Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 29

I -'w -v Section Lii Thejrlbun Sunday, CtpUmbwr 0, 1984 X'Mrift tnirti ,1 i v-tWrirvV r-, iyyrfj a cm )A TmmmMeommMemimyem 7 1 1 rfjfffi )J ljf1, 6v 1 jV; ly.r 1 1 il's r-'''. i' i s- wV T-VV vr Tv -fifeVt. I ft. DRDNDA PAYTON 4ffl J- U'- 'j Through an Iron i and Into thcr. world of the Del i Monte cannery No.

Emery j'SVi iyi labyrinth of machines. All running, performing an in-' credible range of tasks, cutting i System would link Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore; By Benny BvangeSslatt Vto THSmm -J i i i and dicing, sealing and label, lnirmf the last fall dav of the canning period following the fiSvcst, and its full steam -imCBeooiaef you cant hear people talk. Their months mefeHmt no sound, reaches your regulars communicate Hrith bods and of machines and each has its own souod and -rhythm, creating mechanical symphony, clack, whltZbiiiz, haqg: The constant sounds become one hugenoise that soundsfeels as though it emanates 1 1 from within your head. Most of the-workers wear I I iiyi. j30ur work relatively easy compared to when I 1.

DUBLIN A proposed bus ton that would 'link -Dublin and Livermore has "gath-') ered support from most of those cities officials. -v- But DubUn Mayor fete Snyder is, a critic of the saying the' 'system should start 'slowly, with just Pleasanton and Dublin, and not1 try' to Creite a miniature AC 'inONk' The Pleasanton, and Dublin dty 4 councils have ehdorsed the idea of joint exercise of powers agree'. 'ment between their cities, Alame- da County and Livermore to ad- minister a Valleywide bus system, 'Vfi. The. four-member; review com 'mitteC that irdrafting' the agree--'ment has scheduled Its next tneet-7' ing fbr a.m.

Sept'17 at the' Pleasanton aHalL. KarinvMohr. a meihber the transit Committee and the Pleas anton City Council, is confident'; that the agreement will be formal- Jy approved by the county Board of Supervisors and the three councils by the, end of the service could start next spring. whb said the project was balnK" disagrees with She said the system should Include peopfcjforked 10- lo' 12-hour ahifta. Now we work seven aod-ae-balf to eight bourse There are three abitaJ The paanety goe around the clock.

Jbe werk. varies, from sorting and Inapixting io I Mftiag heavy foxes and crates, The mast difficult thing 4 b. tfoWiding while yon are sorting: You have to stand Tor1 extreme periods of time, sometimes up to four ftOurtCIt helps to stand erect, with your shoulders square and to Isolate your movement. So you use only yourJians and hands for sorting, not your shoulders, or useyourfocea and thighs for lifting and bending If you do it improperly, you will feel it in your JbecL-V I the smell. Different kinds of fruit in various I stages of processing produce a rich array of odors, some sweet like a perfectly ripened peach, some pungent and fermented, reminiscent ofa wipery some so strong theyme 1 TTThEREVER YOU LOOIt peaches, pears, vW grapes, cherries travel on belts, circle in i i I machine, to the next shoot through transparent pneumatic tubes overhead; 1 iV-? pekr juTce sloshes through pipes underfoot The fruit comes in huge crates.

Signs inside the Cannery mark the areas for; peaches, fruit for salad, ftrocktail like street Peaches, for example, are first and pitted. a solution that removes.the skin and j. I then they' are sorted. Next they are sliced for salad, A AkVA? -u very good planningto. leave Llver- nflio rfii nlQTYiG more out of a valleywide bus sys- i-' Livtnrmore, 'whidi already has a -v successful bus system called, Rideo would be part of the Livermore; Mayor Dale Turner agrees.

dont think it would be1 intdchunks for chunky fruit or. diced for fruit cocktaiL; proposed-. Rl i C'-fv. -ij he said, be nice tO share, resources' not haVe thher'f separate Systems that' 'Un costly burden on taxpaym. Enrollment is down at Eastbay 7 that feet have had a marked effect which operates on a quarter iystem Th authority community colleges Desroaier is tiUpre-registering students.

hr down at most of them --T and ad- are an awful lot of people With late regtatrationjpcnitinu'IWeasMtonmid lbUnthatjvmild. missions directors are blaming ev- from the nee toahealthy economy 4 ing people out r' DUtrict, vhlch eDded tu prreUhVW-Al Iterrtlt OoUeffc in.O, hill, tration period Aug. 20, experienced r. above East 20 percent ordlnator. 'a 20 percent plunge in enrollment sfewer atudent registered.

jtThere $50 fee was approved by the this; ierneater compared tolastirwere OQrorollTtUi semester Stare Sd DeuE KSJS001? ton. cu. toWtart yr. SSlSSLl IHSf-SiHSgLt. campuses oegan VisU College in Berkeley.

te, finriiyVtrapped Bill Desrosiers dean of with S.lSl students registered by munity cguege i Uke six Uifei1 SiSSTSJS JSuSto Livermore National Laboratory, Shaw said. Ari'V'f See BVS, Page A HlUOrC A $5 per unit Under 'a $15 million student-aid provision, qualified students may Ay receive a waiver, 7r until their But Desrosiers said financial aid isnt always V4 within the Peralta Community Col- $3,190,000 in 1985-86, said gpite of what some people 7 lege District does not rise to of', the state community a' low rest, -we still have college chancellor's many people who werent able to 1- We'll be hurting Godiaold said pay. he aid.Some people cant alified students may ver, credit or deferral applications aref 83 levels, -the district could lose nearly $2.2 million next-year, the oinum capsules. The sealed cans i'CAw- '7n wo the fruit is cooked in the cans I average daily; attendance riyear will cost the district about- ru 1 a ere I n. iL.

rea AA 0 AA AAA AOk BC -mmIjI IXmImiii aluminum capsules. The sealed care the fruit is cooked in the Delena j. v-t si i A I fell ii5 F'-'i 1 1 3 -nl 5 1 i'T Al I 4 I rl Alj by machines aided by workers who make sure the assembly line.moves smoothlyAgsfi. prepared fruit goes into a machine that dispenses it Into cans. Cans for mixed fruit first receive one fruiLtfien a second, and are filled with a third.

Grapes, grapes, pears, pears, cherries, cherries; 'ri'vJjm a linewatcher. I have the easiest job, (knot i as taxing and I have room to move around. After the'U filled with fruit they come to me. Ihaye to look for cans that are dented, make sure they an property flllhdZand keep them from Jamming oo the beltf.Thef folt is fed by two lines and maybe 300 to 400 cans are on the ieli at one time.yA.yO'-1-v.... IXwaren really trained to watch all the cans, Just know lf one of them Jammed or isn't filled; properly Its like typing -you dont look at the keys or youf' fingers, you just know where they are.

You get so you can almost feel when a can falb over, or yod notice the ffffodb wrong. Then you look over and see a can has: Jammed. up whole Sometimes it so badly i Jarhfoedlt takes ftpofof us to get the am outX'mr Filled cans go to the syrup machine. ln an upOtairs room where the temperature is 92 degrees, the syrup is maditfrom cane and corn sugar cooked in huge vats, where it is constantly stirred with a long agita P' fFteE FIlLED CANS move dOwne belt in'a colorful line and then clamp they are sealed, emerging as shiny go into huge drums where forabout SO minutes. Bolling down a belt, looking like one continuous shtay can, the cans pick up glue, move under tollers that slait'oa a and come out in a green Mur.

Its difficult to see the exact second when the label is appUed giving the- process-a-magical, metamorphic quality; Shiny metal, rw. 7mAt the end of the line the cans go in boxes that are i stadted. in a special The Del Monte Emeryville cannery 14 lines 1,400 workers during 'r the.canning season 90 workers year round produc-; ing air average of. 2.5 million cases of canned fruit that ia 60 million cans of cling peaches, fruit cocktail, fruit for salad and -fruit cups. -When tsee the cans lined up on the grocery store shelves, I always feel proud.

I never buy any though, I prefer fresh fruit 7 Us year we worked 51 days, 34 of tbem oonstop On the last day there always a lot of engyipope for fire next year. People usually bring in a few cakes to celebrate. tfe give a gift to the foreman. Thb year we each got a card from our foreman thanking us, for the first after sill of those giftsi "-'V-'5-r- started waking at the cannery to. put myself through school 10 years ago, but Fve come back every summer-.

The money quick and good the minimum an hour. And you can receive unemployment untifthe next season. A kfL-ofpeople do that You get attached to the people. The workers are all agea; most are black, Hispanic or Asian. Its like a family Jbe first week back there a lot of excitement about-seeing each other after the whole year.

Theres a fowYe you doing Funny, most of us dont knoweach others names. Its like a separate little life, fmmthing to look toward a change from your everyday life. ii.tbe work tedious, you can believe that At times yfo dOdlknow where you will get the strength to stand there the next minute. When my feet are killing me, my koioTare buckling I Just pray, God. help me git moment' ape the older people, with thelrankles wrapped, their knees sore with arthritis.

I bow they have dope It all tbese yeu-kaow If they can, you can. ZmXtibune columnist Brenda Payton writes on 8u dayatfNedneadayi and Frldaysr IU3IPB CcpIUlreport a a Two AC Transit bus drivers offer the Safest; rides in Northern California, say to the re- 7 suits of a regional bus-driving 7 held yesterday in-SaaA Carlos, m- Santa Clara County-transit iLAers and instructors took the trophy overall performance by their-closer drivers, howwer, with AC Transit -A JC Harold Kurz, a veteran driver of 1 East'Oaktond bus routes, finished first in the test of driving Skills A-day, weu speed. Second place went to this past Week, He added it was get a wajver, credU or financial early to speculate, on the. financial loans, and pthers are too proud to repercussions until, the 0'! aiuf a daily attendance rate is known in tote September. The Peralta Community College District consists of Laney and Merritt colleges inn Oakland, Vista College in Berkeley, Feather River.

College in Quincy and the College of The state provided for a 6.1 per-, cent cost of living increase for the community, college system this year, but only 4 percent was actually budgeted! 1 never see. those people. Theyre phantom students. It every- one who needed financial aid got why arent the enrollment figures than. they The three schools in the Costa Community College also reflect the downward trend.

With 520 students re opening Contra Costa College in San a 14 percent from fall 1982, said Dean Eaton, director of state community college chancel- tors office T' 7 But this year, the- state would provide $391,000 in rescue funds to Peralta on a one-time only Peralta Chancellor Donald God-. bold said the five colleges within the district have already targeted areas where spending can be re-. duced this fiscal year under, a 'worst-case scenario. tThose areas -vary from college to college, he said. rWe tried to be intelligent and not over budget for money we are not going to make, Godbold said.

But perhaps the biggest financial chinch would Uke place' next Inability to meet 1982-32 level this- 4 4 -Cm, miiJKiX Ram D-4 William Gamlen, who normally; drives routes in Newark 'Seven transit districts competed in the seventh annual regional 'rnmnatiUmi. See PERALTA. Pate 14 then, you dont have anything to; worry about9 Tim Sproul, 17, of Newport, Ore said he and a friend saw the Jump- ers. We were just biking along and? 60 feet above us was this guy who. jumped and evidently got hung up.

Allot a sudden another guy jumped. from over Broyies, who was charged with trespassing on a roadway superb structure, had some advice for oth-; er skydivers who want to try stunt A i i ingthe48-rtoryTransamericaPyr amid, but police, talked him into quitting 12 stories short of the goaL The former waiter and sailor said the bridge Jump was "really a practice run for driving cars off cliffs later this month in Japan. "The bridge, is -dangerous because it acts as a wall that you can hit, but the water at the bottom is forgiving. Tom Stavers, a California High-way Patrol officer who was driving on the bridge when Broyles Jumped around 11:10 a.m.,said the skydiv- fer almorgot killed when he got-blown back onto the bridge. I wouldnt Suggest dMng it If you do make the fall, youre arrested.

And and his unidentified friend jumped from an oceanside tower of the bridgr oq. July 4th. They escaped notice; he said, in the heavy fog. "This: was thrilling, he said of yesterday mornings jump as he waited to post $101 bail at San Francisco jail. I got hung up on the (bridge) catwalk at roadway level When my line twisted and my shoe got caught.

I had to bounce put from the tower and deploy my reserve chute fast," said the professional stunt- -naan from Los Angeles. The chuteT he said, can be deployed in two seconds. 1 Broyles first tried to wow San By Kathy OTooh TSs THSmm i SAN FRANCISCO A daredevil stuntman celebrating his 21st birthday became the first jumper to get caught parachuting off the Golden Gate Bridge yestreday. A second skydiver also jumped from the 746-foot-hlgh tower on the San Francisco Bay side of the bridge. He escaped the tong arm of the tow in a small inflatable boat steered by a getaway man.

Coast Guard and bridge officials said it was first time they heard of any skydivers trying the dangerous stunt i' But Ronald Broyles, the one who got caught by a Coast Guard cutter "Dret We researdied this for months. The winds are very tricky and logistical support is very diffl- aeln San Francisco Bay, said hey Francisco two years ago by if you don't make, theall, well, cult to arrange. 4 i. iA i.