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Does the state, or Pasadena, have any laws on noise levels of.motor vehicles? It so, on what are they based? Is there any local group doing thing about noise pollution to me worse than air pollution? W. Pasadena. A. Both Pasadena Police and (lie Highway Pa- trol enforce the Mate Vehicle (Me. Sec.

23130 sets a flat limit on decibels (76 (or passenger cars and 88 tor trucks at or below 35 uiuh; 82 and 90 respectively, over 35) but this can be enforced only wilii a noise niclcr set up 200 feet from (lie nearest structure or clump ot trees, and CUP has only one unit for L.A. County. More tickets cite Sec. 27130, requiring an "adequate muffler to prevent any excessive or unusual noise," or 27150, exhaust system modified "in a manner which will amplify or Increase the noise." In Pasadena, phnne the police complaint desk, 577-4241. Q.

Talk about eyesores! Why doesn't the city clean some of the property they have bought for this new street? Next lo 102 N. Michigan weeds are sky-high and the sidewalk is a mess. If they don't clean it before the fall rains, you can't walk there. E. Pasadena.

A. A spokesman for 1'asudcna Public Works Dcpl. (577-4191) thanks you for culling attention to this problem on rights of way for the extension of Union Street. He said they'll not only clean up the Michigan lot, but check on all the rest from Mentor to Wilson, due to be built by next July; and Wilson to Hill, which they hope to construct in 1973-74. Q.

Sunday's Star-News article on "Genet" (Janet Planner) recalled our school days together in Indiana. Where can I reach her, or her sister Hildegarde of Altadena? Mrs. D. Pasadena. A.

Who' Who in America says Janet lives at Hotel Continental, 3 Hue de Castiglionc, Paris; or could he reached through New Yorker Magazine, 25 W. 43rd New York 10036 (for whom she has written hfr "Letter from Paris" since 1925). Hild- cgardc, with her husband, architect Frederick Monhoff, lived through the 30s, 40s and 50s at 524 K. Marigold ncxl door to the home of her mother Mary II. Planner.

They moved north in 1939, living now fU RIO) No. Box Calisloga (near Santa Rosa) Calif. 94513. Q. I own property in Pasadena, paying thou- ands of dollars lo the county and hundreds lo the city.

Why doesn't Pasadena itemize, on the back of its tax bill, where the money is spent, the way the county does? What can be done to get these benefits printed on our bills, for us taxpayers to see? Mrs. P. Monrovia. A. You don't get a breakdown on the county bill ol how or for what benefit your tax dollar is spent just what agency (or special fund) will get it.

The county tax collector, acting for all but two (Pasadena anil Long Beach) of morn than 650 cities and special districts In L.A. County, lisl.i (with the aid of a big computer) how much lie turns over'to each of them. Bills on Monrovia property have no breakdown just "Monrovia City Tax Dist. No. The Pasadena rale of $1.55 per $100 valuation all goes into the city general fund, to be allocated during (he year for police, public works, health and other needs on a flexible basis.

It cannot be announced In advance how much goes for each any more than you have a breakdown of Ilii; comparable "L.A. County -Gen." rate, divided for similar lisps in Altadena. Q. Is I here any method or sending packages interstate, besides Postal Service, Greyhound, Railway Express and air freight? D. student, Mayer, Ariz.

A. You forgot Continental Trailways. But may- lie Die biggest class of carriers especially in your area is the myriad of (rucking firms. There are also shipping firms (Hawaii, coastwise, lakes). All such curriers are regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission whose Region 6 office serving (he west from Colorado lo Hawaii is in the Federal Office 450 Golden Gate San Francisco, Calif.

94102. Action Line IS A CAGE 1 DAILY FEATURE Star-News at your newsstand or phone 796-0311 for home delivery A A A Snbepenbent PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1971 By Ray McConnell Pasadena Radio Firins Revealed FRIENDS S-N COUNTRYMEN: Two new members, Mrs. Eugene Wagner of Sycamore Drive Ensign Jr. of Windsor Road, have been elected'to'the board of Friends of the San Marino Library, replacing Zilplia (Mrs. Paul) Parsons Chris Markey who resigned during the summer In Ins position of UC-Berkeley alumni'president.

Markey now lias an added duty as regent the University of California Eagle Rock resident Dr. Robert Winter, Occidental College associate professor in the history ot ideas, is co-author with David Gcbhard of "A Guide to Architecture in Southern California." He's planning a guide to architecture in Pasadena "Pasadena Now," magazine of the Pasadena C. of he writes that "within a small compass, Pasadena displays, from the Mexican period to the present, a range of fine architecture unequalled by any oilier city in California." Also featured in the current "Now" is an article on-Rose Bowl history by our Joe Hemlrickson, whose book, "The Tournament Roses," should make a grand football, Rose Bowl, Tournament-and. Pasadena fans. I'm buying three lo send good for Iheir Big Red Comhusker No.

1 egos From "Serenity In the Home" lo "Tranqullity 45" at PCC Mrs. Patricia Spencer's Loma Vista area neighbors several months ago became interested in her theory of achieving serenity through deep breathing ami The Star-News also was interested, and reported how Mrs. Spenncr's neighbors were hecorn- so serene The idea spread to the PCC rampus and now, on Wednesdays al 4:30 p.m. in Hm women's gym she is ronrliicline for males and females of any age "Tranquility 45," a serene 4 minute class. STAR-NEWS COUNTRYSIDE: Rosemcad High School alumni are planning a grand reunion all at the Pomona Golf Club, Walnut, on Saturday, Nov.

13 at p.m. Reservations for the buffet dinner dance are taken bv Dclores (Biimimn) Maddox, 170.) Avington, West Covina (336-7744). with this as the deadline Sierra Matlre Police Chid Thomas C. Kendra again is trying to encourage residents to ride willy a regular officer as he patrols the town and responds to calls. The Rule- Along program, begun a year ago, flourished for a while then languished during the summer, says public relations Officer Jay Gibson.

If yon re 13 or older, call the P.O. The Temple City Lions Eye- mobile last. Sept. 17-18 tested 502 adults for glnu- roma and other eye conditions, advised 36 in sec their doctor for further examination, says l-io- nettcs Eyemobile chairman Mrs. Jean Colombo.

Of Ilic 143 children tested, 52 were notified of possible eye problems. The Eyemobile cost S423.sn Don Hylcr, Lions president, says White Cane Fund donations are still welcome P.O. Box 657, Temple City. Thanks to Mrs. W.

nclmholz for this word Pasadena's Pacific Oaks Children School, Dr. E. Robert LaCrosse president, is named by a'panel of experts in the November Ladies' Home Journal as one of the 13 outstanding nursery schools in the U.S Not all TV and movie producers who seek Pasadena locations for filmin" are attracted by our show places, like City Hall, reports Chrissny I'lanh. One wanted a jml with a "drunk tank." The Pasadena P.O., with its picturesque "lank," was able lo oblige. SOCIAL SECURITY: Pacific College sin- dent Bob Bowcn, who spent the summer on a missionary lour of the Congo with a Free Methodist.

Church group, Volunteers in Service Abroad, reports that one convert faced the dilemma (trilem- ma?) of having three wives nnd 19 children. "Was it Boh asks, "to practice polygamy in a culture where the number of wives one had represented current wealth and the number of children represented security and care in old ago? In essence, this was their social security system. Educated virgins often ran as high as two years' wages in price, and Ihis man had a pretty heavy investment." BOB also reports that brides, by tradition, arc always lalo for their weddings. "For Hie bride lo appear on lime, or smiling," lie says, "signified s-lic was anxious to assume marital relations, an embarrassing Ihreal to her reputation of chastity." Bowcn helped perform a wedding. The bride showed up three hours late, thon look a hath in side room before the ceremony.

There's such a thing as protesting (no much. By JOHN McALlSTEK Stuff Writer An apparent disagreement in personalities and philosophies among the management and staff of Pasadena-based radio station KPPC has resulted in the firing of possibly 27 persons, the Star-News learned Monday. General Manager Douglas Cox told the Star-News that he announced the firings late Sunday night and had the transmitter turned off. Cox said that, only 17 pei-sons had actually been fired, but sources speaking for the staff said that of 33 regular employes of the station, only six had been re- lained. Fast Action By Father Saves Child Quick action by a Los Angeles police officer with ilm aid of a sheriff's deputy was credited with saving the life of the officer's year-old son Monday.

The child. Dean Grin went into convulsions in reaction lo an immunization shortly before noon, deputies reported. As the senior Cain got into the a i ear lo drive Ihe child to the hospital, the infant stopped breathing. Cain immediately began giving his son moutli-lo-mmilh resuscitation while his wife telephoned deputies foi aid. Deputy Reinaldo Rodriguez rushed to Cain's home in La Puenle and transported father and child resuscitation still in progress to Doctor's Hospital where doctors administered first aid and restored normal breathing.

The child was in good condition late Monday. El Monte Halloween Events Set Witches, vampires, goblins and ghosts are offered rampaging events for Saturday for Halloween El Monte style 1S71. Five special Halloween programs will be available lo Ihose ghostly spirits who prefer spook house costume contests, a carnival or dance, instead of going out on the loose Saturday night for the a a trick or treat. Saturday the following programs will be offered: A coslume contest from '2 in 3 p.m. and a spook house from 3 lo 5 p.m.

all at Fletcher Park. A carnival from 4 to 6 p.m.. ,1 costume contest from 6 lo 7 p.m. and a spook house from 7 (o 0 p.m. at Znmora Park.

A carnival from 4 to 6 p.m.. costume contest from 6 to 7 p.m. and speok from 7 to!) p.m. at Ml. View Park.

A carnival from 4 to 6 p.m. nnd spook house from lo!) p.m. at Lnmbert Park. A teen dance from 8 to midnight, featuring dance contests, refreshments and dancing lo two live bands, al Community Center'. The events arc under Ihe direction of the El Monte Department of Recreation and Parks.

Former a director. Les Carter said' that most of the staff was at the studios at 99 S. Chester when Cox entered the studios at 11:30 p.m. Rumors of the impending releases had been circulating for some time, he said, and "everyone wanted to be here when il happened." On Friday the staff "commandeered" the station, Cox said, and periodically broad- east the progress of the impending firings to the slalion's estimated 200,000 listeners. Questioned Dispute Carter said that by late Monday afternoon, more than 1,700 telegrams had been received from listeners and advertisers who were backing the staff in Ihe dispute that no one appears lo understand.

Highly Killed Station KPPC during the last two years, has becpme the No. 1 rated FM station in Los Angeles and is ranked in the lop five of all stations, an unheard-of precedent for an channel, according to rating surveys. "Our profit, has been good." Carter declared, "and our reputation is highly lauded, even by our competitors. We just cannot figure out why Ihis has happened except that Iharr- lins been some philosophical and personality conflicts between Ihe staff and the general manager." Cox said that he did not have the authority to announce tile exact reasons for the firings until the National Science Network, which owns the station gave him the go-ahead but did say that in early October when one member of the staff had been threatened with firing Ihe rest said they would leave also, "and it kind of grew from that incident." The station was off Ihe air during the night. Cox said, but went back inlo its regular broadcasting Monday morning "wilh a brand new staff." Some of the persons at the meeting Sunday were asked lo slay but their decisions have not yet been received by the station, he said.

Press Confab Set Carter said he and his a will hold a press conference today to voice what action they will take. Both sides admit that the basis fpr tile firings is unclear al this point and both admil to having extensive differences in Hie station's programming and personnel. sister station in Sim Francisco, KMPX, says Carter. IHIS undergone four complete management changes, six staff chanseovers and five program directors since being purchased by the National Science Network i Altadena Pair Found in Snow Two leen-agers were rescued Pacifico Campgrounds 1101 tli of Alladcna Monday after becoming slrnnderl in snow, sheriff's deputies reported. Deputies said neither James t'nschall.

16. of 2076 Crescent Drive, nor Rose Lampasona. also 1C, of 1862 Mcadowbrook bolh Altadena, was injured. They were brought oul of the Angeles National Forest campground by helicopter. San Marino Patriots Salute Veterans Day TRIBUTE Mike Purdy, 17, San Marino High School student body president, pays tribute to Ihe American flag.in a major address al Veterans Day observance in Lacy Park, San --Stair Photo by' Ed Norgord Marino.

A new flag was hoisted to Ihe lop of Hie Court of Honor staff, and Iwo old banners rilually destroyed. Approximately 50 patriots attended the rites. Chamber Plan Goes Before Directors City May Be 'Guinea Pig 5 In Anti-Skoplift Experiment By A HARDY wriirr Pasadena may become a demonstration laboratory (or an anti-shoplifting campaign being sponsored by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. The proposal, which has the endorsement of Police Chief Roberl McGowan and the Pasadena Police Departmcnl, will come before the Pasadena Board of City Directors today. If Ihe program i board endorsement, the city will be designated as "the demonstration zone for the Stale of California" in which an experimental pilot program will be conducted, with emphasis on Of Local Note PRIEST TO SPEAK "The Birch Society -I he Myth and the Reality" will be Ihe subject of the Rev.

Francis E. Fenton, a Catholic priest from Bridgeport. who has for several years served-on Ihe National Council of the John Birch Society, in a a al Department Store auditorium, Dunne Road a i Avenue. Arcadia, al p.m. Friday.

LIBRARY FRIENDS The Friends of the Genealogical Library will meet at 7 p.m. Friday in Ihe auditorium of Ihe library. Edwinna Bicrman will be guesl speaker, using and Their Ufes" as topic. MUSIC LECTURE "Advcnliu'cs in Choral and Oinmber Music" will be subject of a series of informal mir sir lefluivs by Albert Adams, eminent musicologist, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday al the Soulh Pasadena Public Library.

He will discuss Beethoven's Quartel in Flat. Opus 127. The public is invilcd lo attend without rharec. VIOLET SOCIETY The proper care of violets will be discussed a meeting nf the San Gabriel Valley African Violet Society a I noon Nov. 3 al Ihe Prudential Savings and a Building' community room, 1300 E.

Valley Alhambra. A business meeting will be held at 12:30 p.m. wilh members and guests asked lo bring a sandwich and cup. as coffee be served. A silent auction will be held for the so- cicly's philanthrophy work.

An opportunity tale and sales table and uoor prizes will be featured. AARP PROGRAM The lnstitu.tr of Life Time Learning lecture scries, sponsored by Ihe American Asso- riation of Retired Persons, will include a talk on "The New Image of Aging" by Ihe Rev. Frank Nelson of Pasadena al 10:30 a.m. Wednesday al the Ethel Percy Andrus Building in Ixing Beach. 215 Long Beach Long Beach.

Retired persons fire invited to a without charge. SAFARI SLIDE SHOWS The Pasadcnn Pholochromo Society will present Kenneth lloHoway and his second Afri- rnn Safari color slide show Thursday. Holloway specializes in close-ups of wild animals. The meeting will be held al tlir Pasadena Public Library, 285 K. Walnut.

SI. al 7:45 p.m. Members and visitors are invited. Ihe more positive approaches lu shoplifting curtailment. Consultants and co-directors of Ihe pilot project, are Carl Sautter and Rory Robinson, both planning and fund-raising consultants to Ihe Pasadena Commission on Human Need and Opportunity.

have recommended thai the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce concentrate its efforts on "cooperation between diverse community resources, inilialion of preventa- tivc program, a i i a measurement, and a broad youth- on-youth campaign." These approaches are being recommended in lieu of extensive electronic surveillance and stringent police control. According to Sautter and rob- inson. the youth pilot program will include three phases: intensive, segmented market programs; evaluation-measurabili- ly programs, including comparisons of pre-eampaign and post-campaign statistics; and prcvenlive programs, such as an experimental conciliation program for firsl-offense shop- lil'lers. The consultants are recommending a Ihe program stress cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies, schools, merchant associations, churches to create a i effort directed against shoplifting. ft is proposed to designate two target communities within the area for comparative purposes.

They include "the largely Anglo-middle-class Hastings Ranch area and the largely minority, poor Northwest Pasadena area." The measurement portion of the program will include comparison of statistics, prc-and posl-campaign, from i Chamber of Commerce and specific store records. Questionnaires arc to be administered before and afler Ihe campaign to students in public and private schools, and to employes and management lo retail stores to assess attitudes. Ceremony Staged at Lacy Park By CARTER BARBER Stuff Writer Like- an outpost of beleaguered patriots, some 50 persons gathered Monday morning in San Marino to show a while Veterans Day now is celebrated in October instead of the traditional Nov. 11, Ihe memory of the nation's fighting men is timeless. Sunshine from storm-laundered skies warmed the assemblage at (lie Court of Honor in Lacy Park.

Most of those attending were the mature from World War and Ihe very young from Girl and Boy Scout, troops. It was one of the lew "new dale" celebrations in Star Theme "recognition of all who served lo preserve the ideals they fought died for." Raising of Ilir, Flag Paul Dobbins, commander of San Post 239, American Legion, commenced the pro? gram by ordering raising of the flag, furnished by Rep. John Rousselot, R-San Marino. The color guard was mustered from South a a a Post 1-10, American Legion Mrs. Barbara Howe, of the San Marino chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, led the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Rev. Dr. Ronald W. Dickson, of the Mayflower Congregational Church, delivered-the invocation. Mike Purdy, 17, student body president of San Marino High School, read an essay, "I Am the American Flag." Written by a girl in Ripon, it tiari Old Glory deploring lack of respect paid to it by this country and Ihe world.

1 "I warn you, this great nation is becoming corrupt." went the essay in its concluding passages. "We must return to God, or fall." A straightaway tribute lo "Our National Heroes" was recited by Norma Flores, 10, o( Girl Scout Troop 419. Letters of Appreciation Mrs. Bea Zigler, of the South Pasadena organization Mothers of Servicemen, read letters of appreciation from recipients of cookies, mail, Christmas trees and ciieer which the group distributes to men in Vietnam. Letters from GI mothers assailing President Nixon's forthcoming trip lo China as a "crawl lo Peking" and related "rarnpanl treason" in government were also read, as was a chaplain's request for 100 Yule trees this time around.

'Mrs. Zigles noted her organization also will send trees to 26 centers which she said the military is setting, up to repress or treal drug addiction among servicemen. Symbolism for Good Chris Mar ey. 12. a Star Scout San Marino Troop 358.

followed with a more conventional recital an essay. "1 Am the Flag," in which symbolism for good was emphasized over acceptance of Old Glory in many quarters. Climax of Ihe program was the burning of two old Flags, tattered from use in many previous ceremonies, while Dr. Dickson gave an appropriate prayer, and Carl Gerke, 13. of lluntington Junior High School, San Marino, bugled "Taps.".