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THE TRIBUNE. Oakland, California Wednesday, March 14, 1990 C-7 School, earthquake bond issues approved for ballot By Herbert A. Sample are taking another close look at the possibilities. If they say they can still meet deadlines needed to get the Information to voters, Eu will allow the measures on the ballot, Warren said. But If they say noyjw will we." She added that a final decision should be made today.

Some lawmakers remained unconcerned about Eus protestations. Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, D-San Fran board appropriates bond proceeds to school districts. Finally, on Monday, Republicans and Democrats approved an amendment that would exclude the bond measure from any future policy on affirmative action goals adopted by the alteration board. The action puts the issue on the sidelines until talks begin on proposed bond measures for the November The Assembly passed Greenes measure on a 70-0 vote. The Senate approved It on a 30-0 vote.

The second measure, SB 1250 by Art Torres, would allow the sale of 6300 million in general Obligation bonds. About 8250 million of it would go toward renovatingr-repairing and strengthening statfrowned buildings to make them earthquake-safe. It passed 66-2 in the Assembly and 30-0 in the Senate. Gov. Deukmejian is expected to sign both bills.

taste in the mouth of its author. Sen. Leroy Greene, D-CarmichaeL The school bond measure would allow the sale ofSOO million in general obligation bonds. It would help alleviate the crushing need for school Acuities in California, where 160,000 to 200,000 now pupils are entering classes every year. The bUl was delayed for the last two weeks in the Assembly by Republican objections to Democrat-sponsored affirmative action language.

The first version that was rejected would have urged school districts to earmark 15 percenf'of their construction contracts for minority-owned firms and 5 percent for womeo-owned companies. Lawmakers removed the language from the second version of the bill But GOP Assembly members opposed the measure again because four Democratic members of the seven-member state Allocation Board agreed to accomplish the same goal by adopting an affirmative action policy. The SACRAMENTO The Legislature ffiifd its bickering yesterday and overwhelmingly ap-proved two proposed bond measures for the June ballot including one that would provide 800 nUiw for the construction of badly needed public There was still a question, though, as to whether California Secretary of State March Fong Eu would actually place the measures on the ballot in strongly jrorded statements last week, she warned the Legislature that it had missed the deadline for the June election and that any subsequently approved bond measures would have to go on the November ballot Yesterday, Eu appeared to be setting the stage to revise her position. Spokeswoman Warren said the state printer and postal officials cisco, called the deadlines artificial in an age of near-instant communications and printing equipment. Eu, he said, will do her duty and place the measures on the ballot Senate President Pro Tem David D-Los Angeles, said Eu had a legitimate concern about the deadlines.

But school bonds are so important that were going to see if we can get an exception," be added. 1 The legislative wrangling over the school bond bill. Senate Bill 173, apparently left a bad Plan reduces Soviet force verifying arms in Europe BrnlTpumps methanol in clean aii-pitch The Atoodotod Prooo WASHINGTON The White House limousine pulled up to a gleaming service station yesterday and out popped President Bush to pump a little methanol fuel and pitch his clean air program. Bush, surrounded by auto and oil executives, helped inaugurate the new methanol fuel pump at Dave's Sunoco. Dave's boasts it is the first commercial gasoline station outside California to sell the cleaner-burning fuel.

Bush, as part of his plan to clean Americas air, originally proposed requiring use of alternative fuels in 1 million vehicles by 1997 in the nine cities with the worst pollution. In a coiripromise with Senate leaders, he recently backed away from that requirement, opting instead for allowing cars to use a variety of fuels, not specifically non-gasoline type fuels. Only specially equipped. cars can burn the methanol fuel. The yhite House had one at the ready in the form of a commodious Ford Crown Victoria normally used to chauffeur W.

Henson Moore to work as deputy of the Energy Department. Bush, after pumping the fuel into Henson's, car with an assist from station owner David Robinson, turned the key in the Jlf ilnidMitf Avn WASHINGTON Allied objections to Soviet monitors at weapons plants and ports forced the United States to change a formula for policing a treaty to reduce Soviet tanks and troops in Europe, a senior Bush administration official said yesterday. The revised verification package wiU he presented later this week in Vienna as negotiators for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact hold their round of talks on a treaty designed for signing this year. Whether the goal is achieved could depend on how the Soviets respond to the Western proposal. The ball is in their court," said the U.S.

official who outlined the latest developments on condition he not be Identified. Americans dealt with their allies concern about, the intrusive monitoring scheme by abandoning the controversial portion. The U.S. official said virtually all the NATO allies objected to having the KGB standing there a reference to allowing Soviet or other Warsaw Pact inspectors. to be stationed at weapons plants or to check arms coming into or out of European ports.

That, he said, would reveal to the Soviets information about the manufacture and delivery of Western arms that the allies wanted to keep secret The United States accepted a similar arrangement at American plants and ports to police a 1988 treaty with the Soviet Union to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles. But when it came to intrusive inspection in Europe under the conventional forces treaty "the allies felt the United States was pushing them too hard on the right of manufacturers and their national rights, the official said. He added: They were most insistent on these points. That set of proposals went absolutely nowhere in Europe. The emerging accord calls for sharp reductions in Soviet tanks and artillery in Eastern and Central Europe and a ceiling of Soviet troops in the region.

There would be much smaller cutbacks in U.S. tanks and troops. The United States could keep 195,000 soldiers and airmen in West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Luxembourg, and an additional SO, 000 in other NATO countries. President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev have set as a goal that the 16 NATO allies and the seven Warsaw Pact countries sign the treaty at a 35-nation summit meeting.

But several issues remain unresolved, Including the proce dure to guard against cheating. -The task is awesome. It in-, volves policing the vast expanse of Europe from the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union to the Atlantic Ocean to make sure limits on tanks and armored personnel carriers, antiaircraft artillery, airplanes, helicopters and troops are honored. The official said a web of safeguards would be offered by NATO negotiators in Vienna. Information on non-nuclear armories would be exchanged by the two alliances and then its accuracy checked by monitors who would go to the military installations.

The monitoring system would be supplemented by aerial surveillance under Bushs Open Skies proposal as well as a second system of overflights to check on suspicious developments. And the two sides would have the right to demand to check out suspicious movements of troops and equipment under a system of challenge inspections." Agreement within NATO on these measures, and on a plan for destroying excess tanks that also will be presented in Vienna this week, improves prospects for concluding the treaty. Bush predicted last year that the treaty would be completed by this spring, at the latest. That forecast has proved to be overly optimistic. He AaocilM Preu President Bush, with a little help, gets ready to pump.

Funkrals MEN, CmtmI ftOWMMOOE, Start COVEU, CtartN V. 5 children perish in apartment fire MADISON, Wis. A pre-dawn apartment fire killed five children yesterday, and neighbors accused police of stopping civilians from attempting to rescue them even though one youngster was seen screaming at an upstairs window. The whole neighborhood is upset, said Christine Lashore, a resident of the Sommerset Circle low-income housing complex. The police should've let them try.

I would've tried. I would've died if Iliad to, to save my kids." Police Chief Wayne Romeis defended his officers' actions. Mandela asks foreign nations to break ties with Pretoria Tho Mom York Timoo STOCKHOLM, Sweden Nelson Mandela called on foreign governments yesterday to break diplomatic ties with South Africa and Impose tougher economic sanctions to speed political change in the country. 1 After meeting for two horns wkblbe Swedish prime minister, Ingvar Carlsson, Mandela said alaiiewsonf erence that the problems facing opponents of apartheid requiietklimassive amounts of assistance from the international community in general and the Swedish government in particular." Reaffirming the policies of the African National Congress, he said. that countries could best serve the cause of the nationalist movement by further isolating Pretoria.

The congress is far from getting the South African government to meet most of its conditions for opening negotiations on the political future of the country, Mandela said, and all of the "pillars of apartheid are still in place. Charles V. In Piedmont March 10, 199a Beloved husband of Flora Covell. Loving father of Charles R. Covefl of Hunstville, Ala Fa-ther-in-law of Trudy Co veil.

Grandfather of CTw. 4 Charles AJt. and Heike Coved of Stuttgart, Germany and Richard R. Covell of Huntsville, Ala Dearly beloved Brother of Mrs. Gladys Van Hat-ten and Mrs.

Bernice L. Carell of Hayward. A Native of Minnesota aged 91. Dr. Coved was a prominent dentist in Oakland for many years.

Past president of the Alameda County Dental Society, also one of the founders of the East Bay Counties Rose Society, also one of the founders of the Oakland Municipal Rose Garden. Past President of the American, Rose Society. Aisova member and associate of other Rose' societies throughout Northern 1 California Friends are Invited to' attend memorial services Thursday, March 15, 1990 at 11:00, at the Piedmont' Community Church, 400 Highland, Piedmont. ALKRT MOWN MORTUARY 3476 Piedmont Avenue Oat land 652-1873 A Obituaries WLLIA Fiwicm Cartier am, nri SUVA, MM BREEN, Cenred Passed away In Oakland on March 9, 1990. Husband of Margaret Breen.

Survived by Barbara Richard, James, Laurence, and Charles and his wife Barbara. wHIs sister Elaine McDonald, grandfather of Erin and Shannon McKeag and Heather Breen. Aged 75 years. A native of California and descendent of the Early California Moroga and Pacheco families. He was a member of the Moroga Historical Society and the Alfa Romeo' Association and the S.AA.O.

He retired from Shell Development and liLM. Companies. Friends are invited to attend the Memorial Ser- vice at the CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES 4499 Piedmont Ave Oakland on, Saturday, March 17, at fr 2:00 PM. Family prefers donations to Children's Hospital in Oakland or the Charity of your choice. BROWNBRIDGE, Peart I.

Beloved wife for 41 vears to the late Ernest W. Brownbridge. Survived by son Robert of Walnut Creek, gran-daughter Kindree, Santa Cruz and sister Lou Johnson, Spokane, WA. Bom in Lowden, Iowa October 4, 1900. Died March 1990 in Oakland.

During lifetime, was a P.E.O. member, Presbyterian Church member, and former resident of Satellite Central and Valdez Pkaa Retirement Homes. Memorial Services to be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church Cha- pel, (Grand Ave and Montecito, Oakland) on Wednesday, March 14, at 2:30 P.M. Donations can be mode to the American Cancer Society in her name.

Dentist Charles Covell is dead at 93 Salvadoran rebels to shun civilian targets The Mom York Timoo SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Guerrilla leaders announced yesterday that they would stop attacking most non-military targets to pave the way for new peace talks with the government We wanted with this gesture to unblock the path toward the initiation of negotiations," a senior rebel commander, Shafik Jorge Handal, said in an interview with a local radio station. But the announcement stopped short of fulfilling the government's conditions for restarting the negotiations, In a statement issued here to coordinate with a. news conference in Mexico, the guerrillas said that at midnight on Friday they would cease all attacks on public transport, telephone lines, commercial establishments and civilian officials. But they point- edly said they would not yet sus- pend attacks on electrical transmission lines, which have constituted a major form of economic sabotage. The rebels said they were making the bVerture to strengthen the possibilities of a negotiated political solution to the conflict" and to humanize the decade-old war, which has claimed 70,000 lives and displaced an estimated one in 10.

Salvadorans. Greyhound bus shot at in Chicago YhoAoooclotoiPmo A sniper opened fie yesterday on a moving Greyhound bus in Chicago, marking the seventh bus-shooting incident nationwide since drivers went on strike, officials said. Neither the 13 passengers nor the driver were injured. In another development, Dal- las-based Greyhound Lines Inc. said it would resume talks with union leaders on Saturday In Phoenix.

Theres no point in our what may happen, said -Greyhound spokesman George Gravley said. We are koing back to the bargaining table and that speaks for itself. MIUER, Frances Cartier Passed away on Saturday, March 10, 1990 In Castro Valley. Aged 71 years. A native ot Oakland.

She was very active with the Toastmis-tness Clubs and the Vat-ley Cancer League. Had worked as a Technics Librarian at the Naval Supply Center for 25 years. Devoted and greatly loved mother, grandmother and great--grandmother. She Is survived by her sister Bonnie CaDlson of CaHstoga brothers Jay Barbour of Castro Valiev and Joseph Barbour of Lakeland, FL. Daughter Peg Byers of Castro Valley, son-in-law, Superior Court Judge Robert K.

Byers of Castro Valiev. Granddaughter Christine Wright and great-granddaughter Heather Wright of Castro Valley. Grandson Jim Byers and his wife Barbara Loncr-gan-Byers and her greatgrandchildren Michael and Kathleen Byers of Toronto, Cano- da Donations can be made to Vesper Hospice or Chestnut Branch, Children's Hospital Branches Inc. Interment ot CHAPEL OF THE CHIMES. Oakland, CA.

Private Services were held. SAM, Heyd Passed away on March 10, 1990 in Fremont. Retired from Federal Aviation Administration, Oakland. Survived-bv wife Rosaline Lo Sam and daughters Adrienne Sam ana Vivian Sorn, all of Fremont. Aged 75 years.

A rosary win be held on Wednesday evening at 7PM at Lima Family Fremont Chapel Funer-. ol Services are Thursday, March .15 at at the above Chapel located at 4M00 warm Springs BtvA Fremont. Interment Immedi-ateiy following at Cedari Lawn Memorial Park, Fremont. dive, of San Lorenzo, March 13, 1990. Beloved wife of the late Claude T.

Silva (March 1987). Loving mother of Claude T. Silva of Turioch, Julian A. Silva Of San Francisco, Oliver J. Silva of Castro Valiev and Marianne rev i son of San Lorenzo.

Dearest Grandmother of 1 1 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Dear sister of Myrtle Keitar of La Mesa CA. Member of St. John's Guild, St. Gerard Womens Club, Aux.

Member of Legion ot Mary and Altar Society. 4 native ot California aged years Friday March 16 at 10:30 AM from Grissom's San Lorenzo Chapel 267 E. Le welling San Lorenzo thence to St. John's Church for a funeral Moss at 11:00 AM vigS service Thunuiav at 7:30 PM at Chapel Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward. Contributions to Catholic Char ity JUNG, Burbank Lost at sea January 29, 1990 and recovered at San Simeon February 24.

Husband of Sytvio Jung of Novato, loving father of Christina Iglowitz of Roseville, Douglas Jung of Santa Rosa Richard Jung of Rhonert Park, Burbank Jr, and Matthew Jung of Novato, beloved grandfather of 6 Beloved brother of LHa Llm, Dorothy Louie, George Jung, Mary Wong A late Lillian Kwan. Friends are invited to the Memorial Service at Presbyterian Church of Novato, 710 Wilson Sf Sunday March ipm i By Marina Qottachalk Tho Tribitno Dr. Charles Vernon Covell, a longtime Piedmont resident, Oakland dentist and rose fancier, died Saturday at the age of 91. Dr. Covell, as a member of the Business Men's Garden Gub in the 1930s, came up with the idea of founding the Oakland Municipal Rose Garden.

A chance peek at the 1928 "American Rose Annual" of the American Rose Society and a full-color photo of the spectacular Talisman rose was the beginning of Dr. CoveU's nearly-life-long love affair with roses. The rose is a very unusual garden flower, he told a reporter in 1984. I think it is the most mortal and human of flowers in that it has a lifetime in itself. He compared the rose, progressing from bud to full bloom, to a woihan.

Hi.own home was framed with more than 500 rose bushes. Dr. Covell and his wife, Flora, whom he met when they were both students at the University of California, traveled throughout the United States and Europe meeting rose authorities and viewing gardens. Dr. Covell also exhibited roses in the California Spring Garden Show.

It was as a member of the Business Mms Garden Gub in the 1930s that he originated the idea of establishing the rose den, now the internationally acclaimed Morcom Amphitheater of Roses on Jean Street in Oakland. He guided the idea through the Park Commission and City Council, found the spot for it and helped get construction started. He was honored in 1984 as Man of the Year by the Oakland-East Bay Garden Center an affiliation of 65 garden clubs and horticultural societies. Dr. Covell, a past president of the Alameda County Dental Society, practiced dentistry until he was 80.

In addition to his he is survived by a son, Charles R. of Huntsville, daughter-in-law, Trudy; grandson Army Warrant Officer 4 Charles A.R. and Heike Covell of Stuitgart, Germany, and Richard R. of Huntsville; sisters Gladys Van Hatten and Bernice L. Carell of Hayward.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Piedmont Community Church. 400 Highland Ave. Walter Roberts, leading atmosphere expert i More Community News makes The Tribune Greater Eastbays Greater' Newspaper. To subscribe, Tho Mom York Timoo Walter Orr Roberts, the founder of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who was one of the first scientists to warn that technology, was changing the Earths climate, died of cancer on Monday in Boulder, Colo.

He was 74. In 1960, Mr. Roberts assembled a team at the Boulder cen- ter to study climate, not merely as a collection of weather re His contributions were not in scientific experiments, said John Firor, director ol advanced studies at the center, but in creating organizations that could study the Earths climate and atmosphere, and the problems that impact the future of the world. Last year he was the first scientist to receive the United tions Environmental Leadership Medal. ports but as a complex force influencing the progress of life on Earth.

He was president emeritus of the centers governing organization, the University Corporation for Atirfospheric Research, at the time of his death. Thomas Levenson, author of Ice Time: Gimate, Science and Life on Earth, described Mr. Roberts es one of a handful who nurtured and defined the science of climatology. call 839-3939 Ltj 3 V-.