Vallejo Times-Herald (Newspaper) - February 17, 1974, Vallejo, California GAS CRISIS CUT SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS By W. R. BUEHRER Staff Writer Effects of starting to fee felt in declining school enrollments in Solano and Napa and educators said they believed the drop will Other school officials in the North Bay Area surmised that the gasoline OVER READERS THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES INTO ALL THE HOMES EVERY SUNDAY shortage is bringing about even a faster in school are moving out of communities because of the gas shortage and rising transportation costs to get closer to their said Supt. Clarence the Vacaville Unified School These comments were during a survey of me California education officials MM that thanks to the growing popularity of birth control brought on by public school population has dropped for the fourth year in a Families are simply getting Enrollment last in grades garten through high school was Jtt In down from A state survey uncovered another reason for the falling other than a lower birth Many persons moving into the state are retired and not having The decline is evident in most of the St Dr. ft. Phillip associate date to in tha Mid b steadily rata W a year in par eant in ara SM Sunday SOL A NO AND NAPA COUNTY'S MORNING NEWSPAPER WEATHER REPORT GENERALLY CLEAR TODAY MILD LIGHT WIND 99TH 44 Me AT ALL OF MARE ISLAND NAVAL FEBRUARY 17, o It won't be many days until Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keap will be moving into their new home at 970 West I The two bedroom house was balk entirely by means of donated cash urd and almost entirely with labor after the previous home was destroyed by fire in In the Carl head carpenter OB the ect views the handiwork of himself and many The bouse is valued at RICH Home Nearly Finished By TODAY'S CHUCKLE Some people are so tney wonder what yon mean when yon ask them how ATMOSPHERIC THIEF Ue all and fne have cur this to the can with all the they there is for vast supply of week's re- Dort the Bureau at was 52 acre per Translated into thai about 17.000.0CO gallops oi water rose inio in vapor each average throughout See IT'S RICH Page 2 ON THE INSIDE The adage hands make light remains a truism and it could be expanded to the phrase donations place a burden on no Literally scores of persons and firms hate a hand in building a new home for Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kean at SrO West I after the home was destroyed by fire two months What started as an ambitious ides became a project that is within a few days of Tbe Kean's new home will be ready to welcome them by March barring some totally un- foreseen development It is being on tbe site of their previous and the ex- tremely livable two-story structure would have a price tag of if it were being built for If it the Keans would not have the slightest chance ever occupying Their monthly derived from Social Security benefits small pension Kean earned prior to his is a They could live m modest circum- stances oa this but there would BO provision for a payment and succeeding monthly payments on a Mr. and Mrs. Kean both were burned in the blaze that destroyed former but both have re- Tbe fire was discovered by them at around a.m. and they See PROJECTS Page 2 WT Artists Auto News Bob Considine Book Notes News Classified Gilies Earl Waters i Editorial Page Ernest Wichek 27 Ranch 24 Fashions Food Gardens 25 Homes Anderson 49 27 Jones 12 Marion Devlia Wt Music WS Notes W5 Social Wl Sports 15-13 Stocks Theater Page 23 Travis News Weather i Vallejo School District Now Richer oil reeving end train end by strict Today only Mayflower warehouses nationally moving and IT'S OIL CHIPMAN MOVING STORAGE 642-7528 Broodway The is re- 35 a partial parmeet ot its fiscal 19fr3-74 in federal impact according to Rep. Robert L Leggett toM tbe the U.S. Department of and Welfare notified him a in that amount is in the mail to tbe Vallejo school district and that the payment represents about 75 per cent of the district's total en- of for fiscal 197m The Vallejo Unified School District received to federal f unds during fiscal 1S72-73 to compensate the district for revenues it normally would receive were Vallejo not a federally Washington's Birthday Clearance Prices On 4 Friday 10-? Saturday 10-6 5 10 9 RUGS FURNITURE 1039 Tennessee impacted area because of parents students either employed of living at Mare Island Naval James M. district said the announcement HEW finally had the funds welcome tc the dis- and added he and the governing board appreciate efforts in persuading Congress to reinstate the impact aid program after administration sought to discontinue it. Reusswig said the funds largely wiH be to implement pay increases negotiated by the districts governing board and employe last 24 Season total to This date last year 26.23 Seasonal average this Total raia last Seasonal average 17.34 or BAW RATES 643-1041 TV CENTER 102t TENNESSEE ST. North Bay Runs Out Of Gasoline Demands On Are Eased Calif. The of Patricia Hearst softened their demand for a food way for millions of needy but the newspaper heiress warned the FBI not to attempt io free will accept 3 sincere effort on your said a man identifying himself as General Field of the Liberation The message was in a tape the Hearst family received The Miss Hearst said in tbe same tape that her abductors have intention that you be able meet their They weren't trying to present an able It was never intended tnat you feed the whole whatever you can come up basically Is she a mysterious revolutionary abducted Miss Hearst from her Berkeley apartment Feb. 4 and later demanded worth of free food for needy person in the state a project estimated at about 5100 Hearst expressed fears fnat ihe FBI might try to rescue tte FBI 5ias to come in and get me out by force won't have time to decide not io she have to kill everyone I don't particularly want to die ibat Randolph A. ther and editor the San Francisco expressed hops for daughter's life restated intentions of trying tas best to comply with the don't wast kill they'd hke to release That's the feeling I Hearst told newsmen at ms urten 15 miles of San The newspaper executive said it was to iaik about for a food which the abductors demanded by he promised as fast as I can and let them know what I ran been See Page 2 Snow Moves Into North State Ram and snow moved through Northern California but mostly fair weather was forecast for Crescent City recorded 1.14 inches ran by JO a m. with inch m San Francisco and in Stormy conditions the Sierra through the morning but a travelers advisory for heavy and blowing snow was canceled in the Small warnings were hoisted from Point Conception to Point including San Francisco Bay and the western area of the FLOWERS They're A HARRY 7U 77 Soleno 7X5-3711 MOST BUSINESS HOUSES ARE OPEN IN AREA MONDAY George Washington's birthday will be celebrated on Feb. 13. this year by Act of and all state and Federal ments will be But nearly all Vallejo businesses will be open for the general and most of them are offering special bargains in keeping with George's Banks will be throughout lano and Napa So will the post offices and most everything else except me formal rites are scheduled for the Helicopter Shot Down Hovering At White House Protection police early Sunday down a stolen helicopter over grounds the White Secret Service officials Jack Warner of ihe Service said the helicopter flew over the White House i a m and returned at 2 a.m. shot by officers with i. He said the was being by Secret Service Holiday Motorists Left Dry Motorists staged the biggest oa gasoline since World War H yesterday in Bay and as a result hardly a service station is expected to open in Solano and Counties today or Washington's day In one Harry Harris who runs the Shell station at and Bedwood said fee hadn't seen anything like the gasoline staged since World Those stations in Vallejo and other pans of the North Bay who did have some gas to sell were literally before most of them shut o2 their pumps for the holiday Lonz lines jammed tae snd owners were forced to wait up to hail an hour or more to get their Harris said cars even followed a fanker track that him with and one woman from Crockett even telephoned to find out if he had any for Ir more than half the stations in Solans were 3- allocations were soli up nest reported something a buy pasic dining the It was aot where the helicopter was See COPTER Page 2 a i that of stations m area were by and trat were jammed Urum Station on West Texas posted sales hours of 7 to 9 12 noon to 2 and 5 to 7 and limited customers to Sqn Pablo Bay Gas Hunt Pushed By to San Pablo Bay ana They current of fuel mass ary over the area afier San'a The ban on nf any expires a year hem next Edward X Land fore Santa Barbara indicates the data gas under Saq Pablo enough to bring millions da from the Ire precipitated a re- view of indicated gas traps be The only way to a is to are legislators See DEPOSITS Page 2 way PRE FINISHED PANELING FOSTER LUMBER 3280 Sonoma 643-2301 BEST Small Car Selection 11 MAVERICKS COURIERS OVER 60 IN FORD NEW 1301 GEORGIA USED 711 TENNESSEE
