The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 83

1 I B4 Thursday Aug 28 1 982 THE FRESNO BEE Rival teacher unit raps rpailing of Clovis brochure By DEE ANNE FINKEN Bm staff writer teachers who have been selected on an informal basis at some schools elected at others This year members are to be elected incoming president Richard Jordan said in his letter to the faculty CLOVIS Clovis Unified School District included a flier from an independent teacher organization in a recent mailing to faculty giving that teacher group an unfair edge in the eyes of rival union organizers Cook said the Faculty Senate flier was included in the district mail because "people on duty yet" Traditionally those letters are distributed by hand at the various schools because Faculty Senate officials have access to names and addresses either he said The flier from the Faculty Senate arrived at homes last week in an envelope from the district office that also included a message from the district's personnel director and a schedule of teacher orientation meetings iftiiililiiiSSaaf iMSiii fwi-rs just stuffed with all the other he said of the flier cost any 4 V' vt i Green said because teachers' names had been denied her group wouldn't have even dreamed" of asking thedistrict to mail out CUTA notices "And they even give me the lists of names of teachers" said Debby Green president of the Clovis Unified Teachers Association affiliated with the California Teachers Association Green a physical education teacher at Clovis West High School wanted names to contact teachers in the organizing drive vv SiW a i -a rf FtWMlM The Faculty Senate was formed after an election more than five years ago in which teachers rejected representation by the CTA It is is preferred as an alternative to the union by a group known as Clovis Teachers for Local Representation Chari MaskaD checks roof whr wants to put up solar codtctors over his nighborsf objections A question of height She said she asked district officials last year for the names but she was told privacy laws prevented that can only give lists out to exclusive bargaining representatives somebody who has been elected" said David Cook the assistant superintendent to business Solar panels rile homeowners group Union backers charge the district is using Clovis Teachers to Local Representation to further a non-union position Faculty Senate President Jordan a teacher at Kastner Intermediate School is treasurer of Clovis Teachers for Local Representation He could not be reached Wednesday to comment By CHERYL WHITE Be itaff writer He Resigned the system himself It sits disassembled in his garage Inside his home are piles of trading material on solar energy an interest Maskall took up in 1978 he said An official of the state Public Employment Relations Board said Wednesday the board has not ruled on the issue of providing names to nonexclusive bargaining groups before a collective bargaining election has been held Maskall said he tried for a year and a half to have his solar system approved by the board In July the architecture committee rejected his latest application He says he never intended to build the system without permission as the association has charged A dispute over three feet of solar panels has put Charles Maskall and his homeowners association miles apart in Fresno County Superior Court II Maskall is an air quality control engineer for the Fresno County Air Pollution Control District He has lived in Fresno for eight years Green said since the union was denied the list of teachers organizers have used a of distributing newsletters by leaving them in the mailboxes of teachers at school Maskall wants to mount solar collectors on his garage roof at the Piccadilly Village in northwest Fresno They would stand seven feet high Faculty Senate members confer with administrators on working conditions and present a salary request to the school district each year The group is made up of about two dozen He said his system would heat water and air When the technology is available he would like to use it tor air cooling as well never considered breaching the he said The disagreement spilled into court when Maskall erected the wood siding on the roof He said he only wanted to see how it would look The siding stayed up long enough to Maskall to take pictures and to a peighbor to become alarmed The association Hied the suit the guidelines were being drafted "He felt four feet would be sufficient for an efficient system" said the lawyer Maskall disagrees He said he will have to spend more money for a less efficient system if he is forced to abide by the guidelines "They flatten me if they hold it on the four he said Maskall and his lawyer Steven Lempel think the association guidelines violate the state Solar Rights Act of 1978 The act says that restrictions" on solar systems can be imposed It defines reasonable restrictions as restrictions which do not significantly increase the cost of the system or significantly decrease its efficiency" state law he's entitled to put up his solar said Lempel Maskall is the first Piccadilly Village homeowner to apply for permission to build a solar system Smoke sparks highway crashes Some solar systems are unsightly he acknowledges just feel this is a mistake I feel great" he said The Piccadilly Village Townhomes Association doesn't allow collectors to exceed four feet It wants the court to forbid Maskall from violating the association guidelines primarily a matter of aesthetics" explained attorney Kent Heyman who represents the association LIVERMORE (AP) Smoke from a wind-fanned fire that has charred more than 300 acres of Sss in Altamont Pass triggered a f-dozen accidents Wednesday along Interstate 580 authorities said threatened by the blaze according to Rosemary Setty fire information officer for the California Department of Forestry Firefighters from Alameda County arid Tracy fought the blaze she said The collectors facing south would rise from the flat garage roof at a 80-degree angle The collectors themselves be visible from the ground said Maskall Painted wood siding similar to that which hides the air conditioning units would be visible from the north east and west Piccadilly Village this month obtained a temporary restraining order to stop Maskall from building a solar system which does not meet the guidelines A hearing on a preliminary injunction is scheduled to Sept 2 A trial date to a permanent injunction will be set later But Heyman said the height role was not arrived at arbitrarily He said the association hired an expert in solar energy to act as a consultant while The cause of the fire was not known No serious injuries were reported in the accidents No buildings were 1 Clampers plan railroad pilgrimage By WILLIAM PATTERSON Be staff writer Derailments were a continual problem despite rigid rules in operation for the It took more than five hours for the train to go from El Prado to Cascada The speed limit between Auberry and Cascada was 9 miles an hour while between Auberry and El Prado the train waq allowed to go as fest as 20 miles an hour Railroad was built in 1912 to haul supplies and a work force to build three dams on Big Creek a tributary of the San Joaquin to the Pacific Light and Power Corporation major stockholder was Henry Huntington father of the Los Angeles streetcar system and nephew of Southern Pacific Company President Henry Huntington He saw a need to more power to provide mass transportation to a rapidly expanding Southern California population The roadbed above Auberry literallv was hacked out of the mountainside all drilling to blasting had to be done by hand and all hauling was done with wheelbarrow or team and scraper Grades were as steep as 52 percent and curves were as much as 60 degrees according to Johnston Construction was carried on 10 hours a Business on the was active during construction and reached a point where daily passenger service began in 1921 Passenger trains made the trip to Big Creek every Monday Wednesday ana Friday and returned to El Prado on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday weather permitting A one-way fare from El Prado to Big Creek (Fresno to El Prado by Southern Pacific included) according to Johnston was $506 A round trip cost only $109 more Seeking to attract tourists to the Sierra Pacific Light and Power officials decided to build a lodge at Huntington Lake framed by dams on Big Creek The lodge was opened July 4 1915 Motor trucks and accompanying roads along with losses of revenue as-well as the completion of the Big Creek It has been called the railroad ever built" It had more than 1100 turns along its 56-mile track And it climbed nearly 6000 feet into the Sierra every day for two decades Stories of the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad which its passengers takingly referred to as Jerky and Expensive" will be recounted Saturday when members of the Jim Savage Chapter 1852 Clampus Vitus a group of devotees of California history organize a caravan to retrace the route of the railroad from near Clovis to Big Creek Noble Grand Humbug Charles Hughes said members and their families will gather near Willow and Copper Avenues at the site of the El Prado junction of the Southern Pacific Company's Friant branch line El Prado which means The Meadow was a fueling station from where the started Nothing remains of the station today The caravan will be led by John Houlihan a former humbug of the Jim Savage Chapter a past president of the Fresno County Historical Society and a railroad buff From El Prado the Clamper caravan will head north to Auberry from where the Clampers will wind their way along the south wall of the San Joaquin River canyon making stops at such long-forgotten stations as Lerona Hairpin Jose Basin Webstone White Pine Stevenson Creek Dawn Feeney Carlson and Cascada (now known as Big Creek) The' San Joaquin and Eastern day seven days a week by the Stone Company of Webster Construction Boston At times there were as many as 1200 men working on the railroad although generally the work force 1800 averaged I A blacksmith shop a machine shop i built an officeetorage building were 1 hydropower development made it apparent the the was no longer and at Auberry fuel tanks were at El Prado Auberry and Cascada and 11 water tanks were stationed along the line needed The railroad was completed in 157 iiuion at a cost of $1-175 mill sy low tne number or passengers on the dropped to 444 and freight service including mixed trains tapered off to three times a week days Sharp curves limited the length of freight and passenger cars to 36 feet Three years later the quit operating die train to Big Creek and all rolling stock rail and ties were removed and sold and the rights of way subsequently reverted to the landowners some of the cars or torn off by some cars were the ends bumped on the though it was had their steps rock splintered curves NOW awards program set Merced dialysis clinic on target for completion The Fresno Chapter of the National Organization for Women will present awards today to local people and organizations who have advanced the cause of rights The Fresno State University Softball Team for its performance jn competition The Fresno Bee and local television stations for their reporting on the Equal Rights Amendment Countdown The award presentations will be part of a program beginning at noon in the ballroom of the Fresno Hilton to commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment which granted women the right to vote iMCUOiuiy now gpvm MERCED Construction of Merced dialysis clinic is proceeding on time and it should be in operation in November directors of Merced Community Medical Center were told Wednesday NOW will also present two and awards aimed at those who the leaden think have hampered the cause of equality They are: Rep Charles Pashayan for his failure to support the ERA Ground was broken fra the $431556 clinic last March and construction The award recepients are: Joyce Aiken art instructor at Ftesno State University for teaching and heightening awareness of women in art should be finished by mid-October said JOT Howard Classen MCMC administrator The clinic will have six dialysis stations an isolation area and a home training program The Clovis City Council for its failure to electing the highest vote getter to the office of mayor NOW spokeswomen said Councilwoman Peggy Bos who garnered the most votes was denied the office of mayor because of sexism Sylvia Astorga television newscaster for her programing dealing with the Equal Rights Amendment and women in the workplace Merced County patients presently no or Modesto for must drive to Fresno dialysis treatments I 1.