Martinez News-Gazette from Martinez, California • 1

THE WEATHER Overcast through Saturday fair inland this afternoon and ever most of the area Sat. urday afternoon; west winds 8 to 16 knots afternoons. Temp. last 24 hours, High 70, low 56. Concord weather: High 75, low 54.

Contra American Spies Will Be Executed By MATTHEW T. KENNY United Press International HAVANA Cuban Premier Fidel Castro warned to- RETIREMENT day that he will execute any. caught in Cuba. He made the threat in vision broadcast in which he MARTINEZ SOLON ATTACKS STATE WATER PLAN EL CERRITO (UPI) State Sen. George Miller, Martinez, attacked the billion state water bond issue Thursday saying it would de- range the economy of Northern California.

Miller told the Rotary Club that Southern California has no water shortage now and it is not utilizing of its resources. He declared the south is using less than three-fifths of the water now alloted to it from the Colorado River. The senator said that if Propo. sition 1 is enacted into law "it would derange the economy of Northern California and heavily penalize taxpayers of Contra Costa County and the state." NO SURPLUS "There is no surplus of water Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to be piped to the south San Joaquin Valley to Southern California," Miller said. He said the only water shortage was in San Diego and this could be cured by adjusting the present supply.

Miller called the present proposal to delay for at least 10 years the construction of Oroville Dam on the Feather River "basic injustice of the bond Issue." MTZ. GROWS BY. 27 ACRES The City of Martinez grewby approximately 27 acresovernight. The sudden growth came when the State Lands, Commission yesterday approved an agree ment establishing the boundary between state owned tidelands and city property on the natural. ly accreted lands north of the present tidelands survey No.

9. The land extends seaward from the present Marina canstruction. and City Special Manager Counsel John George Hughes don appeared before the Commission in Sacramento yesterday. The agreement will be executed within the next few days, Gordon said. TOMORROW'S TIDES LOW HIGH 4:41 a.m.

11:23 a.m. 5:04 p.m. 11:06 p.m. Sunrise 6:02 a.m. Set 5:59 p.m.

SERVING CONTRA COSTA COUNTY 6 DAYS A WEEK Unata Gazette MARTINEZ, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1960 NUMBER President and Mrs. Eisenhower honor of the royal couple. The 100th anniversary of the first hosted Crown Prince Akihito young married couple is in the exchange of diplomatic relaand Princess Michiko of Japan United States celebrating the tions between the two nations. White House dinner in IKE IN DENVER Praises Nixon In Chicago Speech; Flies To Mrs Doud's Funeral Rites WILLIAM J. EATON DENVER" -President International Eisenhower arrived in Denver today to attend the funeral of his mother-in-law, Mrs.

Elvira Doud. The chief executive made Mrs. Elivera Doud, 82, mother of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, died in Denver following long illness. The President few to Denver today for the fumoral of his mother-in-law who he affectionately called "Min." the melancholy journey from Chicago to attend final rites for Mrs.

Doud, 82, who died late Wednesday night after a lingering illness. The President addressed meeting of the Polish-American Congress in Chicago before leaving for Denver. Most of the President's talk was international affairs and the quest for freedom but he worked in some comments on American politics. POLISH VOTE He urged the Polish group to vote. There was laughter, shared by the President, when he said: "It makes no difference as far as I'm concerned.

The President quickly added, "I don't mean to say I'm disinterested." Eisenhower, in an address at GOP fund-raising banquet Thursday night, gave Vice President Richard M. Nixon his strongest endorsement by describing him as the man best- WALNUT CREEK PLAN City, County Planners To Hold Joint Session County and Walnut city planning commissioners will hold a special joint meeting at 8 p.m. next Tuesday to discuss the Walnut 'Creek area general plan. The session, to be. in the conference room at the county planning department on the fourth floor of the County Administration Building, Pine and Escobar Strets, Martinez, will take the place of the usual Tuesday night meeting of the county planners.

Although the get-together will be a public session, no hearings are scheduled, so the conference room has been selected for the SINGLE COPY 10 For Subscription and Advertis. ing Information Call MUlberry 5-7715 or ACademy 8-6400. 103rd YEAR "American spies or saboteurs" an unscheduled midnight telealleged the American Embassy in Havana is honeycombed with and "spies." Americans in Cuba who want to stay are welcome to do so but spies and saboteurs will face firing squad, he warned. HAVE 3 'SPIES' Cuba claims to be holding three "North spies" nowEustace Brunet, Edmundo American, Taranske and Daniel L. Carswell- but the embassy has disclaimed any knowledge of them.

They were accused by the Cubans of "spying" on the nese Communist news agency in Havana but Castro did not say whether he would ask firing squad justice for them. The three were seized by Cuban police at the same time that authorities expelled four U.S. Embassy employes last week on charges of interfering in internal Cuban problems. Castro urged American residents to ignore the State Department's advice that they should leave Cuba now. He said the Washington action was part of an "insidious campaign" against his government.

Litterbug Fined $25 In Court PITTSBURG--The first person to be served with citation by the county's first full-time litter control officer has paid $25 fine for placing a large pile of debris alongside the Standard Oil Service Road that runs from Buchanan Road to Loveridge Road. Pittsburg Judicial District Judge Michael J. Gatto imposed the fine when Bobbie J. Warren, 18. of 34 Delta Drive, Shore Acres, appeared in court Wednesday.

Warren, an employe of Pittsburg carpet service firm, was cited by Deputy Sheriff Les Currier last week, on a charge of illegal dumping. The youth told Currier he left the pile of carpet pieces, at carpet roadside under the impression that the site was the Somerville Road dump. He removed the litter after being questioned by Currier. Edmund Randall Dies In Truckee Edmund L. Randall, 69, 913 Jones Street, died last night in Truckee where he had been stroke hospitalized last after suffering a Friday while vacationing in the area.

Mrs. Randall arrived home shortly before noon today to arrange for funeral services at the Connolly and Taylor chapel. Mr. Randall was a retired employee of Shell Oil Co. meeting.

"Full-scale" meetings of the commission, at which hearings are conducted and decisions rendered, are held in the supervisors' chambers at the Hall of Records. Announcements of next Tuesday's "study session" was made last Tuesday night by the county planners during regular meeting at which they acted on a variety of matters. Despite county supervisors' indication that they considered the request to have merit, the county commission stood pat on its recommendation of denial of James B. Wells' application for rezoning of two and a half acres on the east side of Peasant Hill Road, 800 feet south of Gray- ANNEXATION MOVE P.H. Areas Can Start Petitions To Join ALIFO Concord CONCORD after the Clty Council formally approved three resolutions to circulate annexation petitions, Mayor Bryan stary issued -the following statement: "It is gratifying to people of Fair Oaks, Pleasant Hill Manor and Virginia; Lane start legal proceedings to- $75,000 To Be Saved By County Annual county and employe retirement costs will be reduced about $75,000 beginning October 1, Chairman Mel F.

Nielsen of the Board, of Supervisors announced today. Special districts which are under the county's retirement system and their employes will also benefit by the lowered costs in the amount of about $50,000 a year. This arrangement was approved by the supervisors yesterday, at request of the Contra Costa County Employees Retirement Association. The county and special district contributions will equal 8.62 per cent of payroll, down from 8.89 per cent, for general members. Their contributions for safety members -deputy sheriffs and firemen--will be 12.85 per cent of payroll, a reduction from 16.35.

Contributions of employes will be reduced an average of 2.5 per cent; the employes' individual rates depend upon their age of entrance into the retirement system and their sex. INTEREST UP Amount of interest paid on the county, district and employe contributions will be raised from 3 per cent to 8.5 per cent, Nielsen said. The changes in the contribution and interest rates result from the legally required fiveyear actuarial review of the retirement system, which made by the firm of Coates, Herfurth and England. In its report, the actuarial firm indicated that the reductions in cost were possible even though new benefits had been added to the system. A major reason for the reduction, Nielsoen said, lies in the level of earnings of the (Continued on Page 2) Protests Fail, Concord Kaiser Will Close Soon CONCORD Despite protest petition signed by over 1,000 local members, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Clinic will close its doors sometime next month.

City employees and officials had joined the bandwagon fighting the closing of the 2253 Concord Boulevard clinic, but their efforts were unavailing. Accorda A. letter S. from health plan manager Reinhart, addressed to chamber of commerce manager Ike Runyon, the members of the local clinic will have to use the Walnut Creek facility. son Road, Pleasant Hill, from lots to neighborhood business.

The Board of Supervisors had tossed the item back to the commission, pointing out it felt that a neighborhood business zone would constitute a desirable ares. The commission's latest recommendation of denial now goes to the Board of Supervisors. FIELD TRIP VISIT In another controversy, the commission hearings on Alice C. and Byron B. Jeffrey's request for land use permit to establish a hobby dog kennel for a maximum of 10 dogs on the west side of Court Lane immediately west of the Hitchcock Road intersection, prepared to enter the White House.

The Chief Executive hailed the vice president as a man of vast diplomatic and Cabinetlevel experience in apparent contrast to his Democratic rival, Sen. John F. Kennedy. The President tmeporarily put aside his personal sorrow at the death of Mrs. Eisenhower's Mother- Mrs.

Elivera Doudto laud Nixon in his first major political speech of the 1960 campaign. He planned to discuss foreign policy briefly today at a PolishAmerican Congress convention before departing by jet plane for Denver to attend funeral services for Mrs. Doud. He was scheduled to return to Washington by jet after the services. SPEAKS AT DINNER The President attempted to correct any impressions that he downgraded Nixon's contribution to the Eisenhower administration in a speech to a Republican fundraising dinner here.

Democrats have been making political capital out of a presidential news conference comweek to think of any decision ment that it might take him Nixon made on a key policy matter. Eisenhower said he wanted to "set the record straight" with this tribute to Nixon: "His counsel has been invaluable to me. He is dedicated, decisive, persistent in pursuing new ways for improving government and a man possessed of the character, patience and sound judgment so essential for effective leadership in the troubled world of tomorrow." In a thinly veiled slam at Kennedy, the President added that Nixon was not a man "intimidated by selfish pressure groups at home nor tyrants abroad." Two-County Transit Hands Over $7.5 Million for Key The Alameda Contra 500,000 over to Key System the way to roll briskly The payment to Key eon at the Athens Club Costa Transit District handed Transit Lines today and cleared into business at midnight. System was made at a civic lunchat noontime, in a brief ceremony CONCORD BOY NABBED AFTER110 MPH CHASE After a 110-mile-per-hour pursuit, California Highway Patrol officers caught up with a teenage Concord youth early yesterday, and booked him into county jail. Bobby Ray Scaggs, of 5065 Kenmore Drive, was spotted on the Black Hawk Ranch Road near Danville at 2 a.m.

Thursday, driving on an area used as a drag strip with his headlights on high A beamrol car manned by Officer Douglas Bergman and Roland Ludvigson signalled him to lower the beam, but Scaggs instead turned out his lights completely and sped away onto Highway 21. When the officers forced 1 him to a halt just outside the county line near Dublin, he was charged with failing to heed the siren and driving without lights. GAZETTE INDEX Page Classified 10 Comics 11 COMMUNITY -NEWSConcord 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, Danville 6, 12 Lafayette. Pleasant Hill 8, 12 Port Chicago. 6, 12 Walnut Creek 2, 9, 12 Entertainment Society 8, Sports.

Television ward annexing to the city of Concord. "The citizens of Pleasant Hill and Concord must realize that we are living in an expanding environment, with all the problems this implies; we cannot cope succesfully with our problems individually; we must face them in the light of local and regional perspectives. We must face them together. 'CIVIC PRIDE "The alert, dynamic, progressive civic pride which the people of Pleasant Hill display is admired by everybody in this part of the county. If they should decide to join forces with Concord and work out the problems which are common to both everyone will gain.

A wider tax. base, which this would assure, will make it possible for all of us to have more and better services at a more economical price. "If the citizens of Pleasant Hill decide to join the city of Concord, then I want to assure them that they will be warmly welcomed by all the people of Concord. The mayor's statement followed yesterday evening's special council session, held at 5:15 p.m. for the purpose of facilitating the pre-annexation procedure.

Sheriff's Auction Set Saturday Bicycles, bicycle parts, fishing tackle, automobile tires, hub caps and some 200 other assorted items will be placed on the auction block for sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the parking lot of the County Administration Building, Pine and Escobar Streets, Martinez, Sheriff Walter F. Young announces. The auction sale by the sheriff's department will be of unclaimed property that the department hag accumulated. Bargains? "Come see and hear for yourself," the sheriff comments with an encouraging smile.

RUSS CONE, TRACKER, DIES FROM INJURIES Russell King Cone, famed rescuer of lost persons, died Thursday morning of injuries suffered Sept. 16 when he was struck by a car. He passed away in Stanford Lane Hospital, where he was transferred from Martinez Community Hospital so that he could be nearer his Los Gatos home. Cone had gained wide recognition for his Calo Rescue Service, with which he and his team of bloodhounds traced many lost persons throughout the state. The 39-year-old Cone was preparing to address a group of Boy Scouts at Pleasant Hill Elementary School, when the aceident occurred.

He had reached into his station wagon to obtain some lecture literature when he was struck by car driven by Hermenegildo Friere, 65, of 1644 Pleasant Hill Road, Lafayette. The accident took place on Oak Park Boulevard and Pleasant Hill Road. The district attorney's office is reviewing the case, at the reCalifornia Highway Patrol officers. Keller Named To Planning Board Ed Keller, local automobile dealer, was named to the Martinez City Planning Commission by the city council last Wednesnight. when Marion Doss was named to dog, fills the vacancy created the council.

Keller was nominated by Mayor Fred Caudel and voted unanimously. Councilmen also appointed Kenneth Prosser to represent them on the Inter-Service Club Council at the request of Melvin Jeppsen. that marked the end of one ara and the beginning another. John R. Worthington, on, general manager of the district, made the presentation in two checks to Glen L.

Stanley, Key System president, before an assemblage of civic and business leaders from, the check, entire East $6,915,885, Bay area. went to Bay Area Public Service as the holding company, and the other, for $584,115, to Key System, as operating company, for the total $7,500,000 purchase price recently agreed upon after months of negotiations. KEY SYSTEM OUT With the payment, the Key System went out of business, ending monopoly that began before the turn of the century under direction of F. M. "Borax" Smith, builder of the East Bay Key transit empire.

Gathered to witness the transaction were mayors, city managers and other officials from the 11 cities San Pablo to Hayward that are expected to get a far better transportation system as result of the change over. Also attending the luncheon were legislators, businessmen, representatives of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District and others who not only have, helped to get the district rolling and into actual operations, but who along with the riding public can expect a future of efficient and superior transportation. The luncheon was arranged by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, as part of the city's observance of the historic event -the end the long reign of the Key System and the beginning of new era system operated by the people themselves, through the AC Transit District. As far as most of the public is concerned, the switch from private business to the banner (Coatinued en Page 2) World Report In Brief (Compiled from United VICE PRESIDENT Richard voters in the northern air defense maintain its military power who respect power." THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS ard M. Nixon's aides have admitted candidate for his television debate day night.

PRESIDENT EISENHOWER Washington with Prime Minister Premier Robert G. Menzies. But has no plans to meet with Soviet spite growing pressure for such THE UNITED STATES aimed today by closing its $110 million considering export controls like Press M. Nixon told Bangor, Maine, bastion today that America must "because we are dealing with said today Vice President they made up the presidential with Sen. John F.

Kennedy Mon. will confer Sunday morning Harold Macmillan and Australias the Premier White Nikita House said Khrushchev he a conference. a new economic blow at Cuba Nicaro nickel plant there those on Russia and Red satellites. Concord area, and scheduled an Oct. 21 field-trip visit to the site.

Decision will not be made until after the site-inspection. Jeffrey told the commission of his plans, stressing that they are for a hobby dog kennel, not a commercial kennel. But several objectors from the neighborhood expressed fear that a kennel would adversely affect property values. The Jeffrey dispute had been referred by the Board of Supervisors to the full commission after protestants appealed against Board of Adjustment okay of the application. REZONE OKAYS Commissioners recommended (Continued Page 2) PRESIDENT MOISE TSHOMBE of secessionist Katanga! Preing vince went Congo off unity to inspect conference his provincial among troops warring today, poiltical cold a leaders ha Leopoldville, COMMUNIST NATIONS have to examine the conflict between China, Iron Curtain sources findings may either mend or break between Peiping and the rest of THE NATION'S first electric natural steam from within the tion today at Geyserville.

The this morning. It is located 92 northeastern Sonoma County, set up high court of inquiry the Soviet Union and disclosed today. The sources said its completely the ideological the Communist world. power generating station earth went into commercial plant, the Geysers, was dedicated miles north of San Francisco THE LAOTIAN GOVERNMENT has decided cotablich diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and permit the Rue. sians to open an embassy in Vientiane, the official Vientane radio announced today..