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City: Drive Underway Early Patent Held 1 i Bv Jennifer L. Author Oakland An 84-year-old man who holds a U.S. patent for a flying saucer, obtained four decades ago before the concept was relegated to little green men from space, has no doubts they will someday be commonplace. "I strongly believe that after I die, this thing will come about," said Carmel artist-engineer Alexander Weygers. A half-dozen photo-like sketches of Weygers' disk-like vi- Continued from pg.

I drive involves reviewing border adjustment possibilities, Worden said. Such possibilities include pending housing developments as well as people or whole developments that might decide to remain outside the proposed city limits. Decision making on such issues involves assessing public opinion in these (current- Fire: Fivo urn Continued from pg. 1 At the same time the NTS fire was burning, Rice said another fire broke out in Agua Dulce, on Agua Dulce Canyon Road, burning a barn and several sheds. It 'also was contained by 2 p.m.

NTS tests such things as space shuttle components, flares and' other pyrotechnic devices by companies contracted by the military. Victims' f.lonoy Dill Signed rjr- 1 .1 moorings atop the city high- rise buildings and homes. "Scientists today emphasize speed," said Weygers. "I never did. I felt safety and maneuverability were important." Weygers said he secured U.S.

Patent No. 2,377,835 for his flying saucer three years before Life Magazine ran drawings of a circular space ship with a bubblelike pod above the main saucer. What is more, his machines, which he called "dis-copters" are workable, he claims. A toy company in Austria asked for Weygers' help in developing a flying saucer toy that takes to the air on power from a tiny, wind-up engine. "The Patent Office does not accept any type of invention if your cannot make a model of it," said Weygers.

No source of power was specified in his patent application because the technology had yet to be developed. Weygers said he first conceived his idea in 1927. But the notion lay dormant until World War II when he worked as an engineer for Northrup Aviation near Los Angeles when the helicopter was being developed. "Helicopters are vulnerable." he said. "People were being killed in them during the 1920s.

They go down like a brick. The saucer became the logical answer." Weygers said one reason he chose a circular shape for the design was because it could enclose a rotor or rotors, depending on the size of the craft. The rotors would rotate, forcing air through them to make the craft to rise on a plume of air. i i u2 DC Governor George Deukmejian has signed a bill authored by Assemblyman Phil Wyman which would require convicted criminals to pay interest on money they are ordered to pay their victims in restitution for the crime. Wyman said the law will require criminals to pay the prevailing legal rate of 10 percent on unpaid restitution.

Energy: District Wins Honors For Its Policy District Rcnows Policy ly) outside areas, Worden said. Once the final map is drawn up by the subcommittee, work will begin on the petition campaign, Worden said. More than signatures (25 percent of the registered voter total of about 40,000) will needed "to be gathered to present to LAFCO, which means many signature-gathering volunteers will be needed, she said. Members of the Economic committee listening to Worden's presentation, including co-chairman Jerry Steinberg, said they had already found people who were interested in the project. Some suggested that members should begin keeping a list of those who express interest and potential volunteers.

The petition campaign will involve coaching volunteers on how to gather signatures of only the right people: registered voters within the proposed boundaries of the city, Worden said. She said that the kickoff of the campaign would happen soon. and business manager Arnold Glassberg of the" Sulphur Springs District are on vacation and could not be reached for comment on the award, Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction, has said, "The funds (these schools) save can be directed toward a more important goal the education of children in California." "The law treats the Uzi in the r- os it trpa hunting ell-ill a Uc Jill Let -itj- machine gun, has little in common with a hunting It can without too much effort be converted into a fully automatic weapon." "Clearly," the press release concern over the removal of the trees and ridges, together with disagreements over proper density and parking for the project, had led them to recommend the project be denied. Pauline Aue, representing the Oak Tree Coalition, Santa Susanna Mountain Park Association, and Theodore Payne. Foundation, urged the board yesterday to recommend that Lincoln Property Co.

revise its plan to save more oaks. 1 Continued from pg. 1 school was compared to that from similar schools in, the same climate to determine which 1 schools were most efficient. When these energy efficient schools were compared with average schools, a CSBA spokesman said, the data showed that $146 million could be saved. by California schools if they were all efficient.

Superintendent Robert Nolet sions have been submitted to the Smithsonian Institute, which has brought the exhibit "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future" to the Oakland Museum. With the Golden Gate Bridge as a backdrop, Weygers' 1944 view of San Francisco's future foresaw the flying saucer as an important mode of transportation. Sleek, circular commuter vehicles are shown in saucer ports located at the city's shores as other tiny, one-person machines float serenely to their The law "will alleviate some of the financial burdens crime victims currently endure," Wyman said. Only criminals with the ability to pay will be charged, however. Interest will be charged only on amounts greater than $50.

As of Jan. 1, interest on restitution payments will be a condition of probation. different. The Saugus district's Board of Trustees Tuesday night extended the current interdistrict attendance agreement with Burbank Unified School District. The board also gave the school district the green light to purchase additional instructional supplies from the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

Later in the meeting, the board allocated $225 for a social studies assembly program focusing on the history of California. The program will be ad-minis' by California kly 1 Inc. on iaursday, Aub. 15. at Highland Elementary School auditorium.

CHP Seeks Witnesses The California Highway Patrol in Newhall is seeking information regarding a fatal accident that occurred on Interstate 5 the night of July 19. Stephen Rystad, 23, was headed southbound on 1-5 at about 11:15 p.m. when he swerved to his left to avoid a car and crashed into the center divider. The details of what happened after the -original accident are not clear. "We're estimating that within two to three minutes another car slammed into his vehicle," said CHP Officer Barry Hogan.

He said he is certain two more cars hit Rystad's car, and he believes there may have been more. Hogan said Rystad had just been accepted to law school in Los Angeles and was on his way to L.A. from Fresno. Anyone with information about the incident, particularly about a red car the CHP says was; should call Hogan 'at the-Newhall CHP office, 259-1210. Guns: Dealers Angered By Doctors' Group Sees Continued from pg.

1 spokesman said. A mo': it Ed i i 15' was taoieu yeaeraa to await a report by the Los Angeles County Sheriff. Edelman's motion cited Los Angeles Police Department reports that a gang of "Uzi are terrorizing the Holly- wood area this summer. County Board Overrules Commission A steering mechanism would manipulate the air column being generated by the rotors, diverting the force of air, allowing the saucer to be maneuvered. When Weygers sent his plans to America's leading aircraft manufacturers near the end of World War II, they receivedmix-ed reviews.

"Then it seemed the whole world began to talk about flying saucers," said Weygers. "All around me was the idea that people would make such a thing in the future." On July 14, 1947, a year after he sent out his final set of saucer plans, Newsweek magazine's headline read: "Flying saucers: Spots before their eyes?" A Life headline a week later screamed: "Flying Disks Break Out Over U.S." Months later, Science Digest published speculative articles on saucers. "Every inventor, as a rule, is somewhat of a visionary. They knpw they must be ahead of their time," Weygers said. Weygers sketches will be featured Aug.

17 through Oct. 27 in the Oakland Museum, The artist-inventor was born in 1901 in what is now Indonesia to a Dutch plantation overseer. His mother was a teacher. He published two books, "The Making of Tools" and "The Modern Blacksmith," in the 1970s. Do his flying saucers have a future? "Who can tell how far the ripples go when you throw a pebble into the water? I still think someone will build it." United Press International In ATVs minimum age or licensing requirements for ATV use on private land," says Greensher, even though "children under 16 seem to be at the greatest risk attempting to control and stabilize the ATV." Greensher, who teaches at the State University of New York Medical School, Stony Brook, N.Y., and heads the department of pediatrics at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., says safety commission representatives and other experts recently testified about ATV safety before a congressional panel.

The commission has authorized a special task force to gather information regarding ATV use, misuse, and safety standards. Further, the AAP is developing a formal policy statement on the issue. Until more specific guidelines come along, the academy advises parents, adolescents and other ATV users to think twice before jumping on one of the vehicles. United Press International In The City By The Bay San Francisco Candidates for Ms. Nude America drummed up support for the 1985 pageant by stripping down to their bathing suits in the city's financial district.

Businessmen almost dropped their attaches Wednesday. Women glared. People hurrying away turned around. Mouths gaped. Thirty young women will compete in the pageant Saturday night.

United Press International costs and environmental concerns, she said, the county changed its flood control policy. The ordinance affects only the "flood fringe" outside the main floodway, Robson said. Robson said the ordinance approved Tuesday was part of a long term flood control plan. Since July 20, l'JUO, she said, 33 ordinances establishing flood control plana for other Los Angele3 County floodplaitis have been approved, and (() more are on the Public Works More than 4000 youngsters attend elementary schools each year in the Saugus school district. Last year, some of those students came from as far away as Burbank and were welcomed by the district.

This school year will be no said, "the criminals." Uzi is a gun for Ml. The fi. jjoks like a machine gun. "It's for 38-year-old teenagers," he said. The use of guns is "sort of like sex it's never going to go away," Ross said.

"There's going to be guns in this country as long as there's Americans." "We believe that far too many oak trees have already been removed," Aue said. "We would Jike to see the (oak tree) ordinance adhered to strictly." Supervisor Mike Antonovich, in making the unanimously-approved motion to refer the project back to the planning commission, said he was doing so with the understanding that the applicant would ask to remove fewer oaks. mended against increasing the overall density allowed under the Areawide General Plan, however, concluding that such an amendment would encourage the "premature conversion" of single-family homes to apartment houses. THE- CURATING STAFF IS STILL HARP AT WORK ON FOOTNOTING, OF COURSE, BUT KB THINK WHEN ITS FINISHED, THE NEW GEORGE BUSH RESUME (AMI BE HISTORIC IN SCOPE RIMCMDCR, NOT A SINGLE COUNTRY FELL TO VIE COMMUNISTS CURING MY WATCH. I THINK POSTERITY WILL NOTE THE BUSH STATESMANSHIP, THE PUSH TOUGHNESS, VIE BUSH RESOLVE mm i-w or 0 by angers By Patricia McCormack New York The Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about all-terrain vehicles, those three-wheeled off-the-road roadsters that are the latest in motorized fun.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says in the past three years more than 160 deaths and 100,000 injuries have been attributed to ATVs, whose large balloon tires tend to make them unstable on sloping terrain. Forty-six percent of the injuries and fatalities were to ATV users younger than 16, and 26 percent were to children between the ages of 5 and 12. "The desire to be carried at a speed greater than our legs allow continues to spur the imagination of inventors and industry, leaving in their wake a stream of broken bodies and an unacceptable death toll," said Dr. Joseph Greensher, head of the accident prevention committee of the AAP. "Operation of these vehicles requires coordination, dynamic balance, quick reflexes, good visual and auditory perception and also a good sense of judgment," Greensher notes in the summer "Young Health" bulletin published by the academy.

"Such characteristics and developmental maturity are often lacking in the younger age group." Experts worried about ATV safety talk about the vehicle's inherent instability, due to having three, instead of four, tires. Difficulty in controlling the vehicle, drivers who speed and people who ride double also cause concern. The problem is expected to grow. Sales of more than 750,000 ATVs are projected for the United States this year, according to the academy, bringing the total ATV fleet in America to about 2.5 million. "However, few states apply Project: Approval Won Garry Trudeau By Laurel Suomisto Signal Staff Writer The Board of Supervisors fyesterday overruled the Regional Planning Commission's recommendation to deny a "zone change and oak tree permit to allow construction of a condominium project on San Fernando Road in Newhall.

The action was taken after the applicant promised to reduce the number of units and save more of the 81 oak trees at the site. Lincoln Property Co. had originally planned to cut down ridges on the property and remove all the oak trees. The oaks were to be replaced at a ratio of three-to-one with 'young saplings. Such replacement oaks have received the derisive nickname of "buggy whips" from local residents.

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A T7 WILL REPRODUCTIONS BE AVAILABLE- THE PUBLIC. OH, YES. WE'LL BE ISSUING A COLLECTOR'S EDITION IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. 1 H0( HOW ABOUT THE PUSH N0 eiJT SJSfK? IT WAS A OCT OUT lucwztv. EVL'RYTHING Supervisors Order Flood Channel Construction C-l 41 i County supervisors Tuesday adopted an ordinance requiring new construction along the flood-plain of the Santa Clara River to be elevated.

The section of river affected by the ordinance is half a mile west of Bouquet Canyon Road to the Ventura County line. "It's the modern approach to flood management," said Roslyn Itobson, a Public Woiks Department spokeswoman. "We used to build channels everywhere." Because of hip.h constructitin i i I.