The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 44

D8 Thursday Sept 20 1979 The Fresno Bee The Fresno Bee Thursday Sept 20 1979 D9 Assemblymen Ask Probe Of State Official Drive Launched Against Prop 1 man tree Un Bail Is Arrested After Lompoc Oil Tank Blast Brown Maps Search For Votes Deep In The Heart Of Texas Sperry Awarded Pact For Lemoore Simulator LOS ANGELES (AP) A coalition of 35 civil rights labor religious and political groups launched a campaign Wednesday against Proposition 1 California's anti-busing ballot measure By LEE FREMSTAD Bee Capitol Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO Gov Brown will leave for Texas Sunday to idler and donors in the Lone Star Before the fire started a security home at a nearby ranch was broken into and a rifle and some gunpowder were stolen Investigators say the fire erupted when a rifle shot was fired into gunpowder placed near the tank Acting on a tip from employees at the burglarized ranch deputies tracked Stockham to the beach where he was arrested Schade said Deputies waited 45 minutes until Stockham came out of the water and booked him for investigation of burglary clothes and a rifle found on the beach Schade By JIM DUFUR Bee Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO Three Democratic assemblymen representing the upper San Joaquin Valley called for an investigation Wednesday of Michael Campos chief of the division of water rights for the state Water Resources Control Board Assemblymen John Thurman of Modesto Carmen Perino of Stockton and Norman Waters of Plymouth charged Campos shows bias toward environmentalists in a fight over filling the New Melones Reservoir on the Stanislaus River Campos denied the accusation Environmental groups especially Friends of the River are fighting to the reservoir from being filled enough to flood a section of the river used for Whitewater rafting and LOMPOC (AP) Roger Dale Stockham a Moslem convert who allegedly stole his son from a foster home last month and tried to hijack an airliner to Iran has been arrested again after an oil storage tank was set afire here this week authorities said Wednesday said he was kind of down on the oil companies" said Santa Barbara County Sgt Dale Schade Stockham 32 was arrested Tuesday after he lied deputies and ran nude into the surf at a nearby beach Schade said The arrest came after Monday $25000 fire at an oil tank leased by Union Oil Co in this coastal town 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles River that the two irrigation districts should have the right to only 107000 acre-feet of water instead of 200000 He said the answer was that the districts should get 200000 (The reference to financial benefits is a result of their claim that some Friends of the River members operate rafting companies) Campos said he was surprised that he has been accused of showing Mas toward Friends of the River whose members chained themselves to rocks in May to prevent filling of the reservoir and flooding of the white-water river stretch Campos said he is not a member of the organization and never has been He said he never has rafted down the Stanislaus River of the week Thurman said the corps of engineers wrote Campos on Aug 24 and that during a Sept 12 hearing on New Melones Reservoir the water board chairman Don Maughan said he knew nothing of the letter Campos said he received the letter on Aug 30 and turned it and of other correspondence over to all board members on Sept 7 Maughan said he obviously received it Sept 7 but at the Sept 12 hearing had not recalled reading it Campos said he asked the US Bureau of Reclamation to on four computer models for operating New Melones Reservoir because the bureau had drawn them up originally He said he asked the attorney to check out a claim from the Friends of the which they say contains irreplaceable artifacts on its banks The assemblymen asked the state Personnel Board to investigate whether Campos withheld a letter from the US Corps of Engineers concerning release of floodwater from New Melones Reservoir whether he used the water authori- 2 to request computer models of operation to benefit of private organizations some of whose members stood to profit if water storage is limited to certain levels and whether he took action to try to cut the water rights of the South San Joaquin and Oakdale irrigation districts Burton Oliver assistant executive officer said the personnel board will review the accusations and report to the assemblymen by the end McClatchy News Service LEMOORE NAVAL AIR STATION A $92 million contract has been awarded the Sperry Corp for the design and development of an operational flight simulator to train pilots for the new FA-18 Jet The simulator will provide training in normal and emergency operation including takeoffs and landings navigation weapon deliveries and The cockpit of the simulator will be a fully instrumented replica of the aircraft's cockpit containing the plane's advanced cathode ray tube display systems A special device called a G-seat to provide the illusion of aircraft accelerations by shifting the weight in response to computed flight changes The sensations of motion will be enhanced by a computergenerated visual display showing carrier and airfield scenes cits and inflation under Democratic administrations Fund-raising will be high on the Brown agenda 'Texas is one of the great centers of wealth in this nation" said campaign Co-Chairman Richard Maullin (me of our interests clearly is to generate more financial help for the Jimmy Carter country in 1976 It will be first visit to Earlier this week in a nationally Teas since running for president in televised interview Brown diwrihad his candidacy as necessary to pre- As before on his travels and campaigns Brown will leave behind Republican LL Gov Mike Curb act- The hands Brown has in mind are his the California governor has made clear even though Texas was the Republicans from winning after decades of chronic budget defi- ing as chief executive but this time there will be a difference: About 200 bills adopted in the closing days of the legislative session will be stacked in the suite awaiting sig-' nature or veto However that does not mean Curb will be bee to rummage around and find measures he favors to sign and measures he opposes to veto The bills remain physically in the possession of staff not not changing the locks" said one Brown staff member meaning that there is no great apprehension about Curb acting on his own Proposition 1 on the Nov 6 ballot proposed state Constitutional amendment would require that state courts find intentional segregation before issuing a school Integration order The coalition called Californians Against Proposition 1 (CAP ONE) held a news conference attended by officials of several organizations expressed opposition to the ballot measure Schade said Stockham told deputies he was of down on the oil LumBer Home cemer Together We Can Do It Yourself ASHLAN AVE ROUTE 99 Mon-Fri SaL Sun 8 am to pm SamtoSpm 9 am to 5 pm SALE: Thursday September 20 thru Sunday September 23 233-7384 WEST OF 99 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