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An ml METROPOLITAN NEWS EDITORIALS PART II VOL LXXXII CC TUESDAY JANUARY 8, 1963 Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2343 MTA to Ask Tax Powers Two Yorfy Backers Run for Rapid Transit System I 'I -v i F7 i 1 I 1 i Gov. Brown -Sees Plan as Sound BY RAY HEBERT RAPID TRANSIT TRAIN Artist's drawing of projected rapid transit train. BACK TO THE DESERT Former President Eisenhower signs autographs for odmirers as he and wife arrive at San Bernardino by train from Gettysburg for Palm Desert vacation. General said Richard Nixon is still "a valuable man." PROMISE AND PROBLEMS CAUFORNIAf BY THE WAY Bodies Go With Eisenhower in Desert, Praises Nixon's Value L-M Ar9c1m TfflMfl News St4c PALM DESERT Ri Californians Realize Growth Means Change verseas Voices BY BILL.

HENRY Becoming No. 1 Involves Shift From Farm to Industry, but It Leaves Nostalgia BY GENE SHERMAN You remember driving a convolutions in Imperial Valley, whaling out of Eureka at the northern tip, body surfing at State Beach before boards made it passe, camping halfway up Mt Whitney. for Council Police. Pension Commissioners File for Race Mayor Yorty's threat to take a personal hand- in this year's City Council elections took on substance Monday when two of commissioners filed intentions to run. vereiie m.

sorter, vice president of the Police Com mission, and Vincent M. Burke, a member of the Pen sion Comm ission. among those who filed in tentions to campaign. Monday at 5 p.m. was the deadline for filings for nine council offices and four Board of Education seats.

Porter resigned from the Police Commission in order to run for the 8th District council post being vacated by Cordon Hahn, who will not seek re-election. Against TimberUL uunce, wno will oppose incumbent L.E. Timberlake in the 6th District did not resign his commission post Porter, an attorney, lives at 820 58th St He served on the California Adult Au thority as an appointee of former Gov. Knight from 1955 to 1959 and was one of the first city commissioners named -when Yorty took of fice in I3G1. Burke, a real estate deal er, lives at 112 Gi Ilia St.

Playa del Rey. He was also an early Yorty appointee. Sorter, in a press confer ence announcing his candi-i dacy, said the mayor had giv en him no personal endorse ment hut added: I can't speak for the may or, but I will certainly welcome his support My deci sion to run for the office is not based on statements by the mayor that he needs greater support but he de-j serves support for programs that will serve the people If i am elected, when I think the mayor is right I cer tainly will support him." Signs of Support Another sign that Yorty sanctions the candidacy of his former police commis sioner was the fact that Ir- vin L. Edelstein was han dling Porter's campaign pub- licity. kdelstein served as Yorty's unpaid publicity di rector during the mayor campaign and later won a contract to handle the ad-! vertising account of the City Department of Water and Power.

In addition to Porter there are six candidates seeking! election to the 8th District council post Burke is the only candi date opposing Timberlake in the 6th District Timberlake has incurred Yorty's emnity by voting against many of the mayor's favorite pro ects. At least two other candi dates running for the coun cil are firmly in Yortys camp. Richard Tafoya, one of Yorty's field secretaries, is a candidate in the 9th and attorney Phill Silver, a long time friend of Yorty's and sometimes private legal counsel for the mayor, has Please Turn to ft. 3, Col. 4 Film Star Dies at 81 ton, D.C., and first went on the stage when she was 15, Miss Boley lived for many years in Studio City but her most recent address was a rest home in South San Gab riel, Services will be held in the Little Church of the Flower, Forest Lawn Memorial- Park Wednesday at 11 a.m.

There are no survivors. Comic Dictionary MAN The only animal that has to go to sleep when he's not drowsy, and has to get up when he is. Cwrlfht, 1MJ, ky Ivan Eur Taxing Power Asked by MTA ii Lm Antetn Ttrnt Ntwt Strvk SACRAMENTO A re quest by the Metropolitan Transit Authority for legis lation giving it limited tax ing power to build a mass rapid transit system met with a cold reception here Monday. Even members of Los Angeles County's 32-man dele gation to the 1063 Legisla ture indicated the MTA proposal is headed for a long up hill fight. Assembly Speaker Unruh (D-Los Angeles) "I don't know if anybody would ride the thing if we built it" The forthcoming MTA re quest was included in Gov.

Brown joint inaugural mes sage to the Assembly and the Senate. The governor asked the legislators to approve it. Unfavorable Reactions The Times asked eight members of the Los Angeles delegation for their opinion on the MTA proposal. All eight replied they haven'ti seen the specific bill but al ready have considerable reservations about its merits. The consensus seemed to be Los Angeles does need rapid transit but limited tax ing power might not be the answer.

Tax Proposal Termed Nothing New, Unfair The Metropolitan Transit Authority's plan to finance part of its proposed rapid transit system with proper ty tax funds brought unfav orable reaction from some city and county officials Monday. Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said he was flatly opposed to any new property tax "to subsidize the MTA's poli cies and management." "There is nothing new in this whole report," he de clared. "It is just a rehash- Please Turn to Pff. 3, Col. I HOUYWOOB Facing Fight Times Urban Plans Editor The Metropolitan Transit Authority will seek legislation enabling it to tax county property owners to pay in part for a 58-mile, multi-' million dollar rapid transit: system.

MTA officials, balked in repeated attempts to get ed-eral backing, announced details of the hew taxing plan Monday. They said they will ask the 1963 Legislature for power to set a tax rate not to exceed 15 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation. feel this is the only- way a rapid transit system. here can be paid for by the community," said A. J.

Ey-raud, MTA chairman. The tax funds, he ex plained, will be used to supplement fare revenues ear marked to retire a proposed $649 million revenue bond inxtl A 4 finnMAA ll A AAce county project's capital cost Plans Revealed Eyraud and other MTA of ficials revealed plans for the financing proposal and the rapid transit network with the authority's familiar back bone route as its basis at a press conference followed by a civic luncheon at the Sutler Hilton. In Sacramento, Gov. Brown told the opening session of the Legislature that he had studied the plan and found it sound. "I urge you to approve It" he said.

"The people of Los Angeles need But the initial reaction of county and civic officials was not quite so enthusiastic. Eyraud told the sessions at the Statler Hilton that ap proval of the tax-enabling egislation would cost indi vidual county taxpayers, with a typical assessed valuation of $4,000, from 19 to 41 cents a month. Range Up to 41 Cents "It would range from 28 cents a month in 1965 to a peak of 41 cents a month 1967, declining thereafter to approximately 19 cents a month to 1980," said Eyraud. With these revenues, cou pled with returns from its fare boxes, he said, the MTA will be able to build a mod ern transit system linking West Los Angeles, Long Beach, El Monte and North Hollywood with downtown Los Angeles. If the legislation is ap proved, the MTA plans to have the first leg the downtown Los Angeles-El Monte line operation by Octo ber, 1966.

Other legs of the system would be completed and in service as follows: Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles, April, 1967 (in Please Turn to Pg. 3, Col. 1 tONOIUCIt WASHINGTON One of the more interesting developments of these recent years, in which we've all become increasingly aware of events in such faraway and somewhat mysterious spots as Moscow and Saigon, is the manner in which American voices from these distant areas arouse the interest of listeners. Just as the voices of Ed Murrow and Hans Kalten-born from Europe in World War II made people want to see what these individuals looked like, these one-minute "news spots from all over the globe have created an appetite for a look at these far-flung reporters. The worldwide networks have responded, In recent years, by bringing these disembodied voices home around the first of the year to appear in person 8nd offer at somewhat greater length their opinions.

Here in Washington we've become accustomed to seeing these chaps at an annual years' end luncheon at the National Press Club and it has also become the custom to ship them around the country on a lecture circuit We've had both the CBS and NBC reporters here, they've also appeared en masse on TV, and have hit the road. The NBC crowd is due out there in Los Angeles in a day or so and, if they repeat their per-f ormance of the National Press Club, they'll be worth seeing. When you see half a dozen of them at once you get quite a varied performance. Some of them go completely pundit, others develop an unexpected line of humor, all are extremely frank when it comes to expressing their opinions. It's heady stuff to be turned loose with no time limit to express yourself after having made a career overseas of having to cramp your say-so into 60 seconds.

Ruffling Some Feathers Last year John Rich, then NBC's man in Paris, said something or other that didn't exactly appeal to Gen. De Gaulle and the network had a terrible time persuading the uncrowned king of France to let John back into the country long enough to pack up his extra shirt and get out. This year the unexpected bombshell came from NBC's bewhiskered man-in-Berlin Piers Anderton who proceeded to sound off loud and long against not only Germany's der alte Adenauer, whom he regards as senile, but also against United States authorities in West Germany whom he accused of censoring the news and of circulating stories that he was "pro-Communist." Anderton's blast brought the combined nabobs of the Department of State down on him and got him almost as much attention as Fidel Castro gets whenever he sounds off. Maybe there's a secret in wearing whiskers! Anyhow, it does appear that the boys are inclined to blow off an Interesting head of steam when they get away from that one-minute time limit which cramps their style while broadcasting from overseas. They Say What They Think If you happen to regard India's Nehru as a gift from heaven, you'll be interested in what Welles Hangen thinks of him and of United States policy concerning him.

If you're wondering about the mysteries of Southeast Asia, Jim Robinson has some very sharp opinions not only about Viet-Nam and Laos but about the way Western allies keep sending food that enables the belligerent Mao to keep snapping the whip over Red China. Joe Harsch, who has spent so much time in England that he Is jokingly accused of being part of "The Establishment," has some Interesting views on the future of the Tories. Bernard Frizell's ideas about Charles de Gaulle's next move are worth remembering. Some of the others have a sense of humor that urill hfltrVittin thintrc nnrtlflllflrlv uhfri Vftil are nH chard Nixon is slill a very valuable man and shouldn't be lost to public service," former President Eisenho-i wer said Monday as he and his wife Mamie arrived here for a four-month vacation. The Eisenhower's left the Santa Fe Super Chief at San Bernardino, having traveled from Pennsylvania in the private car of the Santa Fe president They were greeted by two old friends, Charles S.

Jones, president of the Richfield Oil and Freeman Gosden of! the old Amos and Andy radio show. Others in the welcoming group were 10 boys and girls from Eisenhower High School in Rialto. Mr. Ei senhower shook hands with each of them. While Mr.

Eisenhower breakfasted with Jones and Gosden in his railway car. Mrs. Eisenhower, dressed in a black suit and black hat left for Palm Desert to do some shopping. Disease Like Stomach Flu Strikes Here The City Health Depart ment noted an increase Mon day in a gastrointestinal disease that resembles stomach flu. Dr.

Herbert H. Cowner. director of communicable diseases, said the symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, ab dominal pain and occasion ally fever. utten the stomach symp toms are accompanied by a cold, he said. The condition is seasonal during the winter months Dr.

Cowper recommended the isolation of ill persons, good personal hygiene by the rest of the family and consultation with a doctor for further advice. Ex-Musical, May Boley May Boley, 81, former mu 1 a 1 comedy star and mo tion picture actress, died Monday in Hollywood Pres-I byterian Hospital after a lingering illness. Miss Boley, who intro duced the song, "Hallelujah' in the Broadway hit Hit the Deck," last appeared on the New York stage in the Cole Porter-Moss Hart Bhow, "Ju bilee" some 25 years ago. In motion pictures 6he played with Clara Bow in "Dangerous Curves;" with Nancy Carroll in "The Dance of Life" and with Victor McLaglen in "The Informer." She was bora Washing dune buggy over the sandy Third of a Series Sutter, which amounts to around $2.4 billion, you couldn't match the state's budget for one year. The Mother Lode is hard to leave.

The buildings, like the people, greet the news of California's new fame with the impassive reserve born of heritage. Their, time is yesterday and today, nuggets of memory burnished for a tourist's gleam. Volcano (former pop. 5t- 000, present pop. 96) and its St.

George Hotel. The difference in population was $90 million in gold mined there in the early days. Today, Chester Bonneau, the horny-handed 74-year- old "oldest resident," holds the past in his hands two corked test tubes filled with gold nuggets and flakes. Recalls Yesterday "I remember when we had a big population here," he said, "Times were good but prices were high lour thoughts flash back to a pin-neat room in the pin- neat Hughes Research Labo ratories in Malibu. On the other side of the desk sat George Smith married, three children, top laborato ry executive and deeply immersed in physics.

"I always had it in the back of my mind to live in California," he said. "It grows on you." Fifteen or 20 years ago, the important research in physics and electronics was on the East Coast Nearness to universities and industry is important in the field. Center of Science Now, Smith said, it's hard to conceive of any kind of work elsewhere that a dedi cated scientist couldn't find here. He's one of a legion of scientists, engineers and technicians who finds in creasing professional fulfill ment in California. Their time is today and tomorrow.

Smith held the future in his hand a Laser tube, able to project a beam of light to the moon. You are suddenly aware of the obvious, that growth is change. It's not only quantitative thing you're dealing with, hut a qualita tive thing as well. in the imperial vauey part i of the change is contained In a compact box of machinery controls inside weather. Air conditio- Please Turn to Pg.

8, Col. 1 You remember the big white "57" in the wilderness of the Baldwin Hills, cros sing the bay of San Francis co on a ferry, skiing (alone). near Donner Summit, the' gabled house you were raised in now razed for an on-ramp. You recall those things and more as you criss-cross the state in search of some samples or its new prom inence as No. 1 in popula tion, cutting in a shameful rush across the landscape on unending ribbons of con crete.

Extensive Travel What is it the freeways cost $3 million a mile? It's expensive to go a mile in California today. You remember the somber solace of walking among the Sequoias, and for some strange reason tip-toeing. You remember the chill of Tahoe when you dared It and the balm of San Diego Bay in summer. You had no choice, really, baptized a lifelong Califor-nian at an early age. It's different with the newcomers, converts to a dream they hold tightly, confident they will have things to remember, too.

As you scurry hastily across the state, through vast areas of open country without a soul sight, you shake your head to make sure you heard right. People overrunning the state? Where? But then, the movement is toward the metropolitan hives, and 46 of California is still Federal land. Few Humans Seen Through the Mother Lode country on State Highway vj. cleverly named to re mind travelers of that fateful year In the last century, hardly a human can be seen, Coloma (pop. 175 25 more people than feet above sea level) is where California became the golden state, where James Marshall dm covered gold on Jan.

24, 1848, and started what then was the greatest migration in history. California's population rose from 40,000 disinter-l ested residents to 600,000 gold-grabbing madmen, The gold has run out but the migration hasn't. If you had all the. gold taken out of California since the day James Marshall struck it rich for John tlNTUITf WESIWOOD CIU to match their views against those of the many experts whom you follow daily in the Los Angeles Times, RAPID TRANSIT -Dates indicate projected open-, ing of links in metropolitan rapid transit.