San Leandro Budget Boost Promises Tax Rate Cut Next Year
San Leandro council adopts a record 3,121,721 dollar budget with a 4 cent tax drop projected for next year based on an estimated 92 million valuation. Members debate planning department costs and 46 new city jobs while approving a salary ordinance and enacting a mandatory garbage can fee and leash law.
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Leona Ward
San Leandro
San Lean
Jack Maltester
Maltester
Valance Gill
Seesent
Wesley McClure
SPCA
McClure
Adjustment Zoning Board Wins Okay
SAN LEANDRO council gave preliminary approval to creating the citys first zoning adjustment board of five appointed by the council to grant use permits and variances under city planning rules. The measure also sets a forgiven date of June 9 as a deadline to legalize preexisting non conforming uses. The council also reclassified property for parking at Hays Juana Joaquin Washington Ave and discussed cabana regulation with trailer parks. Beaumont homeowners may use rear 20 feet of widened Foothill Blvd lots until Highway Division plans construction.
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San Leandro
Hays-Juana- Joaquin-Washington Ave
Wesley McClure
Beaumont
New Building for Savings Firm Planned on A Street Site
Founders Savings and Loan plans a $300000, three story building on A Street near Assa. The structure will be patterned after California business halls of the 1850s and 60s, similar to Wells Fargo in Columbia State Historical Park, with 10 575 square feet of area and a 100 person capacity. Foundations are in, contractor WN T Lewis pours, architect Cunneen Co Philadelphia. Completion expected November 15.
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Way
California
Wells Fargo
Columbia State Historical Park
Reaven
WN. T.lewis
Cunneen Co
Philadelphia
ARE le Founders
Hay- Besiegular Savings
Ward Savings and Loan Assn
Loan Facil
Venezuela Tuberculosis Death Rate Drops Decade
Caracas Venezuela health officials report a ten year decline in the national tuberculosis death rate. Dr Jose Ignacio Baldo notes the rate now stands at 56 per thousand with new facilities planned including offices and a broadcasting room to improve public health outreach.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Jose Ignacio Baldo
Mee
Pernieeny of Health
PG&E Counters Engle on Trinity River Plan
Robert H. Gerdes of Pacific Gas and Electric challenged Rep Clair Engles claim that the Trinity River partnership tax breaks would fund four power plants. He denied rapid amortization certificates exist for Trinity facilities and said PG&E does not intend to apply for them.
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San Francisco
Robert H. Gerdes
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Trinity River Partnership
Engle
Washington
Pg&e
Trinity River
Pg&eis
Statue of Liberty Floodgates Open All Night Light Change
The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor was floodgated all night for the first time in its history. Lights that had previously been turned off at midnight were illuminated through the night.
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New York
New York Harbor
La Vista Trustee Draw Sets Friedrich as New Member
In a public drawing, Paul Friedrich was selected over challenger at the May 17 trustee election, joining July 1 to replace Elizabeth Patterson who did not seek reelection. The board adopted a tentative $1,259,703 budget and a new teacher salary schedule amid sharp exchanges between President Baker, Trustee Tenney, and Supt Hardie.
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Beth Patterson
Friedrich
T. M. Giem
Raymond Baker
Tenney
Clarence Hardie
Hararé
UHR Ocorel
Uthe
Aid To Asia Up In 1956 U S Economic Aid Split
United States economic and military assistance in 1956 totaled 1.9 billion dollars. Western Europe and Asia each received two fifths. Asia rose about 24 percent while Western Europe declined nearly 10 percent. Internal spending disputes surfaced as Supts Hardie Pimentel and Thelia Pender faced salary changes and board friction over funds for a National School Boards Assn. trip to Atlantic City.
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Washington
Europe
Asia
United States
Loaises
Hardie
Doug.Pimentel
Thelia Pender
Baker
Tenney
Ards Assn
Atlantic “City
Baler
Aades
Hairdie
Budget OK'd For Hospital Eden Township Rates Rise
The Independent Citizens Advisory Committee approved Eden Hospital’s 1957 58 budget totaling 344 million and a $3 daily rate hike for township residents. Outside patients see a $4.50 per day increase with current private room 23 semi private 20 and ward 18 rates. Dr Leonard Osias was named vice chairman of the Hospital Administration and Operation committee, joining committee head William S. McCarter and administrator Harry Blythe.
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Castro
Valley — A
Eden Hospital
Independent Citizens Advisory Committee
Aken
Roy E. Hamrick
Harry Blythe
Oslo Opera Plan Aimed At National Stage
The Norwegian government asked Parliament to fund plans for a national opera. A 2Gal recommendation proposes creating an independent corporation to present operas in multiple cities. The state would cover 60 percent of the subsidy with the local city government supplying the rest.
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Oslo
Poodle Hunter Remains A Sea-Tale Companion
A poodle once valued as a hunting dog years ago became a common boudoir pet for milady. The dog’s first haircut was to ease swimming during an old retrieval task in its hunting days.
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Paris
Newsprint Use in U S Per Capita Rises Over Century
Chicago report shows annual per capita newsprint consumption in the United States about 78 pounds, up roughly 50 percent from a century ago and 200 percent above 1900 levels, reflecting broader print demand growth.
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Chicago
United States
Oil Tax Revenue Dominates Venezuela Budget
Caracas notes that seventy percent of the government’s 1956 revenue came from oil industry taxes, up from sixty percent in 1955, reflecting the sector’s dominant role in public finances.
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Caracas
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