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larity for soccer in this country," observes Franz Krauthausen, a Socker midfielder from West Ger- many "When I first came to Ameri- ca I said, 'What is it here?' I see only four or five thousand people in the stands and the people don't un- derstand the rules. They must an- nounce to the crowd what Is happen- ing. This is a corner kick and things like that. But not any more. I think maybe in five or six years, soccer will be sport number one in United States." And the reason, folks, lies with the kids. Close to 30,000 would-be Peles (Pele, the Brazilian soccer star) \\-111 pla} in organizrd (Pagues throughout the San Diego area this year and the majority of them will be children under 16 years of age. Believe it or not, the facts say that there are more people participating in youth soceer leagues than in Little League baseball, Pop Warner football or recreational basketball. ", ow the kid are saymg, 'I'm not 6-foot-5' or 'I don't weigh 250 pounds' and then they look at soccer and realize that is the one opportunity in their lives to play a sport," says Sacker forward Victor Arbelaez, he of the 5-foot-3, 140-pound frame. "In 10 years, soccer will be on top in this country and It will be because of the kids." How come soccer, which has been around for over 2,000 years (it can be traced to China in 200 B.C.), has at last become the rage here? What is behind this movement? So why the sudden attracuon?

here. Americans are playing soccer It's now up to the people to under- stand that." And if people would just take the lime to look around, they would see that this one-time foreign concept has actually crept into the streets of ~merica. Kids are now kjcking spot• ted balls rather than swinging at hor hide o s. Men are taking cor- ner kicks Ill ead of mulligans on the first tee. Women are sweeping around f•Jllback lines and not kitchen tables. "Every year there is more popu-

of fans, the outrorre of lnternallonal games often tted up with national id ntlties. Yes t was the most popi..lar sport on the face of the planet, but as far as San D1egans were concerned it was alien . It was strange ... it was, w II, foreign Soccer? '\I, ho m the hell cares? What did the Padres do last night? 'The ethmc atmosphere is gone, but I don't think we've been able to commce the people of that," said Bill Hanson, director of public rela- t10ns for the San Diego Sockers. "H's

~1(CU1? 7-)-/-78 'University of Third Age' Coming of Age One is never too old to learn, grow an~ ex~and on new horizons. The University of the Third Age hopes to prove that. Monday, the University of San Di~go begins a pilot program, the Un~vers1ty of the Third Age, for 55 retired persons seeking intellectual stimulation in their lives. The five- week course, modeled after a suc- cessful program in Toulouse, France will involve lectures and studen~ participation round tables on numerous subjects. Among them are current affairs, politics, art, music religion, the law, economics, medicai pro~lems affecting aging, personal affairs as they involve pensions af- fecting taxes and welfare. 1:1e curriculum is not designed to provide comprehensive education but rather regenerate the student'~ interest in the world around him. The USO program was designed by Lt. General Victor H. Krulak who visited the program at the Univ~r~ity of Toulouse.

U.S. Gr nts 43,000 For Gaslamp Study Historical, cultural and architectural information about ~he Gaslamp Quarter, a 16-block area in downtown San Diego scheduled for redevelopment, will be asSf'm- bled by a team or USD tudents under a federal grant Ray Brandes of USD announced the $43,000, 2½-mo~lh gra t. I~ ,Provides for a Regional Employment Training Consortmm contract through the Comprehensive F.m- ploy:nent and Trainlng Act Seventeen students will part1c1pate. Th_e research.will provide a basis for informal decision- making reg~dmg the disposition or buildings deserving of preservation. One research group W111 examine sites for possible use as a b iness history museum, streetcar depot and ol~tlme f)Ost _Offl(.~. Another group will compile an lmentory of histoncal material bearing on future proj- ects. A third group w~ll docu~ent data that will permit lltruct~s to be certified as historic landmarks. The fmal student group will write a history of the San Diego streetc;u: system dating from 1886, gathing data on car styles, uniforms and technical aspects of trolley

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MD ATTORNEYS AS NURSES DO DOCTORS Paralegals Do Law Legwork By GINA LUBRANO Staff Writer, The sr ...., Ofe;o Union Paralegals - lawyer's assistants

CONTINUED Ff/OM PAGE 8-1 Interviews with local fans and players 1, the an- ers are many. Soceer purists under dably be- lieve the gam s healthier more exciting safer, l pressurized, cheaper and more accessible to smaller, more normal-sized people. Anc they may be right on all counts. "ln baseball you might your son bat every half- hour or so and he might stnke out on three straight balls," says the Scottish- born George Logan, San Diego's ".Mr Soccer" (he's the head coach at both San Diego State University and Valhalla High School, plus the director o! the Califor- n a Soccer camp held each summer at the University or San Die , n e co or man on er radio broad- casts). "But in sqccer, he'll be in on 12 or 16 or 18 plays or more If he'f that active, nobody notices 1f he misses the baII once in a while." T11ere still, however, re- ma some problems. Like bad mk, for one. "Would you have wanted your kid to play youth soccer when all you could read in the paper were headlines like 'Man Tram- pled and Killed in Soccer Match Overseas'?"' asks Chuckie Clegg, a coach at the California Soccer Camp. "You'd probably start to wonder if you might get killed yourself if you played the game." And then there are those basic American instincts which must be conquered "If somebody throws something to you here in this country, you'll catch it with your hands, light?" suggests Socker goalie Alan ,1ayer. ''But if you threw something to a foreign play- ' he"d try tv h d (bu •J it back to you or Jock it. That:~ the differencr ~gh

And don't forget trad1- t1on Whil e r o! world watched the World Cup final la t week betv.een Argentma and Holland their television screens. U.S. stations offered reruns of "F-Troop' or something CBS, NBC and ABC all de- cided that tne most cele- brated athletic event In the world for the next four years wa~n·t worth the bother. And tho~ San Diegans v.ho wanted to watch the World Cup games had to try to catch Channel 12 out or Tijuana. "There was some very strong mterest from a limit- ed amount of people, but I don't know if if would have been worth it." said Chan- nel 8 (the local CBS affili- ate) program director Jules \foreland of the networks' decision to ignore the World Cup finals. "You've got to ask how much interest there is in soccer as far as watching it." Though the answer to that is apparently unclear, soccer's emergence in San Diego is not. And it is up to people like Mayer, a pure- bred American who is one of the better goalies in the , ·orth American Soccer League even though he characteristically did not "get serious" about soccer until his junior year in col- lege, to provide the reason. "The rest of the world can't be wrong," he says. "In everv other country, nothing ·comes close to soccer in popularity and sooner or later that might happen here. It's got to." That movement may have already begun. ..:,,,-:;>~~~:Lo:~=----

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MINORITY LIAISON Ex-Reagan Aide R. Keyes Dies (Continued from Page 8-1) Mike Dea~er, whO tnen extensive background in was . l_teaga_n s director of race relations. Aperson with administ,i;at1on, recalled yes- an extensive background terday, ll was hard to be might have stereotyped Rona!~ Reagan's represeo t • ideas and not be able to work atlve Ill the mmonty com- with the Creative Society " mun1ty. There w_er~ days he He added: "You d~n•t (Keyes) woul~ ~it m my off- have to live m the ghetto to ice and say, It s rough out understand poverty I was a there.' But he would go out poor as anyone. )iy fathe; day after day and try to died when I was a freshman ~nng _the · ~ge of th e (In high school). Because Creative SoClet}_ to,,the mi- there was no money, we no!;IIY comm mitles. ,. were on welfare for a while. The Creative Society After (high school) football was_ the name Reagan gave I shmed shoes. • to his approach of encourag- , . Jng private businesi to ad- After Keyes father died, dress social allmenL~ 11 was Paul Platz, a coach at Cor- in contra:.t to the "Great coran High School m f:\akers- Society'' fashioned by then f~eld who later would 301~ the Pres dent Lyndon B. John- Unlve~?1ty of San Diego son which featured a govern- St.aft, sort of adopted me ment-flnanced War on Pov- a nd gave me the impetus to erty to tackle problems ln get started," Keyes once minority communities. recalled. But besides being Platz encouraged Keyes to Reagan's ambassador to enroll at Antelope valley minorities, Keyes also was Junior College_m Lancaster, an advocate for minorities where_ he twice won All- within the governor' ·suite. Amenca honors• "Reagan and Keyes both Keyes !'nrolled at USD in were proud that th Reagan 1957 on a football scholarship administration appointed and was made capta1~ in his more blacks to executive po- 3umor year. He took t111:e out sit10ns than all the governors fro~ college to serve m the before Reagan combined." :Manne Corps and_ play two Deaver said. seasons of profess10nal foot- "Bob (Keyes) made him- ball, returning to USD to self a part or the appoint- earn a bachelor's degree In ments process. He would al- busmess admmistration in ways argue that if the people 1962. were qualified to give the lie taught business cours- minority person a chance es at Marian High School in "I remember one time th Imperial Beach from 1962 to governor had an appomt- 1964, then 5\\-itched the fol- ment to make to the state's lowing year to Saint Augus- barbers board. Someone in tine High School in San the room said to the gover- Diego to teach accounting nor, 'Why put a black on the and to coach In 1963, he went to work remember Reagan saying, for the Continental Assur- 'Bob told me they don't have ance Co. In. San Diego, and anyone on the barbers' was honored as agent of the board requlrmg people to year in 1966, the year before learn how to cut black joining the Reagan adminis- people's hair ' tration. The thing was barbers Funeral services will be were refusing to cut black held in Pasadena on Thurs- people's hair, sa}ing they day, with a ~!ass to be cele- didn't know how. The gover- brated at 10 a.m. in the nor said that was wrong, and Assumpl!on of the Blessed he put a black person on the Virgin Mary Church there. A board." memorial Mass at USD will In an Interview a decade be said at 12:15 p.m. next ago, Keyes told a reporter Monday at Founders Chapel, "Many people have asked Founders Hall. how the hell I got appointed. Keyes is survived by his I m not a polit1cal animal. wife Marva and four cbil• It's not necessary to have an dren. barber's board? It won't help you politically , And I

- are to lawyers what nurses are to .actors, according to a La Jolla ttorney. Keither the paralegal nor the nurse has the training of a lawyer or a doctor, but their skills can be important to you when you need them. Paralegals, according to Richard Circuit of Wiles & Circuit, can per- form certam functions, as do nurses. But like nurses, he said, they are not trained to diagnose. That is left to the doctor or - in the case of a legal matter - to the attorney. Once the attorney determines what is needed, the paralegal sets out to solve the problem or do what is needed. Bills Are Lower The advantages of having parale- gals are twofold. One, the attorney is freed from the routine to do work that requires a higher level of skill. Two - and probably more import- ant to the public - work by a paralegal is billed at a fraction of what an attorney would charge for the same job. "To me, paralegals are the way of the future," Circuit said. "Attorneys are pricing themselves out of Firms that have paralegals on their staffs can provide their clients with services more economically. And the quality of a paralegal's work is in no way inferior. All work is scrutinized by the attorney in the case. In many instances, an experience and skilled paralegal can perform the job better than a junior associate - a lawyer just starting out, Circuit said Some firms, he said, find they have a tough dectSion when they other attorney's name to the Jetter- head or hiring a paralegal. The decision has not been tough for Wiles & Circuit "We've been impressed with what they've been able to do for us," he said. They are so impressed they are adding a third paralegal to work with their staff of existence." charge of have to decide between adding an-· Paralegals perform the more rou- tine work involved m the practice of law. They are sometimes called upon to do the legwork in preparing for trials - whether it involves a civil or criminal matter. They also summarize teStlmony taken under oath, do research and meet with clients to gather informa- "In our case, we have a business law firm. We represent all kinds of businesses m corporate, tax, !Jtiga- lion and copyright matters," Circuit But even though the paralegals' work is routine, they need training in various aspects of law. Some ac- quire the skills after years of work with a law firm. Others go to school. Once trained, they may specialize in probate matters - working \\-ith estates, wills and trusts. Some spec!- alize in real estate and mortgage matters. Others, those who work m business law, sometimes work with tlon. said. tians and can be called upQn to draft The Un erslty or San Diego has a lawyer's assistant training program business agreements. eight attorneys. Do Legwork Too corporatTiohns, se 1 nes . ttmg up hntew busi ey a so researc ax ques•

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That quandary is usually faced when the paralegal's skills and expe- rience demand a salary of about Some paralegals are in the profes- sion to stay. Others decide to try it to test their interest In law. Susan Hall, a paralegal for three years and with the Shenas firm for two of them, thought she wanted to be a lawyer, but was not sure. "I just wanted to test it out without the time and financial commitment required of law school," she said. Cost was a factor. The bill for paralegal training was $1,200 for $1,500 a month. "I know people who have been in the field for years. They seem to get satisfaction out of it. I need some- thing more challenging," Hall said. One of her associates at Shenas, David Lucey, fell into his job as a paralegal while he was looking for work to finance law school. But David Keith, 43, sees parale- gal work as "a career for the rest of Law school holds no lure for him. "There are far too many lawyers already," he sa1·d. "You can have the prestige of being a lawyer, but He tells of an ad posted by a new attorney who offered to do anything from typing to practicing law for $6 Keith is an associate of Betsy Huebner, who opera,tes San Diego Legal Assistants, a free-lance firm. He expects his earnings to increase as his skill does. "I think pay will advance as I advance." He is the first male to join the San Diego Association of Legal Assist- ants, a group of about 80 paralegals founded by women led by Renee Klepesch. This year, Hall is pres1- Klepesch, with a master's degree, 65 units of graduate work and 13 ed to become a paralegal after a few courses in law school in 1971. Mar- ried, and the mother of a daughter, she decided law school was not for her because of other obllgatlons. my life." you can starve, too." an hour. dent. three months - $10,000 · for compared to about law school for three years.

legal profession and are sponsored USD has graduated 562 students from its program since it became available in the summer of 1975. Of that number, only 95 were men. The remaining 80 were sponsored, either by law firms or agencies in Not all USD graduates remain m the San Diego area. but Nancy Bel- ford assistant director of the lawyer assistant program at the college, said figures are not available as to the exact number working in San But even with the education and (legree of skill involved to qualify for a job, the pay for the fledgling profession is not exceptional - at least in San Diego. One paralegal estimated the beginning salary for a beginner at $750 a month Another disputed it, saying it was at least Those who stick with it and do not drop out for law school can work their way up to earnmg the salary of a beginning associate with a law degree. "Why should I spend three years in law school to earn what I'm by employers. Most - 482 - had college degrees. law-related fields. Diego. $100 higher paralegai wanted to know. Paralegals have not yet come into their own in San Diego. Although one large local fmn has had a paralegal on Its staff since 1948, other firms have hired them in the last five to 10 years. The verdict is not yet in on just how effective they are. Peter Shenas of Shenas, Robbins, Shenas & Shaw, a firm wjth eight attorneys, said their first paralegal was hired about five years ago. •·rt affords us an opportunity to deliver legal services at a lower cost than we can do with attorney person- nel," Shenas said. "You don't need three years of legal education to so But as their skills grow and their demand for pay increases, they face some tasks." k. ma mg rig · ht "? · . an experience d now

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