Valley News from Van Nuys, California • Page 6

Pay 6 VALLEY NEWS Van Nuys. Calif. Octobtr 18,1977 Dry land launch for Valley-built trimaran Valley News photo. Forty-one foot trimaran which Robert Paddack, Van Nuys, has been building since 1974 is launched toward landing on boat trailer for hauling to Marina del Rey. From the marina Paddack and his wife Bonnie, a partner in the project, will sail to Oxnard and embark on shakedown cruises, later sailing to "wherever the wind takes us.

its above 70 degrees." Jarvis tax initiative cost to local government: $8 billion From page 1 divided up among local the intent to cut local government services by $7 to $8 billion? If so. what sen-ices will be eliminated? Police and fire protection? Parks and recreation?" An official in the state controller's office said that the current percentage of fair market value collected in taxes now is 2.8 percent. If it is reduced to 1 percent, the current combined tax rate (for schools, cities, counties and special districts) of about $12 on a statewide average would be cut to about $4. Jarvis contends, however. "I don't think there will bea revenue loss from property taxes, which should be limited to property related services." He and other critics of the existing system complain too much of the property tax dollar goes from non-property related services such as welfare and health care.

Jarvis noted that his initiative provides for an annual 2 percent valuation increase on property. Also, when property is sold, the amount of sale would become the new assessed valuation The loss of revenue, he said, would be made up by the increased valuations, by a boom in remodeling he anticipates with the new tax structure and by putting tax exempt land back on the rolls (this is not provided form the amendment). He admitted that these would not occur the first year, but estimates the loss for the first 12 months at $3 billion rather than the $7 to $8 billion As for the petition drive, the cosponsor estimated that some 350,000 signatures have been collected to date. The deadline for submitting the to the state is Dec. 2 and Jarvis believes that about 700,000 signatures will be needed by then to have the 500.000 qualifie'd voters' names required for placement on the ballot.

He said he is "optimistic" that the measure will garner the needed signatures and that it will get the simple majority required from in the June election next year Regarding local impact if the measure is approved, Los Angeles County officials estimate their current SI.2 billion tax revenue would be cut to about S521 million if one-third of the taxes collected locally goes to the county as it now does on the average. Assistant County Administrative Officer Mike said he believes the measure will get on the ballot, but not approved in the election. "I can't imagine any responsible taxpayer voting for it after he understands the implications." he said Gotthamer added the proposition could mean either the "closing of doors" in the county or "nothing." "My thinking is nothing, except the middle class would be hit with a bigger share of making up the loss of revenue through other taxes." he said. (Los Angeles city has not yet prepared an analysis on the proposition.) Another member of the chief administrative officer's staff said the proposition would provide a boon to business. This is because anticipated increases in other taxes would not affect business, which would be benefiting from lower property taxes, the official explained.

It was pointed out, too. that substantial tax increases would come with the sale of property and businesses are sold far less frequently than residential property. Jarvis called the "boon to business" claim an "outright, premeditated, vicious he." He countered that busines would be backing the initiative if that claim were true, "but they are not Also, he said, if the cost of doing business goes down, then the savings will be passed on to consumers and, in the cases of apartments, to renters. However, others charge that increased profits are generally more attractive to landlords and businesses than the passing of savings on to consumers and renters. The Assembly committee staff report said that in addition to shifting tax burderns, the proposition would result in many homeowners paying higher taxes than their neighbors for the same services because they purchased their homes more recently.

Jarvis' reply to this was that no system is perfect, but the plan in his propostion is "1,000 percent better than what have now." Entebbe-like sortie in Africa frees 86 plane hostages From page 1 Boeing 737's doors at about 2 a local time Tuesday (4 m. PDT Monday), the government said. A swift shootout ensued in which the hijackers were shot dead and within seven minutes all hostages had left the plane. AjubliantKlaus Boelhng. a government spokesman, said "The Mogadishu hostages are free An earlier report that a stewardess had also been wounded was erroneous.

The only person wounded was the one raider, the government said Belling said that the news of the rescue was first relayed to West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt from Mogadishu by State Minister Hans-Juergen Wisrh- newski who said simply "the work is done In all. BO men of the crack Unit fl Hew aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 707 from the Greek isiannd of Crete to Mogadishu Monday, landing after dark. The raid was directed by Gerd Boeden. head of the anti-terrorist squad of the German Federal Police, and Ulrich Wegener. head of the raiding troops.

Spokesman said they had been secretly following the hijacked aircraft on its odyssev They were on board the special executive jet used by Wisch- newski. an Arab specialist who negotiated with the hijackers at Mogadishu and earlier at Dubai Lufthansa spokesman Frank Cesarz said the raid had been planned to the last detail "The men of the frontier protection troops had trained for a long time on an aircraft of the same type." he said. The border guard? are he senior military arm of West Germany They uere the first armed unit formed afler World War 11 Their prime mission is to guard West Germany's border and they also provide elite troops that guard the chancellor, president and other government officials They wear a green uniform, boots and unmistakable coal-shuttle helmets with leather flaps at the rear. The lightning raid resembled the Israeli raid at Entebbe Airport in Uganda July 4. 1976.

when Israeli commandos flew secretly into the airport and rescued 102 hijacked hostages in a Shootout with Arab and West German terrorists. The hijackers seized the Boeing 737 plane at midday Thursday over the French Riviera as it was flymp from Majorca to Frankfurt They later forced the plane to fly to Rome. Cyprus. Bahrain. Dubai.

Aden and finally Somalia. They demanded th release of 13 terrorist prisoners held in German and T-orkish jails Watson's severance pay is OK Payment of $19.030 in severance pay by Los Angeles County to retiring Assessor Philip Watson was not only authorized, it was mandatory, according to County Cousel John Larson. Larson made the finding Monday in response to a request from the board of supervisors. The board had expressed concern that Watson might have been benefiting from a provision of the county administrative code not intended to include elected officials. That provision states that heads of county departments who leave office after serving the county for 10 years or more, are entitled to servance pay equal to one week's pay for every year worked, up to a maximum of 20 years.

Watson had earned the maximum and he received a disability retirement Oct. 5 and left office with an annual pension of $20,172, he was also issued the severance pay immediately by the county Auditor-Controller's office. Upon learning of the severance paycheck, Supervisor Kenneth Hahn called for an investigation. He claimed the provision was only intended for appointed department heads. The board had asked Larson to examine the issue, and to attempt to recover the check if he found it improper.

Larson said in his finding that the provision covered the elected offices of assessor, sheriff and district attorney, but not the board of supervisors or judges. He added that the board could not eliminate the provision for current department heads, "since the rights provided (by the ordinance) are already vested." In addition to Larson's findings, the county's chief administrative officer, Harry Hufford, wrote the board urging them not to repeal ordinance provision for incoming department heads. Plot to kill key figure in Hall case told By ARNIE FRIEDMAN Jack Egger's role as a key prosecution witness in the Bobby Hall murder case figured as a focal point Monday for detectives following up on the arrests of two Van Nuys men in connection with a suspected plot to kill Egger at his West Valley home. Los Angeles robbery-homicide investigators said they're certain others are involved in what they suspect was a conspiracy to murder the former Beverly Hills police captain last Thursday night. One of the two Van Nuys suspects, David JoulsOhn, 22.

was arrested reportedly at that time loitering in front of Egger's home, with a loaded pistol found in his parked car nearby. In a telephone interview Monday. Egger, 50. said "there's no question in my mind" that he had been targeted for murder as a consequence of his role in the arrest and prosecution of the suspects in the July 1976 slaying of Burbank private detective Bobby Hall. LAPD investigators Monday conceded that role looms as a probable motive in the suspected Egger murder conspiracy plot.

They were looking for possible links between that and the arrest early Sunday of Tony Regulsky. 37. the owner of Tony's motorcycle shop at 8148 Sepulveda Blvd. Regulsky, who lives with Joulsohn at 8225 Sepulveda was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. He was being held in lieu of S100.000 bail.

Joulsohn. who reportedly approached Egger and his wife on separate occasions at theirdoor before West Valley Division police were summoned last Thursday, was booked on suspicion of rob- ben- after a handgun was found in his car parked near the Egger home with a towel thrown over his license plate. Investigators indicated they would seek formal charges of conspiring to commit murder against Valley political scene Beilenson named to panel on population Hep A I vi. been appointed lo the rrated Committee on Population The 11 member committee worldwide population growth and its impact on the 1'nii- States GOP women to hear religion' talk Mrs. JamesCrampton of the Citizen's Freedom Foundation will di-- n-v meeting of the Panorama Kt-pubb i ail Women's Club today at 11 a -i1 the Moonpate restaurant, SM2 Van Nuys BHd Panorama City Gay rights debate set at Coalition meet today The Rev James Sandmire.

chairman of the California Democratic Council Gay Caucus, and the Rev Dale Scott" of First Baptist Chun of Van Nuys. debate ca rights at a meetingof the Wesl Vallev Coalition today at prn al 22153 Cohasset St. Canoga Park Califano to keynote fund-raiser for Cormar: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Cahfano will be the keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner for Rep James Corman. X'an Nuys. on Friday at the Sportsmen's Lodge.

4234Cold- water Canyon City. There will be a reception at 6.30 prn followed by dinner at 730 m. Tickets are $70 Wilson will address Burbank CC Friday San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson will address the Burbank Chamber of Commerce on Friday at 7:30 a.m. at the chamber office. 200 W.

Magnolia Blvd. Jim Keysor, San Fernando assemblyman gives views on aid in financing Olympic Games. Lincoln Ward, Industrial Association president, listens. Valley legislators split on Games aid Four members of the San Fernando Valley legislative delegation said Monday they oppose any state financing for the 1984 Olympics but a fifth said he would favor a financial commitment from the state to help defray the cost of bringing the Games to Los Angeles. Assemblyman Jim Keysor, D- San Fernando, did not say how much he felt the state should chip in toward the cost of the Olympics but he was the only legislator at a meeting sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Industrial Association willing to commit any state funds at all.

The others Sen. Alan Robbins, D-Van Nuys, and Assemblymen Howard Berman, D-Sherman Oaks, Robert Cline, R-Northridge, and Tom Bane, D-Van Nuys -said the state should have no part of the Games which the city of Los Angeles insists can be fully paid for with private funds anyway. The legislators, for the most part, reflected the views of a city- sponsored survey of Los Angeles residents which concluded that a majority of local residents favor bringing the 1984 Games here as long as it doesn't involve a commitment of tax dollars Cline said he felt the Olympics would be a boon to the California tourist industry and claimed the Brown administration has failed to promote tourism in the state. (Gov. Brown is an enthusiastic supporter of the proposed "spar- tan" Olympics in Los Angeles but has said he would oppose the use of any state funds.) Cline said while he did not believe there should be any state financial involvement in the Olympics that Sacramento should provide a "finite level of support." He did not elaborate.

The legislators also differed predictably over property taxes. Berman, the Assembly majority leader, called the proposed initiative which would limit property taxes to 1 percent of market value "outrageous and irresponsible." Berman said that between two- thirds and three-fourths of the tax relief would go to the owners of income-producing property rather than homeowners and shift an enormous burden to other taxes. Cline said he supports the initiative as a means of putting "the blow-torch to the tail of a Legislature that won't act." The Northridge Republican, however, said he would prefer to see an increase in the homeowner's exemption from $1,750 to $6,750 along with a commensurate raise in tax credits for renters. Robbins said that although he believes the 1-percent initiative goes too far, it may spur the Legislature to enact a "more limit. Bane disagreed, saying that any such limitation would only result in taxes being Shifted to other areas.

What is needed, he said, are limits on the amount of money local governments can spend. Still another view was expressed by Keysor who said he supports the concepts introduced by the Brown administration in its unsuccessful tax relief plan. Keysor predicted that Brown's proposal to tax owner-occupied residential property at a different rate than other land and to make income a factor in determining property tax rebates would eventually win the approval of the Legislature. Appeals court reverses mileage ruling The California Court of Appeal reversed what could have been a $20 million judgment against Los Angeles County over mileage paid to its employees, it was disclosed Monday. The court reversed the decision of Judge Harry Hupp of Los Ange- les Superior Court that required the board of supervisors to develop a new formula for reimbursement to county employees for using their own cars on the job.

The reversal ruling was disclosed Monday by County Counsel John H. Larson. Nan photo by Gerry WMon Trapped dog released by carrier boys both from Arteta, hand over leash of dog they found trapped Saturday while delivering newspapers. Youngsters had just finrrt ftaTroife wrien they saw dog, believed to be abandoned. They took a to East Valley Animal Shelter and handed to kennel darned, boys wfll adopt animal..