Alameda county selects Earl Ray Strathman as administrator
Oakland Alameda county supervisors pick Earl Ray Strathman as new county administrator from a sealed field of 12 applicants. Strathman, currently Los Angeles county assistant administrative officer, praised for public and business administration, plans to start July 1. The selection follows extensive budget and policy work, with prior roles at Douglas Aircraft and University of California governmental studies.
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Oakland
Board of Supervisors
Earl Ray Strathman
Alameda County
Strathman
Los Angeles County
Atthur Will
Alameda
Los Angeles
School of Government
Eisenhower Veto Blocks Pay Boost for Postal Workers
President Eisenhower vetoed a bill granting 300,000 postal workers an average 8.8 percent raise, warning it would widen the postal deficit and create new pay inequities among thousands of employees.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Weather Outlook With Fog Patches Near Ocean Errors
Fair through Friday with patchy fog along the shore and cooler air. Yesterday’s high and today’s low are not specified in the readable text.
Amendments Adopted on River Bill in Sacramento
Amendments were adopted to a 5 million dollar bill for state sites for Oroville dam in Butte county and San Luis reservoir in Merced county. Supporters of Trinity and Feather River projects attended, but agreement was fragile. The San Luis site may go to the federal government at cost when federal funds begin construction. A $500,000 coastal route study for Feather River project water was approved by an Assembly committee.
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Sacramento
Oroville Dam
Butte County
San Luis Reservoir
Merced County
Feather River Project
San Luis
Trinity Project Group
Feather Tivers Project
Assembly
Campaign supports $4.5 million recreation bonds in Hayward area
The Citizens Committee for Better Parks and Recreation backs $4.5 million in bonds to fund parks, pools, and community buildings across the Hayward Area Recreation District. Harold J. Weiner argues bonds will expand leisure spaces, curb juvenile delinquency, and raise property values amid rapid population growth. Propositions A B and C outline land, pools, and facilities investments. Local officials debate district plans and funding viability.
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Citizens Committee
Harold J. Weiner
Washington Manor Community Service District Board
Hayward Area
San Lorenzo
Harold Teel
Hayward
Vera Woodworth
Weiner
Flood Forces Evacuation As Purgatoire River Rises
In Trinidad Colorado 1000 homeless flee rising Purgatoire as 36 hours of heavy rain trigger region’s worst flood in 30 years. Highways flooded and power and water services disrupted while officials monitor damage and residents evacuate to emergency shelter sites.
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Great
Plains
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Belgrade
Pueb
Denver
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Charles Garluzzot
Santa Fe
Garlutzo
Moscow
Cormmnu
Nikita Khru
Eschchev
Debe
National Guard
T Fnier
Nikolai Bulganin
Avere
Hayward Names Sam Cohen Civil Defense Leader
Sam Cohen, 36, an insurance broker in Hayward, was appointed executive officer of the city civil defense. The part time post directs emergency planning and action in the manager's absence, with Cohen aiming to present a practical civil defense program to residents. He has prior experience as coordinator of Hayward civil defense and praised for active civic involvement.
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Hayward
Sam Cohen
Civil Defense
Cohen
Lohn
R. Ficklin
Mi Cohen
Horror comic books linked to murder case in Oakland
In Oakland a seven year old was slain by a 4 year old playmate. Police quoted David Drey saying he got the idea from reading horror comics. District Attorney J Frank Coakley, with psychiatrist Dr Douglas Kelley, weighs options from juvenile action to formal murder indictment. A seven member Area Committee for Decent Literature formed in Hayward will meet to address indecent literature, appointing members from Hayward and nearby towns to monitor and curb objectionable material.
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Oakland
David Drey
Davi Alameda
J. Frank Coakley
Douglas Kelley
Coakley
Drew
Hayward
Vandalism Creeps Through Quiet District At Night
Deputies report ongoing vandalism and theft with juveniles suspected. Del Rey school at 80 Via Sonja San Lorenzo shows three broken windows while homeowner Joseph R Alexander reports $152 in tools stolen from an unlocked car on Prospect Street. Floyd McMahon’s driveway burglary ends with a flashlight camera glow torch and wrench taken.
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del Rey
Sonja
San Loorenzo
Joseph
R. Alexander
Prospect Street
Floyd
McMshonli
Foothill Boulevard
Aid
County Inoculations Begin Monday in Alameda Area
Mass inoculations of anti-polio vaccine for Southern Alameda county school children start Monday May 23 with a second shot June 13 to 16 before summer break. Dr. James C. Malcolm notes federal guidance and slips sent to parents. Clinics run 9 a.m. to noon or 1 to 3 p.m. at multiple locations including Baywood Dan Markham Grace Lutheran Fairview Burbank Saints Sequoia Hillcrest Laurel Hayward Ashland Colonial Acres Corvallis and Yontnuca.
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Alameda County
James C. Malcolm
Ayward Muir
Markham
Fairview
A. Burbank
M. Po Hese
Saints
Hillcrest
Laurel
Baywood Annexation Debate Spurs Baywood Defense
Ashland Bay City corporate committee rejected a time schedule and defends Baywood against annexation to Hayward. Hayward approved proceeding, prompting a Baywood resistance plan including a 1 p.m. Monday Baywood school meeting to organize opposition and accelerate Bay City incorporation.
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Bay City
Baywood
Hayward
Jackal
Baywood School
San Lorenzo Creek
Baywood Annex
Castro Street
Castro Valley Freeway
Gerald Cochran
Castro Valley
Truck Strike Shuts West Coast Freight Day
Los Angeles report says AFL union drivers from three large West Coast lines walked out today in a general lockout aimed at crippling long haul freighting. Pickets began at 7 am PDT at Consolidated Freightways Pacific Motor Transport and Pacific Intermountain Express. About 2500 teamsters involved with potential impact on up to 100000 industry workers as strike widens.
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Los Angeles
AFL
Consolidated Freightways
Pacific Motor Transport
Pacific Intermountain Express
Carpenter Injured In Scaffold Fall
Wilbert Minton, 61, a carpenter of 444 4c street, suffered fractured ribs when he slipped from a scaffold at a construction site on 3115 Bridge street. He was taken to Hayward Hospital in good condition and is under Dr D W Steinburg care.
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Wilbert Minton
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Bridge Street
Minton
Hayward Hospital
D.W. S Steinburg
Hayward
U S Air Might Declared Safe Against Soviet Air
Washington reports Air Secretary Harold Talbott told a Senate panel that the United States is not in danger of losing air supremacy to the Soviet Union and would only risk if the government stood still. General Nathan Twining and other officials testified on Pentagon gains in Soviet air strength.
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Washington
Sms
Harold
Talbott
United’ States
Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee
Nathan. Twining
Air Force
Pentagon
U. S
Votes to Decide School Trustee Jobs Tomorrow
Voters in Mt Eden Elementary School district face a recall for three trustees and a two-seat regular election. Kenneth Nabors Walter Thompson and Rosetta Fields seek to retain posts, while Rudolph DettenZieder Earl Seeley and Merrill Neumann pursue them. Concurrently John Pappas Kenneth Chapman DetteliRieder Nabors vie for two seats.
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Alameda County
Mt. Eden
Kenneth Nabors
Walter H. Thompson
Rosetta Fields
Rudolph K. Dettenzieder
Earl R. Seeley
Merrill R. Neumann
Oy -In
Ing
John N.pappas
Kenneth W. Chapman
Dettelirieder
Nabors
Thomas, N
Brenkwitz
Havel
Thompson
Mrs. Fields
E. C. Ingraham
Thomp
Israeli Troops Hit Egyptian Outpost Near Kisufim
Israeli forces attacked an Egyptian army outpost in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for an Egyptian landmine blast that killed three Israeli officers. Cairo reports claim heavy Israeli casualties, while Egypt says none. An Israeli unit stormed the position near Kisufim and destroyed installations.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Gaza Strip
Cairo
Salah Gohar
Palestine Affairs Department
Kissufim
Berlin clash as border guards fire near taxi in West Berlin
Communist border guards fired on a West Berlin taxi on the border road between the British sector and the Soviet zone, drawing a British police response. No injuries were reported, but East Germany tightened its blockade further ahead of a Four Power meeting. Western officials noted reduced East German travel to West Berlin and West Germany, and fewer West Germans allowed into the Soviet zone.
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Inter-Tornal
Germany
West’Berlin
West Berlin
West Germany
Soviet Zone
More Than His Faith Is Hurt
In Chicago Donald Phelan 27 was abducted after two hitchhikers forced entry to his car tied him to a tree and drove off with the auto wristwatch and $17. He freed himself after about half an hour then walked 33 miles home as no one halted to help.
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Donald Phelan
Phelan
Phe Jan
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