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Council 6JC6 4fi ray Mike once, lire iiiiSiil v. HUSKY HOOPSTER Tommy, the elephant at the Universal Studios Tour Center, gets in shape for the national Hula Hoop championship there in August. Tommy started practicing only Friday and already can "twirl" four. At 7, he meets the 6-15 oge limit but will that trunk disqualify him? Times photo by Fitzgerald Whitney Davis Says Feelings Run High, but No Walkout in Sight BY RICHARD WEST Tim Staff Wrlttr Los A 1 city councilmen Thursday rejected -a recommendation by its Personnel Committee that it increase salaries of policemen and firemen by 7.8. The vote of 6 for the recommendation and 7 against came after Police Chief Edward M.

Davis warned the council that feeling has been running high among his men over the delay in adopting a pay raise. The vote actually was on whether to take the preliminary step of instructing the city attorney to draw up a pay raise ordinance. Davis said he has been advising his officers to "keep the faith" through a dial-a-message telephone system set up especially to keep them informed of salary proceedings. But the chief told the councilmen he Wanted to "guarantee you the department is going to be' professional and serve the city no matter what happens Just before going to City Hall to appear before the council, Davis told a news conference in the Police Building that he does not expect nor would he tolerate the kind of slowdowns or walkouts that policemen in other departments have been using to give muscle to demands for pay hikes. However, Davis said that if a raise is not forthcoming soon from the City Council he could "see the possibility of a lawsuit or an initiative ordinance by the public to take this (pay raise) out of politics." Councilmen also voted 6 for and 7 against a Personnel Committee minority report that an ordinance be prepared granting the 10,000 members of the uniformed services a 3.75 pay raise.

The council adopted the 3.75 raise once before but it was vetoed by Mayor Sam Yorty. The mayor said the uniformed services deserved a 7.8 increase. Not enough council votes could be mustered to override Yorty's veto. After Thursday's council session. Council President John S.

Gibson Jr. said there is a possibility that the pay raise may. come up for reconsideration at today's session. Eight votes are needed to have the ordinance prepared and 10 for passage. Early in the session, the council rejected a motion by Councilman John Ferraro that consideration of the issue be put off for 30 days until the council comes up with some revenue measures to cover a $39 million deficit in the 1971-72 budget.

$12 Million Cost A 7.8 pay raise for policemen and firemen would cost $12 million; a 3.75 raise about half that sum. Ferraro pointed out that the mayor has been demanding that the council pass revenue measures to pay for salary increases and other expenditures. "If we adopt something today the mayor, being a man of great integrity, would have to veto it again," he said. Councilman Gilbert W. Lindsay took issue with Ferraro, saying, "I believe the time has come when we must face this issue then we will know exactly how much money we need to raise." He said the uniformed services deserve a 7.8 raise, which was recommended by the city administrative officer.

Policemen and firemen here, Councilman Edmund D. Edelman noted, have received five pay increases in the last four years. Pleas Turn to Page 5, Col. 4 11 AUTO BLAZES BELIEVED TO BE WORK OF THIEVES" A series of car fires believed. by police to be the work of auto thieves occurred late Wednesday night and early Thursday in widely separated areas of the city.

Police reported that a total of 11 autos, all but one suspected of being were either destroyed or damaged. The blazes, set by arsonists armed with gasoline, began at 10:05 p.m. and ended at 3:09 a.nv Four of the vehicles were burned in West Los Angeles and seven in South Central Los Angeles. Investigators said it is common for auto thieves to set fire to a car after stripping it of useable equipment. A burned-out vehicle, police said is more difficult to indentifyV Investigation of the burnings is continuing.

COMPUTERIZES DATA Electronic Sleuth Joins Police for Battle on Crime BY ROBERT RA WITCH Timet Staff Writer Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. Davis Thursday announced "the addition' of a new computerized information system to the department's crime-fighting arsenal and called it an "electronic Sherlock Holmes." The information system, known as PATRIC (for pattern recognition and information correlation), initially will be used in the six police divisions with the highest crime rates. If it proves effective during an $-month trial period, it will be installed throughout the 11 other divisions. The system was developed by System Development Corp. of Santa Monica under a $551,430 federal grant approved by the California Council on Criminal Justice.

Sgt. Robert Kenney, project director for PATRIC, explained how the system will work: By "telling" the computer the circumstances of any given crime, detectives can get within 2 minutes an answer as to how many crimes have been committed in a similar fashion and the description of the persons involved. More Effective Patrol Davis said such information will then enable police to deploy patrol cars more effectively with more accurate information on suspects hieing sought and when crimes are likely to occur. "This certainly won't replace detectives but it will make their job a lot easier," the chief said. Previously when a crime was committed, police had to go through thousands of files by hand to determine if similar crimes may havt been committed by the same person.

A changeover in police reports took place May 1, so only crimes committed since then have been programmed so far. Police divisions involved in the experiment are Central, Wilshire, Hollywood, Rampart, Southwest and 77th St. Compton Police Officer Fired for Observing Pay Hike Sick-in Patrolman's Dismissal Based on Refusal to Submit to Examination by City Physician; Slowdown Started June 27 BY MARTY COREN Writw CC PART II FRIDAY, JULY 161971 ART SEIDENBAUtt Los Angeles for Sale The Rue de Vallee controversy only proves we have no road scho- lars in town. Why shouldn't the man who reached stardom via his nasal passages be able to name an alternate route? His neighbors, I fear, are merely being petty about losing a piece of old Pyramid Place. There was a time when even I was eligible to help name a lane.

We live on a dinky driveway that qualifies as a private road because no public works people would ever want to claim it We share the potholes with four other amilies. A man named Hollerbach was a pioneer along the driveway; when we moved in, Hollerbach announced that we could post a private road sign and name it to our choosing. I puffed with ego and then deflated with chagrin. The only name that seemed appropriate was Backside Lane, the combination of our families. But wouldn't vanity be a profitable part of public life-style? If people paid for the privilege? Upkeep Donation I think Rudy Vallee should have his way, his self -named way, at a price.

Say, a $1 million donation to the Gty of Los Angeles for future municipal upkeep and maintenance. The public section pleads more poverty than any other. Cities starve. Counties whimper. States try to disclaim responsibility.

I've thought for many months that private institutions approach their poverty more sensibly. They create honors instead of taxes. Hospitals and houses of worship sell plaques. Universities name whole buildings after generous donors. Wealthy men may buy their own memorials.

Good causes offer small pieces of themselves for capital at little loss of principle. Government can do the same. The new California license plates are one example: for $25 extra, one can write his own plate in up to six letters. The proceeds are applied against pollution. The privilege could be extended to private roads and even individual driveways.

For a fee, a man should be able to buy an official Los Angeles street sign to hang above his property. Take a Number Politicians of vision who understand vanity might then expand the fund-raising device to new avenues or heretofore numbered streets. My street atlas lists 12 whole pages of numbered roads in the Los Angeles area. There are almost three dozen varieties of 1st St. alone, a confusion that could stand correcting.

Sell off some of those pavements to private names. The historic practice has been naming streets after living or dead men who did some civic duty. Noble, but I don't think we can afford to be so generous anymore. We ought to sell space in the name of lower taxation and the fiscal greening of Los Angeles. One of Vallee's neighbors told reporter Richard West that putting a new face on Pyramid Place would be a dreadful waste of taxpayers' money.

He was being small-minded. It could be a windfall for all of us if Vallee, troubadour of the Traffic Commission, paid for his prominence with a substantial dollar sign. The Backside route to city solvency. PART II INDEX TIMES EDITORIALS. Page 8.

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BUCKLEY JR. Tag 7. VITALS, WEATHER. Tig 4. Up Tlmtt Stiff The City of Compton fired one policeman Thursday in a crackdown on officers engaged in a sick-in to enforce higher wage demands.

The unidentified officer called in sick for the night shift beginning at 10 p.m. Wednesday and refused to allow a city physician to examine him. Six of eight patrolmen scheduled for that shift phoned in sick. Some of them later reported for work, according to city officials. Officers began a work slowdown on June 27, after rejecting a A pay raise offered by the Compton City Council, far short of their requested 11 increase.

A spokesman for the Compton officers said the action was the beginning of a mass sick-in. He said all officers will call in with the "blue flu," except for a few needed for emergencies. On the Thursday morning shift that began at 8 a.m., five of nine patrol officers reported sick. It was estimated that less than 25 of the daytime force, of 80 men claimed to be sick. All officers who report sick are required to be examined by a city physician.

Chief Recommended Firing The one officer was fired by Acting City Manager Berton- Wills, the only person authorized by the city charter to fire personnel. Wills said he was acting on the recommendation of Police Chief William Wills said there may be more firings but each case would be considered individually. "We really can't afford to fire any of these men. But when they are insubordinate to the chief of police, we have no choice," Wills said. "I hope half of them will quit," said Mayor Douglas F.

Dollarhide, who emphasized that the City Council was adamant about maintaining Claremont Chaplain Need Not Produce Files, Judge Says BY GENE BLAKE TiiMt sttft Wrlttr A federal judge has ruled that a Claremont Colleges chaplain need not produce records-for a federal grand jury investigating alleged widespread fraudulent practices in draft counseling. In a decision filed Wednesday, U.S. Dist. Judge William P. Gray held that the Rev.

Gordon Verplank is entitled to the protection of the clergyman-communicant privilege. Gray also ruled that the government had shown no compelling need for the information sought which transcends First Amendment rights of free speech and association. At the same time, the judge decided that Dr. Martin S. Weg, a Woodland Hills dentist, must produce records of a former associate, Dr.

Bernard Bender, in connection with the same investigation. Bender is still sought by the FBI on a material-witness warrant. He was last reported in Cuba, where he became stranded while on a Caribbean yacht cruise. Mr. Verplank was subpoenaed to produce all records of the McAlister draft counseling center at Claremont relating in any way to Bender, to persons referred to Bender and to all physicians, dentists or psychiatrists Please Turn to Back Pag, Col.

5 the 4 Increase. "If they think any other city will pay them higher, let them go there," Dollarhide said. The mayor blamed the sick-in on white members of the force who do not live in Compton. "The majority of them don't live here. They come in and bleed the city.

We have plenty of young black men here," Dollar-hide said. However, another city official emphatically denied the wage dispute concerned the residency or color of the policemen. Seek Parity With L.A. The Compton Police Assn. is asking that their officers be paid the same salary as Los Angeles Sheriffs Department personnel.

Compton patrolmen now earn a maximum salary of $920 a month and want $992 a month the same as a sheriffs deputy. (In January, a deputy's salary goes up to a monthly maximum of $1,236.) The effect of Jhe sick-in so far has not been determined. Only a couple of men are reported to be working overtime. The wage dispute in Compton is one of several police protest actions around Los Angeles. In Long Beach a police "professionalization" movement has been in effect for two weeks.

It has caused an estimated 10 decline in arrests and tickets. The Long Beach Police Officers Assn. is seeking a 13.5 wage increase. In El Monte, police officers were scheduled to meet Thursday night to decide on action against the city after having been denied a 13.75 increase. A press conference for Torrance police officers 13 scheduled for today.

ZEMAN lumi ChW topography, coheslve-ness, contiguity, compactness of territory and community of interests. But the underlying factor in the redistricting was numerical equality of population. In general, the supervisorial districts will follow existing geographic patterns if the proposals are approved. Principal changes would he the transfer of the Artesia-Bellfiower-Cerritos-Lakewood area to Supervisor Burton W. Chare; Olympic Rancho Fark and Westchester to Supervisor Kenneth llahn, and Van Nuyg and Sun Valley to Supervisor Ernest E.

Debs. rieast Tura to Pago 3, Col. 1 Realignment Proposed for LA. County's Supervisor Districts BY RAY Tlmtt Ceunfy Realignment of Los Angeles County's five supervisorial districts to make them nearly equal in population was recommended Thursday by a boundary commission of five citizens headed by former Superior Judge Alfred E. Paonessa.

The Board of Supervisors, whose chief deputies assisted in preparing the new boundaries, will vote on the proposal at 10:15 a.m. July 27. Richard A. Schoenl, assistant executive officer of the Board of Supervisors, said 1970 census tracts, ranging in size from 200 to 13,000 persons, were used in making changes, These are expected to conform with U.S. Supreme Court orders for equality.

The commission also considered CRIME-FIGHTING AID Sgr. Robert Kenney ex-plains the workings of computeriied information system, on "electronic Sherlock Holmes." Screen shows Information being fed into the computer. Timet photo by Bob WaMlewiki.