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LOCAL NEWS WEATHER EDITORIAL PAGES SECTION Diego County WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20, 1989 CCtt Cos Angeles 3Iimes (u HIGHLIGHTS Missing Girl's Family Prays for One Gift 1 Sifmmer Pops LikelytoMoveto Downtown Site Symphony: Port commissioners give a warm reception to a plan to move the musical series from Mission Bay to Embarcadero Marina Park near the convention center. By ARMANDO ACUNA TIMES STAFF WRITER Barring an unforeseen obstacle, the San Diego Symphony's popular Summer Pops will relocate from Hospitality Point on Mission Bay to a patch of lawn on Embarcadero Marina Park on the bay near the new convention center. All it will take is $150,000 from the Port District, an expenditure that was greeted Tuesday with a warm reception from the Board of Port Commissioners. The board supported the move but held off a final vote until next month to work out more details. For many of the six years the Summer Pops has been at Hospitality Point it has been dogged by the noise of jets taking off from Lindbergh Field.

The audience was as apt to hear the roar of a 727 as it was Gershwin music. The noise has steadily worsened, and with activity at the busy airport increasing annually, it was clear to symphony officials that a new concert site was needed, said Wesley O. Brustad, the symphony's executive director. So, for two years, according to a letter Brustad sent to commissioners, the symphony has looked for another location, even conducting acoustical studies at several sites. "The Summer Pops provides an essential bedrock of income without which the symphony would not be able to sustain its programs and maintain an orchestra of national stature as currently exists," the letter said.

"Summer Pops is vital to our livelihood and ultimate existence." The search for a new location led to Embarcadero Marina Park, a 22-acre peninsula with two separate arms one next to Seaport Village and the other next to the convention center that protect the marina in front of the Marriott Hotel. The park was completed in 1980 and features picnic areas, biking and jogging paths and a fishing pier. The site the symphony wants is the southern arm of the park, close not only to the convention center-but also the- Chart House restaurant, which is in a renovated boat house nearly 90 years old. Brustad calls it "the ideal location in terms of noise, bayfront setting, easy access from the freeway system." If the Board of Port Commissioners Please see SYMPHONY, B3 Leticia Hernandez wipes away a tear named Leticia, who disappeared By YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ TIMES STAFF WRITER Leticia Hernandez wants to be a model when she grows up. She is also a timid and mothering 7-year-old who braided her own hair for the school photograph that has been reproduced and distributed all over Oceanside and neighboring communities.

She never wandered away from home. Her mother, sister, uncle or grandmother always knew where she was. But now. they wonder where she is and pray they will see her soon. Sadly, no one has seen Leticia since Saturday afternoon.

"She's my only sister," said Maria Hernandez, 16, in the family's kitchen. "Every time I look at her picture, I start crying." The family's life is centered on worry and wonder. Maria is cooking for the other children Alejandro, 12; Victor, 10; Daniel, 4, and Jorge, 2 because their mother and grandmother are too preoccupied to either cook or eat On Monday, Daniel told his mother: "If I were big, I would put on my Superman suit, and I would fly around until I saw her. I would rescue her and bring her home. I would hold her in one arm and fly home." Jorge was sitting with Leticia outside the family's Bush street apartment in Oceanside only minutes before she Please see MISSING, B8 Abuse Center Foundation statistics show that the number of referrals to the county's child protective services department has escalated to 45,800 cases in 1987 from 11,500 cases in 1982 a 300 increase.

Although growing public awareness and increased professional attempts to fight child-abuse accounts for much of the increase. Vanica says the rise in drug use, population growth and poverty have also contributed to the problem. "Right now, not only are children being abused, they're being put through the trauma of getting shuffled about because of the lack of coordinated services at a single site," Vanica said. "This shelter will not only provide emergency shelter, but offer prevention services as well. Unless we have a comprehensive, long-term plan, all we'll be doing is building more and more emergency shelters as the problem gets out Please see COUNTY, B4 Carlsbad has done its share." However, the issue isn't quite that simple.

facing a 3 yearly increase in demand, figures there won't be enough energy available for consumers by the mid-1990s unless something is done. The utility proposes a plant using natural gas as its main fuel to generate about 460 megawatts of energy, enough to serve an estimated 460,000 average residential customers. The plant would have a 150-foot-Please see CARLSBAD, B4 Supervisors to By GENE YASUDA TIMES STAFF WRITER The county Board of Supervisors is expected to approve today the selection of a county-owned Kearny Mesa site for the construction of a $15million center for abused children. The proposed center, sponsored by the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, a nonprofit San Diego-based organization, would provide emergency shelter, counseling and prevention services to the county's growing number of abused children. Under a partnership, the foundation is expected to raise funds to build the center.

Once built, however, the center would be turned over to the county, which would then own and operate the facility. "These kids are the most innocent victims of our society," said Supervisor Brian POPS MAT MOVE: The San Diego Symphony wants to move its popular Summer Pops concerts to a bayfront park in downtown San Diego, an idea that has received initial support from the Board of Port Commissioners, who are being asked to spend $150,000 to build a amphitheater. Bl STILL MISSING: Leticia Hernandez. 7. is a timid, caring child not given to wandering, her family says.

They have been waiting and praying for Leticia's safe return since she disappeared from her Oceanside home on Saturday. Bl CHILD ABUSE: The county Board of Supervisors is expected to approve the selection of a county-owned site in Kearny Mesa for the construction of a $15-million center for abused children. Bl SAN DIEGO AT LARGE: The fear of litigation prompted a San Diego professor-novelist to turn down an offer to write a book about the Broderick murder case. University of San Diego Prof. Dennis Clausen had wanted to do a "serious, thoughtful" book.

Bl BODY FOUND: A submerged van containing the body of a woman is pulled from a Chula Vista marina. Police said they did not know how long the vehicle had been in the bay. B2 CHILD CARE: San Diego city schools need to do more to meet child-care needs students but problems of money and space mean that no quick fixes are trustees said. B2 KIDNAPING OR 'RESCUE': The father of Ginger Brown, accused of kidnaping his daughter, testified at his trial that his action was a "rescue" designed "to save her" from the influence of the leader of a religious group. B3 FEUD HEATS UP: The bitter political battle between environmentalist Bob Glaser and Councilman Bruce Henderson took a new turn as Glaser lashed back in reply to Henderson's charges that he had made a secret deal.

B3 COMMENTARY MISSION IMPLAUSIBLE: Hall Gardner writes that the presence of high-level American officials in Beijing only serves to prop up the hard-liners against the pro-democracy movement B7 FAUX FURS: Imitation fur is so realistic these days that one has to wonden Why would an animal-rights supporter wear what passes for the real thing? B7 WILL WE Now that the Soviets have "confessed" to transgressions of international law, shouldn't we own up to ours? By international lawyer David J. Scheffer.B7 ON THE RECORD Abused children "are so politically disenfranchised. You don't see them filling the county chambers and demanding money. We have a moral obligation to go out and help them because right now the services available to them are simply not acceptable." County Supervisor Brian Mbray. advocating that a shelter lor abused cnMren be bunt in Kearny Mesa.

1 INDEX BOBGR1ESER Lot Angela Tumi as she waits for news of her daughter, also Saturday from her Oceanside home. Vote on Child Bilbray, who along with board Chairwoman Susan Golding formed the subcommittee that selected the proposed 10-acre site on Ruffin Road next to the County Operations Center. The children "are so politically disenfranchised," Bilbray said. "You don't see them filling the county chambers and demanding money. We have a moral obligation to go out and help them because right now the services available to them are simply not acceptable." According to Jennifer Vanica, the foundation's executive director, the county's sole existing shelter Hillcrest Receiving Home no longer can accommodate the proliferating number of children who are victims of abuse.

Although plans are still sketchy, therie center is expected to have about 130 beds and be in partial operation before 1993. When finished, it would replace the 20-bed Hillcrest facility. local It will be at least a year before the commission decides whether to approve the plant and choose a site. But, so far, the reception in Carlsbad, one of five potential locations, has been cool. "We have the sewer plant here, the power plant here, and San Onofre (north of Oceanside)," said Bailey Noble, president of the 120-member Terramar a subdivision south of the Encina plant.

"We're providing the power for everybody else and taking the brunt of the pollution. Large ANTHONY PERRY to Proposal for a New Power Plant Carlsbad Cool ByRAYTESSLER TIMES STAFF WRITER First came the immense Encina power plant and its bitterly debated 400-foot-tall smokestack. Then came a sewage plant that chronically reeks. Now, Carlsbad officials say, the city has had its fill of the plants. So, when San Diego Gas Electric Co.

representatives recently paid a courtesy call on the City Council to outline plans for a possible new 460-megawatt energy plant near the coastal Encina plant, the visit wasn't exactly greeted with joy. In fact, the council was left feeling virtually powerless to do anything about the project, which will be reviewed and eventually judged outside of local authority by the California Energy Commission in Sacramento. "We want the right to say whether it's in the best interest of Carlsbad," Mayor Bud Lewis said Tuesday. "What they're doing is saying, 'We're going to put it in your back yard whether it's good or bad. You're just a San Diego At Lawyers, Lawyers, Everywhere and Not a Drop of Ink At every turn in the Broderick case, there are lawyers.

Betty Broderick used to complain that newspapers were afraid to publish anything about her bitter divorce for fear of being sued. She was furious when her ex-husband, a lawyer, convinced a judge to seal the I Lull I official record. After Broderick was charged with murdering her ex-husband and his new wife, prosecutors sought a gag order against her and others in the case. And now the latest legal twist. Dennis Clausen, an award-winning author and creative writing professor at the University of San Diego, has decided not to (D-San Diego) and state Sea-elect Lucy Killea (D-San Diego).

As the Guild sees it the major obstacle to a compromise settlement is the disingenuous style of King Ballow, the Tennessee law firm hired to represent the company. The National Labor Relations Board has accused of two dozen counts of illegal negotiating tactics during U-T bargaining. One U-T employee says the style is captured in William Kennedy's novel "The Ink Truck," a comic-tragic tale of a fictional newspaper strike in Albany. In it an angry columnist talks of Stanley, the company's lawyer-negotiator: "Stanley says our 57th proposal is unacceptable without changes. He refuses to specify which changes.

Hinted even with changes he wouldn't like it" An Odoriferous Idea Some men have their names on libraries or dams or great halls of learning. Others have to settle for less imposing edifices. Jim Dragna, the attorney representing the city in litigation with the Environmental Protection Agency, told federal Judge Rudi Brewster during Monday's court session that officials are considering names for the proposed sewage system. "There has been some discussion of naming the system the Judge Brewster (sewage system." Dragna said. Brewster groaned.

Dragna then assured him he was joking. Mar-based literary agency Waterside Productions. On Sunday, Clausen bowed out "I was concerned that the attention to legal details would make me write defensively," Clausen said, "and I'd end up with a book with very little spirit" Clausen, 46, won the Edgar Award for mystery fiction in 1982 for his best-selling "Ghost Lover," a thinking man's novel of revenge and murder in the rural Midwest His free-lance writing includes comedy screenplays and a computer software manual He had envisioned telling the Broderick story in the manner of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," a mix of detailed reporting and novelistic flair. On Monday, he happened to read the latest edition of the book "Fatal Vision." A newly added epilogue convinced him he had made the right decision. It was author Joe McGinniss' account of his three years in court fighting a lawsuit filed by convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald.

Newspaper Strike Chatter Strike one and you're out Senior editors and non-editorial department managers at the Union-Tribune are said to have pleaded with publisher Helen Copley and editor-in-chief Herb Klein to avert a threatened strike by Newspaper Guild members. Reporters are taking home their files and phone lists so they cant be used by replacements hired as strike-breakers. Elected officials are being asked not to talk to strike-breakers. The first to pledge support were Rep. Jim Bates I A 1 sign with Simon Schuster to write a nonfiction book about the Broderick case.

The major reason: Clausen could not get the assurance he wanted that the publishing house would protect him if the book prompted lawsuits. Clausen had pitched Simon Schuster on a "serious, thoughtful" look at the Broderick case as "a metaphor for a nation's values and a symbol of much that went wrong with human relationships in the 1980s." Simon 6 Schuster sent the contracts to the Del San Diego County Digest B2 San Diego County Classified B4 Weather B5 Editorials BS Commentary B7.