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School audit, By WALT MURRAY Stan Writer Its unlikely that the Long Beach Unified School District wiU have to pay back money that federal auditors say it misused, a state education official has said. 'Weve never returned any money yet in an audit like this, said Manuel Ceja, chief of compensatory education for the state Department of Education in Sacramento. Ceja charged that the audit-completed last June but still awaiting action by the U.S. Office of Education was me of several initiated by the Nixon administration to damage the states compensatory education program. But the charge that the audits were politically 1 motivated is absolutely false, according to John Rodriguez, a USOE official hi Washington.

He said the purpose of the audits was to improve management of the programs, which supply special funds for educating minority youngsters. AUDITORS at the western regional office of the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare recommended last June that Long Beach-schools pay back $517,252 allegedly misused in the school districts compensatory education program. At the time, W.

Odie Wright, Long Beachs superintendent of schools, charged that auditors were unfairly applying present guidelines to past years, State education officials generally agreed with Wright, although they conceded that a small portion of the money should be refunded. Since then, school officials in Sacramento have been gathering evidence to support their, position, and will submit their final arguments to the USOE by Nov. 15. Its -the USOE, a branch of Health, Education and Welfare, that will make the final determination how much money if any must be paid back. Technically, any refund would come from the state education department, although presumably the Long Beach Unified School District would be called upon to reimburse the state.

Despite the Nov. 15 deadline, the procedure could drag on for months or even years, Ceja said. Rodriguez, associate commissioner of compensatory education programs for the USOE in Washington, said the agency would rule on the audit from 45 to 60 days after receiving the final report from California education officials. The state could still appeal that decision to an HEW audit hearing board. But if the state can show us that the audit is in error, and what Long Beach did was allowable, thats the end of it, Rodriguez said.

Federal auditors were critical of the partial financing of the construction of College Intermediate School with federal funds and the use of federally financed portable bungalows at allegedly unauthorized school sites. The expenditures were made in programs aimed at increasing the learning of disadvantaged children in central-city schools during 1968-72. Refunds should be made on grounds that the school district allegedly violated federal statutes in spending some of the $5 million in U. S. funds it received for that purpose during those four years, the auditors said.

Although recommendations for the largest refunds involved buildings and supplies, the auditors also cized accounting procedures used in keening track of $4 5 million spent for salaries, wages and fringe benefits for employes of the program. The money was granted to the school district under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the major federal aid program for low-achieving children in geographical areas with concentrations of low-income families. Wright said the federal auditors -were imposing 1973-74 guidelines on 1968-72 expenditures. The way the money was used was legal then, even if its not now, he said. He said that the salary accounting procedures the U.S.

criticized have been changed to meet auditor recommendations. The way the district handled its compensatory education money conformed to state guidelines and the district will honor only those parts of the audit ultimately approved by the state, Wright said. CEJA SAID that state education officials had been gathering information from the local school district and that constructing a defense against the audit criticisms is our responsibility now. He said he didnt mind that action on the audit was taking so much time, noting' federal legislation passed last August put a 5-year statute of limitations on audit paybacks. Ceja charged that the main purpose of the HEW audits were to make pro-Nixon education programs look bad so Nixon appointees could more easily phase in education revenueharing programs of their own: S'- -V -ll.

wrrcirs brew on ice the big ship. All icy hands (employes) hav'e invited to dress up to the theme of "The Queen Mary and Her History. Prizes will be given for most original cos-' tume, best interpretation of the theme and tried hardest. -Staff photo by CHUCK SUNDQUIST Bewitching Queen Maiy tour guide Ann Nielsen tries out a little pre-Halloween witchery on some young visitors with help from the steamy vapors- of a Museum of the Sea exhibit which shows water in solid, liquid and gaseous states. Its all in preparation for Thursdays costurqe day aboard 1974 SECTION Poge.Bd SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26.

MARKETS ON PAGES B-9, 10, Pain not where you think it is, JFK doctor says operation has been performed. Travell put it this way: Other tissues' heal. Muscles learn. Travells approach is to inject procaine solution into the trigger point or pain source area, or spray over it with a coolant vapor known as fluoromethane. She emphasized that the source Referred pain is that which arises in an area other than its origin.

Travell said physicians should use their knowledge of anatomy to trace pain to its source. Physicians must remember that muscular spasms, for instance, may persist even after their original cause has been eliminated. For example, she said, low-back pain may persist even after a disk point is sprayed or injected not the muscular area that hurts. Travell said that an important part of the treatment is to stretch the involved muscle after spraying or injecting it The goal is to restore the nor-, mal resting length of the muscle, she said. The doctor or physical therapist stretches the muscle.

In some times of muscular spasm, the patient can learn to stretch the muscle himself, she said. Travell said that back in the 1940s when she was giving procaine injections, she experimented with dry needling insertion of the-needle, without injecting procaine. The procedure was effective in relieving, pain, she said, pointing out that acupuncture is not new In Western medicine Where the patient hurts is not where the pain comes from. Travell, professor emeritus of clinical medicine at George Washington University, Washington, D. explained her treatment methods in a lecture Thursday at Long Beach Veterans 'Administration Hospital.

She returned to the tal Friday to give demonstrations. Each skeletal muscle -has its pattern of referred pain, she said. By BEN ZINSER Medical-Science Editor I A former White House physician said in Long Beach that the best way to treat muscular pain is: First ask the patient: Where does it hurt? Then treat a different area. Janet Travell, personal physician to the late President John F. Kennedy, explained: 1 Meeting set Monday tysi HELP FOR WADE DISTRICT ASKED unit to vote oil energy plan By DON BRACKENBURY Staff Writer ma, and his physicians later reported he had suffered a heart attack as a complication of the emphysema.

They indicated he would be away from his office for six months. On July 23, the City Council adopted a resolution excising Wade Jrom attendance at council meetings until released by his doctor to return to his official duties. In her letter, Mrs. Richards said that certain problems have arisen in our area which cannot be taken care of by an incapacitated councilman, and asked the council, since you are elected on a citywide basis, to assume a greater share of responsibility for the I Fifth District. The nominating election for new Long Beach council members will be next March 18, and the general municipal election will be May 13..

Since the illness of Mayor Edwin W. Wade, the Fifth Councilmanic District of Long Beach has. been without representation, directors of the Ward-low Park Improvement Association asserted in a letter filed Friday with the city clerk. Undoubtedly, Mayor-Wade will not be returning, the letter declared. Are we to be without a voice on the council until June, 1975? The letter, which will be on the City Councils, agenda Tuesday, was signed by Jo Ann Richards, chairman of the associations board of directors.

Mrs. Richards was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful attempt in 1970 to recall tour members of the City Council, and was a council candidate from the Fifth District in 1972. Wade was hospitalized in early July for treatment of pulmonary emphyse- -a panded terminals for ships larger than 150,000 deadweight tons should not be allowed until Southern California petroleum expected to rise to more than oik million barrels per day within the period of time necessary to construct the facilities. Berbower also urged-commissioners to establish a policy whereby the tremendous socio-economic impact of world trade is recognized- and that the existing ports are encouraged to carry on with their support of world trade, consistent with adequate environmental safeguards. Long Beach Deputy City Atty.

Ken Williams detailed the citys objections to the element, citing policies which he claimed ao not leave the builder in a practical situation." He told commissioners the city wps strongly opposed "to a proposed policy that would reduce property taxes for home-owners who incorporate energy-saving devices such as solar collector systems for water and By KRIS SHERMAN Staff Writer Regional" coastal commissioners are set to Vote on adoption of controversial Energy Element Monday when they convene at 9 a m. in the Long Beach Harbor Department's board room, 925 Harbor Plaza Drive. They originally were-due to vote on the lengthy and complicated document which contains policies for future use of energy sources within the coastal zone following a public hearing Friday in Torrance: numerous questions and objections were raised during the five-hour hearing, com missioners decided to postpone any action on the element until Monday. That will give the commissions staff including planner R. Gordon Craig, who wrote most of the findings and policies time to evaluate the criticisms and revise the document where necessary, according to commission Executive Director Mel Carpenter.

The voluminous vation Act of 1972). Commissioners said they would discuss many of Crums objections on Monday before they on adoption of the element. However, Ray er, assistant chief harbor engineer for the port of Long Beach, won a concession from the commission when it voted to revise its policy statement regarding the construe- tion of tanker terminals-for ships exceeding deadweight tons. The policy, as written, would have banned construction of such terminals until Southern California petroleum imports from Indonesia and the Middle East exceeded one million barrels per day. Berbower told commissioners it would take at least seven years to construct the deep-water terminals and asked that the statement be revised to allow port facilities the time to construct necessary terminals.

Commissioners agreed, and changed the language, of the proposed policy to read: New or greatly ex document is one of nine elements to be lated by the regional commission and submitted to the state commission for inclusion 4n the California Coastal Plan for future use of the states coastline. The South Coast Regional Commission is charged with developing policies applicable to the area it serves a swath stretching five miles inland from the Los Angeles-Orange county costline Though environmentalists lauded the commission for the tough policies proposed in its Energy Element, speakers from the Southern California Edison Co. and City of Long Beach took exception to many of the recommendations in the document. Edison spokesman George Crum told commissioners his company was especially concerned about a finding in the element that there are no sites in the region which are presently suitable for new fossil fuel or nuclear power plants which are consistent with objectives of the act (Coastal Conser space heating-into their homes. Commission Chairman Donald Bright said com-, missioners would hold a behind the rail discussion of the element Monday before they vote on its adoption.

The commissions Recreation Element is also slated for commission-only discus-, sion and vote. Following their votes on the elements, commissioners will continue the list of permit hearings originally scheduled to heard last Monday. Included on that agenda which commissioners postponed when their meeting ran into the evening hours is a vote on the multimillion-dollar Las Calas subdivision north of Los Cerritos Channel on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway. The project, proposed as the construction of 198 single-family homes and 203 boat slips by Loynes Pacific Corp. and the San Gabriel River Improvement received a public hearing Sept.

30. Vets Day sooner or later 11th. The differences result from the. fact that the Legislature last year voted to change the state's observance of the occasion, from the fourth Monday in October to the more traditional Nov. 11.

will operate on their normal schedules Monday and will be closed Nov. 11. Schools will be open Monday and closed on Nov. 11. Federal offices, including the post office, however, will be closed Monday and open on the The observance of Veterans Day, complicat-d by the fact that some ovemment offices are ibserving it Monday and ithers on Nov.

11, shapes ip wayjn Long leach: All state and city offices Childrens Clinic depends on you UNITED CDUUDC City gets copter for spare parts A third federal surplus this one to be used for replacement parts for the two craft previously given to the city, has been allocated to Long Beach's Department of Emergency Preparedness. U.S. Rep. Glenn M. Anderson, D-Harbor City, said Friday.

The congressman said the Bell TH13 helicopter was made available by the General Services Administration under the federal surplus program. Two TH13 helicopters were given to the Department of Emergency Preparedness last month, also under the federal surplus program. Evar P. Peterson, coordinator of disaster services, said the helicopters were provided to be available in emergency situations. I The helicopters will be piloted by Long Beach police, but are not intended for use in the police aerial patrol, Peterson said.

The first of three report luncheon meetings for United Crusade, Region III, 'meanwhile, will be held Thursday at the Gold Crown Room in Downey. A no-host cocktail hour at 11:30 a.m. will, be followed by the luncheon at noon. About 200 campaign workers are expected. Travis Montgomery, who will sene as master of ceremonies, said volunteers who contributed significantly to the campaign effort to date will be honored as the luncheon's theme See All The Thanks You Qet" is carried out.

Total contributions raised thus far also will be announced. Two additional luncheons are planned and Mrs, Iva Voldase of Carson will be the general chairwoman of all three. Serving as cochairwomcn for the first will he Mrs. Douglas Ferguson of and Mrs. Walter Fowler, chairwoman of volunteers of the Rio Hondo chapter of the American Red Cross in Whittier.

remainder came from the clinics auxiliary, parent-teacher organizations. th Children's Benefit League, Medi-Cal payments and private donors. Treatment is provided in large, part by volunteer doctors. About 200 of them, some 50 from the take time from their private practice to prov ide help. Families arrange appointments in advance through a medical-social worker who determines their financial eligibility.

The chief of the clinic, Henry Ludwig, the only male on the regular staff, -has only praise for the array ofi women who keep the institution serving and growing." The skilled office staff, the registered nurses, the medical and social workers and the variety of technicians could all work elsewhere for more money." he said, but they feel they are making, a donation to the community." The clinic receives patients from Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, Carson, Bellflower, Paramount and, in certain instances, from Hawaiian Gardens. The Long Beach 'Children's Clinic serves young people to the age of 15 who have birth, learning and development disorders but whose parents are too poor to pay for conventional help. It is one of the more significant beneficiaries of United Way. In fact.it not only has its share, of medical problems this year, it has a financial one as well and it can 3 summed up in a sentence: Whether it will be able brtmw its anticipated 000 patients depends on its allocation -from1-the United Way-and the United Way depends on you. The clinic, which is housed on the ground floor of the Earl and Lorraine Miller Childrens Hospital is in its 35th year.

It served 600 -patients its first year, when it was founded by five Long Beach pediatricians, this year and if the help it gets is great enough it can serve 14,000 next year. The United Way gave the clinic about $118,000 last year, roughly 35 per cent of its total budget. The.