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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1955
Page
3
A seven year old admitted involvement in vandalism at Strobridge school grounds over the weekend, with roughly 50 dollars in damage to construction equipment. Deputies reported air released from a grader and smashed gauges, a sand filled battery, fuel exhaust tampering, and an attempted rock blockage. Other youths aged seven, ten, and eleven were implicated but deny participation.
El Portal Improvement Club hosts Bay City candidates at El Portal school inviting residents to meet seven men vying for five council seats. Voters will choose councilmen and the Bay City incorporation on September 13. Candidates include Chester Oliveira Gerald Cochran Harold J. Weiner Howard C. Schuyler Lloyd E. Brown Jagr i and William O. Hux tado.
The Hayward chapter of the American Red Cross plans a full reorganization meeting at Red Cross headquarters 21325 East 14th Street at 7 p.m. Thursday. Mrs. Marjorie McCarter says a Basalt Rock Company representative will discuss spring atom bomb tests in Nevada and show colored slides. Nominations will open for new board members and a new branch treasurer to replace Bill Young, who resigned.
Castro Valley and Hayward clashed over Baywood annex maps as boundaries shifted southward toward Hayward city limits. Council actions pared Baywood’s annex area while voting to adjust tax rates and fund drainage work. Commissioner McClure was tasked to relocate a taxi stand and levy assessments on a block between Hayes and Hast 14th streets.
Centerville residents backed by the Chamber approved letters to the California Highway Patrol and to county authorities seeking speed curbs downtown and on Central Avenue from Blacow to Main. They note CHP vehicles once sped dangerously near each other and argue reduced speeds protect drivers, pedestrians, and children amid growing suburban traffic. The group also shifted evening meetings to luncheons due to poor attendance.
The wife of President Manuel Odria of Peru departed for the United States yesterday seeking medical care. The illness disclosed remains unavailable.
TaipeI Formosa The Chinatone News agency reported today that a Nationalist guerrilla force on the China mainland killed more than 120 Red troops in a battle early this month. The Communist forces deployed over 8000 men in Chingshan on the Chekiang Fukien border to clear Nationalist partisans. Nationalists counterattacked and drove off the Communist troops.
Castro Valley Orchard association invites all residents of the Orchards area to an open meeting at Parsons school at 8 p m tomorrow. Jack Abrahams says the meeting will inform residents about proposed incorporation for the valley. Howard Critchfield will discuss incorporation, and the film Pattern for Progress will be shown by William B Roberts Castro Valley Citizens for Incorporation. A business meeting will precede the program.
Members of Sat. A. J. Foster Post 2509 VFW and the Auxiliary plan a whist party Saturday at 8 15 p m at the Veterans Memorial building on Bancroft avenues. Lillian Auer and Celso Zaballos are chairmen.
The San Leandro church and First Lutheran church San Jose sought tax exemption, appealing through a writ of mandate to the California Supreme Court. The case involves loyalty oath provisions as part of tax exemptions rooted in a 1952 constitutional amendment and 1953 Revenue Taxation Code, with further rulings in District Court of Appeals and comparables statewide.
Morten sen's, garnet specialists, 7485 Cass no Valley boulevard, Castro Valley, begins grand opening Oct 1. The Oakland Rug and carpet cleaning shop since 1914 shifts to floor coverings and service with W. Dick Evans directing sales and John Paulino led crew of five to seven carpet layers. Rug cleaning remains offered.
Police said juveniles broke into Golden State Advertising at 415 East 14th Street during the weekend and stole 35 dollars from a steel cabinet. The business manager G Johannessen 58 of Oakland reported the loss after intruders rifled the file and his desk.
A Castro Valley study group on incorporation will meet Thursday at 4 p.m. at 18579 Carlwyn Drive, the home of Mrs. Chester E. Thayer. The event, open to any woman, follows a showing of the motion picture Pattern for Progress by William B. Roberts, who will lead a Q&A as manager of the Castro Valley Citizens for Incorporation committee.
A ranger from the State Department of Fish and Game will speak at Castro Valley Kiwanis Club’s luncheon tomorrow. Program chair Ralph Vieira announced the session, noting the meeting at Castro Gardens begins at 12 39 p m local time.
Funeral services for Elizabeth Mary Therkelsen 84 were held today from Sorensen Bros chapel. A Requiem Mass at St Johns church followed with interment in Holy Sepulchre cemetery. She was widow of Edward E Therkelsen local farmer and lived in San Lorenzo five years. Survived by daughter Elvira Woodward son Fred Therkelsen in merchant marine and two grandchildren. Also survived by brothers and sisters in Ireland. Died Friday at Menday centarium.
Dewey Brown, 2 General Delivery Decoto, told sheriff's deputies that a $500 portable 100 pound aluminum colored generator disappeared after he loaded it onto his truck and traveled about one block to the Trans Ocean Engineering company and Air National Guard hangars. He retraced the route but could not locate the missing item. Deputies reviewed the route but had no further information.
In Barranquilla Colombia seven of twenty missing passengers were recovered after a motorboat capsized in the Magdalena River. Ten others survived.
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