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Times-Advocate from Escondido, California • 4

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A-4 DAILY TIMES-ADVOCATE. ESCONDIDO. MAY 28. 1971 Commission plans' survey on list of park CAPT. W.

D. HARKINS Speaker at service A proposal by Tom Sanderson Sr, (PGA golf professional) and Associates to develop a golf course in Kit Carson Park was presented to the commission by Mastain Thursday night. According to Mastain, Sanderson has offered to invest about $500,000 in development of an 18-hole golf course of 6,000 to 6,300 yards. He estimated it would take about 115 acres for the course, a clubhouse and driving range. They would build the course and deed all the improvements to the city, said Mastain, in return for a 50-year lease.

They would pay the city $1,000 a month or 5 per cent of the gross, whichever is greater. Greens fees would range from $2.50 to $3.50 with special half price rates for junior golfers. The city council took: somewhat imprecise action om the list of recommended facilities Wednesday night, voting to accept the recommendation and forward it for consideration to a landscape architect to be hired within a few weeks as planning consultant for development of the park. In addition to a sports center, amphitheater, bicycle and hiking trails and nature areas, the commission recommendations, based on input from various groups and organizations, included animal facilities such as horse show ring and types related to 4-H Club and Junior Fair activities. Mustain said a golf course, which he recommends, was not on the list at the time because the commission had not yet made a decision.

ESCONDIDO The city parks and recreation commission held up a decision Thursday night on a proposed golf course for Kit Carson Park. Commissioners voted instead to conduct a communitywide survey not only on the golf course question, but on the entire list of park facilities earlier recommended by the commission. Commissioners also received a proposal from a PGA golf professional who has offered to develop a $500,000 golf course in the park. i They voted to conduct the survey because they felt they didnt have sufficient information on the golf course proposal, said Ted Mastain, city parks and recreation director. The survey, however, will be not only on the golf course but on all of the things proposed for the park.

Cities to honor veterans Power line under way 4' sW '7X 77 V7' vv, 7 8 r. 9 'o PC' Cont. From Page A-l ordinance requiring that the utility firm obtain a conditional use permit from the city to build the line. A hearing on the company's request for a preliminary injunction to further restrain enforcement of the ordinance is set for June 21. If the injunction is denied, presumably will be ordered to undo any interim work on the line in violation of the ordinance.

That apparently means construction inside the city. Meanwhile, City Attorney Kenneth Lounsbery says he has stepped up efforts by the city to halt construction of the line in the disputed right-of-way which will be the subject of California Public Utilities Commission hearings in Escondido June 17-18. The hearings are linked to the citys formal complaint to the PUC. The complaint seeks undergrounding or relocation of six transmission lines of up to 230,000 volts proposed for construction in the 300-foot-wide right-of-way. Lounsbery has urged the PUC to reconsider its recent denial of a temporary restraining order sought by the city to block premature construction of the line.

He contends its installation before the upcoming PUC hearings may compromise the outcome of those sessions and weaken the citys case. In response to Bates vocal alarm last Wednesday before the city council, Lounsbery said he anticipates he will be heard Tuesday, June 3, on his petition for rehearing. If we prevail on June 3, he said, we can restrain them temporarily. Mayor Alan Skuba, meanwhile, viewed the situation as folly in that state legislation which would throw it (the transmission line) underground is near enactment. Id like to see the 69 (kv line) go down our streets, he said with reluctance, instead of it cutting a swath across the valley.

G-- Notes from today Recreation facilities booked up By United Press International The California Highway Patrol, police and public state park officials geared themselves to keep order and preserve life today for the coming three-day national observance of Memorial Day weekend. The most cogent advice came from a spokesman for the State Parks System Stay home. All recreational facilities in California were expected to be overcrowded for the traditional kickoff weekend for the summer season. In the State Parks System of 90 parks which have camping facilities 75 have been already filled by reservations. The system has 200 parks, but only 90 with camping facilities.

Were urging people not to try to get into the remaining parks, the spokesman said. Anyone who leaves home on Friday morning and thinks hes going to find a place to camp in a state park is just going to be disappointed. The National Park Service announced that everything in such recreational areas is on a first-come, first-serve basis for the expected visitors. The California Highway Patrol said it would deploy as many men as possible and the shifts will be larger than usual to police the highways. The CHP called the holiday a maximum reporting situation, in which they will report fatal and other traffic accidents.

SD employes get raises SAN DIEGO (AP) Civil service employes of San Diego will get 4.2 per cent pay increases July 1-a $2 million package instead of $6 million to 97 million which employes sought. A new ordinance providing the raise was approved 6-1 Thursday by the City Council. When the ordinance was introduced two weeks ago, the Police Officers Association said a lawsuit accusing the city of refusing to negotiate in good faith was planned. Fringe benefits in addition have been sought. The citys civil service employes won 7.8 per cent pay raises last year.

Oceanside woman slain OCEANSIDE (AP) A woman was fatally stabbed during an apparent burglary and police said two young men were sought in connection with the slaying. Mary Sarkisian, 56, died Thursday of throat and abdomen stab wounds suffered when she was attacked in a loan and surplus goods store. Ronald Sarkisian, 37, owner of the building and the victims brother, called police after he returned to the shop just before noon. Officers said the pair, described as hippie types, had fled when police arrived. It was not determined whether any thing was taken from the shop.

Pair held in murder WASHINGTON (AP) The 21-year-old daughter of the former deputy mayor of Washington and a 25-year-old musician today were ordered held for a grand jury on murder charges resulting from the slaying of a policeman after a savings and loan robbery. Ordered held by U.S. Magistrate Lawrence S. Margolis after a preliminary hearing were Heidi Ann Fletcher and Lawrence D. Caldwell.

Moments later Miss Fletchers father, Thomas Fletcher, now city manager of San Jose and former city manager of San Diego, attempted to make a statement to newsmen but burst into sobs and hurried away after a few words. Yank takes chess lead VANCOUVER, B.C. Bobby Fischer of the United States took a 4-0 lead here Thursday in his world chess championship quarter-final match against Mark Taimanov, defeating the Russian in 71 moves. The game had been adjourned on the 41st move with Fischer from Santa Monica, playing white, attempting to break through Taimanovs position. He finally took advantage of the Russians cramped defense to sacrifice a bishop and gain control of the queenside.

Two connected passed pawns proved to be the difference and Taimanov resigned. The victory, Fischers fourth straight, leaves him with 1ft more points to score in the 10-game match to advance in the elimination series and challenge world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Navy figure succumbs CORONADO, Calif. (AP) Retired Navy Capt. Laurence Wild, who was governor of America Samoa in World War II, is dead at 81.

Memorial services are planned Tuesday for Wild, who died in a San Diego hospital Wednesday, A veteran of both world wars, he was a 1913 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy where he was one of the nations best basketball players. In 1915, he was coach of the academys unbeaten team. Mars craft launch set WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. space agency plans to launch its Mariner spacecraft at 6:20 p.m.

EDT Saturday for a Mars orbit by Nov. 14. James C. Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said Thursday he is satisfied the craft has been corrected to avoid a repeat of the first Mariner launch failure May 8. Corn.

From Page A-l will also sound taps to close the assembly with the echo by Frank Norton. The presentation of the colors will be by color guards with Richard E. Flores in command followed by the pledge of allegiance led by Dale Prewell of Scout 'hoop 664. The assembly will sing the national anthem led by the Escondido Oratorio Octette. The octette will also sing Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful later in the program.

Invocation will be given by Rev. Coy Maret of Emmanuel Faith Community Church. The 1968 order of Gen. Logan establishing Memorial Day will be read by Charles Wilson of American Legion Post 149. The honor roll of Escondido residents who have died in the Vietnam war will be read by Alba Connors of John R.

Simpson Post 1513, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Capt. Hawkins, the principal speaker, has become known as a people oriented commanding officer of the Naval Air Rework Facility. The facility is an industrial complex employing about 6,700 civilians in the maintenance and repair of the Navys air weapons systems. Capt.

Hawkins, said the NAS public affairs office, has instigated many programs aimed at improving work conditions, minority race opportunities and at making his command an active participant in the San Diego community. His support of last years United Community Services drive resulted in 6,200 persons in his command contributing a total of $193,000. His support of the annual Salvation Army toy drive brought the contribution of 4,600 new toys last Christmas. Following Capt. Hawkins remarks the benediction will be given by Rev.

Jeremiah Murphy of St. Marys Catholic Church. Prior to taps the rifle salute will be sounded by the rifle squad of Co. 3rd Battalion, 184 Armor, National Guard, with SFC Charles Brendt in charge. Seating arrangements are being made for some 300 persons.

Articles filed Capitol News Service SACRAMENTO Gold Crown Macademia Association, an agricultural cooperative, with a director from Escondido, has filed corporation articles with the officer of the secretary of state. The local director is Chester James Dunn of 2667 Las Palmas Drive. Push-button voting seen 1 PALO ALTO (AP) More voting by mail is likely in the near future and for the distant future balloting will be by pushing buttons on two-way cable television sets, Californias secretary of state predicts. Edmund G. Brown the annual meeting of the County Clerks Association here Thursday the present voting system is costly and rapidly becoming obsolete.

Fewer than half of our adult citizens bother to cast ballots, Brown said, and this tragic situation will not improve until better and innovative election procedures are developed. Most California households will have cable TV by 1980, Brown said. Newspapers are making plans to distribute by facsimile transmitted over cable TV and grocery chains to receive orders punched by the housewife on a kitchen console. Voting by two-way TV would save hundreds of thousands of dollars every election year, Brown said. We would no longer have to employ workers at each polling place or print millions of ballots we could utilize a pre-existing electronic network.

Staff Photo by Howard Decker Working full tilt San Diego Gas Electric Co. crews were going full tilt this week on construction of a transmission line' in a disputed 300-foot right-of-way through the northwest Escondido Shown is a tractor hauling poles to support the line in the area of Rock Springs Road. City is trying to stop the construction. Mass slayings in Yuba City a sober day a man can pick up $20. That was Coronas calling.

By word of mouth, Mexican workers came to him. But in the duller seasons, he spent much time in the Bonanza Club, the New Palm and the other dives of a miniature Bowery. He was there on business. According to the men who knew him, he never took a drink, he never smoked. One man who knew him well is Ted Ramirez, a barber of Mexican extraction who is married to a girl named MacKenzie, a descendant of the Stuart clan.

Like all barbers, Ramirez likes to talk. He was a quiet fellow, Ramirez said. He would sit and shoot the breeze. But then Cont. From Page A-3 was the Beale Army Camp, then a staging area and now a large Air Force base.

One of the brothers opened a bar. The others went into the labor contracting business. In the Central Valley migrant workers are a necessity for the landowners. The transients range from about 2,000 in the winter months to 20,000 when the peaches and other crops are in harvest. Mexican nationals with green cards swarm into the area in the summer.

But when the orchards need pruning and thinning, the contractors seek out the locals and the best sources are the bars on Marysvilles Skid Row where on suddenly youd be off on an entirely different direction in the conversation. He would be in here (the Bonanza) in the morning asking if anyone wanted to pick up a few bucks in the orchards. Maybe four guys would say okay and they would pile into that red and white pickup of his and go off. Then sometimes he would come in late at night and line up guys to work the next day. He never, got in arguments.

I knew him and all his brothers. They started leaving about two years ago. Coronas attorney is Roy J. Van Der Heuvel. He is a public defender in Sutter County and also has practiced law here for the past six years.

Van Der Heuvel, although refusing to discuss material facts in the case under a court gag order, shook things up a bit on the day of his appointment by saying: They have the wrong man. Sheriff Roy Whiteaker is convinced they have the right man. Whiteaker is 31, one of the youngest law enforcement officers ever to hold such a post. He also is the coroner for Sutter County, although a pathologist performed the autopsies. This is the man, Whiteaker said.

He said that before Yuba City Judicial Court Judge J.J. Hankins ordered everyone to clam up about the killing. That order has left newsmen scratching in vain about a motive. According to court records, Corona had spent three months in the Dewitt State Hospital at Auburn, in 1956, suffering from delusions and hallucinations and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. He was released three months later as recovered.

One of the first two bodies identified' was that of Sigrid Emil Beierman, 63, of Marysville. Police said Beierman last was seen entering a 1970 van driven by Corona. This report was checked out after Beierman was reported missing several weeks ago, then it was dropped until his body was found. It apparently helped lead Sutter County officers to Corona, although they, under the court order, would not say so. One of Coronas brothers, Pedro, did not leave the area when the others did.

He described Juan as the best brother I have. He sends money every week to our mother in Autlan and takes care of any of the brothers who come up here. Juans wife Gloria, through an interpreter, said he always treated me right and never was violent with me or our four children. She shook her head. Ill never believe this, she said.

I cant understand it..

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