Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - September 25, 1980, Ukiah, California September 25, 1980 120 th Year No. 136 468-0123 H H H V Redwood Panorama Mendocino California 3 Sections 25 Cents Iran war blamed on Carter Iraq claims oil port captured By ALVIN Iraq - Iraq said Its forces today captured Iran's strategic oU port of Khorramshahr on the disputed waterway in tHe most stunning gain in the At the same Iraqi ground forces 300 mUes north of the port penetrated 20 miles Inside Iran and claimed control over a 100-square-mile and Iraqi and Iranian warplanes intensified bombing on each other's major oil Iraqi television broadcast 25 minutes of martial music before it made a special announcement of the Iraq's general command repeated the claim in a communique issued at the same Iraq said Khorramshahr was captured after its troops surrounded the city and and the nearby refinery city of Abadan used to warn defenderis to surrender or The Iraqi tank and infantry by artillery and air that hafi been in the area since Radio Baghdad said its troops were full of the Iranian which it said has become graveyard of the In Iraqi Vice Premier Tarik Aziz said his nation has accomplished its objectives in capturing all the disputed territory it and is ready to peace if Tehran meets four demands made by He ruled out a U.S. role in any peace Iran replied by unleashing its fighter planes on almost every major oil facility in going almost to the border to hit Iran's ambassador to A.F. said would not give up one square meter of water or land until our last drop of is The undeclared war has forced thousands of including to flee from the Persian Gulf war zone and has resulted in a cutoff of oil exports by the two OPEC One group of Americans refugees was on its way back to the United An Iraqi communique said its forces new inflicting heavy losses on the but it provided no details of the land battles in which Iraq claimed it captured 100 square miles of Iranian Actual casualty figures were hard to come Both sides claimed killing or capturing more than 150 pilots whose planes were downed in the last four Civilian casualties were reported in air One specific report from Tehran said 34 Iranians were and 134 wounded in recent but the figures did not include any casualties in a series of air and artillery attacks on the massive oil refinery in The one of the world's was still burning and Iraqi troops reportedly surrounding Abadan aild the nearby port of used loudspeakers to call on the defenders to surrender or On Wednesday night Iraq issued a plan that called for Iran to recognize Iraq's sovereignty over disputed border regions and the Shatt waterway and the return of three islands in the strategic Strait of In Iranian warplanes today pounded the Iraqi capital of Baghdad as well as oil centers at Mosul and Al Iraq reported that Iranian in the deepest air penetration to struck a gas refinery at Ain setting fire to parts of tha facility hear the Syrian Iran said it destroyed ah Iraqi refinery and downed at least 25 Iraqi planes with anti-aircraft fire Iraqi fighter planes hit Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal for a second straight RONALD REAGAN Blames you-know-who United Press International The long shadow of crisis obscured the American political picture leaving no clues as to hdw the Persian Gulf conflict will end or what impact it will have on the Republican candidate Ronald Reagan had maintained a strict silence on the issue until when he laid the blame for the fighting on President Carter's foreign Carter spent several hours consulting with his top international security advisers before emerging to read a brief statement to saying the fighting had created a dangerous and warning all other hations to stay out of it. At the same Reagan was in telling television interviewers Carter should bear some responsibility for the war because the administration in the fall of the of And he later issued a formal statement placing even more of the blame on is happening in Iraq and Iran is the consequence of policies this administration has followed the past years - a vacillating foreign policy and a weakened defense capability are largely to he Asked if he was laying the blame for the conflict on he it's his foreign White House press secretary Jody Powell don't see anything to be gained by politicizing this But his to blame the president for a war between Iraq and Iran is Carter's statement said the United States in no way in the and to the contrary are obviously and patently He said the - which a to the peace and stability of the - should be ended promptly and there must be no interference by any other Carter also said concern about oil not justified by the present Even if the interruption of shipments persists an extended period of he the consuming nations have a large reserve of supplies on band to compensate for any who returned to Washington early Wednesday from a two-day campaign trip to the West had no additional campaign trips planned this Restructuring electric rates Officials disagree on how and when it can take place By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer City officials are in disagreement as to how and when a restructuring of the municipal electric rates can take Following a public hearing last the council asked the city staff to possible changes in lifeline rates for low and fixed- income people as well as rates for While City Manager James SWayne said staff is attempting to move ahead on the there is some difference of opinion as to when a new rate schedule would be put into Kate Riley took exception with a conclusion in a Journal article that Ukiah residents are not likely to see their bills reduced in the immediate who made the proposal before the said she thought there would be action on the study within a City Manager James Swayne also said the staff would have something to present within a But others are less don't see anything happening in the near said Ted On the other Feibusch remains critical of the way the city has managed the municipal Feibusch maintains that the since the city does not pay the tremendous amount of taxes and franchise fees that PG&E electric bills could stand to be seven to eight percent below PG&E Mayor Hays Hickey said the staff is as rapidly as we but he was not about to predict when a new rate would be alone is a constraint and changing the computerized billing takes Between now and next there is no way to accomplish the he The city's electric department head and public works director say the issue is much more Neither one a way to subsidize low-income The municipal utilities currently operates a three-tiered lifeline structure based on a similar PG&E Under the city 3.90 per kilowatt is charged for the first 1240 kilowatts Under the next for an equivalent amount of the rate goes up to 6.266 per kilowatt Any usage in excess of 2540 kilowatts is charged 8.6430 per There have been two rate increases in When users complain of a 100 percent increase on their it is not due just to the July 1 The July increase increased some bills as high as 55 but it was a March increase that also provided a husky according to Maurice head of the city's electric Roper is pessimistic about coming up with a special rate structure for low and fixed-income He said the utility can't be a welfare has to pay the Roper Although he is sympathetic with people who are having trouble paying their high Roper maintains the city be in hot if it attempted to start It may not be a popular stand to but Roper said the real key to lowering bills is to using electricity if we can't afford Public works director Al Kruth with dismally to upcoming rate hike and the new war between Iran and Iraq KATE RILEY Moving ahead big reasons why a new rate structure will be difficult to Kruth said the staff has not yet started studying a new structure and he doubted that the utilities would be able to find a new Grant for marijuana war runs out next By EVELYN SIMPSON Journal Staff Writer The federal grant which pays for the county sheriff's marijuana eradication program runs out next week and most likely will not be continued next year due to the U.S. government's financial but potheads and farmers have no reason for have enough additional to finish out this growing season and we are exploring other funding next Sheriff Tom Jondahl told the federally funded program to wipe out commercial pot farms in Mendocino has resulted in the arrests of approximately 80 growers this according to The word is Spanish for and refers to a particularly potent variety of marijuana favored by dopers and grown illegally by hundreds of Mendocino County has been so effective in the county over the past two years that 27 other California counties and the State of Oregon have sent their narcotics agents here to be trained in how to spot eradicate marijuana -i of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration have also sent their agents here for One of the main reasons for the county's success In the fight against the illegal weed is dedicated county narcotics investigator with the sheriff's who even during the deputy sheriff's strike continued to track down marijuana The county is assisted in Its marijuana eradication program by the state Bureau of Enforcement and by the federal Stewart The federal grant that runs out September 30 provided approximately over the past two years to the county for Operation but finding other money to keep the program going is not expected to be a according to will go on with our eradication program as long as cultivation is going on and as long as it is District Attorney Joe Allen said as many as 100 to 150 growers may be busted before this year's growing season ends around He estimates there may be as many as 300 commercial sinsemilla growers in Mendocino County and perhaps 1,000 persons growing it for their own TOM JONDAHL Looking for funds from the desk By Jim Garner A packed house is probable at 8 o'clock tonight at the multi-purpose room at Frank Zeek The controversial city ordinance will be discussed by the ad hoc committee that drafted the ordinance and the planning commission that would not accept the portion ol the Lee Chamber of Commerce will moderate the than a few parents are upset over a recent decision at It seems a miscalculation on enrollment at and Zeek resulted in one teacher being transferred to Zeek and and fifth graders at reassigned different teachers and different All this happened after school had been in session 2*/it Administrators are planning meetings with parents to hopefully Followed Don Rones the very plush Silverado Course while he participated in the pro-am of the Busch Highlight for this old St. Louis Cardinal was meeting who explained that you moved this golf ball up about foot and had it at me at 90 mph I'd show you how tp hit Musial looks like he could stUl send those screaming line drives off the Roger Maris was The home run Owns beer distributorship in of it appears he samples the product now Tom Watson hi person is just about the nicest guy you'd ever he can hit the golf ball so well and so effortlessly that it makes us duffers want to bum our Hospital closure Can adequate care for indigents be By NANCY VERVILLE In a telephone conversation with Sara chairman of the Humboldt County Board of Mrs. Parsons told the Journal that Humboldt County had not had a problem with providing hospital care to indigents after the of its community hospital several years can tell you she board records and reports I have seen since I came on the board In 1977. I know we have been able to care for indigents and with no Humboldt County has contracted with other hospitals for indigent that hospital care be indigents and low-income U in the minds of many when discussing the decision of the County Board of to move In the direction of closing Mendocino Community Hospital's to Al county the whole reason for the Beilenson hearing called of the Act which requires the hearing which is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 1? at the Veteran's Memorial is because the is going in the direction of closing the in-patient facility and feels the proposed contract with Ukiah General and Adventist hospitals provide the necessary is long as the meets its obligations io provide care for I can't see keeping it he One group interested in details of the proposed MCH closure in the Mendocino Health Planning Council which received reports at its September meeting from committees which have various of to close the community The council reviewed the and subsequently voted to express iU concern aspects of this Some question were raised ing comparison with the contract and a in Contracting lor Hospital prepared by the council in committee Is especially concerned with the guarantee for hospital care for indigent and low-income persons and other groups of citizens who may not receive adequate care without special considerations in the said a spokesman for the One the is considered policy of no financial screening before care is don't of any hospital that doesn't have financial Larry community hospital We have to find Out how a patient is going to pay thie I admit financial is hopes that if the in-patient facility is closed it used for in-patient care of some kind not office would be a bad use ot the he The board has stated future uses of the MCH will be compatible with its designed An Initiative petition the community hospital closure qualified for the Nov. 4 ballot and has been The affirmative argument for the hospital initiative is signed by James H. The argument the initiative and a rebuttal to the argument In favor were submitted by the Mendocino County Board of and signed by the John Among the statements in Community Hospital serves only one quarter to one third of the county area is funded by all county In favor speaks only to medical not to health Written by a contract the argument does not address the challenge of Improved medical and care faced 1^ your county The numbers have been discredited by the auditor's will retain its legal state obligation to provide medical care for all needy and persons of care Such care will continue to all residents pn an open admissions audit reports indicate community is losing money each Better gervice can be provided at an overall ' will be utilized for public and drug and mental health programs at direct to A is not considered legal by If it will not stand a legal of A does not necessarily mean hospital In his impartial analysis of Measure A. A. county counsel Uw provides that the Mendocino County Board ot Is the governing board of the Community A county can Drummond has stated It is that the bdard of supervisors will not be legally bound by the result of J A spokesperson in the county Department Is department certifies the I don't see how they can be of the proposed vices Plan which Included proposed changes at MCH were ed in the Journal issues of Sept. 10,12^ 14, and IS. Gobies of tbe draft trapt with General and Adventist 9nd tbe Essentials Contracting for are all available at tbe public tbe contract wiU take the Health at 7 p.m. 4tllowwr
