Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - June 9, 1973, Oakland, California TODAY'S OUTLOOK 100th YEAR NO 160 A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER SATURDAY JUNE 9 1973 DAILY A MONTH Oakland Broils in Record 107 Degrees Seniors Take Wackiest Trip By KAREN EMERSON Tribune Staff Writer Oakland's downtown temperature leached an apparent all-time high nl 107 degrees The reading was made at the land Museum at 4 p.m Tribune records indicate the pre- vious high was 103 degrees on Sept I'd 1958 Smog Was Not Too Bad Air pollution levels most ol the weren't loo bad dav despite the sweltering heat levels of oxidants were in both Richmond and Oakland and the oxides of nitrogen levels in both cities were Significant hut bon monoxide and particulate mallei were both Light San Jose was heavy bul levels in Livermore the traditional smog pocket were light possibly due to a slight southeast wind which was blowing most of the The same wind probably accounted lor the smog blanket that lay over San Francisco On tuo other occasions the hit July 3 and on Sepl 9 1932 A new lor June 8 was set al Oakland International where the thermometer went up to 94 breaking the record of 87 The all-time high temperature al the airport is 107 set on June 2 1960 Continued high temperatures ate for today and mosl ot row behire relict arrives in Area Downtown San also had a new record yesterday The dav's high ol 92 broke a set ago Throughout the the heat wave sent the mercury over UK degrees high was 104 hit 107 and Ln c reached at 1 p m Walnut Creek's high was hottest dav ol the year San Jose sizzled a long with a high of 102 The Central to and lopped de- grees by Photo on 17 Ghosts Rack BART Trains By HARRE W DEMORO Tribune Staff Writer HOW TO FIGHT SMOG AND WASH A CAR Jack Woodruff of Riverside uses his scuba The heat Toasted BART's automatic controls yesterday and by more than hall ot the southbound tracks were all but shut down and similar problems snagged passengers on the Concord and Richmond lines Connolly Unhappy in pire Hazard Role as Nixon Adviser Closes Two Area Parks WASHINGTON AP John B Connally's ideas may pre- vail in the Nixon administration but the Treasury secretary is far from happy Ins temporary role as lo President Those familiar with thinking said the former Texas nor is anxious and frustrated about his job as an unpaid adviser to the dent He likes to see the result of his one source said adding thai Connally in recent days has been un- happy because President has el to move lo hall price spiral Sources said Connally w ho Ins new job on Maj 10 committed himself for only 90 days as a on any mailer in which President asked for his help his apparent frustration evidence is growing thai Nixon will adopt Connally's recommendations about the economy But that doesn't mean Connally will remain in ton long sources said Connally has been spending three to four days a week working on such problems as economy and energy crisis Bul he has been a man lo contact and no one with the of President seems to know the projects he been assigned Instead of working of an in Executive Office Building next door lo While House Connally has been spending mosl of Ins lime al his suile al the Mayflower Hotel about five blocks away While there have been persistent reports thai Connally was given job of a strong plan behind the back of Treasury Secretary George P Connally's friends Lolich Tigers Cuff A's Giants Beaten While Mickey Lolich handcuffed the A's the Detroit Tigers cuffed Vida Blue It was thai kind of night last night for the A's as look a victory at the Coliseum despite four and innings of scoreless relief by Blue Moon Odom Last night was also the night Ron Hunt set a big league record lor being hit by pitched balls Hunt and Montreal Expos almost set another record in hitting pitched balls bing the Giants Details in Sports say that is not true at all They are gelling along well one said and a spokesman lor agreed In their current to trv to deal with the price spiral they pretty much see the spokesman said When Connally was tary he engineered the ice of 1971 winning the debate over who counseled a milder approach is now arguing lhal tion be dealt with and as a political problem because inflalion is growing worse while Watergate dis- reduce confidence in the Ad- ministration The White House denied reports that Connally and weic to quit in disgust over Nixon's failure to act quickly on economy A White House spokesman called both reports totally inaccurate Whether Connally has advised Nixon in the Watergate scandal is not know n His associates say has spent most ol his lime working on the economy and energy problem Although some ol those w ho opposed Connally have departed from the White House staff the old jealousy still gers according to some sources Richard Trudeau general manager of the East Bay Regional Park District has ordered the closure ol Sunol Re- Park and Wildcat Cam on Re- Park loi the duration ol the heal wave The closure of parts ol Tilden Park beloie the end of this weekend is also being considered Trudeau said this is the lust lime that such a closing ol the parks has been prior to lasl weeks o August He said the order to post rangers at the gates and bar public fiom the parks isn't issued until September and then undei tions The of Oakland announced it is making lue patrols in Miller Park Although there is special concern about the lire in the hills because ol the problem the two regional parks thai were closed contain few eucalyptus trees Bul they have a considerable of grass tovote brush poison oak and Bother vegetation which bloomed out to large this year in the wake ol rains problem continued during he commute hours thousands ot riders We just know when il gets hot things are going to develop out said Ted superintendent of the Oakland control center The problem with the ment along the tracks was thai it saw trains that were not there This condition forces BART to switch the automatic and tun trains al 23 in p h through the trouble zones Trams were backing up lor miles The longest stretch over which trams had to creep along was the eight and a halt mile section between Fair and the Yard said Bratz explained thai the bugs were of on and oil Upc and the section was plagued bv them Thus il could be possible to run automatically for a shorl distance then slop and run until automata operation was possible again loi some distance The line is b miles long and 14 21 miles ol bound than halt of the snagged bv the bugs section ol track Irom Kl Cerrito to Richmond also had a lalse and ual running al 25 m p h sairi On the Concord line H took as long as 45 bv mid lor journey Irom Concord lo MacArthur that is supposed to require minutes It's difficult lo tell the saga ol the graduating class Pleasant Hill High School The graduates decided to brate after their exercises in a special and UK of them decided was The Place to go made the stringent Disneyland dress codes were observed and the group boarded school buses lor Oakland Metropolitan Inter- national Airport at 8 30 p m in plenty ol time to have an evening of lun at Southern California park Bul their chartered plane wasn't there The intrepid group trekked back to the three school buses to go lo the San Francisco But it wasn't quite that easy One bus refused to starl Fortune smiled however and another bus from the Mt Diablo School carried load of broken-down bus Now were looking up group and six boarded their Western flight lor Los Airport which happened to be logged in Well landed in Ontario but had been assured they would have buses awaiting them Undaunted sat aboard the plane many on as they sion lo disembark and ed and they waited At lasl off the plane and out to the buses that weren't there Bv now it was 2 No food no sleep and phone calls later a ern executive awakened Irom his sleep bv the one and social studies teacher John arranged tation for the croup to Los les International No there were no reluming from Ontario Well was no point in going to Disneyland now the gates close at 2 am even it does Slav open two weeks in just for such parties So il was to airport bv of a local restaurant where the now hungry and tired but still undaunted group was led with compliments Then good fortune smiled upon them they caught their scheduled home arriving Friday at 11 a m alter spending a memorable night m four fornia airports and m a myriad ol buses It was a senior all-night they won't soon mused an exhausted but still cheerful Jean Hambleton who chaperoned group along with her husband Walter The unflappable is still determined however and plans are still afoot to the production complete with an arrival at and an all-night wilh ing free rides and all fun can into hours Tuesday is the and Uie mood is as high alter all gel Uvo trips lor their investment that is unless Los Angeles is logged IP but no sense thinking about that Nothing could go loo much has Concord Youths Hurt in Explosion CONCORD A pair ol Concord bovs were here da in an explosion thai occurred while weie making works One ol the bovs Seals of Si a lacerat ed left hand as well as lacerations ol Ins other hand both arms and his abdomen He underwent several hours of at Kaisei Hospital in Walnut Creek and is listed in lair condition Police said he was mixing a gunpowder substance with a nun tar and and it exploded at about 1 p m His companion John ol an Irom an that stiuck il but was no immediate word on whelher his vision would be a Kaiser Hospital spokesman said He On the Inside Penn Central Commuter Crash Many Hurt MOUNT VERNON AP Penn Central express train behind schedule on a run from New York City rammed another commuter tram here last night killing one passenger and sending at least 119 others to hospitals for treatment Most of the injured were nol hurl seriously Penn Central said one of the trains a local had stopped to unload gers when it was slammed from the rear by the express The impact of the crash flung sengers to the floor and some were pinned under debris for 50 minutes while police and firemen worked to free them from the two cars thai collided James Cookman a commuter on the express said a passenger from the cat of the train told him the engineer ran from his compartment in the final seconds shouting We're going to He quoted passenger as saying It would have been all over for me il the warning had not come allowing him and others lo lun toward the rear ol the train A spokesman al Mount Vernon pital said its emergency room treated 105 persons Only four were admitted two m serious condition and two in guarded condition Others were taken to Hospital Mount Vernon police initially re- ported two deaths but later revised the figure to The body of he victim not identified was trapped in he wreckage Guerneville slaying suspect held Page 1 Ehrlichman lays probe blame on Dean Page 3 Shooting victim fied slaying suspect Page 4 Classified Shopping Comics 22 Crossword Puzzle 8 See Page 17 hot See Page 8 Phony Indian goods seized in raids Page 5 Suit asks release of ITT documents Page 7 AFL-CIO leaders back Chavez in Indio Page 36 Pro Teen TV and Radio 20 Word World of Women 21 also a lacerated shoulder underwent and was listed in lair condition The boys were in a room al homo when the blasl occurred police said They reported that told them he and Seals were making fireworks and told men that were mixing chemicals Officers said Mrs June Stevens told them she saw the hoys making something asked what were doing and was told that were making She told them to stop then to take a nap to going to work al night The next she knew she was ly blast police quoted her as saving She wasn't huit The explosion blew windows in the room sent fragments of mortar Seals was using into both bovs and appai ignited a flammable substance in a glass was broken the blast police said The lue burned a table and two chairs Postal Fraud Charged to Mailing Firm LOS A grand two Postal Service a laige West Coast mail advertising firm its president and other persons in a scheme lo send mail without paving SI 5 million in postage The indictment was handed down in U S District Court here The hrm involved is the Direct Mail of America Inc in the as one of the largest direct mail advertising lums in the western States According to the indictment the mail firm and Us bribed the postal workers with liquor and cash to allow large quantifies of bulk mail to enter the mails without payment of postal fees The indictment said the mail firm employes would then such as department full amount of postage and fees due the Postal Service
