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aj-A-Ctntrtl 20-A-NortH 20-A-Wcit 18-A-Egst 3 Von Nuys Stptcmber 25, Aviation Group Supports New Slate City School Board Rejects All Race Superiority Talk ri i iv -LI ii Installed by Study of Dirigible Use A Southern California aviation group is urging President Nixon to sup- iport research into possible use of dirigibles to help solve some of the nation's transportation problems, United Press International reported yesterday. The Southern California Aviation Council sent a resolution to the President urging the research following a study made by- Thomas Wolfe, vice president of SCAC. Wolfe, whose aviation background includes executive positions with three major airlines, said there have been rapid advances in technology since the 1930's when the U.S. dirigible program was abandoned due to disasters. The outstanding advantage of the dirigible is that none of its power is spent in keeping it in the air and like a ship, it approaches and departs very slowly reduced power, Wolfe explained.

"Nor does a dirigible require a billion-dollar airport with thousands of acres of land," he said. Wolfe said, "a mooring mast and facilities for processing freight and passengers is all it requires. In fact, it could probably carry its own ground support to remote locations." Wolfe sees dirigibles as supplements to existing air transportation systems, and he suggested that in addition to passenger carrying big ships might serve to lug crud- oil from Alaska or deliver California agricultural products to domestic and foreign markets at low costs. Today's technology indicates that nuclear-powered, non-flammable helium-type dirigibles can be constructed to carry a payload of 500 tons or more nonstop to any point in the world with zero air pollution and practically no noise, Wolfe said. MaleChorus Paul M.

Anderson of Canoga Park has been installed as president of the San Fernando Valley Male Chorus. Anderson has been a member of the chorus for five years and has been featured as a baritone ist at the annual spring Male Chorus concerts. He also has been a member of other choral groups in the Valley. He was a member of the Sacr a mphony Chorus for eight years and served as president of that organization for one year. Other officers installed are Richard Radke, vice president; Donald Jordan, asurer, and Marvin Kaufman, secretary.

The Male Chous is a n-p rofit organization composed of men whose Murder Counts Filed in Rock Killing of Girl 4 Police investigators yesterday filed murder petitions against four juveniles suspected of dropping a rock from a freeway overpass and killing a 4-year-old Montebello girl. The petitions were filed the County Probation Dept, which, later will hold hearings in juvenile court, police said. In addition, police at Hollenbeek Division said they filed another felony laint against the 15-year-old suspect of actually dropping the rock. That complaint charges him with throwing a missile at a moving The suspects, between 31 and 15 years old, were arrested at their homes in Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles after a door- to-door search by police. i tie Maria a a ho, of 1357 S.

Greenwood was killed instantly Saturday night when a rock six inches in diameter crashed through the windshield of her father's pickup truck and uck her above the heart. A coroner's autopsy yes- rday determined she was killed by a rupture of the heart'u left ventricle, caused by "blunt force trauma." Police said Maria was sitting between her parents as they drove inbound on Santa Ana Freeway around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The rock was dropped from the Seventh St. overpass, police said, after the younger suspects apparently dared the 15-year- old.

Police Continue Probe of Casket-Theft Incident Police mug shots of possible suspects to witnesses yesterday as their investigation into the theft of the casket containing the body of rock singer Gram Parsons continued. I estigator Joe E. Hamilton, of the Venice Division, said he had "two good witnesses" who saw two men in a black hearse take the casket from Los Angeles International Airport last Thursday. He also said police have a "possible" license number of the hearse. A thorities said the body had been embalmed and was waiting at a Nat i nal Airlines loading dock for shipment to Parsons' home in New Orleans where the singer was to be buried.

The body was found later burned beyond recognition in a flaming casket in the Cap Rock campground at Joshua Tree National Monument Hamilton said author- CPA Discussion Croup to Hear Talk at Breakfast Martin Kavinoky CPA will be the guest speaker for Van Nuys Discussion Group at a breakfast meeting today at 7:30 a.m. in Howard Johnson's Restaurant, 15421 Sepulveda. The meeting is one of a series sponsored by the California Society of CPAs designed to meet the continuing education requirements of its members. Chairman Al Feldman announced the topic of the meeting will be "Rule 58 and Unaudited Financial Statements." i SVAPtfi IC i E' ities did not know why a been burned. Two theories are that it was a ritualistic funeral, or that it was burned to destroy evidence.

PAUL ANDERSON New President common interest is music. It is not affiliated with any church or religious organization. The first fall rehearsal of the Male Chorus was held on Sept. 10 at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 6610 Shoup Cdnoga Park. Any man who likes to sing and wishes to join the San Fernando Valley Male Chorus is invited to attend a rehearsal at the above mentioned church.

For further information arding membership, tact Charles Fahnestock at 348-5189. By TOM GRAY The Los Angeles City Board of Education yesterday responded to criticism by Southern California American Civil Liberties Union officials and went on record as rejecting "all assertions that any race is inherently superior to another." The Board passed a two- part motion to that affect, i ch was introduced Thursday by Board member Julian Nava. Voting on the two-parts of the resolution separately, the Board gave unanimous approval to a reaffirmation of its dedication to equal educational opportunities. Not Making Judgment The second part of the i dealing with series of genetic racial differences, was passed with six in favor and Board member J. C.

Chambers abstaining. Chambers said he refused to take a stand on the motion because he did ifot want "to make a scientific judgment in an area out of my control." Nava's introduction of the motion came after Southern California ACLU president Marvin Schachter strongly criticized the Board for allegedly assuming "that Los Angeles blacks are innately inferior." Quotes Memorandum At the Thursday meet- i Schachter alleged that portions of a brief filed by the Board's counsel during a school segregation court case four years ago revealed district officials took no position on whether or not blacks were genetically inferior to whites. achter quoted a memorandum by Board Counsel as saying: "We do not assert that there are in fact distinctive ethnic group patterns and abilities nor do we assert that there are not such patterns. We are agnostic in this regard." Says Policy Followed Associate Jerry Halvorsen, who was chief counsel for the Board in the case, said Schachter had quoted the passages out of context. Halvorsen asserted the Board and the district staff had always followed a policy of equal educa- ALUMINUM AWNINGS PHONE "LIFETIME" FOR PRICES ON THE SIZES YOU NEED Vi PRICE CONTRACTORS LICENSE 187635-8-1 731-8761 --I 2-Year Certificates $1000 MINIMUM $5000 Certificates (No long term requirements) PASSBOOK Morris Piano California's Largest Loan and Thrift Service "Van Nuys, 6850 Van Nuys Canoga Park, 6911 Topanga Canyon Thousand Oaks, 1807 Thousand Odkb Northridge, 8923 Reseda Phone 786-2820 Phone 884-1330 Phone 497-2721 Phone 866-7585 to California rtsldtnti only.

tional opportunities and treatment regardless of race. The case, Crawford versus Board of Education, ended in a decision by former Superior Court Judge Alfred Gitelson that the school district must end de facto segregation. New Blast Heard The decision is still in process of being appealed by the Board. Yesterday, ACLU edu- a i on chairman John Caughey leveled another blast at the Board. "The notion of black inferiority was near the surface in arguments by senior counsel for the Board several times during the trial," Caughey said.

a said the Board's position hi the case was a "reassertion" of the "separate but equal" educational policy rejected U.S. Supreme Court in 154. In their arguments for a statement against any assertion of genetic-racial difference, both Nava and the ACLU officials pointed "to recent theories, offered by some researchers, alleging that- there was scientific evidence showing that black children may be inherently less intelligent than white children, "I think it is desirable to pass the motion," Nava National Lupus Erythematosis Group to Meet The National Lupus Er- ythematosis Foundat i -will meet today at 7:30 p.m. at 15840 a Encino Guest speaker will be Dr. Stanley Leiken whose topic of discussion will be "Prolonged Illness in the Family." People afflicted with lupus, as well as, all members of the community, are invited to attend.

GLACIER'S EXTENSION The lower end of Blue G1 a ier, Mt. Olympus, extends out over a cliff. said, "because of the need to clear the air after the confusion in some quart aused by these udo-scientific assertions." Most of Nava's colleagues, agreed with him that some statement was necessary, particularly in the face of the' ACLU criticism and of th'e publicity given to given to the theories of racial genetics. Allegation Held Untrue Dep. Supt.

James B. Taylor, on behalf of Supt. of Schools William J. Johnston, read a statement that more explicitly denies the ACLU accusation. Taylor said Schachter a "alleged that this school district operates under the assumption that 'blacks are innately The Superintendent and staff of the Los Angeles city schools reject such an allegation as totally untrue.

"We state unequivocally that this school district does not subscribe to, nor any way give approval to, the concept of genetic sup iority or inferiority based on race," Taylor's statement continued. Chambers was not the only Board member to voice reservations about the motion. Richard Ferraro, who voted in favor of the resolution, nevertheless at- tacked it as "superfluous." He suggested at one point substituting the Superintendent's statement for Nava's motion on the grounds the latter did not really answer the ACLU charges. Nava and other Board members, however, stood by the 'original motion. FOTO DATING ARE YOU AVAILABLE FOR IF YOU ARE, YOU SHOULD PHONE THIS NUMBER 789-6000 24 HOUR RECORDING Peace of Mind for the Living A Local Man's Responsibility He is Clayton Preston, Counselor for the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, 6153 Van Nuys, Van Nuys.

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