The Signal from Santa Clarita, California • 1

"0 1q(pi IteEse-pA cr3 ysl(2i iir A quick, rolling aftershock shook water glasses on local dinner tables Monday evening. The 6:49 p.m. earth movement was a startling reminder of whaf happened at 6:02 in the morning. a year ago today. Monday's 3.8 aftershock was one of the strongest of hundreds of indications of "settling" that followed the 6.4 temblor a year ago.

Everyone in northern Los Angeles county remembers vividly what he was doing during those long 40 seconds. No one in Valencia Valley was killed directly by the quake, (one man succumbed an hour later to a heart attack). The most serious injuries suffered were to legs broken while stumbling in the darkness, Nevertheless, most people still react to aftershocks with a reflexive fear. People still talk about where they were when the quake struck, or recount freakish movements of furniture or glassware. One story even emerged out of Monday's Continued On Page 6 1 1 1 The freeway has not changed, but the truck and smaller debris are gone.

A collapsing overpass, under construction, squashed a parked truck. THE VALENCIA And SAUGUS ENTERPRISE Jf VALLEY NEWS (805) 259-1234 IOC Per Copy Newhall, California, Wednesday, February 9, 1972 Volume 54 Number 17 32 Pages Earlier Quake, Same Fault Oak Woods Pay Whom. What? COC To Get Restoration Scientists Expect Will Have Confusion Reigns Permanent Rehearing On Mobiles' Taxes i Future Activity By Kenneth Costing Signal Staff Writer County taxation of mobile homes as property is here. But a host of questions still remain unanswered. Will the property tax be contested in court? Will mobile home residents pay taxes both to the state and county? Will individual mobile homes February's1 earthquake may, have been a repetition of another strong temblor that occurred 202 years earlier, Geologists made the discovery while performing sub-surface analysis of faults involved in the San Fernando quake of a year ago today.

They found not in parks be taxed? Will thf Kalpg tax rpmain on mn- 4 ffW Discuss inn biie homes? Building "We're going to be building it at long last," said an elated Dr. Robert Rockwell, president of College of the Canyons. "It means our college is really going to begin. k.w 1 1 had received word yesterday that the state was releasing $2.1 million for construction of the community's first permanent building, the four-story Instructional Re-source Center (new words for what- used to be called a college library). Pending construction of a classroom building the Center will house 20 temporary classrooms, library reading rooms, a film and tape Continued on Page 3 When "Oak Woods," a controversial housing project in Happy Valley, was rejected by the Regional Planning Commission, opponents had won a victory.

But it may have been only temporary. The day after the December 21 decision, it was appealed. The Board of Supervisors yesterday set the matter for a second public hearing, before the board, for 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 16. The project, designed to have 2100 housing (units, mostly townhouse apartments, would be located on 273 acres of Happy Valley south of Newhall.

Appealing the rejection Continued on Page 3 Soledad School: Bad in canyons near tylmar old ground ruptures, including pulverized rock, within a few yards of last year's fault displacements. Details of the discovery were described before the National Conference on Valencia Valley abounds in trailer parks and school districts have seen them as a drain on tax revenues. Will the local taxation make for more revenue to the schools? No one seems to know. A spokesman for County Assessor Philip Watson said Monday that letters had been mailed to mobile park owners Thursday asking for a list of the names of homeowners in-their parks. If a Continued On Page 7 Of New Tax i Mobile home taxation will be discussed tomorrow in Valencia Valley.

Frank Petty, assistant chief field deputy for County Assessor Philip Watson, is scheduled to speak at the 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting of the Board of Directors of the Newhall-Sau-Continued On Page 3 Example Earthquake Engineering, which began Monday and ends today at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The Soledad Canyon Elementary School was More than 500 scientists, many of them from Japan, India, Italy and Great attending the conference. Manuel Bonilla, a structural geologist from the U.S. Continued On Page 4 Chess Comes To Valencia Valley If You're Not A Grand Master Play Barefoot A Valencia home February 9, 1971 Zoning Meeting Tomorrow By a Signal Staff Writer Signal Photos by Kimm Marshall pointed out as a "bad example" of construction techniques for earthquakes by a state official yesterday.

J. F. Meehan, head of the state office of architecture and construction school section, said portions of the school building were damaged because the contractor had failed to follow the plans that were provided to him. The disclosure came before a meeting of the Na-Continued On Page 4 Newhall School Tax Election t'w V7 r- 3 1 Four land use cases are scheduled to be discussed at tomorrow's zoning information meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Hart High auditorium.

On the agenda is Kaufman and Broad's permit application for the long-awaited community recreation center for Pinetree. A i one, used as the sales office, burned down last year. A variance is also being sought for less than required parking. La win Southern California permit for a Continued on Page 12 7 I 1 ') rv "How. do I like asking people to pay more taxes?" said Newhall school superintendent Dr.

Walter Hauss. "Well, it's like asking how you like growing old. You don't un- Continued On Page 4 For decades the Soviet Union has thoroughly dominated the world of chess. It is quite fair to say that chess in Russia is what drag racing is to Los Angeles county. But, this year, a remarkable event will take place in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

A young American genius, Bobby Fischer by name, has challenged the Soviet's current world champion, Boris Spassky, to a series of matches to be played in April. Very possibly after the final critical game has been played the United States can claim the greatest of all living chess players in the world if not of all time. Thus the ancient, but seemingly eternal game of chess, is entering into a Renaissance in America. And without question it will become an important element in the cultural life of Valencia Valley. And as its part in the attempt to turn the valley into at least the Paris of the chess world in the United States, the Signal has arranged to.

bring to Its readers the magnificent column and game problems especially prepared by one of history's greatest International Chess Master, George Koltanowskl. He is Continued On Page 12 1 INSIDE News From United Press International Page 8 Columns And Features f' 1 3 11 17 12 Movies Society Sports Val Verde Bargain Box 29 Classified 1 30 Comics 15 Editorial ,15 Hart Happenings 3 Hoppe 15 View From Canyon 2 The young lady, in terms of chess play, is in a difficult situation. She can be checkmated in one move by her opponent. However, she still. fighting for a victory.

The same home yesterday.