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Residential areas threatened
by fast-moving brush fires
United Press International
VENTURA, Calif. — More than
500 homes were endangered Wed
nesday by a fast-moving, 18,OOO-
acre brush fire that swung down
mountain slopes into the Ventura
city limits.
“The major front is burning to
ward the city of Ventura and is
within two miles of the city itself,”
said County Fire Battalion Chief
Dale Miller.
He said “it is already within the
city limits, although flames had not
leached the downtown area.
The City of Ventura could be in
grave danger when the air warms
and begins circulating, Miller said.
That is our most critical area and it
doesn’t look good at this point.
In other areas of the state, mostly
in Southern California, thousands of
firefighters from 28 states struggled
against at least 10 separate blazes,
some threatening homes.
The blaze in Ventura County,
about 60 miles up the coast from Los
Angeles, began Tuesday on Sulphur
Mountain near the community of
Ojai and was burning out of control
on all fronts.
Many residents of Mira Monte
and Oak View fled as the flames
edged closer to scattered houses. At
Oak View, the “entire end of Main
Street is a mass of flames,” one ob
server said.
Farther up the coast in Santa
Barbara County, the mercury was
up to 103 degrees Tuesday when
two fires broke out on the brush-
covered coastal mountain slopes.
The largest, the 4,000-acre Eagle
Canyon blaze, jumped the Pacific
Coast Highway and burned to the
beach. Part of that fire was burning
in the Los Padres National Forest.
Fire officials said scattered ranches
and homes in the canyon did not
appear to be in danger.
California’s coastal highway ar
tery, U.S. 101, was closed, snarling
traffic more than 10 miles in either
direction. A special water-spraying
train was sent down the tracks
alongside the highway to extinguish
burning railroad ties.
Flames roared toward three resi
dential areas, forcing residents to
evacuate hastily.
A 175-member strike force made
a series of stands at an ARCO petro
leum storage area and managed to
save the facility and several houses.
Thirty-eight head of cattle roasted in
the flames.
In the Lake Cachuma area, flames
pushed by gusty 30-mph winds
spread through 200 acres of brush,
forcing closure of California 154 and
causing another traffic tie up.
Dense smoke and high winds
grounded water-bombing aircraft.
Winds foiled efforts by 1,700
firefighters to quell an 8,200 acre
blaze that gobbled up timber and
brush in the Mother Lode country
near Placerville. Steep terrain and
thick brush and timber also hin
dered efforts to control the fire.
The inferno forced evacuation of
300 residents of the community of
Swansboro, but fire officials said the
fire appeared to be heading toward
uninhabited Slate Mountain.
Split couple ‘battle for possessions’
Father tries to kidnap kids
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United Press International
MONROE, Wash. — Doug and
Ardys Whipple guard their children
night and day, in constant fear that
her wealthy former husband will
forcibly take the three youngsters
I and spirit them back to an armed
I fortress in Mexico.
The Whipples are so certain and
so worried about the potential of
paid kidnappers that the children no
longer go to school and the family
I seldom leaves home.
It could be days or months or
years. But eventually, says Mrs.
Whipple, people on her husband’s
payroll will come to steal Manuel,
12, Enrique, 10, and Cristina, 7.
Manuel and Enrique have already
been through a kidnap of sorts and a
! counter-kid nap in the battle for pos
session.
When Mrs. Whipple was di
vorced from Manuel Sautto, a Mexi-
jcan citizen and father of the chil
dren, the divorce decree granted
her custody but allowed occasional
visits with the father in San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico.
The hoys went on a six-week visit
I in the summer of 1975, but the
[ father never allowed them to re-
| turn. A four-year struggled ensued.
and it cost the Whipples more than
$20,000 to retrieve the boys.
“We borrowed every cent we
could,” said Mrs. Whipple. The
money was spent on fees for attor
neys, phone calls, plane tickets and,
finally, on private investigator Jay J.
Armes of El Paso, Texas.
In July, Armes engineered a
meeting between the mother and
children in a bungalow on the out
skirts of San Miguel de Allende. The
building was guarded by 15 armed
men, but Armes reportedly over
came them and broke the mother
and children free from the “for
tress.”
They rushed to Mexico City, flew
to Juarez and drove over the border
in an official car.
But now the Whipples believe
Sautto or his friends are preparing
to get the children back.
Edward Lange, attorney for the
Whipples, described the Sautto
family as wealthy and highly inf
luential in the town of San Miguel
de Allende.
“They will eventually get the
kids,” said Mrs. Whipple, “because
he and his family can keep going
well with all the money they have.”
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Survey says
judges like
white club
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Three out
of five special judges in the South
and probably a majority in the
nation belong to segregated so
cial clubs, a civil rights organiza
tion said Wednesday.
In a survey of social clubs and
federal judges in 11 southern
states and four cities outside the
South, the Southern Regional
Council of Atlanta, a non-profit
organization, found that of 127
southern federal district judges,
58 percent belonged to a social
club or association that has never
had a black or other minority as a
member. Sixty-one percent of
the circuit judges in the South
belong to all-white clubs.
“A crisis of conscience exists in
the country’s federal judiciary,”
said Steve Suitts, executive di
rector of the council. “The preva
lence of memberships in segre
gated clubs and associations
among federal judges endangers
the appearance of impartiality
and fairness of the third branch
of government. ”
The report said 51 percent of
the federal circuit and district
court judges in four nonsouthern
cities — Los Angeles, St. Louis,
Chicago and Baltimore— belong
to all-white clubs.
The survey did not identify the
judges that belonged to all-white
clubs.
“There is no attempt here to
embarrass any individual,” Suitts
said. “The issue is whether any
judge can properly belong to
such clubs, and the problem is
that segregated clubs are the
preference of most federal
judges.”
He said the report is based on
information collected from pub
lic sources, civil rights organiza
tions, lawyers and club mem
bers, as of Jan. 1, 1979. No
judges appointed since that time
were included in the study.