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Moon-landb Man AIIvo II State School Board Goes Pro-Reagan Six State Board of Education members appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan wielded their majority vote for the first time yesterday as the 10-member board started a two-day meeting in San Francisco. Voting as a bloc, they elected Reagan appointee Howard Day, a Los Angeles insurance man, as board Jack of All Tirades If you've EVER had a practical joker for a friend, you've doubtless gotten a telegram in the middle of the night with the. terse message: "Ignore previous wire." It's an old ploy, right? Now meet Leslie Meggs a middle-aged Walnut Creek lawyer who has a sense of humor like a coronary thrombosis. Yesterday came a letter from Meggs with the envelope bearing his office address.

I tore it open and ALL it contained purportedly the SECOND page of a let i i i president. ter, to wit: "page two and the serious consequences thereof. "Bill, I hope you realize under the circumstances outlined I had no alternative but to give the information to Im ternal Revenue Service. I also hope that this will make no change in our long-lasting friendship. Sincerely," and signed.

The only change in our long friendship is that he probably took 10 years off it at my end. By JIM HAZELWOOD Tribune Science Writer The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected five potential landing spots for America's first flight to the moon. Each covers three by five miles, and one definitely will be selected as the lunar landing site. NASA's Apollo Site Selection Board said the locations were chosen mainly to satisfy strict considerations for the safety of the astronauts. All the sites are on flat parts of the moon, and all have been photographed in minute detail by the Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor spacecraft.

Sites No. 1 and 2 are in the Sea of Tranquility. Number 3 is in the Central Bay, almost dead center on the moon's earthward side. Both 4 and 5 are in the Ocean of Storms. (See photo) All of these broad, dusty plains on the moon were named by early astronomers who thought they were bodies of water.

The five sites were narrowed down from an original choice of 30. A- NASA spokesman said scientists and engineers will now be able to concentrate on the five areas to prepare data for the landing. e. The criteria demanded by the board included: Smoothness area The sites should have relatively few craters and boulders. Approach path There should be no large hills, high cliffs or deep craters which would relay inaccurate altitude signals to the landing radar.

Propellant The sites were BILL FISET Mom ment9 by TrlbwM rtt ftobtrt Atemt POSSIBLE LANDING TARGETS FOR U.S. MOON SHOT Astronauts will set down at one of the points shown here spacecraft would coast around moon and return safely to without requiring the operation of propulsion systems. Lighting For optimum visibility by the astronauts, the will have a sun-angle of to 20 degrees behind the module as it approaches landing. The general slope of landing area and the approach to the landing site be less than two selected to allow for the expenditure of the least amount of propellant by the lunar module propulsion systems. Recycling during countdownThe sites were selected to allow for the recycling time of the Apollo-Saturn necessary if the countdown for launch at Kennedy Space Center is delayed.

Free return The sites must be within reach of the Apollo spacecraft in the "free return" a y. On the free -return trajectory, a I talked to a friend who went to an Oakland High reunion (Class of 1943) the other night at Goodman Hall and she came away delighted. Everyone recognized her (evidence she hasn't changed), the program was good and "it was interesting seeing how all my former classmates married." That latter is a source of great difficulty in class reunions. Oakland's Joan Ryan is in charge of contacting everyone from Oakland High's Classes of 1946-47-48 for a reunion at Goodman Hall March 2, "and I have the lists of names, including married names. But they've married, divorced, married and divorced so often I can't even find half of them" Paul Yinger arranged for Dr.

Abraham Akaka, the famed Hawaiian minister, to open the Lenten lecture series Feb. 23 at Yinger's Piedmont Community Church and he detects a note of satire. Akaka sent through the title of his lecture: The Movie "Hawaii" and the REAL Hawaii That big billboard at 27th and Harrison saying "Happy birthday, Kay" is nothing more than Hunter Wise trying to save the cost of a birthday card. His wife is the "Kay" mentioned and Wise is a Foster and Kleiser HP4 $20.5 million bond issue to underground BART tracks. The district plans a similar station near Sacramento Street in north Berkeley, and in this rase, the passenger concourse will be in a building above ground.

The board was advised that this project should not be advertised for bid until the court rules. At Johnson's urging, the transit board decided to wait until Monday to see what the outcome of the Berkeley meetings might be. The board directed Chief Engineer David C. Hammond to inform contractors planning to submit bids on tne Ashby station and tunnels to delay submitting them if Johnson reports Monday that no progress was made. In other actions, the board: Gave preliminary approval to redesign the 12th Street subway station in Oakland to permit a mezzanine entrance into the Central Building basement at Hth and Broadway.

The cost of the minor modification, expected to be about would be borne by the property owner. Agreed that the posts of vice president and president be rotated annually, with the posts normally parsing between the three counties in the district instructing district's negotiating team- not to give unions representing existing transit system workers a 100 per cent right to all BART Jobs. W0w the earth sites seven lunar the Slope the must Solution Hinted On Ashby Subway exec. 0 0 0 0 The lady lives just off Skyline, with hundreds of acres at her back door, and she has four cats. Naturally she has a little flap door that opens so the cats can get in and out of the house and naturally the cats are great hunters and always bring in the mangled -e i 1 SYMPHONY SPECIAL The Oakland Symphony is planning big things for its new season.

Sunday's Entertainment Week Section contains a five-page word-and-photo report on the symphony and the soloists who will be appearing with it. 3 Regents Say Budget 'Unlivable' LOS ANGELES (AP) -Gov. Ronald Reagan's proposed $280-million budget for the University of California is "unlivable" in the view of three university regents who once supported the governor's fiscal programs. In separate interviews, Edwin W. Pauley, Philip L.

Boyd and John E. Canaday all broke with Reagan 8'kJ opposed his university budget, submitted Monday to the state legislature. The university had requested $311 million. "I don't think the governor has come through on his promises to the regents," said Pauley, a Los Angeles oilman. He added that the figure in the proposed budget was a compromise and said "I'm disappointed in the budget and regard it as unlivable." Canaday, an aircraft executive, said he agreed that last year had to be an austerity year.

"But we had assurances that it would just be for a year," he said. "Now we're being asked to cut even deeper than before." Canaday said he expects the governor will be forced to increase the U.C. budget proposal. "If he stands adamant on this basis, the regents will have no choice but to stand very firm and maintain high quality in the state of California. If we don't do that, we're derelict in our responsibility," he said.

Boyd, a Riverside land developer and former republican party state chairman, said he was disappointed and expected "more reasonable trea taient" He added that some of the smaller U.C. campuses at Irvine, Santa Cruz, and San Diego would suffer "very serious consequences, as would the expanding campuses and the medical centers at San Francisco and UCLA. "There will be a terrible hue and cry if we're faced with curtailing enrollment, Canaday said. But he added be would prefer this to sacrificing quality. All three predicted the regents will oppose the budget proposal when the board meets next Friday at the Riverside campus.

He succeeds Los An geles oil company executive Dorman Commons, who was appointed by former Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Commons' three votes came from the other Brown appointees. He abstained.

Dr. Thomas' G. Harward of Needles, another of the six, was unanimously elected vice president. Dr. Max Rafferty, state superintendent of public instruction, said he was pleased with the new board.

"It won't try to obstruct everything I tried to do like the other board did," said Rafferty, who immediately scored one success, reversing a setback at the hands of the old board. In an executive personnel session, the board approved the appointment of Eugene Gonzales, 42, as associate superintendent of public instruction and director of the Division of Instruction. When Rafferty first recommended Gonzales for the post a year and a half ago, the board refused approval. "By far, he was not the most qualified candidate," contends Commons. This Rafferty disputed.

He said Gonzales is the "most competent and authoritative man in the field that I know of." Rafferty also noted that Gonzales' new post is the highest ever held in the state by a Mexican-American. Gonzales has been an assistant superintendent administering state operation in the Los Angeles area. He will be succeeded there by Collier McDermon, a civil servant and a specialist in school ministration. Gonzales will succeed Donald Hitch, an interim appointee. Hitch now returns to his old post, which makes him an assistant to Gonzales.

Commons repeated his charge that Reagan's task force on government efficiency conflicts with a five-year survey by the Arthur D. Little organizaiion on reorganizing thState Department of Education. "The survey has ben scuttled by the governor's task force," he said. In his post-election statement to the board, Day referred to anti-Rafferty statements as "carpings and bickerings and personal bitterness." He said, "You have heard it said in recent weeks that the changing composition of this board could result in disaster for education in this state that under a new state administration and new appointees to this body, all is lost and dark clouds veil the future. "As your chairman, I utterly reject these prophecies of gloom and doom.

Board members come and go; state superintendents come and fro; governors come and go. The needs of the schools remain." The new members joining the board yesterday to form the six-vote ir a 1 1 are Donn D. Moomaw, Los Angeles Presbyterian minister; George A. Brown, Bakersfield attorney; Dr. John R.

Ford, San Diego physician, and Orinda civic leader Mrs. Virla Krotz, who is the only board member from Northern California. The Zephyr, which has been in operation nearly 20 years. Is considered or of the best known scenic trips ia the nation. Its timetable is designed so the train crosses the Colorado Rockies and passes through the Feather River Canyon of California during Ue daytime.

The ICC plans to bo.d public herrirgs on the discontinuance, but announced no dates. The effect of the ICC order is to forestaD at least up to four months the Western Pacific's plas to discontinue the train. WP had sought to end tie service effective Feb. 23. bet tte ICC order extends this tp to June 21 'P" Ik ga? Senseless Murder of A Woman A San Francisco woman was shot and fatally wounded last night as she walked the two blocks from a bus stop to her home at 700 Kansas St.

Mrs. Carla J. Forest, 45, died almost two hours later in San Francisco General Hospital. Before her death she told police she had heard a loud noise, then felt a pain in her chest and realized she had been shot She ran screaming to the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Manuel Roche at 456 Kansas St They helped the bleeding woman lie down on their patio and called police. They said they had heard the shot at about 8 p.m. Officers said they have no suspect or motive for the slaying. College Bars Hippies BROWNWOOD, Tex. (API Howard Payne College announced yesterday a policy barring "hippies and other bizarre personalities" from enrollment liam Anderson, II, died in Highland Hospital where he was under treatment for injuries sustained Feb.

2 when hit by a car while walking. Anderson, of 7301 Arthur St, was struck at Arthur Street and 73rd Avenue by a car driven by Shirley Blevbs, 44, of mi Ney Oakland. The a coder is sta under, investigation. Harold P. Miller, 24, a Mare Island Navy School sailor from Dolores, is ia very critical condition tn Brooksde Hospital in San Pablo arjer his car plared off San Pablo Avenue near tSe hospital.

The CaUomia Highway Patrol said MUler's car ran tif! the read at 115 axt today and laaded a ditch, abort 50 feet north of WIUow Boad. Berkeley Mayor Wallace J.S. Johnson hinted yesterday that a taxpayers suit protesting the design of the Ashby Place subway station may be resolved this weekend, and not go to trial. "I am hopeful this matter might be resolved by informal negotiations this weekend," Johnson told his fellow Bay Area R.ipid Transit District board members. But he lefused to give any details and Berkeley City Councilman Ronald Dellums, one of the persons who filed the law suit, said he could not comment on the mayor's statement.

The district already has de- layed opening bids on the subway station construction contract and for work on adjacent tunnels under Adeline Street. Bids were to be received last month, but the district staff postponed the action until Feb. 20. Wallace Kaapcke, a' BART attorney, said that if the suit goes to trial as scheduled in Alameda County Superior Court on April 24, "the earliest a decision could be handed down would be in May. This would mean a five-month delay in operating trains through Berkeley to Richmond.

The present schedule calls for seme to begin late in 1970. Kaapcke said he was "fully confident" EART would win the case, bui he advised the board not to start construction of the station and tunnels until the matter is resolved by the court The issue Is a skylight and tion. The suit alleges this is a type of barrier that means the station is not in a "subway, as was promised Berkeley fence that would protrude above the ground over the sta-voters wben they approved a Thugs Get $250 At Shoe Store A shoe store, at JC2 E. 14th St was robbed of tA jtster-day, wtea two men as customers suddenly drew re-Tohrtrs and bound the stre manager, G-bcr Atom, 24. Alvarez, was ia the r.cre when tie mm came ia.

They browned around, tried on shoes, twn drew guns. They forced Alvarez inta a storage room, took money from Vs waTet, Usa a.4ed for instructions on bow to open the casa register. Atorez tsaTy stnggJed free after 4 Esstes, tad called pcliCe. Pay Hike for 21 BART Officials Twenty-one top Bay Area Rapid Transit officials yesterday were given 5 per cent salary hikes, which will cost the district about $25,000 this year. B.

R. Stokes, general man-a was increased from $36,900 a year to $38,808, and Chief Engineer David Q. Hammond will now receive $31,932 instead of $30,408, according to Gordon Olsert," director of personnel, who released tli 5 figures. John M. Peirce, former general manager and now director of finance, was raised from $30,08 to $31,932.

Other salary hikes approved by the BART Board include: C. McDonald, director of public information, from to A. Kimball, assistant general manager, from $23,020 to Truman (Jack) Carlson, real estate manager, $21,612 to $22,692. Stokes, a and McDonald live in Orinda, Kimball in Walnut Creek, where he was formerly city manager, Carlson in Lafayette and Pe-rte in Mill Valley. Gas Heaters Sold to 8,000 'Dangerous' it I i The U.S.

Public Health Service say nearly 1,000 gas-fu-ed baseboard heaters made by a now defunct company are potentially (Larger ous. Manufactured by a 1 SampUr.g It Enameling Co. of Chaianooga. The heaters may leak kthal carboa monoxide gas, according to USPHS. Some 6.000 of fre beaters were sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co most of mra between Seperr.ber, 13 and December.

1366. Sears idenuf.ed its heaters as fM1 models of its "gas-fired baseboard thro-vill teatcr." Owners of the heaters "are trgd to dsextrn their use and contact local ptAoc health officials or the gas utility fra in they area for posi-tve kJentfxatjoa. remnants 01 gupuers anu au on iu snow ner. xne iauy isn't wild about this, but tolerates it. So the other day one of the cats, a black torn, pushed open the flap door and dragged in a huge owl, still very much alive with its wings flapping.

So what, madam, did you do when you saw this? "What did I do? I fainted, naturally." And there's Orinda's Mrs. Dallas Young, whose cat set up a howl in the back yard at 2 a.m. She let it in and the cat looked as if it had a broken back. Her husband is in the hospital so Mrs. Young called a Walnut Creek vet who agreed to come down to his office, and she set out on the freeway with the cat in her Cadillac.

A Highway Patrolman pulled her over for going 70 in a 65-mile zone. "Officer," said Mrs. Young, "I'm rushing my cat to the vet's. It's injured. Will you escort me?" The cop smiled sweetly.

"No, ma'm, but I'll write you a ticket for speeding." He did. 0 0 0 0 Among the peaches-and-cream high schools, Skyline will produce the play "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" next Friday and Saturday night while Miramonte's upcoming production is "Romeo and Juliet." That must be some sort of commentary Julie London, one of the great torch singers, opens a three-week stint at the Fairmont's Venetian Room next Thursday night Four guys were playing Willow Park Golf Course the other morning after several days of rain. The creek ninning through the course had calmed down and the silt began to settle when suddenly, voila! The clear water revealed one spot with 38 golf balls on the bottom. The foursome fished all 33 balls out and divided them, not evenly by number but by condition. One guy ended up with one of those supposedly miracle balls that can't be cut or get out of shape.

It had a big cut in it He took it home and handed it to his wife. "When you're in town tomorrow take it into the store and make them give you a new one." The wife: "Boy, but you are CHEAP!" Prescott Sullivan, the Examiner sports columnist, was walking the picket line during the strike this week when a panhandler hit him for a cigarette. "Sorry," said Sully, "but I only smoke cigars. Want a cigar?" The panhandler suddenly became choosy. He hesitated, and then: "What kind?" 0 0 0 0 About the strike, there are many hardships.

Readers can have the comics read for them on TV (Channel 9 each evening) but consider the poor guy who worked the crossword puzzle on the last day of publication and never did get to see the solution Somber sight in the ornate Churchill Room of the Hotel Claremont: A national casket manufacturer has taken the room for the week for a sales display for local funeral directors of 40 coffins Virginia Montague bought one of those cars with an animal's name nine months ago and has had nothing but trouble. 'Would you believe," she told a friend, "I've had nine tows in nice months?" The friend: "Really? What became of your A trucker showed up at an Oakland bank just after closing time to deliver a 70-pound box of computer cards. He knocked on the front door and was kept waiting 15 minutes until a security guard inside decided to let him in. "What's in the box?" the guard demanded to know, despite a huge label oa the cover. fWeO" said the trucker, "it weighs TO pounds.

Inside Is a 40-pocnd midget with a sawed-of shotgun. Car Driver Dead Before Smashup? Stay of Execution For WP's Zephyr George E. Rife. 76. of 405 La-jean Way, Walnut Creek, died of a possible heart attack while drivina his car on Inter state 630 freeway south of Martitnez.

Rife's car shot across the divider yesterday, struck a ixrthbound car driven by George Ftower, 60, of Fresno and continued off 2 freeway, down a 75-foot embankment and through a cha-n-link fence at the edge cf Blum Road at fehofl Drive, according to the California Highway Patrol. Witnesses said Rife made tvi attempt to stop his car. Flower was not injured. The elderly motorist was rushed to the Contra Costa County Hospital ia Martioez where he was proooenced dead. Oakland yesterday, Wil The Interstate Commerce Commission said today It will Investigate the Western Pacif-IcRallroad's proposal to discontinue its section of the California Zephyr passenger train.

Western Pacific operates the train between Salt Lake Cry and Oakland. The Chicago, Burlington Quincy operates the train between Chicago and Denver, and the Denver Rk Grande Western between Denver and Salt Lake Cry. The Western PacSc is seeking to end fee servfce because it lays tt js losing money iL.