Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - June 22, 1979, Ukiah, California June 22,1979 119th Year No. 56 INSIDE The Lake County Board of moves another step closer to a reorganization of county See Page 3. 22 Cents slowdown reaches Mendo Co Many independents staying off the roads out of fear By MITCHELL Journal Staff Writer The nationwide truck slowdown was making its presence known in Mendocino County though to a lesser extent than While many large company truckers were on the roads smaller independents seemed to be slaying home - either out of support for the slowdown or out of fear Truckers and others contacted today were in agreement that the strike could have an unusually serious Impact On the entire North Coast region - K it ever reached the proportions that It has elsewhere in the The closure of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad's Island Mountain Tunnel north of Willits has given truckers a virtual monopoly on lumber and produce hauling in the area In the words of Jack manager of the Chamber of we didn't have truck service it would have tremendous impact on the economy Alvin of Lyly and Sons trucking company in said the slowdown wasn't keeping his drivers off the roads - yet just got through talking to one of my drivers down in the Bay Lyly said this morning The according to had asked striking independents if he should honor the slowdown asked what he was hauling and he and they Keep on going ' The only thing they're trying to shut down is tank trucks and produce haulers Lyly said that while his company is not it is too large to be considered in the same category as the independent drivers who are striking Lyly has 16 trucks He said smaller independents - the one truck honored the slowdown to a larger degree have been quite a few of the independents that have parked he mainly but of uncertainty of what's happening They want to go down the road someplace and get their rig shot Ron a independent driver in Redwood agreed Dixon said he was honoring the but thing of it is. I'm not voluntarily following He said he was scheduled to drive to the L A area but is afraid to go can get all the fuel I need up he when I get down south I don't know if I can get it he afraid when I get down there I might get my windshield smashed or my tires slashed And tires are expensive Dixon said he would have to by Sunday got payments to make and a family to support and I've got lo go whether they're striking or he said Others in the area were more militant shut down Wednesday said Jim Grissom of a operator who says he supports the strike not going to haul something comes of it he a little easier for me my truck's been paid for Grissom expressed sympathy for drivers like who had payments lo and for farmers who have to get their produce to market He said he hadn't talked to other independent but seems like the only trucks we saw on the road Thursday i were big company He said a visit to a local truck stop for breakfast Thursday morning convinced him that the slowdown was having an impact He said there were far fewer drivers eating at the restaurant than usual Others feel the strike is having minimal impact in the however Lt John Knight of the Garberville California Highway Patrol office said truck traffic has seemed as heavy as ever the past few days Speaking of the slowdown he haven't noticed it at We haven't even heard any rumblings of it up But Knight sure would have one heck of an impact on us because everything we get is by The normally heavy reliance on truck hauling has been intensified by the Island Mountain Tunnel which has shut down rail traffic between Willits and Eureka Rick Knapp of the Eureka office said he conducted a study of the impact of the tunnel closure on truck traffic on Highway 101 the period since ihe tunnel closed with the period from the year before and found we had a KM percent increase of fixe axle truck Knapp said trucks ace the ones usually used to haul lumber Knapp said there was a percent increase in overall truck which normally accounts for 15 percent of all traffic on Highway 101 between Willits and Eureka Since the tunnel he truck traffic on the highway has edged up to about 15 percent Accidents on the road are up 20 percent Knapp said he had noticed no impact of Ihe I ruck slowdown That was the report from Jack Owen of the Eureka Chamber of don't think we've experienced anything he think it would be pretty rough Tony manager of Costa i Continued on Page Truck stops says it's Has the independent truckers strike hit Jensen's Truck Stop on N. State may come next but nothing says manager Everett Bosse Economic survival may be one reason local independents have tried to keep their expensive rigs moving they miss one Bosse not going to be able to make that next payment on their truck A man close to the trucking who asked not to be suggested local in dependents have stayed out of the strike so far because each is waiting someone else to make the first move y business at Jensen's seemed brisk this morning were pany who reportedly das not arrive later in the At a Petes Henny Penny's - with a section reserved just for truckers - a waitress says the independent driers among her regular customers are still coming in strong State employees going back to work SACRAMENTO Negotiators in the nine old state employees strike reached a hack to work set dement subject to approval by the union membership The agreement included amnesty for strikers but other terms were not disclosed A was not part of die settlement Charles head of the Stale Employees Trades AFL said the agreement was hammered out jn the pre dawn with staff of Gov Edmund G Brown Jr s Office of Employee Relations concluded the talks at a m Reiter said think we've put together an agreement of some sub stance but we're not in a position lo disclose the terms We're polling the membership up and down the Slate and expect the workers to go hack to work immediately if they Metier said about 1.000 employees were still off the job m the pas raise dispute Dean Thompson of the Department of Water the first walkout target when it began June 15. said 291 trades workers were still off the job along California Aqueduct He also said the department fired 290 striking employees Thursday under a state lass that calls for automatic alter five consecutive dass of unexcused absence Marty the governor's employee relations said the workers would reinstated under terms lodas which on amnesty and other non wage ism 'The wages an- not part of the Kick to work ' he said will he discussing wages with all the labor groups Unlay and Monday We hope to sett le s cry quickly said the ad ministration w o u I d be making a pas package otter to the vi riking STFC and 19 other slate employee groups later lodas II ST ANOTHER DAY - While independent truckers around the country were turning off their engines to protest high fuel load restrictions and the m p h speed company drivers like Mike Coulter of shown here at a truck were getting ready for another day on the road - Journal photo by Dale Water board grants request Redwood Valley will get its water By NANCY STENSON Journal Staff Writer The Redwood Valley County Water District will be able to get its water from the Russian River water the stale Water Resources Control Board decided Thursday The board approved a request from the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation Improvement District to add the Redwood Valley County Water District to its authorized service area Two conditions are attached to that approv al the first requires Redwood Valley get the water as long as the water is not needed for any existing or future use within the Mendocino County Russian River Flood Control and Water Conservation District A second condition forbids the Redwood Valley or any user within that district to acquire a vested right to water made available under the Russian Riser district's permit Whether this agreement will be acceptable to the Sonoma County Water a partner with the Russian River district in the watershed could not be determined as of presstime Sonoma had requested that Redwood Valley be considered an exporting so that in times of water shortages Redwood Valley would enjoy no more Lake Mendocino water rights than as an exporting does James chief water rights attorney for the state Water Resources Control said Thursday following the that the board found that the Sonoma Water Agency would not be legally by inclusion of Redwood Valley into the Russian Riser water district authorized service area exports Lake Mendocino water to Sonoma County and southern Mann County The Coyote Dam Lake Mendocino water project originally was financed by Sonoma County through a special blind issue Later Mendocino paid ap proximately 10 percent of the cost and became partners in the watershed said Dick Sonoma County Water Agency's assistant chief engineer Norton said that if Warm Springs Dam had been built in a timely way and it Proposition 13 had not been around we presumably could have exchanged water out of Warm Springs Dam to onset any increased use by Redwood Valley ' environmentalists and no growth advocates are still fighting Warm Springs even while it is under Redwood Valley County Water District will have approximately 1.000 users when its water treatment plant is completed sometime following the summer of 1980. estimated Keith Tieman district manager and engineer Water is now available only to about 50 irrigation although half the water delivery system is Sonoma has JO days to ask for reconsideration of the state Water resources Control Weather California index nosedives Northwestern California - Fair through Saturday except afternoon and clouds at higher elevations and patchy fog and low clouds along the coast night and morning Little temperature change Fori Bragg 48 and SO. I kiah 87. 50 and 89 June 1979 June 1978 I Mi lo date Hi lo 1C 88 4t| II Indus I ow 51 Rainfall 50 1 jst 5J 6* SACRAMENTO CP I The California index of leading economic indicators which generally precedes slumps and booms in the economy by several months showed the largest monthly decline in April m nearly nine sears The state of Finance Thursday reported a 5 - percent decline m the April index the largest monthly decrease since May 1970 economists use the index as a significant predictor only when it shows a trend for three consecutive months The index for March failed to register a decline although three of the nine major leading economic series comprising it weakened in February through April average weekly hours of production overtime hours in manufacturing and initial claims lor unemployment insurance Nonfarm which made strong gams m were down in April although new business incorporations rose by 14.8 They're packing guns at eastern gas stations Oil company exec blames the of American Culled This will be the weekend tins for buying gasoline in the New York metropolitan according to the Automobile Club of New York for the first tune in its history advised drivers to stay home And if the shortage of isn t incentive enough to empty the roads tiie prior going over a dollar a gallon could All the KnSt t gasoline supplies dried up us grew at The New Jersey Energy Com missioner there were a full tankers in Hav unable to unload because the fuel depots are full and asked why this lead's to car tanks being empty Shell Oil Co the gluttons of the American and angry motorists Florida to New York blamed set v ice vti dial some nl the pel a tin s Willis I will nul wilh people 1 Fla station operator Mike 1 don't want lo killed lines Unified in Massa hi day ol that state's half lank or less program But in California lines were light to mm existent av ihe pi ue ed a a gallon N 5, Club spokesman Roll I net vaid a lull sin v ev lound thai Ho and pet v ol 1 he New oi k Mel i I an a i - m i v u si a I top v w ill lie loved s is l|n 111 is i 1 id iln d das N k i i i a I I 11> s i 11 i i s s H Victor said it was loo early lo tell if ihe plan would work So tar it wasn I with lines of up to JOO i ais loi mmg at gas stations cot stale permission to raise then keep irom Mocking traffic on N N. parkways drivers cars kisl nolo the i lo mov e on and a police spokesman said that an had to chase his wife Irom one siii n 1 me In a number of slat ion strapped pistols 10 their K 11 v 1 i i lit used s ol i lo cetH s s v ononis Joel in a lei lei lo Rep P J said he has been told 12 tankers were sitting in Delaware Bay unable to unload full cargoes ol gasoline or crude ori because refineries were tilled He asked Patten to demand a lull accounting from the multinational oil industry of why their storage tanks brim over while our car tanks run dry in short why are then tankers lying offshore ' In Conn Shell Oil Co executive Herb Hewitt another reason tor the fuel If you go to ihe root cause ot this energy part of it is the gluttony ol the public for the end product ' he said They appear almost like a child who s had lis I old pop taken away While the experts chaos ruled the gas pinups In St two unaware thai a self service station was pulled in and attempted in to get a pump going By the they discovered ear was jammed on all sides by older motorists who followed them in In Boom die Mo every one of the ciis s gas si at ions were out of gas ners could give no estimate of when might reopen In Plains N Y Wallace Nolen in line tor four hours to get the rationing which his business entitles huu
