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DETERMINED SUPPORTERS... . .. ATTRACT STATE INTEREST Penasquitos Lagoon May Survive As A Sanctuariy Uy ..EIL BALL ll!-;L \H - Los Penasquilos He said historically

rains poured down ·treams to flu~h out the lagoons but the streams now are dammPd and the lands de- veloped. It i ot possible to re- create the historic conditions, he added. t, says it is easier to control mosquitos when the lagoon is a tidal estuary," said Mrs. Mu e. "There also is the smell frorn dying plants, t midges that increase with brackisne s, the algae !tee that could cover the entire la- goon if not flushed out." "Lagoons are complex," said Kang. "Each problem we solv may create another -like O!)I',"· ing Pandora's box. Our main problem is not pollution, but keeping the required salini , and we , ed some state budget for that." "Dr. J. B Askew, county health offi

"There is a large area of wil- lows near San Diego's Sorrento Valley sewage treatment plant," said Mrs. Mudie. "Those wil- lows could be taken out and there is a large number of things we could do to encourage ducks there. They like alkali bullrush and ditch grasses that grow in brackish water." Karig said Penasquitos prob- ably could remain closed three months during the winter with· out great damage except for the sewage. "It would be best if it were open to salt water 99 per cent of the time," he 1il. "But if we could open 1t once in the winter and do maintenance on the channel in the summer, it might do it." THREE MONTHS

Mrs. Mudie said instruments are needed to monitor the sand height, lagoon depth, tides and storms. She called the lagoon •·unpredictable." She said it has not proved feasible to do the channel job for flushing with one bulldozer. Two are needed. '"There is pressure on these lagoon lowlands for building and so we lose the migratory birds," said Mrs. Mudie. "We cannot expect to keep all lagoons for wildlife but we ought to make optimum use of one where we can. We need to negotiate for some funds to do the job." Both Karig and Mrs. Mudie said some ducks, and possible other wildlife, prefer brackish water.

rin Winchell and Mrs. Jessie D. La Grange got the state inter- ested in the problem. They also had backing from such scientists as ~r. John H. Bradshaw, biologis and ecolog- ist, from Universit 1 of Sa~ Dr. John saacs o Sci'Ipjrs Institution of Oceanog- raphy, and Mrs. Peta Mudie, San Diego State botanist, who all live in the area. Now the state is waiting for cues from Daniel J. Karig, who lives near the lagoon and is working on his doctorate in geo- logy. He is a research assistant at Scripps. "Communications is the im- portant thing," said Karig. "We can tell from tide tables about when to open the lagoon weeks ahead of time but a storm may change the picture at the last moment."

Karig said James Whiterad, Park Department district super- visor in San Clemente, has ar- ranged for cooperative action. Karig said he and others took advantage of a long wait to get the lagoon opened for studies on just how much marine plant and animal life damage occurred. He said the water balance can be made worse by digging a channel at the wrong time. The ideal time, he said, is when the beach JS •·eroded down" and the lagoon is ''high" near the outlet. "We measured the degrada- tion m November, December and January. We could see that if we waited longer, all the life would be dead," said Karig. ''Early February was the best time to act, when there was a big tide period." OPTIMU'\1 USE

and flu hing it when the scien• lists tell us - with whatever equipment is available," said Maurice .Morgan, San Diego coastal area manager for the state agency. He admitted equipment which is now operating near the Colo- rado River is needed here. Penasquitos, which picks up the runoff from Carmel and So- rento Valleys and carries it to seaside lowlands north of Torrey Pines State Park, is the only state lagoon responsibility south of Morro Bay. Last November, aroused con- servationists in the Del Mar area turned out with shovels for a "dig-in" to open the channel and ain wide publicity on the lagoon decay for lack of salt wa- ter. A group headed by Mrs. Per- SUPPORT CITED

Lagoon may not be the most im• portant lagoon m the world but few have more interested oce11nographers and scientists living on the fringes. that with a new ' p1pcltn " to the state Depart• m nt of Parks and Recreation ar

They said there may be some merit to making the lagoon a series of ponds with varying conditions. ian tJlit110 Inion SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1970

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was • a Ieng hy, complicated Job." FurtllC'r, said :\Ir SJ'. ek ince tht aLOrn crop frequcnt.y failed, the lndians t:oukl not have elied on this as tne1r prmc1pa1 source of food and therefore had to be pretty good farmers. no mat- ter what the hi tory 'looks say ot hem. he says oi='hern Califorma Jncl!ans regularly planted and harvested vegetables, fruit~ r u s, seed , f'd1h.le roo and :itc considerable fl h und l'P. The picture of he ~ou e n • C,liforma Ind an as a tech- nological clod is al.so I i· correct. a.,:; l\lrs Sh1pek

thatched with a kind of willow that repelled flies 1rs. Shipe admits the In- dian lived principally by hunt- ing but notes this is an even older method of producing food an farming, which man took up about 8,000 years ago. Hunter societks were not only at least as intelligent as modern city people but in some respects were superior physically. Hunters in Demand She says color blindness, for example, is more widespread today because a hunter then couldn't survive with this de- fect. for more reasons· than one, apparently. ''A man had to be a good hunter not only to get food but to get a wife. Otherwise, no girl would have him." And a wife had to be a good worker. too, she said, because "lndian life in Southern Cali- fornia was rough. No man wanted a lazy wife."

south of the pre~cnl Mc•xican border. To the north were the Luiseno. The Warner Springs area was the home or the Cu- peno and the Cahmlla m- habitcd the Mount San Ja- cinto-San Gorgonio area The myth that these Indians were poor farmers stemmed partly from reports by Spaniards that they saw no crops growing on their jour- neys through this area. Mrs. Shipek says these reports were based on tnps through the desert in winier and

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C•l who could neYer settle down 1 ong enough in one place to build a community. Territorial • etwork Used Mrs. hipek said the Die- guf'r>o, Luiseno, Cahuilla and other Indians "weren·t wan• derers at all," but, besides ha~ ing their home "terri- tories," also arranged a net- work with other territories owned and cultivated by friends and relatives where they obtained rood when their own supplies .ran low. The leader of a band or In- dians had to be "a competent diplomat and administrator" to or amze the group and get them o the right place at the right time to obtain food, she said. Mrs. Shipek points to other evidence she thinks proves Soutliern California Indians had plenty going for them up- stairs. Accomplished Craftsmen Southern California Indian basketry, for example, is con- sidered one of the finest types in the world. Diegueno arrow points are as good as those found any- where else in the world. She quotes Malcolm Rogers, former director of Balboa Park's Museum of Man and a recognized authority on South- ern California Indians, as hav- ing said he considered Die- gueno arrow points to be the best in the world. Principal Trihes Listed She says the Diegueno, Cu• peno and Cahuilla Indians and probably the Luiseno grew large quantities of corn beans and squash in the interior mountain regions. (The principal tribes in the San Diego area were the Die- gueno, Lui eno, Cupeno and the Cahuilla. The Diegueno lived in the area from the coast eastward to the sand dunes near tile Colorado River and about 50 miles north and Mrs. Shipek says the notion that these Indians were poor farmers is also false. ·

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James Mi Democrati~~!. 70 Defeats Sherwood Roberts, 17-12, For County Committee Chairmanship James Miller an attorney, last night was elected chair- .man o e ounty Democratic Central Committee. Miller de- feated the only other nominee, Sherwood Roberts, a La Jolla attornev on a 17-12 vote with one abstention. to succeed ;\lurray D. Good~ich. . Goodrich, 67, who had served two terms as chairman, re- signed in January only a month after bemg re-elected for a hird term. . The new chairman, a native of New Jersey, has been a resi-

REPORT CARD School and Youth Notes T~ l·/(,-?o Dorotb~ M Rivera, as,1stant protessor of mathematics :it San Diego State College, has b~cn awarded a_ !;>-month study fell~w- ship by the •·ational Scu•nce Foundat100. She 1s one of 200 professors cited for rellow•hips. She \Iii! use the grant to com- plete doctoral ·tudies m ma!hematics. Guitarist to Play The mversity of California at San Diego department of liter- ature will ~ponsor a talk bv professor '.\larg1t Frenk Alatorre, of the College of .'v!exico, Thursday at 4 p.m. in room 1205 UJ the Humanities Library bu,ld:ng The program "ill include mu- sic illustrations and rnter- pretations 1 li.;ed on the gli'tar by Alatorre.

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here at a time when they thought you were simply no- body if you weren't Spanish and Catholic," she said, "and they weren't prepared to think very much of any Indians they found here." Sang for Days Mrs. Shipek points to cer- tain Indian religious services as another example of the so- phistication exhibited by In- dians of this region. Some ser- vices at harvest time, during the hunting season or at funer- als, she says, lasted two to five days, Indian "cantors" frequently sang for days at a time, pausing only for a brief rest, and singing countless songs in prescribed sequence without the benefit of written music. "That's no mean intellectual feat." she said. "I'd say you'd ha1e to have a good mind to do something like that." Shelter Buildings Cited Indians also knew the score when_it came to building their living quarters. They covered their shelters, with a type of reed that swells during a rain and sheds water. And it was more than coincidence that outdoor cooking facilities were

dent of San Diego since 1959. Hei holds a bachelor's degree and as er's degree in electrical en- gineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. and came here to join General Dy- namics-Convair. GOT LAW IlEGREE Miller attended the University , of an Diego Law School at d1ghf. earnea ms 1aw degree in 1967, was admitted to the bar in 1968 and opened a practice. He has been a member of the central committee since-1965. Miller said he would like to see the committee undertake a concerted registration drirn in all districts in the county. He also pledged to encourage all good people possible to run for office, and to help all Democrat- ic candidates within the limits of the election lav.s. LIVE IN POI;<;T L0:\1A

Follc Concert Planned Father Ia1 '.\1itchcll. an Fp1s- copal worker priest and C()m- poser of the American Fe,lk ;I.lass. will give a conctrt Wednesday at 8 p.m. in tl,e University :,f San Diego gym• nasium, s:-,onsored by tl!e Diocesan Ecumenical Commis. sion. He will be atcompanied by his wife. Real Estate Course A course ,n real estat~ law, taught by attorney John Pat- rick Kelly. will begin tonignt at Patrick Henry Adult School as

DOROTHY 'If. RrvER \. A\\ arded tudy Grant

part of the San D1eg~ Ad!.llt Educafr>n program. Classes will m ct Mond'.l},> at 7 p.m. u, room 108 at the school. Those inter- ested may register :.t cla.-~ lime. local Professor to lecture in Iowa Dr Gail . Burnttl, prc,fussor emeritus of English and clas- sics at ·an Diego State Collr,ge, has been elected to membership 1n the Inter,ational Platfrrm An>eiation. He will be guest lec- turer on Greek literature 21 the Universit~ or •·orthern Io\>a '.\larch 3. City Educator Named to Conference The California Music Educators Association has appomled D1 Charles Freebern, music resource teacher for the city schools. as state representative in a ne1, national proJect, the .Mu,ic Educators ·ational Conference. He will be on a national -committee establisned to study music of non-Western cultures related tr music education 1n the United States

.:;._--------~-~ l:.~.!:~~~J~ti:i~~ of San Diego alumnae of the Chang<' In Moral ty." .·acrPd Heart ha,·p plannnl The second lectura OJI FPb. :lo is on "The Changes

in othet ac- opposed tui- He and his wile, :'fancy. and riYe children live at 4305 Xiag- tion, unanimo I ty of Cali- _\rs. Riva Garvin nominated fornia or other institutions of Roberts for the chairman's post, higher learning m alifornia. and Goodrich sec~nded it. Good• , 1 . 1 • 1 tion stated rich urged committee m !iubera n o1 ma re o u to \'Ole for Roberts to express' that Democraw upport Ire~ the if./ appreciation and gratitude education and that the '·no Im-' for t 1he 15 to 16 years of service. lion'' policy has made the ~rrs. Alice Blankfort nomi- slate's institutions ol h1ghe: nated ~.filler. learning great. ara Ave.. Point Loma. !ion for the Un1

a series ot four Lenten lec- ttlrfl's on contPJnpora.r~ a·.. J)Pct.s /Jf 1 eligion Thi' lenu,,•, will bP gi,Pn Veb 1!l 1111d 26 nd lnnh l and 12 in 1J1e U~IJ Faeul- 1~ Dining R<>0m, DP Salt>S H~ll 11,e )p IUrP w,11 bP• gm at 8 pm f>IIOWf'd b\ a qutH;,t1on .. and .. ans\\"P, pe-1 .. iod. ll• .Joh,, :,;,1anke, i r- rnan of the adult ertucal on J}l ogram of 1hr C'a1tholic Dio- ('l'SP awl 1 'D p oii>. sor of ill lr-;,d olf the

111 t e Litul'gy" by the Very R v. Mirhael Alcara:1:, exec- uthe ~enetary of Hie D!o. r,•,an L hirgica, Comm.ls- ision and USD profe~~or of l'P ligiou;. stud i s.. in •reach• ing' will 1opie the :March ., IP<"1Utf' given by Dr. Ray. mond 0. Ryland, Urol pro- fesso,· of rdigiou i.tudies, Dr Ryland is the tormer lf'CR>l 01 thP Center ro CJ,n tian Renewal, 0 homa City. "Thr Change