Contra Costa Times from Walnut Creek, California • 1

f7 0 CONTRA COSTA TIMES GREEN SHEET VOL 55 NO 144 SUN TUESw WEIL THURS FBI MORNINGI SI MONTHLY HOME DELIVERY RY CARRIER WALNUT CREEK CALIF FRIDAY JULY 29 1966 10 CENTS TWO SECTIONS 34 PAGES COUNTY WORKERS a FW Durase i Supervisor James Moriarty advocating a 25 per cent across thei board pay boost for county employes registered the only dissenting voted as the Board of Supervisors approved a $1124088 wage increase package Thursday Affected by the pay boost Salary Raises For Top Officials Top ranking department of an increase he should be heads and administrative officials working for Contra Costa County were given a 5 cent pay boost Thursday the Board of Supervisors No recommendation was made for County Administrator McBrien The super' visors will decide how much A NEW PLACE TO PLAY Crews are now ot work filling in a gully at Orinda's Pine Grove cost $73000 and will Intermediate School to replace playground land which will be taken by relocation of westbound Highway 24 freeway lanes to make room for Rapid Transit tracks and the Orinda Rapid Transit station A total of 59 acres much of it now used for will be taken by the relocation Supt Joseph Sheaff said the fill work will Gallagher and Burk fill in September well The land which belonged unused will also be be paid for by the state The contractors Construction Co are expected to complete th before the new playground will be needed to the school district but was previously turfed (Times Photo) were the County's 3064 employes of whom 2161 will get a 5 per cent raise 559 will receive a 25 per cent increase and 283 a 75 per cent raise The pay raises had been recommended by Supervisors Tom Coll and James Kenny serving as the Board's Administration and Finance Committee Moriarty maintained the Committee had the taxpayers" noting that 58 separate classification increases had been given above County Civil Service Commission recommen dations The supervisor was supported by Bill Horne executive secretary of the County Taxpayers Association who said the pay hikes were not justified COLL MAINTAINED the Committee had put back 25 Gir cent increases back for gh level management sonnel that had been taken out by the Commission "with' out Were not going to satisfy said Board Chairman James Kenny doing the best we can and our recommendations are not out of In addition Moriarty maintained the raises recommended created a disparity between certain positions that could not be justified He criticized Coll and Kenny for only spending five hours to finalize their recommendations Moriarty said he had not had enough time since Tues- HOME FROM VIETNAM Discussions On Parkway Landscaping Conflict on Sewer for Weapons Unit Fire Captain Saves Dogs From Blaze Ex-Walnut Creek Officer Feels Job Worth Effort given over his $28251 annual salary County Medical Director George Degnan is the second highest paid official in the county His salary was boosted from $25512 to $26784 The only exceptions to the 5 per cent increase recommended by McBrien were 75 per cent increase for County Welfare Director Robert Jornlin who will be moved up from $19500 to $20' 976 and 10 per cent tar Chief Flood Control Engineer Carl Rich whose pay will be upped from $18980 to $22032 McBrien said higher pay raise was justified after evaluation of comparable jobs throughout the state and because the workload and cost of the flood control program has increased sharply Similar reasons were given for pay raise 0 by pay raises were Agricultural Commissioner A Seeley from $17648 to $18570 Building Maintenance Superinten-dent A Lawrence from $16044 to $16848 County Building Inspector (Continued on Page 2 CoL 1) vis er in 1964 He was for- date the police program so it merly with the Oakland Po- will be ready to assume re A former Walnut Creek po-Disagreement between Con-j lice officer Vincent Young cord and the Central Contra returned to the city on leave The National Park Service and Division of Highways have been working closely together on plans for the John Muir Parkway a section of State Highway 4 through Martinez- it was reported lice Department feel needed in Sal gon and accomplishing some- Two dogs were rescued from a smoke filled room Thursday morning when fire struck the Roland Cecil residence at 1149 Arlington sponsibility when the Vietnamese Army moves out similar to those that would Costa Sanitary District broke out Thursday as the two agencies were at odds over who should provide sewer service to the Naval Weapons Station totiuLociL1 Ammv 'Formal Walnut Creek police for 14 Vietnamese counterpart ac-L cSJiTto wcwWcordi to Yng tU work be encountered if Walnut arnez-Creek suddenly were faced! Only a wni Gary Cecil 19 with doubling its said the pet dogs were at the Young In-service training is residence when the fire broke out at 3:50 am The rest of as an AID public-safety- ad-1 in an advisory capacity to up- (Continued on Page 2 CoL 3) Interior Department No Longer Fighting Baldwin Amendment conducted rank He said that Buddhist demonstrations have created the most severe disturbances although increased military personnel add to the law enforcement problems as they would in any area wife Betty lives in Bangkok as families of AID personnel permitted to reside in Vietnam by the late Young is able to make it John Baldwin: home for only three days ev- construction of any ery 30 days which he said every police Teachers to Try fiHuir Trail Hike the family was on vacation Acting Fire Captain 1 Bruce learned that the dogs were in the dining room and could hear one of them clicking its paws as it walked around while the other remained in a box He got them both out and said they were temporarily very sick The fire did an estimated $5000 damage including heavy smoke damage throughout (he home It started in the basement and burned through the floor to a room above used for storage The possible cause was Msted as paints and thiimers stored near a water heater 5102 acres of the Navy base It would charge the Navy between $8000 and $7000 a year to dispose of its sewage The Commission has been asked to delay the issue at least 30 days while Concord prepares its opposition to the annexation "The annexation is completely without said City Manager A Stewart The District would only be providing service to small jortion of the base Stewart said He claimed it was unreasonable to take in more area Indications are now that the base will become part of the city and the judgement of who will provide the sewer service is still undecided county officials said Also coming before the Commission next Wednesday a proposal to annex five square miles in the Clayton Continued on Page 2 Col 8) The Department of Interior! in the Act has backed away from its re- Congressman quest to eliminate the Baldwin Amendment from the 1967 Appropriation Act Congressman Jerome said Thursday The amendment was placed to prevent portion of the in Contra Waldie would terminate Chicago It was Two Acalanes High School teachers start off Monday for a 215 mile back packing trip which will take them the length of the John Muir Trail in the High Sierra A1 Thurling a general science teacher and Oscar Busch a mathematics teacher will leave Whitney Portals at the southern end of the trail at Mt Whitney August 1 They expect to arrive at Happy Isles in the os mite Valley August 28 They will leave food to provision them at Diamond Ranch at Florence Lake and at the Postpiles but otherwise will carry all their equipment the whole length of the trip Busch said At Postpiles be joined by another Acalanes teacher Harold Olson and son-in-law Bill Young who teaches in the Campbell School District The group expects to average about 10 miles a day leisurely along taking Busch said He and Thurling have done portions of the trail before and have been practicing for the trip all summer San Luis Drain Costa County that east of Port designed to prevent the drain from being built at Antioch until studies of the pollution problems have been completed by the Public Health Service The studies will be completed next January In indicating it would drop its attempt to remove the amendment the Department of Interior asked the inser The 'Annual' Pittsburg Grass Fire Television Set Explodes Sets Home on Fire is one of the major drawbacks to assignment in Saigon His daughter Kandy who attended Las Lomas High School up to the last two months of her senior year is in her first year of college in Switzerland Another daughter Kathy attends Pacific Lutheran College YOUNG is among old buddies in the Saigon area as former Walnut Creek Police Chief Leigh Brilliant is stationed in Bangkok in AID administrative work and former Walnut Creek Officer Doug McCollom arrived in Saigon four months ago to re Travelers along John Muir Parkway will have a view of the John Muir Historic Site at Alhambra and Franklin Canyon Road The parkway crosses the Muir property along the southern edge of the site now under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service Restoration of the old fruit orchard scene around the historic monument which indudes the Muir House and Martinez Adobe is part of the Park planning for the site ROADSIDE plantings for the parkway which will blend with these surroundings are being planned by the Division of Highways and the types and shrubs to be used have been die subject of several discussions between the two organizations In one of the recent meetings between representatives of the Park Service and the Division of Highways Jim Gordon one of the landscape architects out lined the policy of the State in providing native plant! which will flourish and compatible with the natural growth on adjacent proper' ties In line with this policy locally native oaks pines toy-ons coffee berries and various native grasses are to be selected for the State's Qplanting project REDWOOD TREES and some more spectacular plantings which are not native to this area would be difficult to maintain and would conflict with the natural beauty of the surroundings so beloved by naturalist John Muir State officials said The section of State Highway 4 was designated as John Muir Parkway through an Assembly resolution passed during the last regular session The bill was au-thored by Assemblyman John Knox and former Assemblyman Jerome Waldie Signs with the legend Muir have been installed by the Division of Highways on Route 4 near the junction with Interstate 80 at a point just west of Pacheco Boulevard in Martinez to guide motorists to the site The grass fire which struck in the West Pittsburg area Wednesday to be an almost annual Captain Fred Caperton of the Contra Costa County Fire tion instead of language permitting construction of piers id Clifton Forebay THESE PIERS will be nec- District said Thursday SaT Luis port for AID duty in Pleiku As has been done in the With AID personnel sta- sst the Mosquito Abatement itioned in 52 countries listrict aided in the fire- (Continued on Page 2 Col 1) Young 47 said" I hope to lighting by opening flood i remain with AID I feel we gates In by opening flood gates In the Mallard Island are doing something for A television set blew up at the home of Miss Mary Forbes of 120 Main Street Martinez Thursday afternoon The explosion set nearby curtains aflame and the fire quickly spread to the rug floor and floorboards before firemen from the Martinez Fire Department arrived to quell it Miss Forbes phoned the Fire Department at 1:58 Bui She was not injured amage to the home was estimated at $500 11 oth-A 1 countries and for the AV1S6I Adams US Following three weeks 'additional training in Washington DC Young will return to Saigon on October 1 Photos May Brighten Hall area Six units from the Concord region of the Fire District worked to control the blaze with the help of some 20 prisoners from the Sheriff's prison farm at Marsh Creek The 20 acres of burned area contains wild grass and peat land and it was partially flooded from and spreading Captain Caperton said The abandoned Sacramento Northern Railroad ferry slip to prevent the flames digging into the Inside the Times FOR DETAILS on the first aqua-pentathlon to ba held in this area see page 6 The new offices of the City staff may well decorated with Pjcture-art by Ansel Adams City Manager A (Bud) Stewart said Thursday Adams is known in photog- at Mallard Island was not en-'raphy circles as one of the dangered nor were any other best pnotographers in Amer-s tinctures Smoke rising ica today and is especially from the scene could be seen' noted for his nature pictures Church 12 13 Comics 20 Editorial 19 Home Garden 14 15 Lamplighter 4 5 Obituaries 16 Sports 6 7 Television 20 Movies 2 Want Ads 21 -33 Women 17 18 Stewart visited Adams Wednesday at his studio in Carmel where an agreement was reached with the artist to commission him to provide a collection of his works for the City Hall complex Stewart said the agree Nickel Facts in Concord in the early evening as the fire was reported at 12:51 pm and was brought under control at 8:15 pm We have a fire in the slough area just about every Captain Caperton said "This one was not very big in comparison to some had out there" He pointed out that even Still Fair ment will be submitted to the City Council at its 4 pm 'meeting Monday Details of One of the reasons the five-cent piece was coined 100 years ago was because a Pennsylvania miner Joseph Wharton needed a new market for his nickel and he had two powerful friends in Congress CUK-CLOK-CLIK ON A SUMMER DAY A dozen young men gathered in the garage of the Robert Sloan home at 72 Amigo Ln Walnut Creek nearly three days ago for the express purpose of slamming a small white celluloid spheroid back and forth for 72 hours They'll reach their collective goal at noon The boys divided into two teams are: Scott Hodgkinson Chris Howland Tom Bush Jeff Howland Lee MacDonald Ricky Staudt Bob Sloan Dave Holmes John Staudt Jeff Sloan Jay Maurer and Bob Baily Keeping the game going in the pcture are Lee MacDonald left and Jeff Howland (Times Photo) The weather continues to be fair today with morning overcast The high temperature will be between 75 and 85 with westerly winds from 10 to 15 mph in (he afternoon The low tonight will be from 48 to 55 had the fire reached the fer-ithe contract are pending the ry slip where freight cars approval of the Council once were transported across! The city manager noted the Sacramento River that based on consultations! don't think it would have with the interior decorating done much as the firm for the city offices the pier was struck by fire sev-iCity is seeking a collection! simple matter to dial 935-2525 place your ad and then eral years ago lof California scenes I be ready for results! Thaddeus Stevens and William Kelly You collect nickels (and dollars too) when you use Contra Costa Classified Ads to reach cash buyers Clinton Paine commented on the "excellent results with minimum It.