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OaManfc (Tribune CONTRA CO ST A COUNTY Mar. 7,1 978 ECC 21 Prehistoric relics want tosf mm Richmond retains lobbyist John A. Kidder will continue as RICHMONDS state lobbyist He will push in state government for construction of the citys long-sought Hoffman Freeway among otherduties on behalf of Richmond. The City Council has renewed its contract with him through "Dec. 31.

It calls for Kidder to be paid 50 an hour up to a maximum of 92,000 a month. Kidder was at one time a member of the San Francisco School Board. Council approves appointment The newest member of the CONCORD Status of Women Committee is Francie Moeller. intment has been ancil, replaces Terry A. last month.

Moeller, whose appol pproved by the City Cou lloomer, who resigned la The new member has been working with the committee on affirmative action and as liaison from the Business and Professional Women. She has also served as a rape crisis counselor. By ANDY JOKELSON Staff Writer SAN- PABLO Atop a mound along San Pablo Creek sit apart-, ments and the Idle Wheels mobile home park. Beneath its 'surface lie. centuries of Indian civilization.

The American Indian Council, whose office is nearby, hopes to see the day when the apartments and trailer park are removed from the site ana nothing else is put on it The council also would like to see an Indian educational and cultural center established near it The council considers the mound as sacred ground that was desecrated. in the 1960s by vandals and others. In 1969, a construction crew excavating the mound in preparation for laying the foundation for the apartment complex uncovered bones and Indian artifacts. That spawned a rush of archaeologists ana archaeology students to the site, and they were given permission to dig for more relics while the construction crew worked cm another portion of it. The brief archaeological dig unearthed skulls, bones, obsidian implements, abalone pendants, shell beads, stone mortars and pestles, and other remnants of an ancient Indian world.

One anthropologist said at the time that the artifacts and remains may date back to the period from between 2000 years before Christ and 500 A.D. He said the artifacts seemed to be from the Costanoan culture, but that there was also evidence of Miwok Indians. George Coles of the anthropology department at Contra Costa College here feels the mound was the major ceremonial center for a large area, possibly for all of the area south to Berkeley and north as far as the Carquinez Strait or farther. Lucy Little, program coordinator of the American Indian Council, said most of what was unearthed in 1969 is at Sonoma State College. The council says other artifacts and mains from the mound are in businesses, homes and offices, being used as ashtrays, paperweights, doorstops, trash receptacles and displays.

The council, in a successful application for 810,000 in federal community funds from the city, said such use of these objects Is degrading and humiliating to our people. The council hopes to get the mound included by the federal government in the National Register of Historic Places. Little, a Sioux from South Dakota. feels this could pave the way for gaining state and possibly federal funds for acquisition of the mound Corporation seeks dredging permit The Willamette Western of 135 Cutting Richmond, has applied for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit to dredge 250,000 cubic yards of sand per year for five years from the bottom of Suisun Bay near PORT CHICAGO.

The sand will be used to make concrete. The proposed dredging area is 2,000 by 900 feet long ana located due north of Middle Point and west of Middle Ground Island. This would supersede a permit issued to the same company last April. The Army set' March 23 as the deadline for filing public comments on the proposal. TheArmy said the activity would have no significiant effect on the quality of the human environment.

TrtmcpkMWnnftlCSI A 1969 photograph shows stono mortar and postlo from vanished Indian culture and nearby property from its private owners by the city, and removal of the structures -on it She said perhaps the mound could be fenced off. She wants to ensure no further desecration of it, and talked of reinterring objects taken. Monte Hess, the citys community development director, said the notion of moving the trailers and' apartments off the mound hasnt even been discussed on a formal basis by the city. He said there are no plans to do so and "I dont see it in the immediate future. He said there has been discussion in the past about creating some kind of cultural center to reflect not only San Pablos Indian heritage, but also its rich Mexican-American and Portuguese roots.

Upcoming displays at Blume House in San Pablos Alvarado Square will deal with those ethnic groups local rpots. The American Indian Council has hired a researcher, Larry Gonzales, with federal manpower funds to do a study of San Pablos Indian heritage. The 810,000 earmarked for the council from the city would be used for nonsalary expenses of this study. The mound is just north of the intersection of Church Lane and' San Pablo Avenue less than a block from Alvarado Square, where the city is reconstructing the landmark Alvarado Adobe. Californias first native-born governor, Juag, Bautista Alvarado, lived in the original adobe from 1848 until his death in 1882.

Alhambra principal resigns Frank Walsh, principal at Alhambra High School in MARTINEZ for the past six years, has resigned effective at the end of the current school year to become a counselor. Walsh requested the transfer which was ed to this week by the Martinez Board of lucation. School talk show to be aired Have you ever wondered who is responsible for decisions at the MT. DIABLO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT administration building? Pat Howlett, district information officer, will discuss the district and other subjects of interest on KVHS, 90.5 FM at 7 pm Other areas Howlett will touch upon on the radio phone-in talk show will include important events and issues affecting the district, the Jarvis-Gann tax initiative and the after-effects of the recent teacher strike. Persons wishing to question the information officer are invited to call the talk show at APARTMENT BUILDING SITS ON ANCIENT INDIAN CIVILIZATION Artifacts and remains may data back to 2000 years before Christ Redevelopment agency moves offices The RICHMOND Redevelopment Agency has moved uptown into temporary quarters at the citys community services building on Macdonald Avenue adjoining Civic Center.

Its former downtown headquarters at 330 12th St. been sold to a private firm. The agency was to move to the Richmond Mercantile Center until permanent offices at the Winters Building are ready for it, but delays in preparing the quarters at the Mercantile Center brought a change in Brookside nurses gets notice of strike SAN PABLO Brookside Hospital received a 14-day strike notice yesterday from the California Nurses Association. deadline for the start of the day shift on Monday, March 20. The.

strike notice accused Brookside administrators of stalling and IttoMlMNWIlUfSI INDIAN GOUNCIL WANTS MOUND NAMED HISTORIC SITE Martin Waukazoo (left), Lucy Little and Teresita Garcia School fact-finding panel named The three-man fact-finding panel which will make key recommendations on 1977-78 pay and fringe benefits for teachers in the JOHN SWETT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT has been named. Keith Breon, the districts legal adviser, is its appointee, while Jonn Young of the California Teachers Association, with which the Johp Swett Education Association is affiliated, will represent JSEA, Both sides picked David Girard, who teaches education law, collective bargaining and finance at the University of California in Santa Barbara, as the neutral chairman. i Differences between JSEA and the district over terms of a contract for the teachers led to the fact-finding stage. Meanwhile, JSEA has presented a 1978-79 contract proposal calling, among other things, for a pay raise of 12 percent plus a percentage equal to whatever the rate of increase in the cost of living for the current year turns out to be. 5X bad-faith bargaining tactics" by at the public hospital, set the to agree to call in a conciliator or mediator.

Union The CNA had asked on Feb. 16 for agreement to call in a conciliator, but the hospital has refused. A spokesman said the CNA would now resume negotiations only at the call of a neutral third party, such as a state conciliator. Hospital Administrator Jed Stuart later said, As of last Friday, we gave them seven different meeting times. He was planning to talk over strategy today with hospital lawyers and his chief negotiator.

Personnel Manager Charles Phillips. The two sides are at odds mainly over non-economic matters such ss shift rotations and overtime provisions. They have agreed to be bound cm pay matters by the settlement reached In bargaining under way between the CNA and both. Kaiser Hos pitals and Associated Hospitals of the East Bay. MARTINEZ Two pickets have appeared at 8 restaurant opened here a year ago by the mother of Rep.

George Miller, D-Marttnez, in an effort to force five employees into the union. Dorothy Miller and her attorney, An tone Fahden, said the issue is whether the employees should be made to Join the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 28, against their will. Jim Calvarese, the unions assistant secretary-treasurer, and at a decision. She said she replied to the union March 1 the employees wete free to do what they wanted. Cannata and Calvarese met with the employees Friday and the employees refused to Join.

Fahden said employees explained they are working part time, that they do' not Intend to make careers of the business and do not need the fringe benefits. The restaurant, Rumseys in an old house a block from the courthouse, serves lunch only. Tony Cannata, business representative of the' countys Central Labor Council, said it is standard procedure in organizing a small establishment to sign a contract with the owner, toeing the employees in. We were hesitant to do this, Cannata said. We did not want to embarrass George.

His voting record has been 100 percent and we endorse him. Mrs. Miller said the union handed her a contract Feb. 27 and gave her two days to arrive dub OKs girl members Girls will still be girls in PITTSBURG, but they now have a new place to do their thing: the fittsburg Boys Club. Far the first time since it opened 30 years Ago, the boys club will be accepting girls as members.

In the part, girls had been allowed to use the club facilities on Wednesday nights but could not Join the dub, a policy set by the national organization. Now, for 1 a year half the membership fee charged to boys the girls can become members and use the club on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I.