The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 15

ro 9 mvm Guard State Water Unit OKs City Sewer Project i Students at Franklin School join teacher Gloria Valdivia in a dance celebrating Cinco de Mayo a festivity marking the day Mexico gained her independence from Spain The holiday will be celebrated at schools and public facilities throughoutthe weekend A celebration will be gin tonight at Holmes Playground and activities will continue there Saturday and Sunday In addition the Universidad Campesinos Libres will feature a carnival art show and food eeeeewths Sunday at 841 Belmont Ave AH activities are open to the public Bee Photo by Ryan Marty Celebrating Independence The Stale Water Resources Control Board has approved multi-million-dullar Herndon-Cornelia interceptor sower project As proposed by llic city 11m interceptor will provide capacity for Highway City and for the fastgrowing north and northwest parts of the city The line will also provide additional capacity for Clovis St Agnes Hospital at North Millbrook and East Herndon Avenues and for tiie proposed new Clovis High School Tlie city lias been seeking approval of tlie project and for federal and slate grants for nearly two years When the interceptor was first planned city officials pluml the price tag at about $1 1 million In its ruling the stale board placed a nunilier of requirements on the city Imt said most of the project is eligible for slate and federal grunts up 1o 875 per cent of the eligible costs The city has uni il May 1 3 to submit the project plans to the state for a review Grant offers will be made by June 30 if the state and federal Environmental Protection Agency approve the plans Most of the properly owners to be served by the line live in the raelroiioli-tan unincorporated area whieh require sewer improvement districts The exception is Pinedalc which is served by two sew-er districts It will la up to the Fresno County Hoard of Suer-visors to follow through on a committment to form new sewer districts so the city will be eligible for federal and slate grants A condition for funding calls for tlie Herndon-Cornelia line to serve Pine-dale and to close down the two sewer plants serving that area The stair board approval also requires that 50 per cent of the population in the area to la served by this Hew lira must ronnect to the interceptor within 30 days after the (ine is in and Hie city must furnish a sewering liooknp schedule guaranteeing that 80 per cent of the population along the route of the interceptor will lie connected within five years after com-plet ion of const ruct ion The interceptor will pro- vide a reserve capacity of an additional 2 million gal-lous a day for Clovis Although the city expects grant offers by June 30 construction will not begin for about a year There is a major push under way by the city for grants before ihat date hcrause new and stiffer regulations go into effect July 1 The Fresno Bee Friday May 3 1974' Shortchanged Minority Group Objects To ETV Programming Plan FTA District Meet With Conciliator B1 only those documents that OlmoS could define specifically were handed over by Poore affidavit says be Is "interested in this public educational channel as a vehicle to rectify the massive and deplorable disadvantages that the Mexican-American community suffers from in the field of ITV Policy CommHtee meuiliers laughed at parts of the complaining documents Charles Herlzler suggested the objection "was only written by one or two Gordon Lemky said "They can't even spell Committee member Gary Andries characterized Olmos as a young man whose only goal in life is to get the The Harriet Jowclt sought a more serious tone to the discussion in saying the objection Support Is Firm The Fresno City Council Thursday 'declined to reverse an earlier position urging that the Army and Air National Guard units at the Fresno Air Terminal remain at a minimum of the current level of operations Andrea Grifflth'of 4562 Ashcroft Ave leveled caustic comments against the council for its previous action pushed by Councilman Elvin CL Bell an Air Guard officer In response to a demand 'that Bell disqualify himself from the discussion Asst City Atty James McKclvcy 1 ruled there was no "legal conflict of interest" I The council voted 51 'against a petition asking the body to "disallow" flight operations- of the guard from the Fresno ter-' pwnl Cmmdlwoman Linda Slack voted no on the grounds of arguing that it is inconsistent for Fresno along with other cities in the nation to press Congress constantly to change priorities from the military to people needs and then vote to keep the guard at the same strength Councilman Mare A StH fano was absent Mrs Griffith charged Beil shepherded fhe resolution through the council originally and said that marked a "flagrant misuse and abuse of power by an elected city Bell and others stressed the multimillioiMlollar impact of the guard operation on the local economy Recently a lawsuit was filed against the city by attorneys from Southern California representing several homeowners in the air terminal vicinity who claim they have been deprived of the use and enjoyment of their property by air terminal operations Ms Griffith declared that Transportation SupL Wilmer Garret failed to appear at a meeting to discuss the problem at which the two attorneys were to be present Garrett asked to correct the impression left that the invitation had been ignored said be bad not attended on the advice of Cm city attorney and at the request of the city manager and had so advised Ms Griffith That is an outright Be air snapped Ms Griffith in response to statement of informing her he would not be at the meeting Registration Drive Is Set For Primary Two years ago in an llth-hour drive on the final day of registration Frontlasb signed up more than 900 voters in a six-hour span The nonpartisan political group hopes to belter its record Sunday the last day voters can register to be eligible for the June primary election The registrars will be stationed at the -Manchester Shopping Center at Shields and Blackstone Avenues £nm noon to midnight Fronliash spokesmen estimate there are stiU some 70000 people in Fresno County who are not registered By Lanny Larson An informal objection to the Channel 18 community television proposal has been entered by the recently-formed Television Advisory Committee of Mexi-can-Amoricans (TACOMA) with the Federal Communications Commission TACOMA asserts proponents of Channel IS havo not sought comments from Americans of Mexican descent about programming that tlie Master Schedule" submitted with the Channel 18 application does not include sufficient Mcxican-American oriented programming and that no Spanish-sumamed persons are listed on the Citizens Committee The Fresno County Department of Instructional Television (ITV) Policy Committee received the objection and an affidavit on the issue in a less-than-serious manner and took no action on the Page resent and reflect the educational needs and interest of the Sjianish-speaking community in the Man Joaquin However Fresno County Schools SupL Ernest Poore lias jKiinled out in the past the programming schedule was submitted only to give the FCC and 11FAV an idea of the kinds of programs that could lie carried by Channel 18 "It is not a committment oil our part to carry only those lie said at an ITV Policy Committee meeting last year Poore was not present at Thursday's session Olmos said he became involved when he was asked by Ricardo Duran of Sanger to help Duran see in formation on Channel 18 on file in department headquarters Five trips were required Duran and Olmos say before the information was made available and then blaring out of a loudspeaker to more questions from the some 5A supimrters on hand to greet him What ikies he think about the suggestion that a commission be created to approve a governor's appointments of judges? "I would hope there would be some consumers on that With the primary campaign headed into its final rounds does he expect the Democrats to start Toe-To-Toe Roth Answers Questions In Busy Campaign Day documents -The Channel 18 applies-' tions for $4:10000 of US Department of Health Education and Welfare funds and FCC approval to begin construction were evaluated Thursday in Washington DC An announcement on the proposal is anticipated within a mouth Attorney Mario 01-mos who filed the objection said it is not "intent to undermine" the proposal However he added the objection merely the first toward forcing Channel 18 to be more responsive to the residents of Mexican descent wlio the group claims account for 23 per cent of the population in Merced Madera Fresno Kings Tulare and Kern Counties Olmos said a study of Ihe program schedule shows only 325 of the approximately 80 hours of programming each week "rep school districts have more adequately trained bi-lingual How about the school funds that go into paperwork instead of to the children? "One-third of the money goes fur administrative purposes An example is welfare needed is something like the negative Income tax or the family assistance Nuclear power plants? support a delay until assured of their safety I'm not against nuclear power but we we need more research on their The ever-present cigar in his fingers Roth arrived at the Fresno Air Terminal after a day-long prop-stop campaign flight that started in Crescent City ami landed in places like Bonneville the first gubernatorial candidate in the history of California to go to and Novato where he encountered his wife dragged her screaming onto the With his Northern California co-chairman Roger Kent at his side Roth arrived to the sound of "Happy Days are Here per cent of the reaching staffs of high schools are made up of teachers who coach as an extra duty and that about 20 per cent of the teachers have extra assignments Such assignments he said are covered under separate contracts with the teachers: Costello an assistant football coach at Bullard said the outcome of nego-t ial ions ever lira weekend could have a bearing on the discussion The' meeting has been scheduled for 7:30 pm in the Fresno High Sciwol faculty lounge The school district board Of trustees has scheduled a special session for 4 pm morrow in the conference room of the Administration Building at 2348 Mariposa SI SupL Arnold EL Until said the purpose of meeting is to provide direction to the negotiating team The meeting will not be open to the public 'pypsy Day' Tlie Fresno County Council of Camp Fire Girls will bold its 17th annual Blue Bird gypsy day Saturday at Kearney Park The program is sponsored by Fresno State University recreation students and will begin at 9:30 am Be Eyed "Parking in the Central Business District should ho a public service just as hs the transit system and have public Hendricks said Council members indicated they are not willing to either eliminate validation credits or increase tax assessments in the district City Manager Ralph Hanley said he will hare additional information on pos- See Council Page B2 raised inqmrtant points and that the group represents the Mcxican-American community to her satisfaction Department director of instruction Wayne Jordan said input from the minority group was not avoided nor was it sought He said Poore's thinking was that "if people get all excited before we get a license ami then we get it people 1 get lie addl'd kind of beat is as difficult as this kind of The committee chose not fo respond to the objection or affidavit although Mrs' Jowett indicated some kind of resixmse will have to be made or Olmos said if there is no response from Poore or the FCC a formal petition to revoke the construction permit probably will be filed after FCC approval of the permit deliberately left the door open for said Olmos nated to him by his Fresno County eo-cliairman Edward Feres as an "act of faith also an act of faith that Im running for Ilis listeners applauded as he summed up: "I think there is a kind of new wind blowing in this state One way or another going to Then turning his attention to Terronez lie said: "Please take that message back to the the council appeared to be more interested in tbe plan than it lias in Ihe past Blum also challenged the validity of interdepartmental charges against the parking program for services performed by Other city departments "The parking program is not really operating at a he said "The interdepartmental charges are not a cost at ah simply a bookkeeping Redevelopment Agency Director James Hendricks OPEN SUNDAY 7M07 tS A hclween representatives of Hie Fresno Teachers Association and the Fresno school district was scheduled Ibis afternoon with Stale Conciliator Herbert Thorne Thome said negotiations bftweeu tlie association and the could continue over tlie weekend in an effort to reach a settlement and head off the possibility of a si rike The dispute centers on salaries the district offering a 47 per cent Increase and the teachers asking for 121 per cent Tlie district has hired Michael Taggart a Palos Verdes attorney as its negotiator and Kenneth Johnson of Burlingame a California Teachers Association representative will lie llic representative Tlie FTA represents about 2100 of tlie 2400 teachers In another development tlie Fresno Coaches Association lias scheduled a meeting Monday night to discuss the possibility of withholding side contracts next year for extra duty assignments such as coaching dub and class sponsors debate couching and band instruction Dan Costello of Bullard Jligh School a spokesman for the group said about 50 said the Issue should be put in perspective He said the objective is a comprehensive parking program and not one to serve as a function of municipal accounting Ife reminded the council that because the parking structures were built the city has received $7 million in in-kind credits from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and has qualified for $21 million in federal urban renewal funds CouncihParking Tax Hike Will each other? piy hope that some men--sure of civility will be Still comparatively low In the public opinion polls llic San Francisco businciss-man-lurned-polilician contends he is optimistic pointing to Hie some 50 per cent of the voters said to be still undecided on their Democratic choice for governor he told the audience it was do parking program over to a private operator on a bid basis for a franchise fee: There also is sentiment for making parking free to tlie shopper with the city general fund picking np the cost or getting-the money from federal revenue shaving funds During a public hearing yesterday on the parking issue Gerald Blum vice president of renewed a suggestion made many times before to look into private operation and Bv Eli Sctencieh Be Politici Writer Even Gabo Terronez bad to admire the way William Matson Roth stood there toe-to-toe picking off the questions left and right then countering neatly Tlie formerwclterweight contender now a community relations consultant to Gov Ronald Reagan was among a crowd of some 250 jammed into Roth's Fresno headquarters last night judging tlie Democratic gubernatorial contender's style and substance that murmured Roth when someone apprised him of the Reagan presence But there was no spar ring fancy footwork or ducking What about Cesar Chavez? somebody asked Tve always supported said Roth "I looked it up It goes back to The rights of public employes? 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