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The Berkeley Gazette from Berkeley, California • 16

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IS The INDEPENDENT and GAZETTE Sat March 12 1977 Uncensored data Obituary Notices Browns unorthodox ways Donna Duarte Funeral services for former local resident Donna Duarte 84 who died yesterday in Carmichael were to be held at 2 pm today at Edmund Brown Jr hop-the Grant Miller Mortur-ary 2850 Telegraph Ave Oakland A native of Sacramento Mrs Durate was a 50-year member and past Worthy ped out of a police patrol car and watched as officers performed a routine car check A weekend earlier Brown1 unescorted and unannounced in advance spent SACRAMENTO Calif (AP) Shortly after midnight on a recent Sunday morning California Gov Pinches Bak A memorial service for Pinchos Bak noted Jewish educator and former Berkeley resident who died suddenly last week in New York at the age of 32 will be held at 8:30 pm tomorrow at Congregation Beth Israel 1630 Bancroft Way Mr Bak served as acting principal of the religious school of Congregation Beth Israel during the late 1960s until his departure for Vancouver BC where he became principal of a parochial high school From Vancouver he moved on to head one of the larger religious high schools in the New York area While in Berkeley he organized a Bay Area Youth Commission and was active on the Jewish Education Council He was a vibrant and dyanmic leader who succeeded in motivating his students and also their parents He is survived By" his widow Karen and five children Matron of Mary Par- the night in a decaying San tridge Chapter No 300 Francisco tenement build-OES of Oakland and a long-time member of Cecelia Shrine No 3 Order of White Shrine She is survived by a daughter Betty Hayden of Forest Hill four grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren Arrangements were handled by Sierra View Chapel Carmichael Dr Livingston David Livingstone of Dr Livingstone I pre ing called The Pink Palace talking with tenants an exploring the neighborhoods in his denims He spent six hours last Christmas Day visiting patients and talking with staff workers at a ward of one of Californias state mental hospitals Brown spent a day a few weekends later again unannounced with the community advisory board at another state hospital Early in his administration The coercive power is the power to tax and pass new laws and send you to jail Thats the power people think of when they ask: What are you doing? Theres another power to persuade to inspire to provide leadership by encouraging cooperation and bringing people together What Im doing is putting a definite amount of time and effort into the second power that this office carries with it because I think thats an untapped resource $25000 for staying off your toes LOS ANGELES (AP) A movie executive is looking for someone whose feet aren't on the ground and will pay $25000 if they can stay that way without trickery fakery or wires Ralph Nussbaum of Burbank International Pictures says the search for floaters will help promote a movie "Journey into the Beyond" He said to qualify a person will have to float in daylight in view of a panel of scientists and newsmen and stay up in the air long enough to convince the skeptics He said hopcftils wont know in advance where their levitations will be scheduled visits without a large entourage of officials reporters and cameras But his critics complain that his instant expertise after a few hours in a tenement or mental hospital is shallow He spends four hours in a patrol car on a routine night Now hes an expert in crime Do you believe that? asked state Sen Richardson RArcadia a frequent Brown critic Asked what he thought he learned riding with Santa Ana police Brown said The key to their success (in Santa Ana) is citizen participation through block patrols and block captains working with the police force And what struck me at the Pink Palace was the lack of communication In one area the police communicate with the community In the other people say Why bother? We cant get the police on the phone We never see them Brown who spends many of his other weekends visiting or hosting authors philosophers professors and advocates of various causes said he views his visits with those people in a similar light as his visits to the police department I divide government into two powers: the coercive power and the persuasive power working" by bureaucracy arid the a'dvo' cates of special interests and going directly to people His executive assistant Gray Davis said Brown now devotes about one weekend in four to that kind of field trip Davis said the future sites Brown plans to visit and even the subject areas must be unannounced or the visits will lose their value I intend to continue it yes Brown said of his weekend excursions after spending half of the graveyard shift in a Santa Ana police patrol car "I find it a very useful tool to separate the rhetoric from the reality Brown said Too much of government is paper and collecting money A lot more of it should be finding out what happens to it and thats what I intend to do I get firsthand know ledge uncensored by the normal channels the bachelor governor said In my position much of the information is filtered People talk about crime they talk about mental illness they talk about housing needs But it is awfully hard to relate the words of the advocates with the realities we are trying to deal with he said Brown has been praised by some for conducting the he dropped in one Sunday with 15 minutes advance notice at a remote state prison in the Sierras These unconventional trips are all part of a process which the 38-year-old Democrat describes as Fathering uncensored ata on social problems and government programs Brown says ne gets a more accurate view of how things are working or very often how they are not 5tlM AGENT X9 (Pay By Blue collar views on art ST PAUL Minn (AP) SqUare and oblivious to vis-A maid probably doesn uaj arts as the trite and have much opportunity to stereotype images we have discuss her views on art been given Celender said while she cleans the was- We found that contrary hrooms and makes the beds to the general belief they a hotel like art enjoy it feel it And the local filling sta- worthwhile Know much tion attendant isn ex- more than we give them pectedtobeabletocarryon cre(jit forand of course a conversation about the we discovered what we fine arts while he changes should have known all the oil his customer scar ai0ng: that most of them dabble in it themselves as the Macalester College art gun(jay painters or collec-department decided that the tors 0f everything from an-views of the average work- tinnpQ tA Ming vases and tiques to Ming vases By Al Mail) 09 TRAILERS AND CAMPERS NEW MOTOR HOMES ESTABLISHMENT 22 It D-l Engine air No 0020 $13495 COMMANDER 22 ft Generator Roof air No 31446 $17500 NEW TRAILERS PROWLER 20 ft New 76 No 9370 $4295 SAVINGS IN OTHER 76'S CAMPERS WEEK-N-DER 11-foot 71 Self-contained jacks No 71411 $2895 LOTS MORE SPECIAL ON 1976 MODEL MOTOR HOMES TRAILERS RAMSEY'S CAMPERLAND 11909 San Pablo Avenue El Cerrito 237-3798 OPEN 7 DAYS PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the General Municipal Election to be held in the City of Berkeley on Tuesday April 19 1977 two (2) Charter Amendments will be submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Berkeley NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that two (2) ordinances will be submitted to the qualified electors ol the City of Berkeley NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that two (2) initiative ordinances will be submitted to the qualified electors of the City of Berkeley! Copies of said proposed Charter Amendments and Ordinances may be had on application therefor at the office of the City Clerk City Hall Berkeley California Signed EDYTHE CAMPBELL City Clerk of the City of Berkeley G-28271 March 11 thru mcl April 19 1977 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as: ORANGE JULIUS 610 2490 Bancroft Way Berkeley Ca 94704 0 Enterprises 1616 State Rockford Ill 61102 ALAN ARENSON Alan Arenson RR No 2 Box 135 Pecdtomca III 61063 Sid Rosenblatt 13154 Addison Sherman Oaks Cal 91607 Signed1 Alan Arenson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Alameda County on Feb 25 197 CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original on file in my office Dated Feb 25 1977 Rene Davidson County Clerk By Esvenner Simms Deputy County Clerk 28267 Feb 26: Mar 5 12 19 1977 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTENT STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Notice is hereby given that the State Department of Health has received the following Notice of Intent to file an application for Certificate of Need If the application is pursued the State Department of Health will conduct a public hearing within the Berkeley area at a time and date still to be announced Facility Berkeley Convalescent Hospital 2235 Sacramento Street Berkeley CA 94704 Project Description 137 skilled nursing beds Estimated Cost No cost SALEEM A FARAG Chief Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development 28287 March 12 1977 PUBLIC AUCTION Date Tuesday March 15 1977 Time' 830 a Place Jessup Company 3906 Adeline Street Emeryville California The following items of Refused and On Hand freight are offered for sale under the terms of the bills of lading for the benefit of System 99 Fit Bill Number 2107049 Pro 7310214 Consignee Spe De Way Prod Portland Oregon Pieces 117 ctn Description Paint Lacquer Prod We reserve the right to bid forbe-nefit of System 99 The terms of the sale are all cash at the time of sale Jessup Company Agent for System 99 sM Jessup 28288 Mar 12 14 1977- Lausanne The University of Lausanne Switzerland was established in 1537 By 1586 it had become famous for the education of Protestant ministers Thoreaus father John Thoreau father of Henry David Thoreau was a storekeeper and pencil manufacturer in Concord Mass Funeral notices WAGNER Edward In El Cerrito March 1 0 1977 Beloved husband of Jean Wagner Loving son of Mrs EvaM Wagner of El Cerrito Brother of Dorothy Wagner of El Cerrito Brother-in-law of Mrs Galdys Cherry of San Diego and Sigmont Wisniewski of Calumet City II-lionois Unclie of William Wisniewski and Mrs Merrily Wacmk of Highland Indiana A member of Richmond Moose Lodge No 550 and Brotherhood of Railway and Airlirfe Clerks A native of Chicago Illinois aged 65 years Funeral services were held Saturday March 12 1977 at 2 00 pm at SUNSET VIEW MORTUARY CHAPEL Colusa and Farmount Berkeley-EI Cerrito Reverend Earl Grate officiated It is preferred that memonals be sent to the American Cancer Society Interment Sunset View Cemetery FN 3-12 It sume fame was a 19th-century Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa coins stamps which after all are a form of art As a bartender told one interviewer: Art brings most of us closer to what we really are and what we feel BiBM PMM MARCUS HALL Baritone Hall died at 72 Marcus Hall nationally known California baritone wha sane at the official launching of every ship built at three Kaiser shipyards in Richmond during 1943-45 died Feb 28 in Berkeley at the age of 72 A native of Bakersfield where he was born of pioneer parents of that city Mr Hall was a member of the Kern County Union High School football team which travelled up and down California ana won several state championships and was also a member of the schools glee club In January 1923 he moved with his family to Berkeley and completed the last semester of his high school education at Polytechnic High School in San Francisco He then enrolled at the Musical Art Institute of San Francisco where he sang for many notable artists who came to San Francisco including Lawrence Tibbett Sophia Breslau and Roland Hayes Hayes was so impressed with the young man's voice that he made arrangements for him to study with his teacher Sir George Hen-shell in London England On Oct 2 1929 Mr Hall moved to London and spent several years there as Hayes protege and was the first California Negro to make his debut in London He returned to California in 1931 and gave several concerts in Northern California and Eastern cities also appearing at the Fox Theater in Bakersfield In 1934 he joined a theatrical group known as The Brown Skin Models touring the United States with them for three years He returned to Berkeley in 1937 joining the Keeton Chorus and singing with them for several years also serving as soloist with church choirs including St Augustine Episcopal and First AME Church of Oakland During World War II Mr Hall was employed at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond Among the ship launchings he sang at was that of the SS Robert Abbott named for the owner of the Chicago Defender Newspaper After the war Mr Hall went to New York to further his singing career also opening a studio and tutoring many artists of national reputation In 1947 he took the seat of Harry Burleigh who had sung for more than 50 years in the famous St Georges Episcopal Church in Stuyvesant Square New York City In 1948 he joined the Leonard De Paurs Infantry Chorus as singer and voice coach travelling with it throughout the United States South America Mexico and the Caribbean He left the chorus in 1953 and returned to teaching at his New York studio In 1956 he returned to Berkeley and accepted a position with the University of California as manager of the ASUC athletic equipment store becoming the first manager of a UC-Berkeley facility He retired from that position in 1969 He was featured soloist at the annual meeting of the National Association of College Stores in New ork City in 1965 receiving the personal commendation of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge He culminated his church singing career as soloist for the First Church of Christ Scientist from 1969 to 1973 He is survived in Oakland by his widow Marian his wife of 35 years five sisters Eugenia Greene Tarea Pittman and Clarice Isaacs all of Berkeley Faricita Wyatt of San Francisco and June Saunders of San Diego and two foster sons Ronald Williams of London and Chet Washington of Oakland Williamson and Archie Goodwin for one full year or six PHONE ing person might be of interest So the professor and a team of students talked with 400 blue collar workers including maids clerks mechanics bus and truck drivers cab drivers secretaries hotel desk clerks waitresses carpenters and street laborers as they went about their daily tasks Their opinions were written up in the study Opinions of Working People Concerning Art which was sent to the OK Harris Gallery in New York City Celender said the survey has drawn varied reactions from art critics and the public including some who have hailed it as the first tell it like it is audience pulse feeler done by the art world in a long time Generally Celender said the workers interviewed believed that art is necessary to the enjoyment fulfillment and pleasure of living A majority also think that tax money should be used to fund artists and art projects he said They are wary about going to art museums and galleries because of what they conceive as the highbrow atmosphere he said but nearly all of those questioned visit a museum at least once a year Picasso Dali and Chagall turn a majority of the workers odf and they dont dig abstract modernist and surrealist paintings or sculptures the study showed However if they could they would buy as much art for their own enjoyment as they could afford What I wanted to do in this survey is find out whether the man and woman on the street was as Do you like the weather to rhyme? LOS ANGELES (AP) After working 34 years for the National Weather Service Oscar Nichols a 57-year-old meteorologist here decided to do something new He sent the weather report across the wires all in rhyme For example: Strong winds will develop over the ocean and over the land Creating in the desert areas of blowing dust and sand Now bright blue skies will bring sunny and warm days And super visibility since the wind swept out the haze The idea for a rhyming forecast came from Wayne McCarter another weatherman who Nichols said breaks into verse every now and then McCarter turned out a poetic prediction about 10 days ago and got quite a reaction favorable letters phone calls and even a 2-pound box of candy Granite Islands The Seychelles Islands are the midocean beycheiies isianas (Pay By Mail) IF YOU ARE A MONTHLY INSURANCE SUBSCRIBER PLEASE MAIL IN AN ADDITIONAL $1 150 AND SAVE 50c ON ONE YEAR'S PREMIUM! 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