Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 26

StR I ALL Of MARIN COUNTY THIRD SECTION Nov. 10, 1965 'SLIM FOR S. J. (Lefty) Sturiale (left) and George Fontes weigh part of the 1,200 pound catch of crab brought back to Sausalito yesterday by boat, the Mary Lou. They and other fishermen termed the CRAB CATCHERS first catch and slim as compared with previous years in which boats returned from each trip with 6.000 or 7,000 pounds of crab.

(Independent-Journal photo) Novato Council Set Rules Corona Hired For Four More Years The San Rafael Board of Edu- cation last night agreed to renew Supt. Bert C. Corona's contract for four years next July 1. Action was taken in a closed session following the regular meeting. Board members agreed to talk later about any possible increase in $20,000 annual salary, he said.

The matter was brought up now to conform with the state education code, which requires school districts to renew or cancel contracts six months in advance of their expiration. The board also voted in the closed session to expell a student, but Corona declined to give details. Board members postponed tion on renewing the i student teaching agreement with San Francisco State College after San Rafael High School Principal Alfred N. Thomson complained that the program needed a drastic review. time has come to discuss this with San Francisco State and the other he said.

think they have come to realize they have a good thing going here. Yet we get very little in Thomson said the presence of student teachers in classes often proves a burden for the master teacher, and the token amount i paid the schools by each college does not make up for this. Corona promised he would look into the problem. The San Rafael Board Of Education Also: 1. Hired Mrs.

Rosai Hempstead to teach social studies at San Rafael Hitjh School at a salary of S4.372.40 yearly. 2. Adopted policies changing the procedure for evaluating teachers and permitting transfer of sick leave from other districts. 3. Told Corona to draw up a Subdivision Map Gains Approval Mill Valley planning commissioners last night recommended city council approval of a revised map for the William S.

Allen subdivision in Blithedale Canyon, including recommendation that 12 acres be accepted by the city as open area. Commissioners discussed proposed uses for the west peak of Mount Tamalpais, now the site of the 666th Radar Squadron, and indicated interest in the area becoming an of the or a large picnic area. The site is to be relin- guished as an air base in cember. 1966. The commission set for Nov.

130 at 8 p.m. a work session with businessmen on the future of Mill commercial areas. revised sabbatical policy which i would reduce the total number ot teachers gone at any one time from five per cent to two per I cent ot the faculty, and would re- i quire anyone planning to leave in mid-1967 to submit plans by next October. 4. Urued Corona to study how the schools best use the city recreation program to com-! plement our overall program." The board earlier said it would cut its contribution to city recreation.

5. Instructed Corona to invite about 25 architects to apply for the job of designing the planned elementary school in Peacock Gap 6. Called for bids on rehabilitation of the main building at San Rafael High School, expect- ed to cost $678.000. Bids will be opened at 3 p.m. Dec.

9 7. Acknowledged that Tele-Vue Systems of Marin has connected its cable antenna system to tele- vision sets at Oliver Hartzell and Santa Venetia schools without charge. Stephen A. Duff Jr. is presi- i dent of the Teen-Age Republi- 1 cans of Marin.

Prep Forensics Event Likely To Draw 700 Seven hundred members of Bay Area Forensics Societies are expected to attend the Redwood High School Forensics Touranment next Jan. 8. Forensics Society is organizing the tournament, an ail day affair, which will include individual competition speech events. Officers of the Redwood club are. President, Bill Niccolls; vice president, Linda Fitzgerald, and secretary, Lucia Blakeslee.

COUNTER-PICKETS WITH SEX APPEAL Cocktail waitresses at the Ark. floating restaurant aboard the old ferry boat Charles Van Damme at Waldo Point, turned the tables late yesterday on Bartenders and Culinary Workers Union Local 126 pickets demonstrating for a union contract. Peggy Mekeel, the girl at left. was joined by her brother Michael, next to her, along with Linda Knight and a second man. Union picket, with back to camera, seems discouraged by the counter-action.

The union continued picketing today, however. (Independent-Journal photo) Marin Citv Trio Held 3 £um maehine at year-old youth was cited to ju- the Sausalito Coin Laundrv, 518 venile court, but released to his In Gum Ball Theft Caledonia street. 1 parents. Three young men from Marin Striplln, of Mouse wmiam R. Seeger is general City were arrested by Sausalito £.50 and Horace du Pont, 18.1 manager and chief engineer of police last night and charged or 218 Drake Avenue, were i the Marin Municipal Water Dis! with stealing 389 gum balls I placed in county jail, and a 17-1 trict.

Barring Conflict Of Interest The Novato Ci Highway 101. This is to be a joint project with the State Division of Highways. 4. Continued until Nov. 23 hearing on John Novak and Alfred request for re- 1.

Hired Neil J. Brodsgar and Edward P. Morphy of San Rafael to appraise four proposed park sites: Pioneer Memorial Park, the Arroyo Vichi Creek site, the Stafford Lake Lions Club park, and a second park site in San Marin. fee is not to exceed $1,050, and not to exceed $1.250. 2.

Awarded Glulotti Brothers of San Rafael a contract for asphalt overlay of Sunset Parkway and Olive Avenue at $9,999, lowest of six bids received. 3. Hired George S. Nolte, con- culting engineer, at $9.500 to survey property needed for realignment of the Diablo-DeLong Avenues intersection with realigned Wig Thief Hits For Third Time A wig-stealing thief, adapting the old adage today and gone has struck again. This time he lifted a wig worth $475 off a mannequin at Coiffeurs, 117 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael, during a five-day absence of the operator, Helen L.

Bettencourt, police reported today. He also took spray and perfume worth $24. On Oct. 29 about $2.000 worth of wigs were stolen from a shop in Novato. On Nov.

1, six wigs totaling $1.525 in value were stolen from a shop in San Rafael's Ncrthgate Shopping Center. William A. Trewhella is president of the San Anselmo Chamber of Commerce. Council Also: zoning from single-family to commercial of property east of Highway 101 and north of Novato Creek. 5.

Postponed until next Tuesday consideration of the map of Marin Riviera, part of the Scottsdale development west of Highway 101 at Sunset Parkway, and Olompali Investment request for rezoning from single to multiple family of a lot at Railroad and Olive avenues. 6. Agreed to suggestion of Edward W. Adams, parks and recreation director, that a recreation supervisor to be hired in January be assigned a senior citizen program as part of his duties. Novato senior citizens had asked city help in planning a program.

7. Authorized city employees to hold an election on whether to change from Social Security to the state retirement system. i. Declared two copying machines surplus, leaving it to City Manager Baget how to dispose of them. 9.

Learned that the State Division of Highways has $159,500 left from last apportionment which will be used to acquire right of way between Highway 37 and Atherton Avenue for the new Highway 101 freeway route. Gilbert Retained On Water Board Jerome B. Gilbert of Novato, manager of the North Marin Water District, has been reappointed by the governor as a member of the Regional Water Quality Control Board of the San Francisco Bay Region. Gilbert has been general manager of the North Marin Water District for seven years. He is president of the Eel River Flood Control and Water Conservation Assn.

and adviser to the board of the Feather River Project Assn. W. L. Howell William L. Howell of yesterday was elected president of the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, succeeding B.

J. Talbot. Howell, who runs his own public relations firm, W. L. Howell, in is also president of the Belvedere-Tiburon Sharks Lions Club and was recently instrumental in bringing Ismat Dajani.

a Lion from Jordan, to visit Marin. Howell also organized the re- cent Boulevard highway dedication for the chamber. Other officers elected are i Donald Lethbridge, vice presi- i dent; Mrs. Evelyn Pierroz. sec- retarv.

and Allan P. Gipson, treasurer. Elected to the board I of directors were Talbot, Frank Carde, Brooke Halsey, Phillip Buskirk, David Allen and Wil- liam Rafter. In a talk after the luncheon meeting at the Dock restaurant, chamber members told that it would probably be at least five years before Angel Island State Park is opened to private commercial enterprises to any great extent. of restaurants and hotels will be said R.

L. Brock of the State Department of Parks and Recreation. the park still has a long way to go even through we are making progress. have a supervisor and 10 men living out there now working as a full-time cleanup crew under a $92.000 budget this year from the State Look for this scene on Picture Packs of 12 oz. no-return bottles! Now at your favorite food or beverage store colorful picture packs of refreshing Miller High Life beer.

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They provide, among other things: 1. Members must declare all real property which they own on accepting appointment to a commission. 2. They must vacate their chairs during discussion of any request from organizations of which they are members. The rules also call for commission members to declare by October of the year in which a term expires whether they wish reappointment.

Proliferation of wooden foot bridges, like the one completed recently over Warner Creek on South Novato Boulevard, was indicated as the council asked cost estimate for such a bridge over Novato Creek at Grant Avenue. The public works director is to present the estimate at the next meeting, next Tuesday at 8 p.m. Bonds for two assessment districts were sold to the low bidders. The $17.411 issue of Center Road Improvement District No. 2 went to Tannen, Winslow and Co.

of Beverly Hills at 5.1 per cent interest with $11 premium. The $23.467 issue of Olive Avenue Drainage District to Stone and Youngberg of San Francisco at 5.5 per cent interest with $56 premium. WILLIAM L. HOWELL New trade group leader New Chamber President Is Picture Park of six 12 07 no-return bottles.