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Kole dt Auto in omog iiiiiiwm. iii in nun im n.mii ii it mmjtpm mm i iW inmiwwn I I 1 i i 'Z 4 I IB ff Chae nged 'Contribution' of Motor Vehicles Way Be Exaggerated, Researcher Declares BY GEORGE CETZE Tknw SdMc Wrlttr he didn minimize the seriousness of the smog crisis in the" three counties, but that the solution was to intensify the application of modern technology to this "severe threat to urban society, not only here but everywhere in the i Calvert said smog wouldn't be eliminated until people were aroused enough to demand two things the spending of enough money, in research to pay for the study of all aspects of the problem and the passage of strict laws to control all the sources of air pollution. "It is conventional to see the automobile as the prime villain," Calvert said. "Maybe it is, and it certainly is a WEDDING BELLS NEXT Part of a record Saturday turnout of 233 couples line up at the county courthouse to obtain marriage licenses. The double line tripled here and there by a future mother-in-law overflowed the courthouse and down the steps to 1st and Hill Sts.

Times photo by Ben Olender The new director of the statewide UC Air Pollution Research Center suggested Saturday, that the autov, mobile's role in Los Angeles smog might have been exaggerated. Seymour Calvert, an engineer from Penn State University who took over the directorship of the Riverside center after Dr. John T. Middleton resigned, said researchers didn't yet have the detailed engineering grasp of the smog situation that was needed if smog was to be fought intelligently. His remarks were immediately and angrily challenged by Robert Chass, chief deputy air pollution control officer of the Los Angeles County.

Air Pollution Control District. Chass said anybody who said additional research was needed to determine the causes of Los Angeles air pollution was simply not willing to accept the facts. Personal Reason Charged "Those who want to cast doubt on the existing programs have a personal ax to grind," Chass said. Calvert's charges that a lot had still to be learned about Los Angeles' smog were made in a comment on the advice of a group of 60 UCLA medical professors about a fourth of the medical staff that people who live In the smoggiest parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, should move away if they can. (The smoggiest areas of Los Angeles County, statistics show, are the San Gabriel, San Fernando and Pomona-Walnut valleys.

Smoggiest parts of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are those valleys most open to air movement from Los Angeles county on the west). Calvert said that the professor's advice was negative and contributed little to the solution of the problem. Supporters, Foes Tell Views of 'Near-Zero' Car Odometer Law Measure Signed by Reagan Protects Mileage Warranty, Backers Say; Opponents Claim It Avoids Telling the Truth BY ROBERT FAIRBANKS Timts Staff Writer 233 COUPLES It's June in August at L. A. Marriage License Bureau June is supposed to be the month for marriages.

At the county courthouse Saturday it looked like June. Couples waiting to obtain licenses formed a line a double line, tripled here and there by a future mother-in-law out of the marriage license bureau, across the big entryway, and down the steps toward Hill St. Why? "Well," said Jack Hahn, assistant deputy chief county clerk, "August is traditionally our second highest month for licenses, after June. Every couple has a reason, of course, but we think it might have Head Start Agencies' Bazaar Assists Educational Program something to do with the calendar. 2 Long Weekends Coming Up "There are two long weekends coming up soon.

We think the people getting licenses today want to incorporate the long weekends into their honeymoons." Labor Day will be Sept. 2, making a three-day weekend of Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 2. At the end of the week will come the Sept.

7-9 weekend for those who work for agencies observing California's Admission Day, Sept. 9, as a holiday. Ella Moody, chief of the marriage license bureau, reported after the last papers had been processed at 2:01 p.m., two hours after the official closing that 233 licenses had been issued, the largest number ever on a Saturday. On Saturdays, when the bureau's 10 branch offices are closed, the downtown bureau issues an average of 142 licenses. SACRAMENTO Of all the plea sures available to the owner of a brand new car, there is probably nothing more satisfying than to inhale its new car aroma and see its mileage reading of practically zero.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars every year to achieve these delights. And far be it from Gov. Reagan, the California Legislature or the automobile industry to disappoint them. All of which Is one explanation for bill that Reagan signed last week concerning odometers (mileage indicators) in new cars. The measure assures that no matter how many miles a new car may have been driven prior to sale, its odometer will read within an eyelash of zero.

The bill permits automakers, distributors and new-car dealers to disconnect the odometer in a new car when the vehicle is being driven between them. It also permits manufacturers to make disconnects while testing new cars. Transporters, too, may disconnect odometers during drive-away tow-away operations (one vehicle hauling another). 'Approximate' Mileage in Writing To assure that a buyer has some idea of mileage on his new car, the bill requires that the dealer give him, in writing, the "approximate" mileage and the points between which the car was driven. Spokesmen for the automobile industry conceded that the mileage may sometimes be very approximate, largely because the dealer who makes the sale may not always know how many miles the car was driven before he got it.

In effect, the bill exempts new cars from provisions of a reform bill enacted last year that was aimed primarily at used car dealers. The 1967 bill, which Reagan also signed into law, was introduced by Sen. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Beverly Hills) and flatly forbade any lowering of any odometer reading through disconnects or resetting. Though, the 1967 bill was aimed mostly at used car dealers, Beilen ANNOYED HIM substantial contributor to the problem.

However, the research staff of the center is increasingly dubious that even complete control of automobile emissions would eliminate smog." Autos Blamed for 80 (The APCD has never claimed complete control of auto emissions would eliminate smog, but it has said automobiles are responsible for a big chunk of Los Angeles smog, about 80. (Calvert also said Southern California was dealing with a different kind of smog photochemical smog, but the APCD and Caltech, UCLA and USC chemists have been aware of photochemical smog for years. I is smog that is the result of a chemical reaction of sunlight.) "It is astonishing after all these years that so little is known about what goes on in the air over Los Angeles," Calvert said. One of the things that is needed, he said, is the development of a sound research plan based on knowledge of how smog is formed. The major purpose of the bazaar, according to Mrs.

Frances Epps, assistant director for program services at Head Start, was to promote total family participation and pride in ethnic culture. Participating delegate agencies were; Compton Community Youth Center, Council of Mexican-American Affairs, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, Frederick Douglass Child Development Center, Foundation for Early Childhood Education, Community Health Center, Latin American Civic Long Beach Community Improvement League, Los Angeles County Schools, Los Angeles Urban League and Parents Improvement Council. mirror a fascinating diversion. at the Victory Head Start Center Thirteen agencies participated. Hippie or Not, Man Wins Fight for His Job at Missile Base Exchnlv to Tin Times from Staff Writer "OXNARD To the brass at the Pacific Missile Range, Pt.

Mugu, Richard Beckley looked like a hippie. He was charged with "poor taste jn appearance, evidenced by hair of an undue length, a beard and boots," and fired from his job as a technical illustrator at the Navy weapons test center. A spokesman said Beckley's appearance was that "usually associated- with the hippie movement," adding: "I am sure that he is aware that hippies have lately taken to all kinds of actions which are directly adverse to the kind of thing that we at the Pacific Missile Range are attempting to do." But Beckley fought the dismissal. "What's a hippie?" he asked. "The word has no definition.

Management shouldn't be allowed to fire an employe arbitrarily on the basis of nebulous and superficial comments on his personal life." Beckley's appearance was his own business so long as it did not interfere with his work, contended Herman Axelrod, agent for Oxnard Lodge 1224 of the American Federation of Government Employes AFL-CIO), who defended him at months of civil service hearings. Beckley's co-workers and supervi- Please Turn to Page 24, Col. 1 The Times Opens Italy- '-Israel Bureau In its continuing program of expanding its own worldwide news coverage, The Times has established a bureau in Rome responsible for co-ring developments in Italy and Israel. Eouis B. Fleming, former bureau chief at the United Nations, has been named chief of the Italy-Israel oufeau.

He will divide his time between the two countries. Fleming's first article in his new assignment appears in the Opinion section today. Fleming's replacement at the United Nations will be announced later. CROWD WOULD HAVE Seldom Seen BY DAVE SMITH Tinwa Staff Writtr Under a blazing sun he would have termed "hotter'n hell" and attended by a bigger crowd than he ever would have tolerated in life, they laid Seldom Seen Slim to rest Saturday in Ballarat's Boot Hill. Slim, whose real name was Charles Ferge, died of cancer the Saturday before, at 86, in Trona Hospital, 70 miles away from the ghost town of Ballarat where he was the only resident for the past 50 years.

At high noon in the long-abandoned adobe ruins of the general, store, about 350 people fellow desert rats and gold prospectors, mostly gathered to hear the minister talk about the fellow they'd known as pretty peculiar. But his own man. The lifelong loner and irreverent recluse would have been touched, Eerhaps and amused, perhaps to ear the things said at the funeral about his stoutly independentflife. Th Rev. Donald Sweet, of Cumberland resbyterian Church in a son said, he also intended to stop new car dealers from showing inaccurate mileages on their vehicles.

"My whole point is that -the customer has a. right to know the actual mileage, whether he's buying a new or used car," Beilenson said. Asked about the new bill's provision that the buyer receive an "approximate" mileage in writing, Beilenson replied: "Why not just put it on the odometer? It's just another way of Please Turn to Page 8, Sec. Orange County Trio Die in Plane Crash Three Orange County residents were killed Saturday when their single engine plane stalled and crashed during a landing approach near Monterey. The dead were pilot John R.

Thompson, 48, of 11151 Martha Ann Drive, Los Alamitos; Dr. Milton Katz, 44, of 11161 Martha Ann Drive, Los Alamitos, and Mrs. Wilma Kinkead Wright, 55, of 13202 Hoover Westminster. Fred Kane, manager of Monterey Peninsula Airport, said the Cessna 210 flown by Thompson was making a normal approach when it stalled, seemed to recover temporarily and then stalled a second time. He said the plane clipped a tree with its right wing, cartwheeled and then smashed into a line of oak trees near the boundary between Monterey and Ft.

Ord, just short of the runway. Federal Aviation Administration authorities said the plane had taken off from Fullerton Airport Saturday morning for a flight to Medford, and had planned only one stop, at Monterey. Monterey' Dep. Coroner Harvey Hillbun said Mrs. Wright's body was tossed from the plane on impact, while Thompson and Katz were pinned in the wreckage.

after its gold strike petered out and it became a ghost town in 1917. He never struck.it rich, but he did manage to acquire an old Volkswagen and a beat-up house trailer, which was good enough to live in after time took its toll on the abandoned adobe buildings of Ballarat. Inyo County Coroner Bob Tal-madge said Slim's sparse personal effects including his shotgun, will be displayed at the Eastern Sierra Museum at Independent, and that a plaque will be set to mark Slim's grave. After the short service, Slim's friends took him to his grave in Ballarat's Boot Hill the 28th grave in this miners' cemetery and the first to be dug in half a century. And, since Slim was the last man living in Ballarat, it presumably is the last.

"Just bury me where the diggin' is easy," Slim used to say. And so they buried one of the last of a vanishiojj breed, in the sand in the suburbs ohelL Children, parents, teachers and advisers from Operation Head Start's 13 delegate agencies in the county joined forces Saturday in staging a cross-community bazaar to benefit the antipoverty educational program. Foods representing the ethnic groups participating, fashion shows, entertainment, an exhibit of Head Start pupils' art works and a children's costume contest were among attractions. Actress-singer Lena Home presented prizes to winners in the competitive categories at the event held on the tennis courts of the estate of Mrs. Eloise Jones, 1230 S.

Arlington St. About 2,000 attended the interracial event, titled Head Start First International Bazaar. Proceeds benefitted each participating agency's parent education fund. tion), find trick Both are students on East 49th St. Slim Laid to Rest in Boot Hill I r- 'ti'i 1 Sn If 4 1 i ami A lk44 iS i My) 1 fit aWA mlf- fMf.

v. if I 4p-i All' -ill I i'V 1 VI I i I Ipiiiiaii' 14 mmimwmmmsi rr I aft -kj I'-iv i. Trona, compared Slim to John the Baptist, because they shared a love of the desert. (But Slim didn't share the Baptist's love of water. He used to claim he hadn't had a bath in 20 years, except when he'd stand outdoors, naked, and slosh a pail of water on himself.) And from the 121st Psalm, Rev.

Sweet read: "The Lord is thy shade upon thy right The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." (Slim would have winked at that Miners call the Panamint Valley, which neighbors Death Val- ley, "the suburbs of hell," and Slim used to say, "The sun gets so hot the rocks seem to curl up. It's 120 in the shade and there ain't no shade. That's the hell of But Mr. Sweet also read, will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help," and probably 'Slim would have gone along with that. Slim, known as "the last of the one-blanket and burro prospectors," somehow scrabbled a living out of the sun-scorched, iron-.

hills around Ballarat, long SIGHT GAG At Operation Head Start's International Bazaar Saturday, brothers Robin Off ley 4, end Alexander Off ley, 5 (behind Robin in reflect.