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TODAY'S VALLEY WEATHER Mostly fair and wanner. JHghs from 65 to 72, lows between -15 and 53. APCD predicts light irritation from smog. News CENTRAL VALLEY EDITION 136 PAGES and GREEN SHEET Established 1911 VOL 62--NO. 169 -t IOME DELIVERY BY CARRIER SUN, MONTHLY SUNDAY, MAY 6, 1973 Maif Address.

P.O Box 3)0, Van Calif. 91408 14539 Sylvan Street Phone 786-7111 lOc Copy Compiled from the of United Press International President Luis Echeverria of Mexico personally intervened yesterday to save the life of U.S. Consul- General Terrance G. Leonhardy who was kidnaped at gunpoint Friday night by four members of a political extremist organization in Guadalajara. Echeverria agreed to all the kidnapers' demands, including the release of 30 political prisoners and flying them to Cuba by 6 p.m.

today. In Washington, an emergency task force in the State Department was keeping abreast of developments Important Wive News will be found on Page A-51. In the kidnaping. Leonhardy 59, resides in Guadalajara with his wife Lee and their two daughters. The terrorists, who intercepted Leonhardy's car near his home and kidnaped the diplomat, said they would execute him unless their demands are met by today's 6 p.m.

deadline. Mounting evidence of White House-ordered political espionage today had created repercussions in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Key Biscayne. Fla. In Los Angeles, the defense in the Pentagon Papers trial yesterday asked U.S. District Court Judge ilatt Byrne to turn over an affidavit from former White House aide Egil ''Bud" Krogh, who reportedly MACEIO, BRAZIL (UPI) The bride and groom stood before the priest.

The congregation awaited the exchange of vows. Then the groom fled, chased hy Juse Da Silva had been recognized as a wanted swindler by police attending the wedding'. They said Da SiTva was wanted on charges of selling fake riiplomils and passing bad checks. i Shocked and embarrassed guests filed out of the i-'hurch. leaving the bride weeping at the altar.

Police said she probably was lucky. admitted helping supervise the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. A spokesman for the defense said, "the affidavit firmly establish a link between President Nixon -md the criminal activities carried out by his subordinates in connection with the prosecution of EUsberg and Anthony Judge Byrne denied a defense motion Friday to dismiss the case. The trial resumes tomorrow John W. Dean, the ousted White House counsel, told the Federal Court in Washington he stashed nine classified documents in a safe deposit box because he believes they bear on the Watergate case.

And Donald H. Segretti, a Nixon campaign aide, was indicted Friday in Florida on charges of plotting last year to distribute a phony campaign letter which defamed two Democratic presidential candidates. He surrendered to FBI agents in Los Angeles. The alleged phony letter, which Segretti is accused of circulating in Florida, was written on Sen. Edmund Muskie's campaign stationery and contained allegations about two of the Maine Democrat's opponents in last Dear's primary Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson.

President Nixon, tense and tired after weeks of personal crisis, worked yesterday in Key Biseayne, on plans to overhaul a White House staff severely shaken by the Watergate scandal. Nixon's first major appointment of a replacement rame Friday when he named Alexander M. Haig Army vice chief of staff, to take over H. R. Haldeman's duties as White House chief of staff on an interim basis.

Speaking in Columbus, Ohio, Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. (R-27th District) said "political espionage is part of the political game because you have to know what the other side is doing. Undoubtedly Watergate will hurt Republican credibility, but time heals lots of The Mississippi River remained above flood stage yesterday from Iowa to Louisiana and farmers were hauling catfish from fields where they normally would be planting cotton. Hundreds of thousands of acres have been flooded during the river's seven-week rampage and damage Continued on Page 28 3 in Hazing Death Get Sentences Pierce College Students Receive Probation, Fines Three Pierce College students who had pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing charges in connection with the death last December of their frat ity brother, Fred Bronner, have been sentenced in Municipal Court in Newhall. Placed on summary probation for 60 days, ordered to work 10 days on U.S.

Forestry Service projects and fined various amounts were John Berges 29, now stationed with the U.S. Navy in San Diego; Gordon Gillespy 19, of 23700 Hartland Canoga Park, and John Morgan 21, of 20258 Hamlin Canoga Park. They were sentenced Friday by Judge Adrian Adams, who ordered fines of $50 for Gillespy, $150 for Morgan and for Berges. The three were prosecuted under State Education Code section 10852 which prohibits hazing or committing "any act that injures, degrades or disgraces any fellow student." Bronner and the three defendants were members of the Chi Chi Chi fraternity on the- Woodland Hills campus at the time of the incident. The three men told police they had dropped Bronner off on the secluded Old Ridge Route north of Lake CastaJC on Dec.

22 at about 2 a.m. They said they expected him to hike back along the road to Interstate aboui 10 miles away and lo think about his being "ob- Continued on Page 28 Employment in County Hits Peak for April Report Says NO CALLS Students Geared Up to Get Jobs By RUTH CROFT he student- operated employment service for young men and women enrolled at William Howard Taft and El Camino a igh Schools is geared up, ready to fill job requests. But no employers have registered their needs. "It's really quite disappointing," Mrs. Georgel- Icn flofhine.

career adviser for both schools, told The News. distributed cir- 1 ars, announced the availability of the service at civic club meetings the publicity we received in your newspaper has been great, but employers just aren't stepping forward." she said. "We ran out of student application forms the firut day they were available at El Camino and they're going fast at Taft. The dc- bire to work is there. Now, if we only could get employers to inventory- their summer needs and register them with us." The employment -301- Continuecl on Page 28 LOOK WHAT I FOUND Holding bottle which contains live dam is Robert A.

Chenoweth II, 10, of 0701 Ruclnick Canoga Park. along with lather, found bottle while digging for clams in Balona Creek Estuarv. near Marina del Rey. Robert's father guesses bottle to be at least 20 years old. Clam is apparently too big to leave bottle and can barely open its shell to eat.

Balona Creek Estuai-y was once pan of canal system. The photo Early Discipline Advised Studio City By Child Guidance Expert Coed Wins Scholarship Respect for Authority, Parents' Love Called Ingredients of Proper Behavior Budget Hearings Recessed APATHY OF PUBLIC DISMAYS COUNCIL By DURWOOD SCOTT It's an old story but worth repeating. The taxpaying public earas about governmental spending when the bill comes due, but for the most part couldn't care less when officials such as city council men do de- go- TODAY'S NEWS INDEX A Closer Look Page B-2 Affairs of Notions A-27 Jock Anderson A 1 8 Classified Page B-12 Crossword Page B-2 Employment A Films-Tempo Poge A-26 Wall Street A-10 Konter on (Contract A-27 Kaplan Reports Poge A-31 The Lamplighter A-2 Pets Page A-25 Panorama City Poge A-36 Public Forum A-2 Real Estate and Development Page A-45 Scpulvoda Poge A-6 Sports Page B-3 Square Calendar Page A-10 Television Page B-2 Theaters Poje A-26 The Sounding Board Page A-22 The Mixer Page A.2 Vital Record Pages A. 13, A-44 Watch on Washington Page A-2 Women Page A-57 Your Birthday Page A-20 Camp Fire G.Hs Hold Candy Sale More than 6000 Camp Girls in the San Fernando Valley are taking part in the organization's a al products sale, which will continue until Saturday, May 26. Girls of all the Camp Fire age levels, including Birds, Discovery Club and Horizon Club girls, aged 6 through 17, are participating in the a of chocolate mint sticks, chocolate and caramel-covered pecans and cans of party mix salted nuts.

In this annual sale, the Continued on Page 28 the pencil work that cides what the tab is ing to be. Council closed Its first week of public hearings on the coming 1973-74 budget on Friday. Public apathy so discouraged Council finance committee chairman Marvin Braude (llth District) that on Friday lie asked Council to close public hearings. He noted that hearings could be reopened on the sed $693,183,372 spending package if someone showed up wanting to talk. Valley Councilmen Ernani Bernard! (Seventh District) and Louis R.

Nowell (First District) objected to closing the hearings which are slated to be called as a special order of business each morning at 10:30 o'clock in the Council chamber on the third floor of Los Angeles City Hall, 200 N. Spring St. Original estimate was that the public hearings would be held open for about 10 days. llovving Bcrnardi's and 's objections, Braucle rescinded his motion and the Council recessed the public hearing Continued on Pajfe 28 By UICHARD KNEE A noted child guidance specialist yesterday told about 250 Los Angeles city school teachers that they should "draw the line early'' in the area of student Dr. James Dobson, professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California, made the comment as the featured speaker at the spring conference of the Professional Educators of Los Angeles in the Hollywood Palladium.

Taught to Think By nature, Dobson said, children will test persons in authority to see how much mischief they can get away with. "A child knows exactly where your (tolerance) line is," he "Usually, he won't go beyond it because just on the other side of the line is (disciplinary) action." Self-discipline and self- control, he told the educators, "are maybe the most important things a child learns in school." The school is responsible, he observed, for giving a child 'the power as an adult to do the responsible thing." Although lie was speaking to teachers, Dobson focused much of his talk on discipline in the home. He has a 7-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son. Procedure Explained Children, he asserted, should be taught respect for the "benevolent, loving authority of the parent" in order for them to develop proper attitudes toward other forms of authority, such as teachers, law enforcement and "God Himself." "You should teach your child that you love liim that you would die for him but also that you expect from him certain attitudinal he said. Spanking, Dobson continued, "should be reserved, in the home and in the school, for that morn extreme defiance." It should be adminis- Continned on Pagfe 28 Louise Robin Corson J7, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Morris Corson of Studio City, has been awarded a List 4.5% on Rolls of Jobless Number Working Totals 3,295,600 Unemployment in Los Angeles County dropped last month to its lowest level in 40 months, state government statisticians had reported today. At the same time the number of persons holding 1 jobs in the county reached a record high for the month of April. The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for April was 4.5%, the lowest since December 1969, said Odessa Dubinsky, senior manpower analyst for tlm State Dept. of Human.

Development. Number Rose This was a drop fro a unemployment in March and reflected continuing improvements iii economic conditions she said. In April of 1972, the- Los Angeles County jobless figure was G.dfo' of the work force. The number of persons. at work rose in April for the third straight month, reaching a total of 600.

This was a gain of 14,100 over March and represented the highest total employment ever recorded in the month of April ir the county, Miss Dubinsky said. Across Broad Front A springtime surge in the construction Industry was cited as a big factor In the improved employment picture. The total number of unemployed declined lo 151,000 last month. It meant there were 16,500 fewer people out of work than in April a year ago. Miss Dubinsky said em- 1 yment increases in A i re recorded across a broad front, -with large gains reported in Continued on Page 38 Sunny Skies Return Today The cloudy conditions that yesterday brought to an end a spell of warm sunshine in Southern California will give way to fair weather today, the National Weather Service said.

Temperatures should be slightly warmer in the Valley with highs between 65 and 72. Lows tonight will be between 45 and 55. Highs tomorrow are expect cd lr range in ihc 70s. Yesterday, Van Nuys a her Station 10-B recorded a high of only 66, following a low of 52. Friday's high was 69 after a low of 55.

Los Angeles Civic Center will have a high today boon Valley residents for near 70 under clear skies. 12 years. Miss Corson ranks first in a senior class of 578 students at North Hollywood and will be valedictorian. In addition she is a LOUISE ROBIN CORSON Wins Scholarship scholarship to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Also the recipient of a California State Scholarship, Miss Corson will attend the university beginning in September, majoring in mathematics and science.

Currently she is a senior at North Hollywood High School, having at- nded Carpenter Ave. Elementary School and Walter Reed Junior High School. The Corsons have DOG FOUND WITH AD ''It's nice to know so many people read ads in The News," a North Hollywood woman said after a 'News' ad located her lost dog. GERMAN shepherd mix female. 5 mo.

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