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Riverside County Planners Deny Cedu Ranch Permit By MARJIE SHOEMAKER Sun-Telegram Staff Writer RIVERSIDE Cedu Ranch, a rehabilitation home for alienated youth, was da-nied a public use permit yesterday which would allow it to continue operating in Reche Canyon. The Riverside County Planning Coin-mission turned down the request for the permit after a lengthy public hearing on the basis the ranch "is not compatible to the area." Enos Reid, volunteer attorney for Ce- du Ranch, said the ranch residents would appeal the decision to the Riverside County Board of Supervisors "in due time." According to law, the appeal must be made within 10 days. Planning Commissioner Harold L. Moy-er, who made the motion to deny the permit, said, "I feel it (the ranch) does a lot of good but there are other favorable locations for it." After the decision was announced, Mel Wasserman, founder and operator of the ranch, charged the commissioners with "hypocrisy." Michael Raftery, a Riverside attorney representing 74 Reche Canyon homeowners who opposed Cedu Ranch, based his case on the position that it was not necessary that the ranch operate in Reche Canyon and that its current operation has been a detriment to other residents there. The requirements for a public use permit are that it must be necessary for the facility to be in that area and that it must not be a detriment to nearby residents.

The approximate six acres of land where Cedu Ranch is lo cated is zoned for residential use. Under its present zoning restrictions, no more than five unrelated persons may live in a single dwelling. Cedu Ranch presently has 29 persons living in ranch house which is large but designed only for one family. Raftery charged the ranch was not equipped to provide adequate sewage and that the water supply in the canyon was inadequate. He also charged the "excessive occupancy" of the ranch house endangers the health, welfare and safety of the persons there.

Wasserman said they had applied for permits to bring the house and sewage system up to standard but were denied them on the basis the zoning laws did not permit such an operation as Cedu has. Thus, he could not obtain the permits until he had a public land use permit. A former resident of the ranch, Jacqueline Hilton of Banning, criticized tie ranch at yesterday's session, saying they brainwashed the youth there and "dwelled on sex." Young ranch residents however, offered rebuttal. The public hearing had been contin ued over three sessions in the past few months. In previous sessions, Reche Canyon home owners complained Cedu residents made noise, used profane language, started a fire, poised a threat to women residents and caused additional traffic on canyon roads.

Cedu Ranch youth testified on the other hand, that many of them had been rehabilitated at the ranch and had found happiness there. Some of them explained they had used drugs and had become social dropouts, before going to Cedu. Council Readies Controls On 'Flea Market Stores vV uity Sept. 25, 1 968 B-l Mi EXPLOSIVE LOAD A semi-truck and trailer lies on its side off Interstate 40, 12 miles He told the council that to depend on property owners themselves to upgrade buildings is wishful thinking. Lonergan and Bill Smith, a real estate agent, asked for enforceable laws to be put on the books.

Smith said he favored private owners jointly putting up new buildings. Prince said, however, that the city can't require any business to have a new building so long as existing buildings meet code standards. Quail Canyon Flood Pro eel Gets City OK San Bernardino's 4th Ward Councilman Robert L. Henley accepted an $8,000 project for correcting part of Quail Canyon's flood problems, and the council voted to call for bids on Oct. 4.

"I'm going to take what I can get said the councilman at the Monday meeting. He had vowed to fight for what originally was budgeted as a $43,000 project. Mayor Al C. Ballard criticized the councilman for remarks he has made about the sharing of city money among wards, for comments made to the press and for bringing Quail Canyon constituents with him to the meeting. Four of the residents pleaded for some kind of action to eliminate flood dangers to their homes.

In agreeing to go ahead with the limited project, Henley assured canyon residents they would have "only water no debris" to worry about when the next storm comes. Ballard said the past problems have been created by debris and loose soil. He said the $8,000 project will take care of the debris. "I'll take the $8,000 and I'll take it gladly," said Henley. "I'll take what I can get," he said, but he promised Ballard, "I'm going to give them your telephone number when it rains." Bill Smith spoke from the audience to say he is in the process of building a home in the area and thought when he purchased the property that the city had agreed to take care of it.

Melvin Wright said that every time it rains city trucks and tractors are called to the scene. He said the city has already spent more than in providing men and equipment for repairs. Among the speakers was A. Merle Sessions, who said he has lived in Quail Canyon for 12 years and has been working to get something done during the terms of three councilmen. Ballard commented that if the councilmen had spent $8,000 a year for the past 10 years, the problem would have been taken care of.

By MARY SANCHEZ Sun-Telegram Staff Writer The San Bernardino City Council is preparing action to put tighter controls on second-hand stores and other businesses that move into vacated buildings. City Attorney Ralph 11. Prince was directed to prepare an ordinance amendment that would require conditional use permits for pawn shops, theaters, penny arcades, shooting galleries, pool and billiard parlors, used book stores, rummage and second-hand stores and auction yards and stores. The council passed the motion of 1st Ward Councilman Druscilla Seccombe by a 5-1 vote. Councilman Michael R.

Pagan voted against it. He said the requirement would be unreasonable and would discriminate against small businesses. Councilman Robert L. Henley, who is still bristling over a fight he lost to keep an art theater from opening on Street, asked for a new ordinance that would prohibit theaters from opening in buildings except those built for theater use. Mrs.

Seccombe opposed that motion. "People who have millions of dollars invested in their property don't want Street to become a flea market," Henley said. Fagan replied that "what, the businessmen won't want is City Hall telling them what to do." Mrs. Seccombe's motion for the permit requirement came as a result of complaints brought to her from businessmen and property owners on the periphery of the $40 million Central City Project. She agreed with the views of those who expressed concern over lack of controls on the re-use of vacated buildings.

She said the structures are given internal inspection, but there are no requirements for upgrading exteriors of buildings. Ma) or Al C. llallard said he would meet with the San Bernardino Downtown Associates in an effort to start a program for voluntary upgrading of building in the downtown area. Mrs. Seccombe said her motion is a result of study of the area from Court to Cth streets and from the San Bernardino Freeway to Arrowhead Avenue.

Fagan contended that the proximity to the Central City Project would force property owners to upgrade their property, but Henley said that some property owners made money on depressed real estate. Mrs. Seccombe said the proposed change would not be retroactive. John B. Lonergan.

a lawyer whose three-story office building is at 4th and streets, brought the original complaint to City Hall and spoke on his own behalf and on behalf of a number of large business offices, including banks, on the fringe of the Central City Project. Truck Carrying Explosive Missile Components Overturns; Road Closed east of Barstow, after spilling its load of six cylinders containing explosive missile compon- for the accident. Witnesses at the scene said the truck slid down a 12-foot embankment about 3:15 a.m. There was no fire or explosion, the CHP said. The truck driver, Robert Leon Smith, 29, of Joplin, was transferred to County General Hospital in San Bernardino.

He was not believed to be in critical condition. The back-up driver, Gerald Lee Bow- Earl Bute's They Tell Me On the Back Burner A little of this and a little of that: W. P. Hand, district manager for the Southern California Gas with offices in San Bernardino, forwards me a tersely written fact sheet on the gas industry which interested me and may you. A few items: One therm of gas, which is equal to 100,000 British thermal units (BTU), will produce enough heat in an instantaneous gas heater to bathe 60 babies.

The nation's gas industry customers used 135.1 billion therms of gas in 1967, an increase of 4.8 per cent over the 128.9 billion therms consumed in 1966. Of this volume, more than half went to the industry's 181,000 industrial customers. Some offshore drilling rigs used in prospecting for natural gas are as large as football fields, cost $10 million to build and are equipped with living quarters, recreation and dining rooms, workshops and a heliport for air taxi service to shore. Throughout the nation there are 39 million gas customers. By 1980 the figure should reach 40 million.

Coal is still a major source for gas. During the next five years, the American Gas Association, the Department of the Interior's coal research division and the Institute of Gas Technology will build a plant which will process from one to three tons of coal an hour to produce one to two million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent a day. That California condor, twice sighted near the sheriff's rehabilitation center at Glen Helen, is still around. He was sighted again by Ingar Olsen, The Sun-Telegram's agent at Devore and Percy Chaffee, near the Palm Avenue traffic separation on the Barstow (Continued on 5, Column 2) Barstow Man Dies in Vietnam U.S. Army Pfc.

Daniel E. Nelson father of Shannah M. Nelson of 1628 Paloma Barstow, has been listed by the Department of Defense as killed in action in South Vietnam. The soldier was one of seven California serviceman identified as war casualties yesterday. None of the others were from San Bernardino County.

Nelson's family was not available for details on funeral arrangements and the defense department did not specify the nature of the military action in which he was killed. Short Shriit By ROSS HAYNES The real credibility gap is between men and machines. Machines don't really understand us, so they're trying to make us over in their own image. Quimby Attacked by Opponent Over Vote in Censure at UC Sun-Telegram photo ents. A stretch of the highway was closed temporarily yesterday as road was cleared.

den, 25, of Jane, was ejected during the crash. He was reported in satisfactory condition at Barstow Community Hospital. In a separate desert accident yesterday, a burning tank truck closed Interstate 15 near Baker for more than six hours. The road was closed at 10:35 a.m. and was reopened at 4:50 p.m., officials said, but a detour was used during that time.

by's vote on the censure of UC Berkeley officials during a face-to-face meeting here yesterday before the Upland Kiwan-is Club. Christensen, an Upland councilman, said Quimby "apparently waited in the quiet of his office to see how the vote would go'' before joining in the censure over the hiring of Rlack Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver. Quimby, I) Hialto, said lie returned to his office to get some work done during the debate which went on nearly all day. But, Quimby said, he was kept fully informed of the proceedings by seven "squawkboxes" in his office. "My opponent is getting his information from a bad source," Quimby said.

"It's not accurate it's only nitpicking." The two candidates in the 72nd Assembly District race were given about 10 minutes each to speak and then answered questions. Talking about the "debacle on the campuses," Christensen said a "slap on the wrist" was not enough to halt student riots. He urged stiffer penalties. Christensen proposed that "reasonable (Continued on 5 Column 5) Firefigh I ers Viclo riou Brush Fires Quick action yesterday by firefighters and aircraft dropping fire retardant chemicals led to containment of an 8-acre fire in San Antonio Heights near Cucamonga. A spokesman for the California Division of Forestry said the fire initially threatened an expensive residential area on the southside of San Antonio Heights, but the blaze was contained at 5:30 p.m.

At the same time, the CDF rolled to Cajon Summit after a report from a lookout station said black smoke was rising from the area. Firefighters logged the incident as a false alarm when they discovered a train engine was belching black smoke as it came down the pass. The CDF dispatched 16 fire trucks, a bulldozer and two aircraft, including a converted B17, to the San Antonio Heights blaze. Several houes in the $50,000 bracket By DAVID L. OTIS Sun-Telegram Staff Writer A truck carrying explosive military components overturned on Interstate 40, about 12 miles east of Barstow early yesterday, spilling its load along the highway.

The California Highway Patrol immediately closed the road. The truck and semi-trailer, from Jop-lin, was carrying six components in metal containers to the Naval Ammunition Depot at Fallbrook near Camp Pendleton, the CHP said. The two men in the truck, both from Missouri, were taken to a Barstow hospital with multiple injuries, the CHP said. Highway spokesmen said Interstate 40 between the Daggett-Yermo Road and the Newberry Springs Road was closed until 5:25 p.m. yesterday.

"We closed it on general policy," an officer said. "Although there was some damage to the cases, there is no great danger Commander Reginald Fogg, who is in charge of the ammunition depot said this noon that the components would not have exploded by impact, but might have produced a low order detonation in a fire. Officials said yesterday that the truck carried 12 "Walleye" missiles, highly explosive conventional warheads used by the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines. The missiles were not armed during shipment, however.

Army personnel from the 77th Ordnance Detachment at Ft. Irwin near Barstow assisted in the handling fthe missiles. Traffic, reported light early yesterday, was being routed along the National Trails Highway (old U.S. 66). The CHP said it would take at least four hours to load the projectiles into another truck, once it was brought to the scene.

The CHP said the reloading was handled by a three man demolition team from the Fort Irwin Army post. There was no immediate explanation GOP Gets Refund From Ballard At the request of Mayor Al C. Ballard, the City Council has moved to refund a rental charge for Perris Hill Bowl to a Republican group sponsoring an appearance by Gov. Ronald Reagan last night. Ballard said the city should refund a $25 rental fee paid by the person or committee who funded Gov.

Reagan's appearance on behalf of local Republican candidates. Ballard said Gov. Reagan, his "old was speaking and "no political party should have to pay $25 for the bowl rental fee," he said. By HARVEY FEIT Sun-Telegram Political Editor UPLAND GOP candidate James L. Christensen renewed his fight with Assemblyman John P.

Quimby over Quim- 2 Navy Centers In Job Cutbacks The Navy announced yesterday weapons research centers at China Lake and Corona will be among its 15 research facilities where civilian employment will be reduced as part of the Pentagon's current economy drive. The 10 per cent reduction is to be completed by next July and will save about $12 million, the announcement said. The total civilian jobs at the laboratories will be cut from 23,902 to Approximately 4,000 civilians are employed at China Lake and 1.000 at Corona. Presumably this would mean a cutback of 500 at the two facilities. The specific reductions total 1,912.

The Navy said the balance of the cutbacks would be accomplished by not filling jobs when they become vacant. The Pentagon is seeking to have $3 billion as its share of the $6 billion reduction in federal spending ordered by Congress when it approved the 10 per cent income tax surcharge. ALL YOU CAN EAT: ALL DAY WED. TIIURS. Serving II a.m.

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Fagan moved that the fee structure for Bowl appearances be made uniform. The council considers waiving rental fees only for non-profit organizations. Jacinto Mountains probably was started by two youths playing with firecrackers, according to fire Investigators. The boys, both 16, have been charged with burglarizing cabins in the Poppet Flat area. No arson charges have been filed.

One of the boys is from Los Angeles; the other, from Pasadena. They were hired to clean a cabin in Castile Canyon. They're charged with burglarizing that cabin and another one nearby, from which a shotgun and a tractor were taken. Riverside County Sheriff's Department and the California Division of Forestry say the fire started when cherry bombs were thrown into an old chair outside one of the cabins. Sparks smouldered in the chair, then erupted into flames that spread to nearby brush.

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TU 9-0881 Also in Barstow, Loma Linda were threatened, said the CDF, but the fire moved into brush land and was later contained. Flames lashed by gusty winds Monday night consumed 20 acres in the Bogart Park area of Cherry Valley, but quick action by firefighters ringed the blaze in a half hour. The fire started at 6:30 p.m. A plane managed to drop one load of fire-re-tardant chemicals, but then darkness forced firefighters to rely solely on their own efforts. A home and a four-wheel drive vehicle were scorched by the flames.

No injuries were reported, according to the California Division of Forestry. Sixteen units from CDF, the U.S Forest Service, the Beaumont Fire Department and the Cherry Valley volunteers working under the CDF, fought the flames. The fire that blackened more than 6,000 acres in Riverside County's San 1965 Honda S-90. A-l shape, 4000 mi. Needs 68 lie.

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