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Compton Police Officer Fired on Overtime-Pay Accusations BY TOM GORMAN TliMt Stiff Writer ii Villi i) A nine-year veteran of the Compton police department was fired Monday after department charges of theft of public funds and falsification of police records were made. Del Saul Lankster, 32, was accused by Compton Police Chief Joseph Rouzan of submitting false overtime-pay requests on four occasions during July. A routine audit of overtime-pay requests showed that Lankster was not subpoenaed to appear in court on the four occasions he claimed, Rouzan said. Lankster, who is a member of the Compton Unified School District board of trustees, also has been charged, in unrelated incidents, with using excessive force on four teen-agers in the Compton jail last year. Those charges are scheduled to be heard today by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury after a six-month investigation by the district attorney's office.

Rouzan said there was no connection in the timing of the grand jury deliberations and his action against Lankster Monday. The chief said he notified Lankster of the most recent charges on Oct 13 and gave Lankster 10 days to respond. Matilda Fenberg, 89, Noted Attorneys Dies FINDLAY, Ohio GB-Matilda Fenberg, once a prominent Chicago trial lawyer who had been one of the first women to graduate from Yale University's law school, died Sunday in a Findlay hospital She was 89. After graduating from Yale, Miss Fenberg became a trial lawyer and for a while practiced with Clarence Darrow. She also served as assistant corporate counsel to the city of Chicago during the administration of Mayor Bill Thompsoa I I 8 lotf Sngelr Zimti Port Oct.

25, 1 977 Citizens Panel Urges Supervisors to Adopt Six Political Reforms Contfc m4 from first Fige In elections for county offices, it would: Issue a fair campaign practices code. 2 Ask candidates to voluntarily subscribe to the code. 3 Ask them to voluntarily submit all campaign material to the commission before its distributioa The commission could review and comment on the material but could not cancel its distributioa 4 Review candidates' filed statements of campaign contributions and expenditures, as required under the Political Reform Act of 1974, and report violations. The commission also recommended: 1 That the district attorney prosecute candidates and donors "who attempt to mislead the public by incorrectly reporting the sources and amounts of contributions." 2 That a ceiling of between $250 and $1,000 be clamped on individual or corporate contributions or loans to a candidate in a single electioa (An initiative proposed by another group would limit contributions to $1,000 over a four-year period from anyone doing business with the county.) 3 That contributions from corporations and labor unions be prohibited entirely, unless they come from segregated funds voluntarily donated by employes or union members. 4 That the supervisors define more specifically what is "appropriate or inappropriate" for an incumbent to use in county facilities, equipment and personnel when seeking reelectioa 5 That biographical statements of all candidates for county offices be included, without charge, in the ballot pamphlet mailed to all registered voters before elections.

The commission rejected a recommendation that public financing of campaigns be installed at the county level, but a minority report favoring public financing and approved by four of the commission's 16 members present Monday was included with the majority's recommendations. In defending the need for reform, the report concludes "that Orange County does currently possess a relatively unique combination of characteristics that seems to account for our present maladies." (Forty-three indictments on the political scene in less than three years.) The commission listed these special characteristics as: The temptation for political manipulation caused by rapid growth in an area with large amounts of undeveloped land; development of sophisticated campaign techniques, such as computerized, "tailored to the voter" letters, in the absence of media coverage from Los Angeles newspapers, television and radio, and generation of a win-at-any-cost ethic." Commented the commission: Tartly as a result of the high stakes riding on recent elections, Orange County campaigns have developed a vicious, unprincipled quality which has shocked many voters. This development may be encouraged by the candidates' reliance on professional campaign consulting firms, whose reputations are enhanced by a favorable win-loss record. Some of these consultants regard a campaign as the equivalent of warfare, in which anything goes, short of violations of the law. Deceptions and misrepresentations, especially unleashed at the last minute through computerized mailings, seem to have become for some a standard campaign technique." SEIZED MATERIAL Det.

Art Romo of Orange Police Department inspects items, including ammunition and bullet-proof vest, which were seized Monday by officers. Timet photo by Derii Jeunctte Riles Protests A ACP Criticism of Vote on UC Admission Standards SACRAMENTO (JV-Wilson Riles, California's first black superintendent of public instruction, said Monday he is being criticized unfairly by the NAACP for his vote on University of California admissions standards. "I was offended that they tried to make it a race issue," Riles said in an interview. One NAACP leader picketed Riles and others criticized him Friday after he cast a decisive vote in the UC regents' 13-12 vote to give somewhat more weight to standardized test scores in admissions, starting in the fall of 1979. MEET Xfi'fl'A A NEW STAR ON Wi tt THE SILKY WAY AU Designer Diane Dickinson I AV iVft.

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After he cast his first vote for the standards in a regents' committee Thursday, Riles said, several NAACP members and state legislators, whom he would not identify, tried to persuade him to change his stand. Riles, who is seeking reelection next year, said he did not know whether the issue would hurt him politically. Blanche Ford Williams, Social, Civic Leader, Dies Mrs. Blanche Ford Williams, 86, Pasadena" and San Marino social and civic leader, died Monday at a Pasadena convalescent home She was a charter member of the San Marino Women's Club and a past president of the San Marino Women's Republican Club Federated. She was a life member of the board of the California Pediatric Center and active in service auxiliaries of the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena.

Mrs. Williams was a graduate of UC Berkeley and a member of a pioneer Southern California family. Her father, J. Ford, was a first cousin of Henry Ford, the automobile magnate She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Virginia Hays and Mrs.

Barbara W. Wight; two sons, Dr. Herbert F. Williams, a physician, and Dr. Richard R.

Williams, a dentist: 12 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildrea Funeral arrangements are pending. Nathaniel Colley, regional counsel for the NAACP and a longtime friend of Riles, called his vote "shocking, outrageous and anti-black." "It means fewer black students will be admitted to the university," Colley said. The faculty-sponsored plan, supported by UC President David Saxon, was prompted by reports of high school "grade inflation" and declining performance by students entering the university. But minority groups said the standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has a pro-white bias, and predicted the new standards would decrease UC's minority enrollment. Riles, however, said SAT "is a good predictor of success in college, as colleges now are." He said if minorities and other disadvantaged students score poorly on it, "they're going to do less well in other areas, too." He said he views tougher admissions standards as a challenge to the public school system he oversees.

"For me to take a position that we can't pre- KUYPER OPINION Continued from Flnt Pace cautions that it could be subject to conflicting interpretations "that will have to be resolved at the time they occur." Kuyper also notes that the proposed ordinance is consistent with state law and that sections of it were copied verbatim from the State Political Reform Act of 1971 While Kuyper wrote he could find no evidence that implementation of the law would be "any more onerous" than administration of existing reform laws, he advised that the board refer the proposal to the District Attorney Office, which would have to enforce it, and the County Clerk Office, which would handle much of the paperwork. Kuyper's memorandum did not address the most frequently heard complaint by critics of the proposal, including Riley and some aides to other supervisors, that by restricting the flow of campaign fund-raising, the ordinance would give an unfair advantage to supervisorial candidates with large personal fortunes. The ordinance does not place any prohibitions on candidates spending their own money on campaigns. YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THE ONE PERFECT BLOUSE. YOU'VE FOUND IT! Let your romantic heart rule your practical head! These blouses have it ad.

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