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frfrfr 3 Beauty Pageants Still Alive and Well But No Miss S.F. I i 4 i WW! II ILUHIIII) II I I miiii i.h if I f. I'? r'r i I 'J i I 'i it' 3 9 That, she feels, is relevant. Mrs. Dillon also admits that the rules governing the conduct of the contestants are strict, that the girls ar required to work exceptionally hard and that the pageant is Big Business.

The pageant does pump some $200,000 into the local economy during its three day run. In addition, the final program is televised statewide, and there's plenty of newspaper publicity for Santa Cruz. V- ffl It BP Violinist Beauty Among Winners Special to The Examiner CRUZ Karin' Kascher, an 18 year old music major at Calif ornia State College at Hayward, won the talent contest preliminary here last night in the Miss California pageant. Her violin solo was judged best by the judges. Diane Elizabeth Moore, 19, "Miss Santa Cruz County," won the swim suit title.

A student at Cabrillo College in Apton, Miss Moore 5 feet 6V2 inches tall and measures 35-24-35. She weighs 123 pounds. By Jerry Belcher Examiner News Staff SANTA CRUZ It's corny, commercial and maybe a little outdated, but the Miss California Pageant is alive and well in Santa Cruz. Sociologists may write off the annual beauty contest (this is the 46th edition) as "irrelevant" to eur times. The Women's Liberation Front may condemn it as a product of "male chauvinism" and radical students scoff at its as "bourgeois materialism." Still, it goes on, growing bigger each year, although this time for the first time in many years San Francisco is not represented.

For the 35 contestants, for the thousands of spectators, and for the merchants of Santa Cruz, the pageant is very much a big deal, an exciting and profitable experience. That, for them, makes it relevant. Mrs. Kay Dillon, fulltime executive director of the contest for the past four years, admits that some may feel it is "corny," but she also makes it clear 1. Cl 1 -V as 3 regally.

1 1 Sherry Lynn Vrooman (r), Miss San Diego, rehearsing for tonight's Miss California finals, stretches as Lynn Obermiller, Miss Stanislaus, looks on. wneiner or nor Juinerre oayi layle Costa, is the in her pajama suit as she and fellow Now judging is based 50 percent on talent, 25 percent on apiearance in an evening gown, 25 percent on appearance in a swimsuit. The talent may be a piano solo of "Dark Eyes" with a boogie beat (Miss Los An glees County), a gypsy dance (Miss Santa Cruz) or a patriotic monologue (Miss Ventura County). Miss Ventura County's monologue won the great Uhleyer, Miss Contra but in slightly di ff rent words. The fact that they are not allowed to speak to a reporter, or any man, outside the pesence of an official chaperone, may have something to do with it.

But they all talk as if they really mean what they say. The pageant has changed immensely since it started back in 1924. Then it was strictly a matter of how well a girl looked in a swimsuit. Beautiful faces are those Zaninovich Fresno Is? 'iiariKi I .1,1 1 SMwf i an i.nn 1 i "-j nn. 6 in.Mn.mn iiiimh rn mmfe-i'.

Sam McNeely, a Santa Cruz certified public accountant and one of the judges of the contest, is quite frank about business aspects of the contest, although certainly not discounting what he considers the character-b i 1 i benefits to the girls. "The Mss America contest got started in Atlantic City because it's a resort town and it prolonged the tourist season," he says. "The Miss California contest is in Santa Cruz because it's a resort town, too, and it starts the season." He puffs his pipe thoughtfully and adds: "Fj what's wrong with that?" The contestants themselves don't seem to see anything wrong with that, but they think of the pageant in different terms. "This is an experience that will contribute to me in a positive way," says 20 year old Theresa Smith. She is Miss Oakland, and one of the two Negro girls in the 1970 pageant.

"It allows you to communicate with people." Besides, she hopes someday to be a model, and the pageant might be a stepping stone. "I feel that it's relevant," she says in the same soft, cultivated tone all the contestants seem to use. Pattie Winegar, 17, is Miss Lake County. "I'm in it for the experience," she says. "And the experience is very rewarding.

I think we learn how to give back to the public a better image of American womanhood." She adds with gentle forcefulness. "If I thought we were being used, I wouldn't be here." And so it goes each contestant sounds almost exactly the same theme, New By Sydney Kossen Examiner Political Editor Bay Area consumers have a new protective cloak. It was formally unwrapped here by Caspar W. Weinberger before he flew back to Washington today to wind up his affairs as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He invited consumers to bring complaints of fraud and deceptive selling practices to the new office in the Federal Trade Commission's regional headquarters at the San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave.

Named the Joint Consumer Protection Committee, it will bring to bear coordinated enforcement of federal, state and city laws, said Harrison Sheppard, committee secretary. 1-Stop Service The new office also is designed to give consumers a one-stop complaint service, he said, "in that a complaint filed with any of the major agencies will be transferred automatically to the right place without further effort by the consumer." Weinberger said similar regional offices already have met with favorable accept- ance in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. A recent check of 10,000 Chicago complaints disclosed that the largest single topic covered "goods that aren't delivered after consumers had paid either deposits or the full price," said. I of Susan Smith, Miss Oakland and Pafnaa Contesting for Miss California isn't all swimsuit and glamor. There's lot of footwork and routines to learn.

Here Jeanne Fastabend, assistant stage director, coaches Judith Landreth, Miss Redlands. IIIIIIMI' that she couldn't care less if they do. Among other things, she says, the pageant "enhances" a girl, gives, her poise and invaluable experience in meeting and dealing with the public. It opens up career opportunities. And, she points out, $600,000 worth of scholarships are handed out.

EC3 Flagged Down-No Graduation Joe Gettus. an 18 year old South San Francisco High School honor student, didn't graduate with other seniors in his class this week. He had A's and B's in all his courses except physical education, won an essay contest on peace and two awards in the student art show. Joe wassuspendedlate last month for burning holes in a three-by-five-inch American flag he had bought at a school "flea market" sale with a cigarette. He said the act wasn't a demonstration, but a "stupid childish act, like a little kid playing with fire." He said several members of the football team came into the school's restroom where he burned holes in the flag and reported him to a teacher.

Principal Thomas Gaffney suspended the boy, who will have to go to Skyline Junior College for six weeks, three hours a day twice a week to, make up his physical education units and get his diploma. $1 Billion for Waste WASHINGTON (UPI) -The House Appropriations Committee yesterday reported out the 1971 public works appropriations bill requesting $1 billion for waste treatment construction grants. Om Leader Sees Help for Consumers Here she takes a rest break est applause in the first night's performance. It included phrases like: "America has offered freedom and opportunity such as no country has ever and "We have more roast beef and mashed potatoes and more color TV than nay other people on earth." In 0 1 Plaza her words might have elicited jeers. But in Santa Cruz thousands cheered.

Miss Lake County. -Examiner photos by Matt Sot' asked in a question from the floor whether he soon quit his newly a nnounced White House post. "First," he with a broad smile, "you have to get the office located, painted and liann the pictures. That's the time for the rumors to The new Consumer Protection 111 111 i 1 1 is jointly sponsored by Governor Reagan. State Attorney General Thomas C.

Lynch and Mayors Alioto of San Fran Cisco and John Heading of Oakland, as we! I as Weinberger. 1100 KC 97.3 MC iA. Brave Nude World (I); Theresa Winegar, He also served as Governor Reagan's finance director and was the cliief architect of the last two budgets the Governor sent the Legislature. His luncheon speech dwelt on consumer protection after he quipped that he didn't know much about the federal budget yet except "it's the only place here zero point one (0.1) stands for $100 billion." Will He Quit? In view of the a i shakeup and Executive Office shuffles, Weinberger was dressed in a light brown, tight-fitting suit, and speaking with an engaging lisp, said his message is spreading through the country rapidly. Om, while talking to the press in Berkeley yesterday, languidly ate a banana as he described his views.

One follower, who calls himself Harold Om, promised "The police can expect 1000 new members for every one arrested." He declared Om, leader of the temporarily depleted United New World Brigade (five of whose nude members were busted in North Beach the other night) predicts the entire world will soon act on "one's divine right to appear in public in the nude." His organization, he declared, is spreading rapidly, though at the moment there are only a dozen members -some of them in jail. The tall black man, Weinberger, a San Francisco lawyer on leave to the Nixon Administration spent five months reorganizing the demoralized, regulation-ridden FTC. When the President names his successor, Weinberger will become deputy director of the new high-er-than-Cabinet-level Office of Management and the Budget. After addressing a Com -monwealth Club 1 on meeting yesterday afternoon, Weinberger indicated in an interview he expects his successor to continue the new efficiency program at the FTC as well as share his view that this is the a of the consumer. No Speculation He declined to speculate for publication which of two or three likely prospects might become the new FTC commission chairman.

Weinberger, 52, is a former Assemblyman and onetime State Republican chairman. BILLY GRAHAM Aquatic Park Sivims OK9 After 8 Years that only ffe sexually repressed are offended by the group's actions. But David Rosenberg, North Beach entrepreneur who began the City's topless and bottomless entertain-ment craze, was clearly offended as he spoke out loudly about the five nude Om followers who cavorted through North Beach in the altogether Thursday night. They are, as far as the plump Rosenberg is concerned, "a bunch of kooks from Berkeley." Bail Offensive What really offended Rosenberg is that the three young women and two youths, charged with indecent exposure, were held in lieu of $300 bail. "When our performers get busted, the bail is generally $625," he snorted.

"It's not equal justice!" Rosenberg then went back to the task of planning a sixth anniversary topless- bottomless party for his professional entertainers. In 1 e.y, pretty and blonde Patricia Om bolstered her leader's exhortations with this declaration: "The laws of society don't apply any more because they are not of the highest truth." But she kept her clothes on. v. with CLIFF BARROWS GEO. BEVERLY SHEA TEDD SMITH SUPERMARKET rrv It's safe to swim now at yAquatic Park, banned for jeight years for all water contact sports.

Dr. Francis J. Curry, act-ling director of public health, the beach at the foot of Street has passed biological safety tests of March, April and May. The beach was posted for water contact in 12 be-tcause of evidence of raw in the water. Since hen, treatment of sewage at tlie City's Northeast and Southeast treatment plants land at the Hyde Street pumping station has reduced the harmful bacteria in the waiter to asafeleveL San Fransicans may also enter the wading area beside the St.

Francis Yacht Club near the foot of Baker Street without danger to their health. All other City beaches are prohibited from use, for health reasons. Curry said, however, that the swimming ban will probably have to be restored at Aquatic Park when fall rains begin, combining with sewage to overpower the single sewer-storm drain system and carrying raw sewage past the treatment equipment and directly into the Bay. mm WORLD-WIDE BROADCAST dial I 777-7777 rv SUNDAY 4:00 PM 3:00 PM KFAX KEAR-FM tackiest Number IsTiwo! i 'IT.