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'VoT'35, No. 83 HE 5-1 161 Classified No, HE 2-6959 Home Delivered Doily ondSundoy $4.00 Per Month i .1 mm TO By RICHARD SALTUS AP Science Writer A major earthquake in the. Los Angeles area could occur within a year, a Caltech scientist said Tuesday. He emphasized that the prediction Lwas made by experimental methods and could be a false alarm. The epicenter of.

the forecast temblor estimated at to 8.5 on the Richter scale, lies near the origin of the 1971 San Fernando Valley quake that killed 64 persons. The director of the State Office of Emergency said there was. no immediate cause for alarm. He said the prediction, by Drr James Whitcomb, would be evaluated within two weeks by a panel of nine By NOEL SWANN Staff Writer A strike by some 1,200 interns and representatives of the Joint Council Interns and Residents rejected a county plea for mediation. seismologists, and a report will be made to foe governor.

WHitOOMB SURROUNDED his statement with caution. The uncertainty of the magnitude, location and time preclude -foe test from being of great use.to the -public, he said residents at threemain county hospitals appeared inevitable-today after the breakdown of contract talks Tuesday 7hk auacui i rum ills. 1M) Theyoimg dortorTwererthrovTiip fopmonr-thairthreedays wlthiran L.t a riAnilBfB la i A- I Health Services Director Liston With-erill was ordered to take steps to deal with. the illegality of the strike. Under county rules, anyone absent from his.

job mise patient.care.The. deans also warned General Hospital arid the Medical Center the interns and residents they may be and an actual eight-day strike by about jeopardizing their status for, specialty 38 interwl and residents at King, certification by striking." in Ust years settlement, the young The young doctors said they would doctors gave up part of their salary intake care of all emergency patients, but creases to create the fund and were given expected nonemergency cases to be a fay in how the money was to be spent. transferred fartJtheryhospitatsCounty Theylalrnrhfiweverrthar county man- considered to. haw officials, however, said the health depart-, agement this year wants to withdraw the abandoned his position. ment would concentric on providing fund and their right to have i say in its The doctors rejected a plea from emergency care and keeping critical-care distribution.

Additionally, the young dotf arpfig AMfl with tMfttmAnt HMiriilBil Kr IaM aa. a A. supervisors Tuesday to abandon strike areas open with treatment provided picket lines at 8 a. mat County-USC Medical; Center, Harbor General-and Martin Luther King hospitals in an effort tors say to give up parti of next year's expected increase to bolster the fund to $5 million. The forecast came after a slowdown of seismic waves vibrations, from1 small quakes or blasting was observed over a wide area north of Los Apgeles Such changes in the velocity-of seismic waves have been known to precede (juabs although sometifnes they have not.

been followed by.earthquajces. The waves usually return to normal velocity, just before the quake. Using the same wave-velocity method, Whitcomb predicted that a quake would occur in the Riverside area in 1974. There was such a jolt, but of smaller size to stop all but emergency services. by County officials began thinning the Plans and rely on the collective-bargain- the permanent (full-time) nfodical staff.

-uig machinery of fact finding and media- r- tion. The walkout in the face of a statement from the deans of the three medical schools involved, telling the ranb of -inpatients two days ago by dis charging them. They had plans to cancel outpatient clinics and all elective -sur-, geries and admissions today. Administrative -Officer- Harry A. 24-hour Emergency Operations Confer will control all transfers to county hospitals, The main point in the contract dispute is a $1.

1-million patient-care fund lf mivi nuill uuoll ffu VUIVvi- aldiljb vviiwi uivuivvui 4CUUI II1C 1 The doctors say they have made no progress in bargaining talb on specific patient-care services such as more (wiiriu-care services suen as more Hufford -said-foe-, contract Ttalbbroke-yS-doctors-they did not support the created last yeaos a.resuU.of a threaF doVn shortly after 5 p.in. Tuesday when strike or action that might compro- cned walkout by young doctors at Harbor nurses arid JDteMiyejatumtsTio'urs: uran estimated wages and fringe benefits. (TumloBack PCSir.lf L.B. financial move voted to salvage race step to keep Gran Prix ices and rental of various more than 8500,000. facilities.

A key element in the. The vote also plan, first publicly an--authorizes the city to take nounced by Randall probable cut in revenues Verrue, executive assist-from foe event by to'CityManager John ing to gccept 30 pej- cent of ManseD, is a city subsidy Long Beach City Council members took another preliminary step Tuesday toward a plan for the city to subsidize and operate the United States Grand -Prix West. Specifically, foe council gave, promoters of the road race fiscal breathing room by agreeing to postpone payment of the Long Beach Grand Prty Association owes the the city is taking over foe race. Mayor Tom Clark said Tilesday such reports were not correct, adding that no tax funds Would. be used to.

pay. for'J foe event. (The Convention and News Bureau, however, derives meist of its operating expenses about 4600.000 a year from a 6 per cent hotel-motel room tax levied by foe city and. disbursed to the through theta annual city-. Budget- The Bureau does not have the power to levy The tax' the funds it receives are earmarked by law to be used only for community adver- the annual event.

a 6-2 Vote, with Eunice Bne and Renee Simon opposed. the Council voted to -amend its contract wjth the financially troubled association so payment of. the first installment of the 8120.000 of the debt would not be required until after the 1977 race. Under the amendment, an 880,000 payment will be required next with two payments, of 820.000 each required foe I978and 1979 races. The association, which sponsored the March '28 1 Formula One race oveiri 2 2-mile track mapped out -on -city-streetsr owes foe city-foe 1120,000 for serv the net revenues, from future races as payment for use of city streets.

The contract previously called for the city to receive a guaranteed 140.000 this year and 8100,000 for of the 1977 and 1978 races. Tuesday's action came -on the heels of. a unaqi- of the event through foe semi-autonomous Long Beach Conveplion and. News Bureau. In effect, the plan calls for the city through the Convention and News Bu-reau to' assume responsibility for operating the race.

The' Bureau woujd then contract with the But the adion was link- ed tojt plan.to salvage the zjFgsJ fire through a complex series of: financial md management 'arrangements that would ultimately leave the. Long Beach Contention -and News Bureau in charge of- mous council decision lasrlsfir Beach Grand Prix week to support in prind- Association to manage the pie the plan to salvage event. foe race, which lost about pity officials, and brought the have taken exception debts -to newspaper, reports that1 (Turn to Back CoL 3) CLEVEbAND-fAP) United-Rub RANSOMED bnk president James D. McMahonignores man's microphone as he leaves motel where he was Af WklfWl Cwiiiri News Smim ber Workers struck 'the rubber industrys Big Four companies Wednesday. after failing to reach agrCemenT on a contract before contracts "expired at Presidept Peter-fiommarito said negotiations continued after the deadline following a last-minute offer 'Hie main stumbling block was ecF nomic Issues that included a demand, for ah unlimited cost-of-living adjust-, ment clause.

URW officials said 4Pplantk involving 60,000. URW members were ordered to shut down-nationwide. Earlier, Federal Mediator James $150,000 ransom by the Firestone lire and Rubber Co. Scearce mk with Bommarito in a late But Bommarito said he' held little hope effort to avert a strike. WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 0 Tuesday that federal courts can order the creation of low-cost public housing for jninorities in' a citys white suburbs to-relieve racial 'segregation within the city.

Courts can do this, under the ruling, even when the suburbs Involved have not been guilty of racially dis--criminafoty housing practices. A The court ruled specifically that the Department of, Housing and Urban Development can be ordered to provide such housing in the suburbs if the government has been found to have contributed through its public housing programs to the segregation in the city. NEWHALL AP) A bank president was "kidnaped Tuesday but later was nearby drag store in accordance with the caller's instructions. LiB police unit to appeal cop censure in bar spree" found unharmed in a 'motel room after 8150.000 ransom was paid. James D.

McMahon, 50-oi Valencia, was found by FBI agents at foe Mission Hills Inn in Sepulveda after a telephone tip from an anonymous woman caller. THE RULING WAS interpreted as meaning tlgt Hale paid 8100,000 and obtained an 'additional 850,000 from a Sepulveda branch, of ihe'. Santa Clarita National Bank: apparently following the Hale returned to the bank Tuesday afternoon: saving the ransom had been IcMaho paid, but McMahonremained missing. when a city government is guilty of racially discriminatory housing practices, and where it has statutory au- 'D rm 1 AW IHM AiHiUlVi witnesses were reluctant and hard to find, even for the pnrposes.of bringing departmental charges. Meanwhile, Qity-.

Man-. The head of 'the Long Beach Police 'Officers Association Tuesday, said the organization will appeal any action against officers involved in a- recent bar- prove. He explained: It is one thing to be able to say this is disgraceful conduct that-we cannot tolerate in any department and another tnority to act outside of its boundaries, it also can be ordered to provide housing in the suburbs for the victims of its discrimination The ruling, in a case involving public housing in AAV A Hiillgl AAA AA VliOV UIVIHVUIg AIUVIV IMIOlllg Ul McMahon, president of the Santa Clarita National Bank in Newhall, failed to show up for work Tuesday morning. A clerk at the bank took a mpraing call, from a man who said McMahon had been kidnaped. The caller demanded 8100,000.

A spokesman for the FBI in Los An-geles, said agents had joined the investigation. ager John Mansell schral- hopping spree that thing to say this conduct is uted meetings with Korfc Chicago, was seen as a landmark victory for civil-rights groups. It cranes at a time when many have concluded that if the problem of segregated schools is ultimately to be solved it will be by fully opening up'suburban areas to minorities: a He added that criminal. prosecution would be a problem be-r cause witnesses would be unable to identify individo al officers. Furthermore, he Mid, and city Personnel Director Barney Wilezak on Kortz disciplinary recommend a tfons.

A Civil-Sendee hearing will be scheduled after foat meeting. Raymond Hale, 49, the bank's operations manager, quickly gathered ns much1 cash as was handy and took it to a McMahon has' a wife' and five chili dren. Mrs. MeMahon said site had not been contacted by the kidnapers. iTurn to Back CoL 1 1 aiirfnn ciwia prompted "disciplinary proposals by the police chief, Set.

Ralph Abraham said-the association has not. been furnished' with the material, outlining charges and reasons for them. He refused to dis-cuss what would be appealed and on What grounds. His statement came in the wake A repercussions after disclosure ot the March 10 speed ran. by 13 off-duty officers from 1 Sunset Beach through-.

Long. Beach bars and. streets: During the course of the melee, officers re- 01 wncen re- After Castros threat to end hijack- pact on SJndependent JTOU CAN find out if youre among the millions listed in federal files. PageA-5. HaS Prensa Utina hews the agreement would igracy said Castro told a- benefit' only international rally, If aggressions terrorists and Would dam- Department informed that action will action will against Cuban fishing ves age foe interests of all na-sels do not cease, it will be WASHINGTON CAP) -The White House announced an investigation of attacks on Cuban fishing vessels Tuesday after Cuba threatened to cancel au antihijacking agree-, ment with the UB.

if the attacks continuer--' STEVEN SOUAH loses bid to admit evidence da. what' Patricia Hearst told -prosecutors bank robbery. Page AA survivors were brought to the United States and intenriewed by the FBI. -Trattner ratal the survivors returned to Cuba after indicating they-want-ed to do so. He did not name the' second vessel wboard-ene-of foe andcf-attackorspecify--undr-UX-tne Ferro Cemento 119, whqt happened to it to and that they died.

Trattner said-the its severed in 1960. The State said it has Cuban authorities 'appropriate "appropriate be taken if it that the by' violations of the end of the Ciiban-American agreement on maritime and aerial is deter- Portedly choked and at-mihed acts were tacked civilians and inter-committed persons irisdietjonv-, constitute Chief -taw. alpH Kortz subsequently r. THE LAST DA1 of Howard Cuban authorities have blamed foe. recent attacks on anti-Castro exiles in foe United States Nessen Mid the investigation is a demonstration Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen said will be against anyone under UB.

jurisdiction who was involved. Cuban-Prima: Minister 1 CAMPAIGN TB. Page A-10. Ferro Cemento and anotti-. er Cuban vessel were fish- Tm United States and ing together and were -Cuba-signed an agreement fired-upon by another FeK 15, 1973, promising to recommended discipline ranging from innmun in.

Pending on the degree. of in Havana alan 4l" thatfoe Umtod StatJta Iao uld criminal charges were Strenuously opposed to agaiRSt offender SOUTHLANDERS due nLHBfcrcranpiiance -wift bsat- tintr the jl973 antihijacktag sgreemenL jackings. The pact, was seen at that time' u' reflecting a possible thaw in Fidel Castro threatened Monday to end the hijack-ing. agreement if more jCnb Ibe Ferro Cemento wal run down and sank and its Aurvivore State Depart-' Amusements B-6, 7 Classified VC-15 Cranicr A-14 Crossword A-14 CMI C-15 Police B-4-' C-14 C-24 relations between the two aie81 Stacks iqxm inno- he admitted TuMrfavttaf 4 When dinlomatic ties w-r their origin. 1 f- when diplomatic ties were.

their -rjocient harder' meql spokesman John small raft, Trattner Trattner. said Subsequently: he laid, the and to a tr S.J -t 1.