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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 6

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si (DalnbllyEribttnt June 18,1967 Mary Fujii oniyevery.4dj.w;s4,TOt Dies at 53 This the time remaining before the first scheduled Bay Area. Rapid Transit (BART) train is due to roll through Oakland's Broadway subway. 4 "A teriight months with the Agency for International Development (AID) in South Karl Mahler of Wal- nut Creek, former manager of the Mt. Diablo Chapter of the American Red Cross in Contra Costa has briefly to the Bay Arta to port: 1 The weather in the Me-kon Pelta (where he is serv- ing as a provincial represent-' stive) is miserable. "It's hot and muggy and just plain lou-sy." -V- 2 The food is as bad as the weather.

"All I can say for it is that it's edible." 3 He's doing an important and necessary job. Mahler (and AID) work closely with the Vietnamese people; to help them win what has been described as "the other struggle for economic, social, and political development. Mahler will remain in the Bay Area until next Sunday. He returned to help in AID'S current recruiting drive for skilled personnel to help the Vietnamese people. He was one of the.3,414 per-sons who applied for jobs dur-int? last vear's AID recruiting rtiuv 4 1 fh J.M-iVv i Homesickness, however," Is not one of his problems.

Mahler, who formerly lived at 1327 Arkell Walnut Creek, said that four -Walnut Creek policemen are now serving with AID'S Public Safety pro- I gram In theJFat They are Leigh Brilliant, former Walnut Creek police chief, who is stationed in Jan Carahan and Vince Young, who are hi Saigon, and Doug McCullum, in Plieku. AID'S week-long recruit-ment drive begins tomorrow. It is headquartered in the Old Mint Building, Fifth and Mission streets, in San Bay Bridge Traffic Up Traffic on the Bay Bridge during May jumped 4.9 per cent over the total for May of 1966, reports the State DM-' sion of Bay Toll Crossings. The division says the total of 4,687,435 crossings was greater, as usual, than on the other six state-owned bridges combined. The greatest percentage increase wag v6n.

the Benicia-Martinez Bridg, which had a volume of 435,685 vehicles for May up 18 per cent. Traffic increased 11.2 per cent on the San Mateo-Hay-ward Bridge, the division said, to 540,438 vehicles. Memorial services will be held Tuesday for Mary Fujii "'Halpernr wife of -Harvard University expert on interna- UonaTaffa a founder of the Hayward floral industry. Mrs. Halper who died May- 20, was a resident- of Cambridge, Mass.

She was the wife of Dr. Abraham M. Halpern of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard and the daughter of the late Rutaro Fujii who helped pioneer the Southern Alameda County floral industry. Survivors in addition to Dr. Halpern include two sons Al- exander and Paulrher mother Mrs.

Katsu Fujii of Hayward, a. brdther Kenji Fujii of Hay- ward, and four sjsters Mrs. Sally 'vDomato' of New Rochelle, N. Mrs. Sue Bid- -irman of McLean, Miss Hanako vFuiii of, Washington, and Miss Kimiko Fujii of Hayward.

Mrs. Halpern, wtof was 53, had been ill for six months. Funeral services were held in Cambridge. will' be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park, 32992 Mission in Hayward.

-Inurnment wilh.be at Chapel of the Chimes. i 1 it Tniini Dili i mmmmmimmmmiiimmmumB im iiiimm IteftTiHttl KARL MAHLER (LEFT) HAS VIETNAM MISSION MacDona Id Salter seeks more Tike him for AID This view of the new Toronto, Canada subway gives East-bay residents some idee of how the downtown Oakland subway stations now under construction will be like. The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains won't look like the Canada cars, but the location of the passenger-loading are (at right) and the attractive lighting give some idea. drive, and one of the few who was accepted. AID is looking for all types of workers from agricultural specialists to secretaries.

The jobs pay between $4,500 and $18,000 a year in addition to a 25 per cent hardship bonus post was the absence of his and other benefits; family. Mahler, 34, said that al- His wife, Lois, and two though he has been shot at by daughters, 12, Kris--the Viet Cong, several times, ty, 10, are living in Bangkok, the most difficult part of his Thailand, and he sees them What's new for tomorrow' tsatSMGZntodayr Children's Summer Dance Classes XT TV 1 1 I i i am to 12:30 p.m. at Dimond Recreation Center, 3860 Hanly Road; Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., North Oakland Recreation nt 36545th St. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.

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