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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1949
Page
2
Knowland reports a clear 7 to 3 majority in the panel on the proposed San Francisco Bay bridge plan. He notes committee chairman Millard Tydings and fellow senators Byrd Russell and others have not yet voted, while opposing groups push for an alternative Alameda bridge location.
Kilroy model airplane enthusiasts elected Bastien Kilroy as president of the Flying Kilroy club on Thursday night. He succeeds Jim Cornwell, who led the group for the past year. Bastien’s term includes an all-expenses paid trip to Detroit for a national model plane meet sponsored by Plymouth. The installation ceremony occurred at Jack Holland Plymouth Agency with Don Brandon as president and Kenny McHale as secretary.
The San Lorenzo school district hosts a first aid course organized by the Oakland Red Cross chapter. Dale Roy heads the Red Cross first aid department and will appoint the instructor. Classes run weekly for six weeks from 7:30 to 9:40 p.m. at Renzo School, requiring participants to bring a yard square of muslin.
Senator Joseph R McCarthy charged an employee of a Chicago perfume firm with involvement in a smuggling plot that supplied seven deep freezers to General Harry H Vaughan. He defended Mrs Bess Truman’s conduct in accepting one freezer while noting Vaughan’s alleged role and a Washington network amid a Senate probe into influence peddling.
Melvin W. Laus ton was named president of the Squab Producers of California board of directors at a Friday meeting in Hayward. Stanley Burns was elected vice president and Leslie Ti Brown secretary treasurer, with David W Frederickson and Albert Martin as other board members. The quarterly session was held at the Hayward Poultry Producers association.
Timetable shows Lorenzo Theatre with It Happens Every Spring at 2 00 and 10 20 pm. Hayward Theatre presents The Stratton Story at 3 37, 7 00 and 10 54 pm. Motor Movies lists You Gotta Stay Wappy at 1 4 pm and Wreck of Hesperus as second feature at 4 34 pm.
Poultry Producers of Central California publish today prices for eggs and live fowl. Nulaid 69, large 62, medium 55, small 39, standard 52. Live fowl includes broilers under 214 lbs 92-93, fryers 24 to 1 Ibs 93-34, over 3 lbs 39-4, feather horns under 4 lbs 23-24, over 4 lbs 24-25, roasters colored 4 lbs and over 34-35.
Washington based hearing foreword reveals two wartime attempts to obtain atomic data from the University of California radiation laboratory. It names a single positive case involving a Berkeley technician who shared an atomic formula with Steve Nelson, a Communist organizer, and later with a Soviet official. Other figures linked to the wartime research deny or withhold answers, while the committee withholds the scientist X’s name pending further investigation.
A strike lockout involving APL truck drivers and 15 building materials firms in San Francisco and San Mateo counties ended as employers agreed to a one cent hourly wage increase for the drivers. The stoppage began August 7 and halted work on millions of dollars worth of projects, laying off hundreds of workers.
Washington briefing notes that the Senate temporarily abandoned its public power policy and the interior appropriations bill with most of the measure to be revisited later. The chamber set aside the interior bill to debate two Presidential reorganization plans, which could take effect if Congress does not act by August 20. A three and a half hour speech by Senator Tom [D. Okla.] dominated the day, while no endorsement was given to cutting $13 million for transmission lines and power facilities, critics warning such spending could nationalize the electric industry.
New York U P report cites Samuel I Roseman demanding Bethlehem Steel president Arthur Homer apologize for accusing the steel fact finding board of being a vote sham on concessions. Rosenman, ex New York justice, pressed the issue as Bethlehem faces United Steel Workers demands for a 30 cent hourly raise amid labor tensions.
Lt Col Alfred E Kardos will discuss the Operations Division of the Transportation Staging Area at the second monthly road school session at Oakland Army Base. The talk covers Kardos wartime service from Camp Stoneman and Lelavre France, and his role in the Pacific Coast Officers Training school. Reserve officers and unassigned reservists may attend and apply for assignment. Assigned personnel earn one day’s pay for each two hour session.
The Alta Vista improvement club will hold its regular monthly business session at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the clubhouse on Niles avenue. President Mrs. W. W. James urges all Alta Vista residents to attend.
Eleven year old Fred Massa was struck in a crosswalk on Jackson Street by a car driven by Leonard Hammond after a collision with KE Castanada on Sunday morning. Massa received examination at Palmont hospital. Hammond claimed he briefly lost control after Castanada struck his vehicle.
Carl N Rasmussen, 44, 21193 Wilbeam Avenue, Castro Valley, reported his two dogs poisoned with the mother left alive but the puppy dead. Sheriff deputies found the kennel scene Saturday evening with a red pencil note reading Stefa Your dog won't bark wand keep us awake any more. Authorities say the older dog had been trained not to accept strangers outside the family.
City Manager William Hunter vows action after a stunted smoky odor fills City Hall. Reactions range from violent sneezes to strong approval as officials consider remedy for the stenched air in the building’s office area.
Soehne lodge plans to conduct all business at the first of the month meeting and to hold a social evening on August 26 at the Hayward IDES hall with dancing and free refreshments. Members and German descendants are invited as plans for German Day events in September at the Pioneer House in Oakland unfold.
A 20th century duel ended without bloodshed as contestants left arm in arm. Police reported the men threw dueling sticks through Mrs. Mary Marks’s front window before departing, breaking the pane.
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