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Monday, "April 27, 1987 24 Pages 25 Cents Gh F U Gm- I ff—'a I �J N ne o n RAO Forty bands attended Tracy's U Ist 0 P(9 In 10th annual Band.Review Satur- day, bringing with them a day of music and taking with them 114 ,r gold-plated trophies. r by contacrro ' Merced came away from the 40 �. ^' �. band parade competition as the a e co P P DTH PRI EVE JU 1 EVE •:,•� .. big winner with its entrants, Press Staff Writer .��............. .�. ��. . . � Merced High and Hoover Junior Construction workers broke " �.. We were really High. into an underground, high-pres IuC . . . if it found Merced High won the parade sure pipeline on Grant Line Road sweepstakes; perpetual parade Friday morning, spilling more an ignition source it sweepstakes; music sweepstakes; second laces for identification than 40,000 gallons of gasoline would have been a and causing the evacuation of res- „ x� unit, tall flags and percussion idents of nearby homes before the real problem. unit; and third places for mace gasoline was contained later that —Capt. Bill Robinson drum major and majorette team. evening. Tracy Fire Department Hoover Junior High won the el Workers from the C.P. Drilling ementary/intermediate parade Co. were digging a hole in front R sweepstakes; elementary/interme- of a home at the corner of Corral Responding to the accident diate marching sweepstakes; first Hollow and Grant Line roads in were employees of the city and " places for elementary/interme- west Tracy when they pierced a 6- rural fire departments, Caltrans, diate majorette team, elementa- inch steel Chevron pipeline, spew- California Highway Patrol, Tracy _ !41 r /intermediate tall flags and el�� 3' g ing diesel and supreme unleaded Police Department and Manteca w est ementary/intermediate drum gasoline into a storm drain Fire Department who quickly .. major; and second lace for el � P shortly before 10 a.m. evacuated the residents of five ' ementary/intermediate identifica- The workers, who were under homes in the immediate area, 3 Z 4r b' tion unit. subcontract for Pacific Asphalt later calling for the evacuation of ' L *{"•' The top concert band winner Co., were in the laying y process of lam the nearby Orchard Estates Mo- among the 21 competing bands sewer pipeline to serve a comme- bile Home Park and closing off all was Loara High of . Anaheim, cial area planned at Corral Hol- roads leading to the area. "" which entered an Aband and a low Road, about 1 mile west of Although only about 10 homes "B" band. The "A" band won - the break at the time of the acci- were evacuated, other area resi- first place in the Class A division, dent. (See OIL back page) r while the "B" band won fourth p g t Ff place, also in the Class A divi- sion. Foothill High of PleasantonT e a' c h e ns' BNOP09ra 8� f swept the eight-band field show competition by earning the sweepstakes trophy, themarching- .."N bm%Ard ' sweepstakes trophy, the , music sweepstakes trophy and the Divi- , sion II best field commander, best Tracy Highs cbrtificated and starting teacher salary will be classified employees will "sun- $30,000 and the maximum certifi- percussion and best auxiliary unit shine" their 1987-88 contract pro- cated salary will not be less than trophies. posals before the Tracy Joint $60,000,all by 1990. Because Tracy High hosted the event, its band was not allowed to Union High School District board Other salary changes include of trustees Tuesday. increases in stipends for extra compete allow the band partici- P pated in the parade. Under state law, the bargain- services, coaching positions and Earning all of the 114 trophies ing teams must make public their Tracy Adult School and summer awarded were: initial proposals before negotia- school teaching positions. - `' Parade Perpetual Sweepstakes — tions can begin. TJUHS trustees Major non-salary points of ne- Merced High of. Merced; Parade are expected to reciprocate at gotiations include requests to: Sweepstakes — Merced High of Merced; their May meeting. The current r.vr Elementary/Intermediate Parade * Limit class sizes based on ac- three-year i Sweepstakes — Hoover Junior High of ��ree-year contract expires June tual number of students in class, '^'' ` Marnari' Parana Mncin Awaanctnkoc —