25c • BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA 93920 1979
Leavy Asks Highlanders Seek CAC for'CZ' Prescriptive Rights • Rezoning Coastal Co:mllUSEllOfler who also sits as a Solutions of the Citizen An"""",.." lJOlmUUUee, asked GARY KOEPPEL For the fifth time in as many month!!, residents of the • Carmel Highlands and Coastal Zone turned out in numbers to question the Coastal Commissioners about the origin, seope, problems created by the controversial prescriptive rights investigations being condllded in the name of the Coastal Commission the State Attorney General's Office. Carmel resident Robert the for clarification as to whether or not • had been for a '''-''''''Tntl.l
Drl~sente,d a letter dated November 6 from General Ken Williams to Leo Woods Association which names Imlestigation. Carbon of letter • General Charles Getz
'. THE GREENING of Big Sur.· Begiaming revered by residents. With fewer Vijllitnr·,1. with the rains and eetinuing \lotil 'and little enjoy. the Big "quiet period" is Sur. and that the Commissioners is being seriously wasted. Reselttment against the Commission • Carter grows. Trespass is increasing, titles remain cloufled, property values are threatened, and owners are being treated like squatters on their own land," be concluded. INCORPORATION Approves Another Highlands resident, Clare Willard, e.x- on controversial pressed disapproval of the "duplicity which my political outside ~ the USFS's queries have been answered" and because "many of my of their jurisdictions. questions. have been answered with lies.". argued that the COMMITTEE "Behind Back" • committee 'should write a Rare II She said on November 20 she and other residents had letter to the supervisors The Carter administration been assured by Chairperson Hendersen, Deputy recommendipg 1m announced last week its Gen. Getz, and Executive Director Brown that "the of the new REACHES GOAL plans to assign designations torney General's Office had no interest whatsoever in because, eventually, to 62 million acres of United Yankee Point Beach." the plan would have States Forest Service lands. She cited the November 6 letter from to conform to chapter 3 of "The Committee for the f"1'.""",,,,, •• ti,, Some 36 million acres are Williams which Yankee 'Beach as in • the Coastal Act. in excess of the number to be designated "multiple vestigation, carbon copies of which had been sent to Getz When interviewed to the matter to the next use," another 15 million will and Brown. Gazette hearings," reported committee chairman be classed as "wilderness Mrs. Wlllard called the investigation "a violation of Mr. Harlan and the committee are not moving areas," and the 11 private rights amder tbe guise of 'protection of public the process forward because others are still million acres will be rights.' " and the and we aside" for further study and Bob Reordan, president of tbe Higblands Property to until at least of the future Owners Association, requested a definite response from • residents feel way to The the Commission as to "whether or not Yankee Point Beac:' be Sur and its people." which is under investigation." up to the to guidelines established were issued by the Mr. and Mrs. Richard of the wrote a "U'UlJl"~"JU of the LCP when Formation Commission, Continued on page 2 Continued on page 7 would assume of an area must a lJ"I,'Ll~'U of incorporation to them for evaluation and The committee will vote • at their LAFCO is a commission which functions as an arm of the scheduled for Board of and is the which rules on such Jan. 7 p.m., at the Big matters as annexations and incorporations. Sur Grange Hall. Toe chairman emphasized that signing the petition was The pUblic is invited to not a vote for or against incorporation, it is a request to attend and participate in the bring the matter to public hearings. After a lengthy discussion. process, LAFCO then determines whether or not it gets to • the ballot for .a vote. Objections This Issue:'. 'When asked what were the most frequent objections Pacific Adventure people. had about Sur becoming a town, Mr. Centerfold Harlan said some of the people think new services would be required and town would the Gorda Residents a & area or their Page 4 the contrary," res.pondlld Mr. Harlan, uno new Fire Brigade services would be ali, and the services we do PageS have could be '"""""'''''''' Editorial effect on the coastal en Pages 6,7 Mr. Harlan believes that Sur which best ",.,,,t,,,,,t,,
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SOUTH COAST JUi:SII)E.!I>lTS boulders as the ones pictured) from Continued page :2 the USFS from .... .,.... '11.... '" Willow Creek Beach. See on page 4. Page 2 BIG SOft GAZETTE JANUARY, 1979
TOWN COMMITTEE REACHES GOAL • Continued from page 1 The three most frequent argumen~s in support of in corporation, he are self-determination, economic feasibility, and protection from government encroachment. "The type of person who gravitates to and is able to survive in Big Sur is a self-regulating person who. by • moving and living here. in the past had achieved a desirable state of isolated self-determination. A change is imminent, and many people realize that a town is the best to maintain self-determination," said Mr. Harlan. further explained that the Zion report established the economic feasibility of the town, and that sufficient opClrat,mg funds were presently being generated, but that now exporting those dollars to Salinas and • Sacramento. " As to the argument that incorporation provides protection from government agency encroachments, Mr. Harlan said that, with all of the government agencies and their various planning efforts, that the time had come for to get together to protect themselves from "Big Hl'lltheri:sm." •
Next Steps Mr. Harlan contends that many persons who were to from the outset have changed minds and are now lending support because they now understand the lack of realistic alternatives. Fire Area When he the Incorporation Committee to • Ventana Wilderness Boundary submit their petitions to LAFCO? Big Sur COastal Planning Unit requirements, we have up to six months from which is when we initiated the Proposed Wilderness Additions V",".,,," drive. We're in no rush. It's far more important for CQluumn.u;y to take their time on such an important matter, and for th~ of the people to want a town USFS,- MAP shows newly designated wilderness areas rather than to rush it the required number of • south of Monterey in Big Sur country. The new areas ;:ug.'~".u.~,,, have been " he concluded.
Rare II • Approved 68,200 Big Sur Acres State Coastal Panel Continued-from page 1 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Designated Wilderness Bob Bergland, wiU to Hear Ventana (, Gelbart presented to the Of the 15 million acres H Access to the Coast Congress sometime in April. reclassified as Road areas will still By PAUL DENISON • Designations "wilderness areas," two be walk-in only, Mr. Monterey PemJlSula Herald National Forest lands segments of the Los Padres added, "there Staff Writer which are designated Forest totalling will not any "multiple use" allow such 62,800 acres, have been vehicular access." BURLINGAME-State coastal com ever made." uses as mining, timber roolesil'fIlated and added to Proposed Acquisitions to decide Burleigh corroborated Leavy's account. harvesting, agricultural and the Wilderness. The Big Sur Unit Plan will Inn can add units Open Space Idea a variety of recreational The largest segment runs be of a much and whether writer "".• ua,[ • can build Leavy said he thought the Big Sur Land • uses. from Anderson Peak south Forest Land a hillside house with an tram in Big Trust, in which he is active, or some other Contrastingly, "wilder- along the USFS boundaries Plan which is sctleduled Sur. organization, might be interested in ac ness areas" are set aside as to Nacimiento Road, . .by Both had been denied Central cepting Gelbart's land as open space. But preserves and no to Camp Antonio, Cbast coastal commissioners. State Gelbart told him he intended to build on the development or motorized then north to Indian Station will hear and con land. access. is .allowed, including and the Coast ar:llrurrlents and make their next Leavy said that when Gelbart sub· roads, fire-breaks, or heli Road to Anderson sequently submitted an application to build • pads. Peak. Gelbart's attorney accused a house with a tram instead of a driveway, Bare II The second, smaner ..."""',,."" commissioner Zad of he did not disclose the phone conversation Since June 1976 the U.S. se~~mlmt forms a a conflict of in because he did not consider it a conflict of Forest Service has been area, the apllro;dm.ate to it. interest. He also said that he tried to stay preparing a plan for the corners of acres. JUTnr,,,'v Myron Etienne Jr. said out of the discussion on Gelbart's ap designation and subsequent Secll Indian The USJ<'S does not have to buy land about a plication, adding his views only after management of the 62 and Bear Mountain. the of eminent year before Gelbart a coastal sevel'al other commissioners raised ob • million of its tota1187 million Coast Ridge Road thus to build a house on 'Coast Ridge jections to the permit. acres of holdings. Two other areas, which to Deputy Attorney. General Charles Getz CaIled RARE II, an straddle a section of the who lives on the same road, voted said Wednesday that Etienne's conflict of acronym for Roadless Area Coast Ridge Road, were with interest charge was not germane to the Review and the removed from wilderness four voted question of whether the state commission USFS effort in- consideration because screenwriter should hear Gelbart's appeal and "even if volved more had been included as at the back of the room, true, does not establish a conflict of in • of a million cornmlenlts approved unless access exists, Etienne read aloud Gelhart's terest" under the Fair Political Practices the public. called the will not be allowed access." account of a phone in which Act or commission guidelines. The Unit Plan. Private within allegedly behalf of Appeal Recommended covered These areas are 1.. UI''''",'';; use areas without and Monterey Court State commission staff member Mark .15 million acres "unroaded," according to William Burleigh, to Gelbart's Prinz-Delaplaine recommended that ness areas are USFS spokesman Dick to access. Burleigh has a home on Coast commissioners accept the appeal. He said throughout three-fourths of Zechentmayer, "but we will The 2,500 acres next to Geibart's'land. the regional commission had given too much the continental United be able to do fire pre· from "willing sellers" have a weight to possible tram noise and water • as well as Alaska, suppression work . and market value of $700 Motives Questioned use. He also said the permit denial was Rawaii and Puerto Rico. channel clearing in those acre, according to "Commissioner did not make this inconsistent with past actions denying Wilderness Acreages areas, which will allow for amount allocated in the fact known to anyone, said. "Was permits "only if they intrude in a highly The largest new better management. Sur Unit Plan. he as a regional commissioner or out visible scenic area." wilderness areas are located of interest in purchasing Mr. Gelbart's Etienne also represented Ventana Big in Idaho, Colorado and property?" Sur on Wednesday, arguing that regional California. Contacted at his commission staff members had misled Nearly 9O{},OOO acres of denied an offer to buy commISSIoners using unrealistically high federally owned lands in property but said he had talked with him estimates of water use and low estimates of California have been con about his land in open water supply and by making inaccurate verted into Wilderness Leavy had learned ,,,,,,nrnnTf,,n,, and calculations of Highway 1 Areas. "wanted out" because of building site access. traffic that the r~sort expansion would The Los Padres National problems. Forest along the central "Bill called me a times Arguing against the project, as they had coast south of Monterey in about working out some done at the regional level, were Frank Sur would re- so Gelhart could put the land Ramistella and Laurie Dillon of Big Sur and as said. "We didn't even Siepra Club spokesman Carl Larson and money terms, and no offer was Rod Holmgren. • JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE P,age 3 • FLYING LOW • FORAT6T Story and Photos by PAULA WALLING •
A ap- the touch Oakland-based helicopter re to be precariously provide trucking company lion film • peatedly sped over homes in his legs over the officials with such informa film the scenes. One Big Sur at treetop level last side flight. His as. tiOIl as the departure time scene called for the photog Dec. 16 causing concerned signment was to shoot a and destination of a truck, rapher to film the driver of a residents to telephone the promotional film for Ameri its next stop. the driver's Tony's Pizza truck at fullfaee Monterey County Sheriff can Telephone and Tele name, the cargo carried, the then zoom back to and the Monterey Airport graph Company to advertise amount of merchandise in· the landscape, which District office for an expla its new computer system, a side. the weight of the truck, accounted for the very low • nation. The Monterey tower, method of dispatching in and its estimated time of flying over Big Sur Valley however, had no jurisdiction formation about trucking. arrivaL It is intended as a and along the South Coast. over aircraft at that altitude. According to Steve Bridge very sophisticated means of When asked why Big Sur, callers were told. of Hookit Productions in Los inventory control. which is neither a major Angeles, the new system is Steve Arndt, director of trucking route nor a dis The helicopter seen by "a method of keeping an eye Hookit Productions, hired penser of Tony's Pizza, was many residents had a 16mm on merchandise." Computer pilot Davey Jones, who just chosen for the commercial, • motion picture camera terminals within individual returned from the Philli· Steve Bridge answered, mounted inside and a special trucks would be linked to a pines after working on the "Because it's pretty." side-facing jump seat for the master terminal which at COURT RULES COMMISSION'S Big Sur Campground & Cabins • IN THE MAGNIFICENT REDWOODS REQUIRED DEDICATIONS ILLEGAL ON THE BIG SUR RIVER By NANCY GRAHAM next Wednesday," Noble landowners to restore a L.A, Times Staff Writer said. "I'm not sure, but I marsh area as a habitat for believe it's before the same birds and marine life in • In a case that could have a case of beach access of the
Court Isthmus Landowners the it. I Tronstein said the marsh Conservation Commission are other cases in court, but ~""nQ"t of the restoration condition cannot force Venice this is the first ease under lots involved, ''''''n~ni" not the nr,,,,,,,,,,t,, owners to dedicate the 1976 Coastal Act that Tronstein. who suc- has tested the act in claimed the • to the state as a con- "It was a J'''Y''1''>T·"m.. ",,, dition of a con- to this matter. could not the northern require the dedication of struction permit. "Since the judge has ruled strand), Tronstein Rustic A~Frame Cabins available land for public use as a adding: The ruling came in a suit this, the Coastal Commission condition for the permit to on a daily rental basis brought Isthmus Lan- will have to take another "This was the same land Furnished with Kitchens & Balconies look at all requirements develop the land with downers Inc., whose family houses. the Coastal Commission had president, Robert Tronstein, making people dedicate land recommended as a park area Weil ruled that the state CampSites for any size RV's or Tents • said it could set a precedent as a condition of (obtaining) Public Resource Code "does in 1976. We asked the state throughout California. a permit." not authorize imposition of to come and take it and pay Hot Showers -- Clean Restrooms for it and everybody Los Angeles Superior State Dep. Atty. Gen. Ja) mandatory dedication • Douglas Noble said the refused. Then the Coastal Court Judge Robert Weil requirement as condition of Laundromat--Groceries~~Playgro attorney handling the case pe~mit issuance." Commission said (to' the handed down the decision property owners 'Okay, you Fishing & Swimming which ordered the com could not comment because, The judge also ruled that "We haven't had,a chance to a 20-foot setback required give it.' " mission to reconsider its "The judge said no. We • conditional permit for study the judge's opinion. It for the permit development was a verbal opinion. It finally have found that A Distributor development of 37 acres in was inappropriate at this of Coleman Products would be premature to give time because no application property owners do have the Silver Strand and Del some rights and that we Rey Beach tracts in Venice. an analysis of what hap for buildings on any in pened." dividual lot was before the property owners are as OPEN ALL YEAR It was not immediately Nohle did acknowledge commission "and therefore much ecologically minded as announced if the state would that other landowners have such condition is an abuse of some opposition. 26 miles south of Carmel on Highway One • appeal. challenged the requirements discretion." "People with single family "The commission, ap imposed by the commission. He did. however. hold that homes are the best type of Reservations accepted 667·2322 parently has been making "I have a case coming up a condition requiring the development for the area." • 71. Country Inn anJ :Restaurant in 'Big Sur
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• Page 4 BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARY, 1919 .~ Commissioner in Hot Water Reprinted from the' Herald required and agreed to sub Leavy lives on Coast mit plans and take out Ridge Road in the Post Regional coastal commis nDY'onrlalte m~rmilts. which Creek watershed, which has sioner Zad Leavy may find a coastal not been formally designat himself standing before his ed as such. • \""""","",,'00 wearing a turkish But commissioners re- and a"""",!"",,, denied for returns from a of .. ~
one the main com • mission concerns in both was-you it- Kft.",.".,.,1<'" of the water. ONE BEACH less 675 of its largest rooks equal one confrontation. <1{U"141'1I( iIlsp.ect,or's office. spas, It's unlikely that Leavy a hot tub with a fountains, etc., require a will have to pull the plug on around Rod in areas designated his hot tub, but for a time at said. "He said he was commission resolution as least he may find the water • South Coast Residents unaware that a permit was crrLlC~LHV short of water. uncomfortably warm. Block USFS Rock Removal
By PAULA WALLING South Coast made a simple, • "Everybody in the· town out-of-court blocked the was concerned about " block the road in said Susan Pierce of Sorta Gorda Restaurant. "That's the closest beach to it's like our beach." doomed to an • of would to see the ones Willow Creek go. But not the residents of a contractor Gorda. And let the U.S. with to remove Forest Service and the 675 • contractor involved know between 500 and 700 their feelings in no .nneertain each, learned that a of 10011.1 could halt an terms. A NATURAL POOL with 50 to 100 idents could hait further cbanges at the ~teelhead wu drained before Gorda res· beach. or court Forest Service itself. Thoreau would call it Civil • were Disobedience. His essay JlapPtl New Itar! "back says, "Cast whole vote, CLASSIFIEDS not a to all but your Big Sur •
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iSighr • COAST GALLERY Fernwood ------~ ..... _- • JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE • water that made this ap to be taken to ensure we proach possible. didn't let the flames come FLUE FIRES- Suddenly, there was an back in around us from explosion as one of the tires behind. The victim, a flight blew out from the heat. Just suit stuffed with. wet rags, then the captain cracked the was extricated and removed door, standing to the side as to safety as the flames Serious Problem he did so, and the flames closed over our retreat. • reached the explosive gasses In all the drills. we were inside. They blew off the impressed with two main door with' a thud. As the factors. First, the searing, in Big Sur nozzleman covered with the frightening power of the hea vy spray, the captain flames. The propane tank By MARY HARRINGTON grasped the "victim" lying fire was so hot that we stood across the front seat and fifty feet away with face The Big Sur Volunteer Nepenthe. No wash down • jerked the body from the masks to observe the teams Fire Brigade was kept busy was necessary, but members flames and retreated to a as they made their ap this month by the continuing stayed to direct traffic safe distance. With the proaches. Second, we were rash of flue fires. In an area through a narrow lane made rescue accomplished. the impressed with the where fireplaces and wood precarious by the muddy team moved back into ex tremendous cooling power of stoves are in almost con sho.ulder. Engine 196 tinguish the flames. the fog pattern from the stant use as the chief means provided the additional This first exercise was a hoses as we advanced into of heat, soot and other service of pulling a tour bus • good . introduction to the the very fire itself. Properly deposits can build up rapidly out of the mud. Brigade Attend s drills that would follow that utilized, water alone was an in a flue. Once again the Big Sur day. At each of the five sites, extremely effective cooling On Dee. 16, the Brigade Volunteer Fire Brigade an engine and operator and extinguishing agent for responded to a call at the urges you to check your provided the water and these fuel fires. We were Smith house. The house had flues and make sure they are Firefighting School pressure to conduct the drill. also aware of the quantity of been unoccupied for some clean. A flue fire could burn All of the time that day was water necessary to make time, and the first fire down your house. donated by both the in such effectiveness possible caused the flue to catch. The • residents put it out with a By FRANK PINNEY several different roles in the structors and their students. and remembered the It was a genuine example of limitations on large quan garden hose. The half dozen Black !lmoke boiled into exercises. We started with a volunteer firemen who the November sky as rain two-ear collision, fully in the fire service community tities of readily available working to improve the water that we ·face in our responded to the call In Bl8 Sur clouds passed overhead. It volved in flame, and a rescue finished cooling down the could have been the scene of circumstance. Gasoline was skills of its members. own area. The last exercise was an Constant training is stack and checking for DIAL 911 an airline crash or a fuel pumped from pipes beneath damage; tanker fire somewhere along the autos to simulate airplane crash with a rescue helping the volunteers of the in case of • which was set up in such a Brigade to provide an ever On Christmas Eve seven Highway One, but we were spillage from the fuel tanks. members responded with emergency at Monterey Airport. and Instructors ignited the way that it could also have improving level of fire been the scene of a fuel suppression and will engine 196 and a slip-on unit the hundred and fifty deadly combination and we to a fire call at the home of firefighters there were attacked bsing two inch-and tanker crash. In this case, a hopefully continue to serve shallow pool of fuel to increase the community's Zad Leavy. A dirty flue had training in a controlled oil a-half hose lines to protect apparently caused the fire. fire schooL The class was the captain Who acted as the surrounding the crash was awareness of fire preven ignited. We advanced across tion. Sweep those chimneys, A guest staying at the home organized by the Monterey' rescuer. while the Leavys were away • Area Training Officers The cars, donated wrecks the spill. again using the charge those fire ex cooling effect of the fog tinguishers, clear that had controlled the fire with a Association for the benefit of from a local garage, were garden hose. The Brigade the professional and sealed and gas tanks spray pattern protect the brush. and have a fire-free rescuer. Extreme care had Happy New Year! members cooled the stack Support Your volunteer firefighters from removed to prevent a off and checked for damages. as faraway as Watsonville, serious explosion. Standing Damages were reported to King City and Big Sur. between the two nozzlemen be minimaL '\\~ ~uu VClUJ/ltt.; The Big Sur firefighters and holding their inside Jan. 5, Frank Pinney had just finished therr in· shoulders. the captain Fire Prevention Slogan responded to a fire call at tensive six-week eour!le in signalled them to cheek their Esalen around 7 a.m. to Fire the month pressure and spray maintain a watch on a power their instructor, and then advance on fire. of the Month line that had shorted out. A Captain Dan Guice of the Using pressure on their tree had blown onto the line Mid-Carmel Valley Fire shoulders to communicate and shorted out a wire which • Department' had arranged his instructions, the captain Award for best slogan $5,00 caused the tree top to burn. Send for some of us to attend this had the team attack the Burning pieces fell on other special "oil fire class." The upwind auto first. The wires. Pinney, with one of tax-deductible purpose of the class was to pressure of the water spray the slip-on units and Lou donations to; familiarize us with the forcl;;d the flames away from EXAMPLE: REDWOOD OR BLACKWOOD? THE CHOICE IS YOURS! Porter of Esalen 'maintained characteristics of petroleum the side of the car allowing a a watch fOt: several hours CHIEF based fires and teach proper split second to safely until PG&E arrived. WALTER TROTTER _ rescue and extinguishment ventilate and search for the Jan. 7 at around 5 p;m. Big StJ~, CA 93920 tactics in realistic drills. victim. Not finding anyone Mail entries to USFS, P.O. Box 64, Big Sur, Ca. five Brigade members Five members of the in the first car, the noz responded to a possible Brigade' attended the class zieman was positioned to wash down just north of which lasted from 8:00 a.m. cover the rear while the until almost 4:00 that af captain and the other ternoon. Don Krausfeldt, nozzleman moved on to the Gady Colvin, Steve Wagy. .downwind ear. You could !- Phil Fish and Frank Pinney feel the heat threatening spent the entire rainy day on from around the sides of the a,cieared field east of the water spray pattern, runway at the airport. Five and we knew how important fire problems were set up, it Was to have good and each of us were given equipment and training to • the opportunity to play provide the high pressure BIG l ~ SUR PFEIFFER BIG SUR STATE PARK" BIG SUR. CALIFORNIA 93920 ATELffiR OF THOS.:R. BROADBENT (408) 667-2171, CARMEL VALLEY HILLS CENTER1624.6666 P,O. BOX 2694. CARMEL, CALIFORNIA 93921 Gift Shop LOOMS I ANTIQUES/REP AIR open 9-5 • Accommodations in quiet, off daity the-road, 1111111111111 • natural setting I I I II I II 11.11 TORRE Variety of 11111 IIJlII ENGINEERING Sixty-one gifts, 111111111111 • cottages. some souvenirs 1111111111111 (408)667~2220 with fireplaces and other and kitchens • unique Heated items swimming pool, • In Blg~ur recreation hall, eight miles of DIAL 911 hiking trails I incase of i-- No park entrance fee Qpen JlII Year Located on Highway One emergency for Lodge and GifJ 26 miles south of Carmel Shop guests 63 miles north of Hearst Castle BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARV, 1979 ]Jittupninm Here are some rules: ]ltews aub ]litwpniu16 Letters, typed, should not exceed 300 words. The Gazette reserves the right to edit or reject letters which do not meet its standards of good taste, accuracy, and length, letters must bear the name, mailing address, • location and number of the writer. Only your name and "Big Sur" will be printed. No anonymous letters accepted for publication. Be your own editor. Brevity means more viewpoints per " issue can be included. The success of The Big Sur Gazette How Local is the Local Coastal Plan? depends on your response. Let us hear from you, • San Coastal five of the members were 29 nominated at which eleven who have some of C01!IllllUl1tity mandate. What's more, at of the do not even Sur, Shouldn't the sixteen for sixteeri hun- • " ..,'" "uu. and Uu~r4'hv, • WELCOMED • Thanks from Mrs. Ewoldsen Deal' Editor. • I was that we went to the Sur women went second, even more I1rUIUHcIIU",~I", Park Dec. back CAC are true were when hot cof rather elected. work And it l.IllLlIUiV the members of the CAC were iU'IIJU1HL~'U the from a list of nominations made from • the floor at a Town Hall 1976. But due in the the P R POLITIC • Each year more and more Americans the national the nation's "n"w"u, ""~"l""'H'lfm_ retU8(!ea and several al needs, to be set also. The a men and women • resource. worked most of them They are administered ....•...•.••.•...... •..•...... • the National Park Service, five plush . . w'bieh does an excellent job Mht ..",,,t,, "",u,n.",., to VIPs .. , · . for the most are made : CORRECTION . B,ut"like members of ·: The Christmas rush could stay, the Park ,~ , :• caused Service have • t~ .... ,----'------_ ... -.., • error in to make of • • editorial, their emp oyees- : ~;: "SUBSCRIBE NOW I · Sur's otherwise they would be ·• and we can't· I TO THE NEW : ·: A sentence mtstakeltlly have that or we would :• read: "Much as we not have a Park, Thus : MONTHLY NEWSPAPER i : like its individuals Park and Forest Service : wish time and not • ~4t I : could the but on : :· Forest : make ""!~iUJ'UW"~ ·• : 21• ~.~ : • everyone wants to seek : • : ~n~t I ·• I ~ I To ot Not To ... : The Gazette apologizes : The for an error that caused a • Dear Editor: : have like its individuals ~e:n)eyet~ (in:!~~:t ~~: ! (f;a=-tttt ! To jnt"ftrl~nr"t" I ~' I : wish time and again comprehensibly. • • • I P.o. Box 125, Big Sur, CaU'omia 93920 1 tion As the New Years come ~ •.••...•...... •...... •••• I 1 speare on It more go over the decades and I I The area of the countries, may Big Sur faced with it stand its majesty • I 1 But have not 'I Name I unlLnpaIreU, acclaimed as the natural of nature Koeppel...... , ... PUblisher and Editor in the and the wisdom of man. Paula Walling...... , .. , ...... Executive Editor Address I the very similar issue? 1 George Herman Ronnl Bloom Webster .... " .... General Manager I Would it not be helpful to Marina Claire Chappellet ...... Advertising Director find out what were the : City _____ State_Zlp __ Contributing Staff Writers: results? As the years Jeff Norman, William Witherup, Claire passed. what happened to To Ga:aette Readers: • 1 Chappellet, Frank Pinney, Mary Harrington, the localities that incorpo I $5.00 in Monterey County Jo Hudson, Bob Douglas I rated and what to those that DEADLINES $8.00 Outside Monterey County did not? I for Published Monthly September through May ,. $12.00 Out of State. $19.00 Foreign Big Sur is a magnificent to the Editor and Semi-Monthly June through August attraction. When awesome I ARE THE mountain reaches down to VOL. 2, NO.1 January, 1979 ,I PUBLlS~D MONTHLV the sea, "what a sight for FIRST I SEPTEMBE THROUGH MAV ~f P.O. Box 125, Big Sur, California 93920 I AND SEM ONTHlV JUNE IfII""'"" J sore eyes" for people far and THURSDAY Telephone (408) 661·2222 ©1919 I THROUGH AUGUST (15 ISSUES) 'nearl Especially, for those who live in level areas of our, OF EVERY MONTH , One Year (15 ISIIU6S) $5.00; outside Mpnterey I out-ol-state $12.00; foreign $19.00. or the world. ,~~~~~~~ __$I6t ------~ .1 JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 1 an issue that can be rationally resolved." Commissioner Blohm disagreed with Lyons and objected • Prescriptive Rights that "the investigations were done in a secret way. The staff running rough-shod over the public. Public opinion COUSTEAU of the Coastal Commission at this time is lower than a Problems Aired snake's belly." Continued from page 1 The audience applauded when Commissiqner Blohm said SOCIETY that "those involved in any cover-up should resign or be letter for the record in which stated that Deputy removed." Atty. Gen. Williams telephoned October 2. saying He called for an "independent investigation" and warned • "the map showing Yankee Point was a mistake," but in his commissioners not to "cover it under the rug and look back MAKES WAVES November 6 letter, he specifically named Yankee Beach. at it like Watergate." The Spencers letter concluded: "I would think you would By GARY KOEPPEL be as irate as we are in having all this go on behind your Due Process back! To condone such lies by your silence is unbelievable." Commissioner Marilyn Liddicoat disagreed with Jacques Cousteau, president of the Jacques ·Cousteau Chairperson Henderson's statement that the speakers Society, is celebrating the fifth year of the society by Ethics Questioned comments were vicious: announcing a campaign to "expand our numbers • Bobbe Jeffers, a resident, remarked that "the staff of the "I thought they were very mild considering the enormity dramatically and swiftly to at least one-half million people. Commission has too much power! The staff makes the of the situation. I see an extreme hypocracy in the attitude making us the largest environmentaL, organization in the decisions through its recommendations, and the Com of these Commissioners toward the property owners and world." mission receives the blame through its acceptance of these toward the extreme environmentalists. The Society and the campaign to enlarge it is an effort to recommendations." "People have a right to speak out when their govern· counteract "the alarming rate of marine devastation" , James Josoff, who recently moved to Big Sur from the ment is abusing power," Commissioner Liddicoat con throughout the world. Highlands, suggested the Commission take a retreat tinued. "You and your staff are abusing power, and until The strategy to be used is "the strategy of the Dolphin. • without their staff and examine "whether there were parts you listen to them and listen politely, you'll hear it again which Mr. Cousteau describes as follows: of the law which should be changed. whether your position and again, and each time it wiD be louder and louder." "Pursued by a shark, a pack of dolphins will suddenly with the property owners of the area could be improved, Drawing sustained applause, her concluding remark turn en, masse, dive below the shark and drive their bh,lDt and whether the commission is being run by the Com was, "You cannot silence people when the government noses into its belly, one after another. With no ribs or mission or by the staff." tries to confiscate their property without due process of diaphragrp to protect its vital organs, the shark is He also asked whether their staff was "conducting their law." vulnerable.lor all of its power, the shark is defeated by business ethically." intelligence ,and the force of numbers. It is the weaponry of Investigation Requested the peacem'llkers and the common people throughout • Commissioners Respond Commissioner Zad Leavy praised the staff and said he history." In rebuttal to the speakers, Carl Larson of Monterey. a didn't believe there was a "cover-up or abuse of power." If you want to help in the battle against the sharks of our spokesman for the Sierra Club, complained that the Commissioner Walters suggested that "the residents global marine environment, you may want to join or Highlands' accusations were '~a technique to tear down a frustration should be directed toward the Commission contribute to Mr. Cousteau'seffort. solid structure on'one issue." He urge,d the Commissioners rather than to the staff." Gazette readers interested in membership or simply in "not to let this onerous accusation about the staff stick." Commissioner James Hughes felt the buck did stop with making a donation can write to The Cousteau Society, Box Chairperson Hendersen reacted by calling the manner the Commissioners. He said he was convinced the problems 2002, Grand Central Station, New York. New York 10017. • by which the residents conveyed their concerns as "vicious· arose when the Regional Commission "was not privy to the and vehement," and didn't think it necessary to respond at study," and he criticized the State Coastal Commission and that time. Attorney General's Office for not notifying the Regional She offered W meet the Coastal and Attorney General Commissioners. DID YOU KNOW? staffs, then respond at a later time. Deputy Attorney General Charles Getz argued that Commissioner Lyon asked if anyone had contacted neither the Commission nor the staff were responsible for "Spain has legalized the sale, of birth control pills. Deputy Atty. Gen. Williams to resolve' the discrepancy. any errors or misunderstandings. Previously, the country's penal code provided punishment • Robert Speers responded by saying "We consider that i "The State Commission asked for the study," declared of up to six months in jail for prescribing, selling or ad the Coastal Commission is in charge ... and we have not Mr. Getz. "Mr. Williams is in charge of the study. The vertising birth control devices!.. .. '" called Mr. Williams. We look to you and not to the At complaints should be directed to me or my superior, Mr. "China's population has just crossed the one billion torney General." Connant." mark, and world population estimates are at Commissioner Lyon strongly defended the staff, then Executive Director Ed Brown defended the staff, 4,365,300,000- that is 59 million over last year's estimate, charged that the group had become "semi-hysterical over rejected the charges of 'cover-up,' and agreed with an or a new nation of human babies as large as the population earlier suggestion to "meet with all the involved parties of Mexico! ... " • the world and protect our and try to provide an answer that is acceptable." "According to the World Bank, major forests will environment Diablo Canyon Chairperson Hendersen offered to meet privately with completely disappear in 40 years, but severe shortages will and other nuclear power the residents, but Commissioner Liddicoat suggested that occur in 20 years .... " DIABLO plants must be built and "time would be better spent investigating facts." "In the world's first national referendum on the use of operated. Commissioner Blohm reiterated that an investigation by nuclear energy, the citizens of Austria voted against the DEFENDED Willis G. Frick. "someone from the outside is better than having the public use of a nuclear power, plant already constructed some 18 Dear Sir: San Juan Capistrano believe that it's a cover-up job if the Commission in miles northwest· of Vienna at a cost of $530 millioll'. After reading the letter vestigates itself." Chancellor Bruno Kreisky had called the referendum in • by Mr. William Witherup Deputy Attorney General Getz ended the discussion by hopes of demonstrating public support for his energy on the Diablo Canyon Partington advising, "I would not like to see the Chair embroil itself in program, promising to resign if it was defeated. The plan Nuclear Power Plant I feel a controversy involving our office. Me and my superiors backfired; 50.5 percent of the voters supported "moth the need to present a dif Population could meet, then we could' meet with the residents, and balling" the plant. Kreisky refused to resign, announcing ferent point of view. Mr. report back to you." ; instead plans to start a massive "public education" project Wintherup describes As the speakers were dispersing, one woman remarked, to change people's minds about nuclear energy." Nuclear Power Plants as an Explosion "We got attacked, not answered," and another replied, The foregoing excerpts are but a few of the anecdotal • "insane method of boiling Dear Editor: "It's incestuous! Imagine, Deputy Attorney Generals treasures found in the January Calypso Log published by water." I strongly disagree Two new residents have investigatblg themselves!" the Jacques Cousteau Society. and would like to present made Partington Ridge their the hard cold statistics of new home this past month. success for San Onofre, Sarah Eichman arrived California's other major December 1. and Heidi Nuclear Power Plant. Crowley on December 21, • Since its completion San and both weighed in at 61/4 Onofre Nuclear Generating pounds. Citizens Advisory Station, has produced an We have been informed incredible 30,000,000,000 by a reliable source that Kilowatt-hours. This both additions were con Committee Meeting represents 2.4 BILLION ceived and installed on gallons of oil not imported Partington by their • and not transported by respective parents without tankers along our coast; prior filing of an en SUBJECT: 'CZ' Zoning Vote 60,000,000 Ibs. of Sulfur vironmental impact report Oxides and 69,000,OOOlbs. of with the county for im Oxides of Nitrogen not plementation of density polluting the air. At the studies. relative costs of production Also, they did not consult Tues., Jan. 23rd for 1977 (.36c/KWH for the Big Sur Advisory • Nuclear and 2.4c/KWH for Committee, LAFCO, oil) this means $61,000,000 C.P.O.A., or the Local 7: 00 p.m. dollars not billed to the Coastal Plan (this reporter customers of Southern intends no slight on the California Edison Company numerous associations and San Diego Gas and omitted!). Electric Company. Furthermore, they failed 'Bi9 Sur ann other Poems :. During this period of to appear on the agenda of operation not one person has the Coastal Commission for Big Sur Grange Hall Eric Barker reads his poetry been injured or harmed in approval, in spite of the fact I.P Stereo Recording any way by San Onofre. In that they will at times be in the approximately 730,000 the viewshed and no doubt reactor days of commercial on occasion be visible to the 7lvailable at Coast Gallery operation in the United tourists! Residents are invited • States not one person has At press closing time, the been harmed. In any other two little new locals had as to attend & participate imaginable circumstances yet not submitted their OPEN 9·6 DAILY this would be regarded input for the Big Sur In 667·2301 exceptional, but in the corporation feasibility opinion by M~\ Witherup study. this is inadequate. May they both enjoy Located on Highway One In order to keep our many happy new years on 33 miles south of Carmel energy costs down, retain their beautiful mountain. 50 miles north of Hearst Castle our energy independence in Theodora Crowley PageS BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARY, 1878 BEARS IN BIG SUR .. (1938 .. 1978) • A Forty-Year Odyssey By JEFF NORMAN summit with a camera, PDQ. The headline of the June 4, 1938 Mon· As the photos on this • Herald read: "Rancher Kills Brown camera was obtained, and Bear Near Big Sur", subtitled: "Bill Post definitely missing part of Shoots Apimal Which Invaded And But what was a bear the Refused to Get Out; of Brute Lucia Mountains east of Pacific Shrouded in Mystery." I spoke with Martin Smith. The fact that. the brown-furred animal operator. at the Pacific Station, who was. actually a black bear mattered little. admitted two different bears as • What was important to the locals at the early as the of October. Smith, who time was that it was the first in moved here from Hawaii in September. had the area since the last of the !l1'lZZiU'!S been reluctant to his killed in the mid-1880's, sightings because he like n.,"M."'ftA ,The Herald. article gave details of the else, that "there aren't bears in PORTRAIT OF A black bear in the Sierra Nevada. From uMauunals of the Pacific: hunt. which took place at the cabin of a Mr. Sur." But with Gould's to back him States," by Lloyd G. lDgles, page 353. Photo used with the kind permission of the and Mrs. Carter in Mule Canyon. The bear some interesting emerged. aut~or-photographer. entered the house, and after eating a of Smith's sightings were on the .' month's supply of groceries, decided the Nacimiento Grade east of the summit and the still-viable black bear. having been killed in Tulare cabin would make a good permanent west of Ft. Hunter and were to Roest, black bears Were The only true "brown dwelling, (As Bill Post Sr. used to tell the the morning or afternoon. rare or absent in the Santa Lucias Alaskan, is found only in that story, the bear. was fastidious enough to first bear he saw, near the Nacimiento tenure of the grizzly. but state. It the largest living carnivore. have carefully placed an empty milk bottle bridge in was "dark brown into grizzly once holdin~ a record weight of 1716 pounds. The back on the kitchen table after or black, four feet." Then he saw bear had been removed. h.ea viest known grizzly weighed in at 1150 • consumed the contents.) Post, ever the one, which was, a that the black bears are lbs., ant}. the record for a black bear from considerate hunting guide, gave Carter the brown. on 15. Several from the southern Sierra west Californhl.is 498 Ibs., although the average first shot, which missed. Then, according to saw the amputee again, this into the Coast for an adult is between 200 and 300 the Herald article, "Post's first bullet struck Carrars Spring. According to Smith "he one of the Prl'l""'Xl>l1 lbs. C'910r of the black bear ranges from the bear in the head ... and the hunt was was sitting in the middle of the road. I over Highway 4ark brow~ or black through cinnamon to, over." All seemed well until Post recalled StotltlE~ my car and we stood face to is in the f'tUmt.l'V light brown. There are even yellow and that it wasn't open season for bear. So the feet apart, for the .. Cuesta Pass. bluish color phases. and while each cub in a man who might be remembered as saying, said he wanted to show his wife Dr. Roost mentioned that litter may have a different fur color, aU are • "We never violate the law" drove to where he'd seen the bear. so, towards the about six black bears Ob1,iOllSlv of, the same species. Monterey and gave himself up to Justice of end of October, he drove her up the Grade Mountain area in' Los Padres and parked near Carral's Spring. Forest in San Luis County; his The black bear does not have much of a the Peace Ray Baugh. Judge Baugh con reputation for preying on livestock, out, looked over the side of the road, estimate for that entire is sidered the case carefully, and his VH"""·,,,. although they may be observed feeding on asreported in the Herald,· was, "The there 'was the bear looking back up at usl" and about the same the carrion remains of such animals who laws don't apply to bears in houses. Other Forest Service employees have he said Forest been enough to see bears or their Service estimates for combined districts have died from other causes. The usual food • The Monterey Herold was at a loss to of this bear is vegetation. berries, insects, account for the origin of the bear, but an in the although not with the un. from Ventura County to fish, frogs, fruit and nuts, as well as l'o..:ru!,.... i1ru of Smith. Sal Elizondo, from 87 in 1925 to article in the Salinas Inde.x.Jlegister from The black bear is not above that period gave this information: "Two n$lt·,.nl",,, at Indians Station, saw a nar'l">I~1!l1l11P' tourists, however, and they will pair were liberated in late May (of in brown bear near Ponderosa last the coast ridge area north of Anderson help themselves to picnic goods left about a summer, and Ruth Albee saw tracks call1lpsite. The seven bears released near mountain. while a male, female and a cub the Cone Peak trail in November. here 1938 were probably some of these were freed between Arroyo Seco and Santa years ago a bear was killed on the highway • Lucia memorial park." The article also "bad bears," incorrigibles that the National near San Simeon, and.another was trapped Park Service happily passed on to the indicated that the bears had been imllOY'·ted on the outskirts of Greenfield and freed, Forest Service. from Yosemite National Park because "40 appropriately in ReUz Canyon. And bears were far too many" for that area to Robert Withrow, a South Coast resident. Males and females are paired only during accommodate! ,reported one in upper Mill the mating period, in late spring and early about three years summer. The sow comes into season at o?Forty years later the Black Bear IS In order to a perspective of three of age, and breeds every other • creating excitement in the Sur this apparent l"A-Aml>l'OrAnl'1> of a IOlltll'·lmd: year that. Gestation is about 71f4 This time, however, the sightings rAlll"Al1lATri: local, I drove down to Luis months, and the litter generally consists of an expansion of the bear's talked to Dr. Roest, VPT·t;P})l'>lj·.P two or three young. although a sow's first Sierra Nevada into the South zoologist at California Polytechnic State litter is usually only a single cub. mountains. University. range in Thus it would seem tbat the black bear, a OctQber 15. 1978 began like other Dr. Roest, in addition to supplying me Sonoma slow breeder at best, i$ making a tentative morning at the U.S. Forest Service's with photocopies of the 1938 It seems at this time to make a expansion into a ~arge, previously Valley Station. Then came a rather unusual articles. was also able to furnish a distinction the American black 'inhospitable territory. Will this animal be • radio message relayed by Ruth Albee. Cone statistics on the local distribution of bear and other with which it may be favorably rec.eived?Wnat effect did the Peak lookout. from Ray Gould, Nacimiento Bears. He also indicated the confused. As seen in the newspaper Marble·Cone fire have on its immigration. Summit station foreman. Gould had just translocation of bears from the Sierra to the headline above. the 1938 bear was and what sort of treatment will it get from seen a bear, a three·legged one, near Santa the current of as "brown." trappers and stockmen in the Ponderosa Camp on the Nacimiento River. bears in the South Coast of though. the future? This will cer~nly be a fascinating and would someone please get up to the a over of the ioeall1~-A·xtlll1l't l'n..... pn,t)v inhabiting California is contest to vvatch. • • • • .1 JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 9 • • • • LOOK FAMILIAR? IT'S NEPENTHE! The old log house Sam Trotter built in 1925 still The log house stood empty for three years until its present owners, Lolly and Bill Fasset. stands today with adobe brick on the outside. It was built by the Trails Club for hikers who bought it in 1947. Mr. Fields, a Christian Scientist who at one time wanted to establish a • used to pack in and stay at Pfeiffer's Resort, "where you got three meals and slept in a colony here, was olle of the original group of about 18 owners. Orson Wells then bought the brass bed (that came around the Horn) for $2.00 a day-and all the horses you wanted to property for his Rita Hayworth; she divorced him shortly after that and never even ride," said Bill Fasset. Trails Club members used to camp out there in the summer. Nobody saw the property, to White. Fields also acted as broker for the property when Jived there during the winter: After Trails Club members built their homes (in Coastlands the Fassets purchased it from WeDs and Hayworth. The young oak to the left of the log and on Partington) they no longer needed the dub house and it was sold. Nickolas house was the oak that for was a part of Nepenthe's Terrace. WheD it died in Roosevelt spent his honeymoon there in 1939 or according t~ Fasset. Linda Sargent of 1976, Fasset Edmund Kara's sculpture of the Phoenix bird set in its then made it her home. Emil White said she was moving the he arrived in Big Sur, May that the and Meyroses have planted over the years make both sides of • 01 1944. "Somebody wrote Linda that they had a friend and could he come and stay there the highway forested instead of brush covered as shown in the photograph. From the for a while. His name was Henry Miller." Fasset said. "She'd never heard of him, so she ran Pat Hathaway Collection out and got a book. You couldn't buy them at the bookstore you know," recalled Fasset. 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THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE in the background gives the appearance of a massive salling ship as "Maya· Mayi" crew Paul Smith, Tracy King and Micah Curtis enjoy a smooth, sailing day. Rougher times await them, times- when no thought whateve~eould be given to Photos by Gail Bengard and Lincom Curtis picture-taking. - WITH Gail Curtis at the helm, husband Micah stands on the spreader to trim the sails. "Maya Mayi" is the A VOLCANIC aboriginal name island in the .A Pacific Sailing Adventure for the star group Fiji's. Gail recalls "The Pleiades." that it had in· , Gail reliedalmbst teresting old By Paula Walling entirely on graveyards but celestial naviga· no longer a tion during the village. long voyage. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea got there! Or maybe he knew about it and didn't believe it." met weekly from May to August. The forecast might call for a "force 1" or "force 2." A "force either. "I was always sick for at least 3 days. So for the first whatever needed doing, and the last two at-the helm. Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, While Gail was involved with teaching, Micah worked as Six months before completion of the boat, Micah's 12" is a hurricane. The Bass Strait storm they were caught 3 days nobody ever knew where they were." Gail used After 52 days of this, the crew was ready for a ,change. , ) Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, a carpenter, then began working on bOats for other people .. - brother Lincoln arrived in time to help work on the cabins in was judged by Melbourne weather to .be a "force 11," celestial navigation most of the way, rarely relying on the And his rapt ship run on her side so low ' He made several large hulls during the time he and Gail and weld the rigging. Lincolnjoined them in November,_ _which may hav~ been one thing to bring about a change in radio. Radio direction finding is not the way to navigate the Point Pinos Ahead That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. worked on what was to be their own 44-foot ,ketch, the 1977 and on April 1, 197~,the three of them launched the the crew. "Paul and Tracy decided they didn't really like open seas. Gail explained that you can easily pass the Gail's navigationaUindings told her that the Monterey George Chapman 1559-1634 Maya-Mayi Gail also worked on boats during her summer Maya-Mayi near Melbourne. sailing," Gail said simply. island you're heading for. "If you're out there, it's your Peninsula was ahead in the dense fog. "Are you sure?" When Gail Bengard left with husband Micah Curtis to vacation from teaching. . Micah's friend Paul Smith and Tracy King then made up responsibility. Nobody should have to come rescue you," _teach school in Australia, she left with a secret ambition: to Building the Maya-Mayi took 3% years~ Micah and Gail the original crew of five which would sail from Melbourne Change of Crew at Tonga she feels. She talked about people who follow the jet trails build a boat and sail home. "I decided about-it as soon as I worked weekends and sometimes in the evenings after to Tonga. Tonga is where "Mutiny on the Bounty" took place. It is to Hawaii. The minute it clouds over, they're lost at sea. knew 1 was going, but Micah didn't know about it 'til we their regular jobs. The co:uple took a navigation class that an island Kingdom which has managed to remain free from She says the Coast Guard is continually having to rescue 1£ you're out there. it's your responsibility. RO:ughSeas foreign domination .. It has almost no tourist industry, someone who has gone past Hawaii, someone who knows Between Melbourne and Sydney they were caught in a ";hough it is trying hard to develop one. "People there nothing about navigation. "Half the fun of sailing is Nobody should have to co~e rescue you~" storm which broke the steering and the radio. "That scared invite you home for dinner,"said Gail. "If someone wanted listening to all the whacko stories out there," she laughed. everybody to death. We were going to sell the boat right to go someplace where there weren't all the fancy hotels or To their surprise, they found that· most of the older then," said Gail. However, they kept going, and from resorts, that would be the place to go." people they met were more interesting, lively company someone asked .. The light at Point Pinos soon confirmed Sydney they had to cross the Tasmanian Sea to get to It was in Tonga that Brian McMahan of New York and than the young ones. "There's alot of older retired people that they were on a perfect course. They used the radio Tonga. "It's supposedly one of the worst seas around--and Peter Woolmer of Australia replaced PaulSmith and Tracy out there. And I really admire them. They just don't ever coming into Monterey mainly to check the celestial because it was! It took 17 days from Sydney to Tonga, and it was a King. (Both Micah and Lincoln Curtis were raised in Big expect to come home. They're just going to die out there they had been in a storm and had only a couple ,of days hundred times worse than the 52 days it took us to get-~ '-';ur. Gail was raised in Monterey and Hollister, and met somewhere and that's going to be it. They're just gonna with good visibility. . from Samoa to here. It was terrible!" , husband Micah at Monterey Peninsula College.) have a good time 'til it happens." So on November 13, 1978 at 8:30 p.m., all that ,star Gail recalled thatthe crew was always tired. They had to From Tonga the Maya·Mayiset sail for the Fiji Islands, gazing paid off; be continually on the alert. Squalls were always coming in. where LaVonn Curtis-Lincoln and Micah's mother-and Standing Watch And what was the first thing they did upon debarking? their younger brother Ross joined the crew for a 3-week With a crew of six, watches worked out to 4 hours in the Find a telephone booth and impatiently take turns calling. visit. They had fairer days for sailing around the islands . morning and four in the evening. It would have been a 2- And who did Gail call first? Her grandmother - whose '1'he whole thing was hard because. we were than they. had experienced earlier. hour watch if they- had had self-steering. Instead,each birthday it was~ She said that just knowing.Gail was back ~. At Fiji Charlie Bell and Margie Stanleyreplaced Peter person spent· the first two hours of·a shift ready to do was the best birthday present she could ever have. going the wrong way~ Going around the world Woolmer, making it a crew of six that would complete the voyage to Monterey. is easy. There's nothing to going around Gail planned what and how much food to take and did most of the cooking. They left Australia with $600 worth of the world .... it just takes a long time." canned food and juices. They also took fresh food such as carrots, potatoes, and squash and found it lasted well. They cooked rice and ate meat about once a week. In the islands, The waves were always big. The sea was never anything '~Lhey had tropical fruit; 'bananas lasted about two weeks. but rough. And in addition to that, the crew was inex· They caught fish often. "That was the big moment of th~ perienced. "We had lots of excitement, but we didn't sink. day everytime somebody caught a fish," said Gail. One THF,: "MA. A-MAY!" during' construction. The That's always important," said Gail. ' morning they found "a rare Chinese delicacy" on deck, but Ocean weather goes by the Beaufort Sc;ale-,.-from 0 to 12. tossedit back. It had an eel-like appearance. Sea Snakes ~ When the crew went in &wimming it was not uncommon for a sea snake to swim just inches away. There are many different kinds and their bite can prove deadly. Said Gail, . "At first they're scary because they're poisonous, but after a while you sort of get used to them." Gail dove with the Fijian women when they looked for clams, oct'opus, and sea urchins. On the reef, she said you had to watch where you r-teppedbecause of the sea snakes. . From Fiji, the Maya-Mayi sailed to Western Samoa then to Amerkan Samoa. On September 22nd, the crew began 'their 52 day voyage to Monterey. At times it may have seemed like 52 weeks-but in fact this segment was the easiest portion of their trip. Because tlley were 'a11 so anxious to get home-by now Micah and Gail had been away over four years-it took them only 9 months getting home the hard way. Gail remarked that most people take four years to get from hereto Australia (the easy way with winds and currents faVoring .you). "The whole thing was hard," said Gail, "beeause we were going the wrong way. Going around the world is easy. There's nothing to going around the world .,. It just takes a long time." She says, "Depending on which way you're going into the wind, - can totally change everything the boat does." FIJI ISLANDS- The Eastern side is tropical jungle. leaving relatively little precipitation on the other side. The Sailing around the island Gail noticed that within a mile it Fiji Islands thus grow tropical fruits as weD as produce Sea Sick Navigator AT BAXTER, Australia, a c~eless crane driver dropped the boat, causing a crack in the A CRANE prepares to launch the "Maya-Mayl" at Mornington, South of Melbourne. suddenly turned into dry hills. All the rains carried by the similar to California's. hull and' slowing down the launch. ' Gail navigated for the long voyage. That wasn't easy Tradewinds fan when the storm front first hits the island '8".12 BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARY. 1919 .. name.d C harle tte. du. 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Monterey JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 13 HAWK'S PERCH Three Poems on the Moon • IN A RAIN OF TORCHES AND ICE ON READING STAFFORD'S 'Stories That Could Be True' In a rain of torches and ice Bill, it's a full moon tonight, the archer's shaft which means the shadows are deeper. I nails down the night I'm thinking about you as I test them because your poems say you are a man A sound of breaking crystal who wades in shadows up to your neck. as the moon soars to her place • and the owls are released If we lived former lives I'd guess you were a tree .. A special owl a cedar, pine or oak. (the one allotted to poetry) You were a listener then, too, dives through my chest holding the wind and moon in your branches. and eats the reasonable mouse The Buddhists talk about Original Mind, • Michael Hannon a country we should find our way back to. You seem to know that path by smell and how the loose stones and bruised grasses feel. Even the dust in your boot soles is wise, marakesh crucible and crock William Witherup June full moon fever and the dogs are riled • compulsory obsessive qualms up and after hours Edited by with clothes wet in the sink -- moon shaft-shock through the open window Contributors WILLIAM WITBERUP Peter Cummings is a resident of Big Sur, when he isn't wide berth lunatic ledge traveling in far countries. Poems submitted for the Hawk's Perch should for my unparalyzed counterpart to leap out of skin and of body Michael Hannon lives in Morro Bay. The poem is from his relate jn some way to 'the experience of Jiving or being collection, Ship Without Paper, Turkey Press. Santa • on the Big Sur coast. especially the section from Bixby out of brash exhilaration for moon junction blindness Barbara, 1978. eye beam to rafter Canyon to Gorda. Though we will be provincial in William Witherup lives in Big Sur. His most recent book eontent, style and form are open. 'Fhe editor suggests dead white dog at the garbage drop is Bf:);by Creek & Four From Kentucky, Uzzano Press, interested contributors submit more than one poem at 1977. Copies of the book may be found at the Phoenix. a time for eonsideration. Poems should he typewritten with black markings .- . ann, prf'ferahly, double-spaced. A stamped, self fresh ad hoc brink of flesh prickle, addressed envelope must accompany all submissions. so doggone moon struck • Address them to Hawk's Perch, The Big SUT Gazette, baying trick-mystic thresh howl P.O. Box 125, Big Sur, CA 93920. rm a canine cheese-happy spellbound insomniac Peter Cummings It pays to advertise in • Ninety percent of the people don't want change •.. Change is being forced down • our throats. Eric Hoffer • Wines 01 Caillornia at Carmel Center • Rio Rd. & Highway 1 3690 The Barnyard Carmel, California 93923 From Jugs to Vintage Wines • 408/625·1454 • open seven days Case Discounts 10-6 except Sunday • 624-0960 • USE • YOUR peODE page 14 BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARY, 1919 and Elizabeth twice is Williams, whom Elizabeth almost killed in apparent has loved since teen-agehood accidents, falls on despite ten years difference KANE AND DEEDEE, one after another of the in their ages, Rhys who was The Book Nook Board members, and then born of a very poor family RELEASE NEW ALBUM Williams whom she adores. and is now president by Is the killer her own virtue of his wife's edict? ~~~~~~~~~~~ husband who had been By HARMON BELLAMY having an affair with Helene BLOODLINE is a Roffe Martel prior to their veritable labyrinth of BLOODLINE she now believes he has marriage? Or is it Helene confusing red herrings, full • by Sidney Sheldon murdered their children and herself who wants to become of twists and turns and Sidney Sheldon's new to kill her in order to president of Roffe & unexpected denouements, bestseller is far and his hands on her stocks. Company and wield the huge an exciting, fascinating the best piece of fiction Simonetta Roffe, an power Sam Roffe had and is mystery that will keep you has done to this point. A heiress of the Italian branch, now possessed by Elizabeth? rooted to its pages. No Stranger In The Mirror and is wedded to Ivo Palazzi Is it handsome Walther wonder, as this is being This Side of Midnight were who, through her, is also a Gassner who is accused of written, it is number 1 on • both exciting; BLOODLINE Board member. For him she slaying his own children and the bestseller charts. It is even more so. They were bore three children, but Ivo now attempting to murder deserves all the accolades it SY~.pelllseful, throbbing with has become involved Anna, his terror-stricken will receive. For pure BLOODLINE is with DonateHa wife? Is it Charles Martel, thrilling entertainment that even more so. The action Spolini, a sultry mistress, who needs money so he can combines suspense, sex, and was fast, pulsating: the new with whom he had created escape from ,his excellent portrayals of the book exceeds that, too. three more children. domineering, nym various outstanding • There were mystery and Donatella, now tired of Ivo, phomaniacal wife? Or Sir characters who people this big surprises; Sheldon's is blackmailing him for a Alex who had to payoff Jon book, as well as wonderful newest effort outdoes his million dollars. Swinton, the enforcer, journey through three novels in that before nailed his continents, one could ask for as well. And the In Buenos Aires it is knlooc:aos to the floor? Or, little more. will grip you, tlfilk TOPI!r Hot Tubs • CIIIIIII SI'IIP Michael Johnson ReSidential & CommerCial Vine inaoors or on our Licensed WOOD STOVE (408) 373·0515 Insured FLUES Anytime beautiful terrace ana enjoy • unsurpassea 40-mile vi~tas THE Secretarial ~rvfce oj Big Sur Coastline. With a MEMORY POWER TYPING DICTATION • Personalized Repetitive letters Cassette Open daily year 'round Mal/lngllst Maintenance Telephone Manuscript &. Report Editing Personal 11: 30 a. m. to midnight Gas or Electric &. Revision Capability • BULK MAILING SERVICE NOTARY PUBLIC Dining and Cocktails Addressing • Zip Code Sort Reservations for large parties only 667·2345 ::be,.a,. A660ciaifl6 Buslooss & Secretarial Services 121 Oceanvlew Blvd. P.O. Box 70 On Highway One THE MALL _. UPPER LEVEL Pacific Grove, CA 93950 Big Sur, CA 93920 San Carlos between 51h & 6th Phone 649·0940 Evenings: 661·2241 Carmel in tile mlican tin cannlllY • at the em::! of: UMery I'OW &2S.121iS 30 miles South oj Carmel • "JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 15 Los Padres Los Padres Trail USFS·Rare nResults Announced Observatory • Improvement Proposed Reeonstruction of three The Los Padres National existing trails in the Ven Forest is seeking input from tana Wilderness Area of the the public on a preposal by Monterey District, the Monterey Institute for LOs Padres Forest, Research in"A!!tr9IlQmy· to will begin the first part of construct and operate. a to Dis small observatory/neBt th~ Bob OreUi6l:liue. ~plrvjf'p firelooko~t The contract for reconstructing ·48 miles of trail has been awarded to Trio Construction tJolnplmy • Priest Idaho. Work include • will be "Weare also un:'u • Please observe This the trail "no trespassing" work to be the signs disastrous Fire of August 1977, fire Respect private burned 178,000 acres. in~ property • eluding 90 percent of the Ventana Wndernes~ Qyality Arabiatt Horses A kaleidoscope of color and pattern characterize forSal~ this unique yard goods shop. Fabrics by the • yard, orders of pillows, placemats, table VISIT US IN BEAUTIFUL BIG SUR cloths and other accessories, You can purchase By AppOintment Only, Please stretcher bars to make your own fabric wall hangings from the outstanding decorator prints. Only the finest imported and domestic fabrics are offered. Owners: • Alan and Lynda Jardine Big Sur, CA 93920 • 3692 THE BARNYARD, CARMEL 93923 • TEL. 625·2253 VALLEY • '" 35 miles South of Big SurVUlage on Highway One Panoramic View of Ocean and Coastline • Restaarant • Groceries • Gifts With guided limousine and walking lours, Surtreks wishes to show you this incred· Be.r. Wine • Gas Ible land. We know Big Sur and wish to make your stay exciting and memorable. SURTREKS and the BIG SUR Master Charge Your Hosts: INFORMATION CENTER Ban kAmericard Open All Year Lee & Rhoda are at Rlpptewoocl Resort In the Big Sur Valley Visa (805) 927-3083 Thompson C81/667-2353 Of 625-3250 (Carmet) • Pa,.16 BIG SUR GAZETTE JANUARY. 1979 Lars N aevdal • Travel • (408} ••624-5434 DECEMBER ••• BIRTHS BIG SUR All Types of Commercial CAMPGROUNDS and GERALD RICHARD GAVIN & CABINS Personal Insurance Terrie Gavin gave birth to her first a son, at FOA ANY Natividad's Alternative Birth Center in Salinas. Husband SIZE RV TRAILER • Richard is stationed at Pt. Sur Naval Gerald OR TENT .Riehard Gavin weighed 8lbs. 5 oz. and inches. • Laundromat He was horn December 20th at 3:25 a.m. _Grocery Alexander Heid, Jr. Larry Durocher Jeff Craig OPEN ALL YEAR Magner III JOCQUA EMERY KEETON 26 mllM So. of Carmel on Hwy. 1 Jackson Booth Lynn Keeton gave birth just hours later to a son at Silas Reservations 667-2322 B. Hays Memorial Hospital. Her husband Reginald is also General Insurance Agents and Brokers • stationed at Pt. Sur. Jocqua weighed 6 lbs. 11 oz. 10 Bonifacio Plaza. (408) 313-4925 lind was also 21 inches long. He was December 20th at Post Office MIA. Monterey, CaUfomia 93940 1:34 a.m. The Keetons have another son, 2 years old. ijJItt MEGHAN ELIZABETH MOUNTS • Robin and Tom Mounts are the of a6lb. 4 <&a5tttt oz. baby girl. Meghan Elizabeth Mounts was born Dec. 28 Please use your ashtray at 4 a.m. at Valley Community in Santa Maria. is YOUI Meghan measured 21 inches long at birth. She is the couple's first child. Inform us of the news events SCHOOL in YOUR life. • Happy Birthday ISOPEN.o •• Newsroom Aquarlans DRIVE WITH number: CAUTION I 887·2222 • r--~-~-~~------~--~--~------~------, I I I ~'~~~ ! I I I BIG SUR RECIPE I • i I I l , I I AFTER A HOLIDAY BINGE IN THE KITCHEN I ~~ ~ __~_~ __~ __~ __~~_~ __~ _____~~ ______~ __~J , • .. JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 17 JEFFERS P.V. VIDEO Grange Supports BIRTHDAY Ventana Coastal TAPE SHOW 'Spirit or 13' CELEBRATED Hassle, --Absurd" Reprinted The famed California poet SCHEDULED • from the Robinson Jeffers' birthday is The rejection of the ex Apparently, nobody does. News:' celebrated this pansion plea for beautiful This is one of the most Jan. 10th Ventana Big Sur Inn has to consistent about rank as the most absurd the decision yet on the Central • mandates • ments and these funds in the state limit. on file in their The California State which is quest for the necessary Grange through this office raised toward this nh"",.jiu" development the first place 560,000 signatures to qualify has sent a petition to qualify to date.) good taste and in keeping group criticizing lack the initiative for the next the initiative to limit gov Jeffers was born in 1887 in with the beauty of the an LCP, doubles the injury. Windmills election. ernment spending to every Allegheny, Pa., a Pittsburgh environment. We affirm the stand of • The initiative, authored Grange in California, suburb, the son of a F'or heavens sake, you can those who support tl1e by Paul Gann, who co-auth We have been told that in theological teacher, who hardly find the place. Ventana expansion with thIS in Big Sur ored Proposition 13, includes January when Paul Gann took his family to Europe on It's probably the most criteria: the following seetions: takes to the airwaves to numerous occasions. There hidden of any first-class -If there are not enough Will windmills work in Big 1. Limits the total annual promote the Spirit of he Jeffers steeped himself in development on the whole public facilities in the Sur? Is there enough wind to appropriations of each entity will say that petitions are the classics in local schools, coast. Central Coast for full en sustain the of of government, state and available to be at leading to his sensitive, If we were going to build a of the recreational o;nt:CLrllC1U energy to • loeal, to in the every Cali- deeply philosophical commercial business and we need sup make it worthwhile? Consumer Price Index and fornia. marked by a nrl~OCCUl)(l make it fit into the coun "'""'111'"",;''' installations. If you have these or other growth in pOl()ulation. The California State with nature. we would copy -But, we must about wind 2. revenues must passed a resolution After his father had Sur. our beautiful environment there are several be returned to the ta~mavel'!I action at the moved to in 1903, Obviously, the with development. write to for at least every two annual eonvention in Bak Jeffers became a student at development is acceptable, the Ventana Big are to be returned means for the Occidental College and later even to the most skeptical rl",,, .. lnnrn • Dolores 7th Carmel, CA 93921 ·.1$ •• • •••••••••••••••••••••••• $$ ·• Records. Tapes • · Discount Prioes NEWSPAPER · ~~ ••••••••••••••••••••• $ ••••••••••••• : . GARZONE'S Fine Jewelry ·• Cassettes Copied : ·• ·• . MEAT & DELI · Sensibly Priced Famous. Voices Museum USDA Prime Meats · • , ",.l> J Theater Bldg, & Gourmet Foods 3700 The Barnyard Free Record Cleaning ·: , ~.~ ;JJ/ Old Fisherman's Wharf Carmel, CA 93923 Cloth with this ad. No : ::::::;;;..;::Il1.... "uJI' _.:._~ " , Monterey 93940.(408) 373-5911 • .•••••.•••••••••...... •.•...•...... •.. : 26340 Carmel Rancho Blvd. • Phone (408) 625·1229 purchase necessary. : Carmel, CA 93923 .624-2266 · . ·...... ~.. Read the Gazette 1'1r------• I I I Do you know someone who has moved I PA Children Carol for Parents ••• SANTA PAYS A VISIT! • • • • • • THE ENTIRE Captain Cooper cut, kindergarten through unison, the children welcomed Santa Claus with "Rudolph Town," and' "Here Comes Santa Claus, n the song that fifth grade; gather for the finale at the 1918 Christmas Smg the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Santa Claus is Comio' to ended with his appearance. Photos by Paula Walling directed Carmel Schools' music Bill In • • • • • • • Thinker Toys, CamElrs In MonlllfllY: Palace Abl1antl MUlIlc, Three Rings Book. store. In PaCifIc OlOYe and New MontefllY: Mon! Grove emf! Guild, Coop Market, BookwOrkll, Inc. • On Sale Locally at: . Csptaln Cooper School, Rlpplewood, Fernwood, General Store, Phoenix Shop, Deetjen'lI Big Sur Inn, Cotsl Thank you for supporting the Captain Cooper School Library FROM: lAVONN CURTIS' eecondltl1l1d grade cIa... , Laura Tl1rulland Annlka Abraham Newell, Amber Stevens, Adem Jardine, Tiffany Trotter, ErIc DeGroat, NewIIII pia, "Mary HId 'II Llltl. Lamb" on soprano _rdara. Also ellown: Matlasa Qrtlz.nd OIlYid Eaton. • JANUARY, 1979 BIG SUR GAZETTE • FIREWOOD FOR Chimney For sale For Rent Personal LOCALS 1917 WINNEBAGO Motorhome. 26· THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, learn A Sweeps PLAYPEN-LIKE NEW. Only $20, Call foot. Bv day, week or month to move with ease, flexibility and Two acres of the Los 66r2223 References required Call 667· freed am from stra in. ACAr Padres National Forest have PROTECT YOUR HOME fROM (512. certified teacher, 624-6649. been opened to the public for CHIMNEY FIRES. Dirty chimneys TWO MICHELIN mud and snow tires ~a~tttt free cutting of firewood for are a serious fire hazard. Top Hat with wheels. 175·13X, $50 or GOT PROPERTY to rent? Need a personal use. They are the Chimney Sweep-Fast, clean, best qffer. 667-2223 roommate? Have a room to let? Chews Ridge and Nacimien· professional. 373-0515. Looking for someone to rent your AD to/Coast area. Individuals UPRIGHT PLAYER PIANO for sale. vacation home, trailer, or MEANS • using the Chews Ridge area Best offer over $250. Call 66r motorhome? list it here! PLEASE WRITE and tell me the will not be required to have For Sale 7508. news. Susan Morris, 3155 Via BUSINESS permits. Persons cutting in ChilJbirth Grande, Sacramento, Ca. the Nacimiento/Coast area 1918 MERCEDES 300CD (diesel 95825. coupe). Excellent, assume lease, CARS, HOMES, property. musical or anywhere else on the instrument¥,' pets, clothing, '&cation V ~~ district must have a permit $400 month. 25,000 miles. appliances,whatever you want to £eague ~~\'.~."". in their possession when Sunroof, AM·FM cassette. 649- sell·-a "Gazette" Classified Ad Classes . \ cutting and transporting 2920. will rlnd a buyer. in homes • wood. Both areas will be 375-5737 •. open through April 15. 1979. Permits and maps are FOR SALE: 1971 Rambler am available at the King City bassador wagon, low mileage, Business office. Pacific Valley, and the runs good, cal! Bryan, 667- opportunities Swap Big Sur stations. 2562, leave message. & ., These two wood cutting CASH DAILY stuffing envelopes, areas have been established Everything furnished. For details Trade on a trial basis; your assist· FREE STANDING FIREPLACE with send 25 cents and S.A.S,E. to: located on Highway One ance and comments would pipe and fire screen . Good Ad-Venture, Bo)( 397, Seaside, Gazette Classifieds 28 Mjles South of Carmel be greatly $prooiated. C/O condition. $100. 624-3533. Ca. 93955. The Market ... Resource Officer, 406 S. Mildred Avenue, King City:. Ventana's own gourmet Market and International Delicatessen, located right on Highway One at CA 93930. Telephone: 385- our entrance, featuring quality produce, gro • 5434. Rules (Both Areas) ceries and sundries plus imported cheeses, meats, salads and sandwiches to go or to eat on • The material cut under the free use program may our adjoining outdoor. Terrace. look for the not be sold, traded or ex colorful Clnzano umbrellas just north of our Shell Gas Station. changed. Getting Married? • Families may obtain a Shell Gas Station ... maximum of five cords pet New Baby? year. Just at the entrance road to the Restaurant and • Free use is granted Promotion? Inn on Highway One. Fine Shell gas and oil pro primarily to aid in the pro Graduation? ducts, at your service. eight to six every tection and silvicultural im day of the year. provement of the forest. • Cut only dead and down Ventana Campgrounds ... wood. A beautiful, private campground set in a forty • • Slash is to be piled in If you have something to write home about, acre redwood grove. Unique, natural setting. openings and stumps should call us at 667-2222 or mail a picture and your Open year-around. be cut as close as practicable story to: to the ground and maximum The Bakery ... height shall not exceed eight Freshly baked breads, cakes and pastries pre inches. pared dally. For custom-mad.e cakes, ask for • A shovel with an overall Ventana's executive Chef. • length of not less than 46 You can P.O. Box 125, Big Sur California 93920 inches must' be with each take it (408) 667-2331 chainsaw. • One serviceable fire with you. Ventana Big Sur • Big Sur, CA 93920 extinguisher must be with each ehainsaw. • Vehicles are to remain • on existing roads. • Users must comply with CAMPI,NG all other regulations govern· ing national forest. PERMITTED 1t4- ea4I! z&. ftIaee 4 tJap8e ~ M· Another source of fire wood that is currently a"wl ONL:Y Fill in blank using one word to a space. able is Fort Hunter Liggett. in If individuals are interested • in cutting on the fort they campgrounds should contact the Hunter 00 Classified heading : ____,,--- ______Liggett Fire Department at $2 {408) 385-5911 and ask for extension 2527. for 20 words. Thomas L. Mounts Fire Prevention Technician Additional words • . Big Sur 10c each. , Mall payment with copy. Robert's FREE Classified Ad Rain to Every Subscriber! Oal)g8 2.00 DEADLINE FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH 2.10 2.20 2.30 2.40 2.50 Captain Cooper School Principal Robert Douglas and his FOR LONGER COpy USE SEPARATE PAGE. fourth and fifth graders have kept a record of the rainfall at the school since September_ The total shown begins with the MAIL THIS FORM TO: first rain of the season, September 5th. Rainfall Is measured Phone the morning following a storm, unlesS otherwise indicated. Date . Amount Total Remarks 667·2512 illy ~ ~a;tttt Dec. 18 1.35 7.45 10 A.M.-2 P.M. Jan. 5 AO 7.85 High winds P.O. Box 125 Jan. 7 .35 8.20 Jan. 8 2.80 11.00 High winds Big $ur, CA.93920 Jan. 10 .20 11.20 • BIG SUR GAZETTe JANUARY, 1979 Ha pyNe Year! from the • 0)«5£11£ Staff and Contributors • • • • • ., • • Jeff Norman Frank Pinney I~------~------' AT LAST -- You can have : ?tee CLASSIFIED AD TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER :: the Monterey Peninsula • • I Del ivered Your Home! 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