News Scrapbook 1981-1982

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Will Corbin, editor Mlkf Manning, circu1a1,on director Michael H. H Ileen, finance director Jerry L. Coolman, production director Juli. 8. Aguiler, personnel manager

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T·A Editorial The Regulators: I

tect those consumers who use the ser· vices of a shorthand reporter by re- quiring minimum competency stand· ards. Honest. To that end, the board last met in March in South Lake Tahoe, a place where many con· sumera of snortha.nd services would certainly have been able to throng. Should you desire to observe first• hand this Important government function, the BCSR meets this Satur• day In San Diego. It goes on and on: the Structural Pest Control Board; the Tax Prepar· er Program; the Board of Landscape Architects; the Bureau of Employ• ment Agencies. The Reporter relates one recent ex• citing episode In the life of one of these agencies. all of which fall under the state Department of Consumer Affairs. The Board of Cosmetology haa recently taken a dim view of peo• pie who braid other people's hair. A recent opinlon of the attorney general concludes that hair braiding falls within the regulatory purview of the cosmetology board, so the cosmetolo• gy board Is demanding that hair braider& be licensed. That involves 1,600 hours of schooling in manicur- ing, facial massage, hair coloring and electrolysis, and, we assume, hair braiding. Poses the Reporter, not precisely a big fan of the cosmetology board, in a commentary: "Doesn't the boa.rd have something more Important to do? Does the board have anything Important to do?" The answer to that question, in short, is, "No." That, however, wouldn't be enough. On Thursday we'll give you a rundown In this space of some of the more interesting activities of your regulatory agencies In action. And on Friday, In Part III of "Re• gulators," we'll talk a.bout the future of these agencies, which, sadly, seems to be assured. An example of what's to come: A new regulation, Assembly Bill 2762, waa proposed in the Legislature this year. It said: "A winegra.pe grower's storage license authorizes the holder to store bulk wine, made from grapes produced by the holder, on the prem- ises of a licensed winegrower and to sell that wine, within this state, to winegrowers, distilled sptrlts manu- facturers and vinegar producers. This section shall be operative until Jan. 1, 1986, and on that tlate Is repealed. "As far as we can tell," observes the Reporter, the only redeeming pro• vision of AB 2762 Is the sunset date of Jan. 1, 1986." More regulatory legislation should have such redeeming qualities. How· ever, in C&llfornia, the sun seldom sets on regulation.

It you have a pare moment one of th 1e day1, find a copy of th Califor• nla Regulatory Law Report~r. You'll find It abaolutely enthralling r adtng - until the grim truth hits you: Thi11 Is not fiction. Th C nter for Public I ereat Law down at lbe Unlveratty of San Diego publleh lt. They'r erious about ll, d th nformatlon it contain • is se• t10U8 B t It' the most humorous public tlon w 've II en 1n age W 'd r nk It right up there with at1onal mpoon. Wh t the Reporter r ports la the ttvlty of California' • regulatory bodl I Thos bodies were designed to prot ct tne • tale' consumers. From what w can tell, mo tot them pro tect thos activities they regulate. Whit they're not doing that, they'r protecting themselves. Th watchdogs who put the Report• r to eth r didn't Intend lt as a lam• poon. Th y write It with straight face. You 'II find the giggles beginning In th tabl of contents. It's llke an Ide board tor" aturday Night Live." Th r ar the expected boards gov• ernlng b rber11, cosmetologists, pri· vat d t ctlves, contractors, nunes, doctor •, dentl • ts and acupuncturists. But r don There's th board of Behavioral Sci nee xa.mln rs. It has 11 mem• ber . It r gulate11 marriage, family and child coun lore, llcensed clinical 11oolal work rs (yes, that's right, 11· c n d AND clinical) and educational p ychologlats. The rest of the p11y, chologlata, mind you, are regulated by the Psychology Examining Com· mlttee of the Board of Medical Quall· ty As urance, under whose auspices al o !all hearing aid dispenser • and ape ch pathologists and audlologlsta. There's the Board of Fabric Care. lt llcena s, regulates and dlaclpllnes the dry cleaning industry. It has sev en members, four from the public and three from the Industry. Only five ar serving now; two public members resigned several months ago and haven't been replaced

The :,an Oleo<> Union/John Gibbins

room to plan strategy for tomorrow's PUC

Robert Simmons, left, Michael Shames and Bob Fellmeth meet in USD's Grace Court-

hearing on SOG&E.

USD LAW CENTER ACTS . fP ·1 7 I z SDG&E Customer Group Proposed (Continued from A-24) the state authorize inseru in compa- ny bill mailings. assistance. The organization should advertise and recruit members like the Sierra Club and other organiza- tions that society obviously has a need for."

question of whether the group should be fonned in San Diego with access ?nly to SDG&E's mailings, contend- mg that the issue is far broader than· just one utility company and that a favorable PUC decision would set a statewide quasi-legal precedent lead- in~ to similar dec;.sions affecting Pa- cific Gas & Electric Co., Southern California Gas Co. and Southern Cali- fornia Edison Co. "If such an organization is war- ranted and deemed necessary by the public, we believe it will emer nat- urally and not require the 1al care and feeding by the utili · and the Public Utilities Co ion " said Jack Thomas, SDG&E vice pr~- ident "We do resist the idea of us.ng our envelopes for other purposes. It is not proper and logical to allow that and not allow it for other purposes and by other organizations. We re- cently turned down the Cancer Soci· ety on the grounds that if we let one organization do it - no matter how worthy - we would have to Jet ev- eryone. There is no way to determine where it would go or how it would stop.

Additionally, SDG&E believes the PUC should not examine the lone

UCAN said it will put on as many as a dozen witnesses during the two days of bearings, including testimony on the need for additional consumer representation in San Diego because ?f a lack of concern by SDG&E for its ~ustomers, direct mail experu to testify on the effectiveness of using bill mseru, and a representative of the similarly constituted Consumer Utility Board who will discuss its philosophy and operating methods. SDG&E said it plans no witnesses, ~pparcntly intending to rely on argu- ing ~he e.nts of the points its attor- ney intends to make.

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DoWNTOWN "If the organization is of such sub- stance that society feels that it is needed then it doesn't need special HAHN NAMED USD TRUSTEE Ernest W . Hahn, chairman of Clinic and Research Foundation U · · the board of Ernest W. Hahn, La Jolla; a trustee of the Univer~ ~ers1ty Towne Centre, a Inc., has joined the Board of sity ofSouthern California· and a b ilntd a folk art museum Tr_ustees of the University ofSan trustee of the Independen~ Col- ;: ~utm onatedspace;and in 0 I ego ' accord i n g to an leges of Southern California, of ed ~ard, a ~hopping center announcement made recently by which USO is a member. o~SnO . m 1981 m P_alos Verdes, Author E. Hughes, USO abe. -seat commuruty theatre is President. mg constructed by the Hahn A resident of Rancho Santa Hahn's civic interests are Company, funded in large part Fe, Hahn is an active member of widespread. He has been a lead- by a personal contribution by numerous civic and public ing supporter of the Centinela hEoodrnes,t Hahn to that neighbor- endeavors. He is a founding~"- Valley Community Hospital s performmg arts group. "~ Children's Hospital of Los'

There Is the Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind, According to the Re• port r, It protects the public from vl• clOUII and badly trained JUlde dogR, a purpose we'd view as relatively noble Ala •. the BGDB's future Is Iffy; the time and place of Its next meeting are unknown "because of Jack of funds." There 11 the Bureau of Home Furn• lahlnga (we are not responsible for that pun, honest), which regulates the stuffing ol mattresses and couches. It la guided by the 11-member (six pub• lie, five Industry California. Advisory . Board of Home Furnishings. Four of the publics ata, however, are va· cant. Th re is the Board of Certified Shorthand Reporters. It alms to pro•

tee and donor of the Eisenhower Medical Center and Hospital in

In May, 1977, the Ernest W. Hahn Award was established at the Harvard Business School . C bridg m am e, Mass. The award was created to "support a signifi- cant academic contribution to the development, improvement ~d evolution of regional shop- p~ centers or such other alter- nauv~ facilities as may exist to pro~1de the most efficient distri- bution of goods and services t the public." i

Angeles and the Los Angeles and Centinela Valley YMCAs and the Boy Scouts of America. A former recipient of the Golden Torch of Hope, he sponsors the Ernest W. Hahn Research Fel- lowship at the City of Hope. As an active supporter ofthe arts, he has supported as well as created facilities for the development of cultural arts programs in many of the communities in which his firm has shopping centers. In

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U D-Occidental On h nks To NFL Walk Around Alcala Park and points north, they were known as a pretty good ttle football team. Around CBS, they were not-ready-for-pri -time players. Ne t door m the alphabet to a more famous school o the north, m the r mgs they were next to Gilligan's Island reruns. _ They were Division III - these University of San Diego Tor~r~ - and their Sunday morning address never was likely to be network telev1S1on But things change when there is a professional football strike, and no~ USD hnd itself .thrust onto the stage as an understudy to the NFL and cast m one of the leading roles this weekend. Yesterday. the Toreros learned that their game at Occide tal will be ear- ned live by CBS-TV. Kickoff h been moved from Saturday to Sunday at 11:45 a.m. The game will be hown. in its entirety, throughout the Western states, assuming the Na- tional Football League players still are on strike. Dick Stockton will pro_v1de the play-by-play and Hank Stram will be the color commentator In San Diego the cont t between the Toreros and Tigers in Los Angeles will be shown by Channel 8. "I don't know how we'll handle this," USD coach Bill Williams said yester- day "I stopped by the locker room today and caught some of the guys looking at them elves in the mirror, saying 'Hi, mom.' I'm not sure _how we'll react Sunday, but it's obviously exciting to know so many people will be seeing you play" . . . The USD-Occidental game is one of four Div1s1on III contests CBS will show Sunday n ime slots ordinarily filled by t_he NFL. In_ othe: regions, the n twork will televi e Baldwin-Wallace vs. Wittenberg, W1sconsm-Os kosh vs. W1 'On m-Stout, and West Georgia vs. Millsaps. D, h1 h reached the NCAA's Division III playoffs last year, is off to another f st start. The Toreros are 3-0 and have outscored their opponents by scor totaling 102-13 They had not permitted a pomt until Pomona scored a touchdown with four seconds to play in the third quarter Saturday night. Oxy improved its record to 1-2 by beating San Francisco32 st week. lJSD and Occ1d ntal both will be making their rst appearance before netw r t I v on l'arner:a~ Sunday. Each 111 r 1ve l!i,000 from CBS.'

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A day that started on a dismal note ended with a wild celebration for the University of San Diego's unbeaten football team. USD, a school that offers no football schol- arships, was selected yesterday for a live national televi- sion appearance Sunday in place of a National Football League game cancelled by the players' strike. ·'We're overJoyed," said Torero Coach Bill Williams. "It's the biggest thing that's ever happened here." Earlier in the day, the Toreros (3-0) found they were left out of the Division III national rankings due to an error by the NCAA. "Somehow the NCAA confused our school for the University of California-San Diego," said Williams. "Every team in District 4 had voted us as No. 1 in the nation, but the NCAA to18 them we were an NAIA (Na- tional Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school." Williams said a District 4 official telephoned to apologize for tl:e. error. _u.,Q plays at Occident31 College (1·2) in a game that was oved from Saturday and will be televised on CBS hi. , 11:4:, a.m.). The first half of the contest will be seen only in the West and the second half will be seen nationally. "If we beat Occidental, we feel we have a good chance of being No. 1 or No. 2," said Williams.

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BILL WILLIAMS Torero coach

joins USD board of trustees reer, not only in corporate affairs but in cultural and civie endeavors, un- derscores the great value of his pres- ence, influence and Judgment in the stewardship of this university." the ~ard of Ernest W. Hahn Inc. O_fflcers of the USD board are: chamnan, the Rev. Leo T. Maher b~hOP, of the ~n Diego Roman Cath~ oltc Diocese; Vice chairman, Helen K. Copley publisher of The Tribune an The San Diego Union and chairman o~ Copley Press Inc., secretary, Mon- signor I. Brent Eagen; and treasure J. Pbilip Gilligan. Hahn, a resident of Rancho Santa Fe, is. expected soon to begin con• struchon of Horton Plaza Shopping Center, the keystone to downtown redevelopment. He ha1rman of

Ernest W. Ha Land developer Ernest W. Hahn has joined the board of trustees of the University of San Diego. Hahn was elected to the 31-mem- ber board last week. "We welcome Ernest Hahn's mem• bership on ·v rsi ' rd " ~id Dr. Author '.E;. Hughes, USD pr~ 1dent. "His long and distmguished ca-