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THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1979
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Kid entrepreneurs buy town
United Press International
GORDA, Calif. — Everything
about the coastal town of Gorda is
mall, including its new owners.
The mayor, 14-year-old Dickie
Cessna and his three sisters, NeNe,
[1, Bette 13, and June, 16, raised
heir flag over the 20-acre commun-
ty Tuesday, becoming the youngest
own owners in America.
The Cessna children bought the
[own, population about 20, for an
stimated $500,000 to $1 million,
he price tag included Gorda’s gen-
>ral store, a restaurant, gas station
nd seven houses where the resi-
lents and employees of the town
ive.
The 5-foot-tall mayor says a high
iriority will be the building of a
“Gorda Transit Authority,” consist
ing of a wooden boardwalk running
from one end of town to the other —
about 75 yards.
And, since none of the tiny town’s
residents own cars, he says the gas
station should have plenty of petrol
for summer tourists.
“We don’t have a Police Depart
ment,” the young Cessna proc
laimed, “because there is no crime
in Gorda. But we do have a Fire
Department. It consists of two
hoses.”
The four Southern California
children were able to buy the town
because of a rich movie contract
with Warner Bros, that will chroni
cle the kids’ struggle against
bureaucrats for their right to sell
horse manure and kill gophers with
a secret formula they invented.
The youngsters own Kidco Ltd.
and run the business from their
home near Ramona, Calif., 35 miles
northeast of San Diego.
Their enterprise began three
years ago when they began collect
ing horse manure and wood shav
ings from their father’s stables and
sold it as compost to residents of San
Diego County Estates.
When state authorities learned
the kids earned $30,000 in a single
month, the Cessna family was
hauled before the state Board of
Equalization and told they would
have to pay back taxes on the man
ure because they didn’t have a sales
license.
The kids won the battle and were
given a license along with a suspen
sion of back taxes, but their troubles
with the law had only begun.
They developed a secret gopher
killing formula and were exterminat
ing the pests in the neighborhood
for $1 a head when the state Health
Department got wind of it. They
were ordered to reveal the contents
of the formula, given to them by an
“old Indian,” and they refused.
Dickie Cessna explained Kidco
bought the town as a tax shelter and
to attract tourists. He said the cor
poration plans to build a 30-space
recreational vehicle park in Gorda
and will sell Kidco T-shirts at the
general store.
DC-10 manufacturers say
grounding is unwarranted
United Press International
WASHINGTON — McDonnell
Douglas Corp., which makes the
DC-10 jetliner, said Wednesday the
government’s sweeping decision to
ground the all such domestic aircraft
is “extreme and unwarranted.”
In a statement released about six
hours after the Federal Aviation
Administration order revoked the
aircraft’s flying certificate, McDon
nell Douglas also said it is still has
confidence in the aircraft’s design.
The aircraft company also said
that some of the problems in wing
mounts of the DC-10s jet engines
have probably resulted from impro
per maintenance procedures by air
lines.
“Suspension of the DCrlO type
certificate by FAA is an extreme and
unwarranted act in the light of sa
lient facts that have emerged during
the investigation into the probable
cause of the tragic accident at
O’Hare Airport on May 25.
“McDonnell Douglas reaflirms its
faith in the integrity of the DC-10
design. The company is making
every effort to assure a prompt re
turn to service of the DC-10 and will
take whatever steps are necessary to
accomplish this.
“The FAA’s unprecedented ac
tion is apparently based upon dis
covery of a crack in the pylon aft
bulkhead of two additional DC-10
Series 10 aircraft on June 5, 1979.
Previous cracks in the pylon aft bul
khead have been found only in
DC-10 Series 10 aircraft operated
by two airlines, a total of eight such
cracks have been found.
“Such cracks have been found
only on aircraft operated by airlines
whose past procedures for removal
and reinstallation during mainte
nance of engines and pylons as a
unit have been contrary to McDon
nell Douglas recommended proce
dures. These airlines are now con
forming to the recommended pro
cedures.
“Investigations to date concern
ing the DC-10 crash in Chicago on
May 25 have revealed a 10-inch
crack in the pylon aft bulkhead
which appears to have been present
for some time prior to the accident.
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Veteran decision angers women
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Women’s
roups are outraged by the Sup-
eme Court’s decision to uphold a
tate law that gives an absolute,
ifetime preference for government
)bs to veterans — most of whom
(re men.
The court’s 7-2 nding reinstating
lassachusetts’ veterans preference
atute — one of the most extreme
jin the country — “guarantees per-
Jetual reverse discrimination” in
ublic employment in favor of men
I'ho served in the military, said
leaner Smeal, president of the Na-
[onal Organization for Women.
But another opinion issued Tues-
ay was cause for cautious celebra
tion among women who work for
Congress.
The high court, in a 5-4 ruling, for
the first time gave congressional
aides the constitutional right to
press damage suits against members
of Congress for sex discrimination.
It left open a question about con
gressional immunity, however, that
may still allow lawmakers to escape
legal attack.
In the sensitive area of veterans
preferences, women’s groups now
are counting on Congress for re
form, Ms. Smeal said.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, head of
the Equal Employment Opportun
ity Commission, agreed the court’s
decision on that issue “puts a heavy
responsibility on Congress to take
action that will be fair to women and
to the nation’s veterans alike.”
She noted President Carter
sought to curtail veterans prefer
ence in 1978, but his plan was de
feated, 281-88, in the House.
But the mood was brighter in a
congressional office building Tues
day afternoon where a group of staf
fers gathered to celebrate the
court’s decision giving them an av
enue to redress sex discrimination
on Capitol Hill. Congresssional
employees are not protected by fed
eral civil rights laws.
Tuesday’s ruling eventually could
result in money damages for the in
itiator of the suit, Shirley Davis,
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United Press International
■ SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov.
Edmund G. Brown Jr., an unan-
ifcunced candidate in the presiden
tial sweepstakes, may have to rest-
n his politicking to California for
/eral weeks.
That’s how long it could take the
lalifomia Supreme Court to resolve
Brown’s power struggle with a
lieutenant governor who appoints
[judges and issues executive orders
[once the governor’s eastbound jet
|crosses the Sierra.
E The legal question is how much of
He governor’s power is assumed by
Republican Mike Curb, a recording
tycoon and a protege of former Gov.
Ronald Reagan, when the Democra
tic chief executive is out of state.
I Brown asked the state Supreme
‘Court to rule that he still retains au
thority when absent, arguing against
what he calls “horse and buggy rules
that would strip the elected gover
nor of power when he’s only a phone
call away.”
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He says a provision of the state
constitution giving the lieutenant
governor power when he is “absent
from the state” really refers to an
effective absence, not a literal one.
Gray Davis, Brown’s chief of staff,
said Tuesday it might take six weeks
to two months for the court to rule
on the issue. “But that’s just a
guess,” he said.
“He is unlikely to leave the state
until the question is settled, but we
don’t see this as some kind of ball
and chain around us.”
Davis said Brown doesn’t intend
to give Curb a chance to fill a vac
ancy on the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors or to call a spe
cial election for a constitutional
amendment aimed at limited
court-ordered busing for racial in
tegration of schools.
“The governor was elected to
make those decisions and he doesn’t
want to forfeit those decisions to
anyone else,” he said.
Brown said he had no specific
travel plans and would leave
California only for pressing issues.
He once again will pass up the
Western Governors’ Conference,
which starts next week in Sun Val
ley, Idaho.
“There’s a great deal pf pressing
business here in California,” Davis
said, noting the Legislature is near
ing completion of work on the
budget and post-Proposition 13
bailout bills
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United Press International
PARIS — In a quest to prove his
theory that fiberglass airplanes are
tter than any other small craft, a
entucky businessman piloted a
jold and white single-engine Win-
iecker Eagle across the Atlantic in
ord speed.
“It was absolutely no sweat at all,”
Jerry Dietrick said Tuesday night.
“I even took a few cat naps along the
way. This airplane is so great, I
could almost have slept the whole
time and it would have found its way
to Paris by itself.”
! Dietrick, 55, who lives in Flor
ence, Ky., with his wife and two
ildren, began flying in World War
I. He now owns a small company
at manufactures water filtration
uipment and does all of his own
siness flying.
Dietrick arrived at Paris Le
urget Airport Monday night —
4,168 miles, 21 hours and 58 mi
nutes after he left Cincinatti in his
erglass plane — the only such
t»|craft be says is certified to fly in the
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former office manager for ex-Rep.
Otto Passman, D-La.
But Reps. Pat Schroeder,
D-Colo., and Rep. Harold Volkmer,
D-Mo., said it was “only a begin
ning” because of many remaining
unresolved questions.
Ms. Schroeder, who has
spearheaded congressional antidis
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court left open the issue of whether
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