Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 16

Sn 6 untal i li I ALL Of MARIN COUNTY THIRD SECTION SAN RAFAEL. CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1967 17 Boat Explodes Heads After Fueling; Civic Center Post Pair Is Burned A GIANT GAME OF PICK UP STICKS California Highway Patrolman Billy King (lower left) pitchcs in on a big clearing job while listening to truck driver Leon Lofton, of Eureka explain how all that lumber happens to be blocking two lanes of Highway 10 The 22-year-old trucker. who escaped uninjured, said it all happened when his rig hit a curb on the San Quentin Wye overpass just south of San Rafael at 7 a.m. yesterday. Northbound traffic was slowed to a crawd for about an hour and a half.

ilndependent-Joumal photo by Bob Hax) Owners Fight To KeeplJusf A Wall Patrick Rips Chairman Black Point Operations Left On Old Of Conservative Group Owners ol cominerical and Xuvato Mayter Flan which was light industrial projjcrty along adopted by the eoujily and by the Petaluma River waterfront at Black Point fought for the: a Lerch. representing the right to continue operations at: gjack Point Improvement Club, a hearing this morning before opposed rezoning ot com- the Marin County Plan-! merical and industrial to ning Commission. tried to Attorney Bryan McCartliy, i develop a nerve center in the representing dredger Charles Hover, charged that planning director Paul C. Zucker said Lerch. is served by water, rail, and freeway.

It would be a great injustice to to put the whole county under I have it suddenly turned back a set plan." McCarthy said! to agricultural and let Sonoma Hover owns a dredging firm on County pick up the Lerch Day's Island about a quarter warned that if commercial and mile east of Black Point cutoff! industi ial areas were restricted and has been operating it for too stringently, the Sonoma side years. wants it just as itiuf the Petaluma River would is and should not have to come i develop commerically and get in to bicker v.ith the planners," said McCarthy. RESEM IT' all tiie benefits. A cabinet maker on Deer Island also opposed rezoning. pointing out he had bought his was never told that his land would revert to agricultural.

FIELD TKIP After an hour's discussion, the planning commissioners decided to continue the rezoning hearing until Sept. 11. The commissioners said they want to make a field trip of the area to get a clearer picture of the problems. Planning director Zucker said, McCarthy is "challengmg the in- i ll tegrity ot the staff and I resent: Zucker pointed out that his staff is merely trying to rezone the area to comply with the Trials Slated For Pair In Patrol Fracas trials for assaulting a excavation ol the and lor burglary today were on the master calender Mann i hupenor Court for this week. Trial of Claude 11 continued until Sept.

-11. Burton, 22, accused of assaulting -----------------------California Highway Patrolman pn Richard Myers dunng aiDrUnken DriVmq Marin City scuffle March 31, will start at 10 a.m. tomorrow before Judge Thomas F. Keating. Burton, of 33 Cole Drive, Marin City, also faces misdemeanor charges in Marin Municipal Court of disturbing the peace and a loaded pistol in another Marin City fracas Aug.

4. Sorlcli Ranch One wall of an old dairy building on San A 1 Sorich Ranch was left standing, today after a weekend of' dynamite blasting by Company 579th Engineering Batallion of the California National Guard. Sgt. Tlieodore E. Green said the guard wHl try to tear down the remaining wall, either with a bulldozer or with dynamite, sometime in the next two weeks.

He said some grading and leveling also remain to be done. The only civilian casualty of the weekend was the city corporation yard building, which suffered an eight-inph hole in the roof from flying debris following a 10-stick dynamite explosion yesterday about 4 p.m. Robert Golcher of the public works department said city crews can repair the hole. A cable broke on the tractor early Sunday, slowing the work. About 200 pounds of dynamite are left from the 400 pounds the city purchased for the job, and the explosives are being stored at the corporation lyard.

City mechanic Norman Shepley said the stored dynamite presents no danger. crowds of observers did not materialize, national Guard officer kept the area surrounded, but the only unofficial observers were a few children. Sentencing Set Sentencing of Patrick Joseph Cullen, 52, convicted Friday in Marin Municipal Court of drunken driving, twlay was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sept. 5.

Cullen, of 283 Ellen Drive, San Rafael, was arrested April 10 on Highway 101 by California Tnar Gene Renal Toikka, Highway Patrol. Jury trial was 21, accused of burgling Bret before Judge Hadden W. Roth. Harte Beauty Salon at 98 Thomas Allen Lenhart. 30.

of Woodland San Rafael. 103 Street, San Rafael. June 14 was scheduled to begin was given a year's probation and nt 10 a.m.. Wednesday before fined $146 by Judge Roth, also Judge Harold J. Haley' for drunken driving.

The patrol Toikka resides at 21 Elmwood arrested him on Highway 101 Court. Novato. March 19. WITH SGT. MIKE By Hodgson I Youth Jailed On Stolen Car Count, Also Hit-Run A San Rafael youth was being held today at the San Francisco city jail on charges from San Anselmo police of car theft and hit-and-run and complaints by San Francisco police of drunken driving and having no drivers license in his possession.

Benjamin Skippingday, 19, of 819 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, was arrested about 4 p.m. yesterday by San Francisco police at the Golden Gate Bridge toll gate, minutes after San Anselmo police sent out an all points bulletin to stop the car. stolen at 3:45 p.m. in San Anselmo. Margery Tingley of 1369 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo.

owner of the 1966 Ford Mustang, told police a man entered the Escrow Bar at 114 Greenfield Avenue, sat down next to her at the bar, grabbed her car keys I off the bar and ran outside. She I said he took her car. and as he I drove off he hit a parked Ford belonging to Ethel F. Middaga of 742 Francisco Boulevard. San Rafael.

Police estimated damage to each car at $300. William Penn Patrick today said the chairman of a con- i servative Republican group was for disavowing! PatrTck's statement to the group! that Chief Justice Earl Warren; should be hanged. i Joseph Crosby of South Pasadena, chairman of the United Republicans of California, said Saturday that remarks Aug. 12 as ridiculous and repugnant to me as I am sure they were to other responsible Crosby said he should have asked Patrick leave the platform Patrick, however, said Crosby everything I said very vigorously and said af- i terward that it was a. of Patrick said, a i lack of courage to stand up for' Patrick, a candidate in the last Republican gubernatorial primary, said he may resign from the organization, which claims 9,000 members.

of my problems is that I am not he added. Crosby is not speaking for the majority of the people in UROC; he just wants to look good to the Governor and to some of the people of the Patrick said. His controversial statement was made to a UROC Board of Governors meeting in Santa Maria. Patrick emphasized today he meant Warren should be tried for treason. tried properly, he would receive the proper verdict and certainly would be deserving of the highest Patrick said.

is pretty standard that a man is executed for treason." Two Bay men were hospitalized yesterday after their 21-foot cruiser ex- pUxied and burned at Clipper Yacht Harbor, Sausahto Boat ow a i- Coleman. 25. of Redwood City, was in good condition tixlay at Marin (ieneral Hospital with burns on the face and right leg His companion. Wilson. 39., of Mountain View, was in fair condition with burns on tlu' face, arms and chest The Sausalito tire department said the eiigine exploded when the ment started it after refueling at the Union Oil Co.

fuel barge at 2:55 p.m Both men jumped overboard and the barge attendant started towing the burning boat into the bay. A Coast Guard cutter, pas.s- ing on its way to free a grounded boat in Richardson Bay, saw the fire and sped to the boat and extinguished the flames. Wilson's wife. Dianan. 25.

and Jo Ann Farrell, 20, companion, were standing on the when the boat exploded They were not injured but were treated lor shock at Marni General Hospital, No damage estimate made for the gutted boat, which was towed to the Army ('orps of Engineers dock The pocket mouses normal habitat is arid regions of the western United States and Mexico. Takeshita. veteran of 15 California Associated years on the Independent-Jour-; Press eontcst for spot news nal pev's staff, today took over stones and top award in the coverage of the Civic Center in California State Fair contest in a realignment of reiwrting staff, the category He lives in Takeshita will head an ex- panded Civic Center bureau with Peterzell. who joined tne I-J opening of the new Hall of Juv year, was city edi- tice and moving ot county offices of the Valley Record now in the old courthouse Ai served on the the Civic Center, he replaces J. Eugene Richard Lvttle.

who resigned to He is a graduate of the devote hi.s time to free-lance Universitv of Columbia School writing. Journali.sm at York He and livr in Keplaf'ing in the Southern Mann bureau is Jones, who joined the Independ- ent-Jounial earlier this year. He ircMously worked on the burg Post Dispatch. Santa Sentinel. Wichita (Kan Paul who has Hagle and Bea- been at the l-J's Southern Ma- and rin bureau in Mill Valley, takes pia (Kan coverage of news ette.

He is a graduate of thp which Take.shita has been han- University of Kansas School of dling, Peterzell also will cover Journalii-m. He and his family a variety of regional boards and in Fairfax, commissions involving Mann. Take.shita’s editorial page dii such as the Bay ('onservation ties have been absorbed bv and Development Commission. Bryce W. executive Bay Transportation editor, etc.

lakeshita was 1-J courthouse reporter for over a decade be fore becoming and editorial page editor He a graduate ol Stanlord University, a of World War II. and a native ('alifornian His news writing awards have in- two first in the Takeshita Bike Is Stolen A boy's bicycle belonging to George Biancliini ol 355 West Ballimore Larkspur wa" taken from School at 2 05 iKTording In Corte Madera police THE GAM-BIT GAME Fififl all the the Rirj Week Youth Posts Bail In Radio Theft Mill Valley police Friday jailed Jack Leon Melin, 19, of 5 Ross Street, San Rafael, on suspicion of stealing auto parts after a radio was taken from a cer belonging to Dr. Emmy Sylvester of 168 Ralston Avei nue. Police they found the radio on the floor of pickup truck. posted S289 bail and was to appear this afternoon in Marin Municipal Court.

can knock that left-right-left jazz off anv time now." Span Record For the second Sundav in a row. a one-day traffic record as set yesterday on the Golden Gate Bridge with 98,667 vehicles crossing, bridge authorities reported. A total of 97,850 crossed the bridge the previous Sunday. Baseball and football games in San Francisco contributed to the record traffic, authorities said. Shots Fired At Hippie Truck Two shots were fired from a passing car Saturday at two men living in a converted van truck with psychedelic mark- I ings.

sheriff's officers reported today. The shooting, which oc-cured In shortly after midnight. appeared to be form of harassment by local residents." according to Deputy Weldon Travis. Bullets shattered a window but no one was hurt. The two men were dressed hippie said Travis.

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