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fit SuxJay.JUnol, 1986 D-5 Examiner Chronicle San Francisco Examiner both of South San Francisco. "The crowd started kicking and pummeling this guy," said Nelson, adding that Shon endangered himself protecting Heuton. "He (Heu-ton) was pretty thoroughly beaten up," but was not hospitalized. When Gomez was placed in a San Mateo County Sheriff's Depart-' ment car, Nelson said, the teen-agers kicked and pounded on the windows and doors. Gomez was charged with attempted murder and armed robbery.

Heuton was booked on an outstanding armed-robbery warrant pending further investigation. The" other two arfesied men were not Identified. BRAWL From B-1 student from Mlllbrae was stabbed several times in the chest Nelson said the 17 year-old boy was stabbed after "Jumping In to rescue two other kids who had tried to retrieve the keg." The victim was In stable condition lart night in the intensive-care unit at Mills Memorial Hospital In San Mateo. Nelson said the crowd of teen-agers "went berserk" after he and Ranger Ken Scbon grabbed two of the suspects. Identified as Douglas Ileuton, 20, and Charles Gomez, 20, -r' -7v Examiner graphic .1, i JMontara State Beach Pacific.

VHifiooi Ocoan 122J I MAIL From B-1 i "It was hard for me. There was North Spud Island, South Spud Island, Hog Island. I had a map, but maps aren't that accurate. By the third day I hadn't found all the places, but I wasn't quite so bad." He pulled a letter from his pouch. "Look at this," he said.

The letter was addressed to a Mr. Patterson, Light 19, Spud Island, Main Channel, Stockton. "Some letters would just be addressed to a river boat or a river route. It was really confusing. I just kept asking people." Bridges' day starts at 8:30 a.m.

In Stockton's North Station Annex. When things go right he finishes his route by 3 p.m. On other days, when the rain, falls cold, the wind blows hard or the fog chokes the channels so badly a compass is needed to tell fore from aft, Bridges gets home later, sometimes much later. the contract they said, 'What kind of boat do you I said, 'I don't' Bridges promptly went out and paid $5,500 for a boat with an 80-horsepower engine. That was the easy part Learning the route was arduous.

Bridge's predecessor was angry that he didn't get the contract and refused to show him the ropes. A cat-and-mouse game ensued, with a determined Bridges following the other mailman at a distance, trying to memorize the route. Sometimes the other fellow took shortcuts and left Bridges lost in the reeds. His first day on the job was a Saturday and the Delta was filled with fun-seekers. "I was so embarrassed trying to put into one dock," he said.

"I banged into it, missed the box completely and bad to go around. Then 1 went back on Sunday (his day off), looking for the boxes I missed. iffciairi Examiner Tom Duncan breed to live out here," Bridges said, opening the mailbox. "People are laid-back. Some of them don't check their mailboxes for weeks." A former Insurance agent and air-traffic controller, Bridges was awarded the Postal Service contract for his watery route In August, beating out more than a dozen other bidders.

He wouldn't reveal how much he bid for the job, saying regulations prohibited it According to the Postal Service, Bridges is one of 68 people nationally who deliver mail by water, mostly in spots like the Delta or the Louisiana bayou country. "I read about this job 15 years ago," Bridges said. "There was a story in the newspaper. I thought then, 'I'd like to try if After I got Ants-war danco Spear, was hosted by actor Ed Asner. It was a benefit for the San Francisco chapter of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze organization and the Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.

The promoters hoped to raise $125,000 for the groups. Members of Sistah Boom, a women's percussion and dance ensemble, performed at Give Peace a Dance yesterday at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The 12-hour event, which also included performances by blues great John Lee Hooker and the band Zulu MANDEL From B-1 t( constantly calling and saying, 'Check out His stories were always making waves when I was in the Philippines (at the time of the election and revolution). Phil's one of the best reporters on the Philippines. He was also one of the first, and people i should get credit for being first on a story." 1 So why didn't Bain mention him in his CJR article? "Well," he replied, "I only had a certain amount of room.

I couldn't mention everybody. It's no reflection on Phil." What Bain was really saying, I think, was that his editors at the CJR wouldn't have believed praise for Bronstein because few people in New York, other than Philippine buffs, ever heard of him. Could it be that by citing Bronstein's work, Bain would have undercut his own credibility? This Eastern process of herd-bonding, of reinforcing commonly shared geographical misinformation and ignorance, is unfair to the rest of the nation, which consumes Eastern-generated media chatter as fact. The New York sachems have lately paid lip service to their provincialism by getting network news anchors out of New York to sit on their famous posteriors somewhere "out there." But, according to a recent Cornell University study, the top six network TV reporters in terms of on-air appearances in 1985 were all based, predictably, in Washington. Western branch of the Eastern media Establishment.

(Knight-Ridder's Philadelphia Inquirer, edited by former top New YorkTimesman Gene Roberts, considers it a bad year when it wins only one Pulitzer. This year it won two. I worked at the Inquirer under Roberts before coming to The Examiner. The Inquirer has its strengths, but The Examiner covers its area in far greater depth.) Bronstein deserved some credit, at least, in an article headlined "How the Press Helped to Topple a Tyrant" in the current issue of the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), the most respected journalism industry magazine, which is published in New York. The piece was one of the longest in the CJR's recent history, but author David Haward Bain of New York, while bowing toward the usual suspects the New York Times.

Washington Post. Village Voice, the networks, etc. found no space to mention the contributions of Bronstein or The Examiner. "Everyone knows Bronstein's work on the Philippines," Bain told me in a recent phone interview. "It had great impact in Washington and Manila.

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