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Oct. 3, Senate Sends Funeral Reform Bill to Reagan Legislators Bargaining on Reform With Reagan See No Agreement GOFF Bureau Chief i o- -V ut. vV. 'J r1 -A l- I x- 5. -I" ss i I'' 1 I i I t' "i -J v1 I 5 i HARBOR TIEUP Ships crowd Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors waiting for the dock, strike to end.

Times photo by Larry Sharkey MiicheH Tells Police That U.S. Faces Threat of 'Mob Tyranny' USS Constellation eaves San Diego Measure Requires Homes to Supply Written List of AH Prices and Fees BY JERKY GILLAM Times Staff Writer SACRAMENTO A funeral re-form bill designed to avoid the "high cost of dying" Avas sent to Gov. Reagan's desk Thursday by an overwhelming 28-1 Senate vote. In other action: A bill sought by conservationists to declare the Eel, Trinity and Klamath as "wild rivers" where dams could never be built was killed by a 19-14 upper house vote two short of the 21 votes required for the second time. The Senate also gave tacit approval to Regan's "plan to consolidate most environmental protection agencies into one "super" state department by a 25-vote margin.

Authored by Sen. Anthony C. Bei-lenson (D-Los Angeles), the funeral reform measure would require funeral directors to provide customers with a written list of prices and fees before entering into an agreement or contract for services. It also would require funeral directors to mark conspicuously the price on each casket on display and prohibit a crematory from requiring that human remains be cremated in a casket. The Beilenson bill previously passed the Assembly by a 51-0 margin.

Laws Protect Industry "Grieving families too often are misled into buying funerals more costly than they can afford or than desired by the deceased," he said. "But our current laws protect the funeral industry, not the funeral-buying public. "Bereaved relatives are in no frame of mind to bargain with a funeral director or take their business elsewhere. "They should at least have information on the full range of prices available before entering into a binding contract." The Southern California lawmaker has been pushing for funeral reform since 1965, but a number of previous attempts have been bottled up in the Legislature. Tlcase Turn to Page 28, Col.

3 4 YOUTHS HURT Sfuntman Killed in Cycle Drag Racing A Hollywood stuntman was killed Thursday when he lost control of his motorcycle during a 100 m.p.h. drag race in Griffith Park and collided head-on with a car carrying four teen-agers, police said. Three of the teen-agers were injured, one seriously. Police said Robert (Buzz) Henry, 39, of 4601 Sancola North Hollywood, was killed instantly when he rounded a curve and slammed into the southbound car near Riverside Drive. An expensive sports car Henry was racing with sped away after the 10 p.m.

collision, police said. In serious condition at St. Joseph Hospital, Burbank, was Laura Young, 18, of 736 Andover Drive, Burbank. Two other youths, a boy, 17, and a girl, 16, were in fair condition. The fourth occupant of the car, a boy 18, was sent home after Attorney General, in Appearances Here, Says Officer's Job of Enforcing Law Is as Important as Making a Law BY TOM Times Sacramento SACRAMENTO Legislators negotiating tax reform with Gov.

Rea-'gan conceded for' the first time Thursday that they may be unable to reach agreement on major property tax relief for homeowners again this year. "We've, got the same kind' of impasses we've hadfor four years," As-" sembly Republican Leader 'Robert" T. Monagan of Stockton said as the 14th face-to-face bargaining session between Reagan and Republican RELOCATION PLAN Weather Puts th Freeze on Desert Tortoise Roundup BY JOAN SWEENEY Timet Staff Writer The cold snap that hit the Mojavc Desert put the freeze on the great tortoise hunt today but officials are still going ahead with their reptilian relocation project. Originally volunteers had planned to comb the desert along the route of a planned freeway to gather up a dozen or so California desert tortoises for a relocation experiment. The creatures are threatened with extinction by encroaching civilization.

"They bumble into human beings and are killed," said Clyde Philbrick, a State Division of Highways official. People use them for target practice, take them and then abandon them far from their natural habitat or cars run over them as they try to creep across the road, he said. The only answer seemed to be to move them out of man's way. But near freezing temperatures early today drove the endangered creatures underground and the hunt was called off. But Allan Ilendrix, a 'division right-of-way agent in charge of the project, was undaunted by the change in climate.

He said he would use a half dozen tortoises that had been collected from the area before the turtles went into hiding. These will be tagged, weighed, "bugged" (equipped with tiny radio transmitters), then taken Saturday to a restricted area of the China Lake Naval Weapons Test Center, far from people and cars. "Tortoise trackers" (radio receivers) will be used to eavesdrop on the behavior of the relocated reptiles. If they adjust to 'their new home and hibernate there for the winter without trying to plod back to their old home, then those left behind will also be moved. For those who don't know a California desert tortoise from a plain old turtle, Hendrix describes them: "They're about 12 inches long, S-0 inches wide have scaly legs, big feet with long toe nails for digging, very 'turtlely' faces.

They're really very attractive." The relocation area is on the center's a range, an instrumented test range. A center spokesman said the tortoises' residence was selected in an area that would be "safe from impact," and Democratic lawmakers was ended. Senate" President Pro' Tern James Mills (D-San Diego)' said it -was "a-real 'possibility" that both the Legislature and Reagan may have to settle for a "minipackage" of legislation simply to balance the current year's state budget. 'This would Mills said, probable imposition of a pay roll system of witholding state income taxes plus closing of some so-called hi-come tax loopholes to bridge a $300 million plus budget deficit. Reagan, in entering the tax negotiations, had hoped to provide up to $500 million in property tax relief for homeowners this year.

Democrats had a program which would have provided as much as $1 billion in property tax relief. Sen. Fred V. Marler Redding, the Republican floor leader in the; State Senate, told newsmen it would; be "very difficult to find 'any in Thursday's session. He however, that "we're' still talking about everything" not ready to stop talking.1' The others agreed.

Discussion; will resume this morning, Monagan: Said, adding. "Everybody wants to 1 keep talking." Please Turn to Page 2S, Col. 1 Sunny Weather Due for Weekend The Southland took a sun bath io day. and with any luck at all it will be a beautiful weekend. "Sunny weather will prevail in all areas of Southern California today and Saturday," according to the tional Weather Service.

Today's local gusty winds 'were' expected to decrease Saturday, and it should be warmer in all areas over the weekend. Temperatures at 11 a.m. today included 68 at the Civic Center, 70 at International Airport, 73 at Long Beach, 69 at Burbank, and 6S at San Diego. 600 PETITION FOR BAIL FOR ACCUSED YUBA CITY KILLER YUBA CITY (UPI)-Descrihing him as "an outstanding citizen in the. past," petitions bearing some 600 signatures have been submitted the court in an effort to win bail for mass murder suspect Juan Corona.

The petitions, numbering 31 pages, were presented Thursday to Sutter-County Superior Judge John 1 lauck by defense attorney Richard E. Hawk. They were submitted to the judge as a lengthy hearing drew near clo.se on defense motions for change of venue and, bail for the 37- year-old farm labor contractor charged with 25 murders. The defense attorney told the; judge he understood the petition campaign was started by some of the defendant's relatives in Los Without 'Incident- Exclusive to The Times from a Staff Writer SAN DIEGO With a long whistle blat, the USS Constellation left interference today on its sixth journey to the Southeast. Asia war zone in the wake of bitter protests by antiwar groups.

When the Constellation's mooring lines were dropped at 8:30 a.m. the scheduled time of departure only a group of 1,000 friends and family members of the crew was on hand to see the carrier off. The threat of a demonstration evaporated when, a small group of antiwar protestors, who had held a candlelight vigil outside North Island Naval Air Station, began drifting away at 6:30 a.m. A peace fleet flotilla, which had threatened a sea-going picket line, failed to materialize. A handful of protest boats was substantially outnumbered by Coast Guard and harbor patrol vessels.

Meanwhile, nine AWOL crewmen remained in sanctuary at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in southeast San Diego as part of the "peace" protest against the departure of the Constellation. The crewmen are being supported by a coalition of antiwar groups headed by draft resister David Harris, husband of folksinger Joan Baez. For several months, Harris' group has lobbied against the departure of the Constellation on the grounds that the ship was not needed because the war in Vietnam is winding down. A five-day campaign was waged in San Diego last month by several hundred volunteers carrying ballot boxes who took an unofficial poll on the issue of whether the Constellation should return to Southeast Asia for its sixth tour of duty. The Navy disputed the group's claim that sentiment ran 5 to 1 against the departure of the carrier.

Atty. Gen. John Mitchell said today that the policeman's job of enforcing the law was "jusl important and considerably more difficult than making a law." Speaking to about 500 persons at a ceremony dedicating a memorial at Parker Center to- Los Angeles policemen who died in the line of duty, Mitchell repeated President Nixon's remark that unless policemen are respected "we are not going to survive as a free country." Mitchell told the gathering, which included actor Jack Webb and Mayor Sam Yorty: "An attack on a policeman Is in reality an attack on the people, on their government, their laws." Threat by Mob Seen The attorney general, in remarks prepared for delivery later at the Los Angeles Police Academy's graduation ceremonies, said it was not repression by the police that threatened this country but the "tyranny of the mob." "There has even emerged a whole new type of criminal the fanatic revolutionary who kills with bombs and incendiaries, who ambushes police, who inflames mobs to violence," he said. "At the same time, criminals old and new have more legal weapons to help them escape conviction and correction than ever before. "In short, never has so much been expected of the police officer.

Some people expect, in fact, that he will fail -that he will overstep his au- 'I if 4 4. HfSv-f ttJUWIi AMnJwmAi, thority so that they claim police repression." He told the new graduates that they would find themselves as policemen members of an insiant minority group with automatic, friends and enemies. But he said they had three thirds going for them in their new job: Their own qualifications- and training. The support of President Nixon. Public opinion.

During the dedication cermcmony at police headquarters, Mayor Yony, who has been critical in the past of Justice Department scrutiny of Los Angeles police officers' actions in some cases, said the policeman was in a sort of triple jeopardy. He said their actions were not only subject to a police board of inquiry and the county district attorney, grand jury and courts, but to "federal authorities looking oa cr their shoulder." Rejected Suitor Kills Widow, Self 'Frustrated marriage plans led to the murder of an Arcadia widow and the suicide of her suitor, police said today. The bodies of Mrs. Wilhelmina Loya, 49, and Robert E. Rush, 50, of 1301 S.

Atlantic were found Thursday night in Mrs. Loya's con- dominium apartment at 030'Fair- view Arcadia. Police said Mrs. Iya, owner of the Anthony Loya Photography Studios, 5310 Whittier was Ftabbed to death with a 7-inch hunting knife. Her husband died in a plane trash in Monte nine months ago.

Rush, whose proposal of marriage to Mrs. Loya had been rejected, shot himself with a rifle after the stabbing, police said. LIGHT WAS RED BUT DRIVER'S WIFE WENT RiGHT AHEAD FRESNO (UPD Carl Burton was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital Thursday when he ran a red light and struck another auto. The shaken Burton ran over to the other car to check on its driver, Mrs. Charlene Dunlap, who suffered minor injuries.

When he returned to his car, his wife Georgia informed him she had just delivered a 6-pound, 5-ounce boy. Mrs. Burton delivered the baby alone in the car noting, "I didn't think he was alive, but 1 spanked him a couple of times and he started to cry. I let him cry for about a minute." Doth Burtons and the newborn child were uninjured in the 1 i v7 1, r- --w' ft M. i I -41- 5 I -'It i 1 If 1 jt.V it i i.jj if 11 ii fHWyVyh POLICE HONORED Atty.

Gen. John N. Mitchell, right, with Jack Webb and Police Chief Edward M. Davis at Porker Center where Mitchell talked at dedication of memorial to s'ai'n officers. Times photo by Joe Kennedy SAILING PROTEST Eleven youths sit aboard a junk-like boat, one of a few craft to "picket" the sailing of the Carrier Constellation, shown in background, which left on schedule for 1 Wiicphols.