The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 115

1 Police Launch Drive to mui.id'P.UIUWH' hi fljnrt i it V-i'uiWWMroWWNIW'MMIIIHflK IB' HIHJUUM.MMIllLHLJt"U KHU End Lag in Recruitment m. limes San Fernando Valley Neta CC PART II MONDAY, MAR. 23, 1970 ONLY THE BEGINNING Sculptor Claude Kenneth Bell explains his 45rfobt-high 150-foot-long dinosaur next to the San Bernardino Freeway in the- San Gorgonio Pass. On top is Ralph Titus who has done all the welding at proposed dinosaur gardens. Times photos by John MaJmin Cabazon Monster Maker Just Beginning 5 out of a lot of-people driving up over the pass," he said.

Bell's dream began when he was a boy in Atlantic City. "When I was a kid, uncle took me to see the big elephant house at the boardwalk in -Atlantic City. That did it. "From then on I decided someday I would build something big like that elephant house." Bell began his career as a sculptor on the beach" at Atlantic City at the age of 12. Income Topped His Father's made figures in sand just for the fun of it.

People started tossing me nickels and dimes. It wasn't long before I was making more money than my old man." His father was a glass blower on the boardwalk. Bell stayed on as the sand artist of Atlantic City until 1930 when he was 33. "After that I worked as a sand artist in fairs all over the United States and Canada. I wound up at the Long Beach Pike in 1940, then was hired by Walter Knott," he recalled.

For nearly 30 years Bell- has been busy Knott's Berry Farm building all the statues in Ghost Town. He is currently creating a 9-foot Minuteman to stand outside Independence Hall. Bell and his wife also operate the portrait studio at the' amusement park. "Dinosaur Bell" bought his 62 acres in the narrow pass between, snowcapped Please Torn to Back Page, Col. 1 Department Plans to Broaden Efforts, Ease Requirements BY JOHN KUMBULA Timtt stiff wrinr The Los Angeles Police Department is lagging far behind its goals in recruiting new officers and building its total strength.

In the last four years the department has added fewer officers than it hoped to add in one year alone. In fiscal 1965-66 the department set its sights on increasing the force bv S00 men each vear. By the end of fiscal 1968-69. only a net total of 757 had been added for the entire four-year period. Actually the Police Academy graduated 2,361 men in that period, but the number of these recruits was offset by the 350 or 400 policemen who quit, retired or were fired each year.

Now the department has set a new goal of recruiting 3.000 officers by fiscal 1972-73. As of February the total LAPD force was 6,214 officers. In the new drive the department will seek most of its needed manpower from military bases, college campuses and the local community, especially the minority areas. Up to now, low salaries, strenuous physical and medical requirements, and competition from private industry and other governmental agencies have been blamed for the recruiting lag. In its new campaign the department will be aided by the recent 5.5 pay raise, and hopes to offer other inducements, such as more starting pay and speedier promotional opportunities for recruits with higher education; scholarships for others, and more liberal and realistic physical and mental testing procedures and standards.

Recognize Problems Involved Many of those responsible recognize the problems involved in recruiting. "I think it's quite ambitious to expect that we can hire 3.000 men by 1972-73," Mrs. Muriel M. Morse. City Personnel Department general manager, said in an interview.

She said to meet the new manpower needs the Police Academy would have to graduate 100 men a month. The academy is turning out about 66 men a month now. Between. 1965 and 1969 about 26.315 applicants took the police aptitude test. Of these 9,050 later took the medical examination and 5,283 passed.

Some were screened out by the oral interviews and the background and personality tests. Finally 2,865 were appointed to the academy and 2,361 graduated. Pat Patterson, a police selection officer, said in an interview that police recruitment was down 10 for fiscal 1969-70. He said 534 persons were appointed to LAPD ranks during the first six months of fiscal 1968-9 compared with 419 appointments over the same time this year. Also 2,410 applicants were interviewed over the same period last year compared with 2,233 this year.

"There has been a declining number of police applicants available for appointment both to the academy and the LAPD over the past few years," said Mrs. Morse. Police salary rates were cited as one of the major factors responsible for the recruitment slowdown. According to Patterson a recent nationwide survey of U.S. cities with populations of 500,000 or more ranked Los Angeles fifth in police pay.

The city was paying a basic entry salary of $755 a month compared with $933 in top-rated San Francisco. But the 5.5 across the board Please Turn to Paje 2, Col. 1 BY CHARLES HILLINGEB Timn Staff Writer For four years motorists driving busy Interstate 10 through San Gorgonio Pass have been puzzled by the huge, dinosaur slowly taking shape at Cabazon. It is obviously going to be a life-sized figure of a brontosaurus largest land animal of all time but freeway drivers wonder what it is going to be used for. Even "Dinosaur Bell." creator of the 45-foot-high 150-foot-long monster, is not quite sure.

"I've always been a nut on prehistoric animals." explained sculptor Claude Kenneth Bell. 'Just the Beginning' "The brontosaurus is just the beginning. I've got 62 acres alongside the freeway. In the next 30 years I'm going to build an entire family'of giant dinosaurs here." BelMs 73. He is confident, however, that he is going to live to see his dream come true the Claude K.

Bell Dinosaur Gardens. "He's a pretty determined person. I believe he'll make it," says the sculptor's artist wife, Anna Marie. Bell figures his first dinosaur will be finished in about a year. "It's been pretty slow up to this point.

I've taken a lot of kidding," he said as he surveyed progress from inside the steel ribs of the 54-foot-long neck. "But it will be the strongest dinosaur ever built, the first dinosaur in history, so far as I know, to be used as a building." "Dinosaur Bell" wants to create a family of TOE MOLDING Welder Ralph Titus works on one of dinosaur's feet. Lobbyists in City Paid $42,000 to1 Affect Legislation BY EBWIN BAKER Times SUH wrtw Lobbyists were paid at least $42,000 by clients to influence, municipal legislation during the quarter ending last Dec. 31, a report by City Clerk Rex E. Layton indicated Sunday.

Meanwhile, as the costs and range of lobbying were disclosed, final arguments were being prepared for a legal showdown on the constitutionality of the city's pioneering ordinance on lobbying. After months of skirmishing in the lower courts, the State Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the landmark case next month. A decision is expected by midsummer. Last December, the City Council ordered the appeal of a Court of Appeal decision partially excluding attorneys from jurisdiction of theareg? istration law the first to be adopted by any major city in the nation. The court ruling held that the ordinance, which became effective in July, 1967, was applicable to lawyers except when they appeared before the Planning Commission on variances or conditional uses.

The verdict partly reversed' a Superior Court decision upholding the validity of the ordinance. Constitutionality of the controversial measure was originally challenged by Encino attorney Hal F. Baron, who contended it would interfere with his profession that the regulation of lobbying had been preempted by the state. Dilution Seen in Exclusion Supporters of the ordinance maintain, however, that if attorneys and-other professionals are excluded, much of its strength and purpose will be diluted. The ordinance, modeled after the state law in many respects, not only requires registration of "legislative advocates" paid to influence municipal legislation, but quarterly reports of their income and expenditures.

On the advice of the city attorney, enforcement of the law has been held in abeyance pending a final judicial determination of its legality. Layton reported that 472 persons have registered as lobbyists since the law became effective, but that only 331 are still active. Most of them 208 were involved in planning, zoning and subdivisions, Layton said. Of the total 472, 44 are attorneys. Others included engineers andor engineering firm representatives.

42; architects, 54; representatives of private firms and organizations, 69; and "individuals," 83. Please Turn to Back Page, Cot 4 giant dinosaurs to be used as gift shops, restaurants or huge animals for people to have fun climbing around inside of." He anticipates no problems in leasing out his first beast. "It will make a.big" hit whatever it's used for. At night the eyes will glow and the dinosaur will spit fire. It'll scare' the dickens ART SEIDENBAUM Lowell Astronomer Presents Theory on Mars 'Blue Smog Mystery Haze Believed Caused by Physical Changes on That Planet and Not by Viewing Through Atmosphere Terror Turned Around Two men came up from the San Diego underground at the end of last week, asking the Establishment for a certain amount of concern and protection.

That's what any respectable establishment is for, after all: governmental concern and citizen protection. Lowell Bergman and Larry Gottlieb put out a paper called the Street Journal and San Diego Free Press. As under Tactics reflect in that mirror. These of us who've been stranded between armies find ourselves continuously shouting that bloodshed begets bloodshed. Then we declare poxes on both houses and duck.

The Street Journal people seem to be the victims in San Diego. They went about their business peaceably preaching radical thought through the press only to have legal dissent explode in their faces. The "blue smog" of Mars is caused by physical changes on the planet's surface and is not merely an effect of looking at Mars through the earth's atmosphere, a Lowell Observatory astronomer has reported. Dr. Peter Boyce of the Flagstaff.

Ariz, observatory, said astronomers have been wondering and speculating about the blue haze of Mars for more than five decades. When photographed or viewed in blue or violet light, Mars usually appears to be veiled in a smog-like The radical right apparently drew first blood and the local Establishment if not encouraging I fl ICTPP I lAlPnfK the violence has been impotent 1 1 lljl lUIVIIUJ grounds go, the SJ and SDFP is less licentious and more literary than standard. But the paper has watched bombs and bullets fly its way, returning injury for insult Vandals destroyed print- Services Set for Restaurateur, Sportsman Robert H. Cobb, 71 about preventing it. Maybe the word many of us are looking for is ReestaHishment, which would embrace the young and comfort the old.

A group of Pacific Palisades high school students made a small beginning in that direction recently. Scrounging funds from family and friends, they opened a Priorities Office in a business building. blue haze that obscures its dark surface markings even when those markings are clearly visible in yellow or red light, Boyce said. The nature of the haze, which sometimes vanishes suddenly to show Mars in detail, is a major puzzle posed by the planet Television pictures taken close to the surface have failed to resolve it. One explanation holds that the smoggy haze is an observation effect caused by conditions in the atmosphere of the earth through which astronomers have to look at the planet Boyce challenged this assumption on the-basis of observations made from South America last year while Mars was within 45 million miles of the earth.

He used; a special area-scanning photometer attached to the Lowell Observatory's reflector at Cerro Tololo, in the Chilean Andes, to get what were probably the most accurate.photometric measurements of-Mars ever made. The instrument measured both and red light at the same time, and also made photoelectric of disturbing effects of the earth's atmosphere. Correlation Noted "There was an unusually long period of 'blue clearing' during the 1969 opposition of Mars," Boyce said. "The haze dissipated jr two weeks at a time instead of the usual two or three days." He said in a telephone interview the corrected photometric data from the scanner coincided throughout with the photographic observations. After all the corrections were made, Boyce still found residual blue haze, indicating the phenomenon could not be due to seeing variations caused by the earth's atmosphere.

'Some scientist'; have cited data returned by Mariner spacecraft as evidence that the haze is not caused by anything In the Martian Boyce said. PleaM Turn to Bat Paje, Col. Letters on Boycott BT CHARLES B. DONALDSON Tlmti staff Writtr BURBANK If the Burbank Teachers Assn. feels a court should rule on the letters placed in the personnel files of teachers who boycotted back-to-school-night programs, the teachers should bring suit, school board president Victor Martino says.

The letters, which affect 206 teachers, cite them for failing to heed a "reasonable request" from the administration as called for in. their contract with the district Repeated refusals of reasonable requests can-be grounds for dismissal of a tenured teacher. Martino's comment came in response to a letter the association sent to school board members contending the teachers were "proven guilty" without due process and were "punished" by Supt Robert K. Shanks' action placing the "condemning -letter" in personnel files. "The teachers," the letter signed by association president Patricia Kowalke said, "would be willing to accept and abide by the decision or sentence of a court of law." Martino, however, contends, "If the BTA wanta to test the legality of this it.

is up to them to institute suit As a board we have to abide by the advice of our counsel." Please Torn to Page 8, Col. 1 i equipment, smashed down doors, stole newspapers. Bergman understands the irony of it alL Last week's Time Magazine began with a story condemning bombers and burners of the New Left, editorializing that the world cannot be remade by terrorism. Then in the same issue Time talked about terror turned around, from right to left, as applied to the Street Journal It had to come to this. Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale drama school recently said almost all of it in an article for The New Republic called "Revolution as Theatre." He complained that society is stranded between two ignorant armies trying to destroy each other and then accused radicals of being as self-righteous as their supposed enemies: We discovered that idealistic Americans were also violent.

Americans, and that of all the moral superiority of the revolutionaries to the Establishment, they were creating a mirror Image of the society they wished to over throw." Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday for Robert Howard Cobb, 71, cofounder of the Brown Derby restaurant. Mr. Cobb died Saturday. Services will be held at the Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn, Glen-dale.

In addition to presiding over one of the most famous restaurants in the nation, Mr. Cobb was active in professional baseball here for more than 20 years. He was to have received the Civic Award from the Baseball Writers Assn. here April 2. In 1926, Mr.

Cobb helped found the original Brown Derby on Wil-shire Blvd. with Wilson Mizener and Herbert K. Somborn, husband of Gloria Swanson. The restaurant, built in the shape of a derby hat, became a Southland landmark. Three years later he opened the door-; of the Hollywood Brown Derbv at 1628 Vine perhaps the best-known restaurant in Southern California.

He later opened the Beverly Hills Dsrby at Wilshire Blvd. and Rodeo Drive, and in 1937 he built another Derby on Wilshire across from the Ambassador Hotel, replac- Breeding of Fear The priorities idea was to educate the community away from arms spending and toward the causes of peace, ecology, racial harmony. The. office didn't last because some adults were afraid of kids, kids who do not shut up and who put up a picture of Martin Luther King in the office window. The nagging worry from the Palisades is that the most dignified form of dissent breeds fear nowadays.

And fear does no good for the human condition; it tends to make men flee or turn ferocious. A reestablishment would begin by persuading young people that it has rights for them and room for change. It would proceed from courage. A Reestablishment would also have to assure adults that the bombing will soon bo stopped, not just in Vietnam but on our own grounds overgrounds and under. Robert Cobb ing the original restaurant.

Th Wilshire Derby is no longer a part of the chain. Plea Trim to Pago 5, Col..