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Peninsula Weather Fair and warmer through Friday. SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER THE ADVANCE-STAR' Today's N.Y. Stocks, Noon Prices (See Page 24) Vol. 76, No. 109 4 Sections 36 Pages SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 348-4321 15c PER PER MONTH BART Bill Passes; SM Excluded An Assembly Committee Wednesday unanimously passed a bill extending the half-cent sales tax in three Bay Area counties needed to support BART but omitted a rider that would have Set Editorial Page 26 diverted highway funds away San Mateo County to bail out the financially plagued transit district.

Authored by Assemblyman John Knox, D-Richmond, AB 3785 would have taken away highway Wholesale Prices Advance WASHINGTON (DPI) Wholesale prices leaped 0.8 per cent in April, propelled by the biggest increase in farm and food prices in a year, the Labor Department reported today. The increase, reflecting a nearly double-digit annual rate of 9.6 per cent, brought an abrupt end to a virtual fivemontn lull in the wholesale market. It was the biggest monthly jump since last October. The A i wholesale increases soon will be passed along to consumers and, combined with an upcoming round of metal price hikes, threaten to weaken President Ford's campaign promise that his economic policies can defuse inflation. Combined farm and processed food prices rose 2.8 per cent.

Not since April, 1975, have these prices taken such a large leap. funds from "both San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and given them to BART. The on local transit and highway funding would have been disastrous, i i a here predicted. Strong protest went out from the county Board of Supervisors and several cities when contents of the Knox bill and its special riders were made known. Despite objections, the bill did pass a subcommittee hearing on the issue last week by a 4-1 vote.

When the bill came before the Committee on Transportation Wednesday, Assemblyman John Foran moved to have the riders concerning San Mateo County stricken. San Francisco Assemblyman Willie Brown argued against the removal of the riders. However, the bill was in an 8-1 vote. It was passed out of the committee to the full legislature on a unanimous 94) vote. Assemblyman Dixon Arnett, who had vigorously opposed the bill, said "We managed to fend off the rapist, but that doesn't mean the rapist will not collar us the next time we come out of the door." Arnett warned that San Mateo County had better "keep their rape whistles at the ready" in case such i a i is a a i attempted.

Another foe of the bill, Assemblyman Louis J. Papan, told The Times he would now vote for the amended measure. "I will probably vote for it (the bill) as it now reads without looking to San Mateo County to bail out BART," Papan said. Board Approves Outdoor School Whether the San Mateo County Board of Education will offer an outdoor education program during the 1876-77 school year may depend on what happens soon in Sacramento. The Board of Education voted four to three Wednesday night to authorize the operation of the outdoor education program at the Jones Gulch YMCA Camp near La Honda, provided i a i is passed exempting outdoor education facilities from provisions of the Field Act.

The act prescribes earth quake safety standards for schools. The Attorney General's Office recently ruled that provisions of the act also apply to outdoor education facilities. Most of the i i at Jones Gulch, where the outdoor education program has been held for years, fail to meet the standards. The exemption clause is contained in Assembly Bill 3840, currently before the state Legislature. Also made a condition of continuing the outdoor education program at Jones Gulch is that the YMCA provide acceptable housing for staff members, including teachers who accompany students.

There was necessity for doubling up and finding additional housing in the area last year when both the San Mateo County and the San Joaquln County programs overlapped during a portion of the program. Members of the Board of Education indicated that unless the a i i is exempted from the Field Act, there probably will be no outdoor education program next year. To con- i operation of the facility without the exemption would subject board membera to personal liability in the event of an earth- quake which resulted in injury to pupils. The Board of Education currently is seeking to determine whether to build a controversial new outdoor education facility at a cost of $4 million, whether to try and improve facilities at Jones or whether to seek use of the San Mateo County Council, Boy Scouts of America's Cutter Scout Reservation near Big Basin for the program. a i i i operation at Jones Gulch with the exemption provision were Trustees Jose E.

Bemal, Elio Fontana, Florence M. Cadigan and Granville DeMerritt. Opposed were Trustees J. Paul Bradley, Harold E. Purpus and Carol A.

Slavick. HUMPHREY IN BACKGROUND (AP Laserphoto) California Gov. Edmund Brown speaks with congressional leaders as Sen. Hubert Humphrey looKs on at Capitol Hill today. Humphrey pre- dicted that Brown is likely to win the Maryland Democratic presidential primary.

President Urged to Dismiss Kissinger WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Robert i i R- said Thursday President Ford was urged at a White House campaign strategy meeting to dismiss Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in an effort to defuse criticism of administration foreign policy. Griffin said the suggestion designed to blunt Ronald a a i i a attacks was made directly to Ford by one participant at a meeting of GOP congressional leaders Wednesday but added that "it got no reaction." Griffin told a news conference he is urging Ford to actively seek the votes of Democratic supporters of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama in the upcoming May 18 Michigan primary in which crossover voting is permitted. The assistant GOP Senate leader, one of Ford's closest allies in Congress, criticized Reagan "helping the Democrats by putting the blame on Ford when he should put the blame of the Democratic Congress." "Reagan has helped the Democrats by making it harder for any Republican to win in November," he charged.

At the same time, he advised Ford to "be more positive and less defensive" in his a a i against the Reagan challenge. i i who described Ford as "concerned" over his loss to Reagan in Indiana, said there "were those I should say there was one (at the meeting) who suggested that Secretary of State Kissinger ought to go. "That a i was brought up. Secretary Kis- singer's activity has had an impact in some areas (of the primary campaign)." But Griffin said. "I don't think the President should ask for Secretary Kissinger's resignation.

I don't think that would help politically and it could be dam- a i to our a international situation." Giffin suggested to Ford that Wallace Democrats who crossover to vote in the Republican primary -and have been credited with helping Reagan win recent primaries in Texas and Indiana should not be criticized. "I'm not going to discourage them" from part i i a i in the GOP primary, Griffin said of Michigan's heavy Wallace voting bloc, which could help Reagan substantially. He suggested that Ford, who will travel to Michigan May 12 for a round of campaigning, should seek to "suggest why they (Wallace voters) should vote for him." Suddenly, in a reversal of nearly all campaign predictions, Democratic presidential candidates are talking party unity while Ford and Reagan knuckle down for a summer-long fight for the GOP nomination. Jimmy Carter, way out front in the Democratic race, is calling for unity in talks with party leaders. He has talked by telephone this week with Sen.

Hubert Humphrey. New York Gov. Hugh Carey and New York Mayor Abe Beame. Two of Carter's remaining opponents, Morris Udall and George Wallace, said they would support Carter if he's nominated. It was the first such declaration from Wallace, who earlier termed the former Georgia governor "a war- medover (Sen.

George) McGovern." Udall, still struggling to keep his chances alive, told a Washington news conference Wednesday there will be "no blood on the floor" once the i a i is decided. This Was a Loan San Mateo County Supervisor Edward J. Bacciocco Jr. was somewhat surprised to read in The Times last Saturday that he was a $5 contributor to the reelection campaign of fellow supervisor James V. Fitzgerald.

Bacciocco's "contribution" was listed in the a a i i i statement filed by Fitzgera i Clerk- Recorder Marvin Church. Fitzgerald apologized to Bacciocco this week. Bacciocco recently attended a luncheon with Fitzgerald and found himself short of cash, so Fitzgerald loaned him $5, which Bacciocco repaid with a check. Fitzgerald the check in his pocket and inadvertently handed it over to his campaign chairman. Bob Levy, with a number of other checks made out to the campaign fund.

In a note to Bacciocco, the candidate said he will correct the a by changing it from a $5 donation from Ed Bacciocco to a $5 donation from James Fitzgerald "and will make the necessary apologies." Killer Loose: 4 Murders In 4 Months By FRANK LaPIERRE Police in North San Mateo County appear to have a psychopathic killer on their hands who murders one young woman each month. Homocide investigators will not say officially that such a killer is on the loose. However, events of the past four months concerning unsolved murders of four young women in four North County cities tend to substantiate this theory. The latest murder is that of a young South San Francisco i whose decomposed body was found by two teen-age boys in a shallow grave in that city Tuesday. The i i had been stabbed and buried in the grave on or about March 15 the day she was reported missing by her husband.

Identification of Mrs. Carol Lee Booth, 28, of Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, was made by the Coroner's Office using X-rays and dental charts. The spot where Mrs. Booth's body was discovered is a heavily wooded section near Colma Creek. There is a dirt path that cuts the area Fire Levels 29 Homes in Cleveland CLEVELAND (AP) A fire fanned by winds up to 40 miles an hour swept through a three-block section of old frame houses in Cleveland's southeast side a a destroying 29 homes and leaving many adults and children wandering the streets in their nightclothes.

Three persons were injured, including two of the more than 100 firemen who fought the blaze. The two fire fighters suffered sprains and exhaustion. The Red Cross estimated that 60 persons were left homeless. Some of the homes burned to the ground in less than 30 minutes. Many residents, some of them elderly and one of them blind, rushed from their homes, leaving everything behind.

Mothers dragged children away from the flames on streets lighted only by the blaze. The fire cut power lines, shutting off street lights. Police rushed from door to door, escorting the elderly to safety, including one 86-year-old man. between El Camino Real and Grand Avenue. Persons taking a shortcut often walk along this path, police say.

Early in the evening on March 15, Mrs. Booth was returning home from San Francisco and started along the path, witnesses told police. She a a was abducted at knifepoint by the killer as she walked along the lonely a dragged into the bushes and killed. When she failed to return home, her husband Michael called police and a search of the route Mrs. Booth was expected to have trav- elled was begun.

It failed to turn up any trace of the victim. The killings started in Pacifica in January. Since that time there have been four young women stabbed to death, each in a different city and each during a different month. Veronica Ann Cascio. 18, Page 10, Column 2) Muni Workers Conditional Offer Made SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Cable car, bus and trolley drivers have offered to go back to work if the Board of Supervisors withdraw two ballot proposi- i as the i i Laborer's Union extended its picketing moratorium.

About half of the 2,000 Algamated Transit Union drivers voted Wednesday night to join the settlement initiative launched the day before by the Laborers Union, which represents two-thirds of the 1,800 strikers. The Laborers i representing 60 per cent of the strikers, has begun separate negotiations with supervisors. Drivers i chief Larry Martin said the voice vote favored a conditional return to work by a 2 to 1 margin even if it meant crossing craft union picket lines. The drivers aren't striking, but have refused to cross craft union picket lines. In addition to drivers, Martin said he would guarantee a return to work by 75 diesel bus mechanics who are members of a sister union.

He said he believes city supervisory personnel could handle mechanical and electrical work involving cable cars and electrically powered street cars and trjlleys. Board of Supervisors President Quentin Kopp said the offer from drivers and laborers "does not constitute substantial restoration of city services." which he said was necessary before the board would consider removing the controversial propos- tion from the June 8 ballot. But Kopp said the offers are a "foundation on which the other unions ought to build, and I think they will." Supervisor John Molinari agreed. The two supervisors noted the earliest the board could act on removing the ballot propositions would be at a Friday noon meeting. Ballots are scheduled (o be printed over he weekend, with absentee voting scheduled to start Monday.

One proposition would require dismissal proceedings for strikers, a key concern by drivers because their contract expires in June. The other would cut craft union pays over a twoyear period, below the (See Page 10, Column 2 War in Beirut Takes a Breather Harbor Board Sees A 'Rescue 9 at Pier By DAN COOK A 40-foot fishing boat with a crew feeling under the weather required five agencies to bail them out of assorted difficulties at Piliar Point Harbor Wednesday night. The combined air-sea rescue operation interrupted a meeting of the county board of harbor commissioners, who stood around shaking their heads at the apparent Ineptitude of the seamen. The first call for help went out at 8:40 p.m., when the boat, the crew of called a citizens' band radio moni- i i i a 'Mayday', saying that they were shipping water and were In danger of sinking. Harbor Master William Harvey was called from the commission meeting by another employe, who had been called by the CB group.

a leaped to his feet, dashed to the office, and called the U.S. Coast Guard, as this reporter and several curious fishermen began to be drawn to the scene. Harvey roared off in the district's Wellcraft patrol boat, heading for the mouth of the breakwater, as harbor commissioners began to wonder about all the radio traffic from the adjacent office, and the roar of the patrol boat. The Coast Guard helicopter arrived at this point, circling the distressed boat and giving directions to the patrol boat from the air. Harvey reported the boat was dead in the water as he approached and a small crowd began to gather next to the harbor master's office to watch the unfolding drama.

A i Pillar Point!" the Coast Guard plane radioed. "Send a land party to the breakwater to assist in rescue opera. tions." That warning caused a ripple to roll through the harbor board meeting, as fishermen and the curious began drifting out to the radio room. a i a approached the 'Bluewa- ters' with a rescue line, and made several attempts to pass it to the boat's crew. He was unsuccessful.

As he pondered shooting a line to them, the engine suddenly roared to life, and began churning toward the patrol boat at full steam. "I just got the hell out of there," Harvey said today. "They were headed straight at me." The helicopter next reported that the 'Bluewa- tcrs' began to run in circles, wandering airmlcssly about. "Get some light over there," the helicopter radioed Harvey. "Those guys not only don't know where they're going, they can't see either." Harvey radioed the office, asking for assistance from the county sheriff's office.

As Harvey attempted to lead the disabled boat back to the pier, the harbor commissioners had recessed their meeting and were gathering on the pier. Two sheriff's vehicles appeared, and began the drive out to the pier. "You men!" the police car told the commissioners by loudspeaker. "If you don't belong here, I don't want you out on the pier." Nonplussed, the commi- soncrs continued plodding out to the pier's tie-up area. A few moments later, the patrol boat and the attcmptedto turn into the pier.

The boat was i i badly to the port side, and came in at a high rate of speed, narrowly missing a moored boat swerving to avoid the pier. Four of the boat's five occupants leaped off to try to tie her down, while the a a i Harvey ran to the scene to set up an emergencuy pump to keep the ship from sinking. After checking the holds, Harvey found no water, only a list resulting from uneven fuel consumption. The helmsman appeared on deck before the crowd of 50 that had gathered including a California Highway Patrolman. While talking to officials about the incident, he made a reference to his objections to following the patrol boat, then unexpectedly turned and fell headlong through a hatch leading below decks, sprawling (See Page 10, Column 1) BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) It was all very unwarlike.

There were pretty girls and soft drinks and grimy gunmen kissing and hugging across front lines. For the first time in days, old Kurdish women wearing long white veils shuffled through the smoking ruins trading bits of gossip. The holiday mood broke out Wednesday as an Amer- icanengineered cease-fire between Lebanon's warring factions finally took hold. The Beirut port district had b(T. one of the city's worst battle zones as right- i i i a i repeated attempts by Moslem leftists to dislodge them from their waterfront stronghold.

The truce was arranged through a proposal by U.S. envoy L. Dean Brown for both sides to ban the use of heavy artillery in their battle for control of the port. Palestinian Liberation Army troops, already in the area to try to separate the warring factions, pushed between the gunmen and set up a buffer zone, temporarily ending the fighting. Slowly.

Moslem and Christian gunmen crept i a i a They hugged and kissed and downed soft drinks in the dusty streets. Pretty girls wearing straw hats jumped atop gun-mounted Jeeps and joined them at the front. But even as the gunmen (See Page 10, Column 1) News Index MATEANS BUILD THEIR OWN HOME, Page 29. Births 30 Business 25 Obituaries. Classified 31-36 Sports Comics 28 Stocks Editorial 26 TV, Features 27 30 24 22 .23 Junior Times 15 Weather 16.

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