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City Council Queried on Housi The Trumpets ancfche Autumn You didn't know if the plastered walls would take it, but theyve taken it for years. Big brass. Trumpets, trdmbones and saxophones point diagonally up toward the ceiling and let loose a blast of magical nostalgia, a trip back to better times. As you listen, you close your eyes a moment to daydream and the years slip away as the great Duke Ellington gets it all together (a 1970 term) and passes it out as strictly 1935. Hardly anybody knew be was coming to the staid old Hotel Claremont Wednesday night to do two shows two quick shows of two hours each i the Garden' Room.

The Duke big band sound with New Orleans low down who years ago was only one of dozens. As the trumpets blared the ghosts of the Garden Room came alive Tex Benecke, Russ Morgan, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Duchin and everyone, dead and living alike, took the A Train to Memory-ville. Everyone, that is, except a dozen hippie kids who came to witness at first hand an old anachronism, sat off to the side of the bandstand apart from the middle-aged audience, passed a joint among themselves and got wide-eyed as the instrumentalists got sounds out of their horns the kids didnt know exist. GOVERNOR REAGAN AND SENATOR SHERMAN The two campaigned vigorously at reception Reagan on Stump Sen. Sherman Five Held In Pot Smuggling Five young men from Contra Costa County, all 20 years old, are being held by the U.S.

Customs Service in Yuma, for smuggling marijuana across the border. Customs agents said their car was stopped between Yuma and Parker yesterday In a routine search for aliens. They said 20 one kilo bricks of marijuana were taken, from the trunk of the car. AH five are charged with smuggling marijuana and held in lieu of $1,000 bail. They appeared briefly before U.S.

Commissioner yesterday and will appear again Sept. 25. Die five were identified by the Customs Service as Mark Smith, of 2171 North Sixth Concord; Edward H. Scott, of 32 Richie Drive, Pleasant Hill; Steven Dunn, of 731 Charlton Drive, Pleasant Hill; Stephen Arthur Dryer, 2646 North Main SL, Walnut Creek; and Joseph Spence Eyring, or 449 Stonefield Place, Moraga. In a separate incident, a Castro Valley man and his companion were arrested at Bass Lake, Madera County, when they flew an airplane full of marijuana into the resort communitys airfield there, police said.

The Fresno County Sheriffs department said they were waiting for the plane as it flew in from Mexico, and chased it to Bass Lake when plans were changed at the last The men, identified as Michael Robert Perine, 25, of 4728 a i Castro Valley, and Michael Scott Kelly, 21, of 353 Pine Hill Road, Tam Valley, Marin County, are being held in the Madera County jail on charges of possession of marijuana for sale. Kelly is also charged with possession of heroin. Fresno sheriffs department spokesmen said the small plane was so heavily loaded truth, fWould tires were nearly flat when it landed. They confiscated 900 pounds of marijuana and a small quantity of heroin. Praises Bill (UPI) today endorsed Edmund Muskies and said that the measure in was killed.

press conference Unruh said Im been able to passed or state, and he said, We the California charged that Gov. didn't lift a the oil and lobbies that put on to stop that questions on Reagan said, off toe faucet -w --v -v Charges Hurled in Queen Row Charges and counter charges continue to fly in the controversy over the treatment Of the reigning Miss Oakland, Theresa Yvonne Smith, who is black, as well as over the operation of the beauty pageant itself. Lawrence E. McNutt, Jay-cee president, claimed that Eugene Shore, who directed the Miss Oakland, pageant, overspent his budget by $1,500 and later resigned at the Jay- -cees request Shore confirmed that he resigned but denied that he bad gone over the budget, though he declined to elaborate. He also indicated that he has let his Jaycee' membership lapse and will be taking a new job next week in Houston as a clothing manufacturers representative.

He has been a clothing salesman for a San Francisco firm. Miss Smith, 21, a junior at the University of California in Berkeley majoring In landscape architecture, held a press conference here yesterday at the offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. McNutt had held a press conference Sept. 11. responding to charges made by Miss Smith in a magazine article.

She claimed yesterday that Shore had promised a $1,000 scholarship to the winner of the Miss Oakland title, but that the Jaycees later informed her that Shore bad mismanaged pageant funds and had failed to collect money for the scholarship. She said 'she had been told she would receive a $100 scholarship in time for the opening of school this month, but that the, money arrived Sept. 9, six days after final registration at UC, forcing her to be faced with an addition- al fee for being late" in registering. She said Shore had also indicated to her that Oakland city officials and leading busi-' nessmen did not want a black Miss Oakland, and that therefore she would not 'be getting as many benefits from the title as otherwise. She said she has been asked to only one official city function and said she believes there are racial implications behind her treatment because most of her other appearances 1 have been with black groups.

She said, I dont want another girl to go through the kind of frustrations that I have gone through as Miss Okakland. She said she wanted to meet with Jaycee officials and said she was miffed, that they have failed to invite me to join any committee that they might have to work for the betterment of the community of Oakland. Wifr-herat'thepresscon- ference was the 1969 Miss Oakland, 20-year-old Laomia For By SAN Ronald political Sen. Berkeley for a saying, the Tom It was yesterdays the to presidential told the dont out and votes. Reagan completely text, the He welfare needy help "cheats.

in some stamps, of bars will them. He should and for by They I our you and income Reagan Sherman legislature, sense, manhood In a By BILL MARTIN Tribune Staff Writer The Oakland City Council soon be forced to make a major policy decision on its goals for housing in the city. The council hasnt been faced with such a decision" since 1966 when, under heavy pressure from a variety of citizens groups, it authorized an election in which 2,500 more public housing units were approved. Forcing the issue now is the Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal (OCCUR), an organization which the city administration needs badly to qualify for at least $10 million in federal funds, for the City Center project. Dr.

Kenneth B. Hoh, an OCCUR co-chairman, appeared before the council yesterday to, among other things, call for such a definite policy by the council. He also asked for the city to contribute $25,000 a OCCUR to help it carry out its civic responsibilities." These responsibilities involve a review of all future major projects in the community. The administration needs OCCUR to qualify for. the release of U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Renewal (HTJD) funds since the citizens group is the only readily available organization which can qualify as a workable program committee required by the Federal Government. HUD has indicated it will approve OCCUR as the workable program committee for Oakland if the city council and the-citizens group can get together on some matters. -Dr. Hoh added onto the issues yet to be settled yesterday by asking the council to "agree' in" writing on some definite housing goals for the city. Councilman George Vukasin asked Dr.

Hoh whether that matter had been discussed recently in a meeting with Mayor John H. Reading, when re-' portedly previous disagreements with OCCUR were amicably settled. Dr. Hoh said the housing subject was not discussed. The housing policy question will force the city council into deciding how much, if any, more public housing will be built in the city.

Mayor Reading, who was out of town on business yesterday, has repeatedly said he felt the city was saturated with public housing and it was time for the suburbs to help the core cities out with low cost public housing. One possible proposed solution surely to be offered by the council will be a call for more Jow-cosLhousing 4n Oak- land, but only if it is privately owned. For months now, council-men have. been under fire for the scattered public-housing program which has created serious socialogi-cal and educational problems in white middle-class neigh-" borhoods throughout the city. Vice Mayor Joshua Rose referred OCCURs latest re-quests to a soon-to-be scheduled work session of the city council.

London Airport No. 1 LONDON -Heathrow Air-" port handles more traffic than any other; 184,000 flights and 10.4 million passengers in 1968. (Dak anb tribune 18,1970 13 Release of Funds Goal Of OEDCI Court action to free nearly $2 million in federal funds impounded by the Office of Economic Opportunity will be sought next week, Oaklands anti-poverty agency was told last night. Donald P. McCullum, counsel for the Oakland Economic Development 1 told the executive committee he would seek court relief on the ground that OEO is violating its own rules in withholding the funds.

McCullum has advised OEOs regional office in San Francisco that it is acting outside federal regulations in freezing the funds over OED-Cls alleged failure to adopt an affirmative action plan to ensure employment of the citys target-area poor and-ethnic minorities. He said OEDCIs delegate agencies -have been imperiled by the improper actions of the OEO. Percy Moore, OEDCI executive director, told the committee that several copies of an affirmative action plan, approved in outline by the committee two weeks ago, have been mailed to the regional OEO but that officials there say they havent seen any. of them. Moore said another copy of the plan, which was approved In full by the committee last night, would be hand-delivered to OEO today and that a signed receipt would be obtained.

There was little discussion by- the committee of new charges of major fiscal-management deficiencies by OEDCI and a call for a federal audit of the agency, which came yesterday from -Lewis- K. -of-the California State Office of Economic Opportunity. Brodnik Case Alibi Offered A homicide inspector read from the witness stand yesterday a report that one of six youths charged with killing a San Francisco policeman was elsewhere at the time of the fatal shooting. Inspector Jack Cleary, at the insistence of the defense, read a report from Ralph E. "Ruiz, 28, of San Francisco that defendant Nelson Rodriguez was with him in Daly Cityat-thetimPatrolman Joseph Brodnik was slain.

Judge Lawrence Mana refused man permission to question Cleary concerning other re ports of Rodriguez whereabouts during the shooting. You could see it in the tapping feet and nodding heads of the straight type adults, sitting enchanted, swept by the little chilis that go up a spine when a clarinet mournfully comes out with purity and truth. Murray Lehr, the Claremonts boss whod rented the Garden Room for SI to the woman who signed The Duke for the night, sat at ringside, tears brimming in the corners of his eyes Finally he leaned across to the young kids and cautioned them: Youd better listen to this because youll never hear it again. Its the end of an era. Hes just passing through.

Maybe to the kids hes passed through. His music doesnt speak of current times, nothing about being bom in a jailhouse and hitting the road, no mention of poverty or slums or war or peace. The Duke and his contemporaries of the 30s accepted poverty as the natural life and spoke, instead, of love. In My Soli-tude. A wailing saxophone picks up the melody in my solitude, Im lone-ly and disciplined trumpets back up the idea until the whole world is in solitude and lonely and nothing could be more beautiful.

You turned on your radio back then and got the Duke doing Satin Doll or maybe the great, slurring rendition of Sophisticated Lady, and as you listened youd sway back and forth with the beat. Anyone who couldnt do a tango to Sophisticated Lady just couldnt dance, even if it wasnt pure tango. The tune was escape into happiness 30 years ago escape by Unruh Muskie' LOg ANGELES -Jess Unruh Maine Sen. antismog bill only similar Californias legislature At a joint with Muskie, afraid we havent get tough laws enforced In this turning to Muskie need your bill. Referring to bill, Unruh Ronald Reagan finger to resist automobile the pressure bill.

gard for the feel handicapped. In answer to welfare costs; you cant shut to the truly needy. A widow with children may be getting only $2Z1 a month, and Its a tough battle to live on that But the problem is that a young divorcee with a job may be earning $500 a month on a job, and by deducting her costs, still be eligible for $167 a month in welfare, he complained. The $75-a-couple reception put about $25,000 into the Sherman campaign fund, and the governors warm praise of the Berkeley Republican also gave him a boost in a hard re-election battle. OPEN SPACE Don.Mulford Praised by Park Board Officials of the East Bay Regional Park District today credited Assemblyman Don-Mulford, R-Oakland, with-making possible a 10-year no cost lease with the state for nearly 80 acres of prime open land in the Berkeley Hills.

-Even Mulfords political op- GAYLE MONTGOMERY Tribune Political Editor LEANDRO Gov. Reagan threw his full muscle behind Stale Lewis F. Sherman of last night, and asked little help for himself, No one wants to be Dewey of 1970. the second time in campaigning that governor compared himself the 1943 Republican candidate. more than 600 Sherman supporters last night, I believe the polls get scramble and get the departed almost from his prepared speaking without notes to Eastbay group.

continued his attacks on fraud, saying that the are being denied the they deserve because of The governor said cases, college students are receiving food and there are plenty and restaurants that give them money for added, caseworkers not be getting welfare criticized social workers hampering investigations refusing to divulge information about recipients. say you mustnt demean anyone, he commented. wish the Federal Government felt that way about privacy when they asked I to pay our federal tax. repeatedly praised for his work in the saying in a politi-xaF Lew and I reached together. question and answer session, Reagan maintained his opposition to President Nixons guaranteed income proposal for the poor, saying, Its a good concept, but by the time Congress gets through playing around with it, its the same old program under new wrapping.

"He' defended, his refusal to' debate Jess Unruh, his Demo-' cratic opponent for the governorship. Four years ago I drove Pat Brown crazy asking him to debate, and he refused because he was the incuihbenL Now Im the incumbent, Reagan said laughing. It Va -matter Of -campaign strategy, Reagan added on the dte question. You do it when -you Then Soledad 3 Trial to Move To San Diego Over bitter defense objections, Superior Court Judge Robert J. Drewes yesterday ordered the Soledad Brothers murder trial moved from San Francisco to San Diego.

Judge Drewes cited a heavy "backlog of Superior Court cases as his rfeason for ordering the change of venue. The judge said there were 786 court cases pending, including 44 homicide trials. Defense attorney John Thome, who represents 'the three black convicts charged with killing a white guard, protested the decision and promised to appeal. The three defendants are George L. Jackson, 28, Fleeta Drumgff, 25, and John Clutch--ette, 27, all charged with murder in the death of John V.

Mills, 26, a Soledad guard, last Jan.17. They are current 'ly being held in San Quentin. Thome insists that San Francisco is the only accepta- Model A roadster from a $20-a-week job to ecstacy in the towns best dance hall. Vietnam was a place in the exotic East, ghetto was an uncoined word, smog was the Katzenjam- fmer Kids trying to be funny. Everybody was poor but fofuDr whnrt happy and FDR was the great white father whod make things better.

People lived and died, and when someone died the doctor only said he passed away. A ibunch scientific, physicians were not making life miserable telling people cigarettes would kill them, chloresterol was bad for them or that auto exhaust would-choke the world. Music could save them. Duke Ellington has been'close to music. Hes now 71, cool and alive.

that she neverTeceived it. McNutt reiterated that none of Miss 0akland candi. dates had been promised a $1,000 scholarship by the Jaycees. He said that 1969 Jaycee president George Kirkland told the candidates two or three weeks before the judging that no money had been raised toward a scholarship fund and gaye them the option of backing out of the contest if that war the reason they were in there. None of the girls dropped nuL-McNutl-said.

The key questionhe said, is, wheth fte Jaycees havg done any less for her than for nrivanr0 nntipp of the Ellinuton concert went Notmuchadvancenoticeoitheiiingtonconceriweni out and each show saw the Garden Room only about ponentr Democrat- Ken Meaderkpkcim-he -tFiaMo-be- congratulated Mulford fox held- Frankly, he said, his efforts on behalf the think its obvious the defend- project ants cou not get a fair trial said preserved was in Paul a security guard for Rhodes department store was shot in long- the hand this morning at the anywhere in the state. Gunman Wounds Security- Guard- jibing at Unruh, Reagan said, that fellow has so little re- Lettuce Ban 7 To Remain, Chavez Says SALINAS (AP) Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez is bringing his most potent weapon a nationwide cott to bear on all U.S. Department was approved. Park district officials transfer of the land, to be as open space, made possible through legislation introduced by Mulford 1965 and which later-became' law. Park district director E.

Harberts of Berkeley praised Mulford for his range planning to save very desirable piece of space for the future. Both Mulford and Meade the park board at which the lease the State General Services corner of. Broadway and 13th Street by a suspected thief he was pursuing. After firing the shot the bandit commandeered a car parked on 13th Street and forced its driver, Oakland beauty prqducts salesman Joseph Lowrance, to drive hinji away from the scene. The suspect fled from the car ordering Lowrance to drive him down Seventh Street He was described as about 19, black and- about 5 feet 8.

He was, wearing a blue shirt. The guard, Michael FMan-giaracina, was in good condition at Kaiser Hospital. More Cars in Austria VIENNA (AP) In Austria last year 155,480 cars were newly licensed, an increase ol 4.3 per, cent to the previous year, the Statistical Office rg ported. 1 half full. People took the tables nearest the bandstand, jockeyed their chairs out of the Way of pillars (someone once said the room has more columns than Tribune) and sat back with drinks to be mesmer-' ized.

The" dozen kids of the Now Generatioifcaused no" (rouble. TheyNdropped into comfortable positiQns and listened, perhaps scoffing a littirat first but gradually getting the idea. By mid-point in. each concert they "were wildly applaudirig each soloist 13 soloists in all on various instruments and finally were giving standing ovations. They dug the artistry; the middle-aged grooved oli the memories, thoughts of what might have been, il dragons that could have been slain and wdrlds that --'Were there, sometime in the past to be conquered.

It always that -way when abig band comes 'back. If the -mentality needs a massage you go and get it mas- saged, and in the process tipen a floodgate of tray. -A thoughts of better days and. better nights when life -was simple. But Murray Lehr had it right the era is 'ending and the great Duke Ellington is just passing through.

1 Finally the last shov over. The band members packed-their horns and the Duke continued to sit at testified that saw Charles the piano) playing snatches of this and that as half the 1 audience hung on. Finally, visibly tired, he too gave up, smiled at the stragglers and said goodnight. And the old Garden Room darkened and was left to exist on still another memory. ftom EvER'MH-Rt STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich.

Almost the entire population splashed through'lt rain, paddled flat-bottom boats, waded in the chiily waters of the Clinton River-, cleaning up a polluted river section to create a do-it-yourself recreation park. More than 1,500 residents participated, and a heavy rainstorm didn't make th6" job easier, Abandoned washing machines, refrigerators, cans, bottles! car parts, logs and junk were dredged from the river. The shoreline was graded and planted. Government agencies said they might jdo.something about developing a recreation areF for.the neighborhood "in years or so," so residents took the matter in their own hands. this open at--tended meeting with Meade' told park- board members: I happen to be Assembly-man Mulfords opponent in the forthcoming election.

I have opposed Assemblyman Mulford on other issues, but I am here to pay tribute where tribute is due and my congratulations to Assemblyman Mulford for his efforts in this regard, and my congratulations to- you gentlemen for a very worthwhile project. Mulford also congratulated the park district directors on moving ahead with this im- portant project, and added, It would have been a tragedy indeed if this operi space had been lost to public use. You have done a good thing. grown lettuce that doesnt carry his unions label. He announced yesterday the boycott will focus on 64 major cities across the country and it will be on until the last lettuce grower is signed.

The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee leader used the same tactic in bringing the nations largest, table grape growers to the bargaining table early this summer after a bitter five-year dispute." One Salinas area grower now carries UFWOCs black Aztec eagle label Inter Har- vest a subsidiary of the giant United Fruit Corp. and the nations largest lettuce grower!.