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r Activities Fair Monday, October 29, 1973 opens (oda,. The Grate Activities Fair opens at 10 a.m. today in the Ninth Street Pit Area, behind the Student Union. At least 30 clubs and organizations will be represented, according to Cheryl Ebbage of Student Activities. The Grate Fair will continue partan 1 ally through Thursday and will run from Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Hawaii trip contest sparks lawsuit filing By Huss Brown prohibits "bribery or any corrupt The Public Information Task Force means, either direct or indirect in in- PITF ) filed suit Friday to enjoin the fluencing any voter in giving his vote." Santa Clara County Arena Committee The arena committee is offering a from conducting its Hawaii vacation chance for the Hawaii trips to persons bumper sticker contest. who can prove they are displaying a Among those named in the suit were "yes on Measure A" sticker on their top arena committee officials in- cars. cluding Ray Blackmore, former San The Mercury News and two local Jose chief of police; A.P. Dutch)( travel agencies have advertized Hanann, former city manager and themselves as places where the bumper current vice president for university stickers can be obtained. relations at the University of California Calling the contest "a scheme at Santa Clara; and P. Anthony Ridder, established to deceive the voters," business manager for the San Jose Stewart said the contest was an attempt Mercury News. by the arena committee to create the Two local travel agents, Jack Peak appearance of popular support for and Val Handl were also named as Measure A. defendants. Joseph Pickering, a San Jose The arena committee is a local businessman and spokesman for PITF, Wade Howell organization supporting Measure A on called the contest a conspiracy on the Impeachment-Seeking Protestors on First St. the Nov. 6 ballot. If approved, the part of those who will profit from the measure would provide that the arena to deceive the voters into county's maximum property tax rate thinking there is broad support for the be increased by five and one-half cents measure. Impeachment called for at S.J. rally per $100 assesed valuation specifically Ridder, chairman of the arena ... to build an indoor sports arena. committee denied Pickering's charge by Joe Fisher The professor said a prosecutor has the right to go only issue, Dick Nixon is gonna come out smelling The proposed $60 million facility saying, "I haven't heard of anyone who Saturday at a St. James Park rally, Howard to court to get the information he needs and should like a rose’cuz they'll probably clear him!" he would seat 17,500 people and could put on a sticker who is not for the Anawalt, Santa Clara University law professor, not have to go "on his hands and knees to the same screamed. accomodate such events as basketball, measure." called for President Nixon's immediate resignation ones he's investigating." San Jose lawyer, Thorne, spoke next and agreed ice hockey, boxing, concerts, circuses Ridder called the suit ridiculous" and or impeachment and warned the president that he He claimed that secrecy has gone too far-that, in with the man in the crowd about the "cock-eyed and rodeos. said the campaign contest had been "must soon live among us as a citizen and accept Nixon's view, executive privilege is "the essence of tapes." He said the real issues are the "unjust, The arena has been critisized by okayed by both the state attorney our judgments." the Constitution." imperialist policies" of the administration. PITF, a coalition of environment and general and the district attorney. Anawalt was a featured speaker, along with Americans need to know how the power of the "Do you realize we're the only nation with an tax interests, as a money loser and a Ridder accused the PITF of "trying Attorney John Thorne and law student Jud Scott, at presidency is being used, according to Anawalt, and army on every continent and a navy in every sea?" contributor to pollution and traffic to get a little publicity for their cause," the impeachment rally which began as a march of how much "money and sleazy deals" have to do he asked. problems. by alleging that the arena committee's some 200 chanting demonstrators down First Street. with electing a president. And he said he has a modicum of respect for the The suit is directed toward a contest contest was in some way improper or Citing Nixon's yen for law and order, Anawalt "We need to know what's on the tapes and if a courts now that they've allowed Nixon to defy them sponsored by the backers of Measure A unethical. called it contradictory and no less an obstruction of president's election is really the product of the and Agnew to make deals. that offers a chance for a trip to Hawaii A hearing on the suit is scheduled for justice for Nixon to fire the very man ( Archibald legitimate political activity of the people," he Thorne read a "support" telegram from Cong. in addition to numerous smaller prizes Thursday at 8:45 a.m. in the Superior Cox ) who was guaranteed free rein to follow stressed. Jerome Waldie addressed to the rally saying he was to persons displaying "Yes On Arena" Court of Santa Clara County. evidence' wherever it might lead." A young man in the crowd yelled out, "Forget the encouraged by the latest poll showing 42 per cent bumper stickers on their cars. If successful, the suit will enjoin or "Cox wasn't breaking into Ellsberg's tapes! The tapes aren't the issue. It's ITT, it's meat, favoring impeachment. Waldie, a member of the According to PITF local attorney Jim prohibit the offering of prizes to those psychiatrist's office, Cox didn't authorize taps on it's wheat, it's milk! The bastard ( Nixon took a House Judiciary Committee, introduced the first Stewart, the contest may violate a persons displaying the "Yes On Arena" phones-he was just doing his job," said Anawalt. payoff and raised milk prices. If the tapes are the impeachment legislation last week. section of state election code that bumper stickers. Automation comes to radio By Kyle Clark stations in the area. Will automated and ask if he's heard of it." The station It is refreshing sometimes to hear radio replace disc jockeys? Kieve said does play a few current hits if they're good music on the radio when it isn't no. "With all the new non-automated "soft" enough. interrupted every few minutes by a disc stations springing up, the opportunities "We eliminate all things that we jockey's vioce. for disc jockeys are not being reduced, consider too harsh," Kieve said. "We Santa Clara radio station KARA they're being enlarged," he said. play very little early Rolling Stones for (105.7 FM) has caught on to that idea Schow, who has been with KARA instance, but then we do play 'Angie,' and has arranged its program so with since it started a year ago, said disc their current hit." the exception (.,f a few commercials now jockey radio is too popular. "For awhile In an hour KARA will usually play and then and an occasional "Hi! This is people want to listen to a personality- four "super oldies," six fast songs of KARA in Santa Clara!" it is virtually oriented station and some music, the '60s, six slow from the '60s, and two uninterrupted music. rather than just music," he said. current ones from their collection of But KARA's popularity is getting up about 1,500 hits. The categories of songs Its secret: automation. If it were not there. According to one survey, KARA are grouped on reels of tape and put on for the Federal Communications has more Santa Clara County listeners the air by an automatic switching Commission )FCC) rule that states a between the ages of 18 and 49 during the mechanism or "The Brain," as they licensed FCC engineer must be on duty average quarter hour than any other call it at KARA. The machine holds at all times, KARA wouldn't really need station in the area. The range in ages is eight reels and also switches on the anyone at the studio at 2775 Park Ave., probably because of KARA's music commercials which are on separate except to change the tapes every few selection. It specializes in old top-40 cartridge tapes. hours. type music but isn't a solid "golden "We're trying to get to the point There is never a time when a disc oldies" station. where we don't have to change the jockey speaks live over the air or "There's a difference between what tapes," said Schow, "We spend more "spins the records," as KARA we're playing and golden oldies," time thinking about music this way and operations director Dan Schow puts it. Schow said. The station rarely plays aren't tied down to the mechanics of a Instead he and Dave Sholin, a disc music any older than 1957 and more radio station," he said. with his D.J., "The Brain." jockey at San Jose rock station KLIV, than half of its program are hits of the Bob Graziano, KARA engineer, talks and Bob Kieve, the general manager of '60s. both stations, have compiled several "The music we play has to have made Alkisswani seven-hour tapes on huge reels of late it big, songs that a disc jockey doesn't 1950s and '60s "pop" music.

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