Progress Bulletin from Pomona, California • Page 16

Candidates insist on more vocational training SAC education role challenged DONALD DUCKWORTH Assistant city executive named Donald R. Duckworth has been appointed as a new assistant city administrator for Pomona. Duckworth. 25, assumes a previusly unstaffed additional assistant istra ter position approved by the City Council under the current budget. The city currently has one assistant administrator.

Joe Korpsak. City Administrator Jerrold Gonce stated that Duckworth will be responsible for policy coordination with city department heads and special research and study projects. Duckworth was previously the administrative assistant to the city manager of Simi Valley, where he was responsible for administrative support services for the police department and was also involved in planning and public communication matters. He holds a master's degree from USC, and is also a graduate of Cai State at Northridge. By BOB NAGEV P-B Staff Writer Concern over the direction the trustees and the administration have been taking in running Mt.

San Antonio College was voiced Tuesday by most of the 11 college board candidates who appeared at a public forum Tuesday night. Thirteen candidates are running for a three-month vacancy that expires March 31. The special election is set for Jan. 7. Two of the candidates, Gilbert Ramirez and Travis L.

Manning, failed to show up at the forum sponsored in West Covina by the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Association oi University Women and the MSAC Faculty Association. Charles Hall of Diamond Bar appeared to emerge as the strongest candidate Tuesday night. Not only did he have the backing of the political action committee and the executive committee of the faculty association, he also got some unexpected support from one of the candidates. John announced during the meeting at Hollencrest School that he was dropping out of the race because he and Hall, both residents of Diamond Bar, to think alike on most He urged his supporters to vote for Hall. Hall was criticized by other candidates Tuesday tor claiming support of the faculty association.

His opponents contended that the endorsement came not from the faculty as a whole hut from two of its committees. Six of the candidates, James Popovich, Rovell Storing, Ron Boran, Harry Branscomb, Hazel Haas and Leona Bourdet then complained about the two committees who endorsed Hall. Seme contended they were never terviewed; others claimed Hall was the candidate of the faculty long before the interviews were held. Hall said if elected he would call for a number of changes on the board, particularly in communications with the public. He charged that the board had violated the Brown anti-secrecy act deliberately on several occasions during the past two years.

He said there was a lot of room for change in running the college, you have as many candidates On that subject he found agreement with most of the candidates. Ralph Kimball, a Walnut dentist, told the audience that by 1980 about 80 per cent of the jobs in the United States will not require college education, but that 75 per cent will require some type of training. He sa'd the burden fell on the colleges to provide job training and MSAC should pay more attention to its vocational training program. That point also was made by William Nash of Pomona, a professor of metallurgy in a Los Angeles college. He said he was training his students, and then finding jobs for them and should be beating down the doors at MSAC, asking for its best vocational He contended that the college was still academically oriented and was still looking down its nose at the trades.

Ron Boron of West Covina, a part- time newscaster for KSAK, the college radio station, said that if he had his way he would want in the board, in the administration and in the He said he would bring the viewpoint of youth to the board, hut would represent everyone. James Popovich, a Pomona public relations consultan, said he felt he could add dimension to the board became oi his past associations as aide to State Sen. Bill Richardson and Assemblyman William Campbell. He said the district has done excellent so far, but the new ber elected next month must be able to work with the board. He said he would like to expand community relations.

J. Rodney Davis, a La Verne College professor, said he was interested in expanding nontraditional type education on the MSAC campus. He wanted to fird cut why 50 per cent of the students who enroll in a program withdraw after the first year. The two women candidates, Mrs. Haas, an educator and Mrs.

Bourdet, who retired this year after working as an instructional aide, said they too would bring a new dimension to the beard by offering a point of view. Mrs. Haas said she wanted to strengthen the program for the handicapped, and Mrs. Bourdet said she would work toward holding taxes down without harming the educational program. Royell Storing, a MSAC student from La Puente, wanted to bring the voice of youth to the board, contending that the board was And Branscomb said he wanted to serve because he wanted to repay the college and the community which gave him the opportunity to start his education at MSAC.

Branscomb is an attorney in Covina. Nash said the board would have to contend with two basic problems in the years ahead: collective bargaining and the grading of teachers by the students. Decision up to President Senate bill targets new jobs for L.A. County P-B Washington Bureau In an effort to curb the rising unemployment rate, the Senate has passed a bill that will provide almost 12,00 new jobs in Los Angeles County. The county will receive $88,986,400 to create 11,866 public service jebs if the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act becomes law, according to a spokesman for Sen.

Alan Cranston, D-Calif. The measure prompted by the increasing national unemployment figures is now in a House-Senate conference where minor differences will be ironed out before the bill is sent to the President. The unemployment rate in the county rose last month to 8 per cent, with 244,300 county residents unemployed. The Senate measure is similar to that requested by President Ford in an economic speech last October, but some sources here say the President may veto the bill because its current money figure is much higher than he had hoped. The public service program, as written by tee Senate, will commit $4 billion to finance 530,003 jobs nationwide in health, public safety, eduction, tion ccntro! and veterans counseling- One-fourth of the S4 billicn will be allocated to areas where the jobless rate exceeds 6.5 per cent.

In California 749,000 or 8.7 per cent of the work are Jobless, according to a State oi California spokesman here. The state will i ve to create 75 103 jobs. Enactment of the bill will have several effects on the economy. It will obviously put 75.000 previously unemployed people to work: it wall also: what the U.S. Labor Department call a and within 18 months new jobs will open up in the private sector.

Sentencing of slayer awaits CIM examination Pomonan Isaac Gibson, 50, recently convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death last May of 40-yeai- old Donald Rufus Truelove, was committed Tuesday for a 90-day period of psychological and physical testing prior to being sentenced. Gibson, 590 E. Ninth was ordered io undergo testing at the California institution for Men at Chino when he appeared before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred W. Dibb. next appearance was scheduled for March 17.

Gibson was arrested at the scene of the fatal beating, 586 Ninth St. Police blamed a feud of long-standing for the incident. Gibson maintained that he do it, but a jury ruled guilty Nov. 26 after a iengthy trial in Los Angeles. v- AT-Hr Sift fi THE COMEBACK TRAIL Douglas Hay, the young man ric ing with a windmill, is not trying to imitate Don Quixote, antagonist of air ma.

hin vs. ITe is 1 ting a windmill near Cai to determine if it is a practiced means of providing house- h( id enorgv. Pcly senior working ce windmill household electricity i The current search for alternative power sources received a boost recently from a senior student at Cal Poly who has turned his attention to an old device for harnessing the energy of the environment: the windmill. As his senior project in engineering technology, Douglas Hay decided to find out if a backyard windmill in a light wind could generate enough energy to be of practical use to a household. He spent two months rebuilding a 50- year-old Montgomery Ward wind rotor and hooked it un to a car alternator- In a low-velocitv wird the mill turns slowly.

The generator, on the othar hand, needs to turn at the rate of at least 1.000 revolutions per minute in order to charge a battery. Hay installed a 50-to-l gearing system to increase the r.p.m. charging the battery. Last month, with the help of his faculty adviser, Horatio Morgan, lecturer in aerospace engineering, Hay set his windmill on top of a trailer attached to a Volkswagen. Hay and Morgan tested the windmill at 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 miles per hour, plotting the results on a graph.

The results of the test are encouraging, according to the faculty adviser. next step is to build a working model for houee use," Hay says. As for the long-range implications of the test, who knows? Perhaps the windmill is cn the comeback trail. Cutback in street lighting pondered City won join electric rate fight Bv ION MORRIS The request tor participation minded Lynch that when electrical "The more gadgets P-B Staff Writer came from San Bernardino Mayor Bob costs were lower, there were fewer the worse they wtli run, he added, rhinn ritv rnnnrilmen refused Tues- Holcomb. liShts- Lynch said he personally was By JON MORRIS P-B Staff Writer Chino city councilmen refused Tuesday night to join in a fight against the Edison proposed 21 per cent rate increase.

Instead. Councilman Ed Lynch suggested the city should cut down on some street lighting. shocked at the proposed he declared, hate to shut down street lights, but getting to the stage where we should consider Lynch said the city should be when it comes to lighting. Mayor Bob McLeod and other council members decided that the city would not spend $500 to join other cities in a of to enable a as to whether the increase is justified. The request for participation came from San Bernardino Mayor Bob Holcomb.

Holcomb is asking various cities to contribute 2 per cent of their electrical energy costs per month as a share of battling the proposed increase. The cities would enlist the help of a nonprofit group called TLRN (Towards Utility Rate Normalization). John Gerardi, the director of public works, indicated he and other staff members favored joining the fight. But McLeod said he did not favor participating in the action with San Bernardino. Lynch stated he remembers when total street lighting costs were around $8.000.

City officials said those costs run about $80,000 now. Councilwoman Eileen Carter minded Lynch that when electrical costs were lower, there were fewer lights. we need them at all. Lynch responded. City Manager Bob Fast said the council discussed the lighting issue a vear ago, and decided not to turn any off.

He promised, however, to recheck the situation, and possibly report back to the council. In other action, council members took no position, despite the urging of Councilman Angel Martinez, on the new state law requiring installation of smog devices on 1966 to 1970 vehicles. Martinez called the legislation a in that is trying to make a few million dollars with the excuse the device will cut down on Conviction affirmed in manslaughter case The manslaughter conviction early last year of Dale M. Picrkowski for the 1972 slaying of a 16-vear-old youth in Pomona has been affirmed by the state appellate court in Los Angeles. The case, which involved the fatal shooting of Herman L.

Johnson at the Five Paints area of the city, resulted in a lengthy period of racial tension. Picrkowski, 26, a Caucasian, main- Piorkcwski, 26, a Caucasian, main- shcoting the black youth through the head, as the two struggled. He said he was attempting to hold Herman whom he suspected in the theft of a purse at a nearby store. Picrkowski was tried on a murder ci ae and eventually found guiity of involuntary manslaughter and sentence 1 to 180 days in jail as a condition oi probation. The case was before a jury' and Pomona Superior Court Judge Glenn M.

Pfau. The conviction was appealed on the theory that the homicide was justifiable because Piorkowski was attempting to apprehend a person in a burglary case. (Under state law it is burglary when a person enters a place with the intent to steal something, regardless of its value.) lhe three-judge Second Appellate District Court ruled that the killing was unjustified because only in cases where there is the threat of death or bodily injury can deadly force be used such an apprehension. The court said: are of the opi- Blood collections shift to Sunday for two weeks The Pomona Chapter Red Cross Blood Center has scheduled two special Sunday Mood donor days because the regular Tuesday and Wednesday' oper- ition periods conflict with Christmas and New this season. Since the demand for blood to meet accident and illness needs continues in spue oi the holiday season, the Blood Donor Center will be open from 11 a.m.

to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday and on Dec 29 at 420 N. Reservoir Pomona. Dr. Lorin Spencer, chairman of the Red Cross Blood Donor committee, said appointments are requested and may be made by calling 629-7455 weekdays.

nion that the character of the crime (burglary) and the manner of its perpetration did not warrant the use of deadly force to effect the The claim also that the jury had been inadequately instructed by Judge Pfau before the panel retired to ponder its verdict also was rejected by the appellate judges. Hospital plays Santa Claus to quads born there The quadruplets born in Pomona Valley Community Hospital on June 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Struve of Claremont. became the center of attention again at the hospital at a party marking the first Christmas season Tuesday atternoon.

Presents were distributed by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus to the quadruplets and to their older brother. Scott, who is 2, as they gathered in the hospital a little more than six months after their birth. The infants given Ragsedy Ann and Andy dolls hand made by members of the Auxiliary.

The hospital gave Scotf, the older sibling, a wooden duck and a toy camera. The quadruplets were bom two months prematurely, and they spent from four to six weeks in the neo-natal critical care unit. Each of the quadruplets has at least in weight since its birth. Kevin, bom at three pounds, three ounces, has grown to 15 pounds; Kristina. born at three pounds, one ounce, weighs pounds: Todd, bom three pounds, half an ounce, weighs pounds, nd Tonya, boro two pounds, 14 ounces, weighs IDA pounds.

Kiwanians to treat home youths The Kiwanis Club of Claremont will host 20 boys from the LeRoy Heme at the club's weekly luncheon meeting Thursday at The Rev. James Angell will also be a guest. The club will sing carols and be treated.to a Laurel and Hardy comedy bv William Blanchard. Chaffey students exit early Friday All five high schools in the Chaffey Union Hiah School Ditrict will operate on a minimum-day schedule on Friday, the last day before the start of the Christmas holiday break. School will be dismissed at about noon, although dismissal times vary slightly at each school.

Bus transportation will be provided after classes are dismissed. is very important because the district will lose a lot of money if students decide to take the day said Robert Erickson, district assistant superintendent. He explained that the district receives state funds based on average daily attendance. Both regular classes and special programs are scheduled for Friday by each school. Slump hits Salvation Army: donations down, costs up more gadgets we put on cars, the worse they will he added.

Lynch said he personally was nor qualified to offer an opinion on the smog law but the experts are wrong here, maybe we should fire the motion to go on record opposing the law died for lack of a second. Also the council decided to accept a staff recommendation and an offer of property from the Chino school district for park use. Recreation Director Jack Anderson said in a memo that the unlandscaped strip bordering El Rancho Schcol is too small for a park. And. development costs would be high plus a yearly maintenance cost estimated at $2,800, he stated.

Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Fund drive is in trouble this year with donations down about $5,000 compared with last year and the cost of baskets up, due to the higher cost of groceries to fill the baskets for the needy. are giving a lot of coins this year. Last year many people gave bills but they just aren't doing it said Capt. Dan Birks of the Salvation Army in Pomona. Basket applications and referrals seem to be up over last year, according to Beverly Feits, caseworker who is processing applications, but exact figures for the weeks previous to Christmas are not available for comparison.

She has already about 350 applications which have been cleared and expects more. The baskets which will go to families in need will be filled with canned foods and cash slips for perishable items such as meat. The price of filling the baskets has increased about 25 per cent over last year. But Capt. Birks is are many very generous people in the Pomona Valiev and sure that they will make it possible for us to meet the needs again this he stated.

Donations of food, clothing or toys for children may be made at the Salvation Army in Pomona or the Christmas Basket Clearing Bureau at 622-0712. Christmas Kettles are located at Gemco, J. C. Pen- the Pomona Post Office and Buff urns..