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he bathtub. City Manager Francis Fox estimated the damage at $5 million, but Hubbard said it would likely go over $10 million. We cant tell yet everythings under water. But the cars in there alone must be worth a couple of million. In the Carmel area, helicopter rescu.e teams returned today to the mudslide-ravaged Palo Colorado Canyon where 71 people were evacuated during two days of airlifts.

About 20 people are still stranded in the remote canyon after mudslides crushed their homes, said the highway, he said. Right now were starting to airlift out some stranded tourists. In Marin County's Stinson Beach community, heavy surfs again pounded waterfront homes. Five were destroyed, six others severely damaged and a number of others rendered uninhabitable. Queen Elizabeth II had been scheduled to arrive in San Francisco Bay aboard her yacht, but the plans were canceled because of the stormy weather and she was flown to San Francisco from Los Angeles.

day when his hillside family home near Clear Lake collapsed on him under tons of mud. A loud noise alerted his family, and they managed to escape unharmed. The heavy rains and runoff filled the low-lying San Jose district of Alviso like a bathtub, leaving some 4,700 area residents homeless and making the community indistinguishable from the bay. Most of those people flooded out went to the homes of friends or relatives, but 560 had to be put up in makeshift Red Cross centers set up in two nearby high schools. SAN FRANCISCO (UFi) Merciless storms that have swamped entire communities in Northern California broke today, providing a respite for thousands of flood and mudslide victims and offering a ray of sunshine for Queen Elizabeths tour of the San Francisco Bay area.

The Queen arrived by airplane in San Francisco Wednesday night under a light pelting of rain. The National Weather Service said the worst the north state could expect today was a few showers as the skies finally cleared. A 3-year-old boy was killed Wednes Art McDole of Monterey County Emergency Services. Those evacuated said the rains turned the Palo Colorado Canyon into a river of flowing mud that felled giant redwood trees and crushed houses. The town of Big Sur itself remained isolated and without power for the third day today as mudslides and a heavy surf cut off Highway 1 north and south of the seaside community.

McDole said some 500 people were without power but not in immediate danger. It looks like it will be quite awhile before well be able to open up It looks like theyre going to be there for awhile, San Jose Fire Capt. Gerry Hubbard said today. We had a good night meaning it didnt rain much. But the water is still rising in Alviso about an inch an hour, he said.

The evacuations began Tuesday when water poured into the communitys streets from Coyote Creek, swelled by the rain and reservoir spillage. By this morning it was 8-feet deep in places. Theres just too much water, Hubbard said. The river overflowed and its filling up Alviso like a It 0 jj A i I v-? ifj vv i 1 20th Year No. 157 Thursday, March 3, 1 983 25 Cents County Digs Out Of Mud By STAN VAUGHN Register Staff Writer After a week of near-steady rain, County Public Works crews got a brief reprieve today as they attempted to clear away some of the damage caused by the current storm system.

We still have a lot of problems that are not solved yet, Director of Public Works Harry Hamilton said this morning, as skies showed signs of clearing for the first time in eight days. Hamiltons crews are spread thin around the county, clearing roadways, drainage ditches and culverts, as well as fallen trees. They are also attempting to return water 3 -v 1 'r a 1 Ui; AS A. A service to 90 homes in the Berry essa Highlands and Steele Park Resort areas around Lake Berryessa. Rains washed away the ground under a water line near the lake early Wednesday and the pipe broke.

More than 500,000 gallons of drinking water, a weeks supply, drained out of storage tanks and back into the lake. We ordered temporary bypass materials Wednesday and we are working on it today, Hamilton said of the water supply problem. We hope people will have service by the end of today, but we cant promise anything. Hamilton said Steele Park Resort is fed by a separate water tank, about a (Continued on Page 2) Much of the excess water will be drained off into the Yolo bypass, allowing the river to pass through Sacramento without overflowing its banks, Clark said. Our two areas of concern now are the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the San Joaquin River south of Stockton, he said.

In the delta, high tides and gusty winds were battering the fragile levees. Crews from the California Conservation Corps worked feverishly sandbagging the sagging banks. Clark said the San Joaquin River was expected to reach a high of 31 feet by Friday near Vemalis south of Stockton. The danger level is 29 feet (above sea level), so this puts the whole (Continued on Page 11) Index Ann Landers 25 Classified 29,30,31,32,33 Comics 28 Community Calendar 23 Editorial Page 4 Markets 11 Movies 22 Obituaries 20 Schools 26,27 Sports 6, 7, 8, 9 Television Log 22 Valley Living 14,15 Weather 20 Respite Helps In River Baffle THE UPPER York Creek reser- the flow now increased with recent drinking water for St. Helena.

Since two years ago, the York Creek reservoir on Spring Mountain Road west storms. This reservoir and a lower the Bell Canyon Dam water treat- voirs now serve as a backup system of St. Helena has been flowing over one nearer the city once supplied the ment plant was put into operation Register photo by A1 Francis its spillway much of the winter, and Continued Operation Of Rest Home OK'd SACRAMENTO (UPI) Flood watchers today took advantage of a respite from this weeks Pacific storms to control the surging Sacramento River. Bill Clark of the state Flood Control Operations Center said the reprieve should have a positive effect on the whole system. He said the cresting river, which set a record high of 223 feet in flooded Tehama County, should subside as it flows into the state-maintained levee system at the Sutter-Sacramento county line.

begging and urinating. Neighbors reminded the commission that nearby Vichy School was the scene of a molestation by a rest home resident against a seven-year-old girl a year ago. Although the molester was removed from the facility and sent to a state hospital, neighbors insisted a lack of supervision at the home threatens the entire neighborhood. However, neighbors quickly changed their tune when the proposed sweeping changes to the facility were announced at Wednesdays commission meeting. New owners have agreed to repaint (Continued on Page 2) LaGrande Ave.

are children of Marie Walker, who is seriously ill and who recently conveyed ownership of the facility. Owners have agreed to comply with a long list of improvements to the physical structure of the rest home and in the way the home is managed, Plan To Judge June keep the building ban in effect until all county lands are zoned in conformance with the new master plan. That process could take a year or more, planning officials say. The general plan chapters will be Fourth Vegas Bomb Found In A Giant Shopping Center A controversial East Napa board and care home for the elderly will continue to operate for at least nine more months under new management and new ownership, county planning commissioners agreed Wednesday on a 4-1 vote. The new owners of the home at 1109 General By DOUG ERNST Register Staff Writer It will be June or later when Lake County Superior Court Judge John J.

Golden receives Napa Countys completed general plan, county planning commissioners were told Wednesday. Although the master plan will be technically complete pending board action next Tuesday, the nine chapters must be made consistent with each other and the entire document must be prepared as a single package, Chief Deputy County Counsel Cliff Lober told commissioners. Lober said the document will be prefaced with a table of contents, an introduction and an explanation of each of the nine elements required by state law. County officials are hopeful that Judge Golden will approve the document quickly so that the county can get back to the business of processing building permits in the Napa Valley Watershed. Judge Golden more than a year ago banned certain construction in the valley until the general plan is completed in conformance with state law.

Although the judge could accept the new general plan and lift the injunction immediately after it is submitted, state law also allows the judge to widespread controversy last month when neighbors organized in opposition to continued operation of the facility without better care and supervision of rest home residents. Neighbors complained that rest home residents were regularly seen on neighborhood streets drinking, Or Later by two the number of home building permits that will be allowed under voter-mandated slow-growth. According to Measure approved by county voters in 1980, population (Continued on Page 2) dicated the bomb was found by someone, possibly an employee of the shopping center, and that no warning telephone call was rect icd from the bomber. Psychologists and a police bomb task force are attempitng to draft a personality profile of the person who built the bombs. An escaped prisoner believed responsible for placing dynamite bombs at the Desert Inn, Frontier and Stardust hotel-casinos has still managed to elude a police and FBI manhunt.

And dozens of threats have been received since the bombs were found Monday morning. It is a deplorable situation, Bryan said Wednesday. in exchange for an extension of a use permit that expired in 1981. Manager Don Thomas has been fired, new structural improvements are underway and a new state license has been requested, said Rosalyn Potter, Mrs. Walter's daughter.

The home became the focus of made consistent with each other by April 12 and adoption of the entire plan by county supervisors, including the table of contents and introduction, is set for May 31. In related action, planners reduced found at the hotels. To our knowledge nobody saw anybody put it there. An employee of Neiman Marcus making a routine check of the area found the bomb, said Cunningham. Three bombs found outside the Stardust, Frontier and Desert Inn Hotels were packaged in a similar manner and each bomb was made with nine or 10 sticks of dynamite attached to a timer operated on batteries.

The fourth bomb was found outside Neiman Marcus, a high fashion store on the Las Vegas strip" in the expansive shopping mall that houses about 150 stores. The Fashion Show Mall is within walking distance of the three hotels where dynamite bombs were discovered Monday. Police said initial information itl- THAT'S RIGHT! TOYOTA is now under new ownership management. It's VI NTAGE TOYOTA at the same location as VINTAGE CHEVROLET for all sales, service and parts. Come see us.

You'll be glad you did. 583 Soscol, Napa 255-7600 Open Weekdays Saturdays Sundays LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) A fourth bomb, similar to dynamite bombs placed outside three strip hotels four days ago, was discovered today in the Fashion Show Mall, a giant shopping center on the Las Vegas "strip. The bomb was discovered before the mall opened for business at 9 a m. and the area immediately was blockaded.

We have definitely identified it as an explosive device, said Lt. Don Hanley of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. It was in a cardboard box wrapped with duct tape, and it is a bomb. Lt. James Cunningham said the bomb was disarmed and removed from the shopping mall.

It was similar to the other bombs.