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Hob Attfletea (Stales v' 1 i St. 3 'A A pile of rubble is all that Klauber remains of a bulldozed wall at Klauber House as a wrecking crew started work at the site. Timet photo by Dave Grtley House Is Going, Going 7 jf i BT LAME L. JONES Tim Stiff Wrltor Jackson saw piles of concrete later described confront the Jackson also case there was What between the attorney "made a very but made Construction told them he continued the property. Jackson also permit, that demolition this was a monument, apply and, about ownership questions were could Jackson final plea for morning before Butler.

But were of no order of go ahead would an County LOCAL NEWS EDITORIAL PAGES CC PART II FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1979 Carter Will Speak in S.D. Next Week BY JACK JONES Tim Staff Wrltor President Carter will come to San Diego next week to address a national building trades convention, the White House announced Thursday. It will be his first visit here as President He is scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. Thursday before nearly 400 delegates to the 60th biennial convention of the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department at the Islandia Hyatt House. The speech will be in a large tent, said a spokesman for the San Diego County Building and Construction Trades Council, because of the expected overflow audience.

The President will fly here Thursday morning from an energy conference at the Western Governors Policy Office in Albuquerque. A White House press aide said he plans to arrive in San Diego about 9:30 a.m. and will be in the city two or three hours. Carter may take time here to see others before his return flight to Washington, D.C., the aide said, but arrangements had not yet been made. Mayor Pete Wilson will be out of the city that day in the nation's capital, in fact Although Carter has not visited San Diego as President, he did stop here Carter's last visit to San Diego was during his presidential campaign.

while campaigning. And he and his family lived in the Chula Vista area for a time during his Navy service. His planned appearance before a labor convention comes at a time when he faces heavy criticism from some national unions over such issues as inflation, wage controls and energy costs. Some of those issues are high on the agenda of the Building and Construction Trades Department convention. The meeting will open on Wednesday and close Friday.

Opening day speakers will include U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall and Robert A. Georgine, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department which has 16 affiliated national and international unions with a combined membership of more than 4 million. In addition to President Carter, Thursday's speakers will include Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People.

On Friday, the conclave will be addressed by U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Moon Lan-drieu, Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. and Rep. Ed Beard San Diego's historic Melville Klauber house moved a step closer to demolition Thursday as a bulldozer mowed down nearby avocado trees and knocked holes in a toolshed.

But it was strictly an on-again, off -again affair. A crew from Hudson Associates began wrecking outlying structures at 7 a.m. Thursday. At 7:10, Gene Meier, the city's assistant building inspection director, happened to pass by on his way to work and ordered a halt because the crew lacked a demolition permit But at 7:45, Klauber house owner Kevin Kelly ordered the crew to resume work, since it turned out that no permit was necessary to tear down the garden wall or outlying structures of less than 500 square feet But at 8:15, Gordon Jackson, attorney for preservationist Harry Evans, who has waged a lengthy legal battle to save the 1906 mansion, also happened to drive by the Irving Gill designed house at 6th Ave. at Quince St, on his way to work.

26 TB Cases Found Among Asia Refugees S.D. Health Officers Blame U.S., Warn of Spreading of Disease BY ED SYLVESTER TlmM SUM Wrltor San Diego County health officials have discovered 26 active cases of tuberculosis among more than 1,000 Indochinese refugees tested, and they are worried that many more of the thousands moving to the area are unknowing victims of the disease. Dr. Donald Ramras, county health officer, said the disease is not a threat to the general public, but spreads among family members and friends who come in regular contact with victims. Ramras and other health officials throughout the state blame inadequate medical screening of refugees by the federal government before they leave their U.S.

ports of entry. Once cleared, refugees with the disease may be undiscovered, public health officials say. Ramras was responding to reports that the Orange County Board of Supervisors had sought federal and state assistance to stem a tide of new TB cases discovered among refugees there. Refugees are screened for TB and other diseases at their Asian camps before leaving for the United States. Then the U.S.

Department of Immigration and Naturalization reports to local officials the names of those with positive TB tests. But the procedure is not working, Ramras says. "Of the 26 cases discovered, 16 had not been previously recognized by anyone," he said. "I can't say who went wrong, but there are the cases, and we had never been alerted." Ramras lays much of the problem on the lack of an organized program at the ports of entry. County health officials "can screen and treat only those who come to us.

We try to telephone new arrivals to inform them of our screening program, but you can imagine how time-consuming that is." He said the county has received major assistance from the Indochinese Service Center, a private, nonprofit group that sponsors regular clinics at which county health officials screen as many as 400 people daily for TB. According to the county's intergovernmental affairs office, funds to con- can't say who went wrong but we had never been alerted. duct screenings are included in a congressional resolution extending Indochinese refugee aid for two more years. That resolution could be passed as early as Tuesday and would provide county officials with needed funds to test for TB. Many of the TB victims may be going undiscovered because of the large secondary migration to the West Coast local officials say.

"Someone may land in Milwaukee, and local officials may be told they were positive on their tests," Ramras said. "But if they move here, we don't know." Kathy Do, director of the Indo-Chinese center, said from 300 to 400 refugees a month enter the United States at San Diego, but she estimated another 10 to 15 move here from elsewhere around the country. The county says the total figure is even higher. Of more than 1,000 people screened in the county-center program so far, 55 to 65 have shown "positive" reactions, but a relatively small number have proven to have active tuberculosis. Others are given preventive medication and retested regularly.

Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 1 Officials on Track of Railway Funds Speedup Sought on San Diego -LA. Run BY DAVE SMOLLAR Tlmti Stiff Wrltor Amtrak Engine Foreman A.C. Henderson brought train No. 775 into Los Angeles Thursday, 2 hours, 35 minutes after leaving San Diego.

That time, however, was 40 minutes too slow for a group of federal, state and local officials riding a special 53-year-old observation car tacked onto the end of the regular passenger train. Led by Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin (D-San Diego), the trip aboard the vintage blue observation-diner was meant to symbolize the determination of Southern California to obtain $100 million or more in federal funds for upgrading area service. Van Deerlin last week introduced a bill in Congress that would require Amtrak to shave at least a half hour from the present Los Angeles-San Diego schedule and appropriate necessary monies. The bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Jerry Patterson (D-Santa Ana) and James Corman (D-Reseda).

Both Please Turn to Page 12, CoL 1 a bulldozer out front and in the yard. He made what he as a quick, illegal U-turn to demolition crew. called for a police backup unit in "trouble." happened next is a matter of dispute demolition crew and Jackson. The contends he simply stated the law, strong request that they terminate," no threat crew members said Jackson would have them arrested if they demolition work on the Klauber contended that the crew had no even if the city Building Code allowed of small structures, because designated national and local historic the 500-square-foot proviso did not further, that there were questions of the building. Until those cleared up, he said, no demolition occur.

made some of those arguments in a a stay of demolition Thursday Superior Court Judge Edward Butler ruled that title questions concern to him. And he said his Wednesday permitting demolition to stand. "The creaking timbers are speaking to me," the judge had said sadly Wednesday, but he could find no legal reason to bar demolition. Also, he said Thursday, what happened next was not his personal responsibility. "The judge that signs a writ of execution doesn't finally pull the trap down through which the condemned man falls," he said.

"Nor does he slip the pellets of cyanide at San Quen-tin, nor pull the switch of the electric chair." Butler had been hearing a case of "whether or not a house should live," but although he could leave open the way for its destruction, it was not up to the judge to actually destroy it, he said. Don Worley, attorney for the Kelly family which has long sought to demolish the rambling seven-bedroom mansion to make way for a 16-story condominium complex, indicated in no uncertain terms that the Kelly family wanted to move ahead, and soon. A permit had been taken out by Kevin Kelly's late father's company two years ago, and as soon as technical details posting bond, making sure the gas was shut off, taking out Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 3 5 v. s' Attorney Gordon Jackson, top, arrived of demolition in court.

Above, a to stop crews from wrecking the house spectator views some of the preliminary itself. However, he lost a plea for a stay bulldozer work done at the property. EX-NAVY WIFE SHARES PENSION Motel Maid Celebrates a Supreme Court Victory Report Raises Questions on Hospitals' Rates, Expenses State Study Says Low Occupancy Has Kept Costs High at Facilities in San Diego County BY CILLA BROWN Tlm Stiff WrHtr BT PAUL JACOBS TliMiMidkalWrHtr 4 College Delays Second Campus in San Dieguito BY NANCY RAY TbMt Stiff Wrlttr OCEANSIDE MiraCosta College's plans to acquire land for a second campus in the San Dieguito area will be delayed for one to three years. Community college trustees voted 5 to 1 this week to go ahead with $5.8 million in construction projects at its eastern Oceanside, campus, but shelved plans for acquiring land for a second college facility until funds can be found. MiraCosta officials had postponed plans to acquire a 100-acre campus in the Del Mar-Solana Beach area earlier this year, but had continued to plan for immediate acquisition of a 30-acre tract in the area as a site for a college center a nucleus of a branch campus.

On Tuesday, trustees voted to go ahead with major improvements at the Oceanside campus while seeking other funding sources for land acquisition and construction at the southern end of the district Walter Stewart, college public information director, said the board Please Tarn to Page 5, Col. 4 San Diego hospitals are beginning to control the growth of their costs but they continue to suffer from low occupancy rates that keep their costs high, according to a report by the staff of the state Health Facilities Commission released Thursday. But the draft report one of a series of white papers being prepared by the commission to call attention to the cost of health care, was immediately criticized by members of the commission's industry-oriented advisory council Members of the council, meeting in Los Angeles, complained of the staffs antihospital "ideological bias" and attacked several of the staffs conclusions. The report raises questions about OTHER SAN DIEGO COUNTY NEWS Parti, Page 1 Part 3, Paget 1,9, 10. Today, 65-year-old Hilda Starren will return to her job as a maid at a Chula Vista motel.

She has had a few days off, but she hasn't had much rest On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Mrs. Starren's ex-husband of a California court ruling that awarded Mrs. Starren part of his Navy pension. The Supreme Court decision was good news for military wives in several states who are going through divorces and want their husband's pensions to be considered community property.

But the news also stirred old resentments among other women who, like Mrs. Starren, have suffered financial hardship after divorcing their military husbands. Mrs. Starren said her phone has been ringing almost constantly since Monday. "Women call and the first thing they do is congratulate me," she said.

"They then ask, 'How did you do and tell me about their own cases." Mrs. Starren said she is "almost numb" with surprise at the publicity surrounding her case. But her strongest reaction is one of relief. "At 65, you worry about not being able to work anymore and I hated the thought of going on welfare," she said. The Chula Vista woman earns about $65 a week at her part-time motel maid job and collects $124.40 a month in Social Security benefits.

The Supreme Court decision clears the way for her attorney, Arthur' Johns, to request a Superior Court order requiring Quentin Starren to pay his ex-wife $353 a month from his $1,500 monthly Navy pension. Johns said Thursday he also will ask that $16,090 be paid to Mrs. Starren as her retroactive share of Starren's pension since he retired in December, 1972. Starren has remarried and now lives in Minnesota, The couple separated after 17 years of marriage. During their divorce trial in 1972, Mrs.

Starren was awarded half of her husband's pension. Starren Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 3 the rates charged by two of the 16 hospitals included in the study, Children's Hospital, which charges an average of $325 a day, and Scripps Memorial, which charges $298. But members of the advisory council, which is largely composed of representatives of the hospital industry, pointed out that the cost per day statistics fail to take into account the kinds of patients treated or their length of hospital stay. A hospital that does open heart surgery, for example, may have a higher patient cost pier day than one that does not perform such costly treatment And the hospital that charges a lot per day but gets its patients back home quickly can spend more money per day but spend less for a given disease than other hospitals, argued council member Donald Wurtz, a financial consultant to several California hospitals.

The hospitals, however, have fought disclosing information about Please Turn to Page 12, CoL 1.