The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 3

mrrrm rr -v 'r I ft 1 4 1 I Jt -j Akl I JP I Lf SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (CALIF) TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1983 A-3 Ex-TV host enthralls school employees the time children become most have been beaten down become procrastinat-self-defeatlng believing others any per- "You got to beat that feelim tag and self-defeating bel they are tarn mmortant than and incapable of obtaining ai 1 goals he said eling not true not you You are the he for any one most important person in the world "Now liken how If you like yourself nobody else wifi Life is a game and people need a plan if they are to be napf successful The road to success is paved with a positive direction and he said we make mistakes over and over and over we gotta change our Weldon said if people learned from their mistakes they wouldn't keep making he said And experience alone enough no experience is the one thing a guy gets after he no longer needs Weldon said Attitude changes follow careful planning and developing goals he said you get in a car to drive without knowing where to go? Would you hire electricians plumpers or an architect who have plans? bet you girls make lists when you go to tne store" he said the last time you wrote something down about what planning to do with your life next week or next (dan plan" he cheered Weldon warned against falling into attitude of defeat sadness self-pity or He challenged the group to become masters of their emotions waking up each morning and looking in the mirror and liking what they see then sa: aloud is a day want to make you the greatest salesman in the he said want to sell you on People can accomplish anything they want they are Weldon said listen to this let that first jjoal be your success Keep he said in all directions Open your eyes Look around Be determined Tell yourself this is what I want and say I be Weldon was talking from personal experience Aside from this Rolls-Royce he drives and the diamond ring and add arrowhead he wears Weldon said he is wealthy enough to retire never worry about money Wise investments mostly real THSrnHCSMmBUNI Above: Webster Webfoot and Jimmy Weldon in front of Rolls Royce Below: Weldon talks in Arroyo By Tim Ryu Buff Writer A 33-year-old duck dressed Airt and bandanna and hie (Dyetf oMpartnewreator won the hearta of 300 employees of the Lucia Mar Unified School District this week Webster Webfoot a Donald Ducklike star of one of top children shows in the 1900a and ms voice Jimmy Weldon visited the Arroyo Grande High School oo Thursday Weldon offend a motivation seminar called Built-In Computer" for the district's non-teaching staff Weldon a former disc Jockey and television show host turned lecturer actor' and speaker enthralled the crowd for nearly two hours with anecdotes scriptures Jokes hyperbole smiles laughter whistles and friendly sarcasm It was all geared toward one goal: to help classified employees bus drivers cafeteria winters custodians and secretaries realize their ability to improve their lives and their importance to the district and the students they serve Weldon born and raised in Chi-casha Okla opened his act with the ageless Webster Webfoot performing a comedy routine he first did on television more than a quarter century ago And the over-30 crowd those old enough to remember the child-like Webster and Uncle Jimmy loved it The moment the tanned grayhaired Weldon lifted the duck from a suitcase several people in the crowd oohed ahhea sighed and laughed immediately recognising the silly wideeyed Webster from their childhoods It's the same duck Weldon first used 33 years ago when the pair premiered on WFAA-TV in Dallas mother has patched and reupholstered Webster a dozen times" Weldon said after the seminar After Webster and Uncle Jimmy established rapport with the crowd Weldon a deeply religious man put the duck away and began a well-seasoned findy4uned momdogue The entertainer created a feeling of caring between him and the 300 jjjft he had met only moot QUINT He shared personal Jots and sorrows allowing the crowd to see that human hopes dreams and despairs are really the same know not totally responsible for who we he said kids told what we can do cant do should do old stocky polyester in an undenize cap T- iUnn and his 60-year- From left Ramona Rodriguez estate including land in Paso Robles and the ability to shift gears seem to be the key to his success Weldon entered show business as a disc Jockey in his home town and created the duck voice in 1947 something different a he said Three years later the owner bought a television station in Dallas and put Weldon on notice I get a real not a Weldon told his boss the man ordered So he did and his mother and aunt named the duck built by friends In 1951 Hollywood beckoned and the pair entertained thousands of kids on Los Angeles-based station KGOP through 1956 Webster Webfoot and Unde Jimmy then moved north and appeared on television stations in Salinas and Fresno until 1969 Soon after that he began the motivation speaking circuit Weldon who lives in Burbank with his English-born wife of 36 years Muriel is still very active in show business He does voice-overs for Hanna-Barbera cartoons and has eared on the television show appear! When he talks to groups he has spoken to employees of Xerox Rockwell Lockheed Boeing IBM and Safeway Weldon bounces Jumps stoops yells and laughs with the crowd at his own Jokes and childhood pranks boy you know laughter is the secret to a long ne told the audience I laugh mostly at myself So should Then he recited an obviously favorite line: is most comical when he takes himself too Weldon stood motionless then told the i influence so many people Your husbands wives children and the students you he said you really know how important you are? The next time your husband leaves for wort yell out to him get I guarantee change his whole He urged the workers to be sincere ana empathetic with the people around them have to agree with someone to listen to them care about he said Love is a exclusive human emotion he said humans have that power and one emotion we always try to Weldon explained don't know why Tell someone you love than It may confuse them probably scare than but I guarantee it'll make both of you feel real go get Ruby Moreno and Dolores Donato watch Weldon lecture School official warns of tax credit threat details told si Carol Roberts for tuition tax credits for private schools could be the downfall of the educational system the highest administrator of Arizona schools said Thursday Carolyn Warner state superintendent of schools harshly criticized a plan to give parents of private school students a federal Income tax break as she spoke to the 500 employees of the Lucia Mar Unified School Aesaid She urged her listeners to speak up against the proposal eventually lose the country" Warner unlike most state superintendents have a background in education though her mother Mary Kunde of Burbank who accompanied her Thursday was once a school teacher Warner and her husband own a commercial and residential design firm in Phoenix Before Ae was elected state superintendent in 1974 (and reelected in following years) she was vice president and general manager of the firm Her remarks Thursday were aimed at bus drivers and cafeteria workers as well as teachers so many homes today there is only one parent who frequently is too exhausted or frustrated to pay enough attention to a child lnwinii the nfraHtiito pyiwiL The riilld tries to imitate you important that you As safaL Tne cafeteria worker who compliments a little girl on her dress even if ugly may be the only person who really talks to the girt that day said Warner She also urged educators not to be bogged down in to parents and kids in plain English Tell them what to expect from She reminded the employees of their potential impact grow new people You are the great folk You are the benefactors of a generation yet to She talked of the many federal and state programs forced on school districts from good nutrition to driver training and sex education Levity was frequent throughout talk She told a story of noticing everyone laughing aa they came out of the men's room near her office finally sent one of my in to see what was going on in there It was shortly after installed electric hand dryers and he came out laughing too Someone had put a note on the dryer said puA button to hear a short speech from tiie Warner a deep-voiced dynamic speaker and mother of six children said she is that if Congress allows the tax credit there will be private schools created that foster unhealthy moafanda Tte mil McKiernan (Continued from Page A-l) be did not see McKiernan there A short time later McKiernan allegedly approached Cogan and asked him if he remembered an earlier conversation In that conversation which allegedly took place Just before the conferences McKiernan supposedly told Cogan that he was ski and he be attend- I member) told Moreno he re- anv inch conversation According to the file McKiernan also was suspected of not attending two other conferences fa 1913 ana collecting money for them: one fa Sen Diego and one fa Pasadena The expenses for those two along with the ones fa San Francisco and San Jose totalled 963 J9 Deputy District Attorny Barry LaBarbera said only one count covering expenses of46829 at kcKiernan was filed that1 District Attorney Office thought could be proved LaBarbera said the evidence was solid for the conferences in San Francisco and San Jose because McKiernan had bought some gas fa Mom Bay the same day he was ay Area Visa card receipts were audited Moreno noted the dates But for the other two conferences LaBarbera said was our word So a deal was made LaBarbera mid minute that bill passes Congress the IKK Black Panthers John Birch Society and the will all open schools There eould be classes on how to build bombs or commit other acts of she predicted The 16000 public school districts are to our whole system of McKiernan would plead no contest to one misdemeanor count of falsify tag funds and take his chances with the Judge One of attorneys who is a former Superior Court Judge said is not a dirty won nothing sinister about it We do it everyday the way things said Richard Kirkpatrick who retired from the bench to return to private practice LaBarbera agreed about people think plea bargaining is a cussword but why this System As for felony charges which would have been grand theft LaBarbera said that was not practicaL He said technically petty theft at409Bu mes grand theft at 406 But not with public money: could have stolen 1 and it would have been a But because was to toe six BMIlth up to fa County Jail the District Attorney's Office filed misdemeanor diarges LaBarbera said' He said that along with the sentence McKiernan without admitting guilt voluntarily paid the coun-tyback the foil 96L59 UBarbera and Kirkpatrick both agreed McKiernan has suffered smA The i lost his Job lost Me future may lose his license to practice law Justice has LaBarbera said SLO city attorney named Vote set on County supervisors will consider AW)ii qmnfy plan (faf tag theta meeting at 1:30 pjn Tues-day in the county Government Center The Commission at a July 13 meeting accepted most of the county's version of toe plan Now the supervisors have1 three options according to county Coastal nanaer Pat Beck: They can accept the version of the (dan approval by the Coastal coast plan Commission as written They can approve it but but request that it be amended when they disagree with the commission They can refuse to adopt it and return tt to the commission fo reconsideration Beck recommended either of the first two options If supervisors agree she said then formal adoption hearings will he scheduled be-fon the county Planning Commis-An and the Board of Supervisors HO replaces George Thatcher who resigned fa June to become dty attorney of Pacific Grove Plcquet is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and has a law degree from Hastings School of Law fa San Francisco He and his wife Sharon have two children a 2-year-old son and a newborn daughter The San Luis Obispo City Council has voted to name Roger Plcquet as city attorney Mayor The council made the appointment Wednesday in an executive Plcquet 35 is now an assistant dtyaitorney in Modesto He will start work fa San Luis Obispo on Oct I at a salary of 4500 a year.