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J10 sundav. mi iwo i.os SALOMON: U.S. Rep. Beilenson's Full-Time Challenger Lives on Credit suit of campaign cash last year also forced Beilenson to abandon his own self-imposed moratorium on off-year fund-raising. Salomon's campaign chairman.

Irving Mitchell Felt, is indicative of the kind of support the candidate has been able to attract. Felt, a developer whose projects included the rebuilding of New York's Madison Square Garden in the 1960s, has long been active in Jewish and civic organizations. Felt said he was very impressed with Salomon's independence and his manner. "Tfind Jim to be a very forth -A right, knowledgeable, honorable young man who has determined he would like to devote time to public service," Felt said. The fact that Salomon is not working, except on the campaign, did not deter Felt from supporting the candidate.

"Jim gave up an awful lot to go into the public arena," he said. "It's hard not to have an income or much of an income and to be after political office." Salomon's long list of campaign co-chairs includes actor Charlton Heston, movie producer Albert R. Broccoli, Arco Chairman Lodwrick Cook, financier Marvin Davis, developer Jona Goldrich, movie theater magnate Henry Plitt and investor and hotel owner Mcshulam Rikiis. Despite having raised more than twice as much campaign funds as Beilenson. Salomon said he has only about $30,000 on hand as the campaign enters its final stretch.

Heavy spending on campaign consultants, billboards, phone banks, and a direct mail campaign to Republicans has depleted his resources. In the closing weeks, Salomon plans to run campaign ads on cable television on both sides of the Santa Monica Mountains and maintain an ambitious schedule of campaign appearances. PLANTS: Professor's Project Preserves Native Flora Continued from J1 payments. He pledged that he will continue to meet his child support obligations in the future. Payment of the attorney's fees, ordered by a I.os Angeles Superior Court judge last year, gets a "very low priority" given his financial situation, he said.

Once the election is over, Salomon faces a February court date on a lawsuit filed by a former partner in a firm called International Financial Associates. Salomon has counter-sued for S200.000, arguing that his associate breached an agreement by not providing him leads on clients seeking financing and foreign markets. Though not a lawyer, Salomon is representing himself in both legal disputes. To support himself while a candidate, Salomon said he has been liquidating his assets "to the point where literally I have no net worth except for personal property." "I have no stock no bonds, no savings accounts," he said. "All of that kind of stuff is gone, sold, cashed out and used to pay living expenses." In financial disclosure statements to the clerk of the House of Representatives, Salomon reported that he earned $75,000 as an international trade consultant in 1987 and $60,000 in 1988.

His income from the work, which he said involved helping American businesses establish foreign markets for their products, declined to $25,000 last year. Since mid-1989, he said, he has been campaigning full time and so has been making no money. Salomon said he is now living on unsecured lines of credit. He suggested that such a sacrifice is a measure of his dedication to defeating Beilenson. "What you are looking at is a candidate who is absolutely doing everything he can to the limit of his own abilities to win this thing and make people feel I'm giving 100," Salomon said.

"I don't like what's going on, and I don't like what our congressman is doing. And I'm willing to stand up and be counted." It will be an uphill fight just as it was two years ago when Beilenson crushed Salomon's first challenge. The oddly-shaped congressional district, which runs from Beverly Hills to Malibu and Encino to Reseda is solidly Democratic and liberal, notwithstanding a pocket of conservative Republican voters in the upper reaches of its San Fernando Valley portion. With the exception of the Reagan presidential landslide of 1984, the area has been safe Democratic turf for years. So safe that Salomon fails to mention in his billboards and campaign signs that he's a Republican.

His campaign brochure mentions the Republican allegiance only obliquely at the end of a long biography. "I hate this party prejudice," Salomon said. "I wish the race were Jim Salomon versus Anthony Beilenson." Failing to mention that he's a Republican "forces people to be curious about me before they close their mind to the party label," he said. Salomon's second challenge to Beilenson a congressman since 1976 who, before that, represented much of the district in the state Legislature has attracted hundreds of well-heeled contributors. The reception last month featuring Reagan raised $40,000.

The challenger's aggressive pur He brushed against the aromatic California sage to examine nearby "our most beautiful wildflower," the mountain penstemon. He opened the penstemon's purple blossom to reveal inside the white beard around a stamen, "Watch out," he said, as a visitor nearly walked into the one native plant that isn't Rodman's favorite, poison oak. The prevalence of the plant, he said, indicates the land "has been disturbed by humans," thus giving the poison oak fertile ground to flourish. "You've got to look at this beauty," he said, moving toward white sage to sniff its bushy, grayish leaves. "You could get hooked on that." He is hooked on all the native plants: elderberry, coffeeber-ry, scale broom, black sage, lemonade berry and the viny wild cucumber with spiny pods in the shape of sea urchins.

"This is an extraordinary piece of real estate here," Rodman said. Pulling up a horehound, he explained that some of his students question whether the 740-student Pitzer should be constructing a parking lot and recreational facility adjacent to the arboretum. SAVE IV CLOSET LUXURY IN 24 CLOSETGARAGEOFFICE Adjustable One day Installations a Spotless cloan up Mirror doors Kits available Fine wood products WHY A FRANCHISE PfOOfeSsivC prices? Creation ROTH: Crusader Is Ousted But he said the most valuable area has been spared and that he has negotiated hard to ensure the arboretum's inclusion in the college's master plan. Ellsworth, who says the new parking and recreation facility are needed, at the same time said the arboretum is sacrosanct. "I'm not one to speak in absolutes, but the area that is the arboretum will not ever be built on." As Rodman puts it: If areas like the Pitzer arboretum are not saved, "we won't have anything to compare to or even have a reminder of what once was here." HOURS! AND IN COOPERATION WITH SPONSORED FOR CHARITY BY THE Goe Atujetee ofimee FREE ESTIMATES 1(800) 443-2999 Continued from J9 bent down and pulled some leafy green horehound, which can be found in abundance in the San Gabriel Valley.

Unlike native redberry ana white sage, plants such as horehound from Europe, the castor bean from Africa, tree tobacco from Central America or even the now-popular eucalyptus from Australia have disrupted the balance in the semi-desert, he said. In many cases the plants arrived as seeds buried in the hides of sheep or cattle from abroad or even carried in someone's trouser cuff. Rodman called this "the most pervasive and subtle causes of ecological disruption worldwide," as native and non-natives plant compete for nutrients-and water. Using a drip-irrigation system, Rodman and his students are nourishing the native plants to the exclusion of the non-natives in the outback. As he toured the area, he pointed to some of his favorites, including a collection of tiny oaks that he and his students are hoping will make it through the drought.

"Boy, this has a lot of fresh, new growth. It really looks nice," he said, stroking the leaves of a coast live oak. Once, he said, the San Gabriel Valley landscape was filled with them. Nearby, a butterfly flitted from yellow buds of a pine bush and onto the tiny crimson flowers of a California fuchsia. EARN $10.00 FOR WATCHING TV FOR 40 MINUTES.

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Members could vote to remove her or put her on probation which would have meant a state PTA representative sitting in on the monthly FA Rodeo meetings to monitor Roth's behavior. "Trisha kept insinuating members of the PTA and the executive! board were not for drug and alcohol programs," said Treasurer Raffel. "Frankly, that's insulting and very presumptuous. It's almost as if she's accusing us of giving drugs and alcohol to children." But Laurie Albert, a chairwoman of the school PTA's legislative committee, said, "This was the best example of down and out in Beverly Hills rich kids with nothing better to do than lynch someone." "The punishment docs not fit the crime," said Albert, who spoke in Roth's favor before the vote. Probation would have been an appropriate middle ground, she said.

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