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(CCC) E-2 THE SUN April 23. WO City Plans Tighter Controls On New Gas Station Locations -tvv'- 1 it would not be the city's intent to exercise economic control on new stations, but that an amendment would serve to cause the oil industry to be more selective in its site selection. abatement procedures if the station remains vacant for over a certain period of time," the commission report said in part. Planning Diector Jack R. Reilly said S.B.

Youth Opportunities May Get $25,000 Grant By RICHARD S. KIMBALL Sun-Telegram Staff Writer San Bernardino's program for youth opportunity moved closer yesterday to receiving a federal grant to augment its activities. Sen. George Murphy, announced that the President's Council on Youth Opportunity has recommended approval of the grant. Gary Van Osdcl.

San Bernardino director of community development, said yesterday the funds will be used to supplement work now being done by the city's youth coordinator. The coordinator works with the Youth Opportunity Council of the National Association of Businessmen, the City Recreation Department, Dependency Prevention Commission, colleges, Operation Second Chance and other community groups to provide employment, training and recreation to disadvantaged youth. Under the grant, the coordinator's office will be able to acquire additional clerical help which will enable to be a focal point and clearing house for Sun-Ttiearam photo by Ken Wewly in his front yard at 119 Court Street. Snow, hail Ao More Apricots Wind and rain which whipped through San Bernardino area Tuesday, caused damage scenes like this one. Frank Orona surveys apricot tree toppled and lightning were reported throughout other parts of the county during freak spring storm.

Victor Trustees Debate Summer School Policy Cantagious Ward Closed Down At County General Hospital By BOB JACOBS Sun-Telegram Staff Writer VICTORVILLE Should academic make-up credit be offered for summer school classes? If "make-ups" are eliminated, should summer school be held at all? These were questions woven Into a 45-minute exchange of trustees and top administrators at Tuesday night's Victor Valley High School District board meeting. Trustees wondered if the district can afford to offer such summer classes as "decorative i and The contagious ward at County General Hospital closed this month, maybe for good, reported Clifford M. Thayer, administrator of the hospital. The number of cases requiring isolation has been constantly declining in recent years, he said. Last year the 20-bed ward averaged only eight patients at one time, and when the ward was shut down last week there were only six.

The remaining patients have all been moved into private rooms in other wings of the hospital, Thayer said. The move permits the hospital to save on nursing staff and other expenses that would be involved in keeping the ward open. Medical techniques make the move perfectly safe, he said. Barstow's New Mayor Lists Priority Projects There ii one service station for even 589 persons bving in San Bernardino. That's one of the reasons the San Bernardino City Council this week put some legal machinery into action to put stricter controls on the location of new stations in the city.

The council gate unanimous approval to a City Planning Commission recommendation calling for an amendment to the Land Use Zoning Ordinance. City Attorney Ralph H. Prince was ordered to draft a revision. In addition, the council directed Prince to investigate possibilities for legislation that would deal with the abatement of abandoned stations. At present, 13 per cent of the city's 190 service stations are closed, according to a survey by the City Planning Department.

If approved, the new law would require all new proposals to open businesses where gasoline will be dispensed to obtain conditional development permits. At present, all that is required for the opening of a station is that the business be placed in the proper zone. Businesses subject to the new permit requirement would be required to have site approval from both the commission and council. Those bodies could then impose conditions on approval of the development. The commission has recommended that all places where retail gasoline is sold, including combination gas-dairies, car washes and markets, would be covered by the amended law.

In its report, the commission noted that more progressive oil companies have introduced new architectural concepts that provide structural ideas more pleasing to the eye than the "garish appearances" of many stations that incorporate flags, signs advertising gas wars and moving displays. It pointed out also that a number of older stations have voluntarily refurbished their existing sites. At Monday's meeting, the council approved a commission recommendation that will allow Signal Oil to move a station deelopment from 4108 Sierra Way to 3969 Sierra Way and that the old site be cleared. The abatement will involve removal of pumps and underground tanks. The new site will be landscaped and is subject to zoning, engineering and maintenance requirements.

Surveys by the staff were started last December at the request of the council. The work included contacting other cities, which apparently are experiencing the same kind of land use and deterioration problems as San Bernardino. In the city, 33 of the 190 stations showed signs of deterioration and 68 met modern design standards. Nine of the stations sold gas in conjunction with another business. Most cities consider the vacant or abandoned station a serious problem in the community and are intent on finding satisfactory answers, even to the extent of initiating Helping Others Not Enough for Fussy Old IRS A San Bernardino income tax preparer has been accused by the Internal Revenue Service of failing to file a federal income tax return in 1964.

Michael B. Aguirre, 46, of 1118 West 16th Street, entered a plea of no contest to the government's charge and will be sentenced May 25 by U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk. Aguirre, Mho operates his business as an income tax return preparer and bookkeeper at 684 W.

Base Line, admitted that he had income of $13,088 during 1964. Aguirre could receive a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney George Rayborn. The charge against Aguirre was brought as a result of a lengthy investigation conducted by special agents of the intelligence division of the IRS, Rayborn said. Victorville Man Dies in Crash At Caion Pass A 24-vear-nld Virtnrvillp man A 24-year-old Victorville man was killed early yesterday when his car went out of control on a sweeping curve on Interstate 15, one mile north of State Highway 138 in the Cajon Pass area.

Dead at the scene of the accident was George L. Bell, an automotive parts department employe, of 16011 Stoddard Wells Road. Deputy Coroner G. B. Can-trell said Bell succumbed to severe head injuries in the 2:15 a.m.

accident. California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Mitchell reported that Bell's small foreign car was southbound on the freeway when it left the roadway, struck a guardrail on the west edge of the south lane, spun and struck the rail again before overturning. Bell was ejected from the car. His body was taken to Grove Colonial Mortuary, San Bernardino, pending autopsy. Runway Given Top Priority In Big Bear Airport's Plan all youth programs in San Bernardino and surrounding communities.

The grant will be matched by $12,500 from local agencies. Until recently, all funds for the activities of the youth coordinator were provided by the city. In announcing the recommendation for grant. Murphy said, he was "pleased to learn of the Council's action in recommending San Bernardino as a recipient of this valuable program to help the young people of our nation." The grant will be funded through the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Economic Development Agency, and the Community Redevelopment Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. San Bernardino's application for the grant, formulated with the help of a local advisory council of youths, was competitively reviewed by the Council.

Fifty-five cities throughout the nation, including eight in California, received the Council's recommendation for grants. Patients are placed in isolation while undergoing tests to determine if they have tuberculosis, Thayer said. Encephalitis victims must also be isolated. Once a prime cause for isolation, poliomyelitis has virtually disappeared, he said. The last polio patient was admitted to the hospital in November 1963.

Staphylococcus infections are highly contagious, and victims must still be isolated, he said. But many of these diseases are now being treated at home, and no longer require hospitalization in a great many cases. Thayer said he did not know if the ward will remain closed permanently. Present plans call for it to remain closed, he said. The plan was produced by the County Airports Department under a $3,000 contract with County Service Area 53, the board-governed agency which is purchasing the site and will operate it.

Airports Director Robert S. Goodman told the board the service area's advisory commission "enthusiastically approved the plan" last Sunday. Goodman said the site could be expanded to either the north or south, depending on the direction that would involve the least expense. The additional property, he said, is needed for a-terminal, maintenance facilities and' aircraft storage as well as providing adequate distance between the runway and taxiways. The airport should be designed for future accommodation of feeder airlines, he said.

One recommendation is to lengthen the runway ultimately to 5,850 feet. The runway length now is about 4,000 feet. Smith said the service area should stick to FAA standards in the development so that the airport wil be eligible for federal funds meeting 53 per. cent of the cost of certain approved projects. Also by doing this, he said, "it may be possible to obtain both federal and state funds for all but 23 per cent of the costs." Ultimate development in accordance with the plan could be expected to take about 10 years, he said.

Smith's report estimates there are now about 10,000 landings and take-offs annually at the airport and that the number will increase to 40,000 by the end of the decade. Purchase of the airport, located at the east end of Big Bear Lake, will be completed in August. Park, Recreation Revamp Hearing The proposed revamping of San Bernardino's City Park Recreation Department 9s the subject of a 7 p.m. meeting of the City Council tonight. Reduction in foij, reassignment to.

different departments a reclassification of employes is involved in the move to organize the two departments which were merged into one by action of the electorate two years 'ago. The meeting will be in the temporary council chamber, Court and streets. BARSTOW Barney Keller, the city's new mayor, rates the proposed civic auditorium and a new library among the city's most pressing needs. He also has called for public involvement in revitalizing the downtown area. "The downtown area is a big problem," he said.

"What we need are suggestions from the public on what can be done about it. Everyone is for getting the downtown area fixed up. but nobody has any ideas, including me." Keller said the new council will be a good one. "I think the newcomers George Pauley and Al Vigil are bright young men with a sincere interest in the city. I'm looking forward to working with this council," he said.

Keller was born in Oklahoma July 10, 1911. He has lived in Barstow for the past 33 years. Keller is midway through his first four-year term on the City Council. He belongs to the First Congregational Church, the Kiwanis Club, and is a two-time past president of the Chamber of Commerce. He is in the real estate business.

Keller drives around town in a bal- lered, green, 1955 pickup, tooting his horn at friends as he drives. A bright prompts some students to "sleep through first and second semester. They say: 'why should I study now what I have to go to summer school said Graves. Graves also flared at polling of administrators and teachers which seemed to take policy-making away from trustees themselves and Stanley P. Matzen, assistant superintendent, educational services.

And between those two groups there seemed to be a division of thought, he noted. Teachers at Victor Valley Junior High voted against permitting "make-ups" in summer school. They were out-voted by the "cabinet" one delegate fro meach of the six schools in the district, he noted. School operation should involve "benevolent autocracy rather than democracy. not in favor of giving them (teachers) an opportunity to vote on it," said Graves.

Fred Hunter, principal of the junior high, said there has been confusion about make-up credit, but he's understood it would be offered. He said he likes one proposal that a student with a passing grade cannot take the class over in summer school just to improve that grade. Graves collided with Asst. Supt. Matzen, who favors make-up credit for summer classes.

"The 29 days of summer school really are not a substitute for the whole year but an addition to it," argued Matzen. Some subjects are not offered during the regular year. Others are, but students involved in "college prep" courses are sometimes too busy to enroll, he said. (, Matzen also insisted that, if summer school is not to carry make-up credit, students should be so notified, early in the school year. Matzen said that one taxpayer, after the recent election, asked, "How.

many businesses close their doors three months of the year?" "Did you tell him we're not running a business? asked Graves. "He had a lot of research to do before giving an opinion like that," added trustee Chester F. Golden. "The biggest expense is transportation," ventured Matzen. "Teacher salaries, not transportation, are the big expense," countered Graves.

District Supt. Harvey S. Irwin noted that the district gets regular state aid per-student for summer classes, but no money for transportation. At another point, when Graves asked about priorities for summer class offerings such as needlework, Matzen held that "many students get a lot of fun out of it." "No doubt, no doubt, no doubt," retorted Graves. He wondered if some classes should not be limited to advanced students.

World Emh refuse site; to new subdivisions of Boise Cascade Properties with underground utilities; to logging operations at Tunnel Tube. Speaker consensus was that ecology is basically, as Courtenay Buse of the County Planning commission said, "a matter of personal philosophy." He noted that "pollution can be contained only if each person becomes concerned and is willing to give up or pay a higher amount for goods and services." The most notable question asked by students was why? Why can't there be legislation limiting pollution; why are the things the way they are, and what can we do about it? Principal DeMent noted that two more ecology related activities are scheduled for this semester with Senior class students discussing a reforestation program in cooperation with the Forest Service. needlecraft" and if so, whether the title should not be changed to a more palatable "arts and crafts." In the end, the board approved filing intention for summer school once more. Deadline is May 1. But trustees called for a closer evaluation in the future, plus a check of how many students attend for "make-up" reasons.

Trustee Robert G. Graves triggered the discussion with the comment that summer school can be "an expensive way of baby sitting" which parents push onto the district. The prospect of summer classes Sun-Telegram photo BARNEY KELLER Barstow's new mayor red water can is strapped to the side of the truck. The Kellers, Barney and Lavawn, live at 630 Elm St. 'ihey have a grown son living away from Barstow.

rare blood disease. Baca, a musician, who is presently employed at the Kaiser Steel plant, conferred with Dr. James Humbert, a member of the pediatric hematology clinic at the hospital. Dr. Humbert said he hoped blood tests on Baca would assist doctors in treating 6-year-old Kerrijo Baca, of Denver.

the use of laboratory studies and a technique of aerial photographs or thermography which he adapted for this use. Estimates of trees damaged by smog is 80 per cent. Other speakers represented the County Department of Health, Planning Commission, Air Pollution Control District, The US Forest Service, Lake Arrowhead and Crestforest Fire Departments, County Flood Control, and Refuse Disposal and Southern California Edison and Gas companies. Seminars ranged from land use and presevation, flood control, and water pollution to smog, and master planning. Field trips were made to the Heaps Peak area, burned over in 1922 and again in 1956 to study examples of proper and improper reforestation; to Crestline county dump, an open-burning Doctors Hope Tests on Father May Give Clue to Girls' Disease Early construction of a runway and acquisition of property for clear zones are given top priority in a development plan for Big Bear Airport that received the approval of the County Board of Supervisors this week.

The plan calls for careful, step-by-step improvement of the airport facility so that it will meet Federal Aviation Agency standards and be eligible for federal financial assistance. Two of the biggest problems involve the need to widen the long, narrow airport site by acquiring properties to either the north or south and the necessity of eliminating ra i a hazards, according to consultant David E. Smith who prepared the recommendations. Bulletin Board BUSY MOOSE It'll be a busy weekend for San Bernardino Lodge No. 476 of the Loyal Order of Moose.

On Friday there'll be a fish fry at the lodge, 3271 N. starting at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday the "Working Belles" will conduct a bake sale at Sage's Del Rosa from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. And Saturday night there will be a dance at the lodge beginning at 9 p.m.

On Sunday enrollment of officers will be conducted at 2 p.m. to be followed by dinner at 4:30 p.m. DANCE IN MUSCOY Corral 18 of Equestrian Trails, and the Muscoy Recreation Association are sponsoring an adult dance Saturday night at the Muscoy Grange Hall, 2162 W. Darby Muscoy. Dancing will begin at 8:30 p.m.

and continue until 1 a.m. with music furnished by "The Kentucky Blue A buffet supper will also be served and tickets may be purchased at the door. Proceeds from the dr.nce will be used to help build rest rooms at Blake Street Park in Muscoy; SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Open House will be featured at the Highland Junior High School PTA meeting tonight at 7:30. Parents and friends of the school are invited to attend. The PTA will also sponsor a bake sale as a fund-raising event.

SOCIAL CLUB MEETS The J. Clifford Lee Social Club, O.E.S. will meet at the home of Florence Matthews, 2096 Genevieve, San Bernardino, tomorrow. The father of a young girl suffering from a rare blood disease was located yesterday in San Bernardino by the Sheriff's department. Joe Andrew Baca, who is living at 2637 W.

2nd San Bernardino was being sought by Denver, Colo, police and doctors at the Colorado General Hospital to aid in the treatment of a Earth Day Teach -In at Rim of By PAT ESSER Sun.Tele(jrm Correspondent LAK EARROWHEAD Believing that if ecology dies, we die, and that ecology can not just be something currently fashionable, Lester DeMent, principal of Rim of the World high school and Nicholas Monsour, history teacher, directed an Earth Day teach-in at the high school for some 650 students in grades 9 through 12. Teach-in activities included seminars, field trips, presentation of the latest information on environmental studies in news weeklies and movies and group discussions asking, why? Featured seminar speaker was Paul Miller of the U.S. Forest Service Exper-mental Station at the University of California at Riverside. Miller directed the study of smog damage to San Ber-aardino National "Forest trees through itjy ft H- t--A i "'ii4i ii a fciifciM.