Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 18, 1978, Ukiah, California Ukiah Da Journal 118th Year No. 207 Mendocino California December 18, 1978 16 Cents monday from the desk By Jim Garner From of a stinging rebuttal to a column that suggested the two attorneys involved in Jim Jonestown massacre be brought before the ethics committee of the California Bar Assn. think this is extremely irresponsible journalism If there were a board of ethics for newspaper perhaps they should take immediate steps to bring you before writes Kathryn suggest that Charles Garry and Mark Lane have made millions from such a tragedy is sick you also consider that Ryan Leo who had investigated before going to must have been negligent to have been The column in question took Garry and Lane to task for not blowing the whistle on Jonestown before it finally ended in the deaths of 913 I questioned why these professional attorneys with many years did not know all was not well in In after the mass admitted to Garry that he was aware of the suicide drills and also that Jones was rather deep into the drug Tim former Mendocino County assistant district attorney who was a top aide to Jones for should also have to answer some tough And before the smoke these three will have to do just In College board meets Tuesday The adoption of a board policy manual and several reports are among the items to be taken up Tuesday by the Mendocino College trustees when they meet at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building on the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds Future meeting dates are as board Jan. 3; educational master Jan. 10; regular board Jan. 17. Taiwan rejects Peking offer Taiwan - Taiwan today rejected a Peking offer for talks and instead said it will increase its stocks of including missiles that sources said could be armed with nuclear Radio Peking announced that two members of a powerful political advisory group who once lived in Taiwan have offered to return to start reunification talks with the Taipei But Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo immediately rejected the is no way for me to allow these two traitors to come to Chiang told an emergency meeting of the central committee of the ruling Kuomintang party that he considered the offer as part of the Chinese Communist scheme to infiltrate Premier also addressing the said all steps would be taken to guard Taiwan against the consequences of the U.S. decision to recognize the Communist government in Peking and end its defense pact with Weather RAIN Northwestern Travelers advisory northern Showers today with snow above 1,000 Showers ending with partial clearing Partly sunny Continued Gusty west to northwest winds near the coast decreasing Fort Bragg 48, 35 and 48, Ukiah 45 27 and 48. Extended forecast Wednesday through Unsettled weather with a chance of rain in valleys and snow in mountains mainly north about Thursday and Temperatures averaging near seasonal Highs in the 50s and lows in the 30s to lower 40s at lower 1978 Date Mi Lo 17 50 40 11 A.M. Today 38 Rainfall 4 28 1977 Date Hi La 17 51 31 Low Today 36 Last Year 14.57 If county moves more offices to Low Gap traffic would By NANCY STENSON Journal Staff Writer Downtown merchants in Ukiah could suffer a substantial loss of and property owners in the Low Gap area would be subjected to more noise traffic if the county relocates more of its offices to the Low Gap government This information is contained in a 62-page environmental impact report on the Mendocino County Low Gap Road Complex prepared by William W. Randolph & Associates The report explores the impact of relocating the county motor pool facility and probation department and DA family support holding and the social services The county motor pool facility and garage would provide space for approximately 140 fleet vehicles plus employee Another part of the Sheriff's rehabilitation is being considered for possible renovation and use by either the social services department or for joint use by the building inspection and environmental health A 50-auto parking lot would be A second project phase was also described as most intensive from the standpoints of expense and building Included in the second phase would be a building to accommodate the Justice currently utilizing the county and possibly the Superior A social services building would be built Adverse effects from increased levels of hydrocarbon and from additional traffic on Low Gap Road during the construction and occupation phases of development are as well as a generation of significant dust during site preparation and construction A potential for loss of wildlife habitat and a slight increase in flood peaks and flow volumes by site storm drainage into Orr Creek is also mentioned Significant increases in automobile traffic in the Gap Road and Bush Street corridors after site development is Significant movement of heavy delivery trucks within Low Gap Road corridors during construction states of the as well as significant truck traffic for delivery of supplies after site is also pointed Elementary and high school students walking or bicycling to and from school within the Low Gap N. State Street and Bush Street corridors would also be subjected to increased the report Ukiah's central business district could suffer a potential loss of revenue in its restaurants and shops due to a shift in spending patterns Aslo listed as possible losses are the North Ukiah Little League and 4.5 acres of the municipal golf potential leading to conversion of producing acres and 80 northwest and east of the high school to residential is The EIR goes on to explore alternatives to the proposed and mitigating measures which could be taken to reduce the adverse Copies of the report are now available at the administrative and planning and the library in GJ report to supervisors OUT ON A LIMB - This striped domestic cat could very well be a Siberian tiger stalking its prey in the jungle - tail eyes riveted on its Such romantic tales do not fit into western but Tabby can dream - Journal photo by The county grand jury will present its report on the county's justice courts to the board of supervisors on When the board meets at the County Courthouse beginning at 9 a.m. The report is recommending the supervisors consider consolidating the nine justice courts into .An estimated in salaries alone could be saved in just one the report Further savings could be realized from a decrease in printing office office employee rent and upkeep and the report The cost of operating the nine Mendocino County Justice Courts over the last 10 years has increased by 161 it The board also has been applications for the post of county planning which will be vacated by Gary De Salvatore Dec. 29. At least four applications have been including one from Dick a county senior There is a possibility the board could be ready to name De Salvatore's successor Stephan Jones confesses to Amos family murder Guyana - The 19-year-old son of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones today confessed to the murder of a cult official and her three all former following the shooting death of Rep. Leo Ryan and four The admission by Stephan 19, startled a magistrate's hearing being held to determine if enough evidence was available to charge cultist Charles Beikman with the Nov. 18 killed those people and I'm trying to throw it off on the Jones told the court exactly one month after the bizzare events involving the Peoples Temple shocked the Beikman looked startled at the unexpected but said Magistrate Desmond Christian responded by saying he was considering filing contempt charges against the younger Jones for the but said he was aware the teenager was under considerable The surprise confession followed by one day the introduction of evidence that the Peoples Temple planned to will more than million to the Soviet Communist Party to help oppressed peoples all over the world The information on the million was con in a letter presented Sunday at a inquest into the slaying of the California con gressman and the subsequent mass of more than 900 cultists at the Jonestown In earlier Jones had said nothing about killing anyone and told police he was in a hotel with other cult members at the time Sharon Amos and her children were slain at the cult's Georgetown headquarters a 45-year-old was suspected of slitting the throats of Mrs Amos and her Liane 21, 11, and 9, shortly after three newsmen and a Peoples Temple defector were killed near Jonestown Beikman also is accused of attempting to kill Stephanie the 9-year-old granddaughter of the cult leader In the Sunday a letter to Georgetown Soviet Embassy official Fedor and signed by Annie G. 70. a nurse and the cult's financial was It am doing this on behalf of the Peoples Temple because we as communists want our money to be of benefit for and to help the oppressed peoples all over the world or in any way your decision-making body sees The letter was one of five eiven as evidence ty Guyanese crime official Cecil It said the Peoples Temple funds were in two the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Banking Corp Another signed by Maria of an undisclosed sum in the Banco Union De Venezuela which was also to go to the Soviet Communist Police found the letters in a suitcase which three cult survivors - Michael Tim Carter and his brother Mike - had been ordered to take to the Soviet official in Georgetown along with several hundred thousand Maria leave all the money in the Banco Union De Venezuela in Caracas to the Communist Party of the Soviet Miss Katsaris is my final wish before I Previous reports have indicated that followers had been in touch with Soviet officials to discuss moving of the commune to the Soviet Cult survivor Stanley Clayton told the hearing that Jones exhorted the dying followers to stop crying out because they were scaring the children than making them feel proud of dying in The Chicago Tribune Sunday reported Jones did not die by his own hand and said more than 700 of the 911 cult members were The paper quoted Dr. C. Leslie chief medical examiner and senior bacteriologist for the Guyana as saying he is certain most cult members did not voluntarily drink a fatal mixture of a flavored soft drink and Oil price hike to be felt immediately United Press International Americans will start feeling the first effects of the latest OPEC price increase almost That was the initial reaction of the the transportation industry and countless other businesses who were attempting today to assess the impact of decision to increase the price of crude oil by a total of 14.5 percent next year The price announced Sunday by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will take effect in lour with the first of 5 slated for Jan 1 The response was almost immediate a spokesman for Standard Oil Co of for said 2 cents will be added to the price of gasoline within the next two weeks Consolidated Edison Co which provides electricity for about 3 million customers m New York City and Westchester County predicted the full price increase for oil to run its plants would boost its own rales by 4 percent Con Ed also has 2.4(H) steam customers in all owners ol their rates were expected to shoot up 10 In Energy Secretary James Schlesinger predicted an overall increase of 5 to 6 cents a gallon at the gasoline pump next year because of the OPEC hike and because of an expected shortage in unleaded Although the administration seemed resigned to the first it urged OPEC to reconsider imposing the other three Noting the full hike would add another half a percent to the rate of inflation in the United Schlesinger hope that these price increases slated for the other three-quarters of the year will be reviewed in view of the circumstances at that The price increases also eventually will be felt in the cost of the fuel for Jim a spokesman for United explained it this way the cost of kerosene is increased by 1 cent a it our fuel now at by several million a year Certainly the increase in any magnitude ol this type is eventually borne the consumer lie said he could not predict the ut U 5 percent increase The overall reaction by the and many was one of dismay at the size of the don't necessarily prosper by impoverishing your said Alfred the administration's top inflation fighter terribly It can only enormously complicate our job of holding inflation in Herb senior editor of Platts said the 14.5 percent figure came as a had been looking he had been trying to hold the price at 5 percent everyone thought that the price would not go higher than 10 percent For some the effect was not expected to be dramatic Stanley president of Virginia Electric and Power Co said his utility's consumption of which has been declining will drop once again next year with the opening of a fourth nuclear power plant And Charles a spokesman for Arizona Public Service Co the electric utility serving don't use much oil for generation only a small amount and most of the oil vie do bin is domestic
