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Saturday, September 23, 1989 Part II 3 Cos Angeles Stones Sit IS County Fair Heating Up Crowds Grow as Mercury Tops 100; Favorite Spot Is Anywhere in the Shade By BOB POOL, Timet Staff Writer It was 103 in the shade Friday as Marie Salhoff staked out a spot in the shadow of an ice cream stand at the Los Angeles County Fair and showed that she can take a licking and keep on kicking. "It's too hot for me," said the Ontario resident, holding an empty soft drink cup under her melting vanilla cone to catch the drips. "It's so hot I'll probably have to have another two or three cones just to get through the day." After nearly a week of autumn-like weather and rain showers that kept crowds disappointingly low at the Pomona fairgrounds, temperatures and attendancewas starting to soar by Friday. "More people come out when it's warm," said Marcy Wright, a spokeswoman for the fair who put Thursday's tally at 41,907. Friday's attendance figures were not immediately available, but fair officials were clearly pleased with the turnout Many adults who ventured out Friday headed for newly air-conditioned exhibit halls where displays of lounge chairs and food choppers drew big crowds.

Children rushed for the midway where they lined up at Capt Dan's Bumper Boats to splash around in motorized inner tubes in a circular pond holding 200 bathtubs worth of water. "The water is so cold!" said a dripping Bertha Nava, 12. of Compton after her four-minute boat ride ended. (Iv A ill i I Vjg -imtinifr "Tirrrfi TODAY'S FAIR HIGHLIGHTS: Page 2 KINDY 8CHAUER Donna Miller, widow of slain sheriff's deputy Jack Miller, listens with her children Laura, 7, left, and Susie, 9, as sentence is pronounced. Woman Given 11 Years in Killing Son Shot Deputy but She Bought Gun, Ran Track9 House By LOUIS SAHAGUN.

Timet Staff Writer "I'm totally soaked, but it's so hot out here that I'll be dry in 10 minutes. Then I'll ride it again." Ride operator Ben Ross of Spokane, grinned from beneath a large beach umbrella that shaded him. "Yes sir, we'll be busy today. It's been so cloudy until now. There just haven't been the crowds." On the other side of the 487-acre fairgrounds, fortuneteller Laura Ronzo sat in her brightly colored tent in front of a window air conditioner she had propped atop a milk crate.

She was also predicting sunny times ahead for the fair, which continues daily through Oct 1. 'Coellag Dowa Mortar' "I feel it will be really hot Saturday and Sunday, cooling down on Monday," Ronzo said as the air conditioner blew directly in her face. "I see the crowds easing Monday, but picking up again on Wednesday." A few steps away from the soothsayer's tent Megan Kaufman sat down on a bench next to a bottled water seller's display and heaved a sigh of relief as 3-year-old Greg Goble, the child of a friend, emptied a small cup of ice water on her head. "That felt good," said Kaufman of Pacific Palisades. Sparkletts bottled water company salesman Les Kearns laughed as the children refilled their free cups.

"We're hoping for heat lots of heat!" he said. "On a real hot Saturday or Sunday out here we will go through 180 bottles. The last few days, we've only used45aday." But the idea of a hot spell was getting a cool reception from some at the fair. Los Feliz resident Bill Heichert hooked up three large fans beneath the canopy outside the Fairplex Race Track where he was hawking Ginzu Knives. One fan was aimed toward where his customers would have been standing, had there been any.

Another was aimed at the box of vegetables that Heichert planned to use to demonstrate how well his blades cut The other was pointed at Heichert NeOae Will Stop "I wish I was in one of the air-conditioned buildings," he moaned, covering up the microphone hanging around his neck so his complaint would not be broadcast over his booth's loudspeaker. "People will stop and listen indoors." Claremont resident Bob Miller was doing plenty of stopping, however. During the afternoon he hit several beer booths then sought out cool spots to stand in while he sipped his ice-cold drinks. "Over here, let's get in the shade," Miller urged wife Ann and daughter Ashley, 6, after the trio stood in the sun to have the girl's name painted on a pink parasol. "I'm in the shade everywhere I go," said Ann Miller, who was deputized by Ashley to carry the umbrella for the rest of the day.

ft edged that the filing of a murder charge against Waters was "unusual" under the circumstances. "The theory we were proceeding under was unique a woman charged with murder who obviously didn't pull the trigger," Demer-jian said in an interview. "But she rented the house, she put up a steel door and barred the windows, she bought guns for her son because he was too young to do so himself and she sold cocaine there." 'Legally BotMrikU' "As her son's co-conspirator," Demerjian added, "she is legally and morally responsible for his actions and the consequences of their illegal occupation." McKinney did not dispute that fact when he requested leniency for his client from Superior Court Judge Alexander H. Williams III. "Mrs.

Waters is no Ma Barker; she is simply a mother living with her sons in a hostile ghetto environment," McKinney said. "Ed was a major drug dealer in the area, no one denies that It was Ed's operation, she knew about it, but did nothing to stop it." However, McKinney also said that since Waters had no previous record of contact with law enforcement she deserved the lowest possible prison term. With her two young daughters at her side, Miller's widow. Donna, however, tearfully pleaded in court for the maximum sentence. "Jack and I lived together for 10 years.

He was taken from us for such a ridiculous thing," Donna Miller said in a trembling voice. "Please give the defendant the maximum sentence so that his death will not be in vain." Judge Williams took that argument into consideration when he handed down his sentence as Waters sat impassively beside her attorney and stared at the floor. Waters made no statement on her own behalf. "There is no doubt but that this case is an American drug tragedy," Williams said. "It would not have happened if not for the drug business at this residence.

I select the high term." Miller, a narcotics detective who worked out of the Lennox station, was wearing a raid jacket that had "Sheriff emblazoned on the back in large gold letters when he was shot in the back of the head as he entered the house with a search warrant. He died a day later at County USC Medical Center. Another deputy wounded in the raid, John Dickenson, 30, received treatment for a gunshot wound he received while providing cover for backup officers trying to remove Miller's body from the house. Calling the case an "American drug tragedy." a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced a South-Central Los Angeles woman to the maximum 11 years in prison for her role in the death of a sheriffs deputy who was shot during a drug raid at a "crack" house she ran. Dorothy Waters, 41, had pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter, despite the fact that her son, Edward L.

Walker, 20. fired the shots that killed Los Angeles County Sheriffs Detective Jack Miller, 33, on the night of Jan. 8,1988. Waters was originally charged with second-degree murder, but was allowed to plead to the lesser count Her son, who was known as "Easy Ed" on the street, killed himself moments after the gun battle that erupted when Miller and other deputies forced their way into the family's rented house, armed with a warrant to search for rock cocaine that authorities said was being sold there. When a Superior Court jury in May failed to reach a verdict in Waters' murder trial, she pleaded guilty to manslaughter rather than risk the consequences of a second trial, according to her attorney, William Lawrence McKinney.

Los Angeles County Deputy DisL Atty. David E. Demerijan acknowl WNDY SCHAUKR Dorothy Waters in court as she receives maximum sentence of 1 1 years for her role in death of L.A. sheriff's deputy. Yaroslavsky 's Plan for Shopping Center Advances Police Ask Public's Help in Hunt for Woman's Captor By JOHN L.

MITCHELL, Timet Staff Writer By STEPHANIE CHAVEZ and FRANKI RANSOM. Timet Staff Writers Connection shopping center lies on 8.3 acres of land directly across La Cienega Boulevard from the Beverly Center shopping mall. The Beverly Connection has a supermarket a music store and a sporting goods store. The developer also plans to build a six-screen, movie complex and two restaurants. The dispute involves a 5V4-acre portion of the shopping center property that is zoned for residential use but has been used mostly as a parking lot under a 43-year-old variance.

Under the ruling, the entire parcel would be reclassified as commercial, and the development would be restricted to its existing size, about 291,000 square feet Lake and other critics spoke out against the plan at last month's public hearing, and Lake vowed to continue the fight when the issue goes before the Planning Commission and the City Council. Lake said an adjacent parcel, a office and retail complex at 3rd Street and La Cienega, is also covered by the zoning proposal, and that if this is added, the size of the development is really 360,000 square feet If the property zoned as residential is not included, she ar gued, the developer would be restricted to 250,000 square feet by Proposition the slow-growth measure adopted by Los Angeles voters in 1987. "What it amounts to is a windfall for the developer," Lake said. "And if the property is destroyed or leveled by an earthquake or fire, it would be like starting with a fresh slate nothing to force him to build residential units." Yaroslavsky was unavailable to comment on the ruling, but he has previously said that the purpose of his rezoning proposal was not to increase development but to limit it to what exists there today. Howard Katz, a spokesman for Beverly Connection developer Avi Lerner, said the restrictions do not give the owner the windfall that Lake and other critics claim.

Katz also denounced as ridiculous the suggestion by Lake and others that Yaroslavsky gave Beverly Connection a sweetheart deal because Katz's wife, Alisa, is Yaroslavsky's chief deputy. Harold R. Hahn, president of the Burton Way Homeowners said he was deeply disturbed by the zoning ruling. In addition to being across the street from the Beverly Center, the Beverly Connection is less than a mile from two proposed developments of more than 1 million square feet each at the Farmers Market at 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue, and the May Co. site at Fairfax and Wilshire Boulevard.

City Planner Takase said it would be useless to request an environmental impact report because most of the buildings are built "That would be like requesting a building permit after the construction is completed," he said. Takase said a proposal to restrict the size of stores was rejected after city traffic engineers found that smaller stores generate more traffic than larger ones. "A store generates less traffic than five stores," he said. "That kind of restriction would be self-defeating." Takase said his report recommended that half the space in the adjacent building at La Cienega and 3rd be reserved for office space. All buildings in the block bounded by La Cienega and Beverly boulevards, 3rd Street and Croft Avenue are limited to 45 feet in height.

Despite objections by some neighbors, the newly built Beverly Connection shopping center should be rezoned as entirely commercial, a Los Angeles zoning official has ruled. The ruling supports a proposal by City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky to rezone a part of the shopping center site that is now zoned for residential use, provided that restrictions are imposed on further development there. "This action will not bring about any more commercial floor space or uses other than those that are already there," said Dick Takase, the city planner who issued the ruling Thursday after holding a public hearing in August "It merely recognizes the existing development" Some community leaders argued, however, that the neighborhood is already overburdened by development and severe traffic congestion, and some have accused Yaroslavsky of caving in to commercial interests. "This is a sweetheart deal for the developer," said Laura Lake, a longtime activist in Westside development issues who unsuccessfully challenged Yaroslavsky in last April's election. "This city is job-rich and housing-poor.

You don't give up residentially zoned property to make it commercial." The nearly completed Beverly drawings of the man and one of the women and a description of the camper to law enforcement authorities throughout the western United States. The victim has not been able to give a detailed enough description of the other woman to develop a composite. Considered Dangerous Merchants at two convenience stores near an alley where the camper was parked for months recognized a police composite drawing of the man because of his frequent stops to buy liquor. The man is between 40 and 44 years old, with black hair and brown eyes, and has used at least four aliases. He has an extensive gun collection and is considered dangerous.

One woman is about 38 years old with shoulder-length brown hair. The third woman is short and chubby and is about five months pregnant. The children three boys and two girls are between 2 and 10 years old. The victim told police she was lured into the camper with the promise of a job in July, 1988. Once inside, the man gagged and handcuffed her, police said.

She was kept under constant watch and the Please see SEARCH, Page 4 Police issued an urgent appeal to the public Friday for any information about a man suspected of enslaving a woman inside a camper for 14 months, raping and torturing her and forcing her to cook and clean. For more than a year, police say, the man traveled throughout Los Angeles in an old, white-and-beige Ford camper truck with five children and two other women. The women allegedly beat the victim and may be accomplices, police said. 'Extremely Traumatlied' On Sept. 2 the victim, a 27-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, freed herself and fled to police.

She has been unable to provide enough clues to lead police to her alleged captor. The victim, whom police describe as "extremely traumatized," also was unable to provide other vital clues such as her captor's identity and where the camper had parked throughout the ordeal. So police Friday turned to the public for help. "We hope people who recognize the camper or the man will come forward," Detective Delia Perez said. Police have sent composite.