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BudgetACuf YortyOKs -vi nn9 11 nn rty Tax Rate in Prope Makes Only Two Changes; Council to. CANDIDATE ASSET LISTING OK'D BY CC PART II EDITORIALS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1969 illlllSIl flpwf '-ft A i-WiV i t-t Nl'MiwiStriinii1i ii ii mm mwi imanii 1111 i I Take Final Action BY ERWIN BAKER Tinwi Stiff Writtr Mayor Sam Ydrty Tuesday with only two relatively, minor changes, a $467 million budget for 1969-70 providing a 6.43-cent municipal property tax cut. goes to the City Council for final action. Yorty called a special news conference to discuss a message he sent to the council earlier outlining his views on the council endorsed spending program. The lawmakers have five days.

to accept or reject the mayor's veto of two "line items" in the budget. Ten votes are required to override his actions. The council voted to consider the message today. Other Taxes Excluded If the 6.43-cent rate reduction prevails, the city tax bill for the owner of a $20,000 home assessed at '25 of market value would drop $3.22 to $117.56. The payment, however, does not include county, school district, flood control district, metropolitan water district and other special taxes that may be on city taxpayers bills.

The final city levy will not be set until late August after receipt of the county assessment roll and public utilities evaluation. In his message and at the news conference, Yorty praised the lawmakers for retaining the balanced budget he originally recommended last April 7. but scolded them for failing to finance a "critical" sewer construction program. He indicated he would support a monthly sewer service charge on residential, commercial and industrial users to fund the program. The program's need next year has been estimated at $13.1 million.

Yorty vetoed two "footnoted" items inserted by the council in adopting a budget which was $5.5 million in excess of the mayor's proposal and $20.2 million over this year's figure. The footnoting is intended to GOING PLACES Bob Jani, Disneyland's director of entertainment, with Cinderella and Mickey Mouse at a news conference announcing creation of a traveling, indoor arena show, "Disneyland on Parade." It will combine performances by a cast( of 125 with widescreen Disney films. First show' opens in Chicago Stadium Dec. 25. Others follow across country in various coliseums and arenas.

Times photo by Bruce Cox Noguchi Lawyer Accuses Four Witnesses of False Testimony Hearing on Former Coroner's Appeal for Restoration to Job Comes to End; Ruling Expected inTwo to Four Weeks BY RICHARD WEST Timts Staff Wrlttr Supervisors Make Extensive Revisions in Proposed Budget Soderstrom, GOP County Chairman, to Retire in July BY RICHARD BERGIIOLZ TimM Political Wrjlr 1 Republican County Chairman Charles Soderstrom of San Pedrp plans to resign' next month. The 56-year-old businessman, who has held the top party post in the county since Feb. 8, notified the committee's executive committee he has been "promising my family for the last year that I would resign as soon as I felt our party was in good shape," That time has come, Soderstrom said, and he dated his resignation as of next Monday. But the executive committee persuaded him to put it off for a month, to permit more time for a discussion of his successor. Soderstrom is backing Robert Mitchell, chairman of the Candidate Research and Development The full County Central Commit tee, including1 217 members elected last year, will meet Monday night at the new state building, but will hot select a successor to Soderstrom at that time.

Instead, the Executive Committee ruled that a special meeting of the big committee must be held sometime in July to deal the chairmanship problem. Born in Seattle, Soderstrom attended Beverly Hills High School and UCLA before entering the business world in the harbor area as a car dealer, a water company executive and a real estate developer, He became active in Republican affairs in 1955 and served as chairman of the United Republican Finance Committee and as county committee treasurer before his elec-' tion as chairman. COUNCIL GROUP An ordinance requiring local didates for office to file statements their assets land liabilities was approved Tueday by the City Council's. Governmental Efficiency The measure, authored by Councilman Marvin Braude, would require candidates to file within 10 days of their declaration for office a public statement including his: Interest in land, corporation shares, bonds and debentures. Interests in partnerships, deposits in banks, savings and loan associations and credit unions.

Asst. City Atty. James A. Doherty said the measure could not be enforced until the City Charter is amended. The charter does not now require a political candidate to file a financial statement.

prevent expenditure of funds without specific approval of the council and mayor. One item barred expenditure of $5,000 or more for Bureau of Public Buildings construction programs to-, taling $2 million. It also required outlays of less than $5,000 to be approved by the city administrative officer. The other involved expenditure of $238,000 for a North Pacoima swimming pool. Yorty complained that the restriction on public buildings expenditures would be a departure from "sound administrative procedures followed for years." It would preclude, he said, an orderly scheduling of projects and sufficient lead time to order materials and force a layoff of craft employes.

In vetoing the footnote on the North Pacoima pool, Yorty said the restriction was inserted on the premise that the funds were included in the Recreation and Parks Department program to be financed out of state funds acquired from the sale of freeway property. Please Turn to Back Page, Col. 1 ZEMAN Bureau Chief In their major action Tuesday to hold down the tax rate, the supervisors refused a request by David Novogrodsky, executive director of the AFL-CIO Social Local 535, to reduce workload and caseload standards for welfare eligibility workers and to expand the number of community aides. The Department of Public Social Services estimated the net cost of such yardstick reductions would cost the county $13.4 million a year, 1 net. In zigzag debate, the supervisors made varying increases and cuts.

They granted $36,000 sought by Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 Police 'Ride Along' Plan for Teen-Agers Will Be Repeated More than a score of police departments in Los Angeles County are cooperating again this year with 1 the district attorney's office in a so-called "Ride Along" program for teenagers, it was announced Tuesday. Purpose of the project, initiated last year, is to afford n-age boys and girls the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with the problems of law enforcement officers by riding with them in police patrol cars, according to Dist. Atty. Evelle J.

Younger. The program is being repeated thi3 year because of its success in 1968, he. said. Orientation Sessions Prior to actually riding in patrol cars, participants attend an orientation session at each police department in the county at which police procedures and the role of police officers are explained, Younger said. At a press conference Tuesday in which he outlined details of this year's program, Younger introduced Miss Leslee Cox, 16, a student of San Gabriel Mission High School, and Miss Chris Rounds, 17, a graduate of John Marshall High School.

Both of them endorsed the pro gram becaube, they said, it give teen-agers a chance to see first band what thft neighborhood police officer does for the people lie wrve As a mult of the pilot ii(cK'iam, tfvvrui joW department in I) Antfrles uvi Orsng counties hav lutitull nit liar jMjH INMoynd Ian, founder Md, ART SEIDENBAUM Seasons Greetings Dear High School Graduate: Congratulations, I suppose, for staying with the system this long. If you're going to continue, I think it's safe to promise that education becomes more interesting. Even college radicals will admit that academic life has its advantages. The hours are less regular. The curriculum choices are wider.

And the routine changes from day to day, depending upon who's occupying the administration building. But college also has a few social virtues that people hardly talk about anymore. For instance, may be the last time in your life that you'll be surrounded almost exclusively by your own generation. They understand you and, theoretically, you understand them. And all of you are now old enough to enjoy being stranded on a quadrangular island together.

Not much static from the elders. Hardly any torture from younger brothers and sisters who have their own gap going. Then there's the business of answering to yourself for a change, being reasonably free to study, go marching or contemplate your navel. In one way, college students are treated more like adults than adults themselves. The new left may not agree, but there are fewer pressures in a university to conform, compromise or cop-out than there are on the outside.

There's time for activism, if activism becomes your obsession. There's plenty of room for search, if you're still looking to find yourself. There's a community large enough to sustain almost every human activity, from comparative philology to cramming phone booths. All Things to All You can even be all things to all people and get away with it I know one frenetic radical who doubles as a physical culture nut and a filmmaker on the side. He considers it an ironic blessing that the same system he's fighting will provide him with a fresh sweatsuit, neatly laundered at state expense.

But possibly most important, don't take the library lightly. The whole school, the entire atmosphere, the ultimate intellectual seduction grows out of that place. The classrooms and the offices and the dorms are all subsidiaries of the library. That's why many people measure a university by the size and' breadth of its book collection. 'You may not yet be attuned to reading for pleasure.

Try it this summer. Even Marshall McLuhan, the multi-media guru, happily winds up with his messages in print. The campus library is not only large, it's within walking distance. That's one of the delights that college recruiters forget to brag about It's just possible, literally, that you may never again be so close to knowing so much. In the privacy of your own skull, you can study love, hate, war, sin, man, God all those short relevant words that became human volumes.

You can do it all in your own time. Because this indeed is your time, the time of picking and choosing and exploring. Really, the function of a university Is nothing more than providing a person with a maximum number of the options available for the rest of his life. The question! about jobs, politicm tni power are jll jua puny parti of that function, You don't co to CdJleae Ui learn a lndi, You An to Nm a Your own life, I hMi oi a Isaac said that Dr. Russell Henry, who took over' as acting coroner after Noguchi-was fired by the Board of Supervisors last March, testified to "things so patently false." The lawyer said that Dr.

Henry, in "the most surprising testimony of the hearing," said that while one Dexamyl "pep" might depress a person's appetite, more than one capsule would have the opposite effect. Isaac said this was false, as other experts testified that the more Dexamyl capsules a person took, the less appetite he would have. And, Isaac noted, even witnesses against Noguchi testified that he always had a healthy appetite. Wrote Complimentary Letter Although he appeared against Noguchi at the hearing, Isaac said, in June of 1968 Henry wrote Noguchi a letter complimenting him on his "skillful, diplomatic handling" of the Robert F. Kennedy autopsy.

Henry, who at this time was chief medical examiner for the state of Oregon, also asked Noguchi's advice in the letter on how he should go about getting a medical paper published, Isaac said. The defense counsel accused three of Dr. Henry's subordinates who against Noguchi; of "conspiring together" to cook up a story about these capsules." Isaac said Dr. Donald A. Stuart, the county's acting inquest officer, "absolutely, equivocally lied" about a capsule test he conducted in order to determine what kind of drugs NV uchi allegedly was taking.

4 Herbert McRoy, chief administrative deputy in the coroner's office, and Mrs. Nancy Palmer, a medical transcriber-typist, also gave false testimony regarding the capsule test, Isaac said. "They could not all be telling the truth because they told contradictory stories," the lawyer said. In this test, Ordered by McRoy, a Please Turn to Back Page, Col. 3 Los Angeles' actin coroner and three of his subordinates were accused by Dr.

Thomas T. Noguchi's lawyer Tuesday of giving false testimony as the County Civil Service Commission's hearing into Noguchi's dismissal came to an end. Noguchi's usually impassive countenance softened into a broad smile after commission President 0. Richard Capen adjourned the hearing, which has met four days a week except for one week's recess since it began May 12. Capen promised that the commission would "carefully review the record and render a decision" whether Noguchi should be reinstated.

He estimated that it would take him and the two other commissioners, Harry Albert and Mrs. Thelma Mahoney, from two to four weeks to review the more than 3,000 pages of testimony by about 80 witnesses and return their verdict. Greets His Well-Wishers The smiling Noguchi walked the aisle of the small hearing room in the County Hall of Administra- tion, shaking hands with fellow Japanese-Americans and other well-wishers and thanking them for their support. Noguchi said he believed he had proved his case and. that he would be reinstated.

"I am available to return to public service," he said. The charges of false testimony were leveled by attorney Godfrey Isaac during the final part of his summation, which was vigorously applauded by Noguchi's supporters. if 4' Roger T. Kelley TjnMfptwt billion thii year, nearly 10 of the grow national product, Kelley raid he ii Impressed with 'ihe utter Impwribiliiy of eny group of im-n Imping Ihfir on iha jett ili i inmUy," lit m'i tm foti. jiii ii mM I Value Defense Aide New of Military-Industrial Complex BY RAY Timts County County supervisors Tuesday made extensive revisions in the proposed $1.7 billion budget for 1969-70 and rejected some requests running into millions.

The board approved final recommendations of L. S. Hollinger, county chief administrative officer, to cut $4.2 million from the general-fund budget. Hollinger also reported the sur- plus will be $1 million larger than previously estimated. The net result is that the tax rate will be at least 3 cents less than the $2.9683 originally estimated for each $100 assessed valuation, After this reduction, the rate still would be about 26 cents above the record rate of $2.6810 now in effect for 1968-69.

Further Revisions Slated Further revisions will be made when budget deliberations resume at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. Instead of delaying until. July, the supervisors may adopt final budgets Monday for the general fund, special funds and 299 special districts. This was indicated when Chairman Ernest E.

Debs delayed calling for a vote on an urgency ordinance which would eliminate. the present, county requirement for enactment of a budget on or before June 30. Supervisors Warren M. Dorn, Kenneth Hahn and Frank G. Bonelli previously had threatened to postpone enactment in an effort to force the Legislature to fulfill pledges to provide tax relief.

pride In being able to feed, house and clothe his children on his own, but yard work and small maintenance jobs are his only skills. "Cynthia is an excellent student, not because she's gifted, but because she's a hard worker," Sister Lucille continues. "Besides doing several hours of homework a night, tshe cooks and keeps house for the family. The school' nurse recommends ghe be given a campership this lummer, for she is beginning to how the etraln of heavy responsibilities." Cynthia will be able to enjoy summer ramp only if Camp Fund jontributians rewh a word high this year, More than M.QM under i rhldrrii iav IxMtefjuM lioiil this healthful emrem be. ri'i't Turn It I'm I.

CM, 1 Camp Offers Respite to Girl Who Is 'Mother' in Family of 8 BY JULIAN IIARTT Timts Stiff Writer Roger T. Kelley, new assistant secretary of said Tuesday he has found no "cozy contracts" or "sweetheart deals" within the so-called military-industrial complex. "In the system of checks and balances there are too many people around looking over your shoulder" for any economic conspiracy to exist, Kelley told a news conference here. Here to address Town Hali at the Biltmore, the former Caterpillar Tractor vice president, whose firm is 95 civilian-oriented, strongly defended the "complex" now under wide attack. "It is not a dirty term, and it has served this country well," Kelley said, citing its origin In Gen.

George Washington's 1776 general order to regimental commanders that each should: send out one or two prudent ind sensible officers to buy up such arms ss are wanted these officers to bs ulso good Judgei of irms directed to pun-hst nons but wh mi art proper ind in It wjti tli njliltiry'iiniufctiial mm I iTfiit it'), llist rity hm srvl in ill Cynthia is only 12, but she has long had adult responsibilities. She has been a virtual mother to her six younger brothers and sisters since her mother died in 1964. For the first time in years, Cynthia will be free, of her duties this summer while an adult cousin visits the family. "It would be an ideal time for her to get away to the mountains and enjoy the benefits of summer camp," ay Sister Lucille Klein, camp director for the Sisters of Social Service youth welfare agency, "but her father cannot afford the $i5 fee, The one way thii can go through The Tlmcn Hummer Camp Kund." 'Hut fjiniiy'rf monthly Uwmw bui'Hy in limit (r ulfm till tltfiiiliiv, inirfilijif Hir 'ynlU'i MHr.

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