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WEATHER Fair through Wadrmday axctpf night and morning nvarcast In north and local morning low eloudt also whort. High yesterday 69, low this morning 53. (Complete forecast on Page IS.) A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoymant Far Ev ary Mambar of tha Family SALINAS CALIFORNIAN 101st Year No. 1S8 SALINAS, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1972 54 Pages 1 5 Cents I Total Increase Set Records Make It Ring! uimfty Assessment tion in the county during the past year. Normal growth averages about 6 per cent a year.

Reassessments also accounted for part of the increase but to a lesser degree, Stewart said. Monterey County Admin-Lstator Edwin McCauley hailed the increase as wonderful news. Whether it will be enough to offset a proposed 5 per cent increase in the 1972 73 county budget is questionable. But he Is talled 6.7 per cent and 6 2 per cent respectively. Stewart said reassessments in the two cities accounted for most of the increases.

Salinas assessed value was up nearly $11 million to a new high of $136,172,043. This is an increase of nearly 9 per cent over last years $123.2 million and he third greatest percentage increase in the county's 11 cities. Other Salinas Valley corn muniiies posted increases of as last year. Stewart explained that public utility companies are being assessed this year at a state mandated 27 per cent, 2 per cent less than last year. Two South County cities, Greenfield and Soledad, showed tremendous increases.

The 1972 assessed value of Greenfield is $2,605,380, up 24.1 per cent from last year. Soledad's assessed value rose 19.3 per cent to $3,627,593. Last year their increases to A 10 per cent increase would certainly be a very substantial item in helping us to maintain the tax rate, McCauley 'said. But he added that it is too early to determine the effect of the 10 per cent tax rate. He said that cant be done until final fund balances and the utility roll are determined.

Although the utility roll hasnt been determined yet, Stewart figures it will go down by about $5 million, the same By PATRICIA McNALLY Californian Staff Writer Monterey Countys local assessed valuation for fiscal 1972 Is up $60.5 million to $661,295,960, the largest increase and total ever. County Assessor Donald Stewart said today the local roll is up 10 per cent from last year's $600,700,000. The local roll call does not include the utility roll, which is determined in August. Stewart attributed the record growth to new construc ROLL Page 2, Col. 3 Two Koreas Reach Accord through June 1, he said, North Korean Vice Premier Park Sung Chul came to Seoul for talks with President Park Chung llee.

The communique came as a shock to officials ho knew nothing of the sessions. Lee said the decision to hold the meetings was made without consulting the United States or any other third country. One South Korean diplomat in Tokyo said, Tve never been so surprised in my life." Short of official recognition of each other, the exchange of visits represented a tacit understanding that there are two Koreas. Previously, neither recognized the existence of the other and both claimed they represented the entire SEOUL (UPI) North and South Korea, divided for 27 years, agreed today to work for peaceful reunification of the country. The agreement, reached through negotiations so secret that even Korean diplomats expressed surprise, was issued simultaneously in Seoul and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

The two nations, which have been technically at war since 1950 and have refused to recognize each other, agreed not to undertake armed provocations against each other and decided to promote mutual understanding and expedite peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula. The agreement was signed by Lee Ilu Rak, director of the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Kim Young Joo, director of North Koreas Organization and Guidance Department. Lee described the agreement as a move from a a confrontation without dialogue inlo a confrontation with dialogue and added: Their (North Koreas) sincerity will decide whether the agreement is going to be a success or not. For our part, we pledge our utmost sincerity. Lee said the agreement was reached after highly secret visits in May and June by officials of both countries.

He said he proposed the meetings in March and traveled to Pyongyang in May for two sessions with North Korean Premier Kim II Sung. May 29 See Editorial on Page 6 Trial Reality Compels Some Plea Bargaining 101 Crash Kills Girl, Injures 3 A nine-year-old San Jose girl was killed last night in a traffic collision on U.S. 101 near Blackie Road and three others were hospitalized with major injury. Dead on arrival at General Hospital was Patricia Rebaudo, who was a rear seat passenger in a small car that crashed into another vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. Taken to General Hospital after the 10:10 p.m.

collision were the driver Susana B. Rebaudo, 31, and two other passengers, Diane Bendorf, 24, and Peter Rebaudo, 8, all of San Jose. Driver of the second vehicle involved, William B. Ileathorn, 23, and his wife, Beverly, 22, both of Atascadero, had minor i injury, but declined hospital treatment. Patrolman Mike Axton said that the Rebaudo vehicle was northbound on U.S.

101 when for some unknown reason the ear went into the center divider. The driver swerved her vehicle back to her right, crossing both northbound lanes and then lost control attempting lo correct her position. I The car skidded crossing the two northbound traffic lanes a second time, I crossed the divider and rolled, in the southbound lanes. It col-i Iided with the southbound Heat-horn car, which was pulling a small troiler loaded with household items. The Rebaudo vehicle was struck in the rear, indicating it was headed south when the collision occured, officers said.

The investigation is S. Viets Arrive in Quang Tri SAIGON (UPI) A 30-man; also reported only light resis-An estimated 4S.OOO North shelling Hue and the half-dozen tance. jVietnamese soldiers took part 1 outposts on its western flank. Another small force also, in the drive to capture Quang I since the drive started one Tri province and the capital on Wek ago, government spokes-May 1 and the troops are still nien said more than 1,100 North South Vietnamese reconnaissance team landed by helicop' in the center of Quang Tri, moved unopposed into Quang today, paving the way forjTri combat base two miles Vietnamese troops have been killed. Government losses were 50 dead and 235 placed at ter 'city a government move to recap- northwest of the city.

The base lure the provincial capital held is the former home of the U. S.j by the Communists for more 1st Brigade, 5th Mechanized than two months. jlnfantry Division. It was turned Military sources said the over to the South Vietnamese team met only light resistance. 1 one year ago.

A South Vietnamese! Despite the apparent disap- force moved into the suburb of pearance of Communist troops, Mai Linh only one-half mile U. S. advisers said they believed to be in the area. Expect a Fight We expect to have a hell of a fight there. We expect to wounded, have to fight our way all thej The Communists started their way in," one U.

S. adviser told offensive on March 30 by UPI correspondent Barney Sei-' moving across the Demilita-bert who is accompanying' rized Zone (DMZ) into Quang government forces. jTri, South Vietnams northern- Two dozen miles to the south, most province. They routed Communist gunners shelled the government troops and took city of Hue for the third control of the province on May consecutive day in an apparent 1. move to take some of the push! The current drive is the first out of the South Vietnamese concerted South Viet attempt to recapture the province.

attempt to recapture Quang away earlier in the day and! expected a tough fight ahead McFarland had previously been declared mentally incompetent by a Florida court and was, says Mitchell, an elopee from a mental institution a classic diminished capacity defense. Finally, there was indication both men w'ere heavily under the influence of drugs at the time of the killing, another mitigating factor by law. The Publics View All the public could see at this stage W'as an ugly crime which demanded trial and retribution. Mitchell had to recognize a case which, if it went to trial, might result in a verdict of second degree murder or manslaughter. My primary concern Was to get him (McFarland) off the streets for as long a period as possible, Mitchell recalls, and that in turn shaped the moves which eventually led to McFarlands negotiated plea.

The first -was an offer to permit Mc-i Mullen to be tried in juvenile court and sent to CYA, where Mitchell believes he would and should have gone anyway, in exchange for the promise of his testimony against his co-defendant. Assured of that, it became possible to convince McFarland he was well-advised to avoid trial and plead guilty to second degree murder. The outcome meets Mitchells test a just disposition in terms of the crime, and the same one which would probably have resulted had both men gone to trial. Had the elements been a shade different no diminished capacity, a stronger prosecution case, or a much weaker one the outcome would likewise have been different. The prosecution might have been unwilling to bargain.

The de-PLEA Page 2, Col. 3-4 Second of Three By HELEN MANNING Californian Staff Writer On June 22, 1971, a Berkeley student was found brutally slain in Palo Colorado Canyon, just north of Big Sur. Six months later, a 22-year-old Vietnam veteran entered a Monterey County courtroom to plea guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of young Erik K. Forsmann. William A.

McFarlands plea was the result of a plea bargain, and the factors that went into the decision to accept that negotiated plea provide some insight into how the bargaining process works. Two men were co-charged with the crime, McFarland and 17-year-old Donald McMullen. Both were charged with first-degree murder, the deliberate taking of life with malice and premeditation. But as investigation proceeded it became apparent that successful prosecution was going to pose problems problems which Deputy Dist. Attorney Jer-rold Mitchell was willing to discuss in a recent interview.

There was, to begin with, the fact that while McFarland was in all probability the man more responsible for the killing, we had no direct evidence against him. The evidence against McMullen was stronger. But since McMullen was under 18, any successful prosecution against him whether in juvenile or superior court would still probably result in his being committed to the California Youth Authority. There was the further knowledge that Today's Inside News Page Tri. At least two civilians were killed and eight wounded.

While the advance into Mai Linh was eight Arson Suspected Again in Cannery Row Fire Call Tomorrow to Reserve lolmo Parade Seats Wimbledon: Smith-Kodes in Semi-Final Mertz Heads Northeast Rotary Club Board to Review River Road Subdivision a 10 12 .13 Two-thirds of Hues 30,000: major battles and other scat-defenders were pulled out of tered fighting Monday broke the city and sent north in the out elsewhere in Quang Tri Province. Military spokesmen said 344 Communists were killed, with government casualties placed at 39 dead and 123 wounded. drive into Quang Tri While South Vietnamese columns moved up Highway 1, Communist gunners slipped in from the west and started 15 Sports 10-11 9 Television 14 15-19 Town Country Life 8-9 i 7 Valiev 13 6 Weather 15 Amusements Ann Landers Classified Comics Editorial Nixon Issues An Invitation SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon said today the United States will invite the world to its 200th birthday party, so that the children of those who stayed behind when others immigrated to America can see what wonders your countrymen have worked in this new land. He predicted 28 million would come.

Fischer Foe Worfi'ti PI cay ACTION DESK About the Fireman Requirements Action Desk: Your paper ran a help-wanted ad June 22, for a fireman for the city of Salinas. The ad stated that the applicants must be at least 21 years of age. On the same page, the city also ran an ad for a tree climber. There was no age requirement. Why is this? Why doesnt the new 18-year-old adult law affect the age requirements for our city firemen? Is the minimum age of firemen decided upon by the city administration or by fire department officials? What are the reasons behind the elimination of 18, 19, and 20 year-olds? A Salinas Reader.

Chief Paul A. Mehringer of the Salinas Fire Department replies: The city of Salinas requires, under normal circumstances, that the minimum age of its permanent employes be 18 years with the exception of public safety personnel. In regard to minimum age for permanent Fire Department uniformed personnel, for the present time, it is still being retained at 21 years of age. Chapter 13 of the City Code places the management of the Fire Department under the direct control of the fire chief, who has the duty to formulate rules and regulations for the manning and operation of the department, subject to the approval of the city manager. Under State Civil Service Regulations, Section 45054 of the Government Code, local legislative bodies have the authority to fix minimum age limits for the employment of firemen.

The present approved job description qualifications require the minimum age of 21. The minimum age requirement of 21 is presently being reviewed by the city of Salinas and may be modified in the future. For anyone interested in joining the Fire Department there are other programs available, such as the Fire Cadet program which includes ages from 18 to 24. 1 personally and the chess federation of the USSR which I represent, Spassky said. Fischer delayed the tournament for two days while he haggled for more money.

He finally agreed to play after a British banker agreed to double the prize money. It was not clear exactly what effect Spasskys refusal would have on the match, which was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EDT today. Spassky earlier stalked out of a meeting set to determine who would get the first move in the opening game. Fischer, who did not arrive in Reykjavik until early today, did not attend the meeting.

He stayed in his hotel room to sleep to prepare for the game. Dr. Max Euwe, president of FIDE, said after Spasskys walkout that he was pessimistic the match would be held. The situation is critical. I don't know if the match will be CHESS Page 2, Col.

1-2 i REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Russian chess champion Boris Spassky refused today to play American challenger Bobby Fischer in a 24-game world championship match until the International Chess Federation (FIDE) punishes Fischer for insulting me the USSR. Match officials postponed the opening of the tournament for the second time but did not set a new starting date. Spassky said he would not yet leave Iceland and left the door open to a possible solution. I still want to play the match if there is a solution, Spassky said. I will not play today.

I will make my decision in the next few days. In a statement datelined in Reykjavik, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, quoted Spassky as saying Fischer broke the rules by refusing to show up for the opening ceremonies last Saturday. By this, Fischer insulted me Moss Landing's 'Discovery' and it's relishing the experience. For at the Landing, see today's story on little fishing village on Montebeing discovered by tourists, a report on activity page 13. Moss Landing, the once-quiet rey Bay, is in the throes of.