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rW T( Vi i "iv i- V' wrwV ay- fn 1 I i TODAYS FRIDAY NURSING JOB FAIR begins a three-day run at the AMERICAN LEGION and auxiliary leaders from six San Franciscan Hotel. Free career development states will meet in San Mateo to discuss community workshops yvill be each day. service mitiatiyes for 1982-83. 'Vi- age DISCRIMINATION in Employment Act'sfmpact TOM BRADLEY, the Democratic candidate for gov-wUI be examined in a two-day conference which erndr of California, will address the Commonwealth brains at the Francis Hotel in San- Francisco. Club at noon in the Sheraton Palace Hotel.

I INSID -4 v- Comics -i Classified ads V. 1 ini OAKLAND TRIBUNE EA8TBAY TODAY kirk Thursday, September 23, ,1982 BRENDA PAYTON information about Just how many actual employees would be affected and how much savings would be realized. Others were upset that the brunt of the lay-' offs falls upon the district's lowest paid employees. They said that high-ranking managers continued to get. salary raises while others lost Jobs.

Several of the. speakers were particularly miffed by the possible dismissal of the districts affirmative action purchasing manager, whose manager, Paul DiSario, many of those positions are vacant. Only about three dozen actual employees are Subject to be he added, and many of them may end up in other unfilled va-: cancies within the district Board members Barney Hilburn, Elizabeth Laurenson James Norwood, Seymour Rose and Peggy Stinnett voted in favor of eliminating the jabs. But David Tucker and J. Alfred Smith declined to vote.

Getf your own As part of its decision earlier this month to erase a potential $8.5 million deficit, the Oakland Board of Education' voted 5-0 Wednesday night to eliminate 68 non-teaching Jobs about -half of them, currently unfilled positions from the school districts personnel rolls. Among the positions that will be dropped from the districts roughly 6,000 Jobs are. about 20 clerks and typists, eight custodians, an internal auditor, a carpenter and about a dozen other blue- -collar Jobs, an architect, a buyer, a health assistant and the affirmative action purchasing manag-' But according to the schdbl districts business -About a dozen speakers, most of them repre- job is to recruit minority, vendors participate in sentatives. of. employee, labor unions and owners Tof small businesses, addressed the board to pro-; test the asserting there was conflicting bidding for the various contracts the district awards for such items as food and classroom equipment f- Legal office closure plan; under fire By Andy Jokelson Tribum Staff WrHar -PITTSBURG Contra Costa Legal Services Foundation is closing its Pittsburg office Friday despite opposition from low-income mem- bers of its board of trustees.

One of them, Denise DeRamo, said the' boards finance committee had reported that the -foundations deficit seemed to be linked to the operations in Pittsburg. Thats the meet any of us have ever heard about reasons for closing the Pittsburg office, she said. When khe and others asked questions, she said, we received not one solid answer to any question that was asked. Questions were skirted, evaded, talked around, rather than spoken to. DeRamo said she made a motion it a' special See LEGAL, Page C-2 Tanker truck bill is signed By Virgil Meibert I nuunv piiMU uy wws mmwmiu Owner Steve Cheung and aome of the hostessea at the Sakura Club Dance hall can apply to sell alcohbl A dance hall in Oaklands Chirtatown, featuring fpmale taxi-dancers, now has the citys permission to apply for a state permit to -sell beer and wine.

The Sakura Club was granted a major conditional use permit to offer alcoholic beverages in a 5-1 vote of the Planning Commission Wednesday. In a commission meeting two weeks ago, several groups and individuals opposed the club's application on the grounds that it might create problems in the neighborhood, including excessive noise, lack of parking and public drunkenness. The dance hall is located at 601-609 Jackson Street. Steve Cheung, the owner of the business, has is $90 for the entire night. The short-term rate is 30 cents a'minute.

Ed Sue, the only Planning Commissioner to vote against the permit, Wednesday raised the issue. big outcry is that this place may be run as a procurement center that the hostesses will operate as prostitutes, said Sue, an architect. Sue added that the commission needed assurances that this would not happen. Cheung said: I am assuring you that we will do our best to control' our operation in a decent manner. Police Lt.

Mike Wilson of the vice squad said police would periodically survey the operation to make sure there was compliance with the He said police had checked met with groups including the Chinatown other'operation in Los Angeles Project Area Committee and the Chinatown Central District Council, and they have toned Ba.y restric- down their original objections. The commission ashed the commission to place placed as condition that he provide 70 parking tlons the operation, including spaces for customers and employees. rianfg hall. from showing porno movies and The A QUESTION women these days is; whether a woman pith a feminist sciousness can be nice to a man. If a woman cooks a meal for a man or irons his shirt, does she have to repeat Consciousness Raising 101? This issue came up recently after a woman confessed to her friends that when she and a date went to a party she got the man's plate of food.

Her friend's reaction is recounted here in hyperbole. I thought I was being nice, she said. But now I'm worried. Two of my friends at the party started whispering in the corner add then one went to make a phone call. Two days later I received a request to meet with the board of my women's group.

I didn't mean any harm. The friends were visibly shocked. What was happening to Sisterhood? They caucused on the matter and asked themselves would they, under any circumstances, serve food to a man in Are you kidding? responded one woman. dont know what that man likes. I might get him peas and be wants beans.

r- 7T. NOTHER MEMBER of the group recalled how a date of hers did not eat because she wouldn't get his food. No man shall I serve, (he proclaimed. I would do it if the man were disabled. another woman offered.

Otherwise, whats wrong with his hands? Do men have an aver-. -sion to putting food oh their plates or what? Another member of the group worried that such a gesture would perpetuate the helplessness of men, a characteristic she thinks does not need the slightest Just think what a handicap that would be. He could go through life never knowing how to decide what to put oh his plate. After much animated discussion, the group reached the consensus that the gesture- would -be acceptable if it were not expected, but they all said they wouldn't do it anyway. Sorry, sister.

You have to find some other way to be nice, the women warned their backsliding friend. Looking for someone who understood her position, she was surprised to find that one of her hard-talking, chain-smoking a woman who would not be described as subservient by anyone, said sheenjoys serving her date. I guess it was the! way I was raised," she explained. I like to do it. I like to take care of people.

I dont feel obligated. It makes me feel needed. And if he knows whats good for him, hed better like what I put on the.plate." In search of the male perspective, the recalcitrant feminist approached her male friends with the same question. If you were at a party with a woman friend, what would you think if she got your plate? Dont answer, its a feminist setup, one man cautioned his buddies. I dont expect anything and I usually dont get anything, another retorted.

AN OLDER Man said he would view such a gesture as a sign of old-fashioned subservience. Several men said, in fact, they would probably 'Serve their dates. Most said they would rattier do it themselves. If my wife served me I would suspect that she was having an affair or said one-man. The conversation turned to a traditional male courtesy opening a door for a The men described a total state of confusion even on this well-worn 'subject.

If they men the door will it be offensive? If they dont will it be offensive? Several even said they had experienced a wave of panic when approaching a door with a woman with whom they had never approached a door before. Its more unnerving than asking a woman you dont know to dance at a party, one man said. I remember a guy in school with me at Berkeley who was totally traumatized by the looks women gave him'when he did or did not open the door, another offered. He took to larking around the door and dashing through -after someone else had gone through. He was mortally wounded by agoor hitting hlm'in the head.

i have opened doors for women who re-' fused to walk through, another, man added sadly. A cynical, four-letter-word-spouting man. confessed that he not only opens doors for women, but on the bus he gives his-seat to a woman who is standing.1 Thats Just the (blankety blank) way I was; brought up, he growled. The woman was left with no easy answers. Everyone seemed as confused about acceptable non-sexist, courteous behavior as she.

From what she could meo-and women who themselves feminists' cannot be nice i to each other, at least through traditional gestures. Maybe I could offer to change his oil, she mused. local columnist Bread Payton writes on Sunday Tuetu and Jpunjay 1 7 ning provocative advertising. commission, which decides zoning issues, has.no jurisdiction over those issues. Still, Cheung agreed to abide by them.

Sue said he voted against approval of the permit, because: Some votes are just But the hidden issue was whether the dance hall, which has plans to expand to become a restaurant and night dub, would be a front for prostitution. The two dozen hostesses who work there are paid by the minute to dance and socialize with patrons. The hall is open from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. The maximum cost to customers Legislation requiring stricter inspection and regulation of gasoline tanker trucks was signed by Gov.

Brown Wednesday, the second measure enacted this week as a result of last Aprils Caldecott Tunnel disaster. An urgency bill, it weht into effect immediately; State officials said signs stating Tank Vehicles with Hazardous Material Must Exit" will be posted at various approaches to the Caldecott today. The bill signed by Brown Wednesday, by Assembly Transportation Committee Chairman Bruce Young, D-Cerritos, enacts recommendations of a state task force tudy which followed-the April 7 Caldecott gasoline tanker explosion, killing seven. It transfers the annual inspection of gasoline tanker trucks from the State Fire Marshall's office to the California Highway Patrol and authorizes the Department of Transprtation to prohibit gasoline tankers from using highway tunnels if there are safer alternate routes. The first, by Sen.

Nicholas D-Oakland, closes the tunnel to tankers carrying hazardous materials except between the hours of 3 a.m. 5 a.m. The anti-tanker truck restrictions in the Petris bill for the Caldecott will remain in force until a study of possible long-term tunnel safety regulation changes is. completed by the state. State officials said the Caldecott study, in-.

eluding whether there are safe alternate routes for hazardous material tankers, will start immediately and be completed in about six months. Rjibiic hearings to receive testimony on whether the Caldecott-Tunnel ban should be made permanent are planned. Laser gun blasts open arteries By Abby Cohn We may-have a potent new weapon in the treatment of ar-therosclerosis and disease of the blood vessels, said Lee. He and "a team of researchers at Davis have successfully tested the device on human cadavers and on dogs. If progress continues as expected, Lee said the procedure Sm LASER, Fags C-2 testing a gallactic-style weapon on humans suffering from arth-erosclerosis, or narrowing of the arteries in the heart, brain and other parts of the body.

His invention, called' a laser scope, actually is a thin tube that can snake inside arteries. With a bolt of blue laser light, it disintegrates the fatty and calcified deposits that block blood Tlow and trigger heart attacks. DAVIS A medical laser sword inspired by the movie. Star Wars may soon be capable of striking down a notorious human killer hardening of the arteries. Dr.

Garrett Lee, a cardiologist at the University of California here, announced Wednesday that he is perhaps a year away from rl I A- 982 Watching EX represents By Martin Halstuk drove her motorized wheelchair up a Tamp and into a wailing ambulance to make the trip to the drive-in ac-' companied by a physician and nurse. I know it's about a monster guy E.T. reached out and touched Rebecca Cushing Rebecca Joined the ranks of vir- tually every other teen-ager In the and this boy who feels everything he nation when she saw the film about does. as (task turned into the ptiHianting visitor frdm another nigbt while she waited for the film to. world who won Americas heart this -begin, oast It wasnt long before E.Ts touch- But unlike.other movie lng plight and courageous efforts to becca, who-suffers from muscular survive, to an alien atmosphere cap-dystrophy, saw the film Wednesday, tured the imagination of the young night while seated to a wheelchair and in an ambulance at the Coliseum In fact, there wasn a dry eye in 3 drive-in movie to Oakland.

the ambulance as the tory uMolded Rebecca, who won the hearts of a visitor from another planet who staff members at Childrens Hospital tried to, make Urt bu conv where she is recovering from major panions filter they abandoned him on surgery, was taken to see the film as a reward. -1 Physicians promised Rebecca that if she waged a strong fight to begin breathing again on her own, she Could sea E.T. phone home Instead of just having to read about.it. And Wednesday night, she finally earth. Rebecca's struggle has not been unlike and her victory is Just as stirring Conftoedto a wheelchair because of- muscular dystrophy," the Walnut See E.T Page C-2 Rsbecca Cushing boards ambulance to saa E.T.1 i I L-.

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