Progress-Bulletin (Newspaper) - June 19, 1970, Pomona, California Vol 86 Number 140 POMONA CALIF EVENING JUNE 19 1970 MM CHP Battling Freeway Noise AP California is trying to hold down the roar on freeways Armed with tiny meters highway patrolmen sit by the road and measure the sound of passing cars and trucks A motorist is either cited or given a warning to make repairs if he's hitting 90 decibels or more That's equivalent to noise in a boiler room or made by a large printing press patrolman neth Spencer says With one of six sound ters in use in California Spencer ami two other officers listen by busy Interstate 5 Two stay at the desk while the third chases down the noisy drivers The crackdown is paying olf after two years say In Sacramento Warren Heath of the fornia Highway PatrolS engineering department says The problem of noisy trucks has been almost cleaned up 1 assure you that the trucking firms are quite aware of us even though the average family motorist may not be yet The truckers often disagree with the officers But when we show them our testing procedures they usually arc convinced said Heath A muffler usually is blamed Heath said We will warn the owner of the trucks and notify the facturer that for example the muffler does not meet our standards The maker will usually dis- agree with our findings and will send his engineers to dispute it No tests or findings arc disputed after the ting methods are explained he says and the manufacturer usually repairs the defective vehicles no cost to the owner A microphone which picks up a vehicle's noise is set 56 feet from the center of a highway and in an area clear for 100 feet on all sides Microphone cords are attached to a control box where the deci- bel readings are made New meters are being de- which don't require the clearance An average of 10 tickets are given out daily The noise level is believed about the same on rable highways throughout the state Last year 600.000 vehicles were clocked in nia to see if the sound barrier is being broken 300 To Vegas Seen LAS VEGAS Nev 300 mile an hour ground transportation system linking Las Vegas with Los Angeles and the planned Calif International Airport is both technologically and economically feasible and could be in operation in 1950 Frank L Whitney president of Walter Kidde Con- Los Angeles released a study on the ject paid for by Las Vegas and Los Angeles public agencies at a news conference Thursday Whitney said a high speed ground system could be in operation by and economically would be breaking ever by He said the entire system would cost million to build and with the added cost of the vehicles the figure could climb to million He said the Los Angeles Palmdale leg would be firs and the Palmdale to Las Vegas raised concrete track constructed last Whitney said the passenger vehicles would make the eastbound trip in 66 minutes and the westbound trip would take 76 minutes The vehicles according to the study would be wheelless and skim over a thin cushion of air They would run in a U-shaped concrete guideway or channel Propulsion would be supplied by linear induction motors through electromagnets and a center reactor rail The study said a fare schedule of for the trip from Los Angeles to was assured elers going on to Las Vegas would pay and those traveling from Las Vegas to Palmdale would be charged Damage Injuries Caused by Militants LOS ANGELES totaling nearly a dollars and to 61 police was caused by student and militant group dents from June 1969 to last May Mayor Sam Yorty has reported Citing police reports Yony said the most sive damage was caused by arsonists at Carver Junior High School and at Roosevelt High school last April The Weather Clear nights and sunny days Warmer tures Expected high today 92 low tonight 56 high 96 The high Thursday was low this morning 57 IN TODAY'S P-B Sec Pg Bridge C a Classified Classified Ads D 14 Comics B S Crossword A C Jeane Dixon C 3 Doctor 7 B 2 Entertainment C 2 Financial B 5 Home ft Garden B 4 Obituary A 4 Rallies Straws B 3 C 44 Television 3 Women A 8 World of Animals B 7 fl R C HIV E U.S Launches Spy Satellite To Keep Watch on Asian Reds Space Endurance Record Cosmonauts Land After 17 Days MOSCOW two-man Soyuz 9 space craft parachuted safely to earth in Soviet Central Asia today ing a cf nearly IS days that vaulted Russia ahead of the United States in the field of space endurance the official news agency Tass reported Cosmonauts Vitaly rov and Adrian Nikolayev landed under three parachutes strung to their silvery Soyuz at a m EOT after a flight that 17 16 hours and 59 minutes The craft landed 47 miles of in Soviet Kazakhstan Moscow television in a taped broadcast from Baikonur said Soyuz 9 made a perfect at precisely the programmed spot Medical checks made at the scene showed the two men had well withstood the con- of weightlessness and the Tass said Soyuz 9 had blasted off at 10 p 3 p m EOT on June 1 and the today eclipsed the former record held by Frank Borman and James Lovell the Gemini 7 pi- lots who remained aloft for 13 days eight hours and 35 utes Lovell and Borman were among the first to congratulate Nikolayev and triumph last Monday when surpassed the ican record Representatives of the re- c o v e r y group sports mi scorers friends and warmly met the in the area of the Tass I did not explain what commissioners meant The Soyuz 9 mission which aimed testing man's ability to endure long periods of covered nearly 300 orbits and more than 7 lion miles According to past precedent about three days of medical checkups will await the Baikonur Cosmodrome Soviet Central Asia Then they will be to Mos- cow as heroes in a and feted in Red Square or at the Kremlin The principal objective of the mission was to test and perfect man's ability to and work efficiently for long periods under conditions of weightlessness a pivotal re- for the Soviet goal of orbiting permanent manned space stations Soviet space scientists claimed the mission a success in this respect two days ago stating in numerous taries distributed by Soviet news that Nikolayev and had adapted well to space conditions after three days They never showed any of the fluttering pulses loss of bore calcium and muscle weakening other men experienced ing to the steady progress re- ports on the mission The spacecraft swung to earth under a fail-safe system of three parachutes according to an explanation of the landing system circulated by Tass even before the landing was announced Cosmonaut Vladimir See A4 Col 2 British Election Housewives Revolt Defeats Wilson EDWARD HEATH LONDON UPD Party leader Edward Heath unseated Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson today in a general election upset blamed in pan on a housewives revolt the soaring cos: of ing under the Wilson ment Wilson asked for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace to hand in his Labor Party government's resignation and with it his hopes of being the first prime minister in British to win three consecutive five year predicted by public polls It was possible the polls a big Wilson had led to non- Laborites By nightfall Heath would be in power in the political in Britain since Labor Party Clement Attlee threw out the government cf Prime ister Winston Churchill at the of World War II At p.m EOT Heath's Conservatives topped the figure of 316 in Parliament seats and thus won an absolute majority in the new 630 member of Commons It is party strength in the House which de- termines who is the prime ister Wilson had waited until this before conceding for- mally although in television in- earlier he left no that he knew he was a beaten man Within minutes Wilson's No 10 Downing St office an- Following the an- that the Con- have secured more than half the seats in the new House of Commons the prime minister has asked for an of her majesty to tender the resignation of his ment At almost the same moment a furniture moving truck pulled up outside 10 Downing St At p-m EDT Heath stepped out of the door of the fashionable Albany apartment house where he has a bachelor flat and made his first public appearance as prime Heath normally a shy See A4 Col S First Reform of Post Office Wins Approval WASHINGTON UPD House has passed a to over- haul the post office for the first time in its 187 year history But two senators have hinted they may filibuster the Senate's because it would permit the union shop The matter of union ship threatened to be the gest point of contention be- tween the House and Senate versions of postal reform The House passed 359 to 24 Thursday night contains a right to work amendment that would prohibit compulsory union membership The Senate contains the agreement the Nixon administration reached with the postal unions ing for collective bargaining rights and compulsory tion as well as permitting the union shop Sens Paul J Fannin Strom Thurmond R S Car have indicated they may filibuster the if it contains allowance for the union shop An attempt is sure to be made on the Senate floor to attach a right to work amendment The House action came after three days of bitter debate and voting en nearly 40 ments Postmaster General Winton M Blound gave ing to the measure While is rot a perfect it is 1 good he said We hope the Senate acts quickly The House would convert the post office into an independent government t-y called the U.S Postal ice it would be operated by an 11 member commission ing the postmaster general who would lose his cabinet status A separate rate board within the commission could set postal rates subject to a veto within HO days bv a majority vote of cither house cf Congress The an S per cent raise retroactive to April 16 for the nearly 700.000 postal workers at a cost of million The workers also could reach their top pay scales in eight years instead of the present 21 and the measure also provides postal unions for the first time with collective bargaining rights and com- arbitration The House rejected on a voice an amendment by Rep Henry B Gonzalez to return the penny pest card which now requires a five cent sump Official Who Warned Nixon To leave Post w by F GREEN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP An assistant Secretary of Com- merce who charged Thursday that President Nixon is being misinformed on trade policy is leaving his position shortly Secretary of Commerce ice H Stans said today Stans said Kenneth N Davis Jr assistant secretary for and international ness the secretary last week he had decided to leave at an early date I agreed with his Stans said Davis told a New York dierce Thursday that White and a ly organized opposition are doing the president a dis- service by their advice a pending to re- strict imports of clothing tiles and footwear Suns in his coldly worded statement on Davis departure from Washington His views do not represent my own or those of the ment of Commerce ly in the criticisms which he has expressed of others who share our fundamental interest in the continued improvement cf United trade relations with all of our trading allies throughout the The blow-up resumed a speech delivered to a research meeting by H c said the President's foreign affairs Henry A Kissinger presidential assistant and Chairman Paul W McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers were misinforming Nixon on the pending legislation called the Mills Davis reached at his home in Thursday he had resigned just not true he said There is no basis for it at all A Commerce Department spokesman said he did not knew whether any formal ter of resignation has been sub- mitted But Stans statement left no doubt Davis was on his way out In his New York speech Davis expressed full support of the to limit imports He de- nied that it is a protectionist measure saying it would mit the Japanese to share in the growth of the American markets for the three Noting that Kissinger advises Nixon on foreign trade matters and Flanigan on business lems Davis said that from what he has seen of the nal prepared for the President I do not believe that the d a m e n t a I economic issues which are at stake have been adequately presented to him yet Stationary Post Over Far East CAPE KENNEDY Fla tP The Air Force today rocketed a secret spy satellite into space to gather a vast amount of in- data about Russia Red China North Vietnam and other potential trouble spots A towering et blazed away from Cape about EOT to propel the toward a near stationary outpost some 20.000 miles above Southeast Asia The Air Force clamped a secrecy label on the launching and made no advance an- Sources reported the satellite is the first of an operational series whose main job is to provide early warning of an enemy missile attack cither from land or submarine They said the long Agena carried a television mera to spot missile sites air bases troop movements and other military installations and infrared and X-ray sensors to detect the exhaust of a rising rocket It was the third secret launch of an from Cape Kennedy in 22 months The sources reported the two lier satellites fired Aug 6 and last April 19 were ex- prototypes for the payload lofted today Both prototypes were placed in near stationary orbit above Southeast Asia their speed synchronized with that of the rotating earth so they would ver always over that area of the globe The sources said the satellite would be able to monitor test of the Soviet Fractional Orbital ment Satellites FOBS which streak into orbit and return to earth after completing global circuits They also reported test launching of Soviet submarine missiles in the Indian Ocean or Western Pacific could be de- The program called Project was funded at million in fiscal vear 1970 UC To ROTC Program LOS ANGELES AP The re s e r v c Officers Training cms program established on four of the nine University of California campuses will be t a i n e d says UC President Charles Hitch Hitch announced at the UC Board of Regents meeting Thursday that the decision to retain the volunteer military training program at the ley Los Angeles Santa bara and Davis campuses is final Immaculate Heart Cancels Claremont Move CLAREMONT Immaculate Heart College won't come to Claremont A planned move by the women's liberal arts col- lege from Los Angeles to a campus next to the Claremont Colleges has been canceled it was announced jointly day by Dr Helen Kellcy dent of Immaculate Heart and Dr Joseph B Platt provost of the Claremont Colleges Immaculate Heart was to be- come a good neighbor col- lege here in 1971 after ing 20 acres of land from the colleges at the cor- ner of Foothill Boulevard and Mills Avenue We have decided that the college should remain in seeking to develop here a center of continuing cation for men and women the IHC trustees statement said We will miss Immaculate Hear said Platt We have been looking forward to ing as neighbors with her dents and faculty But we know loo that plans change for every college particularly now when each of us has so much to do and limited time and with which to do it it The IHC trustees statement said a money pinch brought about the re-evaluation In view of the current state of the nation's economy and its implications for the continuing ability cf donors to remain on schedule in meeting pledges prudence forced us a few weeks ago to call a moratorium on construction on the eve of groundbreaking A committee of and students will work this summer to develop a gram for the next school term that will include using the educational resources sented by the City of Los eles the trustees said IHC will investigate with the Claremont Colleges areas of cooperation and learning in the future This will include Scc A4 Col 1 -x Berkeley Two Bombs Hit B of A Branches BERKELEY Bombs ex- seven minutes apart just before dawn today at two branches of the Bank of ca Police said there were no in- juries and damage apparently was not great The blasts shattered glass at nearby buildings and awakened residents near the banks The branches are less than a mile from the University of California The Bank of America has been a target of antiwar tests in Santa Barbara and er California cities as a symbol of the capitalist ment No arrests were made Police were looking for a van that had its parking lights on near one bank the blasts The kind of explosives used was not immediately mined NE
