The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 11

Inside Youth jobs plea falls short B4 ActionAnswers B8 Section METRO The Fresno Bee Wednesday July 21 1982 Annual profit of $6 million projected for private VMC community completely convinced against But Bronzan also was critical of one of those who warned about the pitfalls of an ownership transfer Bill Plumb of the Community Coalition for VMC is so important so big and so important that I would hope none of us would get postured too he said to Plumb it turns out that there is a potential for a lot more money is is a time that requires us to get together to drop any biases we may have and to study the The financial projection was presented by Donald Wurtz of Arthur Andersen Co of San Francisco a hospital management VMC Poga B6 hospital ownership that it amounted to an unofficial recommendation to do just that The impression was not lost on the supervisors some of whom were displeased at what they perceived as a premature push to a decision Supervisor Bruce Bronzan scolded VMC Administrator Gerald Bosworth for an eloquent description of the potential benefits of operating the hospital as a nonprofit corporation particularly like the way you put it that go for it if we have capacity for a vision of the Bronzan told Bosworth Bronzan complained that the discussion was going far beyond the report stage with lot of the staff completely convinced that the way to go and some of the By WANDA COYLE Bee staff writer Converting Valley Medical Center from a county-owned facility to a community-type hospital would allow it to turn an annual profit estimated at more than $6 million and perhaps twice that by 1987 what an expert in hospital financing backed by VMC officials and the county administrative officer told Fresno County Supervisors at a hearing Tuesday afternoon County staff members told the board at the outset of the hearing that no recommendation on the future would be made during the session But the tone of the report that followed was so enthusiastic about the advantages of converting the Study calls for $80 million Sheriff brands County Jail bomb asks funds Fresno Bee John Prieto proudly displays World War II medals he received 37 years after his discharge Allen son bares shifts in stories By JIM STEINBERG Bee staff writer WILLOWS Kenneth Ray Allen testified Tuesday that his father Clarence Ray urged him to "save your own and that he acted accordingly after the Market murders you doing that George Bumanglag Clarence lawyer asked Kenneth Allen during his second day of testimony in his triple-murder trial Kenneth Allen said But he admitted his role leading to the Sept 5 1980 shotgun killings of three clerks in the market east of Fresno Clarence Allen 52 is accused of murdering Bryon Schletewitz 27 Josephine Rocha 17 and Douglas White 18 inside the store Billy Ray i Hamilton the man who fired the i sawed-off shotgun has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to the gas chamber for the killings Connie Barbo has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole In a full day of testimony in Glenn County Superior Court Kenneth Allen admitted lying repeatedly about events leading to and following the killings He also admitted the help he gave Hamilton He said he offered to accompany Hamilton to the market the night of the crime Kenneth Allen said he changed his story several times according to how it would benefit him his wife Kathy their children and his father He said he supplied weapons ammunition and transportation for Hamilton and Barbo But Kenneth Allen said he expected only Schletewitz and his father Ray the market owner to be killed in retaliation for their See Allen Page B6 Pontiac dealership closing? Dan Day Pontiac largest Pontiac dealer in 1981 reportedly will close today although Day and his associates would neither confirm nor deny the reports Local auto industry sources contacted by The Bee last night indicated the closure would be temporary and alluded to a possible ownership change They indicated a 1 formal announcement would come from General Motors regional offices in Fremont All of the sources refused to be quoted or named A salesman at the Street dealership said no comments would be made by anyone there He said the dealership had been besieged with telephone calls regarding the possible closure from the media and the public About 50 people including 23 salesmen work at the dealership It was unclear last night if any or all iy of them had been laid off or what their status would be A representative of Auto Mechanics Lodge 1309 which represents 23 Dan Day employees See Pontiac Page BA report for the and thoughtful but wondered aloud where the money to carry out the master plan will come from Heiss and County Administrative Officer Allan Colman said that Fresno partly because it has the master plan should be in for jail construction funds that could become available if a state bond issue is approved by the voters in November The consultant agreed with McKinney that new jail space should be high on the priority list He also urged the county to purchase the Del Webb Building to house offices that will be displaced Sea Jail Page BA The sheriff warned that the county could face legal action that might cost sums of But he said he has alternatives to suggestions in the master plan for additional jail space and will offer them in a written memorandum to the board The master plan prepared by the consultant firms of Hughes-Heiss and Associates and Farbstein Williams Associates calls for construction of a new jail to house prisoners awaiting sentencing and for another facility to serve the work furlough program The supervisors congratulated John Heiss who presented the Warrior gets honors after 37 years The Fresno County Jail is a according to Sheriff Harold McKinney and the county had better defuse it by using money we on new jail facilities That was response to a study of the criminal justice facilities which was presented Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors as a master plan calling for an expenditure of $80 million over the next 18-20 years McKinney said it is not unusual for the jail to have a Monday morning population of more than 800 prisoners in a facility that the state says should have fewer than he said School trustees seek boundary say By THERESE IKNOIAN Bee staff writer FOWLER He fought in three of the largest World War II battles Normandy the Battle of the Bulge and Anzio For almost 2l2 years the Fowler resident saw action in North Africa Italy Germany Belgium Holland and France In 1945 he was wounded On July 7 1945 John 0 Prieto was discharged He was honored with a band and small ceremony in Charleston NC on his return to the United States Then he quietly returned to Fowler married his hometown sweetheart and ran a vineyard for many years before selling it and leasing another vineyard of Thompson seedless grapes On July 7 1982 exactly 37 years after his discharge a small box from the Department of Army appeared in his mailbox In it were five medals three citations and two ribbons They include a presidential citation the Bronze Star a Meritorious Service Medal a combat infantryman citation Purple Heart Medal of Freedom and ribbons from Belgium and Holland Prieto said he was "To tell you the truth I said Prieto 58 years later and on the day you were discharged I cried a He sorted the awards from the box and pointed proudly to the engravings declaring outstanding service bravery and valor He received the Bronze Star for knocking out a machine gun nest he said His Purple Heart was for wounds suffered at the Battle of the Bulge although he elaborate never thought about bravery It was something routine we Medals Page B3 residents presented it in the spring But the 11-member Fresno County Committee on School District Organization approved the proposal in June It must be approved by the voters of the school district before taking effect Unsuccessful in defeating the plan trustees want to at least influence the boundaries for the seven proposed trustee areas In a resolution that will be voted on at Thursday night meeting the board is asking that the boundary between the proposed Bullard and Hoover high school areas be moved from Maroa Avenue to Palm Avenue By JACALYN GOLSTON Bee education writer Fresno school trustees think that if they must be elected by areas the boundaries of those areas should allow Trustee Darlene Laval to run for re-election In November voters will decide whether the Fresno Unified School District trustees will be required to live in specific areas and be elected at-large They also will vote on whether the board should be expanded from five to seven members A majority of Fresno trustees opposed the plan when a group of The seven trustee areas are keyed to six high schools and the Sunnyside area The change would enlarge the Hoover High area and shrink It also would move Laval who is up for re-election next year into the Hoover area Under the present proposal Laval lives in the Bullard area and could not seek re-election because Trustee Ruth Gadebusch also lives in that area Gadebusch was re-elected last year Board President Dorothy Rohlfing said the rationale behind the proposed change is that the Bullard area is expected to grow during the See Trustees Page BA Federal marketing order talk with Stockman denied Budget They said they used the 20-minute meeting to talk about problems with export sales of raisins and a pending hearing with European Common Market officials The raisin peach and pear industries have filed an unfair trade complaint alleging that subsidies to EEC-member nations undercut US export sales Three different hearing dates were scheduled for this month in Geneva Switzerland and then canceled The hearing now is scheduled in September Barserian said presented him Stockman with a brief about these unfair trade Barserian said said he would take our brief and get back to us as soon as Lynn Joyner administrative assistant to Pashayan said marketing orders were not raised at See Stockman Page B3 Light and Barserian are among those who fear that the Reagan administration is trying to dismantle marketing orders on 34 fruit vegetable and specialty crops including raisins Marketing orders allow growers and processors to control the price and market supply of billions of dollars in crops Barserian and top aide denied that marketing orders were discussed with Stockman who heads the Office of Management and Maid Growers Inc and Kalem Barserian manager of the Raisin Bargaining Association had an unusual private audience with Stockman and Pashayan in a second-floor room at the Fresno Hilton Hotel before a reception and dinner for the Republican congressman While guests who paid $500 each to see Stockman at the reception were kept waiting Light and Barserian made their pitch By JEANIE BORBA and JIM BOREN Bee staff writers Two key San Joaquin Valley raisin industry representatives were given an opportunity July 18 in Fresno to lobby federal budget director David Stockman against substantial changes in the marketing order program The opportunity came at a fundraiser for Rep Charles re-election campaign Frank Light president of Sun- I fHl h' -Ti I Eli Setencich Ah so old amigo TO GET even they would have had to shoot him down 27 more times So invited him to come over and be the featured speaker at their convention next month instead The news release from the Zero Fighter Pilots Association is scrutable enough: "We look forward to welcome Col and Mrs Pappy Boyington as our special first time most honored guest and main speaker and since Col Pappy Boyington has only been to Japan as a special prisoner of the former Imperial Japanese Army we wish to extend to Col and Mrs Pappy Boyington the very best of traditional Japanese THE LAST time Gregory Boyington and the enemy had been eyeball to eyeball was on the morning of Jan 3 1944 off the coast of Rabaul The sky was a nest of Zeroes and he was beginning to feel a little like Custer at the Little Big Horn He had already brought down 28 of the bad guys to become the top Marine ace of World War II and now a couple dozen of them were trying to make sure he rack up any more They were accomplishing their mission with a measure of success could feel the impact of the enemy fire enemy has been an occasional exchange of letters has no doubt about it all jim-dandy he says UNDERSTATEMENT of the week offered on a bumper sticker on sale at the weekend meeting of the state Democratic Party: Nuclear Bomb Can Ruin Your Whole At the same session Rose Ann Vuich the very best friend in the state Senate was going on and on about the wonders of agriculture lecturing the predominantly big city crowd about the wonders of the fruits and nuts of California and how the people in the urban areas really appreciate the people who make the fruits and nuts In the audience an exasperated woman suddenly leaped to her feet turned to her fellow city dwellers and announced with some excitement eat Except in her agitation she left the comma out IT MUST be the heat or how else explain this absolutely indefensible lapse into bad taste by none other than TC Morgan: am worried about Adam' Eve told the serpent entwined about the seems he is absent with There is really no excuse for something like that against my armor plate behind my back like hail on a tin is how he described the last encounter in his book "Baa Baa Black could see enemy shots progressing along my wing tips making An instant later the main fuel tank of his Corsair exploded and he found himself a mere hundred feet above the water For sure Pappy had bought the farm first being kind of stunned I thought you finally got it you wise and then I thought: no you Somehow he scrambled out of the burning plane and within seconds he was floating in the chilly waters of St George Channel He examined himself He looked like a leftover from a turkey shoot One ear was almost tom off His arms and legs were full of shrapnel There were additional holes in other parts of his body Soon an enemy submarine picked him up It would be up to somebody else now to bring Japan to its knees With the war still Uj years from being over to say how many more planes with little red suns on their wings the Marine fighter pilot might have sent down in flames? Now a bunch of the lucky ones who were permitted to survive want him back for the Aug 7 convention in Osaka and Pappy Boyington is looking forward to going For one thing maybe the meeting will finally solve the mystery of who the real fiend was that gunned down old Pappy on that cloudy morning in the South Pacific In recent years a guy named Masajiro Kawato has been running around the country claiming he did it complete says Pappy sure bogus impostor Zero pilot says the pilots association If anybody had a hand in the most foul deed it was Takeo Tanimizu an ex-imperial Japanese Navy Zero ace who logged 32 victories Says a Zero association spokesman: never know who is this Masajiro And what is more research of American and Japanese offense agency records shows 100 percent irrevocable for sure that one of our veteran and most senior Zero fighter pilots to survive the war Takeo Tanimizu was the flight leader who led our engagement with Col Pappy famous USMC Black Sheep Fighter Squadron on Jan 3 1944 resulted in Col Pappy Boyington being shot down and taken prisoner by our Now they want the honorable old foes to get together and trade a few war stories hope their handshake at our Zero Fighter Pilots annual convention will serve as bridge across Pacific for both Japan and United States of Pappy Boyington whose only contact with the 1 i I i I.