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MdbCtnnyfaiwn INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS-TElEGftAM A-3 -t Pot4 funds studied for Queen Action it inc 0' Box 230 Long Beach Calif 90944 City eyes buyback despite warning by state -V LI By Charles Sutton Staff Writer Long Beach city and harbor officials are continuing to look into the possibility of transferring control of the Queen Mary to the Harbor Department despite warnings from the State Lands Commission that the move could pose legal problems On Tuesday the Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the spending of $50000 on a detailed evaluation of the ship including an assessment of its salvage value The lands commission along with the state attor-ney office warned the city last week that its proposal to use Harbor Department revenues to buy back the commercial leaseholds on the ship part of the plan is probably illegal under the teems of its tide land trust agreement with the state But Randall Verrue acting director of the new tidelands agency said confident that the city can justify the proposed purchases under the trust agreement City officials were -quick to point out that inclusion an uncompromising stand the proposed leasehold purchases terming them illegal city officials said the commission's communication to the city was merely a reiteration of a 1 long-standing policy and did not necessarily rule out the purchases Verrue declined to discuss the proposed pur chases in detail but an informed source in City Hall said the city believes it can make a convincing case for using tidelands money to buy back the leaseholds on the basis ef a past court decision He did not elaborate Since July of last year when the City Council ordered the manager's office to try to consolidate the various activities under a single management city officials have been searching for a way to carry out the council's directive But the leaseholds estimated to be worth $75 to $9 million between them still are in the hands of Speciality Queen Mary which opery ates the restaurants on the ship and PSA which has the hotel resisted unless detailed plans were forwarded to the commission The ijarbor Department study represents partof the cify's effort to comp with the de mand James McJunkin the' new general manager of the port told the harbor board that $30000 of the $50000 authorized for the Queen Mary evaluation already has been spent Part of the money he said covered an underwater inspection of the hull which he said is in good condition" McJunkin said the study actually began a month ago Harbor board member ff (Bud) Ridings later expressed surprise that the city didn't have much of the information now being sought (Harbor Department revenues are in effect tidelandR money and are controlled by the state tideland trust agreement with the city) Although the lands commission appeared to take of the salvage estimate in Hhe Harbor i Department study does nbt mean that the city or the harbor intends to sell the vessel City Manager John Dever said the estimate will simply represent one of several options for dealing with the Queen once the Harbor Department has taken it over assuming the vessel continues to lose money (The tourist attraction is now draining the tideland operating fund at a rate of $2 million a year although according to city projections next loss may be slightly tower because of a new promotional campaign and other efforts to improve the ship) The salvage figure will be included in a report that eventually will be forwarded to the lands commission In addition to questioning the use ofHidelands funds for commercial purposes the commission warned the city that any proposal to transfer control of the ship to the Harbor Department would be LA busing must go slowly Nava testifies mandatory busing of fourth-through sixth-graders would occur next year if voluntary busing fails to sufficiently desegregate schools Students affected would be bused within 30 minutes of their neighborhood schools to integrated learning centers for about nine weeks a year the audience every night and started trading wisecracks with her At that time all the major talk shows were filmed in New York where Miss Miller had lived most of her life Carson and Griffin later moved their shows to California and in 1975 Miss Miller followed and now lives in Hollywood She attends virtually every taping of the Griffin show the staff always reserves a seat for her and takes in the Carson program on Fridays Griffin tapes several programs in Las Vegas every year and Miss Miller is always there too As a spokesman for Griffin said almost become part of the show: a personality in her own right She talks a lot but not always at a convenient time" Mass A friend tells me there is going to be a huge Mass in the Los Angeles Coliseum and that 106000 people will be there How can I find out when it will be and if I could be part of it? Mrs JE Long Beach Timothy Cardii al Manning will celebrate a Mass at 3 pm Sunday June 26 in the Los Angeles Coliseum closing the international convention of the Catholic group Worldwide Marriage Encounter The convention is being held at USC and the Los Angeles Sports Arena June 24-26 The Mass which is expected to fill the mammoth stadium is open to the public The convention is being arranged by Dr and Mrs Richard McBride and the Rev Paddy Colleran all of Long Beach Worldwide Marriage executive secretary team Algae treatment Several years ago a big deal was made of usiig algae to treat sewage Experts veil and beiag done on this subject now? JCC I Long Beach The use of algae growth is an effective reasonably priced means of treating sewage said a waste water treatment engineer for the Los Angeles County-Sanitation District in Whittier but only if you have lots of inexpensive land available Space is required not only for the huge algae oxidation ponds themselves but also to put a considerable distance between area residents and the strong algae odor Because of this he said the Sanitation algae Without income I was injured on my job at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard and received my last paycheck Jan 14 I still received any benefits from the US Labor Department's Worker 's Compensation office in San Francisco and I have two children to support In April I was told by a clerk at the shipyard that the San Francisco office had lost my medical reports and I immediately submitted duplicates bat I haven't been paid yet GH Long Beach I injured my back several times at the post office where I work and finally had to quit in March because of the pain I've been trying since then to get the federal compensation office to authorize back surgery but my union representative tells me that my medical records have been lost Can Action Line help? PL Los Alamitos PL's surgery has been authorized and GH should have his lump sum payment by now A spokesman for the compensation office said no records were lost in either case TJle office misread GH 's handwriting and sent his check to the wrong address several weeks ago We supplied the agency with the correct address and has been remailed Since PL's claim involved several accidents over a period of years the spokesman said it took a long time to review all the medical records -Action Line frequently receives complaints about long delays in processing federal compensation claims delays wibjph often leave the claimants without income as their bills mount The major problem appears to be an understaffed agency In the last four years the number of claims has doubled partly because of a liberalized compensation law that was passed in 1974 but the staff has increased by only 10 per cent The San Francisco office which annually handles about 35000 new claims from federal employes in California Arizona aod Nevada has only 65 permanent employes There are plans to increase the nationwide staff by about 25 per cent but it will take time to hire and train these new employes and the backlog of claims is likely to continue for some time Miss Miller is just a dedicated fan who's attended The gold rush is on for our 18K gold chains At JCPenney Associated Press Integration of the city's sprawling school district must proceed slowly because about half of the elementary school teachers are in relating to minority students Los Angeles Board of Education President Julian Nava says Nava the first board member" to testify in the 10-week-old integration hearings in Superior Court said Tuesday that more harm than good would result if minority children were transferred to all-white schools before teachers there were trained in areas such as bilingual instruction Nava testified that grades one through three should be left out of any pf otto sons of the teachers are inadequately trained to help the children Other reasons were lack of money and support by parents and communities Supreme the 600-square-mile Los I'd like to know Dorothy Miller pbo appears in the audience at so many television talk shows especially Merv Griffin's program is a former actress g-B Long Beach The 8lyear-old Lillian Dorothy Miller District is able to use this method in only two of its 12 treatment plants the 60-acre plant in Palmdale which treats 15 million gallons of sewage a day and the 240-acre facility in Lancaster which treats 45 million gallons The reduction method's cost is Nava said The hearings are being conducted to determine whether an integration plan proposed by the board satisfies a state Court order that radio and television shows for the last 30 years She first came to the about $75 per million gallons The more commonly used means of treatment the Angeles Unified School attention in the late 1960s when Jack Paar who preceded Johnny Carson as i lost of the Tonight Show noticed her in activated sludge method which utilizes bacteria costs about $150 per million gallons District to desegregate its schools Under the plan Hidden guns for judges OK by panel SACRAMENTO (AP) -California judges could tarry concealed firearms without permits under a bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee By Sen George Deuk-mejian R-Long Beach the bill was sent to the floor pn a 5-3 vote Tuesday Deukmejian said many judges have been threatened but obtaining a permit sometimes requires a lengthy process Witnesses said 30 judges 4n Los Angeles County alone have applied for permits "There's no protection provided to judges in off hours and they can easily become victims of one of these violent types before them" Deukmejian Said The measure is opposed by law enforcement groups prosecutors and the Judicial Council They say it isn't needed ana would et a precedent for prosecutors public defenders and others A tiny bottle of 14K gold to wear at your throat or wrist Tuesday ul 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