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[[newspaper page]] Argus-Courier--Friday, March 15, 1968--5 Community Calendar FRIDAY The Bernard Eldredge School will have a father-son banquet at 6:30 p.m. with Len Rohde, tackle for the 49ers, as guest speaker. The Single 8's Ballroom dance will be held at Kleist's Heidelberg, 7 miles north of Santa Rosa on the Old Redwood Hwy. Dance to the music of the Guido Trio from 9:00-12:30. All Single people are welcome. Donation $1.50 per person. "Primary Jets" of the Christian Church will hold their monthly "Fun Time" at the church at 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY Eagles Aerie No. 333 Potluck supper at 7 p.m. Auxiliary family and friends invited. Bring your favorite dish. Eagles Hall. SUNDAY The Holy Ghost Society of Petaluma will have a card party at 1:30 p.m. at the Holy Ghost Hall. Public is invited. Obituaries Fred E. Kennedy II Fred E. Kennedy II of Pittsburg died March 7 at his construction job in Pittsburg. Mr. Kennedy was the husband of Leona Kennedy of Pittsburg, the father of Ted Kennedy, owner of Ted's Wheel Alignment of Petaluma, Bob Kennedy of Hayward, Fred Kennedy III of Antioch, Mrs. Fred Clinton of Sapada, Okla., Mrs. Aura Paul of Hayward and Mrs. Melissa Pitts of Fremont. He had been employed by Gordon H. Ball in the construction business for 14 years. Rosina A. Ehmke Mrs. Rosina A. Ehmke, 64, died early this morning at a local hospital where she had been confined since Monday. A native of the Isle of Fuhr, Germany, she was the wife of Karl Ehmke of Petaluma, 750 Middle Two Rock Road. She was a sister of Johanna Carstensen of Denmark. Her only relatives in this country are a nephew, Peter Lassen, Cotati, and a cousin, Roluf Arfsten, Petaluma. Mrs. Ehmke came to the United States in 1928 and had lived here ever since. She was formerly a member of the Evangelical Free Church and was a member of the Hessel Union Church at the time of her death. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Parent Funeral Chapel, Magnolia Avenue and Keokuk Street. Interment will be at Cypress Hill Memorial Park. Those who prefer may give to the memorial building fund of the Hessel Union Church. [[boxed]] FUNERAL NOTICE OLSEN--In Santa Rosa, Calif., March 13, 1968. Donald F. Olsen, dearly beloved husband of La Vada Olsen of Santa Rosa. A native of Oakland Calif. Aged 52 years. A member of Petaluma Lodge No. 180 F. and E.M., the Scottish Rite Bodies of Santa Rosa, Ahmes Temple of Oakland and The Sonoma County Shrine Club. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services Saturday March 16, 1968 at 2 p.m. at the Parent Funeral Chapel Magnolia and Keokuk. Petaluma Lodge No. 180 F. and A.M. will officiate. Interment Cypress Hill Memorial Park. ----- EHMKE--In Petaluma, March 15, 1968. Rosina A. Ehmke, dearly beloved wife of Karl Ehmke of Petaluma; loving sister of Johanna Carstensen of Denmark. Aunt of Peter Lassen of Cotati and cousin of Roluf Arfsten of Petaluma. A native of The Isle of Fuhr, Germany. Aged 64 years. A member of the Hessel Union Church. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services Monday, March 18, 1968 at 11 a.m. at the Parent Funeral Chapel Magnolia and Keokuk. Those who prefer may give to the Memorial Building Fund of the Hessel Union Church. Interment Cypress Hill Memorial Park. [[/boxed]] [[boxed]] St. Patrick Day Here Again NEW YORK (AP) -- A green wave rolls across the land this weekend when the Irish and the honorary Irish salute St. Patrick with high-spirited parades and parties. The bagpipes will skirl and the drumsticks will twirl as the Kevins, Brians and Mikes--joined by Tonys, Abes, Angelos and Maxies--turn out for Magonus Sucatus Patricius. That was the saint's real name. He was born in Britain when it was part of the Roman Empire. Patrick's father, Calpurnius, served the emperor as a decurion, a provincial official. After being ordained in France, Patrick spent his lifetime converting the Irish to Christianity from the pagan practices of the Druids. He died in Ireland on March 17 in the year 461. Some of the offbeat plans for the weekend: The Chicago River will be dyed green. Green water will flow in the city's Civic Center fountain. Niagara Falls will be bathed in green light. Nassau County rink in Hewlett, N.Y., has green ice and Irish music ready for skaters. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, the son of Italian immigrants, has presented Carmel O'Leary, Irish vice consul in that city, with a book that asserts the Irish migrated from Italy. Rep. Francis J. Lynch wants the Pennsylvania Legislature to declare St. Patrick's Day a legal holiday like Washington's Birthday. John F. Kennedy Boulevard will be included in the route of the parade in Philadelphia. New York's parade up Fifth Avenue Saturday remains one of the nation's biggest. An Irish mayor who attended it a few years ago was asked if they had anything like it in Ireland. "No," he replied. "Sure, where would we put it?" And as the Clancys, Kellys, Callahans and Shapiros celebrate, this toast will be heard more than once: "May you be in Heaven Half an hour before The devil knows you're dead!" [[/boxed]] Bids To Be Opened For Tomales School TOMALES--Construction bids on the new Tomales High School will be opened at 4 p.m. on March 21, it was announced Thursday night at a meeting of the Tomales Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees. Site development continues on the land earmarked as the location for the new school, although the board was informed that discussion is continuing on the subject of site acquisition for the new school's water supply tanks. Details are yet to be worked out between landowners and surveyors, the board was told. A major subject at Thursday's meeting was that of school district unification involving the elementary school districts in the area. While the state has put its stamp of approval on district unification in the area feeding students into Tomales High School, the matter is one which must be approved by the voters prior to actual unification. The board agreed on appointing a citizens committee to disseminate information regarding the unification proposal, with district superintendent Anthony Matulich to contact the elementary districts involved as a means of seeking persons to serve on such a committee. All citizens in the community are being urged by the high school board to actively participate in the informational program, with the time and location of the first committee meeting yet to be announced. Matulich, in his superintendent's report, noticed that he and several instructors from the district were preparing for the opening of the new high school by observing curriculum programs and physical facilities at other high schools in the Bay Area. Most recently, he said, a group from the district visited Emeryville High School to view the facility there in general and specifically examine the operations of the school's language arts department. In a corresponding program, Matulich said consideration is now being given to making a house-to-house canvass in the district regarding the educational program. Persons to be contacted, he said, would include families of graduates of the past two years in the district. A survey committee has already been set up to conduct the study, with Mrs. Sue Baty of Point Reyes and Robert de la Vergne, an instructor at Tomales High School, appointed to act as co-chairmen. Their committee has been assigned to explore the types of questions to be included in the survey, with a report on their work to be made at the next board meeting. Bombing (Continued from Page 1) also learned from two stores that the FBI had brought parts of the bomb that killed Hammons to the area. Leonard Forman, owner of Forman Hardware, told The Argus-Courier that he had definitely identified a bolt brought to him by the FBI as one purchased in his Petaluma Boulevard business. Forman said he had "almost positively" identified Ricci as the man who had purchased the bolt and an electrical switch that he says the FBI told him was used to trigger the bomb in Ohio. The Argus-Courier also discovered that the $15 attache case in which the bomb was encased was purchased at Sears Roebuck in Vallejo. In an interview with the clerk who sold the case, The Argus-Courier was told that the salesman had "almost positively" identified Ricci to the FBI as the purchaser. One of the foremost unanswered questions is whether Ricci knew how to make a bomb. Ricci was a former rancher, a profession where it is not unusual to use dynamite for certain jobs. The bomb, according to information received from Cleveland, was relatively simple to construct, using batteries, stove bolts, wire and an electric toggle switch, geared to shoot current into blasting caps when the attache case was opened. Another question is where the dynamite for the bomb came from, if the bomb was made in Sonoma County. For the answer, The Argus-Courier searched records kept by state offices and individual firms dealing with explosives. The answer: The dynamite was not purchased by Ricci in the area, according to all responses. However, The Argus-Courier learned that most farms and ranches purchase dynamite at one time or another and most ranchers do not keep close accounting of how much dynamite they have on hand or have purchased or used in the past. Among the main questions, and one that may never be answered, concerns Ricci's death. Ricci's car left the highway between Sonoma and Petaluma at a high rate of speed, landed upright in the pond with the water just up to the hubcaps, according to the California Highway Patrol. The car was apparently moving at such a terrific rate of speed that it never brushed the slope from the highway, but shot 25 feet down and landed directly in the water. Did Ricci purposely drive his car into the pond, possibly thinking the water was deeper? Or was it an accident and did he stumble, hurt and dazed from the vehicle, leaving the engine running and the emergency brake set, and wander the wrong way and into water over his head? Coroner Andrew Johansen has not formed an official opinion on the answers to these questions. The biggest question, and one again that may never be answered, is why was the bomb sent to Hammons. Ricci was on vacation from the bank the week the bomb was mailed. The Argus-Courier was told Ricci was in the Lake Tahoe area during that week. But what did these two men, living more than 2,600 miles away, have in common? The letters Hammons received from Petaluma, which are now in the hands of the FBI, may provide an answer some day. Hammons and Ricci had strikingly similar images in their communities. Hammons was president of his church congregation at Avon. He was active in civic and youth work, was married and had four children, two of them twins. Ricci was a civic leader, head of the Sonoma County Heart Fund, active in youth activities in Sonoma and Petaluma, married and the father of two sons. One thing is for certain. As the FBI continues to probe, two families are watching closely--one in California and the other in Ohio. Both families have lose their fathers and both, no doubt, want to know the answer to one last question: Why? [[advertisement]] Your decision ...controls the cost of every funeral. We have nothing to sell... only personal help to offer... Every family can afford our service. Sorensen Funeral Home 400 Washington St. 763-1963 [[/advertisement]] Building Plans Submitted Building plans and a site design for the new Bank of America building in downtown Petaluma have been submitted to the Petaluma City Planning and Building Department, with a review of plans to go before the city planning commission on April 12. Craig Roland of the Santa Rosa architectural and planning firm of Duncombe, Roland & Miller delivered the plans Thursday to city officials, and construction bids for the one-story concrete bank building have reportedly already been called for. Plans call for the structure to be erected on the vacant area at the intersection of Washington and Kentucky Streets. Following completion of the new Petaluma Branch of the Bank of America banking facilities, the building presently on the corner facing Petaluma Boulevard will be demolished to provide parking for the new building. The bank building will have a 110-foot frontage on Washington Street and run the entire length of the block between Washington and Mary Streets. CAPITOL REPORT By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, March 14 Gov. Reagan orders the Medi-Cal on a new path of operation under which the state pays private health groups a flat sum for comprehensive medical care for the poor. THE GOVERNOR Charged that a powerful lobby is attempting to kill a major part of his traffic safety program. THE ASSEMBLY Bills Passed Marshals--Turns over solely to marshals in nine counties the duty of serving civil court summonses; AB 470, Karabian, D-Monterey Park. Estates--Increases from $20 to $100 the allowable payment to an executor of administrator of a dead person's estate in cases where disbursement vouchers have been lost or destroyed; AB 344, Moorhead, R-Glendale. Creditors--Requires creditors to notify executor or administrator of an estate of claims within four months, rather than six months, after publication of first notice; AB 120, Moorhead. Bills Introduced Food--Requires that any food branded "low calorie" or "nonfat" spell out fat content or calorie equivalent; AB 996, Roberti, D.Los Angeles. Primaries--Allows a candidate for delegate to a national political convention to withdraw from one slate of delegates and join another; AB 1019, Ralph, D-Los Angeles. Highway--Requires the State Public Works Department to maintain in good repair any state highway relinquished by legislative action; AB 995, Dedeh, D-Chula Vista. Mirrors--Prohibits after April 1, 1969 use of two-way mirrors in public places normally considered to afford personal privacy; AB 1018, Dunlap, D-North Napa. Smoking--Creates California Advisory Board on Smoking and Health to propose programs. Television--Establishes the California Radio and Television Commission to encourage educational radio and television programs; AB 1000, McGee. Resolutions Introduced Cigarettes--Requests the at-attorney general to report to the 1969 legislature on present enforcement of laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors, and to recommend more effective enforcement measures; ACR 66, Russell. Students--Declares it the intention of the legislature that the University of California and state colleges shall admit, at their discretion, disadvantaged students who have collegiate ability but are not academically qualified; places limit on number of such students at 2 per cent of entering freshmen, ACT 65, Bear, D.San Diego. THE SENATE Bills Passed Blind--Allows blind persons to operate facilities besides vending stands in county buildings. SB 137; Whetmore, R-La Habra. Resolution Adopted University--Commends University of California on its centennial, SR 116; Sherman, R-Berkeley. Bills Introduced Appraisers--Abolishes inheritance tax appraisers jobs, and abolishes function of county treasurers collecting inheritance taxes, SB 610; Sherman. Tax Rate--Boosts tax rate from 15 cents per $100 valuation to 25 cents for certain health districts; SB 612, Short, D-Stockton. Licenses--Requires vehicle salesmen to take a written examination for their license; SB 611, Marler, R.Redding. Snow--Changes from $100,000 a month to $1 million a year amount of money eligible counties may receive for snow removal; Colier D.Yreka. Drunk--Permits the Motor Vehicles Department to issue a drivers license, under certain conditions, to a person convicted three times of drunken driving; SB 620, Collier. [[advertisement]] HAVE MACHINE WILL TRAVEL MERLITE PRESTO-SHINE SERVICE Your car waxed & polished with genuine Simoniz Paste Wax at your home or location approx. 30 min. time. For appointment call 763-5100 [[/advertisement]] Valley Vista Picked For Special Program Valley Vista Elementary School in Petaluma has been selected as one of seven grade schools in California to undergo a special curriculum and administrative evaluation by a committee from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). In the past, WASC has conducted evaluations only at the high school and college and university levels as a means of granting accreditation to the schools involved. While the program expanded since its inception in 1953 to include junior high schools, this is the first year elementary schools have been included in the committee evaluation work. A WASC team this week spent three days evaluating Petaluma Senior High School, the third time a committee has visited the school for appraisal and accreditation purpose. Valley Vista was selected through the Sonoma County School system when WASC expressed its desire to evaluate one elementary school in the county in this first year pilot program. Clark Matthiessen, Valley Vista principal, has predicted that the concept of evaluating grade school programs will expand rapidly, following the initiating program this year in which his and six other schools are the objects of WASC appraisals. The selection of Valley Vista as the object of the WASC committee was partially made as a result of Matthiessen's activities in the area in the past. The Valley Vista principal has long been instrumental in encouraging such evaluations at the elementary level, with his efforts seeing the first stages of realization this year. Since no grade school program of its type has ever been undertaken before, a junior high school principal familiar with the format of committee work has been assigned as chairman of the committee appraising Valley Vista. Heading the group will be Robert Humpert of Ridgeview Junior High in Napa, who has had past experience with WASC work. The group will begin its evaluation program at the Petaluma school Monday and continue through Wednesday, meeting Monday with a Valley Vista coordinating committee to define some of the program's objectives. Individual administrators and instructors at the local school have been involved in preparing an intensive self-appraisal prior to the WASC evaluation, with committees organizaed at the school to compile the information presented. Others who will be on the Valley Vista evaluation committee from WASC include: Stanley Friese, assistant superintendent for Marin County schools; Dr. Eva Washington, associate professor of education at Sonoma State College; Laura Stearns, an instructor from Lompuc Unified School District; and James Gibbony, principal of Westwood Elementary School in Napa. Other elementary schools involved in the WASC evaluation program this year are Kimball in Antioch, Country Club in Alamo, Buena Vista in Walnut Creek, Mariposa in Santa Clara, Oster in San Jose and North Shoreview in San Mateo. Bail Set At $1,250 For Petaluman Bail has been set at $1,250 on a Petaluma man charged with destroying jail property after a mattress at the Petaluma City jail was set on fire early Thursday. Benjamin Franklin Lyons, 34, 316 Fair St., was transferred to the Sonoma County jail after being arraigned on the charge in the South County Municipal Court before Judge Alexander McMahon. Marteen Miller, public defender, was appointed to represent Lyons. Lyons was taken into custody Wednesday after being placed under citizen's arrest for alleged assault and battery. His case was continued to Monday. County Group To Study Teletype SONOMA--Petaluma led the way Thursday night in investigating the possibilities of installing a private teletype system that would serve law enforcement agencies throughout the county. The action came following a presentation at the Sonoma Golf and Country Club by two representatives from Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., in which costs and mechanical details of such a system were explained. On a motion from Petaluma Vice Mayor Ken Colin and a second by Petaluma city councilman Phil Joerger, the Sonoma County Mayors and Councilmen's association unanimously approved undertaking a study aimed at having a teletype system installed in the county, with a special committee to be set up to study how the cost distribution of the system would be arranged. The committee is to be made up of elected officials and members of city staffs in the county. The teletype net, if installed, would provide a comprehensive police alert system and speed up communications among law enforcement agencies at both the county and city level. On hand to explain various details of such a system were Larry Brons and Don McCall of Pacific Telephone, who outlined the capabilities of the teletype net and presented a general breakdown of costs. Initial outlay to set up the system would come to $2,492, the city and county officials were told, with monthly expenses for service totaling $1,919.45. The committee being set up by the Mayors and Councilmen's Association will attempt to set up a formula by which charges to the various agencies benefitting from the teletype system would be determined. The Thursday presentation followed a lengthy study by various groups surveying the possibility of a county-wide teletype net. On hand to moderate the evening program was Santa Rosa Police Chief Melvin "Dutch" Flohr, who noted that heads of police agencies in Sonoma County have been discussing a teletype net for some time at their monthly meetings with representatives of the district attornery's office. As a result, said the Santa Rosa law officer, the law enforcement committee of the grand jury has taken up the subject and expressed its approval of incorporating the system in county and city police bureaus. An in-depth study of the subject was initiated last October, with the proposal made Thursday the result of the study. The net would initially provide for transmission of messages at a rate of 100 words per minute, with a potential for increasing the speed as high as 3,200 words a minute. In addition, the system would be adaptable to future improvements and could eventually be converted to provide for picture transmissions. It was emphasized that the county-wide net would be retained only until such time as a comprehensive statewide net is put into operation at some time in the future. No specific timetable for a statewide system has yet been arranged. Under the program described by Pacific Telephone, individual police agencies could transmit messages to any or all other police agencies in Sonoma County, with a multiple receiving and sending unit installed in the county sheriff's office. Telephone company representatives observed that the system suggested is compatible with all other equipment now in existence, and would eliminate some equipment now being used as well as improve overall law enforcement communications. Sonoma County Dist. Atty. Kiernan Hyland said installation of the teletype net would be "a positive step forward in law enforcement" and added that a distinct need exists for such a system. Softball Meet Tonight The Petaluma Softball Association will meet at the Kenilworth Recreation Building tonight at 7:30. All persons interested in sponsoring, or managing a team are urged to attend. This organizational meeting will be held to discuss all matters in regards to the 1968 season. [[advertisement]] SPRING PLANTING TIME [[image - cartoon of lawn with gardening equipment]] NOW IS THE TIME TO FEED YOUR LAWN [[image - cartoon of a bag of lawn pellets "All Purpose GARDEN and LAWN FOOD pellets"]] 80 LB. 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