Valley News from Van Nuys, California • Page 39

22-A-Ctntrol 22-A-Weit 16-A-Eost WNCt Von Nuys (Calif.) Thundoy, 13 THEY SHONE THEIR LIGHTS FOR SOVIET JEWS Coinciding with third day of Hanukkah, Jewish Festival of Lights, flashlights for safety reasons, but many held true to custom and Valley area Jewish organizations and citizens held candlelight carried lighted candles. Crowd is shown here marching to Valley lor Soviet Jewry Tuesday night to call attention to plight of Municipal Bldg. where special program featuring various leaders of Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate. Marchers were supposed to use Jewish community was conducted. TM ews hotos Busch Expected to Ask Juvenile Law Changes MARCHERS RAISED VOICES FOR FREEDOM Marchers in candlelight walk for Soviet Jewry included some who brought their own musical messages of concern for human rights.

Line of march began at Valley Municipal went west on Sylvan St. to Van Nuys south on Van Nuys to Erwin and then east on Erwin and back to Municipal Bldg. on Sylvan where leadership of organized Jewish community spoke, along with several public officials. Highlighting presentation was 500- voice youth choir and lighting of Hanukkah menorah or candelabra. News of the.

WORLD, NATION, STATE Continued from Page One three surviving Lange sextuplets improved yesterday, but their condition remained guarded. Doctors said the next days were the "most crucial" for Jolene, Brian and Jason Lange. who remained in respirators in the intensive care unit. Bitter fighting over the Mekong Delta rice crop has killed or wounded more than 11,000 South Vietnamese government and Communist troops in the past six days, Saigon headquarters reported yesterday. Saigon admits 26,285 of its own men were killed the Jan.

28, 1973 truce was supposed to go into effect. Over the same period, it claims 100,152 Communists died. Addressing the annual winter meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels yesterday, Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger bluntly advised European countries to buy American planes for their air forces instead of "high cost, less effective equipment" produced in Europe a clear reference to French planes. The competition is between the Urited States and France to sell 350 jet fighters to Norway, Belgium, Holland and Denmark.

On the eve of a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna today, Iranian Oil Minister Yamshid Amouzegar said he does not expect crude oil prices to increase sharply in 1975. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Zaki Yamani said today's meeting should not increase prices at all. Tensions mounted in the Middle East as rocket attacks Tuesday and yesterday shattered several buildings in Beirut. Yesterday's early morning explosion wrecked the downtown offices of a Beirut firm that rented one of the cars used in Tuesday's rocket attacks on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters and two other buildings. The PLO vowed to retaliate "strongly and violently" against Israel and blamed the attacks on "Zionist terrorism." The rockets were fired by remote control from the roofs of four autos rented from different firms in Beirut.

Students May Face Expulsion Expulsion proceedings have been initiated against the more than 150 students apprehended last week by the Los Angeles Police Department during a massive roundup of suspected narcotic sellers. i of Schools William J. Johnston, in a statement, said, "As soon as the names of the young people arrested are made known to us, school administrators will move to suspend each of these individuals, will schedule meetings with their parents, and will immediately begin to institute expulsion procedures." Once administrators receive an official report of a student arrest they will suspend that student and arrange a pa rent conference within five "As superintendent of schools in Los Angeles, lam determined, as is our Board of Education, that we shall not permit this situation to exist," said Dr. Johnston in announcing the crackdown on drug sales on campus. Continued from Page One youngster for selling narcotics." Acting Chief Probation Officer Clarence E.

Cabell responded that most of the youngsters could not be held under the state code because of the way the drug raid was carried out He noted that the massive sweep of high school campus was the product of a three-month investigation during which undercover police officers made a number of purchases from high school drug pushers. He stressed that most of the purchases were made weeks before the arrest which left the Probation Dept. with no means of showing that the suspects presented a danger to the community. "If you buy narcotics from John Doe but don't arrest him for six weeks, what suddenly makes him so dangerous?" Cabell demanded. The Board of Supervisors, which freely dishes out criticism of the juvenile justice system, got some of it back Tuesday.

No Action Seen Busch declared that widespread publicity about juvenile crime usually prompts a flurry of activity on the part of Supervisors which produces few results. "Frankly," Busch stated, "the Board of Supervisors has developed a knee-jerk reaction to juvenile crime which has resulted in plenty of talk and no real action After all, he pointed out, it is the Board which appropriates money for juvenile facilities and staffing for the Probation Dept. and the district attorney's juvenile division. He complained that juvenile cases "are tried in a pig sty and a warehouse" while the county builds a new "Taj Mahl" Traffic Court building. Supervisor Pete Scha- barum (First District) agreed with Busch that a rewritten Welfare and Institutions Code is in order but said he doubted that the State Legislature would pass "major substantive corrective legislation in this session." Will Continue "I wouldn't bet a nickel on it," Busch agreed.

Los Angeles Supt. of Schools William J. Johnston vowed that efforts to rid campuses of drugs will continue despite last week's setback. Supervisor Edmund D. Edeiman (Third District) questioned whether the presence of undercover narcotics officers on campus could "hinder the educational process." "The selling of drugs hinders the educational process more," Johnston retorted.

Board of Education member Richard Ferraro also called for stronger laws to deal with juvenile offenders. Chairman Critical Ferraro declared that the drug sweep was a failure because "on the same day, many were back on the campus indicating that they had beaten the system." Later Supervisor chairman James Hayes (Fourth District) said he planned to get a case-by-case breakdown of the juvenile arrests made by the LAPD. Hayes said he felt the juvenile justice laws need a complete revamping and said he would present proposed state legislation for Board consideration. School Officials Had No Warning About Raids The undercover police investigations leading to the recent sweep of drug arrests on Los Angeles high school campuses were kept so secret that only ne superintendent and the school district's chief security agent knew of them. And even these men, The News has learned from a reliable source, did not know who the police officers involved were or what schools would be hit.

Inevitably this covert operation has drawn some criticism from civil rights groups and some students, about 300 of whom demonstrated against the opera- tion at Canoga Park High School this week. However, in response to an anonymous poll of Canoga Park students by an instructor as to whether they felt undercover operations were i i against pushers, of the 108 students responding said yes, the remainder no School officials at Canoga recall a curious incident just before the arrests when they were unable to find proper documentation on a certain student. Following the drug sweep it occurred to them that the despite his dingy, youth-oriented clothes, was probably in his early 20s. Full Probe of Big Theft Plot Urged Los Angeles City Councilman Robert Stevenson today had called for a city investigation of a i million dollar plot to loot the Los Angeles treasury. Stevenson asked that City Treasurer Roger Odell; Controller Charles Navarro; Takuji Tamaru, general manager of the Data Service Bureau; and C.

Erwin Piper, city administrative officer, join the Council's governmental efficiency committee in investigating the caper. Stevenson said such an investigation would be "of a legislative nature to insure that confidence will be restored in the efficiency of our municipal government's disbursement and financial revenue procedures." The committee is to provide the Council with a "full written report as to how the city's payment system failed to provide the needed safeguards to prevent such a crime and what, if any, legislative changes are needed to correct the system." Stevenson's motion referred jointly to the Council's finance and governmental efficiency committees. Stevenson is chairman of the latter committee. Council President John S. Gibson Jr said he was making the joint referral despite a usual Council practice of sending such-matters to only one committee.

Even so, he admonished Stevenson: "Don't play detective. We've got plenty of detectives in the Police Dept. and so forth." Ambulance Fee Hike 2nd Defendant in Ch Case Gives Up, Jailed Rate increases for private ambulance companies operating in unincorporated ar, eas of Los Angeles County were authorized this week by the Board of Supervisors. rate schedule the base charge for ambulance service will increase from S35 to S40 as of Feb. 1.

The Board also approved an increase from SI.50 to $2 per mile. Other ambulance fees, such as charges for waiting time and special handling will remain the same. In recommending the increases, Acting Chief Administrative Officer Harry L. Hufford pointed out that the county has traditionally maintained the same rate schedule as the city of Los Angeles and will continue to do so. Private ambulance firms requested the increases in July but action was held up pending completion of action by the city on rates.

2 Area Men Charged in Store Theft Two Granada Hills men charged with robbery with injury were held to answer and bound over for trial in Superior Court in connection with a holdup at the 7- a 10316 Wood ley A Granada Hills, in which a clerk was stabbed. Robert Winters 18, 17740 Los Alimos and Robert T. Handle 22, of the same address, had their preliminary hearing before Superior Court Judge Gilbert C. Alston who scheduled arraignment for Dec. 23 in Dept.

of Superior Court in Van Nuys. A thira man John E. Ackerman, who lived with Handle and Winters, was held to answer along with Winters on a separate charge of robbery in connection with a holdup of a man at a Granada Hills home. Arraignment was set for the same date. Continued from Page One spokesman for the city attorney's office said.

"The bank didn't even bother to check with us to see if the warrant was valid," the spokesman said. In Geneva, the Banque de Paris referred all queries to its New York-based attorneys who issued a brief statement. Seriousness Noted "The bank is investigating the matter and will have no further comment at this time," the attorneys said. Authorities, meanwhile, reported nothing new in the case. Trott did tell reporters afterwards that Interpol, the international law enforcement agency, was working with his office on the case.

The prosecutor declined to say whether there was any lead on who withdrew the $902,000 from the Swiss bank and added that the name of the numbered account COGESS did have "some significance for law enforcement." While in court asking for high bail for Freeman, Trott told Judge Sloan he felt bond should be as high as Howard's 8250,000. "This scheme imperiled the entire treasury of Los Angeles," Trott noted. "This is a serious case. "We feel this is not just a so-called 'white collar crime'." The judge took into consideration the fact that Freeman has lived in the Los Angeles area for the past 27 years, is married and is sole support of a 78-year- old mother. He has no criminal record, Segal! said.

Howard, however, New York and has history of convictic stock a and checks. He has serv in federal prison and arated from his wife. During the arg over whether Fr should be allowed to free on $15,000 bond, disclosed that he had been in Montreal da. Reveals Withdrav "I think I can take notice that Montreal very far from New the judge said. Segall commented 1500 miles.

He also told the Freeman to his had not been to Eun cently. Trott disclosed at ard's arraignment Ti that the funds fro 8902,000 check had taken out of the Ban Paris in Geneva, Si land. They int numbered account from Crocker Interns Bank in New York, accepted the checl month. The bogus check the attention of city oi a week ago when the computer kicked it routine run. Authorities last Sai also received from an mant three other bog checks totaling They were never casl A total of 18 check; stolen from the cit March.

Nine have be counted for, but nn still missing Continued Sunshine ii Valley Forecast Continued from Page On'e coastal and central areas of the county. Weather Station 15-B in Van Nuys recorded a high of 67 and a low of 39 yesterday. Tuesday's temperatures ranged from a high of 66 to a low of 36. Los Angeles Civic Center can expect some sunshine with some chance of patchy fog near the coast in the early morning hours. Highs in the mid-60s are forecast, with lows in the upper 40s.

In the mountains, partial sunshine is forecast, with highs from 52 to 56 and lows from 25 to 35. Desert areas can expect a partly sunny day, with highs from 58 to 65 in the high deserts and lows from 28 to 38. In the low deserts, highs from 62 to 68 are forecast, with lows in the 30s. In the Antelope and Mojave Desert occasional high cloud disrupt an otherwise day. Highs from 58 to expected, with lows fi to 38.

On the coast, early ing low clouds am should give wa sunshine in the aftet Beach temperatures range from lows of 48 to highs in the mi Some high clouds a pected during daj hours. Offshore, from Poin ception to the Mexican er, look for light va winds in the moi hours, becoming we southwest eight to 12 during the afternoon, two to three-foot wei swells and three to fou afternoon wind waves Students Stage Protes Against Plainclothesn About 50 high school students demonstrated at school board headquarters last night, protesting the prese'nce of police undercover officers on their campuses. "Pigs off campus," "Pigs off campus," the students chanted as they marched in a picket line. The protest was organized by the underground student newspaper, Red Tide, in the wake of last week's mass arrests of student drug sellers by narcotics officers who posed as students. Since the Board of Education was not in session, nobody was on hand to hear the student demonstrators.

Curious school employes looked 'Out of windows and plainclothes police officers shot pictures as the band of students marched and shouted. Michael Letwin, an organizer of the group, said a citywide committee would be created to fight to get police off campuses. Students attending were from University, Hollywood, Locke, Lincoln, Belmont, and Venice High Schools. On Tuesday, students at University High School in West Los Angeles rallied in a demonstration protesting the undercover work. a i which at its peak numbered about 400 students, was the third of its kind over cent drug crackdown.

The protest got i way at the school, at shortly noon and began losing ticipants as the lunch passed. No arrests made and by mid-after nearly all the student dispersed. Police responded tc demonstration with ny as 20 officers at the of the protest and, as i caution, called a tai alert for divisions ir West Los Angeles area On Monday, about same number of stuc protested over the san sue at Canoga Park School where demor tors were reportedly i but peaceful. Only one 15-yea youth was arrested or picion of disturbing peace after he allej hurled an egg at an off The first protest cam week at Palisades School in Pacific Palis; Articles Stole Burglars broke intc home of William Miti 3260 Wrtghtwood Studio City, and took erty valued at $1950, reported. Among items taken a sound projector, a writer and two color tc sion sets.

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