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A-10 Thursday August 19 1993 Redding Record Searchlight Clinton forest plan too rough say critics hearings this fall on the north coast and in the mountains Members of Shasta Alliance for Resources and Environment (SHARE) were briefed on Senate hearing by Ed Bond of Sierra Pacific Industries Bond and others said SHARE should consider launching a public information campaign to voice concerns about Clinton's forest plan called 9" Shasta County Supervisor Fran-cie Sullivan is meeting Friday in Sacramento with representatives from other north state counties and the Clinton administration to learn more about what the economic recovery portion of the plan might hold for the region The plan would limit logging to L2 billion board feet each year in the federal lands that include spotted owl habitat R-S photo by staff Imam Dan Heknbold Six signs instated this week at the Shasta Lake city ImNs announce the new community Shasta Lake on as new city The six city limits signs were a gift from the Shasta County Public Works Department which promised the signs if the area incorporated By Stasia Scarborough R-S Shasta Lake reporter SHASTA LAKE The signs of change are greeting visitors to Shasta Lake Shasta County installed six signs Tuesday at boundaries of the new city said Bruce Carter the traffic engineer was ecstatic when I saw said city spokesman Steve Carter no relation to Brace Carter the first real physical visible sign of change It solidffiesthe bet that we are a new Hie signs were a gift from the Public Works Department whose director Richard Curry promised the signs if the area was incorpo rated Bruce Carter said But the signs do us a fevor Now we know where the boundaries he added County officials cleared the signs with city workers making sure the name was correct and that the locations marked the city limits Bruce Carter added The signs say: Lake City Limit Pop 9760 Elev 750" Two signs were installed on Lake Boulevard one on Ashby Road two on Cascade Boulevard and one on Akrich Avenue Bruce Carter said He did not know how much the signs cost' Signs on Shasta Dam Boulevard a state route as well as exit signs from Interstate 5 are the responsibility of the California Department Transportation Steve Carter said the city is discussing having Caltrans replace those signs That work might take several months said Caltrans spokeswoman Cheri Beck of 10345 001163 104- IA HAMEOFCMLP WROTH FRANCESCA R-S staff news services SACRAMENTO California lawmakers the timber industry and environmental groups agreed Wednesday that President lbrest plan needs more work' before a final version is written this fall 1 Lawmakers complained the plan does not consider state forest restrictions The timber industry said the plan would protect too many federal forests and cause the Ices of 20000 jobs in Northern Califor- nia Environmental groups said fhe plan includes too much logging and not enough protection 1 for fish and wildlife The Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee held the first of several hearings Wednesday on the plan released last month by die Clinton administration The committee plans ftiture Fishing- Continued from A-l Willmore and others are pushing state officials in Sacramento to place a catch limit on the fish particularly at Lake Britton need to do something here because we don't want to rain our Willmore said Even Assemblyman Stan Statham R-Oak Run has been pulled into the fray- He asked the legislative liaison fin the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) for a report after a phone call from a Burney woman who that some of the local citizens were getting very irate and may take matters into their own hands if something Some locals have even resorted to packing rifles along with their tackle boxes possibly to use farce to reclaim their favorite fishing holes according to DFG warden Don Jacobs who said he came across one such angler recently are high" he said But not much can be done about the complaints according to state officials call up and ask us to investigate" said DeWayne Johnston the DFG's statewide patrol chief there to investigate? not breaking the law Some people may not like it but not against the law" Phon knows that laws cannot prohibit his people from catching crappie That he said would be discrimination think some people they like said Phon one of four people recently cited for using minnow as bait forbidden in most north state waters including Lake Britton Phon who says he has to fish to feed his family claimed ignorance of that law Such violations add to the resentment some longtime residents hold against Southeast Asians although DFG officials have Mason Continued from A-l leading to Mason being put under heavy security in the courtroom original attorneys could not be reached for comment late Wednesday at home or at the Alameda County Public Defenders Office Brady said he believed the evidence would lead to a new stay and delay the execution for months But state attorneys pressing for the execution have made it clear throughout the case that they expected such last-minute maneuvers and would fight them and an effort last year to present new evidence in the case of Robert Alton Harris was rejected by courts Harris was executed in April and became the first inmate in more than a quarter century to be put to death in California Brady contends that although Mason may have leveled threats" against his attorneys he never went so far as they had claimed and that the public defenders office had engaged in Byzantine course of deceitftil conduct" petition (hr a new trial indicates that when cell Death MERCY MEDICAL CENTER News Wreak US bombs Iraqi site R-S newt service NICOSIA Cyprus US warplanes bombed an Iraqi air defense battery today alter spotting the launch of an anti-aircraft missile the Pentagon said The missile site near the northern city of Mosul was destroyed US officials said Iraq reported the incident but did not mention the mis- sile launch At the Pentagon Marine LL CoL Charles Boyd said US aircraft on patrol over northern Iraq spotted an SA-I 3 missile being launched at them from the missile site 1 Two F-10s dropped cluster bombs and two F-15s that were not on the patrol at- tacked it with four laser-guided bombs Boyd said site appears to have 1 1- been destroyed" Boyd said "The pilots were reacting to a perceived threat upon vis-ibly sighting the SA-3 missile He said the American planes were not hit Administration reacts to high yen WASHINGTON The 'Clinton administration today sought to bolster the I 1 fading value of the US 1 dollar against the Japanese yen by saying it was concerned about the effect on the world economy 1 are concerned that the recent rapid rise in the value of the Japanese yen -could retard growth in the Japanese and world economies" Treasury Undersec-I retary Lawrence Summers said in a statement read to at the Treasury Department Summers welcomed a re-cent decline in Japanese interest rates which should have the effect of stemming the rise of the yen which has been trading this week at post-World War II highs against -the dollar Somalis ambush US military truck MOGADISHU Somalia Somali guerrillas am-bushed a US military truck today but the four American soldiers inside survived a remote-- controlled mine blast and fought off a gun attack UN military spokesman David Stockwell said the soldiers received ir minor cuts from flying glass when their truck was lifted into the air by the 1 mine explosion but were i able to return fire and drive their vehicle to safe-ity He said there were no Somali casualties The soldiers were ap-: 1 preaching a logistics base in southern Mogadishu when the explosion occurred Lawyer gets job to sell trade pact WASHINGTON President Clinton today named Chicago attorney William Daley as his point man in selling the controversial Mexico free trade agreement and vowed to campaign vigorously to overcome Democratic opposition to the pact trade agreement means a better future for American workers for American industry and for the American economy" Clinton said in an Oval Office session announcing appointment I we gain jobs and whether we gain good jobs depends on whether there is more demand for Ameri- can goods and In an understatement 1 Daley said his job was quite a an indirect reference to the opposition to the pact among many Democrats in Congress Clinton made the announcement a few hours before leaving Washington for a vacation certificate OF UVE BIRTH STATE OF CALIFORNIA UK BLACK IV IC LAST RUTH 1 2175 ROSALINE STREET "ti AVI REDDING i 130 TWIO NAWE TTTLE AND WUUNR AOOReee OF A GREGORY SKIPITIS MD 26l launched outreach programs to teach immigrants about fish and game laws The immigrant fishermen are also being accused though no one can offer proof of illegally selling their catch commercially One observer feels that racism not fish is ftieling the complaints is just another example of the xenophobia sweeping the United according to Gary Roberts a Shasta County public defender who has worked closely with the Southeast Asian population underneath all this is a racial thing (old-timers) resenting a foreign group ftirther depleting tax-Ainded he said But many people including Jacobs and Willmore insist that Roberts is wrong that there is no racism Instead they claim it is an issue of protecting natural resources want to say only Southeast said Willmore got locals who take 200 to 300 crappie a day But they do it eveiy Similar conflicts have existed for years in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta where immigrant fishermen sometimes descend by the hundreds filling bucket after bucket with their-bounty state fish and game officials say The problem at Lake Britton has spanned more than a month according to warden Jacobs who said word-of-mouth has led other Southeast Asians to the lake He estimates that immigrant fishermen already have harvested in excess of 30000 crappie ranging in size from several inches to more than a foot Some people including Ed Laskey 52 of Cassel take a pragmatic approach to the issue not a said Laskey they take more than they was searched during the trial officials (bund a paper clip soldered to an empty ball point pen cartridge that could have been used as a weapon and the petition contends the search stemmed from a call to authorities by a Mason attorney After the discovery Mason was forced to appear in court in belly and waist chains" and spectators were confined to the last two rows in the courtroom Brady said the petition claiming new evidence was drafted without his knowledge by the California Appellate Project a State Bai sponsored organization that pursues death penalty appeals and that it was delivered directly to Masai on Tuesday The next day Mason showed it to Brady and asked whether he believed he should reconsider his decision about going ahead with the execution and Brady advised him to do so Despite that Brady said he Is not contending Mason is innocent of the 1961 string of four Oakland-area murders and later slaying of a fellow inmate But he said he believes Mason should receive a new trial based on the claim that his lawyers at the time had a conflict of interest 1i NAFut 11 7 DATE ACCEPTED FOUR Steznam sJuumLu ms intro A certified copy of the birth record fted at the Shasta County Department of Pubfic Health MNUTI along Airpark Drive between the airport and the hospital He wore a baseball cap sunglasses slacks and a T-shirt said a state employee who works at the airport and asked not to be named payments" she said The candidates did agree on several issues one being Assemblyman Stan plan to split the state Arrowsmith in his opening remarks suggested he is the one who recommended Statham take on the project Johannessen said he some doubts in the beginning" but has come to be a believer Hansen also endorsed the concept saying it would give the new state unique to reform government Eastwood Continued from A-l Clint Eastwood I see him but I talked with a woman who said she saw him in the waiting room area No one talked about it at all but I kept seeing something suspicious like signs for a wet floor around this one Mrs Benito said Wednesday Hollywood publicists for East-wood and Ms Fisher were mum this week about the birth have no idea what is going on up said Marco Bari a Eastwood's personal spokesman Mr Eastwood has no public announcement to make so I am afraid I help Eastwood's production studio in Burbank was equally unhelpftiL confirm or deny it because I really know Fm not his personal publicist We only represent him on his Virginia Boyer of Warner Bros studio said Wednesday longtime agent Leonard Hirshan of the William Morris Agency also denied any knowledge of the life is news to he said However Eastwood sightings were reported by numerous hospital and Benton Air Park employees who asked to remain anonymous Eastwood who has a com- Debate Continued from A-l Arrowsmith took the opportunity to accuse Hansen of being appointed to the committee as a favor from Democrat Assembly Speaker Willie Brown you want Willie Brown controlling your he asked Before Arrowsmith' arrival Hansen and Johannessen did spar briefly over the issue of child support Hansen was asked in a question prepared by the Republican committee whether she used cam AH pnoto CSnt Eastwood and Frances Fisher attend the Oscars in March mercial helicopter license was seen flying his gray A-Star Aerospatiale helicopter in and out of Benton the weekend of the birth one airport employee said Always alone Eastwood was spotted by several people walking paign tactics that were referring to an earlier statement that Johannessen failed to make child support payments Hansen denied that she has issued negative statements but only answered questions asked by reporters She added that her statements be documented by public But Johannessen asked Hansen to explain her accusation of him being a call you a deadbeat dad but I said one problem is fathers who don't make support Continued from A-l on the freeway while CHP officers investigated the accident Prior to death the most recent Caltrans worker killed in Redding-based District 2 was in I960 A man in a four-worker crew patching potholes on Highway 395 about 30 miles north of Susanville was hit by a vehicle been quite some time since had anyone seriously said Caltrans spokes woman Cheri Beck Since 1972 there have been' 54 Caltrans workers killed on the job statewide said Pat Aust assistant safety officer Since the California Department of Transportation was formed in 1895 135 Caltrans workers have been killed on the job The first death occurred in 1924 if I I.