The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 1

THE FRESNO THE REPUBLICAN FRESNO CALIFORNIA Friday June 27 1975 Vol 106 No 19038 Founded 1922 15c 4 Sections 54 Pages FINAL EDITION $430583 Grant Awarded Fresno ETV Gets OK county to use some of the federal funds for costs already incurred by the county in planning for the ETV system HEW officials told the Fresno congressman is highly unusual the county is fortunate" his office said Earlier this week the Federal Communications Commission dismissed the complaint against the ETV application by the Television Advisory Committee of Mexican-Americans (TACOMA) which pre-See ETVPageA4 Merced Mariposa and Stanislaus Counties The system will be allowed to hook up to the Public Broadcasting System whose programming has not been available to most San Joaquin Valley communities Sisk said HEW officials told Sisk programming probably will not begin for another 14 to 18 months because of the planning and purchasing of equipment which must still be accomplished Sisk said the grant will contain which will permit the HEW officials informed Sisk of the decision late Thursday and official confirmation is expected in the next few days Sisk's office reported Channel 18 initially was assigned to the valley in 1952 and Fresno State University had an option to activate the station but lack of funds prohibited FSU from doing so Sisk has been working 17 years to get an ETV station for this area The regional system will serve all of Fresno Madera Tulare and Kings Counties and substantial portions of Aluisi Is Guilty On All Charges Inferno Gasoline Heavy smoke billows from burninf (tsoline storage tanks in Richmond Va in a fire which ravaged the Little Oil Co yards Firefighters extinguished the By LARRY CARROLL Bee Staff Writer A superior court jury today found developer Julius Aluisi guilty on one count of conspiracy and two charges of bribery Aluisi who appeared calm when the verdict was read this morning will be sentenced at 9 am July 21 by Superior Court Judge Stanley Lawson He was released on his own recognizance Immediately following the verdict Aluisi went into a closed-door conference with his attorney Paul Mosesian The case was given to the jury shortly after noon Thursday and the jury foreman William Borland a Pebble Beach stockbroker reported the jury had reached a verdict on the first two counts The jury returned to deliberate the third count this morning The first count charges Aluisi former Fresno Planning Commissioner Norman Bains Sr and Fresno City Councilman Marc A Stefano conspired to bribe Asst City Atty James A McKelvey The second count charges Aluisi and Bains actually offered McKelvey the bribe May 10 1973 And the other count charges Aluisi with bribing Stefano with $1000 for his efforts in obtaining the $11520 refund Stefano was aquitted of his part in the conspiracy and bribery by an Oakland jury Bains is yet to go to trial Outside the court Aluisi again denied giving anyone any money from the refund and said Dist Atty William A Smith's comments to the jury about definitely hurt his cause He said the remarks had an effect on the jury and its decision Mosesian said he did not want to See Aluisi Page A4 Senators Ready Probe Of Westlands District By JIM BOREN Bee Staff Writer A 25-year effort to establish an educational television (ETV) station in the San Joaquin Valley has proven fruitful and Channel 18 may be on the air in 14 to 18 months Rep Sisk today announced the Department of Health Education and Welfare has approved the Fresno County Department of Education's application to establish a regional ETV system and the agency has awarded a first-year grant of $430583 to begin the service Indians Kill FBI Agents In Ambush PINE RIDGE SD (AP) looked like an execution They were riddled with bullets" South Dakota Atty Gen William Janklow said today after two FBI agents were shot to death on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation The two FBI agents were dragged out of their cars and killed Thursday when they tried to serve warrants on people who were holed up in a house authorities said An Indian in the house was' reported killed in an exchange of gunfire Federal agents pursued occupants of the house through the hills of the reservation Thursday night but at 1:30 am the FBI agent in charge of the operation said the gunfire had stopped far as I FBI Special Agent Joseph Trimbach said his men were continuing to patrol the reservation The house where agents Jack Coler and Ronald A Williams were killed is about five miles southeast of the reservation community of Oglala not far from the village of Wounded Knee which militant Indians occupied for 71 days in 1973 Coler 28 worked out of the Denver office of the FBI and was on special assignment to the reservation Williams also 28 worked out of the FBI office in Rapid City SD At the state capital in Pierre Gov Richard office issued a statement saying the governor had been told the two FBI men were lured into an ambush Bee Sets Early Saturday Edition On Saturdays beginning this week The Fresno Bee will be delivered to subscribers in the metropolitan Fresno area by midday This new Saturday Metro edition is intended to help readers plan their shopping and leisure activities while the day is still young A new Valley Leisure section will be part of this redesigned and larger edition Watch for it Saturday morning Officials of the churches said they have no intention of competing with taverns: they said the unrestricted beer licenses would simply let them stage their usual bingo games without running down to City Hall for a permit twice a month that's the case the city should give them an annual permit allowing then to use their beer license 25 times a year Not unlimited" Schetter said Previously the churches paid 85 for each one-time beer license They would pay 8100 for the unlimited licenses churches are in direct competition with the Schetter said unfair don't know what's going to happen All the churches are going to get in on this as a way to make a buck And the archbishop will probably excommunicate me" Julius Aluisi Guilty DA Weighs New Charges For Stefano By MIKE LASSITER Bee Staff Writer Dist Atty William A Smith said today his office is investigating the possiblity of further charges against City Councilman Marc A Stefano for allegedly threatening to kill a key witness in the Julius Aluisi trial in Monterey are taking a bard look at Stefano and anyone else who may have been Smith said Former city employe Janet Hanger told the Aluisi jury Stefano threatened to kill her himself or let See Stefano Page A4 a i-vc AgenteJackR Coler Ronald A Williams APWircphotos FBI Arrests 2 Lebanese As Russ Spies WASHINGTON (UPI) The FBI has arrested two Lebanese natives one of whom had top US government security clearance on charges of spying for the Soviet Union the Justice Department announced today FBI Director Clarance Kelley identified the two suspects as Sarkis Paskalian 36 and Sahag Dedcyan 41 Paskalian was arrested in New York City and Dedeyan was picked up in Rockville Md a suburb of Washington The criminal complaints filed against the two men alleged that they photographed classified information with assistance from top officials in the Soviet mission to the United Nations Kelley said Paskalian was charged with conspiracy to gather classified national defense information to aid a foreign country Dedeyan was alleged to have failed to report illegal photographing of national defense information Homer Boynton deputy assistant FBI director for external affairs said the FBI intelligence division had investigated the case for Asked if the case were a major one Boynton told reporters "any spy case is a major Evaluating the significance of the documents involved in the arrests made today Boynton said the Justice Department considered them significant enough to authorize the The last spy case Boynton said was in the summer of 1973 when an Air Force sergeant was convicted after attempting to pass secret material to a Soviet contact in New York Boynton said the latest investigation began when the FBI learned that a photograph of a secret defense document was passed to two officials of the Soviet mission at the United Nations and an alleged Soviet intelligence agent in New York Investigators did not know the identities of the two suspects at the time By GEORGE BAKER licClatchy News Service WASHINGTON Two Senate committees have announced they will probe the Westlands Water District and the impact federal reclamation programs have on the independent family farmer Sen Gaylord Nelson D-Wis said joint hearings by the Small Business and Interior Committees will be held next month The announcement comes at a time when the huge Westlands district is involved in increasing controversy over both the application of reclamation law to sizable landholdings within the 600000 acre-district and the availability of 50000 acre-feet of water from the Delta-MendotaCanaL Earlier this week Reps Sisk and John Krebs Fresno Democrats asked the House Interior Committee to hold oversight hearings on a pending contract between Westlands and the Bureau of Reclamation because of complaints from Kings River water districts about the blaxe 17 hours later with a new type chemical foam after 850000 Salloni of fuel had been strayed Cause of the fire has not been determined APWirephoto marketing of some water The districts led by the Tranquillity Irrigation District contend the Bureau is providing water to Westlands that they need for irrigation in dry years There has been no indication whether House hearings will be held Congress has until late July to disapprove the contract which provides for the annual delivery of 115 million acre-feet Controversy surrounding Westlands has focused on the question of whether landowners in complying with federal reclamation law to sell their holdings are meeting both the spirit and letter of the law Earlier this month a federal grand jury in Fresno indicted developer John Bonadelle his Land Dynamics Inc and three business associates on charges of violating reclamation law by making an illegal profit from the sale of land in the district The Senate hearings scheduled for July 17 and 22 in Washington will See Westlands Page A4 in barroom tills but he warned that things could get out of hand to keep the churches from starting littl clubs where guys stop in for a beer after work?" Schetter said can just see he moaned below the sign that says Sebastian's Congregation a flashing neon beer sign With an arrow pointing down And another sign for the family He said the effects could be economically depressing on Milwaukee affectionately known among natives as Beertown because it produces more of the frothy malt than any other city in the nation And consumes more than its share around Schetter said do we need with a few more taverns? There are more than enough to go around Foaming And Moaning At The Bar Church Beer Sales Tap A Nerve Today Nixon testifies under oath A4 More Uganda Britons face trials A7 Jobless aid bill goes to Ford A5 Index Chuckle Amusements Theaters Section jive mauled ri worId tod7 mot Classified C8 To C21 weathermen can predict Comics more accurately than the Contemporary Life C4 To C5 government economists Editorials A14 Financial C6 C7 News In Brief C5 Politics By Rodda A7 Sports Section Sylvia Porter C7 ft Television-Radio B7 Vital Statistics C21 Weather C21 Your Horoscope D7 Vy Weather i Forecast: Fair and continued warm through Saturday: light i northwesterly winds Fresno y' temperatures: 92 57 this morn- low 54 Thursday's high 8 David Mathews has bees nominated HEW secretary A12 Details on Page C21 AP Wirephoto Sweepstakes Winner On Page B3 MILWAUKEE Wis (AP) -Churches and taverns have long waged the war of the grape but the battle of the beer has taken a new twist in Milwaukee Eight Roman Catholic churches have applied for unlimited beer licenses arousing the wrath of the Wisconsin Tavernkeepers Association The tavernkeepers filed suit in Circuit Court against the city the churches and Milwaukee Archbishop William Cousins to block the beer licenses mind if the churches want to tap a keg 25 times a year for their bingo said Carl Schetter executive director of the Tavernkeepers Association with these unlimited licenses they can open up every He said the competition for the drinking dollar at chureh social gatherings has not yet put a dent 4 A.