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DISTRIBUTING TO: OLD TUSTIN, EAST TUSTIN, NORTH AND SOUTH TUSTIN Serving the Tustin Area Since 1922 An Orange County Register publication "The REAL Tustin Paper" VOLUME 76, NO. 1 THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1997 TUSTIN, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 92780 MADD hoeors top officers "This is what it really looks like in space." MICHAEL GROSSMAN Director, "From the Earth to the Moon." it looked like," said Director Michael Grossman. "That was good for its time, but this is what it really looks like in space." Shooting indoors helps keep such un-moonlike objects as bugs, wind and rain out of the shots. Grossman said dust is his greatest enemy when trying to recreate a place without atmosphere.

Occasionally he opens the great doors and lets the wind blow out the dust. With a crew of up to 140 working on the set, those who walk on the moon between takes must wear rubber galoshes that leave only astronaut footprints. There are six moon landings, all on different parts of the moon. Using foam moon rocks HBO recreates the geography of each site accurately. To achieve the illusion of weightlessness, stunt astronauts cavort at the end of lines tied to gigantic helium balloons.

"This project, as a whole, is the most difficult I've ever done," Toyon said. "It's also the most gratifying." The first of the 12 one-hour episodes is tentatively scheduled to air April 5, 1998. "3 probably averaged at least four drunk drivers a week." Kilgore said he has arrested about 150 drunken drivers during his seven-year career in law enforcement. "I look for driving patterns, such as lane straddling or weaving," he said. "And when you ask them if they've had any alcohol to drink they always say they've had two beers.

They lie to you all the time." Kilgore, who has a 2-year-old son and another child on the way, said he thinks the penalties for drunken driving should be more severe. "It's a pet peeve of mine," he said. "Because what happens normally is they kill the innocent person. They never kill themselves." Black, who estimates he has arrested about 85 in his career, agreed. "I feel that it's very irresponsible," he said.

"A lot of them have their own families in the car, so it's not just themselves they're endangering, it's the safety of the community. I care about the community." See related photo on page 7. MARK AVERYThe Tustin News UNDERDRESSED FOR THE A prop man prepares actors for a scene from HBO's production of "From the Earth to the Moon," a docudrama on the NASA Apollo program. A huge moonscape has been built in one of the giant blimp hangars at the Marine base. TusTiN's Newspaper For 75 11 urn family fc7 By GEORGE STEWART 7r 'I'isliii Xi-irs How do you move the surface of the moon to Tustin? That was the problem facing HBO Production Designer Richard Toyon when the company leased one of the blimp hangars at the Marine base to shoot moon landings for a 12-part docudrama chronicling the Apollo space program, called "From the Earth to the Moon." First, to save money, he found a new construction site and got yards of earth and sand from the excavation, trucked it to the hangar and covered it over with a surface of crushed granite.

When shooting ends this week, he said they will have to pay to dump the used moon surface at a local landfill. "Recycling at its best," he calls it. Ironically, the earth-bound shots are filmed at an abandoned military base in Orange County, Florida. A real NASA-built lunar module that never actually went to the moon is used to land here. Surrounded by huge black curtains and looking like black space the set is lit by a battery of high-powered lights reflected off a six-foot water-cooled mirror to simulate the sun.

It has the eerie appearance of what one imagines the surface of the moon would look like. "They thought '2001' was what usnn A News comes of ase (Editor's note: George Stewart has been a Tustin News reporter for nine years, recording local history as it happens. When not writing the news or puffing on a cigar with friends, he enjoys studying history. He took this opportunity to take a trip through old copies of The Tustin News, visiting random dates and pages for a fun perspective on the city's past. "After all," he quoted Register Executive Editor Ken Brusic, "the news is just history on the fly." Items in regular text are excerpted from old copies of the Tustin News.

Comments in bold are Stewart's.) a a a Five years before the city's incorporation. The Tustin News was born, the first edition printed Nov. 2, 1922. After the first attempts at starting a community paper failed, Timothy Brownhill of Beaver City, Utah, moved to Tustin from Puente and started The Tustin News, a weekly, seven-column, four-page newspaper that has published every week since. The '20s was a decade of growth for this small agricultural community.

It saw the expansion of the highway through town (it was called Street then, but now it is known as El Camino Real) expand from a 20-foot-wide strip of macadam to 56 feet of concrete at a cost of $125,000. The paper declared it of the finest pieces of highway constructed in the state." For George Stewart's scan of past Tustin events and musings, turn to Page 5. SOUTH TUSTIN The City Council has requested that the Orange County Transportation Authority release past of the Combined Transportation Program funds for the Jamboree Road Edinger Avenue interchange. They asked for an initial payment from funds allocated Sept. 8 of $2,833,000 from fiscal year 1997-98 and $5,786,743 from fiscal year 1998-99 for Tustin's share of construction and right-of-way acquisition for the project.

Tustin's share of the project to By GEORGE STEWART The Justin Many police officers don't like all the time and paperwork it takes to process drunken drivers, so they don't aggressively seek them out. That's what Bob Marlow of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers told the City Council Monday, when he was giving that organization's "Deuce" award to two of Tus-tin's finest. He said officers Mark Black and Pat Kilgore were the exception and that's why they were receiving the award that MADD gives out each year to police officers who make more than 26 arrests for drunken driving in one year. Kilgore, 37, on the Tustin force nearly five years, made 53 arrests, and Black, 31, on the force more than two years, made 46. Most of them were during the six-month period, from July, 1996, to January, when they worked together on the night shift, Wednesdays through Fridays.

Not Saturday nights? "You'd be surprised," said Black. "Wednesday nights they have 'hump night' in bars. We Years STEVE ZYLIUSmie Tustin News This 1962 example of The Tustin News was eight 2-inch columns per page wide. A time to reflect, have some fun When the Tustin News turned a year old Nov. 2 1923, readers learned of a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Also on the same front page of the weekly hometown paper, readers found out "Mrs. Effie Slusser has not been able to be in her classroom for a few days on account of a severe cold." The Tusvin News was a hometown paper then, and it is now, keeping Tustin residents in touch with its town. To commemorate the paper's 75th year of serving Tustin residents and businesses, we're picking up a few pieces of the city's past as recorded in the Tustin News and recasting them for you. Inside you'll find: A chronology by Tustin historian Carol Jordan, Page Fran Vanatta's account of her advertising days, Page Jeanne Brown and her linotype machine, Page 15; Some old photos, Page 9 North Tustin. Anyone with local issues that are important to them is urged to call Leslie Paull Cavanaugh at (714) 731-8488 ahead of time, so the item can be placed on the agenda.

CITYWIDE Tuesday, all the schools in the Tustin Unified School District will be closed in honor of Veteran's Day. Compiled by George Stewart 565-6785 Tustin News born seve i By JIM SLEEPER For Tlic Tustin News hile the dates are a bit wishy, the earliest Tustin paper was once called The Telegraph, followed by The Tustin Sentinel. Both appeared prior to the turn of the century, both were purportedly weeklies and both edited by preachers. Somewhat more substantial was The Tustin Enterprise. This four-page blockbuster exploded on Sept.

21, 1911. Its arrival was kindly prefaced by one of the county seat dailies as "a paper devoted to the interest of Tustin and vicinity and will be greeted with interest by the people of the community." Not much interest being evinced on either part, The En-terrpise expired sans eulogy, and Tustin went paperless for another three years. In 1914, a new weekly appeared on the scene called The Tustin News. While that name has a familiar ring, it is not one with which the present News can claim much kinship. At least it can't unless one overlooks an eight-year gap in publication Early in November of 1922, rumor reached an indifferent public that Timothy Brownhill, formerly of Puente, and lately of Beaver City, Utah, was about to fill a "long-felt need in Tus-Please see SLEEPER Page 7 Inside ral -i If 30.9-acre site bordered by Tustin Ranch Road, Portola Parkway and Jamboree Road.

The Planning Commission recommended approval of the overall tract map for this project on Irvine Co. land in July, subject to several conditions. NORTH TUSTIN A monthly meeting of the foothills Community Association has been scheduled for 7:15 p.m., Wednesday, at Oak Ridge Private School, 11911 Red Hill, in 1 1 Photo courtesy of William A. "Scooper" Moses Jr, When Tustin News Publisher Bill Moses, far right, accepted delivery of a new press in 1966, it was a family event. His father, Arthur C.

Moses, and Bill "Scooper" Jr. turned out 'to view the 16-page-capacity Goss Tubular hot type press. The hot type process used hand-set hot lead, put into forms with column rules and lockec1 into square tables called turtles. Around town BRIEFLY build an overpass on Jamboree that will cross Edinger is $5.5 million. It is a joint project between Tustin, Irvine and the Transportation Corridors Agency as the south terminus of the western leg of the Eastern Transportation Corridor.

OLD TOWN TUSTIN A contract has been awarded for the complete reconstruction of and streets between First Street and Irvine Boulevard. The contract was awarded to Sequel Contractors of Downey for $290,872, the lowest of the 12 bids submitted for the job. The money will come from Measure turnback funds. On both streets the pavement, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and street lighting will be replaced. TUSTIN RANCH Two tract maps were approved by the City Council Monday as the first phase of a subdivision to be built by Richmond American Homes that will eventually consist of 162 detached, single-family homes on a triangular-shaped Viewpoint 2 Police Blotter 3 School News 4 Sports 6 AskAnnabella 22 Garden Thymes 22 Neighbors 16 Remember When 22.