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vw 4 rfto x' -W- (- n-Ht-A'- r- -SP V''r 1 'V'wmijnwt pt 4- 3 7- 'I 1 1 Tuesday March 10 1970 Citizen Kews OEMS GET TOUGH pjcrwrit avr: SACRAMENTO -(UP!) Aittembiy Democrats Monday night refined to approve a i financial disclosure bill Republican speaker Robert Monagan Insists is equally as tough as a new antigraft law "authored by Assemblyman Jess Unruh The measure Was eligible lor ivote again today "applies to the poor- and the rich and contended think anything is served to determine li man Uj in a poveKy classification or a rich Monagan'i measure would delete the requirement that both state and local officials reveal the dollar amount of their investments in en-' terprises -regulated by the Stateor local governments -Instead it would reduce the Unjuh while leading the op- position to bill suf-- $500000 for primary ejection campaign advertising VMore than anything else we have done around he said would begin toget at corruption in i He termed current levels oft( financing corrupting and no longer acceptable under a democratic He added "I think a million dollars is enough to Tun' a in this state': not absolve myself" Unruh said have always played the game the way the -ground rules are set But I do pot like the ground In a related move Assemblyman vJames A Hayes R-Long Beach pro- pored a Mil that would remove Judges from the Unruh Act and create a special financial disclosure procedure for them Investments in enterprises regulated by their agencies The new statute nukes them disclose a holding over $10000 jn any state or locally regulated business bill covers more people than the Unruh bin" Monagan told the Assembly that cannot be considered a weakening of the Unruh bill- He said ttttidjiot serve the to disclose the extent'of an official's investment erode is crook for $40000 Just as if for he said On a party line 37-35 vote the Assembly defeated Unruh amendments that would limit a statewide candidate to spending a' maximum of $1 million for general election and an provision that would allow it to take effect as soon as the gowmor signed it several provisiane would substantially revise 'Sections of the 19GR Unrph sAct which becomes effective tor the first time April 6 local officials throughout the state contend it would jnake them disclose too much li( their private finances Many have threatened to quit rather than disclose "TMs bitt: is a drastic weakening of the present con- filet of interest Unruhna candidate' for 0 r-argued during floor debate' He laid it failed to 'adequately cover wealthy local officials and charged "there is 10 times as much graft taking pjace at that level than there is in the State Monagan argued the bill -fend 4 setback himself when Republicans united to defeat hi -amendment proposing that the campaign advertising ex-pendltures of candidates for Statewide 'office suchas governor be limitedto $15 million: The bil mustered only '38 Republican votes in favor to 19 Democratic votes against Monday night It needed 54 Th actual vote occurred on xiPT Photo REMAINS OF CAR Two Maryland State Troopers look at the remains of a car which exploded early today killing the two black occupants The explosion occurred close to the site of the trial of black militant Rap Rrown who faces charges in connection with racial violence in Cam bridge Md in 1967 He faces charges of inciting to riot and arson Off ice Potatoes to -Edwards be held without bond Watolck said Edwardr has been chirged with the murders of Donald Align Todd 15 of Pacoima whose body wu found last May under bridge about a mile and a half from his home and Gary Rocha 17 whose body wu found at his Sylmar home in December 1969 Both had been shot The three kidnaping counts involve foe alleged abductions -police said led to the surrender of Edwards whose home address is 12432 Ralston Ave Sylmar The-three victims were the daughters of Mr and Mrs Edgar Cohen 15768 Roxford SL Sylmar They allegedly were kidnaped from their home Friday while the parents were at work -Mice said the girls Valerie 12 Cindy 13 and Jafi 14 were abandtxied ini fcanyonrin 'the San Gataiet were -fouhd safe after Edwards 15 year-old boy who accompanied him turned themselves in and allegedly told police where the girls could be found The due wu being handled by juvenile authorities Police said Friday be wu being booked on suspicion of kidnaping under the Juvenile Code Meanwhile police and sheriffs deputies were still vestigating four other cased -they had questioned Edwards about These were the disappearances of Stella Darlene Nolan then 8 of Compton in June 1953 Don Baker 13 of Azusa ami a Brenda Howell 11 in August 1956 and Roger Madison 16 of Sylmar in December 1968 Of HUD A proposed or din a tree a single- city demonstration agency (Model Qties) within the mayor's of fice was sent to the Qty Council for action today The council promptly assigned the proposal to its State County and Federal Affairs Committee headed by Councilman Thomas Bradley for consideration Mayor Sam Yorty said he was: proposing establishment of foe new agency to meet requirements of foe Department of Housing and Urban Development Yorty told the council he intended to name Deputy Mayor Joseph Quinn chairman of the board of new agency Rockwell Ames executive assistant to the mayor and director of the Office of Urban Development is scheduled to serve as Quiim's alternate Membership on the board said Yorty will be composed of all the members ef the two 4 Firm i051- UPI) The Nixon to--day revoked ruling that -would have' "a multimillion dollar bonanza' for a ship company formerty headed by a White House aide In the face 1 sharp criticism the Treasury withdrew a ruling that would have allowed a tanker with foreign registry to operate between US ports The ruling issued with little fanfare on March 2 would have allowed the tanker Sansinena registered under the Liberian flag to operate US coastal waters Peter Flanigan an aide to President Nixon is former president of the firm that owns foe ship Barricuda Tanker Co Sen Joseph Tydings D-Md said in a Senate speech Monday attacking the ruling that the action would create a $8 million for the company by raising the value of the firm to about $11 million SILVER ANNIVERSARY Blasts Post i of Office Schools May Omit Grading budgets and other fiscal matters He' suggested lawmakers prescribe guidelines for spending federal tends intended for cational improvement Post said departmental handling cl money contributed to the of many federally financed programs has resulted to a large number of projects of questionable he said Post also said there is siipi from $10000 to $1000 The nature of thedtoldin ling must be specified but not the actual dollar amount The' official would -have to Indicate whether the foyestment was tune than $5000 '-Additionally lower echelon officials such as members of school boards and nonsalaried commissioners would be required to disclose only their VAN NUYS Mack Ray Edwards was arraigned on two 'counts' rf murder ahd three' of kidnaping in the alleged abductions of five different children The middle-aged defondant appeared before Judge Joan Dempsey Klein in Division' 75 of Van Nuys Municipal Court Monday! The judge scheduled jl preliminary hearing Tor Edwards on March 17 in ths same court Edwards 51 a construction worker has been questioned by police since last Friday whpn he turned himself in concerning alxnf four other cases of possible murder or abduction involving the disap- pearandss of children going back foJ953 District Attorney Lewis Watnfojk made the formal recommendation that: SACRAMENTO (UPI) -Max Rafferty blames political motivation for' a critical review of his stewardship of foe State1 Department of Education Rafferty state superintendent of public instruction responded Monday to criticism of his office by Legislative Analyst A Alin Post "To bring this up on the eve of a political campaign seems rather questionable to say the Rafferty said "All laying is foe time is most The state schools chief who was first elected to his post in 1962 is expected to announce his re-election plans that week been around here for seven years The budget has changed very little to that time If Post had any criticisms he should hive stated them long before post to his regular annual analysis of the budget suggested lawmakers withhold approval of the money until a further review it made The analysis accuses Rafferty's office of misusing and wasting school funds misrepresenting reading scores and offering a spending plan that foils to show where money is spent Post also said Rafferty did not exert- the- proper leadership do you prove Rafferty asked He said Post never to 'me his criticism! Rafferty said be only released "raw on reading tests adding extrapolate from foe sene nr Post is the nonpartisan -veteran financial expert hire by foe Legislature to analyze UCLA Fix Minority Quota WESTWOOD Dr Sherman Mellinkoff dean of the UCLA Medical School said he will not establish a quota system for minority students seeking admission to foe school next fall it was revealed today Black medical students at UCLA Monday-accused the -school of racist policies and demanded-that-at teastthree-of every 10 medical students admitted next fall be Negroes or Mexican-Americans I AMERICAN Idaho (UPIJ of the Na-' tional Farmers Organization Jbura three niilfifo pounds of potatoes today in a (Effort to force prices up The "potato on' the Walter Mauch farm would bring to five million pounds the total destroyed in the past week Similar bums were held at Shelley and PauL The potato farmers are according to Del Ray Holm chairman of foe National Potato Committee He said they are asking $150 per hundredweight for No 1 potatoes and if they foil to get it going to be aboip 20 per cent that going to farm next been pushed about as far as they can be and going to fight back tooth and Holm laid NFO members began UK Photo Comedian Red Skel ment and its board of The Chamber approved pro posals that the Qty Council be required to meet at least once i week instead of daily and that the chief administrative officer be made responsible to the mayor The report was presented to the council committee by Philip Hawley vice president o( the Chamber and of its business and government rda-' tiona division -( kirk Under Knife LAKELAND Fla (UPp Gov Claude Kirk with abdominal flying between engagements Monday He was rushed to foe nearest hospital where surgeons removed' lemon-sized cyst from his left kidney Nava Calls for Probe Of Rafferty Office demonstration agencboards bow operating The superintendent of schools said Yorty has recommended appointment of the Board of two present-members to the new singleagency -The 'remaining two members of the board will be city councilmen appointed by Council President John Gibson Jr the mayor said As now set up there are two model cities demonstration agencies one for SoutbCen-tral Los Angeles and the other for Northeast Los Angeles Each has a separate deputy 'director and an overaU singlc director Both would beabsorbed into the new single agency Yorty proposes to have function out of his office His proposal the mayor said meets the requirements of HUD which asked the administrative structure of the Agency be changed and that the agency director and staff work out of the office gets poor marks at the start of his school career After the third grade students will have to go back to report cards as usual I Anticrime Funds to Funnel Through States WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Nixon administration has told the cities it wants to channel anticrime funds to them through state governments not directly to the cities themselves Atty Gen John Mitchell listened' Monday to two mayors who complained they were getting far less than their share of the federal funds But he told them that to establish a -direct line between the federal and local governments would Washington a dictator over every anticrime project in the that contributors would have a commitment from' the candidate 1 in advance that he would appoint to a particular post someone who wu favorable to a particular 'Viewpoint or could grant lucrative favors -The charter commission proposal to give -the mayor this power a grave error and should be the Chamber said in a lengthy report on commission pro- "It laid such power would also make the mayor to effect the city manager The report which was drafted by the city subcommittee of the state and local government committee also opposed proposal to make the mayor a full-time executive Hie report said the mayor cannot be a fulltime city administrator because of the 1 picketing processors and shippers in Eastern Idaho last week when prices were $2JS0 for No Is and 70 cents per hundredweight for No 2s Former State NFO President George Brandon said at least three packers in Idaho have signed contracts at $150 and "conservatively speaking gotten a good 50 cent 11111041006 we started But he! said they will con-to destroy potatoes until $150 is standard say got a 'surplus and well burn until we get rid of it if what it Brandon said Car Rams Barber Shop In H'wood Continued from Page 1 on Sunset Blvd approaching Highland Ave She found herself in trouble The car pome to a stop when she hit the brakes! Out of control her foreign-made sedan turned right to head south on Highland But there was traffic in the way! She turned again this time into the parking lot of a gas station on the southwestern corner The car raced across the Jot and smashed iilto a heavy- retaining rail attached to the side of shop -The result was a sort of instant bass drum effect as the shock was transmitted through the buckling wall The ceiling fell in "It sounded like ah Gianelli recalled went flying around I thought I was going to have a heart attack When I composed myself I ran outside and I found this woman crying in her The barber estimated damage to the building he has cut hair in tor the past 19 pears at $1MII Gianelli complained of a head injury site said he was going to have an X-ray Winteri shaken and with minor ankle injuries was taken home by his wild The woman driver suffered a bruised head According to- investigating officer David "the I brakes tested AJalfight but there was something malfunc-with the wu one other involved in the mis- hap Next doo to the barber shop is Dream a barbershop for pooches Vira Laroche operator of the shop complained that her white boxer was completely upset by the noise which sounded like a jet plane taking County OK's Improvements At Airport a $425031 contract to replace- El Monte runway and taxiway was awarded today by county supervisors The improvements mark the first in a series of renovations planned by the county to redevelop and modernize the airport Tqmei Construction Co of Manhattan Beach will replace El) 2000-foot runway with a 4000-foot takeoff and landing strip and parallel taxi-way These will be lighted Also to be installed are 4050 '-feet of chain link fence and 1904-feet of storm drain pipe Julian Nava candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction has called for an investigation into charges incumbent Max office had mishandled funds for education The candidate also asked i State -'Attorneys General'1 Thomas Lynch' for an opinion on whether any illegalities were involved Navaga number of 'Hi Los Angeles Qty Board of Educ-catkn is aeektag the Democratic nomination for wiper htendenL 1'SuV --4 t) ple evidence to that reorganization of the department is lagging behind what the Legislature Intended He said Rafferty has not submitted annual progress reports ordered by lawmakers have frequently found in which foe cases in which the State Department of Education has not provided leadership and direction to local the analysis concluded At a news conference Nava called for an investigation by the joint legislative Audit Mid Budget Committee arid the Senate and -Assembly Education Committees 1 His telegram to the state attorney generalt askin is legal to misrepresent information that is essential to the added that if there is not a law that applies to this -case there should be He said it should call for impeachment and a provision for criminal which a State Department spokesman described as a private agency engaged fa refugee relief and community development under contract to foe Agency for International Development (AID) Merkel Gibbs and Davis were pilots for Air America a charter airline flying missions for AID and foe Central Intelligence: Agency The'-1 next p( kin and hometowns" 'or the six' men were not immediately available Dr Rosoff New USC Dept Chief ton and his wife Georgia marked their 25th wed- ding anniversary this week And celebrated quietly at a family get-together They married -one 'year after being introduced at a party by mutual friends in 1944 They have a daughter yalentina who is married to Carlos Alonso residing in Studio City) A plan under which report cards jxuld be eliminated for primary students in the Los Angeles schools has been approved by the Qty Board of Edudfion Under the new system in- dividual schools will decide whether they iwant to substitute parent-teacher conference for cards with the old A grades The plan would affect only 'students in kindergarten first and second grades The school system would stUl-be required to issue a' report card if one Is requested 'Shy parents There now are about 153000 children in the primary grades in the big Los Angeles system School officials claim the plan now being used in most big city districts has two major advantages: First it promotes closer (teacher-parent contact and in-I fovidual evaluation pf a performance I Second it prevents a child from feeling a if he The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce has gone on record as opposing a r-power plan to give the mayor' to fire commissioners and department heads without Qty Council confirmation it wu learned 'today The organization said top jobs would be on every mayoral election if the plan is adopted 1 The Chamber warned -the Qty Charter and Administration Code 1 Committee Monday during the Jisal public hearing' on Qty Charter Commission proposals "if the mayor could fire commissioners1 and general managers at willit is predictable that in every mayoralty election large sums of money would be put into campaigns in order to elect a particular candidate to the office of The Chamber also cautioned US Reveals Names Of 6 Killed In Laos WASHINGTON (UPI) -The State Department has released the names of six civilians killed by hostile fire to Laos' since Jan 20 1969 when President Nixon took office T-- The were: Arthur jftUlmi ert Wiled and Depnis Mummert Aug 5 1900' 'In -an ambush near Ban 1 Nong Keun Chandler Edwards foiled in an ambush at Ban' Souhouna April 24 I960 Merkel killed by sniper fire Feb 18 1970 while piloting a heiicopter at the Plato of Jan WiUianj Gibbs killed March 13 I960 near Nam Bac to the crash of a helicopter hit by hostile ground fire -and Ralph Davis killed Aug 19 1969 southwest of the Plain of Jars to the crash of a small airplane hit by hostile ground -fire '--f Stillman' Mummert -and Edwards worked for Interns tional Voluntary Services heavy load of speeches ceremonies and trips "He just there from day to the report said Instead of changing the charter through a complete draft as proposed the chamber favors a series of amendments on next ballot "Then the voters can pick and choose as to what particular- parts are the report said "Hie splitting up of various charter change proposals into separate amendments was the approach taken by th City of Sap A jj reposals Other charter proposals Op-: posed by foe Chamber include establishment of the post of ombudsman or neighborhood organization changes to the methods of electing members of thr Board of Education and changes in the status of the police chief the police depart Dr Leonard Rosoff has been appointed chairman of foe USC Department- of Surgery it was announced Dr Rosoff replaces Dr Clarence Berne who has retired after 30 years as department chairman I 5 A -7 r- J-LL I.