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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT The liedwmul Empire 9 Leading Variable clouds REDWOOD EMPIRE Variable cloudi through Friday. Patchy low clouds along the coast night and Continued cool. Expected low tonight and highs Friday: Santa Rosa, 48 and 75; Fort Bragg, 50 and 63; Ukiah, 48 and 77. Kmpirc 15 SANTA ROSA," THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1976 plummets mpire wine grape crop said Milt Eisele, who has already harvested his Chardonnay grapes for champagne production.

Eisele's crop was 30 per cent lower than in 1975. Robert Dwyer, executive secretary of the Napa Valley Grape Growers Association, said vine stress and shatter, caused by the winter drought and summer heat spells, have not only reduced this year's crop but will have long range implications. Poor growth and shock to the vines will certainly be reflected in next year's production, he added. Prominent enologist Andre Tchelistch-eff, consultant and advisor to vineyards and wineries throughout Sonoma and Napa counties, said he was "pessimistic to ward this year's crop." Tchelistcheff said he did not expect more than a half crop. He added-that the grapes lost weight in the sudden summer heat waves.

"The water content has evaporated," he added. Asked if this would increase quality by raising the proportionate fruit-acide content, Tchelistcheff repeated that he was "not optimistic." "Cabernet Sauvignon, which is yet to be picked, may do better," he said. "But the situation for white wines is not good." However, association secretary Dwyer disagrees and thinks the crop could be the makings for some vintage wines. "The only good thing I can say about greater than 1975's 39,700 ton crop, principally because of young vineyards coming into production. McCracken said the 1976 crop will be about 45,000 tons.

Earlier predictions set the crop at 50,000 tons. McCracken emphasized that new vineyard acreage is offsetting the lighter than usual yields. Meanwhile, the California North Coast Grape Growers Association (CNCGG) has come up with a recommended price list for 16 premium black varietals and 16 premium white varietals. "Prices aren't established only by CNCGG recommendations," said Charles Barra, CNCGGA director and Mendocino (Continued on Page 2) 0 By TIM TE8CONI AfribuiMM Writer There's trouble in the vineyards. North Coast grape growers are harvesting an early crop that is 30 to 60 per cent below the tonnage yielded last year.

The smaller crop will probably mean another season of losses for many Redwood Empire vineyardists, who over the last several years have received rock-bottom prices for their wine grapes because of the, so-called, market glut. The problem this year is weather. The unusually dry winter and the combination of summer heat spells and rain showers have severely reduced the marketable tonnage. The crop is condidered "light." Grapes that would normally produce proposal to make loans easier to get nil Ford's home By JAMES M. NAUGHTON New York Times Service ANN ARBOR, Mich.

President Ford, outlining what he termed a campaign program of "specifics, not smiles," proposed here Wednesday night to reduce by as much as one-half the down payment required for the purchase of housing" with federally assured mortgages. In the official opening of his contest with Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee, the President said he had returned to his home state and alma mater, the University of Michigan, "to share with you my views of America and my hopes for America." Although Ford had billed his campus address as one meant to convey "vision" and had forecast some surprises in it, the only initiative in the prepared remarks was a modest, two-pronged plan to spur home ownership by Americans of limited means. He called for legislation, which Congress could not enact before the Nov. 2 election, to reduce the down payment required for a mortgage guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration. He also said he would put into effect soon, under authority granted to the White House two years ago, a plan to permit purchase of homes through loans with gradually rising interest rates.

The bulk of Ford's remarks to a large audience in Crisler Arena, on the campus where he was a football star four decades earlier, consisted of a recital of old proposals and a sharp, if indirect, assault on his Democratic opponent. Without mentioning Carter by name, Ford made clear his target in saying, "It is not enough for anyone to say 'trust me. Trust Trust must be earned." In furtherance of a Ford campaign theme that Carter is vague, indecisive and inexperienced, Ford went on to declare: "Trust is not having to guess what a candidate means. Trust is leveling with the people before the election about what you're going to do after the election. Trust is not being all things to all people, but being the same thing to all people.

Trust is not cleverly shading words so that each separate audience can hear what it wants to hear, but saying plainly and simply what you mean and meaning what you say." Ford's campus homecoming contained a mixture of sentimentalism, symbolism and student antipathy. The President joined the No. 1-ranked Wolverine football team for a quick dinner at the training' table and visited a university guest house. But he was greeted by an editorial in this harvest is that quality should be terrific. Sugars are high and in good balance with acids.

Varietal intensity should be extraordinary," said Dwyer. He added, however, that the light crop will probably mean a shortage of premium quality wines over the next several years. "Consumers have, no doubt, noticed the lack of Napa Valley premium wines on restaurant wine lists and if early indications 'follow through this entire harvest, the 1976 vintage will be seldom seen on future wine lists," he added. In Napa County this season't total harvest is now pegged at 35,000 to 38,000 tons. Last year, grape growers hauled in 50,000 tons.

In Sonoma County, the harvest will be ard M. Nixon, his prolific use of veto power and his attitude on abortion. The President said to one questioner that he favored a constitutional amendment permitting states to regulate abortions and disclosed for the first time that he voted with the majority against a proposal on the Michigan ballot in 1972 to allow abortions on demand through the policy "Deep seated suspicion that detente is working more in the Soviet Union's interest than in ours is coupled with recognition that the need to avoid nuclear war requires us to deal with the Soviet Union in the interest of maintaining peace. "Intense doubt that our foreign aid reaches those who need it most is1 coupled with the acceptance of the necessity to bolster the economics of the underdeveloped countries. "Rejection of isolationism is coupled with a feeling that American foreign policy is not sufficiently concerned with protecting economic interests of the American public.

"Skepticism that our gov ernment is concerned with heeding and serving the American public is coupled with yearning to see the United States play a significant and benevolent role in world affairs." A State Department spokesman said that Kissinger found the "town meeting" reports useful, and that he had made no effort to keep the records of the sessions confidential. 150 gallons of wine are only yielding 110 gallons this year, says Sonoma County Agricultural Commission Harry Mc-Cracken. "The juisce just isn't in the berries," he added. Roy Harris, vice president of the Napa Valley Vineyard estimates his crop is 50 to 60 per cent lower than last year. "If I had to make an overall prediction I would have to estimate at least a 30 per cent drop from last year's crop," Harris said.

"One block of Sauvignon Blanc that bore 55 tons last year has yielded 19 tons this year. Our original estimate was about a 20 per cent reduction from last year, but we now feel it will be much greater than that." "The word for this year is disaster," 1 HELEN PUTNAM Petaluma mayor to head League PETALUMA Helen Putnam one of the few women mayors in California will be named president of the League of California Cities at its annual convention Oct. 17-20 in San Diego. Putnam is the league's first vice president. Now in her third four-year term as Petaluma's mayor, she became the first woman to be elected first vice president of the league at the group's 77th convention, held in San Francisco, and represented the league and Petaluma on a tour of Russia late last year.

She was the first Petaluma mayor to visit Russia. She. was on the Petaluma Board of Education for 12 years before running for mayor, and is now principal at Two Rock School. Nearly 300 persons turned but in 1972 to honor her for a quarter century of public service. She has been on local, county, and state commissions, committees, and boards, and was a member of the state Advisory Bicentennial Celebration Council for 1976.

She will succeed San Diego mayor Pete Wilson as president of the League of California Cities. League board members include Francisco mayor George Moscone Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley. San and Public not NJ tTilSL WASHINGTON Top aides to Secre- tary of state Henry A Kissinger who, at his request, went to five cities to find out what the American people think about United States foreign policy, have report- ed back to him that the people find it lacking in idealism and moral content. 1,16 theme runnin8 throughout all five reports was succinctly stated in one: "In sum we found distrust of this govern- ment's effectiveness in carrying out poli- cjes intended to express the public's hu- manitarian concerns." The memorandums of the aides were obtained by The New York Times from an administration official who said he felt that puDiic disclosure of their content would help Jimmy Carter in his quest for the presidency. Carter has been stressing the need for more attention to human values in American foreign policy.

From eacn oi "town meetings," as tney were caUed, the aides carried back to Kissinger messages that constituted an indictment of much of his diplomacy for Apathy and death in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) A 77-year-old man tripped and fell face down on a downtown sidewalk and hundreds of people headed for home stepped over his body or drove by without stopping. Clinton Collins, of Bethany, was pronounced dead about an hour later, despite the efforts, Wednesday of attorney Henry W. Nichols his daugher Leslie and two of her friends. "He was bleeding profusely," Nichols said. "His tongue was sticking out.

There was a very faint pulse." "And all this time, there were people passing by. People even stepped over him. Nichols said a few motorists heeded his pleas to stop in the going-home, rush hour traffic. "The thing that upset me the most was that the people behind those that stopped kept honking their horns because they were in the Nichols and his daughter were driving downtown when they saw the man face down on the sidewalk in the heart of the city's business district. Nichols wheeled his car around and went to the man's aid.

A man standing nearby said he saw the man trip, fall and bump his head. Leslie, who once worked at a mental hospital, said blood was flowing from the injured man's mouth and his vital signs were fading. "He was nice-looking, like somebody's granddad," she said. She spotted two coworkers at the courthouse and the three began administering artificial respiration when the man's pulse grew almost too weak to feel. His pulse began to quicken.

Nichols tried to flag down passing motorists, who kept right on going. "For 20 minutes, people passed by before anyone came, even a policeman," he said. An ambulance with a patient stopped to administer oxygen. Then another ambulance with more oxygen and a fire department rescue unit arrived with more help. A crowd of curious onlookers remained well removed from the man as the emergency workers loaded him onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

Nichols and his daughter, who did not know the man's name, eventually went to St. Anthony Hospital to check on his condition. They were informed he was dead. "We all sat down and almost cried," he said. "The girls did cry, and they didn't even know him." Councilwoman quits in Ukiah P.D.

Bureau UKIAH City councilwoman Lorraine Pearson resigned Wednesday night. The two-term councilwoman, who also served a year as Ukiah mayor, said she will be moving to the Bay Area to be closer to her ailing mother. City manager James Swayne was directed to study the council's options in filling the vacancy and report back during next week's session. The council could appoint someone to replace Mrs. Pearson or call a special olnptinti in fill tho nnct Mayor Barry Wood commended Mrs, Pearson for her contributions and ex- pressed regret that she is leaving.

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Aides said the President chose the university to launch his candidacy in order to rebut symbolically the notion that he lacked the scope, depth and foresight to be more than a caretaker chief executive. Ford contended in his address that he (Continued on Page 2) Second debate to be held in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (UPI i San Francisco's War Memorial complex, birthplace of the United Nations, has been chosen for the second nationally-televised debate between President Ford and challenger Jimmy Carter. The Veteran's Auditorium in the complex near City Hall was chosen as the Oct. 6 debate site Wednesday by the League of Women's Voters, which is organizing the event. The participants approval of the selected site was expected to be a mere formality.

The first debate takes place Sept. 23 in Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater. A third debate is scheduled for Oct. 22. the student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, that described the President as "fumble-fumps Ford" and a "proven enemy of higher education" and asked rhetorically if he was "the university's most notorious alumnus." In addition, a score of students questioned Ford sharply about such matters as his pardon of former President Rich relations with the developing countries, the role of values in policy, and policy objectives.

The idea for these fact-finding missions came from the public affairs bureau of the State Department and were intended to complement Kissinger's own series of "heartland" speeches which he began a year and a half ago and still continues. The purpose of the "heartland" speeches was for Kissinger to take his case on foreign policy directly to local communities. The reports of his aides indicated that he had not been successful in getting his ideas across. The report from Pittsburgh, for example, stated that "despite your own major efforts, the department as a whole has not come to grips with a fairly serious communications problem." This report was written by Deputy Under Secretary of State Laurence S. Eagle-burger, and assistant secretaries Winston Lord, Samuel W.

Lewis, and George S. Vest. They spelled out four general reactions to policy: being 'insufficiently concerned with the protection of human rights' for letting Moscow get the better of detente, for conducting covert operations, and for not doing enough about domestic priorities and the needs of developing nations. The "town meetings" began in Pittsburgh last Feb. 18 and ended in Milwaukee on April 30, after sessions in Portland, San Francisco, and Minneapolis.

The format was about the same for each. Local world affairs councils and universities would arrange day-long meetings between four senior Kissinger aides and local businessmen, labor leaders, academicians, and ethnic groups. The aides would 'listen' to their views and answer questions. Television time was arranged to answer questions on the air. In addition, public opinion surveys were conducted of 300 citizens in each area.

In four out of five casesthe public opinion surveys matched the impressions the aides received from the meetings. The meetings and the surveys covered four issues: Soviet-American relations,.