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HAYWARD—For the Antonio Ancona family, life was ending in Russell City.
They were the last family still living in the old community, which is being razed for an Industrial park. One relative was one of the area's first settlers.
Yesterday they began moving their possessions to a new home in Union City, south of Hayward.
But arsonists, the plague of Russell City during its final years, struck again.
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Dissolution of the Russell City Services District, superfluous now in view of pending redevelopment of the Russell area, is being recommended to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors by County Administrator Earl Strathman.
Strathman said a state-enacted district reorganization act of 1965 provides the machinery for dissolution by the board.
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Action on a permit to relocate the True Holiness Church in Christ from Russell City to Kelly Hill in the Hayward area was thwarted yesterday by a parliamentary standoff at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.
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By Tom Harris
Flames from a wind-whipped grass and brush fire, skirling the eastern fringes of Castro Valley, threatened to destroy a dozen or more expensive homes along Crow Canyon and Jensen roads today before firemen and borate bombers won the battle against the stubborn blaze.
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Alameda County firemen were kept busy extinguishing two separate fires which broke out late last night and early this morning on Mississippi and Louisiana Streets in Russell City.
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The biggest fire yet to hit Russell City burned down 17 structures yesterday afternoon and blackened 23 acres of grass.
It was one of three major fires in Southern Alameda County yesterday.
Fanned by a stiff wind, it took area firemen five hours to get the blaze under control and another four to put it out. No one was injured.
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By FRANK PIAZZI
Next year's primary and general election ballots in the two East Bay counties in all likelihood will still be counted by the old fashioned one-at-a-time hand ballot counting system.
Hope that modern, high speed, electronic computers would take over the chore of tallying the votes in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties seem to be fading.
The primary election s [sic] next June 7. The general election follows Nov. 8.
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Mrs. Helen Russell McCullom of Oakland, heir of the original subdivider of Russell City, has given the Russell City Redevelopment project an assist by quit-claiming her underlying interest in some of the roads in the project area.
Mrs. McCullom is an heir of the late Henry Russell, who subdivided the area about 1906.
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Members of the True Holiness Church of God in Christ in Russell City have appealed to the Board of Supervisors for permission to retain their church buildings when the county acquires their property as part of the Russell City Redevelopment project.
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RUSSELL CITY-An arsonist early this morning managed to reduce the number of rooms in the Russell City Hotel by two after setting a fire under the back stairs.
The Alameda County Fire Patrol put the damage to the structure at $1,000. The fire was started around 3 a.m. this morning and was spotted by a neighbor who called it in.
The hotel at 2247 W. Winton Ave. is occupied by Cicero Smith. There were no injuries.
