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Gemini 11 Makes First Orbit Rendezvous Cloudy Mostly fair today Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with chance of showers High yester-nsy 79 tow last night 52 Chuckle An expert is a man who know more and more about less and less until he knows practically everything about almost nothing 1 The Mount Diablo Region's Leading Home Newspaper M1 78TH YEAR NO 394 CONCORD CALIFORNIA MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12 1966 Single Copy 1C Cents Per Month SI 50 No Injuries Succumbs RECORD SPEED Gemini Makes First Orbit Rendezvous CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) The Gemini 1 1 astronauts swift hunters in the sky accomplished man's quickest rendezvous of highflying space vehicles today as a dramatic prelude to three adventurous days in space They caught and captured an Agena target satellite before they completed their first orbit of the globe "We are docked" exclaimed Gemini 11 command pitot Charles Conrad Jr Mission Control said to the spacemen 15 MILES UP i I The rendezvous occurred ap- MTIKP proximately 185 miles above the will IX Pacific Ocean and the word was CAREE COLLISON Pinole Victim Dies Viet Election Victory relayed by the pilots when they passed over a tracking station at Point Argueito Calif Conrad and Navy Lt Cmdr Richard Gordon Jr accomplished the quick first-orbit rendezvous nearly three hours snd two orbits faster than any previous Gemini flight They skillfully steered their tiny spaceship through a series of maneuvers as they pursued the Agena over an 18000-mile course catching it above the Pacific Ocean some SO minutes after they rode a thundering Titan 2 rocket from Cape Kennedy About 10 minutes later at Page 2 Col 5) RICHMOND Striking janitors and clerical work ors supported by members of the teachers union picketed 61 schools here today Classes for 44000 children went on as usual the Richmond Unified School Dist reported with fully qualified teachers manning all classrooms According to the district 121 of total of 1677 teachers failed to turn up for work because of the strike An additional 20 were out for other reasons It is believed to be the first strike against a school district in California It was called by the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees local 1675 headquartered in Martinez Pay increases and fringe benefits nicluding a representational election are at issue The teachers union is to ask strike sanction of the Central Labor Council Wednesday The 300-member union wants a proposed two per cent pay hike to be used to cut class sizes and improve school libraries Union officials said quiet picket lines were it each of the district's schools in Pinole San Pablo El Sobrante and El Cerrito as well 8S Richmond PIECE OF JUNK? That's what James Disney's wife thought af this now com- pletely restored 1930 Model Road-' ster before he spent nine months hun- dreds of dollars and unending time in rebuilding this car It was one of more than 150 autos that will be entered in this Sunday's Second Annual Diablo Con-ccurs d'Elegance at the Concord Inn SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP) Premier I Nguyen Cao Ky said to-Iday that 80 per cent of South Viet Nam's voters had turned out for the national elections which spelled "the beginning of the end for the Communists" "We now have the conditions for final victory" the premier said at a gala diplomatic and press conference at which all members of the ruling military council appeared The new assembly ot 117 representatives elected to write a new constitution will meet Sept 26 and Ky said they should finish their work "as soon as possible" NEW ASSEMBLY The new assembly as announced by Maj Gen Nguyen Due Thang who was in charge of the elections included 22 teachers 20 military men 18 civil servants 17 provincial councillors 15 professional people eight farmers three judges and three others Only one woman of 18 female candidates was successful The 1 average age of the assembly is 40 Gen Thang said that on election day there were 5289652 eligible voters Of this number 4274 JJ2 went to the noils Thang admitted that among (font Page 2 Col 7) See It at Concours Sanitary District Election Rags to Riches Silory Dennis Stanworth 24-year-old Pinole house-painter charged with the murder of Susan Box 1 5-y ear-old schoolgirl "probably will be indicted for the murder of her Caree Collison the district attorney's office revealed this morning Thp Collison girl died this morning in the University of California Hospital in San Francisco 42 days after her assailant fired two bullets into her brain FIND VICTIMS The two teen-agers disappeared August 1 while en route to a babysitting Job- The body of Miss Box and her critically wounded companion were found lying semi-nude in heavy brush in a remote area at Point Wilson near Pinole two days later Susan Box had died of gunshot wounds in the head stomach and thigh Miss Collison taken to Brookside and transferred to the UC hospital several days later never regained consciousness Deputy District Attorney John Hatzenbuhler said shortly before noon today that the district attorney's office "now will go back to the grand jury to establish the fact of the Collison girl's death and ask the jury for an amended complaint charging Stanworth with the second murder" ARRAIGNED Stanworth was arraigned on August 24 in the Superior Court of Judge Robert Cooney on a 12-count grand jury indictment charging him with the murder of Miss Box and the attempted slaying of Miss Collison He had been Indicted by the jurors on August 17 after the panel listened to recording believed to be a confession taped by the suspect detailing the murder rape and attempted murder The Jury also charged him with sex crimes involving throe other girls Richmond San (font Pag 2 Col 2) wm Roadster Of Model Contra Costa Jolted An earthquake that shook rockets at the Aero- 'jet plant in Sacramento and rattled plaster from the ceiling of the State House in Carson City Nev rumbled through wide area of California today 4 1 No injuries were reported The quake struck Contra Cos-: ta County at 9:43 am sweeping from Walnut Creek to Martinez through Concord Dozens of county workers in the cafeteria atop the county administration building at Martinez got a scare as the 12-story structure rolled and heaved ELEVATORS JAMMED Most of them covered their fears with smiles and headed for the elevators The three elevators were jammed with people on their way down Homes and other buildings quivered for 10 or 15 seconds a long time as earth tremors go Cal Tech in Pasadena reported that the quake was 55 on the Richter Scale Its epicenter was about 300 mile? to the northeast of Pasadena TAHOE HIT And initial reports say the earthquake hit hardest in the Tahoe-Truckee area Windows were reported broken by the score Schoolchildren there wr sent home The Richter scale in the Reno area was 65 according to the University of California at Berkeley Aftershocks were minor and some damage was reported house shook from side to one Reno housewife told the Associated Press Plaster fell from the ceiling of the assembly chambers in Carson City as the 20-second quake rolled through Stockton reported quick and Modesto resident- felt one NO DAMAGE In the Diablo' Valley area police and fire stations reported shocks but there was no damage reported In San Francisco reporters in the 20th floor press room of-the Federal Building described (Cont Page 2 Col 8) Jennie Wadinski Dies at 82 Jennie Wadinski 82 retired assistant postmaster of the Concord Post Office died today at her home 2179 Bonifacio St Concord A native of Wausau Wise she had worked for the local post office for 25 yean She was a member of Queen of All Saints Catholic Church Funeral services are pending at MacFarlane-Bryant ChapeL Sheriff To End dream that I would soon have the body off the frame the transmission apart and every nut and bolt in coffee cans "After some urging by a neighbor I soon had the car completely in cardboard boxes I spent nine months of putting it back together Believe me those were nine months of nights after work Saturdays and Sundays and hosidays did all the painting my- (Cont Page 2 CoL 11 owner in August of 1965 Its condition then was just about like that of any old £ar of 35 years Mice were in the cushions the windshield was broken the top was rotten and falling apart and parts were missing In the See Pictures Page 8 terms used by my wife was just a piece of did I fully realize the nature of the project which I had undertaken I didn't What could be considered an but at the same time unique-entry in the 2nd annual Diablo Concours d'Elegance to be held Sunday on the Golf Course of the Concord Inn is the 1930 Model Roadster to be shown by James Disney 3436 Tanager Circle Concord i deputy district attorney for Contra Costa County Disney submitted the following essay on his roadster: "This 1930 Roadster was purchased by its present Five men are competing for two soots on the Central Sanitary District board of directors Election is tomorrow with polls open from 7 am to 7 pm Incumbent directors running for re-election ere Richard Mitchell chemical engineer 1170 Elmwood Dr Walnut and George A Rustigan restaurant chain manager and former sanitary engineer 34 Chapel Dr Lafayette Challengers are Eugene Witt teacher 324 Rheem Blvd Moraga Otto Sonnenschein chemist 53 Orchard Rd Grinds and Park Boneysteele engineer 3151 Plymouth Rd Lafayette Don Allan Charles Gibbs and Irving Roemcr continue on the board Terms are for four years Patrol KCFT-TV Appeals For Funds 10th Assembly Seat Vacant Until January MARTINEZ It appear! as if the Tenth District will remain without Assembly representation until January The Assemblyman's post has been vacant since Jerome Waldie's election to Congress Had a special election been held either Republican Jamas Dont or Democrt Norm Kama nm FTiday to Thursday because of the Admission Day holiday Norman Kestner would have taken office in November and thus gained Berlin Flight In Bulldozer MARTINEZ The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office plans to ask the county board of supervisors tomorrow for permission to withdraw officers from the scene of the anti-war demonstration at Concord Naval Weapons Station because the 24-hour surveillance there has hurt other sheriff services Sheriffs deputies have been on the scene 24 hours a day since the demonstration began August 7 A captain in the de-partment estimates it has cost some 2000 man hours to guard the demonstration He said this extra duty has caused "other services to suffer as a Either Sheriff Walter Young or Undersheriff Harry Ramsay will appear before the supervisors to ask to discontinue the surveillance The demonstration which nas swelled to 200 protesters at times dwindled to what a Navy spokesman call the core leadership" this past weekend There were about 10 to 15 pickets on hand from time to time Saturday and Sunday he said No arrests were made 6 Run For Park Seats PLEASANT HILL -Fourj men and two women will vio for three posts on the Pleasant Hill Park and Recreation Dist board of directors at an election Nov 8 Filing for the seats are two incumbents Floyd Packer 25 Westover Ct Pleasant Hill and Mrs Helen Weisner 1060 Grayson Dr Pleasant Hill Challengers are John Collins 3231 Withers Ave Lafayette and Joseph DeRespini 70 Collins Dr Stewart Osner 250 Stevenson Dr and Alyce Larscheid 724 Duke Circle all Pleasant Hill All are running for four-year terms Filing closed Friday Concord's folterinq UHF television station this weekend will make a dramatic final attempt at railing enough money to pay its staff and stay on the sir another month according to Manager Jerry Bassett Bassett stressed that the venture to be broadcast over KCFT TV Channel 42 is being promoted entirely by volunteer help other than the 10-man staff "It will take a miracle to save us Bassett said adding that the telethon-auction might be that miracle STOCK SALE Tlie station must sell $120000 in stock by Oct 25 in order to get $50000 now being held in reserve by the government Funds from the auction hopefully will pay telephone and utility bills which threaten to (Cont Pag 2 CoL 2) Index seniority over other freshman lawmakers County elections officer James Olsson said today that Gov Brown could have called for the special election as he did in case but has not done so No request was made to the governor by the Board of Supervisors for the special balloting which would have been part of the Nov 8 general election Deadline for placing items os BERLIN Rags snd steel plates protected five young refugees from Communist gunfire -as they crashed into West Berlin in a bulldozer Two young men their pregnant wives and the 4-ycar-oid son of one of the couples crouched Sunday in the speeding bulldozer as it crossed two ditches and crashed through four barbed-wire fences before hitting a tree a few yards inside West Berlin Two East German border guards ran toward the vehicle with submachine guns blazing "We had to get out of the bulldozer The women Jumped first then we pulled lip the bottom of a (garden J1 fence let the women crawl through and followed them" the 24-year-old professional bulldozer operator related A witness said one of the refugees carrying the child in his arms repeatedly cried we In the West? Are we in the West?" They were taken to a hospital (Coni Pigs 2 CoL 1) Astroguide 13 Bridge 5 Classified 13-15 Comics 12 Crossword Puzzle 12 Editorial 7 Grapevine 9 Movies I Teen Talk 6 Television 16 Sports 16-11.