Mrs Todd Blocks Angel Island Deal
Ann Stone Todd a 40 year old Mill Valley housewife and Marin County taxpayers association secretary halted final Angel Island proceedings this morning two days before the county’s contract deadline. An Undersheriff served a temporary restraining order on the supervisors at the signing scene, delaying agreement with the Interior Department and Angel Island Foundation.
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Angel Island
Ann Stone Todd
Mill Valley
Marin County Taxpayers Association
Marin
U. S. Department of Interior
Angel Island Foundation, Inc
Don Midgett
Marin Island dispute delays county contracts six weeks
Mrs. Todd’s restraining order stalls island negotiations as District Attorney Bagshaw seeks a 60 day extension. Judge Butler set a hearing for Aug 25 to show cause why the county should not be enjoined from entering contracts with the foundation and the government.
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ASK Extension
T. Fred Bagshaw
Director of Land Management
Sacramento
Bagshaw
Bureau of Land Management
General Services Administration
Marin County
Todd
Board Today
Planners Debate Proposal For New Shopping Center
About six backers push a proposed Belveron Gardens shopping center as Marin planning commission delays zoning action on J J Connell highway frontage. They contend traffic hazards at Tiburon highway crossroads and await neighbors’ stance while two site options are reviewed for safety buffers and long range planning.
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Belveron Gardens
Marin County Planning Commission
Tiburon Highway
Paradise Cove
J. J. Connell
Commission
Robert Austin
Robert Graham
Belveron
Graham
Deffenbach
Connell
NWP
Francis Newton
Belvedere
Lee Deffenbach
Dan Peacock
DeVelbiss
Eleanor O’connor
Cornwell
Howard Lisle
Tiburon
Robert McCrae
Frank Marsh
Mary Gilkey
State Division of Highways
East Bay cities probe proposed telephone rate rise
A 31 city Alameda County committee to study reasonableness of a 30 million dollar Pacific Telephone rate increase was called political by Mill Valley leaders and held for further review. Mill Valley would fund 185 dollars. mayor questioned city involvement if PUC already reviews rates.
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East Bay
Alameda County
Mill Valley
Ross Miller
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Public Utilities Commission
Dipsea Race Is Latest Korean War Casualty
The Dipsea race from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach is canceled this year due to unsettled war conditions. Emil Pohli says many entrants are being drafted, noting the event last ran during the war and that efforts to run a limited version or during Mill Valley Jubilee failed. Frank Geis sought $1000 to operate in San Francisco but reported no success. Wartime constraints and lack of community support led to the decision.
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Mif Valley
Stinson Beach
Emil Pohli
Pohli
Mill Valley
Frank Geis
Pacific Association Amateur Athletic Union
Geis
San Francisco
Hamilton Field Drama: Jet Blasts Flames as Pilot Is Rescued
At Hamilton Field a F-84 jet crashed and burst into flames at 10 50 am yesterday four pilots coordinated a rescue that pulled the unconscious pilot 2nd Lt Forrest G Linscomb from the flaming cockpit. Fellow pilots Lt Jack R Pulliam Lt Walter L Doerty Jr and Lt George E Hansen aided by base fire chief William H Taft turned a nearby jet to direct the blast away from the wreck. Linscomb sustained a concussion and back injury but is reported to be recovering. Doerty suffered singed hair and brows.
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Hamilton Field
Field
Air Force
Jack R. Pulliam
48Th
Fairfax
Walter L. Doerty, Jr
82Nd Fighter Squadron
George E. Hansen
83Rd
William H. Taft
Linscomb
Black Point
Doerty
Walter L
8Th Army
Korea
Carrier Bairoko Back In Service
The Navy began the de mothballing of the escort carrier Bairoko at Hunters Point San Francisco naval shipyard. It becomes the bay area’s first fighting ship to undergo reactivation after being laid up at Alameda last April.
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Bairoko
San Francisco
U.S
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Hunters Point
Alameda
MacArthur Urges UN to Rapidly Build Ground Forces
Gen Douglas MacArthur asked UN member nations to resupply and expand ground forces in Korea without delay to bring the conflict to a quick, successful end. He noted eight nations plus U.S., Canadian, Australian, and South Korean units contributing naval and air support, with South Korean forces reorganized and supplied by U.S. equipment. An informal Soviet meeting followed, amid signals from Moscow on Korean war aims talks.
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MacArthur
Jacob A. Malik
Malik
Kremlin
Security Council
U. S
Korea
Australia
Canada
France
Netherlands
New Zealand
South Korea
Britain
U.S
Military Air Transport Service
Rails Set Record In Stock Advance
New York stocks surged with railroad issues hitting two year highs as the market broadened gains. The rail group led the advance pushing the market to its best level since the session before the Korean War and total trading in the first hour reached 440000 shares. New York, Chicago and St. Louis nickelplate rose to 128 then 127, up 3 percent.
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NEW York .P
The
Stock Exchange
New York
Chicago & St. Louis
Mill Valley Hikes City Tax to 2.40 for Sewers and Services
Mill Valley voters approved a 2.40 tax rate, up from 1.45, to fund sewers and drainage with 1.00 to the general fund, .26 for libraries, .26 for parks, plus 39 and 9 cent sewer operation and drainage levies. The council signed contracts for a $132,493.80 sewer plant and $2,300 realignment work. Mayor/engineer Charles Sloan will inspect the plant. city manager Silas Richards to attend a California Cities convention.
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California Steel Products Company
Rosenberg Brothers
Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio
Charles Sloan
Silas Richards
League of California Cities
Los Angeles
Joe Regalia
Regalia
Alexa Almerants
Walter Smith
Recreation Commission
Tom Nelson
Howard Lieben
Nelson
Leppo
PG&E Bares Plans For Big Expansion
Pacific Gas and Electric announces a major postwar building program extending into 1952 53. It orders three new 100000 kilowatt steam electric generators adding 402000 horsepower at about 50000000 dollars. Two units ready late 1952, the third early 1953 at Moss Landing or Contra Costa plants.
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San Francisco
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
PG & E
California
P@&E
Moss Landing
Contra Costa
Mill Valley Moves to Require Loyalty Oath for City Staff
Mill Valley begins first Marin vot to vote loyalty oath for all city employees. City manager Silas Richards to review Oakland El Cerrito and others ordinances and check citizenship and FBI records. The council debates timing and scope while urging action despite questions on existing citizenship.
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Mill Valley
Marin
Silas Richards
Oakland
el Cerrito
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harrison Leppo
Richards
FBI
Miriam Cummings
Leppo
Charles Sloan
Gutenias
Sloan
Seppo
Ian Stark
Marin County
U S Airmen Introduce Stronger 634 Inch Anti Tank Rocket
U S airmen in Korea deploy a 634 inch rocket to destroy Russian made tanks. General MacArthur confirms rapid fielding after pilots reported 5 inch rockets failed. Lt Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg ordered quick production, naval ordnance at Inyokern built the weapon, used in Korea within weeks. Some planes also use an 11.75 inch Tiny Tim launcher.
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Tokyo
Korea
MacArthur
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Naval Ordnance
Inyokern
Tiny Tim
Rail unions call strikes on two short line railroads
Train men and conductors unions announced two separate strikes on short line railroads starting next Tuesday through midnight Saturday August 26. The walkouts affect crews on routes operated by the two carriers and disrupt passenger and freight service in the region.
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Washington
Mill Valley Woman Seeks 128 700 Damages in Crash Suit
Mill Valley beautician Louise McIntyre seeks 128 700 in Marin Superior court after the Golden Gate Bridge Greyhound bus truck crash on September 29. She claims nerves facial lacerations and body contusions from Greyhound Lines and Wooley and Nay Co of Willits. Attorney David B Fyfe of San Rafael represents her. this may be Marin’s first personal injury action from the collision affecting 17 Greyhound passengers. Greyhound earlier filed a 7000 property damage suit against the trucking firm.
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Pacific Greyhound Lines
Willits
Marin Superior Court
Mill Valley
Golden Gate Bridge
Greyhound
Louise McIntyre
Throckmorton Avenue
Greyhound and Wooley and Nay Co
David B. Fyfe
San Rafael
Fyfe
Marin
Greyhound Lines
North Coast Road Improvements Asked
Edward A. Kenney representing the Golden Gate bridge and highway district urged the earliest possible four-laning of the Black Point to Sears Point highway to divert traffic from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate. A Redwood Empire delegation asked shoreline highway improvements between Jenner and Gualala.
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Sacramento
State Highway Commission
Edward A. Kenney
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Black Point
Sears Point
San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Golden Gate
Kenney
Jenner and
Gualala
Redwood Empire
Reds Shell Taegu U. 8th Army HQ Korea
North Korean artillery began shelling Taegu outskirts from west bank of the Naktong near Waegwan. The attack started early today with artillery fire directed at undefended areas surrounding Taegu and approaching the 8th Army HQ in Korea.
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Taegu
8Th Army
Korea
Naktong
Waegwan
Truman Denounces Wherry Over Korea Blame Claim
President Truman condemned Senator Kenneth Wherry for saying the blood of U S soldiers in Korea rests on Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The White House labeled the remark contemptible and politically motivated amid ongoing Korea policy debates.
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Truman
Wherry
Waas
Coe Truman
Sen
Kenneth Wherry
Neb
Korea
Dean Acheson
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Thomas Fitzgerald
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Forrest G. Linscole
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Novato
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United Press Staff
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