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losfanfftlfi timti Mar. 28, 1975 Part 31 POLITICAL FLIMFLAM Tabloids Thrive ioi 3 Road Jobs Lose Out to Mass Transit Southland Planners Divert First Gas Tax Money Under Prop. 5 Ml ICWr City Council Race BY DOUG SHOT Timet Staff Writer youR Bf-AnwDAno PART OF BOMBARDMENT The "Cra'zy Council lind Wyman, Frances Savitch, Zev Yaroslavsky and Race Comics," raking opposing candidates Rosa- the mayor, is being mailed by Moshe David Rutledge. A bombardment of political flimflamcolorful, entertaining and sometimes scurrilous has been piling up in West Side mailboxes as the highly competitive primary election in the City Council 5th District enters its final days. Nearly all the candidates in the 5th District race, even the marginal ones, have saved their boldest and most imaginative strokes until the end.

Voters in the district, who will be balloting Tuesday on a successor to Supervisor Ed Edelman's old seat on the City Council, and then again on 27 if no single candidate wins a. simple majority, are being confronted with an assortment of computer letters, brochures, litter bags, Easter greetings and political tabloids. It is the tabloids, each of which builds up one candidate while tearing down one or more of the others, that get the most attention. Four of the nine candidates in the race have been blanketing the district with their tabloids. One West Los Angeles voter received three different tabloids one day last week.

Those were sent out by Frances Savitch, Zev Yaroslavsky and Randy Richman. Another the most lethal of all was on its way, from Moshe David Rutledge. The front-runner in the election, Rosalind Wyman, has so far been quiet. Wyman, who represented the district for 12 years before being defeated by Edelman in 1965, is the one the other candidates are gunning for, especially in the tabloids. The other candidates in the race Dori Pye, John Hamm, Jeffrey Milrad and Bernard Cowan are distributing piles of their own literature, but appear to be forgoing the use of tabloids.

The tabloids, which cost anywhere from $1,500 to $9,000 to print and mail, are one of the oldest political tools around. Roughly styled after commercial newspapers and crude caricatures of local politics, the tabloids are designed to give wide circulation to one candidate's views. In story after story, the candidate is built Up and publicized. At the same BY RAT HEBERT Timet Urbm AMain Writer Three Los Angeles area highway projects were sacrificed in favor of mass transit planning Thursday in the first reshuffling of funds under. Proposition 5, the gasoline tax diver-sion measure approved by California voters last June.

Transportation planners for the Southern California Assa of Governments recommended delaying perhaps indefinitely highway projects valued at nearly $2 million so transit planning can get under way. The transit programs include planning for the Southern California Ra- pid Transit District's proposed "star-ter" rail line and studies for fixed-guideway systems to serve downtown Long Beach and Los Angeles International Airport. In a long, wrangling debate, SCAG's Comprehensive Transportation Planning Committee decided that the planning jobs with a total value of $1.58 million should go ahead with money originally earmarked for freeways and highways. The committee dispute revived highway-transit differences in a major decision-making forum for the first time since last June's electioa Apparently it served as a forerunner of future disagreements over the diversion of highway tax funds. "This is a good example of what is going to happen from now on when i we start talking about tradeoffs between highway and transit projects," Haig Ayanian, district director for the California Department of Transportation, warned the committee.

Ayanian, in charge of the state's Los Angeles area freeway-building program, is a member of the committee, whose recommendations now go to SCAG's executive committee for regional action. Final approval on the actual diversion of state highway funds to speci-1 ic transit projects is up to the state Highway Commission. During Thursday's session, the transportation committee also recommended funds for a fourth planning program in Orange County but SCAG" Please Turn 4o Page 22, Col. 3 Southland Hit by New Wind Gusts i After a morning lull, gusty winds sprang up again Thursday afternoon over the Southland and they are ex- i pected to keep blowing at times through Saturday. The National Weather Service said i the winds should reach velocities of up to 50 m.p.h.

in the mountains, 40 m.p.h. in the deserts and other interior sections and 35 m.p.h. in the Los Angeles area. The gusts prompted issuance of aviation warnings for the Los Angeles Basin and adjacent valleys, travelers' advisories for the mountains and deserts and small-craft advisories for the outer coastal waters from Point Conception to San Nicholas Island. Fair weather, with sb'ghtly warmer 'days, can be expected through Mon- day, the forecaster said.

Some cloudiness should set in Tuesday in the coastal and mountain areas, he said. 7Z AND I AS Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Times photo ENLIGHTENMENT Dawn of New Age, Yogi Says Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the foun-t der of the worldwide Transcendental1 Meditation movement, came to Los Angeles Thursday to announce the dawn of the age of enlightenment "That certainly sounds high brow," said Maharishi, smiling at reporters as he began a 30-minute Beverly Hil-. ton news conference lecture on the mechanics of Transcendental Meditation. But no other term "does justice" to this predicted period, he said. At the start of his 17-city world tour in January the gray-haired, white-bearded teacher said when 1 of the world population practices the TM" technique for 15 minutes twice daily, a global transition from chaos and confusion to order and peace would result.

Maharishi expects this to happen in 1975. Associates claim that initial studies show that when cities have 1 of their population practicing TM there tends to be a significant drop in the Please Turn to Page 26, Col. 5 1 ill' Former Highway Patrolman Held as Vice Kingpin A former highway patrolman who is the suspected kingpin of what was described as the largest prostitution ring in Southern California surren-" dered to Los Angeles County Sheriffs deputies Thursday. Horace Joseph McKenna, 32, who was dismissed from the California Highway Patrol in June, 1972, after four years on the force, was accompanied by his attorney when he turned himself in for investigation at the Lennox sheriffs station, deputies said. McKenna had been sought in connection with an investigation of what sheriffs vice squad officers said was a prostitution ring centered in the In-glewood and the Lennox areas.

Riverside County court records indicate that McKenna pleaded guilty early in 1973 to one count of credit card forgery and that five other counts against him were dismissed. An Indio Superior Court judge sentenced him to three years' probation. A native of New Orleans, McKenna served with the CHP from June, 1968, to June, 1972. He worked in the West Los Angeles area, according to a CHP spokesman. McKenna was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit pandering, conspiracy to commit pimping and conspiracy to; commit prostitution.

Bail was set at $15,000. Tuesday night, sheriffs deputies raided what they described as nine "sex centers" affiliated with the ring McKenna is suspected of heading. Ex-Olympic Jumper Sought in SLA Case From a Times Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO A federal grand jury issued a subpoena for onetime Olympic jumper Phillip K. Shin-, nick to appear April 10 at a session probing the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Shinnick may have been at the Pennsylvania farmhouse rented by his friend, former Oberlin athletic director Jack Scott, where fingerprints of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst' and SLA members reportedly were found, the AP said.

Sex Models Got 100 a Day, Photographer Says time, the opposition is shredded to bits with statements that sometimes border on libel. There is no room in the tabloids for opposing points of view, or even fairness. Savitch, 44, and a former aide to Mayor Tom Bradley, has sent out about 44,000 copies of her "Westside Report" to Democratic households in the Pico-Robertson and Fairfax districts, Cheviot Hills, Beverlywood and West Los Angeles. Though City Council races are nonpartisan, slightly more than 70 of the district's 92,000 voters are Demo-, crats. Savitch, like most other candidates in the race, is keying on those voters.

Savitch's paper is the most professionally written. In a style typical of the political tabloid, the paper contains what purports to be an editorial that says: "In making our choice for City Council, we have looked for three Slightly more than 70 of the district's 92,000 voters are Democrats qualities integrity, experience and concern. Frances Savitch gets high marks in all three departments." Yaroslavsky, 26, who left his job as head of the Southern California Council on Soviet Jewry to run for the City Council seat, was hitting' mailboxes the same day as Savitch with his "West Side Record." Yaroslavsky was aiming a message at Jewish voters, who constitute another large bloc of votes in the district, which runs east from the San Diego Freeway to Fairfax south to Olympic Blvd. and as far north as Mulholland Drive on the west and Fountain Ave. on the east.

He leads off his paper with a story that says he would crack down on lobbyists in City Hall. Front-page photographs feature him standing with a key supporter, Ed Sanders, a West Side attorney and immediate past president of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; Please Turn (o Page 26, Col. 1 OLIVER Writer titution is a nuisance which shall be enjoined, abated and prevented it The statute later was broadened to include gambling. But its application to pornography has been doubtful. In 1973, Busch lost a series of attempts to shut down pornographic bookstores with the law.

Defense attorney David M. Brown, now joining Stanley Fleishman in the defense of Luros, argued successfully then that the state Supreme Court had limited application of the act to houses of prostitution. He said no decision ever extended it to cover books or films in enclosed viewing areas. The Luros case is different, however, because of the use of live models at the publishing house. Busch and Elden contend Luros and his 29 code-fendant associates and companies ac-Please Turn (o Page 28, Col.

4 moves groceries over laser scanner. Times photo yQU iiAy0Q Won't Kiss, Tell on Legislators, Ex-Madam Says SACRAMENTO (UPI)-A former brothel madam has confirmed her customers, listed in a secret "trick book," included legislators and state employes. But Terri Lynn Martin, 28, said her former clients do not have to worry since she is not a woman to kiss and telL If she did, Miss Martin said, "there would be a lot more divorces." She made the remarks Wednesday after pleading guilty to a pandering charge with the condition she not be sent to prison. Miss Martin received statewide publicity when Dep. Police Chief James McManus disclosed that the green binder "trick book" confiscated by officers at her apartment near the Capital contained 400 names, includr ing those of elected officals.

"There were also plumbers, electricians, carpenters and truck drivers," said Miss Martin, who added that she turned her first trick when she was 13 and had been at it off and on until her arrest last November. The trick book has been sealed by a judge at the request of her attorney; She was indicted on testimony by Maria Huston, who had been given immunity and had a charge of residing in a house of ill fame dismissed. Now Miss Martin plans to go to beauty school to learn a new trade. "I can't be a happy hooker," she said. "But I would like to see prostitution legalized.

I think the voters should decide whether to make it legal." Former Ford Aide Named to City Post Adrian Dove, 40, a former senior budget examiner in President Ford's Office of Management and Budget, Thursday was appointed director of Los Angeles' new Office of Small Business Assistance by Mayor Tom Bradley. Bradley said Dove's duties will include coordination of city ef-' forts to engage in commercial dealings with small and or minority business enterprises and projects with the federal Office of Minority Business Enterprise. display and when the shopping tour is done, the bill, along with the purchased items, will be waiting at the front counter for you to pay your bill. While you go through the store, computers would call the stock room with your card-punched order, send the item along by conveyer belt to your order basket. That plan is not ready for use in this country, although some versions are being tried in Japan.

In the meantime, though, this country is expected to be generally computerized within five years with the Universal Products Code. The problem of dividing up the huge anticipated economic gains from the UPC "will almost certainly lead to a strike of the clerks in Southern California, and probably in other parts of the country, too," predicts Robert K. Fox, president of the Food Employers Council. But Ken Edwards, head of the AFL-CIO Retail Clerks Local 770, believes strikes can be avoided "if management will recognize that the time to plan for the future is now, and that we want the consumer and our members to share in the gains which management knows are coming as a result of the computers." Please Turn lo Page Col. 1 Computerized Check-out: Who'll Be Saving Money? BY MYRNA Times Staff A former photographer for Milton Luros, described as "the biggest pornography publisher in Southern California," testified Thursday that models were paid $25 to $100 a day for posing for hard-core sex pictures.

The photographer was one of several former Luros employes to describe activities at the publisher's 21320 Lassen Chatsworth, headquarters. Their testimony has been heard during a nonjury civil trial before Superior Judge Parks Stillwell. The trial is a test case begun Aug. 23, 1972, by DisL Atty. Joseph P.

Busch in an attempt to use the state's 1913 Red Light Abatement Act to combat pornography. The act, passed to close down houses of prostitution in San Francisco 62 years ago, provides: "Every building or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or pros SYSTEM-Clerk JT nrin 'mt i-i: '4 Continued from First Page Produce will be put on a computerized scale, a code number pushed by the clerk, and the produce weighed far more accurately than can be done with the human eye. The weight will be translated into price, and then weight, price and name of the produce will be printed on the customer's sales slip. The machine will then add the bill, figure the taxes and such matters as coupon- rebates or the value of food stamps and print the whole transaction along with the date and hour of the purchase. Other machines will simultaneously record purchases so the store's warehouse people or machines can keep track of the diminished number of items on the shelves and reorder as needed.

Thus, the process of checking out a customer will be far faster than with the prevalent practice of ringing up items on a cash register. And the result will be that fewer clerks will be needed to operate the check-out' counters. In years to come, some experts pre-' diet, stores will have only dummy displays of most items. Instead of taking items from shelves, you will just insert your special coded card into the front of the CODE Vertical lines on milk carton are "read" by laser scanner at checkstand. The scanner lists item and price on customer's receipt.

Timet photo by Ed Sperlacso A.