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Valley Legal Aid Programs For Poor May Merge With CRLA kinds of cases we want to Watkins said "That Is the most discouraging thing the heavy case Randy Lyon executive director of the Tulare County Legal Services favors the merger He said that if the services were merged Tulare County would receive an additional attorney another paraprofessional would have the services of central staff to help us on major In addition Lyon pointed out that instead of spending 80 to 90 per cent of his time on administrative tasks as he now does he would be able to spend the majority of his time working up legal cases Baca tells the legal service directors he will draft and present a merger proposal to his own board of directors for review and action May 15 At the same time the six-county legal See Legal Aid Page DIO and a doubling of the administrative functions they pointed out Fresno Legal Services Executive Director Howard Watkins following a meeting with Bradley and Baca explained "Whether or not the merger happens it is a fact that all of the non-CRLA programs are always understaffed and underfunded The small programs do spend too much on The Fresno County program operates on a $135000 budget It has a staff of seven lawyers and six paraprofes-sionals legal secretaries and office help He said the primary legal problems facing the 3500 clients who come into the offices in a year involve landlord tenant relationships welfare cases consumer problems and credit purchases "RIGHT NOW we are unable to reach out into the community to let the people know what services are available and we can't pursue the programs explained the NLSC is pushing for the merger to cut administrative costs and to make the delivery of legal aid more efficient AS BRADLEY and Baca toured the six San Joaquin Valley counties meeting with the executives and the directors of the various legal aid programs some officials of these programs let them know CRLA's reputation still causes some concern among the conservative members of the local bar associations and boards of supervisors Several of the county legal aid services were founded by the local bar associations in direct opposition to CRLA in a successful effort to keep the then controversial legal aid program from establishing footholds in places like Tulare county CRLA in the middle 1960s filed a series of successful class action suits against the welfare policies of former Gov Ronald Reagan against the US Department of Labor for importing foreign workers into the fields and against the US Department of Agriculture for failure to provide food or food stamps for hungry people The Quixotic image of the CRLA lawyers their successes against the bureaucratic windmills of the state and federal governments created a reputation that has persisted despite the changes that have taken place within the organization during the past four years BACA talking to the Tulare County Legal Services board of directors said 80 per cent of the time is spent on local specific cases If a merger were to take place the local county board of directors would remain in an advisory capacity to specifically determine the types of cases included in that 80 per cent He explained the advisory boards would also review the CRLA hiring practices for office in their areas and he promised that the recommendations of local advisory boards on the hiring of specific lawyers would be honored Bradley emphasized the national desire to see some kind of merger to cut down administrative costs He pointed out there are two merger possibilities in the San Joaquin Valley "You could form a separate Central California Legal Services that combined all or several of the six existing services and the valley would then have two large legal service corporations or all six can merge with CRLA and have a single he explained ACCORDING TO Bradley and Baca the problems with two separate legal aid structures is the hop-scotch effect of the existing locations CRLA now has offices adjacent to counties that have separate agencies creating confusion for the client populations By RON TAYLOR Bee Staff Writer LEGAL AID for the poor in six San Joaquin Valley counties may be merged into a single $3-million-a-year operation employing more than 80 attorneys who would work out of 15 offices With the help of the National Legal Services Corp officials of the Stock ton Modesto Merced Fresno Tulare and Bakersfield legal aid programs are considering merging with the California "Rural Legal Assistance pror-gram CRLA operates nine offices has a staff of 52 attorneys and an annual budget of $22 million CRLA Executive Director Richard Baca explained entered the merger talks skeptically but now we think the idea makes sense" Dan Bradley western 1 a 1 director for the National Legal Services Corp the parent of all legal aid The i Some parts of the three other areas receive Real Estate Classified Fresno Bee Sunday April 25 1976 D1 One August night in 1959 a ranger counted I 300 people camped around a tiny lake -V v' General manager Ernesto Balleste checks Computer Will Direct raff ic In Wilderness parks are heavily used little visitor impact other areas receive little visitor impact Working in cooperation with the Inyo and Sierra national forests the park scientists and rangers have developed a coordinated permit system that is used to both regulate people traffic and to gather information on routes destinations and use patterns The problems are complex and Van Wagtendonk is meeting the Challenge by constructing a computer model of backcountry use patterns All of the survey information and ecosystem impact study results are fed into the computer Once the simulated backcountry model is in the park service computer then Van Wagtendonk says he can test out alternatives are just beginning to gather the kind of information Jan already has" Parsons says about a year ahead of us but that is the direction headed to" THE PROBLEMS of increasing traffic in the wilderness areas first reached critical proportions in the late 1950s in places like Bullfrog Lake the first hike over Kear-sargePass One August night in 1959 a ranger counted 300 people camped around this tiny lake The shores of the lake were being trampled into dust Tons of tin cans and other debris littered the area Sequoia-Kings Canyon administrators decided to close the lake to all camping and to relocate the trail so that people would bypass the area That was 15 years ago and rangers report the area has recovered but See Computer Page D10 Moy 1-1 JUS NEW KFTVAdds To Life In The Valley By DEAN SIMPSON Bee Television Editor ERNESTO BALLESTE the general manager of KFTV Channel 21 the Hanford-based Spanish language television station grins broadly when he declares are an equal opportunity employer at the He goes on to note that fully half of the station's 15 full-time employes speak no Spanish The other half of course is bilingual KFTV which this week celebrates its third anniversary on the air has made a number of notable contributions to the Valley in addition to supplying televised entertainment to residents of six Valley counties who speak only Spanish Several months ago for example the station on incredibly short notice whipped together a six-hour telethon which brought in pledges of $12000 in cash for earthquake victims in Guatemala When it came time to collect the funds pledged the station found FACT FINDER THE ACTION COUMN by Howard Mite- 76 DATSUNS rat mo PWsTu that it had collected $13000 instead of the pledged $12000 The cash was in addition to large stacks of clothing blankets and other items needed by the victims The funds and the material contributions were turned over by the station to CARE for shipment to the quake victims KFTV BEGAN telecasting from its studios on East Lacey Blvd in Hanford on Apr 30" 1973 It serves according to survey figures some 222700 Spanish-speaking persons in 53600 homes in the Fresno Kings Tulare Merced Madera and Mariposa Counties with a full range of programming in the Spanish language Balleste pointed out that the station receives most of its programs aired locally via microwave'from its sister station in the Spanish International Network i SIN) KMEX in Los Angeles KMEX in turn gets practically all of its programming from Televisa SA the huge combined net- On Serving A Writ I am enclosing a small claim notice and a writ of execution which was to be served on a Fresno man by the Fresno County sheriff Your sheriff's department refused to serve the writ of execution and declared it was not their duty To assist them the department was furnished data on the checking account and vehicles owned by the man against whom I won the judgement) If you can assist I would be grateful TR Lemoore First the head of the Civil Division of the Fresno County Sheriffs Office had no record of your having sent the writ But in any case according to the instruments you included in your letter to the Fact Finder you lacked four things The office needs the original not a photocopy the writ was directed to the Kings County Sheriff not Fresno County the required $850 fee was not included nor was an program logs can-American population These sports events include both live and taped soccer boxing and wrestling In addition to this special telethon to aid the Guatemalan quake victims the station each year stages a local pre-Christmas telethon to promote toys and clothing for needy youngsters in the six-county area The most recent broadcast last winter raised an estimated $15000 worth of toys and clothing Balleste said that the station films its own local commercials either in its own studios or in studios rented from larger stations in the area when more room or equipment are needed for the filming Local or the own talent is used in the commercials Public service programs directed at the Spanish-speaking round out KFTV's day-to-day programming and give the local station a well-rounded broadcast schedule which offers something for every segment of the Valley's Spanish-speaking residents print them in Spanish or even answer questions written in Spanish To answer your postscript first we can assume The Bee has few if any readers who can read only Spanish Suggest you direct your question to Spanish-language newspaper El Informador For your other questions the Fresno County Health Department says that yes one person can infect another even before symptoms show up and in the case of syphilis symptoms are sometimes so slight that they are undetected In the case Of gonorrhea it takes three to five days for symptoms to show up and in that time an individual may infect any number of partners According to a Health Department spokesman a male could be infected in the morning and could transmit the infection in the evening for a female would take a little longer but not much Hope this answers your questions Diamond furraundad 'by antiouad I 18K (old twirl I From 330 CHARGE or BUDGET EDmonos FAIR Ciwre SS9 FULTON MALL work formed through the merger of several smaller nets) which covers all of Mexico and portions of Central America with four channels Standard programming on the local station embraces practically every type seen on the three major American networks dramatic series situation comedies soap operas and movies produced in Mexico and other Latin American countries program log also includes an hour of news each weeknight at 6 with the first half hour fed by SIN and the second half hour originating in the local studios with Pedro Santos (who is also the program director) voicing the news and Jess Gonzales airing local sports IN ADDITION the station carries a number of sports events from both Mexico and Los Angeles many of them live and from other areas of this country in which sports events take place which interest the Mexi- instrument of attachment of a particular item In any case a Fresno County Sheriffs officer will contact you and get the matter straightened out VD Treatment In the article on yenereai disease printed in The Bee April 16 it states: who is sexually active with different partners should have a checkup every six months prostitutes should have one every 30 days My question How long does a person have to have a venereal disease before it can be detected by tests and in that time can it be transmitted to another person? Couldn't a prostitute have had a disease for say a week or so before it showed up in tests and in that week could have transmitted it to someone else? DJ Fresno PS This would make it kind of futile to legalize prostitution for the sake of health Also why The Bee run more articles on this subject and also ORANGE BLOSSOM FASHION OPEN SUNDAYS By RON TAYLOR AN ESTIMATED 110000 backpackers are expected to head for the wilds of Yosemite Sequoia and Kiings Canyon national parks this summer And the parks are turning to a computer to keep the trails from becoming High Sierra traffic jams The estimate of 110000 people spending 400000 visitor days was generated in a computerized research project designed to give the park service a method for regulating the use of the three backcountry areas A preliminary picture of wilderness use is just beginning to emerge as See Related Story GO rangers and scientists study computer printouts and survey reports from last season In Yosemite research director Jan Van Wagtendonk reported daily entrance quotas will be established at all backcountry trailheads Previously Yosemite rangers had set but they said this did not give them sufficient control over use patterns IN SEQUOIA AND Kings Canyon research director David Parsons said the trailhead quota system was being modified to include 211 specific use zones similar to those used in Yosemite Parsons acknowledged he is following Van lead explaining the problem tor both researchers ana rangers is developing visitor impact information that is useable in specific areas or zones Some parts of the three parks are heavily used SAL Warehouse Sale 32SS Irimnt hsalat IHisc ftms 8 Jiwriry wuigwid franVHLC Cwmticfc clarion riwwwwsK CMMantid Appnmi far wy BOB Cawrty Vahidat SAT PuMk Kaonwy Savarri FtrCoMfyriMtftad Vahid Yard 455L13lhSt-Mwnd mykis (quip lots B-210 MOEY-SKS Im GyiMI eod $3091 Ml Mb $1772 36 Mon Crad- pmmrf 1mm $127 Jl licMM Dm Mww E8dtM 42676 HERB BAUER HAS A NEW SHOE BOOT DEPARTMENT Special HIKING SHOE 'i REG 3500 88 OWN SUNDAYS Hablo Espano! 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