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June 10 1983 1 aslis court to ust ban prayer Aid for crime victims voted SACRAMENTO (UPI) The Assembly bus passed i nine-bill pickige to help crime victims obtim restitution through i $10 million "tix on criminals The bipartisan proposals also would make it easier for victims to sue adult and juvenile criminals who have money or property Designed to meet the constitutional requncmcnts ot the so-called "Victims Bill of Rights which voters adopted last June the bills were sent to the Senate I hurs day after a brief political squabble Court test of 'victims' rights' LOS ANGELES (UPI) The California Supreme Court reviewing the drug possession case of comedian I lip Wilson was urged Thursday to strike down a key provision of Proposition 8 the so-called "victims hill of rights The court hearing oral arguments in Los Angeles ex actly one year after enactment of the measure aimed at reforming the states criminal justice system was told the initiatives controversial truth-in-evidcnce section vio lated both the state and federal constitutions The Wilson case has presented the justices with one of their first opportunities to rule on vaguely worded but lar ranging truth-in-evidence section of Prop 8 SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Officials of Alameda County have asked a state appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling banning prayers in time for two high school graduations tonight Deputy County Attorney William Rundstrom asked the state Court of Appeal late Thursday to reverse an order striking the prayers from the ceremonies issued by Superior Court Judge Raymond Marsh at the request of three high school seniors The three-judge panel of the appeals court deliberated on the controversy for 15 minutes Thursday evening before announcing they would not make a decision until today at the earliest Marsh ordered the prayers out of graduation ceremonies at Livermore and Granada High Schools after he agreed with the assertion of American Civil Liberties Union attorneys that the prayers would violate the constitutional separation of church and state The judge said both the state and federal constitutions require officials to be neutral in matters of religion He said having prayers at graduation violated the school officials duty of neutrality In his petition to the appeals court Rundstrom said the prayers did not violate the law because graduation ceremonies were voluntary and it was the custom practice and policy of the school board to include them at graduations A brief invocation at a graduation ceremony at which attendance is voluntary does not transgress the First Amendment Rundstom asserted The case was filed by the ACLU on behalf of three seniors at the high schools after the Granada student graduation committee voted 35-11 to retain the short prayers at the opening of the ceremony Excellent Dogs Need Adoption at BERKELEY EAST BAY HUMANE SOCIETY 2700 Sth St (at Carleton) Berkeley As of June 7 1 983 Feinstein backing Mondale SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Sail Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein has announced that she is one of a group of California mayors who endorsed the presidential candi dacy of former vice president Walter Mondale Assembly backs schools bill SACRAMLNTO (UPI) 1 he Assembly has passed a Senate bill containing various education reforms and $850 million in tax increases but its final fate will be decided in budget negotiations between the two houses next week The bill SB8I3 by Sen Gary Mart Santa Barbara was gutted by the Assembly I ducation Committee so that it could be replaced with piovisions ol a competing bill AB70 by Chairwoman Teresa Hughes Los Angeles Kevin Cooper alias David Trautman UPI photo Chino suspect hunted CHINO Calif (UPI) Authorities investigating the bloodbath slayings of four people concentrated on the Mexican border area today in their search for their primary suspect 25-year-old man who had escaped on his first day in a minimum security prison facility Kevin Cooper 25 an escaped mental patient wanted for kidnapping and rape in Pennsylvania who broke out of the Chino state prison last week was charged Thursday with the hacking and stabbing massacre of four people Corrections officials said Cooper was in the pnson under an alias but admitted they might have "contributed to a bad mistake by placing him in a minimum security facility three days before the Sunday slaughter The charges were filed one week after his escape from the Chino state prison where he was serving the first day of a four-year sentence for burglary in Los Angeles County The prison is 5 miles from the site of the slayings We have evidence in our possession that places Kevin Cooper at the crime scene San Bernardino County Sheriff Floyd Tidwell said and we have other evidence that gives us cause to believe Kevin Cooper was responsible for the murders School official alive after all PLEASANTON (UPI) A school otiieiil who van ished a week ago after leaving a suicide note at the Golden Gate Bridge is alive in Boston police said Darrell Carter 46 financial manager of the Plea santon School District telephoned his ex wile Wednesday night and Thursday morning saying he took a cross-country train trip to think said a Pleasanton detective Carter told his former wife Margaret that he plans to return to the Bay Area within a few days 1 he school dis tnct car he had been driving was found Wednesday in a public parking lot on the Marin side of the Golden Gate Bridge A suicide note was inside police reported MClCMMi in ill SATURDAY JUNE 11 1983 11 AM-3 PM In the New Rockridse Healthplan Albany Health Center 828 San Pablo Avenue (lust north ol Solano) SENIORS ADULTS CHILDREN-ALl INVITED Special Program for Children Help take the mystery out of nq the doctor for youf th Ur They wear doctors coats and use stetroscopes tongue depressors and bood pressure cuffs under the supervison of Rockr dge med cal staff Role ay ng be a fun way for ch Idren to learn about exam at on prrx edures med cal nstruments and exam rooms 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