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Martinez News-Gazette from Martinez, California • 6

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'i PAOB SIX CONTRA COSTA GAZETTE MARTINEZ CALIFORNIA Wednesday i mcma PERCENI COMPlfTE Thirty-one per cent of Stock ton' $6000000 deep water project haa been completed That waa the report today of Valter Coffey federal engineer incharge of dredging in disclosing progreaa made up to June 1 Coin-cidently he announced that epeci ficationa for excavation of approx imately 1500000 cubic yards of material from the channel in the vicinity of Hog and Spud Island are now in Washington for approval Bids for the unit will be called for shortly Progress Cited Three auction dredgers two clamahell machines and one dragline dredge are now engaged on the project Progress to date of the machines in operation follow: With two auction dredgers work- ing on the main turning basin at Mormon channel an in the channel in front of the Boggs Tract the Hydraulic Dredging Company has removed a total of 878705 cubic yards of dirt on its contract to excavate 2417250 yards The two machines took out 784270 cubic yards in May Speedy Progress The San Francisco Bridge Company has removed 481165 cubic yards out of its contract for ex- cavating 1901500 cubic yards from the canal in front of Bough Slough and Ready Island With one machine it removed 391565 yards is May The California Delta Farms is expected to complete its contract this month for the excavation of approximately 600000 cubic yards in construction of permanent levees with a clamshell dredge across Hog Island and Spud Island Its machine handled 46345 cubic yards of material in May Fifty Per Ceat Finished The Franks Contracting Company has completed 50 per cent of its contract to erect protective levees with clamshell machines across Roberts and Headreach Islands The agreement calls for removal of 2292000 cubic yards Its machine handled 220000 cubic yards in May Within the next few days the Paris Brothers Company is expected to complete its contract to tear out the old levees on the Elmwood Tract and Roberts Island with a dragnet dredgej Its contract was for excavation of approximately 10000 cubic yards work on which started May 13 71 Hill GET OlfMTM nneni (Continued from Page 1) l-TT" Student Speaker Collegj Prep- Jua aratory My dnm Education Ha Cost the Com- held in Klal Dorothy Archibald "The Advantage of Graduating fhe iBn4 in Charles Ungford bTSd thera Senior vir! noerc' (Brahe-Salter) JJ Wa" oa Commencement address Mr Wil- pnij 1ton! Sou liam Hanlon county superin- Sg i thir tendent of schools Presentation of-the Class of 1931 tm aP 4 Vorl mv mBno PrescnUtion of Mr A COrps Ch Gold Seal Scholarship award is Richard Mr Van Vori Loyal Order of Moose Scholarship award Mr Raymon Claeys I LOUtract Signed Presentation of Senior Clau gift Rii JU00 vi Cathryn Endieotb Acceptance of Senior Clan PrinciDaPt I President of Student Body Rob- ert Mullen Miss Alien tb Mrtine gramm Sousa) signed a contract The 71 graduates are: the institution for anoffi The seventy-one graduates are: WM announced todavT" Dorothy May Archibald Ar- board members! thur Wilson Athey Jr Elinor I Agnes Austin Aldo Adolphe Bar-lettanl Mortimer William Bel-shaw Helen Evelyn Blackburn Cecelia Bertha Borba Paul Coates Btqrd Joe Brandon Frank Augustus Buchanan Jr John Dudley Buckmann Fred Butt Antoinette Florence Calicura I Eleanor Boom I Robert' Alexander Campbell James Jane 18 for Woods Hole Dominic Cerrl Rath Charlotte I he Wlll tudy IliYiw4 Chandler Madelyn Anita Costa 1Tolo8y the marine 11 Salvador A Costansa Jr Roy Al- bert Cummings Eleanor Elisabeth Ceddis of Fresa Edison Cathryn Tresa Endicott ftli Aileen Elisabeth Farley Eleanor Al 1 Tc Elisabeth GwaKney Ind Charles GoiU Mrs Eddy are spending William Howard Hanlon John weeks at Saratoga Spring Armond HarU Charles Bolton Miss Sarah Lee of Nev Hertsog Velda Alice Higuera viaiting her sister Mb William Munroe Hinds George Crosier Miss Lee msde the Carlton Hlnrlchsen Lucille Maur- by airplane ine Huffman Gerard Jan Hulsewe Mrs Wallis Mrs Thelma Nell Jax Mary Ann Kas- liott Mrs De Freitas the sik Mary Bernice King Lacl Kish Mira and Mary More went to Ernest Howard Knowles Clifford tioch Monday evening to itte John Korte Charles Edward meeting of Rebekah lodge Langford Fred Davis of Evergreen i Kathleen McKensie Edna Marie mer resident was here tUs i Martin Emily Martin Francis calling on friends Merrill Alice Mae Mers Claire Mr and Mrs Hector Mel Elisabeth Miller Raymond John entertained with cardi a Mllllff Lester A Myers Jr Wll- uPPer nt their Danville hone1 liam Sumner Pascoe Roy Earl evening The guests von Peterson Benjamin Harrison Pll- Messrs and Mesdames 6pe grim Almon Lawrence Price C- Close Johnson 1 Hugh Clifford Roberta Mariop Smith John Thomas Dr Fred Rose Mrs Bolcndor and Albert John 8acchl Edward Jo-f' Hnii nu seph Sacchi Kenneth Murray Shel- ton Vernon Walter Shepherd Em- 1 of Mlx Boy Wilcox is spending Lea Thnm namn i time in the northern part oi Lee Thompson Evelyn Manrelle Sjyyf Thomas McCauley of Ssn cisco is here this week visiting Mary Wilkin James Richard WII- Lnd Mrs George Groom son Gladys Elisabeth Winslow Mrs Roy Well returned to 1 wong Herbert Al-1 ville Monday after an open win Wright Don Arley Yale Betsy I i a San Francisco hospiUL Anna Zagt John Aria Zook Mrs Eva Oswill of Femdtk Class advisors are Miss Doris here at the week end visitift Bailey and Coach Knowles the Roger Podva home "Fabet eat qulaque fortunae Miss Katheryn Agnew of (Every man is the architect of hla waa recent guest of relit own uture) ia the class motto Mr and Mrs Close The class colors are purple and Mr and Mrs Baldwin gold Mrs A Brear accompanied senior class of San Ramon high school on a picnic at Ba I man park Monday Mrs II Flournoy has ceived news of the death of brother John Milling who pa away in Canada Mrs Bert Rend spent the i end with relatives in Berkeley 1 I Oakland Thieves late last night or early Mrs Dondero und Mr 01 this morning pulled a lock from the Davis were Oakland visitor State Theater confectionery store day of Mrs Mary Angelo looted a till Danville relatives have rew of $850 and took a large quantity word of the severe injury of tobacco according to a report Allison Sunday when hew1 that waa made to the sheriffs of- by a motorist as he was ndis fce- bicycle in Richmond He Deputy Sheriffs A McNa-to St Francis hospilul Snr mara and Steve Neilaon are mak- cisco ing an investigation Mrs Mix of Ssn csico was a recent guest of I Stock went to San Francisco Sito" SANrANCISCOJml0S) SSSStaU -Transamerica led an irregularly The senior class of Ssn Ki lower market in early trading on valley high school gave theirj the stock exchange today nual banquet Tuesday The utilities were firm and there The faculty trustees and was little activity in the oils wives were guests Mr nn In the industrials Caterpillar A Brean presented several dded at 2384 Mra Lyman Stoddard acronP1 In the oil section Standard of Cal- led ifornia added at 35 and Un- Rev McCall of the Cng ion Asraciates improved at tional church of Berkeley mu dress the high school grduti acific Lighting common added class Thursday evening 1 at 52 Pacific Gas common The Baccalaurenli ut 42 was unchanged the graduate of th- high Transamerica opened at 7 and was preached by Re- old down to 7 off on a turn- chell over of 3500 Hhurcs Miu Eleanor MeUonw NT HW SmN Nni (Mss Ctosiaa 168 A A group -iob urday evening i i 1 V-l i i i uf I rf-i i ft jv 1 -'t 7 i I i hi 1 i 1 1 i i i i i -i 'i i a 1 -A AN i-: I 1 i ALAMO By MISS IDA HALL Mrs A Zanker of San Jose and her grandson Douglas Lee Peterson visited Miss Alice Tre-vits on Saturday Mrs A Pritchard of Berkeley and her daughter Mary Jean and her sister Mrs Perryman and daughter Janet Ruth visited in Alamo Mr and Mrs Ward Hall and daughters visited the Hall ranch Dvrenlrrhankeof v7i rJh hoy and girls comprising the largest das in the history of the MyL lfvrpne and urilU lS' will receive diplomas from Alhambra high school at commencement i i SV: 1 b- 71 graduates hPPy at successful coelu- Teng and Morgan Dyreng also sion of their studies are pictured in tho above layout They ares wr wn -r i Firt Winslow Marion Rose Cecelia Borba Salvador Costauia Crawford of Ogden Dorothy Archibald Eleanor Wilkin Aldo Barleltani Madelya Costa Don Yale Utah and his daughter Mrs Lund Antoiette Calicura of Berkeley visited the Hall ranch Second Row Delma Thompson Mary Lou Terrel Lester Myers Mary Kassik on Saturday I Almon Price Eleanor Edison Roy Peterson Thelma Jex John Buckman Fred Mias Doris Hunt spent several 1 Butt days visiting her aunt Mrs Alice Row Kenneth Shelton Claire Miller Clifford Roberts Cathryn Endi- Hewlett of Oakland Mrs Hewlett e0t orri Gerard Hulsewe Velda Higuera Frank Buchanan Alice Mers visited her mother Mrs Vina Bell i Wilson on Sunday Miss Lorraine Ivory entertained 7 Tpnrhpra Will twenty-guests at a barbecue at her rr home recently 1 Lose JOOS I)8Dlt Mrs Vina Bell expects her daughter Mrs Callaghan and) children to visit here within a few days They are from Dixon Seven teachers facing dismissal $14000000 Annual Police State $207280 Contra i lMry Pul Boyd Eleanor Gwaltnoy Bolton Hortaog Kath- Herbet' Wright Ry0nd Erair Sindicich John Zook Eleanor Austin Ff Row Benjamin Pilgrim Aileen Farley Albert Sacchi Gaorge Hin-Sbam Wg'1 Saecbl John Hnrti Edna Martin Lad Kith Sixth Robert Campbell Ruth Chandler Charles Langford Howard Athey WiSm Hi EmiF MriB- Seventh Frank Merrill Helen Blackburn Clifford Korte Rev Cinmlan Mortice BelV Hanlon Jennie Stella! Mortimer BeUhaw Vernon Shepherd by Lancaster Bill Total! Intruder In Home from Antioch school because of opposition to trustees to tenure jwill not be saved through Governor Rolph yesterduy signing a bill amending the provisions of the tenure law to eliminate rural institutions from its effectiveness This was indicated today by Su- Director Charles Rice of the perintendent Roger Phelps who Martinet Municipal band today declared that the signing of the announced the program to be pre- which will become effective sented by the organisation at its August 15 will not prevent SACRAMENTO June 10 (UR) maintain the county Jails and tim of an Httack by im unidentified fmplciy a $14- rare oflnmates county record person who entered his 0(10000 watch dog public administrator Inspection of home while his mother was in tho At least that is the approxl- livestock bees oil wells weights yard according to police reports mate cost annually for protec- aml measures and elmilur items one-year-old Billy Alford today tion to persons urnl property rep-1 Forest and fire protection also bore bruises and fingerprints on resenting one of the major expen-! necessitate further expenditures his face und forehead ditures of county government jani certain of the counties apend Mrs Alford said she heard Contra Costa county spent thousands of dolars an- the child scrcnming but when she total of 8207250 for the protec-! ualY for bounties on coyotes enteredj the house the intruder tion al Its citizens and their prop- 'mountain lions and other wil'd nni- had fled The rurtiy was trculcd at erty last year according to a tab- malH nlatlon Just completed The specific amount the 58 counties for protection ul ight In Portland i an expenditure last year of 87- i i nr nf anil fMG2579fi UCCOUIllcd tot Jlllire Pugilist Hurt In slight' lie- i thaIl If11 nlli! i Fight In Portia was 81420053232 a slight de- the teachers from securing tenure in the event that they are $996 Judgment On Note Sought Here SAN FRANCICSO June 10-Tax Collector Joost of Contra CoHta County and brother Fablun Joost of Marlines ure named among heirs of the 812-000 estate of their uncle William Joost Tiileilcmann whoso will is on fllo In probate court hero today Prolda Slrauch and Mathlldo Meyer petclioners for prolmte 1111(1 Dorothea Muyer are named us other heirs Tho value Is given as not more than $12000 Sea Lion Snared With Well Head It Through BODEGA BAY Juno 10 (INS) Is it against the luw to lasso a sea lion? Charles Mache Bodega rancher would like to know Miu-hc claims to have lassoed one or the animals hut declares that he wns forced to rope it when the creature pursued him on the beach at a picnic He now has it tied securely in a horse trough on the Mache ranch If- anyone ia interested in tlm iinimul us a pet Mache says ho will listen to reason Biibscrilm for tho Casolte re-employed third summer season concert to be held at city hall park Friday evening at 8 The numbers are as follows: March (J Brochenshire) Valse (A Maugis) 1 Cornet Solo Santa Fd i Played by Charles Vernetti through his attrr-E Rice ney Horner of Richmond tu- Intermezxo Me (Al- day filed suit here against A len McBeth) and Roso Allen asking judgment Overture (A Lau- of JliliiJfifi an amount claimed to be due on a promissory note Trombone solo i Played by Russell LOS ANGELES William iiyli Young 45 year old suspected boot- Cnant of the Jungles Selec- Megger refused to submit to arrest tion of popular melodies Outside Detective Lieutenant Selection American Home Frank Irvine shouted (Ashe) tho house men I Hring up the inu- March Supreme (Jew-Chine guns! Young immediately crease from tho 814522018 rep-' 0n bM Alpine county K'Seiiting similar expenilltures for gdrf only 81016 of which 870 was Sheriffs' ofllcn which Immlle'! V'1 HhrtlffH oni 011 the Jb of bunting and etching ur ho r-eriminals often involving travel to- 7TT litant communities to return fu-0f Lilt HoAlg ritlves for trlul represent the) Whan Jnnkvnhhih largest Item on the protection Breaks Car Shield While general protection costs showed a slight downward trend YUBA CITY Juno the cost of operating the shelrrfs Young Dooley 2-year-old III ncs Inereased from 82703570 HOn of I) Dooley of East Niro-In 11211 to 8280473742 for last aus today wiis recovering from eiir In view of the stute's cuts about the face sustained when steady InereiiNo In population this a Jack-rabbit confused by the guin in considered romparatlvoly headlights jumped thniugh the windsliield of ear The In iKldlllnii to the protection rabbit was killed by the impact from criminals the counties must but it shuttered the windshield Held Near Death "PORTLAND JuncTo (INSf-An emergency operation was performed here today in an attempt to save the life of Stanley Kar-gnnl Vancouver Wush middleweight boxer who was knocked out hy Meyer of San Francisco and seriously injured when his head struck the ring floor in the fifth round of a six round fight here Inst night MARYSVILLE Someone was boring holes in the wine barrels Marysville man's cellar he told Agricultural Commissioner II A' Crane Crane investigated und discovered the offender was Scoliicia Deelivis a boring insect fond of ulcohol Citiea Service 11 Tho Good Samaritan f' Caterpillar 23 23 Danville was entertained becue dinner in Sunday William lllakemn 42 iMiss Chriiwie General Motor Goldman SSchs Mont Ward P- A 23 35 6 18 the chef 43 121 an Tel tiarry Richfield 1 Lakeport during the week K1cll 6 BK their mother Mrs Fnk Shell 6 6 their mother M11 ell) Spangled Standard 35 Transamerica 7 Tiilii-Asa'd 5 Union 10 surrendered found only two officers instead of an army 85 ford who ha been 1 7 Mr and Mr IM'! 6 Berkeley were Dunvill Monday.

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