News Scrapbook 1969-1971

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OMES PROPOSED PLAN MEETS OPPOSIT/O ~.e~~jng On San Eliio Subdivision Will Resume Today what the supervisors expected to see

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professor of Oceanography at the Scrip!)S Institute of Oceanog- raphy; Mrs. M. A. Nofflett, rep- resenting the San Dieguito Gen- eral Plan committee; Mrs. Do- rothea Edmiston, executive di- rector of Citizens' Coordinate of Century III: Mrs. John Mudie, of the Sierra Club; Joseph McKane, representing the San Diego Association of Yacht Clubs: :.trs. Lettie Fletcher, repre Pnting the Cardiff-by-the- Sea Chamber of Commerce, and Donald Flint of the Solana Beach chamber. E ·ooRSE'\lE:\'T GIVE. These observations \1 ere en- dorsed m the first part of the report by Serell, Mrs. Ednuston, Brad haw, Mrs. Greer, :'lk- Gowan,. le Kane, Mrs.. ·onet and :\[rs..\Judie. -The nropo. ed revised plan does not meet the superv1 or requirem nt to mamt m the m- ian lake ,it sea level ince no has been , '!de tor t ~vel ct-r

-Public access to and use of the water level appears in- adequate even if the small area of the inland lake would support public use. hough the proposed lake is more than 100 acres, public ac- cess would be confined to an area of about one acre with a shoreline frontage of about 700

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harbor and natural channel en- trance. The rity also said the developers must salt fy county health fficials that the lake's water quality level will be sufficient for body contact. However, the maJority, minus !l.1cKane, said in the second por- tion of the report that they do not agree with the concept o private lagoon development. They urged that a two-year mo- ratorium be placed on devel- opment of all lagoons rn the county. McKane joined Kern Flmt and :\1rs. Fletcher in the third part stating the lagoon should be The county board members have before them County Plan- ning Director Dan C Cherrwr's recommendation that th y grant the sp('cial use permit Chemer, though, said the permit hould not become effective unlc thr board or the county Plannrng ommission appro\'e a tentative subdivision map for the lagoon Although recommending aµ- privately dHelopcd OKD BY PLAN. "ER

proval of the pcrmlt, Cherrier said his department shares the concern of the maJority of the San Elijo Lagoon committee. "This view hold that while these resources are extremely limited, hey are of immeasu- rable value not only to U, resi- dents of Uus county but also to all American citizens," Ch rricr said "Public pohcy rellecting thi concept is beginning to emerge und Jt JS bPlicvcd that de\Cl opment should not be permitted which mav be in conflict with such a µoiicy unless absoluteil necess, ry," he said. The planning d1rcctor al. o em- phas1z d that pprovr,I of th( de- 1 elopment "would not nece., sarily preclude public 11 r " i.JJ he lagoon 111 the future. He . aid lh de\elopcr has d a ·ide '38 acres n the plan for futurt> public acqui 1tion. Al o he aid, th opportL1n1ty still ·x- i ·ts for pub! · of the la_goon :irea a to Inter tale 5 1f funds for that cqui 1tion beconll a\ailablP

Th r1!port was in three parts: A review of the proposal in kcepmg with the guidelines that supervisors stipulated in De- cember A maJority of the com- mitt e recommended that super- visor approve the developers' subdivi ion mrip only if numer- ous . tiff conditions will be met. GE. 'ER.\L CO. "CEPT HIT

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Mercy College I Of N rs1n Closes in June Graduation Set On USp Campus For Final C~ss y., • 70 The last class at crcv Col- lege of Nursing, a . ource of registered nurses here since 1903, will be graduated June 6. Th1> 62 students will receive diplomas in a ceremony begin- ning at 3 p.m. in the lmmacu- lata Chapel on th Lniversily of San Die11,o campus, " Sisler Mary Placida, admin- istrator of Mercy Hospital, which operates the school, said yesterday that the Mo ·t Rev. LPo T. Maher. bishop of the San Diego Catholic Dio'. cese, will be principal speaker at the commencement High Co I Told Closing of the college was announced in 1967 by hospital officials. who cited high costs of training. Thcv also pointed out the adoption of nursing programs by numerous col- leges in the area "We're fortunate to have nursing progr11ms at the col- leges in San Diego County," Sister Placida said. "The nursing school facilities will remain available here for stu- dents to get clinical ex- periences, while they get theo- ry and classroom work within the general education sys- tem," she said. In the County, San Diego State, Grossmont College, Palomar College and ' uth- western College operate nurs- ing programs, she said. One of First :\.lercy College of Nursing was one of the first nursing schools licensed in California. In the early 1900s it was known as St. Joseph's Sani- tarium Training School for Nurses. - When the final class is grad- uated in June, the school will have produced approximately 1,556 nurses. Through the years the stu- dents have found Mercy much like a regular college, but on a smaller scale. Communication Taught "The first thing we try to teach them is people," Sister Helene Marie, former nursing director of the school once said, "How to talk to people, how to talk to a sick person, how to understand what people are trying to say," she said. She said the most important thing a nurse must learn is that the patient is the most es- sential member of the health team. She resigned from !\,'!ercy in 1967 to establish a new regis- tered nursing training pro- gram at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, and was suc- ceeded by Mrs. Mary Wilson, her assistant. Mother of 13 Most g1 aduates are mem- bers of the college's nursing AlumDa Association. In 1964, :\frs. Michael D. Bajo, of Palm city, and graduate of the class of 1943, was named Alumna Mother of the Year. The mother of 13 children then, Mrs. Bajo is the wife of Dr. Michael D. Bajo, first i11- tern at Mercy Hospital. All the couple's children were born at the hospital. Mrs. William Cyran, a for- mer

USD Law Tearn In National Finals

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A Umversitv of San Diego Law School team will compete against the eastern regional winners m the first national finals of the Attornev . Client .',,lock Competition 1:he finals will be held at the University of Southern California School of Law at I p.m. Sunday, April 19. The USO team won the western regional title in com- petition with teams from the Um vers1 ty of Sou them California and Universitv of San Francisco April 4 at USF. Team members are Henry C Casden and Philip DeMassa. both third• year law students, and Raymond G. Saatj1an, second year. The legal competition will revolve around landlord-tenant situations, said G Ronald Feenberg, chairman of the USO !\loot Court Board. The problem at USF concerned a leaky water pipe that destroyed the clothing of a tenant and the refusal of the landlord to reimburse the tenant for the damage or repair the damage to the building. The Attorney • Client com- petition was conceived by USC law professor Louis Brown and introduced as intra-school USD Auxiliary, Holds Benefit 'fhe a unc e n ar game party in the homes of three members yesterday, Wednesday, with proceeds going toward the group's scholarship fund. The events took place in the homes oi Mmes. Eugene De J<'ako, Harold Tebbetts and Ross Tharp. Mrs. Irving Marlin was general chairman. Mrs. Teb- betts is president of the auxiliary which has about 220 members. CYO Gr0Us To Gathe°'~ere or Conference .1embers of Catho!Jc Youth Organ zat10ns from throughout tire cily wit: gather for the 2nd annual Diocensan Youth Confer- ence beginning at 9:30 a.m. to- day at the Unwersitv of San ::'.>1ego's More Hall. ~ Chm King director of com- mumcatons for the San Diego di- ocese said more than 2jQ per- sons are expected to attend. "This conference.'' said King, ' 1s for young people to express their problems and concern for the church, society and adults. ''And it's a.so for the church to present their facts and prob- lems with an idea towara great- er understanding and commu- nicauon. '' Paul Lowrey, youth counselor for tlw San Diego County :\Iental Health Assoc1at10n, wiil give the opening address. Worksh.op se.sions on "Parish · Teen Clubs," "Search for Chris- tian Maturity," "Adult Lead- ership Training" and "In- volvement of Minority Youth'' are scheduled at 11 a.m. nivers1t of San Die o Auxiliarv e

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0 fered Chri By ROBERT DI VEROLI EVENING TRIBUNE Religion Writer Rul of conduct are fine so 1 g as they arc not applied t rigidly, according to Dr. Georg Forell of the Univer- sity of Iowa Forell who teaches social 'f. 'f. ') cJ Forell, make the old Christian absolutes seem irrelevant in new situations. The best rule for Chri tians now, he belie\'es, is a sy~tem of ethics broadly based on the idea that God created the uni- verse according to certain

• I s certam rules, you WIii reach God Fletcher ha;; only one rule (love) while Henry has everal (all those in the Bible} To solve the "ethical con- fusion" 0£ our tnr.~. Fore!! of- fers a "new system of Chri - tian ethics" in which he com bines the •'good points" of the other systems. This new ethic would have rules - more than Fletcher's one - and he Bible-oriented but would apply those rult•s flexibly. 'Rigidity' Omitted Such a system, say Farell, \ ould eliminate the rigidity of "code ethics" and keep some or the spontaneity of the Flet- cher-type. Forell al5o believes that even with rules. people need a liUle hea\ enly guidance m their ethical decisions. "Ethical situations," he said, · are ne\'er always ex- actl the same and we mu ·t rely on !lie Holy Spirit to guide us. always with r r- ence to Scripture. • "A Christian ethic without reference to the Bible is not " says Forell, ·•a true ChrL 1an ethic at all."

'i· I· 7 i) U.N. Re di s 10- ear Glo al Growth Pan The second l,~1ted ations de\e,opment decac wU be launched with a global plan to occelrrate the growth of de- veloping nations. Th~ p an will reqL1re acn 1c s by d vr•l· oped courtrie like the Uruf; d States, an a1dr to Pre ident xon said here last night :Jr. Joel M Fisher, deputy a sistant sctre rv for eco- nomic and social aff rs in the S. Department a e, fl w lrQITl Washmgton ye. tcrday to address the United 1 · ons A soclation of San Diego. He is meeting today uith faculty and studen · at the ~mver i v of San Diego Law Sc ool. WeaJthie in World Th l ruled States, the wealthiest country m the world i not even am~g the toµ five contributor toward world development, $aid Fi h- er. He listed Fr Japan, Sweden, West crmany, Hol- land and Canada as leading contributors The United State , h said, will ha-e to contnbu more rr.oncy as well human re- sources, ch as ~olunteers for ihe International Peace Corps. 25th Y r Mark d Fisher, Y.ho wa educated at University of Southern Cali or- nia. University California at Berkeley and' Claremont Graduate School, said hat this year marks the 25th anni- versary of the United Nalio . One of the primary du ·es of the United ·ations this year, h said. 1s to adopt a strategy to guide development of un- derdeveloped nat10ns from 1971 to 1980. 'All Must Help' The entire international cotnmumt_r. he 111d, must h~ allc the gap between n h and · nations and to help the r nations help themselves. The United States, said Fisher, 11i1l have to re t- ructure its involvement in the international community.

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rules, which, however, don't apply to every situation in all times. Forell suggested that a "new Christian ethic" must be developed to combat the sev- eral counter-philosophies which arose after the decline of traditional Christian abso- lutism. One of these he called the '·academic philosophy" of campus intellectuals who say that nothing can logically be called right or wrong - that things just "are." Existentialism Cited Another. existentialism, teaches that the on1y things that count in life are the indi- vidual and how he docs what he does-not what he does, be- cause no act has ethical mean- ing Forell said. A third philos y. commu- nism, says tllat right and wrong is a matter of econom- ics. that •·~thics is the result of the way I earn my living," said Forell. In respon~e to this ethical confusion, Christians have of- fered a variety of at least partly unacceptable modes of conduct, Forell continued. These included an attempt to' revive the discredited "code ethics": the theory that if a man becomes a Christian, his actions will be ethically right; the "situation" ethics popularized by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher in a book of the same name; and the Bible-centered ''virtue ethics" of evangelical Dr. Carl F. H. Henry. Methods Criticized Farell says ' 'code ·ethics'' no longer work because cen- turies-old rules cannot be ex- pected to apply today. The Bible-centered approach is un- satisfachiry because. he says, it naively assumes people will do the right thing automatical- ly by becoming Christians. '•Situation ethic's" (onlv ac- tions that promote "love'' are morally good acts) is unwork- able because it doesn't ex- plain who is to say what "love" is. says Forell. Even more importantly. he adds, it promises that if you follow Father I<'letcher·s "love is the only guide" rule you will never do anything wrong. "Christ should have waited for Joseph Fletcher's book. There would have been no need for him to die on the cross." said Farell. Reasoning Disputed Both "situation ethics" and Henry's ••virtmf ethics" are unacceptable for the ame basic reason. says Forell· they assume L at if you follow

ethic , hinks today's Chris- tians need more Flexible rules of conduct to replace the out- moded, ab• ·'code ethics" Chri ·tianity offered for cen- tunes. ''Code ethics" says that-gen- eral rule of conduct, derived chiefly from nj!tural law, exist which can be used as a guide 1n all situatJons. ·Old Rule ' Discarded This idea JS no longer valid, ays Forell, because old rules rarely apply to new situations in a rapidly changing world. Moreover, this approach errs because it says men can " reach God" by doing some- tlung themselves (in this case, obeying God's laws), whereas rhey can do so, ays Forell, only at God's invitation. But Forell, who teaches in Iowa's School of Religion, savs "situation ethics" and other modern alternatives are also unacceptable as Christian guides to moral conduct. Absolutes Unpopular Forell, who spoke this week at the University of San D&go 1 said traditional "code e 1cs ' with its system of ab- solute pnncipales is not popu- lar today because people to- dav can ·1 use moral standards used hundreds of years ago. 'Code ethics," for all prac- tical purposes, began its final decline after World War II, said Farell. when most Chris- tian realized they could not convert the world to their eth- ical standards. , Iodern problems such as the population explosion and the tlirea of nuclear war, said

CCD Slates 2 Seminars OnWeekend r'riests, school principals, parents and CCD teachers of ~ra_des seven and eight are mv1ted to participate in two seminars on religious texts to be s~nsored this weekend by the D1oce~an Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. The seminars will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, April 18 at the University of ~g £iego School ?rr:aw, and on un ay, April 19, m St. Catherine of Alexandria parish hall, Riverside. Dealing with the "On Our Way" series of texits published by the ·a~ier Company, the semmars will be directed by Miss Joan Thiry, religion consultant for the publishers. She has taught elementary and secondary religious education programs in parochial and CCD schools. . Further information about the workshops may be obtained by calling Sister M. Cornelia at ~- CCD Office, 298-7711, ext.

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Holy Land Institute~-~ Fr. Portman toTalk Father r2bO R Portman, chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Comm1ss10n, will give one of two major lectures at an Institute on the Holy Land, starting at 10 a.m. Monday, May 4, in Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Howard Avenue and 30th Street. Father Portman is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. on ''The Holy Land and Religion Today." The other_ main speaker will be Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Ho lywood, who has lectured extensively in Europe and this country and has contributed many articles to the Jewish press. His JO a.m. talk at the institute will be on "The Holy Land and Judaism." The one-day interreligious meeting was announced by Rabbi Monroe Levens, president of the San Diego Rabbinical Association, under whose auspices the institute is being held. It wJII include luncheon and a discussion period. Rabbi Levens said the institute is designed to foster in clergymen, students and other interested_persons a "deeper un- derstanding of human affairs ahd a wider knowledge of history and religious literature." "We want to bring to the clergy of San Diego County authoritative information about the Holy Land, and thus increase the possibilities of peace and understanding there," he declared. ''It has become a trouble-spot in the world, when it should be a center of religious iQSpirati9n and creativity. "We can make a contribution to this end by our knowledge and •by our support of th~ God-centered purpose of the Holy Land."

USO Student To Get Award -f.,, CAn4 ','/( JI) The Cowboy Hall of Fame will honor a ·versit of San Die o graduate 1s nry s u en an award and trophy April 24 in Oklahoma City. Wllliam J Reed i being cited for his book on the life of W t rn Arti t Olaf W1eghor ·t of El C'.aJon The award is considered one of the top writing honors in the field of Western American history, said Dr Raymond Brandes. chair- man of the USD department of history AnothN USD graduate student ha written an mllcle on the hi tory of Camp Wall"n in the Arizona Territory. lJonald Lengyel wrote "To Take the Field," which appear in tht current Journal of the San Diego Corral of Western(•rs

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