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122 Candidates Make Yesterday's Deadline i (Tit 1 F0RECAST daily -Hi- Last year to date 28.75 A westerly winds. Average to date 29.73 SERVING ALL OF MARIN COUNTY Wither weather, page 21.) A LOOK A MARIN, 1872 There was memorabilia galore at the Marin Civic Center yesterday when, after long months of waiting, a century-old time capsule found imbedded in the cornerstone of the old county courthouse was opened. The box yielded coins, as those handled by Frank A. Norick, a University of California anthro- poligist (above), and newspapers and miscellaneous items, as viewed by Norick and others (below). The material, placed in the box in 1872, will be displayed for three months at the county library at the Civic Center, starting next week.

photos by Jim Keam Girl, 13, Killed In Hit-Run The 13-year-old daughter uf former San Francisco 49ers football player Robert A. Toneff. was killed by a hit-run auto today near her home in Sleepy Hollow. California Highway Patrol officers arrested a 19-year-old San Anselmo youth found sitting behind the wheel of his stalled, battered car a short distance away from the death scene. Officers said the youth, Robert Brian England of 13 Angela Avenue, San Anselmo, may have been under the influence of glue fumes.

The girl. AJene Toneff. of 18 Dutch Valley I.ane, apparently was killed instantly at 12:45 a.m. when struck by the northbound car while she was walking on Butterfield Road. She was pronounced dead at Marin General Hospital.

Officers learned there was a car parked on Legend Road, with major damage to its front end. They said they found England behind the wheel. Another youth was standing in front of the car with the hood open, trying to start it, when officers arrived. The unidentified youth fled into the darkness, officers said, and had not been found by midmorning. The car was England's, investigators reported.

England was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of felony hit-run driving, vehicular manslaughter and causing injury while driving under the influence of glue fumes. He remained in custody in lieu of $1,000 bail, to appear Monday for arraignment in Marin Municipal Court. Young England is the son of Robert Park England, former chairman of the San Anselmo Parks and Recreation Commission. Highway patrol officers said they were still investigating the fatal accident, and would turn a completed report over to the district office tomorrow' or Monday. Funeral arrangements for the girl are pending at the Chapel of the Hills, San Anselmo.

She is survived by her father, who starred more than 14 years for National Football League See FATAL, page 3 Senate Group Asks Bangladesh Move WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate Relations Committee has passed a resolution calling on the administration to grant diplomatic recognition to Bangladesh. The resolution, still to be acted on by the full Senate, would express the sympathy and understanding of the lawmakers for the people of Bangladesh and urge the White House to extend recognition rapidly. Striking Southern Pacific Rail Workers Comply; Back To Jobs SAN by a dispute over elimination of Flight thousand Southern Pacif- some rail yard jobs, ic switchmen and engineers The United Transportation complied with a federal Union set up picket lines at order today by returning to yards and offices throughout work after a surprise strike the area served by Pacific that shut down the railroad's lines and about 20,000 clerical operations from Seattle, and office workers refused to to EH Paso, Tex. cross the lines. The walkout was touched off U.S.

District Court Robert C. Peckham issued an injunction ordering an immediate end to WHERE TO FIND IT the strike and prohibiting SP from laying off any workers Book until a hearing March 20. Bridge ......................................22,25 The railroad contended that Church ..........................27 jobs in rail yards Classified were being eliminated under Comics ................................25 terms of a new rail workers Editorial contract which ended a nation- wide strike last summer and Fire Calls .....................................21 was ratified by the union in Garden January. Handyman However, George Lechner, Marin Calendar ..........................21 union vice president, said the Marin job cuts to a Marin he said was Sports .......................................23,24 made by SP President Benja- Tides ..............................................24 min Biaggini during the nego- Travel tiations. TV1-8 SP attorneys argued that the World News In new contract provides for tlement of such disputes by mediation, but Lechner said the union has been unable to get the railroad to start such talks.

He said several hundred jobs were at stake. already have laid off 12 men, and eight more would have lost their jobs Monday. why we acted today Lechner said. An Attack Shortly After Cease-Fire BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) A British patrol was attacked near Newry today only one hour after the militant wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) ordered a three-day cease-fire to give the British government time to work on a plan to end the violence. An army spokesman said two small mines exploded under two army vehicles patrolling outside the border town of Newry, about 40 miles south of Belfast, shortly after 1 a.m.

(8 p.m. EST) yesterday. ip Make Unconditional Troop Ine Filing Deadline Pullout McGovem A total of 122 candidates entered the running for more than 120 elective seats in Marin and Sonoma counties yesterday as the 5 p.m. filing deadline passed. (See state story, page 2.) Last-minute filings included a fifth candidate in Fourth Supervisorial District, an aunt in the Marin Municipal Water District, two candidates for Sonoma County supervisor and a Peace and Party candidate and an 18-year-old democrat, both in the Seventh Assembly District.

One intended candidate, meanwhile, failed to make the dealine at the Marin County Elections Office. S. Robert Politzer of Sausalito, a past chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, arrived five minutes late, automatically expelling himself from the committee when his term expires this year. The fifth candidate in the Fourth Supervisorial District is Vincent Saccamanno, a 39-yaar- old architect who lives at Drake's Beach Estates. A six.

year resident of Marin, he is making his first run for public office, his wife reported. Saccamanno was the only candidate to both pick up and file his nomination papers on the last day. In Sonoma County, the deadline showed six candidates for Sonoma County supervisor for the Fifth District. yesterday were David E. Bills, a Sebastopol building contractor, and incumbent Robert Theiller.

Candidates who had previously filed were Jack R. Galvin, Virginia Hechtman. Bernard J. Lamb and Grant F. King.

The fifth district includes most of West Sonoma, Sebastopol and a small part of Rohnert Park and Cotati. The family competition in Division 2 of the water district came from Vera M. McPhail of San Rafael, whose nephew is the incumbent she is challenging, John M. McPhail also of San Rafael. Mrs.

McPhail is a major stockholder in Inc. In the First Congressional District, Rep. Don H. Clausen was the only Republican to file. On the Democratic side, William A.

Nighswonger filed yesterday. joining Patricia Losh, a Eureka housewife, in the June 6 contest. Nighswonger is head of the political science department at Sonoma State College. He is a resident of Santa Rosa and a former member of the Santa Rosa Board of Education. Also in the congressional district.

Jonathan T. Arnes of Napa filed for the Peace and Party primary. In the First State Senatorial District, Randolph Collier, D- Yreka, filed to retain his seat of 35 years. He will be challenged in the primary by Henry K. Rogers of Eureka.

Rogers owns a janitorial service and is a former Sonoma County deputy. Toni Sutley, a Sonoma State College graduate student in English, filed for the Senate seat as a representative of the Peace and party. Mrs. Sutley, 27, is a former VISTA volunteer, serving in Oregon with migrant farm workers. She lives in Penngrove.

The 18-year-old candidate in the Seventh Assembly District is Joseph J. of Tiburon. A student at the University of California at Berkeley, he was an unsuccessful candidate in last election in the Richardson Bay Sanitary District. Also filing yesterday for the assembly seat held by William T. Bagley of San Rafael was Bill Mack Webber of the Peace and Freedom Party.

He turned in candidacy papers in Santa Rosa. Incumbent Bagley will be challenged in the primary by Robert I). Weinmann of San Rafael, an insurance company sales manager, and Edward J. Gilmore of Ross, also an insurance company executive. In the Democratic primary, ETana- szek will vie with Harry J.

Moore of Novato, a junior high school principal. In the Sixth Congressional First Time Vietnam POW Question Severed MIAMI (UPI) Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota proposed today for the first time an unconditional pullout of American forces from Vietnam, reserving only the right to pursue legal sanctions, including military action, if North Vietnam refuses to release U.S. prisoners of war.

It was the first time that McGovern or any of the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination had severed, to even a slight degree, the question of bringing American troops home from Vietnam from the issue of freeing the U.S. POW's and account for those missing in action. McGovern unveiled his new initiative in a speech prepared for delivery to a Florida state meeting of relatives of those Americans taken prisoner in Vietnam and those listed as missing in action. The speech was scheduled for a noon meet ing at McCoy Air Force Base near Orlando. speech came as (he candidates for Democratic presidential nomination in the second primary went into the final stages of the campaign in preparation for vote.

With the exception of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who continued to comb the mid-section of Florida for votes, the candidates concentrated on the vote-rich area around Miami, Tampa and the stale's other larger cities. Aides to McGovern acknowledged that his statement at McCoy represented a slight shift in his position, which until today called for the setting of a date for the withdrawal of U.S. forces tied to a release of tin1 POWs. They contended, however, that the shift was one of sanctions instead of halting the pullout if the prisoners were not freed.

The McGovern proposal would encompass other American initiatives, including force, if North Vietnam held on to the POWs. In pursuit of the twin goals of releasing the prisoners and safely withdrawing the U.S. forces, McGovern said, would immediately announce that we are withdrawing all of our land, sea and air forces from Indochina within iN) days and that we releasing our embrace of the Thieu regime in South The South Dakota senator said these steps would put the 1 nited States in a position of insisting on compliance with the Geneva convention which provides for release and repatriation of POWs after cessation of hostilities. the other side would know that we would wholly within our rights to back up that insistence with appropriate international legal sanctions and, in the extreme case? military he said is not a proposed negotiating he added. do not propose it exchange for a promise of prisoner re lease.

Instead, it is a planned course of action which I fully intend to carry With four days to go Florida voters east, their ballots. the activities of the candidates went like this: Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington placed a conference call to 15 cities designed to spur a get-out-the-vote drive. Friday, he predicted that he might edge Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Mus kie for second behind Wallace in voting. Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota told 300 students at the University of South Florida in Tampa that he would order American troops out of South Vietnam 10 days after he is inaugurated.

Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, following Humphrey at the University of attacked Wallace, charging that See PLAN, page 3 Upper Echelon Span Victim Of Board Fuss Erupts Had By PAUL E. PETEKZELL Continued on page 3 A simmering dispute among top staff officials at the Golden Gate Bridge District erupted yesterday with a threat by the number two man to resign. The problem broke into the open despite extraordinary efforts by district directors to keep it behind closed doors.

The engineer, Robert El Shields, declined to comment on confirmed reports that he had been about to resign to take a job elsewhere. He and other top staff officials denied reports that personality conflicts were involved. The problem, it is said, however, stems from disputes over overlapping powers of the top staff, and a three-member special committee was named by the board to resolve the problem. After offering conflicting explanations, district directors locked the doors while they met for a half-hour, excluding all staff members except Shields and their legal adviser, David J. Miller.

Shields reportedly was convinced that chain of command and job responsibilities would be defined more clearly by the special committee and that he should stay on the job. Gen. Mgr. Dale W. Luehring, asked to comment, said that you get heavy workloads and tight deadlines, you've got But he said he knew nothing about the possibility Shields would resign.

It is an open secret that Shields and bus transit manager H. Donald White have differed with one another over work on the bus terminals, but Shields said name did not come up during the closed session. White said is no conflict between responsibilities and mine, or personally between the two of But he acknowledged that have f)een some misunderstandings on Top district officials excluded from the session were in the dark about the purpose, and huddled outside in the hallway wondering aloud what it was all about. Board president Lowell Edington of Napa County, called the secret session, explaining only that it dealt with personnel He refused to elaborate, despite reminders by newsmen that the anti- secret meeting law allows closed meetings generally only to hire, fire or hear charges against an officer or employee. But a different explanation was offered by meeting participants after the 27-minute session was reopened to the public.

Miller, the legal adviser, reported the meeting had dealt with establishment of a new and that a special committee of three directors had been named to look into the matter. The antisecret meeting law, however, provides no such excuse for a closed-door meeting. Miller assured complaining newsmen that the was to his finding that the closed door session was allowed by the state law, the Ralph M. Brown Act. Yet a third hint about the purpose of the meeting came in a comment by director Daniel Del Carlo of San who referred to the purpose as personnel Director Dean N.

Meyer of Mill Valley said after the meeting that it dealt with Appointed to the special committee were San Francisco Supervisors Peter Tamaras and John Molinari and San Rafael Mayor C. Paul Bettini. District officials asked to leave during the closed session included Luehring, auditor Robert Tough and secretary Peter Cl a i nos. See BOARD, page 3 COMIC DICTIONARY NAG The woman who enough horse sense to bridle her tongue. Marin Ties I-J Special Report SANTA ROSA A teen-aged girl found strangled in a rural area near here last Sunday has been identified as an employee of a larkspur health food store and the daughter of a Mill Valley man.

The nude body of Kim Wendy Allen, a student at Santa Rosa Junior College, was discovered down a ravine south of the city by two young motorcyclists, according to the Sonoma County Sheriffs Department. The girl had been raped and strangled with a cord or wire about midnight last Saturday, the Sonoma County office but remained unidentified until Thursday when her roommates in Santa Rosa reported her missing. Miss Allen was last seen about 5 p.m. last when she left her job at Larkspur Natural at 460 Magnolia Avenue and told coworkers she planned to hitchike to Santa Rosa. Lt.

Charles Kisbaugh said the department was working on the theory the murderer may have injured himself when he threw the body into the ravine. A mark at the of the embankment where Miss was found indicated someone may have slipped and fallen A native of Oakland, Miss Allen had lived in Sonoma County for four years. She is survived by her father, Kimball W. Allen of Mill Valley; her mother, Mrs. Roberta Allen of Oakland; a sister, Annilee D.

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