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aid t USDtea Diego Auxiliary will be chaired by Mrs. James A. Kassner and Mrs. John M. Riley of La Jolla. La Jollans on the tea committee are Mrs. Thomas W. Keehn , Mrs. Carlos J . Tavares, Mrs. John J. Wells, Mrs. Richard Woltman and Mrs . Catherine Barber .

Mrs . Harry A. Collins, hospitality chairman for the Presid~nt's Tea nesday afternoon fr om ....._ 1 :30-3 :30 at the campus , home of Dr. Author l Hughes and Mrs. · Hughes has listed her Toe annual member- ship event sponsored by the University of San for Wed- ..,

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"'Ibe Ascent of Man" mm series featuring the late Dr. Jacob Bronowski will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on 13 consecutive Thursda,Y. ,at Salomon lecture hall, Universi- ty of San Diego. The rle'> will start nm day Two edits or cont uing education may be earned, and advanced registration can be made at the USD Conference ter, Founders Hall. The course 11 co ·t $30 per person, or single sessions at $3 each. --('~

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For th Univ ty of San D! go Torero football team, there' nothmg like starting out lh n against the o. 1 ma!! coll ge NAIA team In th nation And, then, for a ma- sochl.stlc ncore, take on the o. 2 team in the lion then t w luck of the dr w on U D's schedule as th Tor ro o In Thou- alts tomoITOw al 2: o p.m. against Cal Luth ran, th top r ted pre a n team Th n, th following tur- day on th Ir home field, USO entertains th second- rat team, Redlands Uni- v ·r lty USD coach Bill Williams announced a surprise start- Ing quart rback in sci ctlng Jim Val nzuela over three- y ar veteran Andy Slimak Valenzu la, who complet- ed elght or 17 pa for 274 yards and two touchdowns in USO's final crtmmage l~t ·aturday, red hirted last year aiter transfering from al Poly of Pomona Va!enzu la has thre ex- cellent rccelv rs to spot m Pat Iaccino, Bru Jans and tight end Tim Howard Cal Luth ran ls led on offen e by quarterback John Kmdr d and two small but durable running backs. lien ta! (5-9, 200 pounds) and Terry Hold n (5-9, 186 poun ), C I Luth ran compiled a II- record last year and beat the Toreros 47-0. t' th

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Son Diego, Friday, Septem~r 2, 1977

Witt pays little heed to challenger Jones in city attorney race

By BILL CALLAHAN As City Atty. John Witt sat munching a salad before a County Bar Assn. luncheon a nearby television light slipped from Its stand and fell on him. Momentarily stunned, Witt quickly regained his com- posure, restatloned the light and made a light-hearted remark to his dining companion. It may have been th most telling blow against Witt so far in the campaign for his office 't'"' His challenger, Rod Jones, a University of San pjegg law prore spr. has been flghting11ie classic uplilll battle l!I' an unknown, under!inanced novice challenging an entrenched incumbent. Because or Jones· lack of name recognition, political power base and money, he admits he has to be as "aggresive and offenSlve" as he can. "That's the only way I'll be able to get my name before the people and that's the only way I'll be able to get Witt to respond,' said Jones. "I've got to raisf! a big stink." Despite entering the race at the last minute, only because no one else chose to challenge Witt, Jones has been one of the most active candidates in an otherwise quiet municipal primary election campaign. In the short time he's been In the race Jones has charged Wilt with: - Waffling in his advice to the City Council on the proposed trade or Naval Hospital land for an adjoining area in Balboa Park's Florida Canyon. "Three different councilmen asked for an opinion on the subject and they got three diiferent answers from Witt," ,a,d Jones. "By the lime they were ready to vote they were shaking their heads." - Political favoritism in prosecuting tne Pardee Construction Co. with a civil suit for false advertising through a civil action rather than a criminal one. "The incumbent refuses to prosecute vested interests through the criminal division of his office because they are his biggest campaign contributors," said Jones. - Squelchmg prosecution of Jim Bates, now a county supervisor, in 1970 for fraudulently collecting unemploy- ment insurance while Bates was being paid by a political campaign committee. "John Witt personally made the decision not to prose- cute Bates because of the political implicat1ons," Jones said. He said state officials who Investigated the Incident were "shocked to learn that the case was rejected for cnmmal prosecution."

Th:s is permitted by state law In lieu of prosecution, said Witt. \ 1tt is supported in this explanation by both Bates and Stuart Swett, chief of the city attorney's criminal divi• sion. Bates said he met with state Investigators, agreed that he owed money and paid it. "I was never charged with an} t ·ng," he said Swett said the case was never brought by state inv~!tigators to his office for prosecution. He was asked if he concurred with the settlment, however, and he did, Swett said. "I did not feel the evidence was sufficient to file a crimmal complaint and we didn't," said Swett. "I informed John or my decision and he concurred also." Wtile Jones has been pounding on doors and speaking to anyone who will listen, Witt's campaign has been nooccXistent. "'l'hat's right," said Jones. "I've never run into him one" durtng the campaign except during the debate. And nob,xly seems to know who he is or what the city atu rney's office does." \I 1tt counters that he doesn't have to campaign. " f nobody knows my name how come a candidate with the same name as me won 30% of the vote in a school board primary without ever once campaigning?" asked Wilt He referred to the John Witt who won election to the San Diego school board in 1975. "I don't think there's that much of a need to cal'lpaign," said Witt. "I have a record, I think it's a da1nn fine one, anq he doesn't. I'll stand on my record." he last-minute entry of Jones kept Witt from winning ti~ office unopposed, which would have meant an auwmatic seven-year extension to the nonpartisan post he as held since 1969. rhat's because San Diego voters approved a proposi- tl in 1975 to have the mayor and city attorney run in pt JSidenlial election years. lecause the next tenn for city attorney will end In 1981, it vill automatically be extended to 1984. '\nd, because Witt and Jones are the only two candi· da es, the winner of the Sept. 20 primary will be elected. temples and comfortable in the presence of the community's power st 1cture with whom he deals regularly as the independ- en legal adviser for the city. Jones is short, balding, and admits to having few cc 1tacts among the civic leaders in the community. In he two men are a study In contrasts. itt is tall, urbane, graying at the-

ract, 11e counts that a blessing. "Witt's too tied to special, vested interests," he said. "I don't owe anyone anything. It's time for those people to be treated like the average citizen." "Complete nonsense," replies Witt. "For a professor of law he has an alarming lack of knowledge about the judicial system." The gap between the two widens when it comes to money. Wilt has a campaign chest of about $11,000. His biggest fund raiser , 'An Evening Under the Stars with John Wilt and His Other Friends" at the Bali Hai restaurant, raised about $9,000. Jones has about $1,000 in funds to campaign with. His biggest fund raiser, a barbecue in his back yard, brought in about $600. Several of Witt's supporters have ontributed the maximum $250 allowed by law. No one has contributed $250 to Jones' <:ampaign. Witt supports the police sweeeps in ~an Beach and downtown. His office has provided to pollre legal advice in the operations. "There has been an overabundance of crime in these areas and they should be places in which it's safe f01 the people or San Diego to go," he said Jones says the sweeps are flooding an already overbur- dened office with more cases. Ahigher priority should be given improving the efficiency of the office, he said. "Instead of sweepmg up everything in sight in those areas they should work to improve the lighting and boost the police profile," he said. The attitudes of the two candidates were epitomized during their debate. When offered a chance· to ask each other whate9er question they wanted, Jones ('Ontinued his theme of hammering away at "political fa\oritlsm" in the office. He asked why Witt opened his doors only to special interests at the expense of the public at large. When asked what he would like to question Jones on, Witt thought for a few seconds, then replied: "No, I don't have one. He has no record, there's nothing to ask him a question about."

There will be close to 4,000 undergraduate and graduate division students on campu when chool be- gin Thursday. Since 1972, there has been a 51 % ln- crea · in the enrollment, the .·poke ·man added. Onentalion for freshmen will begin tomorrow morn- ing on campus, when 22 students arrive from Hawall. There will be get- acquainted sessio during the day. Sports events are planned ror Sunday Testing ror rla placem nt will be held Monday

JOHN WITI JONES Witt has remained unruffled by the charges, all or which he denies. But he has not called any press conferences or called reporters to present his case. He did make public demals of the charges at yesterday's bar association li;ncheon in which the two candidates debated face-to-race for the first time Witt said Jones "obviously doesn·t know what he's talking about'' on the Naval Hospital land exchange and maintains he has provided the council with all the alternatives in the matter. He said the council sets policy Ior the community and it is their responsibility, not his, to arrive at a decision in the matter In the Pardee case, Witt said a civil action was taken because "you can't put a corporation in jail and that was the most eifective way to go." Witt also produced a letter from Superior Court Judge George Lazar in which Lazar said the city attorney's office had reached the bes\ settlement possible in the case under the circumstances. Pardee was ordered to pay a $1.000 fine and halt the conduct that Jed to the complaint. Witt also dismissed the political favonlism charge involving Bates. Witt said Bates was not prosecuted because he paid $325 back to the state for overpaid benefits.

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The University of n Diego Auxi11ary's annual memb rship tea is planned for Sept. 14 In the garden and patio of the campus home of Dr. u or E. Hughes, university president, and Mrs. Hu h 1rs James A. Kassner and Mrs. John M. R1I y cochairmen of the 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. event. I vitat1on have been IS.Sued to mothers of new u ents, faculty wives and other prospective new mbers ofth auxtl1ary.

USO football to host Boys Clubs

Boys Club members with esdoy September 7 1977 adult s erv ion will be ' ' . adm1tt d f c to t'ie University t San D1ego-

Dr. Hughes will wel- come guests and give a review of the university's program and Mrs Charles W. Melville Jr., auxiliary president, will acquaint prospective members with the pro- grams or that group. The committee in- clude Joan Bowes and the Mmes. Harold E. Roth, John A. Senneff, George A. Kiligas, Ger- ald McNulty, Martm F. Barrett, Robert E. How- ard and \\ alter Wilkins. Mr . Harry A. Collins,

Az u sa P c1f1c College football game at 7 30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 at USO stadium on Linda Vista Road As many as 1,000 to 1,500 boys could be in attendance on Boys Clubs Nights as guests of the USO football program, said Paul Mendes.sports information director Boys Club members and supervisors are aslied to be at the stadium before 7 p.m.

SELLER'S MARKET: Builder Neal Hooberman, house-shopping in Rancho Santa Fe, found a neat, four-acre parcel among the trees with an old, r un-down house square in the middle. The realtor said the owners wanted $275,000. But Hooberman had a counter- offer that was declined : "I tell you what," he said. "I'll give you $200,000 as is, or $250,000 if you'll bulldoze the house. " NOTEPAD: The San Diego Chamber of Commerce will send a three-man team to the Export Fair In Red China next month. It's an unprecedented third invi- tation to the Cant.on r2de fair for the local chamber. . . . Jerry Mathers is first up in USD's fall speakers series (Sept. 23). Mathers, who's found anonymity as a 30-year-old Orange County real estate salesman, was the child star of TV' "Leave It To Beaver." Following Mathers : (Nov. 14), and sexperts Masters and Johnson (Dec. 3). . . . The Big Brothers sold OU their annual banquet tonight ar. Town & Country. Four hundred tickets went for $200 each. But some ticket bolder will realize a 25-1 return on his investinent. Top door prize: $5,000 cash. ... Dinah Shore, who comes in on Sept. 18 for lour days or tiq>lng around town , Is bringing compos- er Paul Williams, McLean Ste- venson and 1960s heartthrob Frankie Avalon. Ronald Reagan (Oct. 1), Bob Hope

hospitality chairman, will be ass1 ted at the tea tables by Cathen ne Barber nd the 1Ines. Philip Y. Hahn, Jo r thaid , Fran s J. Bums, Henry G. Jo nton, I ay D. GQOdnch, Thomas w. Keelin nd James i ulvaney. 0th r a 1stmg are the Mmes. LaY.Tence Oliver, Carlos J . Tavares, Ross G. Tharp, Paul A. Vesco, J hn J Wells and Richard Woltman.

'GOOSPELL' CAST-" By Popular Demand Players". a newly formed touring company from San Diego appears in costume for their production of 'Godspell", musical rendition of St. Matthew's gospel, at 8 p.m . Saturday, Oct. 8 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, Camino Theater, University of San Diego. General admission is $2. The players are from left, top row, Lisa Doria. Marty Johnson, Betty Bourus, Eric Smith and Ron Elliott: bottom row. Kristi Durbin. Irene Rogers, Sue Flilhive, Chuck Ma,tinez and Colin McColl.-Dave Green photo

'TIS THE SEASON - again, and at the University of San Diego the It's regi'"t.r~r11or1 lime

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