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Full Investigation of Finances, Administration by County Dept., Asked in Final Report of 1957
The Alameda County Grand Jury today called for a full-scale investigation into financial operations of the County School Department and recommended drastic changes in its administration.
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The Alameda county Health department this week had four men checking the Russell City garbage disposal problem, advising families on disposal of garbage by one of three methods.
The men have suggested having the garbage dumped at the Russell City "sanitary?" dumping grounds, picked up by a paid contractor, or buried within the property itself.
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Mrs. Ruth Manwarren, Russell City resident, took the bit in her teeth this morning to reply to Peter Gulbrandsen, who branded Russell City as one of the worst shanty towns in the nation in a signed article in the Daily Pacific Builder, publication for the construction industries, last week.
Writes Mrs. Manwarren, "In reply to your article in the Daily Pacific Builder, also parts of it printed in The Hayward Daily Review.
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Harry Bartell, chairman of the counly board of supervisors, yesterday answered a letter from the Eden Council for Civic Unity.
In answer to one of the three questions asked by the council, Bartell said, "No plans have ever been proposed to bring water to Russell City."
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"No plans have ever been proposed to bring water to Russell City."
"It is very evident that a misunderstanding exists relative to the water situation at Russell City."
"There is no legal authority to bring water to any community at county expense."
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Governor Earl Warren will receive a third letter requesting aid in the Russell City water plight from E. S: Oie, 25160 Washington avenue, who dispatched his message Tuesday afternoon to the state capitol.
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Remember the game we used to play when we were kids—that old thing about "Button, Button, Who Has the Button?"
The Russell City water problem is rapidly descending to that stage, with everybody hoping that somebody else is "it."
The City of Hayward claims—and we think rightly so—that it discharged its responsibility when it installed a 12 inch water line to the Air National Guard area at the Hayward airport.
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Chairman Harry Bartell of the Alameda county board of supervisors today "passed the buck" to Supervisor George Janssen for the board's failure to reply to queries of the Eden Council for Civic Unity on the status of the Russell City water situation.
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A second Russell City woman joined Mrs. J. G. Gonzalves, leading crusader for water for water-famine stricken Russell Citians today, as Mrs. Ruth Manwarren made a second plea to Governor Earl Warren for help in the emergency.
Enclosing clippings from the local newspapers, Mrs. Manwarren addressed a personal letter to Governor Warren asking him to intercede with the county to bring water to Russell City.
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To bring it all out into the open and find out the "official position" of the Hayward City council, the Eden Council for Civic Unity last night voted to send a letter posing their three questions on Russell City, to the Hayward council.
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