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B2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 19H) IS LOS ANGELES TIMES Metro Digest Local News in Brief 'Keep Moving Day' Called a Success Sponsors of an annual ride-sharing campaign aimed at luring commuters out of their cars proclaimed "Keep California Moving Day" a success Wednesday, with rush-hour speeds up an average of 5 to 8 m.p.h. on busy freeways in five Southern California counties. "We are pleased with the results," said Peter Hidalgo of Commuter Transportation Services also known as Commuter Computer. "We didn't expect free-flow freeways." More than 75,000 people signed cards pledging not to drive to work alone by taking a bus, car-pooling, van-pooling, biking or walking to work, according to organizers of California Rideshare Week 1990. KNX radio traffic reporter Bill Keene said traffic was lighter in outlying areas Wednesday, but he told Associated Press, "I don't think the rideshare day worked too well in the downtown area." Diamond lane of the on-ramp to eastbound Ventura Freeway at Van Nuys Boulevard had few occupants on Wednesday.

MIKE MEADOWS Los Angeles Times -Tg' Iff I. jplft 2 Sheriff's Deputies File Suit Over Search of Home Two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies charged in a Los Angeles-federal court suit filed Wednesday that investigators probing charges of money-skimming of drug funds had illegally searched their home. The civil rights action, brought by Deputies J.C. Miller and Elizzie Mary Anderson, said that while deputies and federal agents had a warrant to conduct a search on Oct. 3, 1989, there was insufficient probable cause to indicate that Miller had done anything wrong.

Miller was suspended with pay during the probe but has never been charged. The investigation has resulted in the indictment of 10 deputies. Anderson has not been suspended. The lawsuit, which names Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and several investigators, seeks unspecified damages for alleged civil rights violations, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy and emotional distress. 4 Awarded $250 Each in Nightclub Bias Suit Four people who alleged that a fashionable downtown nightclub discriminated against them on the basis of appearance were each awarded $250 Wednesday.

Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner Diana Wheatley ruled in favor of Kenneth M. Lipton, Jeff Stolzer, Teresita Dubrall and Stephen Ambrosini, who challenged the way the Mayan club admits patrons, with a doorman who selects from a crowd milling in the street. The plaintiffs, who said they were told they were inappropriately dressed, contended the Unruh Civil Rights Act protects them from arbitrary exclusion. Mayan attorney Larry Nagler said his client has no dress code and plans to appeal the decision to Superior Court. 2 Intruders Shoot Man to Death in His Home Authorities were searching for two gunmen who entered the home of a Paramount family and kept three children captive while shooting their father one time in the neck at close range.

Martin Lizarraga, 39, was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Although no motive has been established, the victim did not appear to be a random target, said, sheriff's detectives and residents in the 15900 block of Georgia Avenue where the shooting took place Tuesday night. A few minutes before the shooting, the assailants knocked on a neighbor's door, inquiring about Lizarraga by his nickname, "Kaliman," said the neighbor, who asked not to be named. The assailants were admitted into Lizarraga's home after telling the vie- for 30 days for ordering workers to build boat racks, duck decoys and other items for his personal use. But the shop manager who filed the complaint says such abuses have gone on for 15 years-and extends far beyond the one shop that the county investigated.

"We've stopped it here at this yard, but it goes on today all over this department," said Rudy Rico, manager of the department's Pasadena instrument shop. Foreman Larry Parrish was suspended after an audit showed at least 30 hours of county time had been used on projects for his personal benefit. A recommendation to fire the foreman was rejected after county attorneys learned that other workers had gone unpunished for similar offenses, said county Chief Auditor J. Tyler McCauley. Parrish declined to comment except to say that he had been made a scapegoat.

formed a united front Wednesday to fight proposed landfills in the region, urging that the county's garbage instead be shipped by train to the desert. Some even offered to support stations for garbage trains in their neighborhoods instead of dumps. The meeting brought together the Santa Clarita Valley Canyons Preservation Committee, Santa Clarita Civic Save Our Sylmar, North Valley Coalition from Granada Hills and Communities United for Safe Trash Management from Sylmar and Lake View Terrace. The groups have traditionally acted independently against landfills in their back yards Lopez Canyon above Lake View Terrace, Sunshine Canyon above Granada Hills and Towsley and Ellsmere canyons in the Santa Clarita Valley. The activists said their best hope of foiling new landfills is to offer better alternatives, such as shipping trash to proposed remote sites in Riverside or San Bernardino counties.

Al Martinez is on vacation. $700,000 in Delinquent Child Support Collected More than $700,000 in child support payments has been collected from 650 delinquent parents in Los Angeles County District Atty. Ira Reiner's two-month amnesty program, Reiner said Wednesday. At a news conference with his longtime adversary, feminist attorney Gloria Allred, Reiner said that additional child support payments have been pledged by parents who took advantage of the "Support Our Kids" program in order to avoid arrest and jail. Reiner said his Bureau of Family Support operations plans to file more than 250 new cases against parents who have failed to provide family support.

His investigators also will resume arrests of those with outstanding warrants for failure to pay child support. Those arrested will face up to one year in jail, a $2,000 fine, or both, Reiner said. And they still will be responsible for the support payments, he said. County Worker Suspended Over Personal Projects A Los Angeles County Public Works Department foreman has been suspended tim's 15-year-old son that they were friends. After forcing the son and two smaller children to He face down on the floor, one of the gunmen found the father, fired once and fled with his partner, Deputy Gabe Ramirez said.

Mental Tests Ordered for Sex Slave Case Suspect A man accused of keeping two immigrant women as sex slaves was ordered to undergo psychiatric tests to see if head injures he suffered in a jailhouse fight left him incompetent to stand trial. Municipal Judge Glenette Blackwell said this week that Paul Garcia may not be able to understand the charges against him or assist in his own defense. Convicted murderer Edward Harris severely beat Garcia in the Los Angeles County jail on Aug. 8, officials said, leaving Garcia with a fractured skull and collapsed lung. Garcia is charged with more than 100 felony counts in connection with the rape and kidnaping of two women allegedly held captive in a trailer for five months.

Prosecutors allege that Garcia abducted the women off city streets last year, raped and tortured them with electric shocks. The women eventually escaped and Garcia was arrested on Sept. 25, 1989. ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT Rights for Children CRIMES BY AREA COVERED BY THE LOS These Los Angeles Police Department CENTRAL BUREAU figures show the number of reported crimes by precinct from Jan. 1 through July 31.

SOUTH BUREAU WEST BUREAU VALLEY BUREAU Van Central Newton Rampart Southwest Southeast Pacific Wilshire Foothill Nuys Crime Total Hollenbeck Northeast Harbor 77th Hollywood LosAngeles Devonshire Hollywood Valfey HOMICIDE I II I I 990 570 29 30 69 21 65 22 51 73 45 22 14 TT 41 11 li 15 23 10 1989 491 22 25 60 18 58 16 36 1 77 50 16 9 4 34 11 20 9 16 10 RAPE 1990 1157 56 33 86 46 I 94 I 45 I 73 1 121 I 1 10 I 89 I 38 I 32 I 78 I 25 61 63 72 35 1989 1164 60 31 85 41 73 41 87 127 113 90 49 37 76 29 52 49 74 50 ROBBERY 1990 19998 1726 777 1S27 I 841 12310 I 643 I 1495 I 2102 "1384 I 1157 I '814 I 658 1886 380 589 560 707 442 1989 17242 1608 642 1263 568 1639 483 1411 1951 1246 983 792 534 1555 416 543 506 682 420 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 1990 25915 I 1094 I 1279 I 1934 I 1115 I 2652 I 1179 1722 2593 2463 I 1209 905 I 490 1471 I 849 I 1506 1111 1383 "lip 1989 I 25549 I 1104 I 1097 I 1967 I 1007 I 2553 I 1085 I 1738 I 3092 12297 I 1147 I 809 I 473 I 1566 I 846 I 1435 I 1156 I 1306 I 871 Only in L.A. By Steve Harvey Activists Urge Shipping Garbage to the Desert Anti-dump activists from the San Fernando and Santa Clarlta valleys L.A. Adopts Bill of A wide-ranging policy intended to improve and coordinate services for children was approved unanimously Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council in a move intended to ensure that city bureaucrats consider the needs of children. The policy sets broad goals and calls for development of a long-range plan to address children's needs and establishes a 10-point bill of rights declaring that children are entitled to shelter, education, food and other basics. The measure was sponsored by Councilman Richard Alatorre, who said that historically the city has not considered the needs of children when adopting laws and policies.

Alatorre said he wants to make Los Angeles "a better city for children." The policy, called "A Better L.A. Sue Souveroff of Woodland Hills forwarded the notice for the bankruptcy hearing of Mike Glickman, once the San Fernando Valley's biggest real estate broker. Commented Souveroff, a former agent with Glickman: "A lot of creditors and almost 1,800 agents came unraveled when Glickman blithely walked away from his obligations, but I didn't know he had the power to undo the United States!" In the spirit of Rideshare Week, we offer this from our file: "The Clifford Cigar Windshield is a new article that will appeal to all motorists who are cigar smokers," said the Auto Club's Touring Topics magazine 75 years ago. "It is made of asbestos tissue that fits firmly over the end of a cigar so sparks or ashes are liberated to blow in the eyes or over the clothes of other occupants of the automobile." for Kids," would apply to the estimated 830,000 city residents under the age of 18, 25 of the population. Many of the children are from immigrant families and more than a third live in poverty.

One goal of the policy is to coordinate children's services and programs, which now are scattered among a number of departments. A report accompanying the policy statement said the city spends only about $133 million of its annual $2.5 billion budget on children. Under the new policy goals, each city department must identify and address the needs of children when preparing annual budgets, and city officials must consider the needs of children when creating and amending city policies and laws. JANE FRITSCH The New flight was delayed for 2V hours the other evening at a stopover in Kansas City while the passengers remained on board. One woman was upset because she would miss her connecting flight to New Zealand, while a businessman said he'd miss an important meeting.

But several passengers said the reason they were miffed was they'd be missing the season opener of TV's "Twin Peaks." Not that they'd have found out who did in the lovely Laura Palmer. Bilingual sign of the times, in the back window of a sedan parked downtown on Beaudry Avenue: "Nothing in car. Very poor man. Rich bank owns car. No radio.

No hay nada aqui (There is nothing here)." miscelLAny: The 67-year-old domed mausoleum at Angeles Abbey Memorial Park in Compton is a copy of the Taj Mahal. i glti- ill l'j ill' II 1 1 IE 1 if I I (jjmtied) STATES BANKRUPTCY court WdgJ jH I I CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ffft g5 1 M'ke bankruptcy notice: unraveling the United States? Rent-a-Hobo. That's the theme of a new series of Survival Workshops that will be offered "today's sheltered generation," the L.A.-based National Hobo Assn. has announced. "Hobos are survival specialists, living off the land, surviving long, cold, boxcar rides over the hump and other tests of the will," points out the NHA's leader, who goes by the nam de rail, Capt.

Cook. In a message to its members, the Hobo Times expressed the hope that the workshops would at least raise enough money to pay their costs, "including travel expenses." It added: "Unless you come by boxcar." Every once in awhile, someone asks Milt Larsen about the whereabouts of the Queen Minny. It was Larsen who engineered the hoisting of the 50-foot, 2-ton model of an Italian ocean liner onto the roof of his four-story Variety Arts Center in 1980. There it sat, like an apparition, floating above motorists and pedestrians on Figueroa Street. Larsen found the vessel at an auction held by MGM Studios, where it had been used on miniature sets for "Luxury Liner" and other movies.

The Minny was the ideal hood ornament for Larsen's show-biz museum, which consisted of such artifacts as Eddie Cantor's joke file, W.C. Fields items and Jimmy Durante's JOE KENNEDY Los Angeles Times fourth floor perch over Flgueroa Street. owners that we'd send a crane over and get the boat," Larsen said. "But there was some misunderstanding, and the contractors demolished it. It's unbelievable that someone would do that." Unlike Durante's piano, the Queen Minny can't be put back together.

The Queen Mlnny being hoisted In 1980 to Its breakaway piano (constructed so that Durante could destroy it nightly). Alas, the Variety Arts Center shut down last year. He put the memorabilia in storage he's considering new sites now and received offers from Cleveland and Las Vegas for the boat. "When we moved, we told the new.