The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 15

II THE SACRAMENTO BEE Local Radio Television Comics And Superior California News SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA TUESDAY APRIL 17 1962 Page B1 Slum Body Gives Go Ahead Sign For Bond Sale Two actions were taken late yesterday by the city redevelopment agency to promote plans for the western extension of the central business district Bond consultants Blyth and Company and Barth and Company of San Francisco were authorized to prepare a Barbara Ban the pageant modeling instructor The field will be cut from 20 to 10 in the semifinals which are not open to the public The finals will be held next month Bee Photo FINAL REHEARSAL The candidates for Miss Sacramento gathered for their final practice last night before semifinals In the center Julie Van Der Vort the 1961 Miss Sacramento is the model for Mrs SPEAKER Douglas Cater Washington editor of Reporter magazine will speak next Monday at 8 PM in the mens gymnasium of the Sacramento State College His topic will be Who And What Makes Our Foreign Policy The talk is open to the public without charge NewRetirement Mather Opens Hush Hush School For Electronics Warfare Training Opening Is Set school for electronics warfare' and jamming enemy defense into the alma mater of all fu- Arrests Of 2 Solve Burglaries The mystery surrounding more than 100 recent burglaries in Sacramento city and county appears to have been solved with the arrest of two men held in Redwood City San Mateo County The pair Frederick Donohue and Gordon Howard Stevens were jailed in Redwood City on suspicion of burglary and robbery Sacramento officers in eluding Inspector David Mason of the office and Detectives James Lyons Jr and William Bennett of the police department interviewed the pair yesterday They readily admitted the Sacramento crimes but were unable to give the locations because they are unfamiliar with the street names The officers said the burglaries 45 in the county and 55 in the city were committed mainly in homes offices service stations and bars Donohue was arrested in contract for the sale of a tax anticipation bond issue up to $28 million to finance the local share of the cost of the second west end slum clearance project The sale of the issue will await the approval of the contract Second Unit Started Work on the second project which borders the Capitol Mall Project area and extends from 2nd to 7th Streets began several months ago when the federal government agreed to provide funds for it on the understanding that the cash or contributions in lieu of cash would be forthcoming Sale of the issue will enable the agency to install malls develop a park finance traffice improvements and make other installations recommended in the comprehensive western business district plan prepared by consultants Skidmore Owings and Merrill of San Francisco The amount of the one third share of the project costs has been estimated at about $2 million but has not been determined in detail The bonds will be sold in increments as needed to finance the local costs The government will pay the remaining two thirds The bonds are to be repaid solely from tax revenues ac- Redwood City Stevens picked up in a house he was ments not rom a general tax systems to give bombers a clear path to their targets Of The new training assignment for this of the By Leo Rennert Mather Air Force Base today greatly expanded its training program for prospective members of strategic air command bomber crews with the opening of a $5 million officers The facility jammed with highly secret electronic gadgets will be used to train B52 and B58 specialists who have the job of identifying! will convert Mather ture SAC bomber crews with the exception of pilots Electronic warfare instruction previously was conducted at Keesler Air Force Base Miss When the program moves into high gear the new school will have a complement of 350 students and 88 instructors Because of the highly technical nature of the instruction class sizes for the 35 week course will be held to a maximum of 10 students Example Of Skills Brigadier General NeilD Van Sickle Mather commander told a gathering of military and civilian officials at the opening ceremony that the school is a good example State Director of Public Works Robert Bradford today said bids will be opened May 22nd on general electrical mechanical and elevator work on the 16 story state retirement building under construction at 9th and Streets Bradford said this portion of the work is expected to cost approximately $10 million The overall cost of the building is estimated at $148 million Work on the structural steel framework began several months ago When completed the building will be the fourth largest office building west of Chicago It will house all units of the state resources agency of the continuing increase in the state retirement system and several other state units It will be the first new building of the California state capitol plan to become a reality It is located sized and designed in compliance with the long range plan developed by the California Capitol Building and Planning Commission and approved by the 1961 legislature renting at 8065 Capitola Avenue Fair Oaks at the request of the San Mateo officials The local officers hope to return the pair here to tour the city and point out the places they looted Stevens told the police he had furnished the Fair Oaks dwelling with furniture he paid for with money received from stolen money technical skills demanded of bomber crews Such is the Hush hush nature of the school that today was the only time civilians were permitted to inspect it When all the cqpuipment is installed it will be strictly off limits to outsiders Inside Incinerator Its security provisions include an incinerator right inside the school for immediate destruction of classified material and a central switchboard which can close and lock all exits instantly The school also is equipped with one of the biggest air conditioning systems on the west coach to maintain the required air and temperature conditions for the highly sensitive electronic laboratory gadgets Mather officials expect the first instruction aircraft next month The first class will be graduated in August In line with the highly sophisticated equipment ribbon was cut by a high voltage arcing device known as Ladder levy Seeks Early Talks In the second action the agency ordered the earliest possible continuation of discussions with the state and the city for the proposed installation of an estimated $490000 underpass to carry 5th Street under the projected Street mall Agency member Frank Durkee a former state director of public works said meeting with Robert Bradford the present director and other state highway officials last week produced promising indications that the state will finance part of the cost of the underpass Hopes For Agreement The agency hopes to win state agreement to contribute half the costs since 5th Street in this area is part of a state highway Final approval rests with the state highway commission Donald Kline deputy director of the agency said there is a possibility work on the project could start late this year if the council approves the closure of Street for a mall The council is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the street closure proposal May 3rd The underpass is among the installat ions recommended in the Skidmore plan Executive Director Ralph Herod disclosed the staff is making preparations for the early start of demolition in the second project area with NEW YORK APPLES Governor Nelson A Rockefeller of New York has given Mayor James McKinney left- a crate of the Empire popular McIntosh apples many years we have been blessed with your fine fruits and now we are glad to return the Rockefeller wrote Tom Raley helps the mayor uncrate the apples Bee Photo PTA Cancels Sweeping City School Survey The Sacramento Council of Parents and Teachers has abandoned a comprehensive survey of operations of the city school system after more than a year of planning and preparations Mrs Robert Larson junior past president of the council informed the city board of education last night that the project has been dropped the climate is not conducive for effective She recalled the study was requested in 1960 by the outgoing appointive board but failed to get official backing from the elective board last year The new board she pointed out instead commissioned the consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton to conduct an administrative and business survey of the school district She said the results of this study submitted to the board last month should now receive full community attention Flexible Teaching Areas Get Okeh In a major departure from the traditional fixed space arrangement in classroom construction the board approved plans for instruo tion areas at the new Luther Burbank High School and Sam Brannan Junior High Both schools will have large instruction areas which can be subdivided easily into smaller classroom units with folding partitions These features represent one of the most important trends in modem school con-struction throughout the country They will permit use of the system under which a master teacher lectures to a large group of students who then are divided into smaller units for discussion and other followup work $250000 Building Projects Get Okeh The board approved preliminary plans for about $250000 worth of construction projects including a cafeteria at the Lincoln Junior High and a kindergarten and administrative unit at the Elder Creek Elementary School 4 Vice Principals Win Approval The board filled four vice principal posts for next semester Appointed were Jack Anderson McClatchy High Edward Morrison Luther Burbank High James Robert Parker Peter Lassen Junior High and John Shupe Sam Brannan Junior High Anderson has been vice principal at Peter Lassen He will succeed James Stivers who has been named principal at McClatchy Morrison has been an English teacher at Me Clatchy Parker a vocal music consultant and Shupe a mathematics instructor and counselor at California Junior High Requiem Mass Is Planned For Dorothy Finn A requiem mass will be said at 9:30 AM tomorrow in the Star of the Sea Chapel in Sausalito Marin County for Mrs Dorothy Finn 55 the daughter of Edward Ernest Reese who was Sacramento County treasurer until his death in 1944 Mrs Finn collapsed yesterday while attending the funeral of a friend Dr A Lincoln Brown in Colma San Mateo County and died in an emergency hospital She was bom in Sacramento and was graduated from the Sacramento High School She was the granddaughter of an early day Sacramento County sheriff David Reese Her husband Carl James Finn who died seven years ago was a Pacific Telephone Telegraph executive They moved to Stockton San Joaquin County about 1947 and then to Sausalito She was a director of the Marin County Social Services Chamber DirecforsApprove Closing Of Streets In West End Development 4th and Street if the council porting the resolution were gives the green light sent by directors Robert Attorney Archie Hefner a Breuner Jerome Lipp and Judge Grants Divorce To Delta Grower'sSpouse Mrs Frances Elliot today was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from her husband David Sr delta area land owner and pear grower by Superior Judge Murle Shreck Mrs Elliot was represented in the brief court appearance by Attorney Russell A Harris Shreck granted the decree after hearing Mrs Elliot testify her husband had neglected her by leaving home for extensive periods She had charged extreme cruelty in complaint for divorce Elliot did not appear in court He had filed a written waiver previously The decree ends 37 years of marriage for the couple The judge also approved a property settlement agreement which had been arrived at between Mr and Mrs Elliot The agreement calls for the deeding to Mrs Elliot portions of extensive holdings including the Sutter Island Ranch Randall Island Ranch and stock in the Stillwater and Rose Orchard Companies She also is to receive according to the agreement about a one third interest in the firm Stillwater Ranches David Elliot Son a partnership She is to be guarantee $18000 a year tax free from her interest in the part nership and to be allowed to Does US40 Bypass Need Bus Stops? Thomas Allen who were unable to attend the meeting Two Zone Truck Rate Plan Is Hit The directors voted to put A resolution supporting street closures in the west end to permit prompt construction of a Macys department store sailed through the board of directors of the city-county chamber of commerce with little difficulty yesterday afternoon Only one or two noes were audible when the voice vote was taken chamber director and attorney for and Weinstock-Lubin Company indicated his clients may not oppose street closures near at the council hearing Alan Hart district engineer for the state division of highways has asked the city council to determine if bus loading facilities are needed lAuxiliary and also of the Hefner who previously hadithe chamber reoord astT urged the city to adopt a golP0 a atl by a a slow approach said Hale's Pubbc utilities commission examiner to divide the metro- and Weinstock-Lubin prob- The resolution gives strong work to be concentrated in 'backing to the proposed sed sed ki i -u politan area into two ProIX)Sd US Highway Sausalito Womens Clubs and ably will go along with the llLd 140 freeway which will bypass nrtiA in ih the prospective business dis-closure of several streets andwest end redevelopment plan of determining' cjty thft north Suth Marin Committee of Boy 'Scouts be obtained Chamber officials said such with the Roseville Free- the north area from down way at Wall Aveoue and pass The route would connect the West Sacramento Free- in over- in the downtown he indicated a city Surviving are a son Carl James Finn Jr and a daughter Mrs John Koenig Jr and a brother Howard Reese of Sacramento A rosary Mill be said at 8 tonight in the Frank Keaton Mortuary in trict development section on the formation of Street west of 7th Street Savings Loan Firm Is Commended The agency approved a notice of the completion of the Sacramento Savings and Loan Association building at 5th and Street and ordered the continue living in the home (preparation of a resolution Redevelopment Agency said street' parking known as Stillwater Place on! commending the firm and its stands ready to break Warns Against malls as part of the effort to revitalize the blighted west end business district will not be neglected The city council will hold all planning a public hearing on the plan May 3rd if assurances can that business firms eastern section ot Such assurances might entail Await Go Ahead promise to extend Harold Leavey aimalls to the member of the Sacramentoand provide I architects for the through the Natomas district which recently was annexed to the city The council is expected to refer request to the city transit authority area additional valley and bay area points Increases In River Flow Will Be Asked The directors agreed to ask 'federal state and local (agencies to approve flow increases from Nimbus Dam in- RaalIrJsIand Ranfh- appearance 'ground next month for a (to the American River when The Elliots have two adult of the structure multi million dollar store at! VlLe Maor Walter Chmt-fift Ak Plsecl Auburn Dam is Officials Confer On Department Head Pay Raise children David Jr and Mrs Elizabeth Elliot Gordon Drunk Driving Cases Arrests The architectural firm of Dreyfuss and Blackford designed the building "I think we are all very happy with the esthetic quality of this said agency member Harold Leavey "and I feel we should commend Sacramento Savings and the Diamond Found ensen a chamber di-ithe rector said he M'ouid haveiC0P leted preferred a later public hearing by the council to give and Weinstock-Lubin increases are necessary rnet today M'ith City Manager more time to submit pro- or recreaon- maintenance of i Bartley Cavanaugh As-posals for the downtown busi-water Purity conservation sistant City Manager Milton ness section outside the re-j0 fish life Faig and City Personnel development area He said the chamber should! take steps to insure that aj single integrated downtown is developed rather than two separate sections ed by a Berlin today7 proclaimed the "period sible changes in salaries for the vicinity of and South Chamber President John Hifrom April 22nd through the these officials I Parkways The other yet to Fabretti pointed out the 28th as Spring Cleanup Week I The board last Meek was1 be claimed Mas found in a (chamber first endorsed the re-f or the Sacramento Yolo asked by the city council's sewer in the south Fruitridge development plan in 1954 He areas and urged citizens of service committee tojarea near Chargin Way and InSewerGoes Back To Owner At least one of those diamond rings hich county utility maintenance found a Meek ago in their routine sewer cleaning has been Officer Rodney McWilliam to returned to its owner Mrs Charlene Adomi of 7577 South Parkway It Mas one of diamond rings the creMs found It Kenneth Lee Sullivan ot 7920 Fruit-rldge Road on Florin Road at the Western Pacific Railroad Company tracks early today In Court Carl A Chormlcle Of 3901 26th Ave-nue fined $330 or 30 days In the county jail Sentenced by Municipal Court Judge Joseph Babich Ben Welltver ot 6940 West 2nd Street Rio Linda $550 or 50 days plus a mandatory lo days In the county jail and license suspended for six months Sentenced by Babich 5o 'days plus 'a mandat sponded to the following calls nby from noon yesterday to noon Robber Is 'Outnumbered' Flees Scene A wouldbe robber had the book thrown at him last night in the Pucci Pharmacy 2530 I Street Pucci said the man paid for two packages of gum and then after some fumbling drew a pistol from under his belt Despite a warning by the gunman he w'as going to him the druggist threw a telephone book hitting him in the face Pucci and the frustrated robber hastily retreated in opposite directions the latter out of the front door i Babich Manuel Garlbay of 5866 Belleau Word 1 today: or 50 days plus mandatory I 12 08 PM Alley 8th 9th and the county jail and license Streets automobile Ch suspended for six months Sentenced by 7:15 PM 23i6 Street resuscltator Uoen lomorrow Babich can Norris Odle Coleman of 3649 40th 8:18 eWst Land Park Drive and Bartley Drive automobile 8 37 Dolores Way end Street false alarm -n komn fnnnsenviir County Judicial District I 12:71 AM 1008 11th Street hotel Women Will Degm tomorrow Ignacio Ruesga of 601 Grand Ave-1 mattress In fka rsArsl For nrlrlitinnal' Bu- Del Paso Heights fined $330 or 30 7:35 1725 Street rubbish and in tne I pool ror aaailionai dv five mandatory days In tail fence formation call GL 2-5451 bv Mun'c'pal Jud9 J- Louilca? 46 AM-626 Street resuscltator 38th Avenue Mrs Adomi contacted the said the resolution reiterating both Sacramento and Yolo make a report to the councir this support was submitted to Counties to cooperate in the 'setting forth Mhether the the directors "in the light of present Febreti said letters sup- drive to eliminate fire haz-( members believe the salaries county utilities maintenance ards in and about homes and of some or all of the depart- department and identified the places of business ment heads should be revised ring as hers.