Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California • Page 13

Open-Space Land Is Tax Problem SACRAMENTO Assemblyman John Quimby, D-72nd and Ruben Ayala, chairman of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, met last week to discuss loss of revenue to counties from land held in open space. A recent law permits certain lands to be given property tax benefits so long as the land is kept free of urban development. In practice, this prevents a county from increasing assessed valuation of agricultural land, for example, which is adjacent to a new housing development. Quimby is a member of the Joint Legislative Committee on Open Space which is conducting a two-year study on the effects of the open space tax exemption, designed to discourage more urban sprawl. the open-space provisions are highly desirable, there must still be some solution to the problem of the counties losing the needed tax Quimby said.

Ayala, commenting on a bill pending in the Senate to permit counties to levy five cents on their existing property tax to make up for the loss of revenue from open-space lands, said he does not know this is the answer to the problem because the counties are attempting to lower rather than raise the property Ayala is a member of the task force of the county supervisors state association which hopes to develop legislation equitable to the taxpayer which would also retain the open-space provisions of the law. Ayala cited as an example of the problem the Chino Unified School District, which had to raise its tax rate this year by seven cents per $100 assessed valuation as a result of loss of revenue from open- space lands in the district. He said the task force has examples of 261 school districts in the state which have lost revenue from the open-space tax provisions, with some districts running as high as a 31 per cent drop in revenue. Burned Building Must Come Down ONTARIO The Eagles Lodge building at the northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and Holt Boulevard which caught fire May 4 will have to be torn down. Chief Building Official M.

G. Riddle has said a letter has been sent to the owner ordering it demolished or repaired to meet building-code requirements. The owner is Kathleen H. Phelan of Villa Park, Riddle said. She has told Riddle that her husband already has conferred with a contractor to see what to do with the building.

my opinion, destroyed sufficiently to where it cannot be built Riddle said. Summer Program Will Provide Jobs SAN BERNARDINO County supervisors voted this week to join in a summer park program which provides jobs for youths from low-income families. The county share will be $16,000. The Neighborhood Youth Council sponsors the program to maintain and improve regional parks. One project is the Chino-Prado Park area.

The 10-week program starts June 23 and will involve some 80 boys, 14 to 16. They will be assigned to one of six regional projects. Work in the Prado area will be flood damage cleanup, building trails and constructing and maintaining picnic areas. The $16,000 will be used to pay for salaries, transportation, tools and some county personnel to work with the groups. The remainder, $30,212, will be financed through federal funds.

Second City Art Show Held at City Hall The second annual city art show featuring works by city employes and their families will be held in the city hall lobby through Friday. Thomas J. Fee, president of the Pomona ployes Association, said the public may view the works from 8:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. daily.

There are three categories in the show: paintings (oil, water color, acrylic, drawings); dimensional media (assemblages, carvings, sculpture, stitchery); and mixed media (collages, batiks, silk screen prints, velvet prints). Judging will be done by members of the Mt. San Antonio College art department. Awards will be given for first, second and third place in each category, and for the best and most original entries in the show. 13,690 Petitioners Reject School Integratori Proposal a 1 coi A A petition with 13,690 signatures was presented to the Pomona Board of Education Tuesday by the Pomona Unified Parents, asking retention of the neighborhood school concept.

completely reject the plan (recently presented by a Citizens Committee for School Integration to the board) or any other plan which removes the child from the neighborhood school without the the spokesman, Dr. Jack Worden said. Worden said he wished to present facts not considered by the citizens committee in arriving at its plan for the expanded Woman Dies After Mate Has Attack LA elderly woman died early Tuesday of a heart attack several hours after her husband suffered a similar, but not fatal, attack. The woman, Mrs. Bessie Whitehead, 1911 6th was pronounced dead at Pomona Valley Community Hospital shortly before 2:30 a.m.

Six hours earlier her husband, Everett C. Whitehead, 82, was taken there after suffering an attack at their home. His condition was reported fair this morning in the intensive care unit. Murder Case Now in Trial The murder trial of Wilbur Spradlin, 36, is under way in Pomona Superior Court before Judge Paul Egly. Estimated length is two weeks.

Spradlin, a service station attendant, is accused of murder in the death Dec. 10 of Bernice Stilman, 53, in Azusa. Mrs. body was found in her apartment at 640 N. Orange Azusa, by her landlord.

She had been beaten to death. Spradlin, who was arrested later in Kingman, was returned here for prosecution. Azusa police said Spradlin lived at the same address and was seen with her shortly before her death. He was arrested at a fruit inspection station in Arizona when authorities there recognized him as the suspect sought. Ganesha H.S.

To Vie in Drama Event PASADENA Ganesha High School is one of 30 schools chosen to compete in the 36th annual One-Act Play Tournament at the Pasadena Playhouse. The Ganesha drama department will present Harold Dumb Thursday afternoon with Kevin Laverty and Armand Volkas. The play is directed by faculty member Claude Jones and student director Terence Martin. Ganesha will be competing against John Muir (Pasadena), San Clemente, Redlands, Elsinore and Indian Oasis of Sells, high schools. Five of the 30 schools will make the finals and their plays will be staged again Saturday night for the Trophy.

neighborhood school concept and to the side of the His facts included comments from federal officials indicating that racial imbalance is not illegal, although deliberate segregation of students and teachers by race is. He read newspaper Winston Nelson is determined. articles aloud, the substance of which indicated that the dis- r- trict does not need to do any- said hus committee fa- thing about de facto segregation Aors 1S as long as it is not Worden criticized the 1 tee for choosing not to considej the cost of its proposal. Thj would be $779,000 the first yet scHs. jrden said it is long over- for parents to be involved the schools and said that emotion on the end of a paddle is more good than reason on the end of a tongue.

longer are we going to be told (by unidentified small groups) what is best for our children, how we should think, or how we should Worden Wednesday Evening, May 14, tg, May 14, Prof' Page 1, Sec. 2 Bonita Deficit Budget SAN DIMAS A deficit budget of $5,261,300, about 10 per cent higher than for this year, was proposed for the next fiscal year by the Bonita School District Tuesday night. As proposed, the preliminary budget is about $209,000 short of anticipated income. The shortage, however, is covered by a surplus accumulated two years ago. Unless other funds are found, it will be the second straight year the district will be operating in the red.

The proposed budget contains no raises for teachers or classified employes. However, Supt. Robert W. Dickinson told the school board he was optimistic that the state would come through with some financial aid, probably 5.6 per cent or more, under proposals by the he said, now being state they "we'll be in pe, Even wi.hne would be reserves another $3 jgher than last year. expected through increaserf and thrflRh rise average daily on whlch state aid is fae we have back lee ring to he surplus.

around us are not as Ack had to cut spi at program. But if some- thjb happen soon, same crisis in a year hi tftw Denson agreed, contending lat.he teachers will not subsi- dize education out of their pockets. going to have to find money for raises, whether in Sacramento or by cutting the present Some cuts in program already are proposed in the preliminary budget in community services and in capital outlay, amounting to about $50,000. But this is easily offset by a $314,000 rise in the cost of instruction. Several other classifications also were up from last year.

Dr. Jacob Wiens, director of business, told the board that if the state comes up with no additional help for next year, and if the reserves can be tapped as proposed, then the school district can raise the necessary money through its $3.38 tax rate and a $1.17 override, which is still in effect. Mayor, C. C. Caves, Dies C.C.

CAVESfct 8 RowlcrJ Will Spak ROWLAND HEIiTS The Rowland Educati Association will sponsor a program irl the Alvarado cafeteria at Rowland e'ect five trustees on their newly The election be June 17 but the have a year transit Period in to prepare over tbe 's" trict July 1970. Eight candidates will 'on tbe badot- The Walnut and Hudson drfcts voted t0 separately! an March n- An said trict lt is most know tbe dates their in gards jcducation. Chiever C. Caves of Brethren Hillcrest Homes in La Verne, a former Pomona mayor, died Tuesday morning in Pomona Valley Community Hospital. Mr.

Caves, affectionately known to his triends as was 95. Mr. Caves served as mayor from 1929 to 1931. He was born Oct. 19, 1873, in Deersville, Ohio, began a real estate business in Iowa in 1887, and in 1907 came to Pomona where he was in the real estate and insurance business.

Mr. Caves was made a Mason in the Masonic Lodge of Fremont, Iowa, in March of 1900. He had been a member of Pomona Lodge 246 since 1907. He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, an active churchman and former Sunday school superintendent. Mr.

Caves lived at 490 W. Alvarado St. in Pomona for over 50 years. He was a past president and active participant in the Iowa Association of Southern California. He became a colorful figure during his tenure in this city.

In 1963 the Progress-Bulletin advertising staff held a party to celebrate his 90th birthday, noting that he had been a steady advertiser in the Progress-Bulletin lor 56 years. At that time he still mowed his own lawn and walked to church on Sunday. In 1965, he took a trip to Yellowstone Park in Montana. Mr. Caves was without a speaking voice from 1951, when he had surgery for cancer of the larynx.

He was able to talk only in a whisper. Survivors include a son, Cecil C. Caves of La Crescenta; a daughter, Mrs. Nadine Hills of Brookings, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Thursday at 3 p.m.

in Todd Memorial Chapel Pomona. The Rev. James R. McCormick, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, will officiate. Entombment will be in Pomona Mausoleum.

Armed Berets Arrested on MSAC Campus WALNUT Three men, identified by deputies as members of the militant Mexican American Brown Berets, were arrested in a car Tuesday on the grounds of Mt. San Antonio College. One of the men, Carlos Michael Montes, 21, had a loaded, Mauser pistol, arresting officers said. The second man, Vincent Jacquez, 28, was drunk, they said. The third man arrested, Jesse Ceballos, 29, driver of the car, had no identification, officers said.

The car containing the three men was stopped shortly after noon on Grand Avenue on the MSAC campus. Officers said they pulled it over because it had no license plates. They said the three men explain their presence on the campus. Youths Jump Gendarme, Take $229 CHINO A retired French gendarme was mugged here Monday, police reported. The victim, Jean Chilibolost, 62, was walking to a home when three youths jumped him from behind, punched him and took $29 in cash and two checks, each for 100 Patrolman Paul Caldera said Chilibolost is a retired French policeman and has been visiting the United States.

He is staying with Martin Arrachea of 12723 Monte Vista Ave. The mugging happened at the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and 3rd Street as Chilibolost was bound for the Monte Vista address at 1:10 a.m. He suffered cuts and bruises. Court Aid Drive Runs Into Snag LOS ANGELES The campaign of a Pomona and East San Gabriel committee to obtain five more Superior Court judges for Pomona got a tern- Moratorium on Sete Ed Urged William Lavel, chairman of the Concerned Committee, has urged a moratorium on the family life education program presently being considered in the Pomona public schools at a meeting held at St. Joseph Church.

proposal followed a scathing denunciation by John Steinbacher of the Siecus study materials for sex education. Steinbacher. Anaheim columnist and education reporter, described the program as one which works to alienate the child from the parent. More than 400 Pomona residents Monday night heard bacher describe the family life or sex education program now used on a national scale as and lewd, designed to undermine the basic morality of the young of this He said that the Siecus program is designed to change all decent attitudes towards morality and to separate the child from the parent who teaches right from wrong. compiete- ly disregards the Christian concept of life and love and works to degrade and degenerate a whole generation of he said.

The Rt. Rev. Thomas P. English, pastor of St. Joseph Church s-1 that sex education is a responsibility which 10 the Parent who teaches at sex is a sacred and preciou Jower.

Half the heartache lathis nation today has its in the abuse of Doloria, principal of a a Catholic High School Sister Sophia Marie, of St. Joseph Elementary outlined the sex programs in their re- schools. Both stressed theoportance of a sound value syjim and instruction pro- grn in moral concepts in conation with sex instruction. ister Doloria received clause when she saidt are fortunate because we can include God in our Miss Marjorie Quane, dean of womer. at Garey High School and a member of the Family Life Committee, discussed many of the problems encountered in any sex education program.

She outlined the training of each instructor in the program and urged parents to read the works of men and women being denounced by Steinbacher as and Miss Quane also invited parents and teachers to visit Garey High School and sit in on the family life classes and judge for themselves the pilot program in progress at that porary setback Tuesday. But Herbert Hafif, a spokesman for the Citizens Coordinating Committee, said the campaign will be taken clear up to the governor. The group, as well as representatives of the Mayors Emergency i i a 1 Steering Committee comprising 14 cities between here and El Monte, failed, because of a deadlock, to gain support for their plan from the Board of Supervisors. A resolution approving five judges for the East District of Superior Court could not muster the necessary majority because of the absence of Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. As a result, it died in a 2-2 tie.

However, the supervisors unanimously approved a resolution asking the legislature for 14 judges for the county, one of whom would serve the Pomona area. Hafif said he would make another appeal to the supervisors next month. Lyon To Speak At USC Dinner CLAREMONT Dr. E. Wilson Lyon, president of Pomona College, will speak at the annual University of Southern California Phi Beta Kappa initiation dinner tonight in Los Angeles.

His topic will be Reformation of Higher Education in White Closing For Repairs The east side of White Avenue from Preciado Street to the northern city limits will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday for surface work. The west side of White will handle both directions of traffic. said.

of parents by these groups is finished. The puppet show is He excoriated the board for what he called its unwillingness to either accept or reject the proposed integration plan at once, and added: action or inaction will help determine our supnort for the board in the He indicated that he feels the school administration all along favored the controlled open enrollment plan which is now being studied as a possible alternative. He then said the board consider a policy of permissive with transportation provided by parents, but only after a public hearing and study session by the board before adoption. This is essentially the open enrollment plan first proposed by the administration last year and rejected at that time by the parents group headed by Worden. school obligation is to the community, not the Worden said.

Dr. Marvin Abrams, chairman of the Citizens Committee on Integration, said the committee would be disappointed if its work was ignored and proposed a partial implementation of the plan. He opposed controlled open enrollment, which permits a child's parents to enroll him in another school he considers better than his neighborhood school if there is room. Two Endorsements Endorsements of the citizens committee plan was given by the Democratic Club of Pomona Valley and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Jerry Shepard, another committee member, said the plan is feasible, and the benefits of integration make it imperative that the plan be implemented for quality education.

segregation exists, no matter what the cause, it is our duty to do something about he said. The subject retains its capacity to attract a nearly full auditorium, with about 600 again in attendance. Emotions often run high and courtesy was sometimes scarce. Waldo White, vice chairman of the committee, urged adoption of the plan, and called the proposed alternate, controlled open enrollment a of crippling Mrs. John Lepp.

a member of the Associated Pomona Teachers, said Worden had twice given misinformation. She said APT council members met with citizens committee only as individual teachers, instead of as organizational representatives, as Worden had said, and that members of the Associated Pomona Teachers did not poll their membership (which favored the report two to one) until after the plan was presented to the board. Worden said APT made its decision before the report went to the board. Monroe Jones said the issue is not money or busing but integration and said Pomona should set the stage now for cooperation, since it can expect to have at least a 50 per cent black population eventually. An English woman said she had always thought America was the country with the most freedom in the world, but was beginning to have her doubts.

She backed integration by whatever means might be necessary. educational. It dispels fear. When 1 was six years old I afraid of the bogeyman, and not she said. Roscoe Fortson, a committee member and recent candidate for school board, called for an honest effort to find alternate solutions, somewhere between the citizens committee plan and controlled open enrollment.

Ontario Cyclist Hurt in Collision An Ontario man suffered a severely injured leg in a motorcycle mishap early this morning and a fellow cyclist was arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving. Henry Joseph Burke, 32, of 604 N. Campus Ontario, one of the motorcyclists, was in good condition this morning at San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland. He suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, police reported. His companion, Herbert Martin Koch, 22, of Bell Gardens, was booked on the felony charge at the West End substation.

Bail was set at $625. He also suffered head and leg injuries. Police said each was going west on Holt Boulevard on motorcycles around 2 a.m. today. Both attempted to turn north on Euclid Avenue when motorcycle ran into spilling hint on the pavement and injuring bis knee..