Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 5

iL. i.K A VT CalUnkitSITribttne 17,1967 Miss Ijam's Estate Is Hobbled Hovercraft Hops An $1,353,164 By Lack of FedeVal Grant which would operate the vehi- there is no money In the cur-' cles.The port ancfthe City would not put up any et. There vmay be money to Oakland's' hovercraft will remain on the beach, least untif midsummer. i 1 i' I the fiscal 1967-68 budget which By BUD WAKELAND. Richmond's genial Irish cop will hang up his' shillelagh to- -day, exactly 25 years from the Patrick's Day when he first picked it up.

And ithas -been a career full of sham- rocks and memories for Sammy Collins. 7 He shot off the first tear gas in the history of the Richmond police force, headed the department's only substation, trained a small army of rookie' off icersjmd made hundreds of friends. 7 A $1,353,164 inventory has been filed in, Alameda County Superior Court in the estate, Miss Martha A. Ijams of Berkeley, a member of the prominent San Francisco Su-tro family. Miss' Ijam's will leaves $230,000 to various Bay Area organizations.

Among them are the San Francisco Society for Prevention of Curelty to Animals, Humane Society, Sari Francis-co Children 's. Hospital, San Francisco Crippled Guild, Children's Hospital of the East Bay, and College Women's "X'lub' of Berkeley, begins July 1, he said. "The port's application, wDl be considered theri. The previous hovercraft program here, with two small machines, carried 43,600 pas-. sengers in transbay service in a year.

That program was -paid for with $1,187,726 from the U.S. and' Home Finance Administration, which amounted to two thirds of the cost- The remaining third of the cost was shared equally by Bell Aerosystems, SFO Air-linesand the port. The port's share was $131,303, including $93,000 from the City, of Oak-' There is no federal money available to renew, the air-cushion vehicle service across the Bay. There rriay.be money in the hew fiscal year budget, and, the hovercraft program might" get it. If it does the.

program will hot be in competition for federal funds with other projects in Oakland. And so there is still hope JFor the Oakland's plan to reinstate the hovercraft here' on a larger scale, port officials were told yesterday by William Hurd oLthe federal Department of Housing and. Urban Development. The port oh Feb. 2 asked HUD for $3,350,723 to assist in a new hovercraft-prigram here for three years.

money. Hovercraft operated here from August 1965 to August 1966 in a test, program spon sored by the Federal Government to determine if the ma- chines had commercial passenger potential, but passenger loads were limited. The. port feels 'this was because the machines could carry but 15 persons arid were too small to operate in rough weather on the Bay. The port thought new 30-passenger hovercraft would offset these "problems.

After the new application was made, city councilmen expressed apprehension about possible competition with the port's hovercraft funds and the City of Oakland's quest for from $8 million to $10 million from UUD to expand two downtown. transit stations into shopping centers. The board They're taking him to an, Irish pub for a bit of brew to night and "on April 8 they'ffT i Also" named are the University of "California Alumni Foundation, San Francisco Young Women's Christian Association, University of California Al i Foundation Schol- LT. SAM COLLINS CHECKS FARM JOURNAL 'I'm sure the city wants me to be happy' jam the Richmond Golf and Country Club for a dinner-dance in his Collins' way with people is such" that Chief Charles Brown commented, "In terms of morale, Sam is -the best command officer I cant get more out of the troops Moss Hart Estate NEW YORK (AP) Play-, 'er to lieutenant. Three times arship Fund, and This federal grant would be lie missed making captain by met by a "local contribution" of port commissionerss.agreedjwright.Moss Hart, who died in withdraw their application of $1,675,361 to come from Bell man anybody.

Aiameaa county Anuvivisec-tion Society, $10,000. Miss Ijams, who died last SepL16 at the age of 87, was graduated from the University of California in 1901. 196t, left an estate of $1.4 million, court papers showed yesterday. His vyife, actress Kitty Carlisle, received the bulk of the estate Sam's father came from the if such competition arose. There is no competition for" fundsuJIipl said yesterday.

But ho told port officials' Aerosystems builders of the British-designed machinesr and from San a i o-Oakfand Helicopter Airlines Glenda, are ready to move to O'Brien, where, they've bought a 10-acre ifarmette," as Sam calls it. "Richmoncfhas been good to me," he says, with a touch of blarney "And J'mj, sure- the city wants me 'to be happy. So, I'm going' to retire and be The Jlinner-dance will be a happy f. Patrolman auld sod of County Mayo in the Emerald Isle and he was ,4 a whisker. His hair got him the nickname when he started walking a beat.

It's grey now, but the blue eyes are" still the same. William Samuel Collins is, his full name. His son, Samuel Stephen, is a Tehama County sheriffs deputy, and his grandson, Samuel William, 4, just might be one some -day born in Iowa. The family moved to Martinez when he was three and Sam wound up in Richmond as an oil worker, living next door to an officer who got him interested in po? lice work. On St Patrick's Day 1942 he Dinned, on a battee.

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