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Teen-Aged Terrorists Ordered Out Of San Francisco
; SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-May-or
George Christopher today or
dered police to clean up teen-aged
terrorism on the city i buses ana
streetcars.
He was told Tuesday by busi
ness agent Tom McGrath of the
Carmen's Union that knife-wielding
hoodlums were running wild
on the city's transit system and
needed police action.
. Police Chief Thomas Cahill said
he would meet with muni, school
and police officials today map out
action against the offenders.
McGarth has been complaining;
for months that teen-aged passen
gers have been terrorizing the
city's bus drivers, driving some of
tiiem to ask for other jobs on
dthcr lines.
I Many of the men "live in fear
Of their lives," he contends. And
ha adds, "There have been cases!
in which the passengers just stood
there and watched an operator
beaten."
Official records seem to sup
port McGrath, who is business
agent for Carmen's Union No.
1380. Vandalism last year cost the
city, which operates the Municipal
Railway, $66,372.94.
The price tag for cleaning buses
and streetcars defaced with ob
scene words and smeared with
fruit, eggs and anything else that
was handy came to more than
$11,000.
Many Buses Damaged
Rocks thrown by the juveniles
smashed or cracked 3,000,windows
and nearly 4,000 seals were
slashed with knives or razors.
Muni manager Vernon Ander
son cited two incidents. Last
Thursday, he says, two junior
high school students boarded a
bus, dropped several pennir in
the toll box, and ran toward the
rear of the vehicle where they
let some friends in through the
window.
The operator protested, but the
youngsters "called him the most
vile names and practically dared
him to come back to do anything
about it," said Anderson. The driv
er completed his run and then put
in for a transfer.
Another driver was threatened
with bodily harm under much the
same circumstances, according to
Anderson.
McGrath reported another inci
dent Tuesday. He said a gang of
youths told an operator he "would
get sliced up" if he came to work
today.
Wants Tough Cops
McGrath asked the Public Util
ities Commission to put some
"rough, tough" cops on the buses.
He said every major city has its
Boy's Murder
Trial Opent
POIiTLAJiD (AP) Opening
arguments were heard Monday in
the first degree murder trial of a
Portland teenager, charged with
shooting his mother.
David H. English, 18, has been
held without bail since his mother,
Mrs. Catherine C. English, was
shot April 18.
Deputy Disl. Ally. Oscar How
lett said he would prove the shoot
ing was premeditated. Defense
counsel said it would show young
Lnglish fired the fatal shot acci
dentally after searching the fam
ily property for prowlers.
I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, October 12, 1961
PAG 4 B
own torce of special policemen to
combat such hoodlums except San
Francisco.
"We'll soon get rid of these
punks on the buses," he said.
But Police Chief Thomas Cahill
said his department lacked the
men and the money for a special
force. He told newsmen the police
department could not afford 'o
assign officers "just to ride
buses."
The PUC directed muni author
ities to investigate how other cities
meet the juvenile problem in their
transit systems.
"These incidents are shocking
and will not be tolerated," said
President Don Fazackerly. He
suggested that muni officials bring
up the problem at the convention
ot the American Transit Associa
tion next week in Dallas.
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Uah 2te? Soatt From Falhut
IN ALASKA Or. Paul
Mossberg, formerly of
Bonanza, now of Portland,
was recently transferred
to Anchorage, Alaska. He
completed basic training
at Fort Ord, Calif. .
WASHINGTON (APl-Any g-
(netic damage caused by fallout
from the current series of Russian
nuclear explosions will be so
slight, in the opinion of a Public
Health Service physician, that it
may' not be discernible even after
several generations.
The physician in the service's
division of radiological health!
gave his views to this reporter,
today but declined to permit ide.i
tification by name.
He said the radiation dose to
reproductive cells from radioac
tivity of levels measured in this
country since Sept. 1 will not be
as large as that received over a
long period from natural back
ground radiation.
There is a considerable varia
lion .worldwide in the amount ofnetic characteristics and any of
these could be affected.
The doctor's opinion was sought
following a statement Sunday by
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, a physicist
who helped develop the atomic
bomb, that fallout from the Rus
sian explosions in his opinion ex
ceeds what was established by a
group of scientists in 1957 to be
the "safe annual limit."
The Public Health Service is
Concerned not only with the possi
ble genetic effects of fallout radi
ation but also with the possible
effects on bone, bone marrow,
natural background radiation. For!
instance, the expert said that in
the Monazite Sands areas of India
it is possibly 20 times the usual
maximum in this country.
The official said it is not
thought that any genetic changes
caused by radiation of the levels
recently recorded in this country
would show up in the nation s
younger people or in their imme
diate offspring- ,
"If changes do occur in far
distant generations, they may be
in conditions not identifiable to
radiation exposure," the doctor thyroid glands and tissues,
added. He said genetic alterations It fs known, the doctor said,
would not of necessity mean there that fallout contains certain spe
would be deformed babies. Thereicific radionuclides which affect
are hundreds of identifiable ge- these.
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