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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK By BULL ROBERTS Hard Knocks On The Gridiron Hard Route To Correction Parents, administrators, trustees, students, athletes, teachers, school staff everyone seems concerned about the Redwood High School athletic field. Redwood final football contests had to be moved to other fields this year after the own gridiron was declared unsafe because its surface is so hard it results in injuries. There is an $85,000 restoration project in the works (which was being considered before the present problem) to put new soil and turf on the field. A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE comes to mind which offers a contrast to the Redwood situation. In 1969 and for many years before my senior year in high school, the Tonopah Muckers (Tonopah being the capital of the Great played all their home games on a dirt field.

It seemed appropriate, since a mucker is a miner who shovels dirt. And not just unseeded sod or some other tongue-twisting falsity. We played on hard- packed dirt They used to give us a break from time to time and water down the dirt, but that usually provided no more than temporary relief from the dust. Although not claiming to be anything unusual, since all my teammates carry similar Proxmire Hits Waste In Weapons Spending WASHINGTON (UPI) The Pentagon paid as much as five times more for weapons and electronic equipment by failing to ask for bids, according to Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis.

He released a study yesterday detailing 20 cases in which the Defense Department on average spent twice as much buying materiel from single suppliers than it would have laid out under competetive bidding. The study, said Proxmire, the most serious questions about the willingness of the Pentagon and the defense industry to cut costs. The study included procurement of the Hawk. Bullpup, Shillelagh and Talos missiles, the Rockeye bomb, the Mark 48 toipedo and a variety of com- Pianist Will Open Festival Mark Naftalin, a pianist with the Michael Bloomfield-Mark Naftalin Band, will open the KTIM-FM Giving Music Nov 23 at 8 p.m at the Marin Veterans Memorial Building. Naftalin will sing and play original compositions, as well as boogie-woogie, blues and country-western music.

The Sons of Champlin and Doug Sahm, whose current band includes several former members of his Sir Douglas Quintet, will also perform. plex electronic gear for airplanes purchased mostly during 1965-70, when the Vietnam war was in full swing. The Defense Department had no immediate comment, but a spokesman said its position would be explained at the hearings of Joint Economic subcommittee on priorities and economy in government this week. The Wisconsin senator released the study as a prelude to three days of hearings on purchase of weapons systems cases analyzed show an average price reduction of 51.9 per cent after competition is brought into the picture, Proxmire said, meaning the Pentagon paid double what was necessary before it let competitive bids. The committee study said competitive bidding could be used for procuring complex, high-technology items.

Pentagon arguments that only marginal producers were interested in competitive bidding were demonstrably untrue, it added. Major firms entered the picture each time competition was opened Lindsay Dinner NEW YORK (UPI) More than 7,500 New Yorkers have been invited to attend a $100- per-person black-tie cabaret and dance honoring Mayor John V. Lindsay at the Lincoln Center in December. Floating on Air Cruising over fog-bound San Francisco, this Goodyear blimp is a nostalgic reminder of the era of lighter-than-air travel. Its name is said to be a contraction of the World War I British designation, Type The Goodyear blimp Columbia and its sister ship America are each 192 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 59 feet tall.

In the field of air travel, they offer unique performance statistics. Cruising speed is 35 miles per hour; top speed is 51 miles per hour. Two b-cylinder engines get 3.2 miles per gallon of 100 octane fuel under normal cruising conditions. DO YOU KNOW With whal gas are blimps filled? ANSWER The astronauts will ob serve the comet Kahoutek 11 12 73 1973 VfC. Inc Grand Ole Opry Player Is Slain wounds, my arms and legs still retain scars from the fist-sized rocks which often found their way onto the field.

It an ideal situation and admittedly we were only a break-even team with about a .500 record my senior year. But we did have fun in spite of the typical coaching attitude of at all And the cuts, bruises and more serious injuries we suffered playing and practicing on the dirt were a part of our life. THIS TO SAY that the Redwood field should not be repaired and it say that injuries are a good thing. It is simply offered as a contrast. The citizen of Tonopah raised funds for putting grass on the field through donations.

The entire sodding project was completed with citizen labor on a week end. Many equipment items were donated and public expense was minimal The Redwood project, however. may take a different route to the citizen direct to his pocket book. It has been predicted that $80,000 for the project can be raised by levying an additional two-cent tax override. In the Tonopah case, as with the Redwood project, concerned individuals realized it was time to do something to protect the youngsters involved.

But the approaches to the problem provide a contrast. NASHVILLE. Tenn. (UPI) The lanky (Stringbean) of the Grand Ole Opry and David Akeman, and his wife were shot to death early yesterday when they returned from a performance and apparently surprised burglars at their isolated farm home. The bodies of Akeman, 58, and his wife, Estelle, 60, were found by another Opry star, Louis (Grandpa) Jones, who arrived just after dawn to pick them up for a fishing trip.

Akeman was sprawled on the living room floor, his wife lay in weeds about 20 yards from the red frame house that sits on a 300-acre lot at the end of a country road. They had been shot to death by burglars, police said. Investigation sources said about $5,700 was found hidden on the bodies last night at a funeral home, it was reported. Akeman was said to have had about $3,500 in a secret pocket of his bib coveralls and about $2,200 was found in a tobacco sack in Mrs. bra, it was reported.

Metro Detective Lt. Tom Cathey had said earlier that police believed Akeman had been carrying several thousand dollars. house had been ransacked and they apparently were looking for money which Mr. Akeman Stringbean, was thought to have been Cathey said. all indications, he came home and surprised them in the act and was said Cathey.

He said Akeman was shot once. Mrs. Akeman, 60, who apparently was in the car when her husband entered the home and fled when she heard the shot, was felled by three shots. Cathey would not say what the thief or thieves made off with, but what they did not get was a priceless banjo willed to Akeman by the legendary Un- DAVID AKEMAN Wife also murdered cle Dave Macon. The five-string instrument was found sitting on the porch of the farm house Cathey said detectives were questioning four persons yesterday, but he declined to call them suspects.

He said seven bank books were found in the three-room home. Sources said the books showed the simple- living Stringbean had salted away more than a half a million dollars Akeman put in what was to be his last performance at the Grand Ole Opry, which he joined in 1942, Saturday night. His wife drove him home because he did not drive. Cathey said he believed Mrs. Akeman drove their Cadillac, although, officers earlier thought they had taken the family station wagon, which was found abandoned in an old rock quarry about a mile and a half from the 300-acre farm after the slayings.

The reports vary as to bow Akeman gained the nickname Stringbean. One story has it he picked it up from his favorite vegetable. Pair Linked To Slaying Of Two Men STOCKTON (UPI) Two bodies tossed carelessly among tall water reeds in the remote Sierras brought to 18 today the number of killings linked to massacre suspects Douglas E. Gretzler and Willie L. Steelman.

Arizona and California detectives investigating a two-state murder spree found the bodies yesterday in the tules near Knights Ferry, at a location pinpointed by the jailed suspects. Gretzler, 22, and Steelman, 28, were definitely linked with 18 cold-blooded murders that began in Arizona in mid-October and climaxed last Wednesday with the slaying of nine persons in the tiny Northern California town of Victor. The slashed bodies found yesterday were believed to be those of Mike Adshade and Ken Unrein, both 21, who were naped in Phoenix, Ariz. Oct. 16.

The suspects told detectives they killed the two kidnap victims because they kept pleading to be freed. On Saturday, again led by directions from the suspects, Pmai County deputies in Arizona found a body buried head down in a sleeping bag near Superstition Mountain. They suspended the search for another unidentified body until more information was obtained. In addition. Gretzler and Steelman were also suspected in the murder of two Arizona couples in Apache Junction and Tucson, and were linked to the slaying of Gilbert R.

Sierra in Tucson Nov 2. Authorities were also checking the possibility that a 19th victim might have been a young man who was beaten to death near Sunnyvale, the day the pair is suspected of stealing a car there Monday, November 12, 1973 9 Police Seeking Clues In Foster's Murder OAKLAND (UPI) Police detectives examined school board records and laboratory tests today for clues to the assassination of Dr. Marcus A. Foster, Oakland schools superintendent whc was gunned down last week. Gose friends of the Foster family, meanwhile, had received hundreds of requests to attend funeral services for the 50-year-old black native of Athens, who was highly respected because he brought relative peace to the troubled Oakland school system.

The list of prominent officials who said they would attend the funeral included governors, mayors and senators, education officials from Oakland. Philadelphia, where Foster was formerly assistant superintendent, and Washington, and California state and federal education officials and at least a dozen clergymen. An evening tribute in the Oakland Coliseum was expected to attract thousands of members of the community. The morning after the killing, photocopies of typewritten four- page letters from the bionese Liberation began arriving at newspapers and broadcast stations. The letters said Foster and Blackburn had been sentenced by court of the to death by Authorities at first dismissed the claim because they had never heard of the group.

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