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fa.jBijw i iiMjuw. lw mmm iilMUiML 1L Pursel Tells Berkeley Men AIlvo urden I 1 'f The Foot-ln-Mouth Disease Jim Perilman. out from New York and on his first i 'day on the job as a Yellow Cab driver, figured he'd get by not knowing local streets because he could get directions from'his fares. His first? A blind man, who directed him block-by-block from downtown Oakland through Posey to his nome in Alameda. There ARE conservatives in Berkeley.

John De Bonis (a coun- cilrnan 11 years) gets a big testimonial dinner at the Hotel Claremont Sept. 29 with 500 tickets already sold AND the promise of pickets Boat Burns After Blast In Estuary ALAMEDA A 25-foot cabin cruiser exploded and burned in the Oakland Estuary yesterday afternoon but the boat's owner escaped unhurt Jack E. Frazier, 43, of 362 La-Questa Danville, a sales executive said, "I heard a loud poof or explosion, and the next thing I knew, I was in the water." "I really don't know what happened, I just think that I am the luckiest guy in the world to be here," Frazier said. He was alone on the boat. The cruiser, called "The Time Out," only had 51 hours on her according to Frazier.

The mishap occurred off the Alameda Naval Air Station. Frazier said that after he found himself in the water, he started swimming toward the Oakland shore, about 80 to 100 yards away: After reaching shore Frazier notified the Oakland, Alameda, and Naval Air Station Fire Departments, along with the Coast Guard. Crews from the Air Station tried to tow the boat to the Alameda shortf so that firemen could fight the blaze better. A Coast Guard helicopter aided by blowing the boat toward shore with its giant rotor blades. The cruiser was totally destroyed, however, and sank.

Firemen speculated the blaze was caused by a gasoline leak. outside. Well, it's a little late in the season, but Clancy's finally came up with a vacation cocktail drink two and you're gone for two weeks. Bob Smith is in the Grand Prix Restaurant, at Second Avenue and East 14th with the swingers, when an announcement is made that a car is blocking a driveway, with license plates "LSD-006." Wild cheers and applause Everybody is helping out at Oakland 1 if-l (M BILL FISET JACK E. FRAZIER TELLS OF BOAT MISHAP IN ESTUARY Danville sales executive says he's lucky to be alive BUSES DISCONTINUED Child's Climb to School Of Tax BERKELEY The Berkeley Board of Education is basically responsible for Berkeley's $13.38 tax rate highest in the state Alameda County Supervisor Kent Pursel told the Kiwanis Club here yesterday.

He cited a previously undisclosed report of Assembly Education sub-committee to indicate the Berkeley School District is top-heavy with administrators. The report said the district hires four non-teachers for every five teachers. The state average is one to seven. Pursel quoted Michael Man-ley, committee consultant as saying: "This is the most high-ly-staffed school district in terms of central office personnel that this committee has surveyed." Pursel said the Berkeley district now had the nighest school tax rate in the state's history. He said the county rate of $2.30 is down one cent from last year and the city rate remains unchanged at $2.70.

But the school rate has jumped $1.70 to a new high at $6.63, Pursel declared. "I am not an alarmist, and I want to assure you that I firmly believe in the value and absolute necessity of providing the best educational services that we can afford," Pursel said. "But I am concerned." Prusel said the school budget has jumped from $7.8 million to $19.8 million taNtbe past ten years, although average daily attendance is up only 1,000 students from 16,129 to 17,252. Quoting from the subcommittee report on file in Sacramento, Pursel said it gave a considerable amount of study to the administrative load in the Berkeley district. Assemblyman Alfred E.

Al-quist, D-Santa Clara, expressed surprise at the Berkeley ratio of four to five while the state average is one administrator to seven teachers. Dr. Nell V. Sullivan, Berkeley school superintendent, told the committee be feels there is a need for more adriunistrators. "This is an age of specialization," he said.

"Berkeley is not overstaffed." Sullivan said that "maybe the other districts are understaffed." Assemblyman Charles B. Gar-rigus, D-Fresno, compared Berkeley to a piece of bacon. "It has a strip of lean, closely packed on both sides by lots of fat" he said. Pursel said the committee reported it was "amazed" at the volume of printed material developed by the administrators, "much of which is never used." The report noted that Berkeley spends $532,000 for adult edu cation, and collects only $37,000 In fees for that service. Pursel advised his audience: "When you get your tax bills.

ask questions. It is good for you, and it is good for the schools." H. insisted mat his release of the report is not an attack on the schools. "It is merely a presentation of facts, figures, and statements, all of which are documents," he said. Young Couple In Suicide Pact EUREKA (UPI) The bodies of a young couple, who wanted to die together and be buried in the Redwoods, were found yesterday in a sleeping bag at a Redwood grove about 60 miles south of here.

Authorities identified the vic tims as Robert Murtough, 29, and Sheila Davenport 20, both of Portland, Ore. Their deaths were attributed to overdoses of sleeping pills. A search for the couple began Monday when a relative found a note outlining their suicide plans. Teamsters Vote On Safeway IPact Sick Leave Refused in Pregnancy day in the Machinists Hall, 16th Street and Macdonald Avenue. Further negotiations on terms of a new agreement covering about 250 warehousemen at the Safeway center are scheduled for Monday.

Both contracts expired on July 11. Dick Simon, Local 315 secretary-treasurer, heads the union bargaining team, assisted by John Greeley of Washington, D.C., chief of the Teamsters national warehouse division. H. F. Weber, Safeway's vice president in charge of industrial relations, is the principal bargainer for the company.

15 Embattled PoliceChief To Remain MARTINEZ Police Chief Otto Bortfeld will remain as head of the city's 16-man force despite attempts to have him ousted, the Tribune learned today. At the same time, the Gty Council is expected to criticize County Employes Union Local 302, which represented the officers for its handling of the attempted firing. Mayor John Costanza late today is scheduled to issue a statement on the results of six hearings with the men and Chief BortfckL DRASTIC ACTION Twelve members of the force threatened "drastic action" including a mass resignation or a walkout if "remedial" action were not taken by the council. The men accused Bortfeld of undermining their relationship with one another, spying on them, throwing temper tantrums, and creating morale problems. While the statement will not praise Bortfeld, neither does it chastise him.

The statement is ezpectedtosay there were wrongs on both sides of the issue, and mat the men and Bortfeld should work together in attempting solve their differ ences. PRESSURE CHARGED The statement will attack Thayer Walker, business agent of the local, for the manner in which the problem was presented to the council. It also criticizes turn for using mass media to put pressure on the council. The council held six meetings lasting more than six hours each during which the men and Bortfeld gave testimony con-c i departmental operations. Walker would not comment on the contents of the letter until it is officially released.

He said the men still are considering "drastic action" pending release of the statement by Costanza. He would not speculate on what his actions would be if the council decides to retain Bortfeld. 'Most Unpopular War Nixon Says NEW YORK (AP) Former Vice President Richard M. Nix-on has called the war in Viet Nam "the most unpopular war in American history and the first where the President couldn't unite his own party behind him." Calling for "command deti-s ions'' in Washington, Nixon said yesterday present policies offered little chance offending the war in less than five years. He did not specify what the "command decisions" should be, other than to reiterate an earlier appeal for a 25 per cent increase in American military strength in Viet Nam.

there was a knock at the classroom door. He strolled over to let the visitor in. "Surprise! the. contingent cried out in unison. It was State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, in town for school finance talks with Hay-ward and San Lorenzo educators; his aide Jack Gross; Michael Manley, consultant to (he.

Assembly Education Committee, and Schools Supt William Cunningham. Bus. Mgr. H. Marshall Hansen, and Principal George Strong.

Bee immediately relinquished the podium, Naval i a l's amputee wards. A Livermore man has been bringing in a tape recorder so veterans can tape messages to their buddies still in Viet Nam, and now it's getting good. The tapes are coming back from overseas, with the guys there sending cheers and good luck. And an Oakland woman (whose own son is in Viet Nam) toured the wards the other day, stopped to ask a young Marine what he'd like more than anything else in the whole world. "Waffles." The woman darted out, was back quickly with waffle iron, batter, butter and syrup enough for the whole ward.

Boy, the sticky sheets. ooo Somehow I think Oakland is succumbing to Carnaby Street. Harold Siegel opened a Mod shoplongside his clothing store on Broadway and it's so jammed with kids Dean Webber, of KNEW, cracked: "Who's in there? Nancy Sinatra?" And Warren Gonzales opens his own Mod shop on Grand Avenue next week, a half block up from the Grand Lake, and will use the name Bobbie Ferer gave him: "Off the Cuff." I'm a little hurt. I suggested "The Vested Interest" and got a sour response. About clothiers, Mort Wallin in Walnut Creek (he obviously owns Mort Wallin's) got on a Republican telephone committee, got one guy on the phone and asked his opening question: "Are you a Republican?" The answer: "No!" Wallin: "Any members of your family Republican?" The man: "If there are, I'll throw them out of the house." Boy, people get violent at election time.

0 0 0 Tom Conway, a Jergens Company salesman, stopped at an El Sobrante drive-in for lunch and as he ordered, not 50 feet away from his 1960 Ford tudor, someone swiped his car. "I don't mind their getting $1,500 worth of Jergens Lotion samples, but I'd like my paper work back." Cheer up, Conway. Maybe the thief will soften to death. About drive-ins, Joe Janlois was feeling tenderly toward his daughter, Nancy, so chugged 10 miles across town to an ice cream parlor that sold 31 different flavors where Nancy ordered vanilla. I don't believe this for a minute, but Vince Cuoco swears it's true.

A couple was ordering dinner in his Italian restaurant (Vince's, natch) and the guy turned to his wife: "How do you pronounce that Italian dish I'm so crazy about? The wife, snappishly: "Gina Lol-lo-brig-ida." ooo Computers aren't all that perfect: An elderly Oakland woman got a notice from saying the check with which she'd paid her bill had bounced. The woman checked, if only because: She pays cash, doesn't have a checking account, the name attributed to her wasn't even close to her name, the address wasn't hers and the check was holding was made out to a dry cleaner. "Then how come you came back to me about it?" The amount of the check was the same as the amount of her bill. About computers, Chet Martin was at a data processing conference where a computer used by a power company was described, one that spotted generator breakdowns, automatically dialed the serviceman in the area and related a recorded message: "This is a recording. There is a malfunction at your station." Well, they'd changed the phone number of one repairman, the computer called and intoned its message over and over and got the repetitious answer: "This is a recording.

The number you have, called is no longer in service." I like the commentary. ooo When Berkeley Tennis Club gets the Pacific Coast Championship matches Sept. 26-Oct. 2, they'll get John Newcombe and Fred Stolle, the hot Australians and Forest Hills winners. Mayor Jack Shelley can come up "You have to get the children to school safely before you can educate them." Mrs.

Niall Quinn was talking in egneral today about 400 students attending Carl B. Munck Elementary School. Specifically, she's concerned about her eight-year-old daughter, Kathleen. The young fourth-grader walks about a mile to school every day, up a steep and winding Redwood Road. That.

is what Mrs. Quinn is concerned about There is no bus this year for the Carl B. Munck students. The service was ended, starting this week with the beginning of the school year, as part of Oakland School Board's effort to make ends meet with a tight budget. Some parents are driving their students to the school, at 5000 Redwood Road.

The elementary-age children who cannot get a ridsmust walk. Some have only a short distance to go. Others must also traverse part of Skyline Bouleavrd. Their parents are concerned. Some 235 of them gathered at the school last night to try and find a solution.

It was. an informal session, called by the P-TA, which is headed this year by Mrs. Quinn. She said scores of parents have called her since the start of school -Monday to seek her ad-yice on remedying the situation. I I never heard of were calling the phone hasn't stopped." It was decided that two volunteer parent committees would be formed to try and find an answer to the transportation problem.

One will be headed by attorney Don Falconer. It will delve into the legal aspects of getting a bus. The second, to be headed by Mrs. Quinn, will be a fact-finding group, to determine how far the average student has to walk, how dangerous Skyline Boulevard and Redwood Road are, and how much trafficn or-maDy uses the two busy thoroughfares during school hours. "I'm confident that the school board will meet us ahlf way," Mrs.

Quinn says. "The members have always been helpful in the past Last year the students, ranging from kindergarten age through the sixth grade, were taken to school by a bus that made six to seven trips daily to and from the school. The school board's austerity program led to the demise of the serviec, however. Bus service has also been ended this year at Henry J. Kaiser Jr.

elementary school "My child has to walk about a mile, Mrs. Quinn said, "and it's straight uphill. She can't do it what will happen when the weather gets bad?" Construtcion of the Redwood Road' campus of Peralta Colleges will add to the hazard, she says, once that campus Is started. She worries about the trucks and other added traffic that iwll be brought with the groundbreaking this fall or ear ly next year. "We're going to have to do something," the P-TA president concludes.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors Tuesday reaffirmed a policy which states a woman county employe isn't entitled to sick leave for illnesses occurring during pregnancy, except in the case of a miscarriage. "The supervisors turned down a request from Mrs. Elroy Tyler, of Oakland, a former food technician at Fairmont Hospital, who in back pay she lost when officials ruled that she took an unauthorized nine days of sick leave earlier this year. Her physician, Dr. Vertis Thompson, presented a written statement that the sick leave was necessary to prevent a possible miscarriage.

Mrs. Tyler previously bad twins. She resigned this summer after her third child was born. John Slater, manager of the county employes association, said Mrs. Tyler's case "met all the criteria" of authorized sick leave in the county's Medical Institutions Department Personnel rules which specify that sick leave is permitted: a result of a tem porary condition which renders an employe physically incapable (of working or which involves) an excessive risk to his own physical condition or the physical condition of his fellow employes." However, Dr.

Kenneth Nelson, die county's medical director, said sick leave isn't permitted "if the indisposition and inability to work is purely due to the pregnancy." He said sick leave is granted where the indisposition isn't attributed directly to pregnancy, such as a case of "pneumonia, broken bones, etc." After the vote Dr. Nelson told the supervisors that he inter preted the action as meaning that, "The present policy stands." He told the board 66 per cent of women will suffer various indispositions during pregnancy. He said 10 per cent of all pregnancies result in abortion. Dr. Nelson said some studies show that organizations which permit sick leave during pregnancy experience a doubling or tripling of use of sick leave time and reminded the board "a majority of the employes of the medical institutions are women." 1 Cabinet Change In South Africa CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) South Africa's new prime minister, Balthazar Vor-ster, announced today he is making only one major change in the Cabinet which served his predecessor, Hendrik Verwoerd.

Vorster told the House of As sembly that his former Justice portfolio has been taken over by a close friend, Petrus Cornelius Pekter, 59, deputy speaker of the Assembly and chairman of its committees. RICHMOND Truck drivers and platform men at the huge Safeway Stores food distribution complex will vote Saturday on a tentative new contract with the company. Terms of the agreement were hammered out at a marathon bargaining session yesterday between representatives of Teamsters Local 315 and Safeway in the San Francisco re-gional office of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Details were not disclosed. The 250 drivers and platform men will meet at 4 p.m.

Satur Ordinance Aimed at Pickets MARTINEZ Contra Costa Dist. Atty. John A. Nejedly yesterday proposed legislation aimed at stymieing demonstra- tionsnat the Concord Naval Weapons Station. He told the board of Supervisors will prepare an ordi nance prohibiting any person from standing, sitting or sleep ing along a public right of way.

He said the measure was to protect pickets objecting to the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam and to free sheriffs deputies to handle other responsibilities. Pickets have been manning the two gates at the station since Aug. 7 protesting the war in Viet Nam. More than 60 persons have been arrested for a number of violations including attempts to stop napalm trucks from enterting the depot He said Sheriff Walter F.

Young's staff has done a good job in enforcing law and order at the gates but said he Is neglecting responsibilities to other Contra Costa Citizens because of an undermanned staff. "The sheriffs capacity to control violations is rapidly being exhausted," the district attorney said. "Every existing violation of the law has been acted upon," he declared. He explained there is a danger to the demonstrators at night with heavy traffic using the Port Chicago Highway and Waterfront Road. "This situa-tion will become aggravated during the winter months," he said.

"We cannot exhaust everyone else's rights to protect one person's right to express his opinion," he said. Supervisor Edmund A. Lin- scheid noted the sheriff has spent 2,200 man hours patrolling the area to protect the demon strators and uphold the law. CONTRA COSTA Electronic Vote Gets 2nd Chance MARTINEZ Electronic vot ing machines will roll again here, as the Contra Costa Coun ty supervisors voted yesterday to try the Cubic Votronic system in the November general election. Cubic was chosen on a split 3- 2 vote, with supervisors Edmund Lhischeid and James Mo-riarty objecting to the $1.2 million system.

The decision came on the heels of a resolution from the Contra Costa grand jury urging supervisors to hold off on selection of vote counting machines until an expected break through on advanced equipment. The Cubic system made it into the finals of Contra Costa's voting machine consideration in the same manner winning a 4- 3 endorsement from a special committee set up by the super visors to survey different devices. Supervisors, somewhat leery of electronic systems after the Coleman system tired in 1964 produced discrepancies in vote-counting, have spent most of the year studying different sys tems. The Cubic system will cost the county $175,000 initially, and the contract gives supervisors the option of canceling the contract if within 30 days after the November election they decide the machinery was unsatisfac tory. County election officer James Olsson estimated savings at 166,500 over manual counting.

"Cubic equipment will do the job we all want and will be the easiest to administer and to op erate in our election depart ment, Olsson said. Not so certain was county administrator J. P. McBrien, who recommended the board delay the choice of a vote counting If Civics Class Can'f Go to with great lines on TV. J.

J. Kilzer heard him explaining the latest S.F. tax increase with: "But it's not really as bad as we'd Bob Hope sat through one of his 1938 movies on TV, then told Variety: "It was like HAYWARD Students at Mt Eden High School were treated to a little educational field trip in reverse yesterday. You could also call it visiting bosses' day for their teacher. State Assemblyman and Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Carlos Bee, who doubles as a substitute teacher in the Legislature's off-season, had dutifully donned his faculty hat for a routine day giving California government lessons to senior students.

Just before lunhctime, as Bee was finishing up an anecdote on last year's legislative session, seeing a son I never had" About TV, the new "Milton Berle Show" is good, good, good, a little like being in television's glorious past, before its dreadful slide into filmed situation comedy. Ruth 'Freeman Solomon, wife of a S. F. psychiatrist, got her lengthy first novel, "The Candlesticks and the Cross," accepted by Putnam and the publisher asked her to edit it down by maybe a quarter. Why? So it can be published in a small enough size to retail at under $5 Sharilyn Tunnell, who has the "Sticky Wicket Candle Shop" at Port Costa, got an odd request: A woman ordered two dozen candles for her son in Viet Nam, impregnated with on of citronella.

"It gives him light and keeps the bugs away." -A..