The Tribune du lieu suivant : San Luis Obispo, California • 1

V- i Ir 4 i V- i water at 'critical residents asked to conserve Morro Bay Bjr Brooks Townes Telegram-Tribune This year's lack of rain has put Morro Bay In a "critical stage" for water and city officials are asking residents to voluntarily stop washing cars to curtail watering their lawns and to take shorter showers Vater rationing may become mandatory in a few weeks if weather patterns do not soon change said City Administrator Gary Napper "We are in a critical stage now make no bones about it" he said "We are asking our community to voluntarily cut back (water use) now so it won't be such a shock if working out contract details with the lowest of three bidders As water levels drop in the wells salt water seeping from the sea into the fresh water supply is also a concern Risley said Meanwhile nitrates chloride and dissolved solids are increasing in some city wells said Nichols Through blending with more pure water from other wells Nichols said residents need not fear the water from their taps passes all state health tests Anticipating the worst Nichols said he has been working with the Whale Rock Commission staff which has assured the city it may peas or other water-intensive crops" Though it will not do much good this year the city recently rejected contractor bids for replacing 38 miles of sub-standard and leaking water mains paving the way for city crews to do the work cheaper paying for the work with money from a $15 million state loan The replacement of 2- and 4-inch lines with I- and 8-inch pipe wlU take a year Nichols said "It wlU Improve fire protection capabilities It will also save the city enough water to supply an estimated 119 single-family households ranchers in the valley in allowing the city to drill on their lands said yes to Kirchner's request" And this week the council passed a motion to have city staff prepare mandatory rationing rules something Nichols said he has already been working on Councilman Bruce Risley and Nichols also asked for a special session of the council if necessary to speed the signing of a contract for drilling two new city test wells "About a month ago 1 asked the city to bypass the bidding process to speed up the drilling" Risley said That would not be within the law it was decided but now city staff is we have to go to mandatory" bans on certain kinds of uses Already a normally healthy private well has run dry only yards from city wells east of town in the Chorro Basin Jack Kirchner had been borrow- SIO wants more water 3A lng water through a garden hose from neighbors he told the City Council this week "He asked if he could get a temporary water connection from the city" said Nick Nichols city Public Works director "The council thankful for the cooperation of PAGES TODAY Serving buy water from the reservoir if city wells near exhaustion Before going to Whale Rock water which requires heavy chlorination the city would request water from ranchers east of town Nichols said "They have indicated they will help us out "But the remainder of the story is what will our demand be? Not only our (city) demand but that of the agricultural land" Nichols said the city has held the line on water used to slightly less than this time last year but the aquifers been recharged as well "The other factor is land that used to be in hay is now in sugar WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 1985 space shuttle program went the development to the operational Crippen said launches from Vandenberg will allow the shuttles to circle the earth from top to bottom rather than around the equator Crippen a veteran of four shuttle flights said the polar orbits will allow shuttle-launched spy and scientific satellites to photograph most of the globe including the Soviet Union Six of seven members of the March 20 crew appeared at the shuttle maintenance building after Please see Space shuttle 3A Body found ashore was Klinghoffer DAMASCUS Syria (AP) The body of an elderly man that washed ashore near the Syrian port of Tart us is that of Leon Klinghoffer the American passenger who died aboard the hijacked Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro last week the US Embassy said today The body was put aboard a special Alitalia flight for Rome where UJS officials and Italian authorities are to conduct-an autopsy to determine how Klinghoffer died "We have confirmed that the body is that of Leon Klinghoffer" embassy spokesman John Burgess told reporters "There apparently were two gunshot wounds in the corpse" Burgess said Klinghoffer apparently received one gunshot wound in the head and one in the back said Daniel Lawler a State Department spokesman The body arrived at the airport in a wooden coffin draped in the US flag It was escorted by UB Ambassador William Eagleton and Syrian military police The four Palestinians who hl- the Achille Lauro last week ve been charged by Italian officials with murdering the partially paralyzed 69-year-old man from New York but judicial sources have quoted them as denying the charge Syrian pathologists a medical examiner retained by the embassy and an FBI agent who arrived in in Damascus on Tuesday night identified the body "based on dental X-rays fingerprints and physical Burgess said The body was brought to Damascus from Tartus on Tuesday and Western diplomatic sources and a physician said it appeared to have been in the sea for at least a week before washing ashore Monday They said it had been ravaged by fish and the effects of the Mediterranean salt water The Washington Post in edition quoted unidentified US officials as saying the body was missing both legs and an arm Meanwhile President Reagan speaking in Boise Idaho said the United States had nothing to apologize for in its interception of the Egyptian jetliner carrying the terrorists who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had demanded an apology to the Egyptian people Messages between Palestine Liberation Front leader Mohammed Abbas and the four hijackers of the Achille Lauro are among the evidence offered by the Reagan administration to a US court in Washington to back the claim he was the "mastermind" of the ship seizure a US official said Tuesday The administration also submitted a history of past terrorist attacks by the PLF in which captured members stated they got their instructions from Abbas The text of the messages was not released to the public on the grounds the evidence was in order not to prejudice any future legal proceedings 117 YEAR NO 61 36 Nicaragua suspends civil rights MANAGUA Nicaragua (AP) The Sandinista government issued a decree Tuesday night suspending civil rights because "the brutal aggression by North America and its internal allies has created an extraordinary situation" I Among the rights suspended were free expression public assembly strikes and the privacy of postal com unications and of the home President Daniel Ortega read the decree over national radio and television Most of those rights and guarantees had been suspended when a state of emergency was declared in March 1982 but they were restored shortly before the national elections last November The new decree also strengthened news censorhsip with all sections of the media required to submit material to the Interior Ministry before publication or broadcast La Prensa the main opposition newspaper had previously been retired to submit to censors material ealing with affairs and the economic relations" Justice Minister Rodrigo Reyes said that with the new decree censorship "will be total" There was no immediate reaction from La Prensa editors who have canceled the publication of scores of editions in recent years because of orders that certain articles be deleted Reyes said the new decree the intrinsic rights of the people such as the right to life and physical integrity" Ortega said response to the terrorist politics of the United States internal pawns of imperialism supported by some political parties news media outlets and religious institutions have redoubled their actions to sabotage the defense forces of our nation" is inconceivable that we are sitting here tolerating internal counter-revolutionary activities of rightist and far-left sectors while the United States aproves millions to assassinate Nicaraguan people" he said adding: is a fundamental condition for the lifting of these exceptional measures that the imperialist aggression against Nicaragua be effectively stopped" His reference to a far-left sector was directed at calls for a strike by the Union of Carpenters and Construction Workers demanding a bonus at Christmas the Entire County of San Luis Obispo have added a significant new capability that will allow the space shuttle to fly over any part of the world a very important addition to the already impressive list of unique shuttle attributes" statement said Aldridge and six other of the shuttle crew delivered remarks and posed for cameras in the giant orbiter maintenance facility that will house the West first shuttle Aldridge said Tuesday was the original launch date for the West Coast space shuttle and since no launch would be made the Air Force took the occasion to show off Daily the completed facility News teams from across the country and around the world toured the space port before meeting the crew Capt Rick Sanford an Air Force spokesman said ceremony marked the end of five years of construction on the space shuttle port ready to begin preparations for our launch early next year" Sanford said of the flight next March 20 in which the shuttle Discovery will be the first spacecraft to carry humans into polar orbit Navy Capt Robert Crippen mission commander said Tuesday beachfront house was destroyed early today when winds pushed the huge Piuma fire down a hillside to the Pacific Ocean just came flying right down the canyon lumped Pacific Coast Highway and burned the home" said sheriff's Deputy John Larkin An elderly woman and her pet poodle were taken from the residence to a Red Cross evacuation center said shelter manager Warren Dranit The flareup which threatened other structures before dying down forced the California Highway Patrol to close more than a mile of the Pacific Coast Highway between Cross Creek Road and Carbon Canyon Road about 12:30 am By early today 13 homes had been destroyed in the Malibu area since two big brushfires began Monday possibly the work of arsonists A Please see LA blazes 3A Doug ParkerTelegram-Tribune Astronauts Edward Aldridge left John Watterson Dale Gardner Richard Mullane Guy Gardner and Robert Crippen sit inside the new orbiter maintenance facility at the Vandenberg Air Force Base space shuttle complex Vandenberg opens new space shuttle base By Tom Fulks Telegram-Tribune second spaceport was officially opened Tuesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base with pomp circumstance and a blessing from President Reagan "Today the country takes another giant step in the already very successful space shuttle program by the completion of the Vandenberg Space Shuttle Launch and Landing the president said statement was read by shuttle crew member Edward "Pete" Aldridge Jr undersecretary for tiie Air Force 60000 acres 23 homes lost as fires char LA area Coming Thursday Retail sales in the county: some up some level Arroyo Grande and Paso Robles State Board of Equalization for the are the commercial hot spots in San first quarter of 1985 Luis Obispo County First-quarter sales in San Luis Their taxable sales have been Obispo however were level climbing steadily along with sub- Thursday's Telegram-Tribune will stantial commercial development include a story looking at retail according to tables released by the sales in the county LOS ANGELES (AP) Major wildfires that burned 23 homes and scorched more than 60000 acres of Southern California brushland blazed out of control early today as firefighters pinned their hopes on a calming of the winds The region's biggest fire destroyed 10 homes and burned 35000 acres in Ventura County near Santa Paula 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles fire officials said have no containment on that fire at Ventura County fire spokeswoman Laurie Nichols said of the so-called Ferndale-Wheeler Canyon blaze the winds start to die we hope that will The National Weather Service said the dreaded Santa Ana winds which swirl down from the interior toward the sea and fan flames as they roar through canyons and mountain passes were limited and expected to end today In Los Angeles County a Malibu Index Associated Press Winds gusting up to 50 mph fanned 10 wildfires on Monday.