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Million pi.9 Sid on Man Alive. i Freeway tion J. W. Bateson Inc. and $24 4 million; Peter Kiewit Sons $25.7 million, and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co.

of Seattle, $27.5 million. addition to Atkinson they were: A joint venture by Stolte Gordon H. Ball Entreprises and Gallagher and Burk $23.3 million; joint venture by Fred-erickson and Watson Construc "The Lost Veneration I don't believe it for a foment, but they say when the tugf were jockeying the huge USS Enterprise, the world's largest warship, alongside the dock in Alameda the other day, the ship bumped the dock and Alameda mpved This you'll love: Otho Green (I know that wonderful name sounds like a lawn food, but he's the unsuccessful Assembly candidate) wanted a ballot recount so Jack Blue, the county clerk, obliged. Yesterday Green's campaign, treasurer Frank Brown, showed up -at'-the courthouse. Blue: "Are you Green?" Brown: "I'm Brown." Blue: "I'm Blue" Memorial Rife For Slain Judy Tribune Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO The State Highway Commission has received a low bid of $21.9 million for construction of the main i of the Grove-Shafter Freeway in Oakland, including the MacArthur Freeway interchange.

It's one of the biggest highway contracts in California history. The bid submitted by Guy F. Atkinson Co. of South San Francisco is well under the $24.6 million cost estimated by state engineers. Tbt project includes a 1.8 mile, eight lane freeway between 24th and 53rd Streets, with a median strip for Bay Area Rapid Transit D'strict (BART) electric trains and the shell of BART's MacArthur transit station.

INTERCHANGE The multi-level Grove-Shafter-MacArthur Freeway interchange will be a massive knot of concrete and steel moving pars from one freeway to another at 60 miles per hour. This interchange will use land stretching from Market to Webster Streets. The contract also includes three other Grove-Shafter inter ONE STILL LIVES These two pretty Trumbull, right, was clubbed to death. United Air Lines stewardesses were Lisa Wick (left) is in critical condition, found savagely beaten today in their (Story on Page 1 Seattle apartment. Both are 20.

Lonnie And Adm. T. Earle Hipp, president of the S.P.C.A. here, is before the Supervisors for budget approval and lamenting the nuts who have pets. "This one woman took her dog to the vet and wanted it spayed," Hipp explained.

"The vet said it was too late, that the dog was already pregnant, an'd the woman told him he must be wrong," that she only let her dog out Unions Win Order In DiGiorgio Vote names of the two unions off the ballot. The unions claim ftat hey were put on the ballot unlawfully without their consent They charge also that "such an election Would be illegal because the company won't allow the strikers to vote. OUTBURST The company's announcement of the election at a press on-ference in the San Francisco Press Club yesterday touched off an angry outburst between Robert DiGiorgio, the firm's president and Kircher, AFL-CIO national organizing director. DiGiorgio, stating that the company will hold the election at its struck Sierra Vista Ranch a Delano and I Borregos Farms in San Diego County, contended that it would be impossible to collect ballots from BILL FISET 0 0 0 0 Oakland's Constance Hova- nitz reports back from Eng land on why Britain lost its Empire: The town council at Yeovil, Somerset, banned bikinis from public because "they are apt to come adrift when young ladies dive from the high boards." Other places they'd ban the high boards At the "World's Fare," the international restaurant near Southland in Hayward, a jHgtt on the Mexican counter display case: "Broke Xgiass." A hand-lettered addition: "So fix Jl-This is S.F.: A call to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. "Do you have a county fair?" Silence, then: "Nobody here seems to know.

Would you check with the State Chamber?" Ed Roth bought the Grand Ave. gleaners and found a stack of cards dating back to 1925, "listing prices (men's suits, 75 cents each, extra pants) so for laughs posted one in his window. A little old lady to the Better Business" Bureauthatj he wasn't doing business at advertised prices. o- o.o you like celebrities, Don Adams will be at June 29, taping an NBC special on the Ice Follies. Glenn Ford and his bride will be at Whisky-A Go -fcJb July 1 when his son, Peter Ford, opens I suppose you've noticed the national president of the Air Pollution Control Association (convening in S.F.) is John Fair-jr weather ttt I guess you know Xt Bushman --blew; ilintOLtowniutaot without one ego-deflating experience.

A parking lot attendant brightened t-'iYou're Francis i- Bushman." Bushman beamed, then wanted to know how come a young man would remember him. "Well, I Thursjune 23,1966 1 5 Mechanics On Strike Bay Area mechanics went on strike today against Western Greyhound Lines as the firm's bus drivers and station em ployes were voting on -a proposed settlement of their 40nday walkout. Thenew work stoppage was directed at Greyhound's huge maintenance shop at Seventh and Irwin Streets in San Frani-isco by Automotive Machinists Lodge 1305, representing about 375 workers. PICKET LINES The shop has been idled since May 15jfhen 4,600 members of the AFL-CIO Amalgamated Transit Union struck Greyhound in all or part of 11 Western states. Mechanics refused to cross the drivers' picket lines.

Result of the referendum vote among on a settlement recom mended by federal mediators was expecieiu(LDeannouncea early tomorrow. Tallying is scheduled to begin in San Francisco at 5 p.m. today. WAGE ISSUE Fred Martin, business rep resentative for the mechanics, said the newstrikejvas called principally over wages. He indi cated that If a majority of driv ers vote to return to work, set tlement might not be far off.

Negotiators for the automotive machinists and. thecompar ny are scheduled to go back to thebargaining table with Federal Mediators Roger Randall and Ronald Hagist tomorrow morning. Journeyman mechanics, who now-make $4.36 an hour, asked for a 60-cent increase this year, while the company offered a three-year package with increases of 18, 17 and 16 cents each year. Greyhound changes at 27th, Grove and 52nd Streets in Oakland. BART is contributing $7 million tothe total project cost.

BART's track area grading is expected to be completed in 33 months. DIRECT LINK The Grove-Shafter Freeway will ultimately extend from the Nimitz Freeway in downtown Oakland to the Caldecott Tunnel and Highwah 24. For the first time Central Contra Costa County will have direct freeway access to core areas of the Bay Area metropolis. Five bids were reecived. In HORTICULTURIST Man Calls wties, Kills Self LAFAYETTE orominent.

Alfred Leloy horticulturist and called- the Contra Costa Sheriff office to day to report his own suicide after writing three sealed notes to deputies, his wife and moth er, then went to the back yard of his floral -showcase Jiomea shotgun was found by his body. His body was found by depu ties minutes laterr Leloy's note to them told where his wife, on business in Oakland, could be located. Other; notes contained personal papers and a letter to Mrsr Ellen his widow, and parting words to his moth er. Sheriffs deputies said he shot himself in the heart with a .410 gauge shotgun in a pathway winding through rose buds That gained him fame among flower lovers. He was 47.

LeJoy was one of three consulting rosarians in the Eastbay for the American. Rose Society. He and his wife annually opened their spacious residence at 1410 Walnut Ave. so the public could view the nearly 400 rose bushes surrounding the home. 1 striking workers, some of whom are now working for other growers.

Kircher burst into the room and charged that DiGiorgio was planning a "rigged election" in violation of an agreement reached Monday that no state- ments would be made until ground rules for the balloting were settled. He called the election "the worst kind of immorality." DiGiorgio left the stormy session, but his assistant, Robert Ham, remained and accused Kircher of resoftinglogoon-squad tactics" to force the company to recognize only one un- ion as the bargaining agent for its workers. STATEMENT He said the firm will negoti-ate acontractwithuany union which received a majority of the votes. DiGiorgio said the company-conducted balloting would be supervised by two Roman Catholic had urged the election to settle the long dispute, and that the tally would be made by a national accounting firm. The clash came a day after Schenley Industries, signed a e-year agreement -with NFWA granting a union shop and boosting hourly wages to $1.75 an hour.

Schenley is the second largest employer in the Delano area, behind DiGiorgio. The death notice was terse and incomplete It said simply: "Died: Williamson, Judith Gail, of 635 Jackson Street, Albany, dearly beloved daughter of Stanley R. and Clara B. Wil-1 i a of Albany; beloved granddaughter of Elsie Karpe of California; also survived by other relatives. "A native of California; aged 18 years.

A member of Job's Daughters, Bethel No. 87 of Berkeley, Masonic Club of the University of California and a student at the University of California." Left unsaid was how Miss Williamson died, and at whose hand. And left unsaid was the story of her parents' heartbreak, the painstaking investigation of her death, the false leads, the Green Case Reward Up $10,000 HAYWARD Members of the. painters union here have put up a $10,000 reward for per-sons supplying information to solve the May 7 shotgun slaying of their secretary, Lloyd P. Green.

It brings to more than $50,000 the total in rewards painters' offered for; information on the Green murder and that of San Francisco official Dow Wilson. I eunion, Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and-JPa- perhangers of Local 1178, unanimously passed a res olution for the $10,000 reward, hoping it will bring a clue to put the triggerman behind bars. Green, 45, of 19063 Lowell was gunned down as he sat at his desk in the local's office here. He was the second painters union official to be slain within a month. A shotgun blast took the life of Wilson, secretary of San Francisco Painters Union Local 4, on April 5 in San Francisco.

Five men have been arrested for that slaying. They are Max Ward, 46, and Norman Call, 47, Sacramento- contractors; jClyde Simmons. 75, secretary-treasur er of the Sacramento Painting and Decorating Contractors As sociation Oakland accountant Carl Black, 47, and Black's brother-in-law, San Francisco bar operator Richard Rock, 33. The five appeared in San Fran cisco Superior Court yesterday, when Judge Norman EDdngton announced he would set their trial date at 10 am Tuesday. Alameda County Sheriffs Capt.

Larry Waldt said today his men have put in more than 1,000 man-hours in their intensive investigation into the Green slaying. Arrest Ends Rescue Try On Mudflats ALBANY Three police offi cers who waded into the mud flats to save the life of Dan Caldwell, 18, arrested him instead for investigation of assault on a police officer. Sets. Carl Lindh and James MacLeod and Officer Roger Freeman started their damp mission yesterda yafter a frantic call from Caldwell's wife, at his home at 625A Kearney St, ElCerrito. Her husband, she feared, was going to end his life in the mud flats off the end of the Albany Dump.

They saw him out the tide- lands, but as they started to wade out to him Caldwell decided to come back in. When they met, according to the police report, Caldwell greeted his rescuers by throw ing a headlock on Freeman and dragging him under water. The sergeants rescued Free man and arrested Caldwell. He was held today in the Albany Jail. continuing police quest to de termine what led to her death.

Miss Williamson, left her home on Oct 29, 1963, for class at the University of California, and vanished. On April 9 of this year, part of her skeleton was found in a ravine in the rugged Santa Cruz mountains. A memorial service for Miss Williamson will be held in Albany Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Drawing Room Chapel of the Ellis-Olson Mortuary, 727 San Pablo Aye, Conducting the service will be the Rev. Mr.

Edgar G. Parrott of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in El Sobrante. The announcement of the service says that memorials to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Chilrden will be appreciated. Wolden to Ask $895 Pension Ousted San Francisco Asses- sorRussell Wolden, 55, awaiting sentencing on bribery and conspiracy convictions, will apply for a city pension that may amount to $895 a month.

7 Wold en's attorney, James Martin Maclnnis, said he will file pension claim based on Wokien's length of service. Wolden, who served 28 years with the city, is hospitalized in satisfactory condition from a heart condition which earlier -caused postponemenfbTluTsen--fencing in San Francisco Superior Court He is in Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City. Maclnnh- said -Wolden'arnor- mal benefits would amount to $730 monthly, but added that if the former assessor can prove a disability because of the heart ailment, he could be entitled to $895. Retirement system director Dan Mattroccee said, "The fact that Wolden was convicted of taking bribes would have no bearing on his pension He has been contributing over the years to the city retirement system and thusisjligl- MASONIC RITE Services Saturday Funeral services will be held Saturday for Rudolph (Rudy) Jenny, 72, retired Pacific Gas Electric company official, who was found dead of an apparent' heart attack in the garden of his Orinda home yesterday. Mr.

Jenny retired in 1959 as rate manager for He had been with the company for 47 years. A native of San Francisco he joined the in Napa in 1913 and became Its rate man ager in 1948. His home is at 650 Moraga Way, Orinda. He was a member and past master of Fruitvale Lodge No. 336, F.

and A.M., a member and past patron of Fruitvale Chapter No. 297 of the Eastern Star, a member of Scottish Rite Bodies of Oakland, Aahmes Temple of the Shrine, and the Contra Costa Shrine, past president of the Masters and Wardens Association, and a member of the Orinda Community Church. Survlvlngarehis widow. Marge; three daughters, Mrs. Beverly D.

Madison of Lafayette, Mrs. Shirlee R. Dodson of 1 Honolulu and Miss Jean Jen ny of Orinda, and five grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. at the Fruitvale Chapel of the Clarence N.

Cooper Mortuary, 1580 Fruitvale under th auspices of FTuitvale lodge o( Masons. Rudy Jenny Sparked your car in Hollywood. You drive a red Imperi-tr; al" Lloyd Downton, the society publicist, was called by arjointalled the Swingers No. 1 when the state li-IZqUor control warned the bar not to serve 25-cent drinks fto girls because-it's (Bars discount drinks to girls, who in turn attract men, who in turn pay 1 full price for drinks.) Downton's solution: Serve 20-cent drinks to everyone during the cocktail hour. But golly, only a dime profit And about drinking, have you ever noticed that the heavy boozers drink vodka? -They've heard the stories that vodka is least harmful, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Gerald S.

Levin today ordered the removal of the names of two farm labor organizations from ballots in a representation election at two DiGiorgio Corp. vineyards. The company announced that the election will be conducted as scheduled tomorrow, giving the. workers a choice of the Teamsters Union or no union. The independent National Farm Workers Association and the AFL-CIO Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee had asked the court far a restrain-ing order against DiGiorgio, i has been struck by NFWA since September.

Instead of blocking the election Judge Levin ordered the SAN FRANCISCO Review of Budget Proposed A review and overhaul of San Francisco's $400 millionanmial budget and tax structure is proposed by the finance committee of the Board of Suprvisors. The committee's recommen dation to the full board that independent experts be hired for the job came after Tom Gray, manager of the Down Town Association, testified that supervi sors may never reach their ob jectives (tax reforms) "if you handleone-little-item at- a time." Committee ack Morrison agreed that the time had come for a full study of the most efficient way San Francis co should gather the taxes it needs. There -have been proposals that additional money be raised through taxes on commuters, admissions to Candlestick Park, higher auto registration fees and a real estate transfer charge. There also have been strong suggestions the collection of personal property taxes be ended, with the claim that such taxes have driven much San Francisco industry away. I andTather than cut down-they wmsmmmmmmmmssmammmmmsmmm Z-cocktail party notice the man or woman who'll order a gimlet on the rocks" or "vodka martini with a I twist" or even "vodka and Calso" (a crystal chandelier) you'll have found the person who can't leave liquor "ajone.

oo oo This is macabre: In Walnut Creek, Rheule Reitze, ho has a hearing aid business, bought a 'lawn niche" 'from J. D. Hall at Oakmont Memorial Park, the Lafay- ette cemetery. Reitze is in good health, isn't thinking of -dying, but finally made the realization few do that one seldom gets to participate actively in one's own funeral. He summoned a few buddies Jack Ganong, Al Scott, Cavanough, Mickey Reilly.and Ed Mielenz to meet -him.

at the cemetery. The men stood around, hats in jhand, while a deprecatory eulogy was read to good old "Rheule. The service over, they all went out and played vplf 0 0 Sorta sad: An Orinda woman who teaches ballet be-rcame interested in a 16-year-old San Pablo girl, a ward the court in Juvenile Hall. The woman persuaded the -'girl's probation officer to allow her to take the girl and teach her ballet, feeling cultural enrichment would help the youngster get a new start. The woman picked the girl up daily, driving her back and forth between Martinez and the ballet class in Berkeley and the two became friends.

Then the girl found her cultural enrich- ment. The other day she cleaned out the woman's purse I So-at yournext younger woman il crowding the hairdo apart. The young The younger one tries to re all kinds. i. li mi and stole her car.

She was picked up a day later in Castro Valley. Back to Juvenile Hall. No more ballet les peiru-Moyftlh IDirkserDS sons, Sorta sad: Two women sitting on the No. 57 bus, in from East Oakland alonz MacArthur. The older woman decides the her, so reaches up and grabs the younger woman by her high-pile hairdo, knocking sen, mouth open and hair tousled.

Asked if he objected to the open mouth, as if he were talk-i ig Dirksen said: "Oh no, it wouldn't be natural without it" The occasion was presentation of a $3,500 check, representing first prize in a sculpture contest, to Miss Madeleine Dingcs of Denver, Colo. Her entry Li the contest was a bust of Dirk- Sen. Everett McKinley Dirk-sen, and his statue looked at each other intently in his Washington office, their respective mouths open. "Superb," said Dirkscn. The bust said nothing.

woman jumps to her feet. The older woman gets up. A hair-puling match, ending with the older woman on the floor. The bus driver watches with amusement through his rear-view mirror. The fight ends.

The older woman sits in the back of the bus. store the hairdo. It takes.

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