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HOLLYWOOD TODAY Publicized sidewalk stars contrast with setting on Hollywood Blvd. at McCadden Place. Changes of recent years have inspired a master plan to refurbish the area. Times photo by John Malmin of Grauman's Chinese Theater took place three decades ago at glittering "The Women" premiere. HOLLYWOOD YESTERDAY Capital of movie-dom was at glamorous peak when scene in front WOULD RESTORE OLD GLAMOR Face-Lifting for Hollywood Studied limes San Fernando Valley News CC PART II MONDAY, NOV.

23, 1970 RESIDENTIAL AREA Master plan for Hollywood approved by City Planning Commission is aimed at revitalizing residential as well as business areas. This scene is at Fountain and Gardner. ART SEIDENBAUM Yuletide to The season has started, with changes to suit the times. Recently, a lady named Ellie Ka-bak kept a vigil for peace at Tha Music Center, urging people to offer inner gifts instead of store-bought things for Christmas. Miss Kabak was hit in the eye by a theatergoer for her troubles.

last week, one Harvey Eder from UC Santa Cruz was proposing that people buy living trees instead of cut ones, in stead of aluminum or plastic ones, this year. He calls his organization Green America's Green Christmas. UC Santa Cruz rives right along the timberline of higher education a new school in a redwood grove once removed from people who punch against peace. "Green Christmas," writes Eder, "is only one small seedling for man in a forest of concrete paradoxes of mankind, but it is a sincere, constructive step here on earth toward the 'Greening of In that single sentence, he convinces me that only man can make a concrete paradox, that he knows what the astronauts said upon the moon and that he has read Charles Reich's book about how the young wSI save us all. I do not mean to put him down.

Decking the halls with living trees that can be planted for the New Year is an absolutely sensible movement. We have been buying growing trees for the last seven More than half have survived the cultural shock of living in our house to foliate our hillside. Sometimes we have kept a tree in too dark a corner, drying the living BY RAY 1IEBERT Tlmei Urban Aftaln Writer On a warm summer evening 31 years ago 5,000 wildly cheering movie fans turned out at one of those gala Hollywood premieres at the Pantages Theater. It was the night of Aug. 10, 1930.

Universal Pictures set up grandstands and the crowd, satisfied with just a glimpse of their stars, watched goggle-eyed and applauded as filmdom's elite paraded into the theater. The motion picture "When Tomorrow Comes" with Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne was a memorable one; the night happy, lively, exciting. A few days ago, less than five blocks from the venerable show-place where so many premieres have been held, tragedy struck in midafternoon. Woman Stabbed to Death A 68-year-old woman who considered Hollywood her home and was not afraid, day or night, to walk about freely was stabbed to death by a purse snatcher. In the 31 years between the premiere at the Pantages and others at Grauman's Chinese Theater and elsewhere and the death of the 68-year-old widow something happened to Hollywood.

No one can pin down precisely what occurred or when the change started to take place. But Hollywood's problems, like those of so many other urban communities, are partly physical and partly a product of a rapidly chang ing society. Just by chance, the day after the woman was murdered the City Planning Commission adopted a master plan for Hollywood's physical development the idea being to make it a better place to live. It is designed, the planners said, to restore Hollywood's fading image as the motion picture and entertainment capital of the world. It is intended, if guts and money can do it, to make Hollywood well-publicized "stars on the side- Hot Atom Fusing Held Key to Energy BY GEORGE GETZE Tlmei staff Wriler Thermonuclear fusion holds the key to cheap, safe and unlimited energy, provided some way can be found to contain it, according to F.

F. Chen of the UCLA school of engineering. Chen said the problem is usually designated by the letters CTR, standing for "controlled thermonuclear reactions," and laboratories in all the industrialized nations are working on it. The United States and the Soviet Union are taking the lead. Controlled thermonuclear fusien calls for harnessing the processes that unleash the fantastic energies of the sun, as well as those of the hydrogen bomb, and channeling them into peaceful uses.

The processes require the fusing of the nuclei of atoms by heating them to 100 million degrees Centigrade, hotter than temperatures found at the center of the sun itself. At such temperatures, Chen said, the outer electrons of the nuclei are stripped off, leaving a -hot gaseous stream of free electrons and free nuclei known as plasma. Plasma that hot will melt any container. The projected solution, on which Chen has been working for several years, is to hold the plasma within a powerful magnetic field, Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 walk" project and other revitaliza-tion programs pay off.

It establishes guidelines for a massive Hollywood Center a combined entertainment park and business and commercial hub engulfing much of Hollywood Blvd. And, it provides guidelines for Hollywood, for years an established residential area with a wide range of neighborhoods, to grow from its present population of 230,000 to 326,000. The plan, which still must receive City Council approval, represents three years of research, study, consultations and work by city planners and Hollywood community leaders. Broad-Brush Treatment For planning purposes they have given broad-brush attention to a 28.5-square-mile geographical area generally known as Hollywood an amorphous region extending south from the Hollywood Hills to the future Beverly Hills Freeway and west from Silver Lake to Beverly Hills. But the plan's principal focus is Hollywood's historic core, along Vine Sunset Highland Ave.

and Hollywood where Grow On daylights out of it before transplanting. Once we kept the tree indoors too long, having forgot it was not permanently potted. Or maybe one of the dogs over-watered it during the holidays dogs have an uncanny sense about what belongs outdooi's. Living trees are exceptionally good for the landscape and they should be encouraged. As Eder explains, growing trees are no more expensive than the base ones.

They are as easy to decorate. They shed a lot less over the holidays. The Santa Cruz committee is trying to interest local groups in adopting the project for future park purposes, for ecological fund-raising, for adding color to California's amber open spaces. The idea is that some nonprofit organization might sell righteous trees instead of raffle tickets. A Conflict of Interest The connection between Kabak and Eder is almost eerie.

Several seasons ago, the gifted Stan Fre-berg produced a record called "Green Christmas," about the triumph of merchandising over peace and goodwill. It was satiric and sensible and therefore it didn't sell. Radio stations found a conflict of interest with spot announcements for toy weapons. Weapons won. Freberg's green was folding money, a precursqr of Kabak's campaign to advertise mankind over merchandise.

Eder's green is a living thing, a specific example of what a man can do about his concern for the environment. Trees, you'll remember, give shade and watershed and reduce smog. Pine and spruce do well in our irrigated desert. If you can't use one in your own backyard, then you can donate it. Plant some goodwill in 1971 pollution deductible.

DBUMMOND Wriler youngsters than a source of ircome, Jenkins said. A job is a way of gaining confidence in themselves. Building confidence and character in the youngsters insures that thy will not later become commitments to the Department of Corrections as adults, Jenkins said. He added, "If we don't have support from the community, they are just going to have more criminals on their hands out there." Have Job Problems Adult and minor parolees have always faced many obstacles in finding employment. The stigma of having broken the law and done a stretch in.

an institution, works against them. Youthful offenders face additional handicaps because the training they receive is not as extensive as that given to most adult felons, who serve longer sentences. It is also true that minors ate less easily employed in the labor market than adults. The median age of the Youth Authority parolees is 18.5 years. When they take a job, the parole agent continues to observe their progress.

Their work training in institutions varies from clerical to welding. "Some are very reliable," Jenkins Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 the annual Santa Claus Lane and Gay Liberation Front participants have shared the same parade route. The plan is only a guide. It forces no zone changes or zoning rollbacks.

Its adoption by the City Council will make it a legally constituted community plan, one of 33 either already completed or under way, but its greatest impact will be as a reference for City Planning Commissioners and private developers. On the surface Hollywood the place shows much of the glitter and excitement, as well as the business activity, of a town trying to live up to its name. Imbedding movie stars' names in Hollywood Blvd. sidewalks, for example, was a superficial project, a Hollywood Chamber of Commerce official admitted a few years ago. It was done as a near desperation move to help lift Hollywood out of the economic doldrums of the 1950s but it showed, he said, "the community's desire to improve itself." Yet few people, whether they are among the estimated 3.5 million tourists who visit Hollywood an- Please Turn to Page 5, Col.

1 West Los Angeles, from Mulhol-land Drive to International Airport. West Hollywood. East Los Angeles, bordered on Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 City to Allow Competing Taxi Franchises in Outlying Areas Youth Authority Hard Pressed to Find Good Jobs for Parolees BY ERWIN BAKER Timet Staff Wriler BY WILLIAM J. Tlmei staff "How can you hope to get a kid into an apprenticeship program when there are journeymen sitting on the bench?" asked the plumbing instructor at the Youth Training School, a California Youth Authority institution near Ontario.

His question is also being asKed by about 2,000 Youth Authority parolees in the Los Angeles area who are trying to "make it" in the outside world after a scrape with the law. The average stay at the training school is nine months. In that time, the youngster learns some of the theoryand techniques of a trade. Becoming a journeyman requites as much as four years in some trades. Demand Is Slack With the exception of some fields surh as culinary work, the demand for new employes is slack.

Experienced workers are unemployed. Thus, with the current economic downturn, youngsters on parole from Youth Authority institutions are lucky to find any steady employ- ment at all, let alone employment in skilled trades. Richard B. Jenkins, a parole agent witli'ihe Youth Authority in Lis An-! geles, said his office alone has 2,000 Youth Authority parolees male and female-seeking jobs. A job means more to most of tha Seven new taxicab franchises will be awarded to firms serving fringe areas of Los Angeles by the City Council Dec.

in an experiment to determine if competition improves service. Excluded from the competition, however, are the central portion of the city and Los Angeles Interna-1 tional Airport, where Yellow Cab does most of its business under exclusive privileges to pick up passengers. The council has approved a Board of Public Utilities and Transportation decision to defer opening the central sector to competitors until experience with new franchises in the outlying areas can be evaluated. Meanwhile, Yellow Cab's exclusive franchise has been extended another five years, until Oct. 29, 1975.

The council also has endorsed the board's position to continue Yellow Cab's pickup monopoly at the airport for the next five years, unless there is a need for additional service. The seven areas to have new franchises are: West San Fernando Valley, bordered by JIulholland Drive and Fulton Ave. East San Fernando Valley, including Sun Valley, North Hollywood and Siudio City. Sunland and Tujunga. Camper Thefts Big Business in Valley BY PAT BRYANT Tlmei Staff Writer VAN NUYS Sixty-two campers have been stolen in the Valley since June and none has been recovered.

"Thieves collect orders from people wanting a 'bargain priced' camper," said Sgt. Eldon Williams, area analytical officer. "They steal a camper in a driveway or on a parking lot and drive it to the buyer's truck. The stolen truck is usually abandoned since it is harder to sell because of serial numbers and registration papers." Valley officers are particularly concerned with catching the thieves because several policemen have been victims. Williams said he does Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

3 CLOSE FOLLOWUP Freeman McWill iams, in suit, program supervisor, and parole agent Richard B. Jenkins, bearded, watch California Youth Authority parolees leave half-way house for. work. Times photo by Frank Q. Brown.