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NATION PAGE 5
SPICY SAUTEEDFISH IS TASTY 
FOOD PAGE 21
 TRUMP BLAMES MEDIA FOR CONDEMNATION OFVIRGINIA RESPONSE
Podcastsheds new light on old cold case
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
San Mateo County CommunityCollege District officials areweighing a variety of programsand initiatives intended to teachcultural understanding in the wakeof a racially offensive studentpresentation.The school board discussion dur-ing a Wednesday, Aug. 23, meet-ing follows a Skyline College stu-dent completing an assignmentlast semester in blackface, saiddistrict Trustee Maurice Goodman. Goodman said he hoped the pro-posals to establish at each campusan ethnic studies program and mul-ticultural center, plus diversitytraining courses and programs forstudents and staff, will help pre-vent any similar issues. “We are educating the entireSkyline College community thatrhetoric, that behavior, will not betolerated,” he said. Though the incident is stillbeing investigated and limiteddetails are available, Goodmansaid the proposals are brought fol-lowing a student dressing as a
Colleges seeknew ways toaddress race
District officials consider program, policychanges following racially offensive incident
By Jonathan J. Cooper
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO — Californiaraised more than $640 millionthis month auctioning off permitsfor businesses to emit greenhousegases as part of a program aimed atfighting climate change, accord-ing to state data released Tuesday. Last week’s auction was thestate’s first since lawmakers votedto extend California’s cap andtrade program through 2030. Itrequires businesses, oil refineriesand other polluters to obtain per-mits to be able to emit carbon,with the overall goal of drasticallyreducing emissions. Money raisedthrough the auctions goes to proj-
State pollution permitssell at highestprice ever
 Tracy Anderson, Billy Baumgartner and Michael Olson, thethree victims of the infamous San Mateo Payless Murders.
By Aimee Lewis Strain
DAILY JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT
It’s been nearly 40 years of frustrat-ing dead ends, minimal leads and littleactivity surrounding San Mateo’slongest unsolved triple homicide. Onthat Sunday night in February 1979,three young men — two Hillsdale HighSchool students and one young father— were shot execution style as theyclosed the Payless Store on ConcarDrive in San Mateo. The murderer ranoff with nearly $20,000 in cash andcould still be running free today. Those close to the case can remem-ber explicit details of it — from the.38 caliber Smith and Wesson revolverthat detectives tried to chase down inOregon to the chilling words spokenby psychic Kay Rhae, also known as“the Body Finder,” for her ability tolocate disappeared people and spiritsin the 1980s. Some can even remem-ber that it was “Sunday Dollar Days”that fateful day that the lives of Michael Olson, 24, BillyBaumgartner, 17, and Tracy Anderson,16, were cut short. But no one knowsthis case better than local author JohnChristgau.It’s a case that shocked the commu-nity, devastated families and left lawenforcement officials struggling tosolve. And this week, close to 38 yearslater, a podcast will be unveiled thattells the story of that frightful night
Payless Murders an infamous case for San Mateo
By Austin Walsh
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF
The only person architectWilliam Whifler intended toimpress when he designed theunique and stylish home tuckedaway at the end of a quietBurlingame street was his mother.But through the tireless effortsof his son Graeme Whifler, thefamily’s property on Drake Avenuereceived widespread recognitionafter recently being added to theNational Register of HistoricPlaces.WilliamWhifler, whodesigned homesacross thePeninsulabetween 1950and 1970, washonored by thefederal agencyfor his creativeapproach to the mid-century mod-ern home template featuringexpansive windows and ranging,open interiors.The accomplished but humbledesigner was disinterested in self-promotion and sought only tobuild for his mother a beautifulretirement home near Mills Creek,said Graeme Whifler.“He wanted this to be his great-est work because I think he wastrying to get approval from hismother,” said Graeme Whifler.He ended up with much more, duelargely to Graeme Whifler’s hardwork to get state and federal recog-
Burlingame home deemed historic
Designer recognized for architectural brilliance, on National Register of Historic Places
PHOTOS COURTESY OF GRAEME WHIFLER
 The house William Whifler designed for his mother on Drake Avenue in Burlingame was listed on the NationalRegister of Historic Places. The creatively-designed property is the only home in Burlingame to gain suchrecognition. Whifler, primarily a residential architect, also designed Burlingame City Hall and co-founded the Collegeof San Mateo’s architectural department.
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To E or not to E — USC didn’t in spelling Shakespeare’s name
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to theUniversity of Southern Californiamight be muttering, “What fools thesemortals be,” as they stroll past a statueof the legendary queen of Troy andnotice William Shakespeare’s nameseemingly misspelled at the base.To USC officials, it’s much ado aboutnothing. “To E, or not to E, that is the ques-tion,” the school responded in a state-ment Tuesday when asked whyShakespeare’s name is missing thelast letter E in a quotation attributed tohim.The school says Shakespeare’s namehas been spelled many different waysover the years.USC says it settled on a popular 18thcentury spelling because of the“ancient feel” sculptor ChristopherSlatoff gave the work.The statue, of Queen Hecuba, wasunveiled at Thursday’s opening of theschool’s new USC Village.
Southern California hiker dies after she’s hit by boulder
OJAI — A 53-year-old woman hasdied after a boulder hit her as she washiking in Southern California. The Ventura County coroner saidMonday that Toni Large of Ojai died ata hospital. Sheriff’s officials tell the VenturaCounty Star she was with a group whenthe boulder hit her in the Los PadresNational forest on Sunday evening. The county fire department was sum-moned to find an injured hiker in thearea, but could not find her. Authorities later said she had beentaken to the hospital in a private vehi-cle.
Hike turns tragic when parentstumble offcliffin New York
When William and Amanda Greentook their two boys on a weekend out-ing, they headed for the Zoar ValleyGorge, a rugged area not far from theirBuffalo, New York, home that includeswaterfalls, forests and cliffs thatplunge as much as 40 stories.But a summer hike turned tragic whenboth parents were found dead Sundaynear a creek at the bottom of the gorge.Their 4-year-old son, Alexander, wasnearby with severe injuries, and their7-year-old, Jacob, though less severelyinjured, was found hours later wander-ing the gorge floor alone.Police on Monday were still tryingto piece together exactly how thetragedy unfolded, though they said itappeared that the parents and Alexanderfell about 200 feet (60 meters) downthe cliff.“It’s sheer. It drops straight down,”Erie County sheriff’s spokesmanScott Zylka said of the area where thefamily was found.“It is a gorge,” added Capt. DanielRichter, a New York state forest ranger.“It’s like anything else. You don’t wantto get too close to the edge. There havebeen accidents. There have been fatali-ties. It’s just the nature of the area.”The valley is a popular hiking andkayaking spot 35 miles (56 kilome-ters) south of Buffalo. With shale cliffsand the whitewater Cattaraugus Creekrunning through the gorge, it canattract hundreds of visitors on a typicalsummer day.According to Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard, two hikers trekkingthrough the bottom of the gorge cameacross the Greens’ bodies. The injured4-year-old was nearby.“The first two hikers who found thebodies did not have a cellphone,”Howard said. “They flagged down athird hiker who made the call.”A sheriff’s helicopter made a danger-ous landing on the gorge floor andevacuated the 4-year-old as emergencycrews and police descended the cliff face. Rescuers searching the area forclues found sneakers and footprintsthat were too big for a 4-year-old.Around that time, authorities learnedfrom relatives that four members of theGreen family had gone to the gorge.More searchers were brought in, anda sheriff’s detective later found Jacobwalking in the area. It was still unclearMonday if the older boy fell along withhis parents and brother.
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Actor Jay Mohr is47.
This Day in HistoryThought for the Day
1927
Amid worldwide protests, Italian-bornanarchists Nicola Sacco andBartolomeo Vanzetti were executed inBoston for the murders of two men dur-ing a 1920 robbery.
“The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.”
— Anne Sophie Swetchine, Russian-French author
Actor-singer Rick Springfield is 68. NBA player JeremyLin is 29.
Birthdays
REUTERS
A Sikh man with his eyes covered by a cloth breaks watermelons closely placed around a performer as they practice Gatkha,a traditional form of martial art, during celebrations to mark the 413th anniversary of the installation of the Guru GranthSahib, the religious book of Sikhs in Amritsar, India.
In 1305, 
Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace wasexecuted by the English for treason.
In 1775
, Britain’s King George III proclaimed theAmerican colonies to be in a state of “open and avowedrebellion.”
In 1858, 
“Ten Nights in a Bar-room,” a play by TimothyShay Arthur about the perils of alcohol, opened in NewYork.
In 1913
Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue, inspired bythe Hans Christian Andersen story, was unveiled in the har-bor of the Danish capital.
In 1914
, Japan declared war against Germany in World WarI.
In 1926, 
silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in NewYork at age 31.
In 1939, 
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to anon-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, inMoscow.
In 1947
, an audience at the Hollywood Bowl heardPresident Harry S. Truman’s daughter, Margaret, give herfirst public concert as a singer (she had previously peformedon the radio).
In 1960, 
Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, 65,died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
In 1973, 
a bank robbery-turned-hostage-taking began inStockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathiz-ing with their captors, a psychological condition nowreferred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”
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Actress Vera Miles is 87. Actress Barbara Eden is 86.Political satirist Mark Russell is 85. Pro Football Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen is 83. Actor Richard Sanders is 77.Ballet dancer Patricia McBride is 75. Former Surgeon GeneralAntonia Novello is 73. Pro Football Hall of Famer RayfieldWright is 72. Country singer Rex Allen Jr. is 70. Actor DavidRobb is 70. Singer Linda Thompson is 70. Actress ShelleyLong is 68. Country singer-musician Woody Paul (Riders inthe Sky) is 68. Queen Noor of Jordan is 66. Actor-producerMark Hudson is 66. Actor Skipp Sudduth is 61. Retired MLBAll-Star pitcher Mike Boddicker is 60. Rock musician DeanDeLeo (Army of Anyone; Stone Temple Pilots) is 56. Countrymusician Ira Dean (Trick Pony) is 48. Actor Ray Park is 43.Actor Scott Caan is 41. Country singer Shelly Fairchild is 40.Figure skater Nicole Bobek is 40.
 
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Burglary
. A vehicle was broken into and apurse and computer were stolen onBroadway, it was reported at 6:06 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 19.
Vandalism
. A vehicle’s window was foundshattered but nothing was taken on VeteransBoulevard, it was reported at 5:14 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 19.
Disturbance
. Someone was caughtshoplifting on El Camino Real, it wasreported at 5:52 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 19.
Shoplifting
. Someone stole a case of beerfrom a store on Broadway, it was reported at3:29 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 19.
Reckless driver.
A vehicle was seenweaving in and out of lanes and almost hit acenter divider on Veterans Boulevard, it wasreported at 11:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18.
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A woman confronted and followed adog owner because the dog was off leash on Kentucky Street in RedwoodCity, it was reported at 6:43 a.m.Friday, Aug. 4.
DAILY JOURNAL STAFF REPORT
A mixed-use office and housing develop-ment on the east side of downtown SanMateo was approved by the City CouncilMonday with an additional $100,000 to gotoward ameliorating neighborhood trafficconcerns. With the approval, the nearly half-acredevelopment at 405 E. Fourth Ave. and 330S. Claremont St. will have 55,025 squarefeet of office space spread between the firstthree floors, as well as 15 small studio andone-bedroom residential units on the fourthfloor, with two units set aside for those withvery-low incomes. The total square footagewill be 65,514 square feet.Two underground levels of parking wouldprovide 82 stalls, lower than required, butmade up for with in-lieu fees of $25,000each for the 69 spots that cannot be accom-modated on site. The developer is also offer-ing 71 office parking spaces for public useon weekends from 9 a.m. to midnight and 6p.m. to midnight on weekdays.It will also require the demolition of twobuildings, including the Endo Automotivebuilding that is eligible for the state’s his-toric register because of its uniqueStreamline Moderne architecture. That his-toric eligibility is what required the coun-cil’s approval rather than just the PlanningCommission. The council voted 4-1, withMayor David Lim voting no, while thePlanning Commission also voted 4-1.According to a staff report, the commis-sioner voting against it suggesting that itshould serve as a transition between thearchitectural character of downtown and theadjacent neighborhood.Traffic impacts were also a concern byneighbors though some also expressedapproval of the redevelopment. Inresponse, developer Windy Hill PropertyVentures, offered up $75,000 for trafficimprovements to the Central neighborhoodand increased that amount to $100,000 aftercity officials requested it. The improve-ments could come from a list of prioritiesoutlined in the recently completed CentralNeighborhood Traffic Action Plan, accord-ing to planning staff. Few new office projects have been con-structed on the east side of the Caltraintracks, which is predominantly lined withsmaller parcels used for service businesses.But it’s an option that city officials haveconsidered as it seeks to accommodate agrowing downtown and to retain smallercompanies as they grow.
City approves new downtown offices
 
Artist’s rendering of the mixed-use office and housing development 405 E. Fourth Ave. and330 S. Claremont St. in San Mateo.

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