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niw wrArAi wwwww nmwnr rw wNrHf1 B-2 Oaklanft (Tribune Friday. July 11.1S80 Slain mans parents -in niovie Incorrigible corgi deported by court .54 I f- a i V' V.v. riWA-: By Del Lane Tribune Staff Writer By. Harry Haiti Tribune itafl Writer St placed on probation. nie juvemtc pleaded guilty to ''manslaughter and the other 'young man-ploaded no contest to a- charge of felony hit-and-run.

Dana Patton, manager of the drive-in. stood a short distance away watching the pickets stop incoming vehicles and explain their grievance finally, asked Hayward police to 'move the pickets' vehicles out of her entry drive. I wasn't here at the HAYWARD Some 20 or 30 i relatives. and friends of a young man slain at the Hayward Auto Movies gathered, outside the drive-in. on the first anniversary of his death Thursday night to.

protest security precautions there. George and Mary Lucchesi and their supporters carried hand-lettered placards reading, Please do hot patronize -our N- J. 1 His dog is out of the house -now, saGeorge.de la Cruz is out of the dog- house with neighbors. animal control, officers and the Oakland Municipal Court. De la Cruz, 25.

an unemployed truck driver, was in Judge Robert Friborgs court last week, defending himself and his tinyt Welsh corgi named Doobie. -Cute-as-he. was. the 2 -foot- long, 10-pound, tan-colored pooch had a nasty habit of biting peo ple who happened into the area of de la Cruzs Everett Avenue home From February 1979 to May of this year, Doobie took more than a mouthful out of six including a' news carrier, a meter reader three elderly women. De la Cruz contends Doobie would only nip at people- He didnt viciously attack them like -they try to say." vBut animal control officers cit- eg de la Cruz for having a vicious dog and for having a dog at -lArgq, the ultimate penally perhaps being Doobies demise.

Deputy District -Attorney' James Nelson prosecuted the case and de la Cruz was found guilty of both allegations. she said, so I dont know what happened. But we do lure private guards now and we have adequate security, in addition to what we call a ramp attendant patrols the lot until everyones gone." Meanwhile. Mrs. Lucchesi said.

We just vacated our house. to-, day. It was the last place "Steve lived and we couldn't stand ing there. We have no place to go everything we own is in Georges truck." Instead, -ha-told -de -la-Crwe to find Doobie a new home out of the city in effect a new leash on life and he would suspend a fine. De la.

Cruz was given -until last Tuesday to comply. So over the weekend, de la Cruz journeyed to the Rogue River area in Oregon, where he gave Doobie to his brother. As promised, Judge Friborg dropped the fine, although de la Cruz is on 12 months'-probation. De la Cruz admitted the separation was not an easy one. Doobie, he said, "has been a friend.

Other than my two guitars and my back pack and tent, he's the only thing I got." But he has no animosity towards his. accusers, even though he. thinks, they, exaggerated what happened. "I know where they come from. he said.

Theyre the last generation. The new generation is much They went at it like I was a bank robber. I'm not. Prosecutor Nelson, also a dog. owner, said it was hard to believe a dog that small could cause that much damage.

But dogs like that are deceiving. and this one certainly was. He denied putting unusual zeal into the case. We didn't approach it like a bank robbery," he said. We just 'wanted to resolve a community problem," son was killed iiere one year ago tonight.

Stephen Lucchesi. 18. died after being run down by two vehicles after an altercation at the drive-in. 28988 Hesperian Hlvd. They need more supervision here." Lucchesi said bitterly.

They charge $2 per carload and kids come from' every town in the area with drugs and booze, and theres no supervision." -Mrs. Lucchesi said. "We just dont want this to happen to any. other kid. We dont want anyone elses son jiurt Witnesses told police at (he time, however, that the incident began when Stephen Lucchesi and his companions began throwing bottles and pipes at a van.

The Lucchesis asserted they have talked to witnesses who say their son was not involved. Lucchesi was also angry that the two youths charged in- the death, one a juvenile, were Council meeting site Continuing its new tradition of holding an occasional meeting outside City Hall, the Oakland City Council will meet July 22 in the Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, 250 10th St. at Alice! p.m. meeting will be in District 3. which is represented by Councilman Raymond Eng.

Previous community meetings were held in Districts 1 and 2. Judge Friborg. a dog fancier, himself, told the parties involved he would not have the dog Doobiea a little nipper. Council will debate school election change By Sw Soannichtan Tribune Staff Writer elected, by district, and some at large," whereby the candidate could live anywhere in town. If the decision is made to allnw some, to be elected "at large," how' many should there Third, who sets up the boundaries of the district the council boundaries be used? There are seven council districts and.

seven current School Board members. If the council district lines art; chosen, what would that do to School Board inedmbents? Several board members live, in same council district. Soma council districts hpvc no When the proposal for district elections for the Oakland Board of Eductjqn is considered by the City Council July 22, a number of factors will have to be studied, says Counril-- man John Sutter, who is bringing the -issue to the council. With council approval, the proposed charter revision would be placed on the Nov. 4 ballot.

District elections for City Council members were approved by the votJ ere in June. Sutter said he. believes the dqbate about School Board district elections. wilTfevolve around several issues. First, of course, is the question of whether there should be district elec- tions stall.

The School Board has recently voted in favor of them, with one member, David Tucker, registering opposition. Another issue, said Sutter, is whether some of the seats should be School Board members Jiving in them. These include North Oakland and far East Oakland (near the San Leandrb line). "There is no particular logic to the City Council districts," Sutter said. "Maybe it would be better to have the School Board draw up its Own districts." ft County backs away from zoning proposal By Gene Ayres.

Tribune Staff Writer them bF "the "flexibility "to" sell of small parcels in lean years to save other acreage they could. With only one or the protesters who filled the chamber admitting that he had owned his land less than 10 years, several of the pthers accused the supervisors of a vast ignorance of ranch life weather and economies. Under present zoning, the toHnty s-farm-dcsignatcd land cannot be divided into parcels smaller than 100 acres. Under study was a proposal. to raise that minimum to 320 acres, but the supervisors threw that out early-in the hearing, sensing immovable opposition by.

the luffd owners. The new staff plan would: Retain legality for already legal parcels, soiftc created as small as five acres before 1972, and 100-acre parcels since then. Allow one dwelling per 100 acres on- land fronting on a county road. Retain legality for already created 320-acre parcels as building sites, 'which aru reached by A coalition of farmers, real estate brokers and landowners threw up a barbed wire fence of protest Thursday, derailing a -complex set of proposed zoning rules for subdividing Alameda County farm lands. The plan, which had been two years in the making by the county planning staff, will come before the Board of Supervisors again July 29.

On that date. Supervisor Joe Bort promised to suggest dumping" it. and to let farm and ranch owners submit zoning proposals for their land 6n an individual basis until, with owner suggestions; a newplan can be worked out. With speaker after speaker op-v posing the staff p.lan. Bort agreed it was too complex.

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