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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1954
Page
7
In a quirky item from The Daily Review a roadside sign near San Leandro urges motorists to stop porosity casting. Norm Dolin seeks meaning, learns the phrase references sealing leaks in metal castings, via a Western Sealant Co. remedy and a foundry explanation.
Local man Glenn Tenney recounts Wayne Petersen’s Sunday Pebble Beach tournament shot. Petersen supposedly hit a six iron 40 yards to the green, the ball speeding toward the hole, hitting the pin, dropping four feet, and spinning back to drop for a birdie. Some doubt the tale, calling it an amazing shot others a miss.
In a superior court hearing, San Leandro Attorney Arthur Carden asked how to spell Halcyon and spectator Jay Chinn spelled it H a l y t o n. Chinn hesitated and later Halcyon appears as Halycon in the official records. In Milwaukee two supermarkets ran a coupon war with Kroger 25 cent coupons redeemed at 30 cents, boosting both stores.
A Castro Valley woman discovers a crudely cut card meant for a father. It bears the message HAPPY FATHERS DAY, IF YOU LIKE DAYS YOU WILL LOVE FATHERS DAY. The item arrived this week from Los Angeles with Tom Longshore, a Daily Review newcomer seeking an inexpensive furnished rental in Castro Valley.
Mission San Jose announces the start of construction on the new Ti-classroom double sessions for the upcoming school year. Trustees say kindergarten will begin later, but delays in facilities may push completion to May. Discussion continues on separating young students from older pupils, with options including a fenced kindergarten area or staggered recesses.
Newark officials plan a campaign to keep the Glenmoor area within Newark’s fire district after Glenmoor Gardens residents petitioned to join Centerville. Fire Chief Joe Pashote warned of $300,000 in assessed loss and $1,200 yearly taxes if annexation occurs, and noted legal hurdles and timing for petitions and district approval.
Five candidates filed nomination papers for the Eden Township Hospital district board at the new hospital offices. Named are Georgie E. Dijeau John Agnew Gail Baldwin Denzil Widel and Dr J J Levine. Incumbents D M P Ream A G Jackson and G Ernest Lopez had not yet filed and compete in the November 2 general election for director posts with Ream Levine and Jackson.
San Leandro and Oakland area Democrats will host U S Senatorial candidate Samuel W Yorty at a 7 p m dinner at the Alta Mira club to honor him for the November election Reg George Miller will introduce Yorty about 250 attendees expected as the event highlights the party's drive amid polio fund campaigns and a March of Dimes appeal with local chapters reporting donations toward the NFIP effort.
Alameda County planners collaborate with building and health departments to draft limits on permanent additions to trailer homes. The move follows a California State Division of Housing hearing in San Jose. Inspector Marcus Carlson cited cabanas and patios as circumventions of building laws, while Tony Garea of the Trailer Court Owners' group opposed the additions. Regulations will go to the state Building Standards Commission for approval, with local jurisdictions free to adopt stricter rules.
Captain Walter J. Irwin, a Parks Air Force base public information officer for three years, will leave the Air Force on September 1 and plans to remain in the Bay Area with his wife and six year old son. He served as liaison between Parks and nearby communities and headed base communications. A World War I veteran, he was recalled to active duty in 1951 after five years as advertising director and general manager of newspapers in Florida, New Mexico, and Ohio.
Alameda County planning and Hayward officials will convene with Decoto Hillview Crest area developers to review proposed zoning revisions that could ease side yard rules and affect subdivisions recorded before the new ordinance. A public panel will discuss annexation plans for Decoto and Hillview Crest, with a focus on subdivision maps and variances sought by Associated Home Builders.
Newark area quarry operation near Coyote Gulch east of Dumbert on the Oakland line renews permit with County Planning Commission. Salt company plans 30 year quarrying, aiming to level the hill from about 150 feet to 10 feet. adjacent hills may join county shoreline recreation plan.
Centerville merchants vote to back a draft agreement for a downtown parking lot. Payments scale by distance from the post office, with $7.50, $5, or $3 monthly options. The chamber will manage leasing, maintenance, and insurance while keeping the venture non profit. Additional notes include signs for subscribers and a Boy Scout fund contribution.
San Lorenzo trustees announced bids for two school additions Washington Manor and Hesperian with plans for a Halcyon expansion adding six classrooms a home arts room and admin area The district also opened a bid from C B Motors for a new route van and approved a reciprocal transportation pact with Hayward union high school district.
More than 271 adult evening classes across UC extension programs will cover interior decorating to engineering for Northern Californians. Extension offices are in Berkeley at Kroftway 2441, San Francisco Powell Street 1540, Montgomery Street 140, one medical extension at Third and Parnassus, and Oakland at Franklin Street 1730. Write or call any office to enroll.
Harry P. Galarneux, field supervisor in training at Metropolitan Life, will speak at the Hayward Lions Club meeting at 125 p.m. tomorrow at the Green Shutter hotel. His topic is When Is a Man Life Insurance Poor.
Dan Reyburn, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, named Leo Schiager as his personal representative in the Eighth Congressional district. Schiager, a Castro Valley resident, is a former Shipwrights union business agent and now a member of AFL Carpenters local 1622.
In Castro Valley objections surged to Oakland Scavenger's plan to convert the 290 acre Lawrence Silva ranch in Cull Canyon into a hog farm. The proposal to locate the facility five miles up the canyon from Crow Canyon Road will be heard by the Alameda County Planning Commission at 1 15 p m next Monday. Local ranchers led by Guy Warren fight the project claiming risks to wells air quality road safety and land values. Residents along San Lorenzo Creek plan protest petitions and health fears from potential contamination.
Directors of the Castro Valley Sanitary District voted to petition the Oakland scavenger company to provide annual audits as agreed. The firm pays 10 percent of cross-earnings and last year yielded 5,421.82 dollars. They also accepted the resignation of secretary Carl Gilmore and approved a 12-lot Beau mont Homes tract along Jeanine Way with monthly WHS payments totaling 20,558.13 dollars.
Castro Valley will host an 8 p.m. meeting of the Disaster Relief Corps featuring FBI special agent Jesse Wagner as speaker. Public information officer Mrs J Sterne says the event is open to the public with Paul Rhodes, deputy director, to preside in Castro Valley school’s all purpose room.
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