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THE SUNDAY MORNING Fresno Bee THE REPUBLICAN FRESNO CALIFORNIA Sunday October 1 7 1 97 1 Phone 268-522 1 35c Vol 99 No 17689 1 1 Sections 162 Pages FSC Foundation Shelves Educational TV Plan Baxter said the college prefers to remain associated with Channel 18 and in line with that is in the process of petitioning the FCC for a renewal of the channel allocation The complicated plan began developing early last spring when Baxter discussed the status of local ETV with Paul Bartlett a broadcast consultant and former president and part owner of KFRE-TV now KFSN-TV Together with Keith Mealey a consulting engineer Bartlett started working on the project The key was the agreement by A Williams of Southern California head of Trans- America Broadcasting which owns KAIL-TV to let the college use Channel 53 for one year as an ETV station The college was to use its own studios and equipment and assume the costs of the utility bills Bartlett estimated it could operate a year for $30-35000 This is the amount the foundation would have had to underwrite The station would use the KAIL-TV transmitter which Mealey said could have been moved into the Sierra to give the station wider coverage He said the signal could have been received throughout Fresno and Tulare By Eli Setencich An unusual plan to put an educational television channel on the air in Central California is dead It was killed by the Fresno State College Foundation which under the proposal was to have underwritten costs of the operation for one year The foundation a nonprofit corporation whose chief purpose is to administer funds and endowments that promote and develop educational services at FSC bases its decisions on question of how a program can further the progress of the education Counties and in parts of Madera and Merced Counties During the planning Bartlett discussed the concept with FCC staff officials in Washington and they he said the idea" reflecting the commission's policy of encouragement for educational television Bartlett said he also received assurances from the Public Broadcasting Service that it would provide its network programs to the channel free of charge The idea as Bartlett saw it was to get the station on the air with the help of the FSC Foundation then to apply to the Department of Housing Education and Welfare for funds to keep it going beyond the first year on Channel 18 the station they see what you have going HEW has been known to be generous with the appropriation of funds for he said At the same time with ETV programming finally going into valley homes Bartlett foresaw a regeneration of community interest and support After years of time effort and money the old San Joaquin Valley See FSC Page A4 al said Dr Norman A Baxter FSC president and executive secretary to the foundation Apparently underwriting an educational television station does not fall in that category There were however uncommon circumstances the principal one being that the television outlet involved in the plan was Channel 53 commercial station KAIL-TV The college holds the rights to Channel 18 which has been reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for educational television in the central San Joaquin Valley Police Wound Rap Brown In New York Gun Battle lying on the roof pointing a 38 caliber magnum revolver at him Mannetta said he immediately fired at Brown because appeared to be ready to Brown was rushed to Roosevcl! Hospital for surgery where his condition was described as fair with two abdomenal wounds and liver damage A heavy police guard was placed inside and outside the hospital Murphy gave this account of the robbery: Brown and three other suspects identified as Levi Ballcntine 24 of Chicago Arthur Young 26 and Sam Petty 23 both of St Louis Mo entered the lounge at 2:55 am EDT and ordered 25 patrons to lie on thefloor A passerby noticed the robbery in progress and called police At least a dozen officers responded to the scene and as they approached the bar the four gunmen came out and started shooting Two patrolmen Garry Hunt and Salvatore Rossato were wounded Hunt was said to be in satisfactory Supreme Court NEW YORK Rap Brown the Black Power militant who disappeared from public sight 19 months ago and was placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list was shot and seriously wounded early Saturday morning when he and three other gunmen allegedly tried to hold up a Manhattan bar Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy identified Brown as a suspect in the holdup before two New York patrolmen also were shot during the gun battle on Manhattan's upper West Side Brown the author of the phrases baby and is as American as cherry was found on the roof of a 12-story apartment house a few doors from the Red Carpet Lounge by Patrolman Ralph Mannetta after he fled from police responding to a robbery call Mannetta said he spotted Brown Fresno Fair Goes Into Final Day By Karl Kidder The Fresno District Fair will end tonight and it will bow out with one of the most thumping endorsements of any of its 75 predecessors and a promise of even better things in 1972 By midnight the exposition should have maintained its position as California's third largest fair and without question the San Joaquin largest from an attendance standpoint at least An estimated 52500 braved the October mistrals and threats of showers Fair Attendance Mineral King Fate Is Up To Two New Justices Thomas Newman of the US Forest orers On Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station is towed to I an island at Rae Lakes as part of the ISIdflU five-man study of meadow Tiny Expl A ecology in the High Sierra On the return trip to the shore one of the men found his idea of how to ride the makeshift raft was all wet Story and additional photos on Page Cl Bee Photo by Dick Darby condition with wounds in the leg hip and abdomen The four men dashed into the lobby of an apartment house where three were arresled on the stairs Brown however made his way to the roof where he was shot and arrested by Mannetta Murphy said Brown was identified "through fingerprint identification police records and other law enforcement Murphy said police were investigating some reports that there were additional assailants in the robbery and were seeking to determine what Brown has been doing for the past year and a half Murphy also said police were investigating the possibility the shoot-out was linked to activities of revolutionary groups in the US Murphy said Brown and the other three suspects none of whom was injured would be charged with robbery assault and attempted murder Murphy said money and valuable See Brown Page A4 to determine how far this trend will be permitted to go The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a Hudson Valley environmental dispute upheld the Sierra Club's right to sue The Ninth Circuit in San Francisco disagreed The Supreme Court now must decide which was right If it rules that the Sierra Club qualifies as a proper party to challenge he Mineral King development plans it could go on to settle the merits of the case or send it back to the lower courts for a complete trial If it concludes that the Sierra Club has no standing to sue Disney would be free to build the resort and California could proceed with construction of the $22 million access high way But at this stage with the Senate poised for a possibly lengthy confirmation battle nobody is taking bets here as to when the high court might get around to Mineral King Weather Forecast: Clearing today then fair tonight through tomorrow Continued cool Light winds Temperatures 63 39 yesterday's high 58 Details on Page C6 Top News Inside World South Vietnamese claim 1873 enemy killed in three weeks Bll Gun battles in Northern Ireland claim civilian British soldier A4 Nation Mitchell aide quits denies wrong in Texas deals A4 State Warren eulogizes Santa Barbara newsman friend as a great American C8 Todays Chuckle Nothing annoys a woman as much as having her friends drop in to find her house looking the way it usually does Patrol Has Arrested 5389 Illegal Aliens In 9 Months By Leo Rennert McClakfty Ntweaetn Staff Writer WASHINGTON President Nixon's upcoming nomination of two new justices to the US Supreme Court may decide the outcome of a six-year-old battle over plans for a major ski resort in California's scenic Mineral King area The court was scheduled to hear arguments this week in a suit brought by the Sierra Club against a decision by the US Forest Service to let Disney Corp build a $35 million recreation complex But faced with two vacancies the justices postponed the hearing until they are back to full strength Cases involving capital punishment and other major policy issues also were set aside until a full court can hear them In each instance the seven currently sitting justices are believed to be deeply divided and reluctant to issue decisions which might be overturned when their new colleagues join the bench Thus the two prospective newcomers well could hold the key to the fate of some of the most important cases on this term's docket including Mineral King The Sierra Club contends the Forest Service violated federal law in approving the Disney resort because congress had designated Mineral King as a national game refuge It also challenges the legality of an Interior Department decision to allow construction of an all-weather access road through nearby Sequoia National Park The club obtained a preliminary injunction in federal district court But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco threw out the suit last year It held that the Sierra Club did not have proper standing as a litigant and that federal officials appeared to have acted within their authority The Supreme Court accepted the case last February To environmentalists the chief issue is a determination whether groups like the Sierra Club can make increased use of the courts to block controversial development projects Normally a plaintiff must be able to show some direct financial or personal harm to gain standing to sue But in recent years public interest groups have managed to gain increased access to the courts without meeting this rigd test The Mineral King case is expected because must of the aliens work on farms or in light industry Walsh said Walsh attributed the increase to an oversupply of labor in Mexico and a large market for labor in California He noted 138 million arc unemployed in Mexico and the country must create 400000' new jobs a year to meet the population growth He also said Mexicans can make more money by working a few months in the fields than by working a whole year in most occupations in Mexico we've had a steady increase in the number of aliens since the bra-ccro program was he said The bracero program allowed farm- ln The Bee Today By Ray Sleelc Jr The US Border Patrol has arrested 5389 illegal aliens in the northern San Joaquin Valley in nine months this year an increase of 19 per cent over the same-period a year ago Herbert Walsh deputy chief pa- trol agent in the Livermore sector of the patrol said the illegal aliens most of them from Mexico were picked up in Tulare Kings Fresno Madera Merced and Mariposa Counties There were 4523 arrested in the first nine months of last year he said which compared with only 1639 in the same period in 1965 Walsh said the number of officers working out of the Livermore sector is 70 the same as last year and a few than in 1965 However he said during July when 1640 illegal aliens were arrested in the northern San Joaquin Valley the patrol brought in extra officers from the Texas area They stayed for 30 days Walsh said it is not known how many get away but one officer in Fresno said catch about one in four or apprehend as many as we said Walsh know from intelligence reports there are a lot of il-Jegals in the valley so naturally we concentrate a little harder The Fresno station which oversees the six-county area accounted for about 30 per cent of the illegal aliens arrested in the 49 counties served by the Livermore sector he said This is ers to hire Mexican nationals to work in the fields It was outlawed in 1965 although there were some exemptions later Instead the farmers were to rely on domestic labor supplies Walsh said if illegal aliens are brought into the area by farmers most are brought in by smugglers In fiscal 1970 the border patrol arrested 1777 who had brought 11062 illegal aliens into California In fiscal 1971 there were 1819 arrested for bringing in 11643 illegal aliens It is not illegal for farmers or other employers to hire illegal aliens only the and is subject to prosecution Walsh said most farmers and employers of illegal aliens do not know the people they hire have entered the country illegally employer usually doesn't ask for he said even have a hard time telling who is and who an illegal We often question guys who are natural US citizens or who have become citizens or applying for citizenship But we have to check" Walsh said there were 113305 illegal aliens including 107939 from Mexico deported from California in fiscal 1970 and 119185 including 114652 from Mexico in fiscal 197i He said in the Southwest region California Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma about 1000 illegal aliens try to enter the US each day He said about 60-65 per cent are apprehended at the border 433727 Fair program on Page C6 yesterday to write a finis to the most successful racing program financially that is ever recorded locally A promise of better weather today should give the relatively few area people who have not yet visited the 1971 harvest festival an incentive to see what their friends and neighbors arc showing in a vast potpourri of things At 1:30 pm the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will mount their allblack horses to perform their 100th musical ride so far in 1971 The 101st is scheduled at 8 o'clock tonight These are free shows in the grandstand arena coincidental with the last two performances of the horse shows In watching the Mount ics it might be of interest to know the law enforcement arm of the Canadian Government will observe its centennial anniversary in 1974 and three years later will mark the 100th anniversay of the ride you will be watching at the fair The riders won the title of when King Edward MI gave them the prefix in recognition of their many services to the crown and the people living between the United States border and the Arctic Before 1920 the force was known as the Royal North-West Mounted Police The scarlet-coated troopers last appeared in Fresno in 1982 a fact See Fair Page A4.