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Thursday Octotvr 2, 1980 Part 1 27 CRACKS TAINTING SUPER DREAM Brown Declares TIRATE' DECODERS Emergency in Flooded Area Continued from iuh Page state's damage can be traced directly to pavements that have "just about used up their service life and have become) problem areas." Reulein says there were few problems 10 or 15 years ago when many of the interstates were new. "When something is new you don't worry about it. You forget it. That's what happened to the Interstate System," he says. In 1975, federal highway figures show, about 4 of the interstate mileage had begun to crack severely.

Concrete and asphalt were coming out in chunks and concrete was starting to "jump" from water under it. Preliminary figures for last year, Reulein says, indicate that deterioration has more than doubled to 10. In the mid-1970s, Congress approved some limited funds to rebuild badly torn up sections of the Interstate System. This is called the I-3R program for resurfacing, restoration rehabilitation. Initially, $175 million a year went into the program a "pittance," as one federal highway official put it, compared to the $3.6 billion allocated annually to close essential gaps and complete the system.

I-3R money will increase to $275 million in 1982 and 1983, but some highway officials consider that to be only a token response to mounting highway damage. The questions of future use of the Interstate System with travel down an estimated 5 and whether more money should be invested to expand it are becoming increasingly controversial. "The feeling in many quarters is that it would be counterproductive to the national goal of less driving to quarters. National Subscription Television sends scrambled signals over Channel 52, to over 300,000 subscribers who rent decoders in order to receive the programming uninterrupted by advertising. The service is advertised as ON TV.

National Subscription Television is appealing the federal court decision, which U.S. District Judge Lawrence T. Lydick said he reached in part because the granting of a monopoly in decoding TV signals is "the province of Congress and not this court." Likewise, in a state court last month, Orange County Superior Court Judge John K. Trotter ruled that decoders were legal under then-existing state law. He acted in a case brought by Theta Cable of California which operates the Channel.

At both the state and federal level, ON TV attorneys have been working hard to have legislation passed to protect the subscription TV industry, which depends on subscriber fees and not advertising for its revenues. The industry's lobbying efforts were called "railroading" Wednesday by Robbins and another electronics businessman, Jon Larson, in Anaheim. Both men were defendants in the federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by National Subscription Television. No estimates have been made about the size of the "pirate" decoder market. keep adding miles to the Interstate System," a federal highway official said.

Originally, the interstates were planned as a 40,000 mile system of controlled -access highways built for speeds up to 70 m.p.h. Later another 1,000 was added and in 1968 the committed length was increased to However, the planned mileage has been adjusted so many times, largely through additions and deletions, that the exact number of miles remaining to be built is uncertain. The completion schedule also has been uncertain. The original idea was to finish the system or have all routes under construction by 1969 to handle the 1975 traffic load. But delays resulted in new deadlines 1972, 1976 and 1980.

Now there are several deadlines, ranging from 1983 to complete environmental statements to 1990 to finish all routes that, as a federal highway official put it, "are going to be built." 'Congress Is Serious' "Congress is quite serious this time serious about terminating the system," said Larry Staron, program chief for the Federal Highway Administration's inter-slate reports branch. With the likelihood that the system's full planned mileage will be built growing dimmer with each sesson of Congress, the Federal Highway Administration is concentrating now on a post-interstate program that would emphasize a stepped-up I-3R rebuilding effort. The Federal Highway Administration has been concerned primarily about the next 10 or 15 years. Longer range views have been studied by other agencies, including the National Transportation Policy Study Commission, which forecasts a significant shift in intercity passenger travel from cars to air by the year 2000. The commission also foresees more frequent service by truckers with benefits resulting in faster travel times because of less highway congestion.

John Fuller, the commission's deputy executive director and now director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Research at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, believes there also will be some major technological changes. These, he says, will include electric propulsion for highway use and communications that will enable people to work at home, thus affecting interstate use in the 20 years. "In 30 years the changes may be quite startling," he says. "Different technologies will change the way people live. And that would make travel over the interstates.

much less important." Continued from First Pae "The state has no right to legislate in the area." "It's pre-empted by the federal government," he said, alluding to the regulation of over-the-air broadcasting by the Federal Communications Commision. Golden added: "The state (is giving) the authority to a private organization to regulate the airways. It says you can do this (decoding) if you get permission from an STV service. Since when do you give permission to private individuals to regulate the reception of radio signals?" Subscriber Areas However, the legislation signed by Brown clearly pleased the industry, in particular executives at National Subscription TelevisionLos Angeles, who have led the fight against the "pirates." In a statement issued Wednesday, the company's vice president, Robert Cahill, said, "This legislation will help in stamping out the pirates who have been selling illegal boxes, parts and plans. We will work with district attorneys in our subscriber areas to identify and prosecute those who violate this law In Orange County, where a number of small electronics shops have been selling kits, or parts such as printed circuits, assistant district attorney Ed Freeman said the prosecutors' office would take a "wait-and-see attitude to see if we.

have any complaints." More than a half dozen electronics shops or businessmen were sued unsuccessfully in federal court this summer by National Subscription Television. National Subscription Television -Los Angeles is a joint venture of San Diego-based Oak Industries Inc. and the Chartwell Communications Group. From its Glendale head STOCKTON GP-Gov. Edmund G.

Brown Jr. declared a state of emergency Wednesday as Sacramento Delta floodwaters threatened a fragile railbed protecting Oakland's main water supply and 45,000 acres of prime farmland. The governor's action paves the way for a possible presidential declaration of emergency for Lower Jones Tract, said Don Irwin, chief of the federal emergency management division of the state Office of Emergency Services. Brown's signature also "allows state agencies to provide assistance, although most of those people were already on the scene," Irwin said. Reinforcement Work More than 200 young California Conservation Corps worker are trying to reinforce the mile Santa Fe Railroad right of way, holding back the swirling water which rushed through the levee breach last Friday.

Aqueducts which carry 90 of the water supply for Oakland and other communities are just 100 yards on the dry side of the railbed. Balmy weather is expected in the area for the next five days, according to Charles Haas of the National Weather Service in Stockton. Officials guiding the battle to save the railbed welcomed the news because strong tide or wind-whipped wave action could wash out the railbed. CCC crews, which include nearly 40 young prisoners of the California Youth Authority, have lined the full stretch of the railbed with crushed rock. 1980 SMOG RECORD Continued from Third Page tively, were California's official hotspots Wednesday both of them hotter than Death Valley, which registered a comparatively mild 109.

But it wasn't that much cooler in the inland parts of the metropolitan area: San Gabriel and Burbank each chalked up a searing 104, closely followed by Pasadena, with 103. High temperature at Los Angeles Civic Center Wednesday was 97 degrees (a single degree below Tuesday's high, and two degrees below the record for Oct. 1, set in 1906), while relative humidity ranged from 76 in the early morning to 32 in the afternoon an improvement of several percentage points over the 24 recorded Tuesday. 2 Hungarians Executed BUDAPEST, Hungary W-Two men convicted of the murder of a police officer were executed Wednesday after the Supreme Court turned down their mercy pleas, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reported. 1 111 .) J) 1.

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