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Butte College grounds Bad air's back in the EN ENTERPRISE-RECORD DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF CHICO, OROVILLE AND THE GREATER MID-VALLEY AREA FRIDAY October 1, 1999 today's forecast: Sunny Sunny with afternoon south winds to 10 mph. Clear tonight. Predicted temperatures: 91-50 INSIDE Paintball arrest A teen-ager is accused of using a blowgun to shoot paintballs at a woman and police officers who responded to the disturbance. Page 3A Grand jury findings Butte County Supervisors are pleased with a grand jury finding of no wrongdoing in the November 1998 election and encouraged the adoption of its recommendations to further protect ballots. Page 2A Market in brief September 30, 1999 DOW (Industrials) 500 10,336.95 1.282.71 RUSSELL 2000 NASDAQ 427.30 2.746.16 NYSE diary Advances: 1,921 New highs 50 Declines: 1,183 New lows Unchanged: 460 219 Composite volume: 1,199,449,040 See AP Mexican quake A strong earthquake along the Pacific coast rattled much of Mexico on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and damaging hundreds of buildings.

Page 11C Nobel prize Novelist Guenter Grass, Germany's best-known post World War writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. Page 6A October 1, 1999 91 Days to the year 2000 Celebrate 2000 Co-sponsored by: TRI COUNTIES BANK Member FDIC Banking with the Service You Deserve 50 Stay informed with the Enterprise-Record INDEX Ann Landers 2D 10C Classified ads 3D-8E 6C Crossword puzzle 6C Editorial 10A Home garden. Horoscope 6C LifeStyle. Obituaries. 11C Sports.

1C-5C TV listings 10C Weather 4A Your Money 7C Copyright Enterprise-Record www.chicoer.com (530) 891-1234 93c tax 1999 Daily, Sunday per copy 146th Year-No. 44 Pages-5 Sections Gun 2 fire big and getting bigger Blaze has now total of all Butte By John Michael Staff Writer Tripling in size in three days, the Gun 2 blaze has eclipsed the size of all the wildland fires combined in Butte County last month. It has enveloped more than 36,000 acres compared to the 34,000 acres blackened during two hectic weeks last month. The Tehama County blaze burned more acreage than County fires last month also threatened to burn Firefighter morale was another week as fire comman- boosted by a fire weather ders pushed back their pre- report that downplayed the dicted containment date from likelihood of brutal north Sunday to Wednesday, said winds that could push the Lana Forster of the fire infor- blaze along an even more mation office in Red Bluff. destructive path.

"The fire is moving toward High pressure was expected very inaccessible areas," to weaken and allow a cooling Forster said. trend and slow rise in humidiOfficials said the fire, now ty, the National Weather about 30 miles southeast of Service in Sacramento reportRed Bluff, was 10 percent contained. See Showtime for Tinseltown Chris More than 2,000 people stepped back into the golden age of Hollywood with a VIP night Thursday at Tinseltown Theater at the North Valley Plaza mall. Above, the Thursday night crowds move through the ornate decor. At right, Keith Wakefield, 21, and Dominique Gummelt, 20, try to decide from the menu of 14 films.

Tinseltown officially opens today with 14 screens, stadium seating, two box offices, two concession stands and a video arcade. The theater is Cinemark's second in Chico, after the 1993 opening of Movies 10, and is expected to boost sales at North Valley Plaza. So long, 'Stick WITH A EYE TEAR I IN IT LO0D BYE TELL 1960 SEPT 30 THE STICK ARILI2 Insurance firms, FAA probe bad gas at airport By Michelle MacEachern Staff Writer Pilots whose planes burned contaminated fuel from a local distributor will meet with an insurance adjuster Saturday at the Chico Municipal Airport. The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Pacific Flight Services, an employee confirmed Thursday.

The independent adjuster represents insurance companies for Pacific Flight Services, Valley Oil, Diamond Truck Lines and Texaco the companies involved in the delivering standard aviation fuel mixed accidentally with jet fuel. Pacific Flight Services sold a mixture of jet fuel and non-jet fuel to non-jet planes between Sept. 1 and Sept. 20. Pilots have said such mix-ups cause damage to plane engines perhaps bad enough to make them fail mid-flight.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mitch Barker said Thursday he is unaware of any accidents or emergency landings resulting from the contamination. However, it has resulted in expensive engine changes for five fire-fighting tanker planes, along with the grounding of as many as 160 aircraft. All the planes must undergo thorough engine inspections, costing thousands of dollars each and taking several weeks. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection recently sent a demand letter to Pacific Flight Services requesting $774,000 restitution for the affected planes, CDF spokeswoman Janet Marshall said. The FAA hasn't decided whether to issue an order demanding that the affected planes not be flown.

Pacific See Associated Press With a face painted Giant-orange and a sign showing her feelings, Janet Clark of Paradise spent Friday afternoon in San Francisco, at the last baseball game to ever be played in Candlestick Park. For more on the momentous occasion, turn to Burned area 36 September 30 MINERAL Burned area 29 MILL September CREEK Payne Place Boone Creek Docks Antelope Tehama Rock Black 32 Wildlife Area Creek Wilderness Ishi a Colby Dye Mountain 99 LOS MOLINOS Deer Mill Creek Creek Ponderosa BUTTE MEADOWS CONCISE Chico State earns $360,000 donation By Roger H. Staff Writer A computer-to-computer phone call Thursday morning officially launched a partnership between Chico State University and an Internet industry leader. Thursday was the official ribbon-cutting for a computer lab that boasts $360,000 worth of Internet related hardware and software donated to the university by San JoseThousands flee TOKAIMURA, Japan (AP) As hundreds of thousands of worried residents awaited word that it was safe to venture outside again, company officials admitted clear violations of in-house safety rules resulted in Japan's worst accident at a nuclear plant. Officials said the accident at the uranium processing plant had been contained, but only after sending three workers to the hospital two in critical condition and prompting the government to urge more than 310,000 people to stay indoors and keep based Cisco Systems.

world of the Internet, which The new equipment means makes the donation a good fit Chico State students will be for students training in that able to use and learn about field. the most innovative software Chico State President and hardware in the field of Manuel Esteban, speaking to electronic commerce, accord- about 50 people who had ing to Joe Wills, university gathered at the lab in Glenn director of public affairs. Hall for the ribbon-cutting, Heikki Rinne, new dean of said the partnership allows the business college, said that the university to offer its stuover the last decade Cisco dents a much superior educaSystems is a firm that has had tion in this field than it ever a "significant impact on the landscape of business" in the See Japanese nuclear accident their windows closed. Police in white protective "I've been worried sick," gear set up blockades at all said Katsunori Sukegawa, a major streets to keep vehicles construction worker who had out. About 150 people in been working about a half- homes near the plant were mile from the plant in north- evacuated.

Schools were shut eastern Japan when the leak down, train service was haltwas first detected Thursday ed, and farmers were warned morning. not to harvest their crops until Sukegawa was among a they could be tested for safety. flood of townspeople who Local Gov. Masaru gathered at a community cen- Hashimoto said radiation levter here to be tested for expo- els outside the plant were sure to radiation from the back to normal today. But he accident.

Municipal authori- said he wanted more time ties expected 10,000 people to before lifting an advisory for show up at the Tokaimura community center alone. See.