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Part I Saturday, April 1, 1989 Los Angeles Times Rains Wash Out Water Delivery Cutback By VIRGINIA ELLIS, Times Staff Writer SACRAMENTO-One month after ordering severe cutbacks in water allocations, smiling federal officials announced Friday that record March rainfalls were allowing them to restore full deliveries to all customers of the Central Valley Water Project. Neil W. Schild, assistant regional director for the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, said officials were making the announcement now, rather than at the May 1 close of the rainy season, to give Central Valley farmers more time to plan for this year's crops.

A month ago, they had predicted cutbacks by the federal bureau, California's largest supplier of water, could drive up food prices by forcing farmers to reduce the state's crop production by as much as $250 million. "It's marvelous. March 1 was really an extraordinary event, probably the fifth wettest March in history," said Donald Paff, chief of the bureau's Central Valley operations coordinating office. In late February, the federal officials had said reservoirs were so Robert Wilke; Was Villain in Scores of Films Robert J. Wilke, the mean, shifty -eyed villain in scores of films, including a memorable performance as one of four gunslingers seeking vengeance against Gary Cooper in "High Noon," is dead.

His wife, Patricia, said he was 74 when he died Tuesday and had been battling cancer. Wilke had left his native Cincinnati as a youth to work a series of odd jobs that found him -in 1933-34-at the Chicago World's Fair. There he was performing in a high-dive act when a friend prevailed on him to go to Hollywood. Here Wilke began as a stunt man before landing his first part in "San Francisco," a 1936 spectacular starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald. Over the years, he appeared in hundreds of films and television shows, almost always as an evil adversary of the lead character.

His pictures included "Out California Way," "Dick Tracy vs. Crime "Laramie," "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Bernard Blier; 50 Years in French Films Bernard Blier, the plump and balding French actor who incarnated hapless husbands, conniving cops and heartless hit men over a movie career that spanned 50 years, has died, his son announced Thursday in Paris. He was 73. Blier, winner of this year's prestigious Cesar award (France's equivalent of the Oscar) for a career that included roles in about 150 films, died in suburban SaintCloud after what was described only as a long illness. His best- known movies ranged from Yves Allegret's "Maneges" (1949) to "Buffet Froid" (1979), directed by his son Bertrand and starring Gerard Depardieu.

He also played opposite such greats as Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret, generally as a corpulent, moon-faced sidekick with a caustic sense of humor. Blier was born in Buenos Aires where his father, a biologist, was on assignment for the Pasteur PASSINGS Joel Fineman; UC Berkeley low and rainfall so scant that they had essentially abandoned any hope of fully meeting their commitments to agriculture, municipal and industrial water users. Although 17 inches of rain fell in the key watershed area around Mt. Shasta in November, the officials said a two-year drought made the ground so dry that it simply sucked up the water, eliminating much of the runoff for reservoirs. Then the November deluge was followed by an exceptionally dry period in December, January and February, prompting officials to predict a third straight year of severe drought.

Rains Began to Fall Officials said they decided to order up to a reduction in their water deliveries when it became apparent that March would have to produce double its normal rainfall for them to keep up with their commitments. At the time, they said even normal rainfall in March seemed an improbability. But then the rains began to fall, and as one big storm followed OBITUARIES Robert J. Wilke "Smoky," "From Here to Eternity," "The Las Vegas Story," "The Magnificent Seven," "Spartacus," "Fate Is the Hunter," "Joaquin Murietta," "Tony Rome" and many more. His final film was "Stripes" with Bill Murray in 1981.

He also was a frequent guest on such television Westerns as "Gunsmoke," "Have Gun Will Travel" and "Rifleman." Besides his wife he is survived by a son, a grandson, a great -grandson and a brother. Reuter Bernard Blier Institute. From his first film in 1937, Raymond Rouleau's "Trois, Six, Neuf," Six, followed by six other movies that same year, Blier was a workaholic. His last role was in Moshe Misrahi's "Mangeclous" in 1988. "My work is my joie de vivre," Blier once said.

"Never do I go to the studio like one goes to the office. I hate Professor, Shakespeare Scholar Joel Fineman, 42, a UC Berkeley professor and Shakespeare scholar who wrote "Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets." It won the 1986 Modern Language Assn. James Russell Lowell Award for Outstanding Book of the Year. He was working on another book, "Shakespeare's Will," at the time of his death and was a frequent lecturer at universities and scholarly institutions in the United States and Europe. Fineman was also a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Representations and October.

Fineman, a member of the university's English department, received numerous awards. They included Mellon post- -doctoral fellowship in 1976 and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1985. In Berkeley on Saturday of cancer. William J. Miller; Author and Former Journalist William J.

Miller, 76, author of "The Meaning of Communism" for Time-Life Books and the biography "Henry Cabot Lodge," published in 1967. A longtime journalist, he had been senior business writer for Time magazine, an editorial writer on Life magazine and chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1957 to 1959. In Gainesville, on Sunday after a stroke. Guy H. Dobbs; Business, Civic Leader Guy H.

Dobbs, 62, a corporate executive, civic leader and adviser to many black political and cultural organizations. Among the many honors accorded the chairman of Medialink International a satellite communications company, was a special Image Award in 1986 by the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. Dobbs, former president of Xerox Electro- -Optical Systems of Pasadena, was a member of the Board of Fellows of Claremont University Graduate School; the board of directors of the Atlanta University Research Institute and the Los Angeles County Productivity Commission. In Los Angeles on Monday of State officials at the Department of Water Resources, meanwhile, said they were still evaluating the situation at the California Water Project, although "the tendency is to think there might be another reduction." While not actually ordering cutbacks, state officials had warned in February that deliveries to agricultural users could be cut by as much as in May.

After the early March rains, they revised their predictions to A spokesman for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which gets a portion of its water from the state project, said a proposed advertising campaign to promote conservation would probably be refocused because of the improved conditions. another, the ground became more saturated and the reservoirs began to fill. By March 23, federal officials announced the cutback would only be instead of In the next nine days, 3.4 more inches of rain fell in the northern watershed, and they made the decision to rescind all cutbacks. Officials were so elated that the official announcement was actually made by Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan. "It surprised everybody," Paff said, grinning broadly.

"That's a lot of rain in nine days." He cautioned however, that Santa Clara County and the east San Joaquin Valley will still experience shortages. The Friant-Kern Canal system did not share in March's bounty, and deliveries there will be reduced by officials said. While Santa Clara County will get of its allotment from the Central Valley Water Project, the district's local reservoirs are virtually dry because of a lack of rainfall in that area. A third of the county's water supply comes from local sources. Richard Ellis; Retired General Headed SAC From Associated Press WASHINGTON -Retired Gen.

Richard H. Ellis, a former head of the Strategic Air Command who also served as the Air Force's vice chief of staff, has died of cancer. Ellis, 69, died Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. After retiring from the Air Force in 1981, Ellis was named chief U.S. delegate to the U.S.-Soviet commission monitoring compliance with arms control agreements.

He had joined the military in September, 1941, as an aviation cadet at Maxwell Field, and received his commission and pilot wings in April, 1942. In World War II, he was assigned to the 3rd Bombardment Group in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines, flying more than 200 combat missions. After the war, he earned a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in 1949. He was recalled to active duty in October, 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, and spent the next 31 years with the Air Force. At the time of his retirement, Ellis had served four years (1977-81) as the commander-inchief of the Strategic Air Command.

Before assuming that command, he worked as the commander-inchief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and before that, from November, 1973, to August, 1974, as the Air Force's vice chief of staff. He earned his fourth star and the rank of full general on Sept. 30, 1973. A 1980 recipient of the Air Force highest honor, the H.H.

Arnold Award, Ellis also had earned the Distinguished Service Cross; the Distinguished Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters; the Silver Star; the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters; the Distinguished Flying Cross; the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, and the Purple Heart. Julian M. Sieroty; Retail Store Chain Former Executive Julian M. Sieroty, son of the founder of the Eastern Columbia department store chain and the executive responsible for the old "Eastern Columbia, Broadway at 9th" musical jingle that dominated local airwaves in the 1940s and '50s, is dead. His son, former Assemblyman Alan Sieroty, said his father was 85 when he died March 22 at his Beverly Hills home of heart failure.

The elder Sieroty was the son of Adolph Sieroty, who came to Los Angeles in the 1890s and started what would become the forerunners of Eastern Columbia. He died in 1937 and Julian Sieroty, in an effort to lure business further south in the downtown area, launched an advertising campaign to call attention to the store's location. The result was the jingle that at its peak aired dozens of times daily over local stations. The campaign evidently worked, for at one time the store was the fifth largest department store in the city, Alan Sieroty said. Alan Sieroty said his father also was one of the first downtown merchants to turn to television advertising in the infancy of that medium.

At one time, the Eastern Columbia chain had 39 stores on the West Coast, but all have since been sold or gone out of business. Instead of concentrating on the immediate problem of the drought, he said it will now focus on the long-range need to conserve water. The district, which gets the bulk of its water from the Colorado River, had not been threatened with actual cutbacks, but it would eventually have been affected by a sustained drought. ATTENTION CONSUMERS, DESIGNERS, DECORATORS DEALERS Prestigious Manufacturer of Custom Quality Upholstered Furniture Closes Factory Clearance Center Don't Miss This Opportunity to Buy Brand New Sofas, Love Seats Chairs at PUBLIC IC Al AUCTION SUNDAY, APRIL 2ND AT 10:00 AM Inspection: TODAY from 10am to 4pm 18375 EUCLID FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA (405 Fwy, to Euclid Block to Site) Individual Purchasers Welcome! Sale Will Feature Over (600) Pieces of Brand New: SOFAS SLEEPERS SECTIONALS LOVE SEATS CHAIRS TABLES In Contemporary Traditional Styles FLORALS TEXTURED STRIPES LEATHERS COTTON PRINTS LINENS JACQUARDS Everything Must Terms: Buyers Premium. $100 Refundable Deposit.

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DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS ANDERBERG, Axel W. passed away March 29, 1989. Beloved husband of Alyce G. Anderberg; loving father of Ingred Anderberg. Mr.

Anderberg was the founder of Anderberg. Manufacturing Company. He sold the company when he reached the age of 89. It is now known as Anderberg Truth Manufacturing. He was a member of Al Malaikah Shrine Temple and the Jonathan Club.

At his request there will be no service. Commital is private. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village tuary directors. Flowers are respectfully declined. Friends are asked to remember the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children.

ASA-DORIAN, Sarah B. passed away on March 29, 1989 in Canoga Park. She is survived by sons, Paul and Mervyn; daughter, Mimi Abajian; brothers, Libby and Martin Boone; also grandchildren and great- -grandchildren. She will be missed by a large, extended family in California and New England. Services Monday, April 3, 11 am at Little Chapel of the Dawn, 1925 Arizona Santa Monica.

Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to your favorite charity. Gates, Kingsley Gates, Santa Monica BENOIT, Bernice Armstrong Family directors BIGMAN, Roslyn Mount Sinai Mortuary BOODAKIAN, Stella Forest Lawn Glendale CUTTER, John K. dear husband of Nini; father of John Edward, Michael and Matthew; beloved 'Pappa' of Allison, Steven and John Paul; passed away of cardiac arrest at age 66. Retired from the FAA in 1977 after 35 years of air traffic sevice.

Entered actively into volunteer service on the Boards of the French Society, the French Hospital and the Chines Chamber of Commerce. In lieu of flowers, donations will be gratefully received by the French Hospital Foundation, 531 West College Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Viewing at 3pm and Memorial service 4 pm, both at Praiswater Funeral 5849 Van Nays Blvd, Van Nays. DAVISON, Justine Mount Sinal Mortuary DEL RIO, Pierce Brothers Hayden ham O'Conner ESSELBORN, Jace Armstrong Family directors FISHER, Armstrong Family directors FRIEND, Rose Hillside Mortuary GARRY, Louis Pierce Brothers Westwood Village GODOYO, Ill Samente Armstrong Family directors GOLD, Gisela Mount Sinai Mortuary Hope F. Mount Sinai Mortuary Funeral Directors Groman Jewish Funeral Directors Los Angeles Valley (213) A (818) 748-2201 365-7151 HALL, Lawrence J.

of La Verne, CA; passed away March 30, 1989 at his residence. Born March 26, 1902 in Clinton, Iowa. Survived by his beloved wife, Marcella T. Hall; son, Lawrence J. "Sonny" Hall Jr.

(La Verne); and daughter, Lois Moore (Diamond Bar); grandchildren, Michael G. Hall, John G. Hail, L. Jeffrey Hall, Terry L. Cariker and Laurie L.

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Cariker, Ashley L. Myers and Chance R. Myers. Mr. Hall and his family have served the community of Los Angeles for 63 years as funeral directors.

He was the owner of House of Hall Mortuary. Visitation 2-5pm Sunday April 2 and 3-7pm Monday April 3 at Abbott Hast Silver Lake Mortuary, 315 Silver Lake Blvd. (at Hollywood Freeway). Services 1pm Tuesday April 1 at Memorial Chapel in Rose Hills Memorial Park (Gate 1). Entombment to follow in Rose Hills Mausoleum of the Valley (Gate 10).

Abbott Hast Silver of Lake Hall Mortuary Mortuary, successors (213) 661-1111 assisting the family HOBROCK, Lucille Armstrong Family directors JACOBOWITZ, Louis Groman Eden Mortuary directing Victoria Jean Pierce Brothers Crestlawn KAHN. Edith Hillside Mortuary KARADZHYAN, Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills KAUFMAN, Florus Hillside Mortuary KOSTIC, Jovan Armstrong Family directors KURKOV, Milton Hillside Mortuary LEVITT, Harold Greman Eden Mortuary directing MARTINEZ, Silviano "Al" Rosary 5pm Sunday in the Old North Church. Mass 11am Monday at St. Charles Catholic Church, 10828 Moorpark North Hollywood. Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, Forest Lawn Mortuary MEYER, Katherine Pierce Brothers Pralswater directors NIBECKER, Alfred Mr.

Jr. Nibecker 29, 1989. was a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and former Business Manager and Chief Architect for the Los Angeles Unified School District. He is survived by his sons, Alfred F. Nibecker of San Marino and Robert C.

Nibecker of Mission Viejo, daughters, Corinne Banker of Piedmont and Evelyn Cutting of Pasadena. 13 grandchildren and 22 great- -grandchildren will aiso cherish his memory. Private graveside services will be conducted on April 3. in lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Blind Childrens Center, P. O.

Box 29159, Los Angeles, CA 90029-0159. NORRIS, Margot L. widow of La Verne Norris; beloved mother of Sherry "Jim" (Carol) Norris; proud grandmother of Scott and Nancy: loving sister of Ruth Brockman. In lieu of flowers donations to favorite charity. Inurnment in Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park.

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Pachter was born in New York and received his undergraduate and law degrees from U.C.L.A. He was a Senior Shareholder of Pachter and Schaffer, and an active member of the legal community. He served a term as Chairperson of the Executive Committee Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar, and as a member of the Executive Committee Family Law Section of the State Bar. He was a regular lecturer on the Continuing Education of the Bar and served as a Judge Pro-Tempore in the Los Angeles Municipal and Superior Courts. He also served as a mediator for the Family Law Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Services will be held at 2 pm, Sunday, April 2 at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Martin C. Pachter Fund at the Simon Weisenthal Center, 9760 W. Pico Los Angeles, CA 90035. PACHTER, Martin C.

and Silverman Mortuary PATTERSON Graydon M. Forest Lawn Glendale PEICH, MIlka M. born September 29, 1892 in Yugoslavia; passed away on March 30, 1989 in Arcadia, Ca at the age of 96. Mass of Christian Burial 10 am, Monday at St. Anthony's Croatian Church with interment to follow in Calvary Cemetery.

She was predeceased by her husband, Luka. Pierce Brothers' Hamrock Mortuary PERSKY. Nathaniel Malinow and Silverman Mortuary SHERMAN, Sadie Mount Sinai Mortuary TODD, Glen resident of Mary Avenue in Los Angeles. Pierce Brothers Del Fox Mortuary. TRAUBMAN, Charles M.

beloved husband of Patricia; loving father of Lionel (Elizabeth); dear brother of Ernestine McCormack and Edward Traubman; proud grandfather of Eleanor and Adam. At his request, there will be no service. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary directors. VASCONCELLS, Seiko beloved mother of Tets (Mari). and Lloyd (Joan) Ishimaru and Mrs.

Landa Ikeda; grandmother of seven; sister of Kiyo (Marian) and Sho (Yoshiko) Doiwchi. Services Tuesday April 4 at Union Church of Los Angeles, 401 E. Third Street, Los Angeles. Kubota Nikkei Mortuary directors VELJOVIC, Maria Forest Lawn Glendale WAPPLE, Carl beloved husband of Jeanette Wapple, loving father of Ann Wapple Miller and Susan Wapple Wellinger. Also survived by six grandchildren and two sisters, Ann Lefevre and Mary Louise Neubauer.

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