Daily Sitka Sentinel (Newspaper) - August 26, 1981, Sitka, Alaska Member of the Associated Press T H E DAILY SENTINEL Wednesday August 26 1981 Sitka Alaska Assembly Mulls Straw Vote Over Recreation Facility By BETSY LONGENBAUGH Library Extension portant habitat for birds Sentinel Staff Writer A public hearing on the Longenbaugh also said it would The Sitka Municipal Assembly proposed tidelands landfill for a infringe on their Tuesday night threw up roadblock to slow the rapid progress the proposed school and community recreation facility has taken so far In an unanimous vote members rejected a proposed agreed on an appeal from Planning Commission that Georgia Kite should not be a library extension was set by the value as an National Historic allowed to rent rooms in her Site home at 121 Jeff Davis The ordinance to put the million a square foot addition building on the October 6 general election ballot Instead the assembly will consider at a special meeting tonight a proposal to take a straw vote on the center in the October election assembly after a lengthy discussion on the proposal The city and the Library Board propose to extend the fill behind building on pilings and enlarging plaints the building towards the tennial Building instead of using additional fill However several assembly members objected to the idea of pilings from a trailer on city property and a representative of the the library an additional 70 to 90 feet to allow for construction of City Engineer Larry Harmon said the fill would extend about 70 feet from the top of the present fill to the top of the new However he added from the top of the present fill to the bottom of the new would be about 90 Alternatives suggested at the area is zoned for single family meeting included extending the dwellings and several com- from neighbors have been received about house in the past the board was told denied a request by Jim Hawkins to sell smoked salmon Dapcevich said in denying the Library Board said the second request Hawkins could rent suggestion would eliminate the property to place his trailer on library's parking lot Day Care Center downtown and pointed put there is a city ordinance against In response to a request by proposal Sitka Day Care the assembly passing on first reading a he said would include a cost property owners objected to the agreed to consider at its next technical ordinance that ceiling and tentative operation fill and their letters were read meeting a resolution supporting Gutierrez said would close the Mayor John Dapcevich feet to allow for a slope proposed the straw vote which Two of the three adjacent costs We can pursue planning and funding and go on from he said It might be a better way to approach the problem Other assembly members who had expressed concerns at the meeting Dee baugh one of these two also attended the meeting and complained of not receiving notice about the fill City Administrator Rocky Gutierrez admitted this had been an about the cost of the building oversight and apologized and the city's debt agreed Objections to the fill center This ordinance is coming at around the use of the cove serves 130 children is operating will cover 25 percent of the use of the National Guard books for the fiscal year armory site for a center Sitka opened bids for some National Guard has received janitorial supplies and awarded funds to build a new armory and a bid of to Cascade Ford may vacate the site If it does for two police vehicles said John Stein of the Day Care approved on final reading an Board it would be a good site ordinance appropriating for a new center Currently the center which to pave a small stretch of Lake St near the high school The freight said behind the library as an im- member Russell A VIEW OF SATURN Voyager 2 took this snapshot of Saturday and its ring system this week when the spacecraft was 8.6 million miles away from the planet The ring system's shadow is clearly cast in the equatorial region The so-called ribbonlike feature PHOTO FLOW in the white cloud band marks a high-speed jet at about 47 degree north there the westerly wind speeds are about 150 Voyage 2 experienced mechanical problems today apparently caused by particles from the rings AP Voyager Hits Trouble PASADENA Calif AP Mechanical trouble aboard ager 2 perhaps caused by a collision with particles from rings interrupted the flow of stunning and revealing photographs from the planet day but scientists said the sion was still a centage success A platform carrying cameras apparently got stuck limiting the cameras aim and project controllers could not fully analyze the problems until they receive crucial tape recordings at mid- morning a spokesman said Controllers noticed the lem shortly after 2 EDT as soon as radio signals with the craft were reacquired once Voyager passed from behind Saturn as seen from earth project spokesman Alan Wood said Scientists had said that ing through Saturn's rings posed a danger of collision for Voyager with ring particles A pathfinder spaceship Pioneer 11 followed the same route safely in 1979 and scientists were confident Voyager would make it too Whether Voyager did indeed collide with ring particles had yet to be determined but Wood said We know at least it wasn't a strong hit if there was a hit We go the radio signal back perfectly on time once Voyager passed from behind Saturn Scientists had said that ing through Saturn's rings posed a danger of collision for Voyager with ring particles us like a assembly Wright He added that some people had told him they were concerned about the city going broke Assembly member Alice Johnstone who had objected to the ordinance before saying the city couldn't afford the building held firm to that position She was the only member to vote against reconsidering the original ordinance The assembly also heard objections from a representative of the Sitka Little League Doug Dralle told the group the Little in three locations he said It received for a building from the state legislature this year said Stein Besides the armory site the board is also considering two other sites Stein added These include a house originally built as a church on Brady St and the old Sitka Community Hospital once the new one is built Rezoning Approved In other business the Dog Problem Raised Again By Sentinel Staff Sitka's stray dog problem raised its hairy head again at Tuesday's assembly meeting when a Sitka woman complained of her dog being attacked by another Sandra Hunt sat through the passed on first reading an two and a half hour meeting in ordinance rezoning a portion of block of order to have the opportunity during public participation time constructing the facility until the ballfield which would be covered by the building was replaced site proposed is the ballfield next to Blatchley Junior High Cemetery Association The assembly unanimously passed an ordinance on first reading to place a proposed private cemetery association on the ballot The association a non-profit organization is asking the city for title to the newly constructed city the paving costs and resident owners will pick up the rest The city is paying 25 percent because it owns some property on the road to be paved accepted million from the state in its per capita grant program The money will be allocated to cover unanticipated costs in the Green Lake hydroelectric facility agreed to advertise the an- garbage collection con- tract It also agreed to consider allowing the present contractor George Chapman a three-year contract instead of a one year agreement if he wins the contract agreed to allow the city to land between downtown and the residential League would not support to ask for help controlling stray area The block is framed by dogs Hunt said large dogs Oja Monastery and Lake terrorize children in her trailer streets Currently zoned negotiate with A T Equipment court and throughout Sitka and residential the rezoning would Co to run the city impound asked the city to fund a dog make most of it commercial A yard Public Works Director catcher Hunt said a large dog public hearing on the rezoning Jerry Simpson suggested the will be held at the next proposal to cut down on the assembly meeting vandalism rate in the yard had attacked her dog Tuesday which had prompted her to attend the meeting Assembly members told Hunt a half-time dog catcher position had been funded by the city three years ago and Mayor John Dapcevich suggested she talk to the Police and Fire Commission Sadat Begin Say Talks to Resume ly Travels South cemetery valued at a Dan Keck responded to this endowment fund and suggestion by saying the LOS GATOS Calif AP Five fruit flies found in a Los Angeles suburb raised the of a vast expansion of the pest's infestation while the United States reached an agreement with Japan that may require that fruit imported from California be fumigated Test results expected today should tell if the ing Mediterranean fruit fly has leapfrogged to Southern nia home of lush orange groves However agricultural officials already are laying plans for an emergency ing of pesticide It was not known ly if trie flies were fertile If these flies turn out not to be sterile it is certainly going to be bad news for said Edwards deputy Los les County agriculture How the flies got to Los An- geles isn't known Annie Zeller of the medfly project said The flies don't travel very far but people do The five flies were found in a backyard in the Los suburb of Baldwin Park the medfly eradication project said Tuesday 260 miles south of where the infestation boundary had been However assembly member ALEXANDRIA Egypt AP Sadat opened the news con- President Anwar Sadat and ference by saying he and Begin about for equipment and commission was ineffective in Israeli prime Minister had reached agreement that a building In return the its control of the problem achem Begin announced today we resume the talks for the full association would operate the Keck said he has attended two they wiu resume the autonomy issue In the cemetery meetings within the past two locked negotiations on ond half of September The newly completed city and complain of the dog ian autonomy on Sept 23 Begin added that foreign Pioneer Home cemetery has some 250 existing graves and space for new burials Approval of the terms of the proposed agreement postponed until the assembly meeting Because of the size of transaction voters must were next made no anything Following this remark the assembly held a general discussion on the stray dog problem in the community City Arty spoke at Sadat's of the two countries had problem but the police chief effort to do mer in a news conference set Sept as the starting broadcast live by Israel Radio date the Attorney Peter Hallgren said the police department had bought a prove the land transfer The 2.85 special rifle about three months acres of cemetery land is valued ago to dispose of Defense Spending Hike Not Certain Officials Say at Fuel Company to dispose of strays Hallgren said he had heard Coast Guard Rescues Two from Mountain SANTA BARBARA Calif AP President Reagan isn't necessarily committed to his goal of increasing defense spending 7 percent a year and it could be less than that a White House spokesman says The 7 percent figure is something we know we can spend up deputy press Larry Speakes said Tuesday It was a cap rather than a commitment to a goal of 7 percent Speakes said he gave the wrong impression last week when he told reporters that cuts in planned defense ing were unlikely because gan was committed to a 7 cent growth after adjusting for inflation to rebuild the nation's military might Asked if the defense increase could turn out to be less than 7 percent Speakes It could be Defense Secretary Caspar W Weinberger and White House budget director David A man were to meet with counselor Edwin Meese III here today to discuss the matter which has sparked an internal administration debate Reagan has vowed to seek what amounts to the largest de- fense buildup in U.S history more than trillion between 1983 and 1987 Sitka Fuels Inc received the police used the gun a 22 rifle tidelands lease to the port with a scope and silencer to development landfill adjacent to kill about two dogs a night Thomsen Harbor bidding the He added that dogs are killed price of for only after repeated attempts to per square foot for 63 acres and capture the animals failed per square for 28 acres Hallgren said today that such The company owned and action by the department is not managed by Kneip intends illegal to install a bulk fuel storage and City ordinance said the at- By Sentinel Staff rugged that a gentle drop was Sitka Coast Guard Air Station not possible and the crewman rescued a Pelican woman who suffered a dislocated shoulder was suffering abdominal pains and their own crewman who was injured while entangled in hoist line on Island the Coast Guard said The helicopter brought the two a patients and Mrs Nash's sister back to Sitka This morning Mrs Nash was reported in At p.m Sitka Coast stable condition in Sitka Guard Air Station received a munity Hospital and 33 year-old report from the fishing vessel Bliss of Providence was were stranded on a tain top called Mite Head on Island Mrs Nash her husband and her sister were hiking said Lt Cmdr Joel Thuma pilot during dition at hospital Mt Edgecumbe sales facility The lease to the torney calls for dogs with city Kathy Jean at Inlet reported in satisfactory tidelands was let on a slightly tags to be held for 72 hours two people including the unusual basis said City before killing them but dogs woman Rebecca Nash Attorney Peter Hallgren without tags may be disposed pointing out that the lease is for of immediately five years only and may be Hallgren added that he had revoked on a year's notice if a spoken with Acting Police Chief higher use is offered for the Larry Klingaman who said site A higher said there would be a more concerted Dapcevich would probably effort to capture and dispose of the rescue Mrs Nash was in so mean a large fish processing strays Police Chief Jack Allen much pain she could no longer iant e r walk and so her husband went to con- Trio Charged With Mischief on vacation A few showers tonight mostly cloudy Thursday High Thursday in the mid 60s low tonight mid 50s Outlook for Friday mostly cloudy U.S Under Fire at Sea Law Meeting his sailing vessel the Fog to Sit youths today on ot criminal mischief in the third GENEVA Switzerland AP year behind schedule The president of the The Reagan administration Koh said the new deadline was a clear signal to It was an opportunity that was created for them and it TIDE TABLES THURSDAY High tide at 10.0 Low tide at -1.3 High tide at p.m 8.7 Low tide at 7 17 p.m 2.3 Courtesy of BAILEY'S MARINE HARDWARE Across from Pioneer Bar on Katlian St sea law conference says the requested the we have waited a year for the have Koh said wanted to review and possibly Reagan administration has blown an opportunity to re- negotiate a treaty governing world use of the oceans and risks being left out of the pact radio in the emergency Thuma degree in connection with an said explosion at Sitka High School The Coast Guard received the Brian Bickar Brian Weddel call at p.m from the Kathy and Jeffrey Manning all 18 Jean which had overheard the were charged following a police investigation On June 28 Police Investigator Ed Thornton said a of the previous renegotiate portions treaty accepted by U.S administrations It still has not committed it- Ambassador Tommy self to signing the pact and Koh of Singapore told reporters chief U.S delegate James L the Tuesday the Conference on Sea intends United States and we have The draft treaty is waited long enough distress call from The Fog JJ ton that we mean business that was an opportunity that they When the Coast Guard i helicopter arrived at p.m a corpsman and -a radio man resident near the school the result of seven years of were lowered through the trees reported hearing a small ex- He said the U.S position borious negotiations and Koh and hoisted tne woman in a plosion Although officers were disturbs me and it disturbs said it was conceivable the basket unable to find anything a the whole conference conference would ratify it During the hoist the crewman janitor at the school reported Koh criticized as absurd out the United States On the ground aviation the damage the following day American reluctance to Koh said many Western 2nd class Rudy Bliss got The janitor said Thornton showed officers the lock of a door blown ials estimated treaty on April 30 1982 a mining interest ending Friday ground The terrain was so steep and the damage at
