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fm m'r -pr 47 to 29 Union out at Sacto Moulding Just four more ll shopping days until Christmas Jj bargaining talks last summer, replacing the union pension plan with company contributions to employee IK A accounts. "On paper, the IRA plan will be better for people 40 years old and less. Senior employees will get their pension out of the old union plan, and something from the new IRA plan as well," Yagerhofer said. SVM will make no immediate changes in its wage scale, Yagerhofer added. The company had proposed an employee incentive plan, awarding bonuses based on production, he said.

A health and welfare plan com mill management and lumber Production and Industrial Workers Local 3074 (LP1W). At issue were an employee pension plan, a wage increase, and health and welfare benefits. The workers walked off their jobs July 29, returning five days later after the company and the union agreed to continue negotiations on the contract which ended May 1 An employee request for union decertification resulted in last week's election. SVM had been a union mill since 1980. Yagerhofer said the company would institute a pension plan similar to the one proposed during parable to the one proposed during bargaining talks will be instated, according to Yagerhofer.

I.IMW representative Gerald Dunkley promised another union election in one year. "It's a sad situation when so many people in the work force today either fail to recognize what's happening, or just flat don't care about their future wellbeing. Somewhere down the road they will realize they made a big mistake," Dunkley said. As the strike at SVM's neighbor, Louisiana-Pacific Cor- Continued to Page IS FEAT (airily 1 18th year of continuous publication Quincy, Plumas County, California 95971 December 21, 1983 Two ruled out in Keddie case By Jane Braxton Little Staff Writer Sacramento Valley Moulding Company (SVM) in Crescent Mills to non-union status December 14 when workers voted 47 to 29 against union representation. "The employees had a choice to make.

They made it," said Tom Yagerhofer, controller at the plant employing 80 workers in two shifts. Today ends an automatic seven-day waiting period during which the union can protest the election process. The election followed a bargaining impass in July between PLUMAS COUNTY Vol. 118 No. 21 County to try for bridge fund By Jane Braxton Little Staff Writer Plumas County will apply for $50,000 to refurbish Shoo Fly Bridge if Acting County Counsel Susan Roff and Community Development Director Bill But-terworth can develop a proposal which meets both legal and financial requirements.

Improvements to the bridge built in 1889 would allow 24 workers to resume the mining jobs they were forced to quit when the U.S. Forest Service closed Shoo Fly Bridge in October, But-terworth told the Plumas County Board of Supervisors December 13. Based on the economic benefits, he gave the county an excellent chance of being awarded community development block giant monies through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Feather River Travertine Quarries, a newly organized company, is in the process of reopening the mine operated until October by Merv Hansen and Jim McGrew. Feather River respresentative Bill McGroarty told the Board December 13 that the mine contains reserves of 500,000 tons of travertine which could be worked for 50 years.

Approximately 12 jobs would be generated by the travertine mine, and an additional 12 by placer gold mines just downstream which also used Shoo Fly as their only access. While the county must state ow nership of Shoo Fly to apply for HUD grant funds, it has no in-available, according to Roff. The Board authorized Roff and Butterworth to resolve this "Catch 22," and directed Roff to investigate reacquisition of the bridge. The original Shoo Fly Bridge was built in 1870 as part of a county road from Little Black Hawk Creek near Quincy to Indian Continued to Page 15 Quincy gets new fire engine I -v 4 i Jf I I ft A'r i USPS 118-550 KXCKLLENT TURN OUT--A large crowd turned out last Friday afternoon and evening i 4- fcr I V' Two men who admitted to a rash of murders and were recently interviewed by more than 200 detectives in Sacramento have been ruled out as suspects in the Keddie Murder case. The two men, Henry Lucas, 47, of Texas and Ottis Toole, 36, of Jacksonville, Florida, were most likely not in the Keddie area at the time the April 1981 murders, according to Sheriffs "Sgt.

Steve right. Wright was one of more than 300 detectives who travelled to Sacramento to cross-check information from the much publicized duo in an effort to solve other murders. Detectives came from five states, with 180 California officers involved, Wright said. Wright found evidence that the pair had travelled through the Feather River area in 1980, because he found references to Flwy. 70 and Susanville.

But they apparently left California in November of 1980 and did not return until May of 1981, Wright said, indicating they were not near Keddie at the time of the crimes. The pair has also been indicted for an April 14, 1981, murder in Jacksonville, Florida. The Keddie murders happened in the early morning hours of April 12, 1981 and the pair did not fly in their travels, according to Wright. The fact that body markings on their victims and the scenarios of those killings were not consistent with the Keddie crimes convinced Wright even more that they were not involved in the local murders. But the visit to Sacramento wasn't a complete disaster for the Keddie murders investigation, Wright said.

Names of other suspected mass murderers were found in the Sacramento evidence pool, along with other information. Wright said the names JUST IN TIME--Residents in the Quincy Fire Protection district are getting one of the nicest Christmas presents of all--a new fire truck. Pictured above taking delivery of the new truck from Tony Rosellini left of Paoletti Fire Trucks is commissioner Dorothy Dunn and newly appointed captain of the truck John Cullen. The chassis was purchased locally from Country' Motors, truck has a 1,450 gallon capacity and carries 1,200 ft. of 3 inch hose and 600 feet of l'o inch hose with two live lines, 2 booster lines and its own generater.

Another feature is the Santa Rosa fog nozzle insert which can he operated from inside the cab as demonstrated. and the new information will be checked thoroughly. Three people, Glenna S. Sharp, 36, her son John, 15 and his friend, Dana Wingate, 17, of Quincy, were found bludgeoned and stabbed at the Sharp's Keddie home. Tina Sharp, 12, who was apparently in the home at the time of the crimes, has never been found.

Investigators said long ago that she was most likely murdered as well. Sheriff's office investigators and the Department of Justice have called the Keddie murders case one of the most frustrating they have ever come across. However, the investigation has remained open and continues to be active. Arts Entertainment 10B Business Review Section 3 Classifieds Section 3 Editorials P. 4A Feather Features P.6B Letters to the Editor P.

5B Sports Section 2 County Forecast The National Weather Service in Red Bluff predicts a white Christmas with snow showers today, building up on Friday and Saturday. Winds will be light and southerly. Highs in the low 40's, lows in the teens. Compiled by Bob Ayotte Jr. LO HI December 14 41 56 December 15 38 55 December 16 37 45 December 17 38 49 December 18 32 37 Decembers 35 49' December 20 28 There has been 26.01 inches of precipitation in the Quincy area this year.

Last year at this time, we had 21.34 inches. Snow to date is six inches. The average annual precipitation rate is 41.44 inches. The i RISE SET December21 7:20 4:48 December22 7:21 4:49 December23 7:21 4:49 December24 7:21 4:50 December25 7:22 4:50 December26 7:22 4:51 December27 7:23 4:52 Elev. Acre Ft.

Bucks 5,138 72,947 Almanor 4,487 965,629 At this time of year it's nice to think that God is like Hallmark Cards. cared enough to send the Very Best! conversation were shared by members of the community, mmmm for the hamber of Com- meree's annual Wassail Bowl, where egg noj, punch and mmt ir 1 I 1 I 'I A Christmas gift to the community-a sparkling new fire engine-was unveiled by Quincy Fire Protection District this week. The gleaming white pumper-tanker was the major item in the four-year major improvement program approved by the voters in 1 980. As a result of overwhelming passage of Measure A-assessing each parcel of real estate $17.50 per year with an additional charge of one cent per square foot on commercial Continued to Page 15 1- i 't JV v-.