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chance of showers city final weather details on A-2 A Gannett Newspaper Serving the Inland fcmpire. an Bernardino. California Thursday, January 10, 1980 20 Cent opriM Th un To. More curbs i lW" -v: "i Tin i -v law rr -v-- I 1 i iy aiii 1. Dlaced on in iiii "4 Staff photo by Don Black Rey Drive and Hampshire Avenue in northern San Bernardino Wednesday, following heavy rains.

A torrent of mud and water from the Harrison Basin overflow trap a car and pickup truck at Del rain causes havoc aarnr iij i i 'Oh, my and I turned and saw this wall of dirt coming down the street and saw the cars going with it. It started getting deeper and deeper and I thought about our grandson in the house and wondered how we'd get out if we had to." "We saw all the water and debris coming toward us," said his wife, Gladys. "iMy first thought was get- (Continued on A-3, column 1) halted jected because of the railroad's high freight volumes. The report rejected the Union Pacific route because of its high freight volumes and an additional expense of $750,000 to start passenger service on it. But disgruntled Riverside officials cited a section of the report that said the Union Pacific route through Riverside would probably draw 50 percent more passengers (Continued on A-5, column 1 v.

Related story and additional storm photos in Metro water and mud across 40th and down Hampshire Road, carrying several autos, trucks and a large motorhome along with it. The spillover occured after a 10-to 15-minute cloudburst shortly after 11 a.m. "It was a tremendous roar, like a jet out at Norton was warming S.B.-LA. commuter service Heavy By CARL YETZER Sun Staff Writer A steady overnight rain and a brief but furious cloudburst late Wednesday morning combined to cause flooding, mudslides, accidents, road closures, utility disruptions and general havoc throughout valley communities. Firemen in Chino pulled two teenagers from their car, which hung precariously over the edge of a drainage ditch filled with rushing storm water.

(Story on Metro Page The weather also was blamed for a five-vehicle pileup near Beaumont that took the life of one man and left State Route 60 closed in both directions for about l'a hours. Officers said the accident oc-cured when the victim's westbound car spun out, crossed the center divider and collided with an eastbound pickup truck. The 45-year-old victim as taken to Pass Hospital in Banning. He was not identified. In Chino, six apartments in the 12000 block of Pipeline Avenue were reported flooded; their occu-' pants were evacuated.

In northern San Bernardino, 40th Street was closed to traffic-after the 12-foot high Harrison Basin spilled over. The accident sent a torrent of trade Asked whether any foreign companies were likely to try to take over contracts held by American firms supplying the Soviet Union. Powell said "it is our view that is unlikely." Earlier Wednesday, a senior White House official said that Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev told President Carter that Russian troops will not be withdrawn from Afghanistan until they "have completed their work." The official, asking not to be (Continued on A-5, column 1) 63 zealots beheaded by Saudis RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Saudi executioners in eight cities Wednesday beheaded 63 of the religious zealots who seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine, last November, the official Saudi news agency said. The executions were decreed by King Khaled after the country's religious leaders issued an edict specifying the crime of attacking the mosque was punishable by death in accordance with the Koran, the Moslem holy book.

Beheading is the traditional method of execution in Saudi Arabia, and is usually carried out in public. The beheading of the mosque attackers was carried out in a number of areas in the vast desert kingdom in an apparent move to show that the authorities were in full control of the situation. Those executed Included Juhaiman Bin Self, the military commander of the fanatic Mahdist group that attacked the mosque. He was a member of the dissident southern Saudi tribe of Al Otaiba. The announcement said 41 of those executed were Saudi citizens.

The others were 10 Egyptians, six South Yemenis, three Kuwaitis and one each from North Yemen, Sudan and Iraq. Earlier, the Saudi government said foreigners in the group had acted out of religious conviction and that no foreign powers were, involved in the mosque affair. The group's overall leader, Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al Qahtani, self-styled messiah of the Shiite branch of Islam, was killed during the two-week siege of the Grand Mosque by Saudi troops, after its seizure by the religious zealots. The attack on the mosque occurred in the early hours of last Nov. 20 as the Moslem world was celebrating the advent of the 14th century of the Islamic lunar calendar.

The Grand Mosque Is inside a 38-acre compound housing the Kabaa, which Moslems believe was built by the prophet Abraham. The gunmen sneaked into the mosque during daw prayers, held about 50 hostages, Including some Saudi government officials, and demanded at gunpoint that their leader Qahtani be recognized as (Continued on A-5, column 4) oviet WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter suspended on Wednesday all licenses to export high technology items to the Soviet Union, and froze all further shipments, continuing his stepped-up protest of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. White House press secretary Jody Powell, announcing the president's move, said it went beyond Carter's original plan to review current policy under which computers, automotive technology and other possibly strategic information is sold to the Soviets. "He has directed that all existing licenses be suspended and that all shipments under those existing licenses be frozen," Powell said. Powell said Carter's original order for a review of current policy on sales of technology to the Soviets affected approximately 500 pending applications for export licenses valued at some $155 million.

He said that review will continue over the next four to six weeks. Carter's Wednesday order suspending existing export licenses to the Soviet Union will affect millions of dollars in U.S.-made goods. However, the White House said there were no figures available on the exact amount. But, over the past three years, manufactured goods that fit in this category have ranged in value from $150 million to $216 million annually, a White House statement said. Powell told a briefing for reporters, "the significant aspect here can't be related directly to the dollar figure." He said it would involve "items important to their plans for expanding and modernizing their production capabilities in a number of areas." Frank Kramer, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, said the license, known as a validated export license, covers technologies involving such items as computers, metallurgical sciences, automobiles, communications, and chemicals.

Kramer said the licenses involved had been issued for the sale to the Soviets of products ranging from trade manuals to actual hardware. anger the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, applies to East and Gulf coast ports and major inland ports worked by ILA members, such as on the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi River. West Coast dock workers are represented by a separate union, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Daniel Beagle, information director for the ILWU. said Wednesday evening that his union did not plan to Join the ILA's boycott.

The ILWU represents 12,000 longshoremen in California, Hawaii. Oregon, Washington and Alaska. ILA president Thomas "Teddy" (Continued on A-5, column 4) Train proposal By JAN CLEVELAND Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO A California Department of Transportation (Caltransl recommendation that a commuter train be operated on Santa Fe Railway tracks from San Bernardino to Los Angeles has been withdrawn by the department. The withdrawal occurred about the same time that Riverside officials began to protest loudly that their community was bypassed by up," said Kirk Kvan, whose home at 1000 E. 40th is next to the basin.

"Finally, we said 'that's no jet' and we came outside and just saw this huge wall of mud moving across the road." Alexander Leggat of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., was visiting at his son's home at 1129 Hampshire Road when he looked out the window and saw the torrent coming towards him. "It all happened in about 20 seconds," he said. "My wife just said the proposed route. But Mark Watts, public information officer for the Caltrans district in Los Angeles that prepared the said Wednesday that the timing was coincidental.

"Pulling back the report as not directly related to what happened in Riverside, but that's how it looks," Watts said. In fact, he said, the report was pulled back because it had been released before receiving a "final, final review" by Caltrans' Sacramento headquarters. Watts said the report will now be studied further and then forwarded to Sacramento before it is released again. But the ithdrawal of the report does not necessarily indicate that the route recommendation will change. "It has not been sent back to be changed.

There was no direction to go back and change it," Watts said. The report's recommendation was that a twice-a-day commuter rail service run on Santa Fe Railway lines from Los Angeles to San Bernardino with stops including Fontana, Upland, Pomona and Pasadena. The route would not directly serve the Riverside area, but the report suggested a bus service could link Riverside patrons with the trains. The route that Riverside officials prefer is on a Union Pacific line that could serve San Bernardino, then reach Los Angeles with stops including Riverside, Ontario, Pomona and East Los Angeles. A route over Southern Pacific lines was also considered, but re Soviet shipping U.S.

feels Associated Press The nation's seafaring community took aim at the Soviet Union Wednesday on two fronts. Less than eight years after lifting its Cold War boycott on Soviet shipping, the International Longshoremen's Association In New York declared again that its 116,000 dock workers will not handle Soviet ships or cargo. In San Francisco, a U.S. Navy minesweeper was heading for the Sacramento ship channel because of a report that "patriotic scuba divers" had mined the channel to prevent a Soviet ship from leaving Sacramento with a load of U.S. grain.

The ILA boycott, a response to Council ruling imperils statue By CRAIG STAATS The problem and it did not Sun staff writer surface until after the meeting SAN BERNARDINO A City is a longstanding plan to put an 11- Council committee unwittingly foot statue of slain civil rights lead- wandered into a controversy er Martin Luther King Jr. on the Wednesday with hat seemed to upper-level brick plaza just west of be an innocuous recommendation City Hall. that any future memorials be Afterward. Gerwig said he did placed in city parks, not around not know about the proposed King City Hall statue when he made his motion, The recommendation, approved but it should not be at City Hall, bv the council's legislative review either. committee, came in response to "The City Hall is not a place for Councilman Ralph Hernandez' statues," Gerwig said.

"It doesn't criticism of the Vietnam veterans have anything to do with race, memorial, a white rock, placed In wtor I don't believe any statue front of City Hall last year. should be erected there, whether Committee members Edward S. H's a black person, a white person. Wheeler and Richard F. Gerw ig a red person." decided the rock, set in concrete.

But the Rev. Gertrude M. should stay where it is, but also hetzel. ho heads the Dr. Martin recommended that any future me- Luther King Jr.

Memorial and morials not be at City Hall. Scholarship Fund, the group planning the memorial, said the City Council approved the idea in 7" August 1974. I IP I Whetzel said she does not expect I ItMJtfct tne committee recommendation, which will go to the full City Coun-iFour news sections) til Jan. 21. to affect her group's Bridge C4 plans.

Business B12.13 Lois Carson, a member of a com- Classified D7-14 mittee planning a Jan. 15 concert Comics B8 to raise funds for the statue. Crossword C4 agreed the city already had ap- Editorial B14 proved the idea and the King stat- Inside Cl-16 ue ought to be at City Hall. Metro Bl-ft "I ertainly would not ompare a Obituaries B7-9 statue of Martin Luther King to a Sports Dl-6 rock," Carson said. TV-Theater B10.ll Whetzel has worked on the Idea Vital Records D7 of a King memorial since 1M71.

Bert Parks National Monument? Historic Places. Carol Shull, acting keeper of the register, failed to see the humor In the proposal, however, and said "there's no way any living person could actually find his or her way onto the register." Delaporte also announced his suggestion In a telegram to entertainer Johnny Carson, who has mounted a campaign to get Parks his job back. "1 don't know if I can take Miss America without Bert," said Delaporte. "In fact, if they don't have Bert, I think they should show a rerun." Sun Newt Services WASHINGTON Bert Parks National Monument? Eligible to apply for federal aid for "restoration and And even equipped with his own brass plaque? Chris T. Delaporte, an official with the Interior Department, is upset over the recent firing of Parks as emcee of the Miss America Pageant.

So upset, In fact, that he proposes turning the venerable Parks into an American institution. To take his place right alongside the Statue of Liberty, the Agate Fossil Beds, the birthplace of George Washington and a 64-foot high wooden elephant that stands in New Jersey. Parks, 63, acted as host for the annual pageant for 25 years, becoming famous for his singing of "There she is as the victorious contestant makes her appearance after being crowned. But pageant officials didn't renew his contract this year, saying he was getting too old for the Job. Delaporte made his proposal Wednesday to the keeper of the National Register of.