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E0JS SLwtUt Gimttt Mar. 14, 1 973-Part I 3 Brophys Wife Polic 28 Found. Guilty of Fire Depts. of Race Bias- Accused LA. Included Among Cities Named in Suit Assailing Hiring Practices for Minorities 'I A iv X3 3 1 i A WIFE CONVICTED Susan Brophy former Assemblyman Bill Brophy, 8 jury of two counts of felony manslaughter driving under influence of drugs.

Times photo by George R. Fry Manslaughter Also Convicted of Driving Under Influence of Drugs in Crash That Killed Two Susan Marie Brophy, wife of former Assemblyman Bill Brophy, was convicted Tuesday on two counts of felony manslaughter and one count of driving while under the influence of drugs. A jury of four men and eight women in the courtroom of Santa Monica Superior Judge Laurence J. Rittenband returned its verdict after three days of deliberation. Mrs.

Brophy, 20, was charged in connection with an accident last June 19 on Pacific Coast Highway in which a Cudahy couple, Chris George Panas, 48, and his wife, Elizabeth, 49, were killed. Brohy, who discontinued his campaign for Congress last year to assist in hi3 wife's defense, sat beside her as the verdict was read and the jury polled. Mrs Brophy burst into tears and was assisted from the courtroom by her husband after Judge Rittenband set April 5 as the date for hearing on a inrtirn fnr upw trial and frr a nrn- lUVUV1. 1V v. bation report and sentencing.

She was released on her own recognizance. Southland Struck by Gale-Force Winds Hail and Sleet in Riverside County Cause 8 Accidents BY DICK MAIN Timet Staff Writer Gale -force winds slammed into Southern California from a fast- a moving storm system which brought only scattered rainfall but raked both offshore waters and desert sections with gusts of more than 50 m.p.h. Tuesday. Small craft wind advisories were hoisted from Point Conception to the Mexican border and travelers advisories were issued for upper and lower desert sections and the lower Colorado valley. Hail and sleet fell in San Gorgonio Pass in Riverside County, setting off chain-reaction traffic accidents.

The California Highway Patrol said at least eight accidents occurred between Beaumont and Ca-bazon on Interstate 10. Six other vehicles spun out of control on the icy pavement, but there was no immediate report of any serious injuries. Two San Diego1 men were rescued from a foundering 40-foot fishing boat in wild seas 75 miles southwest of Long Beach by the Navy and the Coast Guard. The owner, Leon Brousseau, was Please Turn to Page 23, Col. 1 Embarrassing Moments Seen for Reynolds and Sarah Miles at Arizona Inquest Today BY PHILIP Timo Stiff SAN FRANCISCO Police and fire departments in 28 California cities, including Los Angeles, were accused Tuesday of discriminatory employment practices that have resulted in a "gross underrepresenta-tion" of racial minorities.

The allegation was made in a complaint filed here before the state Fair Employment Practices Commission by four organizations representing blacks and Mexican-Americans. Described by lawyers for the orga nizations as the first of its kind, the complaint cited statistics that show blacks and Spanish-named persons make up 5 of the firemen and 9 of the police in the 28 cities, while combined they make up 27 of their general populations. The complaint said the statistics were drawn from U.S. Census and municipal data. It asks the FEPC to order the departments to initiate minority hiring programs that would produce "population parity" in 1977 and command and supervisory parity" by 1982.

Lack Comparative Figures In response to an inquiry, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, one of the named agencies, said recruitment efforts in recent years had resulted in steady gains in the number of minority officers. At present, he said, of 7,111 officers, 366 are black, 499 of Latin descent, 36 Oriental and 21 other minorities. Detailed comparative figures were not immediately available, but according to published reports, at the time of the Watts riot in August, 1965, there were 205 black officers on a force then numbering 5,100. Sgt. A.

L. Trader, in charge of recruitment for the LAPD, said that a five-month minority drive by the department brought 645 new minority applicants. Recently, he said, the number of minority group members undergoing training at the Police Academy had been doubled. Fire Dept. Complaint Trader acknowledged that the department still encounters "some resistance" to recruiting in minority communities and competition from other prospective employers in hiring qualified blacks and Mexican-Americans.

"Everybody and other government agencies Is looking for qualified minority group members," he said. The complaint also said that the Los Angeles Fire Department which has already been charged with discrimination in hiring in a federal complaint has only 49 blacks and 94 Spanish-named firemen in a force of 3,150. These two minority groups make up 36 of the IIAGER Wrlltr city's population of 2,835,600, the complaint said. The action was hied by officers pt the western regional office of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, the League of United Latin-American Citizens, the American G.I.

Forum and the Mexican-American Political Assn. The organizations were represented "by attorneys for Public Advocates a privately financed, public interest law firm in San Francisco. The municipal agencies we're charged in the complaint with using "discriminatory and unlawful test ing mechanisms which are generally nonjob related and antiability." i Oral Exams Criticized Such "mechanisms," it said, in eluded "white-dominated and white-f oriented" questions in oral exams. Asked for specific a 1 e-si Robert Gnaizda, an attorney, and Tom Williamson, an for Public Advocates, said recent applicants to the San Francisco fire de partment have been asked: "Who was Van Gogh?" "This is not a trick: what is twice one-half of 2-and-a-half?" "Do you know a fire chief?" "What is a rubber?" (The answer: a term used in bridge). Questions of this nature and others involving grammar, trigonomer- try and calculus have nothing' to do with the ability to be a fireman and often work to the disadvantage of minority applicants, Gnaizda said.

On certain tests, the complaint said, blacks and Mexican-Americans are likely to score lower be-; cause their verbal ability and per- sonal history will reflect the disadvantages and deprivations normally associated w-ith racial and ethnic discrimination.1! 8,000 Jobs Forecast At news conference here, Leonard Carter, director of the western office of the NAACP, said an order by the FEPC granting population parity to minorities would provide" some 8,000 jobs for blacks and MexH can-Americans in police and fire de-" partments in the 28 cities. At present, these minorities make up 25 of the eligible applicants for' fire and police jobs, he asserted. "As the situation stands Carter said, "minority community residents often look upon their local police and firemen as members of a hostile, occupying army." In addition to Los Angeles and San-Francisco, fire and police departments in the following cities named in the complaint: San Diego, San Jose, Long Beach, Sa-; cramenio, Ananeim, rresno, santa, Ana, Riverside, Torrance, Glendafo; Huntington Beach, Garden Berkeley, Stockton, Pasadena, San-Bernardino, Fremont, Sunnyvale," Hayward, Norwalk, Santa Clara, In-glewood, Pomona, Richmond Bakersfield. gan laying flares around the victim dodging cars as he did so, CHP in?" vestigator David Trabucco said. Vision is difficult at that point piu the freeway because of an on-ramp and a bend, but most drivers in the.

light traffic saw the flares and; avoided them, Trabucco said. ine vicum, nowever, managed 10 get up and, despite the flares, wa3 struck by a second car. He got up again, was hit by a third car, got up again and was finally knocked down for the final time by a fourth car, the officer said. A fifth car then ran over him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The cars which subsequently struck Williams sped off and are now being sought for hit-run, the CHP said. Trabucco said that even if the drivers had not seen the man, they would have known that hit something and should have stopped. Officials Say lettuce harvested the next day. John V. Taylor, deputy agricultural commissioner, said the California Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration were being notified to check for illegal residues of Phosdrin on the shipped lettuce.

The federal tolerance for the pesticide is one-half part per million. In addition, UFWU officials said they had sent samples of the lettuce to private laboratories for examina tion. If unacceptable tolerances are found, it will be the second case ol Phosdrin contamination in recent weeks. According to FDA officials in Boston, 24,000 head3 of Bruce Church, lettuce arrived in February with residues of 2 parts per million, or four times the federal Please Turn to Page 25, CoL 1 1 v. fc tvV with husband, after she was Man Who Loved Cat Dancing." Actor Lee J.

Cobb and other members of the cast and crew also attended the party in an Ajo restaurant. After It ended, Miss Miles chose to return with Cobb rather than Reynolds to the Travelodge Motel here where the performers and crew were staying. Miss Miles, 30, a sports car enthusiast, had become "charmed by the qualities" of Cobb's latest model, according to the brief, which added: "Upon returning to Gila Bend and going to the bar there, she says she formed the impression that Mr. Rey-: nolds was somehow. disaffected by her choosing to return with Mr.

Cobb. "And she therefore, at approximately midnight, went to the room of Mr. Reynolds to set his mind at ease over the transportation arrangement." When she arrived at Reynolds', motel suite, Miss Miles found another visitor had preceded her; according to the brief, which continued: "Miss Miles discovered that Mr Reynolds was about to receive a massage from a Japanese woman masseuse who was kept available for such purposes. "Miss Miles stayed in the room during the massage, which apparently lasted something over two HOUSEWIVES California has more people, employed with jobs in transportation, catering, distribution and handling meats than any state in the Union," Glaus said. Glaus said he would like to suggest the housewives "spend your food protein budget on the myriad of lesser known cuts of beef available in abundance at a bargain price compared to any other source of family serving of protein." He identified such cuts as short-ribs and cuts from the plate and chuck areas of beef as in the "bargain" category.

A spokesman for the Food Employers Council in Los Angeles, Bob Voight, said many factors were to blame for the rising costs of beef and emphasized it was not the retailer who is adding, to his profit margin. Among the "things that affect the price of meat between the grower-and the retailer," Voight said, are high labor costs, disparity between supply and demand which he acknowledged was affected by ship-, ment of U.S. beef products abroad for higher prices than it brings on the domestic market. Japanese Price Questioned Asked if he had heard the Japanese pay as much as $7 a pound for top grade U.S. beef steak Voight said he had but did not know if it is accurate.

"We do know, though, they are sending a lot abroad that we would hope would be going into the domestic market." In the San Fernando Valley, a Panorama City butcher reported business was off Tuesday and people who do buy are buying hamburger and stew meat rather than steak. "We've got porterhouses coming out our ears," he said. In Woodland Hills, Mrs. Donavan cooked up a batch of shrimp for dinner and worked on plans with Mrs. -Mathews for a boycott rally March 29 at Taft High School in that com-v munity.

Asked about the high cost of seafood, Mrs. Donavan said: "We will get to fish and seafood later. We can't ask people to abstain from everything at once." found guilty by and 1 hours, until roughly 2:30 in the morning. "Approximately 3 o'clock' in the morning of Feb. 11, Mr.

Reynolds escorted Miss Miles around to her room and returned her to her own quarters." That was when, according to statements the actress has made, she encountered Whiting, whom she has described as being "possessive" about her movements, waiting in her suite for her. "Mr. Whiting," said the brief, "upbraided her for throwing him over for Mr. Reynolds." The 100-pound actress first said that he had "slapped" her when she returned to her quarters. But during an interview later with an Arizona state investigator, she claimed Whiting had knocked her down and beat her with his fists while straddling her.

The beating, she said, had inflicted a "knot" on her forehead and a cut It is not known if she asked for medical attention for the. injuries. But she has said that she screamed and that Jane Evans, governess for her son, Tommy, 6, heard her yell from the motel suite next door, "Get Burt." 1 Reynolds and she have agreed in separate statements that the husky actor sheltered her in his quarters throughout the night. It was not until shortly after noon Feb. 11 that Miss Miles returned to her suite "to go to the bathroom" and discovered Whiting's body, the state investigator quoted her as saying The investigator's remarks came at an earlier session of the inquest which was interrupted until Miss Miles and Reynolds could be present to testify.

A medical examiner ha3 ruled that Whiting, a. former Time magazine Hollywood correspondent, died from an overdose of a sedative. Miss Miles had a prescription for the drug, the examiner added. However, Whiting's body and face bore numerous cuts and bruises, and blood-splotched articles were found not only in the actress' room but Whiting's as well. One wound, a star-shaped gash on the scalp, bled profusely.

The medical examiner said Whiting could have sustained it in a fall or from a blunt instrument. But, according to the brief filed by the mother's attorney, there also existed "evidence of physical injuries which could not have been self-inflicted." "It is possible," the brief, continued, "that someone bashed Whiting on the back of the head with a blunt object, leaving him in dazed condition, which contributed to his taking of the fatal drugs. Please Turn to Page 28, Col. 1 MEAT BOYCOTT BY TWO BY JERRY COHEN Times Staff Writer GILA BEND, Ariz. Actor Burt Reynolds and actress Sarah Miles may experience some fidgety moments when they testify at an inquest here today, disclosures surfacing Tuesday indicated.

The latest revelations are not likely to provide any fresh information about the precise events surrounding the Feb. 11 death of Miss Miles' young business manager1, David Whiting, 26. But the disclosures' embarrassing overtones illustrate why attorneys for Miss Miles and Reynolds have been reluctant to expose them to questioning before the coroner's jury investigating Whiting's death. The disclosures appear in a brief filed by Mrs. Frank Campbell, Whiting's mother, which prompted a Superior Court judge to order Reynolds and Miss Miles to appear today.

The brief suggests that the night before Whiting was discovered dead in Miss Miles' dressing room in a motel here, Reynolds became miffed 1 with the fragile looking English actress. The apparent misunderstanding occurred when the pair returned separately from a dinner party in Ajo, near where they were filming "The Glaus said demand for beef products has grown in the last 25 years from a total U.S. production of 15 million cattle in 1948 to 35 million in 1972. In that period, meat consumption rose from 56 pounds per person to 115 pounds per person in 1972, Glaus said. And Calif ornians ate 20 to 25 pounds more per person than the national average, according to Glaus i "To keep up with this demand, i 4 Jaywalker Crossing Freeway Struck by Five Cars and Killed Continued from First Page Dakota cattlemen's group, told The Times Tuesday.

"We hope their concern does not call 'for involving government controls of an industry that has been free of controls. The result (of imposing controls) would lead to rationing and the black market that inevitably goes with it (and) a cutback in production when we need increased production to meet the demands." An elderly man who attempted to -walk across the Santa Ana Freeway at Alameda St. was struck by five cars and killed early Tuesday despite frantic efforts by a passing motorist to save his life. There was no indication why Louis Williams, 69-year-old transient, started across the four southbound lanes about 5:30 a.m. He got as far as the second lane when he was knocked down by a car.

The car's driver, Mary Lewis, 57, told California Highway patrolmen she did not see the man in the early morning darkness because of his dark clothing. However, she knew her car had struck something. She took the next off-ramp and circled back to the scene. She was not cited. Meanwhile, another motorist, Robert Schiller, 21, of Whittier, stopped his car, jumped out and be with Phosdrin.

About .240,000 heads were harvested from the fields, they said. Federal regulations require a waiting period of four days after application of 16 ounces of Phosdrin per acre. State regulations also forbid harvesting in Phosdrin-related fields for four days after application as a safety precaution to the field workers. 11 On Friday, Imperial County Agricultural Commissioner Claude M. Finnell said, in reply to the charges, "If this really did happen, there was clearly a violation by one or more people." Spokesmen for Finnell's office Tuesday confirmed the farm workers' charges, saying the Phosdrin had been applied on March 1 and the Lettuce Crop May Be Tainted, BY ROBERT JONES Tinwi Staff Writer, Agricultural' officials' confirmed Tuesday that thousanls of boxes of lettuce harvested from an Imperial Valley farm may contain illegal residues of a pesticide called Phosdrin.

Phosdrin, one of the most toxic of the organo phosphate chemicals, was the principal chemical used to substitute for Monitor 4 after that pesticide was withdrawn from use on lettuce. The specter of lettuce contaminated by the substitute pesticide was originally raised last Friday when spokesmen for the United Farm Workers Union charged that Danny Danenberg Farms, had ordered its workers to harvest the lettuce one day after it had been treated THEY STARTED IT June Donovan, left, and Arline Mathews compare notes on a meatless dish after launching a meat boycott. Times photo by Cal Montney.