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2 The NAPA REGISTER Tuesday, January 18, 1983 iteoi TTh (BuMoug) -cSl Rombauel and George Altamura. Also, major additions to wineries and storage facilities were undertaken by Trefethen Vineyards and Winery, Hanns Komell, Schramsberg Vineyards, Robert Mondavi Winery and Duckhom Vineyards, according to reports compiled by the Napa County Conservation, Development and Planning Department. In Napa City, construction of the Cinedome movie theater complex off of Soscol Avenue featuring distinctive domes pleased some with its unique architecture but rankled others. As 1982 came to an end, work also began on a 117-unit motel off of Solano Avenue, Pacific Telephone moved into a new building on Imperial Way. Home Savings was erecting a branch office on Trancas Avenue and finishing touches were bing applied to a 70-unit subsidized housing project on Browns Valley Road.

Several other projects sputtered. Main Street Exchange, an ambitious million dollar renovation of the Mathis Building along Main Street, was completed in summer but has yet to open. Demolition work preparatory to renovation of the downtown Plaza Hotel, now called Alexandria Square, was only half completed before work was stopped. Workers were pulled off of foundation work for a major motel project at Soscol and Imola avenue in late summer, returning to work last week. 1983 should see several major new buildings added to the area.

Permits have been issued for a $1.2 million nursing home in Napa and Longs Drug Store will attempt to win city approval for a Trancas Street location. Renovation of the Napa Opera House should continue as it heads into its new life as a shop, restaurant and office complex. Developers hope to break ground on a $20-million expansion of Calistoga Pacheteau Springs Resort in summer. Recreation facilities, eating establishments and 109 resort suites would be added to the existing structure. Completion would be in 1984.

The late 1982 building flurry is money in the bank for the city. Developers paid $216,698 in fees to Napa City in 1982, and handed over $1.2 million in school mitigation and bedroom taxes. Napa's traffic mitigation tax, designed to collect funds for road projects necessitated by new developments, was instituted in 1982 and put $89,520 into city coffers. Year-end construction in Napa brightened an otherwise dismal year for those involved in the building industry. Through November, construction employment in the Napa-Solano area was off 8.5 percent frm 1981, reported Joe Preston of the Economic Development Department.

That translates to approximately 350 fewer jobs. skW (Continued from Page 1) If there was one factor contributing to the construction success, it was Queen of the Valley Hospital. It will begin construction next month on a $13 million nursing wing to house all the hospitals beds. Completion is expected in 1984. That project was responsible for 66.3 percent of the citys total.

Of notable interest to city officials were the number of housing units built approved last year: 397. That represented a 270-unit or 212 percent increase. With a rental vacancy rate of less than 2 percent, the addition of 243 apartment units will be a relief, although at least 150 of those are targeted for subsidized housing programs. Still, the addition of units should free up existing apartments, city officials believe. For the least three years, only six apartment units had been added to Napash housing stock.

The city in 1982 issued permits for construction of 112 condominium units, 33 single-family homes (believed to be a record low), one duplex and two multi-family projects. The citys grand December building figure was bolstered by four projects: the Queens $13 million ad-diton; the $3.7 million, 84-unit Napa Creek Manor senior housing complex at Jefferson Street and Calistoga Avenue; Cayetano Partnerships $1.2 million, 30-townhouse complex along the 100 block of Adobe Lane and Creekside Park Associations plans for 70 apartments on the 2600 block of First Street, valued at $1.9 million. The sudden flurry in building interest on behalf of developers may be due attempts to qualify for year-end tax write-offs, speculated Napa City Chief Building Inspector Graham Lang. Falling interest rates on construction loans also have sparked some development interest, officials said. Building activity in the rest of the county was quiet last month, accounting for just $1.5 million.

For the year, building activity in most other cities in the county was off in 1982. Only Calistoga increased, from $1.3 million in permits issued to $1.5 million. Yountville dropped from $2.7 million to $218,108, SL Helena from $9.4 million to $2.5 million and unincorporated areas from $41.1 million to $39 million. The Napa Valley landscape had some new addition in 1981 with completion of several major projects. Upvalley, The Cement Works shopping mall was built along Highway 29 between St.

Helena and Calistoga. In Yountville, residents watched Vintage Estates began to take shape, a large condominium and single-family home planned development Growth continued in the wine industry with seven new operations receiving building permits valued at $3.9 million: Cain Cellars, Monticel-Io, Silver Oak, Vichon, Vineyard Hill, downtown, Walnut Village condominiums along South Freeway Drive near Imola Avenue and 70 units of subsidized housing on Browns Valley Road, developed by James Price. Spurred by almost 20 million in building permits taken out in December, Napa City enjoyed its second highest building activity year, pensioners to save $169 billion by 1990. But those recommendations erase only two-thirds of Social Securitys 75-year cash shortfall. The commission agreed to disagree on how Congress should come up with the rest of the money.

Commission Chairman Alan Greenspan said he and others would recommend hiking the retirement age. The retirement age proposal, circulated in draft form Monday by commission staff, would close the gap by: Raising the 65-year retirement age by one month a year, beginning in the year 2000, until it reached 66 in 2015. Americans bom in 1938 would have to wait an extra month to retire those bom after 1949 would wait a full year. For Those Born After '49 Age 66 Retirement Possible t'- NAPAS CHARACTER took on some new looks in 1982 with addition of these three major buildings. Shown from top to bottom are the Cinedome four-theater complex Chase Probe Continues SANTA ROSA The man shot to death in a River Road fight north of here last Wednesday and one of his accused assailants have been identified by Sonoma County Sheriffs investigators, but there is as yet no motive for the shooting.

The victim has been identified as Jon Charles Hellyar, 30, of Lakeside, San Diego County. He was shot at least twice in the head from point-blank range. One of the two accused assailants, who led lawmen on a wild, 45-minute, 35-mile chase through Sonoma and Napa counties, winding up in a vineyard south of Calistoga, has been positively identified as Sue Thornell Hamilton, 40. Deputies had to identify the woman through a fingerprint check. She has refused to talk with investigators since the shooting.

Records showed Hamilton once lived in Arizona, but her whereabouts the past few years is still unknown. The other suspect in the shooting identified himself as Michael Bear, 32, but investigators have not been able to confirm the mans identity. The fatal shooting took place last Wednesday morning, near Fulton on River Road north of Santa Rosa. Witnesses said the two men and woman were fighting on a ground when one pulled a revolver and shoot the other man in the face. The gunman and the woman then jumped into a pickup truck and fled the scene.

The chase by lawmen started on Highway 101 in Healdsburg, when three units of that citys police department heard the all points bulletin from the Sonoma County Sheriffs office. The chase changed direction when the suspects turned on Lyt-ton Station Road and eventually connected with Highway 128, coming through Knights Valley and Alexander Valley before winding intoNapaCounty north of Calistoga. Units from the Napa Sheriffs office, California Highway Patrol and Calistoga and St. Helena police departments joined in the pursuit. One Healdsburg PD unit crashed along the way, but the two officers were uninjured.

As the suspects headed south on Highway 29, pursuing officers closed in, and cornered the suspects when they turned on Maple Lane and crashed the pickup truck in a ditch. There was a brief exchange of gunfire and the suspects fled on foot into the vineyard. They were captured attempting to wade across the Napa River. A Napa Sheriffs deputy and a Napa CHP officer made the arrests. Bear had a fully loaded, snub-nose .38 caliber revolver at the time of his arrest.

Ballistics tests are not complete so investigators do not know conclusively that it was the weapon used in the shooting. The auto used in the chase belonged to Hellyar. although securing a permit is not a guarantee the project will be built. (Register photos by Dick Hildebrand) Raising the early retirement age, now 62, gradually to 63 the same year. Early retirees now collect 80 percent of the full benefit.

Americans could still retire at age 62, but would get an even lower check. Raising the retirement age further after the year 2020 by linking it to increases in the average lifespan. Leaving eligibility unchanged for Medicare at age 65 and for disability benefits. Congressional leaders promise President Reagan they will push for quick approval of the $169 billion bipartisan Social Security bailout, but other key lawmakers say the package may not get through unscathed. Reagan telephoned Senate Finance Chairman Bob Dole, and told nearly impossible to find out whether the mercury in the orange and the mercury in the mayonnaise came from the same source because the chemical analysis was "a long, drawn out process.

Rego said there were no known motives in the two cases. He added the mercury was of the non-toxic variety found in thermometers. An unidentified couple told police Sunday that they had purchased an orange at Safeway and noticed two puncture marks in it. An examination showed metallic mercury under its skin. Officers searched the store for Mont La Salle has been the nearest winery to the City of Napa that offered non-appointment tours 364 days a year.

It was often favored by Napans who wanted a quick tour for a relative or to avoid the crowds that WASHINGTON (UPI) -Americans born after 1949 would have to wait an extra year to retire under a proposal that probably will win endorsement of a majority of the presidents Social Security commission, well-placed sources say. The proposal, which would raise the retirement age to 66 and the early retirement age to 63, will probably win at least seven votes on the 15-member commission, and possibly up to 10, sources said Monday. The proposal would not be part of the official report of the National Commission on Social Security Reform, which recommends payroll tax hikes, a six-month benefits freeze and taxing benefits of upper-income THE NAPA REGISTER 'Incorporating the Napa Journal since I960' (USPSNO. 370(60) and THE NAPA JOURNAL Second and Wilson Napa, California 94559 Telephone 226-3711 Area Code 707. From Calistoga, St.

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him he thought the compromise was a good one and couldnt see any strong opposition to it, a Dole aide said Monday. In a conference call to other congressional leaders, Reagan said the plan will provide a real boost to the American people in these tough times, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. Reagan made the conference call to Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker. House Speaker Thomas ONeill, and Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, During the conference call, Baker told Reagan the plan will generate "a firestorm of controversy, but it will more signs of contamination of any produce, but found nothing, Police Lt. Mike Parker said.

"We dont have anything else at this point in time, Parker said. There has been no communication saying this is a plot against Safeway or anybody else no extortions. Weve had no other consumers coming in to say they have fruit that is contaminated. As a precaution, Safeway removed all of the same type oranges from its fruit sections. And police urged shoppers to be alert for suspicious looking produce.

Hopefully this will be the end of it, Parker said. Upon hearing the reports, Kenneth Oranges, Mayonnaise Tainted pass, Baker press secretary Tom Griscom said. The House and Senate leadership endorsed the proposal, as did Reagan, but Rostenkowski, whose committee begins hearings on Social Security next month, did not publicly support it. Aides said he wanted to preserve his legislative independence. Three commission conservatives are opposed to the packages tax increases, and labor, business and retiree groups also expressed opposition.

The House Select Committee on Aging scheduled a session next week to hear from groups representing the elderly, some of whom are expected to oppose the plan. Mason in neighboring San Bruno Monday turned into police a bottle of mayonnaise that had apparently been tampered with. San Bruno police, in a news release, said the bottle contained swirls and nodules of what appeared to be mercury. Lt. Rego said later laboratory results from the San Mateo County Crime Lab showed the substance was, indeed, nontoxic mercury.

Mason had purchased the jar on Jan. 6. The orange was bought on Jan. 12. Lt.

Rego said a search of the shelves at the Lucky store did not turn up any other contaminated jars of Best Foods mayonnaise. said as an added precaution the jars were voluntarily removed trom the shelves. The metallic mercury is nontoxic in any quantity, Rich Anderson of the San Francisco Poison Control Center said. He added that, if it is ingested, it will pass through the system. However, mercury salts and vapors from heated metallic mercury are poisonous.

SAN BRUNO Oranges have been removed from the fruit secton of one supermarket and Best Foods mayonnaise from the shelves in another after non-poisonous mercury was found in an orange and in a jar of mayonaise. The contaminated orange, purchased at a Safety market in nearby Millbrae, was discovered Sunday, and the mayonaise jar with the mercury was found Monday at a Lucky store in San Bruno. The stores were less than a mile apart. San Bruno Police Lt. James Rego said an investigation was under way to determine whether there was a link.

However, he said it would be Mont La Salle visitors saw only the aging cellars. The bottling line for table wines was off limits. The Greystone tour offers more, said Batori, since the champagne bottling line is on display. Mont La Salle Ends Tastings, Tours (Continued from Page 1) ing at Greystone, he said. The stone winery at Mont La Salle, which was built in 1903, will continue to be available to tours, but only on an appointment basis, said Batori.

besiege the major wineries along Highway 29. Only two or three of the nine employees at Mont La Salles tour operation will be reassigned to Greystone, said Batori. 4.