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Cutting probation officers just add up risT chase" ou riDAY I I 1993 THE SACRAMENTO BEE JULY 4 1993 FOUNDED 1857 VOLUME 273 $116 Honoring the Flag and Freedom Midwest flooding will cost billions Businesses hit hard in 6-state disaster Bee News Services The worst flooding on the upper Mississippi since 1965 has forced thousands from their homes and businesses and caused billions of dollars in damage disaster officials said Saturday President Clinton promised federal assistance and scheduled a tour today Governors of six states Missouri Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota Iowa and Illinois have sought federal disaster aid especially for their hard-hit farmers It will take months before the financial loss is tallied In South Dakota alone almost 1 million acres of corn and 11 million acres of soybeans have been affected by rainfall that has turned fields into lakes Up and down the Mississippi hundreds of businesses from small family operations such as Green Gables Marina in Le-Claire Iowa to corporations with hundreds of employees such as Montgomery Elevator Co in Moline 111 are suffering Business owners say damage from flood- Please see FLOOD back page A22 Summit a major test for Clinton i wich page Cl) is one of numerous Fourth of July events planned in this area A major fire works display is scheduled tonight at Cal Expo and there are other fireworks shows and Neali Cariola 18 of Wheatland rolls up a flag following her performance with a flag team at the Folsom Rodeo The rodeo which runs through Monday (see RE Gras- holiday activities throughout the region Fire officials are warning of the fire threat posed by thick vegetation resulting from this heavy rains Story and listings page B1 Budget trips rookies Principles clash with anti-gridlock promises By Leo Rennert Bee Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON President leadership on the world stage will be put to a severe test when the richest democracies gather in Tokyo for a summit clouded by global recession and political drift in many Western capitals The president will push an ambitious agenda for worldwide economic recovery trade expansion and Russian aid as he makes his debut at the annual meeting of leaders from the United States Japan Britain France Germany Italy and Canada However getting significant results may turn out to be a Herculean if not impossible task Despite a rocky start Clinton will be the strongest figure in Tokyo But have to work with one of the weakest supporting casts since these summits began in 1975 When the three-day conference gets un- der way on Wednesday Japan will be in Please see SUMMIT page A20 Is Vj I said Isenberg a Sacramento Democrat feels like 12 months ago All you new members you were running (for office) then Remember you promised not to be like They had promised not to get stuck in a 64-day budget deadlock like last year he said They had vowed to slay the demon of California politics: gridlock sitting Isenberg said a minute we came up here to do things differently Nobody told me I was going to have to vote for something I Please see ROOKIES back page A22 This is another in an occasional series on two new Assembly members as they learn the ways of Capitol By Rick Kushman Bee Capitol Bureau Every year during the budget fight Assemblyman Phillip Isenberg gives a speech calling for compromise and asking lawmakers to lighten up This year his floor speech like so much other attention around the Capitol was aimed at the 28 rookie members tell you what tonight feels 4 Our only choices were Assemblywoman Valerie Brown 4The system needs to be Assemblyman Jan Goldsmith Two blasts end 6 years of silence Bomber resurfaces in capital By Cynthia Hubert Bee Staff Writer For six years the Unabomber was silent After a rampage of explosions that spanned six states killed a Sacramento man and injured 21 people between 1978 and 1987 the serial bomber who confounded investigators from New York to California seemingly vanished But law officers FBI agents and explosives experts involved in the case never stopped thinking about the name they gave it after the 1980 attack on a United Airlines executive and subsequent attacks on university professors They met annually followed leads fed their investigative files And they worried about when and where the next blast might strike was afraid to turn their backs on this said Robert Bell a Sacramento County homicide detective who was part of the investigative unit big fear was that this guy was going to bring down an On June 22 and 24 more than six years after the last explosion linked to the case university professors in California and Connecticut were critically injured when packages mailed to them blew up in theis hands The package bombs which bore Sacramento postmarks and returh addresses carried clues that raised red flags for investigators I Please see BOMBER back page A22 Inside A brand new school with no students Aid plan ease losses loggers insist Another Dodger great Don Drysdale dies Sports page Cl By Jim Mayer Bee Staff Writer and Jonathan Franks Bee Correspondent HAYFORK tell Marilyn Nelson about retraining loggers When timber-cutting restrictions cost her husband bis job he kicked the mud off his boots and dusted off his pride husband saw the writing on tbe wall and went back to school to be a Nelson said But for every opening in the community college program there were four applicants took all the prerequisites but he get Nelson "said he sits on the couch at By Mary Lynne Vellinga Bee Staff Writer By fall the spanking new Vencil Brown Elementary school will be ready to open in the north end of Roseville Problem is there be any children to attend it many school districts struggle to find space for students this $5 million facility with room for 600 pupils may not open for another two years Surrounding the school off Roseville Parkway near Washington Boulevard is nothing but 2000 acres where developers one day hope to build houses apartments and a regional shopping mall got our schools bqt no sid Debbie Bettendourt In the Hayfork Tavern one of the tin-roofed false-fronted buildings that hold up the teetering confidence of this Trinity County mill town the promise of federal aid to patch up a failing timber economy clinks like a broken bar glass Finding new jobs for old lumber workers is supposed to be the saving grace of the Clinton plan announced last week to end the spotted-owl wars of the Pacific Northwest The plan called for limiting logging on public lands occupied by the threatened bird to 12 billion board-feet a year one-quarter the harvest of the 1980s In Washing- Please see FOREST pageA20 1 assistant superintendent for business at the Roseville City School District The odd situation is the result of two factors: The way the school was financed and the downturn in the real estate market The entire school was paid for with the proceeds of Mello-Roos bonds which are issued by cities school districts and other jurisdictions to finance streets sewers schools libraries parks and other amenities With these bonds communities can make sure needed infrastructure is in place before development actually occurs They have to pay the bonds back that responsibility falls to Please see MELLO page A20 i Today high 98 low 61 Yesterday high 94 low 63.