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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 4

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PfaA4 THE SACRAMENTO BEE Saturday July 141979 Amtrak Run Gianturco Sets Date For San Joaquin To Bay Area Schedule Inaugurate the new schedule The ceremonies will feature a ride on the train between the two cities new schedule takes effect She said Caltrans plans informal ceremonies July 29 at Stockton and Richmond to will arrive in Martinez at 1150 am and in Richmond at 12:19 The leaves Richmond at 12 3S pm and Martinez at 1 09 pm Ms Gianturco has campaigned in California and in Washington to preserve the "San and other Amtrak passenger tram service in California since the US Department of Transportation announced last year it planned to reduce nationwide Amtrak service by 43 percent on Oct 1 So far she and other Amtrak supporters have been unsuccessful in The new schedule calls for the tram to leave Bakersfield at 6 05 am and arrive in San Francisco at 1 05 It will leave San Francisco at 515 pm and arrive in Bakersfield at 12 30 a Currently the train leaves Bakersfield at 11:15 a and arrives in San Francisco at 6 20 nt The return train leaves San Francisco at 9 05 am and arrives in Bakersfield at 4 05pm Ms Gianturco said the new schedule will permit passengers to transfer easily to the eastbound Francisco headed for Chicago Under the new schedule the Washington in preventing any of the Amtrak cuts in California In Sacramento however Gov Brown has signed a bill setting aside J21 million to aid Amtrak during the next live years The "San is first or second priority for that money so for the time being at least service on the route will continue regardless of nether the threatened Oct 1 cuts are made Ms Gianturco said that ridershipon the "San Joaquin" during the first six months this year is up 19 percent over the same period in 1978 and predicted another boost in ridership when the ByJtmeiDufur Bm Stiff Writer A new schedule for the Amtrak passenger train will take effect July 29 state Transportation Director Adriana Gianturco said Friday Under the new schedule San Joaquin Valley residents will be able to leave home in the morning spend the afternoon in the San Francisco Bay area and return home in the evening At present if they leave home one afternoon they cannot return home by train until the following afternoon Two BIG reasons you should read this little ad: Arco Gets OK To Produce More Lead Less Octane The old Stondord Furniture at 2171 Fulton Ave is dosing its doors forever All remaining furniture must be liquidated to the bare walls to make way for the carpenters painters and carpet layers who are busy remodeling throughout the store' EVERYTHING has been reduced at least 50 ond up to 75 TOTAL LIQUIDATION IS OUR GOAL So if you love great values come to 2171 Fulton ond take home the furniture bargains of your life If you need carpet here is a great opportunity to save on our used gold jhng carpet at $200 a yard First come frt served Over 1 000 yards to sell Current Arco octane ratings at Sacramento dealers are 84 for regular and unleaded and 93 for supreme Quinn said the waivers are good only until October Lead pollution is not a significant problem in California's air during the summer but it increases winter months The additional lead Arco products will put in the uir will nut have a significant effect on air quality he added Six small refiners previously hud qualified for waivers thereby increasing the gasoline supply by about one half of one percent They include three Bakerstield Suniund Refining Sabre Refining and Kern County Refinery The others are in the Los Antteles area New hull Refinma MucMllun Ring-Free Oil Co and Fletcher Oil Running Assemblyman Gets Demo Post Assemblyman Mike Rous D-Los Angeles has been appointed to the Democratic National Committee's Compliance Review Commission Roos has announced The commission will enforce affirmative action requirements in delegate selection fur the 1980 state and national party conventions Rous is the only Californian on the commission He was appointed by Democratic National Committee Chairman John White Atlantic Riehtield has become the first major oil company to qualify for state Air Resources Board waivers allowing the production of gasoline ith less octane and more lead Board Chairman Tom Quinn said Friday that the waivers will allow Arco to begin within three or four days to produce an additional 13 million gallons of gasoline per month The company with a refinery at Carson in Los Angeles County is the state's fourth largest gasoline marketer Arco currently is distributing about 110 million gallons per month in California All of the extra production is to stay in the state Arco spokesman Manny Jimenez has refused comment The program begun in May after considerable debate Oil companies had sought to increase gasoline production by boosting the lead content of gasuhne The air board agreed to that move but also stipulated that octane ratings would have to be lowered as a way of increasing fuel supplies even mure In addition any extra gasoline produced would have to remain in the state Spokesmen for Mobil Union and Exxon have said thuse restrictions nuke it impossible to qualify for waivers Shell has an application pending and both Chevron and Texaco have been involved in discussions as to nether they could qualify Arco gasoline now will have octane ratings of 883 for regular and unleaded gasoline and 925 for premium The exciting all new Rubenstein Standard Furniture Galleries will be opening os soon as extensive remodeling is completed inside and out There will be no other i home furniture store quite like it in I Sacramento You II think you ve stepped into the pages of House Beautiful! Rubenstein s-Standard Furniture Galleries will be on place where you can discover themes ond schemes for your own home Watch far more news of our Grand Opening Well Groom-ed nt Tv Svrxwa Fv- Kus i StandardRubenstein 's 2171 Fulton Ave Saturday 10-6 MonFri 10-9 Sunday 1JS Phone 484-6161 Glynn Wolfe 70 listed in the Guiness Book of World Records the most married man gets a kiss from his 23rd bride Guadalupe Reyes Chavez 20 of El Paso Texas They were married Thursday in a jewelry store in Blythe with the groom performing the ceremony Wolfe first married in 1927 claims to have 39 children and will have 40 when his bride gives birth to the child she is carrying Vacuum Value pfl Hi OW fli WU Mi We'll give you a dollar off to eat more than you're accustomed to 1 Loves Western Feast Reg $695 now $595 5 r'yr lvjl yy yir an jUSC- $12 Million Judgment For Fiery Jaguar Crash LOS ANGELES (DPI) The British auto company that manufactures the Jaguar sports car must pay $119 million to a woman whose husband died five years ago in a fiery- crash a jury has decided Alexander Welles 44 of San Diego died May 1974 when his Jaguar XJ6 manufactured by En-tish-Leyiand Motors Ltd was struck from benmd by a 13C09-pound truck on Interstate 5 near Los Angeles His wife Josephine filed a negligence and product-liability lawsuit against the British firm claiming that the expensive car had "design in the placement of its twin gasoline tanks Attorney Brown Greene who represented Mrs Welles and her two sons in the five-weex trial hailed the jury's 19-2 verdict Thursday as a for the Greene told the jury that one of the car rear gas tanks was crushed in the crash He said the impact also knocked out the car's rear window allowing gas to pour into the passenger compartment and ignite flammable fabrics inside the vehicle Daren Johnson attorney for British-Leyiand argued that Welles died of injuries from the impact not from burns incurred after the crash Arranging For A Funeral Is Never Easy But We Make It vfll Less Difficult Hoe bfinq able tu offer every a-pt 1 1 of funeral service right on our greniiM- bv In 'pinq von piun uin tunerul eaUlv as vhu want it Since inm Last Lawn tux heen helpmu Sacramento families Since you are dbletoM'li'it tnjif) Lernetery and murtuarv urrungemenTs tiere tin planning process cun bo gieatly simplified Ue uii hdiidle everv tinny milt cu-ds itwmed uuinmv what you re pav mu for liur 1 um-ril I tu-1 Plan lei- vou -el aside funds now ready fur use when Henleil Lnt li then your money remains in trust in a hank your name under wmi control earning you niteiest I lie Pie Need Planning spares your family these ditlii decisions at a most dillicuit hour I tit funeral is as de-sind large or small public or private Please feel free to phone one our trjmed counsellors answer any questions you inav have He ir been mukinif a diffit ult limn rusirr fur SuuvmvnUj fumilirs fur over 7i wars MUK I LAKY UML'I I KIIS UIAJ'IIb LHlMAIOKY MAUSUiIl'M Special Buy! 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I(i" -wide steel beater-bar brush sweeps Mi more carpet per stroke 1 las powerful two-seed 6-amp motor 6-pos nap adj for any carpet height 3-position handle and handle grip Furniture guard Bright headlight US Officials Doubt Tale Of 'Marijuana Missile' SAN DIEGO (AP) Federal drug agents they thought seen it all heroin inside an aerosol can drugs stashed behind a picture of the Taj but the marijuana missile takes the prize The missile possibly packed with drugs from Mexico and aimed at the Arizona desert left officials at the federal Drug Enforcement Administration incredulous Tve never heard of something like said Diogenes Galanos a special agent assigned to the San Diego office It was the local office that received an anonymous phone tip in March 1973 about the missile and passed it off as a crank call seems far-fetched" Galanos said Friday adding that if the missile was laden with drugs is highly unlikely that it was carrying marijuana That had to be a fairly decent expensive missile to make it from Baja California to Arizona and it just be profitable for someone to use it to transport marijuana" Galanos speculated that the missile would be too risky a carrier for more valuable drugs chances are that it (heroin) would break out at when the rocket landed see people trying all kinds of ingenious things" Galanos said stash drugs false compartments of aerosol cans in hollow shoe heels things like that Once we found hashish stuffed in the false bottom of a cage full of monkeys a missile? never heard of one like that" But in March of 1973 an Air Force captain working at the North American Air Defense Command radar tracking station atop Mount Laguna in San Diego County detected faint radar track of a missile" that apparently took off near Guaymas Mexico and landed in the southern Arizona desert Capt Roy Ash thought little of the incident until the DEA contacted him a few days later and relayed the mysterious phone tip Reports of the mystery missile sparked investigations in four governmental agencies but "they concluded the reports were completely unfounded" Dougherty said suggesting tbat Ash saw nothing more than radar I- ofT TT7 77 fin it cv ft WHY PASS UP A GOOD BUY? 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