News Scrapbook 1980-1981

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May 25, 1981

SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL

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Building contractor acquires majority interest Gl:RALD J. YABlONICKY 1s the new publisher of the seven-month-old Downtown San Diego newspaper.

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the ratio was 23.3 percent. During the past 30 years, none of the goods- producing industries ha\C kept pace Y.ith 212.2 percent increase in non- agricultural employment. Johs in trade, service, and government grew at 252.2 percent. TOURISM Another hat has been thrown into the convention center ring with a $75 mil- lion center proposed at Aero World, an aviation theme park planned for we,tern Mira Mesa. Since the down- town convention center vote failed, talk about alternative sites has included Navy held, Lane Field and an expanded Sports Arena. But no one really expected for Aero World to dust off its plans for an air- inflated building that was to house Howard Hughes' flying boat, the Spruce Goose. Those plans had been shelved when the Spruce Goose found a home in Long Beach, next to the Queen Mary. "We just took our plans for the 100.000-square foo t flying boat

USD, addressed the 283 law school graduates. \ileese is currently on leave from USO. In his current position as counsel to the president, Meese functions as Reagan\ chief policy advisor Secretary of Defense Weinberger addressed the 530-student graduate undergraduate commencement. Weinberger has served as Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare under Presidents Nixon and I-ord, and as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The San Diego State Uni,ersity student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has been recogni7ed for excellence while in competition Y.ith other ASM E student chapters at the Uni\ersity of Ari?Ona at Tucson Other a11oard winners included SDSL, students DAYID A. TODD, JR., who won first place for his project. ··A niversal Calibration Curve for Laminar L Flow Meters," and JOHN F. HAGEY for his project, "An Underwater Zoom Strobe Light " DR. A 'N JOHNS. director of the American Language ln~t1tute at San Diego State University, will serve at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute as a Fulbright scholar during the 1981- 82 academic year. Her }ear m Shanghai will be spent training English teachers the current language teaching practices EMPLOYMENT According to The Ad, isor, a monthly publication of the San Diego Employer Ad1isory Board, San Diego County had the fifth largest gain m market area in the United States in the last decade. During the 1970s. San Diego Count: gre1\ b) 50 I. 769 to hecome the nauon·s 20th largest economic market. up from 23rd in 1970. The Ad1iso1 also said unioni,ation among California worker, steadil) decreased o,er the past 30 years. In 1951. the ratio was 40.8 percent, in 1979. the audience at the Catholic school wliich was largely sympathetic. ' The protestors, which ·ncluded represen- tat,ves from the Catholic Worker, Committee Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) Women's International League for Peac; and Freedom, and Infant Formula Action Committee, maintained their vigil above the USO stadi!,JJil until after the address by Weinberger. During Weinberger's speech, protestor Leo B~nnett, carrying his 6-month-old son in a sling 1n front of him, slipped in front of the speaker's platforr:n and held up his sign. USD security chief Don Johnson quickly approached Bennett, and, according to Bennett, promised the protestor that he could meet with Weinberger if he would accompany johnson behind the speaker's platform, which he did. When subsequently informed that he must leave the USD campus without meeting Weinberger, Bennett offered nonviolent resistance and was placed under a citizen's arrest by Johnson. USO and San Diego police dragged and carried the two Be~netts 200 feet to a waiting San Diego police car. Weinberger did not acknowledge the protestor as he told undergraduate and grad• uate degree recipients that the U.S. must not take an "inferior" position in the arms race to the U.S.S.R. ~-ut Weinberger said that increasing U.S. military power "need not require a draft or conscription. The president and I are strongly opposed to a peace time draft; we are opposed to the compulsion inherent in a draft and aware of the disruptive effect it can have on the nation."

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I he 36-year-old San Diego real estate broker and building contractor. became maJorlt} shareholder of the weekly newspaper earlier this month Y.hen We,tern Offset dive,ted Its interest, tn the fledgling publication. "We've found that we can't devote the proper time tl> a new publica11on and still keep up w11h our numerous other busine" interests," explained Bob Etheridge ol Western Off,et Yahlonicky, a former owner ol the Jeweler\ Exchange building tn the Gaslamp Quarter area of downtoY.n and past president of the Gaslamp Quarter Association, said "It's an exciting t1mc in downtown I he restor,1tion ofGc1sl,1mp Quarter and the re, itali,.111on and redevelopment of doY. nto1,1,n will broaden the hon,on of the city." I he ne1,1,spapcr's three minority partner\ are .IFAN SCOl T, the editor- in-chief. DA!I.A Bl ASI, general manager and HARVFY KA l ZEN. director of advertising, who were all on the ground floor in the formauon of the newspaper. "-at,cn and Blasi were working for a pn,atc directory company in San Diego last year when they decided to explore the possiblity of establishing a news- paper to erve the downtown area. ·•tn shopping around for printing prices \.\t;rc were introduced to the people at Western Offset," Katzen explained, "and we found that they. too. were considering putting together a do"' ntow n pa p.:r. I heir resources were printing. production and editorial and our, 1,as ,ah:s so 11 \.\as a marriage of the t"' o." Scott. a 25-ycur 1ctcran Journalist, ,,,1, editor ol the M1lttal\ :,;ews at the time, a bi,1eckly publicat;on pnntcd b} Western Olf ct. "In seeing the rcde,clop- mcnt going on downto11 n. I decided it was time that d(rnnto,1n had it's 0\\n communll) nc\.\spapcr." said Scott, "'ho continue, in her role as editor of the eight-year-old Military 'ey,, while

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The Women's Association for the Salk Institute will close the current year with the installation of new officers and an award ceremony at a luncheon June 9 at the Officers' Club, NAS Miramar. Mrs. Calvin Manning is luncheon chairman. Mrs. Norma Thorsen will be installed as president and Mrs. Barnard Meade, first vice president. Other officers are the Mmes. Harold G. Lee, Helen H. Phil- lips, Paul Schoonhoven, Simon Edison, Joseph W. Coddou and William W. Holt Jr. Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church in La Jolla was the setting for the May 16 marriage of Marie Louise "Fru" Doherty, daughter of retired Army Col. and Mrs. Paul Doherty, and Shawn Finn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Finn. The Mass was concelebrated by Monsignor James M. Gilfillan, pastor of the church, and the Rev. Pa- trick Connolly, the bride's professor of communica- tion arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los ~ngeles. The bride's brother, Robert, gave the read- mgs. The bride wore a long dress of white georgette with lace bodice and an accordion-pleated skirt. A Juliet cap held her floor-length illusion veil and she carried a cascade of lilies of the valley, white roses and stephanotis. Mrs. Fred Neigebauer of Colorado was matron of honor and the bridesmaids were Lindy Hohnstein of Long Beach and Mary Kraut of Los Angeles. They wore dresses of ice blue crepe embossed with roses and they carried nosegays of lilacs and pink peonies. er giI l and 1 wore an empire-style blue flowered crepe dress with white eyelet pinafore. Chris Harris of Portland was best man and ushers were Mark Fontana of La Jolla and Richard Cyr of San Francisco. Church bouquets were of lilacs and peonies and more of the blooms added to the natural planting at Darlington House for the reception and dance. Guests included the maternal grandmother of the bridegroom, Mrs. Paul V. Shiels, who has recently moved from Cincinnati to La Jolla. Also Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mohan of Tucson and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taggart of Las Vegas. The bride was graduated from The Bishop's Schools, La Jolla, and Loyola Marymount. The bride- groom attended the University of San Diego before moving to Kodiak, Alaska, where the couple will live. The 94th birthday of Mrs. Fredalene Maddux Hartzell was celebrated at a tea given May 17 by her daughters, Mrs. Mary Burcham and Mrs. Arthur Herzman at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herzman. Guests included family friends and associates of Mrs. Hartzell in the Kensington Auxiliary of the Wo~e_n's Committee of the San Diego Symphony As- soc1at10n and of her P.E.O. Sisterhood chapter. Mem~rs of the President's Club of the University of San Diego have been invited to a reception tomor- row evening at Camino Hall on the campus to hear Dr. Bernard H. Siegan discuss his new book "Eco- nomic Liberties and the Constitution." ' . US~ president, Dr. Author E. Hughes, and 0. Mor- ns Sievert, USD trustee and chairman of the club will welcome guests. ' Dr. Siegan is director of law and economic studies at the USD School of Law and was a practicing attorney in Chicago for 20 years. He has authored or edited six books and has written numerous articles on various aspects of the law.

Edwin Meese 01erseeing the editorial operation of DowntoY.n. The newspaper cut its political and editorial teeth on the recently reiected comention enter proposition. "I was in favor of it and I'm disappointed it failed." says publisher Yablonicky. "But do"' ntoY. n will grow and prosper in spite of it." he asserts, adding that he believes "the Navy Field alternati,e convention center site should be explored." Blasi summed up the newspaper's market \.\1th. "There are about 80.000 employed San Diegans in downtown . Add the , isiton,. those people doing banking and legal business and the tourists and you ha,c the best market in San Diego." EDUCATION Presidential counselor EDWIN MFFSr and Secretary of Defense CASPAR \\ El 'Hf:RGER addressed commencement acti, ities and rece•\ed honorary degrees at the L,ni\er,it) of San Diego on Sunday. Meese. th.:- director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management and Jay, professor at

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BY JOEL WEST commenc~ment addresses by top Reagan aides offered a focal point Sunday f?r San Diego activists opposed to the poli• c1es of the Reagan administration. As many as 40 protestors marched outside the University of San Diego during graduation speeches by presidential councilor Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger: At one point, a solitary protestor knelt in front of the speaker's podium and held up a small sign saying "U.S. let El Salvador be"; he was later dragged away and arrested for trespassing. Morning ceremonies for some 250 law school graduates featured Meese a USD law professor and_ d_irector of the' university's Center for Criminal Justice Policy. Without ever referring to 11 directly, Meese used the occasion to justify the Reaqan-proposed el1minat1on of the federal Legal Services Corp., which . P_rovides non-criminal legal asmtance to m1ll1ons of poor Americans "Taxpayer-supported" legal ser~ices claimed Meese, could not completely fili ~he need for legal access for the poor; instead, ind1v1dual attorneys must provide more aid "Legal services to the poor is one of the most mriortaf't professional respon • s,b1lities that every lawyer has," he said. Roughly a dozen law stud nts wore "ACUJ'' rmbands over their gi-aduation two

robes, against Meese's recent attacks against the American Civil Liberties Union. On May 11 Meese termed the ACLU part of a "criminals' lobby," At one point, when the protestors' chant of "No draft, no war, U.S. out of El ~lvador" was louder than Meese's ampli• f1ed address, the speaker jokingly acknow- ledged their presence. "I hear that I'm being accompanied by a chorus," said Meese. "I hope it won't drown out my remarks." Meese was applauded by a silent protest

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