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on Market Street A 4-star play Sept. 16, 1978 S.F. EXAMINER Page 3 UC's balancing act between fees, spending By Annie Nakao University of California President David Saxon says the next to the last thing he wants to do is raise student fees. "The last thing I want to do," he adds, "is level the university." Saxon made the statements yesterday in response to questions about the university's fiscal situation next year. At a press conference after the UC Board of Regents meeting In San Francisco, Saxon said UC could not suffer further budget cuts and that ultimately, "people will have to decide whether the university is a luxury they would rather not have." regents approved a transfer of $14 Saxon's statements came after the million In reserve money to UC's jU -'i It Jai jr.

I 1 iraii 'XfSL mi mum iimin-'maniiTo intf -ntig i-niiir-i in iiiiw rrnr i mi imnrMiiif 3 Property tax rate floats up 2 cents The Board of Supervisors has amended the property tax rate, raising it 2 cents to $5.06 per $100 valuation in order that the Board of Education can shift state loan payments to taxpayers. The. board vote yesterday was 9-1 with Supervisor Lee Dolson dissenting in the emergency action. Controller John Farrell said the legality of the move was uncertain so he intends to freeze the additional $911,000 which will be raised by the 2-cent levy. But Board of Education Counsel LeRoy Cannon said the school board will go to court to force Farrell to relinquish the funds, needed to repay a state loan for earthquake safety work.

Cannon contends the earthquake safety work was sanctioned by a statewide vote. On this basis, Cannon said the repayment cost could be placed on the tax rate outside the 1 percent limit imposed by Proposition 13. Farrell, however, was advised it is unclear whether Prop. 13 envisioned that kind of tax override. ExaminerKaiy Raadatz The governor, his hair mussed by the wind, stands encircled by cameras, strobes, red TV lights, and then the people Are you running for governor or president general fund to partially cover a $31.5 million cut made by the Legislature because of Proposition 13.

Almost $6 nillion of the total transfer came from an $11 million surplus in the education fee fund. Saxon said the transfer is a onetime exception to regents' current policy that such monies be used only for student financial aid and related services. But students are concerned that officials will consider the regents' action as a foot-in-the-door to use such money for general fund purposes, thus lessening the amount available for financial aid. Students pay $100 per semester in education fees and graduate students pay $120 per semester. Nearly $33 million is collected in education fees every year.

Students also pay an additional registration fee which finances health services and athletic activities. Davis Shontz, of UC's Student Lobby, said the existence of the surplus was not even known until a few days ago. He called the action a major policy change that needed further discussion. Student regent Renee Turkell also argued the same, but her motion to delay the vote until October was killed. Saxon said that such transfers were crucial in restoring the "substantial reduction in support" that resulted from Jarvis-Gann.

UC's final budget was $753.3 million, reflecting a loss of $31.5 million due to routine legislative cuts and other reductions ordered in the wake of Prop. 13. And next year's budget promises to bring further financial since Saxon says he has received word from Gov. Brown that this year's cuts are considered permanent. Saxon especially wants restored the $15.4 million that was pruned because of Prop.

13 cuts. Otherwise, UC would be negotiating ior next year's budget from a lower base. Democratic volunteers staffing the registration tables sign up citizens of all political persuasions, as required by law. But Democrats are a heavy majority, particularly in San Fraicisco. Beeman said that if registration at any station falls below 70 percent Democratic, "then we shut it down." Brown hopes to see the California voter lists total 10 million, a point they almost reached before the primary with 9.9 million.

Democrats expect to spend much more than $100,000 on the voter drive. Some of the money will be netted here tonight at a $50-a-plate party fund-raiser in the Stanford Court Hotel. wide voter signup drive rates four stars. Camera crews formed a tight ring around the governor. Their strobes and red TV lights flashed and glowed during the entire 20-minute amble yesterday, ending at Fifth Street where the four-door sedan was waiting for Brown and his aides.

"Are you running for governor or president this time?" an onlooker shouted. His voice may have been drowned out by a passing bus. He got no answer. Asked by another man what he's doing for blacks, the Democratic incumbent replied: "I have created a half -million new jobs." What about Younger's proposed $1 billion cut in state spending? "I've already made the biggest tax cut in state history." Josiah Beeman, in charge of the voter drive, said the goal is to sign up 300,000 new California voters and re-register another whose names were dropped from the rolls after the June primary. Oct.

9 is the last day to register for the Nov. 7 general election. "Polls show that people who are registered will vote for Brown, once they get their names on the rolls," Beeman said. By Sydney Kossen Political Writer At Fourth and Market streets in San Francisco, Jerry Brown in a gray chalk-striped suit alights from his baby-blue 74 Plymouth Satellite, the governor's motorized symbol that "less is better." The afternoon wind, bearing down from Twin Peaks, soon musses the governor's hair as he works his way through the sidewalk crowds, shaking hands, signing autographs, trading fast questions and answers and helping to register voters at storefront tables. As media hype, Brown's role in the Democratic Party's new state 'It had been going on so long' in S.F.

The postal contract: Quiet 1 (lilt I jS By Paul Shinoff The news of an arbitrated settlement to the long postal dispute had already been circulating around San Francisco's Rincon Annex by the time Fred Van Hook walked outside for his mid-day break. Van Hook was making 84ents an hour when he came to for the post office in 1946. "The wages are good now," he said. "But the old timers would probably have gone for a better pension plan." Van Hook studied the plate of fried chicken he had just purchased froma sidewalk vendor. "You know," he said, "I wasn't expecting much." Shirley Kidd, a clerk for 10 years with the postal service, sat perched on the waist-high ledge that rims the ornate old building.

"The contract?" She paused and groped in her lunch bag for. a sandwich. "It was kind of well air right" "It had been going on so long." She stopped. "So long," she repeated. "Just the thought of a strike was scaring people to death.

Now, at. least, I know we can make some kind of a living." Kidd said she was relieved that the final settlement, arbitrated after five months, guaranteed no layoffs of current employees. "People were really nervous about that," she continued. "Why Ballot choice: punch and counterpunch By Russ Cone Mayor Moscone has raised his budget knife to kill Registrar of Voters Thomas Kearney's plan to use Datavote punch cards in the Nov. 7 election.

Kearney, surprised by Mos-cone's announcement, said, "I think it's too late to change the system. Even if we could, I think The City would have to honor the ($160,400) purchase order already given Data-vote." But Moscone said Jay Patterson, Kearney's chief assistant, ad-, vised him there is time to substitute the Votomatic punch card system? which the Board of Supervisors recommended last Monday. The supervisors endorsed Voto matic ater Moscone had vetoed a resolution favoring Datavote. In light of the board's latest action, Moscone said he would reject Kearney's request for to complete financing of the Nov. 7 election, featuring the longest ballot in San Francisco history.

Moscone said he was informed that if Kearney employed the VoU matic system, used in Los Angeles and 20 other California counties and backed persistently by Mos-cone's deputy, Bernard Teitelbaum, only $100,000 would be needed. Votomatic involves using a computer card with numbered holes that is inserted into a booklet that lists all ballot measures in English, Spanish and Chinese. Kearney prefers Datavote because ballot items are printed on the card, which is punched with a device. After voting, voters can scan their work. The November ballot is so long, how ever, it will require eight Data-vote cards, printed on both sides, to list the measures and candidates.

"As far as I'm concerned," Kearney said, "I've got a request in for $202,000. If I don't get it, 1 11 run the election as best I can I'll do my best." He said he did not know if he would use Votomatic. 1 'rfy If that money isn't restored, he said, the future could hold imposition of student tuitions or an increase in current education and registration fees for the system's 127,000 students. Saxon is due to unveil a draft of UC's 1979-80 budget in a few weeks. He said he would use all the "forces of logic and influence" he could marshall in the coming months to limit budget cuts to the minimum.

Mother faces trial: Bicarb killed baby Bicarbonate of soda the kind grandma kept on the shelf for burns and upset stomach killed Tia Phillips, a 21-month-old Terra Linda girl. It almost killed 14-month-old Mindy Phillips last February. Priscilla Phillips, 32, mother of two young boys, faces trial in Marin in November on charges of murdering one baby and endangering the life of the other. A probation report on file today in Marin Superior Court revealed that household baking soda was added in massive doses to the babies' formulas. The two Korean orphans had been adopted by Phillips and her husband.

Phillips was arrested last April after a 10-week investigation by police and Kaiser Foundation doctors and nurses. So far the prosecution has failed to come up with any positive motive for the doctoring of the babies' formula. But at the preliminary hearing a Marin psychiatrist testified that he believed Phillips didn't intend to kill either child but wanted to get them hospitalized to attract sympathy and attention. jus j-1 "Sure, I wanted the no lay-off clause," he said. "Even "the old-timers inside were worried." "I wouldn't say the contract was good," he continued.

"But it was better than nothing. We had to have something on paper and that's what we got." Fayetta Howard, a clerk and shop steward with the American Postal Workers Union, described the mood Inside as "mixed." She said workers seemed satisfied with the agreement that appeared to guarantee their jobs. But she was critical of a key provision under which new employees would have to work six consecutive years to gain job security. "I worry about those new people coming in. They are the future of the postal service and we have to be able to look out for them." In a telephone interview, Alvin Gant, president of the Mail Handlers Union, expressed similar views.

"That's not just six years," he said, referring to the security provision, "but six years with very good attendance. I don't see people surviving it. They will come in for two years, get laid off, and be replaced by someone coming in." "My initial response," Gant said cautiously, "is that the contract is worse than the original proposal that the membership turned down." "Our older rank and filers will accept it. But the factions who want a strike may have something to work with." Other postal labor leaders also appeared more pessimistic than their membership. Fred Jacobs, general president of the APWU local in Oakland, said that the no-layoff provision was weak.

"They can negotiate another contract in three years and wipe it out," he said. If the reaction of Rincon workers can be judged, postal employees would have traded greater job protection for a lower wage increase. Eddie Harris, a driver for 12 years said he had been satisfied with his salary of $16,500 a' year. "We could have gotten more fringe benefits," he complained. "More money doesn't mean a thing ExamtnerJudith Calson FRED VAN HOOK REMEMBERS THE 84-CENT-AN-HOUR DAYS 'The old-timers would have gone for a better pension' years seniority at Rincon.

A proposed move to a new facility in China Basin and the introduction of automated equipment would have cost him his job, he said. you could work here 20 years, then they'd put in new equipment and you'd be fired." Her sentiments were echoed by Lee Carter, another clerk with 10 Fresno killer faces death penalty family and members of the jury. However, he never made the threats in the presence of the jury. him to death or life in prison without possibility of parole. Martin ordered Stankewitz returned to court Thursday for sentencing.

Three other persons still are to stand trial later in the Graybeal killing. The woman was kidnapped from a Modesto shopping center, driven to Fresno in her car and then shot in the back of the head at point-blank range. A witness testified that he saw Stankewitz shoot the woman and then brag about the killing. During the proceedings, Stankewitz on several occasions threatened the life of Judge Martin, his FRESNO (UPl) Douglas Stan-kewitz, 21, was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder with special circumstances in the Feb. 8 fatal shooting of Theresa Graybeal, 22, Modesto.

A Superior Court jury deliberated for less than an hour before returning its verdict in a trial that was delayed three days when the defendant escaped. The special circumstances finding meant Stankewitz can be sentenced to death for the crime. Under the state's capital punishment law, Judge Robert Martin will have the choice of sentencing Cholera toll 54 in Bangladesh DACCA, Bangladesh (AP) The number of deaths in a new outbreak of cholera in the desh countryside has reached 54. Officials said yesterday that 33 of the deaths were reported in Sylhet, 150 mies northeast of here, and the others were in Chandpur, 40 miles south of Dacca, and Rajshahi, 150 miles to the northwest. Correction I Due to a typographical error in Thursday's Examiner, the cost of a San Francisco float in the Parade of Roses was stated incorrectly.

The correct figure is $16,500. The Examiner regrets the error. I.