Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 1

Giants, Broncos get to work Page? NOTICE RECREATKW CLOSED EEK 1UC GRO I eyes big timber cut on Eel See below WEATHER MENDOCINO COUNTY: Sunny today with highs in tho upper 40s to m'id 5Cs. Northerly winds to 25 mph. Clear and cold tonight with lows in the 20s and 30s. Diminishing winds. Sunny Saturday with highs in the 50s.

Temperatures Yesterday 52 29 Last year 5: 43 Low today 21 Rainfall Through 5 p.m. yesterday 0.00 Year to date 9.98 Last year 15.82 Ukiah Daily Friday, January 16, 1987 1987, Donrey, Inc. 'Journal I 1 KI A PKui.t*»«AA._._.._J._.._! it. Vol. 126 No.

233 16 pages Serving Mendocino County, Calit. 25 Cents Hispanic video promotes pride BySUZI BRAKKEN Journal Staff Writer Mendocino County is one of just three counties statewide to receive a grant to increase multi-cultural awareness through the arts. The grant from the California Arts Council will be used to market a video produced by the Concilio Latino Americano and to fund a second video portraying Hispanic craftspeople. Bilingual instructor Lynn Merlo has created a bilingual educational video showing the Ukiah Valley Hispanic community preparing for the festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration. The ethnic holiday is a religious and cultural event celebrated each year on Dec.

12. Local Hispanics were filmed preparing food, costumes, grapevine wreaths, pinatas and other folk art for the festival. Also shot was the religious ceremony of the festival and its songs and dances. According to Mendocino County Arts Coalition director and grant writer Nancy McHone, the money will ensure thatthe video gets to a wide audience, beginning with third, fourth and fifth grade school classes with bilingual students. The video helps meet a "tremendous need" for locally generated bilingual materials, according to McHone.

Hispanic, as well as Anglo students can gain from learning about the rich cultural heritage of the Hispanic community, according to McHone. The Hispanic community is often recognized only as migrant farmworkers, despite the fact that at least 6 percent (and maybe more) of the county's stable population is of Hispanic origin. McHone believes the Guadalupe video can not only enhance the self-esteem of the bilingual students, but can act to build a foundation cf familiar knowledge, bridging the gap between the races. In turn, the video project can increase multicultural understanding throughout the community. The Mendocino County Museum was immediately interested in the project and used the video in its exhibit, "El Dia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe; Community and Tradition in Mendocino County." (June to October 1986).

The popular exhibit was founded under the notion that multi-cultural awareness can be promoted through public presentation of in(See VI DEO, page 3) Lynn Merlo Craftsman Nicholas Valle of Redwood Valley constructs a grapevine wreath with the help of Alejandro Barajas of Hopland. Valie's work Is recorded on a bilingual educational video to be shown soon In area schools. Mid-air crash in Utah probed KEARNS, Utah (UPI) Federal investigators today tried to learn why a commuter plane making an instrument approach to the Salt Lake City airport collided with a small plane practicing landings, killing 10 people and raining debris and bodies over a 40-block area. "The various investigating groups will be organized. Sometime tonight we'll have the review meeting to see what the team found today and after that, we'll have the press briefing," Alan Furman, National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said.

"After everything, the facts, the information, has been gathered, we'll have a hearing sometime in the future into the probable cause." Airport officials said the twin- engine Skywest Airlines Metroliner was authorized to fly in restricted airspace normally reserved for crafts taking off and landing at Salt Lake International Airport. But it was unknown why the smaller four- seat Mooney private plane was flying at 7,000 feet. Nobody on the ground was killed or injured in the crash Thursday, the first fatal accident involving a commercial airline in the United States this year. Sheriff's deputies battled wind chill factors of 35 below zero patrolling the strewn through the working class neighborhoods. The Skywest, en route to Salt Lake from Pocatello, Idaho, collided with the single-engine Mooney about 12:50 p.m.

MST over Kearns, 10 miles southwest of downtown Salt Lake City. U.S. seeks hijack suspect in Bonn BONN, West Germany (UPI) The United States must waive the death penalty if it wants West Germany to extradite an Arab wanted for air piracy and murder in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner, the government said today. Mohammad Ali Hamadei was arrested Tuesday on his arrival in West Germany from Beirut when three bottles of the nitronitrate high explosive disguised as a grape drink were found in his hand luggage, authorities said. Hamadei is one of four Lebanese Shiite Moslems charged with piracy and murder by the United States in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, during which Navy seaman Robert Stethem was beaten and killed and 39 Americans were held hostage up to 17 days.

Justice Ministry spokesman Juergen Schmid told reporters today West Germany has received a preliminary U.S. extradition request for Hamadei, a Lebanese-born Palestinian, and could extradite the suspect soon if it gets a formal petition with an indictment. But Schmid said that under the terms of the 1978 German- American extradition treaty, the United States would have to assure West Germany that Hamadei would not be executed, even if he is convicted and sentenced to death in the United States. Neighbors slam for Eel River logging By PETER PAGE Journal Staff Writer Neighbors along the Eel River Road have banded together to oppose a plan by Pacific Gas and Electric to log 637 acres of old growth trees near a popular campground. The utility giant maintains Trout Creek campground along the Eel River under requirements of its license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the Potter Valley powerhouse.

Water diverted from the Eel River through a tunnel to Potter Valley has spun turbines at the powerhouse since early in this century. The campground is located about five miles up Eel River Road from the Potter Valley L-P mill. The road runs alongside the river to Lake Pillsbury. "My concern is mainly that they are destroying a very beautiful area used for recreation and that is home to several endangered species, including osprey, ring tailed cats, and bald eagles," said Will Seigel, a property owner in the area.He has helped organize Friends of Trout Creek, an association of about 10 property owners in the sparsely- populated area opposed to the logging operation. John Angus, a spokesman for said plans to log near Trout Creek campground have been in the works for two years.

The creek, a tributary to the Eel, borders the campground. plans to cut diseased and aging trees, but the logging will not approach the boundaries of the campground, Angus said. "Much of this wood is in such a condition that it will end up as wood chips or something else," Angus said, claiming that profit is not the motive. Nonetheless, he said expects to earn up to $250,000 from the sale of approximately five million board feet of timber. The proceeds, he said, will "benefit the customers, not our shareholders." Roger Dixon, another nearby property owner opposed to the logging plan, said a similar operation by in 1981 was shut down by the California Department of Forestry when the logging, obstensibly to remove only old and diseased trees, included healthy mature trees as well.

According to a 1981 report, "observation made during inspections on this operation area would indicate that this operation is taking more than dead, dying, or diseased trees. As discussed with the RPF (registered professional forester), operations should cease until a timber harvest plan is approved for the area." Angus was unaware of the 1981 incident, but he said is not interested in extensive commercial logging on its Eel River lands. "We are trying to maintain the forest as a resource," he said. "We have a vested interest in maintaining the watershed up there." Angus said there will be some replanting of trees following the harvest, but Dixon said there is no mention of replanting in the timber harvest plan. "After seeing the plans and the site, I see no reason to deny the plan," said Joel Segers, a (See LOGGING, page 2) Kvan Johnson Neighbors fear the serenity of Trout Creek campgrounds V- won't be the same if is allowed to log 637 acres near-.