Contra Costa Times from Walnut Creek, California • 1

1A COS TIMES GREEN VOl NO 173 SUN TUES WED THURL Ml MORNING! II MONTHLY HOME DELIVERY EY CARRIER WALNUT CREEK CALIF WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30 1967 10 CENTS 5 54 PAGES Moliers ihipuroned Food Career Training Expensive Failure' Review Planned After One Year The Board of Supervisors (said they wanted to delay final Tuesday unanimously agreed to decision on the matter for 60 grant a use permit to Youth days pending the conclusion of Homes Inc for toe establish-! annexation procedures of the ment of a home for unwed area to the City of Walnut the various pockets of poverty in the county in an effort to secure food service jobs cost the county (2169763 last year The total budget of nearly (41000 was supplemented with 4iuuu was suppi The Board of Supervisors blasted the County Board of Education's-- food service draining prJram initiated in conjunction with the Office of Economic Opportunity last ear and called it "an ex- state and federal funds flraisive Tuesday The pilot program which The program designed to enrolled more than 100 high train high school drop outs from 'school drop outs resulted in a total of 12 graduates who eventually obtained full time food service positions Many Fail According to figures supplied Board of Education officials 1 students gained employment In other fields not related to food service 16 gained temporary food service employ-were temporarily Annexation to Central San Supported ment MAYBE ANOTHER BRENTWOOD OIL FIELD? Creek Delay Unpopular News of the delay created an uproar among supporters of the home who made it clear that a delay could jeopardize the entire project They said that the delay would create financial burden on toe voluntary agency The Walnut Creek City Council informed the board that it planned to take no action cm the matter and that the responsibility of decision on the user permit belonged to the supervisors The supervisors expressed support of the project Tuesday Supervisor Tom Coll of Concord who was absent from the meeting instructed Supervisor James Mori arty of Lafayette as to Coil's support on the project The measure passed Moriarty's motion At the conduson of the lengthy session Linscheid said there was much recruitment on both sides with regard to the matter if more leg work would have gone into finding neighborhood acceptance on this project from the very beginning the situation would field the only majdr one discovered in Northern California so far has produced 75 million barrels of high quality oil in four years Exploratory wells are being drilled by Standard and Shell oil companies on Ryer and Middle Ground islands in Suisun Bay The wells are the first to be drilled underwater in the area The Brentwood oil mothers in the Orchard Glen area of Walnut Creek Supervisor Edmund Linscheid suggested that the use permit be reviewed in a year's time to impose further conditions if necessary His recommendation was accepted Linscheid who asked Youth Homes to canvas toe immediate neighborhood around the proposed home in an effort to determine the general feeling of the area delayed final action on the measure until the afternoon session of the meeting Support" The threehour delay allowed Gerald Tara deputy county assessor -to check the petition and map that showed what Linscheid referred to as support of the The County Planning Commission approved the controversial use permit and set several conditions that were to be followed by the voluntary agency The-commission stated that no more than six girls could occupy the house at one time and that ample parking should be provided Plan Criticized Several neighbors complained that it would create various problems in the area It was said that toe facility would be a bad influence on neighborhood children and that the use permit would establish a boarding house in a single residential neighborhood At the same time a number of county officials and pro- Manpower Program Is Studied employed outside of food service and 51 graduated from the! the course has I Officials said 42 graduates ob- imanimniiKly recommended that tained jobs 49 failed to ifce pnnevatinn agreement with graduate apd five non- mtral Sanitary District be ac-: graduates gained employment ntrai Mnuary uis iThey added 20 youngsters one of the conditions of the were sufficiently motivated by mexation agreement is that an Uie program to return to schoo don for annexation will be to complete their high school hefil in Martinez Voters there education naAowly defeated a similar an-1 Impressed neifetion proposal in an election Despite toe i aX thia imar Supervisor Chairman Edmund 6 Heeling Tuesday in Acting Linscheid said the program did empr Satre'sinot succeed in its Intent Site Mthe 8SewersSTdy Com- purpose The Pitts bur th smreement supervisor said he was not from Cen- i pressed with the results and add-2 that it was difficult enough SETS the upervlor to aotate that originally recommended annexation of below-standard sewage system with jCentoal San flr 2 Modifications STdlrS' i budget of RUN lor this year- moidation to sewe program was scaled down to S65000 The riare and modificaions a long time have been solved he said Richmond supervisor James Kenny who surprised the Board of Supervisors with a recommendation to earmark 8 of a cent of the county tax rate for the establishment of a county manpower training program last week furthered his recommendation Tuesday Kenny said he met with county administrator JP McBrten i county Office of Economic Op-inortunity officials and the Social District Sets Special Meet Hie ML Diablo Unified School District will talk about money tonight at a special meeting called late Tuesday Supt Janies Merrihew said the meeting set for 8 pm in the district office 1938 Carlotta Dr Concord will discuss the possibility of additional state income under the school finance bill passed in the last minutes of the legislative session Service Department on the fessional people came out in 1 matter and received support of strong support of the home his idea Superior Court' Judge Joseph Genser Social Service Director additions 'Anwfog those is the recommendation that the four acres of land Owned by toe city unon whidi the pnaenti 'plant a good one It you tot look 1 the wording in the agreement is that the four acres be deeded to He said his agency has backed expensive educational programs we Robert Jornlin county probation officers and others urged the board to grant the use permit At one time the supervisors CONCORD PLAN DRILLING HAS ATTRACTED GREAT INTEREST Oilmen ond others are intrigued by the underwater operation unique in this area Drilling from platforms has become common in Southern California but Plan Outlined Kenny proposed the following: That the board of supervisors appoint a 15-member county manpower development commission composed of representatives from industry business labor education and other community agencies involved in manpower programs That the board allocate (50000 as working capitol under direction of the new commission to spearhead development of an overall master plan and report back to the board on the matter That the county officer involved in manpower type programs be instructed to provide staff support services to the commission The supervisors accepted new recommendations for further study The boards administration and finance committee is expected to respond to recommendations soon the island oil prospecting is unusual in the north (Times Photos by Bob Sibilia New Development lo Pay for Road Projecf the new and futures project which is estimated to development in Concord pay for cost (322 million ond Pacific States Aviation) BART Problems To Be Studied seriously believe that the only way to get people off of welfare is to teach them to be meaningful Home said however that must have the courage to recognize a failure when a particular program doesn't work" He urged the supervisors to drop toe program from the proposed budget At the same time Floyd Cur ry a Neighborhood Youth Corp representative argued that the program was extremely beneficial to the poverty stricken He said social service workers have noted that who took part in the food service program even kept their homes Curry urged the supervisors to continue the program in an effort to offer a to these He added that if there was no recourse people may be forced to The supervisors referred the matter to their administration Central San The committee urged jeasing until Cental San (Continued ou Page 2 Col 1) $K0485Suit Hits Teacher I ML Diablo Unified School District land a College Park High School teacher have been named defendants in a (100485 personal- injury suit filed in Superior 'Court in Martinez Plaintiffs are 19-year-old James Callaway Jr and his mmrHian Vivian Brassy who live at (12 Maureen Lane in Pleasant Hill The suit contends Callaway severely and permanently injured his right hand while operating a printing press at the Qphool ax a part of his course of study -The suit contends the defendant school district and the in- Marina Suit Delayed for 60 Days toe street improvements it has made toe Concord City Council was told at its meeting night First Phase Stewart proposed that the frst Shase (five years) of the plan le widening of the main be funded by the streets be funded by tually have to raise taxes to gel nckl toe project out of ita final The suggestun was part of prepared letter from passage of an (11 million bond Manager FA Stewart and read issue to help finance the I to council by I estimated (16 million necessary 1 1 yjfor phase development on Stewart indicated that the difficulties directors are playing Mickey Mouse with everybody Linscheid boomed He said it was the directors responsibility to come up with various ideas for raising money Edmund Linscheid chairman of the Board of Supervisors a frequent critic of the bogged-down BART project balked at a high level request to establish a tri-county fact finding committee designed to cane up with solutions to solve the financial problems of toe project Tuesday Following a heated discussion on the matter with his peers at in the supervisor meeting structor 5 Marvin Raymond I and finance committee for Odegard' operated and main- further study They will meet Martinez the tallied the printing press in an Thursday lo adopt the final 1 supervisor was voted down and uneofa dangerous and defective! budget for the 1967-68 fiscal was forced into a position condition he had to select two board members and an (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) Vandals Cut Cable TV Trunk Line The City of Martinez was given a 69day breather in the matter of a (3 million suit filed against it by ex-marina developer Richard MacKay Responding to the suit in US District Court in San Francisco Monday Martinez City A tty Francis Hoey entered a motion that Texas-based developer corporation not complied with the corporation laws of the State of California and because it neither had MacKay land MacKay in turn therefore I has no standing in I The court gave attorneys 60 days from Monday to respond to the motion It suggested according to Hoey that attorneys determine or not he could legally comply with the requirements of corporation doing Pleasant Hill to Save i Corner in Core Area Concord TV Cable that their first case of vandalism occurred Sunday night when the trunk line of the cable was cut The company is offering a Compaq reported alternate to toe budding committee Linscheid appointed supervisors A1 Dias of El Cerrito and James Moriarty of Lafayette as committee members He appointed himself as the alternate Dias Proposes Move The move to appoint Contra Costa representatives on the committee that will also include representatives from San Francisco and Alameda counties was brought up by Dias who attended a recent closed Stockwell assistant manager as Stewart "'sTewTrt was referring to funding which will be necessary to pay for the proposed streets1 2eSJn16 and highways element of iejJc 0 The winds will be gentle to- general plan a result of the emP on W0U'J P31 day but the temperature recently completed Wilbur and Associates Trafficsales cigarette tax iK? study caliS1 He said the city can expect predicts Highs from 95 to IB for the main Jubslantal sa are expected with lows from streets of Concord and criss- Jax bemuse the addition to 55 to 65 It should be fair also grossing the city with highways downtown area which he 1 pointed out is the cause of Con-: cord's increased traffic congestion Funds Committed means new funds in future years which may be committed to the road program without impairing our ability to i provide other city services' he i pointed out addition to these factors" continued Stewart very recently adopted state-wide cigarette tax has produced an altogether new revenue source which can be and we believe should be committed to the road program This tax will produce revenues amounting to nation work force a jg per cent of our sales tax income to (230000 in the ensuing budget He went on to point out that should the road improvement plan be financed by the sale of bonds as proposed the revenue from the cigarette tax be expected to provide upwards of (Continued on Page Col 1 Less than 15 per cent of the are self-employed the rest are job-holders and job seekers Paid employment supplies most of their income and occupies most of their days To reach the dependable people your business needs use Contra Costa Help Wanted Ads Gordon Maddock ran an ad in the Sheet" under Help Wanted Male and received 25 answers the first day put your job offer' before thousands of readers by dialing 933-2020 today reward of (100 to anyone whojbusiness'in California a foreign can give information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who cut the mainline approximately midway from toe antenna site Default Charged MacKay held a lease on the Martinez marina project for 15 months before toe City Council defaulted him last October MacKay in turn charged that the city was in default of toe Investment Co which acquired options on land surrounding the city parcel tried to get approval of a service station on the corner but was stymied The Planning staff recommended against a station there and also questioned if a formal land use permit could be applied for if the applicant didn't own a key piece of land This time King Parker Jr appearing for Gro-Park was The Pleasant Hill City Council 4jRcided not to sell its con-' troversial corner parcel in the cure aiea Monday night It also decided to adopt a overall plan for tbs area one of several developed by the city planning staff in recent months The motion to approve included the provision that portions of the plan can be developed individually and a stipulation that door meeting with' other Bay on Lime Ridge to its terminal Area officials at the request of pomt on AJberta Way San Francisco Mayor John Service to the 400 lease agreement because of the subscribers was discontinued! confused state of titles to toe Shelley Dias said the various city and for about one hour beginning at I property Because of this confusion contended the Texan he could not borrow money on the pro machinery to establish parking Crying to get the council to county representatives decided lO pm until workmen found they would rather form an unof-jthe creak and spliced the cable ficial fact finding committee in Both the Concord Police an effort to solve the many prob- Department and the Contra jject lems of the project rather than Costa County Office Named as defendants in the on our hands and do! are investigating the incident suit were the City five nothing The company's franchise with members former City Manager Linscheid maintained that theitoe city has a provision which Paul Hugmey and Scfmer Satre supervisors were put in a posi-makes it illegal for anyone to then public works director and agree to sell the land before applications were filed The firm now has Standard Brands interested in building a paint store and Parker has appeared at recent meetings with (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) districts be started The comer parcel was acquired by the city when it bought right-of-way for toe extension of Monument Boulevard into Thomas Lane Firm Gets Options 0: Earlier this year Gro-Park acting city manager tion in which they would even- tamper with the cable.