San Mateo Times, June 13, 1959, p. 3.

Women Voters
Hit Civil
Service Law
College Aides
HoldPre-Grad
Celebration
Mrs. Edmund Naglor, president
of the San Mateo League of Women Voters, announced in a letter
to State Assemblyman Louis P.
Francis, its opposition to Senate
bill 562, calling it a threat to the
state civil service system.
Such a law. they said, would
allow the governor to fill up to four
vacant civil service positions in
each state department with political appointees of deputy status.
It further provides that each one
of these political appointees shall
have a confidential, noncivil service secretary. Thus, there will be
the possibility of adding eight persons exempt from civil service to
each of the approximately 25 California state agencies.
Mrs. Nagler states that the
League of Women Voters of California, with 10,000 m e m b e r s
throughout the state, primarily opposes this bill because it is contrary to the principle of public employment on the basis of merit.
The League belives that some
measure of merit, such as experience, training, education, or fitness, should be used as a basis for
employment in state jobs.
It is recognized that some flexibility and immecpate responsibility to the elected executive is required in top state jobs.
In California, the state Constitution sets the pattern of «tate jobs
exempt from civil service. If it
is true that more flexibility and
responsibility is needed in top departmental jobs, then the league
suggests that this should be accomplished within the framework
of the already established civil
service system by trying out new
and worthy m e t h o d s based on
merit.
College of San Mateo faculty
g a t h e r e d last night at the
Elks club in San Mateo for' the
traditional annual dinner prior
to commencement tomorrow.
Honored guests were the members of the board of trustees,
their wives and husband, Messers
and Mesdames Geoffrey Bromficld, Lester Nettle, U. S. Simmonds Jr., Robert A. Tarver,
Raymond T. Whitney, and retiring faculty members Ada R.
Bcveridge and Edla Walter, to
whom gifts of remembrance were
presented.
Following dinner, at whiqh faculty association president James
Ice presided, entertainment chairman Mel Ellettt had arranged a
series of numbers presented by
faculty - student entertainment
teams.
Ada R. Beveridge and student
actors Molly Minehan and Michael Thornton read a scene from
Oscar Wilde's "The Importance
of Being Earnest," Fredric Roehr,
pianist, and student trumpeter
Philip Lesh, played several duets,
and Jean Berensmeier and student dancers Cecilia' Kolloch and
Pearl Rabin presented modern
dance numbers.
The association paid tribute to
the trustees whose vision and
tireless devotion in planning and
developing the college program
and new campus on College
Heights are deeply appreciated.
The evening concluded with
the installation of 1959-60 officers
of the association, President Helen Berryhill, vice-president Gilbert Gossett, secretary, Edward
Mullen and treasurer Louis Yaeger.
Rights Bills
Passed by
State Senate
Two bills concerning rights of
persons arrested for misdemeanors, both offered by San Mateo
Assemblyman Louis F r a n c i s ,
were passed by the State Senate
and sent to the Governor yesterday.
One measure authorizes the officer in charge of the jail and the
clerk or the justice of the municipal court to approve as well as
accept bail. It further provides
that bill may be so approved
and accepted in an amount fixed
by the order admitting to bail as
well as the amount fixed by the
arrest warrant or schedule of
bail.
A provision requires the judges
in each county to prepare and
adopt a county-wide uniform bail
schedule.
< Francis explained that this bill
•will facilitate the release of persons who are arrested for misdemeanor offenses when the
judge is not available in court.
Persons arrested for misdemeanors may be released from
custody by signing a written
promise to appear in court on the
charge, instead of being taken
before a judge, if the Governor
signs another bill authored by
Francis.
It provides that when a person
is arrested for misdemeanors under state law and does not demand to be taken before a judge,
the arresting officer may issue
to him a written notice to appear
in court, and if such a person
agrees to appear, shall release
him from custodv.
Alert Cop
Stops feo y in
Stolen Car
A 14-year-old San Mateo boy
who looked just a little too young
to be driving a car attracted attention of Officer Richard Lust
who halted him for questioning
at 1 o'clock yesterday morning,
only to discover the youth had
stolen the car.
It was registered to W. G. Canfield, 309 Rockwood drive, South
San Francisco.
Officer Richard Lust said he
spotted the youth driving along
southbound on South Norfolk
street and halted him at the intersection with Shoreview avenue.
the car owner had apparently
loaned the auto to Robert Gibbs
of 2035 Ticonderoga avenue, San
Mateo. The car had been left at
the bus depot in San Mateo.
The youth was 'taken to Hillcrest juvenile home.
HALE, HEARTY AND FAREWELL—Principal Paul Claudon, right, bids godspeed to
eight of his Capuchino High school teachers
who are leaving, by resignation or leave of
absence, for advanced fields. Left to right,
seated, Ray McHugh and Norman Friends.
Standing, Charles Alva, Robert Sund, Norman Arslan, James Rutherford, Richard
O'Malley and Claudon.
Honors
7 CAP TEACHERS OFF TO College
San Mateo Girl
WORLD TOURS, COLLEGES
SAN BRUNO — Seven popular
Capuchino high school instructors
gathered with their principal in
the all-night Grad Night "coketail
palace" here last night for a last
get together before going on to
higher fields. Principal Paul
Claudon wished them godspeed
as they talked over their plans.
Ray McHugh of the social
studies d e p a r t m e n t , will be
on le a v e for a year, with
three possible areas of study that
include offers of fellowships at
Stanford. Harvard, and the University of Minnesota; McHugh's
specialty is United States history.
Counselor Norman Friend, also
of the social studies department,
will leave for sabbatical study in
the Mid-Eastern countries and
the Holy Land following his stint
of teaching world history in summer school.
Charles Alva, head of the English department at Capuchino,
has resigned to complete his
doctoral studies at Stanford
where he will be a teaching assistant to English Department Head
Dr. Grauman. One of the original
staff at Capuchino when it
opened < in September of 1950,
Alva re'eeived special recognition
From Claudon and the faculty at
the final faculty meeting of the
year after school was closed yesterday.
Robert Sund, who completed
his studies for his Ph.D in science
at Stanford during this semester,
will be at the University of Oregon on a National Science
Foundation fellowship next year.
He leaves today for an extended
European holiday. Having resigned from Capuchino, he plans
to do teaching at the university
level after completing his year of
study at Oregon.
Norman, Arslan, who came to
Capuchino two years ago, has
been an outstanding member of
the science department; he is
leaving to accept a position with
Stockton Junior College.
James Rutherford, long-time
head of the science department,
will be on leave to Harvard on a
National Science Foundation fellowship for a year. This is the
third time that Rutherford has
had the distinction of being
called to eastern universities for
special studies.
Richard O'Malley, head of the
mathematics department, is another National Science fellowship
holder who will be absent for a
year on leave to pursue further
study in his chosen field at
Boston College.
Eleanor W e s t b r o o k Mosfter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Mosher of 3901 Marshall avenue, San Mateo, a junior at Scripps
college, Claremont, was awarded a
modern language prize for advanced French conversation at the
college, Thursday.
SACRAMENTO — Legislation
by Assemblyman Louis Francis
of San Mateo county was passed
by the senate today and sent to
Governor Brown to increase the
projection of student enrollment
from five years to seven years
for state school building aid and
to help eliminate double and
triple sessions.
Specifically, the Francis bill
permits the department of education to approve a school district's application for an apportionment for the purchase of a
site or comprehensive master
plan if it determine.? that the
enrollment of a high school will
be sufficient to show need within
seven years from the date of the
application. Under the present
law, the projection is limited to
five years.
Ninety-six per cent of all bank
It also provides relief for ele- deposits in the U. S. are promentary school districts by pro- tected by the Federal Deposit
viding that the department may Insurance Corporation.
approve the application for an
elementary grade level maintained by the district to utilize
a period of seven years from
the date of the application if it
is necessary to meet the emergency conditions existing in that
certain district because of a
rapid increase in the enrollment
of pupils or the scarcity of land
within the district, or both.
There are several school districts
in San Mateo county that need
this assistance, Francis said.
Another feature of the bill
permits the inclusion of costs
for the preparation of plans and
specifications for school facilities
and for the development of the
site.
The San Bruno Park school
district is a typical example of
one of these districts in dire
bail for "conditional release" of
Peterson for $640. A donor put
up $690 (to include attorney's
fees) and the check was dispatched forthwith to the youth's
attorney, Raphael Castillo.
Mrs. Petersen, of 1241 Furlong
street, arrived at Tiajuana yestciday in a dead heat with the
check—only to learn that in some
inexplicable manner, it had been
made out, not to Castillo, but to
"Raphael Castro."
Authorities were working at all
ends to cut the red tape on that
one today. Meanwhile, Peterson
remained in what he calls a "filthy" Mexican jail.
Yale Chorus Hopes to
Repeat Hit in Russia
Editor's Note — Next week
a chorus of young Yale men
will take off for the Soviet
Union on their second summer
visit to spread goodwill on
wings of song. Here's what
the unofficial Ivy League ambassadors think will happen.
By ANGELO NATALE
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-The
group of young-Americans-assembled swiftly, seemingly from out
of nowhere, in Red Square. Just
as suddenly, they burst into song.
The. startled Moscovites didn't
stop immediately, but. kept walking by, looking over their shoulders. But soon one of them paused
to listen to the Negro spiritual.
Then another. «'•
Before long, a crowd of hundreds-of Soviet people gathered
to'hear the impromptu concert.
The- crowd grew delighted as
the chorus delivered a rousing
Russian folk song, in perfect Russian accents.
Militiamen Startled
The Soviet militiamen, equally
as startled as the passersby, did
nothing to stop' the concert only
a stone's throw from the Kremlin's walls.
That happened less than a year
ago, and the scene was repeated
often in Soviet cities from Kiev
to the Red capital.
More of the same will take place
this summer when the Yale Russian Chorus revisits the Soviet Union for a month-long stay.
There were 18 in the group last
September. Perhaps two dozen or
more will make the trip this time.
It depends on how much money
they can muster.
But the plans are made. They
intend to leave the United States
June 15, arrive in Moscow June
23, and travel to Riga, Lvov and
the Black Sea resorts of Sochi
and Yalta.
The chorus members feel their
visits are a form of cultural exchange between the two countries,
but on a man-in-the-street level.
They don't travel as a unit and
they apply for their visas as individuals. There is no spokesman
as such, for the group.. They are
not a delegation.
"Be at Mayakovsky Square at
8 tonight," is a sample of the in
formal instructions under which
the chorus operates.
County School
Plan Popular
REDWOOD CITY—The state department of education has contracted with the county for the
printing and distribution of scholarship catalogs for use by high
school students, a c c o r d i n g to
James R. Tormey, county superintendent of schools.
Between 5000 and 6000 copies will
be printed locally, Tormey said.
Bids are being advertised now.
The state, according to the superintendent, has approved a $12,737 appropriation for the project.
The catalogs will be distributed to
all high schools in the state at
the state's expense.
The idea of the catalog was
worked up for Dr. Joseph Martin, a former consultant in Tormey's department, who is now
with the University of Ohio, and
Dr. Oreon«Keesler, co-ordinator of
secondary education in the Santa
Clara county schools department.
The books have been printed "locally for three years.
Tormey said high s c h o o l s
throughout the state became interested in the idea and prompted
:he state department of education
o act to make the distribution
state-wide.
The Americans show up at the
designated hour, two or three at
a time. When e:iough of them are
on hand, the singing begins. Latecomers merely stroll up to the
rest of the singers, and join in.
When the concert is over, the
real fun begins. Most members of
the Soviet people, are curious
about America and Americans.
The Americans will break off
into groups of two or three at the
most. And they'll engage in
lengthy conversations with the
Russian people.
The Americans give a picture
of life in the United States.. They
answer all questions put to them
by the Russians. The Russians do
the same for them.
And they've already got plenty
of pleasant memories tucked
away from a year ago. They've
visited Russians in their homes,
and had serious discussions with
them.
The
chorus members
feel
they've helped dispel, on a small
scale, the notion that Americans'
are warmongers and exploiters.
The chorus director and arranger, Denis Mickiewicz, is a graduate student in comparative literature. He^as born in Riga — one
of the cities the chorus plans to
visit — but he says he has no
relatives there.
Jazz Session
One of the chorus, Charles Neff
of Claremont, Calif., recalls a jazz
session with young Soviets after
one of their concerts. Neff can
play a trumpet. Mickiewicz handles a guitar.
The setting for the jam session
was the Mayakovsky Library in
Moscow. It was going along fineAmericans and Soviets playing
"taboo" jazz together—until someone at the library called a halt
because the noise was getting out
of hand. And jazz, as soon ss it
shows a modern trend, is condemned in the Soviet Union as a
sign of "bourgeois decadence."
Only in one spot — the Republic of Georgia — did the chorus
fail to make a hit with their Russian songs. In Tiflis, the Georgian
capital, the chorus was cheere^
and applauded when they sang
American folk songs and spirituals. The crowd wasn't pleased
with the Russian songs.
Probably this can be explained
the fact that many of these
hot-blooded people are quick to
point out to foreigners that "WP
are not Russians,
we are
Georgians."
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U. S. to Enter Steel Talks
NEW YORK (AP)—The federal
government will move Monday in
an attempt to jog stalemated,steel
negotiations.
Joseph F. Finnegan, director of
the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, meets -with David J. McDonald, president of the
United Steelworkers Union.
The following Monday he will
meet with Roger M. Blough, chairman of the board of U.S. Steel
Corp. Both meetings will be in
Washington. M c D o n a l d a n d
Blough will be there to outline
their positions at dinner sessions
before a group of Democratic Senators.
Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa)
took the lead in arranging the
Belmont Boy Still in Jail.,
Check Made to Wrong Man
The case of an imprisoned Belmont youth in Mexico began to
take oh the comic overtones of a
Caribbesn revolution today when
it was found that determined efforts by the boy's mother and the
United States government to free
him had foundered at the cashier's cage.
Robert Potersen had served one
year of a four-year sentence for
taking a drive-yourself car off to
the race track when authorities
moved in because the boy had
too few years to be serving so
many. They argued that it was
disputable that he might have
borrowed the car.
Mexican authorities arranged
San Mateo Times—3
ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK
The present boardwalk in Atantic City is the fifth one since
the first one was built in 1870.
Although it is still "a boardwalk,"
it now has a concrete foundation.
State Senate Passes Bill;
To Aid Peninsula Schools
need due to the rapid growth of
population and disappearance of
available school sites. It has 578
pupils in grades one, two and
three on "double session" and
293 kindergarten pupils on
"triple session."
The next school yean 12 kindergarten classes will be on "triple
session" and 40 classes of primary grade children will be on
"double session" plus 10 classes
of seventh graders on "double
session."
The district has an enrollment
of 4255 pupils at present and
the projected enrollment for the
1959-60 school year is 4750
pupils, and for the 1960-61 school
year, an enrollment of approximately 5300 pupils.
Saturday, June 13, 1959
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dinner meetings. One of his aides
said he expected the pattern
would be for an opening statement of position by the guest, followed by a question period. Clark
has invited all the other 63 Democratic Senators to attend.
Finnegan emphasized that his
talks with McDonald and Blough
were not formal government intervention. He said he just wanted to "take a reading" on the
situation. He said, however, that
he had requested the meetings.
With less than three weeks to
go in the steel talks agreement is
apparently as far away as ever.
The present contract — covering
half a million steelworkers — expires June 30.
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