Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - July 24, 1979, Ukiah, California July 24,1979 Journal photo or Dolt FREEWAY TRAFFIC DECLINE The pedestrian overpass on Highway 101 between and Perkins County highway traffic down 33 percent in June Hy KMC Journal HUH Writer Though the gas crunch Mendocino County highway in June woh down by much as 33 percent compared to n transportation official said yesterday Most of the decline appears to reflect a drop In tourist sold Chuck traffic census chief for the district that Includes Mendocino County think people are Just changing their driving said Secoy slaying to What them he Is the high cost of fuel and the lingering that a won't available along long-distance travel routes figures for June show highway 101 truffle just north plunged 3:1 percent from Its level On Highway 20 between Calpella and Lake traffic tit June was down 10 percent from last year And on Highway I at found a percent traffic drop in figures weren't Secoy said during the gas crunch of Mendocino County traffic only dropped percent It wasn't anything like the drop we're experiencing this he said the first drop I've seen where traffic has gone down and stayed down Weather to continue hot The weather In Northwestern California should he fair through tomorrow except for fog and low clouds mainly along the coast south of Point Today's high temperature In was predicted to be 101 with an overnight low of 05 and a high tomorrow of Fort Bragg was expected to reach IW with a low of 52 and Wednesday high of M Ukiah temperatures yesterday and a ago 1979 III 1.0 111 1,0 23 m till 23 102 M II Today 87 Oft DO Year 00 INSIDE Second profits for America's oil companies as out of tola Page 2. California 16 Conflicting court rulings put board a rock and a hard By NANCY 8TEN80N Journal Staff Writer A prediction that Mendocino County could gel trapped under two conflicting court orders In the General Plan lawsuit has come Mendocino County Superior Court Judge B. Broaddus told county supervisors they must approve a minor subdivision for Theodore Redwood Valley because It Is a or automatic act. Since Lake County Superior Court Judge John J. Golden has barred county officials from approving any new tentative or final subdivision maps the county General Plan Is updated No board decides After listening to comments by Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Jondahl and County Public Health Director Craig county supervisors today decided against adopting an ordinance regulating motorcycle gatherings In the county The ordinance had been requested by residents angered over a gathering by Hurley Davidson dealers at the Bell Glenn Campground on June Jondahl told supervisors except for trespassing and sanitation there had been no at the gathering he it was up to the county health deportment to cite motorcycle group members for the sanitation violations ' Health director health department can issue but We'd have to go to the sheriff's department for During the discussion thai M was mentioned that there is no county ordinance regulating music decibel levels And only in cases In which a rock festival is planned are there restrictions oh the number of people who can John a representative of the Modified Motorcycle Association of pressed McMillan for some comment on how many chemical toilets the county requires for a gathering McMillan said he would to check state said his group is planning a gathering of approximately 300 people at the same campground used by the hikers June 9. He promised the Modified Motorcycle Association would provide Its own security and would do everything possible to cooperate with neighbors In the area Chairman Al Barbero said he did not want to have to regulate motorcycle but would prefer the groups regulate in his said there were problems al the June 0 gathering with nude swimming and toilet facilities mailer what action the county it will be In violation of a court said County Counsel John Drummond If we comply with Golden's order and approve final subdivision then we will be In violation of if we comply with order and approve the final map then we will be In violation of Golden's declared Under Golden's court the only way a person can get a subdivision or parcel map approved is a special hardship application Some 95 hardship cases were approved under this process that requires people lo complete applications which Greyhound theft are then sent through a special county screening committee and forwarded to the county counsel for presentation to Drummond estimates that the planning department spent 4.5 on the hardship application he estimates his office spent two on the hardship procedure and the board of supervisors spent about 2 5 Chairman Al Barbero said predicted this would when he learned of the contradictory court order issued by always fell that under the State Map Act ii is the ministerial duty of the board to process final When state Deputy Attorney General Zan Henson was contacted by the Daily Journal for he expressed surprise over the saying he was of the a little dismayed that no one informed me of that he He analogized that the county is somewhere a rock and a hard under the two court Henson said the has taken the position that approval of final quips is not a ministerial act and that the state would argue thai ruling is it's unfortunate he did not have the benefit of our legal said seems we will have to go to the court of appeal to thing the deputy attorney general The intended decision does not become effective until several more legal steps are Including the Issuance of a final I was paid to drive bus to Ukiah Hy Journal Staff Writer Two men arrested in Ukiah early Monday for stealing a Greyhound bus in Son Francisco told authorities they took ihe bus because a man In a Greyhound uniform offered them in small the California Highway Patrol said today The driver of the stolen 19-year-old Kobin of told officers shortly after his arrest that he was paid the gave U to his mother The CHP said il had not contacted ai and another San Francisco 22-year-old John were scheduled to be today before Ukiah Justice Court Judge James Deputy District Attorney Kubanis said the pair would be charged with auto theft CHP officers stopped and Verrett on Highway 101 al Talmage about 5-30 m Monday after noticed the side and tail lights of the Greyhound bus were out officials in San Francisco realize the missing until were contacted by the highway patrol A CHP spokeswoman in Sacramento said shortly after his explained what he was doing with the stolen bus. said he had talked to a man on h and Guerrero irf San Francisco who had a Greyhound uniform the spokeswoman reportedly said the man him it he wanted make According to the man in the uniform said he would pay the money if would drive a bus from San Francisco to The CHP offered no further The Greyhound incident mirrored a similar theft last October in which CHP officers arrested a San Francisco man on Highway 101 near Ukiah for stealing Aa bus from a San Francisco charter As in Monday's the bus Charter know was until tt was notified by the hope this isn't setting a the CHP spokeswoman said Brown signs bailout LOS ANGELES i Gov Edmund G Brown Jr today signed into law a U 8 billion appropriation finance California's schools and local governments to make up for their revenue losses as the result of Proposition u signing the Brown said n was his belief that the nation and the state were now moving into a serious recession and that local governments must be prepared to have state support reduced substantially during the next year Service agencies want a bigger piece of the county s revenue sharing pie A group of community service agency representatives told Mendocino County they want a larger chunk of 5 federal revenue sharing Some 2-1 people representing com service agencies argued ihe hulk of the revenue sharing funds have been given to county leaving the private sector agencies to amongst themselves lor They contend that there is enough revenue sharing money available to fund all the community agency requests it further restraints are placed mi depart meni requests The representatives question the value spending more federai revenue sharing Hinds on promoting Hie county s tourism industry than on senior citizen centers They further suggest reducing by a percentage funding to departments such us public which receives a generous portion of revenue sharing funds We know this would greatly hamper the public works but we do inn that the quality of life in Mendocino County would be seriously by this of a to the supervisors The group's request follows a meeting Friday when county groups appeared before the hoard of supervisors to ask for revenue sharing funds A subcommittee recommended for all agencies The had requested Senior cii uen centers in Fort Bragg and Ukiah are recommended to receive and respectively Senior centers in Anderson Valley and the south Mendocino coast also slated for a top slot on the revenue sharing priority list The county public works department would receive about for road projects The health data processing and the auditor's department also are on Special including water lighting districts receive federal revenue sharing Supervisors will begin trimming requests federal revenue sharing funds during budget which begin July 25 at 9 a.m. in 1 chambers at the county crisis It may run ao deeply even government can't help WASHINGTON President Carter's pollster Patrick said today pessimism about thou own lives and the nation's future luis increased so dramatically the government may be unable to do anything about il The erosion of confidence In America began during Vietnam and and now has proportions He agreed with secretary Jody Powell's assessment that more people their officials now than during and that Is higher now than it was at the height nf Watergate and Vietnam and lhe oil embargo was Interviewed by about his stark findings that provided much of the material lor Carter's of speech nine days ago and for Powell's Monday The pollster said he based his fin dings on quarterly surveys of 1.500 lo 2.000 people during conversations of 1 to 2': hours on a broad range of subjects He he cheeked his results with by Gallup and others and found them consistent ' now 2D, attained prominence at 23 George pollster during his 1972. presidential Both Caddell stressed the Carter had little to do with the cause of the but the people's pessimism Is having to do with the not with individual leaders It they a thai has always prided itself on being eternally optimistic and exempt front historical cycles of downward Caddell said lite personal pessimism o which Carter also alluded in his address may be something beyond government's ability to He acknowledged may have drawn the attention of the professing and that is why some of his speech sounded almost president made it clear on Sunday night that he does see the need making changes in his style of leadership and in the administration to us in a bet ler position to lead in such as Powell lot lias been happening for a long said look a lot to knock a little down is an accumulation of then all of a sudden It becomes more serious He said the erosion of confidence began in late 1900s and early 1970s, with a small upswing in 1976 and early 1.977 which he attributed to the Bicentennial celebration and the election of a newcomer viewed a decent man of But the upswing was for although the high tension of the years 1973-75 was no longer Caddell nothing had really been resolved and the institutions seemed ever j. Then confidence plunged velocity really seemed to Caddell 11< soon fell to levels much worse than any time Caddell said inflation even more than unemployment hud as much as anything to do with causing the pessimism Unemployment affects a relatively small number of people he but Inflation has a debilitating effect on all of society and makes it difficult to plan for the future as Americans historically hive
