The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 23

Din obituaries, financial, editorials Wednesday, November 29, 1978 The Sun, San Ilernardino, California II Section 1 Rose Bowl Parade float: 'Early California Derby' SAN BERNARDINO "Early California Derby" is the theme of San Bernardino's float entry in the 1979 Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day in Pasadena. The theme is in keeping with that of the parade "Our wonderful world of sports." Fiesta Floats Inc. of Temple City, uhich designed and will construct the float, said the San Bernardino float will recreate the excitement of the ranch hands on the early California ranchos as they pit their favorite working animal, "el burro," in a contest. The event is set in a hacienda courtyard that is provided by the traditional color of scrapes and decorated with a variety of pinatas that go with the holiday spirit. Life-like sculptured donkeys are pulling carts constructed of eucalyptus logs and branches.

Memberships may be obtained and donations made by making checks payable to the San Bernardino Tournament of Roses Association. and mailing them to P.O. Box 658. San Bernardino 92402. Purchasers of Diamond.

Gold and Silver memberships in the association will receive such as two tickets to the Rose Bowl game, two seats on the bus to the parade and two seats for the parade. Fiesta Floats designed and constructed San Bernardino's fluit in this year's Tournament of Roses Parade and the float won the Pioneer Trophy. This year's float entry was designed by Raul Ramirez of Fiesta Floats who designed last year's winning entry. The variety of blossoms and the colors that make up the serapes establish the feeling of the float. Stripes of pompons in five colors are mixed with yellow and orange calendulas, red and white carnations, statice, poinsettia petals, lemon leaf, bells of Ireland, onion seed and Chinese lentil seed.

Carpeting the floor under the burros at the front of the float, which will be 16 feet in height. 18 feet wide and 50 feet long, will be a serape topped with gardens of 4,000 roses in six varieties. The outer skirt of the float is of Sonia salmon roses accented with white Cattleya orchids and soft, fluffy baby's breath while the top clusters and floral cascades feature Dendrobium orchids of five colors mixed with white and lavender Cattleyas. Hides of the donkeys are of torn and shredded Ming Moss and each is carrying a basket filled with Baccara, Sonia and Betina roses, interlaced with deflexis fern. S.

Wayne Lynch, president of the San Bernardino Tournament of Roses Association. said the cost of the design and construction of the float Is 935.000. The association has set a fund raising goal of to meet costs through memberships ranging from $25 to $1,000. No funds were asked from the city this year. Lynch said $23,490 has been raised to date through memberships.

He said this includes 48 family memberships; nine Century of $100 each; eight Silver of $250 each; seven Gold of $500 each, and 12 Diamond of $1,000 each. The memberships are from individuals, families, community organizations and businesses. Lynch said. North Town crime said lower Venue change asked i i 1 '4A' I Ht -if" A I vij i By HOWARD ELLIS Sun Staff Writer COLTON City legal representatives have asked San Bernardino County Superior Court to transfer a "sewer service contract breach" lawsuit to a Riverside court. The city is suing San Bernardino County and its defunct Improvement Zone County Service Area No.

70 now the City of Grand Terrace. Colton claims violations of the contract involving administration and costs of linkups in Grand Terrace to a pipeline channeling effluent to the Colton Water Quality Control (treatment) Plant on Fogg Street. The intent to seek a change of venue was announced Tuesday by Mayor Frank A. Gonzales. A petition for the change has already been submitted to the court in San Bernardino by Attorney John E.

Brown of the Riverside firm of Best, Best and Krieger. Colton and county representatives are scheduled to appear in San Bernardino at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 11 to learn if the change will be approved. "This action is one brought by a city against a county and local agency since becoming a city in the county where all parties are situated," Brown notified the Superior Court.

"For this reason and for compelling reasons of public policy this action should and must be transferred to a neutral county." Legal action was taken when Colton officials decided the county and service area failed to comply with contract terms interpreted here as obligating them to provide notification within 10 days of each completed pipeline linkup and to pay $100-each fees for every completed connection. As plaintiff, Colton, filed the suit (Continued on B-4, column 1) RANCHO CUCAMONGA Violent crime is down considerably in the North Town area here since deputies began making arrests in their four-month investigation into gang-related violence, sheriff's spokesmen said Tuesday. Sheriff's Capt. Tom Wickum, commander of the Rancho Cucamonga substation, said the one-square-mile Mexican-American barrio used to be plagued by about one major incident a week. These incidents included assaults, attempted murders, murders, or robberies.

In contrast, Wickum said, there hasn't been a single major incident in the community since the sheriff's office began making arrests in mid-October. He said the only significant incident other than normal traffic citations came last weekend when threats were made on a deputy and his family after the deputy arrested a suspect for being drunk in public. The focus of the sheriff's investigation was the Cucamonga a gang that deputies said jwas responsible for 80 to 90 percent of the crime in that barrio. The deputies launched the probe after studying crime in the barrio over a 14-month period that included seven murders, 10 at-. tempted murders, 13 assaults with deadly weapons, nine robberies and six assaults on police officers.

The investigation to date has led to the arrests of more than 20 people, including some who were charged in connection with three of the seven murders. Since then, gang-related activity has dropped, sheriff's deputies said. "There's been a marked decrease in activity," Wickum said. "If anything, it's in a holding pattern," said sheriff's Sgt. Mike O'Rourke.

Wickum said several gang mem-. bers are now in jail and waiting trial. One, Peter Serna, 19, who deputies believe to be a high-rank- ing member of the Cucamonga Kings, has been convicted of robbery with an allegation that a weapon was used. He has been given a four-year jail sentence, 1 Wickum said. Wickum was confident more convictions will follow.

Wickum said when news stories broke on the investigation the statements that the gang had been "destroyed" outraged some of the Staff photo by Grog Sehnoidor A little bit higher Roddy Walter, 8, of San Bernardino, pushes his sister Christina, 3, on a swing at Perris Hill park. The Walters were on a family outing. Proposed refuse disposal compromise reached officials are more familiar with the issue. Scheduled public hearings for 2 p.m. Jan.

8 on controversial proposals by the City of Fontana to annex two "islands" of unincorporated territory, containing some 800 residents, under a new-state law allowing cities, with county board approval, to annex such areas regardless of the extent of property owner or voter protests. One of the proposals involves nearly 200 homes in an area south the Redlands Freeway north of Loma Linda. Daleff Investments of Fullerton is proposing 258 condominium units and a small commercial center on 28 acres between Mountain View Avenue and Richardson Street. Developer Elmer J. Miller of Loma Linda is planning a 64-lot subdivision for 256 apartments four units on each lot on 24 acres and a recreational vehicle park on an adjoining 10 acres be-tween Ferree and Richardson Streets.

of San Bernardino Avenue from Juniper Avenue west past Oleander Avenue on Fontana's south side. The Local Agency Formation Commission recently endorsed the proposed annexations despite protests from affected residents. Approved zone changes to accommodate plans for more than 500 apartment and condominium units and other development on two sites along the north side of gang members. Deputies heard rumors that the gang would show it hadn't been destroyed. He said the aim as not so much to destroy the gang as to simply arrest people and bring them HAWAIIAN Goods Clothing leis Furniture Bamboo Shells 348 W.

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Eugene McMeans. submitting protest petitions bearing 252 signatures, objected that West wood, on the Reche Canyon side, cannot properly accommodate the extra traffic at its present width. But Supervisor Dennis L. concluded that the road should be extended in accordance with the county general plan and to provide alternative means of acces to the first phase. 31 lot tract planned by Coast Construction Co.

of Santa Ana. Hansberger taid he was templed to leave the decision to the new City of Grand Terrace, which sc heduled to take cn er jurisdnlion in the area Thursday. But Tony Petta. councilman-elect of the new city, urged that the upen iTrs make the decision because county- By BILL ROGERS Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO The board of supervisors Monday reached what it hoped will be an acceptable compromise with the state on a requirement for additional county inspection of refuse disposal operations. The supervisors designated the county environmental health services department to enforce new-solid aste disposal standards promulgated by the state and authorized hiring of one additional inspector and a secretary for a program to cost $37,500 a year.

The state Solid Waste Management Board previously had insisted on additional enforcement estimated to cost the county $152,000 a year and began sending inspectors of its own into the county last spring after the supervisors refused to comply. The county board acted Monday without comment. County Environmental Health Services Director Richard Roberts earlier said he believed the state board would accept the reduced level of inspections in view of the fiscal constraints resulting from Prop. 13. The new state standards require regular inspection of the county's 25 dumpsites and some 45 private sites as well as municipal and private rubbish hauling vehicles and other disposal facilities.

The supervisors made no move toward appealing to the state Board of Control for reimbursement of the extra county corts San Bernardino County was reported CHRISTMAS FLOWERS Ptejs Order Eoriy CHRISTMAS BAZAAR COUNTY DCAi CINTH VOL LISTERS AUDITORIUM, 780 E. GILBERT Thursday wday nov 30 1 Dec. i WANT'S FLOWER POT 2230 N. Arrowheod 883 8367 (Continued on B4. column 4) Services set for singer SAN BERNARDINO Services for Jene O'Quin.

47, who was killed here Monday when his car collided with an Omnitrans bus, will be held later this week in Dallas, Texas. O'Quin was a guitar player and sineer ho appeared in the 1950s with Cliffie Stone, Tex Williams and other country-western stars on radio and television. He was a reeular member of Stone Home Town Jamboree. He also was a song writer ho in recent years played frequent club dates throughout Southern California. OQuin and his wife lived in Dallas Frk-nds in this area said he may-have been returning to Texas from Las Veea.

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