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2 reaten zurouos News a II i Day's In pwaikout at i BERKELEY Two groups are-threatenine strikes at the The World 1 University of California to- morrow. Teaching anoV research as- I sistants belonging to Ameri- I can Federation of Teachers jjiolda.work.stoppage from to morrow through next Monday, CZECH TENSION The situation in" Czchoslovakia is so tense, says President jfJ mt.49mmim -''r'-Ty- -it, ii.ni-,! Kir'-' -m- Ludvik Svpboda, that "another force could take over the government. The reference is," of course, to the Russians. Page 14 The Nation SCRATCH ONE A Navy Poseidon missile was blown up one minute after launch today fromCape Kennedy after it went off course; fiery debris fell into the Atlantic. Page 26 fr "gsj -3cte The State SMOG IDEA Sen.

Nicholas Petris has an idea for solving the smog problem: prohibitive taxes on big cars and trucks that spew large amounts of ait pollutants and no tax at all on electric vehicles Page 4 MENTAL HEALTH BUDGET-Gov. A man in a rowboat inspects a submerged auto on the banks of the Sacramento River near Sacramento after the area was -flooded today by heavy rains. An old abandoned streetcar 'stands in background. (Story on Page proposed shutdown of Modesto proposed State Hospital was praised and denounced today. One side called it progressive, the other said it was unjustified "morally and economically." Page 4 Second Suspect The union claims a mem- bership of about 500 among the 1,200 to 1,500 university employes.

Conn Halljnan, union spokes man said picket lines will be posted, although the strike has not been sanctioned by the Alameda County Central Labor Council. Students belonging to the Third World Liberation Front, 2 Arson Tries at U.C Fizzle BERKELEY Two unsuccessful arson attempts at the University of California were reported yejsterday. Campus police said that after 5 p.m. Sunday, a fire bomb was thrown into a first floor interview room of the wooden Placement Center building. It -e-x-p 1 d-and-burned-outr causing only minor damage to the floor, and was discovered by an employe at 7:45 a.m.

yesterday. Also at 7:45 a.m., a custodian found a Wheeler Auditorium door open, investigated and found that six seats, some carpeting and an adjacent wall had been scorched by fire. Two 16-ounce soft-drink bottles containing inflammable liquid were found near the scene. The custodian had last checked the doors at midnight. Police oincers reported ntr evidence to indicate why the fires were set.

Policy Shift In Richmond Assessments RICHMOND Mayor John M. Sheridan today switched his long time position on city tax collecting and property assessing and ordered the city For Home Delivery Call Circulation Or Any Branch Office See Page 30 MainOffice 273-2000 Classified- il Surrenders Mainly Rain YOU CAN WIN $200! Men, women, senior high schoohstudents! The Martha Lee Recipe Festival is in full swing! Anyone can enter and it's easy to win. And, what tter way to prove to your neighbors that you're a good cook. See page 27 for simple rules and entry blank; while you are shopping you can pick up extra entry blanks at your food store. Send Martha By United Pres International Bay Region A BIT OF HISTORY- There were coal mines, bandits and Mexican express riders, all part of the heritage of California's El Camino Viejo, linking the Bay Area to Southern California.

Page 6 NEW IMAGE The Jaycees are no longer merely the annual sponsors of beauty contests and good time luncheons. They're now hard at work in cion of murder in the deaths Fof John Jerome Huggins, 23, Prirltlrkn and Alprentice (Bunchy) Car-. t. VriLlllUn ter, 26, killed Friday at a liance" to meet the state's, social ills on a local level. Page 7 LOOKING AHEAD The state educa- tion coordinating wuncilrrecornmendac- -quisition of land for a proposed state college in Contra Costa County and also property in the SanMateo and Santa Clara County area.

Page 35 Oaklano23rlbune OAKLAND'S LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY CONTROLLED DAILY Supreme on Continental Side of San Francisco Bay Established February 21, 1174 Member American Newspaper Publishers Association Charter Member Audit Bureau 7 of Circulation Complete Associated Press Service Full United Press-International Service MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use tor reproduction of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. PUBLISHERS WILLIAM F. KNOWLAND, President, Publisher, General Manager and Editor. JOSEPH W.

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Form 357 to) P.O, box jot. uaxiana, taut, mmm, BY CARRIER Daily and Sunday Semi-monthly One Month t3.2f one rear 39 Sundav On hi One Month BY MAIL (oavabla In advanttl! United States Incl. Possessions, APO FPO Dally and Sunday One Month ft 4.0S One Year 48.09 Sunday Only One Month On Year Foreign Dally and Sunday One Month s.o 72.00 One Yeat Sunday Ontv One Month 3.0S Published every evening and Sunday. Single copies: Daily edition, 10c; Sun day edition, 35c Back number: Dai ly edition, loci Sunday edition, 35c Read Robin On composed of four minority erbuDS. said they will start a strike to enftsrcrtheir demand for a Third World College at the university, -d Specifically, they are asking that funds be allocated for the line jor and that the program be put into operation next tall; Chancellor Roger has proposed the creation of a black studies department by next fall.

His plan calls for the selection of a dean by a special committee, but with university control over the new department. The student groups want complete control over the proposed college. Hallinan said the teaching and research assistants will stage the work stoppage to support the Third World Front students strike, to express sympathy with striking teachers at San Francisco and San Jose State colleges and to protest against some working conditions on the Berkeley campus. Facultv members who belong to AFT Local 1474 will meet this afternoon with the Liberal Faculty Alliance to consider whether university and college teachers have the right to -strike and, if so, whether they should in support of the faculties at San Francisco and San Jose. Gary Hawkins, president of the San" Francisco State AFT Local 1352wilL-speat- REPLACEMENT Glenn on Piedmont Plan Board PIEDMONT Engineer Robert Glenn was appointed night by the city council to a three year term on the city planning commission, replacing Fayette Vincent, who declined reappointment.

In a second council appointment, a 1 1 orn Cameron Wolfe-Jrwas-selected to the remaining two years of John Cook's three-year term on the recreation commission. Cook resigned when he moved from the city. Glenn, of 123 Greenbank formerly served on the park commission, while Wolfe of 28 Ronada was moved up from associate member status on the recreation board to fill the vacancy. The coun- Bill Would End Franchise Board SACRAMENT (U I) -Legislation abolishing the Franchise Tax Board and giving its collection duties to the State Board of Equalization was introduced yesterday by Sen. Tom Carrell, D-San Fer- Carrell said elimination of the tax board would' save the state "between $300,000 and $400,000 a year." He said the elected Board of Equalization has a statewide organization to collect taxes and is "more influenced by the people" than the franchise board.

Under, theJ)ill, the equaliza tion board would collect the personal income and bank and corporation -t a s. A new three-member appeals board apointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate would be created to hear taxpayer complaints. Dr. Spencer Benbow, business manager for the Oakland Public Schools, said smoke damage was heavy and the flames charred the floor and walls. He estimated the loss at $4,000.

The vandals entered the building at 1025 81st Ave. by removing a window then reaching through to open the door. 1 Four pieces of equipment and 20 men headed by Battalion Chief Robert McGue bat tied the fire more than an hour. Benbow and Principal James McCrohan worked with other staff members through the pre dawn hours setting up temporary office facilities so school could reopen without interruption this morning- ir Features Page 27 Focus 17 Landers 17 Martinez 17 Perry Phillips .42 Sports 37 Theaters 43 TV and Radio .18 Vitals 20 Weather 20 World of Women 23 .62 .75 Last Year 6.42 7.28 To Date 9.32 12.27 Normal 8.98 9.33 manager to bring in a plan cil has yet to select an associ-next week for using the coun- member to fill Wolfe's old ty tax assessment rolls. yspot.

The city historically has THE PILL-The Baptist president of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena says that the Pope cannot and will not change his edict on birth control unless new insights are found in the interpretation of the Scriptures. Private Last Rites Held PIEDMONT Private family services were held yesterday for Fred E. Crichton, who died Friday in a Berkeley hospital after a long illness. Mr. Crichton was 79.

A native of San Jose, he re-0 ceived his early education in San Jose and Berkeley schools. He began his 45-year banking career as a messenger for the old First National Bank and the First Trust and Savings Bank. He became a vice pre1 dent of the American Savings Bank, and in 1927, through a series of bank mergers, came to. the Eastbay headquarters of American Trust Co. with the title of "assistant vice president.

He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Ann Schuman of Idaho and San Marino, children. and five grand- done its own tax assessing, and twice the voters have turned down ballot measures to transfer this function to the county. But this morning Sheridan, said he felt the city tax assessor, Leo Haley, had kept home taxes current but had not kept up with industrial assessments. At last night's city council meeting, Sheridan voted HOPE: THE INSTITUTION Some cynics claim he does it only for money, but BotTHopie sees it differently and tells Tribune television columnist Bob MacKenzie what it's like on those Vietnam tours.

Page 18 against transferring the "wholenandor Sports The second of two brothers wanted for the slayings of two Black Panther party members at UCLA surrendered early today, one day after his brother turned himself in to police. Larry Joseph Stiner, 21. a UCLA student, surrendered in San Diego. His brother, George Phillip Stiner, 22, turned-Jiirnself in to- West-Los Angeles police yesterday. Both were charged on suspi meeting of 150 students at UCLA.

Vandalism by 200 students protesting Army and Ar Force recruiters at Columbia Woman Resigns Cal Expo Post SACRAMENTO (U fl -Katherine H. Haley, a Southern California horse breeder, has resigned from the executive committee of the California Exposition, Gov. Ronald Reagan's office announced. Mfs. Haley disclosed she quit because of pressing business interests and the committee's decision last year to abolish the California Exposition and Fair which operated the financially troubled show in its first season.

Mrs. Haley, a member of the corporation's board of directors, served on Reagan's blue ribbon committee which investigated Cal Expo's feasi- go-ahead to construct the project. Central Coast University was followed yesterday by 'an announcement-the Ivy League school would review the entire quetion of-campus recruiting. Militants organized by the Students for a Democratic So ciety gathered outside the Casa Hispanica, the university's Spanish studies center where military recruiters were interviewing students. They stoned the building and two demonstrators were arrested.

They then marched on Dodge Hall, invaded the sixth floor placement office, broke windows and overturned bookcases. It was a "deliberate warning," to the university, according to one SDS leader. At other campuses: Classes were suspended yesterday for three days at Wilberforce (Ohio) University, a predominantly Negro school of 1,018. icials agreed to binding arbitration to resolve student grievances over handling of disciplinary cases. An investigation continued as to the cause of a fire which destroyed the student union building during a boycott last week.

At Brandeis examinations kept most of the Waltham, school's students busy. Discussion continued, however, on the occupation for 11 days by 64 black students of the university's communications center. The militant blacks ended the demonstration but said thsy would continue their black controled Afro-American stud ies department. Milk Council RAUCH REPORTS Former Raiders coach John Ranch took over yesterday as head coach of the Buffalo Bills and immediately promised to put some new faces on the team. Among them, of course, was expected to be O.

J. Simpson. Page 37 thing to the county, against us ing the county assessment and against allowing the people to vote on transferring to the county in the April election. This morning he said he had a change of heart. John Marshall, senior statis tician for the California State Board of Equalization, made the third presentation of recent months last night to the city council, saying 92 er cent of Richmond homeowners would pay less taxes if the county tax -assessment rolls were used.

17 IflSi! f-N Vf Woodland School Fire Blamed on Arsonists Action Line .17 Astrology 19 Aont ElsiV. ...19 Bridge 19 Classified Ads .29 Comics ....21 Crossword Puzzle 30 Editorial 16 Financial 10 Bill Fiset 15 THE WEATHER STORY Rain will continue through tomorrow. In Alameda County the high tomorrow will be 55 to 60 and the low tonight in the mid 50's. In Contra Costa County the high will be in the low 60's tomorrow and the low tonight in the mid 50's. There will be southerly winds reaching 30 to 40 m.p.h.

occasionally. An arson fire broke out in a portable building that serves as the principal's office at Woodland Elementary School at 1:20 a.m. today. Red Dye Protest-2 Arrested Again Two women were arrested yesterday for spreading red dye on the "steps and in the fountain pools of the Federal Building in San Francisco while they were on the way to be tried for an identical charge. Sali McAllister and Char? lene Pope, both of Mountain View, were charged last October with splattering the inside of a 'courts martial room at the Presidio with red dye, which they said was blood.

TEMPERATURES (24-hour period ending at noon today) Oakland Airport 61 57 San Francisco Airport 60 56 SEASONAL RAINFALL Oakland Airport San Francisco Airport.

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