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Red Bluff VOL. 88--NO. 150 DRILY NEWS RED BLUFF. CALIFORNIA --WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1971 Teh a ma County 10 CENTS ESTABLISHED 1885 Jess Unruh Visits District Attorney Opinion Town Of Cottonwood No Doctor Standby Fee IKI "T3MBMHBBL Wk. By COLIN DAVIES Onetime political power- broker Jesse Unruh visited Cottonwood on behalf of a land a yesterday but admitted "things ain't what they used to be." The cool, master politician didn't hide his feelings about losing to Ronald Reagan in last November's governors race.

"It's nice being here, but I'd sooner be in Sacramento," he told a crowd of 350 persons attending a free barbecue lunch on the town's facelifted Front Street. Unruh, sporting a mod mustache not evident during the elections, said he has no qualms about discussing politics but "doesn't matter what I say people shout sour grapes." He said despite his Texas birthplace he considers himself a Californian boy and is dismayed at the way the Governor's administration is handling things. "Politically Reagan's doing one helluva job He's dominating this state with the welfare issue and making it look as though we Democrats are backing the freeloading bums. But really he isn't terribly interested "Although Reagan took a beating at the polls, lost his house majority and suffered a setback by Senator Murphy's defeat, his politicking has made him dominant on the political scene," Unruh continued. Although he has no immediate plans, Unruh is still making himself available for speaking engagements to keep in the public eye, something a man out of office finds hard to accomplish.

Admitting he's lost some of his power "now I don't coerce, just persuade," Unruh insists his party machine is still functioning. "I have the capability of mounting a campaign but that's not to say there's an intent to," he added quickly. Noting that he carried south Shasta district against Reagan, said he welcomed the opportunity of being back in the area as environment consultant for North American Town's Battle Creek News Of World In Brief MAINSTREETING But on this occasion former assembly speaker Jesse Unruh visits Cottonwood on behalf of a land company and talks to a luncheon crowd beneath a Street saddlery. (Daily News photo by Colin Davies) a i a development 10 miles east of Cottonwood on the Sacramento River. Speaking about this project, Unruh said it would probably be nice if citizens were able to keep their "pristine natural habitat" as a blessing unto themselves "But since there's no way to preclude people pouring into these wonderful northern counties, there is a need for stringent controls on how this land is aevdoped," he said When complete the complex will include boating, swimming, fishing, equestrian, picnicking and hiking facilities.

Another highlight will be a game farm that includes zebra, llama, antelope deer and buffalo stock An essential part of the developer's involvement is the refurbishing of Front Street in Cottonwood. Purchase of a four-block strip on the street's west side has (Continued on Page 10) South Vietnam Officials Blamed For Narcotics Deaths And Illness WASHINGTON (AP) A House subcommittee says high- ranking, corrupt South Vietnamese officials were involved in drug traffic that killed 40 U. S. Gls last year and accounted for 22,000 trips to sick call. No evidence was found to support an early suspicion that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were responsible for the rapid increase of heroin use by Gls in Vietnam, it said.

A there were 160 deaths due to drugs and alcohol among U. S. forces worldwide, the special House Armed Services subcommittee said in a report released Tuesday. Drugs were suspected in another 56 GI deaths in Asia and the Pacific area. The report said up to 10 per cent of U.

S. soldiers in Vietnam could be using hard drugs It blamed what it called an increasingly serious heroin problem on abundant supplies from processing laboratories in Laos, with heroin coming also from Thailand and Hong Kong. "Drug suppression in Vietnam is almost completely ineffective," it said, "partially because of an ineffective local police force and partially because some presently unknown corrupt officials in public office are involved in the drug traffic." The subcommittee, headed by Rep. G. Elliott Hagan, estimated 50 to 60 per cent of all servicemen use or have experimented with drugs, mostly marijuana, and said the percentage in Vietnam is probably higher.

Health Issues Discussed The monthly meeting of the Tehama County Comprehensive Health Council saw a wide range of discussions, including the California Medical Association's review team report. The three-hour session dealt with a a i a Zack Farmer termed "controversial issues In addition to the airing of the review team report, other subjects discussed at the meeting included the admission and care of patients at the state- funded Short-Doyle a health clinic at Tehama General Hospital. Also discussed was the program for the training and acceptance of a a i a personnel into the medical stream Taken into membership on the council at the latest meeting was Clyde Powers, assistant administrator at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Dogan Daldal, new administrator of the Corning Hospital and Earl Johnson, general manager of the Daily News. The Comprehensive Health Council meets every month on the third Tuesday Tehama County supervisors need not pay physicians' standby fees, they learned yesterday.

District Attorney Henry Goff Jr. offered his opinion that "St. Elizabeth (staff physicians) must treat whomever requests care" when the patient is in danger of loss of life or seriously ill. The physicians can't refuse to treat a patient only because the patient is a county responsibility, Goff said. He added that "no stand-by cost is appropriate." Goff's opinion came three Railroad Passenger Stop In Gerber Not Red Bluff It will still be Gerber, and not Red Bluff, as a railroad passenger stop.

That was revealed in a timetable published by AMTRAK, as the National Rail Passenger Corporation seeks to be known now, and word from Washington, D. is that Congressman Bizz Johnson is protesting. The timetable hhowi stops on the Oakland-to-Porlland run only at Davis, Gerber and Dunsmuir, Johnson said, and he declared: "Without minimizing the needs for stops at these points, especially since Davis will serve the Sacramento area and Gerber and Dunsmuir are division points, the people at AMTRAK failed in their responsibility to serve northern California by omitting stops at Red Bluff, Redding and Yreka." It had been announced earlier that AMTRAK would serve Red Bluff, but it appeared today that report may only have referred to the long-established stop at Gerber, 10 miles away. The new schedule is to go into effect Saturday. Service is to be three times a week.

Southbound trains on Monday, Thursday and Saturday will stop at Gerber at 4:45 a.m. Northbound trains on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday will stop at 12:33 a.m In his appeal to David Kendall, chairman of AMTRAK, Congressman Johnson stressed key cities on the North-South route serving as centers of a population totalling 150,000 or more. Congressman Johnson indicated he was dismayed that the schedules published did not reflect earlier pleas that he had made to provide adequately for rail passenger service through Northern California. Johnson declared: "If we are going to make a success of a National Rail Passenger system, we have got to start offering some passenger service." Mixed Emotions At Meeting Over Housing Authority A decision whether or not Tehama County will have a housing a i has been postponed until the board of supervisors' May 11 meeting. An over-crowded Board of Supervisors chambers was the fighting ground for people for and a a i the housing a i Those for the authority claimed the county was in dire need for more low cost housing, and those against argued that they don't want any more federal subsidies One argument against was the question whether Tehama (Continued on Page days before Tehama County Medical Society physicians promise to strike county patients.

The physicians set May as the deadline for the county to agree to a $25 for eight hour fee for stand-by medical coverage. The Society physicians are apparently angered because the county hospital has a doctor available only between 9 a.m. and 5 weekdays. Hector Cunningham, 524 Oak and Edward Gregory, 534 Oak won't have to move. The Shipment a rs py Levi Lee Merfs Wear Peter Lassen Square New For Also Shipment SUITS APPALL SHOP 744 Mam V01 BankAmericatd Master SPECIAL COW CAl 3IV6S FRIDAY, 10 400 Cdis Plus Regular TO if ignments SHASTA AUCTIONS YARD In Cottonwood Yard Phone 3 4 7 3 9 3 NOW AT Rachel Thompson Chaffm Mondays FridayiTNSaium.iy 8 5 FOR APRjajWTWENT 10S Kaer Ave Red I two tenants in county-owned buildings were the only bidders to rent the buildings.

The supervisors refused a request to up grade a road from the Butte County line into Campbellville in the southeast section of the county. According to Larry Coleman, county road chief, the residents about four families there year around live in an illegal subdivision and don't have enough people to warrant the all-season road. Butte County, through which Campbellv.lle residents must travel, offers a gravel road suitable only for fair weather use. Public hearings were set for May 11 on three rezoning matters. To be heard are requests to rezone three Mineral blocks from single a i residc-ntid! to open space; three lots in Antelope from single family residential to general recreation, the lots being next to the proposed Elks Club; Reed Droz, from single family i i a a i a planned development for trailers and houses.

School Boards Adopt Calendar Rehire District Superintendent By LOU WALTHER Red Bluff High School and elementary school boards meeting last night in joint session, adopted a calendar for next year, reappointed Glenn Smith district superintendent, and heard reports by five participants on a drug conference last month and the high school's drug awareness program. Also, in the course of a long session that lasted until close to midnight, the two boards held a closed-door, press-excluded executive session which apparently concerned the district's business manager, C. W. "Woody" Rzeppa. Rzeppa asked to be permitted to remain in the room when the meeting was called but the boards turned him down.

They offered, however to call him in after they had a chance to talk in secret, and they did There was no announcement of what was discussed. School next fall will start on Sept. 8, a Wednesday, the school calendar agreed on by both boards provides. It will end on June 9, a Friday. Christmas vacation will start on Monday, Dec.

20, and run through Friday, Jan. 31. Nov. 25 and 26 will be holidays at Thanksgiving. There will also be holidays on Feb.

11 and 21, five days vacation from March 27 through 31, and a holiday on May 29. i i contract is for a term of four years, beginning July 1, at a salary of $21,000 a year. The salary is to be shared equally by the high school district and the elementary school district. It is provided, however, that the contract may be altered at any time by mutual consent of Smith and the school boards. Both the California School Employes Association, which includes bus drivers, janitors, office workers all employes except the teachers and administrators and the business manager made salary proposals, but no decision was made regarding them.

They were tendered in writing. The business manager, Rzeppa, asked that he be placed on the classified salary schedule along with the members of the association. He pointed out that his present salary of $875 would not be raised immediately, but that as he served more years it (Continued on Page 10) Los Molinos Trustees Facing Higher Costs And Less Revenue By JOHN GLENN LOS MOLINOS Los Molinos School trustees face higher costs and less revenue for 1971-72, according to Don Carothers, district superintendent. Carothers told the board last night that the i i a budget was increased about $30,000, but that a $4.000 reduction in county money might be expected. The money is generated by the timber tax The assessed valuation was recently lowered by Tehama County supervisors Included in the budget were increases in teacher salary ($13,900 for two new teachers), teacher increment pay raises of $6,384, increased transportation costs of $2,000 and a $3,000 increase in non-teacher pay raises.

Carothers also juggled the budget so that state and district lunch expenditures are now lumped together, boosting that budget category $10,000 over the 70-71 cost. He said the cost, approximately $6,000 from the district and $10,000 was the same although listed differently this year There also is a 40 cent fee for lunches to be added into the revenue portion of the lunch program. "After this year," Carothers told the board, "we'll have to have a tax increase." The superintendent predicts the school will financially make it through this fiscal year by using all reserve funds. However, he said there probably will be no surplus for the 72-73 budget The board tentatively agreed to spend $300 from the community service fund to buy a public address system for school use. The system would be used at athletic events, graduations and other school programs.

The possibility of expanding the district's music program to the high school was discussed, but no action was taken other than to review the proposal Vina and Los Molinos elementary schools have music programs TO SING TONIGHT Choir members of many churches rehearse under the direction of the Rev. George Clemmons in preparation for the 15th annual Festival of Faith at the Tehama Totem Fair ground this evening Music will also be supplied by the Red Bluff Male Chorus and the Tehama County Band. The potluck supper begins at 6:30 p.m. Guest speaker will be Ron Gould, graduate student a tChico State College, who is on a study-furlough from Christian Education work in South Vietnam. WARPLANES HIT ENEMY SAIGON (AP) Waves of U.S.

warplanes attacked enemy positions on three fronts today in support of Cambodian and South Vietnamese troops. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong eased their attacks in South Vietnam after four days of shelling, but struck anew in strength along Cambodia's highway to the sea. Hand-to- hand fighting was reported 55 miles southwest of Phnom Penh along Highway 4. PROTESTORS ARRESTED WASHINGTON (AP) Police arrested about 200 antiwar activists today after they blocked the main entrance of the Selective Service System's headquarters building. The youths, protesting at the building for the second straight day, formed what they called "a carpet of bodies" in front of the main doors.

WARNING ISSUED SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A warning against use of two patterns of Italian-made cups and saucers has been issued in 11 western states by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. The administration in its announcement Tuesday said 5,000 pieces, bearing the mark "HH Italy" on the bottom had been distributed by Holt- Howard Associates of San Rafael, between February 1968 and October, 1969. STATE EMPLOYMENT DIPS SACRAMENTO (AP) The State Department of Finance says cancelled supersonic transport contracts last month had slight impact on California's aerospace industry although jobs there declined 9,700 from the February level. "The performance of the first quarter of 1971 indicates that economic recovery in California will be restrained during 1971," the report said. "There is considerable slack in the economy now DRAFT EXTENSION SEEN WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Armed Services Committee says the Senate will approve a two-year extension of the draft despite an expected stiff fight by war opponents seeking a one-year limit.

"I don't have any doubt about it myself," Sen. John C. Stennis, said Tuesday after his committee approved the draft extension measure. It also gives President Nixon authority to end college deferments. WEATHER FORECAST Generally a i through tomorrow, with some variable high cloudiness.

A little warmer today with light and variable winds. High today 80, Idw tomghi 49, high tomorrow 78 Outlook for Friday is fair Precipitation probability is zero tonight, 10 per cent tomorrow. TEMPERATURES High yesterday 75, low this morning 48 RIVER LEVELS Lake Red Bluff 15 3. Bend Bridge 21 5, Tehama 203 2 feet above sea level, Woodson Bridge 169.4. PRECIPITATION Last 24 hours None Season to date 21.29 Last year to date 20.72 Normal to date 20.37 Sunset tonight 8.01 p.m sunrise tomorrow 5:12 a.m., PDT.

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