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Fate Couldn't Ground Pilot Fate Couldn't TRANSCRIPT FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1966 Where's The Fire? Following are the fire alarms answered by the Consolidated Fire District during the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. this morning: 9:31 a.m., brush, Ygnacio Valley at Clayton roads, Concord, no damage. 10:20 a.m., resuscitator, 1919 Ygnacio Valley Walnut Creek. 11:27 a.m., lockout, 108 Hubbard Pleasant Hill. 2:56 p.m., grass-fence fire, 1600 Mariam P.H., no damage.

4:09 p.m., fuel spill, 2940 Hannan P.H. 4:11 p.m., washing machine fire, 40 Park W.C. 4:25 p.m., grass, 4715 Tobi Concord, no damage. 5:34 p.m., illegal burn, 143 Margie P.H. 7:14 a.m., broken water main, Orchard Ln.

at Sandra Ct. W.C. Steam Plant Unveiled (Continued from Page 1) country and officials of the firms involved toured the new power-team plant which utilizes three $750,000 Pratt Whitney jet airplane engines. L. A.

Doan, general manager of Dow's Western Division, announced that the power-team unit is the largest such installation in the west and the use of jet engines by Dow for generating power marks the first time private industry has installed such a system in the United States. It is also the first combined unit providing base-load power and steam. Each of the three engines pulls air into its chambers and, powered by natural gas for maximum efficiency and elimination of pollutants, then blasts it into a turbine which generates power. After passing through the turbine the air, heated to approximately 750 degrees, is channeled into a maze of pipes, creating steam from the water being pumped through. The power generated now constitutes 75 per cent of the needs.

but could be increased with no modifications after expiration of the present contract in 1968. Steam is used to concentrate "cell liquors" used to produce caustic soda, an industrial chemical used in a variety of manufacturing processes. "This is an extremely efficient operation," said General Douglas Potts, vice president of the United Aircraft which owns Pratt Whitney. "The only thing we aren't using is the scream of the engine, and we're working on that." In the meantime, he added, insulated housing make the sound inaudible. In praising the system, Doan pointed out that the low-cost power and steam production made possible by the facility enables lower operational cost and enhances the Pittsburg plant's chances of expansion, although there are no concrete growth plans at the present.

Dow operates on approximately 350 acres of some 950 which it owns between Pittsburg and Antioch. Fire Sweeps Through Brush Near Chico CHICO (AP) A fire swept through 1,000 acres of timber and brush 20 miles northeast of Chico, but firemen said the blaze was contained. Nearly 600 men fought the flames and 12 were injured. The injuries ranged from broken fingers and bruises to cracked and head injuries. Chuck Powers, fire information officer for the state Division of Forestry, said most injuries resulted from falls because of the extremely rugged terrain.

The fire was found on land owned by the Diamond International Lumber Co. More than 400 inmates of state correctional camps aided state firemen. Another timber fire north of Redding was stopped after it destroyed an estimated 10 million board feet of lumber in Shasta Trinity National Forest. The flames covered 600 acres. The fire battled by 455 men -threatened briefly the Wyntoon estate of the late publisher, William Randolph Hearst.

PRESCRIPTIONS FREE DELIVERY Concord (Fexall) Drug 2068-SALVIO STREET A PHONE 685-8551 CHARGE IT BANKAMERICARD Nortonville Mine Closing Asked (Continued from Page 1) ganizations from encouraging visits to the Somersville-Nortonville area. MOTION "Their bulletins usually label the place as a point of interest, a good place to visit and explore," complained Fancey. At first there was a motion to write a letter to the East Bay Regional Park District, asking about progress towards converting the area into a large park. This was withdrawn in favor of Linscheid's proposal to refer it to District Attorney Nejedly. Walnut Creek Councilman Newell Case suggested that the responsibility for keeping the public out of the danger area might lie with the owners, members of the Ginocchio family.

Others noted that the Ginocchio's had tried to accomplish this, with only limited suecess. Sheriff's Department patrol cars regularly drive through the area. Leo Armstrong, El Cerrito councilman, noted that wood fences and gates would not be enough to keep young people out of the mine shafts. He proposed metal or steel gates. "It would take them longer to break open a steel gate," he noted optimistically.

Johnson Acts In Air Strike (Continued from Page 1) about $60 million above present pay and benefit standards and the unions have come down on their demands to $80 million or a bit more. Moyers told reporters the negotiators now are talking in terms a 36-month contract instead the 42 months suggestof ed by a presidential emergency board and adopted by the carriers. He said the figures he used of $60-odd million and $80- odd million were on the basis of what the management and labor offers would cost over three years. Later the President said "they aren't too far apart." This was while he was chatting in the entry to the White House executive offices while waiting with Secretary of State Dean Rusk for the arrival of Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain. "I was up practically all night with the strike." Johnson told Rusk.

"I told them they could negotiate this better than Congress or the President." Moving in on the negotiations with an after-midnight summons calling the parties to the White House, Johnson beat Congress to the punch on an effort to dump the dispute into his lap. At the Capitol, the Senate Labor Committee went into unusually early session to round out a measure of its own aimed at ending the strike. KCFT Financial Dilemma Aired (Continued from Page: 1) said Boatwright, and insures that any firm under these conditions raises a substantial sum, before stockholders' initial investments are spent. Of the $170,000 set as the impounding limit, some $50,000 has already been raised, said Boatwright. CRISIS LOOMS He indicated that the station's permit to issue and sell stock runs through October 25, but the crisis will be reached within a few weeks.

Thus far, there are 432 stockholders. Channel 42 has two attorneys, John Mitchell of Pinole, corporation matters; and Lester Spillane of San Francisco, Federal Communications Commission matters, according to Bassett. PROGRAMING The station, located at 817 Challenge Concord, opened its doors February 8. operates from 4 p.m. to midnight, on ultra high frequency, 269.000 watts, visual, and 53,700 watts, oral.

Corporation officers are Bassett, president, Jim Christensen and Ron Orin both of Concord, vice presidents; Frank Marshall of Walnut Creek, treasurer: Vic Kaufenberg of Martinez, secretary. Bicycle Licensing Tabled ANTIOCH Contra Costa County Mayors Conference is not interested in the problems of bike licensing outside the city limits. Conferees last night voted to table a motion which would have increased the size of a committee, established to investigate saying, in effect, "Let the local government handle it." The motion was made by Walnut Creek Councilman Robert Schroder, who described his discussion with Walnut Creek Police Chief Ray Davis and Contra Costa County Fire District Chief Al Streuli. The police are assisting licensing, but are not overjoyed that they are involved, said der. A proposal to license the bikes also at fire stations was met with strong opposition from fire chiefs, said Schroder.

Bike licensing at fire stations would make it convenient for children and parents since the fire stations are de-centralized throughout the area, whereas the police stations are centralized, in the downtown areas, said Schroder. Schroder said the cities should be concerned about bike licensing in unincorporated areas because so many bikes stolen in the outer areas turn up within the cities, without licenses. He had suggested that the study committee be enlarged to include representatives of city managers, sheriff, school and county administrator. Countys' Schools System Hit OAKLAND (AP)-California's county school boards should be put to work or abolished. a member of one such organization told the Assembly Interim Committee on Education Thursday.

"Either give us something to do or abolish us," said Dr. M. K. Fong, of the Alameda County School Board. Dr.

Fong also is the Democratic Party's nominee for the 15th Assembly District. She said county boards play a minor role in California's educational process partly because of the incompatibility of elected school boards working with elected county superintendents. "This gives the appearance of both having a mandate from the people to operate the county school system, which is far from the truth." she said. Dr. Fong recommended that either the board be allowed to appoint the superintendent or the superintendent should retain his elected status and "wipe out the Jeep Crash Kills YVHS Student VALLEJO- Ygnacio Valley High School student died here yesterday following a jeep accident three hours earlier.

Sandra Diaz, 16, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Diaz, 850 Lancashire Concord, died at 12:15 p.m. yesterday at Kaiser Hospital while undergoing surgery for internal injuries. Highway Patrol officers said Miss Diaz was pinned beneath the jeep which overturned after mechanical troubles caused the driver, Alfred Banfield, 19, of Daly City, to lose control.

Banfield told authorities that as he approached the Rindler Dip on Interstate 80 near Vallejo he heard a clanking noise and "something locked." Banfield and two other passengers, Dennis Fiscaro, 17, and Ronald Caserza, 16, both of Daly City, were thrown clear of the jeep as it rolled over. They suffered bruises and pavement burns. Miss Diaz would have been a senior at Ygnacio Valley High this September. Funeral services are pending at Twin Chapels Mortuary in Vallejo. HEARING AIDS BATTERIES REPAIRS EAR MOLDS Geo.

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Description of characters: One girl, 5 feet 4 inches, 110 pounds, dark straggly hair, wearing sweater and sandals; other girl, 5 feet 6 inches, 120 pounds, dark straggly hair, pink short-sleeved blouse, and blue denim pants, sandals. Ansel Adams to Select Photos For City Hall Famed photographer Ansel Adams probably will be chosen to provied a selection his renowned works to decorate the interior of Concord's new city hall, City Manager F. A. Stewart announced today. Stewart said he had conferred with Adams in his ocean home at Carmel 1 this week to discuss a contract for $4,000 to pay for prints, including some of Adams' best known photographs.

Adams is generally considered to be one of history's greatest camera artists, and his works are found in most of the world's outstanding collections. City councilmen will vote on the proposal at an afternoon meeting Monday. Cordelia Cutoff to Open Monday MARTINEZ Opening of the Cordelia cutoff, providing a shorter all-freeway route from the central county to Sacramento, is slated for Monday, state highway department officials announced today. The new road replaces a hilly, winding two-lane road between the Martinez Benicia Bridge and Cordelia, and was built at a cost of $9.5 million. Official opening ceremonies are slated for Aug.

16 with Gov. Edmund G. Brown speaking, but traffic has been okehed for the road beginning Monday, according to resident engineer R. B. Smith.

HIGHWAY FUNDS WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has approved a $10-billion authorization to continue the nation's highway programs for the 1968-69 fiscal year, but the bill's floor manager said increasing costs will require more funds in the immediate future to keep the programs on schedule. IT'S famous CURTAINS for the gold curtain of old Metropolitan Opera as opera star Leontyne Price begins slicing it up for souvenirs. Pieces will be serted in a record album commemorating opening night, starring Miss Price, in September at the Metropolitan's new home in New York City's Lincoln Center. Bridge Deck Agreement Stalled SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Golden Gate bridge officials say no second deck will be built until there is agreement on additional freeway connections to the span. Bridge Director Ben K.

Lerer told the Streets and Transportation Committee of the Board of Supervisors Thursday, "It would only compound our problem to build a second deck with our present approaches." Lerer, speaking for the directors, said the bridge district is confining itself to studies and intends to cooperate closely with city and state authorities. "The lower deck would be confined inside the bridge structure itself." Lerer said. "You wouldn't be able to see it. Anyone who says it would mutilate the bridge does not have the necessary information." Lerer said the span is carrying more than 27 million cars a year, and that when the bridge was completed in 1937 it was estimated the traffic load would. not reach 10 million cars until 1970.

He said the lower deck would not be a replacement for a second crossing to Marin County, but estimated it would be to 20 years" before a new crossing could be built. The lower deck, he said. "would simply give eight to 10 years of safety and comfort to people using the bridge." Antioch Metal Firm Looted ANTIOCH About $123 in cash was taken from Diamond Heating and Sheet Metal Co. 18th Street and Sommersville Road, sometime during the night, police report. The theft was discovered by an employe at 7:30 a.m.

today. According to police entry was gained by breaking a bathroom window. The money was in a small cash box and a small safe. Our Boarding House. with Major Hoople YOU CAN WHAT WOULD WE HEH- -HEH REPOSSESS FROM THE UM, YAS, MR.

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That was the punch fate got in. Since then Robin's been carrying the fight. "We're just doing basic research and devising techniques multi-sensor equipped aircraft," he explained as casually guy next door would disAussie his recipe for flapjacks, "and "Sorry," I apologized, "but we lost you somewhere around 'multi-sensor'." "Oh. Of course. Well, basically "Could we start at the beginning?" age with a broken back.

FLYING He was told he would never walk again. But they didn't say Robin nodded. The beginning went back to 1950. Robin, a forestry-major, joined the University of California's Flying Club that year, earned his private pilot's license under Concord instructor Warren Boggess, and immediately joined the USAF. Months later Robin's jet fighter crashed on a Korea landing strip, and the pilot was lifted from the wreck- anything about flying.

"I had a degree in forestry," Robin mused, "but sitting in a wheel chair, the career prospects didn't look too bright. So I started taking stock. I'd had some experience in reconnaissance flying, and I'd done some work in photography, specializing in remote sensing by specializing in remote sensing by spectral filtration That was the real beginning. Facing what must have seemed an insurmountable object to the pursuit of his original career, Robin stoically stacked a couple of additional technical careers on top of the first, and a new corporation was born. PILOT "I'm still flying Robin added, "but the ground work is piling up.

This month we're going to hire another fulltime pilot to give me time for some of the other project-work. "Less flying will allow me to expand the research engineering phases plan field and flight operations, design and install sensor (camera) systems, interpret aerial photos and work on data reduction. Too, I'm working on my doctorate at UC. "We have all sorts of projects going under contract with government and commercial agencies. For instance, we can determine grain yields by sequential aerial photographs of growing crops, detect mineral outcrops and oil deposits from the air (a highly modernized version of prospecting) devise and test cameras and radar equipment used for military technical surveillance it's a big field." And a big career for a man big enough to get back on his professional feet after fate literally kicked his legs out from under him.

Whites Attack Negroes (Continued from Page 1) sound trucks closed down about 8 p.m. As the crowd broke up, a cluster of white youths rounded Robert Kaufman, a self-proclaimed Socialist, and about a dozen of his companions. Police quickly formed a cordon around them and ed them from the area, but eggs were tossed and before the group had gotten a block away, the crowd had grown larger, louder and more belligerent. Riot police and officers with dogs were rushed to the scene. Plainclothesmen, who had been mingling with the crowd dressed in dirty T-shirts and jeans began pinning on badges.

PAPER LATE? Your Transcript late? Phone 682-6440 if you don't receive it by 6 p.m. Subscribers must call before 7 p.m. to receive service. Members of District 33 of the California Nurses Association, which comprises Eastern and Central Contra Costa County, will hold an open informational meeting Saturday night. A spokesman said meeting would concern the "current situation." More than 2,000 nurses in the Bay Area are threatening mass walkouts August 3 if pay demands are not met by hospitals.

However, only Kaiser Hospital at Walnut Creek is involved in the Bay Area negotiations with the CNA in Central Contra Costa. It isn't clear what actions will be taken by other nurses in the area who have not submitted resignations and in most cases received raises. The meeting is at the Clayton Valley Presbyterian Church, 1578 Kirker Pass at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Meanwhile.

negotiations were rescheduled to resume this afternoon in San Francisco in an effort to avert a mass walkout next Wednesday by some 2,500 nurses who work in 33 Bay Area hospitals. The 33 hospitals involved are making emergency plans for next Wednesday if a settlement is not reached by then. The nurses seek salaries ranging from $500 a month for beginners to $720 a month in the fifth year of employment. The hospitals have offered a range of $475 to $570. Conditional have been submitted by about resignations two-thirds of the registered nurses employed by the hospitals.

Yesterday, medical societes on both sides of the bay appealed for action to avert the threatened walkout. British Plan For Price Tax LONDON (AP) The British government today announced a massive plan for a prices and wages freeze to be fully enforced by law. The economic policy is stiffer than any imposed on prices and wages in World War II or in the years that followed. The proposals designed to save the pound sterling were promptly assailed by industry leaders and there was grumbling from unions. There will be a general standstill on prices and incomes until the end of this year, followed by a six-month period of "severe restraint." The proposals, contained in a white paper, will be written into the Labor government's projected prices and incomes bill aimed at stabilizing the my.

At least six million workersmore than one in four -will lose pay increases currently due them. These include railway, electrical, gas and building trade workers and doctors. The government will have powers to reverse prices or pay Red China's View on War WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. officials say Red China probably will not enter the Viet Nam war because Peking understands U.S. policy is not aimed at the overthrow of the North Vietnamese government.

The U.S. officials told a group of city managers visiting the State Department Thursday that Red China has indicated it is much more likely to enter the conflict if the Hanoi regime is destroyed. GIVE UP MINE DURANGO, Mexico (AP) Durango University students surrendered control of one of Mexico's richest iron mines Thursday and claimed their two-month occupation will result in a steel mill for Durango State. The students threatened to blow up the mine unless the Monterrey firm which takes the mine's production smelted the ore in Durango instead of shipping it to Monterrey. PLANS HALTED WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has approved legislation that would halt, at least temporarily, plans to extend the west front of the Capitol.

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A minister will be able to direct that any price or charge should be reduced "to a level not lower than that prevailing" before July 20-the day Prime Minister Harold Wilson first announced new austerity measures. The government wants the bill to be law Aug. 12 at the latest. The law will automatically lapse after 12 months. Details were worked out at a series of Cabinet meetings just before Wilson left for Washington Thursday.

Economics Minister George Brown outlined the plan to labor and management Thursday night. Two Chicago Youths Shot By Negro Gang CHICAGO (AP) Two shootings today jarred efforts to end violence among South Side Negro juvenile gangs after a week in which two youths were killed and 14 teen-agers, including a girl, were wounded. One of the victims, Floyd Cummings, 16, who was shot in the neck, told police he is a member of the Englewood Disciples. He said he was shot by one of three youths who shouted "mighty Blackstones" apparently a reference to a gang called the Blackstone Rangers when he encountered them on a street corner. John Collins, 19, was shot in the left foot in a street corner attack and police were trying to learn what gang was involved.

Cummings and Collins were taken to hospitals where their conditions were termed good. Police and social workers continued efforts to enlist young gangsters in a peace movement. Another shooting incident early today involved harassment of firemen summoned twice to extinguish a small fire in a private garage. Chief Andrew Schubert of the fire department's eighth battalion said about 15 Negro youths gathered in an alley where firemen put out a small blaze caused by a rubbish fire. A shot was fired from the group, SCHubert said, and about three minutes later there were four more shots.

None of the firemen or trucks were hit. Police called to the scene arrested a pistol-toting Negro youth about 50 yards from the fire. He was taken in for questioning. Three hours later firemen went back to the scene to extinguish flames inside the garage. Schubert said the fire was caused by ignited paper wads thrown into the structure.

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