The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 11

United Fund Chief Extends 70 Drive Tuesday, Nov. 1 7, 1 970 A- THE SUM B-5 Mayor Puts Blame on Prince For West Side's Prostitution as you did four years ago." Prince said he didn't think he had to defend himself against the mayor's "spurious" charges, but that he resented incorrect information about cases being released to the newspaper. "Put me in charge of the prosecution and the chief in charge of law enforcement," Prince asked the council. "I'll instruct the chief not to release statistics until they are cleared." He said that nothing could be accomplished "so long as the mayor uses this procedure to embarrass me." He said he did not have a list of cases such as the one published in a recent Sun-Telegram story and was not informed of a "secret meeting" Ballard had with Municipal Court judges, to date by 10 campaign divisions which showed that 57.8 per cent of the goal had been reached with some 1,800 contributing groups and individuals still to be contacted. "We would like to hold a victory celebration and recognize employe groups and campaign volunteers who have given so generously of their time and money," said Potter.

"But we cannot in good conscience bring the drive to a close with a festive dinner when there are so many calls to be made." Potter said in order to reach the goal this year "each contributor and worker must put forth a full measure of effort." If this effort is not made "the 36 member agencies providing health, welfare and youth-guidance services to thousands of people in our Arrowhead area will have to undergo sharp curtailment," he said. "Postponement of the meeting at this lime will allow us to develop more awareness by the community which we feel then will provide a stronger challenge for the people to get behind the AUF campaign," Potter said. He expressed gratitude for the extensive press and radio coverage given the effort and said the extension would not only allow time to complete assignments, but would give community-minded people a chance to back the campaign by volunteering to work. Anyone able to devote even an hour of time to the drive is urged to contact AUF headquarters, 1357 N. St.

At a special campaign cabinet meeting held at Arrowhead United Fund headquarters late yesterday, Verne F. Potter 1970 general chairman, decided that the 1970 drive will be extended. Final report meeting, originally scheduled for tomorrow, has been canceled. Potter reviewed campaign production Pre-Zoning Hearing Set on Devore Land SAN BERNARDINO Pre-zoning of 590 acres of land southeast of the community of Devore will be considered by the City Planning Commission at its meeting at 7:30 p.m. today.

About 50 residents, thinking yesterday's City Council session was called to consider annexation of their community, were at the meeting to protest. One of them asked, "Why do you want to zone it if you don't want to annex it?" Mayor Al C. Ballard replied, "To be truthful, we want it, but someone is putting out wrong information. We are not having an annexation hearing. We will set one after the pre-zoning hearing and it probably will be in December." City Planning Director Jack R.

Reilly said tonight's hearing involves land extending from Myers Road south and east to the freeway. The land is connected to the Irvington area, he said. J. R. Jeffries of 979 Greenwood Ave.

said that regardless of the intent of tonight's meeting "once you have that, you've got your foot in." He predicted, "You're not going to get Devore." the signers. She said, "I don't want any politics mixed in this. It's a problem that has to be taken care of." She criticized Prince for not "at least driving by out of curiosity" to see the flagrant practices of female solicitors on Mt. Vernon Avenue. "If you condone prostitution, put them somewhere where the citizenry does not have lo be subjected to their solicitations," she said.

In his statement, Ballard said that, available information points to a general failure by Prince's office to inform the judge hearing the case of prior arrest records of defendants. Prince replied that prior arrest information could not be submitted without "kick-back sheets" made available from Sacramento, and that in the past, weeks have passed before the information was available. He said that a one-day teletype process has been stalled as a result of telephone calls lo Sacramento. "We'i! take our share of the blame," said Prince. "But don't attribute it all to me personally." Earlier, Prince called Ballard's statements "divisive" and said he was not interested in the mayor's political statements, but only the facts.

He called Ballard's statement the harbinger of upcoming elections in which the mayor is seeking re-election. "I'll run again," said rrince, whose term also is expiring. "You can go out and get someone to run against me. By MARY SANCHEZ Sun-Telegram Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO The blame for flourishing prostitution activities on the city's west side was placed on City Attorney Ralph H. Prince in a blistering statement issued by Mayor Al C.

Ballard yesterday. Prince's immediate response was t') charge the mayor with using the situation to further his own political career. He later said he wants the mayor to quit interfering, with the jobs of prosecuting attorney and police chief. rrince asked for, and got, support from the City Council in taking the responsibility for prosecuting prostitution cases. The council unanimously passed Councilman Norris Gregory motion to refer the issue to Prince and to Police Chief Louis J.

Fortuna for 3 report on outstanding cases at next week's meeting. In his statement, Ballard called Prince's performance as a prosecutor "second rate at best." He criticized Prince for "negligence" in not objecting to trial continuances asked by defense attorneys and suggested that if Prince can't do his job, he should ask the district attorney's office to take over and save the city taxpayers Ballard's statement came a week after the council received a petition from 20 west side residents asking for a halt to the prostitution trade. Mrs. Dorothy Roberts, owner of the Valley Motel, acted as spokesman for Council Calls Varner About Theater Quotes Council ill Meel On Charier Chance SAN BERNARDINO A charter change calling for ward elections to fill vacancies on the City Council is the subject of a 12:30 p.m. session of the council today.

The amendment was proposed by Councilman Russell E. Lackner and must, be acted upon by today in order to be written in time for the Feb. 2 primary election ballot. Another amendment will require all council candidates to be residents of their wards for at least a year to be eligible for office. make did I intend to state when the performing arts theater would be completed." He said he told the interviewer that he was not in the construction business, "but he wanted a ballpark estimation." Varner said, "I didn't think he was going to quote me.

I said if we went ahead as scheduled it would take approximately two years to be complete. However, I said that was not up to me." After Mrs. Set-combe's request last week, Mayor Al C. Ballard said he got the feeling the newspaper was running the community and said, "Half the time I'm misquoted in the paper." Perlee telephoned Varner after that meeting last Monday afternoon to find out if any facts were misstated. Varner said at that time he could see no place where he was misquoted.

He said he would call back if he discovered any errors, but didn't. Vainer said yesterday he would present a plan for development of the California Theater as an interim civic theater at Thursday's meeting of the agency. SAN BERNARDINO Bruce D. Varner, attorney for the Redevelopment Agency, told the City Council yesterday that he didn't think he would be quoted when he told a newsman he guessed construction of a performing arts theater would be two years away. He was called before the council to explain a Sun-Telegram story which council members resented because it said construction was years away and there had been no council knowledge of a timetable.

While Varner did not claim he was misquoted, he said, "It's one of those things you discuss with someone and it doesn't come out in the newspaper quite the same way it was discussed." The story was called to the council's attention last week by Councilwoman Druscilla Seccombe who said she resented the indication that the theater would take years to complete. Varner said he did not blame Charles D. Perlee, Lively Arts editor, who interviewed him, and did not expect him to understand "this complicated business of city and agency financing." Said Varner, "I did not. state, nor Surplus Foods (Continued From Metro Page) court orders that the foods be distributed lo all welfare recipients, has set precedents by paying the extra costs in Texas and at least one other state and that the precedents ought to be applied in San Bernardino County. Covington said (hat, to his knowledge, this is the only county in California that has won that concession from the USDA.

However, he said there is no guarantee that the department and the state will continue picking up all additional costs next fiscal year. AP Wirephoto CHERI JO BATES Zodiac's victim? 'Zodiac' Wrote Riverside Coed Death Messages RIVERSIDE (UPI)-Authorities confirmed yesterday San Francisco's elusive Zodiac killer definitely wrote notes claiming a Riverside coed as his first victim. Riverside Police Captain Irvin Cross said the investigation into the 1966 slaying of Cheri Jo Bates would be reopened on a full-scale basis. However, he said the messages may only indicate "the Zodiac was just trying to capitalize on publicity. After all, the letters were received seven months after the killing." The mysterious killer did not start calling himself "Zodiac" until two years after the Bates slaying when he began sending bragging letters to San Francisco Bay Area newspapers.

He has claimed 14 killings in 1968 and 1969 but police have only implicated him in five. Cross said he received "verbal" confirmation yesterday afternoon from state handwriting experts that, the notes sent, to the Riverside Press-Enterprise were from "Zodiac." The three notes read: "Bates had to die there will be more." San Francisco homicide inspector William Armstrong said there were "strong similarities" between the Zodiac slayines and the killing of Miss Bates, 18, a Riverside City College coed. "There's a very good possibility it's our man," Anderson said. However, Cross did not rule out the possiblity the killer may have been a local youth. Choir lo Hold Car Wash SAN BERNARDINO The San Bernardino Valley College Choir will hold a car wash from 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Mill and Streets. Proceeds will go toward a trip to Hawaii the choir hopes to make next semester. 31 additional personnel to administer the' expanded program. The county has been limiting distribution to persons not on welfare who are defined by income criteria as the "needy poor," to general relief recipients and to AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) recipients whose welfare payments fail to meet all basic needs because of federal dollar limitations.

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