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More Metro News F24 Editorials B4 Religion B5 HJJ The Sacramento Bee Saturday July 21 1 984 Time is up for deciding where to put city trash City report urges dump expansion Hauling trash away called too costly i i i i I I 1 4 By Amy Chance Bee Staff Writer The city staff and politicians are both to blame for putting off crucial decisions about how and where to dispose of the garbage a top staff member said Friday After knowing for years that the city would run out of room at its 80- acre landfill city officials now find they have run out of time They must decide Tuesday whether to expand the site over the objections of River Park residents A staff report released Friday concludes that the alternative trucking the waste to Sacramento landfill would force city garbage rates to skyrocket And the city has no time to plan any other waste disposal method because the landfill will be over- stuffed with trash within six months the report says could have grappled with this problem earlier and we Assistant City Manager Solon Wisham said Friday have not educated the council and the community on a timely basis really where we (staff) have he said really where we have boxed the council into a decision that has serious economic And former City Councils are also to blame Wisham said Council members were so hopeful that they could eventually recycle trash with a waste-to-energy plant that they failed to deal quickly with the politically unpopular question of finding more landfill See TRASH page B2 By Amy Chance Bee Staff Writer Trucking city trash to Sacramento landfill would cost more than twice as much as expanding the existing city dump over the objections of River Park residents a new city report concludes In an analysis of pressing garbage-disposal problems released Friday city staff estimates that garbage rates would have to be boosted by more than 50 percent if the city is forced to start hauling the trash elsewhere They recommend pressing forward with plans to expand the landfill at 28th and streets by 35 acres a proposal that has mobilized River Park residents against what they see as odor and fly problems and declining property values The staff report also recommends looking beyond the 35-acre expansion which would extend the life of the landfill by about three years by proceeding with plans to create a future dump in city-owned gravel pits And they said the city should still work with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District on a proposal for a waste-to-energy plant that would burn garbage to See GARBAGE page B2 Bee graphic run over 1 i '1 '11 i ffrf mi i Tpj I iv -r fir £: I 7fc aC tow I 2 TritUA 1 I Sfcf 1 1 r- i if ii I I I I i I tl 3 MM tk' v- 1 'l4i 4 liirxn By Gracie Bonds and Marjie Lambert Bee Staff Writers A Sacramento Police officer on an automobile burglary stakeout late Friday was injured when a suspect ran him down in an attempt to get away Police Capt Keith Schiele said the injured officer Dale Stanfield was in stable condition at the University Medical Center about midnight Schiele said Stanfield and two other officers had set up a stakeout at the Sacramento Inn Cinemas on Cormorant Way at about 11 pm when the incident occurred Lt Robert Austin said one of the officers was in a van at the theater parking lot when he saw a man drive up in a Lincoln Continental Mark get out crawl on his hand and knees to another car and try to break in The officer in the van radioed his two partners and Stanfield yelled for the suspect to halt The suspect re- turned to the Lincoln and raced toward Stanfield officer identified himself drew his weapon and the suspect stepped on the gas and ran into See HURT page B3 Cool cruddy breezes air-condition Valley 2 killed in fiery crash Two truck drivers were killed instantly Friday in a head-on crash small grass fire off the roadway John Hottman 33 of Klamath at 5 am on Interstate 5 about 20 miles north of Redding The Falls Ore and Edward Tomalin Jr 61 of Portland Ore were accident closed the freeway for about two hours and caused a identifed as the drivers who were killed Preservative found in insect State suspects hoax in new beetle find over 100 degrees again by midweek And if that happens July could end up being the hottest month in 135 years of record keeping long as we have Delta breezes things will be said Joe Cronin of the National Weather Sendee Delta is our air- conditioning system in the Cronin projected a low of 58 for this morning which would make it the first time temperatures have dipped into the 50s this month But another high-pressure system could be on the way which would deflect and dampen winds from the southwest Forces driving the high temperatures are not well understood forecasters agreed Most said lingering affects of the El Nino weather pattern of 1982-83 do not seem to be involved could speculate there's a connection but nobody can say how it could come said Fred Luther of the Lawrence Livermore By Stephen Green Bee Staff Writer Cooler and cruddy That's the forecast today as pollution-laden breezes waft out of the Delta over the lower Sacramento Valley There also is a chance that high temperatures will be below 90 degrees in the Sacramento area for the first time since June 13 The huge high-pressure system that has generated searing heat for the past five weeks finally has been bumped over the Sierra Nevada according to state and federal forecasters The extreme heat has headed to the southeast where it is now baking Texas and Arkansas Pollution indexes meanwhile are nudging the unhealthy zones as dust and chemicals are being baked into a brownish pall over the Central Valley Relief from the heat may not last long warned Bill Mork of the California Department of Water Resources Temperatures could be Spraying is unlikely unless another beetle is found in the area she said Brown said the find was initially considered suspicious because of a lapse of 12 days between discoveries and because the beetle was found well away from other finds State officials suspect the beetle may have been planted in the trap Brown said When asked to speculate on motives for such an act Brown said guess is as good as Before the lastest Orangevale find an area resident charged that beetles may have been planted by spraying crews to ensure their continued employment The charge came during a Friday morning hearing called by the Department of Food and Japanese beetle advisory panel and attended by about three dozen spray-area residents But Brown denied the accusation people do not have access to she said really comment on Opponents of the pesticide campaign also attacked the state for not allowing them to talk to a panel designated to recommend the most effective program for eradicating the insects During the hearing the state-appointed panel of scientists recommended continued aggressive spraying as the only effective means of killing all the beetles which entomologists say can seriously damage California's massive agricultural industry A second panel composed of health experts from around the country will be appointed within the next two weeks to evaluate potential health risks posed by the recommended compounds Scientists on the first panel found that chlor-dane an insecticide suspected of causing cancer was the most effective agent for beetle control followed by Oftanol and Lindane The advice of both panels will be weighed be- See BEETLES page B2 By Richard Brenneman Bee Staff Writer Another Japanese beetle was discovered Friday in an Orangevale trap but state officials believe the newest find is a hoax State Department of Food and Agriculture officials canceled plans to widen spraying boundaries after staff chemists found traces of an undisclosed preservative in the insect said department spokeswoman Mary Brown The insect was found near Curragh Downs Drive a residential street off Hazel Avenue above Sailor Bar well outside the existing pesticide treatment boundaries Brown said Normally such a find would mean redrawing treatment lines to include the site of the new discovery will increase the number of traps in the area and conduct an intensified visual survey but we are postponing any Brown said See CRUDDY page B3 i Sacramento mother gets 4 years in slaying of husband 1 I a 1C ii Mr Fund-raising costly closure By Hilary Abramson Bee Staff Writer A restaurant that opened to raise funds for Sacramento public television has folded costing the station $35000 and leaving the employees without a paycheck Called "At Six" the cafe located at the Sierra 2 community building at 24th Street and Fourth Avenue officially closed its doors Monday leaving thousands of dollars in unpaid bills The executive committee of the KVIE Channel 6 board of directors which has no legal connection to the restaurant but kicked in $35000 to start the business voted Wednesday to recommend that the cafe file for bankruptcy Richard Spaulding treasurer of the board that governed said Friday that no decision had been made the end we were losing $100 a day" said Margaret Towne presi- 1 WTC naoo sented her case for granting Eyerman probation found here in this courtroom" Joe stepfather Joe Bochater said during the hearing "She got Eyerman remained stoic throughout the hearing as she had throughout the trial breaking into tears only when her children took the stand Rocker contended that Eyerman shot her husband under great provocation due to duress and psychological problems She asked that Eyerman be allowed to return to her children who she said were real victims" and asked the court to justice with Court testimony revealed that Joe Eyerman had told his wife he was leaving her for a 20-year-old college student the day of the shooting Linda Eyerman who had filed for divorce in 1977 also testified that her husband threatened to take the children and have her committed if she left him Rocker a supervising attorney with the Sacramento County Public office contended the shontinp wq nrnmnfpd hv unusual By Fahizah Alim Bee Staff Writer After emotional appeals for leniency from her children and for vengence from her mother-in-law Linda Kay Eyerman was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison for the 1981 shooting death of her husband a Sacramento County deputy Superior Court Judge Sheldon Grossfeld listened for several hours sometimes impatiently as defense attorney Betty Rocker presented numerous motions and witnesses at the sentencing hearing in hopes that she could keep Eyerman from going to prison The 40-year-old Eyerman who maintained throughout the trial that she shot her husband six times in self-defense was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a jury in January Eyerman and witnesses testified during the trial that the victim Joe Eyerman physically abused his wife of 17 years During the hearing several relatives a Joe Eyerman reacted with Anthiirctc nf Hicmnv nc nro circumstances that made Eyerman eligible for probation despite statutes that require imprisonment for crimes involving the use of a gun But prosecutor Kathryn Canlis a deputy district attorney who sought a first-degree murder conviction for Eyerman argued that Eyerman killed her husband because she was angry She urged her imprisonment as a society should send a message to Eyerman and the rest of our Canlis said cases cries out for Judge Grossfeld sentenced Eyerman to the lowest term possible for the conviction two years and to two years for the firearm charge She could be eligible for parole in about 20 months In handing down the sentence Grossfield said the incident occurred the heat of passion but (was) He said he recognized the tragedy and the plight of the children but added that Eyerman could have left her husband was determined to stay for the benefit of the children (and in the nooA R9 Bee tile Linda Eyerman left stands next to attorney Betty Rocks an aDDearance in Sacramento court tejaa.