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March of Dimes poster boy cheers walkers See below Ukiah police spat on and kicked by suspects Page 2 WEATHER MENDOCINO COUNTY Occasional drizzle or light rain likely north of Shelter Cove today. Cloudy north of Shelter Cove tonight and Tuesday with occasional drizzle or light rain. Yesterday Last year 73 81 48 44 From 8p.m. Saturday to8a.m. today 0.00 Year to date 47.23 Last year 27.37 Uldah Daily Monday, April 28, 1986 1986 Donrey, Inc.

Vol. 126 No. 8 14 pages Serving Mendocino County, Calif. 25 Cents SuzlBrakken Suezanne AAcClure, at left, a junior at Anderson Valley High School, answers questions about the greenhouse tomato plant area during a tour ot the school's farm and agriculture program. The tour was given Friday to educators and politicians, including U.S.

Rep. Doug Bosco, right. 'Ag schooracclaimed BySUZI BRAKKEN Journal Staff Writer BOONVILLE Anderson Valley High School is on its way to becoming a state- renowned secondary technical school for agriculture. The tiny school, with a population of 180 in grades 712, already has earned recognition for its tissue culture laboratory. Currently, it's the only spot in the United States where research is being conducted on gooseberries a crop which no longer is grown commercially.

Vocational ag students at the school are researching the gooseberry's potential for rapid clonal propagation a process duplicated only in London and Frankfurt. Agriculture is the hub of the curriculum at Anderson Valley High, and half of the students involved in the vocational program through work in the classroom, lab or on the school's seven-acre farm. The man primarily responsible for the ag focus is voca- tional agriculture instructor Steve McKay. McKay, 32, began the program in 1982 with nine students a number which now has grown to 50. On Friday, McKay and AVHS principal Brian Buckley hosted a luncheon and tour of the school farm for a group that included Rep.

Doug Bosco (D-Occidental), representatives from the State Board of Education, and other educators and administrators from the area. "Tourism (in Anderson Valley) is increasing and people are moving up from suburban areas," McKay told the group. "We want to help people who want to know about agriculture. Our purpose is to test specialty products to see if they are successful." Through a loan from the school distict, a grant from General Telephone Electronics (GTE), a state grant, money from the county Regional Occupation Program, and community donations, McKay has created an impressive agricultural pro- gram. Along with the tissue culture lab, the high school owns a computer-controlled greenhouse, an environmental growth chamber, and 42 bee hives that are monitored via computer.

On the farmland behind the school house are fruit and nut trees, berries and other specialty crops, along with dozens of more common edible plants. In addition, the school operates a cooperative vineyard with Anderson Vineyards, and has begun a Christmas tree farm. Rabbits and two dairy cows are currently raised in the school's livestock area. When the project is completed possibly 40 animals will graze in the school's pasture. All the work done so far including construction of the greenhouse, repair of the school tractor and electrical hookups of the computers page 2) Pirate strikes at HBO broadcast NEW YORK (UPI) Home Box Office officials today took measures to thwart satellite pirates like the "Captain Midnight" who interupted a broadcast and said the raiders are a threat to all satellite users, including the federal government.

Captain Midnight broke into an HBO showing of "The Falcon and the Snowman" early Sunday with a message protesting the scrambling of satellite signals. David Pritchard, HBO vice president of corporate affairs in New York, said the airwaves raid prompted the company to implement measures to stop piracy but he declined to discuss the methods. "This will not affect how we conduct business," he said. He said the firm had been warned in letters to trade magazines that "we would be susceptible to interference." Pritchard said the company was cooperating with federal authorities in trying to find Captain Midnight but he declined to say whether investigators had any leads or whether it was even possible to find the pirate. The cable raider apparently the first ever to interfere with satellite transmissions broke into HBO with a multicolor test pattern and a five-line message printed in white letters: "Good evening HBO From Captain Midnight Noway! ShowtimeMovie Channel beware." The "$12.95" reference apparently was to the subscription fee now required of viewers who had tapped cable channels through their own dish antennas.

The company began scrambling its signals Jan. 15, Pritchard said. The interruption lasted anywhere from 10 seconds to more than a minute and took place shortly before 1 a.m. on the East Coast, before midnight in the Chicago area and before 10 p.m. on the West Coast.

Pritchard warned that that type of interference puts the whole satellite industry in danger. "This really becomes a danger to all forms of telecommunications and broadcasting, including radio, television and the federal government, which uses satellites to communicate all the time," he said. Although he said the piracy "was not a prank, not some video hack who decided to do this at 12:30 at night," he said did not think HBO's competitors were involved. "I don't believe anyone who values their broadcast license would do something like this, not if they want to stay in business," Pritchara said. He also said he did not think the piracy had anything to do with the movie being shown.

He said it was "pure irony" that the message interrupted "The Falcon and the Snowman," the story of American spies who sell government secrets about defense satellites to the Russians. Nonetheless, the interference Sunday was frightening to some. "It was the most scary thing that ever happened to HBO," said Donna Priestly, a customer service supervisor for Cablevi- sion, a Chicago-area cable marketing firm. Priestly said the company was deluged with calls from distressed viewers. "This means they could do the same thing to CBS, NBC or even NASA if they want to," said Jay B.

Ross, a Chicago attorney who owns a satellite dish. HBO's authorized signal was replaced for anywhere from 10 seconds to more than a minute in Chicago and on the East Coast. The pirate may have been able to overpower authorized signals beaming down from a satellite, officials said. Russian nuke 'mishap' pollutes Scandinavia MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union acknowlegded today that an accident occured at a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl and that one of the plant's reactors was damaged. The Soviet accident report came after the governments of Sweden, Finland and Denmark said that a cloud of non-harmful radioactive material had swept across the regions since Saturday.

"An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl atomic power plant as one of the atomic reactors was damaged," the official news agency Tass said. The nuclear power plant is in the Ukrainian Republic in the eastern part of the Soviet Union. "Measures have been undertaken to eliminate the consequences of the accident," Tass said. "Aid is being given to those affected. A government commission has been set up." The statement, believed to be the first time the Soviet Union has admitted a disaster at an atomic energy plant, gave no further details.

The brief Tass report on the accident, which occurred in Chernobyl at a plant 80 miles north of Kiev, a city of 1.5 million people, was read on nightly television news, Vremya. It was not immediately clear what the effect of the radioactive cloud would have on the population of Kiev. News of the accident was first reported from Stockholm, which said a radioactive cloud blew over Scandinavia today, causing experts to speculate about a Soviet nuclear mishap. "We have registered radioactivity just about everywhere we have looked," Ragnar Boge of the Swedish Radioactive Institute said. "They have found unusual concentrations in Denmark and yesterday they found even higher concentrations in Finland." There were no immediate reports on the number of injured.

A serious nuclear accident occurred in the Soviet Union during the winter of 1957-58, according to a report published in in February 1980 by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Using CIA data and Soviet scientific publications, the lab corroborated claims by an exiled Soviet scientist that a wide area of the eastern Soviet Union was contaminated by radiation following an accident near Kasli in Chelyabinsk Province on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. The report said the contamination covered anywhere from 40 to 400 square miles. It said there was "some loss of life" and at least 30 villages were abandoned, their names subsequently deleted from Soviet maps. Shultz: Covert not assassination WASHINGTON (UPI) of State Georgfe ing it is necessary to have "as many tools in your bag" as possible, supports the use of covert action as a way to fight terrorism.

Shultz said the United States could use other "disruptive" methods behind the scenes and on two televised broadcasts Sunday he defended the administration's right to conceal specific Terrorists stoppedfrom entering Bali BALI, Indonesia (UPI) Eleven suspected terrorists have been barred entry to Indonesia as the government tightened security in preparation for President Reagan's visit this week, senior U.S. officials said. Reagan was to arrive on the lush tropical island of Bali Tuesday for meetings with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the Association of South East Asian Nations in advance of the May 4-6 economic summit in Tokyo. Indonesian police and troops sealed off the Nusa Dua peninsula, in southern Bali, restricting access at a series of heavily guarded checkpoints. A U.S.

diplomat, who spoke on condition that he not be named, said 11 suspected terrorists had been stopped from entering the country. He said they were barred entry on the basis of information supplied by the international police organization Interpol. The diplomat said he did not know the suspects' nationalities or details of their interception. A senior U.S. official expressed confidence that the tight security cordon around the resort island would deter any potential terrorist.

"I feel good about the precautions that have been taken so far," the official said. "But everybody has to be vigilant." The contingent of Secret Service agents accompanying the president on his Asian trip has been more than doubled in the aftermath of the U.S. attack on Libya on April 15, officials said. Security-conscious authorities reported several false alarms. Indonesian security agents rushed to the town of Sanur, a few miles north of Nusa Dua, after receiving reports last week that an ironworker was manufacturing hand grenades.

The man was released after police determined his grenades" were decorations. operations. "have to have as many tools in your bag as you possibly can," he told NBC News. "It should be possible for us to do things secretly to disrupt such matters." Regarding covert activities, however, he said the United States will continue to oppose any idea of assassinating Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy. "There's nothing good' to be said lor Khadafy.

And 1 -hope he hears me," Shultz said. "But (assassination) doesn't fit our way of thinking on how to do things." On a related topic, Shultz said the economic summit next week in Tokyo will provide a "very juicy target" for terrorists, but high security is simply "common sense" that does not mean targets of terror are prisoners of fear. Fae Woodward March of Dimes boy Christopher Asaro, Ukiah's March of Dimes boy, smiles shyly as he heard from chairman Linda Anderson that $3,000 will be collected from Sunday's WalkAmerica if all pledges are turned in. Anderson lauded the 21 walkers from Mart that participated in the TeamWalk this year..