Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - January 5, 1967, Oakland, California ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 21 1874 OAKLAND CALIFORNIA YEAR NO 5 THURSDAY JANUARY 5 1967 DAILY A MONTH Economy at Inaugural By DAVE HOPE Tribune Writer Ronald Reagan outlined the program for his new administration with an inaugural address today in which he We are going to squeeze and cut and trim until we reduce the cost of government He said new taxes will be imposed only if it be- comes clear that economies alone cannot balance the Redevelop Proposal Denounced By JIM WOOD A n Oakland redevelopment staff proposal was denounced at the agency's meeting yesterday as senseless shocking and a mistake As a result the agency staff is taking a fresh look at a proposal for a Rehabilitation Project on 13th Street between Brush and Union Streets The idea behind the proposal was for the agency to take over a strip of property in the Oak Center project and show dents what they could do in rehabilitating homes there But when project director John Washington unveiled the plan at an agency meeting he met criticism from agency members and residents of the community CRITICS OBJECT Mrs Lillian Q Love an cy member and leader in the Oak Center Neighborhood sociation objected that because the site was not on a street the demonstration would be wasted It just doesn't make sense that you'd get way off in a cor- ner for a demonstration Mrs Love told Washington She questioned the staff's tives in selecting the site dering aloud if the staff was attempting to promote the Corridor project which is by at the expense of Oak ter FRANKEL IRKED Chairman Nat Frankel said that he did not question the staff's motives hut he made it clear he was unhappy that project residents had not been made fully aware of the plan It's a mistake that make Frankel said It would have been pretty simple to involve the neighborhood organization in this thing Washington in an attempt to mollify the objectors showed what he said was a drawing of other areas within the project Frankel warned that the ex- hibit was asking for trouble be- cause people might become budget Reagan spoke soberly of state finances to an ence of officials Republican party leaders and tators estimated at to 000 by Police Captain A L White Fog that had the city for days evaporated as the program began and left a bright sun shining in a clear blue sky TO JOINT SESSION His address delivered to a joint session of the legislature from the west steps of the itol followed a parade from the Sacramento Memorial rium where a prayer breakfast opened a day of inaugural monies A community luncheon sored by the Sacramento ber of Commerce followed the ceremony Tonight Republicans will celebrate their assumption of state control after eight years of Democratic party rule with a reception for Gov and Mrs Reagan at the Hotel El Dorado and an inaugural ball at the State Fairgrounds The new governor spoke a rostrum flanked right and left by huge banks of yellow and bird of para- dise flowers MUCH APPLAUSE He was applauded 23 times during his speech with the est burst of cheers coming when he referred to a state flag on the platform which had been brought back from battle in Vietnam by a California soldier Reagan drew other cheers when he pledged action to re- duce crime control mob lence and bring order to the Berkeley campus of the sity of California Lt Gov Robert H Finch presided at the ceremony MRS PRIEST LAUDS Reagan was introduced by Mrs Ivy Baker Priest the new state treasurer who called him a man who regards ment as a servant not a ter and who holds fast to the principle that an individual's destiny can best be determined without undue influence from government Assembly Speaker Jesse Un- ruh pledged the Legislature would give him cooperation understanding suggestions and prayers Reagan made It clear that he has inherited financial problems from the of Gov Edmund G Brown The budget for the fiscal year ending next June calls for Continued Page 7 Col 3 Continued Page 16 Col 1 WHERE TO FIND IT 25 Aunt 29 Autot 42 25 Ads 45 Comics 21 46 Editorial 30 53 Financial 39 31 Lamfers 31 31 Sports 33 26 TV and 24 or 62 small world All 7.45 f P S 11.44 7.14 1.51 H H L R Oak 4f 44 Airport 47 45 54 47 T T Many Oakland Stores OPEN TONIGHT Hint of Peace By Viet CRIPPLE LENNIE WHITE SHIRT LEADS BUND RICKY IN STROLL share everything at Pomona hospital for the Alone Together By RALPH DIGHTON LOS ANGELES a shadowy realm where eyes see dimly mouths mumble and brains black out the fury of mysterious mental storms has come an almost incredible story of togetherness The story is that of Lennie 28 and Ricky 33 physically and tally defective from vegetables in psychiatric lance They live under constant vation in a ward at Pacific State Hospital in Pomona with 72 others who are retarded Almost invariably these the world's unfortunates are loners incapable of knowing that warm human experience called friendship and Ricky are all but inseparably friendly So unique is their bond that scientists are studying them in quest of a better understanding Continued Page 7 Col 1 Yank POWs Smile Way To Liberty By HUGH A MULLIGAN LONG BINH Vietnam AP Two American civilians said today that during seven months as prisoners of the Viet Cong they got bad food but were not mistreated sang songs for the Communists were given a Christmas party and were most killed by an American air raid The Viet Cong were im- pressed by our cheerful said Thomas R Scales 44 of Matamoras Pa We sang and whistled all the time They asked us to sing and we sang Jingle Bells and My Wild Irish Rose We're both lousy singers but the Viet Cong seemed to like it Scales and Eobert W han 41 of Bellport Long land were captured May 27 on a road near Vung Tau 40 miles southeast of Saigon where they were employed as supervisors for Pacific Architects and an American firm ing in South Vietnam under contract They appeared before a large group of newsmen at a U.S hospital to which they were brought following their re- lease yesterday near Xuan Loc 40 miles northeast of Saigon Since their capture May 27 Scales had lost 55 pounds and now weighs 122 Monahan lost 75 pounds and now weighs 141 But except for malnutrition they were pronounced in fair tion by Army doctors Wearing blue Army hospital pajamas the pair said the Viet Cong told they were re- leased became they finally had shown repentance We don't know what we re- said Scales They told us if we didn't repent we would spend five years in on Scales who is married and has one child told of their cap- ture He said their vehicle broke down about 4 p.m and they were suddenly surrounded by about 10 Viet Cong armed with pistols rifles and grease guns a light automatic He said the captors were con- stantly complimenting them for their cheerful attitude Monahan said that although the food was bad they were not mistreated We ate mostly rice and he reported ROBERT MONAHAN THOMAS R SCALES 3rd Refusal For Hospital Wage Demand The Alameda County Board of Supervisors for the third time in two days refused to consider immediately the wage demands of union workers at Highland and Fairmont hospitals who have stayed away from their jobs since Saturday When the union's proposal was brought up today Supervisors John D Murphy This is the same proposal that we considered Tuesday In the light of that I move that we take up the next item on the agenda After the meeting Harold son president of East Bay Employees Union Local 390 told We have been seriously con- cerned as union officers about resolving this We have made it clear by the kind of proposal presented to the Board of Super- visors that we're looking for a genuine settlement There are over 409 workers who have been fired The est share of these have worked many years for the county honest poor people and we were attempting to get their jobs back for them Dave Jeff cry union business representative awl I are ly concerned about how Page 7 Search On for Three Flying Hunters in Mexico Air and ground rescue parties were on their way today to reach three residents believed stranded for up to 11 days in the rugged mountain country near Santa Rosalia Baja California They were believed to be ald McConnell and his son John 16 of Orinda and Steven Haas 23 of Oakland who left nan Air Field in Concord Dec 26 for a hunting and fishing trip in Mexico The wreckage of a plane with three survivors waving beside it was sighted by a civilian pi- lot who was aiding attempts to recover the bodies of the ard Y Dakin family of San Francisco and the crew of their Lockheed Lodestar which went down in another December crash Eight bodies were identified by a para-rescue team from Hamilton Field yesterday after the Dakin plane was spotted on a beach near La Paz Mexico It had left San Diego Dec 21 with Elton G Stone and Dennis Seitz both as crew Mr and Mrs Dakin heir son Roger and his wife and the latter four children aboard The bodies of two of he Dakin children were still missing The civilian pilot who sighted he second downed plane fred a Hamilton Air Force Base plane which was in the area His report indicated the plane was a Cessna but according to a friend staying with the McConnell family in their home at 2 Robert Road Orinda McConnell was flying a Skymaster A rescue plane from Hamilton fiew from San Diego today to drop a t w o a n team to assist the survivors A spokesman at the base said it was possible the ground search party which set out yesterday from Santa Rosalia might have started to bring the trio out day He said it was not possible to confirm they are members of the McConnell party The La Paz airport said a plane with three Americans aboard left there for Mexican on Dec 30 If it was the nell plane it means the three survivors have been six days rather than 11 without supplies or treatment of possible ries Haas mother Mrs Thomas Haas said in their home at 67 Templar Road They were due back Friday and they just didn't arrive Both families have been ing without sleep through and last night hoping for word from the Air Force Mrs McConnell was in sion but the amity friend Singer said McConnell was an expert flier He was an Army pilot in the European theater of Over Mass In English war in World War II as a cap- tain and is still a reserve cer He is the regional manager in San Francisco for Ratner iers a manufacturing firm with headquarters in San Diego The have a daughter Maureen at San Jose State Col- lege Their elder son Don at first thought to be on the trip to Mexico returned Dec 30 to Fort Rucker Ala Young Haas who attended Diablo Valley and Oakland City Colleges has been working for the Hickock Manufacturing Co His father buyer for the men's clothing department at Smith's in Oakland is a close friend of Identification of the bodies in the Dakin crash was made from gold signet ring and monogrammed watch his wife's handbag which she still clutched which contained a credit card in her name and Roger wallet and er's license j Their bodies were being j brought to La Paz today In San Francisco formation of the Susanna B and Richard Y Dakin Memorial fund was j announced yesterday by the Friends of t he San Francisco Public Library It honored Mrs D a k 5 n s authorship of books on California history She was a founding sponsor and di- i rector of the Friends group DETROIT AP Margarel Tamplin doesn't like to hear Je sus referred to as that fellow And the girl thinks the English translation of the Roman Catholic liturgy ters the real meaning of the Latin So Miss Tamplin and her ther John 58 landed in cour yesterday on a complaint signet by a priest They're were trying to force liberal ideas on she said The Rev Charles Zeeb assist ant parish priest of St Rita's church said in the complain that the Tamplins shouted re sponses in Latin when he triet to celebrate the mass in Eng lish The two demanded a jury trial which was set for Feb 7 The Tamplins of suburban Hazel Park are charged with in a religious service a misdemeanor under a seldom invoked law Maximum penal ty is 90 days in Jail and a fine English translations of the lit are loo closely with the secular world and are disrespectful in many cases Miss Tamplin said There's one part of the mis sal that calls Christ that fellow instead of that sh said Answering in Latin made the mass bearable When you go to church you want something that will take you away from the things of the she said The Latin is so different from English no one talks in Latin outside of church it makes you realize that you are in church Miss Tamplin said she recited the mass in Latin only in a low voice They called the she said The priests even refused to give me and my com- for answering in Latin Miss Tamplin said she and her father have joined the Traditionalist Movement of New York an organization she j described as trying to remain j Roman Catholic i The two stood mute at their i arraignment Pleas of not guilty were entered for them They were freed on bond each IAY AREA Pair tonight and tomorrow Low tonight 33 to 43 Small craft for 22 to 31 Paris Press Told U.S Must Leave By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst A senior North Vietnamese diplomat today proffered an In- direct and ambiguous peace lint Mai Van Bo chief of the noi mission in Paris demanded a prompt unconditional tion to the American bombing of North Vietnam Then at a Paris press eon he was asked about his government's attitude if ington proposed peace talks er a halt to the bombing He I believe that such a al would be examined and ied by the Hanoi authorities too The UPI reported he said if the bombings cease this fact would be examined by the of North Vietnam In Washington a State ment spokesman in reiterating the U.S position We are prepared for talks w i t h o ut any conditions with North Vietnam at any time We are prepared to order si cessation of all bombing in North Vietnam the moment we are assured privately or wise that this step would be answered promptly by a spending and appropriate elf escalation by the other side This could occur before talks 1 started or could be the first der of business in such talks REFUSES TO ANSWER At the French Diplomatic Press Association luncheon Bo- insisted the United States has no right to require any reciprocal action on the part of North nam He refused to answer a tion whether a bombing halt would in fact lead to tions But he said that only such a break in the unjust detestable war would the tion be favorable to a search for settlement In the past Hanoi supported by Peking and Moscow has in- there can be no peace in Vietnam as long as American troops remain in the country Bo repeatedly accused the United States of violating the 1954 Geneva agreements on In- and contended that his government's four points must remain the basis for any proach to the problem Neither the United States nor South Vietnam signed the va agreements NO COMMENT North Vietnamese Premier Phan Van Dong according to the New York Times report from Hanoi said his ment's four-point demands are not necessarily for peace talks as previously held but rather a basis for settlement of the Vietnam lem Asked whether this was a change of position Bn said he could not comment on a press article which was not ly the position of his ment Howe ve he said the North Vietnamese position is that the United States must the National Liberation Front Viet Cong as the sole authentic representative of the people in the South and should negotiate with it And now for a It is still an open and ble question if the North position has shifted to a softer stand American officials are now studying developments to deter- Page 9 Col 1 Night If was all wine and roses af the Henry Mancini con- cert last Paul lendy reviews the music on Page 13 Robin Orr reviews the audience on Page 62
