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2 Wednesday, July 29, 1911, Santa Mario, Times duoujg ODD BEVERLY HILLS (AP) Oil multimillionaire Edwin Wendell Pauley, philanthropist and adviser to four presidents, was remembered by former Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown as "a strong force in the Democratic Party." Pauley, 78, who died at his honje Tuesday following a long illness, helped to get Brown elected, and was instrumental in bringing the 1960 Democratic National Convention to Los Angeles. Brown said his old friend was also a tough guy, very, very fair, very persistent," as ambassador to the Allied Reparations Commission in 1945 and 1948. The former governor, in reference to Pauley's 32 years as a University of California regent, said, "The University of California never had a better friend than Ed Pauley. He lobbied for it.

He watched its investments." Department's Office of Federal Contracts Compliance. Sen. Orrin H. Hatch, R-Utah, the committee chairman, joined in the criticism, saying the agency spends most of its time on "meaningless statistical schemes." Alma L. Gaghan, a mechanical contractor in Alexandria, accused the agency of "sending a representative into my office with an attitude of 'you are at fault' and demanding that I justify my intentions with piles of paperwork." Stato 1 PALO ALTO (AP) A 28-year-old Mill Valley woman says she had no second thoughts when she agreed to have her damaged heart and lungs replaced.

"This is my only chance," said Karen Wilson before her 12-hour surgery Tuesday at Stanford University Medical Center. Miss Wilson, who suffered from a congenital heart defect that also affected her lungs, was reported in critical but stable condition. She became the third person, and the youngest, to have the surgery at the center this year. The name of the donor was not released. International BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Syria and Israel each claimed shooting down a jet fighter in a dogfight oyer Lebanon today, a battle that put the most serious strain yet on the six-day-old ceasefire.

Israel said its warplanes shot down a Soviet-made MiG-25 Syrian jet, the most advanced in the Syrian arsenal, and returned safely from a "routine reconnaissance mission" over Lebanon. Syria said one Israeli jet was downed and conceded a Syrian plane was "hit," But a communique said "our planes returned safely to base." Lebanese security forces said the pilot of the downed Syrian jet bailed out, was picked by a helicopter about 30 miles northeast of Beirut and later flown to Damascus, the Syrian capital. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Tehran Radio reported more than 700 bodies recovered, but the provincial government predicted a toll of more than 4,000 dead in an earthquake that hit the southeast Iranian province of Herman during the night. It was the second quake disaster in the region in less than two months and the third in four years. "The number of victims of the earthquake has surpassed the 700 mark," the Iranian government radio reported this afternoon.

"Efforts to recover the bodies of other victims are continuing." national WASHINGTON AP) House and Senate budget conferees solved an impasse over Medicaid late Tuesday, clearing the way for final approval of the budget for the 1982 fiscal year. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, called President Reagan after the compromise was struck and told him work on the budget bill was completed. Both houses must still formally vote their approval of the reconciled budget documents, WASHINGTON (AP) The government agency that is supposed to increase job opportunities for women and minorities on federal contracts is subjecting employers to "piles of paperwork" with little result, Congress was told today. A parade of employers and a representative of an Hispanic veterans' organization, in testimony prepared for a hearing by the Senate Labor Committee, were sharply critical of the Labor BEVERLY HILLS (AP) Michelle Triola Marvin, principal figure in the landmark Marvin vs. Marvin "palimony" trial, was fined $250 and placed on six months informal probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor petty theft charge.

Leading indictors fall for fifth month in seven recession." But he also said that the current downturn has been mostly engineered by the government with the Federal Reserve's tight credit policies leading the way and that the new report showed some clear "underlying strength" in the economy. Both men agreed that the national economy will remain weak in the current July-September quarter, whether or not it fits technical recession definitions. Wednesday. Commerce analyst Theodore Torda said the index's "recent behavior is consistent with our view that there will be no early end to the business slowdown." But he added, "It would be premature to say that behavior would signal a recession." Private economist Robert Gough, vice president of Data Resources Inc. in Lexington, stated flatly that "the economy is definitely now in a small And both agreed there could be recovery in the fourth quarter, depending to a substantial extent on whether Congress and President Reagan agree on a tax cur to take effect on Oct.

1. June's drop in the leading-indicators index was led by a 18 percent decline in permits issued for future construction, a sign of even worse times ahead for the already slumping housing industry. WASHINGTON (AP) An important gauge of future economic strength fell sharply for the second month in a row in June, but private and government economists differed on whether the decline meant a recession was looming. The government's index of leading indicators, which is designed to forecast coming economic trends, dropped 1.3 percent in June after falling 1.5 percent the month before, the Commerce Department reported Supervisors replace cuts with service fees in new budget charge private water companies for health testing. The trend of charging fees has already been a steady one during the past few years as the state bailout monies dwindled, Propostion 13 limited the abilities to tax, and government has found other "creative" ways to finance services they perceive to be demanded.

An example is the benefit assessment, which can be levied only against people who benefit from a service and which takes only a majority vote of the electorate, instead of a two-thirds approval for a new tax under Proposition 13 rules. In order to find some money to meet departmental requests, the board agreed with Parrish to use $1.6 million from a Special District Augmentation Fund, with Supervisor Harrell Fletcher against the technique some $1.8 million in funding requests from department heads, which is the figure over what Administrative Officer Larry Parrish and his assistant, David "Magic" Elbaum, are recommending. As the board pores over each department's budget, they have devised two lists: the wish list of possibilities that will be prioritized and either approved or rejected on Friday, and an immediate approval rejection list that will have to be funded by taking money away from other areas, or using contingency funds. As an example of some of the fees that might increase there are requests to charge for gonorrhea cultures, pregnancy tests, obstetric fees may rise from $6.50 to $7.50, and increase in animal control fees, and MURDER SIMILARITIES STUDIED BY SHERIFF SANTA BARBARA (CNS) The public can expect more fees to be charged for direct services, as the Board of Supervisors starts the yearly balancing act on the county budget, a document representing $127 million. County budget analysts believe charging fees goes along with the Propostion 13 mandate to get the load off taxpayers backs and make those who use services pay for them.

But as the County Taxpayers Association and the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce ask, if this year's budget is really "a planning base for eventual curtailment," shouldn't they start cutting back now? There is no cohesive plan to do so, and none evolved as the board started budget hearings Tuesday, which run everyday until Friday with special evening meeting to dole out revenue sharing moneys Wednesday in Santa Barbara and Thursday in Santa Maria. Instead, the board is compiling a "wish list" of Girl beater sentenced Silvester Ezequiel Oropeza, 20, pleaded guilty before Santa Maria Superior Court Judge Royce Lewellen Tuesday to beating a 18-year-old girl in January on a Buellton ranch, and was sentenced to a 90-day diagnostic study. The judge ordered him to appear before him again following the study for sentencing. He could get up to four years in state prison or five-year's probation with time in the county jail as a condition of probation. Oropeza, in making his plea through a translator, said he admitted committing the crime, but added, "That's what they say that I did.

I don't remember." on grounds that money should only be used In special districts. Such districts fund street lights, park maintenance, and flood control, among others, and some have had benefit assessments charged in the last year. On the wish list so far is a $24,500 request to fund Meals on Wheels, needed due to higher costs in food. Approved already is $30,000 to fund both the County Obstetric Program and the Isla Vista Clinic, $24,000 for the Substance Abuse Program, and two new positions in Health Care Services. Over $50,000 was requested to upgrade the county's toxicology lab, but the board balked and wants to study whether to keep the lab instead.

Elderly pedestrian injured when struck by auto in crosswalk An elderly Santa Maria resident was seriously injured at 3 p.m. Tuesday when she was struck by an auto while carrying a bag of groceries across the 900 block of West Main Street at Oakely, according to a Santa Maria Police Department report. The victim, identified as Rosa Siordla, 76, of West Fesler Street, was reported In serious condition today in the Marian Hospital intensive care unit and reportedly suffered two broken legs, broken ribs and other injuries. Officer Rudy Estrada said that Siodria was walking in the crosswalk northbound across Main when she was struck by an auto driven by Gerardo Lazo Ramirez, 45, of North Broadway. According to Estrada's report, Ramirez said he turned his attention to the northeast corner of Main and Oakley at a service station to see if it was open.

Ramirez told Estrade he then heard and yell and when he looked forward saw the pedestrian in front of his path. The vehicle was traveling at about 25 miles per hour, Estrada indicated, and the victim was knocked to the pavement and her groceries were tossed from her arms. The accident remains under investigation. SANTA BARBARA Sheriff's detectives are investigating possible connections between Monday's double murder in the Goleta area and the similar slaying in the same general' area of Santa Maria pyschologist Dr. Alexandria Manning and Santa Barbara physician Dr.

Robert Offerman on Dec. 29, 1979. Found shot and bludgeoned in the head in a bedroom of a home on Toltec Way at noon Monday were Cheri Domingo, 35, a corporate secretary, and Gregory Sanchez, 28, an electronic engineering technician, the sheriff's office said. Sheriff's spokesman Russ Burchim said today that detectives are definitely studying the similarities between the two murders, in the same general residential area of $200,000 homes. He said that both occurred in the early morning hours and the victims in both cases were unmarried couples.

In both cases forced entry was made and there were no indications of attempted burglary or robbery. The crimes are similar to an attack upon two persons who were able to escape on Oct. 1,1979 in the same Goleta area and also to double homicides in Ventura County in March of 1980 and in Orange County in August of 1980, Burchim said. In the Manning-Offermann murder, the victims were killed with a shotgun. Burchim said he did not know how death came in the other slayings.

These homicides, which all occurred in the early morning hours, has been labeled the "Night Stalker' murders by news media. DEUKMEJIAN CRITICAL OF COURT, CRITICIZED IN TURN Chemical spilled in Orcutt A quantity of a chemical identified, as an oil field solvent was spilled in downtown Orcutt at about noon Tuesday, resulting in a major clean-up project for the county roads department. More frosh WASHINGTON (AP) -Despite the dwindling number of 18-year-olds, this fall's freshman class at the nation's four-year colleges and universities may be "substantially larger" than last year's, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. SACRAMENTO (AP) Attorney possibility of parole The patrol blocked off one lane of traffic In the area of Clark Avenue and Gray Street while the clean-up was undertaken. General George Deukmejian criticized the state Supreme Court for reversing a death sentence, and was accused in turn of playing politics with the case.

2- M.iri.i TIMES Grocery clerks settle pay issue, avert strike WAIT ROSf MOCK Publisher It happened Monday after the court overturned the death sentence of David Murtishaw, convicted of murdering three University of Southern California students who were making a movie in the Mojave Desert in April 1978. The court said in a 6-1 ruling that the jury considering the sentence should not have been allowed to hear a psychologist's prediction that Murtishaw, if returned to prison, would be violent and possibly homicidal. Deukmejian, whose office had argued to uphold the death sentence, called the ruling "another example of the Supreme Court's continued determination to find technical reversible error in cases which normally would not be reversed except that they involved the death penalty." He issued a statement saying that the ruling "is in direct conflict with the well-settled law allowing such psychiatric evidence in many other contexts." But Laurance Smith, the deputy state public defender who represented Murtishaw, said the ruling only guaranteed that an unqualified witness couldn't make an unfounded prediction of future violence to a jury weighing a defend- MONTI RUTHERFORI) Business Manager DON TWINO Production Manager ERNEST PARDO Press Room Foreman DON BROWN Executive Editor Gil PHELPS Advertising Director ANOYOITIZ Circulation Manager Justice Mathew Tobriner wrote for the majority that the evidence was prejudicial and also wasn't reliable, because the psychologist had seen Mur-' ant's life. JU.Y2S. 1M1-MO Subscription rate by carr er $4 00 per month.

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on weekdays or "noon on Saturdays. In San Luis Obispo County, phone 489-6467. tishaw only once and was mainly concerned with whether he was under the influence of drugs. "It's obvious that Deukmejian is playing politics with somebody's life," Smith said in an interview. "It's the duty of an attorney to maintain respect for the courts, particularly the state's highest law enforcement officer." LOS ANGELES (AP) A midnight walkout by supermarket clerks was averted when negotiators for 73,700 clerks and 1,277 Southern California supermarkets tentatively agreed on a new contract after a month and a half of haggling.

The bargaining units from the Food Employers Council and the United Food and Commercial Union officially reached agreement on the pact at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2Vi hours before the clerks were to go on strike against stores in 12 counties. Federal mediator Frank Allen said that no details would be released until after union officials had a chance to present the package to the membership for a vote of ratification. However, Jack Loveall, the union's vice president, said the tentative pact calls for an increase in wages and fringe benefits amounting to $3.55 an hour over five years. The compromise broke a Tuesday afternoon deadlock over a 35-cent-an-hour difference between what the markets offered and what the union was demanding.

After he met separately with both sides and then coaxed them back to the bargaining table Tuesday night, Allen said, "Both parties modified thier positions and came closer together." Allen said the agreement was different from two previous offers by the Food Employers Council, which the union rejected. "It is different from any offers which you have heard," he said. Under the old contract, top-scale clerks earn $9.10 an hour in wages and $4.12 an hour in fringe benefits. The 1,277 supermarkets stretch from San Luis Obispo and Mono counties in the north to the Mexican border, a region with a population of 13.9 million persons. The supermarkets supply 85 percent of the groceries in that area.

In anticipation of the strike, store owners had hired thousands of persons to fill in for employees who would walk out. The clerks' union had released letters from the Teamsters union and meatcut-ters saying their members could refuse to cross clerks' picket lines without fear of retaliation by management. The case was returned to Kern County for reconsideration of whether the sentence should be death or life without the American Indians increasing WASHINGTON (AP) -Minorities In the United States grew sharply in the 1970s, with the number of American Indians topping a million for the first time, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The bureau said its 1980 head count found 1,361,869 American Indians. mmi mm mm dm easca CARFET ALSO: KinSCII DRAPERY HARDWARE FOR YOUR GOLD DUDS STEHO Please Come In for Your Free Estimate to See What Your Jewelry Is Worth.

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