Marysville Yuba Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - March 10, 1982, Marysville Yuba, California Vol. 109-No. 40-122nd Year Sixty Pages March 10,1982 2* Congressmen For Nuclear Freeze WASHINGTON - More than 120 congressmen and 19 senators allied themselves today with a movement calling for a halt to the stockpiling of more nuclear weapons in the United States and the Soviet At a news congressional supporters announced that they would seek enactment of a resolution asking President Reagan to negotiate a mutual nuclear arms freeze with the The proposal was endorsed by a long list of prominent leaders from the worlds of religion and public Among them was retired diplomat George F. who said in a statement that a movement along the lines proposed is imperative and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said a nuclear freeze would harm both the national defense and Reagan's strategy for reducing the level of nuclear arms around the In the event a freeze resolution is Haig 'the instability and political that would follow be He said it Cont. on Back Page % Taxable Sales In Area Fail To Match State Gains The state's taxable sales as a whole increased 10.5 percent during August and September of last but news is bleak about sales in Yuba and Sutter The state Board of Equalization said that taxable sales increased only slightly in these two counties during the third quarter last and that there was actually a large drop in sales volume over the previous three Anderson Death Case The board released full sales figures this week for the third quarter of 1981. There was a 12.1 percent inflation rate during the summer the Board of Equalization so the state's overall 10.5 percent taxable sales increase represents a 1.4 percent drop in sales a 2.3 percent increase in taxable sales in Yuba County represents a 9.8 percent drop in sales Witness Says Wife Husband By MILT CARLAND A-D Staff Writer Caroline 38 - accused of hiring an ex-convict to murder her husband last a friend last summer she was of Anderson and to get rid of a witness for the prosecution testified in Yuba County Municipal Court Mrs. Anderson and Jessie Ray 26 - the alleged gunman - face the possibility of death penalties for the alleged murder of Monty 50, Dec. 14 at the Anderson home at 3193 Erie A third defendant - foster Norman Leroy 32 - is charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder for allegedly helping Biggs cover up the crime and flee to Preliminary hearing of charges against the three got underway in Municipal Court A fourth defendant in the Sophia 27, of Palm Springs - is expected to appear as a witness for the prosecution in return for the reduction of a murder charge to a charge of being an accessory to She allegedly bought the caliber rifle and ammunition allegedly used by Biggs to shoot and kill Anderson as he sat at a counter in his kitchen Dec. 14. The case got underway Cont. on Back Page | Sen. Williams Says He Will Not Resign WASHINGTON - Sen. Harrison A. said today he has no intention of resigning before the Senate votes whether to expel him for misconduct in the Abscam still in the he going over there to Williams told a news conference before the Senate resumed its debate of his political A move merely to censure Williams seemed all but dead Asked about widely circulating reports that Williams might resign before the Senate reaches an expulsion the senator not thinking of resigning right An aide to Williams said the senator had given no private indication to his staff that he was considering giving up the Senate seat he has held for 23 years after his conviction of bribery and conspiracy in the Abscam Supervisor Race In Yuba Former Supervisor Roy Landerman has taken out nomination papers to seek election to his old 5th District seat oo the board of supervisors in the June 8 primary Rackerby contractor Harold Johnson and Oregon House contractor McGill also are circulating nomination Filing for the election ends Today's Senate Williams the fact that there are a lot of unanswered questions in the Williams said he wanted the Senate to know did the government on Back Page | and a 1.6 percent increase in taxable sales in Sutter County represents a 10.5 percent drop in sales William M. chairman of the Board of said that inflation rose to the 12.1 percent rate in California after declining for five consecutive 17.9 percent to 8.7 He noted that goods and services which had cost in 1967, the base year established for the Consumer Price cost in August and 1981. What gains there were in other sales areas during the third quarter were virtually wiped out by large decreases in the volume of sales in the category of building materials and farm Bennett reflecting the depressed conditions in the timber and construction The number of authorized housing starts fell to 24,280, the lowest level since 1967. Taxable sales in Sutter County during the third quarter rose from Cont. on Back Page t Race For Sutter Post Area accountant James Fowler has returned nomination papers to the Sutter County Clerk's Office for the collector's post being vacated by Lovena Fowler's filing assures a contest for the position in the June 8 primary Current Assistant Collector Daphne Schliesman has already filed for the Mrs. Emery earlier announced she is not seeking re-election to the position she has held since 1973 when she was appointed to succeed longtime treasurer Hanlon The filing deadline for all seats up for election is 5 p.m. That deadline will be extended to 5 p.m. March 17, should any incumbents in a particular race not file for Nuclear terrorism was the name off the game at Fort Ord yesterday although - passing motorists may have thought these soldiers were preparing for the end 0f the world predicted ffor today by some gloomy Fort Ord's nuclear Uniforms accident control team took part in a readiness exercise along the beachfront as 200 specially trained troops pretended thay were under nuclear attack by The special team is prepared to respond to nuclear incidents in 18 states west off the Haig Cites Red Role In Central America WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said today the war against Salvadoran guerrillas cannot be won in that country alone because the rebellion is part of a Soviet and effort to subvert freedom around the situation is global in Haig told a Senate are the local manifestations of a global the solution to which is not going to be found by the level of assistance we give to El Salvador or don't or the number of American Haig appeared before the foreign operations subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee as the administration continued a new campaign to try to rally public support for its policies in Central intelligence experts showed off aerial photographs they say document a massive military buildup in Adm. Bobby deputy director of the Central Intelligence told reporters the buildup endangers all of Central America and far exceeds what Nicaragua would need for its own He said which the United States claims also is assisting the might use bases there as a jumping off point for intervention elsewhere in the in response to a question at today's declined comment on a report in the Washington Post that the administration has approved a plan to try to destabilize the Nicaraguan government that would involve a on Back Page | Brown Asks PG&E For Rate Reduction SACRAMENTO - Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. wants the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to give its ratepayers a reduction of at least Brown sent the request yesterday to the state Public Utilities along with requests for five other A spokeswoman for the PG&E said officials couldn't immediately comment without seeing Brown's letter to the In addition to the million If You're Reading It Didn't Brown requested the PUC to pursue legal challenges to the federal decontrol of natural gas direct the utilities to better publicize their low-cost conservation scrutinize cost overruns on PG&E order the utilities to make payment available for and to examine the fuel The PUC had approved the sharp increase in PG&E rates that last month sparked a widespread series of The protests included a demonstration Monday at the Capitol that Brown Cont. on Back Page | By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - If you're reading the world probably didn't come to an end Some people thought it at that Los Angeles would be destroyed by an or islands would be drowned in tidal waves or some other natural catastrophe would shake the Their fears are based on media reports that all nine planets will be on one side of the sun today as part of normal orbital The planets got together that way about 179 years as they often And in the year 1999, they'll Line in a nearly straight Today the planets will be clustered in the sun were the center of a huge Neptune would be at about noon and the Earth at about 3, with the others scattered in So what? A spokesman for Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles says it has as much significance as Friday the 13th. But a 1974 by John Gribbin and Stephen predicted there might be earthquakes and extreme weather because of the planetary and thousands of people have called observatories throughout the country in recent years worrying about March 10, 1982. In planetariums have been putting on shows this year to explain that the planets are not in a straight and that even if they it would have no effect on the always possible to have an even on the 10th of said Ed director of Griffith Two moderate earthquakes did occur in California last in the sparsely populated Mojave and the island of Tonga was inundated by a hurricane last One caller to the California Institute of Technology was young lady whose parents were going to come out to California and she wanted to know exactly when the earthquake would occur so her parents could come either before or said spokesman Dennis the operators explained the situation to she decided she'd have her parents come out Meredith In Key 3,000 people turned out early today for a beach party to observe the Jupiter and four of them were stabbed by a slightly built youth accompanied by three other police The four were in satisfactory said spokesman for the Metropolitan Dade County The Griffith ' Jupiter Effect and the Great California attracted 500 people Saturday The usual Saturday night attendance is about 350 All 250 tickets for a Monday night lecture on the planetary alignment sold quickly at the Gates Planetarium in and the institute reported 130 phone calls in five hours literally had people I sell my house and move said Kevin Atkins of Gates face if the Earth is going to get there aren't too many places to One small Christian sect in the Philippines is building a maze of padded cubicles and trying out padded suits in readiness for disasters their Casiano predicts - although he says the scientists have called the day wrong and the effect will be strongest on March 26. Gribbin retracted the whole basis for Jupiter theory in a June 1980 article in Omni He acknowledged that as the planets move around the they often approach each and they come closer than 90 Gribbin said he and Plagemann figured on March 10, 1982, the planets would come closest to each other during a predicted period of high solar sunspots and solar They theorized having all the planets pulling on one side of the sun would increase solar causing more solar activity and sending solar particles through space to nudge the Earth off its normal But the predicted increase in solar activity has already hit its years Cont. on Back Page High yesterday was 65 the overnight low was 54 Rain 24 hours ending 9 a.m. today Details Comics D2 Jeane Dr. Ann Shopper B2 Sylvia AS Vital Statistics A4 Worry Dr. 9 The Do yoa feare a beef about a missing or tardy a news a sports question or an item to Give as a or 743-2013 jm ft f pm (I pm S * S or 742-<496 (I urt fm ft I
