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Pcnimula Weatlwr Fair with, patchy low cloudi through Thursday. Highs to the 70s, winds 15 to 30 mph. (More weather information on Page 33) Race Entries--See Sports SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER THE ADVANCE-STAR Final New York Stocks (See Pages 26, 27) Vol. 77, No. 220 6 Sections 60 Pages SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1977 348-4321 15c PER PER MONTH Bitter Feud Flares Over Coast Water By RICK SULLIVAN A re-enactment of the legendary Appalachian a i a i feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys is being offered on the outskirts of the sleepy farming community of Pescadero.

Across the Coast Highway from Bean Hollow Beach, historical theater is being staged by two deadly serious, combatant families, which are hurling threats of physical violence at each other. At issue is who controls the rights to the ever- decreasing water supply of Lake Lucerne. Availability of water in this drought-stricken, South Coast agricultural township is the key to the financial stability of many farms. Without this precious resource, scores of small family-operated farms face bankruptcy. No two families are taking the drought more seriously than the Muzzis and the Durigamos.

Battle lines have been drawn both in and out of court. "It's getting to the point now where we are going to fight it out right here," says Daniel Durigamo, pointing to the Bound of the Lake Lucerne levee, "and not in court." The Muzzis own 1,700 acres of rich South Coast farmland including Lake Lucerne. They thus hold deed to the lake's faucet. The Durigamos own a five-acre flower farm and possess water rights to the lake dating back to the 1920's. The faucet supplying lake water to their farm and others nearby has been shut off, as a consequence of legal action brought by Durigamo and his flower- farming neighbor to the south, Robert Cevasco.

Lack of water in the next several weeks could spell a crop loss for the two farmers totaling nearly $200,000. They already have lost an entire summer crop. "If we don't get water soon," warns Durigamo, "Muzzi will be going to the hospital and I'll be going to jail." "This is war," declares Vincent A. Muzzi, a San Mateo attorney. Since Durigamo and Cevasco purchased their Bean Hollow acreage several years ago, a less than harmonious relationship has existed between Muzzi and the farmers.

The drought has brought tempers to a boil. Early this year Muzzi notified all farmers who use Lake Lucerne water that their allotments would be rationed because supply was decreasing rapidly. He Judge had allowed them to had given such notification pump from Lake Lucerne, in past dry years. So Durigamo and Cev- In April Durigamo and (See Page 2, Column 2) Chief Charges Power Grab County wide Fire Department Urged (Times Photo by Mike SplneiH) CONTROVERSIAL Diminishing water supply is seen In lower insets are rivals Daniel Durl- thlt storage pond near Pescadero. In gamo and Vincent A.

Muzzi. Cevasco filed a lawsuit against the Muzzis claiming that their deeds guaranteed them first rights to the lake's water. The deeds, according to Durigamo, allowed them one acre-foot of water per acre per year. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Lyle Edson eventually issued an injunction against anyone taking water from the lake or from trespassing on property pending trial to clarify the water rights of all property owners served by the lake. Early this summer Duri- gamo snsi Cevasco went back to court to ask that some water be released from the lake to irrigate their crops of fern, primrose, fuchsia and others.

Judge Edson ordered that water be released to the farmers provided they metered what they used. But as the fall planting season neared the men calculated that they would need more water than the Pfioto by Mike Spinelli) SEVERED PIPES The feud between ranchers has led to pipe slashing and threats. DC Police Upset Over 'Link' Story Daly City police were upset this morning about a story by United Press International which portrays them as being on the verge of finding a connection between slaylngs in Daly City and Oregon. The story reports that Det. James Mendiara of the Daly City Police Department believes that persons who killed Harry "The Horse" Flamburis of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club and his girlfriend in Daly City nlso were responsible for the deaths of four people In Gaston, on Aug.

7. Those slain near the small town of Gaston, 30 miles southeast of Portland, were Margo Compton, 25; her twin daughters Sylvia and Sandra, and Gary D. Seslar, 19, a coast fuardsman and friend of Mrs. Campion. Mrs Compton, who gave testimony against several members of the Hell's Angels on charges of prostitution, was hiding in Oregon.

The wire story said Mendiara said Flamburis "knew some of the girls at the love nest" where Mrs. Compton worked before she gave her testimony. "There are lots of similarities between the two sets of killings, from the weapon used to the way Rudd Surrenders To NY Lawmen NEW YORK (AP) Mark Rudd, a fugitive member of the radical Weather Underground since 1970, surrendered to authorities today but refused to tell reporters where he had been in hiding. Rudd, 30, walked to the Manhattan district attorney's office about 9:20 a.m. He would not answer reporters' questions.

"He'll have his say in court," said attorney Gerald Lefcourt, who accompanied Rudd inside the building to an assistant district attorney's office for the formal surrender. Rudd, who faces a variety of misdemeanor charges stemming from antiwar demonstrations in the IWOi and a student protest at Columbia University in 1966, is the first major figure of the clandestine group to turn himself in this year. both homes were left virtually free of evidence," Mendiara said, according to the wire story. Mendiara said today that a reporter from the Oregonian, who interviewed him and presumably filed the story, had misinterpreted his remarks. "This is not a hie story.

This is not news. I told the reporter the only similarities were that she (Mrs. Compton) was Involved somehow with the Angels. I told him I didn't believe whoever did this would hold onto the same gun for both slaylngs," he said. In fact, Mendiara said, he had told the reporter that Daly City police had checked with the district attorney, San Francisco police and others and had found no evidence whatsoever to connect Flamburis with the "love There were a few similarities between the two (See Cetama By RICK SULLIVAN Consolidation of San Mateo 16 i departments under a special countywide district has been proposed by the, Fire Fighters Union Local 2400, which claims that such a move would create a multimillion dollar taxpayer savings annually.

Redwood City Fire Chief John Keller warned that the proposal is a scheme on the part of the union to gain total control of fire service. i a i he said would allow the union to call a countywide strike. Leo C. Mlddendorf, executive vice president of the fire fighters' union local, called on the Local Agency Formation Commission Monday to initiate a consolidation study. County Supervisor James Fitzgerald, who is chairman of the Congress of Elected Officials, also has asked that LAFCO study the proposal.

The Congress, he told LAFCO executive director B. Sherman Coffman, will Itself establish a task force to determine the cost effectiveness of consolidation. LAFCO is scheduled to consider the proposal at it Sept. 21 meeting. In his letter to Coffman, Fitzgerald said the Congress officials concurred that there is a good possibility consolidation would reduce the present cost of delivering fire service to residents of 18 separate jurisdictions.

And Middendorf added In his letter, "The time lias come for an unbiased study of the fire service of this county by a group of fire protection experts, who could make recommendations for future improvements. "We believe that such a study would show that a consolidated fire department would offer the citizens better fire protection than now exists for the same or reduced costs." Mlddendorf said the fire fighters local has for some time discussed consolida- i only recently decided to formally request that a study be made. He estimated that mas- Hawaii Volcano Erupts HONOLULU (UPI) Kilauea's latest eruption is a spectacular sight, according to an eyewitness. Former newsman Roger Coryell said the eruption, at the 1,500 to 1,600 foot level of the highly-active volcano, is about one to one and a half miles long and has fountains along the center of it. "You can see trees bursting along the edge of the lava because of the heat," he said after comp i a fly-by of the inferno.

Lava is flowing, he said, but in all directions in a lacework fashion. He also said the lava is very bright although clouds interfere with viewing. Kilauea began erupting Tuesday night along its east rift zone, an area where eruptions have been recorded for the past 200 years. The eruption is some 6Vi miles northest of the nearest populated area, a i near the a a a a a black sand beaches. Civil defense on the island of Hawaii has been actlvitated and has opened a shelter In Pahoa, about eight miles northeast of Kalmu.

No evacuation Is underway but two Kalmu couples voluntarily chose to spend the night at sive a i be accomplished by elimination of surplus fire stations and equipment and the layoff of what he calls "top heavy" command personnel hi fire departments. Middendorf claimed that there are 70 chief officers in the county and 850 fire fighters a far greater ratio than what he main- tained is required by the National Fire Protective Association. The union local executive said his organization has studied the cost effectiveness of consolidated departments in Los Angeles, Kern and Contra Costa counties, and he said the union estimated that consolidation could cut local administra- tive costs by about $3 million a year. Middendorf described a special district governed by a board of directors or perhaps the County Board of Supervisors, which would make policy for the countywide department. He said consolidation would bring all fire appara- (Sec Page 2, Column 1) Bizarre Karate Killing Body Sought In County Dump Sheriff's deputies today were searching the Marsh Road dump in Menlo Park for the body of a 14-year- old boy who was killed in a bizarre episode in a classroom at Ravenswood High School more than eight months ago.

According to Sheriff's Del. Bryan V. Cassandro, the body of Andre Dixon of 2025 Dumbarton East Palo Alto, may be buried tons of dirt and debris. Two persons, Charles Edward Gills, 18, a teacher's aide at Garden Oaks School in East Palo Alto, where the missing youth was a and a 17-year-old Menlo-Atherton High School student, Frank Stitts of East Palo Alto, have been charged in the strange case. Cassandro reported that the victim's mother, Mrs.

Alma Dixon, last saw her son alive on Jan. 7 at 7:45 a he left for school. Mrs. Dixon reported her son missing at 11:45 p.m. on that date when he failed to return home.

pn Aug. 8, Cassandro said, two boys, 12 and 14 years old, reported they had seen the missing boy going into Ravenswood High School with the two suspects. They said that a short time later they saw the pair a i what appeared to be a body out of the school. Cassandro reported that Gill apparently became aware tnat deputies were looking for him to question him. He said that Gill, a karate expert, came into the sheriff office Tuesday evening and admitted he apparently killed the boy with two kicks in the neck during an argument.

Gill, according to Cassandro, admitted he and his younger companion carried the boy's body to a large construction debris box i the Light Tree a a on Clarke Drive and dumped it in. Sometime i the night, a truck came and picked up the debris from the apartment, which was being remodeled. Workers apparently picked up the body without knowing it and trucked it to the dump at the end of Marsh Road. According to investigators the dead youth apparently became involved in an argument with one of the suspects over smoking marijuana. Cassandro said that i i a were attempting this morning to discover some way of retrieving the body.

Gill was booked at the county jail on a murder charge, while Stitts was booked at Hillcrest Juvenile Hall. Lance Lashes Media For Its Coverage WASHINGTON (AP) Director Bert Lance today declared he is a i a a innuendo and hearsay and "we're in sad shape in this country" if people believe his effectiveness has been crippled as a result. Lance lashed out at the news media when reporters i him as tie emerged this morning from his Georgetown home. Again, he denied any intention to resign. Said Lance: "If you can a a a i a innuendoes and hearsay and everything else, the words of a convicted felon, and all these other things, and put them in the paper and show them on television and then say that's a "And then, without having a chance to refute that and have my day in court, and be faced i the charge that because of that my effectiveness has been PRISM Faces Extinction PRISM, the acronym for the once-promising criminal Justice information sharing system for San Mateo County, passed from the critical to near fatal list Tuesday.

Two influential subcommittees of the Criminal Justice Council of San Mateo County voted unanimously to recommend to the full council the demise of the computer which was designed, but may never be built. The council meets Sept. 21 at San Carlos City Hall. The recommendation for the killing of Participatory Records and Information Sharing System (PRISM) coma after the county hai spent about 190,000 In fed- damaged and crippled, then we're in sad shape in this country." Lance will have his day Thursday, when he will appear before the Senate Governmental Operations Committee. Meanwhile, Lance's harshest critic on that panel, Sen.

Charles H. Percy, R- 111., hotly denied allegations leveled by President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, that the sena- i a a made improper use of corporate aircraft and facilities. The same issue has been raised against Lance. Powell admitted today he was just passing along a rumor about Percy and it was a "dumb mistake." He said he had called Chicago anSTorit 0 ft Say the project from the county and its 19 cities is leading to the apparent scratching of the proposal. Criminal Justice Council Powell said that at 3 Planner Rodney Plerlni a.m.

today a reporter for said that If the project Is another newspaper called killed, about $440,000 in him at home for comment received and anticipated about the 'Sun-Tunes' pub- federal funds will be allo- llshed a of the cated for other criminal charge and his actlcns justice projects. "never looked dumber." News Index COAST AQUEDUCT PLAN RAPPED. Page 31 and others in the criminal justice system. eral funds in developing the Art ie i project. Art Obituaries 33 Business 27 Soorts 21-K It was deafened to store.

manual, have bean called antiquated by police chiefs.