Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 1

A fci 4 V. i i4 I A 96th YEAR, NO. 96 5C SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1969 35 SUNDAY, $3.25 A MONTH Easter Rite Observed By Millions Damp Easter Dawn, But Sunny Later f. Crisis rrrr. A "'1 wrecked off Pennsylvania ly PAUL 0.

GARDNER AND DEL LANE Tribun Staff Writers RICHMOND In 1958, at a time when de facto segregation was a phrase not yet clearly interpreted by most educators, this sprawling, industrially wealthy community beside the Bay astonished much of the academic world by quietly and voluntarily revamping its secondary-school boundaries to effectively desegregate them. It is the studied opinion of many, including ex-A Ajfp Praic penenced educators and TT IIC I ItJi school administrators, that little progress in Easter sunrise services were expected to be a bit damp to day but the weathermans wife expects to be able to show off her new bonnet safely this afternoon under clearing skies. Saturday was a dismal day throughout most of California, with heavy showers, hail, thunder and lighting in the Bay Area and a bright mantle Continued Page 3, Col. 3 Parks Job Corps Center May Close Turnpike when driver was shot by sniper. (AP) Mac I Gunman Kills Three, 17 on Turnpike i 4 Va Policeman observes car KingTributes Determined, But Peaceful By The Associated Press In' the South and in the North, Negroes and whites gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Dr.

Martin Luther King assassinated a year ago Friday pi Memphis, Tenn. Heavy rain failed to stop 2,000 marchers who rallied in front of the capitol in Mont gomery, the place where King led a Negro boycott of city buses in 1955. The crowd marched from the St. Jude Catholic Center to the capitol a distance of about five miles in an orderly procession to hear King's successor, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, pay tribute to.tfye late civil rights leader.

We dont intend to give up, Abernathy told the crowd, urging them to continue Kings fight, against; pover-ty. He also said, however, we are not going to settle for separatism. We are not going to settle for anything less than democracy. In Kings hometown of Atlanta, a small group of men ignored, the ram t0 continue their on the steps of the The 44-hour vigil started Friday night and w-as to continue until Sunday afternoon when the demonstrators pi anned to join a march through the citys business district to protest racism and war. About 300 persons began the vigil, but the number dwindled to 50 by Saturday after- Continued Page 4, Col.

4 Parks Job Corps Center near Pleasanton, second largest in the nation, wiQ fall under the budgetary ax of the Nixon administration, Washington sources reported. "The Parks center is too big and too expensive, a spokesman said Saturday. A $100 million cut in the youth training program spending for the coming fiscal year was ordered by the White House last week. President Richard Nixon earlier announced the Job Corps yregrain would be transferred from the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Labor Department beginning -July L- The' Sprawliflg Parks' renter opened four' yean ago this month with 30 trainees. Last October, the centercel- Holy joined joy of The the Christs The to tens Roman midnight were Week Wounds Compiled from AP and UPI HARRISBURG.

Pa. A berserk gunman killed his wife and two others, then raked the Pennsylvania Turnpike with gunfire before shooting himself to death Saturday. Police said 17 other persons were injured as the gunmans bullets shattered windshields I Hopefully for Heart Donor Compiled from AP and UPI HOUSTON Mrs. Shirley Karp, near tears and speaking Just above a whisper, Saturday pleaded for someone somewhere to donate a human heart that would replace the worlds first artificial heart beating now in her husbands chest. I cry without tears," she said.

I wait hopefully. Our children wait hopefully and we pray. Doctors said her husband, Hasjcefl Karp of Skokif, 111-, was "awake and alert and tn "stable and satisfactory condition Saturday, a full day after the dacron and plastic heart was implanted dicing a. three-hour operation by Dr. Denton A.

Cooley in St Lukes hospital It was the first time a man-made device completely took over the hearts function of pumping and storing blood inside the body. But Cooley said Karp cannot live long without a human heart transplant. Since the artificial device is new, surgeons would not say how long the artificial heart could keep him alive. Estimates ranged from a week to a month. Mrs.

Karp wrote her plea and banded, it to. hospital offi- dais when she left herhus-bands hospital room Saturday morning after seeing him for the first time since the operation. Later, with Cooley sitting by her side, she read the note. "Someone somewhere please hear my plea, she said. A- plea for a heart for my husband.

I see him lying there breathing and knowing that within his chest there is a man-made implement where there should be a God-given where she had; gone after di-and windows of cars whizzing Vorcihg her second "husband, by on the busy turnpike near pr jj jj Lambright of Cleve- education has occurred here since. PropheUcally. Richmond's schools began flirting with fis- First in a Series cal disaster that same year when hard-pressed administrators began dipping into reserves, which have now all but vanished. They lamented that they were forced into this posture by an apathetic community that consistently refused to pass sorely needed tax increases. No such measure has been approved in the past 17 years, despite soaring costs of quality and even minimal education.

Draining the skimpy reserves hasnotprevented schools here from severely catting bade, and even elimi- -Rating, programs and services that are common In other districts. Nursing services, dial reading, elementary mu-" sic, speech therapy and vocational training are among the areas feeling or facing the ax. Maintenance of school buildings has diminished to little more than emergency re- pairs; supply allocations have dropped teachers have become increasingly unhappy with overcrowded and racially imbalanced classrooms, poor facilities and, above all, salaries that have failed to keep up with the times. Once among the states, best-paid teachers, Richmond teachers now find their salary levels ranking 23rd among 23 Bay Area school districts. In 1965, when the Richmond Unified School District was formed primarily due to pressure from the cost-conscious State Board of Edu-" cation and Legislature it in-' her i ted insufficient.

school revenue for the outlying districts, for which Richmonds Continued Page 6, Col. 3 By The Associated Press U.S. troops paused only briefly for services by chaplains in combat fatigues at little outposts in Vietnam. Thousands of pilgrims gathered in Rome and Jerusalem for vigils and other celebrations. In the United States, millions attended sunrise services, hunted for eggs and walked in fashion parades topped by New Yorks annual showcase event.

It is Easter, 1969. And it is the eighth Easter for U.S. forces in Vietnam. As usual, hostilities were not sus pended and officers ordered services scattered and limited in size to avoid large targets for enemy gunners. Pope Paul lighted a Paschal candle to mark the close Lent at a vigil service Saturday night in Rome.

Thousands him at St. Peters Basilica for the vigil and Mass of commemorating the end Christs entombment. bells of Bornes 500 churches pealed out across city Easter Sunday morning to herald the joy of resurrection. Campanon the ten-ton master bell of St. Peters Basilica which was first begin ringing, boomed as of thousands trudged to Catholic churches for Masses.

More than 100,000 tourists in the city for the Holy festivities. Some 1,000 pilgrims attended services in Jerusalems' 400-year-old Church of the Sepulchre, which, ae- cording to tradition, is the site of Christs tomb. This second Easter in Jerusalem under Israeli control was as peaceful as any other, as security guards in white CAMPS mingled with the crowds. But the tens of thousands of pilgrims who used to flock to Jerusalem before the 1967 Middle East war united the city under Israeli rule had dwindled to a few thousand. A recent wave of terrorist bombings and an ominous warning from Arab saboteurs that, Easter or no, their war against Israel goes on, kept many Christians away.

Hotels in the former Jordanian sector said they were oc-; c'upied just over 50 percent capacity in what usually is peak season. They, reported many cancellations. Israeli troopers and police kept an eye on the crowds as the Roman Catholic patriarch "of Jerusalem, Msgr. AIberto" Gori, led diplomats and pilgrims into the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for pontifical high Mass shortly after sunrise. The 400-year-old Crusader Continued Page 8, Coi.

3 Center houses at the cost of $1.5 million in booty and destruction. Each unoccupied Victorian house they ravage, each 300-pound fireplace they cart away diminishes Oak Center. These homes and fireplaces have stood since the presiden- cles Of Harrison and McKinley and -survived the great 1906 But -the ivandals finish them off in one night. Redevelopment executive direc- 56 blocks at night. Theyll look for the telltale trucks and the vandals who drive them.

Their very presence should be big help in frightening booty-hunters away, Williams believes. He agrees this 1 the shootings when an excited motorist shouted to a toll collector that he was fil ed on. The Lambright car continued toward here, and about a mile east pulled over to the side of the road. Police said. Lambright then killed the woman and fatally shot himself in the mouth.

Police found their bodies beside the car. The rifle' was found on the hood along with boxes of ammunition. Duncan Olmstead, 45, and his wife, of Pleasantville, N.Y., witnessed the horror. Olmstead, enroute to a vacation in Virginia, said he passed the gunmans car and he passed me and suddenly slowed down. I tried to pass him but he wouldnt let me.

Olmstead said he suddenly realized the man in the auto was shooting at the east-bound car. He said he saw four accidents on the way and we presumed they were caused by the shooting. The Kennans son, Paul, 12, was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, for a cut lip, received when the auto crashed. His parents bodies also were taken there. Twelve of the injured were taken to Harrisburg Hospital, where two were admitted for facial wounds.

The 10 others were treated for cuts or minor wounds and released The hospital said Vincent Saitta, 35, of South Farming-dale, N.Y., was in critical condition, and Ernest R. Stevens, 47, of Elkhart, was serious. Saittas wife. Rose Marie, and their six-year-old son, A1 a and Stevens 12-year-old daughter, Kim, were among those treated and re-. leased.

At this time, we cant even guess at a motive, a state police spokesman said. The gunman threatened to kill his mother about 10 days ago, his stepfather said in Cleveland, Ohio. Lambright had come to Cleveland after two years jf drifting. His mother, Vila if red, had returned from New land. The mother telephoned her ex-husband at his office and told him of her sons threats.

Hes losing his mind, Dr. Lambright, quoted his former wife as saying. But the younger Lambright left Cleveland following the threats and was not heard from again until Saturday morning. Perry said he last saw his son several years ago in Cleveland while he was playing an engagement there. Perry said Lambright had never used guns to his knowledge and that, once, outside a church, he told him: Any time you need a friend, just sit in front of the Blessed Sacrament.

Asked if he knew what have caused his sons outbreak, Ferry only said it must have been his environment he must have in the Army. Lambright, police said, used seyeral boxes of ammunition in the shooting spree which lasted nearly an hour and covered 20 miles. One of the first slugs fired from Lambrights- auto struck Kennan. His wife was hit in the head when she grabbed for the wheel. State police got word of ebrated the placement of its trainee in a Job.

No other center had such a high employment record! But, government officials noted, it cost more than $8,000 to train each youth at Parks, while other centers were able to conduct their programs at an average cost per boy of $5,700 to $7,700. Parks is just one of several centers to be closed in the cutback, according to the Washington information. A complete list will be released later in the week. The staff at Parks had not been informed of the impending closure, aspokesman said. The center, operated under a federal contract by Litton Industries, drew heavy critl-cism last year in a report prepared by the General Accounting Office.

The report said that after two years operation, the estimated cost of the center had soared from. $12.8 million to $25.5 million, the drop-out rate was 55 per cent and only 8 per cent of the enrollees Were placed in jobs related to their training. -a The report also, questioned Continued Page 4, Col. 1 heart. How long he, can sur- industrial tax revenues were vive, one can only guess.

not adequate. Dr. Cooley, head of the St. xhis fiscal bind, compound-L kes Episcopal Hospital by other crucial issues, I i 1 Continued Page 6, CoL 1 Harrisburg. The gunman was identified by state police as Donald M.

Lambright 30, of Philadelphia. In Louisville, former Negro motion picture comedian Stepin Fetchit, 77, whose real name is Lincoln Perry, identified Lambright as his son. The dead victims were Annette Lambright, 31, his wife, whose home addresses were listed as St. Louis and Philadelphia, and Ignatius Kennan. 50, and his wife, Ruby, 51, of Philadelphia.

The injured were being treated in hospitals. One of the wounded was reported in critical condition and another serious both with wounds of the face. Police said the gunman apparently fired, from his moving auto, then stopped from time to time' to shoot at passing cars. Four British Explorers at North Pole LONDON (AP) A four- man British expedition that set out across the frozen Arc-; tic on sleds 407 days ago has reached the North Pole, the Sunday Times reported. After a trek across treacherous ice from Alaska, the team hoisted the, Union Jack at the Pole Saturday and sent radio messages to Queen Elizabeth II and the British government.

Team leader Wally Herbert said the it i was camped on drifting ice moving slowly away from the He said they arev getting ready to resume their journey to the Norwegian archipelago of Spitzbergen, 700 miles away. Accompanying Herbert are British Army Maj. Kenneth Hodges; Dr. Roy Koemer, and physician, and Allen Gill, a geophysicist. Gill suffered a slipped disc in a fall soon aft; er the expedition got under way last fall.

He was reported in good spirits. The team radioed that they hope to reach Spitzbergen, their destination, by midsummer. The Sunday Times is sponsor of the expedition. Vandals Ravage and Loot Vacant Victorian Homes Tax Time Here Again-Sob-Sob By BOB, DISTEFANO Tribune Staff Writer Dick Bomholdt, 29, redevelopment foot soldier and future architect, is an angry young man. He is angry because vandals ruin Victorian homes in the Oak Center urban renewal project faster than the Oakland Redevelopment Agency can rehabilitate them.

But some vandals themselves. are angry, suggest Si i( Its tax time again. State and federal income tax returns are due April 15. And Thursday is the deadline in Alameda and Contra Costa counties for, property owners for payment of final installments on 1968-69 taxes. After Thursday, late payments will be penalized 6 per cent.

And itll cost $3 additionally to process the Stragglers. Assessors in both counties, also emphasize that April 15 is the deadline to file for: 1 A $70 tax refund on' the previous-fiscal years (1967-68) property 2 The $1,000 veterans exemption. I 3 The $750 exemption property taxes for 1969-70. Don Hutchinson, County assessor, suggests that the 30,000 veterans entitled to the exemption also file for the $750 exemption. Appraisals of properties in the Oak Knoll section of Oakland, and Castro Valley, Fremont and Hayward are going on, Hutchinson said.

The results may raise some properties to a point where Continued Page 8, CoL 1, torian Guard could evolve into a community-wide patrol of West Oakland. Cobb, however, fears van-' dalism will continue to plague Oak Center. He blames the Redevelopment A for Hot requiring communal ownership of the projects homes and land by a neighborhood, corporation in this case perhaps -by the Oak Center Neighborhood Association, dont think people would have grumbled so much about the Structures being demol-. isie4 but It was the pain and the of redevelop-. ment they opposed, Cobb, Some 5,307 persons mostly 'black lived in.

Oak Cen- ter' redevelopment be- gaft' some two years Some 4,600 will be there after renewal is completed. Fifty per' cent5 of these residents were found eligible for public Oakfands nfi-povprty war di- tor John B. Williams consid rector Percy Moqre and Paul ers a. night patrol of Oak fchairitiah of the Black tor the Only real solution. Caucus; i in thdnext few weeks Wil Some poor blacks believe Hams will, ask hief of Police urban -renewal forced them Charles -Gain for authority to out of their homes in, Oak Cep-.

allow Agency-hired watchmen ter and raised price barriers to rove through Centers against their return. Their anger now lashes out at the reborn community denied them, Cobb and Moore hold. Whatever the cause, within thelast two years, the vandals have despoiled 150 Oak VANDALIZED FIREPLACE IN OAK CENTER One of 150 Victorian homes damaged in project Continued Page 5, Col. 1 -i- 3.