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Urange Com '80s Outlook: Growth Still Big Challenge County Study Predicts 20 More People, Warns of Shortages LOCAL NEWS EDITORIAL PAGES CC PART II THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1980 I 7 I 1 I I Jury Finds Alcala Guilty in 1st Degree Death Penalty Could Be Given in Slaying of 12-Year-OldGirl NO WAY TO GO BUT DOWN They're getting ready for the big show, these sky divers. They'll put it on at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station open house and air show. The show, to be held Saturday and Sunday, will feature precision flying of the Navy's Blue Angels, aerobatics by stunt pilot Art Scholl and a performance by the El Toro Sport Parachute Team. Last year's event drew 210,000 spectators. The gates this year will open at 9 a.m.

In an attempt to reduce traffic, the Orange County Transportation Department will provide bus service from 6th and Flower streets in Santa Ana and from the Laguna Hills Mall, leaving every 15 minutes. The Marines, Navy and Air Force plan displays at the open house. By DORIS A. BYRON Tim Staff Writer SANTA ANA Orange County will contain 20 more people in 1990 than it does today, but life for those 2.25 million people could be very different than it was in 1979, according to a comprehensive county study released Wednesday. Rolling electrical blackouts, periodic water shortages, higher-density housing, less autonomous county government, increased pollution and more traffic are among the forecasts contained in the Report on the State of the County.

An age distribution characterized by larger numbers of older people will be a major driving force behind social changes in the 1980s, the report says, possibly resulting in lower crime and divorce rates, for instance. The economic picture factors such as employment and income should remain bright if solutions can be found to the affordable housing shortage, energy deficiencies and transportation inadequacies. But if solutions aren't found, the study says, businesses might move out of the county, jobs will be lost, and only the environment which suddenly would find itself with fewer demands will not suffer. One of the decisions government will face, the report says, is whether to put the brakes on growth in order to avert disastrous shortages in natural resources and public services. The role of county government will change in the 1980s.

Its power eroded by a lack of revenues caused by tax-cutting legislation and initiatives, it will increasingly have to ask other government bodies to solve its problems rather than solving them itself. The 86-page report prepared by the research and planning center, a section within the county administrative office, was developed with the help of 15 persons over a six-month period, according to analyst Ron LaPorte. It draws on a raft of previous studies and research and the knowledge of an eight-member committee of experts in different fields to reach numerous conclusions about the issues facing Orange County in the coming decade. "It's a departure for us," LaPorte said about the ninth annual State of the County report. "It's more of a blue-sky approach, not so tied to just the facts." The study, which the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to receive and file next Tuesday, will be used for planning and budgeting purposes, LaPorte said.

It will be available for public perusal at libraries and college campuses. The report is divided into five sections: population, economics, infrastructure, environment and Orange County government. The data and conclusions include the following: POPULATION Orange County will grow by about 40,000 people every year through the 1980s roughly equivalent to adding a city the size of Cypress or La Habra annually. As in the 1970s, the southern portions of the county Irvine, Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel and the Moulton Ranch will experience the greatest growth, with Santa Ana Canyon also being a prime area for development. Because of the in-migration of older citizens when retirement communities were built in the 1960s and early 1970s and the exodus of younger residents who can't find affordable housing, the proportion of older people will increase.

The report estimates that county residents aged 60 years or older will increase from roughly 216,000 in 1975 to 355,000 in 1990. In the next decade, the percentage of the population over 60 will rise from 12 to 15. The result of that change, based on recent research, is that senior citizens could become more prominent in local decision -making, and demands for recreation, leisure and transportation services consequently will increase. Since many older persons are on Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 TIMES PHOTOS BY By DOUG BROWN Timas Stiff Writer SANTA ANA A Superior Court jury Wednesday found Rodney James Alcala guilty of first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach last June.

Judge Philip E. Schwab ordered the nine-woman, three-man jury to return Monday to begin the penalty phase of the two-month-long trial. The jury could determine that the 36-year-old Monterey Park man should receive the death sentence because it specifically found that he killed her in the hills near Sierra Madre after kidnaping her from Huntington Beach. During the trial, friends of the victim testified that Alcala attempted to take her picture while she was at the beach June 20. Later that day her mother reported her missing.

Orange County Jail inmates who shared quarters with Alcala after his arrest testified that he acknowledged luring Robin into his car by offering to take her to afternoon dance lessons. Michael Herrera, one of the inmates, testified that Alcala told him that he placed the yellow bicycle she was riding in his car. When it became clear that Alcala was not driving her to her dance class, according to Herrera, Robin began to scream and reached for the door handle. Alcala then locked the door to the passenger side and repeatedly struck Robin about the face, Herrera said. A 21 -year-old forestry firefighter, Dana Crappa, testified that she believed she saw Alcala and Robin about 5:30 that evening at a turnout on the Santa Anita Canyon Road as she drove up to Chantry Flats.

Crappa, who prosecution and defense agreed was the most crucial witness, identified photographs of Alcala's car as the one she saw parked on the turnout as she slowed her car at a sharp curve. Crappa, who said she had considered buying the same model car, said on the stand that the 1976 Datsun F10 was striking because it had distinctive, smoke-tinted rear windows and a luggage rack. She said that as she drove past Alcala was forcefully steering a girl up a culvert into the hills. The following evening about 8:30, according to Crappa, she again saw the car and a man she believed was Alcala at another turnout as she drove along the same road. She said she saw the car through the night's darkness because she almost struck it when she swerved to avoid colliding with an oncoming car that had strayed into her lane.

In testimony that established how Robin was killed, Crappa said that on the evening of June 25 she returned to the area because she had become curious about what she had previously seen. Prosecutor Rich Farnell asked, "What did you see?" Crappa, with a pained expression on her face and in a halting voice, replied, "It was a body." She did not report it, however, because she was in shock. Robin's skeletal remains were found by one of Crappa's fellow for-' Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 Warming up for the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station open house and air show this weekend, Air Force Lt. Larry McVay, top photo, and Marine Gunnery Sgt.

Don Mumma, middle photo, take practice leaps from helicopters. At bottom, Sgt. Rick Schaepe tows a Marine flag and a smoke device behind him after making his leap. I I I I THE BOMB PEOPLE ARE BOMBED OUT ON THIS CAPER By J. MICHAEL KENNEDY Tlmti Staff Writw NEWPORT BEACH The YMCA hikers were walking through hills near the Back Bay on Wednesday when they stumbled on a suspicious -looking box with wires and batteries.

So they called the Newport Beach police, whose bomb people couldn't figure it out. The police, in turn, called the bomb people at the Orange County Sheriffs Department, who also didn't know what it was. But not wanting to take any chances, they were about to use a deactivator when an attendant from a nearby service station ambled up and said he had an idea what the gadget might be. His hunch was correct. It seems the contraption was part of Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

3 Auction Urged for Use of Airport GSA Suggests Airlines Bid on 12 Flights at County Facility STEVE RICE charges of discrimination made by Frontier and Continental airlines. Both had been denied access to the airport by the county on grounds there was no space in the airport terminal or in aircraft parking areas. If the GSA's recommendations are accepted by the Board of Supervisors May 13, the auction system for the 12 flights would be put into effect for a period between July 1 and June 30, 1981. By that time, county officials should have a new airport master plan available, the report said, and the board "may properly consider or reconsider its basic policies regarding the use of John Wayne Airport." At present, Air California and Air-west are allowed an average of almost 41 daily departures from the airport. Air California has 26.7 of those while Airwest has 14.

Under the GSA recommendations. Air California would have to give up eight and Air- master lease on the mobile home park expires in 1983. At that time, those mobile homes would be relocated, but others on a bluff overlooking the beach would be allowed to stay on 20-year leases. There are 294 mobile homes at Morro Cove. Crystal Cove has 45 cottages which the tenants rent from the Irvine Co.

Witnesses at Wednesday's hearings said several of the residents were second- or third-generation families who originally owned summer homes in the cove and subsequently sold their cottages to the Irvine Co. about 20 years ago in return for the right to continue renting. The analyst's report, noting that Crystal Cove residents had no equity in the cottages, recommended that, except for hardship cases such as peo-Please Tarn to Page 4, Col. 1 west four. Those 12 would then be put up for auction to the highest bidders among the airlines that have filed for Orange County routes.

But the bidding would be open to all of the carriers, including the two present airlines. (Other airlines that already have requested Orange County routes include Frontier, Continental, Western and PSA.) The GSA recommendations drew immediate opposition from both Air California and Airwest. Tom Kaminski, Air California's director of communications, said the GSA proposal would take almost one-third of the Newport Beach-based airline's current flights from Orange County "after we sustained multimillion-dollar losses trying to provide service other airlines refused to attempt." Kaminski said the GSA recommendation "ignores the principles of justice probably the law and certainly our rights as longtime users (of the airport)." The report, he added, does not explain how new entrants could be accommodated in the terminal. "That's like putting a gallon of gas into a quart container it can be done but you sure make a mess doing it." Hughes Airwest spokesman Mike Murphy also expressed distress at the recommendation. "It seems to me we're talking about a reduction of our services when we already have substantially less flights than Air Cal," he said.

Barbara Fox, GSA assistant administrator, conceded Wednesday that "there are no easy answers." And the report itself warns that "regardless of what action is taken by the county at this point, including no action at all, one of the many parties concerned with these issues, who have irreconcilable differences, will most probably initiate litigation." Raul Regalado, airport manager for Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 By JANET CLAYTON Times Staff Writer SANTA ANA Air California and Hughes Airwest, the only two jet airlines now using John Wayne Airport, may have to relinquish 12 of their existing 41 daily flights to other airlines under recommendations made to the Board of Supervisors. On the other hand, under a bid auction system for the 12 flights proposed by the county's General Services Ag- ency, either of the two airlines could actually gain more flights than currently allowed. The auction system was proposed in a 37-page report submitted late Tuesday to the board. The study had been ordered April 8 after the Federal Aviation Administration directed the county to open the airport to all qualified air carriers.

The FAA order was in response to The state bought 3.25 miles of coastline between Corona del Mar and Laguna Beach last December from the Irvine Co. for $32.6 million. The state Department of Parks and Recreation at the time of purchase said it would offer 20-year leases to the mobile home owners in Morro Cove and would not make a decision on evicting the tenants of the cottages at Crystal Cove until a general plan for the park is completed in March, 1982. But the legislative analyst, advifer to the Legislature, said in a report issued Tuesday that such long-term agreements would be "questionable" public policy. Under the analyst's proposal, 74 mobile homes on the beach at Morro Cove and others on the canyon floor would be allowed to remain until a Cove Residents Win Long -Lease Support Senate Panel Opposes Fast Evictions Favored by Analyst Board Endorses Proposal to Tax Profits of Energy Firms By LEO C.

WOLINSKY Time Staff Writer By TRACY WOOD Tinwt Staff Writer SACRAMENTO Residents of Morro and Crystal coves in the new Irvine Coast state park won support Wednesday of a key Senate panel in their bid for long-term leases on mobile homes and cottages along the coast. An Assembly subcommittee, reviewing the same issue, delayed a decision for several weeks, but did raise the possibility of relocating some tenants into an expanded mobile home park at Morro Cove. About 70 residents of the two areas crowded into hearing rooms to protest a recommendation by the legislative analyst's office that many of the tenants be moved out within the next three years to provide better public access to the beaches. SANTA ANA Citing what it called the oil industry's "relentlessly" growing profits and aggressive entry into other businesses, the Board of Supervisors Wednesday gave its unqualified endorsement to Proposition 11, the statewide June 3 ballot measure to tax profits of energy firms. The board adopted a unified stand in lashing out at big oil companies during a brief but uvely discussion which cut across the supervisors' often divergent philosophies on free enterprise.

Even Supervisors Harriett Wieder and Philip Anthony, whose votes most often support the aims of business, joined the attack with uncharacteristic fervor. Wieder declared that the oil indus try is "practically a monopoly." And Anthony said, "It's too bad that Teddy Roosevelt can't come back and take a big trust-busting club to this setup." Free enterprise and competition, Anthony observed, "do not seem to work in this area to control profits and keep prices down." The ballot measure proposes to levy a 10 tax on the income of energy firms in California. The only exception would be public utilities and corporations with annual incomes of $10 million or less. If approved by voters, the tax is expected to bring in $750 million or more annually to finance state transportation projects and development of alternative fuels. Please Turn to Page 12, Col.

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