Ukiah Daily Journal (Newspaper) - September 24, 1995, Ukiah, California Ukiah Daily Donrey Media Group 32 Volume 135 Number 141 tax included Sports Mendocino sloppy in home debut A8 September MENDOCINO COUNTYS LARGEST NEWSPAPER Defense lawyers engage in war of words On its own turf Mendocino College fans applauded the Eagles during one of the few plays to cheer about The game Jason Daily Journal was the first for the Eagles on their own Football finally comes home to college By LOIS OROURKE The Dally Journal It was It wasnt a good But it was Mendocino Col leges first home football game A few hundred Mendocino College Eagle a smatter ing wearing T shirts that read birds of home to showed up Satur day afternoon to see the Eagles play College of the on their own Preceded with a rally and bon fire the 200 to 300 fans who showed up for the game watched the Eagles get pounded by College of the as fans sat on concrete bleachers and baked in the Some brought lawn Others brought A few had many seemed impressed with the college One of those retired Men docino College President Lee hoped that one day he would see the football team play See Page dances with her at Friday nights bonfire celebrating the colleges first football game on Index Classifieds B5 Color Comics Inside Comics B3 Features B4 Forum A6 Jumble B5 Lottery Mini Page B2 Obituaries On TV Inside Sports A8 local TV listings B4 USA Weekend Inside Weather Journal phones Main Numbers 4680123 Circulation Number 4683533 Classified Numbers 4683536 The Dally Journal is made from at least 40 recycled news Low rub ink is Complete the loop and recycle your An allnight ride aboard a troop train EDITORS NOTE 1995 is the 50th anniversary of the end of World War The Daily Journal will attempt to publish every day this year the thoughts and memories of County resi dents who experienced that global con The Daily Journal invites anyone with World War II memories to contri bute to this Call or mail contributions to Box Todays contribution comes from Redwood Valley resident By OLAF HARNEY For The Daily Journal The voyage across the North Atlantic was relatively We enjoyed watching the por poises swimming at the nose of the Some of us felt sick when we ran into rough waters one The food was terrible to say the I would not recommend English cooking to but we did manage to survive thanks to the American PX store on I nev er ate so many candy bars and stuff in my Word got around that there was no danger of the enemy sinking the big tub because the American sub marine escorted us all the way across the But there IN THEIR OWN WORDS was that feeling what if it hap Would there be enough life boats for men and the ships These fears turned out to be unfounded when the big boat dropped anchor just outside the harbor at Ferry boats transported us the last three miles to We four boarded a troop train that was waiting for us at the We never had the chance to see the city of After we were seated on the we were in for a American Red Cross girls treated us to coffee and We were very and their visit real ly spruced us The train did not leave the station until all of the men were With all of the gear we it was very to say the But we were on an important and 1 heard very few It was in the morning when the train left the sta We fell asleep as soon as the train got under The thud of the wheels on the track was all I could We did not know where we were but we did know that our destination had been pre After an all night and late in the the train pulled into the station at trucks were there to pick us They took us to Halstad Air Force just five miles from It turned out to be a Royal Air Force Base with about a hundred British Spitfires and Typhoons on the other side of the were assembled in and 45 new aircraft were flown in and were ready for us when we It was a beautiful sight to see them scattered all over the I men previously that our the consisted of three squad the and Each squadron had 12 Each plane had its own pilot and The could carry a heavy bomb load provided the runway was long enough for the plane to become See Page By PETE HODGDON The Dally Journal Ukiah defense attorneys have declared war over the countys conflict and the battlefield is the Anderson Valley In a volley of insults traded recently in articles and letters to the local lawyers are doing their best to discredit each personally and The dispute began with a frontpage article published three weeks Writer Mark Heimann citing unnamed sources attacked a proposal by Public Defender Ron Brown that would restructure the public defenders pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hands of private attorneys and putting them under the direct control of a new county Brown is eyeing a possible run for Superior Court and is especially vulnerable to Heimanns sources call him an indecisive and inefficient administrator who tries to promise all things to all They say If Im Im going to fight MELTON his new proposal is simply another layer of In a bizarre the sources also said deputy public defender Barry Mellon drafted the plan in order to take over the public defenders Browns staff immediately fingered contract attorney Tom Mason as the unnamed Masons firm relies heavily on conflict and Browns proposal could devastate his Public defenders shot back at Mason in the AVA last week with their own A sample Deputy public defender Bert Schlosser referred to See Page 3 strikes laws get little use nationwide California the notable exception By ARLENE LEVINSON Associated Press Writer Its only the early But the rage to lock up the chronically rotten and throw away the key three strikes and youre out is having scant effect in most With the big exception of Cali fornia where more than 700 peo ple are now in prison under three strikes laws are seldom invoked a year or more after taking The Associated Press has Some states do not track their three strikes A few are barely dry on the page Arkansas took effect in late July while South Carolinas starts But Washington state cases tot aled just 33 nearly two years after passage of a law expected to bring in 40 to 75 a And by mid in North Carolina and Tennessee not a single person had been incarcer ated under their three strikes officials Wisconsin had Indiana fewer than Georgias 9monthold two strikes netted one The feder al government invoked its own three strikes law and got five See Page Judge extends ban on Headwaters log removal Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Pacific Lumber will have to wait until Thursday before a federal judge decides whether the company can remove downed trees in the ancient Headwaters After nearly a daylong hearing District Judge Maxine Chesney said she needed more time for arguments and a decision on whether to issue a longer prohibi tion against log removal and the cutting of diseased She sche another hearing for The Headwaters Forest contains acres of redwood trees that shelter several endan gered including the marbled spotted owl and coho The Humboldt Coun ty forest is the worlds largest stand of ancient redwoods in private The forest is owned by Pacific which has gained state approval to conduct salvage log ging of dying or diseased The company was scheduled to start hauling out fallen trees after the marbled nesting sea son ended But Chesney issued a temporary restraining order that day at the request of the Environmental Protection Infor mation The order was sche See Page Cleanup volunteers find it all at the beach By ELIZABETH WEISE Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO A Condom Whatever the waves cast thousands of gloved volunteers in the states annual Coastal Cleanup were waiting Saturday to gingerly We found about 50 hundred cigarette and lots of broken said Leah who spent the morning happily pick ing up beach trash with two simi larly young Organized by the Center for Marine Conservation and the California Coastal volunteers scattered along the states 850 miles of shoreline picked their way through piles of kelp and driftwood to remove the detritus of modern The event is organized interna out of the offices of the Tius beaches as far away as Italy and Cana da got their annual cleaning on Weve got to be different in so we did ours on the said San Francisco nator Kristen Last years cleanup covered 480 miles of California beach and netted pounds of trash gathered by more than eager This more than volunteers helped collected more than pounds of Participants in San Francisco remarked on an unusually small showing for discarded and volunteers in parts of South ern California found that earlier cleanups after winter and spring flooding left them with pleasing ly little to See Page
