Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - July 3, 1992, Ukiah, California Ukiah Daily m On The Market Celebrate your freedom to own homes and property this July July 14 pages Volume 132 Number 67 50 cents tax included MENDOCINO COUNTY S LARGEST NEWSPAPER Pam Spaletta Ukiah graduate earns scholarships Pam who is attending the University of California at is the recipient of two The first is the Leon Peters which Spaletta has received for the second She also received the Stuart Came ron McLeod Society scho in where she participated in the Institute of Management Accountants Conference Pam is the daughter of Cliff and Judy of Redwood She is a graduate of Ukiah High and received an associate of sci ence in business admi with honors at Mendocino TIDBITS Main Highway 101 in will be closed to through traffic from Valley Street to Com Street 10 to 1 Saturday for the Fron tier Days Traffic will be detoured to School so traffic will be congested and The Willits Police Department is asking resi dents to plan trips to the downtown areas prior to or afte the parade is com Once the detour begins there will be no veh traffic to the Post Office and all downtown businesses within and around the parade LOTTERY DAILY THREE Thursday DECCO Thursday 4 9 5 FANTASY FIVE Thursday CORRECTIONS The name of Kelli was mis spelled in Thursdays Day breaker An portion of a story on Page 1 in Thursdays paper incorrectly attributed the state ment that Lake Mendocino is sitting at 114 percent of capac ity to Park Manager Dave That information came from Randy water plant operator with the Sonoma County Water Dally Journal to correct or clarifica to Significant In an obituary or birth announcement will In the Mem being may be reported to the editorial WEATHER Outlook Fair Temperatures Yesterdays high Overnight low Last years high Last years low Rainfall As of 6 today Season to Last year to Photographs tor Robert Reid and James Mastin were unavailable Dilly Journal from 40 recycled loop your Phyl Drake Lelf Farr Stephanie Hoppe Sheridan Malone John McCowen Donn Saulsbury 9 apply for single council seat Ukiah Mayor Fred Schneiter defends extending application deadline 84 56 102 64 By LESLIE WEISS Journal staff writer At the stroke of noon Thursday the deadline to apply for the open City Council seat nine applications for the position were The original deadline was last At 5 that four people Realtor writer and planning commis Stephanie business owner Sheridan Malone and cable technician and planning commissioner Robert Reid had applications in at City We extended the deadline to make it available to more Ukiah Mayor Fred Schneiter Schneiter said he consulted with other City Council members and City Manager Chuck Rough before extending the dead Several people still had applications he Five more people returned applications before Thursdays deadline attorney Phyl county planner and Ukiah Plan ning Commissioner Leif retired Ukiah Police Chief Donn Mendocino College Bookstore manager James Mastin and property manager and house painter John Schneiter defended the decision to extend the deadline against an accusation that it implied the city was playing favo rites or trying to influence who I dont see at all where it looks like See Back Page PARTY FOR ROD PACINI Radio and music legend remembered By LESLIE WEISS Journal staff writer Rod Pacini would be hap py to know his family and friends cele his life rather than mourned his He wanted a party at his Hes talked about it for a long said his wife of 15 More than 200 people gathered Thursday to remember a Mendocino County radio and music one of eight brothers and sisters from a musically talented was a jazz musician all his He was a horn but his specialites were the saxa phone and His Gloria said the Pacini children grew up with From 1910 to the Pacini family was the music of Joan his siblings and his father made the music at dozens of parties and town And after Rod served in the Army in World War he hit the road and toured with an older Rod has been all over the country Pidgeon In Rod played with the Barbara Curtis the Mendocino College Big Band and the Mendocino College Jazz Members of those groups played at Thursdays But Rod is probably best remembered for his 25 years of work in See Bock Page This photo of Rod Pacini was taken around 1940 when he was In his late well known as the voice of died Sunday and was remembered by friends and family at a party Lake County suit keeps winemaking ideas secret SAN FRANCISCO AP In a decision more reminiscent of Silicon Valley than Napa Val a judge has ruled that some winemaking techniques are trade secrets and belong to the company where they were But the jurys still out on whether the ruling will stifle the traditional cooperation that has helped make California wines Its going to have an effect on the Some people are perhaps going to try to impose on their staff the kind of secrecy you see in the computer indus said Pine Ridge Gary Lake County Superior Court Judge John Golden ruled this week that production process for their trademark a slightly sweet can be legally pro as a trade The ruling stemmed from a suit filed by former Kendall Jackson winemaker Jed who worked at the winery from 1982 to Steele sued the winery for a bonus he said he was owed when he left his The winery then filed three counterclaims one accusing Steele of intentionally ruining a batch of one claiming he intentionally inter with the grape growers and one asking thai wine recipes be considered See Back Page Permanent ban on log sales in owl habitat SEATTLE AP A federal judge on Thursday banned federal timber sales in owl habitat in Washington and Northern saying Forest Service plans for the lands were District Judge William Dwyers ruling came in a lawsuit filed by several environmental organizations to challenge a Forest Service adopted March for managing the spotted owl and its Dwyer said allowing timber sales to proceed would hurt the defendants as well as the These public lands belong to the entire he In enacting the laws that govern these Congress viewed them from the perspective not of a day but of Dwyer made permanent an injunction issued May when he decided the Forest Services envir impact statement for its latest plan was He ordered the govern ment to present to him by July 14 a schedule for preparing a new See Back Page No clear plans to jumpstart world economy Germany AP Leaders of the seven richest indust rial countries convene their annual summit next week with the world economy mired in the most pro slowdown in a decade and with no clear plan on how to turn things In the United unemploy ment is continuing to rise relent while the worlds second and third largest Japan and are facing their own economic President facing voters in the has been insisting that the economy is better than people believe and that the administration is expecting stronger growth in the second those hopes were dealt a major setback Thursday when the government announced that the unemployment rate in June jumped to an high of When the year econom ists saw a far different scenario They believed that this would be the year when the global economy would finally start charg ing See Back Page July 4 sparkles bright tonight at fairgrounds Ukiah area residents kick off the Fourth of July celebrations While others may have to wait until valley resi dents will be able to see fire works this sponsored by the Ukiah Chamber of Com at the Ukiah The early arrival of the Inde Day holiday is due to previously scheduled car races at the Ukiah Speedway on Satur day The Ukiah celebration tonight will include local musical storytellers and Elsewhere throughout the Willits Frontier Days begins Friday at 7 with the California Cowboys Profession al The Frontier Days celebration continues through the In Fort the 21st Annu al Worlds Largest Salmon Bar BQ will proceed as usual July even though the salmon will not be locally caught due to sal mon fishing The salmon will still be fresh caught from Pacific waters south of Mendocino The bar becue will begin at noon Satur day at the River basin in Fort Bragg and is sche to continue until 7 Back in the Ukiah Senior Center is holding a July 4 Crafts Faire and Flea Market at the 497 Leslie The holiday will start off with a breakfast sponsored by the Tri Club Lioness and Redwood Empire Beginning at 8 and running until the breakfast includes ham and coffee and Adults pay for the breakfast while it costs for children under FIREWORKS SCHEDULE Keene predicts budget battle TO AP The state budget stalemate that has forced California to issue its first lOUs since the Great Depression could go on for the Senate majority leader Barry said Thursday the prospect of deep cuts could make it nearly impossible to put together the twothirds majorities needed to pass a The cuts are going to be so deep and threatening that it will late all of the interest groups to come he Putting Keene together twothirds votes in the two houses will be next to The only thing that will make it possible is the visible deterioration of the Short of the state began issuing registered a form of on Wednesday to cover many of its bills because of the lack of a plan to erase an billion Despite the states woes Repu Pete Wilson and Democratic legislators appeared to be in no hurry to end their stalemate over how to solve the revenue On Wilson did a series of television interviews in Los Angeles and the Assembly and Senate adjourned without acting on The a twohouse budget conference committee and Senate budget subcommittees all planned to meet again but Senate leader David D Van said he didnt expect an agreement before Assembly Speaker Willie DSan said the Assembly might be able to vote on a budget Sunday night if the conference committee reaches an Dan the chair man of one of the Senate budget warned depart ment heads that their agencies face deep They havent seen anything he Tomorrow there will not be blood on the there will be bodies on the Tonights schedule of events at the Ukiah fairgrounds 7 Welcome and Introduc Sheridan emcee Sheridan Malone will sing Yankee Doodle Boy Barbershop quartet Tiny Harris Jazz dancers Skate City Roller Dancers Baton group Carols dancers Songs by Miss Men docino Melissa Dahl Tiny Harris 9 Charlie presi Ukiah Chamber of Commerce Fred Ukiah mayor Norm pat story Color Mendocino Majesties Pledge of Allegiance National Miss Mendocino Melis sa Dahl Fireworks ANTON STADIUM TURNS 40 6