Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - September 18, 1980, Ukiah, California September 18, 1980 120 th Year No. 130 468-0123 Journal Mendocino California 3 TV listings in today's Redwood Panorama Sections 25 Cents A lashing over electric bills A By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer City administrators and council came under the gun last night as over 200 residents filled the Ukiah High School Cafetorium to demand that the council cut back on municipal electric The specters of were also present as the crowd charged the council with making profits off the city's electric charges and Proposition 13. Attorney Tom off the public told the council to stop electricity revenues into the general circumvent Proposition 13. It didn't say say find better ways of spending it said stop Crofoot The council heard the anti spending refrain throughout the two-hour Several incensed by their high urged the council to sell the municipal system to One John angrily told the council the system should be returned to know exactly what they are going to but I'll be damned if I know what you are going to be The audience patiently waited through a presentation by City Manager James Swayne before the public hearing was Swayne gave a run-through of the city's energy how the rates came to be so and an action plan for the city's energy future which included tapping hydroelectric power from the Feather Warm Springs and Coyote Dams and power from Sonoma He said that the city's electricity costs are largely dictated by and that the city has little control over it. City energy conservationist Don Ford also made a presentation on the city's energy audit program and bow conservation techniques can help lower The reports did not make much of an impact on the emotional Many audience members came armed with their utility bills and demanded explanation for the Carrol told the council that the electricity for his mother's residence was in 1970, 983 in 1975 and as of August 1980. He said his went up 129 per cent over last Another Dan Ryan said be spend approximately last year in his bouse because it was the thing to In August 1979, Ryan said his was This after the most recent rate his was up to Ryan also said be used less kilowatt hours this know you are a Mr. Ryan there must be some compassion in your heart for those of us on a fixed The city manager took the brunt of the criticism during the bearing last night as people continued to ask for explanations on their Residents also demanded to know why in profits from the municipal system is transferred to the city's general fund and not given back to the Mayor Hays Hickey explained that if the was bills would be cut by perhaps Swayne said that when be first came to the city eight years the council froze the dollar amount that would be transferred into the general The money has been used for city parks he Swayne i to the worsening economy and now you need the money more in your pocket than a park or other Ted Feibusch lashed out at the city manager in remarks made prior to the public told the audience he had voted against the recent increase in May because be said being two percent below PG&E is no valid basis for setting city city is a tax-exempt PG&E on the other hand must produce a profit for its pay various taxes and and conform to the Public Utilities Commission from which the city is These additional costs ad up to way more than two Feibusch said the difference does not go to support city services he the money goes to subsidize developers m the city who no longer have to pay for the cost of electrical distribution systems within their Feibusch also criticized the city's involvement in the Northern California Power Agency in which the dry has a small Feibusch said the dry can and should be looking for ways to generate power He concluded his remarks by saying the city has been grossly mismanaged and that a complete reorganization of government is Several people in the audience gave the a standing didn't know you had started your reelection campaign so Mayor Hickey amidst catcalls from the After the emotional public the council thanked the audience for taking an interest in city Although the dry council attempted to take the sting out of the public's attack last it appeared the council itself was divided on bow to solve the city's energy Kate Riley told the audience that selling the system to PG&E might provide temporary but It would be like an aspirin for a brain She said the days of cheap power are gone but at under municipal citizens can make their appeals directly to the council Riley said transferring the system to PG&E would mean automatic rate Riley said the current rate structure could not be dealt with in such a highly emotional but she suggested that the city look into solving some of the injustice under the present People in houses are inadvertently discriminated as are people in large Riley got real sad when you said we were taking money from you and putting into our Riley told the audience. money is going Into streets in the she Mary Snyder told the audience she had opposed the Warm Springs hydroelectric but the city voters approved the costly project in an election two years Snyder said it was perhaps the time to reevaluate the city's involvement in the She also said she lias supported the idea of selling the system to PG&E for Charles Myers also urged the creation of a city energy commission in which citizens could become involved in energy rate hikes and The council then directed the city to look into an expanded education program for electricity a city-wide energy and examine the current rate structure to see if the city could come up with a more equitable rate for fixed income and disabled The council also asked the city manager to look into selling the system to Although the council attempted to accomodate a variety of audience one suggestion will not de addressed right away and that no one's wul be lowered in the immediate Clowning Woman guerrilla suspect in Samoza slaying Children have started planning their clown costumes and painting their faces in anticipation of the Pickle Family which will arrive in Ukiah on September 20. The children can have their faces painted in front of the courthouse before tha parade at 9 a.m. A Pep Band from Ukiah High School will lead the parade from the courthouse to Municipal Park at 10:30. Prizes will be awarded for the best paint job and best The circus is sponsored by the Ukiah Valley Child Developement Hemphill convicted of grand conspiracy Weather OAKLAND - A globe-trotting who said a hybrid of buffalo and cow known as beefalo could help end world hunger has been found guilty of grand theft and security violations for his part in defrauding investors of Oliver Hemphill was the 58-year-old mastermind behind the Calif based company created to promote He faces up to three years in prison on each of nine counts for which he was The jury found him not guilty on one count of grand The Alameda Superior Court jury of nine men and three women deliberated about nine hours before deciding late Wednesday that Hemphill had lied to them on the The case began May 20 with Judge Joseph Karesh testimony was said juror Curtis had nothing to back him It was just his word against the Williams noted that prosecution consisting of more than 600 pointed overwhelmingly to a guilty The conviction is the latest event in a three-year Investigation by the state of California Into a beefalo promoting business called Hemphill raised beefalo on his Ukiah ranch and directed a world-wide attempt to attract the interest of wealthy business organizations to back saying be planned to get million to create huge beefalo herds throughout the He said that because of their and ability to survive on beefalo could help blot out world Before his Hemphill attracted the attention of several corporations and world including the current ambassador to Angler Biddle whose picture appeared on a promotional But Hemphill and went flat when the potential investors learned the company did not have access to beefalo semen needed to build herds of seven million animals as envisioned by Hemphill's One brochure claimed the firm had exclusive world-wide rights to distribute By United Press International Northwestern Scattered showers and a chance of isolated thundershowers through mainly over the northern Partly cloudy and a little warmer Port Bragg 60,44 and 60, Ukiah 73,47 and 77. Sept. Sept. 1979 Date Hi Lo Date Hi Lo 17 76 48 17 95 56 11 am Today Low Today 62 51 Paraguay - Six commandos who assassinated former dictator Anas Somoza in a fiery bazooka ambush obliterating his white Mercedes were including a woman soldier in an Argentine guerrilla Paraguayan authorities Somoza's Mercedes was riddled with 25 machine-gun bullets and then blown apart by a bazooka shell in broad daylight Wednesday morning a few blocks from his in an attack that also killed a companion and a is almost completely sure that a foreign extremist assassinated the 54-year-old the Paraguayan Interior Ministry The attack was the first terrorist incident in 26 years of Alfredo Stroessner's strongman rule in a nation that has long harbored Nazi including Dr. Josef the of at and the late Eduard the of Police Wednesday night said two members of the hit squad belonged to the extreme leftist Argentine Revolutionary Army of the a terrorist outfit that was thought to be in The authorities distributed photographs of the two identifying them as Hugo Alfredo alias and Silvia Mercedes Hodgers known under a bevy of including and The two kitted with Somoza were identified as Joseph a Colombian economic adviser to the former Nicaraguan and a Cesar a 40-year-old The explosion burled the mangled body of the driver 60 feet away and so mauled Somoza surgeons had to be called In to extricate his body with blowtorches and surgical In residents in the capital hugged one another and danced wildly in the The which ousted him in 1979, called the death of the an act of but denied Nicaraguan leaders bad ordered the Police sources said the six attacked Somoza's car in two squads of coordinating their attack with One in a blue Chevrolet truck intercepted the firing at least 25 rounds of automatic weapons fire into the sources The second squad hid in an abandoned bouse nearby and ripped Mercedes apart with bazooka fire it had been intercepted and with Somoza's longtime American Dinora later arrived at the scene of the want to see I want to see 150 attend Calpella freeway hearing Hemphill admitted during his 19 days on the stand that he had only a verbal agreement for the semen with DC the man who discovered the genetic mixture that allows beefalo to as opposed to the sterile By EVELYN SIMPSON Staff Writer Approximately 150 persons attended a public hearing at Calpella Elementary School last night to discuss a proposed 5.3 mile freeway addition to be constructed on Highway 101 north of The project would replace what is currently a two-lane highway from just north of Highway 20to 4.3 miles north of The California Department of Transportation hopes to begin purchasing rights-of-way by 1962 and to begin construction by 1965or 1166 but since the department Is having financial the project may not begin until according to Del deputy director in charge of planning for the Eureka of- representatives presented to the audience three alternative designs which differed from each other only in the number of on-ramps and Persons present at the public bearing were asked to comment on each design proposal and Inform as to which they liked Brown In certain the state will pay for the relocation of residences or be The first design one interchange at School would cost ttxi million and would force the relocation of IS residences and three lanes is according to because the current volume of traffic the road now carries is already what it should ideally be and is A eliminating The second The only persons really to the freeway project were property owners who will lose their homes or businesses to make way for the new Brown said two separate appraisals wul be obtained for each parcel of property to be purchased by the Property owners refusing te sell will be taken to court for the other at million with one at Uva Drive and would coat and would displace St of The public's be The third would kw Interchanges at Uva Drive and Way plus an ovi mossing near School would cost SIM million and would 41 residences and loir
