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CITY COUNCIL APPEARS TO BE EARING CHOICE County's Paramedics Chief Urges Decision by Whittier WHITTIER City councilmen were urged this week to establish a paramedic rescue service to avoid becoming an Island surrounded by cities and territory receiving such coverage. "You are goon going to be an Island unito yourself," responded Col. Gay-lord Ailshie, director of the county's paramedic's program, to questioning by councilmen. Ailshie, along with Fire Chief Rod Smith and Robert Woehrman, pres. idont of Aids Medical Services of Whittier, had been requested to attend this week's study session.

"Again, I have no preference on which way you go," Ailshie said about whether the city should provide coverage through the city Fire Department, Aids or the County Consolidated Fire Protection District. Rut the paramedics director noted that nearby La Habra and Pico Rivera and unincorporated area already receive paramedic service. Santa Fe Springs will have its ser- vice in operation later this year. The council appeared moving closer to a decision on the more than year-old issue with Councilman Al Merrltt saying that ho is ready to vote in favor of establishing paramedic service. And next month, City Manager N.

Keith Abbott will present a report outlining equipment costs, unrecoverable costs, turnover factor of personnel and other data. City officials apparently have narrowed the choice, If the service Is to be provided, to either city firemen or Aids. And Abbott made it a point to emphasize to newsmen that as it stands now, cities which are not a part of the County Consolidated Fire Protection District cannot contract separately for the paramedic pro- gram. Paramedic training Is through the county at Harbor General Hospital and County-USC Medical Center. Until recently, training- was not open to private firms such as AIDS.

The ambulance firm has been tentatively assigned training slots for tho May paramedic training session, Woehrman said. But the county must receive word from city official's that AIDS will provide paramedic coverage, otherwise the openings will be forfeited, Ailshie said. If Whittier decides to train Its firemen as paramedics, training would be available in 1975 at the earliest, the paramedics director con-, tinued. There is no charge for training to municipalities, but ambulance firms must pay $1,573 per man for the five months of Intensive training. Using estimates drawn up several months ago, Abbott reported that AIDS' director expense In unrecoverable costs would be $107,000 over three years.

Whitter's "true costs on a comparable basis" would Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 4 Part VII THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1974 Southeast Edition I to 1 i yf Compton City Council Names New Manager Administrator With National League of Cities to Fill Post Left Vacant by Forced Resignation C. SMITH Wrlltr .17 it I Aiil I ii nil nl BICENTENNIAL BANNER Kay Erickson, city public relations aide, raises replica of Revolutionary War Flag at Lakewood City Hall. The Flag, American forces at Bennington, been adopted by the Lakewood Committee headed by Stan Jensen. Timet phots Creation of Agency on Teacher Contract Negotiations Urged Southeast School Chiefs Told Arbitration Board Would Serve as Catalyst WHITTIER Negotiations be-Iwppn RchnnHenohprs and district trustees often freeze when neither side is willing to give in to the other.

Often, the longer the negotiations continue, the more iced each party becomes in its own position. Months may elape before there a thawing of ideologies. Joseph Brooks thinks It's time for an icebreaker, a vehicle to smooth relations during the often heated negotiations. His answer is the creation of what he calls a School Employment Rela-' tions Board, an independent statewide agency to serve as a watchdog and mediator during annual negotiations. Brooks, executive secretary of the California School Board's told more than 100 area school officials that they must be willing to relinquish some of their power to such a board if there is any hope in taking "the stinger" out of collective bargaining.

Unless teachers and trustees can agree to the creation of the arbitration board, the collective bargaining issue will continue to divide the educational family, Brooks said at a dinner meeting this week. Such changes in the negotiation procedure should not be construed as a "sellout or reversal of traditional positions" between teachers and trustees, he said. Indeed, he' emphasized, school boards will continue to have the last say in district policies and decisions. But with the creation of the SERB, he contended, trustees and teacher groups will be held accountable for their actions. In addition, the board Would hear all grievances surfacing out of the negotiations and would offer mediators and neutral "third parties" during negotiation sessions.

The creation of SERB is one of several changes sought by the CSBA in the Winton Act, state legislation which governs relations among public employes. Brooks said he could not predict if such changes would be approved by legislators, who are the targets of a number of teacher pressure groups. The CSBA, he noted, has no lobbying force in Sacramento and it faces an uphill struggle in passing any amendments to the Winton Act. The attempt must be made anyway, he said, if there is to be any hope of resolving the traditional differences between trustees and teachers. creation of SERB would be the key change in the Winton Act, he said.

If approved, SERB would offer a mediator during "meet and confer" negotiation sessions and would attempt to iron out differ-Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Poor Jail Conditions in Six Southeast Cities Under Fire BY STEVEN Timtt Stiff COMPTON City councilmen fi.t. --1- nArfntA4 fimoq S. Wilson, a professional administrator with the National League of Cities, as the new city manager. Wilson, 4G, will take over from Acting City Manager Martha Brown Feb.

1. Mrs. Brown will resign lier post effective Jan. 31 to allow Wilson a free hand in choosing his assistants. Wilson's acceptance of the ton job, which will pay an annual salary of $32,500, pleased Mayor Doris Davis and the council, who have had their share of rocky times since the city election of last June.

Mrs. Davis said she feels the appointment of Wilson "will help the city get back on a smooth, even keel." "I was particularly struck by his maturity, in terms of his experience and judgment," Mrs. Davis said. "I'm very confident that the city is now going to get on a steady course. He has a great attention to detail, a tenacity in his followthrough." Wilson is a father of six.

In his current job, Wilson has been serving as director of the community development service of the Office of Urban Services of the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C. Wilson has been acting as a liaison between cities throughout the nation and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, aiding cities in developing community development programs. Previously, Wilson served as director of the Charlotte and Winston-Salem model cities commissions, where he had responsibility for planning, programming, and coordinating the two cities' model cities programs. Wilson has also held a variety of other positions in community development and anti-poverty administration, most in either North Carolina or New Jersey. Prior to his first employment by the government in 1967, Wilson served for two years as executive director of the Urban League of Eastern Union County, Elizabeth, N.J.

From 1952 to 1965, Wilson was a plant chemist for Nuodex Products in Newark, N. J. He received a bachelor of arts degree in natural sciences from Rutgers University in 1954. In addition, Wilson has completed four other university level courses or seminars in industrial management and labor relations. Despite her resignation, Mrs.

Brown will retain her civil service status as assistant director of the Compton Redevelopment Agency. She was named assistant city manager by former City Manager Howard Edwards shortly before Ed Grand Jury Report Especial! Maywood Police Chief Says BY TOJI GORMAN Timet Staff Writer wards was forced by the City Council majority to resign last October. Edwards and Mrs. Davig did not agree on the administrative handling a variety of matters, and after Edward'3 resignation, Assistant City Manager Burton K. Wills was appointed acting city manager.

However, Willa himself left to take a similar job in Palm Springs just a week after Edwards' resignation. WHITTIER TALK Mao Gets Credit for Acupuncture Revival in China BY KEITH TAKAIIASIII Times Staff Writer WHITTIER It took the body politic to push acupuncture back into wide usage as one of China's healing arts. Acupuncture, the Chinese practice of puncturing the human body with needles to relieve, pain or cure diseases, fell into disfavor with the introduction of Western medicine, Tomson Liang told an audience at. Whittier College this week, "But after Chairman Mao (Tse-tung) became ill, they (Chinese doctors) took up these old things again," said Liang, a physicist and statistician who is chief acupuncturist and director of Acupuncture and Herbs Research Inc. of Oceanside.

During the dark days of the Peoples' Republic, the normal flow of drugs from the West was cut off. "That's when Chairman Mao said, 'Why don't we use our own medicine," according to Liang. Communist China and the West's interest in acupuncture surged again as a result of touchy Sino-So-viet relations. "Chairman Mao was sick," recalls Liang. "Stalin sent a telegram: 'We will send the best doctors to heal you.

"Chairman Mao was afraid he (Stalin) might have them put some poison in the injection and kill him. And Mao answered in a telegram: 'I only believe in Chinese medicine, not in Western The Chinese leader's reply to Stalin was duly reported by the media. "It gave a boost to Chinese medicine," Liang said. "And then it forced the Western-trained medical doctors to learn Chinese medicine. So they combined the Western and Eastern together and made a new field." Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

1 K' AiUmi. Critical of Compton Facilities; New Holding Tank Only Remedy holding tank: "Plaster chipped and scratche'd. Needs painting. Very overcrowded." Downey Municipal Court holding tank: "Needs paint. Very congested due to small rooms.

No (attorney) interview room." Huntington Park Municipal Court holding tank: "Lighting very poor. Very congested. Locks needed on hallway doors." South Gate Municipal Court holding tank: "Needs paint. Very poor ventilation. No female tank." Compton Police Department jail: "Additional phones needed with regulations posted in both English and Spanish." Downey Police Department jail: "Signs should be in both English and Spanish relative to phone calls." Police chiefs for both Compton and Downey Police Departments said this week that the deficiencies have either already been corrected or are in the process of being alleviated.

The city jails serve only as temporary detention cells, the chiefs noted, with prisoners usually only Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 i 4, 'f i i 1. vt. which flew over in 1777 has Bicentennial District Policy Set on Reassignments Principals to Be Judged on 'Relative Competency' BY LARRY LANE Timet Staff Writer "Relative competency" rather than seniority will be the basis used by the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District to reassign principals, and other administrators to classroom or other assignments if the student enrollment decline forces school closures. Supt.

Maury Ross says there is a "possibility, but not yet a probability" that a shutdown of schools during the 1974-75 year could force him to decide which principals keep their jobs and which don't. He says dismissals "are something we hope we can avoid. "Hopefully," Ross notes, "we can absorb those affected into the educational program elsewhere, probably as classroom teachers." Such a move would probably mean a cut in salary. Ross notes that although a school may be closed, the principal may be transferred to another campus. "There will be no direct relationship between the closing of schools and the possible layoffs of principals," he says.

Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 i Jail conditions in -six Southeast cities were criticized this week by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, which suggested remedies ranging from "needs painting" to "suggest new facility." Criticized in the report issued by the eight-member Jails Committee were municipal court prisoner holding cells in Bellflower, Compton, Downey, Huntington Park and South Gate. The year-long investigation also uncovered deficiencies in jail facilities operated by the city police departments of Compton, Downey and Maywood. The worst jail conditions in the Southeast area were found at Compton Municipal Court holding cells. The committee report noted poor air circulation, the absence of a drinking fountain in the male holding tank, and overcrowded conditions resulting in fights among inmates.

No specific complaints were levied against the Maywood jail. Rather, the report simply stated, "Suggest new facility." Other criticisms included: Bellflower Municipal Court CANARY Writer the test project another 30 days and then renew their evaluations. "We want and need your honest opinions," he told the two dozen protesting citizens. "If there are permanent traffic deterrents installed, the job will include curbs and landscaping," he added. Thomas Morton, mayor during that portion of the meeting, emphasized that the barricades are not permanent but needed to provide traffic count data and permit community reaction.

The barricades are placed at Comolette, Devenir, Puritan and Cheyenne Aves. to keep traffic from Paramount Ave. out of the residential blocks to the east. "We need protection in our Walter Larson, 8119 Devenier told the council. He said that motorcyclists are now using the alleys "as raceways." Joan Whitman presented petitions signed by 150 residents opposing the barricades.

Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 1 Downey's Street Barricade Testa Flop With Residents s. i 1 7 1 1 I J)h ill BY PEYTON Timet Staff DOWNEY Oral complaints and petitions came to the City Council this week about test barricades designed to separate some residential blocks in the south end of town from commercial areas along Paramount Blvd. The protesters, who objected to barricades which kept through traffic from entering their streets from the business artery, said that the alleys behind their homes had now become major traffic routes. Councilman Richard M.

Jennings, later in the meeting elected mayor, asked the protesters to cooperate in SOUTHEAST OFFICE 8-101 E. Florence Downey 90240 Phone, All Departments: Los Angeles Office Toll Free: Classified 639-1212 All Other SC33-3131 MAKING HIS POINT Tomson Liang demonstrates Chinese healing ort of acupuncture, first by inserting a needle, left, in his wife's hand and then in his own. Liang, director of Acupuncture and Herbs Research Inc. of Oceanside, trains American doctors in the practice. Times photos by Steve Rice.