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Wildcatsoff tostrong start..........Page A-8

Monday: SunnyH 97º L 49º

Tuesday: Partlysunny; H 92º L 50º

REMINISCEHop picking strike in 1908

Mendocino County’s local newspaper

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SUNDAYSept. 14, 2008

World briefly.......Page A-2

The Brutocao family brings asampling of the Italian lifestyleto Mendocino County. From theSt. Mark’s Square (in Venice)lion on their wine label to theirtasting room, restaurant andbocce courts, la dolce vita iswhat I found at Brutocao Cellarsin Hopland.

Playing on a bocce team forthe last few years at Brutocao’ssummer league offered a glimpseinto the sweet life. We competed,we drank great wine, and we atecrispy flavorful pizzas from thewood fired oven in the Crushed

Grape Restaurant. On balmyevenings after the game, wesipped an after dinner drink atround tables under a grape arbor.The sun set against the westernhills backlighting the terraces oflavender and olive trees.

Brutocao Cellars:Authentic Italian style in Hopland

Wine notesby Heidi Cusick

Dickerson

By LINDA WILLIAMSThe Willits News

While methamphetamine labs peaked inCalifornia in 1999, evidence suggests usagerates have remained flat with local demandnow supplied nearly exclusively with highquality ice methamphetamines from Mexico.

Meth remains the top drug-related concernof law enforcement in California, according toa 2007 U.S. Department of Justice poll.Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman alsoconsiders it his top drug priority.

With few labs remaining in California, lawenforcement resources up and down the statehave been refocused on the Mexican drug traf-ficking organizations, which law enforcementofficials say have taken over the wholesale dis-tribution of nearly all illicit drugs throughoutthe state.

Mexican DTOs now dominate the wholesaledistribution of ice or meth, marijuana, cocaineand heroin throughout California, according tofederal and state law enforcement agencies.The DTOs then recruit affiliated street gangs --Norteño and Sureño as well as outlaw gangssuch as the Hells Angels for retail distribution.The trading of marijuana for ice is considered akey element in the distribution of meth withinMendocino County.

Santa Rosa is considered the main trans-

I think more than any other event ofthis political season, Sen. JohnMcCain’s vice-presidential choice ofAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin has probablytaken up more real estate in mythoughts than any other.

His rival Sen. Barack Obama’sselection of Sen. Joe Biden as his run-ning mate was a resoundingly solidpick as he is well-versed in foreignpolicy, an area that Obama is admit-tedly lacking. While this was a solid

choice, it wasn’t exactly the kind ofselection that inspired fevered rumina-tions during my free time.

This Palin woman though, she’sbeen haunting my dreams.

Let’s start from the beginning:In terms of experience, she’s wildly

unqualified even by Obama standards.She didn’t become governor until2006, a full two years after Obama waselected to the Senate. Before assumingthe governorship of the nation’s 47th

most populous state, Palin was themayor of a town smaller than Ukiahfor six years and a member of the citycouncil for four years prior to that.According to the Wasilla MunicipalCode though, the mayor’s first threeduties are to:

1. Preside at council meetings. Themayor may take part in the discussionof matters before the council, but maynot vote, except that the mayor mayvote in the case of a tie.

2. Act as ceremonial head of thecity.

3. Sign documents on behalf of thecity.

So, from what I’m gathering, sheserved as the Queen of Wasilla (wholike the Queen of England is only afigurehead) before becoming governorof the state at around the same time the2008 presidential race was starting.

Job opening: some experience required

House ofBurgess

by Rob Burgess See BURGESS, Page A-12

Steve, David, Len Sr. andLenny Brutocao on theirregulation championshipbocce courts at BrutocaoCellars in Hopland.

See WINE, Page A-11

Auto enthusiasts enjoy classicvehicles in annual car showSaturday in downtown UkiahBy ROB BURGESSThe Daily Journal

Walking down School Street on Saturday, it’s as if thetemporarily displaced Farmer’s Market has replacedhomegrown flowers and vegetables with self-styled

classic cars.Now in its 18th year, the Ukiah Early Iron Car Club’s

Fabulous Flashback Car Show brought throngs of curiousspectators and auto enthusiasts into the downtown area.

In addition to Saturday’s exhibition, a “Fabulous FridayNight Bash” took place at Applebees on Airport Park Boulevardthe night before and a poker run was scheduled for today,beginning at the Applebees’ parking lot.

During the event, spectators were allowed to vote for theirfavorites and a myriad of prizes were distributed to the winnersat Alex Thomas Plaza.

AFabulous Flashback

Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal

Car buffs Zack and Lucus Koball (left to right) look under the hood of a 1958 Chevrolet Delray from Sebastopolon School Street Saturday morning at Ukiah’s Fabulous Flashback car show.

See FLASHBACK, Page A-11

Where haveall the methlabs gone?South of the border

T O P 5 O N L I N E

Friday1. The Daily Digest 9/10/082. 67-year-old Covelo man beaten, robbed3. Child killed in Willits accident4. $280,000 in Caltrans funds awarded to

Mendocino County5. New invasive pest spotted in the Russian

Riverukiahdailyjournal.com

See METH, Page A-4

Rescue teams fan out acrossTexas to find survivors andsearch for victims after Ike

HOUSTON (AP) — Rescue crews in high-wheel trucks, helicopters and boats venturedout to pluck people from their homes Saturdayin an all-out search for thousands of Texanswho stubbornly stayed behind overnight toface Hurricane Ike.

The storm blew out skyscraper windows,cut power to millions and swamped thousandsof homes along the coast. Yachts were carriedup onto roadways, buildings and homes col-lapsed and cars floated in floodwaters.

State and local officials began searching forsurvivors by late morning, just hours after Ikeroared ashore at Galveston with 110 mphwinds, heavy rains and towering waves.Overnight, dispatchers received thousands ofcalls from frightened residents who buckedmandatory orders to leave as the storm closedin. Authorities estimated there were about140,000 or more who stayed despite warningsthey could die. “There was a mandatory evac-uation, and people didn’t leave, and that is veryfrustrating because now, we are having to dealwith everybody who did not heed the order.

This is why we do it, and they had enough timeto get out. It’s just unfortunate that they decid-ed to stay,” said Steve LeBlanc, city managerin Galveston. Sedonia Owen, 75, and her son,Lindy McKissick, defied evacuation orders inGalveston because they wanted to protect theirneighborhood from possible looters. She waswatching floodwaters recede from her frontporch Saturday morning, armed with a shot-gun.

Large number of holdoutshas rescuers scouring Ike’spath for those in harm’s way

ORANGE, Texas (AP) — Even as theyplucked people from rooftops and wreckedneighborhoods on Saturday, emergencyresponders grumbled over how many brushedoff dire warnings and tried to ride outHurricane Ike.

“When you stay behind in the face of awarning, not only do you jeopardize yourself,you put the first responders at risk as well,”Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoffsaid. “Now we’re going to see this play out.”

While more than 2 million people evacuatedahead of Ike, tens of thousands more ignored

evacuation orders and swamped rescue crewsSaturday with emergency calls from the theflooded lowlands of East Texas and westernLouisiana.

Rail agency: Commuter trainengineer caused wreckthat killed more than 24

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A commuter trainengineer who ran a stop signal was blamedSaturday for the nation’s deadliest rail disasterin 15 years, a wreck that killed at least 24 peo-ple with more bodies still to be pulled from thesmoldering, twisted metal.

A preliminary investigation found that “itwas a Metrolink engineer that failed to stop ata red signal and that was the probable cause” ofFriday’s collision with a freight train in LosAngeles’ San Fernando Valley, Metrolinkspokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said. She said shebelieves the engineer, whose name was notreleased, is dead.

“When two trains are in the same place atthe same time somebody’s made a terrible mis-take,” said Tyrrell, who was shaking and neartears as she spoke with reporters.

Authorities later announced that the official

death toll had risen to 24. More bodiesremained in the wreckage of a Metrolink pas-senger car but it was difficult to determine howmany, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told a pressconference when the toll was at 23.

Government and brokerageleaders try to hash outLehman rescue

WASHINGTON (AP) — The financialworld held its collective breath Saturday as theU.S. government scrambled to help devise arescue for Lehman Brothers and restore confi-dence in Wall Street and the American bankingsystem. Deliberations resumed Saturday as topofficials and executives from government andWall Street tried to find a buyer or financingfor the nation’s No. 4 investment bank and tostop the crisis of confidence spreading to otherU.S. banks, brokerages, insurance companiesand thrifts. Failure could prompt skittishinvestors to unload shares of financial compa-nies, a contagion that might affect stock mar-kets at home and abroad when they reopenMonday.

Options include selling Lehman outright orunloading it piecemeal.

D A I L Y D I G E S TEditor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 udj@pacific.net

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The world briefly

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ARRESTED -- SaraHernandez, 19, of Cloverdale,was arrested at 1:36 a.m.Friday in the 300 block ofEast Gobbi Street on suspi-cion of driving under theinfluence.

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LOTTERY NUMBERSDAILY 3: night: 1, 9, 7.

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ELEANOR MARIE ROSETTIEleanor Marie Rosetti,

92, of Hopland, Ca. passed away Wednesday,September 10,

2008 at her home with herfamily at her side. Eleanor was born June 28,1916 in Geyser-ville, Ca. and spent herwhole life in this area.

Eleanor along with herlate husband Pete opened the first “SuperMarket” in Ukiah the 3-R market, she was also ahomemaker.

She was proud of herOrchids and her green-house, her children andher grandchildren. El-eanor was involved inT.O.P.S. for 35 years; she enjoyed bingo and wasan avid Gardner. She loved her dog Gypsey,she would often say “I wouldn’t take a mil-lion dollars for my dog”

Eleanor’s family willremember her for her beautiful home and garden-er and her strong will, she was known to herfamily as “The Colonel”.

Eleanor is survived byher daughters Shirley Lucchesi of Hopland andBeverly Rosetti of Hopland, son Larry Rosettiof Ukiah, grand-sons Daren Babcock ofSanta Rosa, Pete Lucchesi of RedwoodValley and Dino Rosetti of Sacramento, grand-daughters Leonora Rohrer of Rohnert Park,Lisa Rosetti of Sac-ramento and four greatgrandchildren, sisters Georgeina, Mary and Jeanand brother Hen-

ry. Eleanor was precededin death by her husband of 61 years PeteRosetti and her brothers Fred and Oscar.

A visitation will be heldon Monday, Septem-ber 15, 2008 from 9am –8pm at the Eversole Mortuary, a funeral servicewill be held on Tuesday, September 16,2008 at 11 am at the Eversole Mortuary,with a burial to follow at the Hopland Cemetery.

The family prefersmemorial contribution in Eleanor’s name to theHumane Society or Phoenix Hospice.

Arrangements are underthe direction of the Eversole Mortuary.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, 2008 – A-3

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25 years agoWednesday, Sept. 14, 1983

Ukiah Daily JournalLACK OF INTEREST, DEBT DOOMED PALACE.

The Palace Hotel lost its bankruptcy court protectionbecause of a missed court hearing and lack of or late filingof required reports, ruled Judge Conley Brown lastThursday.

His ruling apparently leaves the Palace to the picking ofcreditors who have waited over two years to collect onpressing debts.

The ruling also caused immediate cancellation of a con-tract with Grovesnor Hotel Group, a Bay Area companythat had been managing the hotel, restaurant and bar.

All divisions of the Palace were closed on Sunday,leaving Grovesnor’s long-term plans for the hotel andabout 60 employees in the lurch.

Also confused are owners of independent businesses atthe Palace, some located there since before the ’60s. Theyhave leases, with various parties, but are uncertain as tothe value of the agreements. Some business owners areunclear as to who owns the Palace.

And as clouds shrouding the sudden closure of thePalace on Sunday begin to lift, even more questions areposed than answered.

With mounting debts and insufficient cash inflow, thePalace filed on July 17, 1981 for reorganization underChapter 11 of United States bankruptcy codes.

Three weeks ago, the Palace’s Chapter 11 protectionwas removed by Brown, who said the hotel owners hadfailed to comply with the rules of the bankruptcy court.

“There is a requirement for operating reports to be filedmonthly,” said Brown, who added that none had beenfiled with the bankruptcy court.

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LAWBREAKERS MAY HAVE TO PAY TO STAY INLOCAL JAIL. If an idea being considered by theMendocino County Board of Supervisors is approved, lawbreakers may find themselves paying for the privilege ofstaying in the county jail.

The supervisors yesterday discussed several alternativesto help pay the cost of keeping approximately 130 prison-ers a day in the county facilities, and one of these wascharging each prisoner for room and board, a practice theysaid is gaining in acceptance.

The idea, according to the supervisors, has been suggest-ed to various court judges with unanimous approval.

In addition, the board suggested adding some type ofcommunity service to the sentences. Supervisor Jim Eddiesuggested putting the inmates to work cleaning up on coun-ty roads, and Supervisor Marilyn Butcher noted that theymight be used to do work on the homes of senior citizensand others unable to do the work themselves. “There are somany places where work is needed which would be betterthan them just sitting in jail,” she said.

Norman deVall mentioned that the Sheriff’s Departmentmight try another approach to cutting down on jail popula-tion by confining offenders to their homes for weekenddetainment, but Butcher said she thought that sounded toogood.

DeVall agreed with the idea of putting offenders to workin the community and suggested that civic groups in thecommunity might become involved in the work sentencingby getting help on various projects they have going.

The supervisors decided to invite some of the peoplewho serve on the Volunteer Bureau to meet with them anddiscuss the idea further.

50 years agoFriday, Sept. 12, 1958Ukiah Daily Journal

SHERIFF MAY SUE ESTATE FOR MATTRESS. Theboard of supervisors has authorized Sheriff RenoBartolomie to sue the estate of the late Waldo Newton onbehalf of the county for reimbursement for a jail mattresswhich was blood-soaked and ruined when Newton, held injail on counterfeit charges, committed suicide in the countyjail months ago.

A tidy estate was left by Newton and the county wants areplacement for the mattress which proved Newton’s deathbed.

The supervisors have also voted four more sheriff’s carsfor Bartolomie, in addition to four new cars alreadyordered.

...Bartolomie also was empowered to act on behalf of thecounty to attempt to secure matching funds, if possible,from the government toward purchase of a new sheriff’sradio.

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CHIEF SMITH FILES AUGUST REPORT WITH CITYCOUNCIL. During the month of August the Ukiah PoliceDepartment listed $3,948.55 in fines, parking lot fees anddog pound collections. City meters contributed $1,406.55.

Felony charges investigated by the department were 18;seven arrests were made. Misdemeanors reported were 182;arrests 144. There were 443 traffic citations issued, 97intoxicated persons arrested and 22 petty thefts as top con-tributors to the month’s list of small crimes.

One forgery, two car thefts, seven petty thefts, one mali-cious mischief complaint and eight peace disturbances weresettled out of court.

Misdemeanor arrests were 122 adults and 24 juveniles.During August the patrol car mileage was cut to 8,864 milesfrom 10,506 for July and the gasoline used from 873 to 681.In the meantime motorcycle mileage went from 1,888 milesin July to 2,670 in August.

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SCHOOLS MUST BE INTEGRATED! SUPREMECOURT ADAMANT; NO DELAY ALLOWED. ...WASH-

THIS WAS NEWS

JODYMARTINEZ

EARLY VIEWS OF MENDOCINO COUNTY

Harvesting the Hop crop

Photo provided courtesy of the Robert J. Lee collection (from the Colvin family)

Families of hop pickers pause from their labors picking low pole hops near a wagon loaded with bales of hopsin this early photograph, thought to have been taken in the Ukiah Valley.

Sept. 4, 1908The Dispatch-Democrat

HOPPICKERS STRIKE FOR DOL-LAR RATE. The hoppickers in the differ-ent yards of the American Hop andBarley Company have been organizingstrikes for a higher rate for picking.

Last week the pickers in the lower partof Ukiah valley expressed their intentionof striking for $1.00 per hundred pounds,instead of the eighty cent rate, but weresoon brought to time by the firm standtaken by the foreman of the yards andwent back to work.

The large yards of the company nearHopland also had a strike, and for a timeit looked as if the riot call would have tobe resorted to quell the strikers. The dif-ferences were patched up, however, and

the majority of the pickers returned totheir labors at the schedule.

Yesterday the two hundred pickersemployed on the Pitner place abovetown, by the company, went out on astrike and demanded an increase of twen-ty cents per hundred pounds for gatheringthe hop blossoms. Their demands weremet by a prompt refusal by ForemanClubb, who immediately ordered allstrikers off the lands owned by the com-pany. The ring leaders of the strikers,some ten in number, refused to vacate,and declared that they would not permitany hops to be picked unless the compa-ny came to their terms. Mr. Clubb cameinto town and secured legal advice for theprotection of the company’s interests, andten John Doe warrants for disturbing the

peace were issued by the justice of thepeace for the leaders of the strike. Thisaction will doubtless solve the situationas the majority of the pickers are anxiousto return to their labors.

The striking hoppickers are nearly allfrom San Francisco, and have been thecause of a great deal of complaint by thefarmers who live near their camps.Garden truck, poultry, fruit, etc., has beendisappearing at an alarming rate since thebeginning of the hoppicking season. Thestrikers claim that they were promised acent a pound for picking, free wood, etc.,and when they failed to receive theseconcessions they concluded that theywould strike to force their demands.

See THIS WAS NEWS, Page A-4

Longtime residents ofMendocino County and thosewho’ve followed the ElusiveImages contest may recognizethe man in this photo as DominicNiderost, who was featured inthe August 2006 Elusive Imagecontest at another service station.

If you can identify this station(or would just like to guess)please write down what youthink is pictured, the location andanything else you may knowabout it.

Include your name and aphone number where you can bereached if you win, and get theinformation to us by 5 p.m.Tuesday. Send it to: ElusiveImages Photo Contest, Attn. JodyMartinez, Ukiah Daily Journal,P.O. Box 749, Ukiah, CA 95482;fax to 468-3544; e-mail toudjjm@pacific.net or drop it offat our office at 590 S. School St.

All correct submissions willbe entered into a drawing for afree copy of “Reflections: APictorial History of InlandMendocino County, Volume II.”

Held-Poage researcher EdBold, who came up with the ideafor the contest and choosesmany of the photos, will draw thewinning entry. The contest is notopen to employees of The DailyJournal, Held-Poage volunteersor those who provided the photofor the contest, but everyone elseis encouraged to enter.

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1908: Local hop pickers strike for dollar rate

portation hub for meth enter-ing Mendocino and Lakecounties. Earlier this year,federal and state agents appar-ently cracked two cogs in thewholesale distribution system.

In April 2008, 29 pounds ofice methamphetamine wasrecovered by law enforcementat a Santa Rosa trucking com-pany, along with a smallamount of marijuana andcocaine. Earlier, in March2008, agents confiscated 27pounds of ice, 69 pounds ofmarijuana, as well as hashish,cocaine and $46,000 in cashfrom an alleged distributionring bringing meth into theSanta Rosa area from MercedCounty. Most other area bustshave involved much smalleramounts of meth more closelyassociated with the retail dis-tribution network.

The two main Mexicandrug trafficking organizations,according to the U.S.Department of Justice, influ-encing the Mendocino Countydrug scene are the Federationcartel (a coalition of theSinaloa, Juárez and Valenciacartels) with prime jurisdic-tion over the Bay Area, andthe Tijuana cartel controllingcentral valley regions aroundthe Sacramento and Stocktonareas.

Meth usage is flatMethamphetamine usage

rates in California have failedto decline despite the statepolicy change in 2000 requir-ing court ordered treatmentrather than incarceration formost possession cases. TheMendocino CountyDepartment of Alcohol andDrug Programs patients beingtreated primarily for ampheta-mines increased from 18 per-cent in 2000 to 27 percent in2004, with most of theincrease coming from courtreferrals. ThroughoutCalifornia, the trend duringthe same period was from26.2 percent to 34 percent.California youth showed asimilar increase from 15.8 to24.7 percent during the sameperiod.

Meth lab numbers haveplummeted.

The number of knownCalifornia clandestine labspeaked in 1999 with 2,579meth labs, with eight inMendocino County. At thattime, California had 80 per-cent of the country’s labs andnearly all of the “super” labs.Nearly one in five labs werefound during this period as aresult of fires or explosions.

Narrowing restrictions onthe raw materials needed tomake meth has drasticallyreduced the number of clan-destine labs found during2007 in California to only 221

reported throughout the statewith none in MendocinoCounty.

While a number of recipesto make methamphetaminesexist, all require ephedrine,pseudoephedrine or phenyl-propanolamine to begin with.

In the Willits area, onesmall-scale lab was found at afugitive’s hideout onSherwood Road in 2008. Thefugitive was dodging attempt-ed murder charges in LakeCounty stemming from analleged marijuana theft inWillits.

Broken glassware and aquart container partially filledwith a caustic material wasdiscovered near a Brooktrailsresidential marijuana growlate in 2007 that was consid-ered a possible old meth labsite. Mendocino CountyEnvironmental Health cleanedit up quickly and the glass-ware was sent for forensicevaluation.

As the United States tight-ened the availability of theraw materials needed for methproduction at home, first atthe wholesale and later at theretail level, the amount ofthese materials being shippedinto Mexico sharplyincreased, primarily fromChina. This resulted in mostof the tons of pseu-doephedrine and ephedrinesimported into Mexico beingconverted directly into highpurity methamphetamines or“ice” in “mega labs” accord-

ing to most estimates. Thisabundance of “ice” easily sup-plied the U.S. West Coastmarket and began makinginroads into the eastern statesas well.

This creation of anunknown number of “mega”labs apparently caught theMexican authorities by sur-prise. A “superlab” in theUnited States in the heyday ofdomestic meth production wasconsidered any lab making 10or more pounds of meth perday. Most labs found by lawenforcement in Californiagenerated much smaller quan-tities, with the typical methuser brewing up a batch tosupply his or her habit withenough leftover to sell so theuser could buy the next batchof ingredients.

In 2006, Mexican authori-ties received an anonymoustip about a “mega” lab inGuadalajara, Mexico. The labwas making about 400 poundsof high purity “ice” each day.With Mexico’s less restrictiveenvironmental laws, similarmeth factories have reportedlysprouted up in a number ofindustrial areas, where theyblend in amongst legitimatechemical plants.

Even the imposition of newimport restrictions on precur-sor chemicals has made littledent into the Mexican produc-tion, because the drug cartelsare finding ways to circum-vent them, according to theU.S. Department of Justice.

INGTON (UPI) – TheSupreme Court ordered theLittle Rock School Boardtoday to proceed “immediate-ly” with racial integration ofCentral High School.

The unanimous and his-toric decision put the nextmove squarely up to Gov.Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas.He was given emergencypowers by the stateLegislature to close anyschool ordered to integrate bya federal court.

Faubus said in Little RockThursday that he expected thehigh court to order immediateintegration and that he “verylikely” would try to use thenew law to close down theschool, but he did not say flat-ly that he would.

100 years agoFriday, Sept. 11, 1908Dispatch-Democrat

BEAR FLAG HERO. Atthe Admission Day celebra-tion in old Sonoma lastWednesday Henry Beeson, ofBoonville, this county, wasthe lion of the occasion, andhauled up the bear flag to startup the celebration. He is nowthe sole survivor of thefamous bear flag party who in1846 raised the bear flag overold Sonoma, proclaimingCalifornia free from Spanishrule. Henry Beeson came toCalifornia in 1846 and wasonly 17 years old at the timeof his arrival. He is now near-ly 80 years old and likes totalk about the old times. Hewent down especially to takepart in the celebration. He stillhas his home in Anderson val-ley and is held in high esteemby all.

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HOP KILN BURNED.Last Friday the hop kiln onthe ranch of the AmericanHop and Barley Company’sranch at Hopland wasdestroyed by fire. The firestarted somehow on the dry-ing floor and was soonbeyond control. The reportthat it was set fire by strikinghoppickers was a mistake.The strike has all been settled.Tom Farrance came up fromthe city Sunday night and saysthat every thing will be adjust-ed without any trouble.

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NEW POWER. E. J.Kendall, manager of the SnowMountain Water and Power

Company’s plant, came upSunday after an absence ofseveral months getting thelines in shape in other parts ofthe state. This company hasnow connected with thePacific Gas and Electric com-pany’s transmission line andwill not have to use the oldplant here. The power issecured from the northern andcentral system making thelongest transmission line inthe world. The line runs fromup beyond Redding down toPetaluma and then up hereand back down the line again.

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COURT HOUSE NOTES.Last month was another dullmonth around the court house.Recorder Holbrook collectedfees to the amount of $239.65and recorded 15 marriagelicenses. Sheriff Donohoe col-lected $13.01 in fees, and hasfive men and one woman injail. The board of supervisorscounted the money in thecounty treasury last Mondayand found on hand$121,864.85. This certainlyshows the finances to be ingood condition.

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The Telephone company ofthis city has been makingsome very good improve-ments during the last month.The office here has beenchanged making it up-to-datein every respect. There hasalso been put in at the asyluma private exchange of twentyphones, so that any depart-ment of the institution can becalled up promptly. ManagerH. E. Smith is to be congratu-lated upon his desire to givethe people good service.

Jody Martinez can be reachedat udjjm@pacific.net.

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The 17th Annual Ukiah Triathlon, sponsored by theRotary Club of South Ukiah was a tremendous success. Approximately 377 athletes from Ukiah, Sonoma County,

and throughout California participated in this event. The event raised money for the following Rotary projects:

Dictionary Project (dictionaries for all 3rd grade students in theGreater Ukiah area), scholarships for local high school students,

Boys and Girls Club, Worldwide Polio Eradication, “Adopt a Village”in Rugazi Uganda and other local projects.

We would like to thank the following people:The Sponsors:• Ukiah Valley Medical Center• Liqua-Tech Corp• Oak Valley Nursery• Fetzer Vineyards• Perkowski Screenprint & Embroidery• Enterprise-Rent-A-Car• DFM Home Audio Video• Thurston Auto Plaza• The Bogner Group• Mannon, King & Johnson-Attorneys at Law• Raley’s• Mendocino County Sheriff• Alliance Auto Service• Dave’s Bike Shop

• Local Kayakers• Granite Construction• K-Wine/K-Max• Schat’s Bakeries & Cafes• Dunnewood Vineyard & Winery• European Auto Werks, Inc.• Savings Bank of Mendocino County• Hampton Inn• First American Title• UMPQUA Bank• Redwood Credit Union• Pepsi• Zack’s• Waste Management• California Highway Patrol

The Main Players:The Triathlon Leadership Team

South Ukiah Rotary Club MembersLiqua-Tech Corp and their staff

Ukiah Valley Medical Center and their staff, especially Kitty SandersGranite Construction, who donated all of the traffic equipment for the race.

The Volunteers:All of the members of the Rotary Club of South Ukiah who work so hard to make this awonderful event, their spouses, partners, friends, family members, members of the UkiahHigh Interact Club, school teachers and our announcers Mike Cannon and John Bogner.

And to Roger Coate whose dedication makes all of this come together.

We would also like to thank the following wineries who donated raffle items:Dunnewood Vineyards, Jeriko Estates, McDowell Valley Vineyards, McNab RidgeWinery, Milano Winery, Frey Vineyards Winery, Navarro Vineyard, Claudia SpringWinery, Graziano Family of Wines, Parducci Wine Cellars and Oracle Oaks Winery.

Marta SlighRace Director/MemberRotary Club of South Ukiah

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Associated PressIN THE HEADLINESAs Hurricane Ike lashes Texas,

Obama cancels on ‘SNL’ and askssupporters to help the victims ...Pelosi says McCain’s choice of Palinas running mate was “poor judg-ment” ... Moose-hunting Republicanfrom Palin’s hometown casts crucialvote to subpoena her husband ...Palin’s return to Alaska brings reali-ty of national campaign, stirs opin-ions back home ... Once a Clintoncritic, Palin heaps praise on her andsays Obama must regret not choos-ing her ... Hunter Biden, son of veepcandidate, quits work as federal lob-byist

Obama scales backcampaign events inIke’s wake

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) —Democratic presidential candidateBarack Obama asked his supportersSaturday to help with recovery fromHurricane Ike and canceled his plansto crack jokes on “Saturday NightLive” in the aftermath of the storm.

Obama didn’t put aside his differ-ences with Republican rival JohnMcCain. In an outdoor rally attendedby thousands, he discussed the “quietstorms that are taking place through-out America” as people lose theirjobs, health care and pensions, andhe argued that McCain is out of

touch with those struggles.Obama had been slated to appear

in a skit on the NBC comedy show’sseason premiere, hosted by Olympicchampion swimmer Michael Phelps.Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psakisaid Obama decided it was no longerappropriate because of the devasta-tion in Texas.

Obama and running mate JoeBiden had planned to campaigntogether at the rally in Manchester’sVeteran’s Memorial Park. But thecampaign decided to scale back theevent as the storm battered the GulfCoast and canceled Biden’s appear-ance.

Obama asked people to keep thevictims in their thoughts and prayersand be ready to help volunteer ordonate to relief efforts.

“During times of need, we are allin it together, and it doesn’t matter ifwe are Democrats or Republicans,black, white, Hispanic or Asian, weare there for each other in times ofneed,” he said. “You will help them,I have confidence.”

Pelosi: McCain’schoice of Palin ‘poorjudgment’

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, thenation’s highest-ranking femalepolitician, said Saturday that GOPpresidential candidate John McCain

exercised “poor judgment” by select-ing Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Pelosi told reporters she missedPalin’s television interview Thursdaybecause she was attending a boccetournament in Hartford.

However, she said, she heard thatthe Alaska governor’s responses toABC News reporter Charlie Gibsondemonstrated “poor judgment,” TheAdvocate of Stamford reportedSaturday. “But more importantly, it’spoor judgment on the part of JohnMcCain. We’re talking about a heart-beat away from the president,”Pelosi said. “He knows better.”

Pelosi was visiting Stamford toheadline a fundraiser for Jim Himes,a Democrat who is challengingincumbent Republican ChristopherShays.

Although Democratic leadershave criticized Palin for her per-ceived lack of experience in nationalissues and foreign affairs, Pelosi hadstopped short Friday of assessingPalin.

Instead, she said candidatesshould be judged on their ideologyrather than their gender.

Senator from Palin’stown cast crucialsubpoena vote

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —The crucial vote to subpoena Gov.Sarah Palin’s husband was cast by a

moose-hunting Republican from herown hometown.

Sen. Charlie Huggins, the vicechairman of the Alaska Legislature’sSenate Judiciary Committee, worecamouflage pants to Friday’s hear-ing, but they didn’t help him blend inamong the coats, ties and dress shirtsof other lawmakers and nationalnews correspondents.

As the other two Republicans andthe two Democrats on the panelargued over the ramifications of issu-ing subpoenas to Todd Palin and adozen other people, Huggins held hiscards, as well as his fire. When hefinally spoke, he made clear — infolksy, plainspoken words — thathe’d had enough of the politicalmaneuvering. Not to mention thesuggestion of his Republican col-league Sen. Gene Therriault that theinvestigation had been hijacked bysupporters of Democratic presiden-tial candidate Barack Obama.

“I do not support Sen. Obama,”the anti-abortion conservative thun-dered at the start of his remarks.

He went on to make an impas-sioned plea for government trans-parency and honesty in this “newera” of Alaska politics. A number oflawmakers, including U.S. Sen. TedStevens, have been indicted or con-victed in a wide-ranging federal cor-ruption probe.

“I see all this duck-foot actionunder the water,” he said, referring toback-room discussions about the

investigation. “Let’s just get the factson the table. The sooner the better.”

The final vote was 3-2. The HouseJudiciary Committee also approvedthe subpoenas on an advisory vote.

Hometown sees changewith Palin’s new role

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — BenHarrell waited for Gov. Sarah Palinto stop by at his Mocha Moose cof-fee house like she does most daysshe’s back home. But things are dif-ferent now when she’s in town.

Now she’s the Republican vicepresidential candidate, with U.S.Coast Guard boats parked in the mid-dle of Lucille Lake watching hernearby home and state troopersguarding the access road leading toher property.

Harrell thought Palin would stopin Friday anyway to order her regular— a skinny white chocolate mocha.She’s still Sarah, after all, even if herlife has been turned upside down bySen. John McCain’s presidentialcampaign. “You’ll never see anotherSarah Palin. It’s just who she is,”said Harrell, 56, who has owned thecoffee house for 15 years. “She’ll becoming in. I can almost guaranteeit.”

Palin’s return this week to Alaskahas brought the reality of her nation-al campaign with McCain for theWhite House home to the peoplewho know her best.

The latest from the presidential campaign trail

SUNDAY TV NEWS SHOWSAssociated Press

Guest lineup for theSunday TV news shows:

———ABC’s “This Week” —

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Carly Fiorina, adviser toJohn McCain; former FederalReserve Chairman AlanGreenspan.

———CBS’ “Face the Nation”

— Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Sen. Kay BaileyHutchison, R-Texas; Rep.Debbie Wasserman Schultz,D-Fla.; former acting Gov.Jane Swift, R-Mass.

———NBC’s “Meet the Press”

— Former Mayor RudyGiuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. CharlesSchumer, D-N.Y.; BobWoodward, associate editor

for The Washington Post andauthor of a new book on theBush administration.

———CNN’s “Late Edition” —

R. David Paulison, adminis-trator of the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency; Govs. Tim Pawlenty,R-Minn., and Bill Richardson,D-N.M.; Sen. DianneFeinstein, D-Calif.; Rep.Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.;Linda Douglass, adviser toBarack Obama; NancyPfotenhauer, adviser toMcCain.

———“Fox News Sunday” —

Former Gov. Tony Knowles,D-Alaska; Lt. Gov. SeanParnell, R-Alaska; JimLaychak, president of thePentagon Memorial Fund.

For the first time in 26years, Democrats inCongress are supportingoffshore oil drilling and thepresidential candidatesagree. How have we sud-denly come to this?

1. Rising public fury atpaying $4 per gallon at thepump while big oil rakes inthe cash. People want aquick fix and they don’tmuch care how it’s done.

2. Incumbents inCongress, anxious abouttheir reelection prospects,

need buckets of campaignfunds from the oil compa-nies right now if they aregoing to survive: “You-allcontribute and we’ll votefor offshore drilling.”

3. The bipartisan coali-

tion that resisted new off-shore leases since 1982 hascollapsed in the wake ofthis panic at the pump andthe cries of “Drill here, drillnow” by a well-oiled $50million ad campaign.Public opinion polls con-trived by industry haveamazingly “discovered”that domestic drilling ismore popular than everbefore

Since late in the 20th

Sharks in coastal waters

F O R U MEditor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 udj@pacific.net

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The Pit Bull transformed

In the 1980s the Ukiah Daily Journal had assembleda crackerjack staff, an astonishing number of highquality reporters putting out the best local paper I eversaw.

Under one roof were Gale Holland, Ron Gluckman,Evan Johnson, Tony Huegel, Faye Woodward, DaleMartin, Glenn Erickson, Mo Thayer, Dan McKee and(Google this one) Charles Rappleye.

This was back in a time when newspapers seemed toattract a certain kind of reporter, a surly, cynical post-Watergate journalist who exuded skepticism andassumed that everyone, especially the leaders, werefoolish knaves.

Enter Peter Page. Page joined the staff around 1983,fresh outta Sonoma County, and the words surly, skep-tical and cynical seemed to have been inserted into thedictionary to describe him. Brash, aggressive anddeeply mistrustful of anyone working for the govern-ment, Peter Page had the confidence - and the stuff - toquickly become a big player amid all the other talent-ed folk.

He came to the Journal because the publisher hadfired its best reporter, Charlie Rappleye. This was anexecutive decision on a par with the Boston Red Soxgift-wrapping Babe Ruth and handing him to theYankees in 1920. So Page took Rappleye’s spot in thelineup.

“Yeah, I felt bad he got tossed,” Page said the firsttime I met him. “For about 12 seconds. My job now.”Peter Page was never long on sympathy.

He covered courts and the county with equal feroc-ity, and I’m sure few words were less welcome todepartment heads than to pick up the phone and hear“Yeah. Peter Page. Daily Journal” growled into theirear. Mince words? He didn’t know how. Anyone whothought he could snow Peter Page learned different bythe third paragraph of the story that appeared on tomor-row’s front page.

Some Peter Page quotes:– “I haven’t had a good day unless I’ve ruined

somebody else’s.”– “Why didja hire that guy?” he asked a Daily

Journal editor one time. “You could’ve hired a goodreporter for the exact same price.”

– When Buddy Eller offered to sponsor a softballteam through the Ukiah Community Center, Pagescoffed and snarled and said “What’s this? Some kindof affirmative action team? Gonna have some guy in awheelchair at shortstop?”

– Visiting Ukiah in 2003 Peter was introduced tolocal lawyer Al Kubanis, who immediately and loudlycomplained to Page about some unfair story writtenback in the ‘80s when Al was running for office. Pageabsorbed the verbal onslaught with equanimity, thenbeamed at Al and said “Tell me what it was I wroteabout you so I can enjoy it all over again.”

– Late one night, driving past a brewery in Fairfield,someone in the back seat chided Peter. “Hey Page,look,” he said. “They’re making beer faster than youcan drink it.” Peter peered at the lit-up scene as werolled by, thought for a long quiet moment, and thenmurmured, “Yeah, but I’ve got ‘em working nights.”

Peter Page is in Ukiah this weekend, drawn from hiscurrent home in New Jersey for a retirement party forhis old pal Mike Geniella. Peter’s staying at my house.We drink, we talk, we laugh, he tells me what he’sdoing these days.

“Certified yoga instructor,” he says, with no trace ofsarcasm. “I teach a class Sunday mornings at 8.”

Dear readers, if some day I learn that Bill Clinton isnow a monk and Madonna a nun it will not stun memore than to learn Peter Page is a yoga instructor. IfRush Limbaugh were to become a Democraticfundraiser, K.C. Meadows an advocate for unrestrictedmarijuana sales in elementary schools, The HonorableClay Brennan a competent Superior Court judge, andBruce Anderson a therapist, it would surprise me lessthan to find Peter Page has become a yoga instructor.

If he told me he supports himself via liquor storeholdups or worked as a lion tamer I would find it easi-er to believe than this yoga business. But right now,here on Sunday morning as you read this, he’s proba-bly upstairs at my house in some Swami on the Gangespose.

Some of you may feel Tommy boy needs to thinkabout yoga in a fresh light. But Tommy boy says thateven though it’s early Sunday morning, he’s going tothink about going to the Forest Club.

Tommy Wayne Kramer is a longtime Ukiah residentwho is assisted by his in-home caretaker, Tom Hine.

Sorry to see store closeTo the Editor:When I read the news that Shaka at 203

S. School St. was going out of business, Ifelt like I had lost a best friend. Anthonyat Shaka has the clothes and gifts my fam-ily and friends love. I knew for birthdaysor Christmas where I would go. I am nowChristmas shopping in September becausehis doors close at the end of this month. Iknow so many people in Ukiah who arereally going to miss going in and just vis-iting with Anthony, he is an amazing per-son in so many ways, something that Ilove is that he remembers who boughtwhat. Anthony would tell you if he or shealready had it or if his or her best friendhad it, I wish there was something wecould do to keep Anthony here for all ofus, I can only hope that where ever hegoes next that it is some place where wecan see him. Good luck we already missyou!

Mina KvasnickaUkiah

Where’s the music coming from?

To the Editor:In the midst of the current effort to ini-

tiate a District Attorney recall I wouldassume that she would make public rela-tions one of her top priorities. However,when I called the District Attorney’s officerecently I was shocked by their “on hold”music. It is a loop of “Never Gonna GiveYou Up” by Rick Astly.

My first reaction was anger that withthe current financial situation of our coun-ty they would waste money on payingroyalties for 1980s pop music. To makesure I was correct in assuming that thiswould require a license and payment ofroyalties, I Googled it. The top result wasa Wikipedia article about “Rickrolling.”

For those who don’t know, as I didn’t,“Rickrolling” as described by Wikipediais, “...an Internet meme involving themusic video for the 1987 Rick Astley song‘Never Gonna Give You Up.’” The gist ofthis is that they are constantly playing asophomoric trick on everyone who callstheir office (463-4211).

Beyond the fact that this is an insultfrom an establishment that is supposed tostand for justice, this is criminal. Eitherthey have misappropriated funds by pay-ing royalties, or they are pirates, and areplaying it for the public illegally.

In either case this is an embarrassmentto our county.

James TaylorUkiah

Monday is the deadline for drilling comments

To the Editor:I’m asking the local press to help alert

the public that the federal MineralsManagement Service has opened theprocess of leasing Mendocino offshorewaters for oil and gas exploration anddrilling. It is important to send in manycomments on the environmental issuesinvolved by the deadline, which isMonday, Sept. 15, 2008.

Written comments go to “Five-YearProgram Manager, MS-4010, 381 EldenSt., Herndon, VA 20170.” Or submit com-ments by going to www.mms.gov, andsearch for “Submit Comments for ProjectID# 5YR-HQ-0010.”

Here are my comments in a nutshell:Now is the time for the MineralsManagement Service to help us forge andexpress a national consensus for perma-nently taking the whole West Coast OuterContinental Shelf Ecosystem off the oildrilling table. Then we can work togetherto really solve the energy and other prob-lems.

Today the people and governments ofWashington, Oregon and California arecommitted to defending our wild, cleanocean ecosystem at any cost, and trying todrill here will waste more energy thanmight ever be gained by drilling.

John Stephens-LewallenPhilo

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In our opinion

After a series of budget sessions in thepast few weeks in which county residentsfound out that the county supervisors havebeen mismanaging the county’s money, it’shard not to wonder what other catastropheslurk.

The taxpayers learned during this year’ssupervisor budget talks that instead of pay-ing back loans the county took out severalyears ago, they simply used the income theloans generated to give themselves raisesand to “balance” the county budget.

Now we find out that what should havebeen a relatively small debt has ballooned tomore than $11 million.

We’re talking about what is known as TheTeeter Plan. State law allows counties toprovide funding to cities and special districtswho have delinquent property taxes on theirbooks. The counties assume the job of col-lecting the delinquent taxes. The win-win inthis is that the cities and specials districtscan count on getting their full measure ofproperty taxes, and the counties get to keepthe fines or penalties levied when they col-lect the delinquent taxes. Properly managed,the delinquent taxes collected go towardrepaying the loans the county took out to paythe cities and special districts, and the finesand penalties give the counties a little extramoney for their own budgets.

However, Mendocino County, we’re told,has simply been spending the money it col-lects in delinquent taxes, plus the fines andpenalties and not repaying the loans.

Now the supervisors, faced with a loandebt that will continue to grow at a frighten-

ing pace, have decided to actually use thedelinquent tax collections this year for theiroriginal purpose and put $200,000 towardthe $11 million debt. (At that rate, onesupervisor pointed out, it will take 60 yearsto pay off the debt.)

And this is all before the state has decid-ed how bad the hit to counties is going to bein the current budget crisis.

Now that we know the county has beenspending millions of Teeter Plan dollars itdidn’t really have each year, clearly thecounty has a budget crisis too. Calling thebudget “balanced” at this point is a joke. Thehard truth is that this county is - and hasbeen - spending more than it can afford. Andit continues to hire and expand.

We believe what the taxpayers mainlywant is good emergency and police services,drivable roads, and planning that providesswift answers to local builders and anydevelopers who approach us. Instead wehave a sheriff's department stretched toothin, roads that could swallow cars, and aplanning department that is ground to a vir-tual halt in a county that has not been able toaccomplish one of its primary responsibili-ties: creating a development plan for thefuture. Mendocino County's last develop-ment plan was enacted in the 1980s.

The county supervisors gave themselveshefty raises and travel budgets last year andwhined that they had full time jobs and busyschedules that justified them.

As far as we can see, they have not earneda penny of that money so far.

Now they tell us

Another VoiceBY JIM HOULE& RICHARD JOHNSON

O N E D I T O R I A L SDaily Journal editorials are written byEditor K.C. Meadows with the concurrenceof Publisher Kevin McConnell.

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editor. All letters must include a clear name,signature, return address and phone number.We publish most of the letters we receive,but we cannot guarantee publication. Nameswill not be withheld for any reason. If weare aware that you are connected to a localorganization or are an elected official writ-ing about the organization or body on whichyou serve, that will be included in your sig-nature. All letters are subject to editingwithout notice. Editing is generally limitedto removing statements that are potentiallylibelous or are not suitable for a familynewspaper. Form letters that are clearly partof a write-in campaign will not be pub-lished. You may drop letters off at our officeat 590 S. School St., or fax letters to 468-3544, mail to Letters to the Editor, P.O. Box749, Ukiah, 95482 or e-mail them toudj@pacific.net. E-mail letters should alsoinclude hometown and a phone number.

Assignment:UkiahBy Tommy Wayne Kramer

President George Bush: The WhiteHouse, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washing-ton, D.C. 20500; (202) 456-1111, FAX(202)456-2461.

Governor Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger: State Capitol, Sacramento, 95814.(916) 445-2841; FAX (916)445-4633

Sen. Barbara Boxer: 112 Hart Sen-ate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510;(202)224-3553; San Francisco, (415) 403-0100 FAX (415) 956-6701

Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 331 HartSenate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C.20510. (202)224-3841 FAX (202) 228-3954; San Francisco (415) 393-0707; sen-ator@feinstein.senate.gov

Congressman Mike Thompson:1st District, 231 Cannon Office Bldg,Washington, D.C. 20515. (202) 225-3311;FAX (202)225-4335. Fort Bragg districtoffice, 430 N. Franklin St., PO Box 2208,Fort Bragg 95437; 962-0933,FAX 962-0934;

www.house.gov/write repAssemblywoman Patty Berg: State

Assembly District 1, Capitol, Rm. 4146,Sacramento, 95814. (916) 319-2001;Berg's Ukiah field representative is RuthValenzuela. Ukiah office located at 311 N.State St, Ukiah, 95482, 463-5770. Theoffice’s fax number is 463-5773. For emailgo to web site: assembly.ca.gov/Berg

Senator Pat Wiggins: State SenateDistrict 2, Capitol Building, Room 5100,Sacramento, 95814. (916) 445-3375Email: senator.wiggins@sen.ca.gov. InUkiah: Kathy Kelley at 200 S. School St,468-8914, email: kathy.kelley@sen.ca.gov

Mendocino County Supervisors:Michael Delbar, 1st District; Jim Watten-burger, 2nd District; John Pinches, 3rdDistrict; Kendall Smith, 4th District;David Colfax, 5th District. All can bereached by writing to 501 Low Gap Road,Room 1090, Ukiah, 95482, 463-4221,FAX 463-4245. bos@co.mendocino.ca.us

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SUNDAY VOICES ON THE STREETS

Allen CooperriderUkiah

Ukiah BrewingCompany

“The war and I supposethe Green Party’s stanceon it.”

Carl MillsWillits

Landscapingcompany owner

“Obama winning.”

Alfonso MadueñoUkiahTeller

“The war in Iraq. I sayget ‘em out. I support theDemocrats.”

Mike JosselUkiah

Teacher

“Getting real people inoffice. There isn’t anybodythis time.”

Lila GrahmUkiah

Property manager

“The war. (I support) theDemocratic Party.”

What is the most importantissue to you this campaignseason and which party do youfeel best addresses that concern?

Question and answers are by Rob Burgess and wereasked in front of the Ukiah Post Office just before noon onFriday. (Note: In fairness, there was a Republican thatanswered, but he refused to have his picture taken.)

One of the more arcane subjects the law hasto offer is something called “conflict of laws.”It’s a subject as strange as its name suggests.Most lawyers encounter it, if ever, only in lawschool, and go happily through their careerswithout ever running into it again. If they arelucky.

“Conflict of laws” comes about wheneverthere are two sets of rules that can apply to asituation and a court has to decide which set tochoose. There are some simple examples of“conflicts” situations, but the headaches theycause are anything but simple.

For example, if two people from Oregonhappen to get into a traffic accident inTennessee, and then sue each other when theyget home to Oregon, should the Oregon courtfollow Tennessee’s law just because that waswhere the accident happened? What ifTennessee doesn’t even have a law that appliesto the situation? Should the Oregon judge haveto figure out what a Tennessee court mightrule?

Or apply Oregon’s law instead?And when people go into federal court,

where the judges sometimes have to followstate laws, things really get weird. In one suchcase, Judge Henry Friendly of the federalappeals court in New York memorably wrote,

“Our principal task in this ... case is to deter-mine what the New York courts would thinkthe California courts would think on an issueabout which neither has thought.”

To help them resolve these kinds of prob-lems, courts have devised lots of special rules.One such rule says that if a lawsuit is filed inone state about an incident that happened inanother, the court deciding the case is supposedfollow its own law on “procedural” issues, butshould follow the other state’s law if the issueis “substantive.”

Perhaps the most famous -- or maybe infa-mous -- application of that rule came in 1883.A man named Garrison had agreed to buy someland located in Missouri from a man whose lastname was Marie. The agreement, which wasnot in writing, had been reached while the twowere on a train en route to New York. WhenGarrison refused to go through with the deal,

Marie sued Garrison in a New York court toforce him to sell the land.

The trial judge referred the matter to a refer-ee -- sort of an outside judge -- named Dwight,who also happened to be the founder ofColumbia Law School. Then as now, both NewYork and Missouri had laws known as the“Statute of Frauds.” These laws require thatcertain contracts -- especially for the sale ofland -- always be in writing. If not, the landsale isn’t legal.

Garrison should have won no matter whichstate’s law applied. Both Missouri and NewYork had enacted some version of the Statuteof Frauds. As Sam Goldwyn might have said,an oral contract to buy land isn’t worth thepaper it’s written on.

Referee Dwight decided that, because theland in question was located in Missouri, hewould follow the “conflicts rule” and applyMissouri’s substantive law about the sale ofland. On the other hand, because the lawsuitwas filed in New York, he would follow NewYork’s law on procedural questions.

So far, so good. But New York’s law saidthat if a contract for the sale of land wasn’t inwriting, it was “void.” Hmmm, said Dwight. Ifa contract is “void,” that goes to the heart ofwhether it’s a “contract” at all. In essence,

Dwight said, “Sounds like substantive law tome.” Since he couldn’t apply New York’s sub-stantive law, he decided that its Statute ofFrauds couldn’t apply.

What about Missouri? Missouri’s law saidthat if a contract for the sale of land wasn’t inwriting, it was “unenforceable.” Well, saidDwight, that sounds like the contract came intobeing, but can’t be “enforced” in court. Thatsounds like a procedural matter -- whether acourt can give a judgment in someone’s favor,not whether there was or wasn’t a contract. Sohe decided Missouri’s law didn’t apply either.

The result was that an agreement -- whichclearly was “void” or “unenforceable” undereither state’s law -- was binding on Garrisonand he had to go through with the deal!Reading between the lines, one has to wonderif Dwight was really just looking for an excuseto rule against Garrison, who apparentlybacked out of the deal because he had gotten abetter offer.

Or maybe when it came to “conflict oflaws,” the founder of the Columbia LawSchool wasn’t such a legal hotshot after all.

Marie v. Garrison, 13 Abb.N.Cas.(N.Y.Super.Ct.1883)/

Hurrah for the eye candy candidatepropping up doddering McCain. Anddon’t doubt that he is doddering, andstuck in his own ruts, of weaving andshifting and yelping.

She’s the vanilla answer to theDemocratic chocolate Sunday. I sort oflike looking at the gal from Alaska. She’sthe dumbed down antidote to listening toa stirring Obama speech that delivers,well, another kind of candy.

Would that be “ear candy”?But I’d better be careful, the Alaska

queen’s not given her nickname of“Barracuda” for nothing. Those piercinggimlet eyes charming you through herneat little glasses are the dangerous eyesof a potential tyrant, were the geezer topop off during one of his insta-tantrums.In which case, you’d better armor yourbuns.

Her knowledge of history, and ofmuch of anything else, is thimble deep.Her religious credentials, of course,might satisfy the faithful of whateverstamp. After all, faith goes beyond allknowledge, including that ultimateknowledge which knows nothing much.

But, you know, I’m not saying that thecorporatist Obama, and his Zionist (selfproclaimed as such) VP running mate

Biden are God’s other answer to pullingthis country out of its self destructive tail-spin into World War 3.

Like the Battleship USS Maine in theharbor at Havana, 110 years later weagain have a big battleship in a harbor, atPoli, Georgia. The eye candy gal and thesuper hero change agent, backed by theexpertise (?) of their running mates (whohave, of course, “foreign policy experi-ence”) both consider poor little Georgia abastion of American freedom.

Unfortunately, most suckeredAmericans believe that too.

The big gun is all cocked and primed,waiting for the intentional accident tohappen. Whether it actually will be in theport at Poli, or because Iran, Pakistan andRussia get it together to put a real gun tothe head of our crazed American leader-ship (Condi Rice, Gates -- we’re not evennaming the obvious chief executive

jerks) the world is now poised at thebrink of a new terrorism, the real kind.

It’s called “Big War.”And in such a war, Palin’s little god,

and the Islamic god, and all the other lit-tle gods of this world will make everyonevictorious. Like Frankie the HoodSinatra, “Doing it god’s way.”

And like “Big Oil,” “Big War” is theway:

1. corporate militarism wins. 2. peace and freedom lose.3. the nail goes into the coffin of con-

stitutional democracy.P.S. Investment advice for die hard

survivalists: after the Boeing strike is set-tled, and after another several hundredsmore down on the Dow, buy GE stockand Boeing stock, among others (GeneralDynamics, for example -- the list is sortof like a VP short list, with maybe a fewsurprise candidates here and there). Cashin, hoard your goodies, build bunkers.Kill the mob of all the others who try tocrash your gates.

For the rest of us, eye candy, earcandy, whichever we choose from thistwo item menu called “presidential elec-tion,” major digestive consequences shallensue.

Albert Krauss is a Ukiah resident.

Heading for WW3?

Conflicting interpretations

Another VoiceBY ALBERT KRAUSS

Judicial folliesBY FRANK ZOTTER

Frank Zotter is a Ukiah attorney.

century, North Coast voters have sup-ported Democrats for federal office asthe primary bulwark against oil industrythreats to our wild and rugged coastlineand Democrat candidates have carriedMendocino County by over 60 percent.Now, in response to a weak challenge byhis Republican rival John McCain,Democrat Senator Barack Obama hasblatantly abandoned his opposition onenvironmental grounds and supportsnew coastal oil lease sales as part of asupposed total energy package.

The Republicans, tutored by the oiland gas lobby, have come up with a stu-pidly simple solution to high gasolineprices: “Let’s drill for more oil here athome and stop messing with thoseArabs!” The only major untapped U.S.oil reserves are along the OuterContinental Shelf (OCS) some 25 ormore miles from our beaches. Until now,the two major parties have cooperated inattaching a rider to the InteriorDepartment’s appropriation bill eachsummer that declares a year-long mora-torium on the federal government’s issu-ing new oil and gas leases offshore.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has keptthe moratorium from being voted downby calling for a “suspension of therules.” This means that a two-thirdsmajority is required for any major bill tobe approved; it limits debate and allowsno amendments. Pelosi no longer has thevotes needed to pass the moratorium,and if she tries to pass it by a simplemajority, Bush is sure to veto it.

Is Pelosi to blame? After all, she’ssupposed to be the disciplinarian of the233 ambitious, rapacious and highlymotivated Democratic political sharks inbusiness attire. Along with the 202 simi-larly outfitted Republicans, they are in acontinuous feeding frenzy. Her mainmeans of discipline is to cut the poorlybehaved out from the feeding pen. Butwhy must they eat so much? Well it’sjust that the cost of reelection keepsescalating and new Representativesquickly acquire a taste for that fishyessence that membership provides.Nancy’s job is to make sure these sharksare regularly fed and disciplined, and the

public never told that it is actually thefishfeeders who run our government: theinvestment bankers, the oil industry,major corporations, and the military sup-pliers.

Pelosi restrains only about 200 loyalBlue Dog Democrats but can no longerresist the tide. Consequently she decidedin August to reverse her position againstoffshore oil drilling and buy off thebeasties. She now says that some newdrilling could be included in a broaderenergy bill if advocates “can prove itsviability as a solution to America’s ener-gy problems.” She proposes a sweet-smelling overall energy plan that alsothrows bucks towards alternative energyprograms, puts controls on oil futuresspeculation, releases oil from ourStrategic Reserves, and encouragesdrilling on government lands. She evenclaims her program will “free our oil”from the grasp of those nasty Arabs. Atthe same time she warns that:“Expanded drilling would not affectprices for a decade and then only to asmall degree. I don’t think that’s a goodalternative.” She hopes we will notsmell the rotting fish she has spreadamongst these goodies: she has signaledher willingness to opening the coasts ofVirginia, North Carolina, South Carolinaand Georgia to drilling as a sop to thebeast.

Florida is likely to be exempted. Inthe Senate, a bipartisan group called theGang of Ten (last count 16) is support-ing a similar bill.

Technically speaking, the DrillAmerica Now slogan is a lie. U.S. retailgasoline prices have more than quadru-pled under Bush not because of supplyshortage but due to international manip-ulation of the futures market andmonopolistic strangulation of worldrefining capacity to a point that threatensthe stability of the global economy. As aresult, oil conglomerates are reapingunprecedented windfall profits with nosubstantial challenge from either theRepublican or Democrat parties. Thereal answers are effective, federal regu-lation of oil company operations in theU.S., disgorgement of monopoly profits,conservation, and economic conversionto renewables and sustainable technolo-gies. But with only weeks to go beforethe election, the Democrat congressionalleadership fears that voter reaction to oil

company price engorgement-at-the-pump could cost them a majority inCongress. As the pressure builds, it isclear that the new acceptability ofexpanded OCS drilling amongDemocrats will allow them to not onlyfalsely posture as addressing high fuelprices, but also simultaneously suck inoil industry campaign contributions.

Vote Green for the Coast: In this situation, Mendocino County

Democrat party environmentalists findthemselves in a painful conundrum: howcan they support Obama if his postureweakens the delicate political compro-mises that have preserved our own pre-cious coastline for 26 years? Democraticparty leaders are reassuring them quietlybehind the scenes to trust Obama andPelosi, support the party ticket and allwill work out. The Green Party has adifferent idea:

Go ahead and vote for Barack Obamaif you want, but send a message toWashington by voting for Green candi-dates for Congress on Nov. 4. Whyshould we buy into this sordid drama ofbig oil money and hungry Congressionalsharks?

How does our Congressman MikeThompson propose to deal with thisdilemma? In 2007 he co-sponsored in2007 with Sonoma CongresswomanLynn Woolsey a bill to prohibit new oildrilling up the coast as far as PointArena and later introduced (HR 2758)that would extend the same prohibitionall the way up to the Oregon border, butneither of these well-intentioned effortshelp us through the current dilemma.They do give Mike some cover. Rightnow he’s just waiting for Pelosi to tellhim what to do. Four years ago he wonreelection by 67 percent. He assures hisvictory with a $1. 5 million campaignwar chest paid for by Washington PACS.By significantly reducing his super-majority, North Coast ocean advocateswill signal to Democrat congressionalleaders that there are consequences forpandering to the oil industry’s lies.

So long as corporate lobbyists for bigoil and the military industry controlCongress, we can expect that war andenvironmental havoc will continue. Puta Green in Congress!

Richard Johnson and Jim Houle rep-resent the Green Party of Mendocinoand its candidates.

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Sharks

‘Cats surgewith secondhalf comebackBy RUSS TOWFor the Daily Journal

Shame on you if you missed theUkiah High School varsity footballteam’s heroics on a starry andmoonlit Friday night before apacked crowd of delirious fans. The‘Cats stormed back from a 14-6 halftime deficit to defeat a strongSonoma Dragon squad 28-14.

Ukiah won the opening toss butdeferred to Sonoma which proceed-ed to march 76 yards downfield, ona sustained drive of almost six min-utes, culminating in a 20-yardtouchdown pass from Jake Powersto standout receiver Steve Filippi.

Gabe Ott returned the kick off tothe 37 where on three successiveplays, bruising running backMarcos Hernandez chewed upyards to the Dragons’ 34. Despite aholding call and a sack, KyleMorris led Ukiah downfield, culmi-nating in a 24-yard touchdown passto Ott. The extra point was missed,leaving the score 7-6.

The next Sonoma drive of 69yards combined the feathery touchof Powers, mixed with the run.Sixty-nine yards later Powers againhit Filippi on a 7-yard touchdown.The extra point was good, increas-ing the Dragons’ lead to 14-6.

Few observers, after seeing theDragons rack up 145 yards ofoffense in their first two posses-sions would imagine that would bethe end of their scoring.

The Wildcats opened the secondquarter with a drive to the Sonoma30, but stalled on downs. Sonomacontinued to move the ball betweenthe 20s but the second quarter,though highly entertaining, endedwith the same 14-6 score.

For the first half, Powers com-pleted 11-15, Filippi caught 6 for 91yards and two touchdowns, whileUkiah’s Marcos Hernandez pickedup 65 yards rushing.

Ukiah took the second half kickoff into Dragon territory but thedrive faltered, a missed punt result-ed in a Sonoma first down on theUkiah 40-yard line.

With the Ukiah crowd scream-ing, “Defense!”, the ‘Cats held,Cody Allen, Junior Villa, ColeCupples and James Mackey madesuccessive plays.

Defensive coordinator BernieSopp acknowledged their half timeadjustments slowed the Dragons’offense.

“We switched from man to zone... it created some confusion forSonoma. The defense just willedthemselves ..., we cut down on ourmistakes. Senior leadership steppedup big time ... I’m so proud of ourkids”, Sopp said.

Ukiah started the fourth quarterat their 27. Subsequent runs byHernandez, Zach Jackson, Morrisand a pass completion to Ott left theball on the Dragon 35 with a secondand nine. Morris dropped back,under pressure rolled right,andsidestepping tackles, outran thedefense with his deceptive speedinto the corner of the end zone forthe longest touch down run of hiscareer. Ukiah made the 2-point con-version with Morris once againreading the defense and rollingright to tie the game at 14.

On Sonoma’s next series, after acrunching hit by Cody Allen,Sonoma lined up second and 10 ontheir own 21. Matt Gang intercept-ed an inadvertent sideline pass, rac-ing 21 yards for a go ahead touchdown. Ott kicked the extra pointand the Wildcats led 21-14 with9:18 left. Some marched down thefiled to Ukiah’s 34 where on fourthand 10 Ott intercepted, stopping thedrive. The Sonoma defense stoppedUkiah on the Dragon’s 45. Colton

Thompson’s 39 yard punt wasdowned on the 6.

The Dragons’ drive was thwartedonce again by the ball-hawking‘Cat defense. On second and 12from their own 31, Sonoma’s quar-terback, under pressure, fired fromdown the middle into the arms ofUkiah’s Allen who returned it to the

17. Moments later Hernandez ran itin and Ott kicked the conversion forthe 28-14 final score.

Head Coach Chris Burris rel-ished the win over a solid Sonomateam.

“We played hard, no turnovers ishuge. We continue a tough earlyseason schedule with Petaluma next

week. But this was a good win. I’mproud of the kids and my staff, pluswe had great fan support tonight.”

For the game, Hernandez led theoffense with 18 carries for 121yards and one touch down.

The Wildcats play next Fridaynight at Petaluma. JVs kick off at5:30 p.m., varsity at 7:30 p.m.

S P O R T SEditor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3518 udjsports@pacific.net

– SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, 2008A-8

The Ukiah Daily Journal

COMMUNITYSPORTS DIGEST

Babe RuthLeague needssupport

Ukiah Babe RuthBaseball League Board isseeking new board mem-bers for the 2008-2009season. Without new lead-ership Babe Ruth may notcontinue here in Ukiah.All interested applicantsplease come to our nextboard meeting Thursday,September 25th, RoundTable Pizza back room at6:30 pm. Questions pleasecall Linda at 463-0944also visit the websitewww.leaguelineup.com/ukiahbaberuth

City youth basketballregistration open

The City of UkiahCommunity ServiceDepartment announces thebeginning of registrationfor the 2007/08 YouthBasketball league. Theleague is open to boys andgirls from kindergartenthrough 12th grade.Registration forms arenow available at the CivicCenter, 411 W. Clay St andat www.cityofukiah.com.

The registration fee is$55 per first player, $50for the second player inthe same family.Registrations are due byFriday, October 31. Formore information, pleasecall 463-6714.

UHS fundraisingevent planned

The Ukiah High SchoolBoosters FundraisingDinner and Auction willbe held Monday, Oct. 6 at5:30 p.m. at the UkiahValley Conference Center.The proceeds benefit UHSathletes.

The tri-tip and chickendinner is $40 per person.Each ticket includes threepasses to home gameevents. Tickets are pre-sale only. To purchasetickets contact TamiBartolomei 462-2596 x110. Checks should bepayable to UkiahiBoosters.

Register now forcharity golftourney

The 4th Annual Boys& Girls Club GolfTournament & ThurstonAuto Plaza Charity GolfChallenge will be heldSaturday Oct. 11 at theUkiah Municipal GolfCourse.

The cost is $65 perplayer. Registration is at7:30 a.m. and play beginsat 9 a.m.

For more informationcontact Reed at 462-8811 .

Basketballcoaches needed

Ukiah High School isseeking freshman girls andboys basketball coachesfor the 2008-09 season.Applications are availableat the UUSD PersonnelOffice, 925 N. State St.For additional informa-tion, call Christy Melvin at463-5253 X1050.

City of Ukiah3-on-3 HoopLeagues

The 2008 3-on-3 HoopLeague will be held at theCoyote Valley Gym withMen’s and Women’s divi-sions. The fee is $100 perteam with 3-5 playersallowed.

Registration deadline isFriday, September 26.

For more informationor to register your team,please call 463-6714.

FOOTBALL | UKIAH HIGH SCHOOL

Wildcats put on an exciting show

Michael Hooker/The Daily Journal

Anthony Butler No. 11 UHS junior varsity looks for an opening while team mates block Sonomaplayers, Friday evening at Ukiah High School football’s first home game of the season. Ukiah JVwon 20-0 against the Sonoma Dragons.

By JOE LANGSTAFFDaily Journal Sports Editor

The Ukiah Junior Varsity foot-ball team opened its 2008 seasonFriday night with a 20 -0 home winover the Sonoma High. TheWildcats dominated play on bothsides of the ball, but were hinderedthroughout the evening byturnovers and penalties.

Time and time again, theWildcat offensive moved the balldown the field, only to stop them-selves. Finally with 2:43 to go inthe half, Fullback Ben Brooksscored on a one yard run andBrandon Bowman kicked the PATfor a 7 - 0 Wildcat lead at halftime.

The second half opened with abang as Ukiah kick returner OscarDelgado took the kickoff aroundhis 35-yard line in the middle of thefield, veered to the left, a raceddown the left sideline for a TD. ThePAT after was no good, making thescore 13 - 0.

The Wildcat defense, with asolid team effort, continued to shutdown the Sonoma Dragon offensein the second half, repeatedly forc-ing short possessions ending inpunts. Coach Mike Hyler citeddefensive end Aarron Dhyuvetter,defensive tackle Will Laster, andnose tackle Carson Schram for spe-cial mention for their fine defen-sive play.

The Wildcats put the game awayin the fourth quarter with a 70-yarddrive that was slowed, but notstopped, by three 15-yard penalties.After a fine, scrambling 32-yardrun by Quarterback Vinny Hyler tothe Sonoma 2-yard line, Hylerscored on a 2-yard sneak with 2:30left in the game. The PAT was goodmaking the final score 20 -0Wildcats.

Standouts for the offense includ-ed QB Hyler, Tailback OscarDelgado, wide receivers MarquesMaciel and Drake Stacy, and theentire offensive line.

JV dominates on both sides

No. 2 Vinnie Hyler looks to pass at the 30-yard line in the UHSJV game against the Sonoma Dragons Friday.

By The Associated PressNo. 1 Southern Cal (1-0) vs. No.5 Ohio State. Next: at OregonState, Sept. 25.No. 2 Georgia (3-0) beat SouthCarolina 14-7. Next: at No. 15Arizona State, Saturday.No. 3 Oklahoma (2-0) atWashington. Next: vs. TCU, Sept.27.No. 4 Florida (2-0) did not play.Next: at Tennessee, Saturday.

No. 5 Ohio State (2-0) at No. 1Southern Cal. Next: vs. Troy,Saturday.No. 6 Missouri (3-0) beat Nevada69-17. Next: vs. Buffalo,Saturday.No. 7 LSU (1-0) vs. North Texas.Next: at No. 9 Auburn, Saturday.No. 8 Texas (2-0) vs. Arkansas,ppd., hurricane. Next: vs. Rice,Saturday.No. 9 Auburn (2-0) at Mississippi

State. Next: vs. No. 7 LSU,Saturday.No. 10 Wisconsin (2-0) at No. 21Fresno State. Next: at Michigan,Sept. 27.No. 11 Alabama (2-0) vs.Western Kentucky. Next: atArkansas, Saturday.No. 12 Texas Tech (2-0) vs. SMU.Next: vs. Massachusetts,Saturday.No. 13 Kansas (2-1) lost to No.19 South Florida 37-34, Friday.Next: vs. Sam Houston State,Saturday.No. 14 East Carolina (3-0) beatTulane 28-24. at N.C. State,

Saturday.No. 15 Arizona State (2-0) vs.UNLV. Next: vs. No. 1 Georgia,Saturday.No. 16 Oregon (3-0) beat Purdue32-26, 2OT. Next: vs. BoiseState, Saturday.No. 17 Penn State (3-0) beatSyracuse 55-13. Next: vs.Temple, Saturday.No. 18 BYU (3-0) beat UCLA 59-0. Next: vs. Wyoming, Saturday.No. 19 South Florida (3-0) beatNo. 13 Kansas 37-34, Friday.Next: at Florida International,Saturday.No. 20 Wake Forest (2-0) did not

play. Next: at Florida State,Saturday.No. 21 Fresno State (1-0) vs. No.10 Wisconsin. Next: at Toledo,Saturday.No. 22 Utah (2-0) at Utah State.Next: at Air Force, Saturday.No. 23 California (2-1) lost toMaryland 35-27. Next: vs.Colorado State, Sept. 27.No. 24 Illinois (2-1) beatLouisiana-Lafayette 20-17. Next:at No. 17 Penn State, Sept. 27.No. 25 West Virginia (1-1) did notplay. Next: at Colorado, Sept. 18.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25

Real health care for allTo the Editor:Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:Nurses, doctors, and citizen organizations

nationwide are calling for universal healthcare. Physician Rocky White says, “Any timea state has studied a single payer system, theyfind it is the most cost-effective and still cov-ers everyone.”

From here, you seem to be the only real“Maverick” in the Republican party.Approving SB840 might even break the bud-get stalemate. You have made your case forslowing global warming in California. Nowyou could make the case for improvingCalifornians’ health care.

Let’s not be second to another state in start-ing the ball rolling. Colorado is getting readywith “Health Care for All Colorado” and thatincludes Democrats, Republicans, physicians,business people, college professors and econ-omists.

Neither presidential candidate has comeforward with such a plan. Why not lead withCalifornia?

Nancy RocaPhillip Schneider

Little RiverArrested forquestioning a CHP?

To the Editor:On the afternoon of Aug. 22, I was thrown

to the ground, arrested, and taken to jail by aMendocino County CHP officer as a result of,in my opinion, questioning his authority inregards to a routine speeding ticket. I was dri-ving east on Highway 20 (with my 2-year-olddaughter in the back) when I noticed a CHPapproaching from the opposite direction. Yes,I was speeding. So, like most people who arespeeding when they see a CHP, I quicklylooked at the speedometer -- 65 mph (in a 55mph zone) -- shoot!

As suspected, he made a U-turn and pulledme over. He approached my passenger sidewindow and requested to see my license, reg-istration, and proof of insurance. I quicklysearched for the information that he requestedand was surprised to find an expired copy ofmy registration. I continued to search for thecurrent copy and again found another expiredone. At this point I was beginning to feel a bituneasy and tossed the expired paper over myright shoulder in frustration as I continued tolook. At that point, the officer (whom I’vedecided will remain anonymous for fear ofretaliation), began to accuse me of “throwingsomething at him” (the piece of paper). Ofcourse, this came as a surprise to me andwhen I explained that I was not directing thepiece of paper towards him, he responded bysaying, “I know when something is beingthrown at me.” He then took the information Ihad given him, walked to his car, and pro-ceeded to write the ticket.

When he handed the ticket to me andinstructed me to sign it, I noticed a speed of71 mph written down. “That is not correct,” Iinformed him. “I looked at my speedometerthe moment you rounded the corner. I wasonly going 65 mph.” I suspected that he eitherclocked the vehicle in front of me, or he had avendetta against me (since he accused me of“throwing things at him”) and he had thepower to write down any arbitrary numberthat he desired. Of course, I felt victimizedand helpless. At this point, I requested to seethe radar before signing the ticket. Heinformed me that “I had no right to do that.”

“Regardless,” I said, “is there a policywhich prevents you from showing me?”

He repeated, “You do not have the right tosee the radar.” His refusal to let me see visualproof of my speed made me further fear anddistrust him. I explained that I would not signthe ticket without visual proof because I didnot feel confident that a judge would take myword over a CHP’s if I chose to fight the tick-et in court. He said, “if you do not sign it, Iwill arrest you.”

“Fine,” I said. I proceeded to sign the tick-et, but crossed out 71 mph and wrote in 65mph instead.

“That’s it!,” he shouted, “you defaced aticket, your under arrest!”

As you can imagine, I was shocked and indisbelief that he would arrest me over aspeeding ticket. My daughter was in the backseat and I began to think about the conse-quences of being arrested and what that wouldmean for her. The officer demanded that I get

out of the car, he took out his handcuffs andordered me to “face the car and put my handsbehind my back.” I pleaded with him that“my daughter was in the back seat and if hehad just shown me proof, I would have gladlysigned the ticket.” The officer demanded thatI hand him my keys and I panicked. “Whatabout my daughter?” I pleaded. “She’ll befine and will be taken to CPS,” he responded.“CPS” may be just another acronym to him,but to me, it was a very frightening thought.I’m a good mother and my only mistake wasspeeding and standing up for my rights! Therewas no way I could allow a complete strangerto tear her from her mother, put her in astrange car, and take her away to an unfamil-iar place, with unfamiliar faces. Meanwhile,she has no idea what has happened to me,where she is, and what’s happening to her!

I admit it, I resisted arrest. I was scared formy daughter and myself, felt victimized andangry, and therefore, I resisted a arrest. Theofficer called for backup. Another officer wason the scene within minutes. I was thrown tothe ground (I weigh 130 pounds) by two menand was very aggressively restrained. I washandcuffed at the wrists and ankles andthrown in the car. In a matter of minutes therewere five or six additional police cars on thescene. I wonder how many lives were put atrisk so that they could arrive so quickly? Mydaughter (who may or may not have wit-nessed the entire horrific scene) was takenaway without allowing me the opportunity totry and explain things to her or to console her.

I was hauled to the CHP station where pho-tos were taken of my many injuries -- whichincluded deep cuts and scrapes, road-rash, andbruises on my knees, elbow, hands, wrists,ankles, shoulders, arms, legs, and face. Inother words, I was a bloody, frightened, mess.I was then taken to the hospital to treat myinjuries (with the cuffs still on my wrists andankles). Finally, I was taken to jail, spentabout seven hours in a “holding pen” withfive other inmates and was finally booked andreleased.

I’m horrified by this experience and I amsorry to say that I have lost all faith in thesystem and now fear those whom are sup-posed to protect me. I know that I made amistake by resisting arrest. But, I also feelthat the arrest itself could have (and shouldhave) been avoided. Had the officer beengood at his job, he would have been able todefuse the situation. He went to school andwas trained to handle such situations, and inmy opinion, needs additional training. Heobviously has the physical strength that thejob requires, but his psychological and “peo-ple skills” are seriously lacking. I am writingthis as both a warning to other innocent vic-tims and as a plead to the officer’s co-workersand those in higher command to think aboutthis situation and where mistakes were made.In my heart, my only consolation is to believethat the officer must regret what he has done.He has to know that he let things go way toofar. He has to live with himself and his unjustactions. He needs additional training. I knowit and I believe that he knows it as well. Ihope he gets help before this happens tosomeone else.

Alisha OloughlinArcata

Stop Tommy Kramer’s column

To the Editor:Tommy Kramer’s column brings every-

one’s energy down and it needs to stop. Therehave been numerous Letters to the Editorwhich demonstrate the viral effect of this typeof negativity.

When there is bad news, let’s focus on thesolutions rather than the problems. Let’s usethe space to report on how folks are findingsolutions and experiencing success.

Whatever we think about, talk about, andfocus on, expands in our lives. This is a scien-tific principle. People who doubt this justneed to take an honest look at their mind chat-ter and conversations and they will see thatthis is true. Have you noticed that when youare in a good mood things go well and whenyou’re in a bad mood they don’t? Have younoticed that since we have had a war ondrugs, there are more problems with drugs?That war creates more war?

Gandhi said, “Be the change you want tosee in the world.” As the editor, you have anopportunity to be a leader for positive changein our community and the world. You havedone much to contribute with your manyinnovative features articles and your greatcontributions to fundraising projects in ourcommunity. Let’s maintain that focus on adaily basis. As we all stay focused on the pos-

itive, we will create more of that in our per-sonal lives and our community. Perhaps, oneday, Tommy Kramer will see the value of pos-itive focus and will use his talents to becomeand agent of love and peace.

Mardi BoettcherUkiah

Cool it on teachersTo the Editor: I am a teacher at Ukiah High School. I

have been a teacher for 15 plus years. I startedat Deep Valley Christian School in 1994 at astarting salary of $17,000 a year, workingthere until 2004 making a whopping $26,000a year. Now working at Ukiah High I make$42,000 for 10 months. I receive no paycheckfor July or August. I love my job and I lovethe kids I teach. I didn’t get into this profes-sion to get rich and could do much better withmy degree in biology in the private sectorthan I do in the public. This is the case withmost of my colleagues at the High School.

I don’t mind you poking fun at my profes-sion, or the business aspects of education,which I feel could be run with more efficien-cy, but your article in the August 24 Sundayedition of the journal went too far. I took thisarticle personally as an attack on my integrityas a teacher. That I am somehow duping kidsinto my classroom so I can fleece them formy personal profit.

The other problem is the way you abusefacts in your article. I do not get paid forthose summer months off. And I happen toknow that automobile mechanics get paidconsiderably more than I do. I know you havea lot of angst about our educational systemand I don’t have a problem with that. I dohave a problem with the way you generalizedteachers and counselors in your article as ifyou could possibly know what motivates us todo our jobs.

Keep writing, I like your style, but pleasedon’t get personal and assume that we are allmindless fools.

Boyd SheltonUkiah High

‘A different AmericanDream’ rebuttal

To the Editor:Ah, the old “class warfare” approach to

politics. When opponents can’t address theissues they resort to “the richer get richer andthe poorer get poorer.” What a crock. I am notin the rich category (I have one mortgage, onehouse) but I am a McCain supporter becausehe’ll keep our country safe and really makethe changes in D.C. that are needed. C’mon,talk issues not class warfare.

Dennis ScolesRedwood Valley

Fournier is biasedTo the Editor:The AP has long been considered a rela-

tively unbiased, trustworthy news source. This

is no longer the case as Ron Fournier deliversa highly unprofessional degree of bias in hiscapacity as D.C. Bureau Chief. He consistent-ly writes articles that favor John McCain andstrike at Democrats with the kind of biasexpected of Fox News. This is entirely unac-ceptable to readers who look to the AP for fairand factual reporting. This should also beunacceptable to you and well beneath thejournalistic standards of your newspaper.Please get the message to the AP that RonFournier does not provide the balanced newsyour readers expect.

Robert B. TaylorUkiah

Editor’s note: We have received more thanone letter almost identical to this one aboutRon Fournier. Since it is obviously a prepack-aged letter-writing campaign we will printjust this one, which is the first that arrived.

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exercise in ultimate futility if our votes willnot be counted properly across the nation onNov. 4. This is a homeland security problemto the max, and once again it seems our run-away technology that is supposed to save uswill make us all hanging chads. This is crimi-nal. This is personal.

Be vigilant and meanwhile make phonecalls and write letters and raise hell across theland. What would Patrick Henry do?

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County of Marijuana?To the Editor: After reading all of the Letters to the Editor

written by the pretentious progressives sayingthat pot money is the only thing keepingMendocino County afloat, I have come upwith what I think is a very good idea. I thinkwe should change our name from the Countyof Mendocino to the County of Marijuana. Weshould change the county seal to a picture of alarge marijuana leaf and I even have a sugges-tion for a good Latin motto to print around theoutside of the seal. “Hic Germen ProventusAccipio Tu” which translates loosely to “ThisBud’s For You.”

I also think we should do away with ourcounty supervisor form of government andappoint the poster boy for the Looney LeftDan Hamburg as Dictator for Life. Thiswould ensure that everything would be runonly the way the pretentious progressiveswant it to be run and this would, in my opin-ion, make this county a much more peacefulplace to live because the progressives wouldhave nothing at all to constantly whine andcomplain about. Rock on dude!

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By JEFF BARNARDAP Environmental Writer

GRANTS PASS, Ore. --Oregon lawmakers are keep-ing a close eye on a three-yearstate experiment with killingcougars, and will be hearingfrom a scientist who has foundthat taking out too many canbreak down the big cats’social structure, which mayactually lead to more run-inswith people and livestock.

The featured witness at theFriday legislative hearing inNewport, Ore., will be RobertWielgus, a professor ofwildlife biology atWashington State Universityand head of the LargeCarnivore ConservationLaboratory, who has donethree studies on the effects ofcougar hunting.

“Hunting these areas toreduce the number of cougarsin our case didn’t work,”Wielgus told The AssociatedPress. “You simply had thisinflux of younger cougarscoming in.

“Other researchers havesuggested they have foundthese young males tend beinvolved in these human-cougar conflicts. We’re look-ing at this now.”

Sen. Alan Bates, D-Ashland, chairman of theSenate Committee onEnvironment and NaturalResources, said he has noplans to offer any legislationon what has become one ofOregon’s hot-button issues,but he does want to keep closewatch on the OregonDepartment of Fish andWildlife’s experimental pro-gram of killing cougars to seeif that reduces complaints.

“This is sort of a classicurban-rural divide questionthat people feel very veryemotional about,” Bates said.“We’re going to have to findsome common groundbetween these two groupssomewhere.”

However, Rep. PeterBuckley, D-Ashland, is inter-ested in forcing the Oregoncougar plan to go under anindependent peer review. Hesaid he will be gauging theinterest of his fellow lawmak-ers in a bill that would requirethat in the 2009 session.

The Oregon Fish andWildlife Commission adoptedthe cougar management plan

in 1996 to restore the balanceof cougars, humans, livestockand game animals that was inplace in 1994. That’s the yearOregon voters adopted a banon hound hunting, widelyconsidered the most effectivemeans of killing cougars.Voters reiterated their supportfor the ban two years later.

The plan calls for holdingOregon’s cougar population ator above the 1994 estimate of3,000 animals. The currentestimate is more than 5,000. Itgives the department authorityto kill cougars as long as live-stock kills and complaintsfrom people exceed 1994 lev-els, and in 66 wildlife man-agement areas where deer, elkand bighorn sheep herds arestruggling.

From the start, environ-mental groups have felt theplan is scientifically bankrupt,based on mass hysteria andfalse assumptions. A numberof groups have challenged theplan in federal court, arguingit kills cougars indiscriminate-ly, rather than targeting theones causing problems.

Ron Anglin, head of thewildlife division for theOregon Department Fish andWildlife Division, said theyare two years into the three-year plan, and it appears thatcontrolling cougar numbersaround Heppner have allowedelk calf survival to increase.

But they are unable tomake any conclusions from

the study area north of Ontariolooking at livestock deaths, orthe study area outsideMedford looking at humansafety.

The state of Washingtonhas been following a parallelcourse of voters banninghound hunting, a chorus ofcomplaints about cougars, anddemands something be done.

Under legislation adoptedfour years ago, theWashington Department ofFish and Wildlife allowedhound hunters to take cougarsin northeastern Washington,with the goal of reducing theoverall population by 25 per-cent.

Wielgus’ lab monitored theresults, and in a peer-reviewedstudy published in the Journalof Wildlife Biology, conclud-ed that, “increased huntingcould actually result inincreased cougar complaintsbecause of the younger agestructure of the cougar popu-lation and the higher proclivi-

ty of young animals toencounter humans and causecomplaints.

“Sustainable hunting regu-lations and bag limits shouldnot be based on numbers ofcougar complaints -- butshould be based on estimateddemographic trends obtainedthrough census orradiotelemetry.”

Donny Martorello, carni-vore section manager forWashington Department ofFish and Wildlife, said theycut back on the harvest levelafter it became clear the popu-lation was becoming less sta-ble.

While they did see a slightreduction in the number ofcougar complaints in areashunted with the help of dogs,it was within the margin oferror, so not statistically sig-nificant, Martorello said.

“It doesn’t mean it didn’thelp, but you can’t draw acause and effect to that rela-tionship,” he said.

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The adult population of an endan-gered fish that makes its home in the Grand Canyon area of theColorado River is on the rise, but environmentalists are warn-ing that its numbers will decrease again if its habitat is not sus-tained.

Biologists say the number of humpback chub has gone upfrom 4,000 in 2000 to 6,000 in 2006.

“It’s terribly exciting for us, that’s good news,” said MatthewAndersen, biology program manager for the Grand CanyonMonitoring and Research Center. “We’re initially very happyand then almost immediately our scientific curiosity kicks in,and we want to know why.”

The humpback chub, first listed as endangered in 1967,spawns at the confluence of the Colorado and Little Coloradorivers. River flows have been the main threat to the fish. Beforethe Glen Canyon Dam was built in the early 1960s near theUtah-Arizona border, flows ranged from heavy springtimeflooding that cleansed and rebuilt the river’s sand and gravelbars to slow late fall flows.

The dam’s steady releases and the introduction of nonnativefish like rainbow trout changed that habitat.

Biologists believe the removal of large numbers of rainbowtrout and drought-induced warming of the river contributed tothe recent hike in the chub population.

The new population estimates were reported this week dur-ing a two-day meeting of scientists in Flagstaff organized bythe Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program, which ischarged with studying the effects of the dam on the river andrecommending how to mitigate its adverse effects.

Robin Silver, co-founder of the Center for BiologicalDiversity, said while the numbers are encouraging, federalagencies need to better address the flow and temperature of theriver, nutrition, predation of the chubs and the lack of sediment.

“In the long term, we need healthy habitat for humpbackchub to survive,” he said. “Until we have a more natural flowregime in the river, then humpback chub will never recover.”

Adult humpback chub can survive from 30 to 40 years if theconditions are right.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the ArizonaDepartment of Game and Fish have been working to establishother populations of humpback chub farther upstream, as sortof an insurance policy, said Sam Spiller, Lower Colorado Rivercoordinator for Fish and Wildlife.

In July, the agencies collected younger humpback chub andmoved them to Chute Falls, a tributary of the Little ColoradoRiver on the Navajo Nation, where fish previously had beenmoved.

“Those fish are doing pretty well,” Andersen said. “They’vegrown at very high rates, good conditions up there, relativelylow predator load.”

Other fish are being held at a state hatchery with plans tostock them at Shinumo Creek next spring, Spiller said.

The agencies plan to gather more fish and take them to aDexter, N.M. fish hatchery and test their ability to reproduce. Ifthat’s successful, Spiller said some of those fish will be taken toa rearing facility near Peach Springs on the Hualapai reserva-tion.

Silver doesn’t agree with the agencies’ idea that establishingisolated populations will help the fish thrive.

“You have small vulnerable populations instead of the natur-al setting where the populations can communicate,” he said.

The Center for Biological Diversity, along with four otherenvironmental groups, had sued Fish and Wildlife in 2004,alleging its recovery plans for the chub were inadequate. Ajudge agreed in 2006 and ordered a new recovery plan drafted.

Spiller said the agency is making progress on the plan thatwould include recovery goals for the humpback chub, atimetable and cost. He could not say when the plan would becompleted.

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Inside the tasting room,which is housed in the oldHopland High School, a handpainted fresco features St.Mark’s Square. Tiled floors andmarble tabletops, archedalcoves, and a tasteful selectionof glassware, kitchenware andlinens evoke the style for whichItaly is renowned. More thantwo dozen wines are open fortasting each day. Varietals suchas cabernet sauvignon, merlot,pinot noir, sauvignon blanc andzinfandel are on the list. So arewines from its Italian series, forwhich Brutocao is gainingrecognition.

Barbera, primitivo, dolcettaand sangiovese are available.And a new wine Quadriga,which is a blend of the fourItalian varietals, “is really doinggreat,” says Steve Brutocao,third generation in a family ofNorthern California grapegrowers. The 2005 Quadrigorecently won a double goldmedal at the prestigious SanFrancisco Chronicle WineCompetition.

“My dad’s father was fromTreviso near Venice,” saysSteve. Dad Len and momMarty live at the Home Ranchon a knoll above the winery,located just east of Hopland onHighway 175. Marty’s parentsgrew grapes in Sonoma Countyand in 1943 her father, Irv Bliss,bought this property east ofHopland and had sheep, prunesand grapes. It was later sold andthe Brutocaos repurchased it in1974. They planted 200 acres ofchardonnay, cabernet sauvi-gnon and zinfandel. “We stillhave the old zinfandel block,”says Steve. The other two vari-etals were replaced with sauvi-gnon blanc and merlot.

At the time, Len and his sonswere in highway construction inSouthern California. Then, in1994, the senior Brutocaos andSteve and his family decidedthey wanted a change andmoved to the Home Ranch. Thenext year they started the win-ery. Now two more of Steve’sbrothers are partners in the busi-ness. David does all the finan-cial and legal and compliancework. Lenny is the vineyardmanager. Sister Renee lives inWindsor with her family, andbrother Dan is a physician inSpokane, Washington. Steve,who runs the overall operations,lives on the Home Ranch withhis wife, Tammy, and sons Joe,17, and Dominic, 15.

In addition to the HomeRanch, the Brutocaos addedtwo other ranches. ContentoRanch, also on Highway 175, iswhere their primitivo andcabernet sauvignon grow. AtFeliz Ranch off Feliz CreekRoad you’ll find Italian vari-etals such as dolcetto, san-giovese and barbera. And pinotnoir vines border Brutocao’ssecond tasting room inAnderson Valley. The AndersonValley tasting room, opened in1992, has a beautifully sleekinterior with curved tasting barand a selection of locally madeartisan items to purchase.

At the winery, whichstretches out on a mesa-likeknoll, a large office building,cellar and warehouse overlooka reservoir. Five and a half acresof olive trees grace the setting.Last year Brutocao pressed 100gallons of olive oil, which itbottled and sells in the tasting

room. Brutocao’s ToscanaExtra Virgin Olive Oil sportsthe St. Mark’s lion logo. Thedistinctive lion with wings wasinspired by the three statues inSt. Mark’s Square in Venice.“My dad adopted it as the fam-ily crest in the 1980s,” saysSteve.

He guides me into the win-ery on a hot day in August, andthe coolness and aromatic blastof fermenting grapes is refresh-ing. Winemaker Fred Nickel isbusy checking tanks and figur-ing out the next bottling time.His sense of humor and wine-making expertise combine tomake him the perfect person tofinesse and blend the 30 or sowines that come fromBrutocao. They make 15,000cases of wine under theBrutocao label and another15,000 cases of Bliss, their sec-ond label, made for drinkingright now.

In addition, Nickel makesBrutocao’s Coro Mendocinowine. This is the high end zin-fandel that is made by 12 differ-ent Mendocino wineries toexacting specifications designedto create a rich and age-worthywine showcasing the best of thebest.

The winery is cooled withthe night air and no refrigera-tion. A fan comes on at mid-night and louvers open to suckthe warm air out and pull incold air. It circulates all night.“The air from our cool nightsmaintains the temperature evenon the hottest day,” says Steve.

Brutocao wines are sold allover the United States, in adozen other countries, and intheir tasting rooms and on theirwebsite, which has slide showsof the vineyards and harvest.They also make one of the lastPorts in America to be calledPort. A new international agree-ment now only allows the namePort to be placed on a bottle ofthe lovely fortified wine, madefor sipping with blue cheese orchocolate in front of a fire on awintry evening, on Port fromPortugal. Wineries such asBrutocao which already had aPort on their label, had thename grandfathered in.Brutocao will be showcasing itsTawny Port with samples ofchocolate in its tasting roomson Nov. 8. Next month,Brutocao will participate in theannual Hopland Fall Passporton Oct. 25 and 26.

With more than 30 wines inits repertoire, including reserveselections, it seems thatBrutocao has the wine list cov-ered. What’s next?

“Dad wants a pinot grigio,”says Steve. Not surprising, it’sItalian.

Tasting Notes: I agree withthe Petaluma Wine Jazz andBlues Festival, which just gavea gold medal to Brutocao’s2005 Quadrigo. One sip of thisfragrantly bright and very richblend with a thin slice of parmi-giano-reggiano instigated oneof those “oh yes!” pairings. Ithen served it with a dish of aldente fettuccine with olive oil,garlic, parsley and shavedparmigiano-reggiano (parme-san cheese). Sigh.

For more information onBrutocao Cellars, contact theMendocino Winegrape and WineCommission www.mendowine.comor www.brutocaocellars.com.

Heidi Cusick Dickerson writesWine Notes for The Ukiah DailyJournal on behalf of theMendocino County Winegrape andWine Commission.

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“This is my car,” saidClaudette Dailey, of Napa, asshe sat behind her 1965 FordThunderbird. “My husbandhas been doing this since hewas 13 years old, but thisone’s mine. I bought it.”

Dailey said she makes apoint of attending similarshows every weekend, butwas impressed withSaturday’s event in particular.

“This is one of the nicertowns,” she said. “The peopleare so nice and I love the wayit’s in this historic downtown.It’s a nice setting.”

Gus Perez, of Laytonville,said this is the second year heand his 1957 Chevrolet BelAir had made it to the event.

“I bought it like this,” hesaid, laughing as he preparedto wax the exterior of theshiny yellow machine in frontof him. “I just kept it clean.”

Perez said he is also in theprocess of restoring a 1978Pontiac Trans Am he hasowned for 20 years.

“I started with the engine,”he said. “It’s mine. I’ve had itthe whole time.”

Kevin Currier, currently ofNice, but formerly ofWashington state, said his1940 Mercury 8 was littlemore than a shell of what ithas turned into when hefound it.

“It was a basket,” he said.

“I found it in Washingtonstate. The engine is out of a1969 (Chevrolet) Camaro.You try finding original partsfor a 1940 Mercury 8 -- It’shard.”

For Terry and DianeHousley, of Orangevale, their

1932 Ford pickup has aspecial meaning to theirfamily.

“His dad bought this carthe day he was born,” saidDiane Housley of her

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1) McCain has been hound-ing Obama for being tooyoung and inexperienced andnow he’s selected someoneeven less qualified who noone is allowed to question lestthey be labeled as sexist.

2) I know that age is sup-posedly off the table for dis-cussion, but John McCain isno spring chicken. He turned72 recently. Lest we forget, healso was tortured for years asa POW and has had multiplebouts with cancer. Accordingto some reports there is a sta-tistical probability of 20 per-cent that McCain will die inhis first term and a 40 percentchance that he will either dieor step aside so Palin couldtake over, assuming they winof course.

Being that we live amongcrazy racist people with gunsin this country there is also achance that President Obamacould be assassinated orsomething equally horrible,but 20 years of politickin’ sep-arate the end of Biden’s stinton the New Castle CountyCouncil for greener pasturesin 1972 and Palin’s first tasteof elected office in 1992.Politics aside, there is littledoubt in my mind about whois ready to take the job ifneeded.

This brings me to my nextpoint: the disaffected Hillaryvoters quotient. The fact thatboth Palin and Clinton havethe ability to bear childrenseems to be the only reasonPalin was picked. This is asmart political move onMcCain’s part because itseems to have given him abump in the polls, but it isinteresting to me that wewould never know who thisPalin woman was if Clinton

had been picked as the nomi-nee. (I’m sure they had ablack Republican all ready forthe VP spot if it had gone theother way.) To my mind thisproves that Obama’s cam-paign has been running amuch tighter, conservativeship than McCain’s. Callingthe selection of Palin a “HailMary” pass isn’t really thatmuch of an exaggerationwhen you put everything incontext. Were I a woman, Iwould find it kind of conde-scending to think that I wouldbe swayed to pick someonejust because they share thesame genitalia even thoughClinton and Palin sharealmost no similarities when itcomes to policy questions.(And with it being as likely asit is that we could see aPresident Palin this is no smallpoint.)

Lastly, we have to considerher family. I know everyone,including Obama, has saidthis is a taboo topic that mustbe left out of the campaign. Isay it has to be discussed. Iwouldn’t feel this way exceptI see her trotting them outevery five seconds on stagefor everyone to admire. TheObamas have the cutest littlegirls on the face of the planet,but I have almost never seenthem on stage being exploitedlike that. McCain has twosons in the military and Bidenhas one, though they hardlyever make mention of it.

My point here is that if wearen’t allowed to talk aboutyour family, you’re notallowed to parade themaround in front of us.

Having said that, it isappalling to me that only fiveelections ago, Dan Quayle,who was running for the exactsame job with the exact sameparty, criticized the televisionshow “Murphy Brown” forshowing a working womangiving birth outside of wed-lock. Today we have Palin’s17-year-old daughter Bristolfive months pregnant andobviously being led into anarranged marriage with the

father and I’m supposed to beexcited about that? Where’sthe moral outrage from theright? Were the situationreversed and Biden or Obamahad something similar happento their families you can’tlook me in the eye and tell methe GOP wouldn’t be scream-ing bloody murder about thedegradation of the familymodel. They’d probably evensay it had something to dowith gay people getting mar-ried or something by the endof it.

Palin also just gave birth toa baby with Down’sSyndrome at the age of 44.Studies have shown that hav-ing a baby over the age of 40greatly increases the instanceof these types of ailments. Iwouldn’t bring this up butPalin is against abortion evenif the mother was raped. I’mnot begrudging her or herdaughter’s choice to keeptheir respective babies, but it’sselfish to think that everyoneelse would want to or evenhave the means to make thesame decision. I’m not sayingthat either should have abort-ed their children, but what’sright or feasible for one per-son is a holy nightmare tosomeone else. We all can’t beformer beauty queens marriedto husbands who work for theBP Oil Company or be luckyenough to be the first daughterof an entire state. Some of ushave to work for a living.

Despite what theMcCain/Palin campaignmight have to say, it is whollycorrect to bring up theseissues as we only have about50 days to get to know thiswoman before she’s potential-ly a heartbeat away from thepresidency.

Rob Burgess can be reachedat udjrb@pacific.net.

This column was first postedon the “House of Burgess” blogat 10:43 a.m. Thursday and canbe accessed along with previousentries atwww.insideudj.com/houseof-burgess.

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husband, who was croucheddown to give the tires a finalshine. “His mom was in thehospital giving birth and his

dad was out buying a car --so that shows your prioritiesright there. That’s why it has’56 plates on it. His dad’s gota lot of stuff, and he said allhe wanted was the pickup.”

Terry Housley said hislabor of love took some timebefore it became the piece of

sleek, jet-black machinerythat was exhibited Saturday.

“I got it five years ago andeverything on it was prettymuch in the original shape,”he said. “The last time it hadbeen licensed was 1961.”

Rob Burgess can be reachedat udjrb@pacific.net.

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More than half the young salmon in theriver are infected, resulting in higher deathrates. The parasites lodge in the intestines andkidneys of young salmon, and are transmittedby tiny worms.

Federal and state agencies, university

researchers and members of local tribes havebeen trying to understand the parasites’impacts on the fishery for nearly two decades.

Scientists with the U.S. Fish and WildlifeService briefed Humboldt County Supervisorsabout the salmon epidemic on Tuesday.

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By RICHARD ROSIERThe Daily Journal

For the fifth year running,local college educator UrmasKaldveer has been researchingwhales in the Sea of Cortez.By the time the season wasover, Kaldveer’s life waschanged dramatically.

“This has been the mostexciting and rewarding yearthat I’ve had down there,” saidKaldveer.

Last year Kaldveer starteddiving with humpbacks,something he described as “atruly awesome experience.”This year, he did somethingonly a handful of other peoplehad done -- he dove with bluewhales.

“If you want to talk big,these are the largest animalsthat have ever been on theplanet,” said Kaldveer.“They’re beautiful and sleek,they are benign. They are atruly magnificent creature, notjust because of their size;everything about them. MyNative American friends inNorthern California refer tothem as the wisdom keepers,and they talk about the orcasas the policemen of the sea,the ultimate black and white,and the humpbacks as thepoets.

“The amazing thing aboutdiving with whales,” contin-ued Kaldveer, “is that as big asthey are . . . you do not feel aripple. It’s truly astounding.”

Also during this seasonKaldveer received an emailfrom a colleague wondering ifhe had noticed any unusualgray whale activity in the Sea

of Cortez. According toKaldveer, gray whales don’tcome into the Sea of Cortez,they remain further north inthe Pacific Ocean.

Still, after paying carefulattention he noticed graywhales passing through hisresearch area. After getting acloser look at the whales,Kaldveer noticed that many ofthem bore scars and gashesacross their backs and flukes.

According to Kaldveer, thescars are usually from boatstrikes or drift lines used forfishing, some over 100 mileslong. The whales also exhibit-ed lethargic behavior, and hada generally sickly, emaciatedlook, said Kaldveer.

“It turns out urban and agri-cultural runoff fromCalifornia particularly . . .these pollutants have begun topenetrate into the sands of ourshores, and it’s killing thecrustaceans that the graywhales feed off,” Kaldveersaid. “If the crustaceans aren’tthere there’s no food for them.That’s why we believe theycame around the corner.”

The new activity of thegray whales and his researchwith humpbacks and bluesover the years have awakenedin Kaldveer a desire to some-how protect his research areafrom the depredations of overfishing and industrial pollu-tion. During a research pre-sentation, he found that hewas not the only one with thisdream.

During a presentation givenaboard the tall ship Talofa,sailing near Cabo San Lucas,

Kaldveer was interviewed byHector Narro of the Cabo SanLucas News. Narro suggestedthat Kaldveer speak to hisbrother Carlos, as it seemedthey may have the same visionfor the Sea of Cortez.

“It wasn’t until a weekbefore leaving to return to theStates that we finally met up,”said Kaldveer. “He came tosee me in El Cardonal andthere in my trailer we realizedthat our destinies had crossed.Carlos Narro is the Director ofConsejo’ Nacional de AreasProtegidas for the area ofCabo San Lucas and isresponsible for the entire area

that I had envisioned as onegreat sanctuary. It appearedthat Carlos has the samedream and I just happened tobe doing work in the area andabout the whales that he need-ed.”

This meeting of mindscame shortly after anotherdream of Kaldveer’s waslooking to become a reality.For some time, Kaldveer hashad a desire to develop amarine laboratory in the vil-lage of El Cardonal to facili-tate the whale and reef studiesas well as provide an educa-

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The man who swims with whalesUrmas Kaldveer begins new chapter in whale research

Urmas Kaldveer Vicente Lucero

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Kaldveer said he consid-ered the project a “pipedream” -- due mainly to thecost of land in the area and thefunds necessary to build suchan installation -- but was stilldetermined to give it a try.

Kaldveer shared the ideawith his friend and pilotéVicente Lucero. Two weekslater, Lucero casuallyannounced that a friend of hishad a piece of land that mightbe what Kaldveer was lookingfor.

“I asked him how much hisfriend wanted and Vicentesaid, ‘no, it was to be a dona-tion,’” said Kaldveer. “I wasof course elated and deeplyhumbled by my good fortune.Vicente explained that he andmany of his friends talked itover and realized that amarine lab in their villagewould be a valuable educa-tional opportunity for theirchildren. In that moment aschool may have also beenborn.”

Kaldveer has high hopesthat when he returns to BajaCalifornia in January the landwill have been donated andsteps taken to ensure fundingfor the laboratory.

Kaldveer received an email

recently from Narro inform-ing him of a scheduled talkthat Kaldveer will be giving tothe Cabo San Lucas HotelOwners Association to securefurther funding.

Unfortunately for local col-lege students, all of these pro-jects will require Kaldveer’sfull-time commitment. Hewill be completing his lastsemester at MendocinoCollege, and says he is look-ing forward to his new statusas an American expatriate.

It seems the siren songs ofthe whales have finally luredKaldveer away fromMendocino County.

Richard Rosier can bereached at udjfeatures@pacif-ic.net.

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Above, Kaldveer gives a presentation on whales one board the tall ship Tolofa offthe coast of Cabo San Lucas. Below, the fluke of a blue whale.

Above is an example of the scarring seen on many of the gray whales that wan-dered into the Sea of Cortez, far from their usual breeding and calving grounds.

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I got a satellite clock for mybirthday a few years ago.Sometimes they’re advertised as“Atomic Clocks,” but since theyrun on a little nine-volt battery, andsince most people are a little skitzyabout having nuclear plants in thehome, that’s just a sales gimmick.Like a giant restaurant chain thatcalls its food “home-cooked.” If ittastes like the same crap I get athome, why would I go there? I wantsomething better than home-cooked, thank you very much.

They sell atomic clocks in thefancy gadget catalogs, the kind thatmainly sell gadgets to store yourgadgets in as well as motivationalplaques that cost $300. Just what Iwant over my computer, a large pic-ture of a beautiful sunset that reads,“Because.” It would have motivat-ed me more if the boss had givenme $300 instead of the stupidplaque. The only thing the plaque

did was motivate me to get into themotivational-plaque business.

Anyway, atomic clocks get thetime from a satellite and sync itwith the clock. They keep perfecttime and change automatically fromStandard to Daylight Saving andback. Every time our electricitygoes out, we set all our other clocksfrom the atomic clock. Because itruns on a battery it doesn’t rely onour spotty electricity, and I haven’tchanged the battery in three years. Ijust saw an online ad for one ofthese clocks -- it sells for $11.

So here’s my question: Whyshould I have to spend two daysgoing around my house setting theclocks every time the electricityflickers? Why isn’t the atomicclock on my microwave? Why isn’tthe clock on my oven? Why aren’tall the clocks, or things with clockson them, in my house atomicclocks?

If I can get an atomic clock for$11, how much do you think a stovemanufacturer would have to pay forjust the parts that keep the time?Not the case, not the hands, not thenumbers, just the tiny chip thatactually keeps the time. A dime? Aquarter? A buck? “But gee, thatwould raise the price of our $1,200stove by $1. We wouldn’t be com-petitive any more.” Really?

When the cat wakes me up in themiddle of the night for its 3 a.m.feeding, the house is dark except

for the hundred small red and greenlights on all our electrical appli-ances. It’s as if they are telling me,“We’re still sucking electricitywhile you sleep! Thanks.” Most ofthose appliances have digital clockson them. My paper shredder, myphone, my desk lamp all haveclocks on them. Why couldn’t theybe atomic clocks?

I’m not just thinking of myself.What about the children? The nextgeneration is sure to have moreclocks around the house than wedo.

“What? You bought a vacuumcleaner without a clock?”

“Honey, what time does the sofahave?” “Dad, there’s somethingwrong with my basketball. It saysit’s 2 a.m.”

Our extra bedroom full gadgetsthat no longer work or have becomeobsolete or have one little thingwrong with them. Stereo amplifiers

that work fine, but they don’t haveenough jacks for everything I wantto plug into them. VHS players.Turntables. Cassette players. I havea feeling that all of things in myhouse with old-fashioned digitalclocks will end up there soon.Along with a lot of this year’s must-have products -- a flower vasethat’s also a phone. An MP3 playerthat’s also an electric shaver. Arefrigerator that lets you send andreceive text messages. A garbagecan that e-mails the grocery storewhat you just threw away.

Maybe not those exact products,but something like them. But nevermy atomic clock. It’s a keeper.

Jim Mullen is the author of “ItTakes a Village Idiot: Complicatingthe Simple Life” and “Baby’s FirstTattoo.” You can reach him atj i m _ m u l l e n @ m y w a y . c o m .Copyright 2008, NewspaperEnterprise Assn.

The time has come for atomic clocks everywhereVillageIdiot

By Jim Mullen

Monday, Sept. 15, 2008More than one endeavor

may require a secondeffort in the year ahead, sodon’t be too quick to giveup on anything of impor-tance to you. If you keepthe faith, are patient andpersistent, and don’t losesight of your goals, youwill succeed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.22) -- If everything youwant to do is encounteringopposition, back off. Itseems that which attractsyou is going against anoth-er’s best interests andinvites a battle.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Try to keepfriends and finances atarm’s length, because falseexpectations can occurquicker with these types ofdealings than any otherkind. There’s nothing togain and everything tolose.

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Today is the 258th day of 2008 and the86th day of summer.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1814, FrancisScott Key wrote the poem, “The StarSpangled Banner” after witnessing theovernight attack of Fort McHenry.

In 1901, President William McKinley died

of wounds from an assassin’s bullet shoteight days earlier, and Theodore Rooseveltwas sworn in as his successor.

In 2006, the Food and DrugAdministration traced an outbreak of E. coliin 26 states to bagged spinach.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Margaret

Sanger (1879-1966), women’s health advo-cate; Zoe Caldwell (1933-), actress, is 75;Walter Koenig (1936-), actor/director/pro-ducer, is 72; Larry Brown (1940-), basketballcoach, is 68; Sam Neill (1947-), actor, is 61;Faith Ford (1964-), actress, is 44; Nas (1973-), rapper, is 35; Amy Winehouse (1983-),singer, is 25.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1994, MLB com-missioner Bud Selig announced the cancella-

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TODAY’S QUOTE: “Behind all war hasbeen the pressure of population.” -- MargaretSanger

TODAY’S FACT: The original title of“The Star Spangled Banner” was “TheDefense of Fort McHenry.”

TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter(Sept. 7) and full moon (Sept. 15).

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