Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - October 21, 1985, Ukiah, California October 1985 Humphrey the humpback whale stressed out in delta 19854H baby named see Page 5 Weather MENDOCINO COUNTY Showery today with a few Hail Highs in the Snow level feet near the Oregon border sloping above feet in the Southwest coastal winds 10 to 25 H L Yesterday 61 50 Last year 63 41 From 6 Saturday to 10 today Year to date Last year Ukiah Daily Journal Mendocino California 125 59 12 Pages 25 Cents Shawk of Crane of breaks up the asphalt which will be replaced by around the new Civic Evan Johnson Workmen on the roof are removing and stacking tiles to be used during Old restoration begins Father son tears down By MAUREEN Journal Staff Looks can be Although it looks like men are demolishing the Old they are actually restoring The former school will become the new Ukiah Civic housing City Council administrative of fices and the police and fire The school was built in 1923 by Myrl a contractor from San Francisco who specialized in building country according to his son The younger Crane was a small boy when his father built Now he owns the con struction company in charge of removing asphalt around the A view of the west side of the former Elementary later the School upon completion In Note the Model T parked between the page 3 Courtesy of Frank Crane Death being investigated Hunter dies By PETER PAGE Journal Staff Writer Mendocino County sheriffs deputies are investigating the shooting death of a deer hunter in the Bell Springs area Satur day The death of Arthur of San was reported to the sheriffs office at about 7 Ercoli was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on private land located 12 miles up Bell Springs Road from between Blue Nose Ridge and Red Moun Sheriff Tim Shea said this morning that it has not been determined if Ercoli was shot or if his death was homicide or Shea said there are no indications now that the shooting was related to marijuana which is known to be widespread in the Bell Springs The investigation has been hampered by the weather condi tions and because most of the people live out of the Shea Ercoli was last seen alive by other members of his hunting party at about 5 according to statements given to He became separated from the eight other hunters and was next seen dead a little more than an hour Ancient village at logging site By PETER PAGE Journal Stiff The remains of an ancient In dian village have been found in the shade of virgin redwood trees proposed for clear cutting by the A summary of the ar study of the village site is included in the timber harvest plan filed by GP with the California Department of The proposed logging dubbed Sally Bell grove by is located along the banks of Little Jackass Creek on GP property south of State Wilderness Park on the Mendocino Archeologists believe the site was occupied by the proto Yukian people about years ago but was abandoned about years It is that people lived on the banks of Little Jackass Creek up to years bas ed on a study of all the artifacts recovered Archeologists report finding arrowheads at the site that are years A surprising amount of the obsidian used to make the up to 50 originated in the Warner Mountains of nor Archeologists working the site during the summer of 1983 found ar stone cutting milling charcoal from an cient and what appears to Sanctuary on trial Craxi back on the road to power mpn BOMB UPI President prime met with suspect in the Achille Lauro hi christu be the remains of two According to the there are eight large trees for cutting on or hear the The trees will be felled and drag ged across the village but heavy equipment will not be allowed to traverse the The report acknowledges that moving logs across the site will cause some disturbance to the but claims that damage will be minimized by the restrictions on heavy equip The archeological like others prepared for timber harvest was not previous ly made public to prevent amateur archeologists from raiding the site for ac cording to a spokesperson for the California In at Sonoma State Univer A summary of the report was included in the timber harvest plan as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Protection In formation Center challenging approval two years ago of a clearcut logging opera tion by the Department of GP has filed a new timber harvest plan to clearcut 75acres of redwoods and Douglas fir at Little Jackass That plan will be the subject of a public hearing 1 Wednesday at the Great Western Savings com munity at the corner of Gobbi and State steets in UPI The ancient custom of religious sanctuary faces a court test this week when 11 clergy and lay stand trial or harboring egal Central American im Tuesdays trial has drawn widespread attention from religious groups throughout the and the defendants say they want to turn it into a forum on human immigration policy and Ihe Reagan ad ministrations Latin American The religious accused of running an underground railroad for illegal are particularly outraged that the government sent informants with hidden tape recorders into their churches to gather The government charges the clergy and laymen conspired to violate immigration laws by harboring and aiding illegal im migrants from Latin The defendants claim they acted out of religious Twelve people originally had been scheduled to go on but Catherine Flaherty of pleaded guil ty last Friday to a misdemeanor count of failing to report her knowledge of illegal aliens in the United States within 30 District Judge Earl Carroll said during pretrial hearings he does not want to hear horror stories about Central American death and will limit the issue to whether there was a criminal conspiracy to violate im migration Although the judge ruled earlier that government in formants had a legal right to enter churches to check on possible immigration prosecutor Donald M Reno decided not to introduce clandestine tapes made by in He will rely instead on testimony of unindicted employees of the Sanctuary Move ment and ROME UPI President Francesco Cossiga today named Bettino Craxi as prime minister giving him a chance to reconstruct the fiveparty coalition government that col lapsed last week over the Achille Lauro Italys first Socialist prime met with Cossiga for less than 45 minutes before getting the nod to try to form a new given the reluctant sup port of a key coalition party that forced the collapse of the government last Thursday over his release of a Palestinian suspect in the Achille Lauro hi is expected to succeed In forming a new administra The new government would likely be a carbon copy of the 26 coalition that fell and would include the dominant Christian Socialists as well as the Social Democrats and It remains unclear how long it will take Craxi to dispel the political frictions and actually form a new First strong storm of season rakes the county Staff and UP I report A blustery rainstorm the first major one of the season dren ched Mendocino County and Northern California knocking out power in bringing snow to the Sierra and forcing three fishermen to aban don their The only major outage in Men docino County was reported in when a tree col lapsed powerlines on Baechtel Up to customers were without power for about one according to Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman Don Eight customers nearest wherre the tree fell remained without power today and are not expected to be reconnected until this Fluitt The storm brought gales along the 12 inches of heavy rain locally and snow predic tions of up to 2 feet deep in the It began Sunday This was a very strong storm for this early in the Na tional Weather Service Forecaster Keith The brunt of this storm is somewhere over the southern half of the state but were in for another storm Ewing said a low pressure system was moving from the Gulf of Alaska into Northern He said the second onslaught would hit San Fran cisco by and most like ly would bring the first major snowfall of the season in the Winds Sunday night ranged between 25 and 40 with stronger gusts in barren loca In the winds up to 58 mph were Winds were expected to taper off to 25 mph during the next 24 Crewmen of the San a 75 foot fishing boat with a disabled sent out a distress signal after the vessel started taking on water in Drakes Bay Sunday Dense rain and a language problem hampered rescue Coast Guard spokesman John Hollis Point Reyes Park rangers found the three crew who apparently used a lifeboat to get to the base of a Point Reyes The three were transported by a Coast Guard helicopter to Marin General Theyre all Hollis Each was treated for hypothermia and released by The fate of their disabl ed ship was not
