Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 20

20 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1988. 11 arrested in largest Fort Bragg drug bust city. information is still sketchy from the coastal city, but i it investigation appears by the arrests task resulting force were from a month made around a.m. today. A spokeswoman of the Fort Bragg Police Department said 11 people were arrested in six locations in and around Fort Bragg.

More than one pound of heroin valued at over $100,000, cocaine, purcodan, darvocet, $100,000 in cash, an undisclosed number of food stamps, drug paraphernalia, and weapons were seized with the Superior Court search warrants, said the spokeswoman. It's unclear where in the city the items were seized and where the people were arrested, but it appears the heroin was seized on Toad Haul Road in Comptche, less than 30 miles from Fort Bragg. County Undersheriff Alvie Rochester said at presstime, the raid was still going on and "a number" of people would be in custody at the county jail before the day was through. He said people already arrested in the raid were either being held at the Fort Bragg jail or were being transported to the county jail. He had no further information this morning.

The Fort Bragg police spokeswoman said the task force was aided by state Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotics, the Fort Bragg Police Department, the county sheriff's department, the Lake County Task Force, and the County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team. She said 32 officers participated in the raid. FORT BRAGG Eleven people were arrested today in Fort Bragg by the Mendocino County- Wide Narcotics Task Force in the largest drug in that a THE UKIAH -Traditions- Continued from Page 1 Bad boys and girls in the Bleier family actually receive rocks and sticks. Somehow, though, these items have only turned up in Dad's stocking. My musical neighbors, Jeff and Marilyn Simpson, are going to start a new Christmas tradition this year that they've always wanted to do.

Their youngest daughter, Adrienne, 7, has learned to hold down a melody on her own. Now she can join sister Melanie and her parents in singing Christmas carols in fourpart harmony. A group of 11 friends from the Savings Bank of Mendocino County have been carrying on a unique gift-swapping tradition for the past eight years. First they hold a secret name drawing. Then, 10 days before Christmas, each person becomes a Kris Kringle to the person whose name they've drawn.

Each day a small gift is mysteriously left for them to find. "It's great," says escrow secretary Yvette McNally. "They're hidden everywhere at work and we have to find them. They've been under the desk, in the coffee room, even in the coffee grounds." Then, on the last working day before Christmas, they hold a Christmas party where a main gift is exchanged. At that time, they reveal who's been giving gifts to whom.

McNally doesn't know who started the tradition, but she says it's a fun one she knows will carry on. I'll bet the best part is playing at work, and being able to open presents before Christmas! Several families told me about ethnic eating traditions they have much like my own. Dan Updegraff of POLICE AND FIRE LOG -Crash- Holiday-spirited cat sets off burglar alarm A frisky kitty playing with a Christmas tree set off a burglar alarm at the Century Video Store on South State St. Ukiah police responding to the 6:30 a.m. incident discovered the "cat burglar" was a 7-month-old half-Siamese cat named "Pcepec." Peepce had apparently been "running all around, pulling all the ornaments off the tree," according to reports.

Video store and cat owner Don Tubbs said he's a bit embarrassed by the incident. He's been boarding Peepce at work temporarily so he can keep a better eye on during working hours. The frisky cat is planning to give him kittens for Christmas. accident near Fort Bragg A two-car accident on state Highway 20 near Fort Bragg injured five people on Thursday. Most of the injuries were minor from the 6:30 p.m.

crash that occurred miles east of state Highway 1. Brian Petersen, 22, of Horseshoe Bend, Ind. was driving east at an excessive rate of speed, according to the California Highway Patrol. He rounded a sharp curve and crossed over into the westbound traffic lane, where his Toyota Celica hit a Nissan Sentra head-on. The Sentra was driven by Yvonne Burrows, 39, of Fort Bragg.

She suffered moderate injuries and was taken to Mendocino Coast Hospital. Her passengers, Sarah Crail, 16, and Amelia Armstrong, 6, both of Fort Bragg, had minor injuries. Petersen and his passenger, Stcphanie Jones, 14, of Anderson, had minor injuries. Fire calls The Ukiah Fire Department has responded to the following calls since 8 a.m. Thursday.

8:29 a.m., 145 Washington Court, odor investigation. 11:15 a.m., 245 Norton medical aid. 03:44 p.m., 1364 Rose medical aid. 05:56 p.m., 184 Court medical aid. 0 1:50 a.m.

today, 720 N. State medical aid. 05:58 a.m. today, 206 Rosemary Lane, medical aid. Enga M.

(Marge) Scatena A memorial service for Enga M. (Marge) Scatena, 69, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Eversole Mortuary. Father Gerry Gormley will officiate. Scatena died Thursday at a local hospital.

She was born Jan. 15, 1919 in Missouri and was a Redwood Valley resident at the time of her death. She was the retired owner of Scatena Flower and Gift in Burlingame and owner of Belli Belli Flower Shop on Market Street in San Francisco. She is reported to have been the first woman police officer in Burlingame. Survivors are two children, James Scatena and Bob Scatena of Redwood Valley, and five grandchildren, Memorial contributions to the Redwood Fire Department Building Fund are preferred by the family.

Cremation was at Evergreen Memorial Gardens. Allen Leon Rhoades A private memorial service will be held at a later date for Allen Leon Rhoades, 44. Rhoades died Wednesday in Laytonville. Born Oct. 31, 1944 in San Francisco, he lived in Laytonville for three years, coming from Sonoma where he resided 15 years.

He was a self-employed mechanic for 25 years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church in Laytonville and served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict. WEATHER By the Associated Press California summary The storm that struck California on Thursday moved out of the state during the night, but on its heels was another system which was forecast to trigger rain and snow showers over the holiday weekend. The approaching storm was expected to reach the north coast tonight, then spread across the state over the weekend.

It will bring widespread rain to the lower elevations and snow to the mountains, along with some high winds, the National Weather Service said. The highest reported rainfall Thursday night was about 3 inches in the coastal mountains near Big Sur. In addition, a few pockets of fog formed in the inland valleys during the night, and cut the visibility at Fresno and Paso Robles to one quarter of a mile. Temperatures Friday night low to 5 a.m. PST.

Temperatures Indicate previous day's high and over- DAILY JOURNAL- Hopland has an Italian wife (Carol) who prepares a ravioli feast on Christmas Eve. Larry Pacini of Talmage makes all types of Italian seafood dishes for his grown-up daughters who join him on Christmas Eve. Daughter Lorie says the menu includes specialties such as spaghetti with clam sauce, scampi and cioppino. The following day, Lorie jokes, she joins her boyfriend's family for traditional Christmas "honky food." Relatives of Fedro and Mercedes Lopez look forward each Christmas Eve to tamales and bunuelos (a fried tortilla with sugar and cinammon.) But the most special tradition at the Lopez house is a "naciomento" the Spanish name for a creche, orrecreation of the Nativity scene. Mercedes Lopez uses her imagination to create an claborate manger scene with many details.

Her grandchildren take great joy in helping to add a tree, an angel, or a little toy to the artpiece. Christmas Eve at Bob and Neneng Page's home is an all-night affair dedicated to "being merry," says Neneng. She's a Philippines native who married a Navy recruiter, and the couple has been combining their native customs ever since. The Pages and their Christmas Eve guests stay up all night "whether they're young or old," says Nenang. To stay awake, they first attend 1 midnight Mass, then play games, watch movies and cat a staple Philippine food rice.

"We eat at 2 or 3 a.m. and everything has rice in it rice cake, rice soup, rice says Nenang. Everyone tries to make it through without sleeping in time to see the dawning of Christmas morning. And what do they do on Christmas? "Well, that's one day of sleep," laughs Nenang. FBI Director William Sessions told reporters in San Francisco he had reports of numerous callers claiming responsibility, including some who claimed affiliation with terrorist groups.

"Depending on where a bomb is placed, even a relatively small explosive device can fatally cripple an aircraft," John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, said in Washington. He said he knew of no evidence that a bomb brought down the jetliner. "Speculation is not evidence," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said during a visit to the crash scene Thursday. The search for answers includes Scotland Yard's investigation at Heathrow International Airport, where Flight 103 stopped for 65 minutes Wednesday for a change of planes before heading on to New York. The flight originated in Frankfurt, West Germany.

Hans Neusel, state secretary at West Germany's Interior Ministry, said Thursday that the Bonn government's Federal Criminal Office "was in continuous, close contact with Scotland Yard." U.S. Ambassador Charles H. Price Il and British Cabinet minister Malcolm Rifkind, the secretary of state for Scotland, both said they were convinced an explosion occurred aboard the plane after inspecting the wreckage. Price said the embassy was told Dec. 9 of a warning from "an untested source in terms of reliability" of a terrorist threat to Pan Am.

The State Department said an anonymous caller told the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki on Dec. 5 that "an unidentified person in Helsinki would unwittingly take the device Some people have traditions they practice on New Year's Day, other than just watching football or nursing a hangover. My boss Tom Reeves and his wife Bev have an unusual New Year's Day custom that's carried over from their Southern roots. Every year on the New Year they eat black-eyed peas which the Southerners believe will bring prosperity.

Sometimes those black-eyed peas haven't been so easy to find. Bev says she had to really hunt for them one time when the couple was in New York. She finally found canned ones in a supermarket. Only once has the unusual eating custom actually worked, she said. Jokes Bev, "It was back in 1951, when I married my first husband who was from a wealthy family.

That's the closest I've ever come to prosperity." Henry Plymire of Willits reports that his father, the late William Henry Plymire II, used to like to ring in the New Year with a real live "BANG!" The elder Plymire had a monument shop in Marysville in the 1930s. Each New Year's Eve he'd load up all the guns, pistols, rifles, shotguns, and a small cannon that young Henry was allowed to fire. At the stroke of midnight, father and son would as fast as they could shoot them all off toward the bottom of a nearby river. "The lights would come on all over West Marysville," recalls Plymire. "Many persons would come seeking, including sometimes the Marysville Police Department.

However, my dad and I would have smartly retired to bed in very short order, knowing we had suitably helped bring in the New Don't be alarmed, Willits police. Plymire says he no longer owns any guns. Continued from Page 1 Investigation Branch told a news conference: "We have no evidence whatsoever yet of sabotage," but added this did not mean sabotage was ruled out. He said the spread of debris over many miles was "not unusual," since the plane was six miles high and winds were 115 knots. "In these circumstances a lot of the debris is going to be sent a very long distance." In Israel, Foreign Minister Moshe Arens today linked the crash to Palestinian factions.

An Israeli newspaper and terror experts blamed Syrian-backed radical groups opposed to the U.S.-PLO dialogue. Arens, interviewed in Hebrew on Israel radio, said that "based on our assumptions, and those of our experts, this is an operation of international terror, apparently Arab international Mcanwhile, the Israeli newspaper The Nation quoted unidentified Western intelligence sources as saying the Syrian-backed Ahmed Jibril group was responsible. It said investigators believed that at least one person aboard could be identified as belonging to Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command group. In a report from London, a correspondent for Israel radio's English service said the passengers included two members of a secret U.S. State Department team returning from Lebanon where they had negotiated for the release of American hostages.

In Carlisle, 33 miles from Lockerbie, relatives of the 258 people who died on the Boeing 747 began gathering to identify the remains of loved ones. Another 22 people reportedly died on the ground at Lockerbie. Christmas Continued from Page I had best get their cash early banks, savings and loans and credit unions are closed Monday. MTA will shut down regular service at 7 p.m. Saturday until Monday morning, when Dial-a-Ride service will operate in Ukiah from 7 a.m.

to 10 p.m. The coast van will run from Fort Bragg to Point Arena to Ukiah and return, but there will be no inland bus service Monday. MTA is offering free taxi rides for people who've had too much to drink. The service will be offered tonight and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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to Frankfurt and eventually onto the U.S.-bound Finnish flight." The Foreign Ministry said Thursday an Arab resident made several bomb threats during the year, most recently on Dec. 5, but that "in the investigation so far, no direct connection has been found between the Arab living in Finland and the air accident in question." wise I Winter Wonderland The sparkle, glow and brilliance of Christmas is all around. At this most beautiful time, we'd like to say thanks for your friendship and support. The JEWELRY Store 280 S. School St.

Downtown Uklah Survivors are his four children, David, Tammy, Terry and Kathy Rhodes; stepfather, Edward Simpson of Sonora; twin sister, Carol Brockman of Clearlake; nephew and godson Mark Brockman, Jr. of Clearlake; and three nieces. Memorial contributions to the Tuberculosis Foundation are preferred by the family. Inurnment will be private. Arrangements are under the direction of Anker-Lucier Mortuary in Willits.

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