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iu ULT Farm district opposes Wasco nuclear plant By PATTI KELLER Staff Writer An obscure farm district that few people have ever heard of has risen in "vigorous opposition" to the proposed San Joaquin Nuclear Project near Wasco. Directors of the Pond-Poso Resources Conservation District unanimously approved a two-page resolution opposing the nuclear plant, convinced directors from 35 other San Joaquin districts also to approve it unanimously, and next month will seek yet another approval from a convention of the 168 districts In the state. Resources conservation districts arc the modern version of soil conservation districts formed by the federal government to promote recovery from the Dust Bowl davs of the Working hand In hand with local offices of the federal Soil Conservation Service, the resources conservation districts sanction federally-funded projects to protect and restore soil, waller and wildlife resources. Though districts are created in response to a specific problem the flood-prone Poso Creek In this case they have a voice in conservation of all soil, water and wildlife resources In their geographical area, according to Vldo Fabbrl, president of the Pond- Poso Resources Conservation District. The Pond-Poso district encompasses the area from the Poso Creek headwaters to the Kern National Wildlife Refuge, which includes the proposed nuclear plant site.

Fabbri, who carried the Pond-Poso resolution to the regionaj meeting two weeks ago and will present it to the state convention in San Jose Oct. 23. said the resolutions will be forwarded to Richard Maullin, chairman of the state energy commission. Spokesmen for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, lead agency for the nuclear project, recently revealed that they'll go to the state energy commission for certification of the project, circumventing the need for Kern County approvals. One point made in the Pond-Poso resolution Is that the conservation district "under the law should have been consulted In preparation of the environmental Impact report (for the nuclear project), as it appears that the proposed drainage project (to provide cooling water to the plant) will eventually need 30,000 acres of land to handle the disposition of brackish water as part of the master drains of the San Joaquin Valley." Not only was the district not consulted as a legal "responsible agency," Fahbri says, it never so much as received a copy of the draft envlronmen- tal impact report and has been "Ignored" In the planning of the project Furthermore, since a wastewater drainage project Is part of the nuclear project, the resolution contends, a comprehensive environmental impact report should deal with both projects.

Two separate environmental studies have been planned for the projects. The resolution opposed use of fresh water for power plant cooling, a use that "can only lead to further water deficiencies causing additional groundwater overdraft," and also objects to cooling with waste water. "The proposal to recover drainage waters from on-farm tile systems to be delivered to cooling towers has been hastily conceived and needs further study," the resolution reads. "This program requires the utmost cooperation of the farmers and landowners on whose lands the tile systems must be placed. Little or no consideration has been given to their desires.

and the drainage system as proposed by Kern County Water Agency fails to show the degree of landowner participation. "It Is inconceivable that sufficient landowners and farmers would adopt a plan to spend $300 to $600 per acre to tile their lands to deliver brackish water to the master drain In the amounts necessary to contract for cooline nuclear towers." The resolution charges the draft environmental impact report on the nuclear project "fails to show the effect the drainage waters would have on the environment or subsequent planned holding reservoirs would have on both the underground or atmospheric conditions brought about from the planned 22,000 acre holding ponds located in the northwest part of the Pond-Poso district. "The holding ponds would bo made up of waters in excess of 7.000 parts per million combined salts leading to the question of its impact on wildlife and the Inundation of existing wildlife habitat and established duck clubs, who are essential cooperators'with the Pond-Poso Resources Conservation District In promoting the protecting the Pacific Flyway. "The question arises of brackish waters seeping into the underground stratus of the proposed 22,000 acres holding area and spilling over into the adjacent farm underground fresh water supplies." The resolution concludes by reaffirming the district's "vigorous opposition to, the siting of the Wasco nuclear power plant as being detrimental to the environment and of the farmers and landowners in our district." Directors of the Pond-Poso district, in addition to Fabbrl, are Dave Bryant. Don Burroughs, Horace Fisher and Don Derrlngton.

Woman's murder trial goes to jury today Events at the Kern County Fair aren't always pleasing or expected sometimes, they're frustrating and unexpected. Yesterday, Deanns Shuford, 7, decided it would be tun to jump into a display tank at a farm implement display. But it didn't become fun when she found herself struggling, unsuccessfully, to get out of the tank. She was rescued by her dad. (Californian Photo) Funeral set tomorrow for C.

Seldon Morley Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Hillcrest Mortuary Chapel for former Kern County agriculture commissioner C. Seldon Morley who died Wednesday at home after a lengthy illness. He was 70. The son of Frank and Cora Morley.

born in Bakersfield. Mr. Morley served 44 years with the county. He was agriculture commissioner from 1955 to 1971. The Rev.

Tom Toler. pastor of First Christian Church, will officiate Private interment will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Mr. Morley attended Bakersfield schools, graduating from Bakersfield High School in 1925. Subsequently he Short circuit ignites blaze in truck rig An electrical short is blamed for a fire early this morning that heavily damaged the tractor of a moving van rig, the fire department reported.

Driver-owner James Lawrence. Carmel, was driving his 1971 International Transtar tractor, pulling a 40-foot van and load of furniture at 4:10 a.m. on Rosedale Highway a half mile west of Greeley Road, when the fire was discovered. County fire units from Riverview and Greenacres, under command of Battalion Chief Stan Martinez, fought the fire for 20 minutes. Loss was put at $10,000 to the tractor, with a $4,000 save.

Also saved was the $30,000 Mayflower Moving and Storage Company van and $10,000 in furniture in the van. Hitchhiker from page 9 packs were found on Rosedale Highway, a mile east of 1-5. Patrolmen queried all truck drivers at stops along 1-5, and San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies arrested Southern at 4:30 a.m. today at his trucking company's terminal. attended University of California at Los Angeles.

He was president of the state Association of Agricultural Commissioners. 1960-61. a member of Security Lodge the Rotary Club of Bakersfield, and of First Christian Church since 1929 where he was a teacher of the Keybuilders Class for 20 years and was serving as an elder at the time of his death. He is survived by the widow. Eugenia: a son, the Rev.

Laurence Morley, Montana; a daughter. Carol Duns. Stockton: a brother. Clarence, Bakersfield; and four grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the memorial fund of First Christian Church in lieu of flowers.

Tackett from page 9 Jackson said, "the damage would be impossible to ascertain as it would be impossible to secure objective proof of the effect upon the electors of said misleading advertisements and, secondly, it would be impossible to ascertain the extent of any money damages sustained by plaintiff (Jackson) if defeated for the office by reason of said misleading advertisements Plaintiff has no adequate remedy at law with respect to the publication and dissemination of such misleading advertisement in that said statements would be made within a few days prior to the election and it would be impossible, either financially or timewise. lor the plaintiff to refute said statements by setting out the true and correct incumbency to the Jackson claimed the material "is misleading to the electors for public office of supervisor of the First Super- visoral in that it is designed for and intended to' be used containing the statement "Supervisor Tackett," which statement assumes, pretends or implies that Tackett is the incumbent (and) is or has been acting in the capacity of a public officer The suit also contends a technical violation of the state Elections Code because the printer's name was left off the brochure (it is printed on the bumper Tackett said omission of the printer's name was "an oversight." Did the victim threaten to beat up his wife with a three-foot board before he was shot to death the eveining of May That's the question a Superior Court jury of seven women and five men is attempting to answer today. Freddie Jean Wright. 28, 519 Austin Street, charged with the murder of Archie L. Wright, 32.

went to the witness stand yesterday to testify on her own behalf. It was the fourth day of the trial being conducted before Judge P. R. Borton with deputy district attorney Stephen Tauzer prosecuting and the accused woman represented by deputy public defender Eugene Mrs. Wright, mother of children ages 8.

fi and 4, told the jury she had been beaten repeatedly over the 11 years she lived with the deceased. Under questioning by Lorenz she told of a quarrel with her husband the day before the shooting which caused her to leave the house with the children. She returned the next night to find Wright with another woman and said he came at her in a menacing manner with the board in his one hand. (The other arm had been amputated, the jury learned). Lorenz argued for dismissal on the grounds his client fired the fatal shot from a revolver to protect herself.

Sheriff's deputies, subpoenaed by Tauzer. said they found no evidence of the board when they arrived to investigate the shooting. Bill Williams. William Alston. Randolph W.

Carpenter and Michael Stephen Holmes told the court Mrs. Wright said nothing to them about the board or another woman being involved. They did hear her say: "I shot him," the deputies agreed. To support the defendant's claim she "never provoked" her husband, Lorenz subpoenaed Julian Wright, Irma Jean Tate, Martha Charles. Phyllis Reagle.

Ilena Duffey and Kay Croney. all neighbors and friends, to testify to their knowledge of beatings inflicted by the victim. The defense attorney also called sheriff's investigator Joe Myers, and deputies Edward Lavelle and Lupe Martiniz. who told of taking reports of prior beatings. Deputy county clerk William W.

Burke and attorney Dustin N. Jameson were subpoenaed by Lorenz to verify the defendant had filed for divorce July 1975. Instructions to the jury began at 9:30 a.m. and its members were sequestered at 10 a.m. Mrs.

Wright is free on $25,000 bail. Union labor to honor Hodson; Eu will speak California Secretary of State March Fong Eu will be the keynote speaker for the Central Labor Council's seventh annual Honoree of the Year dinner tomorrow at the Labor Hall, 200 West Jeffrey Street. Recipient of this year's award is Harold Hodson. who was executive secretary-treasurer of Butchers Local 193 (now Meatcutters Local 193) for 23 years. Tickets for the $100-a-plate dinner mav be purchased at the Labor Hall.

County, cities get shares of various taxes State Controller Kenneth Cory has announced distribution to Kern County and the cities of the September apportionment of highway users, cigarette and motor vehicle license taxes and fees. The county's share of the highway users tax is $365,353. Cities receive the following: Arvin, California City, Delano, $801; McFarland, Ridgecrest, Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi, $2,770 and Wasco, $5,078. In cigarette tax apportionment was the county received Arvin, Bakersfield, California City, $504; Delano, Maricopa, $187; McFarland, $997; Ridgecrest, $4,873: Shafter, Taft. Tehachapi, $1,217 and Wasco, $2,516.

The county's motor vehicle license fee apportionment is Arvin, Bakersfield. California City, Delano, Maricopa, $778; McFarland, Ridgecrest, Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi, $4,598 and Wasco, $9,076. The no-host cocktail hour begins at 6:30, with dinner at 8. Mrs. Eu.

the first woman ever to be elected secretary of state in California (in 1974), also is the first American of Chinese ancestry to hold a cons'titu- tional office in the state. She served four terms in the Assembly, representing Oakland and Castro Valley, before her election to statewide office. Hodson. 69. is the ninth person to receive the Honoree of the Year award, which last year went to George White, business agent of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 460, and George Nickel, agribusinessman.

Hodson was executive secretary- treasurer of his local from 1946 until his retirement in 1969. He also Is past president and secretary-treasurer of the labor council. He has been active in AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) activities and in charitable organizations, including AID-United Givers, for which he still works. He was a member of the Kern County Grand Jury in 1974. Bakersfield Police Chief Robert 0.

Price, left, was among those on hand to greet delegates to the California Downtown Association fall conference, which began yesterday and runs until noon tomorrow at the Rodeway Inn. Thirty-five delegates from 18 cities are attending, including Lee Strong, right, executive secretary of Whittier Uptown Association. (Californian Photo) Edwards commander awarded medals EDWARDS AFB Major Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center.

Edwards AFB, will receive the Federation Aero- nautique Internationale (FAI) Gold Space Medal in a ceremony tomorrow in Tehran. It's the second award this week for Stafford, who yesterday accepted the Gen. Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy at National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, DC. The trophy was presented to Stafford for his efforts as Apollo commander during the Apollo-Soyuz test project.

The trophy is awarded annually for the "most outstanding contribution to the nation's progress in aerospace." as members of the crews of these spacecraft." The gold medal is awarded for the outstanding accomplishment in space by an astronaut or cosmonaut during the previous year. It and the Gold Air Medal, are the highest awards of the federation. The medal is being given to Stafford for his contribution as commander of the Apollo space craft. Air Force Maj. Gen.

Brooke E. Allen, who will head the U.S. delega- tion to the international convention, said the federation normally presents only one Gold Space Medal each year. However, "In view of the exceptional nature of the Apollo-Soyuz Test project and the outstanding success achieved on this joint mission by two nations in space the FAI graciously and by a cial exception to the Internal Regulations, awarded the Gold Space Medal both to Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford and to Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov as commanders of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft," Allen said.

"Under the same considerations, Astronauts Vance Brand and Donald Slayton and Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov each were awarded the Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal as members fo the crew of these spacecraft." Presentation of the awards will take place during the opening plenary session of the 69th annual General Conference of the FAI which will begin Friday, in Tehren. It is anticipated the Shah of Iran will preside at this awards ceremony. Trio arrested after theft try reported Two men and a 16-year-old boy were arrested last night in connection wit the attempted burglary of a pickup truck south of Bakersfield. Witnesses called deputies to 9277 South Union Avenue, the home of Wayne Palla, where three persons were reported trying to break into Palla's truck. Timothy Davidson, 19, 504 Stovers Street, and David Littlefield, 18, 1711 Camino Primavera, were booked at county jail on suspicion of burglary.

The youth was booked at juvenile hall. Heroin from page 9 say the two sold them 30 ounces of heroin. Another task force team found "a huge quantity of heroin" in Cruz' home, according to the sheriff's report. The arrests followed an investigation of three weeks involving sheriff's officers, Bakersfield police and the district attorney's office. Admission is free to the radio control model plane competition at Famoso drag strip (airport) this weekend starting tomorrow at 9 a.m.

and Sunday at 8 a.m. of Bakersfield Aircraft Radio Kontrol Society who will compete are Jim Hill with a World War II British Spitfire, Gary Banducci with a Vertigo, and Phil Smock with a WWII P-51 Mustang..