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SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1 968 3C 29 Travel Martinez Galzmnn I 'Revolt Theater-The Paris Method Ml 111 THE SUNDAY Ml units are talcing shape; are waiting to see if 'reverse integration occurs Acorn Project housing Acorn Project Aims To Attract Whites small plaques commemorate ing the great French playwrights. Voltaire, Racine, Mo-here, Corneille. A student said yesterday he was inspired by that, as well as by the hand-painted signs the revolution aires have pasted on the fire screen that has been lowered. One, the biggest, says, "The ex-Odeon is a free tribune the revolution is not just for the committees but for you. Another says, "Imagination takes power at the ex-theater of France." The scene at the Odeon is in all respects remarkable.

Outsiders plunging in for the first time are overwhelmed by a sense of deja vu it is as the French Revolution, the other one, must have been, with the masses in the balconies of some tribunes, some courts, some assemblies, some amphitheaters, some Odeons, shouting their demands. And didn't they get answers like the one the young professor sent to the five-franc seats yesterday, "We must have concrete alms the people can accept In the majority?" Camp Parks Parcel Will Be Leased PLEASANTON A parcel" of land at Camp Parka will be leased by the Army Corps of Engineers for grazing purposes starting Nov. 1. Bids on a five-year lease are now being accepted and will be opened publicly July 2 at the Sacramento office of the Corps of Engineers. A map showing location of the land may be seen at the office of the Post Engineer, Camp Parks.

dent leaning on the stage acted more or less as moderator but his was a benevolent reign. He even allowed a clearly conservative young man, red of face, to stand and shout, "we cannot replace the Gaul-list government with any other. 1 am afraid that civil war has been seeded here. I am afraid that paratroops will march on Paris in a few days if we do not stop." It is important to know that this young man, hopelessly out of step (he should be getting off on his left foot, not his right), was shouted at but was allowed to finish. And the Trotskyite dark glasses, gray hair, symmetrical hand gestures thundered.

"If we want to make revolution, it is our right!" The student say they will continue to occupy the Odeon until, until, ah, who knows, say the students. These are glorious, dangerous days and they were the ones who started the fuss which captured the fancy of an underpaid and un-dermotivated working class which grabbed the plants and caused the chaos. These are high days, wide days, and one student at the Odeon was saying yesterday that he was thrilled that Frenchmen are now talking to each other. Talking to each other. He said, "1 was on a bus before they stopped running and a woman said to me, you are young what do you think? And I started to tell her and the driver joined in the discussion and the other passengers and before long we stopped and just talked for 10 minutes.

That is Paris now and it must go on." Parisians didn't used to talk to each other. Life was complicated enough. On the facade of the first balcony of the Odeon are By JOHN VAN DOORN PARIS-Easily the best theater in Europe today is the -show born of revolt playing at the Odeon in the Latin Quarter of the French capital. It runs 24 hours a day, every day, and the house is always full of people who picked their way through the abandoned cars and the excited discussion groups and the spreading garbage. It costs nothing to get in, but that doesn't mean everyone can.

The students took the Odeon over in the backwash of the rioting which for better or worse has changed France forever. They are determined not -to harm the theater and they have created a precise system for counting the house and shutting off entry when the seats are filled. What happens at the Odeon today is that people talk. Leaning down from the first balcony (there are- three, all gilt-edged and red velvet and reaching imploringly toward the stage), a Trotskvite was saying yesterday, "if we make errors in the next few days we shall alienate people and a Fascist government will take over." From the orchestra an intense young man of indeterminate commitment said, "We must have more profound changes than the mere replacement of one regime with another." Then another spoke, and another. Some were students, which in France means between the ages of about 25 and 30, and some were professors, some were shopkeepers and a few laborers.

The point seemed to be to let everyone have his say: a stu $5,100 Western Gear Stolen PLEASANTON A truck-load of saddles and other western gear, worth an estimated $5,100 has been stolen from the Albers Feed and Farm Supply Store. An employe, John Machado, found a door ajar when he reported for work Saturday. Police said a chain lock had been cut with bolt cutters. Tire tracks were found where the thieves apparently had backed up a truck to load with loot. The loss included saddles, valued at about $4,000, boots, buckles, clippers, wallets, horse blankets and other tack.

officials across the country areas. But only a few. Rents will range from studios at $67 up to four-bedroom, two-story townhouses at 145. These rents, the council believes, will help attract moderate income white families to the project. (The upper limit on income is $11,225.) The council also is planning a series of other attractions to make the Acorn project one of the best housing deals in the Bay Area.

These will be revealed as they are developed. At present the project is about 20 per cent completed and is being scheduled for renting by August. The first models are expected to, be open to the public in June. As Lamar Childers, head of the council says: "We're pretty excited about all this." f0 Master Plan For Bay Near J2? The staff of the San Fran cisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission is in the final stages of preparing the preliminary master plan for the future of the Bay and shoreline which is expected to be made public at BCDC's June 21 meeting. BCDC chairman Melvin Lane has canceled the regular June 6 meeting to free staff time for the project.

The June 21 meeting is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Room 1194, State Office Building, 455 Golden Gate San Francisco. The preliminary plan culminates three years of work extracting planning conclusions from 32 detailed technical reports on ecology, economics, transportation, engineering, esthetics, legal problems and other factors affecting the Bay. The preliminary Bay master ff.nuRl CACHED ui'" 1 Dl 11 By JIM WOOD Hammers are ringing In the Oakland Redevelopment Agency's Acorn project, and housing officials across the country are watching to see what will happen. The project, a middle income development featuring sophisticated townhouses and apartments, is one of the nation's first attempts at "reverse integration." Normally, when a community becomes "integrated" it means that Negro families have moved into an area -which previously was all-white.

There also have been a few Instances of new projects in which white families have A notable example In the i plan will be reviewed by numerous agencies before the final plan is submitted to the legislature in January, but in order to meet the State Printing Office deadline the plan must actually be In completed form by Oct 17, according to Joseph Bodovitz, BCDC staff director. A addoLAN Reg. to $3.99 1 111 1 BUS0SCSOUNTS. Bay Area is Crescent Park in Richmond. Exercising what the industry calls benign quotas, the Alameda County Building Trades Council, which will be the landlord in Acorn, is hoping to house a population with an ethnic composition matching that of the Bay Area as a whole.

The project, a 10-block area bounded by Union and Filbert, Eighth and 10th Streets, is located in the heart of what was formerly a slum area. To attract whites to the project the Building Trades Council has tried to put the finest housing it can afford into the project and charge the lowest rents possible. moved into formerly all-black IP otie Ac, njr III BIU OXFORD C0TT0H end Owum 52 (0)C ZTTl00 COTT0H I WEAVES 1 49 AVRIL RAYON LjBL I msfOf r.Ql.lUI 1 YD ccti0 'i of 0 YD 99, JUL I 'Mel t-m OAKLAND sr. M9 We Webs, 1 KODtlPOlttS I HUOM "fefiSts I HOCKEO shouts to At -Sh. ilm -rT7- 9m a a i i WmiH SffSSSI .7 OOCori TREEPARKIIIG phena 835-4460.