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I AtGUt-COURttR, fttaluma, Co. VD Education Sought Cash Offer Cited To Reverse Testimony Schools -IPs "irHJ it rm I 1 rV i For District The student body president of Analy High School Thursday urg-ed the Sonoma County Board of Education to ask district school boards to allow veneral disease education in their schools. The board took the position that, while it might advise boards of the availability of such programs, it could not force policy. Gary Geernaert, who also is the new student representative on the county board, said that "at Analy, at least, we haven't had a VD presentation although we feel it is needed. We have materials in the school library, in various magazines and books, but it is not readily available." The Rev.

Robert Jones, board member from Guerneville, said people in the district are "sitting on VD education and it is a very serious affair that should be changed." "Our young people can get into some pretty tragic situations that VD education could prevent," he said. He advised Geernaert to "continue to make tactful but firm representations to your board. This is a situation that must change." Geernaert also urged: A contribution to the treasury of the newly formed Sonoma County Association of High School Officers. He said this bonds in March 1971 from his brother, and added he had contacted the Suffolk County dis-trict attorney and was advised to make photostatic copies of the documents. Continuing, Hughes said his brother asked him to sign an affidavit Indicating Baron perjured himself in the 1969 murder trial.

"Three men were innocent and one belonged there," he said. "I heard Joe say those men were innocent." The status of the original stocks and bonds at this time is unknown. Hughes indicated a man named Frank Davis was instructed to deliver them to an alleged Mafia chieftain. Hughes was the second prosecution witness to expose Baron's alleged activities with the Mafia. William Geraway, the Massachusetts state prisoner, to whom Baron allegedly confessed the murder, also alluded to Baron's Mafia involvement.

Paulette Ramos and Dee Man-cini Wilson, widow of the dead man, were present at the alleged shooting in July 1970 on deserted Wake Robin Lane in Glen Ellen. Both were key witnesses for the prosecution, although their testimony conflicted somewhat. The basic case unveiled by Ronald Fahey, assistant district attorney, is that the stolen stocks and bonds acted as a catalyst between Baron and Wilson. Wilson apparently had the bonds and asked Baron to cash them through Boston connections. Tension and distrust over the bonds ultimately resulted in Wilson's death, Fahey contends.

Miller's case, expected to take three to four weeks, will attempt to show the nine-woman, three-man jury Wilson was a "heavy drug user" and under the influence at the time of his death. He claims Wilson was violent, quick tempered and By JACKIE WITSCH Staff Writer SANTA ROSA Lawrence Hughes, the state'ssurprlsewlt-ness in the murder trial of Joseph Barboza Baron, testified Thursday Earon was offered $500,000 by a New England attorney to recant his testimony in a Massachusetts murder trial that sent four Mafia leaders to death row. The only details Hughes revealed during cross examination by Marteen Miller, public defender, were in testimony in which he claimed attorney F. Lee Bailey told Baron would be placed in escrow if he would say he lied and recant his testimony in the 1969 trial. Hughes said Bailey told Baron the money would go to anyone of Baron's choosing.

Hughes testimony ended the 14-witness, 12 day case of the prosecution in which Baron is charged with murdering Clayton Wilson in 1970. The defense was to begin testimony today. Miller indicated Baron would be his first witness. Although Hughes offered four hours of testimony, Miller requested he be excused conditionally. Noting he was not made aware of the witness until noon Wednesday, Miller said he wanted more time to avail himself of other matters concerning the testimony.

Hughes' testimony dealt with Earon' entanglement with the New England Mafia and the stocks and bonds stolen from a Petaluma home. He said Baron came to Boston with the bonds in April 1970 and arranged for Hughes' brother, Leonard, to obtain them from a Boston newspaper man. When asked if Earon ever mentioned Clay Wilson, the dead man, Hughes he said a fellow named Clay was a punk and he had to be straightened out." Hughes said he obtained the Obituaries James R. Riscioni James R. Riscioni, 80, 1150 Stage Gulch Road, Petaluma, died Thursday at a local rest home.

A life-long resident of the area, Mr. Riscioni was born Oct. 6, 1891 in Marshall. He had been a dairyman all his life and had worked on the Ulysses Martlnelli ranch on Stage Gulch Road for more than 50 years, prior to his retirement in 1956. Survivors include four stepchildren, Mrs.

Mabel Nelson, Cotati; Mrs. Virginia Malnati and Mrs. Annie Allena, both of Petaluma; Silvio Cincera, Rohn-ert Park; one brother, Walter Riscioni, Petaluma; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Lawson, San Carlos, and Mrs. Edith Lee, Petaluma; 11 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Four brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9:15 a.m. from the Garden Chapel of the Sorensen Funeral Home, 969 Petaluma Blvd. North, with a Requiem Mass to be celebrated at St. Vincent Church at 9:30 a.m.

Interment will follow in the Calvary Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary will be Sunday at 8 p.m. William T. Black William T. Black, 73, 2094 Curtis Cotati, was pronounced dead on arrival at a Petaluma hospital Thursday after becoming ill at his home.

A native of Guinda, Mr. Black was born April 1, 1898. He moved to San Francisco as a child and had lived there his entire life, until moving to Cotati 10 years ago. He served with the San Francisco Fire Department for 25 years, retiring as a captain, survivors include his widow, Mae three, child-. ren, William T.

Black Mill Valley; Joyce Conrad, Concord; SCHOOL PLAY Cast members of the Petaluma High School drama department's production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" get in final dress rehearsal before the opening of the play tonight. The presentation begins tonight at 8:15 p.m. and continues in Room C-3 of Petaluma High School Saturday night and again next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. each night, except Dec.

9, when it will be at 7:30 p.m. (Argus-Courier Photo) Air Pirates Petaluma Sixth Graders Nab Jetliner Wow' New York Press Minority Teacher Balance has replaced in eight high schools their affiliation with the California Association of Student Councils (CASC.) He explained, "We felt CASC wasn't worth the $30 a month they were charging student bodies." Dues in the new association is $5 a school but "we are penniless and need some operating money." A letter be sent urging the boards of Sonoma County High School districts to recognize student representatives, The board agreed to Inform the districts of its success with student representatives and of the Petaluma Board Of Education's experience. Most other districts don't recognize students although, Geernaert said, "our superintendent has agreed to let a student speak to the board as part of his report. It's the only way we can get on the agenda." Board member Richard Day of Rohnert Park urged a representation be made to high school districts of their right to help register the high school vote. He said he understood some were discouraging registration.

"I don't understand that," said Mrs. Jene Lawson, Sonoma member of the board. "The Sonoma Unified School District owes the success of its bond election to the 18-year-old vote." the teacher that made one of the most important contributions to my education had a Spanish sur- name and he introduced me to another culture's viewpoint. And for children from Spanish speaking homes, having instructors of Spanish surname, makes school friendly and not hostile, and is essential to communica- tion." Casselli said it is true that there are not enough qualified minority teachers to go around. "But," he said, "an aggres- sive recruiting program can reach some of the sharp mi- noritv graduates of teacher schools Persuade them to take the lesser salaries of an area we neaiasDurg Decause us need is He said in absence of such a program, "the urban areas they come from naturally snap them nia Teachers Association (CTA) blessing.

The CTA strongly op- Pses out-of-state recruiting of majority race itaciieis on me grounu uiai mere 15 a iuipiua at home. The situation at South Park was pictured as being not of the Santa Rosa High School Dis- trict's choosing. The old South Park Scnot1 waS condemned as an earthquake hazard under the leld Act, tne campus was thought too small for a new school, and the district planned to phase it out entirely. However, Caselli told the board, parents opposed spreading their children among other schools so strongly that the district has been teaching them in portables on the old South Park School grounds. Commuter's Round Trip CORRAL, Idaho (AP) "We $11.5 Million Asked In Child Injury Lawsuit (Continued from page 1) officer was slightly wounded by a gunshot in the hand.

Kay is a Frenchman born in Algeria. He managed to hold more than 200 policemen at bay while the medicine mat he de- manded in the name of Bangla Desh, the East Pakistan inde- pendence movement, was gath- ered and transported to the air- port. For much of the day, police worked under the assumption that more than one hijacker was involved, but this appar- ently was wrong. A French-speaking passenger related: "I saw a group of men aressea as Daggage poners run quiciuy down tne aisle ana jump for the hijacker while he was bending over examining the cases of medicines. I heard a shot and that was Throughout the dramatic six hours, the passenger said, Kay was courteous and never threatened the people aboard, "The hijacker authorized te stewardesses to serve meals, moved a young gin down tne end of the aircraft and then let the girl and elderly passengers disembark," he added.

Onlv a ton of medicine had been loaded onto the aircraft wnen Kav was arrested. But vaccines, vitamins and antibiot- iCS had been driven under mo- torcycle escort to the aircraft, 50 yards from Orly's main ter- minal building. After about five hours, two men wearing Red Cross arm bands began unloading the medicine from a truck. As they did, seven passengers, six adults and an infant, left the aircraft. and wniiam B.

Black, San Fran- chologist and Magowan pointed UP-" cisco; four grandchildren; one 0U tna( some 0f tne additional He added tnat some districts brother, Lester Black, Healds- federal and state money can are sendinS recruiters to cam-burg; and one sister, Mrs. Jo- hp ikph rn hire a nart.Hmo puses in the south with Califor- i i. "You know, the first thing we did after we got there was to go downstairs and get some $5 roast beef sandwiches," Jerry Kemp told the Old Adobe Board of Education, Judy Anderson was impressed by the big buildings, in New York, bigger than San Francisco and "cleaner too." She and Jerry climbed to the top of the Statue of Liberty, And Jerry said the Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue where they stay- ed had a drug store in it. "Ac'tually," Patsy Knight, their teacher said, "we had only five hours to tour New York and see all tho places of interest. ine rest ot tne time we were holding press conferences." The sixth graders from Peta- luma "wowed them.

They were the hit of the day with the press so well behaved and the film Judy and Jerry, who have been answering questions from the kids at Bernard Eldredge School the last two weeks about their trip, went to New York tne weekend ot inov. to re- ceive first prize plaques on be- half of their class. The plaques honored the class-produced film, "The Impossible Dream." The film, all about a little boy who dreamed he was a peanut, only to find his dream had come true, won first prize the pre-teen-age division against hundreds of entries in the national Kodak Film Festival. In all, awards were made Jobless Rate 6 Per Cent rate has novered around 6 per cent for a year. Last month it dropped 5.8 per cent.

The bureau also reported that average hourly earnings for rank and file workers declined two pennies last month to $3.47. This is still an increase of 18 cents or 5.5 per cent over a year ago. Average weekly earnings last cent a year Latest fibres show that prices have risen sji per cent a in the 12 months ending last October, The bureau stressed mat while the ratio of job seekers to job holders has remained roughly constant for a year, the total number of job holders has risen substantially since this tiurcu oiuiviu 1 Mime workers, mrnly young adults who lost their jobs, rather than those seeking jobs for the first time or re-entering the labor force. White workers accounted for all the November increases in unemployment, the bureau said. Their unemployment rate rose from 5.3 per cent to 5.7 per cent while the rate for blacks dropped to 9.3 per cent, the bureau said.

REDDING, Calif. (AP) -Lawsuits seeking $11.5 million in damages against a department store chain have been filed by the parents of two children who in separate incidents had their night gowns burst into flames while warming themselves at fireplaces. Both incidents occurred last month in this Northern California community, according to the lawsuits filed Thursday in Shasta County Supreme Court. The most seriously burned, Johna Leigh Murray, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth D. Murray of Redding, is scheduled for a series of skin grafts for burns over one-third of her body. Casey Timothy O'Keefe, 10, son of Mrs. Rosemary O'Keefe of Redding, remains hospitalized but doctors have yet to decide whether skin grafts are necessary. The suits against J.

C. Penney Co. says the Murray nightgown was purchased in a Penney store in Orange County and the O'Keefe garment in Pen-ney's Redding outlet. Each suit seeks $5 million punitive damages, saying that is "a reasonable sum to adequately punish these defendants for their willful, malicious and oppressive conduct and to (Continued from page 1) doing this in the schools. We can take another look at it when we reach parity.

Beside, I think it is an important educational experience for the white majority to have some teachers of a minority race. I know Old Adobe Gains Funds (Continued from page 1) The state allows the district a maximum of 30 children in thpsp rlasqps Howpvpr srrppninu and Hp- veloping curriculum for individ- uaj students in addition to her duties has cut the effect- jVeness of the district's dsv- psychologist as an assistant The job of screening children an(j certifying their capabilities can teeallv be done onlv bv a certificated psychologist and the district's enrollment has increased by more than 700 in the last year. It reached 2003 Monday. The board approved an inter- district agreement allowing five children in two families to at- tend Cinnabar School. Both families had said in applying that the smaller classes at Cinnabar attracted them.

The Cinnabar district recently appealed to Old Adobe to release some of its children because of failing attendance and reduced state aid. The Old Adobe Board has taken the position that it has the job of educating the children in its district and that it will not ask any to go to other schools. However parents may petition for transfers. Cinnabar had said that most of the pupils it lost had moved to the Old Adobe district because their homes had been condemned. However, none of the children now petitioning for transfer attended Cinnabar before.

Cinnabar is busing these children from Petaluma Plaza. Obituary Dorothy A. Hardy Funeral services for Dorothy A. Hardy, 56, 14S0 Goodwin were held this morning. She died Monday of a sudden illness, Survivors include her mother, Fdith Lee, in addition to those previously listed.

FUNERAL HOME M9 Ptttluma North in four division to 12, selected from more than 1,100 entries. "We saw all the winners (meaning their entries)," Judy said. Some were animated like ours, some were live and some were made with puppets." "Did you like yours best?" board member Margaret Kull-berg asked. "Yes." Judy and Jerry were on television in New York and they rode in a "747" getting there and back, Jerry said, but both he and Judy looked confused when a board member asked if they had had any cocktails on the plane. All told, Kodak put out the money for the first class plane tickets, for $100-a-day-hotel rooms and all other expenses, gave the class $150 first prize in the sub-teen division and more than 20 rolls of motion picture film.

Mrs. Knight can get a free big reel showing all the prize winning films of the festival. Otherwise, if the district wanted to show it to the children, it would have to pay a $25 rental fee. Judy and Jerry aren't the only Bernard Eldredge School children getting trips to New York, principal Dan Longacre told the board. Fifth grader Christie Clark, women's world champion water skier who won her title at Clear Lake, has gone to New York to appear on a television show "To Tell the Truth." She is a student in Noble L.

Rogers' fifth grade class. Building Is Dunham Meet Topic Parents and taxpayers have been urged by the Dunham School District trustees to attend a public meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in Koblar Hall to discuss plans and financing for a new building. The present building has been condemned under the Field Act as an earthquake hazard aid must be replaced no later than 1975. The district voted $60,000 in bonds more than a year ago but this was found insufficient to do the job.

Most speculation has put costs at about double that amount. The State Department of Education will send two representatives to explain how the state might help. Dr. William Knife, department of school planning, and John A. McManus, division of finances, will make presentations.

The district trustees calling the meeting are Robert E. Her-rerias, clerk of the board; Sam Aggio and Lester Tunzi. NEED CASH? BORROW UP TO $20,000 for any need! 2nd Trust Deed loonj on Your Present Home Equity. Courteous, fait BREEN Inc. tfoi.i Sr.K.

SK- "34 lOOSASliMt $loWl CCHtm' 4Sfc-H44 seph Geleski, West Sacramento, Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Parent runeiai v-napei, magnolia Ave- nue and Keokuk Street. Private interment services will follow PARENT FUNERAL CHAPEL Thoughtful, Efficient Service THRONE In Petaluma, December 2, 1971. Harry D. Throne, husband of the late Opal Throne.

Loving father of Margaret Stater of Petaluma and Lawrence D. Throne of Balboa, Calif. Grandfather of David and James Throne. A native of Wisconsin. Aged 75 years.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral services, Saturday, December 4, 1971 at 11 a.m. at the Parent Funeral Chapel, Magnolia and Keokuk. Those who prefer may give to the Respiratory Diseases Fund. Inurnment private, Cypress Hill Memorial Park. BLACK -In Petaluma, December 2, 1971.

William T. Black. Beloved husband of Mae Black or Cotati. Loving father of William T. Black Jr.

of Mill Valley; Joyce Conrad of Concord, and William B. Black of San Francisco. Grandfather of four. Brother of Lester Black of Healdsburg and Mrs. Joseph Geleski of West Sacramento.

A native of Guinda, Calif. Aged 73 years. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services. Saturday, Dec. 4, 1971 at 2 p.m.

at the Parent Funeral Chapel, Magnolia and Keokuk. Interment, private. The plane had arrived here from London on its way to Pak- (Continued from page 1) istan. ers from 5.4 per cent to 5.8 per The airlines: 4th graf 2nd cent, the bureau said. The rate for Vietnam veter-The airline's London office vhictl nad dropped sub-said the hijackers first ordered stantiaUy in October to 7.0 per the jet to Beirut, Lebanon.

cent returned to its old level of Orly police said 28 persons 8 2 per cent, were aboard, but the airline in 'The over'-all unemployment make it clear to these defendants that burning children for profit will not be tolerated." The suits also ask a total of $1.5 million in general damages and medical expenses. i iii fr)nnAnw It's Dog Tag Time Again It's dog tag time in Petaluma. Animal control officer Bill Mathews reminds that annual dog licenses will go on sale Monday for city residents. All dogs four months of age and over must have a rabies vaccination, Mathews stressed. To obtain a license it is necessary to produce a valid rabies certificate.

Licenses will cost $4 until Feb. 5, 1972. After that fees will go up to $8. Dog licenses may be obtained from Petaluma Veterinary Hospital, 2443 Petaluma Blvd. North; Brandner Lab, 203 Petaluma Police Department, 22 Bassett Street; Petaluma Animal Control Center, Hopper Street Extension; A Tropical Fish, 697 Fetaluma Blvd.

North; and City Hall Finance Center. FrMn4y 1 just got fed up with city life The hijackers seized the and the high costs," says plane jn the name of Bangla Mamie Ertter, postmaster at rjesh, Pakistani guerrilla move-Corral and proprietor of the ment. little ranching community's Colorado Spruce? We will Deliver Locally nniu cfnrp Rnt hJ hncfcanrf Rnh ton his job in San Francisco. He commutes about 1,200 mUes roundtrip by commercial air- liner every other week. Ertter is a barge captain for United To iag Co off Pier 50 in aaii rraiicisco.

ne worns aun- day evenings through Friday afternoon on the barge, then Dies nome to spend about nine days in Corral, population 20, in southwestern Idaho. av ahead of the game financially," Ertter explained. 'It costs me less to fly home on weekends than it would for a London reported 10 passengers and 6 crewmen. Tne wsieur institute, a na tional research and inoculation center in Paris, announced that had sent a consignment of anticholera vaccine to Orly. Toward evening, five hours me niiacking began jet.

Negotiations appar enuy had taken place on the taxiway. Two men, both in civUian clothes and waving a flag with Red Cross on it, bounded out of a small service truck on the taxiway and walked Into view of the cockpit. TIipv annarpntlv received a uuviin wfv.v...-,, i tijpj for a moment with a stewardess. The men did not enter the aircraft, Calling themselves represen- tatives of 10 million Bengali refugees who have fled from East Pakistan to India, the hi- jackers warned police to stay away from the four-engine Boeing 730D jetliner and said any action that could 'look like intervening" would lead to the plane's destruction. Live Christmas trees are becoming more and more popular every year.

They are much more practical than cut trees, as you can use them from year to year, or find a nice spot in the garden for one to reside. For all early-bird Christmas shoppers! Gift worries become a snap with us. Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Camellias, Dogwood, Citrus make beautiful living gifts. Poinseffias, Cyclamen, Bottle Gardens, House Plants will be in shortly for gift giving. Decorative pots, wind chimes, hummingbird' feeders, and garden books are welcome anywhere.

We will be happy to set aside any Christmas gift now for Christmas delivery, or for you to pick up later. the high house payments and sign 0f recognition from inside It the November in-high taxes on toe house we sold the plane and went to its back creaSe in unemployment oc in Lai llornia. Au1r It nnonorl hripftv and thpv onKrotv imnnc RISCIONI, James R. Monday Most 9 30 AM St. Vmctnt Church Rotory Sunday 8 OO PM Interment Calvory Cemetery SI OM MOTTO MWATV Th i u.cu me ui Francisco area for 15 years, but Mamie said, "We got tired of living in California and all that congestion.

We wanted to come back to Idaho." Ertter is a native of Boise and his wife was reared in Wei- ser, also in southwestern Idaho, "Bob hated to give up his job so he flies back and forth each week," she said. "We sold our house in California and bought the store in Corral." GREEN THUMB NURSERY Comer Wilwi East St. 71-1117 Sorensen 5 lUKAXEItlCUt For Information Phono 7631963 1 nfl iftff ifHn yfrii) ifTntf.