The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 20

Tuesday. April 2, 1968 CCC Instruction Costs Second Highest Redlands School Administration Costs Lowest in County REDLANDS Information from a recent publication, "Financial Data for School Districts San Bernardino County 1966 67," has been used by the Redlands Unified School District to present a report on the district's finances to the public. In this report it is disclosed that 51.72 per cent of the district's income source is from local taxes; 43.76 per cent is from the state; 3.94 per cent from federal sources; and the remaining .58 per cent is from incoming transfers. Illustrated with a drawing of "The School Dollar," another page of the report shows how the school dollar was used in 1966-67. Of the total $7,025,846 in expenditures, 76.94 per cent went for instruction; 8.39 per cent for the 1 plant operations; 4.89 per cent, fixed charges; 3.24 per cent, students' transportation: 2.77 per cent, plant maintenance; 2.77 per cent, administration; and 1 per cent, health services.

According to the report, the Redlands district spends a smaller percentage for administration than all other unified districts listed in the county. Closest contender to Redlands 2.77 per cent for low percentage honors is the Colton Joint Unified School District's per cent while Yucaipa Joint Unified School District stands third lowest with 3 per cent, and the average for 13 districts is 3.45 per cent. In contrast, Redlands, with 76.94 per cent, was second highest among the districts in the percentage spent for costs of instruction. Only district spend ing a bigger proportion for instruction was San Bernardino City School District with 77.12 per cent. The average for all districts was 74.78 per cent while that for Yucaipa was 74.66 per cent.

In health services the 1 per cent spent by the Redlands district was slightly above the average for the districts as a whole while the .84 per cent spent by Yucaipa was below the average. Only 8.39 per cent of the Redlands budget was spent for school plant oper- ations, below the 9.09 per cent average for the county, and Yucaipa spent 8.12 per cent of its school dollar for this purpose. The Redlands district, using 2.77 per cent of its school dollar for plant maintenance, was third lowest in the county Only districts using a smaller per cent of the school dollar for this purpose were Yucaipa, 2.29 per cent, and Riaito, 2.61 per cent. "Fixed charges" drew 4.89 per cent of the Redlands budget, and this was where the average was 3.86 per cent, slightly above the county average of per cent. Also above the average in this expense field was the Yucaipa district which spent 5.87 per cent.

In the transportation of students Red-lands also was slightly above the county average of 3.12 per cent with 3.24 per cent of its budget spent for this purpose. Yucaipa stood even further above, the average in this division by spending 5.22 per cent of its budget for such transportation. Federal Funds May Be Available Zanja Under Study by Army Engineers REDLANDS "We had a warning in the 1938 flood, but we didn't pay very much attention to it," W. A. Sidler, San Bernardino County flood control engineer, told members of the Downtown Redlands Association yesterday.

The community has problems with, the Mill Creek Zanja and they increase as the community grows because progress means the city presses more and more against the zanja and it pushes back, Sidler said. He recommended the use of federal funds over either increasing the flood control tax or issuing bonds to accomplish the multi-million dollar project to protect Redlands and downstream communities from flood hazards. The engineer explained that with the community sitting astride the natural swale of the water course, it has always had to deal with it. The Indians who lived in the area 150 years ago knew that the creek overflowed its banks in flood season and moved back from its banks. "I quote from Fr.

Francisco Alvara-do in 1826 when, after the channel was deepened for an irrigation ditch, he wrote: it broke and it broke often and the Indians repaired "When progress runs up against natural forces of great power, you either have to provide for the forces or they will destroy," the engineer said. Tracing the history of the zanja into the present generation, Sidler said the watershed above the stream is about 25 square miles, with nine miles of it upstream from the downtown. That 9 it Inland Empire News Highland Area IVews 1 tit 'iwtvf $4. -It. Student Exhibit to Note Future Homemakers' Week EXPLOSION SCENE This terday after an explosion rip-is the scene inside the office of ped the place.

Courtney was in-J. Ira Courtney in Fontana yes- jured in the blast. Explosion Rips Office In Downtown Fontana HIGHLAND Members of the Highland Junior High School Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America are celebrating the 22nd National Future Homemakers of America Week through April 6, with more than 12,000 chapters in the United States and Puerto Rico. "Focus On Citizenship" is the theme of this year's anniversary. The national organization of i and senior high school home economics students devoted to adtivities related to the home and community now numbers more than 600,000 members and is jointly sponsored by the American Home Economics Association and the U.S.

Office of Education. The Highland Chapter members will have an exhibit and bulletin board on display at the school today, the day the local girls have selected to recognize the anniversary. Also to be held in Highland at the Highland Congregational Church will be the next regular meeting of the Fifth District PTA on Aprd 19. This is the convention orientation session, and all delegates to state convention will receive their, credentials at the meeting. Mrs.

Doyle Hoffman, first vice president of CCPTA, will be the guest speaker. Registration will start at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting will begin at 10:30. Lunch will be served at noon. Members and leaders of the Highlanders 4-H Club will meet at 7 p.m.

today in the community room of the Highland Woman's Club. Parents are invited to the meeting to hear Mark Rogers, teacher in-the Redlands Unified School District and an iris enthusiast, show colored slides and talk about his Yucaipa gardens. FONTANA Cause of the explosion which critically injured J. Ira Courtney, Fontana attorney, and almost destroyed his office at 8450 Sierra Ave. yesterday, is still being investigated by officers of Fontana Fire District.

The blast came a few minutes after 10 a.m. shattering the glass from two windows in the building and almost demolishing the rear double door. Courtney, who suffered severe burns about the chest and lower face, was taken by Mercy Ambulance to Kaiser Hospital. Late yesterday, he was receiving ii tensive treatment in the isolation ward of the hospital, according to his son, Norman P. Courtney.

The force of the explosion was strong enough to throw all the bearing walls out of plumb and a quick inspection by the city building department resulted in "tagging" the structure "hazardous." Damage caused by the resulting fire was comparatively minor. Greatest loss was the destruction of legal books, records and papers according to a preliminary survey by firemen. Pearl Rex, City Staffers Earn Pins COLTON Retiring City Treasurer Pearl A. Rex and 42 other city employes were honored recently by Colton Mayor Pascual S. Oliva for "long and dedicated service." The mayor read a special testimonial to Miss Rex, who served as treasurer for ten years and will leave office in April.

Service pins were presented to her and the others whose aggregate longevity came to 460 years of employment by the city. "Pearl Rex will lone be remembered," said the mayor, "for ner many years of faithful service and her accurate accounting of the public funds over the years. This city council on behalf of its members, the officials and employes of the City of Colton and the citizens of this community do express to Pearl Rex sincere and profound appreciation and thanks for her faithful service in carrying out her duties as city treasurer." Miss Rex as presented a mail-bag full of cards from well-wishers, flowers and gifts of appreciation. Twenty-year service pins were awarded to George Dismukes, purchasing department; Larry Hughes, police department; Weldon C. Jensen, water; Socorro D.

Reyes, water; John Russell, fire; Eugene W. Shephard, shops; and Leonard E. Temby, fire chief. Fifteen-year pins went to Keith Crab-tree, William R. Reed and Alan A.

Teague, fire department; Rudy L. Chavez and Joe M. Luna, refuse; Wayne C. Gamble, police chief; Herbert C. Conway, electric; and Roy E.

Briscoe, shops. Receiving ten-year pins were Donald B. Anderson, Ron E. Gemmell, Ralph Henderson, DeWayne Hudson and John P. Lodarski, fire department; Fred Ma-louf, Alfred S.

Smith and Hazel B. Spic-er, police department; Pearl A. Rex, city treasurer; George W. Ashcom, water quality control plant; James 0. Tru-sy, water; and Gordon E.

Garrett, parks. Five year-pins were given to Eugene L. Brecht, Larry Fasick, Richard E. Lynch, Norman E. Sebern and J.

B. Smith, police department; Donald Brooks and Arnold Sander, fire department; Joseph Bernal, Richard C. Fryer and Guillermo G. Rosas, parks; Richard A. Bourbon and Glen R.

Higgins, water; Everett Castillo and Tony N. Yza-guirre, streets; Albert C. DelaRosa, refuse; and City Manager C. Glenn Wilson. Wide Flooding In San Diego County Slorm SAN DIEGO (AP) A storm front ripped San Diego County last night with rain, snow and high winds.

Flooding was widespread. The front hit the north county first with winds knocking down two big trees in Chula Vista. One tree took power lines with it, cutting electricity in the western part of the community. Police in San Diego reported flooded streets in Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, Linda Vista and parts of El Cajon Boulevard. Via Zapador in Santee was closed and several Lemon Grove intcresctions were jammed with stalled cars, the sheriff's office said.

No evacuations were reported. Numerous traffic accidents, mostly minor, were reported by jwlice and the highway patrol. An inch of snow fell in the higher elevations of the Laguna Mountains, where the Air Force Radar Station said winds were in excess of 60 miles an hour. The weather bureau at Lindbergh Field in San Diego said the front dropped three-tenths of an inch of rain within two hours, with gusts of wind up to 30 miles an hour. The weather bureau said the front was part of a storm system expected to produce rainfall in the county through this morning.

Cabanilla De monstrates Theater Makeup Tonilit REDLANDS Cliff Cabanilla, technical director In San Bernardino Valley College drama department, will demonstrate correct theatrical makeup as the program of tonight's community pot-luck at Grove Theater, sponsored by Redlands Footligbtcrs. The public Is invited to bring a fav-orite'hot or cold dish. The theater group will provide fellowship, hot drinks and utrnsils. means that when a heavy storm hits in the mountains and hills to the east and south, the downtown is in danger of overflow from the one narrow stream that carries off the water. He likened it to the narrow part of a funnel.

And he said the wide part of the funnel upstream is beginning to lose more and more of its runoff water on the downtown, even as Redlands has sent its runoff down toward Loma Linda for many years. A big development that will affect the downtown area is the Yucaipa campus development of San Bernardino Valley College. All the runoff will ultimately reach the zanja, he said. Sidler listed the three alternatives for financing flood control work which would deepen and widen the channel. The present tax limit is 30 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.

The state legislature can be asked to raise the limit, an unpopular alternative, said Sidler. The second alternative is a bond issue for between $5 and $10 million, more money than the flood zone has raised in its 30-year history. The third choice is the one most often used for projects of the magnitude the zanja would require. That is requesting the federal government, through the Corps of Engineers, to survey the problem and to expend necessary funds to alleviate it. "This request has been made and the corps is conducting a survey which, unfortunately, will not be completed before 1971.

But by next year we hope to know for sure whether the project will be included as a high priority item," said Sidler. He warned that the project must not be piecemeal. Any major improvements should be done in Redlands, upstream and downstream as well. Much work already has been accomplished downstream, but the channel is dirt rather than a concrete-lined channel that is needed. Alluding to covering major flood channels, Sidler said he advises against it because of the problems caused by debris, access, sanitation and the necessity of doing maintenance work by hand.

No New Clues After Hunt for Missing Girl YUCAIPA Volunteers conducted another intensive search through Crafton Avenue citrus groves in Mentone Sunday afternoon but failed to find any trace of Elizabeth Ernstein, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ernstein, according to the Yucaipa Sheriff's Sub station. Adult volunteers assembled at the intersection of Crafton and 5th avenues at the mouth of Sand Canyon to conduct the search for the Moore Junior High School girl last seen about 5:30 p.m. March 18.

In addition, the Search and Rescue team assembled at the Santa Ana River wash area at 7 a.m., Sunday and used jeeps and sand buggies to hunt for traces of the missing girl. However, like the other volunteers, they failed to find any traces of the girl. The volunteers were 18 years or older. Collon Boy Gels Blood From Donors COLTON The health of an eight-month old Colton boy may improve as result of efforts by Colton Mexican-American Social Club. Fourteen members of the unit have donated one pint of blood each for David Anthony Quiroz, son of Esperanza Qair-oz of 1250 Tejon Colton.

The child receives gamma globulin' shots every two weeks to build up his' resistance against disease. The infant must continue to care for at least the next six months. I Contributing blood were Gloria and; Albert Perez, Eddie and Lydia Guillin, Rachel Adame, Raymond and Millie; Campos, Tomos and Evelyn Richard and Mary Zapata, Raymond! Carroll and Freddy Venegas. Kaiser Appointments Announced Highland will be the site for the annual meeting of the San Bernardino Council of Parents-Teachers Association as all council officers, local PTA presidents, school principals and other interested persons meet at the Highland Congregational Church, Palm at Atlantic Avenue, at 9 a.m. today.

One of the highlights of the annual meeting will be installation of new council officers. The historian will make her report during the noon luncheon. Highland Temple 21, Pythian Sisters, will meet at 8 p.m. today at the Knights of Pythias Hall on west Main Street. Members of the Commission on Education of the Highland First Methodist Church are reminded of the meeting to be held at 7:30 tonight.

Plans for the nursery school to be established in the fall will be considered at this meeting. FONTANA Ralph L. Vaughn has been appointed director of labor relations, Southern California, and Robert J. Wayne has been named director of labor relations, Northern California, and Scouts Plan Annual Picnic COLTON Plans for the annual Scout picnic at 5 p.m. June 8 were revealed at a recent meeting of Pack 48 of Slover Mountain District.

Cubmas-ter Tommy Rountree gave details of the forthcoming event, to be held at Lytle Creek Park. Cubmastcr Rountree also noted that the Scout Fair will be May 24 at the San Bernardino National Orange Show. Tickets will go on sale next week. Cub Scouts will earn prizes for tickets sold. Proceeds will go to Scnut activities.

It was also noted that beginning April 1, dues will be raised to 15 cents. Boys of Den 1 presented a skit on "Rivers of the World." Receiving awards were Bill McEuen, Jim Elkins, Bear and assistant denner; Andy Dorado and Roger Jones. Denner; Sam Martin and Joseph McCawley, assistant denner; David Graham, gold and silver arrow under Bear; Mark Fawrup, silver arrow under Bear; Donald Rountree, two silver arrows under Bear; Raymond Ault, silver arrow under Wolf; David Beltran, gold and silver arrow under Bear; Kenneth Owens-by, one year service pin for den chief. Webelos receiving artist awards were Allen Williams. Ronald Cliocon, Patr Brawley, Tim Miller and Richard Hansen, artist and scientist.

Joseph McCawley, Warren Crowley, Joe Perez, Gary Madsen and Ricky Brooks were Inducted into Bobcats. Refreshments were served by Den 5 following ceremony by Den 4 who "The Star Spangled Banner." Flag ceremony was presented by Webelos Den 2. Attendance award was presented to Den 1. director of safety for Kaiser Steel Corporation, it was announced by C. M.

Heath, manager of industrial relations. In his new position, Vaughn Mill be responsible for labor relations at Kaiser Steel's Fontana steel mill, Southern California fabricating plants, and the company's mines in California, New Mexico and Utah. His office will be at Fontana. Wayne's responsiblilites include labor relations at the company's Napa fabricating plant, the erection division, and administrative assignments. His responsibility for Safety is corporate-wide.

His office will be in the Kaiser Center in Oakland. Vaughn joined Kaiser in 1948 as an industrial engineer. In 1956 he was named superintendent of industrial engineering and in 1960 he was named assistant general superintendent, technical services. In 1963 he was given additional responsibilities for the administration and implementation of the Kaiser Steel-United Steelworkers Long Range Sharing Plan. In 1967 he was named manager of special services industrial relations, the position he held until receiving his latest assignment.

Vaughn is a native of Frankfort, Ind. He received a B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, where he was an All American member of the school's championship basketball team. Wayne joined Kaiser Slecl in 1950 as an industrial engineer, and in 1956 transferred to the labor relations department. He became assistant superintendent, labor relations in 1958, and superintendent in I960.

In 1962 he was named division superintendent, industrial relations, the position he held until being named to his new position. Wane Is a nallr of I.os Angeles. He graduate from the University of California at Los Angeles with a B.A. degree in Liberal Arts. He then attended the University of Southern California where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree.

"Sc rVl luff I Ot BfHu Itudio pftoto Construction Under Way Construction Rot under way Saturday on the new home of the Fontana Elks Lodge at Arrow Boulevard and Linden Avenue. Ground was broken in ceremonies at the site and pictured, left to right, are Mike Sikora, chairman of the building committee; William Hughes, exalted ruler, and William Dillion, construction chairman for the lodge. -i.