Supervisors appoint county auditor as controller to oversee budgets
Marin supervisors designate County Auditor Leon DeLisle as county controller to enforce uniform expense controls across departments. They note past overruns such as the fire department’s 225000 spending, about 40000 above budget, and authorize DeLisle to monitor departments to prevent overdrafts under the new office. DeLisle has served as auditor since 1937 and was reelected last June.
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Leon DeLisle
DeLisle
Board of Supervisors
Belvedere Plans Group Postpones Reedport Action
Belvedere planning commission halted action on Reedport Properties proposed subdivision within city limits. Chairman John King noted potential impact on the tidal area and urged full review. Reedport president J Benton Bostick Jr defended the project and rejected selling the 25 acres as is. The commission scheduled a decision for the September 11 meeting.
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Belvedere
Bostick
Belvedere Marina
Marin
Greenwood Beach
Reedport
Ross Resident Seeks Hospital Director Seat
A Ross resident Arthur T. Brice seeks a seat on the Marvin District Hospital board challenging three incumbents. Voting is set for the upcoming November election alongside other city races. The board noted concrete pouring for the new Greenbrae hospital will begin soon and approved medical staff by laws.
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Marvin District Hospital Board of Directors
Ross
Arthur T. Brice
Phillip A. Kennedy
San Rafael
Marion ©. Ibach
Mill Valley
Herman J. Hale
Larkspur
Housing Corp Faces Permit for Dirt Removal at Corte Madera Hills
United Housing Corp must obtain a county planning commission use permit to continue removing hillside dirt above Meadowsweet Ranch at Corte Madera Wye for fill in Madera Gardens. The firm contends the permit may not be required and plans to proceed pending hearings. neighbors face dust and the company offers to pay damages.
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United Housing Corp
County Planning Commission
Corte Madera
al Bagshaw
Housing Corporation
Madera Gardens
Bagshaw
Planning Commission
The
John B. Ehlen
Ehlen
Marin girl faces air raid drill during job interview
A Marin Field job interview scene at Hamilton Field ended with an air raid siren. About 15 applicants waited as staff advised they hide under improvised tables. The siren sounded but no action followed, and the girl chose to wait rather than join others.
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Hamilton Field
Paradise Road Wall Replacement Awarded
The Paradise Cove area retaining wall on Paradise Road will be rebuilt after the Board of Supervisors awarded the contract. Sausalito contractor Vince Maggiora won with a bid of 14850 dollars to perform the work.
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Paradise Road
Paradise Cove Drive
Tiburon
Board of Supervisors
Vince Maggiora
Sausalito Concrete
Zamloch Sentenced to Three Years for Narcotics Bribery
San Francisco attorney Archer Zamloch, 34, father of four, received a three year prison term on narcotics bribery charges. Judge J Waites Waring criticized the conduct and raised bail to 5000 pending appeal. The case ties Zamloch to attempts to obscure narcotics dealings involving Steffen and Benevedes and a key witness, Marie Basom.
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San Francisco
Archer Zamloch
J. Waites Waring
Waring
Federal District Court of South Carolina
Zamloch
Marie Basom
Steffen and
Benevedes
Sausalito and Marin City Sewer District Ballot Plan
Sausalito and Marin City Sewer District on the November ballot. San Rafael council adopts record city budget, taxes set at 1.20 per 100 assessed value with a 0.03 cut on the outfall sewer bond tax to 7 cents. Property taxes up slightly, totaling about 250 000 toward an 815 000 budget. 135 000 from reserves for capital improvements including harbor dredging, parks construction, and street work. Other income sources include licenses permits liquor taxes yacht harbor rentals and parking meters.
McCarthy announces candidacy for Marin state senate
John F. McCarthy a Marin county businessman announces his bid for state senator. He cites running government on a sound business basis and vows a vigilant fight against communism. He heads Robert McCarthy construction Marin office and has family ties to local politics.
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John F
Jack” McCarthy
Marin County
Pepper Way
San Rafael
Senate
McCarthy
Sacramento
California
Thomas K. Keating
Warren
Robert McCarthy
Marin
Ursula Mulligan
San Francisco
Sean
Paul
Sausalito-Marin City sanitary district eyed for November vote
Sanitary district plan covering Sausalito to Manzanita and Redwood areas approved for ballot amid war time housing delays. Estimated project cost about 448000 with 74 percent paid by Sausalito, 22 percent federal in lieu taxes, and 4 percent from unincorporated areas. District board to hire an engineer and pursue bonds if voters approve.
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Sausalito-Marin City Sanitary District
Board of Supervisors
Marin City
John Melville
Federal Public Housing Authority
San Francisco
County Board of Supervisors
County Housing Authority
Albert Bagshaw
Sausalito
Manzanita
Redwood Bridge
Oglesby
Waldo Point
Reserve Medical Unit Formed In Marin County
Marin officials announce formation of a Reserve Medical Ambulance Company under the 316th Medical Battalion in the 91st Division based in San Francisco. About 100 1-A youths notified. training at the Presidio begins weekly with pay. A council meeting will be held Thursday at 8 PM in the San Rafael council chambers with Dr Duffiey and Marin draft-board secretary Miss Georgia Bryan in attendance.
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Army Reserve
Marin County
Rafael Duffiey
316Th
91St
San Francisco
Duffiey
Dr. Duffiey
Presidio
San Rafael Council
Georgia Bryan
Reds Tighten Ring on Pohang in Korean War Battle
Communist forces outnumber defenders three to one and close a pincers move around two thirds of Pohang. A North Korean commander aims to take the port by 6 am, while refugees flee the ghost city under fire. US and South Korean troops fight to reopen the road to Taegu as 25 000 Reds push from north and west.
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Tokyo
U.P
Pohang
United Press
Robert Bennyhoff
Taegu
Douglas MacArthur
Angang-Ni
United States
Childong-Ni
CIO Expels Bridges ILWU and Two West Coast Unions
The CIO voted 41 to 2 to expel Harry Bridges ILWU and his Fishermen’s union, plus the Marine Cooks and Stewards, amid purge of leftist unions. J A Robertson and Hugh Bryson opposed. Bridges and ILWU officials dismissed the move.
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Harry Bridges
West Coast
Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Fishermen and Allied Workers Union
ILWU
Marine Cooks and Stewards
CIO
Bridges Ilwu
Fishermen’s Union
Bridges
J. A. Robertson
Mill Valley
Hugh Bryson
Maine Cooks and Stewards
Children Play with Matches Spark County Fires
Firemen from Marin County battled two blazes as children sparked small grass fires. At 11 45 a m county crews doused a rear distillery fire in Sausalito. Concurrently Novato firefighters were sent to Black Point for a grass fire started by kids. A second grass patch near the area was set ablaze at 1 30 p m.
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Sausalito
Novato
Black Point
United Nations to Probe Chinese Charges on Air Force Raids
The United States asked the United Nations to appoint a commission to investigate Chinese Communist charges that American Air Force planes raided targets in Manchuria.
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Lake Success
N. Y
U.P
United States
United Nations Today
Manchuria
Deputy Registrations Urged In Defense-Disaster Course
Marin county sheriff Walter B. Sellmer urges special deputies not yet notified to contact the office about the defense and disaster school. He notes many deputies changed addresses and missed notices. About 500 deputies are involved as the program progresses with planned meetings and uniformed outfits for the special deputies.
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Marin County
Col Moore Named District Engineer for San Francisco
Col Kenneth M. Moore was named district engineer for the San Francisco district, Corps of Engineers, to replace Col Fremont S. Tandy. Moore, who served as district engineer previously in 1940-41 and 1945-46, most recently led the Granite City Engineering Depot in Illinois and earlier served in Korea from 1946 to 1948. Tandy moves to command the Engineer Unit Center at Camp Carson, Colorado Springs.
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Col
Kenneth M. Moore
San Francisco
Corps of Engineers
Fremonts. Tandy
Moore
Granite City
Illinois
Tandy
Engineer Unit Center
Camp Carson
Colorado Springs
Colo
U. S. Army
Korea
B-29 Bomber Missing Over Atlantic Flight From Lagens
The Coast Guard reports a B-29 bomber missing somewhere in the Atlantic on a route from Lagens to Bermuda. The last contact was at 1 13 a m PDT with the plane about 2200 miles northeast of Norfolk.
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Norfolk
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Lagens
Bermuda
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Fort Baker
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Mill Valley Ride
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