Daily Review (Newspaper) - October 5, 1971, Hayward, California law j used in I WASHINGTON President Nixon who tried and failed to settle the West Coast dock strike by personal diplomacy reluctantly has turned to the Act Nixon Monday night took the first step in a chain of tions that could lead to a return to work by striking West Coast longshoremen and sibly by other dock workers in East and Gulf Coast ports He invoked the Act for the first time in his administration when he signed a formal order at the White House shortly after re- turning to Washington from a four-day weekend at Key cayne Fla and Grand Cay in the Bahamas The order created a five-member board of inquiry that will report back to him on or before Wednesday on of negotiations in the dock strikes The White House said today Nixon had already decided to seek a federal court in- junction against the West Coast walkout unless there was a dramatic break in the negotiations However he will await the d a t i o n s before deciding whether to ask for an in- junction against East Coast and Gulf dock strikers COAL STRIKE Elsewhere a strike by soft coal miners en- tered its fifth day Talks between the United Mine Workers Union and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association were to resume today in Washington following meetings by representatives of both sides with Labor James L Hodgson Justin McCarthy editor of the United Mine Workers Journal said the strike was caused by the wage-price freeze and the refusal of the operators to discuss a wage increase pending the end of the freeze Nixon acted in the dock strike a few hours after the government's top labor mediator reported tions had reached an impasse in the strike by the Inter- national and Union against West Coast ports DECISION NEAR White House Press tary Ronald L Zielger said Nixon would decide soon if he would limit his the West Coast strike or broaden it to include Atlantic and Gulf longshoremen who have been on strike since Friday The first step under the Act is a technical one Nixon named a board of inquiry headed by J Keith Mann a Stanford University law professor to determine the status of negotiations in the twin strikes hero in Pirate win PITTSBURGH UPI Richit Hebner er- ror allowed San Francisco to Mart its only run flammed an name run to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a victory over the Giants today and move them within a game of the tional League pennant Hebner who batted only 095 against the ants during the regular season and had just two hits in his first 11 in the playoffs blasted a pitch from Juan Marichal over the field fence for the deci- sive homer It made a winner of Bob Johnson a last-min- ute pitching replacement for Nelson Briles He held the Giants to five hits in eight innings before ing for a pinch-hitter Realtor developer to and give to city Settler IKK plan revision looms page II Vol 363 Serving Southern Alameda County Hayward California Tuesday October 5 1971 10 Cents 48 PASES By LEONA WARD SAN LEANDRO Realtor Mathews and her husband developer Jack Brooks are buying the ic Casa Peralta and will to the city as a gift The surprise announcement of the windfall was made by Mayor Jack D Maltester as the city council wound up its business meeting last night Negotiations for private purchase of the property have been going on for two weeks said while a con- broadened over the San Leandro centennial Committee's posal to acquire the 19th tury mansion by public sub- scription CONCERN WAS expressed in several quarters lest tax funds be diverted to purchase the two-story mansion and its six-acre site The chamber of commerce last month voted that the casa should remain private properly and be de- privately The National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing urged denial of the city's application to the U.S Housing and Urban ment Department for federal funds to acquire the property The committee said San Leandro should be disciplined for denying the benefit of its federal dollars to minority citizens Obviously delighted that the private purchase secret is now out bypassing all these growing antagonisms c i 1 m a n William Suerstedt chairman of the centennial committee said the Brooks selfless community dedication is historical in it- self IT ACCOMPLISHES the wishes and dreams of ally thousands of people in San Leandro Suerstedt said Councilman Mario rosa also commended the Brooks generosity and said he guessed it would answer a lot of questions from people who say it the cost is going to come out of the payer Maltester said Miss ews who heads the William is a native Be respectful Cal State tower target of critic a walking critic on the structures oj page 13 By ERIC C HAYWARD The administration tower at fornia State College ward was still standing when Allan Temko finished it the other day But it may never look the everything from Notre Dame to the Bay Area Rapid sit District He has so much to say that he hasn't time to make all his comments verbally So he criticizes with his hands and his arms as well as his slowly rotated his hands and arms His first words rowed from Bertrand Russell were cosmic impiety You don't stick anything up in front of he said You should be respectful to hills Students are calling the building the Tower of Power after an East Bay rock group Temko critic who makes a living STANDING IN front of the thinking and tower which rises from the things to say about hillside campus to dominate buildings He has written the South County landscape Symbolically it is wrong to have an office building as the dominating feature of an demic Temko de- dreds of articles criticizing Temko cocked his head and Back page of section col New super agency created by county In a major county ment shakeup the board of supervisors today created a new super agency combining the welfare probation and man relations departments The action was the response to a sharply critical report of welfare department management released last month by a citizen's task force The report branded Alameda County's welfare system as and nightmarish The action was also a re- sponse to a subsequent request by Welfare Director Terzian for immediate reassignment AFTER NAMING the new unit the human resources agency the board selected Jack F McKay 51 principal administrative analyst in County Administrator Earl R office as its di- rector at an annual salary of Chief Probation cer James Callahan will be assistant director at an an- salary of The reorganization will bring the county's top agement strength to bear on problems common to the three departments McKay said McKay will take over at once as welfare director in addition to his duties in ing together the new agency not immediately clear where Terzian will be signed Callahan will continue to function as chief probation officer THE NEW AGENCY in- volves one-third of the ty's work force but almost three-fourths of the county's million budget Welfare is the single big- gest problem facing the cy according to McKay He said the overall goal will be to combine management ents and function to provide Back page of section col 1 Advance man Kissinger eyes China WASHINGTON UPI A Kissinger dent Nixon's national security adviser said today he will go to Peking this month to zero in on a dale for Nixon's visit to Red China Kissinger told newsmen at the White House his trip had no connection with reports from mainland China ing the Communist regime may be involved in internal troubles He also said there are no signs that developments in- side China would alter the planned trip by the President The key presidential ad- viser who also had made the preliminary arrangements for Nixon to visit Red China There is nothing unusual or unforeseen that has this announcement It had always been planned that at the appropriate stage in preparations for the dent's visit there would be another interim visit to the People's Republic of China In a simultaneous an- Radio Peking and the New China Agency said Kissinger's sion in the latter part of Octo- ber was to make concrete arrangements for President Nixon's visit to China Kissinger said he would be accompanied by two bers of his staff a Slate De- official and bers of a White House ad- Photo by Jim Chapman CRITIC ALLAN TEMKO DISDAINS CAL STATE'S NEWEST BUILDING Borrowing from Bertrand Russell he labels it a cosmic impiety Still in Wasteland Captain Kangaroo says kids watch too much TV of San Leandro who feels the city has been good to her and her family and she'd like to do something in return Brooks former head of the Democratic State Central Committee is vice president of the Singer Development Co THE MAYOR SAID the couple is acquiring the two- story house where some of San Leandro's most citizens once lived in old Spanish splendor from its present owner Mrs Ellen Gilmore at the city's al price of Mrs Gilmore is the widow of the late James Gilmore who operated the home as a private hospital for alcoholics until his death last year Arrangements for ring title to the city are being worked out Maltester said and City Attorney Glenn For- bes should have formal ments for the council's con- sideration next week The Brooks want the sion used as a cultural and recreational Back page of section col 7 Reagan storms out of meeting SACRAMENTO Democrats today pushed ahead with their own proper- ty tax relief plan after with Gov Ronald Reagan collapsed suddenly during an angry bargaining session Reagan stormed out of guarded ence room Monday like a bolt out of the ing to Democrats cans said the governor ly left swiftly to catch an plane Both sides agreed a bitter impasse had been reached It meant the legislature and the governor seemed likely to go another year without enacting the property tax relief politicians of both parties have been campaigning on for several elections There's still hope but it's small It's very difficult to find any said Sen George Deukmejian Beach sponsor of the governor's SI billion tax in- crease program in 1967 I don't feel there's any possibility of reaching final said Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti Moretti said Democrats now would press forward with their own billion property tax relief package Back page of section col 7 Social Security tax reform plan HENRY A KISSINGER Kissinger said the United States was in direct contact with Peking the ab- sence of diplomatic tions between the two tries Kissinger was asked if reports of internal struggles in China would affect either his visit or the Nixon trip Kissinger replied that there was no evidence the Chinese Back page of section col 3 NEW YORK AP Bob Keeshan who is Captain Kangaroo says the most gent business in children's television is getting more good creative compassionate people to create more good programs and getting more to watch less of it Keeshan said dren are watching television to such an extent that it is destroying parent-child It is turning us into a tion of he said We are debasing our dren we arc debasing our adults Keeshan was a participant Monday night in a forum sponsored by the New York the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences on The New Look in Children's Programming How Far Have We Come From the Panelists generally agreed that improvements had been made this season I feel it's a giant step from the Saturday morning cartoon said Burl Rosen producer of Story Theatre George Stoney director of the Alternate Media Center ai New York University We have some new grams but we still have the same old com- Eda Leshan moderator of How Do Your Children on public television suggested that something could be learned from the large amount of time children spend in front of the set If they are getting good programs they would not drown themselves in she said The insane hunger for bad shows and bad toys is the problem It's because we are not giving our children the real values they need for growing up Miss Leshan said she con- sidered Sesame Street the worst show on television be- cause of its goal of ing kids up with no idea of what wisdom is Asked to elaborate she added Street grew out of what was a simplistic view our human lems are Its goal was not to give children self-esteem or teach them to use their ative powers I think the tion was to give them a son Avenue sell of numbers and letters and somehow we could solve air of the lems of the ghettos The other ed the show Norman Morris a CBS News and author of Back page of section col t WASHINGTON UPI senators said they would introduce a today which would eliminate Social Security taxes for the poor cut them for the middle-class and sharply raise them for the rich without changing cial Security pensions If this isn't done Sens mund S Muskie and Walter F Mondale argued in speeches prepared for Senate delivery most Americans in a few years will be paying out more in Social Security taxes than in income taxes UPPER CLASS Under their much of the burden would be shifted to the upper class and to em- who would pay more than the share they now pay The lax rate is now per cent but it applies to only the first of earnings Thus a person who earns pays 5.2 per cent of his income in social Security but a person who earns pays only of 1 per cent EXEMPTIONS Under the the tax would be levied on all earnings but payers would be able to claim the same exemptions for themselves and their ents that are now allowed un- der the income tax law Poor people would be able to avoid the tax entirely because of the low income allowance which reduces income taxes for the poor Consequently Social ity taxes would fall for 63 lion workers for 8 million TAX BURDEN No longer would a decent income for the elderly depend on an indecent increase in the lax burden of the Muskie said Under the the amount of benefits would no longer be tied to the tax rate No one would receive benefits more generous than those available to persons with incomes of or more Shirt sleeve Tomorrow will be a shirt sleeve day in Southern Alameda County with high temperatures in the 80s Lows will be 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