Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 15

-r ''X V-'-' i in I about a mile and a half from the Wiltsey's $250,000 home, as are many of the residents of this suburban community tranquil hills and prinie, expensive homes. Her body was found hidden in brush-about 40 yards off the paved jogging that she used about three timer a week. the reservoir, and sheriffs office teams began the search using helicopters and bloodhound teams. Mrs. Wiltsey dropped her son off at school at 9 a.nu no one has reported seeing her after that.

Her husband, an executive in Kaiser Steel's purchasing department, was out of town, but returned last night and went into seclusion. Investigators are. now looking for any joggers who may have seen Mrs. Wiltsey before she encountered her killer. Lafayettt What- the motive was if there was one police investigators simply do not know.

There was no apparent sexual attack. Robbery obviously was not it There were no signs of a struggle, and the victim had no known But the body of 40-yearold Ar-mida Wiltsey, wife of Kaiser Steel executive Boyd T. Wiltsey, was found strangled near Lafayette Reservoir late Tuesday night, clad in jogging clothes. Mrs. Wiltsey was a regular jogger around the scenic reservoir.

It was discovered at 10:30 p.m. after worried neighbors and Mrs. Wiltsey's housekeeper notified the sheriffs office after she failed to pick up" her son, Jeff, 10, from Vallecitos School. Mrs. Wiltsey's car was later found parked at the entrance to Subsidized cab fares for elderly begin in Oakland by Havelock Hunter Staff Writer Oakland It became an unex'" pected luxury and a far cheaper one for Oakland's elderly and handicapped to hail a taxi yesterday.

The opportunity came with the start of the city's subsidized taxi service for older citizens and the eligible can buy $10 worth of taxi coupons for $2. The get back what they've put 'into the city of Oakland." The agency plans to also sell coupons at its other offices, and will send out people to get applications for coupons from people confined at home. The yearlong program is being financed through a $190,000 state grant arrangea by the the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Inquiries may be made by calling the center at 632-2923. "I live alone and have no car, and BART and AC Transit buses are too far from my home," said another.

A fleet of 200 cabs will be available to coupon holders. Reliable Taxi Cab Co. is the prime contractor, although Yellow, City, Coliseum and Associated Cab companies also will honor coupons. Program supervisor Art Watson said the service "will be one of the better programs the city is offering senior citizens. These people have earned a chance to Oakland Community Action Agency will pay the rest of the cost.

An enthusiastic crowd of elderly people was outside the agency's center at 7800 MacArthur where the coupons went on sale, even before the doors were opened for the day, and receptionist Vernessa Wilson fielded many telephone calls asking about the new program. have a problem with my eyes and I don't drive." said a woman who wanted coupons to A be driven to a Grev hound bus sta Middle Ground Island will stay put after all tion so she could go to Sonora to visit her son. 7 that thie official apparently based his statements on drawings included with the dredging permit applications. The drawing seems to show alt of Middle Ground Island as the dredging site, when actually only the shoal areas on the south ana cast sides of the island will be dredged. Concord Middle Ground Island may not be disappearing from Suisun Bay after all.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said last week that commercial sand dredging firms were seeking permits to eliminate the island. But further checking disclosed VMv wife and I have heart trouble and we can't drive or ebnb the hill to our home with shopping bags," explained a retired truck driver. Hai BULLY FOR TEDDY There was a special guest at the student assembly at Horner Junior High School yesterday. A famous historical figure, Theodore Roosevelt (actor and former teacher Bob Boyd), accompanied by a 'secret service visited the Fremont school to deliver a speech in his own inimitable style.

Teddy told the students firsthand about some of his more interesting experiences, such as forming the Rough Riders, leading the charge up Kettle Hill at San Juan, becoming 26th president when William McKinley was killed, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating peace between Japan and Russia in 1905, and making the Panama Canal possible. He also organized the Progressive Party, better known as the Bull Moose Party, in 1912. Property tax bills late, Prop. 13 gets the blame the boot! well-heeled stacked for fall by Bandolino -Ally" a low stacked boot teak-brown or black calf with inside zipper. $70.

-Dewv" with high stacked heel-camel, navy, brown or black calt with inside zipper. $72. Sizes: 6-12; M. 4-12 Sim imp, W. IJ 00 mri Oakland Now that property tax bills have been slashed nearly in half because of Prop.

13, Alameda County. residents are getting their bills much The bills total about S233 million 57 percent less than the S543 million that would haw been billed if Prop. 13 hadn't passed. Another aftereffect of Prop. 13, Krause said, is that many more people arc now paying their annual in? property taxes in one instead of two installments, because the bills arc so much less than usual.

Those who have not paid their full tax in the first installment must pay a second installment by April 2. later than usual. County switchboards have been clogged recently by phone calls from taxpayers demanding to. know where their bills are. Such bills arc usually mailed out, by law, on Nov.

I. But the authors of Prop. 13 unwittingly did more than cut property taxes. They also fouled up tax Frank Krause, county tax collector, says most of the bills are now in the mail, with the remainder due to arrive by Monday. "If they don't get them by Monday, they should call my office," he said.

The problem came, he explained, because of the delays caused by the county's futile suit challenging Prop. 13 ana its financial inability, because of Prop. 13 to hire extra' help to catch up with the bill mailings. Krause' office has been shipping out the property tax bills at the rate of 13,000 a day. New attorney to take Exxon case Vallcjo A state investigator was improperly appointed to prosecute a criminal case arising from three deaths at Exxon's Benicia refinery last January, a municipal court Judge ruled here yesterday.

The Judge said the Solano County district attorney's office did not have the authority to make a special prosecutor out of John Hawkes, an attorney and chief of the investigative bureau of the state Department of Industrial Safety, A deputy district attorney will now take the case. The three employees died by carbon monoxide poisoning as they were cleaning a processing tank. Exxon and David Machado, a former supervisor now demoted, each have been charged with ordering the. men to enter the tank without safety tnsido Eastbay Stories Garbage bursts pipe 16 Dymally cries 'foul' .....17 EBMUD to collect Piedmont tax 20 Two candidates for Vukaaln seat 21 Livennora recycling falls short 24 Grand Juries still aliv 25 Eastbay deaths 26 Prop. IS crunch In 1980 28 Ftxrtum Area Digest 16 Funerals 27 Obituaries equipment and without protection against tne misdemeanor violations of the labor code.

13 for hearing Exxon' The judge set Dec. motions. 19th, Broadway, OAKLAND Oakland open MON night until 8:00. 1915 Broadway. Oakland.

Ca. 94612 Ma4 wd PNxw Cdra Prornptty FM PIm OMUAND SM4 FRANCISCO H. CfRRITO RCHMONO WAU Exxon has already been cited by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration for four major and three minor violations which led to a $1,200 fine. The company is appealta five of the seven citations. r- 7 Tr a-.