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TUESDAY Yy Li 'KAMY VI 94 Jc Salinas debuts liformun with a win Page IB Rick Rueschel 35 cents 116th year, Number 198 A Gannett Newspaper 1907. The Sahnas CaMomian Aug. 25, 1967 Salinas, California Reagan pushes for easier adoptions tive" that Reagan alluded to early this month during an appearance before right-to-life activists gathered in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. On that occasion, Reagan pledged to work as hard as possible for pro-life causes. He also announced a series of regulations, proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, which would have the effect of denying the use of federal tax dollars for abor side resort hotel while Reagan continued his vacation on a mountaintop ranch north of here, acknowledged that the pro-adoption initiative was also a part of Reagan's anti-abortion campaign.

"It is true that adoption is an alternative to abortion," the spokesman said. "We want to make sure that there aren't (federal) rules and regulations that hinder that process." Fitzwater added, "I think it's fair to say it's part of the family values initia The Associated Press SANTA BARBARA President Reagan, after moving to stop the use of federal money for abortion counseling services, named a federal task force Monday to sell adoption as an "alternative for pregnant women. "Americans are a warm-hearted, caring people, and for vears, American couples have reached out to embrace children who otherwise would grow up without a stable family life," Reagan, himself an adoptive parent, said in a statement released here. "We must expand and broaden our efforts to make sure that America's family-less children are adopted," said the statement. "We must do all we can to remove obstacles that prevent qualified adoptive parents from accepting these children into their home.

But in describing the work of the task force, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, briefing reporters at a sea tion counseling and referral services by some 4,500 family planning centers. Fitzwater said Monday that the process of adoption in this country "cries out for some kind of solution in a number of areas." The task force, composed of officials from a host of federal agencies and departments, will focus on "barriers to adoption, the spokesman said. "Op until now," Fitzwater added, Please see ADOPTIONPage 8A FIRST-DAY FEELINGS Actors' project closer to reality aaaaaaaV taaaaaaaaaMLaaaaV By Larry Parsons The Salinas Calitornian A developer has been selected for a proposed $15 million senior housing project on 350 acres in Carmel Valley donated by actors Clint Eastwood and James Garner. American Baptist Homes of the West, a Los Angeles-based, non-profit housing developer, was picked to build the long-envisioned "Carmel Valley Overview" project Monday by the Monterey County Housing Authority. Eastwood and Garner donated the undeveloped property, which is across Carmel Valley Road from the Rancho Canada Golf Club, to the Housing Authority in November 1983 with the provision that some of the land be used for senior housing.

"That commitment is intact." said Housing Authority Executive Director Bruce Moore. Current plans, Moore said, call for 200 rental units for low- and moderate-income seniors to be built on 35 "plateau" acres while the remaining acreage will be set aside as permanent open space. Moore said American Baptist Homes has "extensive experience elsewhere in the state" with developing and operating senior housing. The firm was selected from nine developers that submitted proposals, he said. The next step, Moore said, calls for the housing authority and the developer to actually negotiate a development contract a process that should be completed within six months.

At the same time, Moore said American Baptist Homes must receive conceptual approval of the project from county planners. The project has been stymied by development and water moratoriums in Carmel Valley, Moore said "It's a very difficult project, environmentally, to do," he said. "Carmel Valley has been subject to building moratoriums and a water moratorium is still in effect. One of the pacing items will be water." The project will be financed privately because there are no federal housing funds available for it, Moore said. Escape attempt foiled Prisoner leads deputies on chase By Joyce Rowland Eubanks The Salinas Cahforman Everybody knows that Timothy Intelli is a snitch.

He was a witness in the 1985 murder trial of George Harry Hinkle and Ralph Ronald Felici-ano who were convicted for the murder of a German tourist and sexual attack of his companion. Intelli, facing the possibility of serving prison time for forgery and petty theft with prior offenses, tried to escape Monday afternoon as prisoners were boarding a bus for the Monterey County Jail at the Monterey County Courthouse. Please see SNITCHPage 3A Poll: Give rebate to public schools The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO By a 3-2 margin, voters support the idea of using a huge income tax1 rebate to provide extra money for schools, according to a new California Poll. "It's a painless sacrifice," said Mervin Field, who conducted the survey released on Tuesday. "Since the money is already in the state treasury, people figure it won't cost them anymore to help out," he added.

"People believe schools need the money." The state has a $1.1 billion budget surplus, a windfall resulting from changes in the federal income tax code. By 57 percent to 38 percent, the California Poll found state voters would be willing to pass up the rebate. Five percent had no opinion. Plan advances to make Salinas a college site several other members of the local business community. They held their first meeting April 12.

1984. "We wanted our own four-year college here, but we had to compromise along the way," she said. The compromise was settling for a branch campus of an existing university. "It is very important that we make this available," she said. "The whole key to this is affordable because of course we have private schools in the area.

"It's extremely important to the business community. It keeps coming back to you have to have an education. Plans call for the satellite campus to be housed for about five years in a leased facility at one of three proposed sites. The preferred choice is a new building to be built by the county office of education next to its site on Blanco Road in Salinas. The university eventually would build its own campus.

By Jeannie Echenique The Salinas Calitornian A proposal for a Salinas campus of San Jose State University is sailing smoothly through the bureaucracy ana is a few steps closer to a fall 1988 opening, a university dean says. The state university chancellor's fiscal package that will be sent to the governor next month is expected to contain the $900,000 project, said Ralph Bohn, a San Jose State dean. The state Postsecondary Education Commission recently approved the project and gave it to the chancellor. "Of course we want to make sure our project is in the governor's 1 1987-88) budget," said Jean McCollister, director of the Salinas Chamber of Commerce and an advocate for the project. "We really want to see it happen here.

McCollister developed the idea with day mmtmflnB Cmmm Ready to learn Carina Sanchez, 5, hugs her teddy bear and Benito Tejeda, 5, expresses his feelings about the first day at school Monday as children line up at Chualar elementary school. Classes began Monday for scores of south county students in Chualar, Gonzales Union School District, Mission Union School District in Soledad, San Lucas Union School District and Soledad Union School District. Observers see few problems with parolees Otter relocation plan nets 15 critters on first sweep The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service swooped down on 15 napping sea otters and netted them for a journey to a new home where the service plans to establish a colony for the threatened creatures. The 15 otters captured Monday were being held in private quarters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, pending the capture of at least nine others.

Four boats were used in Monday's roundup and another sweep is expected Tuesday. Please see OTTERSPage 3A ees also are exposed to Soledad Street, an area that causes more problems for the ex-convicts. Parolees receive $100 cash when they are released, and are brought to the Greyhound bus station on 19 West GabilanSt. "It doesn't seem that the responsibility of the prison officials is being carried out," said Steve Ish, president of the Salinas Oldtown Business Association. "There has to be a better way to make sure that (parolees) do reach their destinations almost way they are dressed," said the wife of the bar's owner, Bill McCaw She said a few parolees have asked the bartender to cash their prison checks.

"It's just a service we don't render," she said. "They are ready to have a cocktail, and then sometimes want to keep on drinking," she said. "We just try to keep a handle on it. We don't let them drink up their pay The Monterey County parole division supervisor said his office occasionally gets a call from the police department about a parolee who has Please see PAROLEESPage 8A Ish said he didn't believe the parolees' presence in Salinas was good for businesses around the bus station. But Danza said the parolees are good customers.

"Generally they are well behaved," he said. "They are so happy to be out of prison." Danza said, i ll talk to these guys, ask them how long they were in for, what they plan on doing. Most of them don't want to go back." The owner of Cap's Saloon, 12 W. Gabilan said parolees come in for a drink. "Generally you can tell by the By Joyce Rowland Eubanks The Salinas Californian A parolee leaving Soledad prison often stops in Salinas to shed his prison clothes for a new pair of tennis shoes and a warm up suit to blend into the rest of the population.

"They come in here and buy tennis shoes from me. They want to get out of those black prison shoes," said Dave Danza, a partner in the Monterey Discount Golf and Tennis store at 202 Main St. "Those guys are OK guys for the most part." But some merchants say the parol INSIDE TODAY'S CALIFORNIAN MARKETPLACE LIVING WEATHER LOCAL SPORTS MOSTLY FAIR: Increasing low clouds tonight. Clouds Wednesday morning, otherwise sunny. Details on Page 8A.

CLIP THOSE COUPONS: U.S. consumers redeemed $2.75 billion woth of coupons in 1986. Some consider them perforated Page 1C. GAMBLING AND DRUGS: Gambling and drug abuse have quite a lot in common, columnist Eugene Schoenfeld says. Page 5C INSIDE aLaaaB 17 JBBCL 49ERS RELIEVED: The 49ers breathed a sigh of relief Monday when it was discovered that No.

1 draft pick, lineman Harris Barton, didn't break his arm. Page 1B. HOT STREAK: Paul Molitor takes his 38-game hitting streak into Cleveland tonight against the team that stopped Joe DiMaggio's legendary 56-game hitting streak. Page 1B. LUXURY INCENTIVES: Luxury automakers such as Mercedes and BMW have recently joined their domestic brethren in offering special incentives to buyers and dealerships.

Page 4B. NORTHWEST TALKS: Northwest Airlines is engaged in preliminary talks with officials at Oakland International Airport to take over a shutdown World Airways hangar. Page 4B. FARM WORKERS: Officials with a Hispanic civil rights group say they are disappointed with the turnout at a hearing Monday night on working conditions for farm workers, but the reason may be fear of losing jobs. Page 3A.

SEWER SALARY: Monterey regional sewage agency directors decided Monday to take another look at the $78,300 salary ot their top manager. Page 3A. Ann Landers7C ClassifiedID Comics6C EditorialSA Horoscope7C MarketplaceMB Movie listings2C News of record4A Obituaries4A Public notices20 People2A SportsIB TV listings7C Waggin' tailsMA Harris Barton was the 49ers No. 1 draft pick..