Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 17

w-m mmm WWW 4 i 4 4 Oct. 24, 1975 SE17 Oakland (Tribune M' i-. w- 1 w. wiw yr i i i if V- -T s- Days of 1 Wine and Neuroses Lee Borden lives out in Contra Costa, got his property tax bill, went into the choking spasm so common to property owners at this time of year, and he sat down and fired off a 7. concerned citizens to Assembly-', speaker Leo McCarthy on -the property tax'v crisis; McCarthys office is prompt They sent back a quick reply thanking him far his letter concern about the malpractice crisis The 'San Leandro Chamber JiflY Commerce KNOWS is just around the They bulletined ibeir; member retail, i stores with: Tisthe season' for.

Us-: ten even before TrtfcI tlM9a fty MIRniici MOOKS Christmas comes loween, and thats imminent. As Albert Berry points out; the hookers along West Mac Arthur already; are going along street calling, out, "Trick YY- NltRSET V. Rangers took to the. water- last night in search reported resident of; the Lafayette Reservoir on. eight-foot alligator V- fhaf Tiight be' responsible for the latest decline in the area duck "population.

Map below. shows area, of A is wherethe gatorwas recently1 9' shows -the reservoir itself, the general search is marsh-area where duets egglthave been line aroun lake indicates, the 2.5 miles of shoreline alligator hunters have. to trek. i yit 1 Oakland has a new sister city, Takoradi, a pgrt in Ghana, bn Africas West Coast. The.

city council ratified the. relationship and Mayor John Reading gave the citys welcome to Ghanas U.S. ambassador, Samuel E. Quarm, who is here for a three-day round of events" to commemorate the new civic tie. TvI have come to formalize and institutionalize -the sister city relationship, Quarm told yesterdays audience in a graceful address.

I bring you greetings from the government and peopteof Ghana atpartictdargr the LityniSEkondl-Takoradi, thq ambassador While traditional diplomacy over the World seems to be having problems, its important that fpeople-to-people sudi as this continue, he added. May the good seed of codperation between Oakland and Takoradi be nurtured into.1laom, he This West African city is the fourth sister. for Oakland, which makes these arrangements through the U.S. State Department sanctioned Sister Cities International program. Like another sister embraced by Oakland earlier this year, Nakhodka, a East Coast port, tne new sister! plans, to' build a container operation for its port which some, day could do business with Oaklands port.

Oaklands other sisters are Fukuoka, Japan, and in. Portugals Madeira Islands. Oak'-, land also has sister ports, a narrower commercial with Nakhodka, Auckland, New Zea-. land, Genoa, Italy, Keelung, Formosa and Manzanil-, Mexico." .4 Ambassador Quarm said an Oakland-based firm; Kaiser Aluminum, is Ghana's largest outside-' invests: fTn cooperation Aith Ksiserrweve' been abWia -create oine of the largest man-made lakes in Africa to supply -power, hot only to Ghana blit: to Togoland and Dahomey as Quarm said. The project he referred to was the damming of the Volta River 12 years ago.

dam" furnishes 70 per cent of the electric power that we use in Ghana and without that, I dont know where we would be, he. said, Kaiser is Ghanas largest power user, he said In a brief press conference in the mayors office, Ambassador Quarm said Ghana already has about 200 students studying )n tlto Bay Area and he hopes they ran he iiHTMOTd, DOUG EATON Three East Bay Water District employes and one Very nervous reporter spent several hours last night 'combing Lafayette Reser- voir for of an things an eight-foot alliga- tor. We didnt find him The district closed the reservoir to the public yesterday because two employes' what appeared' tobea. log floating-: OcU4-L One emploje, Who is from Florida, began to think about the lack of young ducklings hatching in the tules during the past two seasons and that logs dont swim; especially against the cuirentrand cqme to an obvious conclusion-, Hih'cbnclusion set the stage for The Great Alligator Hunt. Four brave hunters, Harry.

t)ano, the districts watershed Ken Van Epps and Bob Nuzum, both wat-; ershed foremen, and a reporter set out in two electric-powered' eight-foot boats and one large barge, with-an outboard motor. As we pulled awa.Y.fror the dock: Dano There; is one administration for the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi. They are fishing and industrial cities with a total population of about 200,000. They' are often referred to simply as Takoradi. Super Wall Supports Jf" i It isnt Oil sober stuff at Meetings' of the Oakland Businessmens Garden Ill have you know.

They even had a luncheon the other day where wives and other women were allowed to attend, and Attyl Koford regaled the audience by holding up ah aberration grown in his own little yktory prden patch two carrots totally entwined in 'each other Koford called infa- tooted carrots and after his discussion the carrots -Were- taken ff for udy- by professor. VHio ultimately may eat them Odd circumstance here, that-; actually may end up os a lawsuit, A guy about 60 had been; going with a woman, now 35, on and off for 1 the better part of seven Finally told her goodbye forever, aind a few days later she wrote him a demand for 419,000 for serviees rendered. lie reasons he wasnt that prolific, and her demand came to about $950 adventure with. her, plus the costs of' wining and dining her on each date. Hes --tefusing-toTwyaennyshe-maj If-a legal precedent is set in her favor.watch of the local -plOyboys' run for o.

o. I have a marvelaus Idea far Livermsrs city fathers. Theyre abaat to create a departmeat sf esmmiaity deveTapmeat and same a new diiectar. yet far mare thaa a I year Jhpyve laaght faath aid Bail tryiag to keep Harlaa Geldermaaa, the mnltimilllai aire develaper, fram creatiag his city far 45,999 peaple, ta be called Las jPasttas, right acrass the highway fram Llvermare folder mana daubtless waald taktke directorship at virtaally aa salary (he daesat ieedthe maaey) aid Livermare waald save maybe $25,999 a year. Of canse, fliey'd have Las Pesltas ia aa time Thirty years ago when Richmond's George and June Vierri got married they gdt crystal stemware and, like other' couple, would be crushed when an occasional glass' would break and their total dwindle.

Got down to only seven of the elegant water glasses left by this week, their 30th anniversary, and naturally1 the pattern can no. longer be Vierras great idea: She had four glasses inscribed, one to each of their four children, as their anniversary present to the kids And a commentary in my running count on the number of almonds in a 15-cent nut; Hershey bar! They running five to the bar, then I ate two with' only four in each, and day I had one with only, three almTonds. Sooner or later -well have to-' quit differentiating between male and female Hersheys. It's a tough for a candy addict. doesnt make 1 sea foam, that delicious spun molasses with a thin chocolate covering, but that was all right because until a while back Edy's did.

Now I dont think Edys does, and thus a -sea foam void. Life's pleasures are few. and I in one of the sonaii boats, each armed with a high-powered flashlight and a spotlight, and the other two searchers in their the same thought crossed everyones mind; What are we going to do if we see VVe did not have to And out. We searched for more than five hours, checking every inch of shoreline VERY. CAREFULLY, but no We did find-two a.raccoon several ducks, thousands of birds', and a lot of -very siispicious-looking logs.

But there was no sign of the two. beady rod eyes that the experts who decided to stay ashore told us to look for reflecting in our search- lights. Dano and I did see a lot of little beady' eyes staring back at our spotlight. But each time I asked him if it was-time to head back to the boathouse, he assured me they were only bullfrogs. While Dano and I were in the 'boathouse trying to think of a good reasqp not to go back out, someone suggested we get about 14 s.

pounds of horsemeat-and lash it ta short lie said to take that out onto the lake Wait for gator to take the bait. Once' he had his 'teeth firmly into the meat one of us was-supposed to kick him in the nose to stun him. and then quickly tie the gator up. We were assured that was the way the professionals in Florida did it. When neither of us was able to come up with a good reason for staying; in the boathouse, we made one last unsuccessful trip around the reservoir.

Dano assured, me he and his courageous band of searchers would look again today. CROCKETT A 60-year-old wall that gave every indication of being and wanting to lie. d(mn presented a problem the Contra Costa County Public Works Department 13-foot vall on Pomona Street; between Second and Sixth avenues was inherited" by the county when the state changed its highway route years ago. v-', The wall could not be removed without damaging adjacent homes below In the process. So, a new wall was built in front of the old, supported by two-foot-diameter concrete columns extending eight feet underground.

v. .1 Ballets Ohjone Show Sold Out Woofle Returns FREMONT The Oakland company performance at Ohlone college tomorrow night is sold put the first time for any ballet presentation except Nutcracker, The college said all 1,400 tickets for the program of contemporary and classical ballet at the new Epler Gymnasium have been sold. Previously, the. company formed in 1961 which -considers the Paramount Theatre of the' Arts in Oakland as its home, has sold out for popular "Nutcracker, but never at a college or out: of-town performance, said Maralyn Stefanic, assist-ant to the company general manager. She credited much better publicity" for the Ohlone sellout and expressed delight at the news.

Tommorrows program will Soiree Musicale, A Streetcar Named Desire, "Bolero, Fantasies," and the Scott Joplin spoof, Rags." The company also. will perform 'Tarantella," a ballet on loan from the Royal Swedish Ballet. At Ohlone, community services assistant Diane Brown said, Obviously, people in the area want this tpe of event. They proved it with Jose Grecos (danc?) performance last spring (sponsored by Ohlone at Walters Junior High School in Fremont). Seven hundred and fifteen tickets were sold jnd more than 500 people were turned away.

As for the scale of prices for the Oakland Ballet performance in Fremont $2 a ticket for adulta and $1 for students she said Ohlone wants to bring community service to the public at prices it can afford. After vanishing on Wedniesday, "Woof ie, 7 wildcat. belonging to Bob and Dorothy Houghtby of Hayward, is home again. Woofie' returned early 1 yesterday just before Houghtby returned home from a night of trying to find him. Houghtby said .7 he received a number of calls accurately describ-ing the cat and informing me that he was seen in a car near 14th and Broadway (in Oakland), on.

Wednesday. After get-' ting a good meal, Woof-' ie spent the rest of the night curled up around Houghtby arm. 1HMN (MM MV WIUMMS At the Mint Julep, Tony Pollack is telling about the doctor and the lawyer who are out fishing when their boat Springs a leak and sinks. Two sharks are in the water and right away they attack the doctor, killing him. But they get one on each side of the lawyer and as the lawyer swims the two sharks escort him safely to the beach.

Professional courte 87 Aid I sart sf liked the gay at the Klags whs caadidly admitted he aid his wife had at last becsoN sexually compatible. last light BOTH s( as had headaches. jL 4,. -iW.