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SCENE Cl SPORTS D1 Thrown a curve Baseball strike plunges card-sellers into slump on the Edge' New book tells story of state's periled critters No sting of defeat Kings halt 7-game skid with win over Hornets Founded 1857 Volume 277 MET CHASE Copyright 1995 The Sacramento Bee MONDAY March 6 1995 FINAL 4 ENTERPRISE El Tune into change confusion as TV network swap starts market Channel 10 had been the CBS affiliate since 1955 when Love and $64000 battled for No 1 Channel 13 has been linked with ABC since 1957 when the network had only one show in the top 10 Life and Legend of Wyatt matter how much you say beforehand going to take time for people to find said Channel 10 general manager Jim Saunders no way going to make this perfectly nel 10 are now on Channel 13 and vice-versa and prime-time programming on Channel 13 will begin an hour earlier Channel double-dip of simultaneously changing both networks and its prime-time schedule is unprecedented nationally Channel 10 will keep ABC prime from 8-11 pm Confusion at this point is nothing to be ashamed of especially when you also consider there has never before been an affiliation swap in the Sacramento TV INSIDE You'll have to adapt to the changes TV writer Rick Kushman says Scene Cl time schedule airing CBS shows from 7-10 pm followed by an hourlong newscast at 10 and Late Show With David at 11 What all this means is that network programs been watching on Chan Selma revisited By Dan Vierria Bee TV Writer Channel surfers and network loyalists will have to adjust today with Channel 10 (KXTV) and Channel 13 (KOVRJ having swapped networks Channel 10 is now the ABC affiliate in Sacramento and Channel 13 is airing CBS programs To further complicate matters or make things more intriguing Channel 13 is switching tonight to an early prime- 4- Orange climate of fear By Peter Hecht Bee Staff Writer SANTA ANA There was a certain indignity as beleaguered Orange County employees trudged a basement hallway of the historical museum finding the emergency job-placement center set up next to an exhibit called Fossil Remains of Orange For just as the prehistoric porpoise from Newport Beach and the stellar sea cow from Lake Forest had vanished from existence so will hundreds of jobs for social workers program administrators clerical staff and other employees This week the human toll from the worst municipal financial collapse in United States history will become apparent Orange County officials are expected to announce sweeping cuts including eliminating up to 2000 jobs and slashing department budgets by one-third In a region long symbolizing the California dream with sprawling master-planned communities and a burgeoning high-tech economy a disastrous investment scheme that cost the county $17 billion has triggered the massive cuts Scores of school districts and cities that invested in the Orange County bond fund are also staggering as communities bitterly look for solutions Some 200 layoffs have been ordered so far in county offices Last week Orange new chief executive officer William Pope-joy a former American Savings executive cut 25 jobs in his own office and then admonished county employees against talking to the media about the bankruptcy In county offices there is a climate of fear and paranoia think everybody is said Barbara Brook a librarian who was staffing the job-placement center where employees fearing layoffs were reading job fliers classified ads and federal Please see ORANGE back page A 10 To clear up some questions keep in mind that: Station newscasts and anchor teams will stay put Yes Stan Atkinson and Jennifer Whitney will still be reading the news tonight on Channel 13 and Alan Frio and Beth Ruyak on Channel 10 Afternoon soaps are network programs and will shift times and channels Please see SWITCH back page A10 GOP may punish senator for vote Hatfield helped kill balanced budget By John Cushman Jr New York Times WASHINGTON Sen Mark Hatfield of Oregon the only Republican to vote against the balanced-budget amendment when it fell one vote short of passing the Senate last week offered to resign before the vote Meyority Leader Bob Dole said Sunday Dole R-Kan said he turned that offer down but added he has not ruled out punishing Hatfield for his vote perhaps by taking away his committee chairmanship in the Senate resignation from the Senate would have allowed the proposed constitutional amendment which would have required a balanced federal budget to pass the Senate with the needed two-thirds majority told me he would resign before the vote if that would make it possible to win with 66 votes instead of Dole said on the CBS News program the said not an option Mark not an Hatfield had voted in favor of a balanced-budget amendment in 1982 but last week he called the amendment a that gives no indication of how Congress might bring the budget into balance share my goals but happen to disagree on the he said Despite explanation his de: viation from the party line on the most important issue to face the Senate since the Republicans regained control in November has angered some of his GOP peers Dole said he expected to be asked to strip Hatfield of his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee one of the most powerful assignments in the Senate That committee must approve annual spending measures giving its chairman great influence over the size of the budget deficit from year to year and over other senators who seek his support on individual spending programs of special interest to them Please see HATFIELD back page A10 A QUESTION OF FAIRNESS The affirmative action debate native of Costa Rica was admitted to a California medical school under an early form of affirmative action Still Weingarten believes the time has come to scrap student admission policies that give preference on the basis of race Weingarten and Palmer find themselves at the vortex of the debate over affirmative action in public colleges Possibly nowhere else in public life does affirmative action evoke louder arguments than on college campuses Please aee EDUCATION page AS Associated Press Demonstrators in Selma Ala on Sunday retrace the Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Jo-steps of 1965 civil rights marchers Leading the way seph Lowery Evelyn Lowery Coretta Scott King US were from left US Rep Cynthia McKinney D-Ga Rep Eva Clayton D-NC and Marie Foster Joy concern vie at civil rights march tus Bridge where hundreds of civil rights workers were brutally beaten and gassed by white lawmen on March 7 1965 The event became known as Bloody Sunday Footage of the beatings ran on national television sparking outrage and leading to passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act which outlawed liter- Pleaae see SELMA back page A10 warned of different forces including crime and voter apathy that they say threaten African American communities today And they decried efforts in Congress California and elsewhere to dismantle affirmative action and other programs that made gains possible In a stark demonstration of how much and how little things have changed police on Sunday escorted an estimated 1500 marchers across the Edmund Pet- By Eric Harrison Los Angeles Times SELMA Ala Thirty years after the bloody march that shamed Congress into passing the Voting Rights Act veterans of the civil rights movement gathered Sunday to celebrate the political and social strides African Americans have made But in the midst of celebrating they radar life PA6E The Guard Affirmative action stirs deep passions on campus Simple low-cost may change your FORECAST PARTLY SUNNY HIGH 66 LOW 46 Discovery B1 California Air National 129th Rescue Group currently stationed at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View is expected to be transferred to McClellan next year pending Pentagon base-closure ratification Staff Sgt John Horton is among the unit's 800 members Second of two parts By James Richardson Bee Staff Writer Jioni Palmer who grew up in Oakland acknowledges that affirmative action allowed him to be a student at UCLA He and many of his fellow African American students say they feel threatened by talk of ending affirmative action fearing it will signal a return to the cruelties of racial segregation laws very frightened" Palmer said are lives dealing with" Alex Weingarten a Btudent at the University of California Berkeley considers himself a progressive Demicrat His father a By Dale Vargas Bee Staff Writer It sounds like science fiction technology straight out of But Jean-Luc Picard has nothing on Tom McEwan The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer has an invention that could change everyday life as we know it McEwan has come up with a new type of radar that has a mind-boggling number of possibilities The potential uses range from collision warning systems on cars to devices that can find disaster victims or tell parents when their children leave a room The patented radar in the form of a tiny device that uses mi- crowaves to penetrate anything but metal is remarkable in its simplicity the inventor said McEwan whose background at the lab is in nuclear weapons and instruments used to measure their effects was on a project to find a way to measure high-speed laser pulses when he came up with what he calls new the government and all the military people were focusing on really exotic expensive extremely high-power systems" he said of the discovery process that began more than three years ago I PL-taae aee RADAR page A8 1.