The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 1

The Orioles Are Back In Front Sports Page El A Tribute To Sir Alec Guinness Scene Page B4 r-Vi 0 California Life -c SATURDAY mm li SdV- Vol No 40446 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA Saturday October 1 3 1 979 Founded 1 857 Compromise Averts Crisis On US Funding 1 50-Mi I Shadow Of Seco By Leo Rennert Bee Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON More than 8 million residents of Northern California and Nevada would run a risk of excessive radiation exposure if the possible hit the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant near Sacramento according to the US General Accounting Office In a report scheduled for release Monday the GAO goes far beyond current or even contemplated limits for emergency-preparedness and evacuation plans by extending the possible danger zone to a 150-mile radius Such an area would encompass the entire San Francisco Bay area on the west Red Bluff on the north Reno on the east and Fresno on the south The report requested by Rep Robert Matsui D-Sacramento after the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania also points up a number of critical shortcomings in current emergency preparations which are based on a federally prescribed five-mile radius Targets of the criticism include the Sacramento Municipal Utility District which operates Rancho Seco and local state and federal agencies that share reponsibility for protecting the public in case of a nuclear accident The 26-page report of which The Bee obtained an advance copy urges the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to immediately order a 10-mile radius for emergency planning a 1 step recommended by a special federal task force three years ago New NRC regulations are due next January and a thorough commission review of nuclear emergency preparedness should be completed by 1984 the GAO said According to the 1970 census 352 people live within a five-mile radius of Rancho Seco the area covered by current emergency blueprints A 10-mile radius as proposed by GAO would raise the population total to more than 6000 and would require local planners to go back to the drawing boards It would be to set up contingency plans up to 150 miles on all sides of Rancho Seco to cope with a "worst scenario the GAO said but administrative financial and technical difficulties involved would be By going to a 10-mile radius and tightening up on other precautionary moves Rancho emergency preparedness measurably See SECO Back Page A12 frees federal funds to keep most government departments and agencies in operation It further provides for an automatic 55 percent congressional pay increase boosting Senate and House salaries from the present $57500 to $60700 The bill was rushed to the White House where President Carter signed it (A spokesman at McClellan Air vi (' 4 'to iS i f1 to -s- 4 iV iX I A A' (Pi "let 5 -v I 0 4 a -c 4 '4 a 0) OO 154 Force Base told The Bee Friday "We have been informed by the Air Force to time our pay action so everyone will be paid on He said about 5000 civilians who received half their pay Friday their normal payday will receive the remainder Monday The 3500 military employees at the base will receive their full See FUNDING Back Page A12 0 A-f Ms 1 i ti 4 'i- iAwK Vis- i f4 Gov Brown to de-emphasize freeway building program was the governor's stand-in to mark the official opening of the international highway One thousand persons attended ceremonies at the spot where the elevated freeway slices through a dry corn field and crosses the Mokelumne River at the northeastern edge of the delta The golden chain was broken 25 miles south of Sacramento and 23 miles north of Stockton where 18000 See 1-5 Back Page A12 Bee Newsservice WASHINGTON Congress narrowly averted a severe curtailment of some government operations Friday by approving a compromise money bill that had been stalled for weeks in a deadlock over abortion and congressional pay As approved in the House by voice vote and later by the Senate in a series of dramatic votes the compromise Castro Asks Rich Lands To Aid Poor By Bernard Nossiter New YorkTimes News Service UNITED NATIONS President Fidel Castro of Cuba called on the United States and other wealthy Friday to pay $300 billion over 10 years to develop poor countries The Cuban leader in starched green combat fatigues warned the General Assembly "If there are no resources for development there will be no Unless global poverty is erased he declared future will be Castro insisted that this fund be run by the United Nations with every country front the Maldives to China enjoying an equal vote in its distribution Western observers at the United Nations regard the scheme as hopelessly impractical and speculated that the Cuban leader was making a play for the grandstand Castro spoke for two hours and six minutes to an overflow crowd in the huge chamber While Castro was at the United Nations about 3000 demonstrators on the streets outside denounced the Cuban leader In another demonstration he was hailed by a crowd of 500 supporters Cuba's president began losing some of his audience after the first 90 minutes Even so he was interrupted more than a dozen times by applause almost exclusively from delegates and staff members in the Third World and Soviet blocs He repeatedly singled out the United States as the chief source of most of the ills Above all he blamed his hosts for supporting Israel See CASTRO Back Page A12 Amtrak Collision Kills 2 Hurts 39 HARVEY 111 (UPI)- An Amtrak passenger train slammed head-on into a parked freight train Friday night south of Chicago Two railroad employees were killed and at least 39 people were injured three critically A spokesman at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey said two crewmen from the Illinois Central Gulf freight train were pronounced dead at the scene Crews began cutting into the wrecked locomotives after midnight but officials said they doubted more bodies would be found inside the wreckage there still will be be 25 times as much smoke as the valley atmosphere can tolerate according to testimony by board staff members There should be a minute reduction in smoke particles after the new regulations take effect Burning techniques intended to reduce the amount of particulate matter were extended to crops other than rice Backfire and striplighting techniques and other provisions that will be required could reduce smoke in the Sacramento Valley Air Basin the nine agricultural counties from Sacramento to Shasta by 6600 tons according to an ARB study That can be compared to the estimated 17 million tons of 'noke expected to fill SMUD To Expand Plans On Seco Emergencies Convoy of cars crosses completed link of Interstate 5 1000 See 1-5 Opened From Border To Border Martin said the SMUD board will be asked Thursday to approve a contract with consultants to extend planning beyond the current five miles and help prepare information for the public on what to do in case of a serious plant accident Cost of the effort is expected to be approximately $100000 The information would include bill inserts pamphlets and data that would be included iq telephone books with other disaster first-aid information Soon after signing the contract with General Physics Corp which Martin said SMUD has used since 1973 to train reactor operators the utility is expected to begin meeting with state and local emergency planning officials This probably will involve San Joaquin Amador and El Dorado counties portions of which are within the 10-mile circle At the same time Martin said SMUD with other agencies will develop plans on how to prevent or minimize danger to humans and contamination of crops in See SMUD Back Page A12 What's doing today SMUD will expand its planning for emergencies in the vicinity of its Rancho Seco nuclear plant but says it is not because of a critical US General Accounting Office report Don Martin environmental specialist said the work is being done in response to a US Nuclear Regulatory Commission directive three weeks ago that all the nuclear plants expand evacuation planningtoaradiusoflO miles Bee All 9 B45 EH E9 83 Di Weather details on PageA2 Yesterday's high 82 low 55 DOWNTOWN HARVEST Handmade crafts continuous live entertainment and refreshments are part of the 5th annual Harvest Festival and Christmas Crafts Market at the Sacramento Community Center today from 10 am to 10 pm and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm Admission: adults $275 children ages 6-11 $125 under6 free THINK SMALL Collections of miniatures from West Coast dealers will be on display from 10 am to 5 pm today and Sunday at Scottish Rite Temple 6151 St The Cerebral Palsy Guild fund-raiser also will have food available Admission: $2 ROUNDUP TIME Cowpokes will be and critters in Cal Expo arena at 2 and 7 pm today and at 2 pm Sunday at the River City Roundup Admission: adults $4 seniors 2-12 $2 reserved seats $2 extra for adults seniors Resources Board OKs Limits On Fall Crop Burning By Jon Engellenner Bee Staff Writer The gold-colored plastic chain was broken at 12:15 pm Friday and the job was done: The last gap in Interstate 5 the 1380-mile-long ribbon of concrete stretching from Mexico to Canada was ceremoniously opened to traffic at the Sacramento-San Joaquin County line de the highway of unity was the name given it by Adriana Gianturco at the dedication ceremony Gianturco state transportation director and the woman assigned by Sacramento Valley skies during the rice-burning season this year Oct 1 through Nov 15 Another 6900 tons of pollution it was estimated will be eliminated in theSan Joaquin Valley To limit smoke from agricultural burning during the rice-burning season the board ruled growers in the basin collectively could not emit more than 335 tons of particulate matter daily during the critical six weeks from October to mid-November Jim Morgester ARB enforcement chief estimated the ceiling will shift 117000 tons of smoke from the rice-burning season to other months (the 335-ton daily limit) will not reduce £ne ounce of pollution" Mor In Today's Sacramento By Joe Quintana Bee Staff Writer Rules adopted unanimously Friday by the state Air Resources Board should mean less smoke pollution in Sacramento during the rice-burning season next year The board in adopting revised regulations that are to take effect in February limited the number of acres that can be ignited on and banned exemption permits on when metropolitan areas downwind from fields are already polluted more than air quality standards allow However agricultural burning will only be shifted to ojher months and gester said just redirects it to another time not going to solve the problem It may Perhaps more significant was the ban on issuing exemption permits when downwind cities already are suffering air so polluted it exceeds quality standards Sacramentans for years have complained that on days when inversion layers trap pollution in the city farmers aggravate the situation by burning Most of the smoke on such days in 1978 came from Yolo County and Solano County rice farms Last year the Yolo-Solano Agricultural Pollution District granted 69 exemp- See BURNING Back Page 2 Religion Scene Sports Take A Break Television Vitals.