Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 1

Tuesday, March 27,1979 nsth Year No. 290 Ukiah, County, California WEATHER Rain on and off today, heavy at times, with snow in the mountains down to 3,000 feet. Showers likely tonight with a chance of thunderstorms, ending Wednesday with partial clearing. Gusty southerly winds shifting to northwesterly tonight. Fort Bragg 42-48, Ukiah 38-50 Arabs protest peace treaty Sadat denounced as traitor By RICHARD SISK United Press International The Arab world protested the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty today with bombs in Israel and Paris, Palestinian demonstrations in West European cities and marches by millions in Baghdad and Damascus denouncing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as a traitor.

Palestinian guerrillas, making good their leaders' vow to mark the treaty with blood, exploded a bomb in a vegetable market in the town of Lod. just outside Tel Aviv, killing a woman and wounding 18 other shopper and muling Israeli celebrations that had been marked by fireworks and dancing in the street. It was the third explosion in Israel since Friday and again the PLO claimed responsibility. It blew a wide hole in the blacktop surface of the market and scattered vegetables and articles of clothing around the area. In Paris a lime bomb exploded in the restaurant of a Left Bank Jewish student center when it was crowded with about 50 persons during the lunch hour, injuring 26 people, 10 seriously.

Telephone calls to news agencies said the blast was to protest the Zionist presence in France. It was the second attack on the Paris Jewish community since signing of the treaty. During the night a bomb destroyed a Jewish- owned perfume shop near the opera, causing extensive damage but no injuries. Jewish students themselves protested near the bomb sites, demanding the PLO get out of France. Tliere were demonstrations in Belgrade where 70 Palestinian students paraded in front of PLO headquarters there protesting the signing of the treaty.

Another 100 Arab studencs demonstrated in front of Athens University. In Madrid police swinging billy clubs broke up a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in front of the Egyptian embassy and Arab League offices, injuring six and arresting 50. Police threw a heavy security force around the U.S. Embassy but there was no immediate attempt to demonstrate there. The ambassadors of Libya, Iraq, Syria, Algiers and the PLO met in the Libyan Embassy and called on Foreign Minister Marcelino Oreja to arrange for the release of demonstrators held by police.

The biggest demonstrations were in Damascus and in Baghdad where foreign and economic ministers of the Arab world gathered to discuss imposing sanctions against Sadat. The state-run Radio Damascus broadcast the Syrian demonstration live with rally organizers shouting denunciations of Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "Sadat the traitor has given in to the will of Begin," a rally organizer said. The Iraqi news agency said "more than a million demonstrators" had gathered in Baghdad to say "no to the conspiracy." Headlines in Arab newspapers focused on what they said was Sadat's failure to mention the Palestinians in his remarks in Washington. In Beirut, the French-language L'Orient Le Jour said "Sadat forgets to mention the Palestinians." The leftist As Safir said "Sadat offers Israel a victory four wars have not achieved." The Saudi newspaper Al Jezirah said "The Arab nation should be on a state of alert." HILLSIDE GOING UP John Kroeger of Cantarutti Electric in Novato, one of the subcontractors on the new Hillside Hospital construction project, walks through a hallway in a partially- completed building at the site off K.

Perkins. P'inancing now appears secure for completion of the project by the March 1980 target date Journal photo by Dale Kalkman. New Hillside Hospital takes shape with financing no longer a worry The studs are in place and some of the siding and roof beams are on the new $5.5 million Hillside Hospital on East Perkins in Ukiah. Financing of the hospital, which apparently was questionable just a few months ago, appears to be no obstacle now. Current construction work on Hillside is being financed through Adventist Health Services.

Hillside's hospital management group that took over the hospital's management in November. At the same time, it appears that Hillside's chances of getting conventional financing for its hospital also are good. Citibank in San Francisco is circulating loan documentation that has to be reviewed by all attorneys, according to Doreen Wang, account officer at San Francisco's Citibank. She added that everything seems to be progressing well with the loan application and that she sees no major problems. Citibank would supply the interim construction financing and then Berg Company in Boston, a private health care financing group, has confirmed it would provide the long-term financing for the new hospital.

Farmers' Home Administration in Ukiah would make a mortgage guarantee provided the hospital meets all conditions of the construction. Dan Ballew, Hillside Hospital administrator, today said he was not sure whether Hillside would use the conventional financing because of the current high interest rates. Hillside can finance much more cheaply through AdvontisI Health Services, he said. Initial site preparation for the 43-bed facility began Sept. 25 by Moran Construction firm of Portland.

Since then, four feet of lopsoil was removed and six feet of clay brought into cover the 8.8 acre hospital site. Additionally, drainage pipes had to be installed underground. The new lacility, scheduled for completion in March 1980, will have three operating rooms, a laboratory, physical therapy and inhalation therapy room, a cy.slo room for urology work, a pharmacy, an emergency room and a com munity health education room. A use permit and building permit were ob tained from the city, and Hillside has filed a notice of inleni to apply for a certificate of need to add 56 additional beds to its new facility al an eslimalcd co.sl dl $1 (i iiiiilioii Bolh Hillsuic and Ukiah (iciicral Hospital are applying lor extra beds llicy expect will be available when, and if. Ilic county closes Mendocino Hospilal Weather March.

Diite Mi l.o II Tod -'I hr. Kainrall 1 70 March, 1978 Dale Hi Lo 26 76 45 Low Today 52 1 70 48 2(i 95 Last Year 48 14 Kxl ended lorecasi Thursday through -Saturday Rain likely Thursday. Chance (il sliowcis h'liday and Saturday. Snow level I he mountains near 4000 feel rcnipiMa lures average 3 lo 6 degrees Ix'low normal. Highs in the 50s along the coast and upper 5()s to the 60s inland and lows 111 Ihc upper 30s and 40s al low ck'valioiis Small developers threatened with ruin Hardship exemptions: Is help on the way? By NANCY STENSON Journal Staff Writer Blanche Rogers, a widow living jn Mendocino, is afraid that if she does not get some relief soon from the subdivision moratorium, she will lose her property.

On her request for a hardship exemption from the moratorium, Rogers states: "I have beep a widow several years and can no longer maintain my property with the high inflation rite and my salary as a clerk." She has spent $512.50 on her minor subdivision and has an approved tentative subdivision map. Before Rogers could get her final map approved and recorded, however. Lake County Superior Court Judge John J. Golden imposed a subdivision moratorium on all lahd outside city limits. Hers is now one of several hardship applications a-waiting approval before Golden.

Just as with Rogers, many of the applications for hardship exemptions are from retired pe(q)le or people who had invested whatever savings had Into the land For example, the C.L. Days ot Redwood Valley are retired and living on a fixed income. OPEC raises oil prices by 9 percent They want to divide their land in half to create two 20 -acre parcels so their daughter and son-in law can use one parcel for a building site. At the same lime, they mention the division would lessen their financial burden. There are those like Philip Austin of Hopland who borrowed on a short term, high interest rate note from a bank lo divide some properly near Crawford Ranch.

Austin is requesting an exemption to avoid a severe financial setback. General contractor Jim Trumble spent $57,300 on a minor subdivision south of Ukiah's airport He writes on his hardship application; "Being a general contractor, the moratorium has frozen my assets." Herbert Thompson of Caspar stales that his "out of pocket" expenses on his minor sub division represents most of his personal savings "I don'l outside income to support the declared lliompsnn. Scquoya Challenge, listed as a non pmfit organization, said il will lose everything if il is not allowed lb subdivide its properly al Fori Bragg. An for Fl. Dorado Kslafcs Im- east of Redemeyer Road, declares that developers of units two and three will suffer severe economic hardship if the development is not allowed lo proceed.

Golden look these and other hardship applications under consideration Friday, bul made no mention of when he would ruleon them He has allowed four exemptions from the nvioralorium, bul slated during one hearing on the General Plan thai he had received very few hardship Hardship applications are run through an ad hoc county screening committee they arc presented to Golden. II took the' county approximately two months following Golden's order for prelln injunclinn lo eslabilish a procedure for processing Ihenu Meanwhile, county supervisors have an ad hoc ncgolialing in the General Plan lawsuit. One of the suggested terms for a settitimcnl a provision for praccNsing all subdivision maps tentatively approved prior to Dec. 20. (he dale the moratorium ripxl wiml inlii effct -l riv JOHN CAI.COTT GENEVA, Switzerland (UPI) The 13 OPEC nations announced today an immediate 9 percent increase in oil prices plus surcharges by individual members that could bring a pricing frw for-all on world markets.

The OPEC oil increase had been scheduled for Oct I bul OPEC members in healed debate decided lo impose il on April I instead. This would increase the price from $13.34 a barrel lo $14.54. 'Hie price rise will mean an immediate jump in gasoline and healing oil prices bul the (U'cisioii to iiiipose a surcharge meant that the llnal cosi ol crude oil is unpredictable, depending on Ihc whims ol individual OPEC members. (lenerally an of $1 a barrel for crude laj.ses gasoline by 2 cents a gallon in the United Stales and healing nil similarly Surcharges now ranging as high a.s $5 a barrel and possibly higher later un possibly more would be lacked unlit I his Sitjtidi the largest source of oil for Ihc Unileil Stales, uuii llie Arab itiditMii-d lliev wiiiihl Mill .1 ouirlnu'gr 0- 16 Pages 1 Sections 15 Cents Tuesday from the desk By Jim Garner Weather plus a foul up in schedules postponed an out-of-town trip for yours truly. We'll try again next week.

We're about SO percent along in an equipment-updating program at the Daily Journal. Mind-boggling is what it is. The electronic age has arrived, even in stodgy old newspaper offices. Fred Kelley, production superintendent, returned Saturday from Long Beach where he witnessed the latest in advertising composing No longer will ad composition require all the detailed and intricate markings as to type size, space between the lines, room for illusU-ations and letter spacing. Come October, the Dally Journal will have this little jewel that requires only that the operator know the difference between "larger and smaller type size" and "more or less spacing." With a magic electronic pen, the operator places the copy on a television- like screen and then moves it hither and yon with the pen.

Reporters will toss away the old manual typewriters. Replacing them will the television screens with attached keyboards. These are called Visual Display Ter- niinals, or VDTs. Stories are entered via the keyboards into a computer. When the editors are ready to do their thing (editing and writing headlines), they simply punch a few buttons and the story appears on their VDT.

When all is neat and tidy, the editor hits the big "Go" button and the computer Bends sutry to typaawttlng machine and it is recorded on special photo paper without a single printer having touched for pasteup on the final page. Our present typesetting equipment cranks out 80 lines a minute. A few short years ago (about five, in fact) this was considered faster than a speeding bullet. The new gear will spew out the stories at 400 lines a minute! Twenty-four years ago when I started in this business, a sober Linotype operator (the old hot metal machines) who could give you eight lines a minute was looked upon with awe. In brief Wednesday planners' agenda The Ukiah Planning Commission will meet Wednesday al 8 p.m.

in the city council chambers. 111 W. Church St. The meeting will be the first to include new commissioners Phil Gorny and Bill Fowler. Agenda items include: MEDICAL PARKING Parking requirements for medical and dental offices.

TALMAGE ROAD Extension of Talmage Road west of State Street. FORD STREET PROJECT Zoning of 23acre area between Ford and Brush streets in anticipation of Hunt Construction lownhouse project. GRAVESTONES Use permit for burial monument sales facility at 607 N. Slate SI. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEWS Plans for: a four-unit apartment complex al 820 Oak St an office building adjacent to the North CoasI Regional Center at 401 N.

a 14 unit apartment complex at 949 N. Oak SI and a small shopping center al 414 Perkins St. Mew Lake board member sworn in By Staff Correspondent LAKEPORT A former newspaper icporler was sworn in this morning lo the Lake County Board of Supervisors. Mary Waterman, a Lakeport Democrat and former reporter for the Clearlake Observer-American, which Is owned by her parents, will fill the remaining year of the term of who resigned from the board last November. Mra.

Walerman. whose husband is a member Ihc Uikcpini appoinUHi Monday Gov. BKown front a lirld ill iMiidid (iU.