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Former L.A. County Library Clerk Accused of $108,314 Paycheck Fraud 1 0 Pari Mar. 3. 1 978 oi Sngelrt Zimti FAA WILL FUND PART OF AVIATION DEMAND STUDY BT DON SMITH Tinw Staff Wrttar A March 21 preliminary hearing has been scheduled on charges against a former Los Angeles County library employe accused of embezzling $108,314 over the past five years. Lone LaCour has been charged with embezzling public money, falsifying public records and grand theft Authorities said she falsely issued paychecks to 72 persons who had worked at the library but were no longer on the payroll During the time she was a supervising payroll clerk, she allegedly issued 517 fraudulent checks, endorsed them and then cashed them between January, 1973, and December, 1977.

Investigators said the alleged embezzlement was discovered when one of the temporary employes complained of receiving a W-2 tax form that showed more income that she actually had received ANAHEIM The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to fund at least part of the cost of a new study of the demand for commercial aviation in Southern California. The FAA will provide $233,376 to the Southern California Assn. of Governments to update estimates that were last projected in 1972. Henry Wedaa of Yorba Linda, chairman of a new SCAG aviation steering committee, said the FAA grant had been requested several months ago. "That is not the money for our new study of potential regional airport sites," Wedaa stressed Thursday during SCAG's annual spring general assembly meeting here.

"The information will be used as part of our study, but the actual site part of it hasnt even been requested as yet" Rep. Jerry Patterson (D-Santa Ana) said the FAA grant was slightly more than half of what SCAG had requested to handle the six-county demand study. Present statistics indicate that the 1972 air passenger demand in the six counties Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Imperial was 26.4 million and that the current demand is slightly more than 30 million, with Los Angeles International taking care of 27 million, and Orange County Airport another 2.1 million and Ontario International Airport handling another 1.4 million. By 1985, the previous estimates had put the passenger demand at 44 to 48 million, with the number increasing to between 88 and 97 million by 1995. However, the peak capacity of the various available airports within the six-county area has been placed at close to 67 million, even if Palm-dale International Airport is fully developed, which now appears unlikely because of weather and atmospheric problems during the summer months.

That would require development of a new airport with the size and capacity of Los Angeles International in order to meet air demands, according to SCAG officials. Wedaa said he anticipated that the new study involving a search for a possible airport site would cost close to $500,000 in addition to the newest FAA grant FOR ANYWHERE, FOR EVERYWHERE, THE COSTUME Officer Again Faces Charge BT BILL FARB ThMi Staff Wrttar A Compton police officer was rearraigned on a murder charge Thursday just two days after a Municipal Court judge ruled that there was not sufficient evidence to put him on trial. Dep. DisL Atty. Ralph Mayer refiled the homicide and accessory-after-the-fact charges against James Allen Perry.

Perry 31, a veteran of the Compton police department, is on vacation leave. He is being held in county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail. At the conclusion of a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Municipal Court Judge Nancy Brown ruled that the prosecution had not presented enough evidence to support the charges against Perry. Judge Brown, however, ruled that there was sufficient evidence to put Perry's codefendant, 30-year-old Gwendolyn Baker, on trial. The charges against Perry and Miss Baker stem from the killing of her fiance, Robert Anderson, 32, last Sept.

6. He was found shot to death in his Compton home. Mayer said investigators had not determined a clear motive for the murder. According to the prosecutor, both defendants have told conflicting stories about Anderson's death, which ballistic tests have shown resulted from a bullet fired from Perry's gun. The Compton police initially reported that Perry had killed Anderson in self-defense.

However, witnesses testified at the preliminary hearing earlier this week that Miss Baker ran from Anderson's home, saying, "I shouldn't have done it" After the initial finding of self-defense by his department, Compton Police Chief Joe Rouzan referred the case to the district attorney's office for further investigation. "The chief wanted to make sure there was no appearance of a cover-up so he asked us to step in," said Bruce Campbell, head of the district attorney's special investigations division. Mayer said the charges were refiled against Perry because the district attorney's office felt Judge Brown erred in her Tuesday ruling on the evidence. After Perry's arraignment Thursday before another Municipal Court judge, Dickran Tevri-zian, another preliminary hearing was scheduled for Perry on March 16. A classic with the good looks of silk in cool cotton.

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Diamond faces charges in South Orange County Municipal Court of pimping, pandering and selling another person for immoral purposes. County Issuing Weed Clearance Notices More than 3,000 property owners in county territory will soon receive notices that they must clear their land of weeds or be charged for it on their tax bilk The notices are being sent by the Orange County Fire Department Fire Chief Carl Downs said the deadline for property owners to clear their own land is April 5. After that the county will hire a private contractor to clear it and add the cost to the property owner's tax bill Day in Sacramento Frtm Hit AntciaM Prtu A Summary of Major Action Wednesday, March 1 THE SENATE Bill tntradiKtd Insurance Would prohibit sellers of motor vehicle liability insurance from discriminating against buyers on grounds of occupation, as well as race, color, religion, language national origin, ancestry, marital status or location within a geographic area; SB 1629; Holden(D-CulverCity). Veterans Would prohibit increases in fees or charges paid for lodging or care at the Veteran's Home of California at Yountville until Jan. 1, 1981; SB 1626; Alquist (D-San Jose).

Funeral In matter of conflict of interest, would find that representation of the funeral industry on the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers "will serve the public SB 1625; B. Greene (D-Los Angeles). Motorcycle Would authorize school districts to conduct courses in adult classes in motorcycle and motorized bicycle rider training; SB 1624; Dills (D-Gardena). THE ASSEMBLY Bllh intrwlucad Elderly Would define a new category of community care facility, to be known as residential facilities for the elderly, and require separate licensure standards; SB 2650; Lanterman (R-La Canada). Prisoners Would require that no more than one prisoner in state prisons be assigned to each cell; AB 2648; Wornum (D-Mill Valley).

Beef Would raise from 10 cents to 25 cents the fee collected per head of beef cattle for expenses of the California Beef Council; SB 2646; Hallett (R-Atascadero). UC Would appropriate an unspecified amount to University of California for construction of a regional library in Northern California; SB 2645; Knox (D-Richmond). Energy Would require adoption of energy efficiency rating system for residences, encourage its voluntary use, and require a recommendation by Jan. 1, 1980, as to whether persons leasing or selling residences should be required to disclose their ratings; SB 2644; Goggin (D-San Bernardino). Coveted Meteorite Sent to Washington A salute to woman: self-confident, accomplished, aware.

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Officials at the Smithsonian, which won its claim to the 3-ton piece of nickel-iron in a federal district court late last December, said they would keep the meteorite in Washington for approximately one year. After that, Smithsonian officials said in a statement issued Thursday, it "is prepared to sign a long-term loan agreement with an appropriate California museum for exhibit of the Old Woman Mountains meteorite." The Interior Department last fall said that California could have the meteorite, while the United States retained legal title to it. The 41-billion-year-old meteorite was found in the Old Woman Mountains, about 170 miles east of Los Angeles, in March, 1976, by a trio of young prospectors. Smithsonian officials said that they planned to cut approximately one-third from the bottom of the meteorite to study the crystalline growth of its interior, since the object is presumed to have formed at about the same time as the solar nebula was condensing out as planets and asteroids. But Prof.

John Wasson of UCLA was aghast when told that the Smithsonian planned to slice almost one ton from the Old Woman. "Any research could be done with a few hundred pounds," said Wasson, a professor of chemistry whose specialty is meteorites, at most, 10 of the total weight." Wasson said that the Smithsonian, having lost custody of the meteorite, was trying to circumvent the Interior Department's decision by slicing off a third of the object for ostensible "research purposes." What the Smithsonian is really trying to do, the UCLA professor said, is carve itself an exhibition piece for display in the nation's capital. Meet her tomorrow at Newport in Wynshire Dresses BULLOCK LOS Nt.l l.l 1 WOODLAND IIIIIS MVU'OKl HIA( II WILSHIRE BLVD. 9:30 to 5:45 daily; 382-6161 PALM SPRINGS 10 to 6 daily, 12 to 5 Sun. (714) 325-1571 WOODLAND HILLS 887-5151 and NEWPORT Fashion Island (714) 759-1211, 10 daily, Fri.

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