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Friday October 15, 1976 Vol. CXXIII--No. 284 Eureka. California 28 Pages About the same The weather outlook through Saturday for Eureka and vicinity is about the same: Night and morning low clouds or fog, with partial clearing in the afternoon. Details are on page 5.

General sews up financing Long-term financing for General Hospital's purchase of the Uumboldl County hospital has been finalized, according to Andrew Lasser, chief executive officer of the private hospital. Lasser said this morning that, although formal notification has not yet been received, "We do have informal verbal communication" that agreement has been reached. Lasser added that the official written notice should be obtained by "sometime next week." According to the administrator, the only remaining hurdle is a resolution of the short-term, construction financing. When that is accomplished, he said, the hospital will announce details of the agreement and with whom it is being made. Woman's body identified CRESCENT CITY The female body discovered near Oasquct on Tuesday has been identified by the Del Norte County Sheriff's Department as that of Patricia Anne Tigard, 18, who lived in the Crescent City area.

Identification was made through dental charts. Results of the autopsy, which was performed Wednesday and will include such items as cause of death and estimated time oPdeath, will not be known for several days, according to Tom Lawry, county sheriff-coroner. The body was discovered by Caltrans employes working in a construction zone approximately four miles east of Gasquet on Highway 199. Hearst arguments dated SAN FRANCISCO (DPI) Oral arguments in Patricia Hearst's attempt to win a new trial on bank robbery charges are set for March 7. Miss Hearst, 22, was sentenced Sept.

24 to seven years in prison on charges of robbing a San Francisco bank with the Symbionese Liberation Army 10 weeks after her kidnap by the terrorist group. Miss Hearst, daughter of San Francisco Examiner President Randolph A. Hearst, was convicted by a U.S. District Court jury. She will be eligible for parole in 151- months and is serving her term at the federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, 50 miles southeast of San Francisco.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court said Thursday that the of her trial must be ready by Oct. 29. Miss Hearst still faces trial in January, in Los Angeles, or. charges of taking part with members William anc Emily Harris in a crime spree stemming from events surrounding an incident at an Inglewood, sporting goods store.

Abduction suspects guilty REDDING (UPI) A Superior Court jury Thursday night convicted two young men of kidnap and attempted murder charges in the gunshot assault of four college students who were abducted from a campground. David Englund, 19, Central Point, and Steven Caswell, 19, Anaheim, were found guilty of four counts each of attempted murder, armed robbery, kidnapping to commit robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon to commit great bodily harm. The jury deliberated 11 hours before returning the verdicts. Englunri and Caswell were accused of abducting the University of California at Santa Cruz students who had stopped at the campground 20 miles north of Redding last May 20 while en route to Crater Lake. The students were robbed, three were shot and another was pushed over a cliff.

All recovered from their wounds and injuries. The students are Jerry Grainger, 20, San Gabriel; Laura Goldman, 19, San Francisco; James MacCabe, 19, and Evanswythe Leicester, 19, Pacific Palisades. Sentencing was set for Nov. 1. Prop.

14 lags in poll SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) More than half of the state's voters who have heard of the Prop. 14 farm labor measure are against it, the California Poll reported today. The independent survey of 1,659 persons by Field Research completed last week, showed 53 per cent opposed to Prop. 14,31 per cent in favor of it and 16 per cent without an opinion. Pollsters also found voters much better informed on the issue than in a previous survey in September, when only 46 per cent of the public said they had seen or heard anything about it.

Of those who had, 51 per cent indicated support for the measure and 42 per cent were opposed to it. Awareness of Prop. 14 rose to 77 per cent in this month's poll and with it, increasing opposition. Support for the measure appeared to be spread evenly over Southern and Northern California but only voters in the 18-29 age bracket tended to back Prop. 14 as a group, according to the poll.

Democrats were evenly split on the measure. Republicans were strongly against it and blacks and Latinos representing about one in seven voters favored it. On the inside Accent on People 10 Ann Landers 11 Astro-graph 18 Classified ads 21-25 Comics '8 Commerce 14 Editorial Page 4 Entertainment Nation's Weather 5 Police, fire reports 5 Redwood Country 13 Robert Rosefsky 14 Sports 15-17 Television Log 8 BUY, SELL: Classified Ads 442-1711 Nobel panel skips Peace Prize Norway I Vhe 1976 Nobel Peace Prize will not be awarded this yearj the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced today in a two- sentence statement. The five-member committee gave no reason for its decision. "The Norwegian Storting's (parliament's) Nobel Committee has decided not to award the pence prize this year," Hie statement said.

"The prize money will be reserved for 1077." According to rules of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, two prizes could be awarded next year. If the committee decides to withhold the honor, the 5150,000 prize money will go back to the Nobel Foundation. Of the 30 times the peace prize has been reserved since it was first awarded in 1901, it was withheld 19 times--most recently in 1972. Committee sources said that among the 50 candidates considered for this year's Nobel award were Mexican President Luis Echcvcrrlu and Mother Teresa BoyaxhiU; an Albanianborn Itoman Catholic nun who has worked among the poor and the sick in Calcutta since World War II. Despite the committee's decision, Norway will have a peace prize ceremony this year.

A "People's Peace Prize," launched by a liberal member of parliament, will be given in December to Belfast housewives Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the Women's Peace Movement in Northern Ireland. Contributions for the prize are be ing collected by a group of Norwegian newspapers and. so far, about $25.000 has been raised. The first two of the 1970 series of Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday in Stockholm lo three Americans. Prof.

Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, winner of the economics prize, was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his pioneering theory of monetary policy. The Medicine Prize will be shared by Prof. Barucn Blumberg of the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and Dr. Carleton Gajdusek of Ihe. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md.

They won the award from Stockholm's Karolinska Institute for their independent studies of infectious diseases. The economics prize was established in by the Central Bank of Sweden -like the five original awards-as a tribute to the late Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor. ot dynamite. The five original prizes- medicine, physics, chemistry. peace and literature--were endowed by the wealthy Swede.

Nobel said in his" will the awards were lo be given "to those who during the preceding ycr have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." The honors awarded will bo' presented at a glittering ceremony in Stockholm's City. Hall Dec. 10. the 80th an-' niversary of Nobel's' death. The Newspaper for Northwestern California 122 Years Since 1854 Marina actions charted The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District Commission voted Thursday to pursue both a modified Island marina proposal and an investigation of a site on Elk River Spit.

On a 4 1 vote, with commissioner Harold Christiansen dissenting, it was agreed to "keep both pots on the burner at the same time" so that if one alternative failed no time would be lost. Christiansen said he was against spending any more than the already expended towards investigating marina sites. From talks with com mercial fishermen, Christiansen said, their feeling was that if the district 'did not go ahead with Woodley Island, they "didn't want a halfway marina." "There is no doubt in my mind that this (Woudley Island) is the best site," Christiansen said. Commissioner Richard For Eureka couple, it's a girl-three times! TRIPLETS WERE born in the early morning hours today at General Hospital to Russell and Polly Fuller, 225 W. Sonoma St.

Dr. Ted Loring delivered the three girls, from the left, Amy, a.m..four pounds, five, ounces; Andrea, 2:47 a.m., four pounds, one ounce; and Allison, 3:30 a.m., three pounds, 12 ounces. The babies are under the care of Dr. Kenneth Cazeneuve, pediatrician. Jeane Jenkins, R.N-., said both mother and girls "are doing well." The father is a reserve officer for'the Eureka Police Department.

flidenhour advised the commission to follow succession of steps fully considering each alternative before resubmitting an application to the North Coast Regional California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission. He said the commission would thus be" in a less vulnerable public position than it would by jumping to a conclusion on the Woodley 1st and site. Commissioner James Cast moved that the commission "proceed on parallel lines with all due haste." spending additional funds to protect the district's original investment. One of those parallel courses involves a feasibility report on an Elk River Spit marina to be compiled by Winzler and Kelly Consulting Engineers. Deliberations by an ad hoc committee studying marina sites indicated several' drawbacks to a marina at Elk River including vulnerability to storms from virtually all directions, siltation and congestion in the shipping channel.

A rough preliminary cost estimate indicated the site won! cost more than S10 million to develop, with the probability that commercial fishermen would not utilize the facility. In addition, Gary Monroe of the State Department of Fish and Game (DFG) said a marina on Elk River Spit (Continued on Page 2) Coastal panel approves firm's expansion New construction and expansion at Mid-City Motor World on Highway 101 at the north end of Eureka was unanimously approved Thursday by the North Coast Regional Coastal Commission. The regional commission had postponed a decision on the application at its Sept. fl session because of concern expressed by some commissioners regarding the proximity of the development to the Murray Field airport. According lo a letter received from Dave Zebo, county aviation director, the additions would not create any hazardous conditions at the air field, the commission staff said.

Robert Lagle, executive director of the North Coast commission staff, said changes in permit construction sites before Thursday's session cancelled the need for official clearance with the aviation director. The new placement of. the building, Lagle's staff reported, created no danger to the airport facility and met with its approval. Lagle added that ho was convinced that the possibility of strip development along Highway ifll.between Eureka and Arcata, a constant source of controversy, had no hearing on me Mid-City permit application. During the September hearing in Fort Bragg, environmental spokesmen had warned commissioners that there is a trend towards such development in the predomnantly open area between the two cities.

Both regional staff and commissioners said, however, that this project would not encroach on existing agricultural lands or wildlife habitat because it was increasing the use of an existing pa asing arcel. Lagle conceded that, if the auto dealership did not already exist, there was "little likelihood" the permit could be approved. A similar concern of over such development was addressed this year during the commission's consideration of the Humboldt Bay Wastewater Authority's regional sewage system. Because of the possibility of promoting residential and commercial development along areas now undeveloped, commissioners asked for (Continuedon Page2) States resume flu shots By SCOTT MACLEOD United Press International The U.S. swine flu immunization-program, given a clean bill of health by the government's top physician, was resumed today by all bui three states.

Dr. Theodore Cooper, assistant secretary for Health, Education and Welfare, in Washington, cleared the vaccine of any responsibility in the deaths of 14 persons including the initial Pittsburgh trio -which the CDC said died within 48 hours of receiving doses. Cooper also stated there nothing wrong with the way the vaccinations were administered to the deceased. However, no question at the present time that the program is adversely affected," he said. President Ford and members of the First Family were inoculated at the White House to back claims that the administration's S135 million nationwide prevention plan was safe for Americans.

Only Wisconsin, Michigan and Maine continued their ban on the shots. Alaska, New Mexico, Texas, Vermont, Illinois, Virginia, Louisiana and Allegheny County, Pa. (Pittsburgh) health authorities have announced resumptions of immunizations. The states had banned flu shots following the deaths of three persons Monday in Pittsburgh, who were vaccinated at the same neigh- borhood clinic at the same time and then died a few hours later. "Once we determined that, with the possible exception of Pittsburgh, all of the deaths were due to natural causes unrelated to the influenza immunization we felt we could proceed with nur program as planned," said New Mexico state epidemiologist Dr.

Jonathan Dr. Fratus Duff, commissioner of the Texas Department of Health Resources, said: "I thought it was prudent to stop the program because of Ihe almost hysteria existing because of the deaths. But people are going lo die, particularly in that age group. They have their facts Farm worker conditions key 14 debate ARCATA The ramifications of Proposition 14, the farm labor initiative on the November uailot, were debated before group scattered on the lawns of the Humboidl SLale University campus Thursday afternoon. The debate, co-sponsored by Straight Arrow Coalition and the "Yes on 14" committee, featured Third District Supervisor John Corbet! arguing for the initiative and attorney Dennis Sacramento, arguinR against Prop.

14. Both sides played heavily on the conditions of the farm workers whose rights, Ihey said, would be infringed either with or without (depending who spoke) the passage of Prop. 14. Corbett, emphasizing the "back-breaking work" and the "high pesticide exposure" of the farm laborers, argued that the right to organize on the union level should be extended to agricultural communities as it had been "to all other segments o( American society." Wilson, the organizational director for the Committee for Fair Farm Labor Laws, aiso sympathized with Ihe farm laborers, but insisted that their problems would not change by the passing of the initiative. "The truth is, there's a tremendous social problem in America and.

the farm workers are the guys who've been getting the short end of the stick," Wilson said. However, he added that adoption of the farm labor initiative would further hamper those workers from changing from one union to another. Willie the current Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) of 1975 requires that petitions must be signed by 30 per cent of the people who wish lo change unions before an election could be held, Wilson said the proposed initiative increases that number to 50 per cent. Corbett, however, told the audience he had "confidence that argiculture is as capable of coping with Ihe union activities as is all other industry in the United States." Corbett said he favored the initiative because it would "put into concrete tree secret elections and provide enough access for workers to have adequate information to intelligently vote." Wilson took issue with the "locked in concrete" statement, explaining that if there were a provision in Ihe statute which farm unions eventually opposed, no changes could be made without a vote of the people. He added that such a vote (Continued on Page 2) straight now." The federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta planned to add today lo its official list of 14 persons it has confirmed died within two days following flu shots.

The listing only means the person died following a flu shot, not that the flu shot has been implicated in the death. On the contrary, the CDC said many of the deaths already have been traced to other causes. CDC investigators were looking into unofficial reports that at least 42 persons died nationwide sometime after receiving an inoculation since the government's program bceanOct. 1. Bay Area man dies SUNNYVALE, Calif.

I Joseph E. Slatlery, 75, who suffered from a heart condition and diabetes, within hours after receiving a swine flu shot, Santa Clara County health officials disclosed Thursday. Slattery, a retired Massachusetts police officer, died in his sleep of heart failure Wednesday night about 12 hours after being incoulated at the Sunnyvale Community Center. Both local and state heallh officials said it was a coincidence. Phone, Cable TV rights-of-way bids fail Directors of the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District Thursday turned down requests of Pacific Telephone and HB Cable TV for rights- of-way across HBMWD land at F.SSCX on Ihe Mad River.

The request rejection for II- Cable TV, the second for the company, means residents of Blue Lake have been blocked in their efforts to obtain cable television service for their community. Both the telephone company and the television' company wanted permission to string wires along four utility poles on HBMWD property. The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was recently granted a similar right-of- way" across the same land, and the other two companies wanted to put their wires on PGE poles, under a joint pole agreement among the utilities and quasi-utllities. PGE had fought for the right-ot-way for a lengthy time before finally winning it on Sept.

10. District directors had said at that time that it was water district policy not lo encumber KBMWD land with structures belonging to other groups. Director Herbert Urban nl the right-of-way to Pacific Telephone, and board president Walter Warren seconded the motion. But directors Fred Slack, Adrian Robinson and John Bauricdel voted against the motion. Director Herbert Urban! moved to grant the right-of- way to Pacilic Telephone, and board president Walter Warren seconded the motion.

But directors Fred Slack, Adrian Robinson and John Bauriedcl voted against the motion. way to HB Cable TV, although Urban told the board before that vote was taken such a vote would be "deliberately obstructionist." The cable television company's representative, Dayton Murray, told the board there was no other possible route for his com-, pany to take to reach Blue Lake. All the lines have been built, he said, on both sides ol HBMWD property to reach the town. Murray said the company was willing to accept a 10- year lease agreement instead of a permanent nght-ot-way agreement, but the board still voted it down. Directors Slack, Bauriedcl and Robinson gave no reasons for their votes..