Bakersfield Californian (Newspaper) - November 24, 1976, Bakersfield, California Hundreds of Turks die in heavy quake Turkey - A major earthquake struck an area of eastern Turkey near the Soviet border killing hundreds and causing widespread the Turkish state radio The Observatory in Istanbul put the magnitude at 7.6 on the Richter The observatory said the quake hit at 2:2i) p.m. a.m. Its epicenter was in a mountainous area of Van Province 900 miles east of was the worst tremor hit since the one that registered 7.9 in Erzincan and killed about 30,000 in 1939," the observatory said In a A spokesman at the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in said he thought the quake had caused because the area is populated and has many older He put the location as about 20 miles west of Yerevan in the Soviet The Impact In the Soviet Union was thought to be according to initial reports from the seismic station Inn Soviet The Richter scale gauges the energy released by a quake In terms of ground motion recorded on a Quakes of magnitude 7 can cause heavy The earthquake in Guatemala that look 23,000 lives early this year had readings as high as 7.5. A radio bulletin said 500 persons were killed in the district of and 25 In Ertis and 05 per cent of the houses were destroyed in those Turkish news agencies reported at least half a dozen villages were wiped Soldiers stationed in the area were assigned to rescue All communications with the provincial center of Van and Its outlying areas were are afraid the death is high in and surrounding said Burhan Yavuz deputy governor of Van The Observatory said was at the The province of Van lies on the Anatolia which reaches from Turkey's Aegean coast south toward the Mediterranean and north along the Black Sea Then it turns covering eastern A quake in southeastern town of Lice last year killed 3,000 Vol. 90 * No. 329 NOVEMBER 24, 1976 58 PAGES inside today Page Business and Finance 16 Z 25 3 24 3 12 2 17 2 Metropolitan Section 9 2 Page 2 3 2 3 3 Vital 3 national Salvation Army workers at a collection bin heaved a stuffed grocery bag into the Then they heard a It was a Page 5 The South led the nation's regions in population growth druing the first half of this Page 3 State A proposed ban on the sale of junk food could cost Los Angeles school district more than a board study Page 6 Critics charge that a proposed state plan could force Californians out of their Page 4 local 3-2 vote approves architectural fee for Kern Medical Page 9 Warner Cable rate increase reaffirmed by Board of Page 9. scene The house at 809 Oleander Avenue was bare of furniture but filled with people for Junior House Page 19 Loma Linda Woman's Auxiliary plans holiday party raise funds to support fellow alumni serving as medical missionaries Page 19 business The head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service urges Congress to pass legislation imposing fines on businessmen who knowingly hire illegal Page 16 Peso crisis increases dollar value in Page 16 GEORGE BUSH opinion about the state's mental hospitals probably will Page 12 Junketeering by officials doesn't make their programs popular with the Page 12 sports Doyle Alexander latest of baseball's to sign with new Page 13 No. 1 No. 2 Giants have shot at Junior Rose Bowl Page 13 Bush quits position as CIA director WASHINGTON - George who took over the embattled Central Intelligence Agency less than year announced today he will quit as head of the spy agency on inauguration The one-time top-level diplomat and head of the Republican party said he would stay at the CIA until Jan. 20, and pledged full to President-elect Jimmy Carter during the transition between James deputy to an assistant director at the said Bush has given no indication of his future Bush's announcement was issued by a CIA The announcement said Bush not remain as director after Jan. 20,1977." It Bush informed President Ford and President-elect Carter of his Bush briefed Carter for nearly six hours Friday at the home in on the highly secret methods the CIA uses to gather intelligence around the Bush told reporters in Plains that he had visited Ford before flying to Georgia and was told to give Carter full access to any information he might While he was In Bush refused to discuss his own future and declined to say whether the of remaining in his job had been raised during session with Carter has given no indication of whom he might appoint to replace An estimated 3S0 Bakersfield City School District teachers staged protest complete with last night outside administrative complex at 1300 Baker Street members of board of education were Protest was aimed a1 pay raises up to 14.3 per cent granted district administrators and slowness of bargaining on teacher - Bargaining fear told as teachers protest we go slowly SB 160 school employes collective bargaining is going to bury public said Bakersfield City School board member George Eraser's comment came last following a protest march by an estimated 350 teachers before the board The teachers carried signs as By JIM VARLEY Staff Writer they walked for about 45 minutes outside the administrative complex at 1300 Baker The privately and in public statements made to board contended negotiations are proceeding too The 34th bargaining session is scheduled Government joins in network attack WASHINGTON - The government has joined In a legal attack on the power wielded by America's three major television The Department of Justice yesterday asked the Federal Communications Commission to consider giving more programming authority to affiliated stations and forcing the networks to divest of the seven local stations each is allowed to The government filed with the FCC by Assistant Attorney General Donald I. was submitted In connection with the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's petition to the FCC for an investigation of network which owns several tv operates the At least one already had fold the FCC it considered suit to and contain position of the Department of Justice contains no now and is based on these same unwarranted We believe the FCC will conclude that no new regulations are a network spokesman said Department of Justice agrees economic power possessed by national television networks may have eroded ability of affiliated licensees to exercise genuine independence in making programming Baker Both the department and Group W contend that the networks force affiliated to use programs rather other affiliated stations may As the problem Is how much programming make an affiliate is free to decline to broadcast in favor of other because serves either the needs of community or financial welfare of Group W also an FCC order prohibiting network programming from exceeding levels and giving see programs before The did not support those The department suggested that FCC a force saying that network power had been properly assessed for more 20 As for the the department said the Group W complaint raises questions about whether networks should be allowed keep ' those their combined market share and current levels of network control over stations may well to the ability to pre-empt program and a disproportionate share of programming and to obtain a disproportionate share of broadcast the department Supreme Court strikes down trial gag WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court today struck at least an Oklahoma order limiting news media reporting of a case involving an 11-year-old boy convicted of The court set aside a imposed by Oklahoma County District Judge Charles E. which had prohibited news reporters from publishing or broadcasting the boy's name or photograph - even though both had been widely displayed The court's refusal to go along with the Oklahoma was in keeping with its ruling last summer in a Nebraska murder In that the Supreme Court came close lo outlawing such reporting The justices said in the Nebraska case that pretrial restraints on reporting rarely can be because of the many other steps available to ensure fair The Oklahoma Publishing owner of the Daily the Oklahoma City Times and the Sunday Oklahoman asked Justice Byron R. White to allow them to cover fully today's sentencing of Larry Donnel The boy was arrested last July and later convicted of delinquency by second-degree murder in the shooting death of an Oklahoma City railroad After initial reporting about the case mentioned the boy's name and displayed his Halley issued a pretrial order banning such The in opposing the newspaper company's appeal to the Supreme said the boy's to outweighed the rights of the news media and the public's right to Halley asked the justices balance the interest of the juvenile against the interest of the He said the public's right to know must take Into account what is to be right to know Halley know a child's name who is accused of a To him and mark him for life as To allow his neighbors and community to know him as a social To know him to such an extent that the child's right to rehabilitation is The publishing company initially lost Its challenge of Halley's order when the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled It could The newspapers said Halley's gag order apparently prohibited reporting the boy's name or publishing his picture until he became 18. They said such prior restraints were banned by tiie high court's ruling in the Nebraska referred the publishing request to the full which granted a stay of Halley's order until a formal appeal is filed by the newspapers or the order is dismissed by the While the court's action gave no indication of how tlie justices one sentence referred to Justice William J. Brennan Jr. It said that lie would grant the stay not subscribing to this In the Nebraska Brennan and Justices Thurgood Marshall and Potter Stewart wrote opinions favoring tlie outlawing of all such gag While voting against the gag orders imposed in the other six members of the court would not go as far as outlaw 8ich Marvin district relations officer submitted a report explaining the status of the The Californian learned the district has committed an estimated million for teacher pay This includes a 7 per cent hike or 6.2 per cent in across the board pay increases and the remaining amount In fringe Belcher also said most teachers will receive another 3 per cent increase already built into the schedule to give them an average hike of 10 per cent. Guinette president of Elementary Teachers which represents the 900 instructors told board are here tonight to emphasize to you our concern for good faith We are concerned for a contract which will treat the teachers fairly and While teachers are giving their bargaining team the patience and support they we see preoccupation of the board on many matters away from the Ms. Tell said these include recently awarded pay increases to the ranging from 8.1 per cent to 14.3 per cent and budgeting as to remodel the auditorium at the Baker Street administrative But Belcher said collective or contract bargaining is a two-way important concept In bargaining is that both sides must gain in a You have a if you don't get something in Belcher Belcher said besides the pay and fringe benefit increases offered by the the teachers have been offered one day of sick leave during summer school and extension in funeral leave from three to four days if travel is in excess of 330 Also offered is a limitation on the number of hours a teacher is required to spend on district activities outside the classroom and time off to process Belcher said the district in turn wants to change the transfer Also proposed is a charge to teachers of 10 cents each time BETA membership dues are deducted from their He said this will offset district costs in making the Many speaking before the board said public opinion is against recent pay increases awarded to the administrative staff and the amount budgeted for the auditorium whose candidacy was supported by the teachers organization two years am not here to react to public opinion but to the public's needs in The reason 1 don't react to public opinion is public opinion often is the role of the see 2
