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ii Kjm-j mi "iyu i The Sun Monday, Aug. 26. 1985 Water could become major commodity in western states and no reason to conserve water that could be sold to the MWD without some financial incentive. A deci irrigation districts or private firms," said Interior Department spokesman Mitch Snow. Whatever the possible effect, there clearly is a difference in the price of western water.

Western irrigators receiving water from federal projects often pay less than $10 for an acre-foot. By contrast, the MWD charges more than $200 an acre-foot wholesale. The price in Fort Collins, is about $1,000 an acre-foot. Near Santa Fe, N.M., the price can go as high as $10,000. an acre-foot, DuMars said.

The prime focus of the debate is populous Southern California, which is beginning to face water problems this year as the Central Arizona Project reclaims its share of Colorado River water now being used by Southern California. With the defeat in recent years of alternative water diversion plans to replace this loss, the MWD and its customers, like San Diego, are looking for other water sources. But the two proposals discussed so far challenge current Colorado River law. Essentially, downstream and lower-priority users now are entitled to water that upstream and higher-priority users don't need. The problem in the Imperial case, however, is that the district has plenty of Colorado River water nia's Imperial Irrigation District $10 million annually to conserve water.

The aim is to save 100,000 acre-feet of water that would be delivered to the MWD. Other signs of changing attitudes about water are a new Montana law on marketing water, a new Texas law asserting state control over ground water and a New Mexico study to identify unused water and determine if the state could market it. It's time for states to become more aggressive in marketing their water, argues Charles DuMars, a professor in the Natural Resources Center of the University of New Mexico law school. The pressure for change comes from several sources: Environmentalists and economists who believe the West can cut waste by selling water at its market value. Entrepreneurs who think this is a way to make money.

Water users who hope a new approach can assure them the water they need. This issue has at least the interest of the Reagan administration. "We are interested in looking at any proposals for water marketing that may be developed by states, By JAKE HENSHAW Gannett News Service WASHINGTON As populations boom, westerners are debating whether to market more water to satisfy the growing needs of their arid region. The right to use water now is bought and sold in western states such as Colorado and New Mexico. In Arizona, cities such as Scottsdale and Mesa have purchased agricultural land to obtain the water rights.

But the current transactions are usually within states and governed by the complex law controlling water rights in the West, most notably on the Colorado River. Some westerners now are promoting innovative plans that could upset the traditional way of doing business, which is sure to set off a series of legal and political confrontations. The grandest plan to date is a proposal by a private company in Colorado to sell up to 500,000 acre-feet of Colorado water to San Diego. (An acre-foot is the amount of water required to cover an acre of ground with water a foot deep.) A public Colorado water agency also is considering similar out-of-state sales. Another unique plan calls for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to pay Califor sion on the Imperial-MWD aeai is expecieu mis iau.

The Colorado-to-San Diego proposal is even more complicated because it would allow a private company or public agency to sell Colorado's share of Colorado River water outside the state likely a legal no-no, according to Fort Collins water attorney Ward Fischer. "It totally violates the compacts (that divide Colorado River water among the western states) and the law of the river," insisted Larry Linser, a state water official in Arizona, which is depending on the continued free flow of Colorado's water. The MWD also opposes the Colorado sale. Yet the state of Colorado hasn't entirely closed the door on some type of sale, says David Getches, the director of natural resources. Getches and Fischer suggest that the legal problem could be resolved by leasing the water for a definite period of time.

This might be attractive downstream because it would assure users of a definite water supply until they could develop alternative sources. For Colorado, water sales could provide money to build water projects that the federal government appears no longer willing to finance. Merchants 50 years later, Mississippi rodeo honors Victorville cowboy-artist Bascom remembers the rodeo as being special for another reason. "A farmer came to the rodeo arena with a mule that had him scared to death as it would kick, bite and buck and was as mean as a hornet," he said. "He asked if we could help deal with this wild animal, so we decided to use it in a special event at the evening rodeo.

"We brought the mule out into the center of the arena and asked if any woman or lady would like to ride the wild beast. Just to The southern Mississippi town of Columbia reached back 50 years recently to honor Victorville cowboy-artist Earl W. Bascom. A long-time Victor Valley resident, Bascom was honorary grand marshal for the Earl Bascom 50th Anniversary Rodeo and Parade, which commemorated a half-century of rodeos in Mississippi. Back in 1935, Bascom recalled, he went to Columbia to produce and direct the first rodeo in the state, which was different from today's rodeos.

"We held the rodeo in the city park on a baseball field," he said. crime. He said there are other steps store owners can take to reduce shoplifting. "You place merchandise so as to discourage shoplifters," Silver said. "You place the popular items in places so they're not stolen." Klein acknowledged that the socio-economic scale of the area is changing.

"The neighborhood is definitely in transition," he said. "The makeup of the neighborhood has turned toward younger, more mobile people whereas before most of the people were older and more stable." But talk of statistics and socioeconomic scales means little to victims who are traumatized. Doreen Warren, the business partner of stabbing victim Merv Corner, said she fears it could happen again. After the robbery, Warren held Corner's head in her hands and comforted him while waiting for paramedics to arrive. "It has really affected us," she said.

"It's completely and utterly changed my life. I'm literally (Continued from B-l) wary about strangers or suspicious-looking customers. In fact, some reportedly locked their doors during business hours for a time. The owners of the stationary store also said the crime has made their main clientele senior citizens afraid to walk the streets. "It makes you a little nervous and upset," said another business operator in the area, Margie Hopper, manager of Heywood's Ice Cream Parlor.

"I think we're more aware of people now and I think we're watching out more for suspicious-looking people." But are people scared? "I think we definitely are," Hopper replied. She said the merchants in the area are almost "like a family" and watch out for each other. While many of the "mom and pop" stores in the area are concerned over crime, police reports indicate most of the robberies occur mainly at fast-food stores, convenience stores, gas stations and banks. According to Lt. John Klein, who heads the police substation for the area, although the Highland Avenue area has seen some increase in crime, the amount is no worse than in other parts of the city.

In fact, he said, on the basis of pure statistics, other areas of the city suffer higher crime rates than West Highland Avenue. Kelin also said the stabbing incident is more extreme than the vast majority of crimes reported. But he also noted that this is small comfort to crime victims. "That particular incident does not really represent the types of occurrences happening here," he said. "This was a gross and unusual type of occurrence." One problem, he said, is that often the small "mom and pop" stores have only one or two employees and are thus more vulnerable to crime.

More employees in a store would discourage robberies, he said. Barry Silver, owner of Brill's Shoes at 339 W. Highland, said he always has at least six employees on duty, partly to discourage make sure we would have at least one volunteer, I borrowed a dress and one of those big sunbonnets the ladies used to wear, rolled up my pant legs and put the outfit on. "Then I went up in the stands and waited. When they asked for volunteers, I stood up, jumped down there and rode that snorting mule to the bitter end.

Then I jumped off, landed on my feet and disappeared." The show "made quite an impact on the crowd," Bascom said. "There were women screaming all over the place," he recalled. "One lady fainted. Years after this there was still much speculation among the townsfolk as to the identity of that mystery mule-riding lady." The Marion County Cattlemen's Association, which sponsored this year's rodeo, presented Bascom with a silver buckle commemorating the rodeo of 1935; Bascom also received the key to Columbia and a telegram from President Reagan. Rialto cyclist killed in collision said.

Lewis Jones, 21, of Rialto was killed when his motorcycle was hit by a pickup driven by Gregory Lawrence Sparks, 22, also of Rialto, at 3 a.m., police dispatcher Julie Tuttle said. Both vehicles were eastbound on Foothill when for unknown reasons the pickup struck a parked truck trailer, veered into the road, struck the motorcycle and then struck a second parked trailer, she said. Sparks, who reportedly was uninjured, was arrested for investigation of vehicular manslaughter. He was being held Sunday at county jail on $10,000 bail. Shop owner For emergencies, call 9-1-1 A public service mge from elite 0 Sun 17, of San Bernardino.

Arraigned on charges of attempted murder, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, he is tentatively scheduled to go on trial Sept. 30. For Corner, the robbery has left some disturbing thoughts. "I never worried about anyone else," he said, "because I always figured that if I didn't mistreat anybody, they wouldn't mistreat me. When you run into a situation like this, it really shakes your faith and you ask yourself if it's really worth it." nine months to receive the money.

Corner said he's always been a "very trusting person" but he's bitter over the financial problems caused by the stabbing. "I'm here minding my own business and I'm not doing anything that should cost me any money," he said. "And then someone comes and makes me pay these bills just because this guy wants to steal $46?" Two weeks after the stabbing, police arrested Jerome Thomas, (Continued from B-l) the treatment wasn't at the V.A. hospital, he said. Because his shop has been closed most of the past two months, he said, "business has been nil" and he has little money coming in.

He does qualify for California's victim's aid program, which helps reimburse the medical costs for crime victims. But he said the fund will only pay for part of the costs and that it can take up to RIALTO A man was killed early Sunday when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a pickup truck in the 1100 block of West Foothill Boulevard, police Woman killed on Highway 58 BARSTOW A 37-year-old Portland, woman was killed Sunday when her car crashed head-on into a truck on Highway 58, three miles east of Highway 395, California Highway Patrol officials said. Officer Dan Laza of the Bar-stow CHP office said the woman was traveling east on the highway when she apparently lost control of her 1982 Fiat convertible and crossed the center line into the path of an 18-wheeler truck. The truck ran over the sports car, which then flipped over, ejecting the woman. Laza said the woman was dead at the scene.

Her name was being withheld pending notification of relatives. The driver of the truck, identified as James Willmom of Amarillo, Texas, sustained minor injuries. Laza said Investigators found open containers of alcohol in the woman's car. Results of blood tests for alocohol content will be known following a coronor's examination, he said. CAR WASH $55 wash wax cyjee Complete Vac Jl COMPLETE VAC.

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than one and a half hours not bad for having the additional handicap of flying a reporter. It was good enough for eighth among the competitors. The race, with a trophy and $100 prize, was won by two flyers from Phoenix, Pat Moreland and Wayne Bryant. Cuitom Drapo Dollvrtd 7-10 Working Days TRUCKLOAD SALE 33EB 9 5 50 FACTORY DIRECT DRAPERIES FROM 811.04 CARPET 3 VINYL FROM 3 SHEERS FROM. $2 9- FABRICS FROM lid' TO Jf sdf "MMwWMilsWMis READY MADES WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC Cash Carry Expires Aug.

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A few moments later, he pointed out a favorite landmark of flyers: Olive Dell Nudist Ranch in Reche Canyon, south of Loma Linda. "Every flyer checks that out," said Hensley. "And (the nudists) always stand out there and wave." Paddock has his own favorite landmarks. He seems to know nearly all the sites of every plane crash around here going back to World War II. How was the ride aboard Hensley's Cessna 172? The takeoff was like shooting off the top of a roller coaster.

The vista, especially over the San Bernardino desert and mountains, was breathtaking. Of course, sharp turns and bumps at 140 mph over air turbulence leave a first-time flyer a little short of breath and quite queasy. In a shakey scrawl, a reporter wrote dfrwn Hensley's warning going over the Cajon Pass: "Hang on it might be bumpy right here We're going to just the hills." Hensley and Paddock completed the course in slightly more Husband held in wife's death The husband of a 26-year-old Ridgecrest woman who died from an apparent blow to the head was arrested Sunday, authorities said. Jane Michelle Blanche, 26, died Saturday night at Ridgecrest Community Hospital, Detective Norris Jones of the Trona Sheriff's Substation said. Amos Leon Blanche, 28, was arrested at home 8:45 a.m.

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Part of the procedure is to solicit citizen's comments on the activities and accomplishments of the program. The 1984-85 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program was administered in unincorporated target areas of the County and in the following cooperating cities: Adelanto, Barstow, Chino, Fontana, Grand Terrace, Loma Linda, Montclair, Needles, Redlands, Rialto, Upland, and Victorville. The County's 1984-85 CDBG Program did not include the cities of Big Bear Lake, Colton, Ontario, Rancho Cuca-monga and San Bernardino. Contact these cities directly for more information on the CDBG Programs in their jurisdictions. During Program Year 9 (1983-84) the County of San Bernardino did not cause any involuntary displacement of persons or businesses.

Citizen comments regarding the Grantee Performance Hearing Package and the CDBG Program are welcome during the two week period from August 28, 1985 to September 11, 1985. The Grantee Performance Report will be forwarded to HUD on or about August 31, 1985. Copies of the Report are available for inspection and comment at the: Department of Housing and Community Development 474 West 5th Street San Bernardino, CA 92415-0040 LARGEST OFFICE FURNITURE CHAIN IN SO. CALIF. NEVADA 79 I 0 DISK so '159 Wolnut groin top htgh proooufO lnnrntlS-OfWHW on otosM roMot uaptMWton Fikt draw OM ftmtn tool Wu-9lo ojido ftwopoMKwt ea jo -v kJ I 324 00 277o BEAUTIFUL S4" SS" XCCUTIVI WISTIRN STYL1 -t U-SHAPIO I few" RADIUS SDOI PANIL DISK S3SO7 00 ND DISK SO" I SO" Ot ntwH Omn on hoovy Doosu rttum duty ltwl OMsMO PUN 169850 UPLAND 981-0767 1255 W.

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