Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 3

Friday, September II, 1970 frtiVurnftrnt-flnunial- 3 Waddell Smith Widow Sues: $345,000 ORDERS OUT OF INQUEST A security ofiicer beckons Bob Fernandez, 29, alter Fernandez disrupted the first day of a oi oner inquest into the death of newsman Ruben Salazar. Salazar was killed when a tear gas jectile hit him on the head during a riot in East Los Angeles, Calif, last month. Mexican-American spectators trooped out of the Los Angeles inquest twice yesterday after denouncing the hearing. (UP! Telephoto) Call Sounded For Sausalito To Take On Self-Sufficient Image Sausalito planning commissioners agreed last night that the city should try to shake loose of its traditional status as mainly a bedroom community for San Francisco and become self-sufficient. Toward this end they proposed that there be no liousing east of Bridgeway, including the Marinship area, except for hotels and boatels.

It was proposed by Commissioner Violetta Autumn that the Marinship area be devoted to commercial and light industrial uses that would provide jobs for local residents. idea is for Sausalito to be self-sufficient and not a bedroom for San she said. It was conceded that there always will be commuters, but there was a hope that more people could both work and live in the community. Planning Director H. Eric Borgwardt said the Marinship area can be very productive and help maintain a semblance of community balance.

There are BART Workers Postpone Strike OAKLAND (UPI)-A strike against the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, scheduled to start today, was postponed by the United Public Employes Union Local 390. The union said BART management has agreed to attend a meeting next Monday under auspices of the California State Conciliation Service in an effort to settle the issues. About 40 employes of BART are involved. The Alameda County Labor Council and other union officials had assured them support of a strike. Back To School Dance To Be At High School A Back to dance for all students at Sir Francis Drake High School will be held from 8 to 11 p.m.

today. a local rock group will provide music for the dance which will be held in the gymnasium. areas other than Marinship that are more suitable for housing, he contended. Mrs. advocacy of a self sufficient community came at a public hearing on proposed revisions to the General Plan.

She proposed a limit on the population ceiling of the city, and proposed as a step toward this end, a ban on housing along the waterfront. more houses would increase Chariman Robert L. Nissen said this would require a major change in the Marinship plan, which permits housing. Marinship property owners should be notified of the proposal and a public hearing held, he said. William Clark a planner and lone member of the audience aside from an Independent- Journal reporter, doubted that people working in the Marinship area could afford to live in Sausalito.

As for housing in the area, Commissioner Evert Heynneman pointed out there would be apartments across the referring to the Whiskey Springs Development at the site of the former American Distillery Co. plant. The vote for the self- sustaining policy was 3-1 with Commissioner Thomas E. Gildersleeve dissenting because he ready to vote to preclude waterfront housing without further study. Commissioner John M.

Davis was absent. Planning consultant Williarq E. Spangle of Menlo Park said Sausalito has been a town all this and wondered how much of a change commissioners were m- plating. Commissioners said the city work toward a reasonably self-sufficient commu- i recognizing the goal be fully but nevertheless should move toward it. sion called for an intensive review of the Marinship Plan.

After two hours of item- by-item study, the commission recommended about 35 revisions in the General Plan, most of them changes to make the plan consistent with the 11 adopted Central Waterfront Plan and incorporate the ship Plan. They split 3-1 with Nissen dissenting on a recommendation that the present City Hall be retained for public use. Nissen said he think the City Hall should be at that location and think the building should be retained for public use. Funds from the sale of city hall could be used to place City Hall a proper and think there are sufficient areas for public use he said. Commissioners deleted a passage calling for a single elementary school at the a i School Site to serve the area, an educational park plan that had previously failed to win voter approval.

want the city in the position of prejudging the school Nissen said. They added as a community goal encouragement of bicycle paths and pedestrian walkways, which will serve as an alternative to automobile Commissioners adjourned until 8 p.m. Sept. 16 at city hall for their next regular meeting. San Anselmo Plans To Review Sign Proposals Spangle reprted that he had allowed for 1,500 persons living in the Marinship area in compiling the ultimate population capacity.

In light of their new policy, the commis- The San Anselmo City Counci will hold a special meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. in city hall to review a proposed revised sign ordinance. The revised ordinance was approved by the planning commission in May and includes these revisions: (1) window displays of merchandise will not be considered signs; (2) method of measurement will be the sum of the two smallest ad joining rectangles which can encompass the sign; (3) plant nurseries will be included among those businesses which may have signs with changeable copy. FOUR GENERATIONS OF SEAFOOD TRADITION BANQUET FACILITIES For Business Man Ladies Luncheons Wedding Receptions OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK LUNCH and DINNER vellaA OF MARIN Since 1887 "On beautiful Richardson PHONE 388-6944. COCKTAIL LOUNGE WITH PIANO BAR VISIT OUR RETAIL STORE First Novato Circus Show Is At 2 P.M.

Performances of the Novato Professional Association Circus will be at 2 and 8 p.m. tomorrow, rather than 1 and 8 p.m. at reported in Independent-Joumal through a typographical error. The widow and stepson of the te Col. Waddell F.

Smith, great-grandson of a Pony Express Founder, yesterday filed suits in Marin Superior Court charging that Smith reneged on a promise to adopt the youth and asking $345,000 from his estate. In two suits against the executor, attorney Herbert K. Walton of San Rafael, Mariana B. Smith described how the late colonel allegedly made the promise when he proposed to her. Mrs.

Smith, a Swedish divor- cee, said that Smith, a longtime bachelor, asked her to marry him in 1958 and connection YMCA Meeting Sign-Up Starts Registration has opened to all Marin high school students wanting to participate in this three-day Yosemite Youth Conference sponsored by the YMCA. Delegates to the three-day conference beginning Nov. 27, will meet in small groups to explore the social issues that concern them, and where possible, offer solutions to social problems. Additional information may be obtained from the YMCA, 241 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael. with this said he would adopt her son, Chris Dahlgren, then 6 years Because of this promise, Mrs.

Utility Board To Hold Forum On Pollution The Independent-Journal erred Wednesday in reporting that a forum discussion on and Related Problems in scheduled for today at 8 p.m., had been organized by Vernon Bradley of Bolinas. The meeting, which will include talks by state, county and regional officials, was organized and is being sponsored by the Bolinas Community Public Util- ty District. It, will be held in the district office, 270 Elm Road. said, she gave up plans to return to Sweden, and married Smith. After flie rn a i a Mrs.

Smith said that the hoy was given the name F. Smith which he used from that time ori. Although Smith publicly stat- I ed that he had adopted the hoy, now 18, he never did so legally, Mrs. Smith said in the suit. In January, 1959, Colonel Smith drew up a will under which young Smith, now a college freshman, inherited $1,000 The will stated that Smith had no natural or adopted children.

Mrs. Smith received $45,000 under the will, which is still in probate. The estate, which includes the family home in San Rafael known as the Pony press Retreat, was estimated at $250,000 at the time of Smith's death in January. He left the house, which includes a museum of early western artifacts, to the county, which turned it down. Under the will a niece and nephew will receive it if the state want it.

Mrs. Smith asked on behalf of her son $245,000 for various causes including his education and damages because Smith broke his agreement. She asked $126,000 for herself. An article from a San Francisco newspaper attached to the suit and written 18 months after the marriage described how Smith had adopted the child and said that the is a LAY YOUR OWN CARPET WE HAVE TOOLS AND KNOW HOW NYLON Q90 1 SHAG THECy MONTECITO OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK Above POLYESTER 4) HOPPING Goodman's Builders )0 112 ROOM SIZES KING 4TER 361 3rd St. mporium Of In some ways as good as a sports car.

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