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pposition to Church. :0 Home for Elderly i r. Trustees May Bypass Voters; on College Tax Considering Financing of Moorpark Complex Despite Bond Rejection si i 1 1 BAPTISM UNDER FIRE Burbonk's hydraulic aerial ladder got its first Sm Story Faw It ILciianaelesfttnesi' Sim Fernando PART 7 THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1972 i GOAL ACHIEVED Women Delegates Broke but HaDDV BY DONNA SCHEIBE Tlmti Staff fWrlltr They are tired and broke, admit the nine Valley 'women who McGovern delegates to the Demo- ecstatic. "We accomplished the job 5 we meant to do," says Muriel Lustica of Sepulveda. "We are proud but we are humble, too," says Jo Seidita of Northridge, a member of the rules committee and.

now one of the five National Demo-, cratic Committeewomen from Call- fornia. Their main concern is to get voters registered. Mrs. Seidita will con-; tinue working on the McGovern staff in the Los Angeles headquarters and Mrs. Lustica, who has been part of the McGovern drive in the Valley since November, will do the same.

"And anything else' I am asked to do until the ultimate victory is realized," she adds. Training registrars and an attempt to bring young voters into the party will be part of the concentrated effort. Grass Roots Movement Mrs. Lustica is particularly eager to encourage youth to be pari of the grass roots political movement; both of her daughters Laurie, 12, and Mara, 17, were active in the campaign and the convention. Laurie, who accompanied her to Miami, had a floor pass the last night of the convention.

"It was like a window on history for her," says Mrs. Lustica. "She wa3 right down in front and I could see her absorbing every moment of it." Her daughter, Mara, worked for McGovern primary victories in fornia and New York and then traveled to Miami with an "For two nights she slept on the lobby floor of the Doral Hotel," says her mother. "The third night she spent rapping in the park with young college stu dents who had come down just" to see how the convention worked." Both women are deeply concerned that they help their party heal any wounds stemming from the convention and prevent future ruptures between states or issues vital to the nation's welfare. i Please Turn to Page 9, Col.

3 Home FromMiami morning when flames gutted a manufacturing causing estimated $1 million in damage, Times photo by Boris Yaro FISCHER SPASSKY MOVES BY MARTHA WILLMAN Tlmtt Start Writtr Ventura College District trustees are expected to decide Tuesday if they should levy a tax without consent of the voters for construction of a classroom and laboratory complex at Moorpark College in Simi Valley. A bond issue which would have financed the construction was turned down by voters in the June 6 elec As a result of the failure, trustees are considering using state legislation to levy a tax anyway. The $1.54 million bond issue would, have cost taxpayers an additional one to 2.5 cents per $100 evaluation each year over a 20-year period. Two-Year Pay Plan To raise the same amount through state taxing provisions, which require repayment within two. years, homeowners will be charged 13 cents additional per $100 evaluation each year, Consequently, the average tax- 1 A 1 1 payer wuo voieu againsi uie uunu issue, which would have cost him $7.25 the first year for a $25,000 home, may now be charged $81.23 for, the mandatory tax for the next two years.

If the tax bite hurts, there may be some consolation in that homeowners will pay less in interest charges for the two-year tax than would have been levied for the 20-year bonds, i Series of Projects The college project, which would cost $2.2 million, is part of a series of projects within the district expected to cost $3.09 million. Officials must raise $1.5 million locally to pick up the rest from state and federal sources. Trustees announced prior to the bond election that they would consider levying the mandatory tax if the bond issue failed and, in fact, were pessimistic about the chances of the bonds passing. Levying the full tax would provide for working drawings for the first and second phases of development of Oxnard College including offsite development, and another Ventura College classroom building, plus construction of the first phase and offsite development of Oxnard College in addition to the Moorpark science facility. Alternate Proposals Alternative plans to be studied include delaying work on Oxnard College which would drop the proposed tax increase to 9 cents; develop Oxnard and delay construction at Moorpark and Ventura Colleges -which would cost 5 cents for one year only, or delay all plans for a year.

Leading the discussion over the "tax alternatives will be Mrs. Laurel Everett of Moorpark, who was elected earlier this month as the "first woman president of the board. 1 Valley Chess Club to Replay Icelandic Games for Analysis BY PAT BRYANT Tlmei Staff Writtr Councilmen Urge Approval of Permit Despite Objections BY KEN FANUCCHI Timts Staff Writtr Councilmen sitting as a Board of Referred Powers to consider a variance to permit construction of a se-, nior citizens hotel in Tarzana lashed out Wednesday at two churches opposed to it. Contending that adequate housing for senior citizens is a pressing problem throughout the country, Councilman John Ferraro said: "I find it difficult to understand churches opposing facilities for senior cititzens. Senior citizens are; good citizens and they make good neighbors." Gibson Hits Plan Councilman John S.

Gibson Jr. also attacked the church opposition to the variance. "I feel that with four churches in the same block as the proposed facility, it is an ideal place for the church people to practice their Christian profession of helping the; pie," he said. Subject to some conditions' placed on the variance by the Planning Department, the four-member board recommended approval of the variance to the full council. The variance is sought on a parcel zoned residential-argricultural "at 5645 Lindley Ave.

to build a 100-unit, two-story apartment hotel to offer room and board for 140 elderly persons. The basis for the request, according to M. D. Schwartz, representing the owner, Mrs. Angela Monda, is that conditional uses were granted on both sides of the property to churches, St.

Innocent Orthodox and St. Paul's United Methodist. IThis has had the effect of making her property unsuitable for single-family use," he said. "It requires a special use that is in harmony with the mixed uses in the area." Zoning administrator Fabian Romano turned down the request, saying that while it was true that some adjustment in zoning was appropriate on the property the proposed 100 units were excessive. Density Increase The Rev.

Sergei Glagolev, pastor of St. Innocent, said the church's council was opposed to the variance because of the increase in density. "We are not opposed to facilities for senior citizens and we resent the implication you have made that we are," Mr. Glagolev said. Ferraro shot back, "You're not opposed to senior citizens facilities, only to their location." Representatives of St.

Paul's, who had opposed the variance at hearings conducted before Romano, did not appear at the meeting of the Board of Referred Powers. Thomas Hanson, deputy to Councilman Donald Lorenzen, who represents the district, said the councilman opposed the variance on the grounds of density. "We think 100 units for this parcel is too great number," he said. Hanson said the councilman wants the question delayed until a planning study is completed on the prob- Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 6 7.

1 new' 100-fcot test under fire Now the club meet3 in an old" warehouse donated by one of the members, and the $12 annual dues pay for utilities and the purchase of chess pieces, chairs and books on chess strategy. The members made their own tables and boards. Sigmund Goldstein, club spokesman, said that the historical significance of the Iceland games will be explained as the large chess pieces are moved across the board. Valley players, who Goldstein described as a heterogeneous group of students, lawyers, carpenters, salesmen and musicians, will practice their own maneuvers before and after the championship Goldstein explained the growing popularity of chess because "it is a Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 i "i Wednesday plant, 'i-.

SUN VALLEY Russian chess champion Boris Spassky's games with American Bobby Fischer will be replayed with magnetic pieces on a four-foot metal board and then analyzed on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m. at the Valley Chess Club. The' Iceland world championship matches will last a maximum of 24 games. That's hardly an evening's: work for the Valley- group. It plays up to 60 games three nights a week, starting at 7 p.m.

and lasting beyond midjiight at the club headquarters, 10919 Saticoy The club, with 250 members between the ages of 5 and 95, originally met for its game sessions at a city park which was an unsatisfactory arrangement the park lights went off at 10 p.m. Burbank Hopes for More Minorities on Police Force BY HOWARD KENNEDY Timet Stiff Writtr BURBANK This suburban community soon may have a few more policemen with Spanish surnames in it3 Police Department. There still i3 no immediate prospect for the appointment of a black officer, however. The Burbank Police Department, in its 61 years of existence, never has had a Negro officer. Several years ago a black applicant passed all the examinations and was placed on the patrolman's eligible list but he failed to report when notices of his appointment were mailed to his Watts address, city officials say.

Also several years ago a black woman passed all the examinations for policewoman but she had a job with Los Angeles County and decliifed the appointment. Police Chief Robert C. Loranger and city administrators are closely monitoring the Civil Service oral examinations being given to the 44 survivors from the 109 applicants who took the written test last month. Oral Examination There are 13 openings for new patrolmen to be filled by Sept. 1.

Also eligible for oral examination are two applicants who passed the previous written test in December, 1970, and four trainees hired by the city a year a year ago under the Emergency Employment Act. Two other trainees have been given full status patrol duty. The 50 applicants are taking oral interviews this week by a board composed of Robert, Seeds, personnel deputy in charge of recruiting; a police captain and a police sergeant. Of paramount interest to Loranger, City Manager Joseph N. Baker and personnel director Arthur Her-shey is the fact that two of those being interviewed come from minority ethnic groups.

The 50 interviewees still have many hurdles before survivors make it to the Personnel Department's new civil service eligible list and thus become available for apointment to the 13 vacancies Loranjrer and other administrators are pulling for the two Spanish-background applicants because they said they are anxious to add more minority group representatives to a fores which now has only four officers of Mexican-American descent. Please Torn to Pace 3, Col. 3 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY OFFICE Van Nojs Eivd, Van Nnjs Send mail to Box 431, Zip 91 IDS Pbone, News Advertising: 7S6-0741 Lei Anklet Office Toil Free: Classified Adn All Otiers VICTORY SMILES Mrs. Jo Seidita, left, stale committee member, end Mrs. Muriel Lustica, a member of the McGovern delegation ct th notional Democratic Convention in Miami, beam ct the front reports cf the parley.

Both will continue g'-ass-roots work for party. Tlse photo fey Jtxl Lam FOLLOWING THROUGH Sigmund Goldstein comment! on strategies cf Russian chess champion Boris Spcssky and American challenger Bobby Fischer in ct meeting cf San Fernando Valley Chess Club. IlaiM photo Kr Mart.