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Friday September 22 1989 The Sacramento Bee SECTION Op (Ok Pt AC 1117 llTE 1U EDITORIALS 7 I IP I illUt 9 n9 1 2 mirth 51 tt ffccSS a 1 SI 6I was in bed and my bed starting shaking I woke and thought I was dreaming' Roger Orozco of Emigrant Gap Joel Williams manager of the Donner Gate Chevron station said his graveyard-shift employee Mark Sanchez saw an eastward roll in the earth approach the station and then shake the building "He said it looked like a wave coming toward you except It was the ground" Williams said While who did and who didn't feel the quake was the talk of Truckee Thursday morning most residents were nonchalant about it "Basically it's California It's an average kind of thing unless its over 45 or you're right on top of it" Mark Edwards said In State line Nev the Douglas County By Max Miller Bee Staff Writer and Tanya Branson Bee Correspondent Two moderate earthquakes one in the Sierra Nevada the other off the coast rocked Northern California on both sides Thursday rousting people from their sleep and tying up phone lines but causing no injuries or damage The first temblor which hit just before 5 am was centered at Emigrant Gap about 20 miles west of Truckee in Nevada County Seismologists at the University of California Berkeley recorded the quake at 38 on the Richter scale while the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Golden Colo called it at 42 Tahoe area but was felt as far east as Oro-vile and south to San Luis Obispo Sgt Lee Osborne of the Nevada County Sheriff's Department substation in Truckee said his office was besieged with phone calls reporting what people thought were explosions or sorlic booms Residents reported feeling a rocking motion and said the 4:48 am quake lasted about 25 seconds "I was in bed and my bed starting shaking I woke and thought I was dreaming" said Roger Orozco of Emigrant Gap Some residents along Donner Summit from Emigrant Gap to Truckee slept through the event one of the region's sporadic tremors but a gas station attendant saw the earth move in Truckee Five hours later a quake struck about 20 miles off the coast of Fort Bragg The oceanic temblor was registered at 48 by UC Berkeley and at a USGS station in Menlo Park Officials in both areas reported receiving lots of phone calls but no reports of damage or injuries "I didn't even feel it How big was it?" asked a dispatcher for the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department in Fort Bragg Nerves were jumpier in Nevada County where the pre-dawn quake woke many residents with a start and knocked some out of bed The jolt was strongest in the north Lake See QUAKE page B2 Searching for a substitute oiiuk az rt ort i Ruling to prbtect salmon delayed 1 in Shellfish poisoning prompts state ban By Ken Payton Bee Staff Writer By Jim Mayer Bee Staff Writer rr 1 'atk---T rr i' --Nr 'k 4 4 7 A 1 ''4 i 't I 1 Iti'i i 1 I i 1 0 1 1 arrr- --lkr '-'4'44'' 1 1 A 1 i 1 Under increasing pressure from water agencies state authorities Thursday again delayed a ruling that would officially recognize the fish killing warm-water releases from reservoirs as pollution Cool weather and voluntary efforts by the US Bureau of Reclamation have eased the concern for salmon spawning this autumn in the Sacramento River below Shasta Dam But the issue is one of growing anxiety for the water industry and fishery advocates As more water is sold from reservoirs to meet growing demand river temperatures more frequently will increase to lethal temperatures for salmon and other fish Members of the State Water Resources Control Board in putting off the issue for 30 days said they hoped a settlement can be reached to forestall a showdown either before the board or in court "On all sides there is a great desire to solve the Shasta temperature problems" board Chairman Don Maughan said "The question is whether there is a better way to do it" But Andrew Sawyer an attorney for the board said he did not know how the board could get around legally acknowledging that warm water is pollution a precedent-setting action that frightens the water industry statewide In addition to the bureau which is the largest water supplier in California officials from the State Water Project and the Association of California Water Agencies have lobbied the board not to set the precedent that regional water quality boards can regulate dam releases The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California urged the board in a letter this week to reject the pollution standards and implied it would challenge in court any decision that did not The board which has been debating and postponing the issue since April said this summer that it wanted to amend the bureau's water rights to ensure Shasta Dam is operated in a way that doesn't endanger spawning salmon But in doing so the board must waive a previous decision by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board which in 1988 used pollution laws to protect the fishery from warm-water releases One of the worst late-summer outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning has closed sport fishing for clams razor clams cockles scallops or any other bivalve mollusk on the coasts of Del Norte Humboldt and Mendocino counties Dr Kenneth Kizer director of the state Department of Health Services placed an emergency quarantine on the sport Wednesday when samples of mussels showed potentially life-threatening levels of the toxin that causes the disease "A mussel sample taken from Humboldt Bay contained 14000 micrograms of PSP (paralytic shellfish poisoning) toxin per 100 grams of shellfish meat" Kizer said "That amounts to 175 times the state alert level of 80 micrograms of PSP toxin per 100 grams of shellfish" Kizer said that he is also urging consumers to refrain from eating any sport-harvested shellfish taken from California's three northernmost counties The toxin levels there are the highest since 1980 Kizer said when PSP was blamed for two deaths Elevated levels of the toxin have been found since mid-August in shellfish samples collected from the Monterey peninsula to northern Mendocino County PSP in humans is a nervous system poisoning caused by eating bivalve shellfish especially mussels which are quarantined on the entire coast at this time every year The disease occurs when shellfish feed on highly toxic single-cell organisms that are abundant and concentrated In ocean waters Kizer said PSP toxin cannot be destroyed by washing or cooking and can cause severe illness and death Department spokesman Scott Lewis said no deaths from the disease have occurred this year but two people were poisoned by the toxin two weeks ago at Anchor Bay in southern Mendocino County The Health Services Department operates an extensive shellfish sanitation monitoring program to guard against sport and commercial catches of shellfish Kizer said that because of the monitoring program no commercially harvested catches with high toxin levels have entered the marketplace The department maintains an updated shellfish information telephone message at (415) 540-2605 BeeOwen Brewer len from backstage at the Community Center Theater The stolen violin and gold-mounted bows are valued at $25000 wen Brewer Michael Anderson left borrows an instrument from violin maker Albert Muller to replace the 88-year-old Italian violin sto Symphony musician's prized violin stolen By Ricci Graham Bee Staff Writer 6I have to play an unfamilar instrument right under the conductor's nose I'm going to feel terribly insecure' Michael Anderson I pect he said but officers have few leads Anderson sat in his modest home in Elk Grove trying to grasp the meaning of the tragedy and making plans to borrow an instrument from violin craftsman Albert Muller People may find it difficult to understand his loss he said The Marchetti was an extension of his arm an instrument he's played for six years whose every nuance he knew Playing a foreign instrument in a professional symphony orchestra could jeopardize his S21000-a-year job he said "I'm afraid for my job" he said "I have to play an unfamiliar instrument right under the conduc Michael Anderson spent most of Thursday searching for a piece of his soul His 88-year-old Marchetti violin crafted in Turin Italy in 1901 and his gold-mounted tortoise-shell bows were stolen Wednesday evening from under the back stage of the Sacramento Community Center Theater The violin and bows are valued at $25000 A fellow musician's custom Contra bassoon was also taken "I'm at a loss right now" lamented Anderson 36 an assistant concertmaster for the Sacramento Symphony "It's not a Stradivarius but it is a good instrument and I depend on it" Thinking that the thief was out to make a quick buck Anderson symphony sighed "Realizing that it was stolen is the last thing I wanted to believe" Sacramento Police Sgt Bob Burns said the thief apparently walked in the backstage entrance of the theater between 5:30 pm and 6 pm while the symphony musicians had taken a break from practice for dinner and walked out with the two instruments Investigators are trying to identify a sus spent Thursday morning scouring downtown Sacramento visiting pawn shop after pawn shop in search of the instrument that he "spends more time with than anything else in life" The search was fruitless and by Thursday afternoon reality had set in "I don't know what to do because I make my living with it" Anderson a 10-year veteran of the See VIOLIN page B2 See DAMS page B2 Jurors weep as killer Game wart turns author INSIDE Notes on pioneer colleague turned into 80000-word book By Mad le Lambert Bee Staff Writer By Marne Lambert Stall Writer A car ride to misery B2 Someone stole Linda Roth's car and totaled it a car on which she still owed $4600 Now she's found her auto insurance policy is a fake ROADS WEST By Walt Wiley Schools candidate B3 A retired Sacramento schools administrator may become interim superintendent of the troubled Rescue Union School District in El Dorado Hills given death sentence credible evidence that it would pre-Bee vent other murders Gilbert a former district attorney who prosecuted capital punishment cases imposed the death penalty with obvious reluctance "Decreeing the death of David Rundle may bring some small tran- sitory solace (to the victims' fami- lies) but it won't end the hurt" Gil-The beet said He said however that the jury's recommendation of death was supported by the law and the evirenson dence in the case "1 ask myself in this land of great wealth great freedom and lofty 1derant als why do people kill each other and why does the government kill its people?" Gilbert said Stephanie Bradish LanciAnne So-The renson's mother said: "I realize that nothing the court or anybody else can do is going to bring my little girl See KILLINGS page B3 ment in Butte County overseeing the efforts of four wardens and five reserve wardens said the two callings have turned out to be most compatible A big dark beefy cheerful fellow with a neat mustache he said he grew up on the edge of the mountains east of Los Angeles at Claremont where his father was the town baker and where he set out after high school to get a college degree in music Even today he plays his Steinway grand daily but he soon learned that he had no future as a professional musician Instead he joined the Coast Guard then ended up studying wildlife biology at California State University Sacramento where he was lured into the game warden business "It's a great job" Hodges said See ROADS page B3 OROVILLE All Terry Hodges wanted to do was write down some notes in some sort of orderly fashion so that some day he could turn it all over to a "real writer" who could do the story justice After all Hodges was a game warden not an author But it was this great story the story of perhaps the rip-roaringest most dedicated most persistent II game warden ever Gene Mercer now dead a pioneer in the trade known by his colleagues as "Old Sabertooth" Hodges had a little home computer so he started tapping away at the A keys recording the story as the old1 timer had told it while riding along with Hodges on patrols over the years That was five years or so ago To- day Hodges is himself the "real writer" his book "Saberpoth" is a It reality in print and selling well he is David A Rundle was sentenced to death Thursday as relatives of the two young women he killed and a few of the jurors who convicted him wept quietly in the Auburn courtroom The 24-year-old drifter was convicted of killing Carolyn Garcia 18 of Roseville and LanciAnne Sorenson 15 of Auburn in separate Incidents in late 1986 Sacramento County has also issued an arrest warrant for Rundle who confessed to killing a 21-year-old transient Elizabeth Lactawen in Sacramento that same year The death sentence was handed down by Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Gilbert who said that after 201years in the crimlnal justice field he had seen no David A Rundle was sentenced to death Thursday as relatives of the two young women he killed and a few of the jurors who convicted him wept quietly in the Auburn court- room 24-year-old drifter was con- victed of killing Carolyn Garcia 18 of Roseville and LanciAnne So- 15 of Auburn in separate in- cidents in late 1986 Sacramento County has also issued an arrest war- for Rundle who confessed to killing a 21-year-old transient Eliza- beth Lactawen in Sacramento that same year death sentence was handed down by Placer County Superior Court Judge Richard Gilbert who said that after 201years in the crimi- nal justice field he had seen no dickering with some Hollywood people on a television miniseries treatment of it and he's hard at work on another book "I just figured I'd write 15 or 20 pages on Mercer just in case he passed away before a real writer could get ahold of the story and do it justice" Hodges said the other day He was holding forth in the "office" in his home on the edge of town here an amazingly cluttered room filled with paraphernalia both from his writing and game warden trades: computer equipment books manuscripts shotguns two-way radios foul-weather clothing and tins of survival food Hodges 451a lieutenant who supervises fish and game law Drug-test dispute B4 A proposal to test key officials for drugs has split the South Lake Tahoe City Council Weather B2 i vf.