Star-News (Newspaper) - July 24, 1975, Pasadena, California LB Freeway Escapes Right-of-Way Freeze Uv By LUAINE SCHELIGA Suff Writer Although the California ment of Transportation has announced freezing of all purchases indefinitely it probably won't have an immediate effect on completion of the Long Beach Freeway extension a state of- said Wednesday which announced earlier a moratorium of at least one year on new contracts said it froze right-of-way purchases because it was in a bind for cash Gene Berthelsen a spokesman said he expected the freeze to last a year An ment will be made around Aug 1 he said regarding the layoffs resulting from the cutback Archie Smith district director of Los Angeles branch said the freezing would not have an im- mediate effect on the Long Beach Freeway because of right-of-way for the work that is under way in Pasadena has already been acquired It will be a number of years before we can begin to acquire for the remainder of the Smith said The En- Impact Report EIR must be completed and approved first now there are no funds available for Route Smith said except possibly through federal funds under the Urban D plan There'll have to be other funding before we can finish the Long Beach Freeway and it'll take several years he said After the EIR is he continued we must have a freeway agreement with South Pasadena we must modify those we already have with Los Angeles and Pasadena the project has to be designated way acquired land cleared and ple relocated contracts advertised and then finally construction begun It's a long he said Berthelsen characterized the move as another step in the process of slowing down the highway program so we can recover some cash to pay our outstanding obligations The announcement marked a further slowdown in expansion of California's freeway system Berthelsen said right-of-way purchases have been declining steadily from a high million for parcels of land in Berthelsen said occasionally the department buys in ad- vance of general acquisition before land values go up or in eases these would be the exceptions to the general freeze He explained It's fair to say Berthelsen added that the freeze may be just another of those steps that will eventually hold up tion of the Long Beach Freeway The major right-of-way purchases blocked by the freeze include unbuilt portions The Eureka Freeway on U.S 101 Freeway 29 in Napa County Freeway 87 in San Jose the Highway 120 bypass in Manteca the interchange of Interstate 10 and Route 30 near San Bernardino the Simi Valley Freeway Route 118 in Los Angeles as well as Route 7 Continued on Page A4 WEATHER TODAY Complete Weather Reports on Page A2 Late Sports PASADENA CALIFORNIA THURSDAY 24 1975 Socio-Economic School Shift Bid May Be Doomed By DICK LLOYD Sail Writer Trustees of Pasadena Unified School District have been asked to adjust boundaries of four schools to equalize the socio-economic distribution of students but initial response of two trustees indicates they probably won't buy the proposal Supt Ramon Cortines is asking that attendance areas of McKinley and Wilson junior high schools be redrawn slightly to give Wilson a higher economic makeup At the same time he proposes realignment of Blair and Pasadena High School boundaries to channel more students from a lower socio-economic area to Blair which is weighted in favor of higher income j i families Pasadena schools Supt New Store Assures s Retail Center Pasadena Pay Hiked Not Cut About 200 Pasadena school employes who were expecting to receive an 8 per cent pay cut this year are now looking forward to a 5.7 per cent pay increase instead Ramon Cortines revealed that through a planned reorganization of tenance and operations functions among classified employes the district will not have to reduce employes work year from 12 to 11 months as he had anticipated The reductions were part of severe budget cutting forts for the school year Similar reductions of 11 months to 10 and 10 months to nine will not have to be instituted Cortines said The only exception will be bus drivers operating buses Nevertheless there will still be a reduction in staff Continued on Page A4 About 97 students ly Anglos would be in- in the McKinley realignment Cortines said all of which would be incoming 7th graders That would mean that no student would be pulled from a junior high school which he or she has already attended he said Affected by the move from PHS to Blair would be 30 students mostly Macks Cortines said The issue is far broader than simply obtaining a more even mix of students Cortines said There are distinct advantages for motivational purposes for students teachers and parent he said as well as being able Continued on Page A4 Schools Integration Ordered for Dallas NEW ORLEANS La AP The 5th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Dallas Tex school system to come up with a new pupil assignment plan that will integrate its students The court rejected a plea filed by intervenors hi the suit that adjacent school districts be forced to join Dallas in a single public school desegregation plan for the metropolitan area The appeals court also rejected a lower court plan to desegregate schools via two-way closed-circuit television The decision by the cuit court canceled a 1971 ruling by U.S District Court Judge William M Taylor Jr The case was sent back to him with directions to come up with a new assignment plan in time for the school year Taylor was told to file by Oct 15 a detailed progress report on classroom integration in the district which operates 180 schools over an area of 351 square miles Blacks filed the desegregation suit in 1970 The latest enrollment figures show that whites made up 43.7 per cent of the Dallas district in February or students The black ment was 43.27 per cent or students TORNADO KILLS 4 IN ILLINOIS CANTON 111 AP A tornado smashed through downtown Canton day night Illinois state police said four persons were killed and at least 37 others injured The city square another block farther south and parts of the city's east and south sides were damaged extensively Fulton County sheriff's deputies and eyewitnesses said The city was blocked off by Civil Defense workers to facilitate cleanup operations Two of the dead were identified as Mrs Dorothy McCann 69 and Matie Sprague both dead on arrival at Graham Hospital Lawrence Horton Sr about 50 was listed in critical condition YITZHAK RABIN direct talks Egypt OKs Sinai Troops Three-Month Extension Set Associated Press Egypt accepted on Wednesday an appeal from the United Nations ty Council to keep the buffer force in the Sinai for three more months The mandate was to ex- pire today Egypt last week had opposed an ex- tension on grounds Israel was using the force to perpetuate its occupation Security Council members agreed privately Wednesday on the text of an extension resolution A public meeting of the cil was called for 8 PDT today at quarters in New York to debate and vote on it Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said President Anwar Sadat's original decision not to extend the mandate awoke the world to the dangerous possibilities in the area and forced all the directly concerned parties such as Israel and the in- directly concerned parties such as the United States to confront their Washington meanwhile announced that Israel received an Egyptian counterproposal for a Sinai settlement but President Ford said U.S efforts to ease tensions in the region might not work In Jerusalem Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin an- a new condition for an interim Sinai cord demanding that the pact be finalized in direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt Rabin spoke after Cairo ed it would agree to an ex- tension of the date Sources close to Rabin said he expected negotiations to accelerate in August possibly with a shuttle by Kissinger between Egypt and Israel and then a final phase of direct talks before signing in September 2nd in Pasadena Complex By HAROLD HUBBARD Urban Editor Pasadena's Retail Center was assured with the announcement that the real estate committee has approved a new unit for the downtown ject The store will become the second major ment store in this city's retail development ject Immediate steps are being taken to draft the necessary documentation to implement final approval according to the announcement for the developer Ernest W Hahn Inc Hawthorne This announcement marks a major step toward the development of the proposed two-level ed mall shopping complex according to the statement from Hahn Gerald Trimble ex- director of the Pasadena Redevelopment Agency which has been conducting negotiations for the project revealed the new development at a Planning Commission meeting Wednesday The Retail Center ject will include two major department stores the cond being the Broadway and 100 specialty stores located on an site bounded by Colorado Boulevard Los Robles Avenue Green Street and Marengo Avenue Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc is a developer for the million project with Hahn whose firm also will serve as the general contractor and will manage the center when it opens in the fall of 1978 the announcement stated The completed project will have approximately square feet of total retail area The developers working as a partnership known as CHH Associates also will have Hahn be contractor for the subterranean ing structure beneath the center Financing of the project will be through lease revenue bonds providing scheduled to start in January 1977 Trimble said the developer has given the PRA a Continued on Page A2 ATHENS POLICE BATTLE WORKERS Greek police fire tear gas from armored vehicles in a clash with rioting construction workers in downtown Athens About strikers representing a radical wing of the labor movement battled authorities in the main square See story on Page A2 Ford Oil Compromise Hinted WASHINGTON AP Republican congressional sources said Wednesday that President Ford may offer a compromise way out of the energy legislation tangle by ing to accept a price ceiling on produced oil and extending the period for phasing out controls Meanwhile the House removed from its pending oil policy a controversial feature which would have rolled back some oil prices while letting others rise The provision killed on a vote would have established a new system setting a statutory price ing on domestic crude oil production ranging between an average to a barrel Under the defeated section ex- isting price controls on oil would have been phased out over five years Beginning in the fourth year the price ceiling would have been ed to rise eight per cent a year due to inflation The White House said earlier that Ford may send Congress a new energy formula this week but gave no details Republican congressional sources said Ford's emissaries to Capitol Hill have been seeking ment along these on old which is production up to the 1972 levels would be gradually decontrolled as Ford has proposed But the phasing out would be stretched out longer than the 30 months he had stipulated perhaps over a period as long as 42 months limit would be set on the increase in price of old oil now a barrel The limit could be a barrel if Congress goes along with Ford's plan for a a barrel tax or without the tax of the windfall profits resulting from the oil price increase would be taxed away under a formula designed to reimburse the consuming public A possible formula would be for one-third of the revenue to be channelled to state and local governments and the remainder to citizens generally through income lax rebates or reductions and cash payments allow time for legislation to be enacted and not interfere with Congress plans to recess for the month of August Ford would agree to a brief extension up to 60 days of the basic oil price control law which will expire Aug 31 unless Congress acts Recovery Seen Despite Energy Costs By AL EISELE National Burean WASHINGTON dent Ford's top economic adviser told Congress Wednesday that the impact of higher energy prices ex- this fall should not slow the nation's economic recovery or cause new inflation Alan Greenspan chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers told the Joint Economic Committee that despite an anticipated boost in oil prices by List of Nation's Poor Grows to 24.3 Million WASHINGTON AP Another 1.3 million Americans were added to the nation's list of poor last year raising the total of Kennedy Nix of Castro Death Plot Told WASHINGTON AP John F Kennedy discussed a proposal in 1962 to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro but rejected the idea emphatically former Sen George Smathers said Wednesday He was very outspoken and wasn't in- in along that line at Smathers said Smathers commented after a meeting of the Senate intelligence committee in which it was decided to issue an interim report on alleged U.S involvement in assassinations and to call Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger as a witness Referring to his conversation with Kennedy Smathers said someone had suggested to him the possibility of assassinating Castro and he wanted to know what the reaction would be and I said it would be terrible A chief lawyer said Wednesday that a case in- Chile testimony and possible perjury has been turned over to the Justice Department for possible prosecution The lawyer John S Warner refused to com- ment on whether the case involves the testimony of former CIA Director Richard Helms which Helms later admitted was in- complete on past covert CIA operations in Chile Warner told the House individual rights sub- committee multifaceted case was turned over to the Justice Department last Dec 19 Also a Jesuit priest said Wednesday the tral Intelligence Agency secretly gave a colleague million in of which was used to support the successful presidential campaign of Eduardo Frei in Chile Roger Vekemans of Belgium told him at the time of receiving the money after a meeting with John F Kennedy Atty Gen Robert F Kennedy CIA Director John McCone and Peace Corps Director R Sargent Shriver Vizzard said he was not aware of how the covert funds were distributed except that some was to be applied to Frei's campaign against Marxist Salvador Allende while other parts went to support Christian democratic labor unions throughout Latin America The Washington Star meanwhile reported Wednesday that the CIA has been involved almost from its start in 1947 in the use of church groups both as sources of intelligence and con- duits of money And a spokesman for the Senate intelligence committee said the panel is looking into com- plaints that the CIA may have had improper with poor Americans to 24.3 million the Census Bureau said Wednesday In addition it said tion and recession caused a 4 per cent decrease in the median income of all American families last year after adjustment for inflation The number of poor Americans increased 5.6 per cent in 1974 and made up about 12 per cent of the entire population the agency said In its 1974 annual report on family income the sus Bureau increased the poverty level to for a nonfarm family of four up from in 1973 an increase of about 11 per cent The median income of all American families increased 7 per cent But the bureau said after adjustment for inflation the real income of American families fell foreign producers and the administration's proposed removal of domestic price controls there will be a somewhat stronger pickup in production and ment in the second half of this year we had generally been an- Testifying at the outset of the committee's mid- year review of the economic situation and outlook Greenspan said our assessment is that the economic impact of the President's phased decontrol proposals is con- less than many studies estimate Greenspan said the ad- updated economic outlook also in- that the effect of an expected price increase by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC will be less than predicted by congressional studies Greenspan said U.S energy prices are going to move upward by some amount even without decontrol or any further increase in OPEC prices He also said he does not ex- any ripple effect that would generate a secondary round of wage increases and new inflation He pointed out that the President's energy program specifies a full rebate to consumers of the induced loss in purchasing power from the energy price increase IN TODAY'S PAPER Market in Worst 75 Decline Interest rate and inflation worries dragged the stock market into its worst decline of the year losing 1009 points See Page C3 Action Line A3 Bridge B4 Comics B4 Crossword B4 Deaths C4 Editorial A6 Finance Horoscope B4 People Sports Television A7 Theatres B3 Pasadena area East Valley Los Angeles For delivery ol a missed Call from 5 p.m to 7 p.m Monday through Friday 7 Monday through day 7 Sunday rail
