Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - December 10, 1980, Ukiah, California December 10, 1980 120th Year No. 200 468-0123 Weather Northwestern California Fair through Thursday with a slow warming trend Fort Bragg 58, 35 and 59, Ukiah 57, 30 and 58 Mendocino California 2 Sections 25 Cents Quiet night under suicide watch By TITO DA VILA NEW YORK - John Lennon's accused a pudgy guard who became obsessed with the former spent a quiet night under continuous suicide watch in a psychiatric ward Officials today gave no indication of a possible motive in the being really careful because of the nature of Bellevue Hospital spokeswoman Sandy Smith said so We don't want to blow this out of Ms. Smith said the Mark David Chapman of had caused no problems during the night at the where he is being held under court order for 30 days of psychiatric examination not a screaming Ms Smith was an uneventful night Everything is really She said prison guards had looked in on Chapman every 15 minutes while he slept alone in a second-floor room of the facility She said Chapman's cell con four beds and a barred window Another spokesman said Dr Henry of the Forensic Psychiatric Unit at would administer to Chap The hospital said it would have no comment on the results until they were presented in court Police were as baffled by a possible motive for the killing as Chapman's friends and acquaintances don't know why did Deputy Inspector Peter Prezioso said we have so far seems to Indicate it was a flake who did a crazy thing In David the ex director of the Duncan said he had worked with Chapman while directing Indochinese refugee resettlement at Fort Ark in 1975. was one of the most staff members we Moore said came to be a team coor one of five in the entire camp It was a pretty responsible job for a guy only 20 Moore Chapman later fell away from his Christianity and his girl friend him to pack off when he headed for where he learned his parents were getting divorced Then he had a nervous breakdown who became so obsessed with the former rock star that he signed out from his last job in Honolulu as was charged with second-degree murder at his arraignment Tuesday The prosecution said he stalked his idol for three days and got his autograph before gunning Lennon down Monday night a rational and intelligent manner A spokesman for the Sheraton Centre where Chapman stayed in an room the night before the said today that detectives who searched Chapman's room found a number of items the suspect left Among them were a miniature a place mat printed with Wizard of Oz several a suitcase with dirty a tape and a tape of rock musician Todd When Chapman was arrested Monday police he was carrying a cassette recorder with about 14 hours of Beatles tapes and a paperback copy of J D Salinger's novel about in the Rye Hundreds of stunned rock many held a vigil in the rain outside the Dakota apartment building where Lennon Beatle drummer Ringo Starr was with fans frantically touching his as he slipped through the crowds after visiting Miss Lennon's look-alike 17-year-old son by a previous arrived from London Tuesday but it was not known if either ex Beatles Paul Mc Cartney or George Harrison planned to come to New York In Manhattan Criminal Court Lennon's accused killer stood mute as he was charged with second-degree murder and ordered sent to Bellevue Hospital for 30 observation because of his history of mental problems and suicide attempts A former hospital print shop worker and security guard in he had no police record His attorney Herbert Adlerberg described his elient as very confused who was hospitalized for mental problems in Honolulu in 1977 after he rigged a rubber tube to the tailpipe of his ran it inside the car and rolled up the windows in an attempted suicide defendant is not fully cognizant of what is happening to him at this Alderberg said outside the he referred to Chapman as as a Assistant District Attorney Kim Hogrefe said authorities had very strong against Chapman for the execution of John Lennon Witnesses told police that Chapman dropped a 38-caliber gun after shooting Lennon and stood quietly by reading a copy of in the until police arrived to arrest Asked if Chapman had committed the Adlerberg told did shoot Chapman's remained a The dark-haired young man had been ecstatic when he got Lennon's autograph only hours before the Clean Slate test ease postponed By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer Clean the county's ordinance for less stringent building was to have received its first test this but it didn't quite make the grade in a board supervisors discussion of the Round Mountain application Monday Only two applications for Clean Slate have come into the planning department since the ordinance was instituted in Clean Slate applies more lenient building codes for structures built before December 1979. The 900-acre Round Mountain Ranch is expected to be one of the more complicated Mendocino County Planning Director Dan Garvin has in fact called the Round Mountain application the of Clean Round currently under a court injunction to halt zoning and building code has applied for 22 dwellings as under the more flexible rural building But confusion continues to surround definitions in the Clean Slate In a preliminary presentation before the board earlier this county senior planner Jay McKeeman told the supervisors the ordinance presents certain to the building and health depart While McKeeman was not yet ready to make a full report on each dwelling at Round he said inspectors from the three departments were having problems defining what is a for the detached bedrooms from the main structure The board had earlier shied away from deciding on the exact number of detached bedrooms allowable as well as the distance from the main the board left it up to the departments to decide what is reasonable County Health Inspector Randy Leach told the board that he had a problem in determining what is a reasonable distance of sanitary facilities away from the main He noted a situation at Round Mountain where a detached bedroom was a 20-minute walk away from the main structure and suggested that the distance away from sanitary facilities might be a problem for a child at night on Page 3) General Plan draft hearings get under way The first of seven public hearings on the county General Plan draft got underway today before the planning commission as the Round Potter Valley and Leggett area plans came under The first four hearing dates which will include the above areas and Anderson Valley and Redwood Valley are expected to go according to Marge chair of the planning These areas for the most part are in agreement with the draft Hearings will continue tomorrow with Laytonville at 9 a.m. and Willits at 1 p.m. in the board When it's dinner time and a pipe gets in your way you might sedately step over as these staid sheep but if you're a young and frisky lamb why not include a little flying fun? The action was captured recently in a field near Ukiah by Journal photographer Sue Lennon's death may help handgun control By MATT QUINN WASHINGTON - Handgun control advocates say the shooting death of John Lennon may aid the congressional drive for gun control legisla but fear progress could be cut short when Republicans take over the Sen. Edward said in a statement Tuesday the shooting deaths of Dr. Michael Halberstam in Friday night and Lennon in New York Monday night were acts of violence that once again emphasize the urgency of reasonable handgun The Washington in an editorial called on Congress to enact firearms been swamped with calls since 4 a.m. this Michael executive director of the National Coalition to Ban said Tuesday never seen anything like Beard said support for handgun control legislation and flows with events in the news He said there is a in Congress that would make the current handgun situation worse The supporters is aimed at allowing hunters to transport guns through states with restrictive gun laws without violating those laws until I would have said it had a good chance of passage I don't Beard citing reaction to the Lennon slaying A spokesman for Sen James Mc the leading Senate sponsor of the said Lennon's shooting would have effect what on the legislation Beard said the chances of McClure's being approved will improve dramatically when Sen Strom Thur a takes over Kennedy's chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee next month a good chance that rather than a step we could take a step Beard President-elect Ronald Reagan described the Lennon slaying as a but said he continues to oppose gun control legislation believe in the kind of handgun legislation we have in California somebody commits a crime and caries a gun while doing it. add five to 15 to the Reagan The law in California provides that anyone who uses a gun during the commission of a three years added to his or her Back to business for board By DALE MARTIN Journal Staff Writer Fresh from a successful state conference in Los the board of supervisors wasted no time in plunging back into the continuing dramas of Mendocino County The supervisors were able to score some successes at the annual meeting of the County Supervisors Association last with the election of Jim Eddie to the position of second vice president of the The election means that Eddie will assume the presidency of the county lobbying association in two a position that may add to the influence of Mendocino County within the Mendocino has not had a vice president in since 1920 In addition to Eddie's Al Beltrami was elected to vice president of the County Administrative Officers Association at the meeting In supervisor business the board approved the formation of an Adult Day Health Planning Council to devise a county plan for a community-based system for elderly health The adult day health care is an organized day program of social and health activities and services to elderly people with physical or mental After hearing from Cynthia director of the Multipurpose Senior Services the board approved the appointment of eight senior representatives from throughout the to the Planning The council expects to come up with a county plan for day health care in the next six according to Jon administrative analyst for the The board also provided a staff member for the development of the The Health and Welfare Committee of the board also delivered a report yesterday on the status of negotiations for the tranfer of 18 beds from Mendocino Community Hospital to the other on Page 3) Temperatures Dec. 1980 Date Hi Lo 9 62 29 11 a.m. Today 53 24-hour Rainfall 0.00 Dec. 1979 Date HI Lo 9 61 42 Low Today 27 Rainfall 6.71 Last Year 13.12 Poland's farmers may seek own union By BOGDAN TUREK Poland - A group of Poland's farmers have begun pressing for a free union despite government pleas for moderation and an end to alleged industrial sabotage in the embattled The Soviet ban on Western observation rights along the Ger man border officially ended and allied powers in Berlin prepared to enter the sealed off 25-mile area in an attempt to guage the threat of East bloc troops to Poland's The observation rights are guaranteed to Allied powers under a War II but the Soviets sealed off the area along the border on Nov. 29 and Allied reports in Berlin at the time said that the Soviets let it be known the closing would run through Dec 9 Observers said that Continued closure of the area would add weight to fears of Soviet plans for military intervention in US Secretary of State Edmund Muskie left Washington Tuesday night for a meeting of NATO ministers in Belgium will discuss the actions that we can take and will take as an alliance if these forces are Muskie said before The NATO members agreed Tuesday to deploy four American AW AC aircraft to patrol the East-West frontier and provide the allies with advance warnings of Soviet A Pentagon statement said the would arrive today at Air West must be avoided are measures which might provide the Soviet Union with the pretext to or measures that might be interpreted as indicating we are planning to a senior West German official Leaders of free union Solidarity were meeting in the Baltic port of Gdansk pressed by farmer demands for labor rights and government pleas for an end to alleged industrial The farmers - who say they represent the 500,000, or of the 3.5 tillers of the soil who are not collectivized planned a meeting for Friday to discuss their demand for official recognition as an independent The farmers had a of the Saturday with Agriculture Minister Leon Solidarity sources said The official news agency PAP reported Tuesday that there had been possible sabotage at a coal mine near Katowice in southern PAP said mining there was stopped for two hours Monday morning because three coal wagons had been disconnected in what appeared to be Police were indications are that it was done on PAP In Gen. Jerry Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs said has been no change in the alert of U.S. forces around the Reports from Czechoslovakia indicated that Czech and Soviet troops had moved to the Polish border and that the callup period of reserves had been doubled to six The Czech Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo blamed Poland's troubles on of the United States and other imperialist countries to halt the process of and appealed to the Polish Communist Party make sure that all those be expelled from the new trade unions who conflicts with the
