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3 Thurs, Aug. 21, 1975 SGV lost anpjtle Cimrt Junior Football SAN MARIN ANS Career of Slain Nazi Leader Started and Ended-by a Bullet-in El Monte Signups Begin Continued from First Page the assessor's office, the county Board of Supervisors, and area representatives in Sacramento. "At this time," Ford said, "we hold no official animosity toward the county assessor. That's our position right now." Invitations to the first meeting were sent to Mayor Maurice Jones Jr. and all councilmen, but none attended.

Since the assessments San Marino has reduced the city tax rate by 25 cents, or approximately 9.2, and the school tax rate by $1.19, or approximately 22. School Supt. Walter Dingus has cited the "substantial increase" in the school district's assessed valuation as one of the reasons for the decrease. Temple City Mayor Louis T. Gilbertson, a long-time advocate of an association of San Gabriel Valley cities, was a featured speaker at the meeting.

Citing his city's assessment increase of more than 29 as evidence of widespread inefficiency in county government, Gilbertson said that with the assessor's method of selec tive assessment, "some cities get it now, some later. This also has a way of holding down protests." Gilbertson said earlier that because isolated cities experienced the greatest increases in assessments, "possible opposition has been diffused. But if the whole area had similarly high increases you would probably have all cities up in arms." The Citizens' Tax Protest group feels, Ford said, that its efforts will give a good deal of support to the idea of a San Gabriel Valley association of cities or even the formation of a separate San Gabriel Valley county. (The South Bay and Newhall-Saugus areas are also exploring the possibility of forming their owm county.) But the protest group recognizes as its immediate task the assistance of San Marino property owners in coping with the recent increases in property assessments. The group is planning coordinated action, and Ford said it will announce its specific plans in the near future.

"Something's got to change somewhere," Ford said, "and it could happen in San Marino." Youth football programs in San Gabriel and Covina are seeking players for teams that will begin play in mid-September. The San Gabriel Dons, a member of the Junior All-American Football Conference, has openings for boys 9 to 13 years old. Registration information can be obtained at practices from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at San Gabriel High School. The Dons, with teams competing in four age groups, play teams from Al-hambra, Arcadia, El Monte and Pasadena in 11-man football.

The Covina Junior Football Conference, which offers competition in eight-man football, is enrolling boys 9 to 14. Games are played at Kelby Park on Barranca south of Cypress Covina. Registration is through Gary Schienle, 20603 E. Rancho Los Cerritos Road, Covina, or Jan Shafer, 1170 E. Alosta Continued from First Page Nazi Party member Jerry Keith Jones, 18, who lived at the headquarters.

Jones is scheduled to appear at 9 a.m. today in El Monte Municipal Court for the setting of a preliminary hearing date. Clyde Frank Bingham, 19, another headquarters resident, was arraigned Tuesday in the same court on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place. Preliminary hearing for Bingham was set for next Thursday. Tommasi was ousted by the party's Arlington, headquarters in 1973 for violations of party rules and regulations, including the fact that his girl friend was living at the headquarters.

But what reportedly really angered Nazi leaders were Tommasi's departures from party procedures, mainly his advocacy of violence toward "the enemy," whom he identified in literature as American blacks and Jews. join any clubs or go out for sports, but he did play first trumpet in the band. "Joe was the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet," his high school band director said in a 1972 interview. "It's kind of like a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde." His counselor described him as "a good, strong student, friendly and low-key. He was smart enough to tend to his own business." Another classmate said he never missed a chance to argue the Nazi cause in class. El Monte Police Capt. Robert Wiles said Tommasi was intelligent and polite. "Normally, he wouldn't lie to us if we asked him about a demonstration we'd heard the Nazis planned," Wiles added.

David Rust, 16, a Tommasi follower who was with him at the time he was killed, reportedly told police he and the ousted Nazi leader were driving by the headquarters when someone in the doorway directed an obscene gesture toward them. Tommasi stopped and allegedly started up the steps of the building toward three Nazi members. One then told him if he came any nearer he was dead. Tommasi ignored the warning and the man fired his gun. Police said Nazi party members told them Tommasi was brandishing a club and threatening them and that the killing was in self-defense.

There are conflicting reports about the club, police said. "Joe got exactly what he deserved a bullet in the head," one Nazi member said. Police said there had been numerous confrontations between the two groups. smml hub Names in the News fri 111 MY SPECIALTY! GREEN HOUSES UTILITY HOUSES POOL HOUSES TOOL HOUSES CONSTRUCTION SITE SHEDS Joseph C. Tommasi believe a person just out of the blue would adopt these beliefs.

"Yet I knew from the start that the National Socialist movement was something that was all encompassing something by which you could guide your fife." When he was a sophomore at FJ Monte High School, Tommasi's parents, who reportedly learned of their son's Nazi involvements when they saw him on television during a demonstration, moved to Walnut to keep him away from the headquarters. He said his parents were enraged. His mother once threw all Tommasi's Nazi records in the trash after he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon at a party convention in Arizona. Tommasi's parents later moved to Oklahoma, police said. Former classmates described Tommasi as a "little strange." He didn't Plan Design Build 797-3800 COLOR Party officials also were unhappy about a confrontation between the local Nazi unit and the Jewish Defense League in March, 1973.

They later ignored Tommasi's revelation that his unit received $1,200 from Nixon campaign workers in 1972 for helping undermine the George Wallace presidential effort. Tommasi reportedly used the money as a down payment on the headquarters in 1972 to thwart efforts by the city officials to force the Nazis to move out of El Monte. He fought the city's attempts in the courts for more than a year. After his ouster from the party, Tommasi formed his own white power group, the National Socialist Liberation Front. "No longer would we think in terms of obtaining political power," Tommasi said after an organizational meeting of the new group.

"We would think, instead, of hurting the enemy through force and violence. We would build the armed struggle." National Socialists, he said, "declared their lack of faith in the losing strategy" of the mass movement idea of the establishment Nazis. IC.JtJIoK $136 IT Sliccli Continued from Second Page Diabetes Assn. Elects Officers New officers of the San Gabriel Valley Unit, American Diabetes Southern California Affiliate are Carole Casmano, Arcadia, chairman; Thorn Meyers, Alhambra, vice chairman; Howard I. Fried, Alhambra, program chairman; Cheryl Aten, Monrovia, and Barbara Fortner, South Pasadena, secretaries, and Harvey Lotstein, Alhambra, treasurer.

New Coach at Workman High LA PUENTE New head football coach at Workman High School is Sam Flaim, assistant coach for the Lobos for the past eight seasons. Flaim replaces Bob Green, who has served as head football coach since the school opened. Public Relations Chairman Robert Gomperz, Pasadena City College information officer, has been named chairman of the California Community Junior College Assn. committee on public relations for the second consecutive year. College District Aide Promoted ROSE HUN.

fylei Avriiur LI Mmile. Ciliformj 1 7 3 1 telephone (21 1) 57) 7901 HILLS snearb i i DATA BOOKLET FOR RTD PASSENGERS RELEASED and at libraries in Pasadena, Altadena, and Sierra Madre, as well as Arcadia, South Pasadena, Temple City, Rosemead, San Marino, San Gabriel and La Canada. William J. Provance of Hacienda Heights has been ap pointed assistant vice chancellor of business services for the Los Angeles Community College District. Provance, who has been with the college district since 1973, is a re tired Air Force colonel with 22 years of service.

When care means everything One visit convenience is a part of caring at a difficult time. That's why Rose Hills Memorial Park offers beautiful chapels, a modern mortuary and crematory, dignified mausoleums and flower shops, all in one peaceful and quiet setting. Dignity, understanding, consideration and care A Rose Hills tradition for more than half a century. ROSE HILLS MORTUARYCEMETERY 3900 Workman Mill Road Whittier, California 699-0921 AitivVL 4 a PASADENA A free booklet designed to aid riders of RTD buses in the Pasadena area has been produced by the transportation committee of the Pasadena Urban Coalition. The booklet contains information about fares, monthly passes, maps of routes, RTD information telephone numbers and limited schedule information for routes in the Pasadena-Al-tadena-Sierra Madre area.

"Much of the detailed information about schedules will still have to be obtained from RTD schedule forms," said Pat Rostker, acting chairman of the PUC transportation committee, "but now, at least, a rider can tell which route will take him where he wants to go and approximately when the bus runs." The free booklets are available at the PUC office, 118 S. Oak Knoll Membership in the new group was limited "to the more radical and better educated among thoee involved in the National Socialist movement," Tommasi's literature said. The new group opened a book store on Garvey which soon closed because Tommasi couldn't afford the rent. Police said the new Nazis had but "a few loyal members." Tommasi's interest in the Nazi cause began in the eighth grade at Parkview Junior High School after a study of the Third Reich. "Although I have no way of proving it, I think I was born a National Socialist," he once said.

"It's hard to Mr. Sac Board Approves Budget Mt. San Antonio College: will oper-ate on a $23.5 million budget in 1975-76 that will be partly financed by a tax rate of 70 cents per $100 assessed valuation, trustees have decided. The rate is 1.5 cents higher than a year ago. About 20,000 students, representing a 27c increase in average daily attendance, are expected to en-roll for the fall semester.

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26. Both programs are free, and will be held at the library, 500 S. Del Mar Ave. Penny Carnival Scheduled WEST COVINA Pie-eating contests and carnival games will be among the attractions at the 16th annual Penny Carnival sponsored by the Recreation and Parks Department from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Cameron Park, Cameron and Lark Ellen Aves.

Talk on Redevelopment Law ALHAMBRA Real estate developer William Converse will examine aspects of community redevelopment law at a noon luncheon today sponsored by the Alhambra Christian Business Men's Committee at the Sir George Buffet, 245 W. Valley Blvd. 'Proclamation of Rebellion' SAN MARINO The American Academy of Dramatic Arts will present King George Ill's "Proclamation of Rebellion" at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

The proclamation, issued by George III on Aug. 23, 1775, was directed against his rebellious subjects in the 13 American Colonies. Knights of Columbus Dinner ALHAMBRA Thomas E. Letizia will be honored at the annual Past Grand Knights dinner-dance Saturday, Aug. 23 held by the Alhambra Council Knights of Columbus.

Letizia, coordinator of educational services at East Los Angeles College, headed the council in 1974-75. The dinner-dance will be held at the council building at 534 Howard St. Gestalt Workshop Scheduled HACIENDA HEIGHTS The Sunset Hills Family and Psychological Services will hold a Gestalt workshop Sat- Please Turn to Page 7. Col. I AND COMMITMENTS.

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