Call for 
clean up

   To the editor:
   The rubbish left on the roadside, day after day, year after year, along Pacific Coast Highway between the McClure Tunnel and Chautauqua Boulevard is so unsightly and an insult to the fine city of Santa Monica. 
   Aside from the construction debris which everyone understands and forgives, this one stretch gives such a negative impression of your city. Is there no way to clean it up through volunteers or “Adopt-a-Highway” people, or even sending your street cleaners there once every two months?
   We don’t expect you to take this letter very seriously since we do not live in Santa Monica. Still...we patronize your city regularly and think highly of it in all other ways. 
   Mr. and Mrs. George Eisler
   Pacific Palisades

Ed. note: We not only take it very seriously, we agree with you and have often wondered why the City of Santa Monica which has spent so much money to impress visitors allows one of its leading thoroughfares and one of Southern California’s most celebrated drives to resemble a branch of the City dump.

Ask ted
turner

   To the editor:
   First, let me congratulate you on your newspaper. You have been leaving it in my restaurant for quite a while, but I never actually read it until I found out about the fabulous crossword puzzle. Your stories are not what I call “another non-story,” like most of what we read and hear on TV these days. 
   I was also very impressed by the editorial on Ted Turner, and TCM does outshine HBO and many others. I found it interesting that this editorial was in the same issue as the one about the deficit for Samohi construction work. So, here is my suggestion: Ted Turner’s stepson, Troy Garrity, graduated from Samohi the same year as my daughter (1991, I believe), and he was there for the graduation, along with Jane (Fonda) and also Tom Hayden. Maybe he is aware of what (the last time I was inside Samohi, at least) are appalling conditions for a supposedly upscale high school. So I suggest that the school board ask Ted Turner for the money. I am not being facetious — you know he may actually do it! 
   Nina Haro
   Santa Monica