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Powell made, a lot of assurances to the community to minimize public opposition toKDIAs demise. Then he tried to run the station on a -shoestring budget, despite warnings, the whole thing wouldnt fly. run the station on a shoestring budget, despite warnings the whole thing wouldn't fly. After Powell's hard-working' staff didn't get paid for several weeks and Powell pulled KFYI off the air, negotiations with Simon and Avila commenced. When you're drowning.

San Francisco media broker Chester Coleman of San Francisco told me, you'll grab a lifesaver from anyone. Then the Agna Insurance Company, Powell's creditor, entered the talks with Simon and an indictment handed down during negotiations with (Avila was to have been generaFmanagerwhen-amHHw rcrap'SlmpiyiloeSHTliavthe mdneyTo'biiy Avila to buy KFYI. Broadcast industry sources told me flatly in May, The Simon Sixty days ago, Oakland's KFYI Radio, which used to be KDIA, went off the air after barely four months of existence. Today, that all-news station is still a ghost, and there's no certainty when and if it will ever broadcast -again. In early May, Thomas Avila that he and his father, retired radio news executive James Simon, had agreed to buy the station.

Avila (who told me that he prefer to use his mother's maiden name rather than his KFYI-for about $3 million and would retain its all-news format, a format some had said was doomed from the start, given its costly nature. Negotiations between KFYI owner Adam Clayton Powell III and Simon and Avila collapsed the other day, and one member of the combine trying to buy KFYI from Powell has been indicted for forgery. Avila, 26, was indicted for allegedly forging two checks from a radio station in Illinois the station, but Simon and Avila persisted. At some point, Aetna Vice President for Finance A1 Taylor told me he found out about Avilas indictment in Joliet, 111., and the talks, which hadn't gotten anywhere anyway, col- lapsed. "I-was tired of listening to the Simon group's rinky-dink offers." Taylor said by See KFYI.

Page C-4 father purchased the station.) This whole sorry affair raises some serious questions. Someone ought to be mad, and someone is the people of Oakland. Powell, an outsider, came in last year and took over soul-station KDIA, which was making money and had a long tradition of community service. Powell made a lot of assurances to th'e community to minimize public opposition to KDIA's demise. Then he tried to men awarded genius prizes Musical Chairs: Good news for local politicos: That Southern California fireworks fat cat is singing Jke a bird, and rumor has it an indictmenr isabout to be handed down against a prominent Eastbay legislator.

So why are his fellow pols breaking out the bubbly? Because if he takes the fall, everyone else -can move up a notch: Hitching And What can you get for that blushing June bride? How about a nice chain saw? Yes, Berkeley's Whole Earth Access Store now has a bridal registry. According to spokeswoman Karee Stubbs, dewey-eyed young things are filling out their trousseaus with ev- erything from jungle hammocks to Coleman stoves. Not exactly traditional, but it sure beats a closet-full of fondue pots And if your do-it-yourself marriage doesn't work out, you can get a do-it-yourself divorce, thanks to the Divorce Center. Instructor Glynda Mathewson says she'll teach you how to file the forms and push the papers, all for 50 bucks with no extra charge if you bring your soon-Jcfchex to class with you. Not that Mathewson speaks from personal experience: she's been married to the same man for nine years, with no end in sight.

Says she: I guess those who can't do, teach. Phil, I Guess It Was That Bad. Acid We Took Back in 68: What if they gave a press and nobody came? Thats apparently what -the Greatful Dead had in mind for their media confab prior to the concert at Berkeleys Greek Theater last Friday. Your friendly, neighborhood Ear was all set to attend the briefing, but was officially un-invited. The band doesn't want any more publicity, said press agent Dennis McNally.

Then why bother holding a press conference? I dunno. Earnotcs: Cal State Hayward has turned thumbs down on Vampires as the school nickname, but bat booster Dennis Lavery remains sanguine about ultimate victory. The Vampire Liberation Front is- going underground to continue the strugle, he says The energy crisis may be ancient history, but not at KRE. Station spokeswoman Sue Nordquist says one of last week's winners of the Great Gasoline Giveaway" contest was a listener who heard his name on the air while driving in a funeral procession. So he fulled out of the convoy and drove to the station to claim his prize, leaving the other mourners to go on to the cemetery without him.

The Rich Are Different, Ernest: if conspicuous consumption is your game, Thursday's Ladies Home Society soiree at the Lake Merritt Plaza was your kind of party. Socialites schmoozed, dancers danced, Junior Leaguers modeled fashions, and everybody gorged on pate, vegetable mousse, caviar, rumaki, shrimp, crab, chicken, three kinds of oysters, and some very upscale steak sandwiches 1 sirloin on Swedish roles, tdtoed with rosemary butter. A fine time for mosbvexcept one guy who kept asking Can you tell me which one is Mr. Bechtel? What's it to you. we wanted to know.

Oh, I just wanted to say hi; I'm an old friend of his. By Janet Ghent 77m Tribuna Two Eastbay residents were among the 25 MacArthur Fellows, announced today. Twice a year, the Chicago-based foundation issues cash grants of 120,000 to $300,000 genius awards to creative people, freeing them from the con-straints of having to earn a living. San Leandro public health activist Andrew McGuire, 39, ecstatic about his $200,000 grant, returned to the Bay Area from a meeting in Pennsylvania, eager to continue his work as executive director of The Trauma Foundation in San Francisco and his activities on behalf of burn and injury victims. Reportedly stunned by the announcement of the $224,000 award, George F.

Oster, 45, professor of entomology and parasitology at the University of California at Berkeley, had left the Bay Area before the news broke in order to avoid publicity surrounding the announcement. Prominent recipients in the semiannual list of 25 winners include choreographers Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor and poet John Ashbery, all of New York. Joining the ranks of 166 MacArthur Fellows are five other Californians, including Alta Loma furniture craftsman Sam Maloof, 69, who frequently comes to the Bay Area to discuss his work. For winners' like McGuire, Oster and Maloof, there have been no months of waiting with fingers crossed. The MacArthur Foundation, which TV Tribune Andrew McGuire is big in burn prevention.

A bum victim himself at the age of 7, Mc-Gui was bom and raised in Oakland. With no academic training in public health, and a bachelor of art's in English and history -Sonoma State University, he set off for Bbston 40 apprentice with a harpsichord maker. An article on flame-retardant sleepwear caught his attention and he soon became director of a parents group to prevent burn injuries. In .1975, he returned to the Bay Area to serve executive director of The Bum Council in San Francisco. Describing the award as mind-boggling, McGuire said in addition to his personal grant.

See PRIZES, Page C-3 The Tribune Sam Maloof will have more time for craft. Aas been granting fellowships for four years, neither accepts applications for its fellowships nor provides much advance notice. The amounb of the tax-free grant, $24,000 to $60,000 per year for five years. Is determined by the age. oF the recipient.

t. McGuire lias been a major force behind national burn and injury prevention efforts; including the drive to require flame-retardant sleepwear in children's sizes and a current effort to require cigarettes to be self-extinguishing. Here's Looking at You, Kid, McGuire's Emmy Award-winning film about 'a child's recovery from burn trauma, is scheduled to be shown at 8 p.m. tonight on Nova, Channel 13. Cousteau at 75: Children exchange will save world Good Grief, Gertrude Theres A There Ills official: The Oakland Museum has finally Who says? No less than that arbiter of high culture, Pepple Magazine.

Last week's article on the Peanuts exhibit calls the an important museum Meanwhile, you may. have been wondering about the proposed new -maintenance jane on the Bay Bridge. Caltrans spokesman Bob Halligan was quoted last week as saying the lane be on the' south side, so tourists in San Francisco won't have to look at it. To quote: You could go up to the Cameliap room and never see it. But what about us over here? Not to worry, Halligan told the Ear: You yvont be able to see it from Kaiser Center, either.

Hope. to-see you at San Franciscos Union Square tomorrow, where well be judging the Cable Car Ringing Competition. What, you may ask, is the Ear doing over on the wrong side of the biay? Well, we like to give San Francisco a boost every' chance we get It may not be Oakland, but its a nice town anyway. words, mean all the children from 7 to 8. I don't see how a nation could press the button of those horrible things when they know that 3 million of their children are ovef there.

I mean, the mothers would riot tolerate that, We still need to work this project out much better with specialists, with psychologists, with specialists of children. But I have decided to spend the rest of my life on that project. It iswny No. 1. priority.

He is serious. Does Cousteau honestly expect to see this happen in his lifetime? I dont'care, he said, smiling. You dont care? No, he said. The important thing is to act according to your conscience and whether it's going to successful or not, I do not care. I believe in this.

Cousteau's life of environmental advocacy and underwater exploration seems to be almost a fantasy true, roaming the worlds oceans for adventure, touching land just long enough to lunch with presidents and pick up Emmy awards. But his explorers life has not been without sacrifice and tragedy. At his birthday party at Mount Vernon, Cousteau made brief re- marks in. which he made a rare reference to the death of his son, PhilippOr-who died in a 1979 crash of Calypsos seaplane after 'a test flight over Lisbon. Cousteau wept as he noted to the 2,000 guests the great absence tonight Philippe." Only days after Philippe was killed, his brother, Jean-Michel, left By Betty Cuniberti Lea Angeteei Thnee A 75th birthday is a time to reflect on ones milestones.

Unless that one is Jacques Cousteau. A man of many accomplishments, Cousteau showed humanity the world under the sea and in- -vented the Aqua-Lung, underwater living quarters and a wealth of other things. But themost famous explorer of modern times doesnt want to talk about all It is said, not to lose time looking backward. Last Monday, the day after his huge 75th birthday bash at Mount Vernon, -where Hollywood Washington celebrities jammed in to see him, Cousteau sat' on board the Calypso, his famous exploration ship, and' talked instead about his new projects. About the future.

Retirement is not on the list. No, no, no, Shhhhhhh, re- plied Cousteau, his skin weathered and brown against his white turtleneck, his warmth washing over anyone near. His hair is pure white. There are large puffs' under, his eyes But his spirit, his energy, are clearly apparent. As long as I can stand on my feet, I'll carry said Cousteau, who turned 75 last Tuesday; I pray God to be switched off in action.

Cousteau has plenty of 'action scheduled in the near future: a five-year sail around the world with two Ships including his new wind ship, powered by vertical "turbo-sails; finishing his 66th book and taking a crack at writing a musical score. (He plays the accordion; in his spare time, no doubt.) But his newest, biggest idea Martin Snappis the Ear. Eastbay Ear appears in the Lifestyle section every Tuesday, Thursday and 1 United Pram latertbtkael Portrait of Jacques Cousteau by Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa. one way: the compulsory exchange of children at a relatively low age, 7 to 8 or 8 to 9, to live for one year yvith a family in an enemy country. Compulsory.

That means Millions, millions," said Cousteau, his French accent framing his INSIDE -v Robin Orr Happening Tonight C-2 Tolovision y. C-4 Classified ads Entertainment D-6 something quite revolutionary, even for After many, many brainstorming 'sessions with his family and friends on board the Calypso and around the world, Cousteau decided that nuclear destruction of his- beloved planet can be averted in only See COUSTEAU. Page C-2 I 4.