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Peninsula Weather Fair through Sunday except patchy fog near the coast. Lows tonight 55-65. Highs Sunday; coast 60-70, inland 70-85. West to Northwest winds 10-25 mph. TShe W.ime* SAN MATEO TIMES AND DAILY NEWS LEADER THE ADVANCE-STAR Stock Summaries (See Stock Pages 16, 17) Vol.

74, No. 137 5 Sections 74- Pages SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1974 348-4321 15c PER PER MONTH Nurses' Strike Continues; No Crisis Bay Area hospitals have curtailed services but there were no signs of a major medical crisis today as a strike by more than 4,000 registered nurses went into its second day. The i i nurses -including more than 300 RNs at three hospitals in San Mateo County walked off the job Friday in a dispute for higher pay and better working conditions. Officials at Mary's Help Hospital in Daly City and the Kaiser Hospitals in South San Francisco and Redwood City, told The Times no acute problems have developed so far. i is going pretty smoothly," said a spokesman at Mary's Help i a The i i nurses, members of the California Nurses Association, followed through with their promise to provide RNs to maintain emergency services and care for patients whose condition is such that they cannot be discharged, the spokesman added.

Many patients who are not seriously ill or badly injured are being released from the struck hospitals. Officials at Kaiser Hospital in Redwood City said they had reduced the patient population at their facility from 134 to 67 patients by Friday night. The strike is against 40 hospitals who are members bers of Kaiser Permanente Hospitals, Associated Hospitals of San Francisco and the East Bay and Affiliated Hospitals of San Francisco. The nurses went on strike Friday after contract talks broke off with hospital officials Thursday. There were no plans today for a resumption in the talks.

The nurses have asked for a $60 monthly pay boost, improved pension and retirement plans, and every other weekend They also demanded that unqualified nurses not be used in intensive care or specialized areas. Registered nurses now make an average of $1,250 a month, including fringe benefits. Hospital administrators have denied that nurses without special training are being used in specialized areas. The administrators maintain that the most difficult issue raised by the striking nurses is the demand for every other weekend off. Hospital officials offered five weekends off out of thirteen, in an attempt to effect a compromise on the issue.

They said hospitals already are having problems finding RNs for weekend, afternoon and night work shifts. HAPPY WINNER Leslie Ekloff, a fifth grader at Mae Nesbit School in Belmont has won second place in the annual national traffic safety poster contest. Leslie's poster, entitled, "Look always before crossing." was selected from more than 150,000 entries. (Times Photo) Warning Signs To SM Incumbents May Avert Bakar Project May Be Halted School Strike By DUANE SANDUL Surprised by Tuesday's dumping of two veteran San Mateo County supervisors by two unknowns? Perhaps one shouldn't be. Robert B.

St. Clair and Gerald F. "Ged" Day, the incumbents, clearly were rejected by county voters in favor of two young educators, John M. Ward and Edward J. Bacciocco.

Analysis The element of. surprise should have been removed in light of municipal elections staged in San Mateo County last a when nine incumbents were turned out of office. Included among them were such "names" as Burlingame's Dave Martin, South San Francisco's Patrick Ahern and William Borba, Daly City's "Bud" Lycett and Millbrae's Harold Purpus. Even in a city in which there were no incumbents, San Carlos, voters rejected the familiar "names" of former county manager E. Robert Stallings and plan- i commission chairwoman Lore Radisch for two so-called political rookies.

So it should have been made clear early this spring that the usual sacred position of incumbency was in great danger in the political contests in San Mateo County. St. Clair, bitter about his defeat, believes the national scene played a role. "There was no way I felt that the Nixon-Watergate matter would reflect on the local scene, but it is obvious that it has. An anti-incumbency i is sweeping the nation." Perhaps so.

But were indications of the so- called "anti-incumbency feeling" in some county cities in 1972, before the Watergate mess. And it was, in this county, before Watergate that a new breed of politicians surfaced. Many candidates over many years have prided themselves for shaking hands at the train depots. But today's new breed is beyond that, knocking on- your door, (See Page 2, Column 3) Negotiators of the San Mateo Elementary School A 12 million luxury apart- District and the 60rf-member ment-recreation complex Elementary Teachers Asso- being built by developer ciation went into a marathon Gerson Bakar on 12 acres of weekend bargaining session land adjacent to Daly City today with a state concilia- ma stopped following a tior to try to avert a threat- Superior Court ruling Friday ened teacher strike next invalidating a California week. Coastal Zone Commission School could let out early ru 'j for the district's 12,450 stu- Superior Court Judge Ira dents if the teachers were to Brown ruled in favor of a walk out on the last week of rou calling itself "Save the school year next week, Lakc Merced" which had although the district administrators said they would try to keep schools in operation with substitute teachers.

SMETA, which represents 95 per cent of the district's teachers, has set an emergency meeting for 6 a.m. Monday at the Royal Coach a a i seniors at Motor Hotel King Arthur Sequoia High School in Red- Room to consider "appro- wood City had a field day for priate action." An earlier themselves Friday at their announcement that the meet- annual prank day. but gave ing would be at Central Park the custodial staff of the was incorrect. school a massive headache. SMETA President Dorothy According to police, the Jerden said she wanted nego- students went around during tiations at the table but that the morning sticking blank "to date we have made pro- keys into locks.

Maintenance gress in negotiations only crews had to remove .100 teacher power dem- doors so classrooms could be onstrations." re-entered. the commission had Prank Day At Sequoia not followed proper procedure in disallowing cross- wxamination of pro-development witnesses and staff reports. The complex is half completed. The land was purchased by Bakar owner of some 3000 apartment units in Daly City about two years ago from the San Francisco Golf and Country Club. It is located immediately east of Lake Merced on the Daly City line with San Francisco.

Bakar, and government officials, argue that the court ruling could have far- reaching affects on all permits granted by the Commission since it came into being slightly more than a year'ago. Only Friday the Central Coastal Zone Conservation Commission excluded Daly City froin Coastal zone permit requirements because the agency felt Daly City "was fully developed" and that application for such permits would place undue hardships on homeowners (See Page 2, Column 6) Patty Loved SLA's Wolfe, Tape Asserts LOS ANGELES (AP) Patricia Hearst, kidnaped heiress turned gun-carrying revolutionary, says she fell in love with one of her captors and watched on television as he died in a shootout with police. Miss Hearst said in a taped message from the underground Friday that she and her comrades watched televised coverage of a blazing gun a on May 17 between Sybionese Liberation Army members and Los Angeles i Six SLA members died. In the tape sent to radio station KPFK. Miss Hearst professed her love for the SLA soldier named "Cujo," believed to be i i a Wolfe.

23. one of those who died. "It's so hard to explain what it was like watching our comrades die Miss Hearst said. "It made me mad to see the pigs looking at our comrades' weapons, to see them holding Cujo's .45 and his watch, which was still ticking. He would have laughed at that.

"I died in that fire on 04th street, but out of the ashes of it I was reborn. I know what I have to do. My comrades didn't die in vain." Miss Hearst, who was kid- naped by the SLA on Feb. 4 and now calls herself Tania, vowed she would rather die than return to her family. She denounced her family as "pigs." She spoke in a quiet voice, laced with profanity.

Apparently speaking for William and Emily Harris, 2 of the only other known surviving SLA members, she Israelis Kill 4 in Ambush TEL AVIV A An Israeli patrol ambushed and killed four Arab guerrillas who infiltrated into northern Israel from Lebanon early today, the high command said. No Israeli casualties were reported in the incident that occurred near Adamit. about six miles from the Mediterranean just south of the Lebanese border. The Israelis found Soviet- made rifles, ammunition, a transistor radio, a first aid kit and leaflets of the general command of Assifa, the combat wing of he Al Fatah guerrilla organization, a communique said. said, "We mourn together, and the sound of gunfire becomes sweeter." The Harrises also spoke on the tape.

Wolie's cnarred body was found in the burned house after the shootout along with the body of Donald "General i a a i and four women SLA soldiers. There was no definite confirmation that the Cujo Miss Hearst spoke of was Wolfe. In Emmaus. Wolfe's lather said he was told that his son was known to SLA members as Cujo. Earlier he said i qualification that Cujo was his son.

In the tape. Miss Hearst derided speculation by her father, newspaper executive Randolph A. Hearst, that, she had been brainwashed by the SLA. i I have no death wish," Miss Hearst said. "1 have never been afraid of death.

For this reason, the brainwash-duress theory of the pig Hearsts has always amused me. "Life is very precious to me. but I have no delusions that going to prison would keep me alive, and I would never choose to live the rest of my i surrounded by She said she had been taught "to shoot first and (See Page 2, Column 4) Patty, --A Lot Alike By AP and DPI BERKELEY Newspaper heriess Patricia Hearst and the revolutionary she loved. "Cujo," had a lot in common. Both were from well-to-do families, about the same age and had attended the University of California before becoming sweethearts in the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army.

Miss Hearst, however, is alive and being sought by the FBI, while "Cujo," or Willie Wolfe, is dead, one of six SLA members who met a fiery end during a shootout with Los Angeles police last month. In a tape recorded message sent to a Los Angeles radio station Friday, Miss Hearst said "Cujo" was the "most a i man I know." "We loved each other so much." Wolfe. 22. was described by one Berkeley woman radical as "a very sweet, gentle guy. It would be easy to fall in love with him." A of acquaintances said he was "always very gentle and considerate and avoided any kind of sexist role Before the SLA kidnaped her Feb.

4, Miss Hearst, was engaged to Steven Weed, her former high school teacher. It was after Miss Hearst, 20. apparently took part in a bank robbery that her love affair with Wolfe flared. She said in a tape that Weed was an "ageist, sexist pig." She referred to him as her "ex- fiance." News Index BONDS, FOX FEUD Giants trounce Pirates. Page 8 Births 5 Sports Church News 14 Classified 22-30 Comics 20 Editorial 18 Features 19 Obituaries 5 8-10 Stocks 16, 17 TV, Radio Weekend Theaters Weekend Weather 4 Women's News 6, 7 Patty Hearst How "Princess" Grew Up on Peninsula EDITOR'S NOTE Patricia Campbell Hearst, says the FBI, is a "self-proclaimed member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (and) should be considered armed and very dangerous." But her friends know her as Patty self-contained idealistic." Are there two Patty Heasts? How could one have become the other? AP staffers Linda Deutsch, Steve Jenning and Richard E.

Meyer talked with those who knew Patty. This is their story. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Once upon a time Patty Hearst and 10 classmates, all girls, visited Japan. Their guide took them to a topless show. Surrounded by the audience of men.

all the girls giggled. "Except Patty, remembers one. "She thought we were childish." There was a princess with grace and charm. Patty Hearst was a budding ballerina. In her leotard and slippers, she twirled through her exercises.

Other ballerinas smiled, laughed. Patty seemed preoccupied. "I didn't feel her approach to ballet was a remembers her instructor. "She was all wrapped up in the discipline of it all. There was no room left for personal expression." The princess grew in elegance and ability Patty Hearst studied art.

She wrote about the Renaissance, Raphael and the Impressionists. Her papers were polished, concise but littered with jargon. "Jargon," her teacher thought, "is the last defense of the student who is bored." Until the princess fell under a spell. She was called the Sleeping Beauty. Patricia Campbell Hearst.

"Detached," said a teacher. "A little too a said a frien'l. 'Serene," said a classmate. "Not much of an activist." i a "Sheltered." "Very much to herself." "A loner." "Not that close to her family." "Self- contained." "Passive." for something." "Directionless. She had no cause." "I think she was idealistic." "Searching for herself, maybe." "Patty," said a girl who knows her well, "needed stimulation." Feb.

4, 1974, Patty Hearst, daughter of a Hearst, granddaughter of a Hearst, great- granddaughter of a Hearst and an heir to the Hearst fortune and publishing fame, was abducted. She was snatched from an apartment she shared with her fiance by a ragtag group spouting Maoist cant. The kidnappers called themselves the Sym- bionese Liberation Army. They demanded millions of dollars in free food for the poor. The abduction was the first political kidnapping in the United States a crime PATTY AT TIME OF CONFIRMATION Patty Hearst, right, poses with classmate Linda Corbetta, second from left, at Sacred Heart school in Menlo Park, at the time of her confirmation.

(AP Wirephoto) to rival the Lindbergh kid- naping 42 years ago. April 3, 1974. Patty Hearst denounced her past. have been given the choice," she said in a tape-recorded message, "of 1) being released in a safe area, or 2) joining the forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army and fighting for my freedom and the freedom of all oppressed people. I have chosen to stay and fight." "I think she found something," said a college classmate, A young man who knew her well said: "She was ready for exposure It could be she never got the kind of real warmth or companionship and direction- she got from the SLA." "She's about the strongest willed individual I've ever met," says a girl who knew her in high school.

A woman who has known her for years says: "Once she committed herself at all, in the crisis point she'd really commit herself." Could this be? A new Patty Hearst? "I guess everyone's interested because this has happened to a princess," says a college friend. "But it's only in a i tales a you resolve every question." Patty Hearst was born Feb. 20, 1954, the blue-eyed, honeybrowh-haired daughter of Randolph and Catherine. Campbell Hearst. Mothep is from genteel Georgia society and a staunch Southern Catholic.

Father is president and editor of the San Francisco Examiner. Grandfather was William Randolph Hearst, builder of the vast Hearst publishing empire. Randy and Catherine Hearst settled with Patty and four other daughters in a wealthy, manicured suburb called Hillsborough. Patty and her sisters were raised by governesses and maids. Patty despised one maid.

The woman was fired. Patty's favorite was the Hearsts' German cook, Emmy Brubach. Elderly, warm-hearted Emmy became Patty's chief counsel" and confidant. A it was near home. Patty was enrolled in the Convent of the Sacred Heart school as a boarder when she was 10.

Beds were in cubicles separated by partitions. Mass at 7:15 a.m. Breakfast. Classes until 4 p.m. Mandatory study from 7 to 9 p.m.

Lorna- Corbetta, a classmate, remembers Patty rather have lived home. Lorna spent an occasional weekend at the Hearst mansion with her friend. Patty could be a prankster. One Saturday night, atter Lorna dropped off to sleep, Patty put one of her sister's white mice down Lorna's nightgown! At Sacred Heart, Patty began showing her strong will. When she played basketball, she argued with the referee.

"Most everybody (See Page 2, Column 1).

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