The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 25

1 io charges expected in church bus crash central valley edition i St' 1 SiW. 1 By BARBARA ANDERSON Sun S'aH Wriler RUNNING SPRINGS Criminal negligence charges will not be filed against the Los Angeles area church or the driver of the church bus that crashed Feb. 6 outside Lucerne Valley while coming down Highway 18 from Big Bear Lake, California Highway Patrol officers said. Officers said they do not forsee criminal charges being filed against Paul Wood, 27, of Reseda or the First Baptist Church of Reseda, owner of the bus, because of the accident. "The guy was trying.

He just couldn't handle it," said Lt. Mike Porrazzo, commander of the Highway Patrol's Arrowhead office in Running Springs. Porrazzo said the Highway Patrol's investigation of the accident has been completed, and shows that a mechanical problem with the brakes of the bus "probably contributed" to the accident. Two teenagers were killed and 28 other persons were injured when the bus careened off State Highway 18 and plunged 30 feet into a dry gulch. One of the air brakes on the bus was out of adjustment, Porrazzo said, causing the bus to lose some braking efficiency.

I which does business as Gorman China Division in San Dimas, was cited for installing and operating equipment without a permit. The smallest penalty $50 was levied against Remesh Bajaria, which does business as Madrona Car Wash in Torrance, for failing to install a vapor recovery system. All the violations were the result of inspections by the South Coast Reading about Roosevelt Crockett Howard, a junior architecture student at with a book on Theodore Roosevelt during a class California State College, San Bernardino, relaxes break Wednesday. Firms fined for pollution violations Search is launched for 'Duke' of Needles Forty five companies in the Southland, including four in San Bernardino County, were prosecuted for air pollution violations during January and paid fines totaling $14,695, officials said Wednesday. The violations ranged from failing to install a vapor recovery system to excessive dust emissions or excessive odors.

The size of the penalties also ranged in size from $50 to $800 amounts considered to be average for such violations, most of hich are criminal misdemeanors. Those San Bernardino County companies that paid penalties in January were: The Southern Pacific Transportation Railroad based in Victorville officials hit block grant distribution it Air Quality Management District, an air pollution monitoring agency that oversees the four-county area of San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange. The agency has been conducting inspections since last April and, by the close of January, 463 companies had been slapped with violations and paid a total of $196,407 In penalties. velopment Revolving Fund to be used countywide is unjust to cities, Cox said. Cox also called a recently adopted plan by the county to take over from cities the implementation of block grant projects "absurd" and Just another means to divert funds back to the county.

Under that plan, Cox said, the cities, which previously carried out the projects, would submit their plans for implementation to the Board of Supervisors. The county, in an effort to save money, would then provide in-house staff, draftsmen and crews to complete the projects. Cox, however, said the city isn't buying that, "How can the county take this over and say it's not going to cost more?" Cox asked. "They'll have to prepare bid specifications, advertise, construct, everything. It takes people to do that.

"Since we have the staff here, it won't cost us a penny. It's their job. But you can be sure, knowing the county, that they're going to change all of that," Cox said. so that new equipment could be installed. The cockpit altimeters were the pilot's only way to judge altitude since the airport's equipment was not functioning.

Officials said it is permissible for a commercial jetliner to land in the weather conditions at the airport Monday night without the glide slope. Some major airports do not have the system, they said. in beehive theft attempt But Porrazzo said the brakes were maybe one-third or less affected by the brake being out of adjustment. "He still had most of his braking power," he said. "My guess is he (the driver) might have done the same thing with excellent brakes," Porrazzo said.

Wood tried to downshift the bus after the brakes overheated, Porrazzo said. "But he missed a gear and went into neutral." By that time, Porrazzo said, the bus had picked up so much speed that Wood lost control on the left curve and the bus went over the embankment. Having one of the brakes out of adjustment "did add to the accident, probably," he said. But the brake problem "is not the type of brake violation we tie a bus up for," he said. Tuesday afternoon just before Scott left for work.

Mrs. Watkins came home from her job at 10 p.m. and found him gone. Mrs. Watkins said the family is in "hard financial circumstances.

Everybody in the family has to work." Watkins was described as a black male, 120 pounds, 5 feet 7 inches, brown eyes and gray hair. He was last seen with a white T-shirt, blue trousers and red suspenders. Man arrested MIRA LOMA A Riverside man has been arrested in connection with the attempted theft of beehives here Sunday. Two men were wounded by shotgun pellets during the incident. David E.

Allred, 29, was taken into custody for investigation of grand theft and possession of stolen property following a Riverside sheriff's investigation into the shootings, a sheriff's dispatcher said. Allred was treated at Riverside General Hospital for shotgun pellet wounds then released and taken to county Jail, the dispatcher said. Allred is alleged to be the man resident aliens are required to register. Those unable to do so because they are In a hospital or jail must register within 30 days of being able to go to a post office. The first step to be taken in the event of a draft would be to assign random sequence (lottery) numbers to determine the order in which men would be called.

Following the lottery, all registrants would be classified 1-A, meaning they are available for military service. Induction orders would be issued in the form of a Western Union Mailgram directing the man to report for a physical examination and possible immediate induction 10 days after the receipt of the order. Plans (Continued from B-l) capacities of 62 kilowatts per hour, 56 kilowatts per hour and 178 kilowatts per hour should produce enough electricity to significantly cut the Water Department's electric bill. The city will receive a credit from Southern California Edison Co. for whatever it produces and, using last year's rates, that could be as much as $110,000 a year, he said.

By the city's rough calculations, the generators could produce enough electricity for about 230 typical houses. The first three locations in the Verdemont area, at Kendall Drive and Cajon Boulevard and at Kendall Drive and Palm Avenue will be followed by four additional generators if the project works, Ste-jskal said. The total cost of the first three generators is estimated at $200,000. Even with extra costs for piping and cement block buildings to enclose the generators, Stejskal said the Water Department should recover its costs in three to five years. By BILL JOHNSON Sun Stuff Wriler VICTORVILLE City officials, charging that the plan is "outrageous" and "makes no sense," Wednesday vowed to oppose San Bernardino County's distribution of this year's federal Community Development Block Grant program funds.

The City Council openly criticized the plan at its meeting Tuesday and delayed any decision regarding the city's block grant projects until some questions are answered by county officials, The city's disgust over the grant's distribution was prompted by the county's announced plans to withhold almost half of the available $7.23 million in grant monies for administration costs and other programs not directly benefitting cities, City Manager James Cox said Wednesday. "It makes absolutely no sense. The entire system doesn't make sense," Cox said Wednesday. "All it does is allow for more of the monies to be returned to the county coffers away from the cities." A $1 million allocation from grant monies for an Economic De about 300 to 350 feet above the ground. The pilot was landing the Jetliner with only the aid of a "localizer," which Is half an instrument landing system.

It tells the pilot If the plane is lined up horizontally with the runway. The portion of the instrument landing system that radios the pilot his altitude and tracks his rate of descent the glide slope had been removed two weeks earlier 1 Bloomington, was cited for excessive smoke from a diesel engine and fined $650. The G.A.F. an asphalt roofing facility in Fontana, was cited for excessive smoke from a roof vent and fined $500. The Yucaipa Bus Service was cited for not having vapor recovery equipment and fined $250.

And, Chino Car Wash, a gasoline dispensing facility, was cited for failing to install vapor recovery equipment and fined $140. The largest fines $800 were paid by two companies: Fletcher Oil and Refining a petroleum refinery In Torrance, that was convicted for excessive odors in the atmopshere, And, Textron Felony complaints of grand theft and possession of stolen property will also be sought against Collins, they said. Allred had previously been convicted of poisoning several hundred behives in Ventura County in 1976 and in 1972 for possession of stolen property Involving about 60,000 bees, valued at $24,000 and stolen from a Colton honey company, earlier reports said. The first conviction was overturned on appeal in Ventura Superior Court, the reports said. The poisoned bees belonged to Riverside beekeeper Harold Knoefler.

His nephew, Albert Knoef ler, is reportedly Collins' employer and part-owner of the pickup truck being used to haul the beehives Sunday, the dispatcher said. It was not certain what the connection between the previous incidents and the latest incident might he pending furthur investigation, the dispatcher added. AirCal. (Continued from B-l) plane but they have not been examined yet. The pilot, 41-year-old Capt.

Thomas J. Hall, aborted the landing after hitting the Southern California Edison Co. "lightning arrester" cables. Jim Pettus, spokesman for the decertified Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, said it appeared at least part of the problem fell upon the controllers inside the Ontario radar facility, There were two controllers one of them a trainee watching the plane on radar scopes, said Keith McGuire of the National Transportation Safety Board. "We don't want to become ambulance chasers.

We don't want to always be pointing the finger at the new controllers. "But the air traffic control system is deteriorating," Pettus said. "Controllers lack experience and are suffering from fatigue from working long hours, and the systems they work with are breaking down." Before, the high level of experience of the fired controllers acted as a "buffer" against accidents, he said. "If you look at the past, accidents have always built up out of a series of small mistakes. And inexperienced controllers are more likely to make these mistakes," Pettus said.

McGuire said after interviewing the AirCal pilot and copilot that they had checked their altimeters shortly before hitting the cables and that the gauges showed them NEEDLES Explorer Scouts, men on horseback, law enforcement officers and aircraft were searching Wednesday for an elderly man who apparently wandered from his home here Tuesday. An all points bulletin was issued for Lloyd Breaman Watkins, 71, also known as "Duke," of the El Adobe Motel. He was last seen about 4 p.m. Tuesday and may have gone to the San Bernardino-Redlands area where he has relatives, police said. "He has wandered off before but we have always taken him back," a police dispatcher said.

"This is the longest he's ever been gone." Watkins, a 60-year resident of Needles, had been a city recreation commissioner and a Little League coach. He was a "very popular man," his wife, Ehrma, said. Watkins left without his billfold, walking stick, eyeglasses and prescription medicine that his wife says he needs to get around- He is suffering from a degenerative disease that recently has caused him to be "mentally confused and living in the past." Watkins was living with his wife and 16-year-old grandson Scott at the time of his disappearance, she said. Scott last saw his grandfather Draft. (Continued from B-l) Social Security number.

A postal clerk is required to check the form to ensure that it is legible and complete, the registrant then signs and dates the form and the postal clerk validates it with the post office's cancellation stamp. No draft cards are issued but within 90 days of his registration, the young man will be mailed an acknowledgement letter and a form to report any change of address. Only male American citizens and Kaiser (Continued from B-l) holders as Hiller would do in a leveraged buyout, workers would put the money back into the corporation, where it could be used for modernization and to pay off debts, Schuchert said. Once in control, workers would be able to vote for a board of directors and would have a dominant role in directing the future of Kaiser Steel, he said. Top management people would be brought in to run the day-to-day operations of the company.

The stock that each employee owned would be put into an employee trust fund that would be controlled by a bank. As Kaiser's net worth increased, so would the employees', Schuchert said. Workers or their families could take their money out of the fund when they retired, were disabled or died. In addition, traditional employee pension plans would continue to be in effect, Schuchert said. And union representation would continue to be needed.

"In 10 years, I believe Kaiser could be a very profitable corporation," he said." It can be done. We're not Don Quixote tilting at windmills." ho "fled into the darkness" hen two unidentified guardians shot at thieves placing beehives onto a pickup truck on Riverside Drive near Etiwanda Avenue, the dispatcher said. Also wounded was Scott Collins, 24, of Riverside. He was in satisfactory condition Wednesday at Upland's San Antonio Community Hospital. The guards had been patrolling the area In an effort to end two days of beehive thefts totaling some $6,000, earlier accounts said.

Sheriff's detectives have concluded the shootings were justified because the thieves were on private property. Information will also be included that explains the process for claiming a postponement, deferment or exemption. College deferments have been eliminated. If an induction were authorized, local draft boards would be called to work in every community to decide on claims for deferments. A man would be most likely to be drafted during the calendar year in which he turns 20, officials said.

The next year, he drops into the second priority group and the men born a year after him become those in first priority. Each year the man continues to drop into a lower priority group if he is not called, until his 26th birthday, at which time he is over the draft age. Three students are arrested in vandalism REDLANDS Three Redlands High School students were arrested here Wednesday for investigation of vandalism and malicious mischief after 57 tires on 24 school buses were deflated, police said. The incident nearly caused the delay and possible cancellation of classes in the Redlands Unified School District, said Jack Posey, district transportation director. He said if the deflated tires had gone unnoticed, "it would have been ridiculous.

It just would've been a big mess," Posey said he was called out to the scene at about 1 a.m. It took about three hours and $200 in labor to reinflate the tires, he said. Posey said he did not think any of the tires were damaged, but "you're never quite sure." Arrested in the incident were Steven Rieke, 18, and two boys, all of Redlands, police said. All were released to their parents pending court action, police said. Guatemala (Continued from B-l) for her nephew.

Lunt speaks affectionately of a woman at her health spa who gave her $300. Kavalich, 38, calls the effort a "partnership" between the "hospital, St. Bernardine's, the community and various physicians. It's a Rorgeous example of community effort." The physician said that Samayoa is "most likely" suffering from inf lamation of the kidneys caused by circulating antibodies. The cause of the problem is unknown, he said.

Once the transplant is done, Kavalich said, Samayoa will be able to lead a normal life, although he will have to take medication. Asked why area physicians were donating their services, he said, "It's humanitarian (it's an) opportunity to practice what we believe." Lunt, ho came to the U.S. when she was 20 years old to study at the University of Arizona, calls Samayoa a "go-getter," recalling that even as a small child he sold gum to buy himself school books. "He's always liked school but never had a chance to go far," she said. Samayoa, who has only gone to school for five years, has worked primarily on his family's farm where beans, corn and rice are cultivated.

He said he is anxious to get back to work and when he returns to Guatemala, he wants to become a carpenter. Sitting with his son In Lunt's house this week, Angel Samayoa praised the community for helping Osvaldo. He said it reflects well on the people of this country. Lunt said of her efforts to raise money for Samayoa's treatment, "I'm not going to let him die. Even if I have to go door to door." A trust fund has been set up and contributions may be sent care of E.

George Webster, Pacific Federal Savings and Loan Association, N. San Bernardino, CA 92401..