The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 23

RICHARD BUFFUM 12 Part Jon. 6, 1977 Ilia gngtU Zimtt Bradley and 11 Political Unknowns File for Mayor A Virtue Worth Cranking Up in? BY KENNETH REICH Tlmtt Political Writer It is a good sound, an honest sound, when heard from a record in good condition. Before 1925 the year when recording electrically was introduced by the industry and technicians learned to manir ulate sounds the sound was balanced, a close facsimile to the way things really sounded. These are the best recordings. All recordings were made acoustically before 1925.

The artists played into a horn, amplifying their sounds, and the sound vibrations were transferred to a master record through a cutting stylus. There's no volume control on my Victrola. Each record is a true stereotype. Overlooking wear, each record is an authentic reproduction of the original performance. I cannot manipulate it.

I do not care to manipulate it. Every record before 1925 captures a genuinely expressed instant in past time. That kind of honesty and simplicity is to be treasured. So is the knowledge that in my small way I'm in the forefront of energy conservation. A chief reason for increasing energy costs, along with relatively decreasing energy production, has been the greater percentage of appliances requiring electric energy.

Americans have more than doubled their individual use of energy with proliferating electric can openers, air conditioners, frost-free refrigerators, complex stereo systems, color television, tooth brushes and combs with hair driers. To supply these increases, energy imports rose from 1.2 to 13.8 between 1950 and 1973. Construction costs for a coal generating station have risen from $123 per kilowatt in 1959 to $1 ,000 per kilowatt today. This prompted a Southern California Edison Co. official to remark: "The addition of new power plants means higher electric bills for our customers.

As a result it is no longer desirable to maintain a system planning policy with the intent of meeting all electric energy needs, whatever they may be." A sobering reflection. I wonder if anybody's considered a spring-wound home generator? Whenever I crank up the old Victor phonograph I feel virtuous. In fact, I'm virtually aglow with virtue these days because I do a lot of cranking so I can listen to Alma Gluck, Paul Whiteman, Barney Bernard, Sir Harry Lauder, Isham Jones and other early recording artists on my old 78 r.p.m. records. I like to think I'm doing my bit toward relieving the energy crisis.

What's more, I'm enjoying a bonus of a little mild exercise, of which owners of the more complex, electrically powered machines these days are denied. I can play only one record at a time, then I must rise from my chair to change to another one, hand crank the machine, and, on every third record, insert a new steel needle into the reproducing head to avoid damaging the record. Once wound up, every bit of the energy to actuate my Victrola comes from a gradual release of the tension of a powerful steel' spring. I can play my records anywhere, anytime or anyplace, even on a desert island, without having to pay the piper in any form. Not only is the operation economical, the sense of independence it engenders is downright satisfying.

Don't worry if the sound, produced entirely mechanically, does not issue from several locations, that its bass and treble do not explode the eardrums. if they each pull just 1 or 2 of the vote, they may still accumulate enough votes to deny any candidates majority and force a runoff between Bradley and Robbins and traditionally an incumbent is likely to be in trouble if he is forced into a runoff. Frequently in the past Los Angeles mayoral races have been filled with minor candidates. Some, frankly, have been screwballs. Others have been people hopeful of generating publicity for themselves, perhaps more customers, by running.

But there are also some sincere persons, too either naively hoping that lightning might strike and they might win, or anxious to get a message across, creating popular movementeven if only a little toward their point of view. Wednesday, Manuel appeared to be the latter kind of candidate. In an in-tersaew, he spoke intently about a new kind of city government committed to economic and racial justice and of, by his candidacy, perhaps forcing Bradley into taking a more pro-school integration position. "The thing I want to hit hardest is the whole school situation," Manuel said. "It's the only thing that would really raise public interest in this election." The Socialist Workers Party terms itself a "Trotskyist" group committed to a nonviolent revolution in the United States.

Manuel came to Los Angeles last February from the East, where he had been involved in organizational work. He presented himself about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the elections office of the Los Angeles City Clerk in a well-cut $59 suit he had purchased at a department store sale the gift of other members of the tiny Socialist Workers party anxious to give him a sendoff in his race for mayor. Sam Manuel, 27, was one of 11 relative political unknowns to file an intent to run for the city's highest office in the first day of filings at City Hall. Manuel wanted to list himself as a Socialist Worker organizer which is what he is occupationally on the ballot, but California's nonpartisan local elections law prohibits any mention of a political party beside a mayoral candidate's name.

So he settled for School Desegreation Activist as an occupational designation. Others filing for mayor Wednesday included Sheldon Tobias, a government educator; Chris Musun, a college professor; Milo A. Speriglio, an investigator; Roland Cayard, a real estate businessman; Robert S. Fischer no occupation given; Frank Kelley, an Episcopal clergyman; Michael A. Hirt, a small businessman; Michael C.

Burton, a public affairs activist; Charles Hinman, a retired businessman, and Frank Gardner trucking. And, yes, there was one well-known politican incumbent Mayor Bradley. Bradley's sole apparent well-known challenger, state Sen. Alan Robbins (D-Van Nuys), plans to file Friday. The deadline is Monday at 5 p.m.

The importance of the relative unknowns in this contest is probably that if there are enough of them, and Stevens in a 1961 role. Death of Actor Being Probed Police said they were investigating the death of Onslow Stevens, 70, veteran stage and screen actor, who was found dead Wednesday at the Hacienda Convalescent Hospital in Van Nuys. Stevens' wife, Rose, they reported, told them Stevens had recently suffered a broken hip in a fall after being pushed by another patient. The coroner's office said an autopsy would be performed. Stevens, a native of Los Angeles, made his stage debut in 1928 at the Pasadena Playhouse and appeared in his first motion picture, Universale "Radio Patrol," in 1932.

He was best known for character roles, often the "heavy," although he frequently played leads in his early career. One of his first movie roles was that of Marion Davics' leading man in "Peg O' My Heart." Newport Chamber Elects President NEWPORT BEACH Attorney Dennis Harwood has been elected president of the Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Harwood, 38, has been the chamber's executive vice president for a year and was vice president during the previous four years. Harwood, who succeeds James Parker, will be installed at a Jan. 19 dinner at the Marriott Hotel.

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