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PALM DESERT FLOOD DAMAGE Bob Arce views furniture that washed onto his vacant lot during last two floods. Jack Couste of state Division of Forestry checks on a mud-filled swimming pool. Times photos by Robert Lac man UC to Appeal Ruling on Special Admissions Will Ask U.S. Court PARENTS OF CHILD to Upset Decision on ELECTROCUTED IN Minority Students YARD FILE SUIT IS mi, 1 los Angeles; ORANGE COUNTY CC PART II SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1976 Dummar's Aunt to Face Quiz on Hughes Wi BY AL DELUGACH Times Staff Writer Erma (Bonnie) Dummar of Bell-flower, whose nephew could receive a fortune under the contested Howard Hughes "Mormon will," faces a court hearing Oct. 5 to force her to answer questions on which she asserted Fifth Amendment protection earlier this week.

On advice of her attorney, Mrs. Dummar refused to answer some questions at a deposition Wednesday. Included were queries about her access to Millionaire magazine, an Orange County-headquartered publication with extensive material on' Hughes. In 1971 Mrs. Dummar married an uncle of Melvin Dummar.

In a purported 1968 will of Hughes, which surfaced mysteriously after the billionaire's death last April, Melvin was named to receive a one-sixteenth share of the estate. Dummar, a gas station operator in Willard, Utah, explained his good fortune to reporters by saying that in 1968 he gave a lift and 25 cents to a bedraggled-looking man in the Nevada desert and the man. said he was Hughes. The purported will was found in the Salt Lake City world headquarters of the Mormon Church, which also was named a major beneficiary. The church turned the hand-written document over to the court in Las Vegas.

Paul Freese, an attorney contesting the will on behalf of three maternal cousins of Hughes, told a Superior Court judge in Las Vegas last month that he had subpoenaed Melvin Dummar's first wife Linda, and his aunt for depositions and expressed hope of showing that the will is a "forged instrument." Freese said Friday that Mrs. Dummar, the aunt, declined to answer some questions at her deposition Wednesday. He said he would ask Superior Judge Neil Lake on Oct. 5 to order her to respond to the questions because she answered related ones and Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 imes LIGHTNING VICTIM Paramedics treat baggage handler Dave Lash, most seriously injured of three men struck by lightning at County Airport.

Times photo by Deris Jeannette 2 PERSONS INSIDE NOT HURT Lightning Hits Near Plane, Sparks Fire, Injures Three BY STEVE EMMONS and PATRICK BOYLE BY DON SPEICH Times Education Writer A California Supreme Court decision barring special college admissions programs for minority students will be appealed by the University of California to the U.S. Supreme Court, it was announced Friday. At the same time the university will ask both courts for a stay of the decision while the appeal is pending before the nation's high court. If the stay is not granted by Oct. 16, the date when the decision becomes final.

UC, under last week's court ruling, will have to begin revamping the programs which give preferential treatment to minority medical and law school applicants. UC's decision to appeal was announced by General Counsel Donald Reidhaar at a meeting of the university's Board of Regents in Los Angeles. The state court, in a 6-1 ruling, said that the special admissions program at the UC Davis school of medicine, and all programs like it, violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The decision does not affect special admissions students now enrolled at UC.

At a press conference after Friday's meeting, UC President David Saxon expressed concern that the decision might affect not only UC's professional schools but also the special admissions programs for undergraduate students at all colleges and universities in the state. For UC this could mean that the Educational Opportunity Program comprising minority students who normally are admitted with something less than the required entrance qualifications would have to be at least partially altered. Saxon said he and Reidhaar are studying the decision to see if it will be necessary to change the EOP program if the stay of the state court ruling is denied. The state court's decision stems from a suit filed in 1974 by Allan Bakke, an unsuccessful white applicant to the Davis medical school in 1973 and 1974. Bakke claimed he was denied admission even though less qualified minority students had been accepted under the special Davis program.

Under that program, 16 of the 100 places in each first-year class are al-loted to disadvantaged minorities. The ruling, although striking down special admissions programs per se. does leave open the possibility that Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 4 Anthony Tops Candidates in Fund Raising BY DON SMITH Times Staff Writer SANTA ANA Mayor Phil Anthony of Westminster, who finished second in the primary race for the 1st District Supervisorial seat, has emerged as the county's top overall fund-raiser in early campaigning for the Nov. 2 election.

In disclosure statements filed Friday with the County Registrar of Voters' Office, Anthony reported a total of $141,741 for his campaign as of the Sept. 23 reporting date. Of that amount, $21,506 had been collected since July, his financial report showed. Anthony also reported overall expenses of $133,082, including $20,405 spent since the last reporting period for the primary election. In contrast, his opponent, Santa Ana City Councilman Harry Yamamoto, reported total receipts of $30,730, of which $5,730 was collected since the last primary report.

His expenses amounted to $6,397, Yamamoto said. Despite Anthony's overall lead in receipts, the biggest money-raiser in the first reporting period for the general election was Democratic Assemblyman Paul Carpenter who is campaigning in the 37th State Senate District. Carpenter's report showed total receipts of $61,886 but $26,136 of that had been collected during the latest reporting period. His expenses amounted to $7,059, of which $6,869 was recorded during the reporting period. Only two other political candidates reported receipts of more than They were auto dealer James Slemons, a Republican seeking election in the 74th Assembly District, who disclosed a total of $131,493, and Republican Assemblyman John Briggs, who is seeking the 35th State Senate District seat.

Briggs reported total receipts of $100,187 for one committee and $55,797 for a second. Slemons' overall expenses totaled $128,669 while Briggs' amounted to $72,549 for one committee and $94,868 for the second. Anthony's report listed major donations from the Orange County Committee for State and Local Candidates, the Political Action Committee, (no other identification), the Irvine $1,000 and a $9,000 personal loan. In addition, he included numerous $250 donations from builders and developers. Yamamoto's largest donations were $500 contributions from Broadmoor Homes, Shizuko Yamauchi, George J.

Makee, Clyde A. Matney, Liberty Building Co. and J. Segerstrom. Carpenter's contributors included the United Auto Workers, the California State Employess Please Turn to Page 20, Col.

1 The official Marine Corps reaction Friday was "no comment" "It was all news to said Maj. M.L. Hefti of the Division of Information at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C "At this time, the Marine Corps is not prepared to comment because we have not had time to study it. However, we are concerned about it" Much the same reaction came from Lt. Col.

Dan Brown, public affairs officer at Camp Pendleton. However, Brown also noted that the Marine Corps wants to retain the land and has successfully fought off earlier proposals to use it for a national cemetery, an Air Force base, an international airport, an Olympic Village and other uses. Privately, Marine Corps officers said tTie proposal appeared to them to be Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 BY JEFFREY PERLMAN Times Staff Writer SANTA ANA The parents of an 18-month-old girl electrocuted in a neighbor's front yard last month filed a $300,000 civil lawsuit in Superior Court Friday against the neighbor, Daniel Guzman. Guzman, a 32-year-old electrician, has been arraigned on a second-degree murder charge stemming from the same incident and remains free on his own recognizance.

Officials said the child, who lived in a Please Turn to Page 1 0, Col. 3 Fellow Justices Reportedly Urge McComb to Quit From Associated Press All six of Marshall McComb's fellow state Supreme Court justices agree that the 82-year-old McComb should retire and have told him so, it was reported Friday. The Riverside Press-Enterprise said the source for the feelings of McComb's colleagues insisted on confidentiality. The Commission on Judicial Qualifications announced Thursday it has ordered formal hearings on charges that could lead to McComb's ouster. McComb, through his attorneys, has vowed to fight any move to get him off the bench.

Gregory Stoup of San Francisco, one of McComb's lawyers, told the Press-Enterprise he expects to challenge the commission's jurisdiction at an Oct. 4 meeting. It was reported last December that the commission was investigating complaints that McComb, a judge for 47 years, sometimes sleeps during court sessions, does little opinion writing, does not take part in open court questioning or closed sessions and does not always know what he is voting on. McComb was appointed to the state high court in 1956. A commission spokesman declined all comment on the hearings, which will be held in secret.

The commission is authorized by the state Constitution and the state rules of court to hold an inquiry conducted by special masters, whose report and other investigative materials will be reviewed by the commission for final recommendation. "He wouldn't have done it in any other part of the city. It's my feeling that the methods used here by some policemen are different in this community, the way they enforce the law is different than in other parts of the city." The senator's office is in a predominantly black neighborhood. Holden said he expected no special privileges because of the office he holds, but that "when I was a military policeman in the Army, we were trained unless we had absolute proof of a person's guilt, we were told to give them the benefit of the doubt. I wasn't getting any benefit of anything.

I got a threat to my life in a terrifying, horrifying experience." Holden said he had no quarrel with the conduct of the officer carrying the shotgun and added that two policemen who arrived at the front of Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 4 Writers few minutes before) and had one hand pressed against the metal fuselage when Morgan saw a bright blue-white flash, heard a deafening boom and was pushed back into the baggage compartment. He said he saw Lash being thrown away from the plane. Mickelson, who by now was also on the ground said he saw Lash roll around, jump up and run, gripping his chest and screaming at the top of his lungs. Malm, who had finished loading baggage at the front of the plane and was walking to the rear to join Lash, said he suddenly found himself lying on the ground.

"I saw all that burning asphalt falling around the plane, and I looked at that fuel truck, and I ran like a bat out of hell," he said. Herbie Huttner, who was operating the fuel truck, said he had routinely attached a Vi-inch steel cable from a metal stake in the ground to the plane's landing gear, a precaution Please Turn to Page 9, Col. 2 DETAINED AT GUNPOINT BY OFFICERS Times Staff SANTA ANA Lightning struck within five feet of an Air California jetliner Friday as it was being loaded with fuel and passengers for Flight 428 from Orange County Airport to Palm Springs. The force of the bolt knocked two baggage handlers and a boarding passenger to the pavement and threw flaming bits of asphalt into the air around the plane and the fuel truck. A V4-inch steel wire used to electrically ground the airliner during fueling was burned and severed where it joined the plane near the wing.

Air California officials said there were 37 passengers and a crew of five on the plane when the lightning struck shortly after 2:10 p.m. No one was reported injured except the three men who were outside the craft All three were taken to Costa Mesa Memorial Hospital which reported: Dave Lash, 27, of Santa Ana, an Air California baggage handler, was in "fair" condition, suffering from an irregular heartbeat induced by electrical shock. Apparently he suffered no other injuries. Lash was probably closest to the bolt, an estimated 20 feet away, and ran holding his chest and screaming after the lightning struck. Edward F.

Malm, 28, of Costa Mesa, another baggage handler, was in "good" condition but hospitalized, suffering a slight abnormality in heartbeat and a sore foot apparently sustained from being thrown to the ground. He was walking toward Lash to help unload the baggage when the lightning struck. Peter W. Mickelson, 37, of Huntington Beach was in "good" condition and released. He had walked three steps up the stairs leading to the plane when the lightning struck and threw him to the ground.

He sustained two superficial burns on his palm and elbow where they were touching the metal handrail, he told The Times. The plane had arrived from San Francisco and was due to continue on to Palm Springs. Al Morgan, a third Air California baggage handler, was inside the plane's baggage compartment handing baggage out to Lash, Morgan said. He said Lash was standing on the wet ground (it had started to rain a Plan to Turn Marine Base Into National Park Rebuffed to File Complaint on Police BY DON SMITH Times Staff Writer Sen. Holden BY JERRY COHEN Times Staff Writer State Sen.

Nate Holden (D-Los Angeles) said Friday he would file a complaint with the Police Commission alleging misconduct by an officer involved in an incident with him Thursday evening. Holden said the incident developed as he emerged at a normal gait and carrying a briefcase from a building at 4401 Crenshaw Blvd. where he has an office on the third floor. A Great Western Savings and Loan Assn. branch occupies the first floor and, unbeknown to Holden, a silent alarm had been triggered there accidentally.

As Holden entered a rear parking lot, he said, he was confronted by two policemen, one carrying a revolver and the other carrying a shotgun. Holden said the officer with the re volver pointed it at his head and ordered, "Face the wall. Put your hands behind your neck or you're going to be dead." Holden said he told the policemen, Tm Sen. Holden and my office is up there in this building." He said he stood still for what seemed "several minutes" with the revolver leveled at his head while the officer with the shotgun entered the building, then returned to say no robbery had occurred. After that, Holden said, he was told he was free to go on his way.

Holden said the officer with the revolver had "exhibited rude mannerisms" and even after it had been determined Holden was not involved, "he was totally discourteous" and was "not at all apologetic." "I don't think that guy should be a policeman," Holden added. "He most definitely overreacted. Reactions to a proposal by Rep. Al-1 phonzo Bell (R-Calif.) to turn Camp Pendleton into a national park ranged from a terse "no comment" by the Marine Corps to outright opposition from other members of Congress and Orange County congressional candidates. Bell made the proposal Wednesday when he introduced a bill calling for a year-long federal feasibility study of a proposed Santa Margarita National Recreational Area on the base between Oceanside and San Cle-mente.

The measure by Bell, who will leave Congress at the end of his current term, has little hope of passage since Congress will adjourn Oct 2 However, the Bel Air congressman said he wanted to offer it while there was still interest in President Ford's recent call for more parklands..