakland Board of Education.

Goetz informed the board they were the last hope. His search had al Wine makers Gather in S.F. More, than 400 California winemakers are in San Francisco today for the annual meeting of the Wine Institute. The producers of more than three-fourths of all wine consumed in the United States will hear several guest speakers during their two-day session at the Jack Tar Hotel, including Rep. B.

F. Sisk of the 16th Congressional District. Other speakers will be James W. Bell, chief of the Bureau of Food and Drue Inspections of the board has withdrawn its offer. The Goetzs said there is already talk of replacing the present store-front branch library with a bigger store-front branch library.

The Lockwood Library, said Goetz, "has to be tied up with a ribbon" to attract the kind of children who will be using it. Most of the children, said Mrs. Goetz, will come from low income homes where the parents do not appreciate the importance of a library. Such a library, she said, must be an en-tity where movies could be shown, where tape recorded music could be offered, where children could go from over-crowded homes to study at night Knudsen Heads Scout Council Duncan H. Knudsen has been elected president of the San Francisco Bay Area Council of ready taken him, said Goetz, to the council, the mayor and the city manager.

Goetz noted that for 20 years the board has offered a piece of property near Lockwood School, 6701 East 14th to the city for a library site. Now, said Goetz, when the city has expressed a willingness to ap the State Department of Public Population Shift WASHINGTON The farm population of the U.S. decreased from about 33 million in 1900 to only about 28 million in 1950. Health, and John J. McDevitt senior vice president of Lip-pincott Margulies New York' design, research and marketing firm.

Boy Scouts. Knudsen, an insur ance executive, succeeds Arch! Monson Jr. propriate $85,000 for a library,.