Appeal-Democrat (Newspaper) - July 23, 1995, Marysville-Yuba City, California City Open Prager of Yuba City rips a backhanded return during his singles match in the Yuba City Open tournament Saturday in Yuba See Page Susan Smith guilty of The Page Sutter deciding its Page will be sunny and 92 62 details on 23,1995 copy 93<t + views on affirmative action want to succeed on it's just a great sold Or maybe we're seeing how anxious military people are to access more affordable health Whatever the something is happening with the new health maintenance After five enrollment is 30 percent higher than the Foundation Health of Rancho projected after five page House voted to preserve a controversial program Friday after a debate that pitted demands to end against warnings not to bury a vital trade The vote to save the million Market Promotion Program was 261-154, a victory for lawmakers from California - the largest and richest farm state whose raisin and other producers use the money to push farm goods page adolescents overwhelmingly see drugs as the greatest problem they face - far outranking social grades or according to a survey released last week by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia Thirty-two percent of the 400 young people age 12 to 17 who were surveyed by telephone in May and June named drugs as the greatest problem for people their more than double those who mentioned crime in school next most commom worry page Freedom Newspaper Vol. 135, No. 1 1530 Ellis Luke Drive Calif. 95901 741-2345 Freedom Newspaper Vol. 135, No. 1 1530 Ellis Luke Drive Calif. 95901 741-2345 It'll students some who stand to gain or lose from the end of affirmative action admissions at the University of California share mixed feelings about politically charged a real complicated said Yolanda a 1995 Yuba City High School graduate bound for UC Davis this make things tougher for a lot of ventured the former student representative to Yuba City district's board of the full impact can be felt it will be battled in the matter what your race or background Figueroa can a 3.93 grade point average at Yuba City and a of the award in 1994, her admission to strictly on not affirmative she a Yuba College views last week's votes by the UC regents as an approach that only touches the surface level of the big problems are we getting that result from admitting students to he they can't handle they flunk think they're starting a problem at the wrong he action hiring and admission policies fails to address why black people remain in the UC he real problem is in the education system he where expectations and achievement set the stage for can't really say I'm against or for affirmative Blackwell need to rework the to STUDENTS wet winter and spring may make this year's cling peach crop the worst in a dozen analysts Despite falling prices and cling peaches remain a Key crop in the Sutter 8,200 Yuba 4,318 Yuba Fourth overall cash crop in in 1994, at down from million in 1993. Sutter and Yuba Counties traditionally grow a large portion of the state's canning In 1994, the two counties produced about 243,000 or 43 percent of the California Most peaches are of the cling for clingstone So-called freestone peaches make up less than 1 percent of the local Freestones are juicy and great for eating fresh but poor for Firmer clings are perfect for in fruit baby food and other are calling for a 470,000-ton crop off by 17 percent from last 1994 crop reports for Yuba and Sutter California Canning Peach 11? Ml at grading stations around the judge peaches for size While only a sample of each truck is the results are used to decide how much each truckload is on costly year picker Guadalupe Soto reaches for peaches during a full day of picking at a Johl Brothers Farms orchard in District 10 winter weather hits home at by Jean-Pierre Cativiela Photos by Craig Koh rows of trees in Sarb orchards lies a golden carpet of a variety of peaches called bins are good the same fruit on the ground is a It just makes me sick to see these thrown Johl said last week during a tour of Johl Brothers off Highway 70 in District 10 north of aren't the only peaches that will go to rot this after a wet winter and rains left some trees standing in water for as some areas flooded more than Drowned trees died from root others survived to produce poor spring rains also hassled the blooming while high winds and hail battered and bashed growing forecasters call for a cling peach crop of 470,000 down 17 percent from last isn't the only thing clown has fallen 1995 crop will go down as the worst crop year since 1983." Canning Peach Association farmers continue picking early varieties in a peach harvest that will go on into they're seeing the brown insect and hail bird pecks and a handful of other waste will cost Canneries won't pay for peaches that don't make the why so many of never made it out of the Mix too many bad peaches with the and it could bring down the price for the whole lower prices are the last thing growers need - overproduction has already forced the maximum price down to per Some growers have voluntarily pulled trees to curb falling cling peaches remain a key crop in the - a million crop in Yuba and Sutter counties in 1994, and crop in each down from better limes - in 1993, peaches were the No. 2 crop in Yuba and No. 3 small quantities of freestone peaches are grown virtually all local peaches are of the clingstone variety - cling Cling Peach inspector Sarah Sutton weighs a random batch of peaches at the grading than clings are ideal for Most grown here end up at the Tri-Valley Growers canneries in Modesto or or at the Del Monte factory in starts in the orchards where most often migrant workers from climb ladders to teach the highest At pickers earn per 1,200-lb. a fast worker can make to a day or workers wear sacks over of their strapped over each They till them with 45 to 60 pounds of peaches before dismounting ladders to empty the fruit into wooden of the peaches that go into the bins are immediately rejected by Paid by the mostly female sorters are charged with getting rid of peaches too too rotten or too bruised to send to to PEACHES