1980_10 The Daily Collegian October 1980

              THE DAILY COLL£C«AN
Residence an 'eyesore'
From old house to hof brau
By Matt Alger
A shopping center designed to appeal
to the college crowd may replace the old
farm house on the corner of Barstow and
Cedar avenues in the near future.
As a result, Julia Ruch, a College
Union cafeteria cook, and her family may
have to find a new residence. They have
lived in the old house since July 1979.
She began working at CSUF as a cook in
the residence hall last Fall.
Ruch said she and her husband, Carl,
and three children, Annette, 17, Dottie,
15, and Steve, 13, intend to live in the
house 'as long as the landlord lets us.'
That may be no longer than a year.
'We'd like to have something there
hopefully by this time next year,' said
Hal Avakian. He owns the house along
with Earl E. Mar, and Abe Paregian, all
of Fresno. The three CSUF alumni, who
are engineers, hope to develop a shop¬
ping center that will appeal to college
The main attraction at the shopping
center will bear hofbrau if the proposal is
approved by the city. The Bulldog Foun¬
dation also expressed interest in estab¬
lishing its headquarters there.
Avakian conceded the old concrete
block house on the corner embarrasses
him because 'right now It's kind of an
eyesore.* The three owners had hoped to
have the "eyesore" removed by now and
work on the shopping center begun but
decided to wait until the adoption of the
Hoover Plan by the city so there would
be no objections to their request for com¬
mercial zonina.
The family who owned the property
before Avakian, Mar and Paregian
inherited it from one of its kin who was a
Photo by Brad Cross
THE RUCH HOUSE MAY BE DEMOLISHED FOR A SHOPPING CENTER
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and kept the parcel with the house, bam
and eucalyptus trees.
Avakian said he bought the property
after the city refused to grant the fam¬
ily's request for commercial zoning so
they could establish a 'Short Stop Mar¬
ket'on the corner.
Avakian indicated that although he
considers the home a mess, the Ruchs
are apparently satisfied with it.
•We came from Death Valley. I was
kind of desperate to find a place, and I
saw it in the paper," said Carl Ruch.
He said he called one of the i
the telephone and told him he would take
the house, realizing the rent was reason-
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Ruch did look at it. He simply drove by
it and called the owner and told him he
would like to rent it.
When he pulled up to the house with
his family, Julia started crying, said
Carl. With all of the overgrown weeds "it
looked like an old spook house,' he
added.
Carl Ruch said he would like to own
the property and that he has no idea why
it hasn't been developed. He apparently
was not aware Of the owners' intentions.
.Carl Ruch said his family moved from
Death Valley to get away from the heat
and the desert, choosing Fresno because
a relative lived here. They moved to
Death Valley from Salinas because of a
Job opportunity for Carl as an emergency
medical technician, an occupation he
said he has held since 1963. He hasn't
yet gotten around to returning to college
so he can get his ambulance driver's li¬
cense renewed.
The Ruchs share their home with three
dogs, two cats and three kittens.
"Had a lot of rat problems around
here,* said Ruch, 'No more though."
Semester fees increase
Students will pay an additional S6 in
student activities fees this spring and
probably more next fall.
There has been little opposition to the
fee increase adopted independently by
the California State University and Col¬
leges Board of Trustees in January and
adopted as part of the CSUC budget in
March. The procedure for determining
the fee increase has been approved by
student leaders and legislators.
The fee increase will be used to fund
student counseling, testing placement,
financial aid, administration housing
services and half the dean of student af-
CSUF will receive five new financial
aid positions, 2 Vi In the financial aids
office and 2Vi In the business office to
pay employees who disburse financial
aids checks.
senior administrative analyst In budget
planning, said the deficit could reach
$9 million at the end of the year.
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