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ti'i Pi I ij i r1 i Bitterness Easing in Coastal Plan Revision Rewriting of Bill Proceeds Under Air of Conciliation nn Eo Angeles BT BILL STALL and LARRY STAMMER Times Staff Writers SACRAMENTO The long and often bitter struggle over protecting California's coastline has moved into the back rooms of the Legislature. There, a bill to implement a permanent Coastal Plan is being rewritten and refined in an apparent aura of conciliation. There appears to be mood of cooperation and compromise on the complex issue, even among traditional enemies on the coastal issue. The revised legislation that emerges when the Legislature returns from its Easter recess April 19 may be the basic document that passes the 1976 Legislature, if a permanent coastline bill is to pass at all. Unless such a bill is enacted or the existing temporary controls extended, development along California's coast will again be uninhibited by state and regional coastal commissions.

Proposition 20, the 1972 initiative approved by voters which enacted the temporary controls following repeated failures by the Legislature to act, expires at the end of this year. The bill, authored by Sen. Anthony Beilenson (D-Beverly Hills) and based on a plan developed by the state coastal commission, would establish permanent guidelines and a governmental mechanism to control future development along the coast. The changes being drafted by legislative consultants generally would more clearly define, and restrict, the powers of a permanent coastal commission. The revised bill would delineate what are areas of special significance along the coast, which obviously should come under the authority of a state coastal agency.

Other powers would be specifically delegated to local government and state agencies. The goal is to overcome a major criticism of the operation of the interim coastal commissions created by Proposition 20. That criticism was that proposed developments in the coastal zone ON LOCATION-Film permit coordinator Bill Johnson talks with Officer George Mansfield on the set of feature film "Car Wash." Timet photo by Marilynn K. Yee One-Stop Permits Aid LA Movie Makers New Process Leads to Resurgence of Street Location Shooting does construction firms. One of the three motion picture coordinators Bill Johnson, Bill Ferguson or Pat Patton usually is able to get all of the required approvals with telephone calls to the right people in the various departments.

Motorists or neighborhood residents sometimes complain of being inconvenienced by TV or movie companies holding up traffic or using all the parking spaces for their generator trucks and portable dressing rooms. But Johnson and his fellow coordinators contend that the problems are minimal. Johnson says his office has had only about five complaints from angry motorists in the two years. Anyway, he sees little difference between that problem and a construction corn-Please Turn to Page 3. Col.

I great convenience for the movie and TV people. But several of them point out that many factors contributed to the proliferation of location shooting here. For one thing, an increasing number of foreign actors have learned a bit of English: "More money." Another is the cyclical nature of the industry, which now is very big on cop and private-eye stories requiring more gutsy urban backgrounds than Make Room for Daddy ever did, thus bringing film crews out from the sound stages onto public streets. Making certain that those streets were in Los Angeles rather than in Ventura, Santa Monica or Madrid seemed advisable after a parade of producers during 1968 hearings on runaway film production complained that Los Angeles permit procedures and zoning laws were cumbersome and prohibitive. At the time, joblessness in some film crafts was believed to be running at more than 85.

CICED already was in existence under Public Works to aid construction and industrial development in order to increase the number of Los Angeles jobs and enlarge the city's tax base. The one-stop operation for construction and filming alike became possible with a 1973 ordinance allowing CICED to issue permits for all city departments (except the Department of Airports, which has its particular security problems and federal regulations.) It became so easy for Hollywood that the office now helps about as many film and TV producers as it cc PART II SUNDAY, APRIL II, 1976 were subject to uncertainty and long delay because of a complex permit and appeals system. Political moods shift as freely in Sacramento as the coastal sands of Malibu, but so far, the volatile rhetoric which heralded the exchanges between conservationists and developers in years past has been replaced by low-key discussions among people with divergent interests. All sides now profess they want the Legislature to enact a coastal bill, primarily because they prefer the certainity of an imperfect compromise over which they have exercised some control to the uncertain consequences of a deadlock. Unless a bill is enacted creating a successor agency and permanent guidelines, one of three-things could happen: All coastal controls would end, an alternative unacceptable to conservationists.

Existing interim controls would be temporarily extended to buy more time for a legislative solution, an alternative unacceptable to developers and some local governments. Existing interim controls would be extended temporarily, but with some modifications, an alternative whose attractiveness would depend on how each interest viewed the modifications. As they press toward a compromise on the bill, remarks from both sides take on added interest. Janet Adams, president of the California Coastal Alliance which sponsored Proposition 20, told The Times, "We have been very insistent that All the environmental and social ills can't be resolved in one bill. the bill has to become more workable.

We have said that all the environmental and social ills of the world could not be resolved in one piece of legislation." Such is the kind of statement one might expect from a developer, not a conservationist. Michael R. Peevey, executive director of the development-oriented California Council for Environmental Economic Balance, told The Times, "We have never called for abolishment of the commission. We are opposed to the initiative to wipe out Proposition 20." Such is the kind of statement one might expect from a conservationist, not a developer. However, negotiators and diplomats have long known it is easy to obtain agreement on broad statements.

It is not so easy to achieve agreement on details. There is no doubt that much yet remains to be done before agreement on details is reached. At this point, Beilenson's first concern is winning approval of the Senate Natural Resources and Conservation Committee. Beilenson is concentrating much of his efforts on the committee chairman, Sen. John Nejedly (R-Walnut Creek) whom Beilenson sees as holding the make-or-break vote.

Beilenson has been meeting privately with Nejedly to iron out problems. During committee hearings, Nejedly has demonstrated a penchant for scrutiny. Details interest him. Nejedly complains, "We're trying to do in a few weeks what should have a whole year to do." But he adds, "We have an obvious mandate, Please Turn to Page .1. Col.

READY TO DEFY 'BAD LUCK' A casinos Appear willing to Gamble BT COLIN McKINLAY Times Staff Writer BY JACK JONES Times Staff Writer None of the residents of the faded old neighborhood at 6th St. and Rampart Blvd. bothered to watch the shout-filled scuffle that erupted over and over again at the car wash. Not since the day the angry woman charged in from the sidewalk to raise hell with the black car wash attendants for taunting a mailman with Polish jokes had there been much attention from passersby. She had simply overlooked the big camera and reflectors; had not heard director Michael Schultz calling over his power megaphone, "Let's take it again from the top, everybody!" Someone explained to her that the attendants and the mailman were actors doing a movie called "Car Wash." It was just another film company shooting on location in the streets of Los Angeles an event so commonplace these days it hardly seems possible to drive downtown without appearing in the TV series The Blue Knight or Baretta.

Five years ago, one was more likely to find jobless actors and studio grips outside the state employment office. Films were being made in Spain or Italy with performers who did not understand their English lines. A big reason for the resurgence of street location shooting here, Los Angeles officials contend, is the two-year-old one-stop permit center in City Hall. "We can't take all the credit for bringing the producers back here," says Michael A. Westerlin, coordinator in the Department of Public Works' CICED (City's Interdepartmental Committee for Economic Development), "but it's a big step." Before CICED cranked up its motion picture coordination section in 1974 with Bill Johnson and two other coordinators, film or TV producers had to go to as many as 13 different city departments and secure as many as 20 different approvals for public area shooting.

Now, one $50 permit takes care of it, assuring a producer who is properly insured that he has go-aheads from the Police Department, Fire Department, Traffic Department and any others needed. "Certainly the one-stop center has been a major factor in the substantial increase of production here," says Robert Hagel, whose Burbank Studios equipment firm recently was fresh out of cameras to rent. "The center has been a godsend." For sure, the center has been a AIRPORT Ex-Reagan Aide j0jns Finch Drive Fram Times Stiff Writer SACRAMENTO The man who helped make Ronald Reagan governor of California but defected to President Ford in this year's presidential race has joined the U.S. Senate campaign of Robert H. Finch.

William Roberts, a veteran political strategist who once was half of the Spencer-Roberts political management firm, said he would be the Finch campaign's "chief of staff." He said his appointment by Finch reflected "no panic or anything of that nature." The Finch campaign, he said, merely is "at the point where it needs to expand quite a bit more and get ready to go against Tunney in November." Public opinion polls show Finch to be the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination to the Senate seat now held by Democrat John V. Tunney. Finch described Roberts as "an old, old friend" and "the best professional political manager in America today." Roberts' most recent assignment was in Florida, where he managed Ford's successful primary campaign against Reagan, a task he undertook at the request of his former colleague, Stuart Spencer, the President's deputy national campaign manager. Spencer-Roberts managed Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaigns in both 1966 and 1970 but split up two years ago when Roberts sold out to Spencer. 11 on $2 Bills be removed from the table and replaced by two silver dollars.

Diamond said one other method was popular in counteracting whatever ill fortune the $2 bills were supposed to bring. "If you tear off the top right-hand corner'" he said, "it removes the bad luck." The onus of the $2 bill first started fading here in the late 1940s when the Air Force, anxious to demonstrate the impact of its payroll on Las Vegas, paid all its servicemen with $2 bills. The bills ended up in the casinos so frequently that the gamblers were too busy counting them to be concerned about omens, according to veteran casino executive Chuck Bennett. The prevailing opinion around town now is that the new $2 bill will be generally welcome in casinos especially since so many places have established a $2 betting minimum on the tables. Yet, some of the old superstitions continue.

Many oldtimers remember a fellow named Jake Katleman and his little superstition when running the El Rancho Vegas. If a particular table lost money during an evening, Jake would sprinkle salt around it. Five Arrested on Charges of Counterfeiting Five men have been arrested on counterfeiting charges by Secret Service agents investigating the Feb. 27 dumping of about $90,000 in bogus bills in an Ontario landfill. A total of $350,000 in phony bills was seized in the arrests, which agents say mark the breakup of a major counterfeit ring in the San Gabriel Valley.

Michael Ray Wigley, 26, of Pasadena, was arrested March 31 on charges of passing counterfeit money. Four others arrested Thursday were identified as Ted Steven Hopsi-ter, 27, of Whittier; Patrick Kelley, 27, of Santa Ana; Dennis Dean Thornburg, 28, of Anaheim, and Ter-rence Wigley, 23, of San Gabriel. Agents said Hopsiter was charged with the sale of counterfeit money, Thornburg with the manufacture of counterfeit money, and Terrence Wigley and Kelley with aiding and abetting in that manufacture. The money and equipment for printing it were found buried at the home of one of the men arrested. The suspects were able to pass only $1,700 of the phony bills, a Secret Service spokesman said.

SECURITY LAS VEGAS A quarter-century ago, an announcement that the U.S. Treasury Department was going to flood the country with $2 bills would have caused crap shooters here to turn pale. For years, gamblers considered the $2 bill an omen of bad luck and for some the superstition still lingers. "They're a casino no-no," said Sam Diamond, general manager of the Fremont Hotel. "Most gamblers say they are bad luck and won't have them.

The old superstition survives." All the same, the Treasury Department has no plans to stop putting 225 million new $2 bills into circulation on Tuesday, Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The Las Vegas area will get $600,000 worth of the bills which bear Jefferson's portrait. The Department decided to reactivate the bill after a 10-year absence in an attempt to save between $4 and $7 million in printing costs. About 1.6 billion $1 bills are now printed each year and it is hoped that figure can be halved. What reception the new bills will receive here is uncertain.

Jasper Casalicchio, a casino shift boss at the Thunderbird Hotel, recalls the days when most gambling was in cash instead of chips. If a player bet a $2 bill, he said, it would AGENCIES DO QUIET, EFFECTIVE JOB BY MARVIN MILES Times Aerospace Writer She was in her mid 50s, a well-dressed airline passenger headed east, and among the items she offered for inspection at Los Angeles International Airport were a large handbag and a cane. The airline screening monitor, peering through a viewport in the X-ray machine, studied the contents of the handbag, turned her attention to the cane, then beckoned to a uniformed boarding officer standing nearby. He, too, checked the cane under ray and picked it up for c'oser examination. "Is this your cane, ma'am?" he asked politely.

"Yes." "Would you come with me, please?" In a small room close by, the boarding officer and his supervisor questioned the passenger again, showing her how the touch of a button at the top of the cane snapped out a 10-inch steel spike at its tip. "I was carrying it home for friend," she explained. I didnt realize The woman was one of 179 passengers arrested last year by boarding officers at International Airport, togeth er with 217 nonpassengers who also attempted to carry or pass illegal weapons through the security screen. In all, the two airport law enforcement agencies serving the terminal one responsible for general security, the other assigned specifically to prevent hijacking of aircraft arrested 533 persons in 1975. The armed officers of these two agencies are inconspicuous, for the most part, seldom noticed as they watch over the teeming terminal in different ways.

Chief George Dorian's security division, the senior service, patrols the airport's perimeters, its aircraft ramps, buildings and parking lots. It answers emergencies, guards gates, investigates complaints, performs protective escort services, assists other law enforcement agencies and directs traffic. Mario Polselli's boarding officers serve as armed backup for airline screening operations that check passengers and their carry-on luggage with magnetometers and X-ray machines as they move into so-called "sterile" boarding areas. In all, Polselli said, his officers last year confiscated 181 handguns, 143 knives, five blackjacks, 46 chemical gas guns, four brass knuckles and an assortment of dirks, pel let guns, sword canes, billy clubs, daggers and other devices. There also were five arrests for interfering with a boarding officer, six for false bomb threats and 42 for narcotics (resulting from weapons checks) drunkenness, disturbing the peace and warrants outstanding.

Arrests, the boarding services director noted, were up 37 over 1974, and nearly all categories of confiscated weapons were up also, including handguns, an increase of 15. But such statistics are not as grim as they would appear, Polselli pointed out, for the discovery of a weapon on a passenger or in his hand luggage rarely means that a hijacking is planned. "As a matter of fact he said, "a study of all screening arrests nationwide in 1974 showed only 25 would have involved attempted or completed hijackings had weapons not been detected." Polselli believes the increase in weapons confiscated, particularly handguns and switchblade knives, is a commentary on the times, reflecting concern for physical safety and self -protection. Most people, he thinks, are not deliberately trying to evade the law when a weapon is found on their person or in their luggage. "Occasionally we do find hardened criminals, wanted felons, with weapons," Polselli said, "and theirs is a deliberate mistake in trying to sneak past the screen.

But most offenders dont realize they are violating the law. They are unthinking, or perhaps in a hurry, and forget they may be in violation. This applies particularly to women who today constitute about 30 of those taken into custody. "There are also cases where possession of a weapon such as tear gas may not be an offense in one state but is a violation under California law. This can lead to confusion and trouble." Nevertheless, all violators are taken into custody passengers and nonpassengers unless they have permits for handguns in which case they are advised to lock them up elsewhere or remain clear of the sterile boarding areas.

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