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good afternoon everyone I'm Chris Harris this is Channel 9 news on a Monday
afternoon President Carter and the leaders of six other major non-communist
countries are unveiling what American officials are calling a concrete and
concerted action program to deal with global economic problems Carter and the
other leaders are wrapping up an economic summit meeting in Bonn West
Germany the summits communique includes specific targets for economic growth
employment and inflation in each of the seven participating nations officials
with the Carter delegation also say the summit made great progress on trade they
had that expectations are that international trade barriers will be
lowered by the end of the year the seven nations have also agreed to an
anti-terrorism pact to cut off airline service to and from countries which
harbor hijackers that agreement says the seven nations will halt service to such
countries and will work to ban incoming flights from those countries as well as
by flights by airlines of those countries flying from another country
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd said today the President Carter can
return home from that economic summit assured that Congress will give him the
tools he needs to reduce oil imports Byrd says the expected Senate passage
tomorrow of the first part of Carter's five-point energy plan will go a long
way toward reducing US reliance on oil imports the legislation would prohibit
the burning of oil or natural gas in most new power plants and would give the
government the power to force many existing plants and businesses to
convert to coal well if you were outside at all over the weekend you know it we
had the worst smog situation in five years as an unusual inversion layer
dropped from the usual two or three thousand feet to just 200 feet above the
ground the smog sent scores of persons to the hospital with breathing
difficulties businesses were ordered to cut back on the use of vehicles and
switch over to less polluting fuels like natural gas employees were urged to car
pool and in many instances lots were locked and closed to any cars with
fewer than three passengers the air quality management district issued
second-stage smog alerts for the Whittier area and West San Gabriel Valley
there were first stage smog alerts in southeast LA the Pomona Walnut area the
east and south San Gabriel Valley and the East San Fernando Valley high
temperatures added to the misery and forced thousands to turn to air
conditioners and that of course produced the highest consumption of electric
power on record by the way that was the first second stage health advisory ever
issued by the AQM D those air conditioners we mentioned helped alleviate
some of the personal suffering as the AQM D suggested that people just stay
indoors and take it easy but the AQM D did get tough with the strictest
restrictions in our history and Phil Cisneros reports Los Angeles Riverside
Orange and San Bernardino counties haven't seen smog like this since about
1973 a combination of temperature inversion bright sunlight and the normal
air pollution is causing the heavy smog as a result the South Coast air quality
management district implemented its emergency episode plan under the plan
larger businesses are required to take measures which reduce their contribution
to air pollution some firms are required to encourage employee carpools and cut
back on the number of company vehicles in the field pollutant producing
industries must cut back production and or use alternate power supplies which
produce less pollution air quality management district inspectors were in
full force today making spot inspections of various larger companies the
inspectors checked to see that emergency air quality compliance plans were being
followed meanwhile AQM D smog monitoring stations are continuing to check air
quality in the four county area well we have 42 air monitoring stations
throughout the basin and these stations are operating every moment of the day
and night and today they're manned because we want to be sure that the
values we're getting are quite accurate these values are brought into the office
here and where our technicians evaluate them and give us the results so we know
what's in the air 24 hours a day.
Baracko says the air quality is such that it definitely poses a danger to many
individuals he had some advice on what people should or shouldn't do.
Those people who have respiratory ailments or cardiac problems they'll be suffering
the most and we ask those people to be especially careful to stay indoors find
a comfort zone avoid physical exercise the very young the very old they are the
first to be hurt the most we ask them to do the same they should avoid all
physical exercise playing tennis jogging even doing gardening if necessary.
The experts say the unhealthful air conditions should persist through
tomorrow gradually improving over the weekend but officials say it's too early
yet to tell whether Monday will bring a break in a smog until then it might be
good to stay at home this weekend.
Filsey's Netos Channel 9 News Los Angeles.
That report of course filmed on Friday and there has been something of a break in the smog
we'll have that later in the news in the weather forecast.
Those hardest hit by the smog were those suffering from the respiratory problems
such as a children's hospital.
The children should not regularly be limited in their activity by their
chronic disease in the children I see asthma.
However on days like today when the air quality is so bad most children would do
well to limit their outdoor activity certainly until the temperature comes
down and the dryness in the air is alleviated.
Now we've been talking strictly about children here what about adults what kind
of effect will the smog have upon them?
It appears that adults with chronic lung disease emphysema and chronic bronchitis
are even more heavily hit by bad air than children who seem to be naturally resilient.
The adults do worse their respiratory discomfort increases and the death rates
for both lung and cardiac disease is heightened at times like this.
Transportation Secretary Brock Adams is denying a New York Times report that he
might resign the Carter cabinet.
The Times report says the Carter administration and the transportation
industry have been disappointed in Adams performance in getting legislation
through Congress particularly in light of his 12 years in the House.
Adams has also clashed with the White House on several issues since being named
to the cabinet last year.
He has been at odds over such matters as airline deregulation and linking
transportation needs to increased gasoline taxes.
Vice President Walter Mondale told the wife of Soviet dissident Anatoly
Sharansky today that he was very moved by her husband's statement after he was
sentenced to 13 years in a Soviet prison on treason charges.
Mondale told Avital Sharansky that all Americans were impressed by Sharansky's
dignity in the face of the violation of his human rights.
Mondale also reiterated the Carter administration's position that the
Sharansky trial was a violation of the Helsinki Accord on human rights.
Egypt has made new peace proposals to Israel but Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
says they will have no effect on his meeting beginning today outside London
with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel.
Dayan says that the proposals are not relevant to the meeting and that leads
observers to feel the proposals deal with the return of the Sinai Peninsula to
Egypt and not with the deadlock over the occupied West Bank of the Jordan and the
future of that area is Palestinians.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat apparently would agree to Israel keeping
some of the territory and apparently to keeping an Israeli military presence on
the West Bank after a peace agreement.
A rather deadly Sunday around the country and particularly here close to home.
We'll have those stories and more news still to come.
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Six workers closing an Oklahoma City steakhouse for the night last night were murdered by
robbers who forced them at gunpoint into a walk-in freezer and then shot each of them
in the head.
Four of the victims were teenagers, more than $1,000 missing from the restaurant safe, the
worst mass murder in the city of Oklahoma City in recent memory.
L.A. Sheriff's deputies say that an eight-year-old Santa Fe Springs girl was not the latest victim
of the hillside strangler.
The body of little Cheryl Gutierrez was found last night in the Whittier Narrows recreation
area.
Coroners deputies say she had been strangled and molested.
A 21-year-old Los Angeles man has hanged himself in his cell in the Venice Police Division
jail.
Officers say that Michael Mabin tore up his mattress cover, tied it around the cell door
bars and then around his neck.
He had been in jail since Saturday on grand theft auto charges.
And police say the gang activity may have been behind the shooting death of one young
man, the wounding of a second in L.A. early today.
Police say the unidentified victims were standing in front of 4211 East Olympic Boulevard about
2.30 this morning when they were shot from a passing car.
The Oxnard jury and tax performer Howard Jarvis' drunk driving trial returned to its
deliberations this morning and quickly asked to hear some key testimony again.
The jury deliberated four and a half hours on Friday without reaching a verdict.
The jury is rehearing testimony from Deputy Michael Kipp, who stopped Jarvis near Thousand
Oaks last March 15th.
Kipp says that Jarvis' car was weaving and that the 75-year-old Jarvis failed field sobriety
tests by being unable to walk a straight line and recite the alphabet.
Mayor Tom Bradley is urging the City Council to pass a six-month moratorium on rent increases.
The mayor says the city can't rely on apartment associations to police themselves.
He says, quote, we've got to pass some kind of measure that takes care of all the landlords
of this city, including the greedy, end quote.
And West Los Angeles State Assemblyman Herschel Rosenthal says he's going to ask for a similar
rental moratorium at the state level.
Rosenthal explains that he would have to amend an existing bill because no new legislation
can be introduced this late in the session.
I favor a rollback to May 31st, a six-month moratorium, which would self-destruct and
would not require the legislature to take a negative or positive vote at that point,
that would include in it only those areas of the state where there was a vacancy factor
of 3% or less, because that appears, in everybody's opinion, to be the critical point at which
there are either apartments available or not.
And that would limit those units to above 10 units.
In other words, the mom and pop kinds of operations where there's a relationship that exists between
the person who owns the property and the person who's leasing the property is usually much
more friendly than the absentee landowner who has a company that's managing the property,
which does exist in the larger units.
Rosenthal says that a six-month rent moratorium would give legislators time to completely
study the question of who should be included and who should be exempted.
In the wake of the passage of Prop 13 have come reports of massive rent increases and
windfalls for business and industry.
There is one firm in San Jose which is passing on some of its savings to its employees.
John Lester reports.
Alcyon is one of the numerous computer manufacturers in the South Bay.
A seven-year-old California-based firm has some 120 employees, annually grosses millions
of dollars.
Because of Jarvis Gann, Alcyon's business property tax has been reduced by $19,000.
Instead of making a profit on their windfall, this company has decided to pass their rebate
onto their employees every week in the form of silver dollars.
This amounts to about $140 per employee for the year.
In essence, these silver dollars will go into circulation instead of being paid to the federal
government in the form of taxes.
Larry Whitaker says if all California-owned firms were to rebate their tax savings onto
employees, the state's economy would benefit by some $3 billion, cutting inflation and
balancing the budget.
I'd like to challenge all the rest of the businessmen to start handing out these silver
dollars.
The amount we're talking about, $143 of these silver dollars per year per employee in this
valley.
That's approximately what they need to hand out.
I think it's a great idea.
I think the rest of the businessmen in California should probably take an example from this
and start doing it themselves and return some of the money back to the citizens from Proposition
13 because this has turned into a landfall for the companies that they didn't expect.
So they should share it.
I'm going to put them all away.
How many did you get?
Let me see them.
Six silver dollars.
Are you going to save these?
Yes, I am.
What do you think about this idea?
Well, I think it's a pretty good idea.
I really think that I hope more companies take this over because I know they help the
morale around here a lot.
Emergency telephone connections to the central L.A. police district are back in operation
after being inoperative for nearly four hours this morning.
During that outage, callers needing emergency service had to go through the O operator.
Well, you can chalk up another victory for the legendary good taste and community pride
of Beverly Hills.
So remember that when we last visited the sumptuous estate of Arabian Sheikh Mohammed
al-Fasi, the statuary in a manner of speaking had its lilies gilded.
As a tourist attraction, it was first rate, a real boon for the Grey Lion tours.
But the Sheikh is on record as wanting to be a good neighbor and so the painted pudunda
had been replaced by eagles, urns, and the statues more decorously draped.
The change was made almost surreptitiously.
The Sheikh's security guards say that the painted statues were there flashing one day
and gone the next.
The dogs had their day on Friday showing off their stuff at the Gaines Canine Frisbee Catch
and Fetch competition held here in Los Angeles.
It's the first step in the selection of the best four-footed Frisbee catcher.
About 35 dogs were entered in the qualifying finals held at Griffith Park.
Contestants like this, a field of nine dogs, will be chosen, that is, to compete in the
world final match next month.
There have always been dogs that caught Frisbees, but this is the first time we've formalized
the competition.
It's been kind of a groundswell movement.
What do you consider a good mark for a dog and trainer?
In this competition, I would say somewhere in the 20s would be excellent.
In the 20s?
And like what kind of things does a dog have to do?
Well, the only thing they have to do in this particular contest is to perform for two minutes.
They get two minutes to make as many catches as they can at a 15-yard distance.
And they get one point if they make a catch and two points if they have all four paws
off the ground.
So basically they're competing on their own merit.
And we add up the totals and the one who has the highest point total obviously wins.
Some of the owners estimated their pets' chances of taking the Frisbee title.
I think she has a good shot at it.
I just get her up in the air.
Think she'll ever make it against Ashley?
Ashley Whiffett?
I don't know.
He's pretty, he goes up like 10 feet or something.
I don't think she'll go that high, maybe three or four at the most.
Well he loves to catch Frisbees.
So that's why we're here.
Come all the way from Calabasas to do this.
You think he has a chance?
Of course.
I wouldn't be here if he didn't.
Yes, yes he has a chance.
They all have a chance.
The nine dogs chosen in regional competition will vie for the top title on August 27th
at the Rose Bowl.
We'll have more news for Monday afternoon in just a moment.
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Soon, we will begin the first phase of desegregation in our schools as the court has ordered.
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A fire from the spontaneous combustion of nitrocellulose film did more than $100,000
damage to a Studio City home, once owned by the late comedian, Luke Costello.
That type of film is no longer used.
It does have a tendency to spontaneously ignite when its chemicals decompose as they age.
The blaze started in a film vault in the garage.
The We Tip organization, which was set up to provide police with anonymous tips on drug
pushers and then expanded to include major crimes, has expanded again to ask the public
for tips on arsonists.
Phil Cisneros reports.
Statewide, last year, there were 16 arson-related deaths and about $28 million in damage.
Those figures are for confirmed arsons only.
Fire officials say many arsons go undetected or unproved, and they estimate much higher
death and damage tolls.
Additionally, more than $150 million in extra insurance premiums are being paid by Californians
because of arson.
The War on Arson program is designed to lower the numbers.
The We Tip organization is now asking the public to take part in their anonymous witness
program, and there's an added incentive.
This poster, nailed to and placed on buildings that have been burned as a result of incendiary
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that incident that would not otherwise come forward because of the guarantee, in We Tip's
experience, the guarantee of anonymity and the probability of a reward up to and including
$500 for that information.
In the Los Angeles area, arsons have increased 100% in the past 10 years.
Apprehension and prosecution of arsonists, however, has been seriously lagging, to say
the least.
Example, the Stanford Arms Apartments downtown.
Two people died here.
It was an arson, but no one has been charged.
There have been 17 set fires in this immediate area in the last 90 days.
As with most arsons, the difficulty in this case lies not with determining arson, but
with having enough supporting evidence to prosecute a suspect.
Most good arson investigators have no problem establishing that arson was committed.
The tough part of arson is developing a suspect and connecting the suspect to the crime.
Just as in any other crime, if you don't have some sort of witness or some sort of evidence
to develop a suspect, you're not going to get an arrest and a conviction.
So really arson is not hard to prove.
It's the continuing follow-up and the investigation.
That's the tough part of arson.
Because in arson, there are few people that want to come forward and say, I saw somebody
do this or give information to the investigator.
Fire officials say they hope the anonymous witness program for arsons will have as much
success as other crime prevention plans.
After all, they say arson is a crime and it affects everybody.
Phil Cisneros, Channel 9 News, Los Angeles.
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Stock prices close mixed and active trading on the New York Stock Exchange today.
29,190,000 shares changed hands.
Somewhat cooler after our blistering weekend, but we still have a couple of smog problems.
Daytime high is 85, low to night 65.
Good air only along the coast, unhealthful air elsewhere.
Well John Travolta, you better move over.
You may have looked spiffy in your white suit and Saturday night fever, but there is something
new happening at the disco.
Disco t-shirts, electronic ones with little lights that flash.
They're just arriving here from New York, where they were pioneered by Gary Brennan.
He is the man who brought us the Star Wars laser sword light.
All you need is a 9-volt battery and you too can light up your life.
Basically it's a small 9-volt battery that works off some computer circuitry, like a
miniature computer circuit, and lights up tiny little lights that go across the front
of the shirt.
It's very effective at night, particularly.
Obviously when a person is disco dancing or any kind of dancing, you're going to perspire.
Is there any danger of being shocked?
Not at all.
It's a small transistor battery and you could eat the battery.
It's about the worst thing that could happen.
The electric t-shirts sell for about $24.
They say such innocuous and uninspired things as boogie, a touch of class, sexy and Rolls
Royce.
But who reads when you're in a disco?
Just watch the flashing lights.
That's the news on this Monday.
Nathan Roberts, Ann Kessner, Hilly Rose and Lynn Shackleford here tonight at 10.
I'm Chris Harris.
Have a good day and a good week.
Now here with the Channel 9 editorial is KHJ-TV Vice President and General Manager Lionel
Shane.
The Los Angeles County Supervisors are talking again about the idea of placing a measure
on the November ballot to create the office of County Mayor.
The idea is that there are too many differences of opinion among the present five supervisors
on matters important to the seven million citizens who elect them.
It has been suggested that having one chief executive for the county will simplify and
streamline the procedures of county government.
At present, the five supervisors serve as legislators, as the executive and are also
quasi-judicial in their function.
The problem is we at KHJ-TV view it will be that we will...
This is Bill Berry.
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