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Santa Barbara Chanrae City spokesmen threatened tcvseek a court order forcing the federal government to revise the environmental impact statement to include raw data on the geological makeup of the Santa Barbara Channel and the size of its oil and gas supplies. State officials joined local witnesses in appealing for further information on proposals to step up drilling. This is just one more example of the federal government's absolute refusal to cooperate with state or local agencies even to sharing vital data and information with the public it is supposed to serve," said William F. Northrop, executive officer of the state Lands Commission. Northrop said additional drilling in federally controlled waters (those beyond the three-mile limit) could force approval of new drilling operations in waters under state jurisdiction.

"If (federally-controlled) wells were to be productive, the state Lands Commission would be faced with allowing its lessee to begin platform installations and drilling in the area in order to prevent drainage, loss of petroleum resources, and public revenue." Northrop said. Amid all the critics of proposals for increased drilling were those supporting development of the offshore petroleum resource. Noting that his utility alone would burn an estimated 734 million barrels of oil in the next 10 years. Southern California Edison Co. spokesman W.

H. Seaman said offshore development should "proceed as rapidly as possible." Seaman termed the federal government's controversial impact statement a "completely accurate and thorough assessment." That position will be endorsed by oil industry spokesmen who will testify among the 108 witnesses expected to appear before the hearings end on Wednesday. HQS angckS ffimtS Aug. 26, 1 975-Part II 3 Drilling Foes Speak Out Continued from First Page If the new rate is approved as expected, the city property tax bill for the owner of a home valued at with a S1.750 assessed value homeowner's exemption, will be S134.03. up $15.53 over last year's SI 18.50.

The owner of a S30.000 home will be billed $177.15. up the owner of a S40.000 home will pay $254.18. up $25.90. and the owner of a $60,000 home S408.23. up S34.58.

Only in 1968-69 was the tax rate jump higher during the last 10 years. That vear it escalated 33.75 cents, from S2.0780 to $2.4155. Last year, the city property tax hike was 5.8 cents. Figures computed by city Controller Charles Navarro, on which the council acted, indicated that 17.0!) cents of the 25.89-cent boost resulted from increased costs of the fire and police pension and city employes retirement systems. The fire and police rate is going up 10.63 cents and the city employes rate.

6.46 cents. The uniformed pension boost is based primarily on the 10.66S wage increase granted by the council and mayor. It also includes a cost-of-living increase. The civilian hike is anchored on the projected 5.69P pay increase in memoranda of understanding now coming before the council for approval. It also included an increase in life expectancy among the employes.

Continued from First Page with 30 years' experience and other people came forward to help," Reynolds said. "We sent letters to private consulting firms in the area and said, Take off your profit hat and put on your Santa Barbara hat' And three of them did." The result was a beefy document which scores the federal impact statement as "totally inadequate in its treatment of the proposed level of gas and oil development of the Santa Barbara Channel." A persistent theme at Monday's hearing was the impact that channel drilling has had oh Santa Barbara's tourist industry. "The tourist industry in Santa Barbara has suffered serious losses from oil and gas development in the channel, and these losses have had a direct and crippling effect on both our social and economic well-being," Mayor David T. Shiffman told the federal panel. Shiffman estimated that the 1969 oil spill and its aftermath cost the city $100,000 in cleanup expenses, 5100.000 in rental of city-owned coastline property, $500,000 in bed taxes and S3 million in sales taxes.

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In his July 31 memorandum to the council, Davis called the pornography business "a lucrative, filthy plum," and said. "The Mafia, including elements of many Eastern city Mafia families, has moved in and is controlling distribution in the retail market and is controlling processing. "Even some of the local notorious pornographic purveyors who have made millions of dollars in this filthy industry are being muscled out by the Eastern mobsters," the chief added, going on to blame the situation on what he claimed was "a cessation of enforcement of victimless crime. "If our vigorous prosecution of gamblers, pimps, prostitutes and dope peddlers can also be thwarted. Los Angeles offers the hope of being one of the rottenest cities in the world." Davis went on.

"Los Angeles is new. It has vigor. It has opportunity for everyone, including the organized underworld. "We will do our best to destroy this beachhead. However, it is going to take conscious, dedicated, concerted help from prosecutors and courts, and it is going to take strong support from the mayor and the City Council to not only stop questioning the deployment of people on so-called victimless crime, but a support in building the vice-thwarting activities of the department." Davis often has quarreled publicly with the position of recently elected officials, including Gov.

Brown and City Atty. Burt Pines, that police priorities should move away from such victimless crimes as homosexuality and pornography toward greater concentration on stemming violent crimes. In the private memorandum, the police chief also said America "might well consider" the elimination of elected public prosecutors to "allow the police to present all of their cases in court with the vigor that the police derive from seeing the devastation of the victims of crime." In California, district attorneys, who prosecute felonies, are elected as are some city attorneys, who prosecute misdemeanors. Davis ended the July 31 memorandum with a call for building the Los Angeles police force to 9.000 men "or the price in crime is going to be too great" The present strength of the police force is a little more than 7,300 men. An increase to 9,000 would be a rise in numbers of about 23.

NARCOTICS FUND Continued from First Page Both the Superior Court fund and the South County fund described Monday are kept in private bank accounts and apparently are not handled as public funds. Schmit charged Monday that such funds are "at best poor businesss practice, and at worst mav be illegal." He said he has asked Heim and County Counsel Adrian Kuyper to investigate. Purcell. Laguna Beach Police Chief Frank Schoepen and Dep. Dist Atty.

Don Clarence described the South County fund in separate interviews Monday. It began in 1971. when. Clarence said. Laguna Beach was "the LSD capita! of Southern California." Purcell said it was initiated by Municipal Judge Richard D.

Hamilton. Purcell and Clarence vehemently denied the fund is a "secret." as charged by Schmit In misdeamor narcotics cases, usually marijuana offenses, when a defendant is prepared to plead guilty, he is sometimes given the option of contributing to the fund rather than pay the same amount as a fine. Clarence said a single contribution never exceeds S100. despite Schmit's claim that the donation "involves several hundred dollars on each occasion." If the defendant agrees, he pays the money directly to one of the two police departments and receives a receipt The deputy district attorney on the case then does not recommend a find as part of sentencing. Clarence said the judges are not obligated to then waive a fine, but that they almost always do.

"We don't handle the money at all." Clarence said. The courts and the district attorney never handle the fund." In Laguna Beach, the money is deposited in a bank account named the Laguna Beach Narcotics Court Fund, according to Purcell. In effect, the defendant pays his fine to the police narcotics investigation fund rather than the court Purcell said the fund has been used to aid in the "apprehension of hundreds of dope dealers and taken hundreds of thousands of dope dollars off the street" Clarence said cases involving contributions to the fund occur only about once every two months and Purcell said contributions have dropped considerably in the last two years. Both men disagreed with Schmit's classification of the fund as a "secret" and his charge that defense attorneys are "compelled" to negotiate a donation "in lieu of jail" for their defendants. Clarence said the donations are voluntary and that they are always in lieu of a fine, not a jail sentence.

Purcell said the fund is well known among narcotics offenders and that he believes expenditures from it for equipment purchases are reported to the City Council. Nonetheless. Laguna Beach Mayor Roy Holm and San Clemente Mayor Anthony Di Giovanni expressed surprise when informed of the fund by a reporter Monday. Holm said such a fund raises serious questions. "I am not pleased at all at any department in the city that would set up a fund that isn't in the damn budget." he said.

"If it is there, then there might be expenditures from it that might not be approved of by the City Council." Schoepen, reached at his home Monday night, acknowledged the fund's existence, but said he is unfamiliar with its details, including the total amount of money. Details of the San Clemente fund could not be learned MUM' MONDAY THRU 1RIDAY TILL '): P.M.. PASADENA AND LA MAURA TILL DOWNTOWN MONDAY. IR1DAYONI.YTII.I. in.

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