Ventura County Ad-Visor (Newspaper) - March 17, 1977, Oxnard, California Ventura County 10 March 1977 Beating lessened Civic Center By Citizens Yells Plan Holding The Camarillo Planning Commission Tues day delayed for the second time a decision on a proposed general plan amendment in the new Civic Center area off Carmen j The delay in the decision Tuesday was caused by the absence of two both out of on Commissioners James Wal lace and Tad Bowen were present at tic had been absent from Ihe previous meeting when the issue was delayed because ot lack of a resolution and could not vote Commissioners have indicated they favor a change in the general plan to allow for higher density use of four parcels ol land in Ihe center The planning staff did not have a resolution which would have effected the subject to the City Councils final al the previous session and lie issue was Chairman John Funk and Commissioner Al ing were out of own on business av The three commissioners attending did dis cuss briefly stronger efforts by all the com mission members to improve attendance al the A new zone concept was approved by Inc commissioners That new zone will replace the old com office The City Council had sent the issue to the planners lor study An Ojai contractor escaped serious injury night when he was allegedly assaulted with a tire iron and claw hammer by men in the parking lot of a business in Jury Requests Data Reading The Superior Court jury deliberating whether Michael Samaha is innocent or guilty of Ihe murder of James Kitty asked that the testimony o f six witnesses be ot is charged with the murder of 14 at the Yellow Brick Road Record Shop in Samaha has said he shot Kirby in The jury asked to hear the testimony of Samaha and Art who was in lire shop al the lime of Ihe but did nol see the The jury also wants to hear he of Helga the victims who had a brief affair with Samaha Craig who gave medical evidence about the shooting and other Oak sheriffs deputies said a citizen may have saved Ihe from being severely beaten by the by yelling at Curt of was taken lo Ojai Valley Com munity Hospital for treatment of cuts and He later was His three assailants later Booked in county jail in Ventura on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon were Richard of 11M Ventura and Buddy of 1052 Tiro both of Oak Their 17yearold juvenile also of Oak was detained on an identical charge Ihen lodged at Clifton Tatum Center Juvenile Nutter told deputies he was driving his car south on Ven tura Avenue when another car deliberately rammed his from behind three limes near Villanova He said he then drove to a telephone in front of a liquor store at 910 Ventura to notify authorities when be was allegedly Based at Channel Islands Harbor Rain Expected In County By RICK NIELSEN A rainstorm UK first since early January has moved into Ventura County and is to remain until Thurs the National Service The storm dumped Irom over an inch of rain in the Upper Ojai area lo a mere of an inch in Camarillo by Oxnard had of an inch of Its a storm for both farmers and said Clyde May a deputy agriculture com missioner for Ihe Ventura County Department of The rain is a welcome relief to everyone and will be a great asset to farmers and citrus he he an ex tended storm may bother the strawberry crop which is in full The slorm moved into he county Tuesday night with hen increased in intensity and began falling hard by 4 flooding many but causing no Water poured into Ihe open ditch of the storm drain project in but Dennis Hogle cily public works said Ihe rain caused no He said Ihe contractor had already poured catch basins and the rain will not hamper the located generally al Doris reel and Palm and A Hogle said there were no problems elsewhere in A spokesman for the county hydrologist office said the storm is Ihe result of a low pressure area of a large storm ine spORtsman said the storm Is expected to drop from a oT rain on the plains lo more lhan an inch in the Mountain areas received several inches of snow and the California said chains were required on High way north of Gorge and on Interstate 5 over the Grapevine between Los Angeles and Los Padres National Forest rangers said about a of snow fell in the LocKwood Valley area during the night and Snow also was reported falling steadily at Mammoth Lakes In the High Sierra and at Crestline in the mountains to the south above San Ber Joseph a fore caster for the Nat kmal Weather said Ihe area thai had been blocking storms from California has now moved at least temporarily and another snow should reach California in about three We seem lo be tna sort ot wel cycle this he But thats nol saying anything about next week or next Vederman said fair is expected Thursday and the next storm should come in over the The rain in the county was the first substantial precipitation since the storm on 67 that lumped nearly an inch of rain in Oxnard and about two inches in Oak Customs Team Assigned To Curb Boat Smuggling A IDman team has began working with law enforcement agencies lo curtail small boat smuggling activities which have sharply increased in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Team members arc agents ol the Customs Service opened an office Tuesday in Ihe Ventura County Sheriffs detective division building al John tos Angeles Customs explained Ibe new offices functions to newsmen at a conference in We will be making a con effort to halt the smuggling of narcotics and marijuana in Ihe coun he He said the office will have a 30foot boat and a boat to patrol the coastline and the chain ol Channel The decentralization is Ihe first by the service which has according to one of the Based in San the services center is capable of relaying information o in a matter ol Brady With tighter border control and restrictions on private smugglers of illicit drugs are using Ihe Brady The smugglers are above he noting thai last November some pounds of Thai Sticks ra high grade marijuana raised in Thailand was smuggled into a small port in San Luis Obispo aboard a sailboat which had sailed from Brady said the service has committed to Ihe new office in Counly Sheriff Al Jalaty said he was extremely glad lo see the service open an office in the The will be a great asset to us and the two he Santa Barbara County Un Larry Marshall said he also is pi The service will be a tremendous help to us and our Narcotics Task For he Brady said Ventura County has become a focal ot Ihe He said Joseph Willie will be acting supervisor in charge of Ihe He said the boats will be kept at Channel Islands Harbor Veteran Colleges May Face Reduction in Income Ventura County Community College District trustees were warned that unless he daily attendance in lie district lias increased since last fall trustees could be faced with culling as much as in budgeted before he end of Ine fiscal superintendent for made this prediction at Tuesdays meeting weeks before a report will be made lo he board by the Standing Committee on Enrollment Figures of the first spring semester census April State funds are based upon a districts average daily at fine budget tt will make the second lime in he 197677 school year this has At the end of last the average daily attend ance was ap Mow the forcast upon which the original budget was said L Moore to Hie superintendent for student personnel said even an cut based on last falls census would be far below the million sliced in No You hesitate to make anv he but these would be items lhal we last wouldnt do at the end of the year and would nol effect contract The fiscal yea rends June Moore later explained the primary reason for the attendance drop below ex 3 Sewer Contracts More lhan SU million in contracts for system improvements were approved a Oxnard City Council Tuesday during the absence of Mayor Kato and Councilman Donald Miller who are in Japan studying liquefied natural sas i LNG had hoped to gel contractors to extend their bid offerings on the Ventura Road relief sewer project to mid May when funds are expected to be available for Die the anticipated revenue bond sale by the Port Regional Wastewater Treat ment But the staff learned bidding contractors would require about extra to extend their bids beyond Ihe March 20 To save he additional es Ihe council voted to award the contract by transferring the needed for the work from the citys general fund to he account until reimbursement comes from Ihe bond the council awarded a contract for stale ami federally mandated modifications lo he While 80 lo 85 per cent ot the costs for lhat project have been from the slate and federal Ihe grants been Despite officials agreed he contract should be awarded now so work can be completed before November when ocean winter storms The contract for Ihe ocean outfall work was awarded to Peler and of whose bid was of four received about higher lhan estimated by city The Ventura Koad project was split with contracts going to two Merco Construction of Redondo Beach received Ihe cily contract for constructing the gravity sewer line on Road from Ventura Road to a new pump ing as well as a contract for a force main from Ihe new pump ing slat ion at Port Bubbling Springs Park to the I real men Granite Construction of received a SI contract for rehabilitating Ihe existing Ventura Koad con crete sewer is due lo the end of federal grant eligibility for many Vietnam II was predicted throughout the stale that the veteran drop would bo i n the ne i ol 29 per he Our district lost between 45 and 49 percent this He that students Increased 63 per cent providing hope of the I rend continuing this spring and allowing the district to break even without Hay Lochr The county is still fulfilling our expectations of Moore will meet with al officials from Ihe three district colleges March 23 o finalize he census for board Ihe new board will seated at the next meeting before actual preparations begin on the working budget for 157778 Bob Area will lake over the seal held by Robert while Vincent Area will assume Freeman Jones the board president i and trustee since and Jones were commended byu the board at their last In an to make the new board more accountable tor next years recommended three to Iwp to hours in which would allow the to proposed budgel items and review district policy before or after their next r Although no action was taken by the board on lire he would begin work on the The meeting was opened with the controversial Ventura College Pirates Press If youre a Hare a week editorial which touched off a meeting among Ihe newspaper and offended students Monday Raul among the nearly JO students who at tended the meeting two days iigo to air said the paper was guilty of stereotyping ami editing lo Ihe and asked lie board lo an advisory committee to look into the Nox Michaud followed to explain that Ihe article was intended as a satire on various minority groups having weeks set aside for them and not meant to be Addison said the appoint ment of an advisory board might represent censorship and no board action was OXNARD INSPECT LNG SITE Mayor and City Councilman near At Donald Miller survey a liquefied natural gas far right is an official who escorted to the two LNG installation of the Tokyo Gas in during Ihe Published Weekly By THE
