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loss Snsclcss ftfrnea Compton Still Over Seethin Southeast Edition i M. 1 liliC 111 sic nx 1 ip 1 "'it 'I 1 1 If y. Carlo, Boyd Fudge, arrives at where he is a. patient and student. mmmm eftr I r' Accompanied by his mother Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Rudie Garcia, an occupational therapy assistant, helps Boyd with an exercise to maintain the functional range of his arm.

mmm. 'i 1 TEAMED AGAINST DYSTROPHY BY MARY BARBER 1 Times Stall Writer As Dr. John Hsu puts it, all types of disease the same operation cheerfully arid he can take and injury affect people, but muscular dystro- it, he knows. He is a daily patient and student phy affects the entire family. at the hospital, which tends to education as" It's in the catastrophic category, wherein well as treatment.

A 1 A 1 I A 1L- 'I everyone wno is at, an connecieu wnn ine Carla pg hig pretty mother, has her patient who is usually a child facing several anxicties ohe doesn kow i6w thev.u affor(1 Part VII THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1975 A LONG NIGHT Questions Bog Down Cerritos CRA 'Hearing' BY LARRY LANE Times Staff Writer CERRITOS Scenes from Wednesday's 4 a.m. aftermath of a boisterous and inconclusive public session into the proposed expansion of the Community Redevelopment Agency's tasks and territory included: A redevelopment foe voicing his concerns into an open microphone to the vocal approval of a handful of the original 500 spectators, despite the formal adjournment of the meeting minutes earlier to April 22. City Manager Gaylord Knapp huddling with his top aides to an- nounce that he was imposing a "gag. order" on redevelopment comments by anyone on the staff except himself, Asst. City Manager Steve Thatcher and City Atty.

Ken Brown. The session had begun at 7 p.m. Tuesday, and the agenda called for the City Council to conduct hearings on the proposed expansion of one redevelopment plan and the initiation of an entirely new project. Neither hearing came about. The session concluded during the middle of the question and answer session which was planned as prelude to testimony, Going into this week's hearing, city officials were hopeful of completing public hearings in the evening.

Now aides admit it might take a series of hearings, depending on the progress made at the April 22 session, which is tentatively scheduled for the Cerritos High School gym. What the redevelopment plan proposes is expansion of the existing Los Cerritos Redevelopment Area from 850 to 970 acres, adding portions of Cerritos College to the north and adding residential and commercial properties to the south, and the creation of a Los Coyotes Redevelopment Area to include eight land areas scattered throughout the Proposed development plans for the Los Cerritos area include flood control channel improvements, construction of an auto-commercial-professional complex, park development, a golf, course and street improvements. Los Coyotes development could include construction of a city center complex, flood control improvements, development of commercial and indus-trialareas, construction of three parks and road improvements. In both projects, improvements, would be paid for through increment financing, which freezes the tax base in a redevelopment area for all public agencies except the redevelopment agency area itself, which uses revenue generated by increases in assessments to repay bonds issued on the improve- ments. The mechanics of tax increment financing prompted repeated questions from audience members during this week's hearing.

Please Turn to Fage 8, Col. 1 years of deteriorating health is profoundly involved in the victim's well-being. As in the case of Boyd Fudge's family, there's the school, employer, insurance company, friends young and old, construction people for the room'addition, and an endless number of medically related personnel. The family, therefore, is -overwhelmed by the child's disease. "Overwhelmed" has become a medical term that has been taken up by the Muscular Dystrophy Assn.

to accurately describe the need for an abundance of professional help. Thus a team approach has evolved and it is' exemplified in the care of 15-year-old Boyd, a bright-eyed, sharp-witted optimist who is confronting spinal fusion surgery that will have him bedridden for a year. Boyd has seen other patients at Downey's Rancho Los Amigos Hospital who survived the necessary room addition at home in Bell- flower, and sees no way to get the essential new bathroom. She has never used, the lift that will move Boyd, and she doesn't know how the room can accommodate it. That's just touching the surface of her disturbing confrontations.

Rancho hospital, in cooperating with the Muscular Dystrophy Assn, has set up a team arrangement that covers every anticipated medical need for every dystrophy patient. 1 Heading Boyd's team are Miriam Hooper, patient service coordinator for MDA, and Dr. Hsu, orthopaedist in charge of the muscular dystrophy clinic at Rancho." Then there's Nancy Nakaji, social worker; Peggy Miller, liaison nurse; Dr. John Flynn, one of a group of orthopaedic surgeons; Pleas Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 Boyd blows bubbles as a regular exercise to maintain the air volume in his lungs.

Times photos by Steve Rice Jury's Report Negative Tone of Data Lambasted as Unfair During Council Session BY STEVEN SMITH Times Stad Writer COMPTON Still reacting with howls of pain and screams of rage to the report of a special committee of the -County Grand Jury on the problems of Compton, city officials made ready this week to do something about it "To use a slogan I found at my lawyer's office," said Councilman Walter Tucker, "Sue the bastards? Tucker's war cry was greeted with a groundswell of approval among the audience at the council's regular meet- ing this week, about an hour of which was given over to discussion of the; Grand Jury committee's report and its, potential impact on the city, The foreman of the Grand Jesse Robinson, is a Compton resident. "We have got to put aside our petty jealousies and differences," said Maxey Filer, chairman of the city personnel board and a frequent critic of the city administration, "and band together. "We've got to do something to this sort of attack on our city and its people," said Filer. "We've got to let the Grand Jury, and the newspapers, that they can't kick us around. "Wcshould demand a retraction from the Grand Jury; and we should sue for damages.

"We've tried negotiation; we've tried confrontation; now it's time for litiga-' tion." Filer made a critical analysis of the 83-page Grand Jury report, most of which consisted of transcripts of statements made by various speakers before the Grand Jury committee, which held hearings in the city last Jan. 14 through 22. In "an open letter to the Compton Community," Robinson and Glen W. Reeder, the committee's chairman, outlined what they considered to be the city's most serious problems, and offered some radical suggestions for improvements. Among the suggested improvements was a proposal that the city's Police and Fire Departments be consolidated with the County Sheriffs and Fire Departments.

"The Sheriffs Department patrols East Los said Filer, "and have you noticed any decrease in the crime rate or juvenile gang problem there?" Filer implied that the real reason the committee suggested an end to the Compton Police Department was because there were "some people" who did not want to have blacks in police JObS. Filer and the councilmen alternated their attacks from the Grand Jury committee to the news media, blaming the latter for failing to report "fairly." "Anytime you have a news story which leads off with, "Nothing is OK in as one did this week," said City Manager James Wilson, "you have to ask yourself whether there is a commitment to fair reporting." Wilson said that while the quote 'Nothing is OK in may be accurately reported, and probably came from the Grand Jury transcripts, to lead a news story off with the statement is "misleading." "Who can say that there is Nothing OK in asked Wilson. "Anyone who says that kind of thing has to 1 be ignoring the things that are 'OK' here, like our Parks and Recreation Department, our police cadet program, our senior citizens activities, and any number of other positive things which never get any mention in the press." Tucker, agreeing, said that "black people have been down and been Please Turn to Page 8, Col. 1 as Lobbyist tive advocates such as Gonsalves are supposed to file monthly reports outlining income from employers and expenses. Gonsalves first report, for the month of February and filed at the end of March, claims no income and no expenses, since, as Gonsalves put it, he was just getting started in the business.

A fuller accounting will probably be forthcoming at the end of April, for the month of March, said a spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office. Gonsalves' conversion to advocacy' was a particularly difficult one for him, say friends of the former assemblyman, because he had hoped for a state appointment from Gov. Brown. However, sources in Brown's office said that the governor had no intention of granting a post to Gonsalws because of Gonsalves" long association with the currently controversial milk industry, and because of recent revelations that the assemblyman had failed to properly disclose nearly $130,000 ir 1973 campaign donations. When no appointment was forth-coming, Gonsalves exercised what may have been his final option becoming a lobbyist Gonsalves" reluctance to take up a post in the house" stems primarily from the fact that he had Please Turn to Page 7, CoLS i.

A' ill '4, A team approach is used at Rancho. Working with Boyd, from 1 left, are Valerie Gonzales occupational therapist; Dr. John Hsu, i orthopaedist in charge of muscular dystrophy clinic; Gail Allsup, psychologist; Nancy Nakaji, social worker; Peggy Miller, Liaison nurse; Dr. John Flynn, orthopaedic surgeon, and Miriam Hooper, patient service coordinator for the Muscular Dystrophy Assn. vxmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm PROMOTES CITIES, Southeast News Notes Gonsalves Begins Career -a $1 II -1 1 it I DAIRYMEN hold down costs of such contracts.

Many of the cities represented by Gonsalves during his career as an assemblyman are contract cities. Under the new state law governing activities of lobbyists, Prop. 9, legisla I llliilyl In Joe Gonsalves Student Furlough Program Studied BY LARRY LANE Times Stall Writer An alternative educational program for potential high school dropouts has been proposed to the ABC Unified, School District Board of Trustees by" the district staff. Formal approval of the called the Extended Educational Fur-, lough, is expected by the board at its Monday, April 21, session. A staff report indicates the project is designed to allow 10th through 12th grade students with attendance or achievement problems to be granted graduation credits for community work or vocational experiences.

Supt. Charles Hutchison says the program may be operational at the district's three high schools by Sep- tember. Enrollment would be limited to 20 6tudents at each school under1 guide- lines for the pilot project jrj Objectives of the program as out I lined in the staff report include: "To increase the number; of students who complete an educational program and receive diplomas. "To increase the number of students who return to school for addi-. tional study after interrupted enroll-.

"To provide an approved time away Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 4 motels here until budget discussions for the 1975-76 fiscal year are held. The council had asked City Atty. Richard Laskin to draw up the ordinance last month. City Manager Ivan Reese had estimated the tax would generate about $6,000 annually in revenue to the city.

ABC Trustees Elect" William Watt has been elected presi- dent of the ABC Unified School District Board 6f Trustees for the 1975-76 term. Wesley Backus was appointed vice president for the same term. Thrift Shop Hit by Fire DOWNEY Fire which broke out at 2:13 a.m. in the Salvation Army Thrift Shop, 9444 Firestone Blvd, did an estimated $20,000 damage to the structure, Fire Chief Ed Wood reports. The fire, apparently ignited by a ciga-ret smouldering in a couch, also de-, stroyed used furniture for sale, but no value has been computed on that loss.

City to Replace Fixtures LAKEWOOD City Council has let a $10,709 contract to Smith Electric Supply Co. of Stanton to replace the 15 street light fixtures in the Country Please Turn to Page 6, CoL 5 Action Council Moves Rio Hondo Area Action Council has' moved to larger quarters in Pico Rivera after spending its first five years in Santa Fe Springs. The new office is on the third floor of Pico Professional Building, 6505 S. Rosemead Blvd. The council maintains its three outreach service centers in Pico Rivera," Whittier and South Whittier.

v' Lowell Board Organizes The Lowell Joint School District Board of Trustees has elected Mrs. Janet B. Averill as its new president and Mrs. Joyce E. Canfield as vice president.

Mrs. Averill served as vice president this past year. Both women have served on the board since July, 1971 i Park Building Pact Let COMMERCE A $45,900 contract to rebuild the Rosewood Park recreation building was -awarded this week by the City Council to Ron Jones, Inc. of Santa Fe Springs. The building was damaged last year by a fire.

Cudahy Delays Bed Tax CUDAHY'- The City Council voted this week to delay establishing a 5 bed tax to be assessed of hotels and BY STEVEN SMITH Times Stall Writer Former state Assemblyman Joe Gonsalves (D-Cerritos) is on the rise again, this time in a new career as a lobbyist for the California Contract Cities Assn. and the dairy industry. Records kept by the office of Secretary of State March Fong Eu show that Gonsalves registered as a lobbyist with that office on Feb. 18. The 14-year veteran of the Legislature listed as his new employers the Contract Cities which represents 35 cities statewide and 14 in the Southeast area; the Dairy, headquartered in the city of Industry; the Cash-and-Carry.

Dairy Assn. of California, and Ambassador Foods of LaMirada. a In early February, Gonsalves was hired on a "temporary" basis by the Contract Cities Assn. to represent them in Washington, D.C, on federal revenue sharing matters. Gonsalves was to be paid $3,000 for the two-month job, according to Contract Cities Assn.

Executive Director George Voight However, at that time Voight said the association had no plans to make Gonsalves their full-time representative in Sacramento as well as Washington. Gonsalves.has often aided the Contract county for services including police and fire protection, working to.