Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - June 20, 1979, Ukiah, California June 20,1979 119th Year No. 54 d Ukiah 1 Mendocino California INSIDE slate Senate today moved to wrap up on the state The Assembly earlier passed its own version of the 1979-80 spending See Page 2. 34 Cents U.S. worried that oil price could trigger worldwide recession In the nation's economy expanded slightly faster than predicted WASHINGTON - Treasury Michael Blumenthal said today the United States is concerned over the possibility of a worldwide recession if oil prices continue to shoot is a Blumenthal told a news do not think that it is a necessary or inevitable When the oil cartel meets later this month to consider future has to be clearly in their he must be Blumenthal said uncertainty over the oil price situation makes forecasting the economic future a difficult he the United States can avoid a recession if President Carter's tight fiscal policies are Blumenthal met with reporters shortly after the Commerce Department reported that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 0.8 percent during 1979's first quarter - a slightly faster pace than previously That rise in the Gross National Product - value of the nation's goods * and services - was twice as fast as was reported last when the department said the GNP went up by 0.4 percent in the first The department also raised its estimate of profits earned by America's corporations and inflation during the first three months of the year Blumenthal said the revised growth figures indicate economy in the first quarter clearly slowed last year's final three months and the slowdown is continuing in the second it shows is a slowing economy - not plunging into a major downturn as some have but substantially Blumenthal policies that we are following are designed to avoid a he are on the right He said business housing construction and industrial production are all holding up well during the current quarter Blumenthal said the single biggest concern now is oil a subject that will be debated heavily at the Tokyo Co. budget Things look tough Mendocino County has unveiled its proposed 1979-80 an estimated which represents an 11 percent increase over the last year's final By Jim Garner The Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. has attempted to place a series of ads on the three major television networks The company said NBC and CBS refused the ads because they were or not acceptable same networks that will gleefully accept movie ads that leave nothing to the imagination or air shows of such violent nature to give kids Kaiser's ads are appearing in major newspapers this One of the ads talks about free enterprise as an endangered another deals with the energy and the third depicts the Statue of Liberty bound with tape and hammers away at government bureaucracy A Kaiser spokesman said the ads were designed to attention to issues we felt were of major concern to the people of believed at the time that we were exercising our right to speak our Network bigwigs determined that the ads were and they would have to offer equal time to anyone wishing to speak against them In depicting free enterprise as an endangered species or showing liberty bound by governmental red the company is making a political a network spokesman said All of which points out again quite vividly that the and mentality is still alive and thriving in the Think Tanks along TV Row in New York Weather Northwestern California - Fair through Thursday with patchy coastal fog and low clouds in creasing somewhat Wednesday night and Thursday Little temperature change Fort Bragg 60, SO and 60, Ukiah 92, 54 and 90 1979 Date III 86 52 II A.M. TODAY 74 Rainfall 30 23 1978 Date III to 19 85 46 Low Today 53 Year 53 66 The 400-page document includes a breakdown of expenses for each county department as well as for the county board of The budget prepared as an introduction to the states that the 11 percent increase represents basically salary mandated Aid to Families With Dependent Children cost-of-living general increases in law enforcement programs and inflationary effects on of supplies and The prepared by County Administrative Officer Al also states that extreme juling made by the Superior Court judge in the General Plan will have a serious economic impact on the 1979-80 economic may be that the impact will be more severe than anticipated in relation to the ripple effects on sales property transfer building Beltrami also attributed higher costs to the additional planning staff time required to update the General Plan Beltrami warned that the proposed budget only be com a preliminary until the state Legislature makes a decision on bailout which helped pull special districts and local governments through last year's Proposition 12 drama The county administrator warned that if recession indicators are the county can assume housing starts will decrease they already have commenced to unemployment will increase in the county rolls will be affected as weli as county unemployment Beltrami said that the budget still will require on a policy determination by the board Public hearings on the budget will begin July 25 and rough Aug 3. Brown considering pay raise proposals for state workers SACRAMENTO lUPU - Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. today considered two pay raise proposals the state's 230,000 including 1,500 blue collar workers in the second week of a Spokesmen for the striking State Employees Trades Council said Brown made a to the request for a 20 percent pay hike The union countered that and was awaiting Brown's response Neither side would disclose the although the governor has consistently advocated a 104 percent pay There were some indications he be willing to go as high as 12 percent But Brown was expected to veto a providing a 7 percent retroactive pay hike for workers whose pay was frozen in the wake of Proposition 13. The cleared the Legislature Tuesday on a 33 3 Senate vote and the Assembly Monday by 70-5 think we can override a veto on said Sen Alfred who authored the measure There has been only one previous override since Brown has been governor - the enactment of capital punishment in 1977 Failure of an override could seriously threaten his administration with an expanded labor action including sick work slowdowns and a strike by the 80.000-member California Stale Employees Association am not saying retroactive pay or CSEA President William Craib said at a Capitol news conference saying retroactivity or some type of job action Craib said the which wants a 15 percent two-year package including the retroactive would reject a 12 percent increase economic summit June 28-29 He labeled the 35 percent rise in worldwide oil prices since last December rapid and worrisome The GNP was revised upward after it was determined that consumers spent billion more than estimated in ihc exports were up by billion and fixed investment by million Inventors investment was revised downward by 3 billion There has been a great deal of confusion during recent months over the course that the economy will take during the remainder of On one the administration has steadfastly stuck to its forecast that the economy will slow considerably from last year but will still avoid an outright The administration favors such a slowdown because they believe it will lessen inflationary pressures budget may go up in smoke State Forest Ranger Unit Chief Thomas L Neil is forecasting a possible for firefighters in Mendocino County because of weather and proposed cuts in state and federal firefighting Strong north winds and warm weather have resulted in 24 forest fires 10 days before the fire season officially noted Neil That is 18 more fires than during the same period last year As of June 10. Mendocino County had 76 fires in 20 days the chief reported Despite the unusually high number of fires this Gov Brown's 197S-60 budget is proposing a five percent cut in firefighting declared the some of the proposed cuts have been reinstated by the Neil still predicts a loss of equipment and personnel in the Mendocino Ranger The proposed state cut could mean the loss of the Boonville heavy bulldozer one firt prevention all four fire prevention the air patrol positions and all fire station said Neil At the same CDF will not receive federal drought which will result in the loss of 17 firefighters and the helicopter and crew stationed at Howard Forest in Willits will severely hamper our firefighting and said Neil In a letter to Assemblyman Douglas Neil said the governor's proposed cuts taken hastily and without the necessary study He is calling for a moratorium on any reductions in the budget that would affect fire protection and fire suppression a thorough statewide with has been completed on the total fire problem in California Neil asked that the county to keep public of the dangers so it Van assist in preventing the destruction our natural life and SAVING the unthinkable ever civil defense officials hope Soviet warheads will fall on empty thanks to a plan called relocation In the face of officials plan to move masses of people from urban target zones to the countryside - to places like Mendocino County Playing Threat of war may send here as nuke defense planners eye county By ERIC Journal Staff Writer If the US and Russia ever reach the brink of nuclear County suddenly may find itself playing host to a substantial number of visitors from the Bay - perhaps a million of them Civil defense officials can't say for sure how many urban refugees would end up here because statewide emergency planning is far from But they do say Mendocino County almost certainly will serve as a area dunng a nuclear crisis If a holocaust seemed the county's job - along with other hosts - would be to absorb some portion of the Bay Areas five million people until the threat of war passed or the fallout cleared county and municipal civil defense officials call this mass transplant relocation As a policy the goal of relocation is to save up to 80 percent of America's population from Soviet attack by moving it away from urban areas and strategic military bases Planners say relocation would take three days Along with saving the ability to move large populations out to the countryside gives the President a with the says Jay acting regional director of the US Defense Civil Preparedness in Santa Rosa Lund say's the Soviet civil defense effort is in high gear and has been for a long But if the Russians see the U S can match them at moving people out of target they may think twice about pressing the almighty in addition to nuclear weapons parity with the the U S is after relocation parity Born in the at the U.S. Department of the concept of crisis relocation marks ad vance over the kind of officials talked about during the 1950s says Lund not run for your precise for County and the Bay Area is about tour years off. according to H A emergency services coordinator tor the state's Nuclear Civil Protection Office only he citing pilot projects in Riverside and Mendocino of would be a host area Preferring the term to Eddington says San Franciscans could be relocated in a period of Evacuees would reach hosts like Ukiah by he notes Wouldn't the Golden Gate Bridge experience a few traffic jams during an Perhaps says emergency planning coordinator for the San Francisco Office of Emergency Services Since the bridge handles a good share of the 500,UOO daily it probably could deal with crisis he says he says the best way to deal with crisis relocation is to i Continued on Page 21 Supervisors withdraw Eden Valley project OK By NANCY 8TENSON Journal Stuff Writer Mendocino County Supervisors Tuesday took the first step in complying with the May 18 final judgment in the General Plan Lawsuit by withdrawing their approval of the controversial Eden Valley Ranch subdivision near Willits At the same the board continued its meeting to Friday at 9 a m with a promise that it would make a decision on whether to appeal die General Plan lawsuit or agree to a settlement negotiated with the state supervisors also yielded to protests from Tulmage area residents unit to one additional Tulmage area resident to die Ukiah Citizens Advisory Committee The decision makes the new distribution of second and fifth district representatives six and respectively It previously had been six and three Supervisors had only HO days from June 16 to their approval of Robert Harrah's Valley Ranch which initially triggered a group of Willits residents sun against the county over the General Plan The state attorney general's office filed a suit similar lo the groups against the also attacking the subdivision and specifically three elements of the count v s nine General Plan land housing and noise Supervisors approved the Eden Valley Ranch subdivision May 1978, despite county planning commissioners recommendations that the project be denied County Superior Court Judge John ruled the subdivision should not have been approved because of inconsistencies in land use maps and land use mid population densities found in the land use element Supervisors now are under court mandate to update the three elements ol the Plan also within a 60-day time frame While this task would appear lo be almost county Planning Director Dan Garvin has said the county could do an accelerated eight week work program to meet the demands to update its three General Plan elements Supervisors have the of accepting a settlement with the state that would include a one-year extension from the governor's Office of Planning and Research to update the General Plan Under the set dement the county could allow limited land development in unincorporated areas ihe four cities are not affected by the suit There is. a push from some business segments to appeal the and refuse to to the state's Supervisor Ernie Banker has been meeting with representatives of a nonprofit legal Pacific Legal to discuss the county's General Plan lawsuit The pro apparently ist is suggesting any new Banker Tuesday He said ihe group which has aroused distrust in county is merely procedural
