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A 18 The Sacramento Bee Final Monday January 20 1992 A 18 The Sacramento Bee Final Monday January 20 1992 FROM PAGE ONE 1 REA Emphasis to be on new crop of country artists It's like the death of an old friend" Tom Weld le general manager program director at Nationwide Iscountry station WPOC in Baltimore has replaced Miller on an interim basis KZAP afternoon personality Jon Russell said he was surprised by the timing of the change which will be officially announced this morning at the station "I'm extremely sad and not just because I'm out of a job" Russell said "A lot of us felt we were turning it around and had corrected some of the mistakes Everybody was happy and felt we were finally getting a chance to do it the right way It's shocking and sad" Bob Keller a I 2-year veteran of KZAP and host of the popular "Cafe Rock" noon show is vacationing somewhere in the Caribbean and may not find out about his job status until his return this weekend "I can visualize Bob driving home from the airport turning on his radio and saying 'What's Russell said Aside from Davis the remaining morning drive team consisted of Dorian MacKenzie time ago" he said "What it ended up was just a ghost of itself" Ten years ago KZAP pulled nearly a 15 percent share of the audience a number nobody has since equalled But in the last Arbi-- tron book released earlier this month KZAP's audience share had dipped to 24 KZAP's demise can be attributed to the strength of its competitors its lack of musical focus from its broad 1960s-to-today playlist and two costly (in terms of ratings) interim periods one stretch in 1990 when the sta tion used an interim morning team followed by another last year when the 0 Brothers morning team (replaced last November) failed to reignite ratings Whatever it had become at the end KZAP's switch to country still won't please loyal listeners who have grown up on Led Zeppelin Cream and the Rolling Stones "I'm very upset" said Bruce Klempner a long-time KZAP listener "I grew up on that station I hate country music" casional cuts from older traditional artists (George Jones Loretta Lynn etc) Fresh Country 98-5 will take direct aim at the double-digit ratings of Country 105 (KRAK 1051 FM) the area's top-rated country station A competitor for Country 105 has long been expected in Sacramento The country music format is the hottest in the nation and is attracting new listeners even in the age 18-34 demographic Rock meanwhile has not performed as well in the ratings and KZAP had been Sacramento's No 3 rock station for the last year behind competitors 93 Rock (KRX(1 937 FM) and The Eagle (KSEG 969 FM) "Ding dong the Zap is dead" sang Kevin "Boom Boom" Anderson 93 Rock morning personality "I'm standing over KZAP with a smoking gun in my hand They're really dead we really killed them" Anderson was KZAP's morning personality from 1981-84 its "glory days" as he recalled them "The Zap that I knew died a long Continued from page Al the Grateful Dead KZAP later evolved into a mainstream station with a huge age 25-54 listening audience That audience began eroding about two years ago "It's like the death of an old friend but everything has its time and life cycle" said Tom Weld le station general manager said all of KZAP's air personalities with the exception of news director Chris Davis have been dismissed and that an interim team of personalities from Nationwide's other two country-format stations would help KZAP weather the transition He added that contracts will be honored and that some weekend part-timers have been asked to continue working under the new format Air personalities were telephoned Sunday and asked to come to the station where they received the news Program director Chris Miller no longer holds that title but Weidle said he now will be "working behind the scenes" Bob Moody Continued the Grateful mainstream tening audit ing about "It's like etything ha! Weld le stet' sa with the exc vis have be team of pen er two cm KZAP weati contracts weekend pa tinue workit Air persa and asked t( received the Program holds that ti be "working and Charlie Weiss who was an original KZAP air personality A new morning-drive team soon will be announced Weld le said Fresh Country 98-5 would be music-intensive with a minimum of interruptions rather than personality oriented "We'll likely have more focus on personalities in the morning than any other time of the day or night" Weidle said Fresh Country 98-5 will focus on the new generation of country artists (Clint Black Garth Brooks etc) and mainstream country artists (Judds Alabama etc) along with oc Latino: Dropout rate prevents gains 6 La la Latinos in government Latinos rank last in pay among government workers and hold mostly low-level jobs according to a state Senate study Latinos under-represented in California state and local government jobs Median salaries for full-time employees In state and local government in California i 674 Ci Ci 57 Whites Measuring overall progress researchers found that Asians who rank above parity at all salary levels and are over-represented in many top jobs "appear to be breaking through the 'glass ceiling' For blacks many benefits from stricter federal enforcement of affirmative action policies in the 1970s appear to endure the study says But "Hispanics have not made comparable gains" the report says Part of the reason researchers said is the high dropout rate among black and Latino students 33 percent and 29 percent By comparison the dropout rate is 11 percent for Asians and 14 percent for whites according to the state Department of Education 7 Whites Latincs Blacks" Asians American Indian 11011111111 $35349 $29737 $30293 1 $33192 $35 $297: $302! $33 Latinos Blacks Asians median private-sector salaries for racial and ethnic groups During the study extensive federal data on more than 38 million private jobs and almost 610000 government jobs in California was reviewed for the first time Analysts also looked at state civil service records and information from the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing The report recommends that the state improve the way government and private hiring records are collected and made available to the public that parity goals be raised periodically to reflect population increases among non-white groups and that businesses develop closer relations with schools and help students develop career goals and plans for meeting them Researchers noted that government agencies and major companies actively try to recruit non-white employees in numbers equivalent to their representation in the population "But small employers are less likely to aggressively strive for hiring parity" the report says "Historically employers tend to prefer hiring people most like themselves and most Californians work for small Continued from page Al today make up 57 percent of the state population Latinos 25 percent Asian and Pacific Islanders 9 percent and blacks 7 percent American Indians make up less than 1 percent as do "other" groups combined Among professionals whites held 674 percent of positions in 1990 Asians 14 percent blacks 89 percent and American Indians less than 1 percent Latinos were the only group under-represented group with 93 percent Latinos and blacks both were overrepresented at the low end of the skill spectrum in 1990 with each group holding 25 percent of service and maintenance jobs Whites held 431 percent Asians 61 percent and American Indians less than 1 percent Similar patterns exist in the private sector where Latinos make up about 375 percent of equipment operators 555 percent of laborers and 336 percent of service workers By contrast Latinos hold 56 percent of professional jobs according to federal data from more than 17000 California businesses and industries with more than 100 workers each The Senate report did not include Continued fn today make population Asian and PI cent and bla can Indians cent as do "ot Among pro 674 percent Asians 14 pe cent and At than 1 percen group under-I 93 percent Latinos and represented skill spectru group holdinl and maintent 431 percent American In( cent Similar pal vate sector about 375 pe erators 555 336 percent contrast Lati professional al data from fomia busine more than ICH The Senate 1 4 0 1-9V0 LI Percent employed full time in state and local government 1-1 Ethnic groups as 6-1 percent of state population Li Less than 1 Ii Less than 1 Note: Figures for median salaries for American Indians unavailable at time Bee story was prepared WMONAW'AkV 3 Source: US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Bee graphic Until education levels improve businesses and governments will have a tough time increasing Latino representation in top high-paying positions said Steve Chaudet of the California Business Roundtable "We need to work backward and find out where that high motivation among Hispanics in grade schools gets disconnected before they graduate from high school" Chaudet said "There are a whole lot of factors here that just affirmative action can't overcome and we that's business government families schools communities everybody need to find them and fix them" Another reason for slow workplace advancement the Senate study says is that blacks and Latinos face many obstacles including low incomes and illegal discrimination by banks to starting small businesses Acquiring start-up capital and making loans to family and friends is easier for Asians whose median household income nationwide is $38450 the report says By comparison the national median household income for whites is $31231 for Latinos $22330 and for blacks $18676 according to the US Census Bureau 11 Civil War soldiers will finally get proper burial Associated Press 77- 14 always faithful to Virginia" Young said The soldiers were believed to be members of Parker's Battery of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Gen Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard said Baxter Perkinson Sr a Sons of Confederate Veterans leader They were believed to have been killed in 1864 in fighting around Ware Bottom Spring Church in Chesterfield County now part of suburban Richmond About 700 Confederates and an equal number of Union soldiers died in that battle Perkinson made the coffins each with a cross carved into the lid Civil War remains are unearthed frequently in Virginia but most are never turned over to authorities historians said A set of remains found nearby lay in state last June It was the first time a body lay in state at Virginia's Capitol since Civil War Gen Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died in 1863 As the ceremony ended an honor guard of pallbearers with sidearms and sabers carried the coffins from the rotunda for a trip to the Violet Banks museum in nearby Colonial Heights where they will stay until a final burial The soldiers in Confederate gray gently laid the remains in a van and a station wagon in for a memorial service The Capitol flag flew at half-staff Sixty-four groups laid wreaths around the plain pine coffins draped with Confederate flags A preacher wearing a top hat said a prayer "Their identities are unknown to us and known but to thee" said William A Young Jr a Richmond lawyer portraying the Rev George Finley a prisoner during the war who became a preacher after it ended "We do know that they were ordinary soldiers that their lives were precious and that they died beneath the motto 'Sewer Fidem Virginiae' RICHMOND Va Three unknown Confederate soldiers who died in battle 128 years ago lay in state in the Capitol rotunda Sunday honored by men wearing Confederate gray and women in hoop skirts After lying unnoticed for more than a century the remains were found by relic hunters on a battlefield site outside Richmond The Sons of the Confederate Veterans and many Civil War buffs took the first steps toward giving them proper burials The 19th century met the 20th at the former capital of the Confederacy as several hundred people crowded I 't 11 (----r----c 1 I ir 1 -1 i ri -''i i 11 I at Harkin upset by claim he represents past I9t 1 4) Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir in his office Sunday for a meeting with Rep Bill Zeliff A-NH says he hopes to agree on an early date for elections which had been scheduled for Nov 3 Israeli Prl meeting' early date Israel: Boon for Shamir? home mortgages rent and charitable contributions "That would cut down on a lot of the corruption That's what's wrong with this country corruption" said Brown Harkin called the flat tax "regressive" and said it "sounds like something proposed by the Flat Earth So- ciety" Clinton called for a middle class tax cut as "central to long-term fairness" The debate was broadcast by WMUR-TV the state's largest sta- tion and shown nationwide on CSPAN the cable public-affairs network It came at a time when polls show that most New Hampshire yellers are just starting to decide who they will vote for Feb 18 in the nation's first primary Continued from page Al be his anger and disappointment at the flagging results of his campaign efforts until the last moments of the debate after Clinton had made a mild closing statement calling for a "new majority for change" The Iowa Democrat apparently was stung by moderator Cokie Roberts' request for a reaction to criticism that he represented the Democratic politics of the past "If you want a tweedledee Democrat don't vote for me" he said "When you talk about turning the clock back to the days of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy remember when they ran we won" There was none of the bickering and squabbling that marked the first Democratic debate last month Roberts disciplined the group to the point of telling Brown he would have to finish what he was saying when his next turn to speak came What resulted was a sedate but sol root of many of America's problems and suggested that solving social ailments was a step toward halting the crime wave They all expressed personal concerns about education "We need a family bill of rights We are losing a whole generation" charged Brown Kerrey spoke of the "savage inequality" faced by children coping with inner city schools And both Clinton and Harkin related their worry about their children in school "When my daughter goes out for a pizza and to a movie we have her call when she gets to the restaurant when she leaves and when she gets to the movie We can't sleep until she gets home" said Harkin All the candidates expressed concerns about taxes with Brown calling for a flat tax of 13 or 14 percent to replace personal and corporate taxation with no deductions except for Id discussion of the basic issues of taxes education and crime in the course of which the candidates frequently expressed agreement with each other's views They split on crime with Clinton and Kerrey in favor of capital punishment and the others opposing it They agreed that attacking the crime problem in the United States went beyond increasing the number of prisons "Like Governor Brown in California I have doubled the number of prisons in Arkansas and I agree with Tsongas and Harkin that we should increase enforcement" said Clinton "But what we have to face is that with 5 percent of the world's population we have 50 percent of the world's crime We are dealing with criminal youth who are disconnected from the world and we have to find a way to reconnect them" Kerrey insisted that the lack of a national health care program was the The Washington Post contributed to this report ils on 2 of men say speech uproar unjustified Continued from page Al dais said they expect the new date to be in May or June Since the rescheduling must be done by a majority vote in parliament analysts predict days or even weeks of maneuvering among the country's myriad parties before a date is set Shamir 76 plans to seek reelection and polls show he has a strong chance of winning another four-year term On television this weekend he indicated he will present himself to voters as both the statesman who led Israel into the present peace process and the ideologue who will staunchly oppose any further surrender of Arab territory captured by Israel in 1967 "The fact is that until today no one can say that in the past years there was a government stronger than this government for preserving the Land of Israel" he said referring to the nationalist definition of the country including the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip "On the other hand in parallel there was not a government like this which achieved a peace process is carrying it on and will continue to" he added The two right-wing parties decided to leave the government after Israeli negotiators in Washington opened discussions with Palestinians on an agenda including an Israeli proposal for Arab self-rule in the territories The right-wing leaders say self-rule which Israel and the Palestinians have agreed should be an interim settlement inevitably will lead to creation of a Palestinian state Although Shamir tried to persuade the two parties to stay in the government most Israeli analysts say the Continued cials said be in May Since done by a ment anal weeks of country's date is set Shamir election a strong chi four-year weekend himself to man who peace proc will staun surrender by Israel in "The fac can say th was a gov( governmer of Israel" I tionalist d( cluding tho Gaza Strip "On the there was 1 which ach carrying it he added The two to leave th negotiator discussion: agenda in( for Arab se The rig' rule whic ians have im settlem creation of Althoug the two pa ment mo5 timing and circumstances of the government's collapse are a political boon for him According to this view early elections will allow Shamir to present himself to voters before he has had to make any significant concessions or hard decisions in the peace process and before an incipient downturn in the Israeli economy worsens An early election also probably will help Shamir avoid a bruising battle in the Likud Party with his chief rivals Foreign Minister David Levy and Housing Minister Ariel Sharon analysts say "Shamir is the real winner after all" said a headline in the Jerusalem Post Sharon who has overseen a massive program for construction of Jewish settlements in the territories over the last 18 months proposed at a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday that Shamir draw the right-wing parties back into the Cabinet by annexing Jewish-settled areas of the West Bank and Gaza Israeli radio said he won no support nor did Levy who objected that early elections would interrupt the peace process Shamir said on television that the peace process could continue despite the election campaign He added that he hoped the Bush administration still would act this month on Israel's controversial request for 810 billion in US loan guarantees rather than waiting until after the election Labor Party leader Shimon Peres called for the peace process to be suspended until after the elections saying no serious negotiations would be possible because Shamir's government simply would use the sessions to posture before the electorate Among other things I'm gbing to have to explain the difference to them between 'allegorical' and 'representative Seastrom however was sharply critical of the media "Everybody has got problems and to make such a big deal out of this one portion of the governor's speech to me doesn't make sense Actually you people should be spending more time on the essence of his speech" he said Continued from page Al and was visited by Wilson last month and Shad Murphy a worker for the California Conservation Corps who was with Wilson at a Dec 20 press conference Controversy erupted Friday when the San Jose Mercury News reported that Wilson had concocted three economic victims cited in his Jan 8 State of the State address as well as face-to-face encounters with them The paper quoted Bill Livingstone the governor's press secretary as saying the governor had made an "allegorical statement" Wilson's press staff issued conflicting statements Friday in response to the newspaper's report at one point calling the governor's State of the State words "a composite" and "symbolical representations" of many real people he had visited around the state As the day progressed the story spread nationwide and everybody from Democratic legislators to radio disk jockeys making toys when he met Wilson He said he is currently doing carpentry work and it was not accurate to say he was a carpenter making toys because he could not find work framing houses Asked at the press conference if he thought Wilson was describing him in the State of the State address Murphy said "Realistically no I didn't think it was me" But he added that he thought the whole flap over the Wilson speech was "something over nothing" Wilson said someone had told him that Murphy was a carpenter whose employment had been ended by the recession The governor said his staff members couldn't track down Murphy for a week and he conceded they were late in providing his identity to reporters Wilson declined to say whether he would discipline any members of his press staff But he added "I don't think I have spent enough time recently quality time with the press clqpartment pounced on Wilson for his apparent misstep The governor began his State of the State address by saying "I've watched the eyes of a gruff gray haired businessman grow wet as he spoke of having to lay off people who'd kept his small shop running for years I've seen worry in the face of a farm worker idled by a killer arctic freeze And I've seen the kindly face of a carpenter who could find no work framing houses and now makes children's toys for free" Flanking the governor on Sunday Meza Seastrom and Murphy all confirmed they had talked with Wilson Wilson said no taxpayers' money was used to bring the three to Sacramento "We did have the conversation" said Seastrom whose business is still operating with about 80 employees and supplies hardware to defense firms and other companies Before the Sunday press event Murphy told reporters that he was working for the CCC and loluntarily SETTING IT STRAIGHT Accuracy is a fundamental of journalism It is The Bee's policy in this standing feature to promptly acknowledge errors Mistakes should be called to the attention of the editors in volved by calling (916) 321-1001 I.