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S47 GABRIEL VALLEY Sunday, October 4, 1981 Cos Anfleles Slimes Part IX Caltech President a Colorful Scientist Who Worries Goldberger Discusses the Institute's Aims and Moral Dilemmas of Nuclear Times New kid on campus riding his shiny new motorbike? Actually, it's the college president. By BERT MANN, Times Staff Writer The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. FrUirlch Damamatt PASADENA Like the playwright who wrote those lines, Caltech President Marvin Goldberger is concerned about how physics and all science can affect human lives, and he has particular reason to be. As a young man, he worked on the Manhattan Project that resulted in the development of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Goldberger is now one of the most prominent and vocal advocates of an end to the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race.

But that advocacy, he makes unmistakably clear, is carried by "Murph" Goldberger, individual, and not by Dr. Marvin L. Goldberger, president of Caltech. (His nickname "Murph" was given him by childhood friends who had difficulty pronouncing "Moish," the name his mother called him.) When it comes to viewing some of what he terms "the moral dilemmas of our times," Goldberger, the physicist, is inseparable from Goldberger, the ethical human being. The moral imperatives that science has thrust on the world are familiar to Goldberger, who has been associated with some of the greatest scientists, such as Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard and others.

Teller, often referred to as the "father of the hydrogen bomb," was among Goldberger's teachers at the University of Chicago. But they have since found themselves in opposition, Teller generally favoring a nuclear arms buildup and Goldberger firmly against it. Goldberger has taught at UC Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. And from 1957 to 1970 he taught physics at Princeton before being appointed chairman of Princeton's physics department. He held that post until he came to Caltech in 1978.

"When I worked on the Manhattan Project," Goldberger said, "I was really only a child. I had just graduated from the University of Chicago and knew that the purpose of the project was to develop nuclear weapons. "My own work was with the design of nuclear reactors in Chicago. "The pressures of World War II were such that very few people looked ahead at the implications of nuclear weapons." Goldberger has served on a number of national advisory bodies dealing with national security, foreign relations and arms control. "I think my continuous involvement with these issues," Goldberger said, "has been affected by my association with the Manhattan Project and by Leo Szilard (the Hungarian physicist) who, perhaps more than anyone else, saw much earlier than most what the real implications were in the development of nuclear weapons." Looking back on the 1945 decision of President Harry S.

Truman to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Goldberger said, "I would prefer that they had never been used." At the time, Goldberger said, he favored a non-military demonstration of the bomb so the Japanese could gauge its effect. "The tragic examples of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which killed more than 200,000 people," Goldberger said, "were like tiny firecrackers of bombs by today's standards. "The true magnitude and implications of nuclear war are now probably uncalculable. The one thing you can be sure of is that such a war would be much worse than anything that anyone can imagine." It is with this realization that Goldberger has become active with Pasadena's Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race. Please see CALTECH, Page 10 JOEL P.

LUGAVERE Loa Angeles Times Ws Very Exciting' at Caltech Shoots for the Stars By MARY BARBER, Times Staff Writer In spatial terms, Susan Pearce has a hand in charting the universe. In a more earthly sense, she has helped to bring an astronomical $19 million to Caltech. The college is dependent on private gifts for at least one-quarter of its budget and dependent on its director of development to get these gifts. The director's worth can be measure specifically in dollar amounts, but director Pearce does her evaluating according to what that money can buy. Take, for instance, charting the universe.

Every astronomer in the world will someday have access to a celestial atlas of northern skies that will be photographed by Caltech astronomers at the school's observatory on Mt. Palomar. The $750,000 needed to finance the project could only come from private hands, and Pearce's department got the money from three sources. She and the donors are participants in creating a new "astronomical bible," which Caltech's previous atlas was called after its completion in 1957. Photos in the new one will probe at least twice as far into space.

"That's it," said the beaming Pearce. "That's great fun. That's when money really means something." Gifts for Computer Science At an opposite extreme, substances that exist in only minute amounts, such as interferon, are now isolated and analyzed at Caltech through a protein sequenator (a "gene machine" to insiders) that began with seed money from private gifts. And a computer science program described as "having the complexity of a street map of the United States" is under way because of $100,000 gifts from 10 companies. "It's very exciting to see a deal close," said the master of understatement for whom every ring of the telephone or delivery of mail can mean the ecstasy of fulfillment.

Or maybe not. Please see MONET, Page 9 Latinos Ask Police: Tell Us Your Gripes Ambush of Officers in La Verne Stirs Request to Gear Air on Complaints By MARK LANDSBAUM, Times Staff Writer LA VERNE On its face, it seemed like an unusal request. But unusual times call for unusual measures. The 26 police officers in this generally tranquil little town have been asked to draw up a list of their complaints with young Latino gang members. Many of La Verne's Latinos want to know.

A representative group of Latinos "grandpas, grandmas, parents and younger folks who have run afoul of the law numerous times" gave city officials a list of their own complaints about police last week, City Manager Perry Beck said. Beck hopes this airing of animosity will defuse a growing hostility between Latinos and officers. The situation boiled over last weekend when a La Verne police patrol car and then a Los Angeles County Sheriffs cruiser were riddled with bullets by snipers lying in wait along Arrow Highway adjacent to a neighborhood known for gang activity. No officers were injured seriously. Two young male Latinos have been arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer and shooting at a vehicle.

"It's unusual for them to turn their hostility on us," Police Detective Chris Sullivan said. "It's usually (directed) at other gangs." Residents List 10 'Negative Actions' But when 14 Latinos, including the father of one of the suspects, met with Beck and Mayor Frank Johnson last Wednesday they complained that hostilities have grown because of police harassment. The residents gave Beck a list of 10 "negative actions" by police that they said have contributed to the tense situation. The complaints ranged from excessive force in making arrests to police not using a "pleasant tone of voice" when questioning people. The group charged that seven of La Verne's younger police officers have been tougher talking and rougher acting than need be when dealing with Latino youths, Beck said.

"They said on too many occasions my officers are enforcing the law in a sarcastic and confrontal manner," Beck said. The next day Beck asked police to list their complaints with young Latinos who congregate in the area of and First streets. Beck said he is reserving judgment until all sides have their say but conceded the city has done little in providing programs to meet Latinos' needs. One of the residents, Germina Grajeda, 20, said she has been "hassled" by police, though not arrested. Apparently in retaliation for the shootings, police have threatened Latinos, she said.

She said she hopes city officials will restrain the officers or hire new ones. The 14 representatives of Latinos' concerns were Please see LATINOS, Page 10 Cuts Loom in Services That Curb Youth Crime By MAYERENE BARKER, Times Staff Writer Juvenile crime is being reduced in six San Gabriel Valley cities through counseling and techniques used by the Mid-Valley Community Mental Health Council, according to two newly completed evaluations of the agency. However, Douglas A. Stevens, Mid-Valley executive director, said the agency's funds to diagnose and counsel delinquent-prone youths may run out by the middle of next year. The agency also does psychological and drug abuse counseling.

Mark Lipsey and John Snortum, both of the Clare-mont Graduate School, found that the El Monte-based consortium is obtaining positive results working with juveniles referred to the agency after the youngsters have been in trouble. Youths in Baldwin Park, Bradbury, Duarte, El Monte, South El Monte and West Covina are referred to Mid-Valley from a variety of sources, but mainly from law enforcement. Lipsey said that considering the "high delinquency risk cases" the agency handles, the recidivism rate at 11 is lower than would be expected. Recidivism is Please see CRIME: Page 11 JOEL P. LUGAVERE Loi Anek Time last week's storm.

Power was knocked out in many areas of San Gabriel Valley, including San Marino, West Covina and here in Temple City. LET THERE BE LIGHT There is no sleep for linemen of Southern California Edison when lightning causes power outages, as it did during New Leagues to Be Formed for the Walter Mitty of Hockey Times to Increase Area News, Sports Coverage The Times will offer two full pages of new features beginning Thursday in the San Gabriel Valley Section-features that will give readers more community news and sports coverage. Valley Notebook and Valley Sports Roundup will appear in the San Gabriel Valley Section of The Times each Thursday. Valley Notebook will feature expanded news coverage of the many cities and unincorporated communities that make up the Valley. In addition, Valley Notebook will present People, a column featuring achievements of area residents, and Entertainment the Arts, a column highlighting cultural events, amateur and moderately priced theater and other leisure-time activities.

The Notebook also will include a selected list of recent home sales in various Valley neighborhoods an unofficial sampling of the real estate market Valley Sports Roundup will provide schedules, results, standings and other statistical data, ranging from youth and high school sports to collegiate and professional competition. One of the features of the new page will be a weekly roundup of the top performers in Valley sports. Schools, clubs, coaches and individuals are encouraged to report statistics, results and other information by calling a special sports line 287-3701 at any time day or night Coaches and individuals may also contact Times staff writers Mitch Polin and David LePage weekdays at 287-0491, 443-3053, 285-0101 and 256-1306. By DAVE) LePAGE, Times Staff Writer A teammate snags the puck and your line starts up the ice. Opposing defensemen quickly box in the others and they pass to your side.

You poke your stick out, the puck stops and you look ahead. Daylight to the goalie. It's up to you. That may no longer be just a dream for Walter Mitty. It could be an opportunity for Southern Californians attracted to the challenge of competitive ice hockey.

Established in the East and called the National Novice Hockey League, it is a program designed for adult hockey fans who have never played, haven't skated for years or have never skated. Two leagues are being formed this year in the Los Angeles area, with six rinks and a possible seventh committed to serve them. This year, an L.A. West League will play at the Pasadena Ice Capades Chalet, Pickwick Ice Arena in Bur-bank and Topanga and the Ice Capades Chalet in Canoga Park. The league expects to add the West Covina Ice Arena next year.

An L.A., Orange CountyRiverside League will play at the Brea Ice Capades Chalet and at a new rink to open at La Sierra near Riverside. Games may also be scheduled at the Costa Mesa Ice Capades Chalet A coaches' league will play at the Laurel Canyon Ice Capades Chalet in North Hollywood. About 460 players, including seven women, are now hard at it in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. Participants range from 21 to 59 and include attorneys, factory workers, computer programmers, dentists, the president of an insurance company and a corporate vice president of Trailways. The novice hockey league is the brainchild of Ashley Root, 26, a hockey fan who developed a yen to play the game and found there were no opportunities for an adult who didn't have considerable experience.

Usually the men's groups are pick-up hockey, with a lot of transplanted Canadians, college athletes and others who give a neophyte a pretty rough time, Root said. "They aren't supervised and allow body checking and slap shots. When you're a family man and have to go to work the next day, it's risky." Root said he talked to adults who coached youth Please see HOCKEY, Page 10.