Marysville Yuba Sutter Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - September 17, 1985, Marysville Yuba, California Tuesday Garbo Cinema's cloistered star celebrates 80th CI Smoking losses top billion C4 Americans comfortable with computers A3 Kids today shunning fitness for television C2 4 Vol. 115-No. 49-125th Year Democrat Twenty-Eight Pages Sept. 17,1985 Calif. Single Copy 25< ash blocks bridge test rejected State court rejects Prop. 8 insanity defense condition SAN FRANCISCO - The state Supreme Court has rewritten Proposition 8, changing one word while saying that if the so-called Victim's of Rights were followed literally it would have turned back the definition of insanity to a harsh 19th century In the 6-1 opinion Justice Joseph Grodin said to find a defendant sane who either didn't know what he was doing or didn't know it was would unravel more than 140 years of rulings and return to the days when only a person with the understanding of a could be found The standard accepted by the high court says that a person is insane when he or she is incapable of understanding the nature of the criminal is incapable of distinguishing right from wrong in connection with the act. See Back INSANITY | Wahlberg sues for false arrest Chris Coppin prepares to hook tow truck to the wreckage of a trailer and backhoe that were coming off the 10th Street bridge into Marysville about 2:30 p.m. yesterday when the trailer broke loose from the truck and dumping the backhoe across the eastbound lanes of 10th photo by David Marysville police said truck driver Jose L. an employee of Didar Kapany managed to keep control of the stopping it in the center divider on 10th Street iust past I Traffic was blocked for almost two hours while the wreckage was Publishers revising evolution texts State's demand for more on evolution sends science textbooks back to editors SACRAMENTO - Five major national publishers reportedly agree to revise their science textbooks to meet California's demand for more evolution education in junior high The agreement follows a action last Friday in which the state Board of Education voted unanimously to reject every seventh and eighth grade science textbook offered by the nation's major textbook saying they had all the sections on evolution to pacify fundamentalist believers in biblical In rejecting nearly 30 textbooks by a dozen the board invited five publishers of what they deemed the best science books to rewrite their texts to offer more information on evolution and to resubmit those books for state Francie manager of the state Office of Curriculum Frameworks and said Monday that representatives of all five publishers had agreed to rewrite and resubmit their met with the publishers Friday afternoon immediately after the and the publishers indicated they will be making the Alexander books will be revised to include the material on evolution as set forth The only publisher to respond immediately to requests by The Associated Press for comment was Bob west coast representative of Foresman and Co. of 111. Asked if Scott Foresman and Co. plans to re- Former Yuba County Municipal Court Judge Donald acquitted of a stolen property charge last is suing the the Sheriff's Department and its chief of detectives for false The suit for more than million damages was filed yesterday in Yuba County Superior Court by Wahlberg and his It alleges that the former judge was falsely arrested and imprisoned by sheriff's Ed the department's chief of May 1 on charges of buying stolen property and aiding a fugitive The charges stem from Wahlberg s purchase of a computer allegedly stolen in an Oregon Wahlberg said in his suit that Meyer knew he had requested the Marysville Police Department run a check on the computer system before he bought it. A claim for million damages - filed by Wahlberg with the Yuba County Board of Supervisors - was denied by the board Sept. 3. 50, who left office as judge in January after running unsuccessfully for the Superior Court claims in the suit that sheriff's detectives procured a warrant and arrested him even though they knew the former judge wasn't aware the computer system was Wahlberg was accused of buying the valued at for last March from his wife's Ronnie Wahlberg also was accused of aiding and abetting who was wanted on robbery and burglary warrants in Yuba Oregon and Wahlberg was cleared of those charges during a preliminary hearing in Yuba County Municipal Court late last knew at the time of said arrest and at the time of See Back WAHLBERG | teachers fired on 5~/.c.Po9..ivotuT.oN Scores arrested trying to reopen school Secretary in Helmut Kohl's office defects West Germany - A secretary in the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl is suspected of spying and has fled to communist East the chief federal office said It is the first time the Bonn spy scandal has touched the chancellor's office since the affair began early last month with the disappearance of an aide to Bonn's economics Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann said in a statement said that espionage investigations have been opened against both 45. and her who worked in a foundation associated with a political party that is a member of Kohl's coalition West German quoting Bonn security said the missing See 4-7, SPY | Mostly High day was 84; the low was 56. Section Section Vital survives but SAN FRANCISCO - female state employees can continue to press a massive suit despite a recent ruling against a federal judge But the odds of winning the suit have warned U.S. district Judge Marilyn Hall Patel have a difficult row to but you're entitled to hoe Patel told representatives of the California State Employees which represents more than 100,000 past and present female state employees seeking back Patel said they must prove that the state practiced deliberate sex discrimination and didn't rely on the market in setting The suit probably will be dismissed it turns out all they did was adopt wage scales in the private she On Sept. 4, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the nation's first suit union warned statewide comparable a decision that involved more than 15,000 Washington workers in The court ruled that an employer can follow market wage rates even if those rates hurt The California suit is claiming women's wages are lower than men's and charging the state government discriminated through job hiring and promotion as well as in salary In a written decision that became public Judge Patel said the appeals court ruling did not forbid a suit based on pay differentials between predominantly male and female jobs a animus is even though the wage rates may have had their antecedents in market She also issued other rulings extending the scope of possible Back WORTH t South Africa - Police today fired rubber bullets and tear gas and arrested scores of parents and teachers who tried to reopen a high school closed because of witnesses Thousands of youths around Cape Town heeded a call to defy the government's closure of 464 Armed police turned people away at most places without but clashes broke out at one school in the Athlone Police also fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds of students who were stoning High School in near said a reporter who witnessed the Students told the reporter soldiers had ordered the youths to leave the school but the youths returned a day later seeking the whom they suspected of working with One youth was seen taken away in an ambulance after the South African soldiers and warplanes ranged into southern Angola for a second day in what the military said was a pre-emptive strike against black nationalist rillas fighting South African rule over The government had closed schools indefinitely Sept. 6 in Cape Town's townships after fierce rioting in late August and early September left more than 30 people More than 360,000 students normally attend the Following an appeal Monday by a committee and other opposition thousands of teachers and parents turned up at school buildings this See Back SOUTH AFRICA |
