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• Hayakawa Plucks Big Sur Bill from Burton's Parks-Barrel

Koeppel The Sur bill has now heen returned to the Senate not been the Committee which, when it reconvenes in • the wee hours of the morn,y\<;, either shelve the bill, mark it up and send it to the Senate am, to be exact, on Oc- for vote, or sent it to the Senate Subcommittee on· Parks. Congl'ess:ma.11 Leon controversial Sur A at the level would be the would now be the law of the Sur in the legj,,,laj,jve four short months tne existence nrf\nn,,,,.. ri the process has been anvthirlll: • tee. The Committee received some the

• tee, the "Issue". an("n,·( Burton bill. at Tomi Lussier Benefit ments to the r.UICtl.

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) 'is the number one genetic killer of , '. children. One in every t ,600 "Bowl-For-Breath' , American chilaren inherits this devastating disease when Local News' ••• they receive a gene for CF Scheduled Oct. 26 from each of their parents. have a full understanding of By Norma Kipp Disneyland, roller skates, One in tweaty Americans are • . the nature of their disorders Bowlers are invited to par- bicycles, bowling balls, carriers of the gene which can Free Respiratory or how to deal with them. He in the 1980 "Bowl­ t-shirts and a host of other cause CF in their child. said lifestyles dictated by cere For~Breath" on dctober prizes will be awarded to Help strike out Cystic tain of these diseases put sponsored by the those bowlers with the fibrosis, win some prizes and Workshop Planned strains not only on the vic­ Northern California Chapter, greatest number of sponsors, have some fun by pfl.r­ A free workshop for pea-­ II, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tims, but on their families as Foundation, who turn in in their money ticipating in the 1980 "Bowl­ pie with asthma, chronic Dann Ehnstrom, chief well; centers within three weeks of the For-Breath." For further in­ • bronchitis and emphysema' respiratory therapist, said the AlthoUlh Northern event. formation and to pick up will be held at Commwtity worksllop .is designed to give free, there wilt be Ii ootmnru California. your sponsor sheet, stop by Hospital of the Monter..:y people with these chronic for lunch. abtain Joy Berta Lincoln Lanes in Manterey or Peninsula on Saturday, Oct. breatiOOl prCilhlems ap-to- SOl'S from frieRQs, call the Cystic Fibrosis Foun­ 4ate ad practical infOrma­ and business who will Danee Co. dation at (800) 772-3144. Employee of wb' about wRat the diseases . them 1< or more for the Moat.. at V.emaaa are and how to take care of number of bowled 'Iiown Master Class Big Sur Land • in three pmes. A to M(~Bt!Ii!reY Peninsula Dance Ventana Big Sur is pleased UIem. Trust to Open 1'heater presents the Joy to announce the August s,eakera ·will Ber­ ta Company fol' a Helldquarters Employee of ..the Month, "OR Dance MONTEREY PENINSULA HERALD TONY MILLER. Mr. Miltl;lf I!J.reatRiq Master Class and Mini Con­ cert'onSaturday, 18, The Big Sur Land Trust has been employed Ven- . ~ods of treldlReot. at the Seaside High wil open headquarters in tana for aver a year. has wHI resltirldery therapy can Auditorium . Carmel on Monday, acCiOF­ .worked in both the Inn Divi· proper The Master Class is. from ding to executive director • sion and the Restaurant Divi­ use a,m.-12:00 noon and Brian Steen. sion. lftedicilles and list resCilUlces availab.le in the co~nmltftilty Concert is .. from The organization, The award entitles Mr. for patients and For .both established to preserve en­ Miller to dinner two at the fanUlies. and Mini- vironmental and cultural Ventana Restaurant .. Ehnstrem note'll charge is $·UO. resources of the Bii:~:SW' The literally thousands of the Master Class only the will have offices on the Month IMn. on the Monterey and $l.sO fOT floor of theN.ilJi~h • analysis of the suffer from ~arious For the Mini­ Bros. Market buiidi.bg'+on service and merit of chronic the Dolores Street between ed by the management .....".hlll!mllt yet many Seventh and Eighth avenues.

The ~ tAt.IM)Alls I. monthlY feature, COlDmunltv ...r the purpose of Whicn Is to tnfOrm the public abOut • vents, .eM 11\.0 items .9f pUbfie .'. st. To PMCIning OnM~ mont tMeRUlr, elther~" us at 661·2222 or write toi ' ..,~- . OCTOBER t880 THiBlOM .~ene.Il'· •••r ·.11...... •, " 2 3 4 •

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OCTOBER IS ALWAYS EVENTFUL••• 1792 - White House cornerstone laid 1825 - $9 million Erie Canal opened • 1854 - Charge of the Light Brigade 1858 - Rowl and Macy opened fancy goods store in New York City 1866 - Tin can. with key opener patented . 1871 - Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked the lantern in Chicago 1872 - First daily weather charts 1873 - Football rules drawn up • 1883 - First Metropolitan Opera House opened in New York City 1886 - Tuxedo formally introduced at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 1901 -- Anna Taylor becomes first person to go overNiagra Falls in a barrel 1922 ,..... First woman appointed to U.S. Senate . 1929 - Stock market crash 1931 - Dick Tracy made his debut • 1937 - Asteroid "Hermes" brushed within 485,000 miles of earth 1960 - Dqllas quarterback passed 2 inches fora touchdown 1965 - 444-yard hole;'in-one recorded COMING SOON - The Captain. Cooper School Carnival will take place October 25, Satur­ 1965 - $29 million Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Mo. completed day between 10 a.m. and" p.m. A rafOe of 100 prizes will be one fund raiser. Proc~eds will go 1969 - Ama:<;in' Metz won World Series toward a multi~purpose room to be added to the school. • DURING OCTOBER, CELEBRATLCOLUMBUS DAY AND HALLOWE'EN AT Music, Dances of the World Featured in MPC Exhibit • Of all the islands of the dance is an omen that Ganges, music has that uni­ P.O. Box 900 world, few have the beauty favorable have que power to transcend time and' exotic rituals' of BalL descended upon the a and culture by touching the CARMEL Beginning October fire is built, and entranced levels of the human CAlIFOR'NIA 5th, MPt a four dancers walk painlessly in the soul. week of films hot coals. One of the objectives of 93921 featuring Ethnic Music and In the upcoming weeks as this exhibition is to acquaint • Dance of the World. High the exhibition focuses on the teachers with the finest lighting the first weekwiII be music and dance of Africa, audio-visual material the music and exotic tranCe the Caribbean and Asia it available for social studies, dances of BalL becomes evident that for music and much of the world music is dance is that more than entertain­ this exhibition will not only ment, Its, a benefit the audience which • which links turns out for the Nepenthe 15 % CASE DISCOUNTS ;:)OUIUleirn Pacific abandoned Redlands Branch line in Nepenthe's traditional • ALL UQUOR AND JUG WINES December 1978. Halloween party on October Under the 1976 Railroad will bea three-way Revitalization and benefit this year, with profits 10% CASE DISCOUNTS Reform Act and between the Big Local Rail Service Brigade, Ambu· ON ALL PREMIUM WINES ASSilSUllfice Act and Tomi Lussier. Tickets will cost S15 and there will be Second, • and Third for the best costume. •

VISITORS NOTE! inlill!:nl:l!.r and Editor , "'''''''''''L'' Editor CARMEL RANCHO LIQUORS writer IS THE fiRST LIQUOR STORE Manager Diane Farrow. . Bookkeeper YOU WILL FIND NORTH • OF f.atG SUR contrfbutlng Staff Writers edItors:

Elavne w. J:!tl!'oatrick·Grllmm Just off Highway at the mouth of Sunny Carmel Valley urt~ ~truittS • FREE ICE St, Francis \ ChurCh Carmel Rancho Liquors 26340 • Open Mon"Th\.!. 8 p.m. Sun. 9 am.·1iI p.m. ONE. 1 /2. Mile so. Of l.uCla Lodle 1/2 Mile North of Fernwood Visa, MC Ph. 624-2100 Telephone (408) 667-2222 @1979 • October, 1980 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 5 'There is no dOUbt about it. The menu is extensive and imaginative with such items as Roast Duckling Lahanina done in a fresh mango sauce A .Gastronomer's Guideline and macadamia nuts, Steak Vladimir done in a white Complete Hair Care wine, shallot and chive sauce for men 8. women • or a Chicken Breast Francois with gruyere cheese, asparagus, prosciutto and Big Sur 667·2101 By Michael Gibbs whatever might try to escape. and pimento, Scallops Pro­ dandy but I think supreme sauce. Prices range 667-2615 The teeth bite and break, vencale and Pasta Pesto. And there are other wines that from about $6.95 for their We have been reared with saliva forms, the tongue tben, to add to your confu- might also be appropriate to Vegetable plate on up to the agreeable belief that. of· mashes, chums, and lifts the they present nightly have, such as a Freemark Ab­ $13.95 for a 12 oz. New York • all the creatures who walk, food so that finally, in a specials such as Fettucini bey Chardonnay, or a Dry Strip. The menu is far to long swim. crawlor fly, man is the whirlwind of breathlike suck­ Alfredo, Baked Halibut stuf­ Creek Fume Blanc. It's just a to list here. Suffice it to say one whose sense of taste· is ing, the fooci is pushed fed with Shrimp or a Salmon thought. that whatever you're looking I closest to being perfect. toward the gullet slipping and in a mousseline sauce. Speaking of Forests, forin the way of good food, Many argue that animals are sliding the nasal channel, Tbe prices are quite another restaurant you might you'U probably find it at the limited in their tastes. Some where sense of smeil ap- reasonable. They range from try again is the General Store General Store. live only upon plants. Some preciates it, and then it is $6.50 for a Squid sauteed in and Forge in the Forest, I mentioned troubles with • eat only meat. While yet pulled down into the stomach butter and served with sherry located on Fifth and this restaurant. There was a others depend solely where it is, butter sauce to the Steak of Juniopero in Carmel. I say time When the locals would such delectables as di~tes1ted in a manner the at $10.00. The en­ again because all but a few of not go because of slow ser- Mankind, however, is omin­ lend to of trees come with a choice of the locals know of the bad food or an obnox­ vorous. We will eat any and fellnvvshirL love and the sense soup or salad and muffin, General Store. iOl.J,S line of tourists. Most of everything. Not all Dessert is a Ia carte. Dinners This particular restaurant this happened a fair time ago In eating, we p.,.., .. ,,'''''''''' can create that are served from 6-10, with and I go way back. It is the during their peak lunch hour • certain special of contentment. breakfast from 8-2. They first restaurant I worked in at the height of the season feeling of well-being which Glen Oaks in Big Sur can. close on Wednesdays. when I to Carmel six and the word carried over to PAKISI'ANI rises out of an instinctual Forest Childs has done a love and years ago. The place has had include dinners. But I think it realization that by the very wonderful job of putting partner, Marilee, cooks, a few ups and downs over the safe to say that the General act of eating we are repairing a pleasant· at­ cleans and decorates in the years but Manager Jack Store is once more a very INDIAN various bodilY losses which mosphere, good food and restaurant. When you visit, Silver is back so things should good place to eat. It has been help prolong our lives. It is amiable service. Dinner en- notice the paintings on the be looking up. His night crew for some time now. KEUN\ deiined by some as a trees include such choice wall. Most of them are hers. is one of the best in town. As to atmosphere, it has to • chemical operation. menu items' as pan-fried And they are lovely to They really know what they be one of the best jn the largest selection Once the food has passed Trout, Filet of Sole sauteed look at. They add a charm are talking about when they region. especially on a hot On the Peninsula our mouths, tbe lips stop with butter, lemon, capers and warmth to the two dining rattle off their spiel which of­ sunny day wben you can sit • Finest quality • rooms. All in all, the Childs fers you a variety of specials outside on the patio and soak in the Mall have Ii real winner on their that won't be found on the in the rayl'l. lbetweeqtong'lI It Safewayl hands. normal dinner menu. It's one of those special C8UNTRYMART Rio Road & Hw)( 1 . Gifts. Housewares • Toys The only thing I would ask A lot of the troubles the places where you'll be able to • of Forest is that he consider General Store had, stopped sit back, relax and let the feel­ Carmel Center Amusing Items expanding his wine list. when chef Robbie Vaughan ing of well-being take bold of Tel. 624-2929 (408) 312·0303 Mirassou, Durney, and took over in the kitchen. The you, It's what some people 184 Country Club Gate Center. 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• Breakfa.t "OFF THE RECORD" 1:30 1.111.... :00 p.m. The !'tlvar Inn'lI fimollllhomastykl bfftkfast Is nlWd on 1 huge By Charles Davis plattar with homemade bfscults, strawberry lem, 2 frllSh ranch MONTEREY PENINSULA HERALD eggs, and chilI's orlglna' home fried potstoell. Served wllh your One of the best places to hear" Jake and the boys" play ohploeof; their brand of traditional jazz is at Big Sur's River Inn on 81eb Bacon LInk ,auugell Baked Hem Rainbow Troul Sunday afternoons ... the cheery ambience of the River Inn or Without the meet seems to add a quality of camaraderie between audience. Light and Tallty Hot Cllkes: $lllok (3) short Iltllck (2) musicians and employees that makes the spectacular drive seem even more rewarding than usual. • Side Order of 2 Holliliscuffs (SId\! Order of Alllfft~fllst ,1\_ Are AVllllable on FlequlISt) Where else can you sit in the sunshine (it's uncanny how it can be fog-bound all down the coast only to clear in that ,COffllS TU Milk Hot Cboeoillte little valley) amid a grove of redwood and fir and enjoy Julcea: Orenge TOfllato Grapefruit .nd Apple good music'while you have brunch drinks. The nt:!arby Lunch bank of tht:! Big sur River is a listt:!ning spot, too. 11;00 a.m,"':30 p.m, 00 see the band in person at - it's as near a sure RIYw Inn '1II'pI' thing as you'rt:! likely to find Almoat 1/2 lb. fmh ground bQt - chllfooal brolkld alld • llerved 01111 Fl'llnch roll will! homemad\! Fl'llncll trIllS. F,.,.... 01. IIIm1whlb Sliced fOIst bQt on a Frencl'l rolf wltll a cup of ohef's llpecia' eu JIIa and homemade fnll$, CollI ..... Cold KIIII IIIIWd

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JAKE STOCK and. The Abalone Stompers are among the scheduled performers at a B.enefit Concert for Big Sur resident, Tomi Lussier, who was seriotlsly injured in an automobile acd­ • dent last month. The concert is planned for Wednesday, October II. at Steinbeck Forum at the Doub,etree Inn in Monterey, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Fire Prevention Week 1980 911 the CZJJeollt 06 CBtg gull Counbty ... 12 motel units • By Philip C. Favro fire safety. per perspective... to convince ~ Stelle Fire Marshal I hope the concept of Fire people of its deadly force ... to 65 riverside CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE Prevention Week is not pas­ teach them how to live with campgrounds SACRAMENTO (Capitol) sed. Trapped amid the the threat, and to prepare general store - Fire Prevention Week has dozens of special weeks, tbem for preventive actions gas station become an annual tradition special days, and special they can take on their own. in the United States - com­ bope it has not Yet, like those who hear the bar plete with the required impact on a cry of wolf too often, a NEW! • Dalmation, of anti- undated with media mellsag:es danger-weary public - outdoor patiO que fire and elo- on tbe dangers of ,.v.. ,rvth,in besieged daily by press ae· NEWl quent pleas and from hair dryers to sac'cttarin. counts of some new, deadly, sandwiCh and other for fire Fire is a concept tbreat - often tbese fountc;lin ShOP safety. Prevention tbat is so basic it sbould not NEW! Week, all its many need a special week to draw years of relations attention to it. But as gift shop • messages, has really witb so many basic d~y, year prevented very few fires. witbout constant reinforce­ professionals are every CUJe \Ie Why? ment its ideas and me~isages means imaginable to make One obvious reason is become lost among a citizens more aware - and to /reWloc:ieOed { rather tban this week as of problems and tbem advice on meJ(pell­ a launching for a year· concerns. and effective ways positive and ",,,,,'''''Q'"VP Individual ·fire orc'venltion ean themselves. campaign against the practices should Now, it's to • of unfriendly extension of tbe to Visit our newly iI.. n,,,,.hn .. nt~ have his:tori,cally of and concern and not lose remodeled week as an oppor- for fire its behavior - its fire's threat to their .wares tbreat - and its effects. But of "threats" that bar and In­ tbat very senses. Fire Prevention door lounge, come from a "0","_""," is a culmination and adjacent to fact UH:;-''''''' lJeg:lnnmg - a week of our new out­ • an afterihcmgi'lt, attention, tribute and door patiO out some printed message on renewed commitment. and new s.and­ wich and STOVES • RENTAL GEAR. SWISS ARMY KNIVES • TENTS • BOOTS". fountain shop. ~ Cuddle 'up with a Bugaboo ... ); The most com· • ~ z w ~ plete resort in > m Big Sur, Fern­ . ~ ~. ~ wood also ~ . features a o ~ motel and ~ ~ riverside • • Bugaboo makes the but sleeping bag you ever spent fhe night In. Bugaboo also makes @ campSites, a (/) down vests, lackets, comforters and outerwear wIth the same unsurpasslild quality, let us ~ t: .outfit you properly for your next outdoor excursion. We have the makings fOf a beautiful(/) gene'ral store, s: and affordable experlenoe. ;;, gas station (/) Remember Bugaboo ... :r: and gift shop. • a. name 'Iou can't forget. 0 ~ m • L5 110 CENTRAL • C) PACIFIC GROVE ~ FERNWOOD RESORT W ~_ 0 z ~ Big Su'r • California 93920 to down things at: 3!: :IE THE BARNYARD » (408) 667-2422 ~ CARMEL.~ .. c.; 625·5030. YOUR HOSTS: BARBARA AND NElSONDAVE:Y SUSPENDERS· FRAME PACKS. DAY PACKS. SOCKS. PONCHOS Page 8 Opinion: LCP'sand TDC's

Mary Barnett one observer put it, is being • may be thought of in the view? This was one of in many ways-as a place to the faced by live, a way of a center of Bill and the Monterey creativity and or, as County planning staff in the late poet Lillian Bos Ross drawing up the LCP. How put it, "a state of mind!' well it is resolved is one of the ~. But to most of the controversies regar- in the United States, to the draft plan. the more than 2.9 million AppUI~ants· for building visitors who travel Highway in the famous view­ One between Cambria and the LCP says, must Carmel each the Big Sur consider the eff~ct upon the is above all a view-one view when building of the finest the or for sites. The least part of • that matter the af· the is to be considered fords. the part fOf location of The Sur Local Coastal new structures. They are to Plan nOw before the be where tOt>oglraPltly forests not in front of crashillg surf or on open • siUloueU(~d ridges. times when the will . PATlU~ ltAMSEY, 'I'BIID nOMIIGBT, !lobed ...., not prevent conflict with the fv~.d other ...... die PrIeJuIIIofdle"", view from passing autos. eo.t·Art 4~ Pl'OINIMI at tile ~ IDa. What then? One technique suggested in the LCP for resolving this • dilemna is "transfer of credits!' , !:i:t"'Irtp·nprl in planner lingo to "TOCs" . At the Septemb~r 10 public hearing, planning commis­ sioners and landowners were • dubious about TDCs, some so far as to say they work." The planning staff thinks they will, and they have ~een working the Santa Monica Mountains, among ot,her •

AltI10UlUl the LCP draft rather technical description of how TDes a better discussion of the technique is found in a entitled "Legal Cofl- sid,era1j0l1ls. Big Sur Local • Coastal Program Implemen­ tation" by legal consultants O. McGowan, Alex­ SEATED IN THE CENTER of the room are Mrs. Cbappellet. T. Henson and Cle­ lreoe Crosland Ratlt Hanan sllaw their ddtiltt as Mrs. Qap­ Shite. Henson prepared pettet seeeessfmlylltds OR a stdl stalpture ""aera" douted theTDC by Marguerite Staude. Fift¥~stx .....rt.ts from .. earmet Art Auction Raises He eXlCllaillls the TDC is a • Hi.hlaedsjCannel, Camel Valley~ Pidle and land use mechanism propos~ Monterey donated a variety of" watereolors, aery.b~ ed almost 20 years ago and sculptures, prints, mobiles, pbotograpbs aad olller work to tile used since with varying Friends auction beld at HIIIt.ands la. _temller 5tlt. Whopping $8,600 of success, principal- • the but also in. the Santa Monica Mountains. • Friends 01 the Big SUI'. the following artists lor tsaSlcatlty', tinder the TDC contributing generously.to at Highlands Inn: local agency (in case the county) sets. up DOfis Will<:MII two types of areas: low­ SmSatea or !lon-developable Jeanne Bellmer areas. and development Benitez .. Randolph C. Bowman areas. Owners of land in the • Howard Bradford former can sell "density Brother John credits"to owners of land in Gary & Dawna Calrp$"ter the latter. DonCa" Olck·Crlapo Henson explains the pur- Jamea Peter Coat is "to require the lan­ RoblnCovantry d01wne~r§ who receive wind­ George DeGroat falls in the form of increased ~;~:~ Edger intensity uses· to compensate Ekeroth. the landowners who afe Embree restricted and have suffered a Pacco .. Ferro wirlcollt, n 0011 Hartmall c~:msiders whether !'OIlIEST AND ...... " ...... ,. .. Art TDCs are really needed on ..... 1lIM II ...... ,.1'IIeafII of" ..... Ceut, A special thank l€1U t€l Patricia Ramsey. a true host and gentle woman.l€lr tile ...... taI ...t.11ae variety of the Big Sur coast. Under local all€lwing us the use €II the Highlands Inn. ,...... __ 1000,.. agency police powers, he • art"urks raised $8.. tuward· keeping fanber federal notes, courts have upheld lIly...... of ...... Contiaaed oa page, 28 October, 1980 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE PageS

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e (f£> The BIG SUR LODGE ie Inside Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park Dine indoors or outside under the redwoods beside the Big Sur River • in the relaxed atmosphere of the newly decorated restaurant at the Big Sur Lodge YOUR FAVORITE WINE OR BEER IS AVAILABLE WITH THE DAILY CHEF'S SPECIALS Fresh Fish in. Season -Salad Bar\ - Open Daily from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.- No Reservations Necessary

61 Redwood Cottages located in quiet, off-tne-road natural settings. Spacious rooms, beamed ceilings, newly carpeted; some with kitchens • and cozy fireplaces.

The lodge Gift Shop has "a little bit of everything" - unique gifts {rom T-shirts to artwork. All year shopping at reasonable prices. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. .

• -Heated Swimming Pool -Fully Stocked Grocery Store -Recreation Hall -Laundromat Amusements and Games -8 Miles of Hiking Trails

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e Blot ( SUR inside Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park / BIG SUR-CALIfORNIA .. (408)667-2171 located on Highway One 26 miles South of Carmel and 63 miles North of Hearst Castle VISIT OUR NEWL Y REMODELED GIFT SHOP

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DONA MARGUERITA Louisa Escobar Boronda Artelhln Castro and Howard Welsh dance OUTSIDE THE Jardine Bam. Historical Society Members latlter to chat and eat. From lcft: the Varsuviana at tbe Historical Society Meeting. Tbe 88 year old Mrs. Castro was guest of Ruth and Jack Sutton. Buzz Brown. Beverly Newell and Dottie WWiams. honor for tlte evening. •

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Big Sur Historical Society Holds Potluck Barn Dance • By Mary Harrington Rosita Lopez brought the special guest of The original Pfeiffer barn at Sycamore CaT the evening, Mrs. Tony Castro. Mrs. Castro nyon Ranch was the setting for an old~time was accompanied by Miguel E. Salazar Il, a potluck and get together for members of the gentleman from New York who added to the /L._~__ "'#I 1~ ot1_~~·~":"A· Big Sur Historical Society Sunday, Sept. 21. occasion by playing the piano and later enter­ The occasion was a modern adaptation of taining members with a song and a speecq, e/"u,q~ ESTABLISHED IN 1888 ~~ • the gatherings that were a traditional part of about Mrs. Castro. homestead life on the coast. In the early days Mrs. Castro is the widow of Tony Castro, the ranches stretched the length of the coast son of David Castro who homesteaded in All Types of Commercial - often at a great distance from Ol;le another 1872. The Castro family holdings included and and tied together only by the coast trail. Get­ Castro Canyon, Qraves Canyon (so Mmed ting together with the other settlers was a because some of the family are buried there) great· occasion and often involved hours of and Vineyard Canyon. The property passed Personal Insurance travel. The guests made ·the most of the op­ from David Castro to his son Rojelo (Roche) • portunity; the affairs frequently lasted two Castro. Roche sold off the propertY in days with the feasting and dancing continu­ various pieces during the 1930's and 40's. ing all night. Children were bedded down under tables and tucked away in corners. For a number of years the road ended .at Over the years these affairs became tradi­ the Castro Ranch which made it a good place for gathering. When the barn· dances were Alexander Heid, Jr. Larry Durocher tional in various places - Notley's Landing, Jeff Craig Oldham Hall, Westmere, Stanley Hall, and held there the Castros would slaughter a steer Ed MagnerIH the Castro Ranch. There was even an out­ for the barbeque and make it a weekend af­ Jackson Booth • door dancing platform at French's Camp fair. The product of various stills up and which was located at the head of Vincente down the coast flowed freely adding to the General Insurance Agents and Brokers Canyon below Cone Peak. spirit of these occasions. 10 Bonifacio Plaza. (408)373-4925 Lacking the staying power of the early The Historical Society ended their gather­ POH Office Box MIA • Monterey. California 93940 pioneers, Historical Society members made ing with a short business meeting and grateful the gllthering a one-evening affair. The food dlanks to Alan. and Linda Jardine for once was just as plentiful and good. Music was again making the ranch available to the • provided by Fern Trotter on the accordian, members. There will be no formal meeting in and naturally the dancers stepped through November, but various committees are eX­ the lively movements of the coast waltz. pected to meet. .\ Oregon Revives Intercity Rail By r. W. Kienlen Oregon's principal cities of Special to The Christian Portlimd, Salem, and Science Monitor Eugene. Portland, Ore. 1980, the State of At a cost of more than $3.5 The oas:senger Amtrak, and the millIon the new daily the Willamette Pacific Railroad "Willamette Valley Express" Oregon appeared on UlllfU1<"II. back daily rail train service will seek to • Christmas 1869. but service between determine June 1981, whether the public wants and will use fast ,and efficient rail CORRECTION service instead of driving. The start of the· new The following articles w advertantly. printed withQl,lt. passenger, service Aug. 3 bylines: September Ramb} Da,y in BigSur, USA by culminated three of in- Judith Goodman; Andrew Molera and Elizabeth Keatinge by tensive study in the • Michael Gibbs; and History of Child Care Coop by Emily Legislative Assembly Kahn. in "to test the feasibility Our sincere ap()loJfl;ies for the ommissions. of added rail passenger ser­ The Editors vice in the Willamette actual • determine

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Ghost Town in Del they Editor, Tile Herald: maintaining the takeover of a govern· Drcmosed Big Sur scenic land. lIit1Uli anb lfitutpninfs area, we returned from In my Sen. Alan Northern our Cranston is not a represen­ • former home, the area of the tative of this district. It's new addition to "Save the Redwoods," the Redwooa Park. "Save the Tadpoles," "Save Furious counlry with enemies We notice a vast difference the " etc. How about from within and without, {'i'()rfIIfHl 10 the editorial very time we visit. Many of "Save the Citizens"? We near Editor: friends and em­ that the bill "will K.D .. Walling, the lumber and mills can't aU be park rangers! \Jl"r"l!r.I""~ World And, dear friends and the Senate in about Member of Ihe .'nends of tbe are shut down Dorilla Roesler. neighbors! the San Sur Coast and now due to Salinas • I want you to know that I to I)UIIOlt1:1t climate, the was furious when I found out wnntt,."trIO' how long that I'd signed a petition in Heartwarming Opposition ~upport of the Panetta legislation. I should have Dear Editor: Dear Editor: read the document before Another but the sbow of a lU~IIV""'l' Dear Senator: • to 'save the This is to urge your strong to my ttn('.r~u'n to HR7380 early in the one area of the known as "The from an old new park addition that in­ Sur Area Coast Act", it. cluded a number of we understand will be feel I was deceived. Bissanlz homes. Some were vacant· marked up the Senate Please know that I am 944 Orive and windows boarded and Natural against the Panetta bill or Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Another note, as soon as Committee on • other proposed took over. ordered we'Une,soll:Y. S(~ptemb'er 17th legislation. Unconvinced steel gates to close access and referred on to· the full Sincerely, have miles roads into the Senate without a hear- Doug Madsen '1'0 the .:ditor;, coastline betWt1l:5l When will takeover .of our love for the land end? Between and of being coastal commission and of Blood Boils ....."",.,·,4'" of this land unites the system. you wonder • who will be next. This Oear .:dilor: Please reprint government land is Uke President Carler a it comes in The While H and before the AI a lime whe.n our dear Carmel land owner knows • r------·I . I I ~f~~~ I i ECIPE. ! • ! End-af-Sum er I I Souffle Special I • I ~n I I I I I I I I I • I I I coastal Corn pudding I butter stickl I I corn ears) I I I • I I I I I I I bowl, I I on the • ~~~ I I Combine corn with I I salt In I ring I separate 3 I Ingwhole I • 3 whites I I and fold I place in a .• tne depth I I ~p. -I· center the pudding comes I The scraped corn should be I If It seems too thick, add a little milk and one I L ______Never use canned cornl ~.I • October, 1.980 THE BIG SUR GAZETTt: Page 13 are replete with from already owns 47.5 percent of the Big Sur Coast Area, there ferent meaning in their con­ around. I think that this cabin or wood stover-We constituents in oPPo$ition to the.land in California and 25 are considerable differences densed form. The conversa­ would have happened with or must SAVE our trees! We HR7380, as wen as S.2551 percent of the land in of opInIOn over the tion on the good-guy, bad­ without Me. Cushman. The . CAN'T wash our (Cranston). In addition our Monterey County. In fact, methodology by which this guy syndrom covered con­ fact is that most new parks clothesl-We'U CON- position is shared b~ approx- t~ss than 20 percent of the protection is to be ac­ siderably more that the mis­ (except in Alaska) are not be- TAMINATE the streams! imately 800 0 con- .~,OOO-acre area is owned complished. We and our con­ quote that was printed in the ing carved out of the public We CAN'T r~ise our own stitytents in Big en ·itlvately, 'filth the rest held stituents strongly believe article. While I mentioned domain but are being produce & fruid-We'D be' 80 and 95 percen ult by some level of government. there are sufficient that this was not a policy of established in areas where DISTURBING the som We • population) who have signed We simply do not need an in­ safeguards in place to protect the Park Service, 1 did say considerable amounts of CAN'T hunt or fish.-We'll petitions in opposition to this creaSe in the amount of this valuable resource: the that I am sure it happened private lands are involved. be UPSETTING the balance legislation, all of whom federal government owner­ Federal Coastal Zone upon occasion because that This, when coupled with the of nature! We DARE NOT reside within the boundaries ship in this area. Management Act of 1972 and was the expedient thing to do fact many new areas are in or eat wild berries or nuts or of the proposed legislation. While there is little argu­ the California Coastal Act of for a new Superintendent. near heavy concentrations of grasses for fear of DEPRIV~ The federal government ment over the need to protect 1976. The latter is a most. My own case is a good exam­ population, has necessitated ING the birds, squirrels or restrictive law and the powers pie. My predecessor did a ter­ a reassessment of the Park other animals! - Dear En­ • Guest Editorial: of the California Coastal rific job of setting up a good Service's traditional methods vironmentalists, What are Commission created by the staff and setting long range of dealing with its neighbors. YOU surviving on? Act are more. than adequate goals f0f the Park. The only If you have any further Lydia Alsop to effectively and perpetually major problem when I came questions, please feel free to Never Mind accomplish the goals and ob­ on board was that our rela­ contact me. jectives proposed by tions with some of the com­ Sincerely, HR7380. In addition this area munities was less than ideal. I Joel M. Pickelner Libertarian Party • What We Said is currently the have .siIlce concentrated on Superintendent strongest locally community relations and C>pposes Takeover THE CAMBRIAN land planning in while noting of substance has A resolution opposing fe4· intertl:stiTitfl turn of events State CoastaiCommis- its history. For that reason, changed, I think our relations Old Days eral involvement in Big Sur cards in with Rep. Panetta for federal there is no need for extensive with the communities have Dear Editor: was passed by delegates to legisladon the Big Sur area. federal involvement in the irt1l~r"u"rl considerably. This Go back to the good old the Libertarian Party state It's not so ironic that state and federal agencies have Big Sur Coast area. is not an isolated situation; I with the environmen- convention recently. to band for their mutual but what is ironic is Your strong to think the country The resolution was pro­ • that the State Coastal Commission so insecure in their this unnecessary and un- the Park Service is concen· Back to cabins and posed by Ken Bowers, the ability to growth in Big Sur that Michael Fischer, ex­ wanted would be on better wood stoves. Back to Libertarian candidate for ecutive director of the state commission, has written a letter to very appreciated. relations with its <1<01'0""'" ",,,,on,.,,,, clothes on a scrub Rep. Leon E. Panetta's 16th Panetta that injunctive authority be given the U.S, Sincerely, and inholders. board, to raising our Congressional District seat. Forest Service lands held in private ownership. Robert P. Nimmo, Senator With to the rest of own beans, potatoes, Delegates to the Sacra­ Fischer recommends in a letter to Panetta, dated Aug. 11, 17th Senatorial District the I did Mr. vegetables & fruits. Back to mento convention from San that he amend his to read: "The (of Carol Hallett, Cushman some, not hunting our meat and cat­ Luis Obispo were Steve Mc­ • Agriculture, we assume) have the power to enjoin uses of Assemblywoman most, of the credit for turn­ ching our fish in the streams. Clenathan. Stephen Jensen public or private lands that are, or would be substantially in­ 29th Assembly District ing National Park Service BUT WAIT! and Steve JacobJi,C.ft. consistent with the purposes of this Act." So much for the in­ land acquisition methods We CAN'T have a log ;:;:;:::z:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:-x-:·:-:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:-:;!~:. put of the citizens advisory board to affect decisions on land use in Big Sur. Another point to ponder is the little phrase that Mis-statement has no concrete boundaries: " ..• public or private lands that United States Department of are, OR WOULD BE, substantially inconsistent .. " the Interior Fischer goes on in his letter to add: "Any exercise of this 120 Laurel St. authority shall be accompanied by findings of fact setting Patchogue, New York 117.72 HOW TO KEEP THE HEAT UP forth the basis for the Secretary's decision. The authority to enjoin any use shall apply for a period of time not to exceed The Big Sur Gazette AND THE BILLS DOWN one year as applied to anyone use. During :this time period, Hie Big Sur, c;A 93920 Secretary determines not to acquire said affected parcel, the Gentleme'!r: When the cost of conventional heating skyrockets injunction or use shall cease having legal effect immediately I had the opportunity to out of reach, consider gOing back to basics ... upon promulgation of the Secretary's decision. If the read your article "Park • &ecretary determines that said parcel(s) should be acquired and Superintendent Supports In­ WOODBURNING STOVES that funds for acquisition will be available within a reasonable holders Association time period, the injunction shall stay in effect so long as ac­ Charges" in the August 1980 quisiton procedures are being diligently pursued even if the issued of The Big Sur CHECK OUT OUR FULL LINE AT time period required exceeds <>,ne year from the date the in­ Gazette. To say the least, I THE FIREPLACE SHOP junction was first instituted. U " am somewhat upset that the So there you have it, the grand mm-flam. The buzz words of Tide article is being used by • "reasonable time period" are as ambiguous as any. can· the National lnholders ·HEATILATOR -MARCO glomeration of plannerese that has come down the pike. In ad­ Association to further its own -MAJESTIC -TEMCO dition, the final sentence of his recommendation effectively purposes. The original Tide -SUPERIOR -PACIFIC says: Don't bother with what I've said in the previous article contained a number of sentences, the bottom line is that we want to have the power to errors and mis-statements - -BEST METALS hold up any type of building that doesn't suit us for any length one of which was the state­ of time. ment regarding the good-gyy, • We submit that this is collusion between a state and federal bad-guy syndrome. Mr. AIRTIGHT STOVES & INSERTS agency ill- the form of trying to deprive the rights of lan­ Cooney, who wrote the arti­ EARTH STOVES & INSERTS downers. By trying to usurp the rights of property owners cle, left out one critical word CONTEMPORARY STOVES through a legal morass of ambiguous phrases, the wording of in that statement; the word the "recommendation" will strangle the initiative of those was "not". I actually said -TIMBERLINE -MORSO who have already gone the last mile in permit gathering for that the good-guy, bad-guy construction in Big Sur. syndrome was not a policy of -ACME -ALL NIGHTER • As of press time, it hasn't been ascertained whether or not the Park Service. I pointed ·MALM -KNTINSERT& Panetta has included Fischer's recommendation, or whether or this out to Mr. Cooney but he -VULCAN -WOODLAND not Panetta's bill has gone to the floor of the Senate for a vote, neglected to run a correction. - EARTH STOVES but we hope it hasn't gone that far-and never does. There's The article itself was con­ -OLYMPIC -EfEL something rotten and the Coastal Commission and the densed from a two hour con­ may be at the bottom. versation and many of the statements took on a dif- OCTOBER SPECIAL • A Wide Range ojMen's Clothing - including a Big & Tall Shop 20% OFF CHIMNEY PACKAGE

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pristine agricultural area. "It also strikes me that this is a sta,wg area for Big Sur, an elaboration of the kind of staging area envisioned by the Wilderness Society so that tourists could be bused up or down u.s. Senator S.I. Hayakawa the coast and back again to eat and sleep at the end they started from. That kind of regimentation, by the way. is about as far from the present uncomplicated Big Sur experience as Talks About Big Sur Legislation Mr. Cranston's philosophy is from Mr, Gann's - and that's pretty far. • "But to go back to this staging area. the Hearst U.S. Senator S. I. Hayuawa (R·Calif.) issued the foUowing face it, if this legislation were to - and I plan to do my obviously plans one for the southern end statement on September 11 regardina1elislation to create a . best to see that it does lIOt - would set a precedent for a l' the first increase in visitation that always comes Big SUI' Coast Area: . giant Federal bailout of the entire coastline of America. But with federalization. The Department of Interior figures show "I was very concerned to leam that Cranston Mr. Cranston, Mr. Burton and Mr. Panetta do not mention that the number of visitors increased over a period of time 3 to intends to push for passage ohhe Big Sur bill, H.R. 7380, by that. They are not far ahead. 4 times when an ares is federalized. In this case, that means the Senate witb some minor amendments. It seems to me that "I that cost of this prcgram will an: increase from three million a year. That might get a little • if we bad twice tbe number of all amendments ever made to !!ltamrl~ with the presently for the people of Big Sur - and especially for the people aU the bills passed in the 200 year history of the concerned with at the northern end of the Big Sur Coast. Carmel still would not mue tbis particular piece of legislation out of millions, and Monterey Peninsula will have to serve as the northern palatable or necessary. UUI11UUlII, that we are area, Half or more of the visitors to Big Sur will stay "At times, ·1 think some people bere Washington at least. Who will provide their water, their playa. peculiar kind of word pme. tells wcreased road maintenance. increased. police Democratic Women's Club that we have to cut out pf()j;e<:tion, increased traffic e:x:penles? ' • governments waste and excessive control of people's "And what wilt happen to the environment itself? Can the and then he says he will pusb this bUI througb the Senate - eCIJl-sv'stem in Big Sur survive 9 to 12 million people a year? I - a bUi tbat is a stunning example of waste and believe in parks and in free recreation opportunities whenever over-replation of people's !ives~ DOlisll,le. But we simply cannot keep on federalizing areas "I know Mr. Gann opposes this legislation and I can't we cannot afford to propedy maintain or wbere we cannot but wonder if that's wby Mr. Cranston supports it. properJlv protect the envircnment. It is better to leave them in "There are a number of points in this issue that are of at least whenever there is the kind of rigid serious concern to tbe Senate - and not just to Republicans. that exists for Big Sur. • First and foremost, we are all - Democrats, Independents "There are other issues presented by H.R. 7380, such as and Republicans - trying to hold down spending. This bill government by appointed officials rather than by elected calls for an appropriation of 130 miUion of the tuptlyers' officials, All control finaUy rests with the Secretary of dollars and that would be just the first appropriation - the AgricuJture inth!s bill. Another issue is the rights of the Citv gold·tlppedfoot·in·the·door. No one, not even Mr. Burton, of Carmel, which has asked for an Environmental Impact makes any real secret of that. Even the Wdderness Statement before H.R. 7380 goes any further. The County of has said that eventually alJ of the private Jand. in Bia MOlnteeey, the County of San Luis Obispo and the COunty of • could be acquired by the Federal government. Instead of a Santa Cruz have asked that there be no Federalleplation, at 130 million bill, we are being asked to make a down·payment least until the local Coastal Plannmg process is complete - on a half· billion dollar serieg of bills. That's lIOt an and know what they need. Why is there such a rush to exaggeration; that's simply the way it has happened in circumvent this process? past. It's the historical record of our Pederalland aC(luu.iti()n there is the question of the rights of the residents practices. Take some now, take some later. till we themselves and the question$ of justice. No one is seriously "And what's more, neither the Panetta bill will be the final legislation to be proposed • predecessor, the Cranston bill, contains one cent for on"lIomll Sur. The question is whether any legislation should be management costs, legal costs, relocation costs, emmo'lfee removing from the residents their right and salaries, employee housing. maintenance Route res,pOlrtsU,i}i1ty to preserve a section of America they have so on.going costs. Yet we have the New York Times t'A",~fllllv guarded, and rewarding them for their successful that our Park Service Forest can't to them under Big Brother. The resident. can mana5l:e the lands lIOW have. What world is the job than Washington """ni...... more that would and care more. It's home and • be(~IUll~e of insufficient mamt,enllllCle/linatlagement - and are passionate is better prcrtected

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,' )t~r:;:;:;;::;:::::::::::::::;:;:;:::::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;;;:;:;:;:;:;:;:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:::::::::::~.:::::!:::::::=:::::!:::::::~::::::::::::::::::.:::::::==::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~;; large corporate institutions xon Refinery. pollution. Bill would have you believe eventually replacing small, Go ahead, Twentieth Cen­ that they do not intend to :::: More... I::: unique, personal businesses tury Fox-Build, publicize! profit from it. Nonsense. The ~ ~ that now dot the Coast. Invite the yvorld and its pro­ Empire Strikes. But our problems are your blems. But when visitors problems. Future Herald' come, we will have nothing to HR7380: Panetta's Pave llIitwsunb]littttpnintli stories may read: give them-except what they I I 'N'Save. :!:~:::~!:::::::::::::!::::;:;:::::=::!;:;:;:;:=:;:::;:;:;:::::;:::;:;:::;:;:::~:;:::::;!;:::::;!;:::::;:::::=::::!;=:~:::::::~:::!:::::::~:::::~~:~:;:~:~:~:.. :.: .. :.. :. :.:;:~:;:;:;:;:::;:::::::i:~ -Hatton Canyon Freeway already have. Paula Walling • deemed "Necessity". People pushing Panetta's Big Sur information at public hear­ downward. Such a gentle lan­ ":-'Sewage system,expanded Evidence ings prior to any other action ding allows all to survive, in­ treatment plant slated near Dear Editor: Please reprint by the United States senate cluding the handicapped, the Odello-Land Trust Doran Associates on the Big Sur matter. young and old. Saucers fight 5,000-Car Big Sur Staging P.O. Box 362 Joe Gugbemetti . inflation by cutting back Area. Carmel, CA 93921 President FAA empire-building and -Corps of Engineers com­ • Dear Senator: California 'Coastal Council energy waste. pletes big Sam Clemente On behalf of the California Zeppelin saucers are ideal Dam; Chris-Craft sees Valley Coastal Council' I urge that for protecting Monterey's Recreation A~ea futllre. our organization be given an Zeppelins fragile environment. By lan­ - With water plentiful, Peb­ opportunity to present Dear Editor: ding and taking off vertically ble Beach Corporation (PBC) testimony and evidence at ad­ Congress is peering into the they eliminate costly runways develops Monterey II in­ ditional public hearings of airport slush-fund pot, trying and noisy dangerous ap­ dustrial complex. • the senate subcommittee on to figure out how to divvy up proach pathways. By carry­ - Tour buses link Arroyo parks, recreation and the booty. There's plenty of ing comfortably hundreds of Seco Staging Area to Big Sur renewable resources on the advice from snarling and passengers fewer flights are through Carmel Valley. pending Big Sur legislation. sniveling fast-dealers, who'd needed. Speeds of over 100 -Monterey Airport conges­ mph make them especially The California Coastal dearly like to get their hands tion around Big Sur Staging CollpellJlonai NDcIldate. meets suitli\ble for trips to Los JACK ROm, Repablbn Council represents a broad on this federahnoney. Area;,new' Castroville Inter­ with ....eaau ud George Bash. constituency of land owners, How these funds are dealt AngeJes by way of Santa Bar­ national Airport to relieve unions and construction with affects the shape of bara. Scenic Freeway 68 traffic. • groups, ,agricultural associa­ things to come. Is it asking Congress mustn't put all -PBC Old Capitol Site Roth Meets with Reagan tions, utilities and oil com­ too much of our lawmakers our chips on one card when boasts 900 homes, shopping W.A. Jack Roth, was the probability that panies, a total affiliate tQ be more creative and far­ fastshuffling lobbyists try center. Republi<:an candidate for the Reagan will make a "swing membership of 309,000. The reaching in their delibera­ dealing from the bottom of ~David Packard Aquarium 16th District congressional through the 16th District" to council is appalled by reports tions? Just look at the the deck. Some chips should brings 1.5 million people per seat, met on September 15 campaign for Jack Roth. that an attempt is underway English! On the Isle of Man be put on the quieter, yelir, 'more than Hearst Cas­ with Governor Ronald Roth, whose candidacy has to railroad the Big Sur legisla7 they're developing the first cheaper, roomier and, safer tle. (Both are Big Sur Staging Reagan and Ambassador been endorsed by Reagan, • tion through the United saucer-shaped Zepplins. The zeppelin card. Areas.) George' Bush in Washington, said that their meeting includ~ States Senate without further project is backed with solid Sincerely, -Cannery Row Highrise D.C Reagan who has pledg­ ed setting legislative goals for committee hearings. financing and the first hop is Thomas McGrath Planned. ed that, as President, he will 1981. Roth also participated Moreover, the council is in envisioned between London -PBC Spanish Complex work c1osely.with Congress to in a demonstratio'l of unity possession of evidence of and Paris in 1982. Pave 'n' Save completed. "turn Pennsylvania Avenue with Reagan, Bush, and other conduct by government of­ This new mode Of air travel Dear Editor: --:,Carmel National Seashore into a two-way street. once GOP, Congressmen. and can­ ficials and employees, and has a lot to commend itself. The future of Monterey Established. again", assured Jack Roth didates on the Capitol steps • ptivate interest groups which When something conks out, Peninsula may soon be decid- Rancho Ramada Country that as a Republican Con­ where the Republican violate the Unitec;l States con­ un burnable helium-filled , ed - by Cognress. Should Club overlooks Airport. gressman in the Reagan ad­ "team" pledged themselves stitution and the federal civil saucers don't slam into the Panetta'a HR7380 pass the -Salinas Valley Smog Con­ ministration, he would have to a joint program to solve rights act. We hereby request like an exploding Senate, Big Sur will become trol District forme" following the "the ear of~ the the nation's economic and an to present this but sail softly another Federal Area-with increased Moss LandingJEx- President". Also discussed defense problems. •

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shail be as an area where • may on 01' be affected by environmental rtlllOIU'ftS of or critical concern. This would except most from the under the deter- mined to have development permits sisould Ii special the owner to record a decd restriction describ"g the nature the bazard(s). • Key Policies ge(iltecbnllcal and/or fire mitigations and long­ UThe scenic qu.alil:ies maintenance requirements •. " result from the iml,osing lleC)lI:fllDh Sur as a pOI:enl:iality dianll:,erOllIs COIltlpo'sit\lcms and nOlrnl1",n '''l!,'' .... '~1U, to avoid or at the area's greatest U""15""~ destruction would include the stated surveys, forbid has attained a wide feplUl~tUQn sightseeing and scenic construction within and allow for con· • tivities. " struction of those can withstand could This quote from the introduction of the K4·nll~re resist collapse in a Coastal Plan outlines the main 8. "Big Sur's lirch~enloglcal resources, iueluding those areas preserve the beauty of Big Sur and to considered to be afcheologically sensitive but not yet surveyed and appreciate that or mapped, shall be maintained and protected for their scien­ Above all the plan addresses the of tific and cultural heritage." The County shall "protect, main- Sur's natural wonders. In the and where feasible, enhance and restore the cultural beritalle of tbe County and man.-made. resources • J)l'ii~osophy and of the plan, it its .i~\.J~"The scenic beauty of the Big Sur and the oppor- ;~~:u.itleS. to escape· urba8 patterns, are prime attractioRs for arche()lo:glC:aI resources of Big )I'~.dents and visitors alike. Man made "improvements" up a list of all detr.8ct from this near-wilderness attribute of tbe area - if not nrl'.nn~ ..rl developments iRdivid,llaUy, the collectively." should take into consideration the and historical are drawn and that native With this foremost in cmlSullteO when plans are • goal:"To preserve for the ;n,..nmn,,,,,,hl,, arc:he.,Iogic:ai or cultural the Big Sur country, its special cultural offensive arc:heJ:)logicai impact its landforms and seascapes and insDi~ation;al vistas. To Vinca and pampas grass, de,rel(J'pIl1tent of property end, all future must harmonize with and be sub- adherence to the best ordinate to the wild natural character land. principals, ililCludiull stream setbacks, The plan then addresses measures to this mlilintEiuallft, J)eri'ormlllflft coutrols for develop. goal of natural The outlines five area of fpg,tlU'@II. maintenaDce of safe and water quaU. • concern natural resources, coastal scenic resources, Mi,,,.!..,,,,,,,, strelUUs, and careful One, land use and and shoreline access. these nu,,,,,,,, .. A to limit de1{eJ()P1l1crlt,

NATURAL RESOURCES 2. "The Ccnmty will take It and adive rote in .fte Dr(}te(;ttcln oHhe scenic beau­ • stewardship a safeguarding of Big Sor's natural refusal in the resources and. recognizes that where there irreconcilahle rmHU1l1e ",rt.!erIWlu, the area conflicts that protection of these resources is tbe ob­ scenic jective with clear precedence over 'and ~elvel.)plneflt imnOlrll'lI'"'f' of for­ This is the statement on the nrf',,,.... ,,,,tinn of the the natural resources. These dude sensit.ive XUtIClll,US, pr(~te(:tj()tn •

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should has for • r"",.r.. ",tinn,,1 or cotnl11terical ofsmaU 3, All practical efforts should be made to maintain, restore Point Bllck and where possible, enhance Big Sur's environmentally sen· roads recreational, or sitive habitats for the enrichmellt of a present and future ••"i4'llrltural access will be considered only where it has been County citizens and residents. The development of all dlllnol~stl·li.tE!d that the lise of roads is not possible or categories of Illod use, both public lind private, should be feasible or that for mutual use by neighbors of a com- subordinate to. the protection o.fthese eriticllJ areas. A arl4'.IIltt..... especially grazing, is considered a preferred mon road are in writing to be unobtainable. In locations where bas been a The wants to avoid the of the land, This policy the llumerOUs r",n:lIlr ..rn·pnr traditional use, it should be both especuulY mCH1l1taillt()pS in the viewshed, by limiting for the sensitive h"'lf\.Hlt~ under private and Williamson con- the construction new roads, public and The plan ed as "areas in which and animal life or tracts, scenic easemeats, tax large lot zoning and further that no new roads would be allowed in the public rare or oceause of their other techniques will be encouraged by County to promote views or from Highway One and other selected view- role in an and which could be and assist agriculture," The LCP does not say what these are. degraded and de'reklprrlenlts' in this section 11. All new must provide building sites outside afeas The pla~ outlineifmeasures to preserve the habitats of plant. of public view aud otberwise must avoid creatingl'urtber com­ anjmal and marine life. In many cases the merely states, mitmentto development witbin the view sited • in many different ways, that near environmental­ In this the would forbid aU future development ly sensitive environments should be compatible to the protec- within the The plan would allow, though, for com- .'~ I Octoher,1980 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 17 pensation through condemnation of the property. The pian attached caretakers cottages and guesthouses, according to the tunities for recreational hiking should be encouraged. and does not address the price at which property owners would be plan. All development would be subject to view shed and other enhanced. recompensed for their land. requirements listed elsewhere in the LCP. In general, then, the plan calls for the preservation of the ex­ Further protection of the viewshed is allowed through pro­ 17. "Development of recreation and visitor-serving facilities isting beauty of Big Sur through tight governmental control of posals requiring buildings to blend in with the environment, at appropriate locations is preferred over other types of the area. The county could regulate changes in the environ­ using materials and colors that will camoflage the structure development in Big Sur because ofthe national importance of ment through the permit process mentioned above Land and discouraging signs. The plan forbids neon or plastic signs. tbe Big Sur Coast as a recreational area." owners would be required to receive permits· from the count HIGHWAY ONE Here the plan places the importance of Big Sur to the public to control any change they may wish to make on their property. The plan's concern for Highway One is that it is required to as greater than the importance of the area to residents. The 24. Permits will be required from the County for all handling an increasing volume of traffic without an increase in plan calls for maintenance of the rustic characteristics of the categories of development proposed on private or State land." the highway's capacity. This traffic is, according to the LCP, area and for small, carefully designed facilities to be the only The plan also provides for increased recreational usage of predominately recreation oriented, estimating the visitor traf· ones allowed. "No intensive recreational uses of facilities shall the area. The potential recreational services offered in the Big fic at 95 percent of the volume during the peak summer mon­ be permitted on the Big Sur Coast," the plan says. Sur are of primary importance to the county planners. ths. 18. "Visitor-serving recreational and commercial uses, and 25. "Other development which serves homeowners and • "If recreational use continues to increase along current peak public and quasi-public uses should have priority over private visitors but which on its own merits does not attract visitors to use period patterns, the Highway will not be. able to ac­ residential development in tbe (Big Sur) valley since the Big Sur should not be included in tbe allocation plan and comodate the increase," the plan states. • 'The capacity of the available space for theSe necessary activities is very limited." sbould be evaluated only on its environmental effects." Highway will, therefore. be a major constraint on the long Again, the LCP places its primary emphasis on construction The plan then views the area as unique, one given for the range development of Big Sur itself." of structures that can be enjoyed by the visiting public. The public to enjoy. Through careful management and regulation 12. The County's purpose will be to maintain and enbance plan recognizes the Big Sur Valley as the "community center of the area, the plan hopes to be enjoyed by the visiting public the Highway's aesthetic beauty and to protect is primary func­ as well as the center of recreational activity on the Big Sur for years to come. • lion as al'eCreational route." Coast" and h()pes to enhance the public atmosphere of the The report, then, gives priority highway use to visitor as op­ area. posed to residential traffic. In its policies, the LCP gives the The plan also addresses the special problems of large land r------~;;~;;~~e------l capacity priority to the visitors, seeking to limit and increase in owners. Because the county hopes to keep all or most of these agricultural areas committed to agricultural use, the plan residential traffic through a limitation on residential and com­ Name mercial development in the area. pledges the county to assist large land owners in acquiring in­ I I Having identified Big Sur as.an area of recreational enjoy­ centives for continued agricultural use. The plan also provides Signature for transfer development credits to be given to owners of large I I • ment for the public, the plan says that this public use, should I I be protected. Other users of the highway should be limited in properties to allow for cluster development as opposed to ex­ I Address I their usage to provide for future recreational use of the road. tended development. 13. Any commitment of remaining Highway capacity to SHORELINE ACCESS I I residential use sbould be extremely limited and sbould be con­ The California State Constitution and the California I 0 I am a Big Sur resident I sidered only for very large parcels." Coastal Act ensure's the public's right to shoreline access, the I 0 I am a Big Sur landowner County planners, then, want to reserve any further traffic I plan states. The problem presented to planners is how to I orn~ I • capacity of the highway for "coastal priority uses", especially reconcile this right of access with the preservation of the Big recreational use. The plan also recommends the upgrading of Sur environment. I The following is a questionnaire to be used in conjunction with I, Palo Colorado, Sycamore Canyon and other recreationaUy us­ The plan says "Experience has shown that the most suitable I the summary of the Big Sur Local Coastal Plan. The numbers ed roads to allow for increased visitor traffic. I below represent the 25 numbered quotes, in bold print. in the I' locations for physical access are already in public ownershipo LCP. Your assessment of these statements would be in con- To increase visitor flow through the area, the plan call for I or have traditionally been used by the public". These areas in­ I junction with the explanitory paragraph(s) fotlowing each I, the paving of turnouts to allow slower moving vehicles to pull clude shoreline already in public ownership, and shoreline in I statement and should not be considered by themselves. Please I off the road, upgrading the alignment of Highway One and the private ownership but with open access to the public through I check your personal assessment of each quote. I construction of parking areas at key locations to prevent the prescriptive rights. ~ I Statement Agree Agree Have No Disagree Disagree • parking on the road shoulder now commonly in existence. 19. Overall, the best locations for public access to the shore I Number Strongly Mildly Opinion Mildly SlrOntlIY I 14. "Unless there Is substantial changes in current recrea­ and along the coast are already in use or have been in use in the 1. 0 0 0 0 0 I tionaluse patterns and volumes, siognificant decreases in peak past. Major access areas, wbether inpubJic or private owner­ I period traffic congestion will only be achieved through sbip, should be permanently protected for longterm public I 2. 0 0 0 0 0 J physical regulation of the Higbway. including limitations to to use." visitor access at tbe north and south ends." In this way. the plan protects the public's right to access, but I 3. 0 0 0 DO I The LCP calls for the construction of northern and does not allow for any increased access in the future. Increased I 4. 0 0 0 0 0 I southern visitors centers on either stde of the Big Sur. These access may pose potential problems for the environment, the centers would provide information on the traffic conditions, plliUl notes, and the majority of the Big Sur coastline is more I 5. 0 0 0 0 0 I motel and camping facilities, coastal access locations and give appropriate for visual access. I 6. 0 0 DO 0 ·1 the public information on environmental responsibilities. The 20. "Visual access should be provided through the develop. thought is that travelers who learn that the roads, motels, and ment of scenic overlooks, in conjunction with accessways or I 7. 0 0 0 0 0 I campgrounds are full would not wish to travel Highway One where physical access is not appropriate." and would find an alternate route to their destinations. The The plan proposes increased scenic overlooks, sites to be I 8. 0 0 0 0 0 I • plan makes no recommendation on the location of these visitor determined in the future, in order to allow the recreational I 9. 0 0 0 0 0 I facilities. public visual access of the coast. The enjoyment of this visual In order to allow more people to enjoy Big Sur. the plan access would be guaranteed through future land planning to I 10. 0 0 0 0 0 I, calls for exte.nded bus service to the area and increases bicycle avoid the scarring of the viewshed, as stated earlier. 11. 0 0 0 0 0 I paths along Highway One. In this way. more people could en· 21. "The first priority access locations are tbose major ac­ I joy the beauty of the area without having to add to the traffic cess areas presently in active use. These should be retained for f 12. 0 0 0 0 0 I congestion. long term public use. They should be improved and managed properly before new locaitons are opened to formal public ac. I 13. 0 0 0 0 0 I LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT cess." I 14. 0 0 0 0 0 ., As stated earlier, the pJan IS opposed to further development Included in the areas of first priority access are Doud Pro· of Big Sur. especially residential development, and in earlier perty, Little Sur, Molera State, Park, Pfeiffer Beach, Par­ I 15. 0 0 0 0 0 I sections of the LCP, has strictly limited development potential tington Canyon, J.P. Burns, Kirk Creek, Mill Creek, Sand 16. along Highway One. The plan says "Continued residential Dollar, Jade Cove and Willow Cove. I 0 0 0 0 0 : dev.elopment and subdivision for residential purposes is a 22. "The majority of shoreline access in Big Sur should be 17. 0 0 0 0 0 I trend at oddSc~ith the preservation of the coast's natural, I directed to areas able to sustain Intensive public use witbout I 18. ·0 0 0 01 • scenic and rural character". The plan also is critical of any resource damage or other conflicts. Therefore the second future commerical or recreational development, saying that priority for provision and improvements of public accessways I 19. 0 0 0 0 01 the commerical demands of local resident is "limited" because should be placed on areas tbat have ample beaches, minimal of the proximity of the Monterey Peninsula and .that the major public safety ba.zards, and eitber an absence of sensitive I w. 0 0 0 0 I recreational use of the area is viewing the "beauty of its strik­ habitats or .habitats that can be protected from adverse im­ ing land forms and unspoiled landscape." pacts." I 21.0 /0 01 "The county's prime objective to preserve the coast 15. is ... The plan gives second priority of development to I 22. 0 0 I as a sparsely developed rural .reamA second objective is to • Malpaso Beach, Kasler Rocky Point, Palo Colorado, Bix- I 23. 0 0 0 I protect the Big Sur Coast as a largely undistrubed natural area by Creek, Pt. Swiss Canyon, Big Creek, Gamboa Beach, of great scenic beauty and solitude, a ~place the. public can Limekin Creek and Pacific Valley. 'I come to find relief from the pace of urban life." I 24. 0 0 0 0 I 23. "The third priority for prOvisions and improvements of Because the plan hopes to preserve the undeveloped beauty public accessways should be placed on· areas that have attrac­ I 25. 0 0 0 0 01 of the area, it identifies nine land uses and places limits on the tive destinations wbere safety hazards or resource conflicts can I I development of each. The following is the plan's proposal: be mitigated, and with potential for Improving parking." • allowed land uses densities WOUld, the plan says, per~ The third priority areas listed in the plan are Otter Cove, II Completed questionnaire forms I. mit limited development of Big Sur without endangering the Rocky Creek, Hurricane Pt., Wreck Beach, Coastlands, should be mailed to: beauty of the area. Castro-Grimes, Lopez Pt., Lucia,. and Wild Cattle Creek. BILL PETERS. Chairman ·1 16. "The minimum parcel six for new land divisions will be These, then, are the areas the plan liSts as suitable for public I 320 acrea throughout Big Sur in order to maintain tbe rural shoreline access. I LCP Committee I cbaracter, promote agricultural uses, protect natural resources The plan also emphasises a need for improved safety of ac­ I Monterey County Planning Commission I and to acknowledge the limitations of remaining capacity on cessways, and the need for parking and other facilities. where I clo Big Sur Gazette I Higbway One." feasible. The plan wants to give the public the greatest possible The plan would allow for construction on all access with the least amount of danger to the environment IIDd l ______~~!~~3!~l~~______J land (there are 790 vacant but the traveler. minimum for res.idential Editor's Note not built on an The Gazette will tabulate and built theu forwllrd the questionnaires to the Pi",.... " .... • P8g818 THE BIG SUR ~AZETTE . October, 1980 October, 1980 , THE BIG SUR GAZEne Page 19 "To paint is to love again ... "

HenryM i Iler's Waterc~olors

By Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick-Grimm knowledge acquired through his own suffering to unify his obliterated... Whether ihe beloved be a bowl ol.fi:uit,....,a About this period, he wrote: If Henry Miller's early literary art is a "healthy child of life, what is left to do? Play. Enjoy. Return to Paradise. pastoral scene, or the interior of a bawdy house makes no alf­ For me, this seemingly bleak period was a most instructive neurosis," his watercolors are just plain healthy kids. Become a child again. Return to the earth that offered such life ference. One must be in it and of it wholly. Before a subject one because not being able to write for money I had to turn to Primitives. Like the joyful symbols of a child in discovery. and joy and suffering. . . can be transmuted aesthetically it must be devoured and ab­ something else to keep me going. I could have been shining In the beginning, they supplemented and reinforced his self­ Miller did that in Big Sur. He believed that a good artist­ sorbed. shoes; it happened to be watercolors. To make watercolors for conscious, sexually-explicit literature. He saw them as diver­ or a free man - needs a Quixotictough of proud folly - "a The Big Sur coast has inspired its poet, Robinson Jeffers, to money never gave me the least qualm. I set no price on my sion from difficulties. He wrote: streak of insantity iu him, ifby insanity is meant an exagerated "fall in love outwards," away from humanity. Now it was in­ labors. Whatever the buyer chose to offer, whatever he Thinking back to the year 1928, when I first began making inability to adapt." This was the :J(atsimbalic-Zotbatic spirit of spiring its literMy giant, Henry Miller, to write of- falling in thought he could afford, no matter how ridiculous the sum, I watercolors, it seems to be that if I had not discovered this the Greeks Miller loved-the spirit he'd captured in the book love outwards, getting out 'of himself and into thlob;-ct said yes ... Catering to my clients in my own sweet way was outlet I would have gone insane. My writing wasge/ting me he. considered his best --'- The Colossus of Maroussi. painted. . quite different, it seemed to me, from accepting a handsome nowhere fast, my domestic life was a shamble and my ability to What he began on a trip to Greecehe continued in Big Sur Miller had looked at his paintings as 'a dodge in the 1930s, advance of a commercial publisher and getting tied up in knots panhandle. had become nil. Wh~n I found what the left hand where he lived his most joyful years and wrote his own wisdom "perhaps because I didn't have to prove anything, either to the struggling to produce the pap which they expect . .. I earned can do - "the left hand is the dreamer'~ - I became active as • literature, far from the bohemian cafe life he'd once embraced world or myself. I wasn't hepped on becoming a painter ... I just enough to keep my head above water. It was like writing an ant. I painted morning, noon' and night. . . Though my with such passion. was simply Wriggling out the strait-jacket," but he didn't want songs and getting paid to whistle them . .They went fast, my lit­ mind was intensely active, for I wasseeing everything in a new Said Miller, "The individual who can adapt to this mad to leave the impression, in his book, "that I take to making tle jobs. Some must have been absolutely frightful, no ques­ light, the. impression I had wps of painting with some other. world of today is either a nobody or a sage. Inthe. one case he watercolors only_when desperate. Most of my painting-Jeri-as tionabout it. Even Vincent Price, generous and indulgent as. part of my being. My mind went on humming, like a wheel • is immune to.art and in the ather he is beyond it." . have been delightful ones." he then was, balked at some I offered him. that continues to spin after after the hanp has let go, but it He even contemplated the possibilities of achieving sagacity What's more, he saw himself as lacking in technique with no Then Henry conceived the idea of a paradise for artists. And didn't get grdzzled al'/d exhausted as it would afterafewhours by transcending his art and iust living in silence. But it was sense of perspective. He explained: ... he believed he'd found it in February of 1944 when he visited 01 writing. . never his calling to be quiet, even in Big Sur. 1 remember so well how in the beginning, when I had this the Greek painter, Jean (Janko)Varda and his wife; Virginia,' 'UltimatelY. his watercolors enabled him to "stand still and In 1960, he published a little book,To Paint Is To Love . desire to draw everything in sight, I would arrive at my in Monterey. Miller viewed Varda not only as a master colorist dance inside . . . always merry and brignt." Theyreleased the Again, He gave copy No.3 of a special edition limited to 50 to parents; home-always an ordeal to visit them - equipped but "a spring circus, a sage, a saint, a tightrope-walker all in pure child in him for play arter his searches for self­ his.estrangedfourth wife, Eve who was about to give Up' on with pad, pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, and make tbem,sit .one. ,," understanding and philosophic wisdom. By the time he was 50, herself when she gave up ,on tlieir marriage. She tried to turn to . for their portraits. And when Isaw thdt I couldget a likenes:.'if Varda revived. the spirit of fun in Miller's otherwise Satur­ he'·dpaintedmore than he'd written. art as an attempt at therapy for herself. But she died fiveyeim I really wanted to, I said to myself:;;'" "Why continue? Any nine tendecies. After a visit to Big Sur with a hot sulphur bath Iilmid-life, as biographer Jay Martin put it, "He felt he had later of alcoholism. fool can do it, Do something you can't do!" ... Everything I at Slade'sSprings, some talk with the artists who lived in Big Clown 1973 . achieved wisdom. What, then did he need with books. He Eve's etchings just didn't provide the' release that water­ want to reproduce isa task. Evenhou,ses .. . And if I want to Sur; and a, feel for the ghosts of Jeffers, George Sterling and began to paint much more than he wrote ... Writing seemed colbrs liad offered Henry. Not enough "ambiance" to bring give' them in perspective I'm' absolutely stymied. I generally Jack London who'd been inspired there, Henry decided to like a lonely occupation now .. Painting was sociable: he could the joyful release Eve needed. And it was too late to resume compromise by laying them on theirsides. Does it matter make it his home. lean over Picasso's shoulder to watch him to do an ink portrait her acting career. much? To some, yes. ,Some peop[(dutntheir backs.inJ!i~~t. fie liked Big Sur's ambiance, its aura of freedom. in Big Sur of Man Ray and chat with both while the work went on ... "Ambiance, that is what the watercolors render par ex­ Not painters. Painters seem to be intrigued by myea"l-g(;.rlg hewrote: . . . . . Miller delighted in his new found self-reliance-in Big Sur and At that point, Henry observed: writirig he identified with consciousness, and he was tired of cellence ... whether the ambiance be blood,money or ennui, devices. Now and then one will say tome: "I wish I had the I am doing my utmost to make a sort ofparadise now, not flowed in many directions,painting enough to have shows in As a matter Of fact I have never left Big Sur, excepl in the his own ego. Painting ... gave him a feeling of anonymity and the effect on canvas can be stimulating, provocative or con~ courage to do that!" As if it hadtake~coutage on my part. only for myself but for all those.1 believe in. I do not want to London, Washington D.C., and SantaBarbara. He created a flesh. How could I after living there seventeen yeats and hav­ unpremeditated wisdom." ducive to dream and reverie," Henry wrote. When J explain that it was because ofliheer ignorance . •. the get to the top alone ... There are already fifteen or twenty community of friends and spent the happiest years of his life ing as dearfriends some ofthe most wonderful individuals one "To paint," Miller had insisted, "is to love again, live H~ could "perspire with ecstasy" through his watercolors, answer usually is: "No matter. You had fun. It makes a pic­ people in the world like ourselves. We should aid one another on the Central California coast. . r could meet, nowhere else in the world. No, everything is still again, see agtUn." To see everything new, like a child, as if for falling in love outward with the object painted, celebrating, ture just the same". . . One picture speaks to you, another' to the limit, I believe. Make a world ofpoetic, viable reality in. When heleft Big Sur for Pacific Palisades in the early 19608, with me - the sea, the whales, the fog, the storms and the the first time. But the best paintings, he believed, were those worshipping it. There must bea relation, he thought, between doesn't. the midst of negation and a world of corruption. We could do at th.e age of 70, his paintings went with him. In 1978, there everlasting ace. If 1 am returning'/o.Big Sur through my water­ never committed to paper "-- ihose just experienced and what a person is and what he does, what he believes and how Miller added, I did everythingthe wrong way. "But~ain~~rs it. was an exhibition of his work at the Tel Aviv International Art colors it is merely a long delayed tTibule to the place and the in­ remembered. he acts. . like EmilSchnellock and Bezalel Schatz, who'd encouraged He believed some special people could make a new beginn­ Fair, and, after that, was has been called "a retrospective of habitants who so enriched my spirtual life . .. I am indebted to When a person has run the gamu~ - explored his intimate Henry insisted: him, seemed to applaud what he intended to do. What Schatz ing in Big Sur even though he was convinced that Americawas the watercolors, lithographs and etchings of Henry Miller" the Coast Gallery, of Big Sur for Il!akim~ this possible. perplexities, articulated his raw experiences· and turned them One must not only be in love with what one does, one must deplored, Henry said, was lack of feeling, lack of daring. "Do a "desert in which the sensitive man or woman spills his un­ returned to Big Sur for a continuing exhibition at the Coast into art, then studied and the also knowhow to· make love. In love self is anything you like,"Schatz would say, "but do it with convic­ wanted seed. " Gallery. (Next issue: '''Big Sur Friends Remember Henry Miller") tion!" Friends like these sustained him. He wrote: To. have a friend who understands lind appreciol.rl.s your work, one who never lets you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent, as the years go by, that is a rare ex­ perience.It takes onlyonefriend,ifhe is a man of faith, to work miracles . .. one mustmake friends, create them through one's work. What sustaitistheartist is the look of love in the eyes()f (he beholder. Not money, not the right connections, not exhlbiilons, riOt flattering reviewS. More importantly, 'he saw the value of loving what Cle ~es "whether it causes a stir or not." Miller's'major books were still banned in this country when . he was living in his Green House in Beverely Glen, near Los Ang~les, in 1943. He'd rebelled. at becoming a hack writer in Hollywood just to make money . Ami he was saved .by his pas­ sion for painting, combined with the 'controversy surrounding his.books. , As the story goes, he had. no money for art materials, so he asked the proprietorofa Westwood Village art'shop, Attilio Bowinkel, for a bQlh~~be cheapest water paints he had. When Bowinkelaskedjfi!le:~eded any other supplies and Henry confessed thathecoulan't afford any' others, Bowinkel said. "Choose what youJike;th~n":"" paper, paints, brushes, whatever you need. It's a gift!" ;-. The dealer displayed some. of Henry's watercolors, matted and framed, in his shop. Arthur Freed, anM.G.M. prod\}cer, said that they were done by the infamous l:Ienry Miller who'd' written Tropic of Cancer and bought all of them at a good price. Henry was so elated that he did 128 paintings in the next half year, and the GreenHOUSe, became a gallery to display'his work.., __ The American writer whose books could not bepdblis.. erl and circulated in Europe was. not making a living as a water colorist. . Page. THE BtG SUR GAZETTE October, 1986 • Friends Present Argument Against Panetta Bill IJyJAMBSJOSOFF fact is that the coast is already co letely protected from Mr. Paaetta preached repeatedly in Bil Sur that federal QlIe"" alii,.",.". overdevdopment by the 1976 Coastal Act which is leBislation was mevitable and that therefore the resident. had • Friends of the Big Sur Coast deslped to protect the eavironment aad provide tourists better accept his 'moderate' bill as the best they could hope The friel1ds of the Bia Sur Coast represents 441 paid access. Further, the purported threats of overdevelopment for. smce it provided. he claimed. for local control. Some members and 842 residents and!or property owners of the are in fact untroe. residents, perhaps ten or twenty, were taken m by this and 871/2 mile strip of ceast blown as Bil Sur. These people have 2) to compensate landowners who mil)' 80t be permitted to supported his bill. siped a petition .amst any increase in the level of federal henefit from the;r land bee'lIlIe oj 1'e8l1'ictioU oj the Local It is obvious from the close vote m the House that intervention or involvement on the coast, 329 of them are C(Itl8tai Plan. The fact is that. should any moaey for such teBislation is net mevitable. Mr. Panetta was wrona on that. property owners. 759 of the 842 reside m Bia Sur and account compensatioa be needed. the mechanism already exists for The Friends have pointed out, too, that Mr. Panetta is not • for M-94lh of the adult population. Nevel' in the 111 year matchmg graats from the Land &, Water Conservation FUJld. the only Conaressmaa on the bill and that 1) changes could be hi5toryof Big Sur have 84·94lA of the residents apeed to The Local Coastal Plan caa be added to the California made in his bill by other people before it passed. 2) changes anytbina. We are a community of very independent thinkers, Conservatioa anl:\ Outdoor Recreation Plaa as an amendment; m its intent could be made through Administrative but we are united in our determination to prevent a federal the Plan caa thea be and foods will be available Regulations, and 3) changes could be made through takeover that will destroy Bia Sur. for Big Sur uader the share of the Land &, Water subsequent legislation, as they have been, repeatedly. m We also. represent 96,129 other Californians who are CO:llse:rvaltioa Fund legistation. AriJUmlnt other areas. members of the Bla Sur coalition, and more than 15,000 Is made that the two cou.nties iavolved do aet have momes The first prediction has now come troe. The Administra­ tourists who. m the tast six weeks, have siped a petition available for their share of the matehiag grants because of tion. Senator Craaston and the California Coastal Commission • against any increase m federal land ownership, manaaement Proposition 53. The fact is that .the connties aad the state caa have all proposed amendments. or colltroi of the Bia Sur Coast. readily secure such foods as be aeeded over a long On the first amendment. the Senate explanation is We are in Washinaton speclficaUy to oppose H.R. 7380 on period of time by the room tax. accurate. Any remammg doubt as to a mauagemeat role of which a markup will be held this week. For those of who The Big Sur'Coast of Monterey COUJlty and the Council as opposed to an advisory role is removed. In fact, ,;nay not have had the opportunity to.follow the issue its San Luis Obispo who, under the 1976 however, the Secretary of Agriculture has always had the Ulception hud November, let me say that is is not a partisan Coastal Act will the Local Coastal Plans, (and right to appomt even the citizen members of that Council. issue. despite the fact that Senator opposes the adjacent Saata Cl'lIZ have passed Board of There never was any real local control, even in Panetta's • leBislation and Senator Cranston supports it~ On AuiJUst 25th, Resolutioas be no federal original bill. - when H.R. 1380 came before the House on the suspension (at least) until Coastal Plannmg process The second amendment stresses a plan for managing calendar, it was a Democrat, Representative Ed Jenkins of has been completed and they have some idea of what the public access and use "to the extent aecessary to protect the Georlia. who led the fight aaamst it. The vote was 257-118. financial need be. At best, the bW is premature. natural aad scenic values in the area." Regardless of the Had 8 members chanaed their vote, the bill would have been to the Service activities at Los Padres under intention of this statement it clearly gives the Secretary sole sent back to the Rules Committee and would have languished the Local CotUltrzl Pltm now bema completed authority to permit mass recreatioa and to manage access to there for the rest of this Conaress, onder the terms of the 1976 California Coastal Act. The fact is Big Sur. This means mass transit - the bussmg of visitors up • The "eight" is verY interesting. Mr. Panetta, the author of that OMB Circular A 95, Part n. could be used to bring the and down the Coast. perhaps 50 miles m and 50 miles out - the H.R. 7380. did some heavy lobbyinl that afternoon. In the Forest Service mto compliance. without additionallegislatioa. and consequent staging areas at both eads of the Coast where process, he approached Representatives Jerry Lewis and 4) to give locrzl citizens CORtro/ over the jiII;ure oj the q,rea. tourists can be housed and.serviced over night. That is areat Robert Lagomarsmo who told him they would vote against his The fact is that H.R. 7380 the of Agriculture for the Hearst Corporation which has submitted plans for just bill because the Assembly Minority Leader of California, ail finai over all private. in the such over-development of parts of its property which' Carol Hallett, opposed it. Mr. Panetta told them Mrs. Hallett area. Local have an advisory role only. presently constitute a beautiful agricultural segment of Big did net in fact oppose the bill in its present form, and they H.R. 7380 is an unaecessary waste of 30 miIlioa doDars, Sur. Under this bill. from which the vast majority of the then voted for the bill. Mrs. Hailett, who is the money that could better be speat where it Is actuaily needed, Hearst Corporation's properties has beea excluded (1,200 • . Assemblywoman for the District. is absolutely opposed to the But H.R. 1380 is more thaa that. As Seaator Hayakama said acres of 77,000 acres wowd now remain m the federalized bill aad Mr. Panetta did know that. One of her aides had so in a press statement receatly. it is the gold-tipped area), the Hearst Corporation would make a fortune through testified at a nearing Mr. Panetta beld in Monterey. We foot·m-the-door. tourist-serving facilities. at the expense of Big Sur. wonder to how many more of th~ representatives did Mr. The Wilderness SocIety, a main proponeat of H,R. 7380, The third amendment provides the Secretary with Panetta lie. If there were two. were there eiaht? announced ia March its iateation that the federalpernment injuactive authority aad for 'injunction' you caa read - and it There has been a great deal of misrepresentation m tIlia acquire up to 75,000 acres of the land m the Monterey should read - 'condemnation! struU1e. Four mam reasons for H.R. 7380 are given by its County portion of BiS Sur. acre of private laad m Under Section 8(c)(2) (page 8), the bill states that. "Ill no • proponents, each of which sounds good. but is not valid. the Monterey County portiolll ofB event shail the Secretary acquire without the consent· of the Il to protect tlte Bill Sur C(ltl8tjfom overdevelopmem. The Further, Represeatative Philip Is quoted m the owner, thereof any structure on which construction was Sacrameato Bee ax saying, when asked wby he did not go for Sl00 mWionas Cranstoa didia S. 2551. rather than the S30 million in H.R. 7380: . "My concern is that a 5100 million bill for Califomia, ~~Bead behiad a S150 to $300 miUion take Tahoe bill. behind a $360 • BUD millioa Redwoods bill. behind a $.150 million Santa Mollica !<~~ bill. behind a 530 million Channellslaads bUt, S30 million in "Where the Mountains Meet the See" DeAMARAL add-ons in Pomt Reyes and Golden Gate National Recreation ORADINO area, reswting m almost 85 perceat of all the national land Help Prevent Forest Fires and water money for acquisition. weD. it might just be a little SPICIAUZING IN ROUGH TERRAIN bit unrealistic" Burton said. ·OPEN YEAR 'ROUND- That statement means that Mf.Burton is well aware that Plan to spend your leisure time • Brush Clearing-Reservoirs although it wowd he to expect more than, S30 at the camp for rzll seasons eradlng-Road work million this yeAf. more could be available m other years,so 2 miles south of Lucia on Hwy. One Backhoe-Loader that more and more of the land could be acquired. Mr. Burton is also much aware of the past history of (408) 667-2403 CAT 0.5 DOlER " RIPPER land acquisition m America. He has presided _ CAT 12 GRADER over much of it. The for a bill to be passed m one year, twna a amount of land and then, tbroul[h Phone (408) 614-5300 changes m administrative Of new legislation, • 45125 Carmel vaney Road • Greenfield: take more land in the area, government - be it fores service - has it all. The policy is to emni~ish " • B F R I A E B. MA L I D Dell & Restaurant E L I Featuring Various \lA(:'ll!t:u'il'Iln Dishes, S Y N • SIndwiChes and DeliciOUS Beer" wine G liE SAFEI \IESECURE.... LUNCH. DINNER a DELI lWe can helpl 9 a.m.-B p.m. Mon.·SIt., 11 am.-S p.m. Sun. A new ShO~ with a Christian themel CARMIl aNTEl MALL • HIGHWAY ONI & RiO CAIMEI. Sldl!l'M1llk cafe the mall 26386 Carmel RanCho "APPROACHINC T at bOtllentrllnces. • • October, 1980 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 21

In summary, unnecessary, and w~ the amendments. federal legisIsltio:n. Johnson seems to believe that Ii • mtent of tbe 1976 Coastal Act and t'1'I",!;!ll'I.f!flt has met with Ansel lands over to the federal pre/poneri! several times political p:llllclsol,ny seems to be the that. he gO'/e1'lllmem can do than the or sector, It is interesting Cranston and Mr. Panetta this amendment since it does the existing working of the hill. The word 'are' means that any Hallett Opposed to Federalizing Big Sur • existing structure can be condemned at the sole discretion of Craven and fidem to the Secretary of Agriculture. Howard Sitton Mrs. protect his Ie Mr. Panetta has been telling that under his Hallett in that this resource: the Federal Coastal bilino homes would be condemned. he doesn't know unneeded and Zone Act how the process 'works - how amendments are unwanted and that the ma- 1972 and California made - or is naive. at best. of the of the Coastal Act of The lat- The last sentence of this amendment is one of the most area, 80 and ter is a most restrictive law tection • interesting and frightening: percent of the adult and the powers of the "If the Secretary determines that said parcel(s) should he population, are opposed to California Coastal Commis- acquired and that funds for acquisition Will be available '''lO'3''''.luu which would sion created by the Act are in within a reasonable time period, the injunction shall stay in same results. the beautiful more than adequate to eHec- . Coast area." effect so long as ,acquisition procedures are being diligently Joined by two constituents coastal area, pursued even if the time period required exceeds one year who are also members of "The federal government from the date the injunction was fir·st instituted!' Friends of the Big Sur Coast, already owns 47.5 percent of This meanS that after the .Secretary has spent the $25 a formed to oppose the land in California and 25 • million in land acquisition funds provided for in the Bill, he Big percent of the land in D can issue injunctions while awaiting another appropriation Sur, Mrs. Hallett said has Monterey County. In fact, from CotJ.gress. If that sounds far-fetched. it can be contacted all U.S. Senators . less than 20 percent of the LUMBER documented by the December 14. 1979 GAO Report which urging opposition to the pro­ 700,000 ao-res is owned stated that. 3 to 4 times the original appropriations. The posal by Congressman Leon privately," Mrs. Hallett said, SUNSET DR. & CROCKER AVE. bureaucracy is accustomed to going back to Congress for Panetta. "We simply do not need an more money. In the meantime, by diligently purs~ing the The bill, HR7380, would increase in the amount of PACIFIC CROVE • 37.3-1326' • nen appropriation, the Secretary can keep the injunction in establish the Big Sur Coast federal government owner­ Open Saturdays until 5:00 p.m. effect for several, years. Area under the Secretary of ship." The fourth amendment is a complete switch of Mr. Agriculture at an initial cost The Atascadero lawmaker SEE us Panetta's argument that the activities of the Forest Service of approximately $30 million. said "There is little argument ABOUT THE must be. brought under the cOntrol of the Local Coa,tat' Pian. The overall cost of this over the need .to protect the AMCOR In effect, this amendment says that the forest Service's legislation, Mrs. Hallett said, Big Sur Coast Area, but there existing plan is not subject to the Local Coastal PIan but, will be much closer to a half­

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addressed when 'the commission issues per­ the access provisions removed. "All it took • mits. was a lot of time and money," Norman said. The section of the Coastal Act Brown "Unlike a lot of less fortunate people, I .... !',,,..... 'tt to states that any addition between could afford to fight it." road and the sea requires a *Victor Palmieri, U.S. ambassador for for improvement that would refugee affairs and a former California result in an increase of 50 percent or more of lawyer and investment broker, applied to internal floor area of an existing structure." build a cottage at the retreat • Sin!:e Packard's project exceeded the 50 south of Rancho Grande. At this moment, rule several hundred times, Brown his caretaker lives in the basement room of on another provision that allows the Palmieri's retreat The caretaker also executive director to waive the requirement shares the kitchen with Palmieri on rare occa­ "where he or she finds the impact of ihe sions when the ambassador is in residence. d~~~::I~:Ib:l\;O~~n~g~coi;ai~st:a1~tresources of coastal None of the buildings on the 2.5 acre access to be would be visible from any public place • Nix and other 'critics don't dispute that the access to the beach was available letter of the law was met. •'We're about of Brown recommended that the permit be the law in tbe case of a like denied, because the proposed 1,050 Nix said. "This is ex- square-foot cottage would increase the hous­ with the' where this ing density in the area. In response, Palmieri was In every other case, the proposed that a covenant be attached to the • commission used the process to deed the cottage would never be extract from owner used as a permanent residence by anyone access to the a other than a caretaker and the caretaker's im­ of that sort, mediate Rich Industrialist Built at denied permit " The Coastal Commission· followed Packard's land, Rancho Grande. Brown's recommendation and denied the bas three points of beacb access permit. };Jig Sur Without a Permit miles of coast. The house is from *Robert Carver. who lives some 10 miles • hil1!hWI~"II turnouts and the veranda of one of north of Rancho Grande, applied last spring most popular restaulran!ts, to build a three-story house on his ·1.5 acre lBJ~ilSlUn,' he encountered from also located in the He planned to convert his existing after the waiver was granted, where uno trespassing" signs home to a painting stuqio and of­ the Trust handled a $1.2 from beaches. The California Sea fered to tear out the kitchen so that it transaction for Packard on another 110 SUR:....~th a grove of Game extends for three miles couldn't be used as a guest house. tree$;there. electronic mogul David 1)",.1",. .• <1 Sur ranch, But Packard hadn't been in- south of Grande. To the The is several miles from the in the Trust commISSion • buikhis $750,000 ''ranch house" a few Land coast is in hands for two miles. coast from Highway 1 off an un- ago~\ ,'..' action on his state records show. In a of other Sur roses, road. The structures would be unseen, said he no association with Allbough no~unique among the retreats· Brown's commlSSlon the even from road running by it. other way, I've muiluwUionaires 'have built along this 'ex~ Coastal Act as follows: the same month that permit re­ du~v.e cOllstline.,the Packard house is one of ' IP.'I'1<,... ,n did not and has r""'''''l'n_lt~ for Packard were waived. one of a favorstble treatment." was waived neighbors was given 'a permit to the only major structure built next to for the denied a permit house. But Brown's chief assis" the;B1g' Sur shQr~tine during the to Jean Mason of Santa Monica to build a recom.mendced denial df Carver's permit, • ye~l1a:without a permit' from the _ .• n"" ...... lI.tUllare,-foot.lhorne two miles north of I,;VlIl,;'01,.1" about increased hous­ CoastalCommis$li:)n, PRe~kRrd, who heads the Palo lUHallUlO. Her five-acre lot did not ex­ in the area. '. P refused tflr!OUitfi tend to the coast and it was not visible from comnUSSlOn Carver's permit. press aide to discuss situation. 1. Brown other When cases such as those were compared Edward y, Brown, the roof lirie of house would to Brown acknowledged that "on dfr,!!Ct.llr for the Coastal ConuIlisslion, "intrude" on a public beach if one stood the as others might perceive it, it's an the !:oostal permit waiver with his back to the ocean and looked up­ unl~QUia1 treatment, perhaps a favored con­ • "'''1''"'''''' Packard to build house. land. sideration. However, when you get down to In an interview, Brown could identify no prclCe

~. • Hearst Castle CALL News Opulent, Elegant, Unbelievable Firewood that's fair, Scorecard concise, . Rates the living among arrival of their host, are Jim Hunolt catllc owned hy the Hearst priceless tapest Old 667-2490 accurate, SACRAMENTO (Capitol) Corporation. World oil paintings and fur· • that seeks Cranston From the ribbon of Once on the castle nishings all more than 300 out solutions highway five miles below, the grounds, visitors are taken on . years old. to world WASHINGTON,D.C. - buildings and grounds look one of the three tours whle h Visited by over six million problems, Se".tor A.I." Cr.",to" like nothing more than a a view of the high style people since it opened as part (D-CA) scored a totally fail· green oasis perched atop a living Hearst treated his of the Stale Parks System in that gives ing grade of zel'O percent on sun-browned mountain. guests \0, Film personalities 195M, Hears! Castle iSBo! as ; Visit The New you a the CALL Scorecard, the' But as bus slowly such as Charlie Chaplin, much a monument to the GRANARY • clearer view Congressional ratings reo curves its way toward that Clark Gable and Van gCl1leellife as it is to the man FOR ALL YOUR leased today _by Conserva· mountain retreat, it is quickly Johnson and political figures who buill it. A visit 10 the of both tives Against Liberal Legisla· apparent thaI this is no like Winston Churchill and castle is like walking into a HEALTH national tion (CALL). hilltop cabin; instead it is an t he Shah of Irau were housed time los! and The rating was based on jopulently appointed mansion in three sepanlle guest houses those the FOOD international key votes covering defense, 'with attendant guest houses, and were entertained in the ancien! past. also those in the economy, government swimming pools IIO-roorn La Casa Grande, the last century, It is also a NEEDS news. regnlations. and critical so- tennis courts. • which Hearst called hjs look at the kind of wertlth few cial questions during the first Hearst Cast Ie, Ranch House. people ever possess - and * GRANARY session of the 96th Congress identified as "Hearst A visit 10 La Casa Grande many envy. (1979). meon State Historical MOllu- is almost like touching yester­ BREADS h5r tour information. call Fresh & Oay-Qld Also receiving zel'O ratings men1," dazzles like a man- day. Embedded in the entry (80S) 927-4621. Tours are were Congressman Robert T. made jewel. shining in the Fresh Pastries hallway, cordoned otT to pre­ conducted every day except (without sugar) Matsui (D.CA·3). John L. Pacifie Coast sunlight. its vent visitors from walking on Thanksgiving. Christmas and Burton (D-CA·S), PAIII, Bur- brilliance almost overwhelm­ it. is a tile work taken from New Years Day from 11:20 * BULK • '0" (D·CA·6), George Miller ing to the first-lime visitor. pre- Vesuvian Pompeii. a.m. to 3:20 p.m. Tickets are Nuts·Oils If11 aUlhere. Ask any (D-CA·?), Ronald V. Dellums The wealth and power Monitor reader. Or, better Within the Assembly Room. sold at the park and through Seeds·Seans yel, subscribe (D·CA·8), Don Edwards represented by publishing where guests would await the all Ticketron outlets. Grains·Flours (D-CA·I0). Edward R. roybal giant William Randolph from :3 months at Bakery Needs up to one year at $65.00. * (D·CA·25), Julian C. Dixon Hearst's" La Cuesta Encan- Jusl call toll froo: Honey Granola (D·CA-38), and Lionel Van _ the enchanted hill Dried Fruit Deerlin (D·CA-42). impressive in own 800-225-7090 is its Herbs & Teas "At a time," said CALL righl. • Being ... Carob Snacks Chairman Rhonda Stahlman. Given to the state of "when .the majority of the 'California in 1958 as a By Joe Mastro/ani *Ratus subject to change NATURAL American people have memorial to Hearst and his Amphitheater of the universe, canvas of the Gods, * turned against excessive-' mother Phoebe Apperson infinite day. infinite night, oceanless sea of seas .... FOODS governmen~ spending. giant Hearst, the castle is located The Sky Westrae Products SOMETHING bureaucracIes, and a weak between Monterey and San how blue Juices·Fruits foreign polley. Senator Cran· Luis Obispo on Highway I it caresses me. Nut Butters • NEW AT ston and these liberal con· the historical Breath of divine essence, planetary sculptor, Pastas & Sauces gressmen clearly do not r~p· hamlet of Simeon. Sit- music maker, seducer. kiss of love, kiss of death ... Health Valley Foods resent their constituents." on 123 acres of land. The Wind Hain & Healthway CALL is a national grass- "La Casa Grande" - the big how soft Oils-Miller's toOts citizens action organi. house and its it whispers to me. Honey·Heinke zation dedicated to free en- a II y par t Sommolent sonnet, messenger of touch of Juices·Spring terprise. a strong defense. of the soul. gentler of the mind ... 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This • average of only homes a have been constructed the en- the NPS has duped this community on the more than the, emotion the moment or the tem- tire 48 mile coastline. Yet federal chant continued, the need for directive perhaps only then will the recosnize pontry against one form of government alone, to federal acquisition to from development. To plan. The real intention of NPS contrary to this the exclusion of others. The fears of the Concerned for Pro- this chant was of Michael Executive directive, the same sovemment memorandum contained the perty RiShts are the fears of the Friends of Big Sur. The fight of the Director of the Commission to the States followins additional directive: National Inholders Association is the fisht of the California Coastal Senate. In a letter Senator Cranston, for testimony in the "Direction 10 Appraisers-Consult with the Soficitors Office to Council. Every act we take, every statement, we make has an ir­ Senate, Mr. contended that the local coastal programs could dt>t.~rm!i"t> which zoning assumptions should be made. As 0 general in­ retrievable quality, for the time is short, and the task almost insur­ not insure the protection of the coast, and thus the Coastal Commis­ terim rule, NPS involvement in pre-park creation zoning should not mountable. The challense is not that of Santa Monica or BiS Sur • sion supported the establishment of a federal park. In one com­ invalidate using the resulting zoning for fair market value appraisal alone, for it involves a usurption of the concept of individual rishts by munication Mr. Fischer had discarded a generation of plannins ef­ purposes. " uncontrolled-unrestrained bureaucrats, an alliance of government forts by residents, and the Vety purpose of the local coastal program And thus the lie is complete: convince the people to cooperate with with special interest groups, an alliance which has as .. its unmistakable process. Of STeater concern, Mr. Fisher's representations of Coastal pre-park down zonins with the promise the results will not injure lan- goa! the federal takins. Commission support for a federal Big Sur Park were without any authorization. The Coastal Commission had never bad a hearins, public or private; never heard testimony or took a vote. The link between NPS and the Coastal had been Carol Hallett Opposes Take-Over Bill • complet~d. By Michael Williams is unneeded and unwanted." which there is plenty, but if ment than the federal govern­ CAPITOL NEWS SERVlCE that number doubles or ment would be and that the In Southern California the scenario was the same., but this time the Speaking of the Congress federal government was aided by the County of Los Angeles. In late SACRAMENTO (Capitol) and the federal workers who triples, we won't be able to state's coastal ac'cess and 1979 the Board of considered the request of the - Assemblywoman Carol would be responsible for handle it." development restricbons. are Sierra Club to ordinance, a moratorium banning Hallett and two Big Sur maintaining the area, Craven The legislation, which will already the toughest in the development of targeted for federal acquisition. After ex- residents complained about said, "They don't know what be heard in a Senate commit­ natio~ tensive public and legal challenges to this action, the tee soon, where it may be the "railroad job" by life is like there. They aren't They ~ also worried ... Board of against the adoption of a moratorium SenatorAlan Cranston and thinking about the family amended, will designate an because amendments by Sen. • after a County Counsel that such conduct would violate the Congressman Leon Panetta cemetaries, the moon over approximately SO-mile length Constitutional and RiShts of affected landownets. Yet Cranston, which wilt pro­ who are pushing through the ocean, the deer on the of coastline between Carmel bably be added to the bill, despite this unequivocal warning by counsel, the County on June 10, and San Simeon as federal 1980, adopted "an interim" ordiallce temporary (sic) regulating legislation which would make hill. We are learning conser­ would allow the federal development within the Malibu Zoned District, declaring the urgency the Big Sur coastline federal vation first hand. When you land. The almost 75,000 acreS government to run public thereof, and this ordinance shaH take immediate effect. The ordinance property in order to protect have to pump your water by of privately owned land in the transportation tbrough the is restrictive in nature and tainted with the intent of facilitating the the local environment. hand you learn to conserve area would still be privately area as well ;as possibly con­ federal Once the aUarge was indoctrinated with But Hallett, R-Atascadero, it. " owned but the owners would demn some existing property • the assurances that were environmental constraints, along with Rosemarie Craven The trio's major complaint have to let the federal govern­ and force~ the owners to sell. unrelated to the federal and that in the final analysis the and Howard Sitton, area was that according to history ment have first chance at pur- owners would be their residents, feel that House and government the land if and when Both Craven and Sitton Is this into a sens.e security with NPS Resolution 7380. by Panetta, when an area is bought the owners want to sell. This have been to Washington and their own County More importantly, are citizens would damage the ., fragile federal government and turn· would any business D.C. to protest the movebllt and being used to set testimony against their neighbors m ilie t.hey they have been met. the iocaliand use plans, devised area" more than help it. ed into a federal the environment" be used landowners in federal "Between 80 and 90 forest. the rate federal government doesn't with shoulders. "Aides tell us 'what Cranston pro1ceedinss7 What is the of the NPS cent of the "doubles or desire. emlploJlees What is the of the NPS about three But Hallett, Sitton and wants. Cranston and NPS has directtld the followiinl!:: Craven aU argue that the that we better take bill) that iocal residents are even mme now or it may be worse next sut1se~luel~t land ="ui"W,m concerned with the environ- ycar," Craven said. •

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Explanation of Bumpers Amendments to H.R. 7380 • by Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers 1. First amendment makes it clear that Secretary has final ap­ proval authority for plan developed by Council (after they Senator Dale Bumpers (D:'AK) chairman of the. Senate that funds for acquisition will be available within a reasonable have been given opportunity to comment on any revisions ('ommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, has submitted 6 time period, the injunction shall stay in effect so long as ac­ made by Secretary). amendments to Panetta's Big Sur Bill (HR7380). quisition procedures are being diligently pursued even if the 2. Second amendment makes it clear that the Secretary has One' amendment would give the Secretary of time period required exceeds one year fr~m the date the in­ sole responsibility for implementing the public use compoo­ Agriculture the power to enjoin (condemn) private property junction was first instituted." nent of the pian. This would include a plan for managing • while "IHllher (Ill) clarifys that the Secretary is the final On page 12, line 9 after the .phrase" Act of 1976" add the visitation to the area by non-residents. autilllril\ , following language: 3. Third amendment provides the Secretary with authority ", as well as appropriate elements of the Land Management to enjoin uses of private lands that are substantially inconsis­ Another amendment (#2) calls for a new "public use compo­ Plan for the Big Sur Coastal Planning Unit of the Los Padres tent with the purpose of this act for one year. During that year nent" over which the Secretary has "so!eresponsibility" This National Forest." the Secretary must decide whether or not to acquire the land. "component" would control such .things as recreational op­ 5. On page 20, line 25, strike the words "subparagraph (B)" 4. Fourth amendment makes it clear that the Couneil's plan portunities, visitor facilities·and managing public access. and insert "existing law". will include appropriate elements of the Forest Service's Land Amendment 114 directs the Citizens Council to include por­ On page 21, delete lines 12 through 24 and on page 22 Management Plan for the Los Padres Forest. • tions of the land management plan for the USFS LosPadres delete lines 1 and 2 in their entirety. Renumber the preceding 5. Fifth amendment is a technical amendment suggested by National Forest. subparagraph accordingly. the Forest Service. A technical amendment (115) is followed by an amendment 6. On page 22, lines 4 and 5, after the word "State" insert 6. Sixth amendment deletes authority to make grants to which would delete a provision allowing non profitorganiza­ "or" and delete the words "or private non-profit organiza- private non-profit organizations. tions to receive USFS grants. The following is a list of the actual amendments as worded followed by Explanation of Bumper's Amendments to HR 'Park-Barrer • 7380 written by the Senate Energy Committee staff. 1. On page 16, strike lines 19 through 24 in their entirety and Politics Are insert the following: "(3) Within 30 days after receiving the response of the Questioned Council, the Secretary shall consider such recommendation and shall consider such recommendations and shall adopt a BY Rick Davidge Plan which responds to the Council's recommendations in a Nationallnholders • manner which is consistent with the policies and purposes of Association this Act." Certain members of Con­ 2. On page 14, strike lines 19 through 24 in their entirety and gress continue to create insert the following: federal areas without benefit "(7) A public use component which includes a plan for of any study process. Even managing visitation to the area by non-residents. This shall in­ the Washington Post has rais­ clude,bnt need not be limited to, a plan for managing public ed question with what is access and use~ to the extent necessary to protect the natural becoming known as "Park­ • and scenic values in the Area." Barrel" politics. On pag\: 19, lines 10 through 12, strike the sentence beginn- Most of the areas created ing with the "The Secretary," in its and insert for political reasons not the following: relative to resource protec­ "The Secretary shall be responsible for implementing Sec­ tion concerns are done over the objections of federal tion (6) (c) (7)~fthisAct, and for coordinating the efforts of Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties and the State of agencies such as the National • California to manage visitation on lands within the boundaries Park Service and the U.S. of the Area managed by the counties and the state." Forest Service. Many times 3. On page 19 after line 12 add the following new sub­ these agencies are not allowed to voice their objections to paragraph: H(C) (2) The Secretary shall have the power to en· join uses of private lands that are, or would be, substantially such park~barrel legislation inconsistent with the purposes of this Act. Any exercise of this because of White House authority shall be accompanied by findings of fact setting politics. • forth the basis for the Secretary's decision. The authority to On May 7, 1980 the U.S. enjoin any use shall apply. for a period of time not to exceed Department of the Interior one year as applied to anyone USe. During this time period, if published a new policy for Full of the Secretary determines not to acquire said affected parcel(s) Federal Land Acquisi" tion/Protection Studies and the injunction on use shall cease having legal effect immediate­ Recommendations Under the delightful ly upon promulgation of the Secretary's decision. If the Land and Water Conserva­ Secretary determines that said parcel(s) should be acquired and tion Fund Program. Included surprzses ... • in that policy was a memorandum of understan­ casettes Copied ding between BLM-Bureau Famous Voices Museum Land Management, FWS· Theater Building Fish and Wildlife Service, Old Fisherman's Wharf H CRS-Heritage Conserv a­ Monterev 9S940 • !4(8) 373-5911 hon Recreation • NPS-National Park Service, FS-U.S. Forest Service. This ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR new policy and study process calif, State lit. NO .. 21S160 is the most complete and well CATE P,O. sox 178 thought out decision process .ELECTRICAL CARMEL. CALIF. 93921 addressing the creation of COMPANY Resldentia/-Commercial new federal areas or signifi. (408) 624-5361 cant alteration of existing • areas which has been provid­ ed. Fish House on the Park ... the elegant alternative! Why has not the Big Sur area been subject to this plan­ Fresh, locally caught fish and imported seafood delicacies are ning process? Is it because the featured in addition to other savory continental beef and poultry area is so threatened as to re­ entrees all artfully prepared by Chef Gerard Guijarro. Domestic quire Congressional action and imported wines are offered with emphasis • without reasonable on the fine wines of Monterey County. The THE MANDALA BOOKSTORE NO. It is because the con­ Fish House Restaurant across from the park New &: Used Books cepts proposed by those sup­ in downtown Carmel invites you to enjoy METAPHYSICS - ASTROLOGY- HEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS porting HR7380 know that it ,-,,,·,,.. ,w<.. ,,,, and dinner in elegant yet relaxed NEW AGE RECORDS & TAPES would not survive the study surroundings. process. Junipero and 6th Ave., Carmel, CA PSYCHIC READINGS Congress has so often Dinner is served from 6 P.M., • BY APPOINTMENT criticized the agencies for in· Cocktails from 5 P.M. every evening. sufficient study and now with For Reservations (408)625·1766 Hours: 12-6 tuesaaY-5aturday the appropriate ad­ Forest Ave. - Downtown PaCific Grq\le. 375-2577 ministrative process some are attempting to go around it. • place to say no is right here. The aovemment is ramming this•. down the throats of the landowners. If enough of the local agencies don't like it and rebel. it could be the beginning of change." Chairman Joseph Sullivan asked •'is it your position the ,Local Coastal Plan Discussed landowner should be compensated for the ultimate develop­ ment of his land." Continued from page 1 repreS€mtililg the m Sur than 700 Bdene that delreloipment to the scale permitted by. quauy1na. trail systems, and the proposed Jimitation of flrtwe acres of Little StU' River Coast. His the 1962 be too " but. it wasn't fair to cut commercial development to the four pre~selttl"·dervel,opc~ oral comments summarized 80 comments on the lot down 320 acres. areas of Pacific Valley, Gorda, Lucia Sur the which he said 'pr~~sell[ts serious problems" lor bis In reslf)O'lJse ,to a question from Del he said he didn't The proposals under attack were the very ones dealCrilbed clients. asricultural of the pian were Bill Farrell, in charge of the Sur as the "We are a more than

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Continued from page 8 vrtlble'm" and it was enconimic uses of the restrictions . whicb the U.S. Porest legislation for other collipElnslmo,n, ""UIUt:t:U mrn",~n\l values area. use could calise fire and nrooet'ltv without just compensation." he 75 percent. adds destruction of waterlhed·and even homes." said. such restrictions ate Seyfertb suiRasted on the Soberanes Trail • understandably _ead. some of tbe Peters asked if trail on a map miiht constitute LCP ... September 24 would allowed no <1.. ", .. I<\'n· or illegal condemnation of property, but Deputy County Coonsel The basic thrust of the Big Sur Local Coastal Pro,ram is ment at aU. And he restoration areas. lose Ramos said no. .. sound and good." !loger Newell, chairman of the Citizens find any cases even discussing pose the TDC system uThe public doesn't have access at this point, so there's no Advisory Committee for the LCP told the Monterey COonty whether or not planning the retention inverse condemnation." he said. Planning Commission at its second public hearing on die LCP • restrictions for aesthetic and Consultini forester joe Rankin complained that the plan Seof.l:4. reasons can leave the lan­ to encourQe develOI~ "basically says no timber harvesth:la." The LCP decleres Bowever. Newell said, more attention Is needed to downer with little or no ment to be on commercial logging of healthy old growth redwood an incentives for larger landowners to find eoon(lmic uses for economic value to his land. most suitable for intensified "inappropriate use" but allows limited salvaie and seleedve their land. Be added the CAC also favors more reawation of Thus, Henson concludes, use, and to avoid dev'eIOll)­ loging if all natural protection requiremMti are Highway 1 a«es$ than called. for in the plan, feels cottage TOCs, might be a good idea. ment of smaller met. ind1.1Stries have been overlooked, and opposessttict He thinks the iroup of lan­ within the ", .. ,,,,,, .... n "i think some timber eouid be harvested in back areas out of Hmitations on caretaker cabins.' downers most deserving of restoration areas. n view," he said. "A lot oUimber here should be harvested Newell was the first of a string of citizens who alternately • TDCs are those who credits because it is going to die;' praised and criticized the LCP at the second Planning build anything in the view­ The plight of the small owner in the viewdled was Commission hearini on the blueprint for the future of the Big shed, eVen a house. eloquently described by Douglas DeGeorge. a bearded young Sur Coast. FoUowing the three-hour sePion, Chtdrman may be 50 eligible man inJeans and a plaid shirt who described himself as "just Joseph Sullivan declared the public hearing clOsed and under this criterion. an ordinary guy who works with tools" with no large announced the BiR Sdr LCP would be back ~, the A second groupo he me. transferred from behindbim. Commission for consideration on October l:9 in the Board of tions is comprised of one to the other by said he owns a 2.9 acre lot on the ocean in an area Supervisors chamber in the County Courthouse in Salinas. • landowners. Owner a dedication of land for open with developed lots within a quarter of a mile, including a Commissioner Bm Peters, chairman of the BiR Sur LCP 100.acre parcel. for example, oresul'll1ably for an ap­ commercial restauraltt. The State Coastal Commission subcommittee. announced the three--member &rOup would would have two credits, the lan- rejected his innovative deslp for a sod·roofed house, be said. meet at 9 a.m. Friday, October 3, in Monterey. Be didn't say which he might sell. A third ewn: though the staff agreed it couldn't be seen from the where. Sullivan said everybody who had information to group might consist of lan­ highway.. submit to the subcommittee should do so by October 1., downers who face other than "I don't want compensation. for land." DeGeorge said A highlight of the September 24 hearing was an appearance aesthetic restrictions on "rm a builder. I want to build. Is a once in a lifetime by Bruce Jleeves. Monterey County supervising appraiser, • building. For example, opportWlity for me to express myself artistically," who wu questioned by commissioners on appraisal policies. might own land in a and John Harlan, Lucia resort operator. landowner and fourth Ma.ht1y they wanted to find out if adoption of the LCP would Henson favored resltrict:ml some Ian· Sur residem. feared ranching would be driven ease the tu burden on ranchers and other Big' Sur TOCs to the first group, ,but downers don't the TOC Big Sur coast by high taxes, Be proposed tu credits property-owners facina severe dOWDJOlliDg of their properties tbe LCP would them to idea. After what for grazing lands so ranchers on private lands would not have ifand when the LCP Is adOpted. The answer seemed to be no. groups one two. is there for the • sts than those leasing BLM for USPS lands. Reeves said that since adoption of 13'property On Page 12. the plan to build on the Sur Director Ed Deats expreased interest in Harl.ls appraisabi are based on the market value plus two per ! states, "The County will par~ suuestions and asked for his notes. cent a.c:1ditimis to the vatue each year. plus the value of new • ticipate with other public: TDCs are one of Gary Koeppel, WaSur resident and Gazette told construction, if the property has not changed hands. If it has. agencies· and private groups delicate issues at stake the commission a wrsory s the14 Big es of valuation Is based on the market value at the time of the to secure adequate funds to in current oortsideralrion over 300 acres to which the tation would apply change of ownership. plus two per cent a year, plus new purchase vacant viewshed of the LCP. Few will indicated they total 21.920 acres and the LCP would dow construction value. . parcels and/or to for for the conumlssioll1, only 59 single-family dwelllDp on them. "Rezoning does mean something to an assessor,'f Reeves win be not use by restricted lando\lmelrs, Proposed restrictions on Roo Blanco' limestone quarrying said ~y. "If it the property vatue before the but a state other developable larid areas were denounced by Bryan ~, representma Granite value on the tolls it I. to be changed." • to which new, development current Rock Company, 'Which owns or coldrols 2800 acres in the area. Commissioner 1eter Callotto commented. "I don't think can be transferred. n legl:slat.lon is successful) ana· He said limestone deposita are J,lOt on the peak as the plan there Is any property in the county that lm't appraised at land use plan. The implementation sec~ says but on the lower portion the mountain. below today's market value, evr~. "I. don't tbint "This Is the best deposit of quality limestone in the a moot point. There's been a.3Sto,lOO percent inflatloa in UDited States. used for cement. glass, values aIonsthe coast." d conditioning. feed additions, and such Commiasioller Marc Del Plero .ked. "Is there any environmental protection purposes as wastewater treatment instance i8 the past two years where p~rty value has lOne • pJants, pollution control derices in smoke.stad:s, and below the 1915 level?" fiberglass insulation. The LCP would completely Sock up this "Only where a building was removed 01' burned. down," valuable resource." \ Reeves repled. ' Peters told him to "provide the language you ww" to the "Values bave gone up so much the rezoning would have no staff lor by his subcommittee. practical effect. then? t. Del Fiero queried. CARMEL PoasibJy the strongest LCP of the morning earne "J agree," Beeves repled. "e:rcept where there is a very 3814 The Barnyard from Myron Etiene, representing the Doud family. owners of recent purchaser. Then we would consider the rezoning in the • Carqlat, CA t392S a larae property in the northem plan area. Etifme echoed appraisal, if the market indicated a drop in value." . Phone (408) ....1119 earlier complaints that larae landowners are asked to bear the Words of praise for the LCP came from RocI BoImgren of major burden of the preservatloa of Big Sur. Carmel. spokesperson for the Ventua Chapter of the Sierra n.#R8',,...' '-~.,.. uSomftnlere, somebody has to say no," he declared. uThe Club. which takes in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. • -

October, .1886 THE BIG SUR'GAlETTE Pa~29 Holmgren also served on the Carmel Highlands Citizens difference." Sullivan suggested. houses from real estate woman Katherine P. Short. She pvo Advisory Committee·for the LCP. Whether or not Big Sur should have a lumbering industry two reasons: a caretaker can help prevent fires endan,ering " All of the objections and counter proposals we heard two was again an issue at the second hearing. Warren Halsey, the entire coastal area and Ule,al trespass over fragile weeks ago (September 10) were pre~nted to the CAC before. licensed professional forester, protested the LCP declaration terrain. and caretakers' houses serve as low-cost living and rejected as inconsistent with their interpretation of. the there shopld be no commercial logging of old growth quarters for employee. of tourist facilities. Coastal Act," Holmgren said. redwood'; "The aqute lack of housing has engendered commuting to He admitted the LCP is restrictive and thought that was •'Harvesting timber is sometimes beneficial. " he declared. work, thus increasing hi,hway traffic, and substandard good. . "Thinning is often approporiate, and improves the productiv- unsanitary living conditions of these employees. many of "It places restrictions on those who would build on the ity. Selective harvesting of redwood is not necessarily them fool handlers. thus ereatin, a potential health • ridges and tear up the hillsides for' roads," he said. "These envil:onmentallydetrimental. Timber is the finest renewable problem," Short maintained. "Ensuring that caretaker. and restrictions are what the Coastal Act is all about. resource from an energy standpoint." guest houses adhere to requirements for bona fide use is an "This is not a plan to subdivide the coast and develop it like He sug,ested that instead of a blanket ban on harvesting inforcement Jssue, not a planning one." San Jose. It is a plan to save the coast for our grandchildren as old growth redwoods and on harvesting timber for use outside . Among the speakers at the second hearing was a tall, it is today. The very ferocity of the attacks on the LCP make it Big Sur, each application should be considered on an bearded figure familiar to anyone who has attended a Central even more urgent we get federal legislation to protect the B ig individual basis; as in Santa Clara County. Coastal Commission hearing in the past seven years. He was Sur Coast.:' "If you pass this,you have destroyed tens of millions of CarlLarsen. a Sierra Club member, who made it clear he was • Similar feelings were expressed by Mary Ann (Corky) dollars worth of value for private landowners," he asserted. speaking for himself "from a seven-year perspective of a .Matthews, editor of The Ventana. bulletin of the Sierra Club's More pfOologging testimony came from Henry Jewell, bona fide S.O.B.'· Ventana chapter. Declaring she has lived,on the Monterey logging operator on the ~lan Ranch. He said he had taken "We have coastal management and we will continue to Peninsula for more than 25 years, she said she supports the out more than a million board feet of lumber from property have it," he declared. "If we don't have a strong coastal plan concept and pleaded with everybody involved "to without adverse affect. program to be ~rtified by the state, they're going to do it approach the plan ina constructive manner." , "It's a big mistake for the LCP to ignore tree farming in themselves and they'U be much tougher." "Don't succumb to the suggestion that if cities and MontereY County," he said. "The LCP says all trees cut in Limitations on coastal development were protested by Jim counties ignore the Coastal Act (which requires the LCPs) it the Big Sur should be used. in the Big Sur. That way, you Helssinger., Carmel lawyer representing the Smith family. • will have to be changed," she urged the Commission. would cut about two trees a year." owner of the Rocky Creek property. She asserted that because of the rise in land values on the Jewell said he logged 50 old-growth trees last year and "The plan states it wants to optimize visitor use, butit does coast, lower density development can yield a "comparable planted SOO seedlin,s on a site six miles from Highway 1 and it by encouraging those scenic drives." he complained. return" to that possible under the 1962 master plan. out of view."There'sno provision for those who want to get out of the car Pewer all·out attacks on the LCP were heard than at the Joel Rankin, consulting forester from Bayside, California, and walk aroilnd. I'm not talking about your hardcore earlier hearing. Most criticisms were focused on such told the commission, "There is a million acres of backpackers, but people who want to walk not over it mile. specific aspects of the plan as trail access, limitations on unproductive timberland in the county that could grow trees Our parcel is good for that. The plan doesn't engage ins I. caretaker dewellings and ~vere restrictions on logging. and isn't," site· specific zoning. There maybe sites of tJte coast more Whether cows and people are compatible seemed to be He said state and federal programs provide up to 90 per suited to development than the large properties." emerging as a major issue. The LeI' says "tralls should be cent of the cost of reforesting timber lands. He added the Dan Hudson addressed himself to an LCP statement that located in areas able to sustain public use without damage to county could have 5100 million a year income from lumber control of Highway 1 congestion could only be achieved natural resources or other conflicts." production. through limitations to visitor access at the north and south Cattlemen and ranchers made it pretty clear "no other During the two hearings several speakers have taken issue ends. He said he objected to visitor-servin, areas at the north conflicts"definitely include cattle. Sam Avila of San Ardo. with a provision of the land use section of the plan limiting and south ends of the highway and thought they should be • who said he runs 250 head of cattle on the coast. summed up caretakers' homes to parcels of 320 aeres or larger. One of kept in Big Sur. his opinion of the LCP trail policies most succinctly by those opposing this limitation was Leon Trice, representing Hudson raised the spectre of a "federal takeover" financed declaring, "I hate 'emf" EsaJen Institute. who was generaily favorable to the LCP. by Congressman Leon Panetta's Big Sur Coast Area Bm. He , Asked by Del Piero how much affect people have on cattle He said Esalen has nearly 50 full-time employees. 20 of was assured, however, by Del Aero that the LCP is "strictly" operations." Avila replied, uA lot. ail bad. I have to cope with whom must find housing off of the property. Caretaker a state legislative process unrelated to the Panetta Bill. trails on, Forest Service lands. Gates are left open. Dogs chase housing is low-income housin" he noted, and the plan seeks Hudson was unconvin~d. He pointed to references to public cattl~, People use the campgrounds for !ar,et practice." to promote that. He urged amending the LCP to allow acquisition in the LCP, and to references to the LCP in the Holmgren. maintained he had hiked many times through caretaker homes on small parcels: Panetta Bill. • herds of cattle and fouadthem "undisturbed by:passage," Written comments on the plan by CAC members, Hudson suggested a full commission m~ting in the Big Sur "Maybe it's karma, or lack of· it, that makes the submitted by Newell, included a plea for allowing caretakers' area, but the, commission did not respond.

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rightly deemed to be aD aesthetically pleasing use, as well as .• Opinion: one that won't cause a lot of highway congestion. Is the Panetta BDt needed to buy the tmches? Does the LCP restrict their use so as to constitute a .of private An Elephant Gun ~to Wipe Out a Mouse? sation? tuce llteel'es an~dof landowners themselves seemed to indicate the Reeves couldn't see much likelihood that the on coastal property • will ever faU below the 1975 are frozen by size

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Wftletn«~r the was also raised oftu: • Sep'temlber 10 hea~ma, how that of :l'mcilers there were V ... "'U.lRl .. to JA'l~ralllry of this is uncertain. the cart before the horse. mqumld by LCP md Pmetta designc~d to lessen tax is without ad doesn't make my such estimate. on won't work. Value of ... mmagement is a crucial issue to Big Sur most of But there is such a It is·not included in the LCP ~icul!tutal by virtue of the very fact that :itwbom don't want the area federalized. or the Pmetta Bill or of the interpretive litersture de,relo1pm.ent is limited, he said. The LCP's worthy goal is to preserve the Big Sur as it is about the Panetta Bill. m obscure document But WWi~n Act requires the. county assessor to • today. Backers of the Pmetta Bill thmt it em" be done entitled "Legal Consideration. - Big Sur LoCal assess property on the basis of its use for agriculture. In other without the fods letting into the act. Program Implementation." The Gazette reviewed the words. no matter what rmch lImd briDas in the market. if it is A 1IIeautifuUy-iDustrated icity piece called "Big Sur. document in the Monterey Pl8Ming Department under a Williamson Act contract it is supposed to be assessed The'uture/' , ..bUshed Pmetta &ad eraston 811 offices (no small fest in itself.) Attoroey Alexmder T, HeDSmll on the capitalized value of its agricultural use. If this isn't backers, expresses this opinion It says: "Most discusses the of those who em't buDd m the what the Connty assessor bas been doing. the act has been residents md nearby citizens of wmt Bla Sur vlewshed - even a houe. Maybe. he says, there are misinterpreted. Perhaps some of the grazing Imd could preserved essentially as It is now. The consensus is over­ qualify for lower. assessmeats if the act were propedy applied. • wbelug. Unfortunately, some citizens mistakenly think this is m We are talking about federal At my rate, evidence 4oesa't seem to indicate the owners this cm bappen without federal ItJvemment involvement. legislation providin. for Imd acquisition md of the 50 viewshed parcels or the 14 large rmchowners are the This mistaken belief actually threatens the preservation of administrative costs, The.prlmmry purpose, by the stammeDt source of the pressure for the Big Sur Coast Area. Yet their Big Sur!' . of the bill's backers themselves. b to stop buDding in the plig~t is used to promote the legislatiol1. The brochure ps on to say that wbile the cosstal plm was viewshed. On 50 parcels' To retom to the original question, does the LCP really bemg developed the Coastal Commission temporarily blocked A calculation tmrG-21raG.~r could mate· indlcates requite federal inwlvement, $30 million. md placing· final mmy building permits. but when the plm is adopted the awrage price be $600,000, authority over administration of the Big Sur in the huds of must eitber be grmted or the landowners collllpensated administrative Our information is the Secretalry of in faroff Washington, D.C.? • losi the right to develop. are mostly five and 10 acres in md the largest To us It seems usina m elephant gun to wipe out a ,. state and local go,rerrlm~tnts 100 actes. We are here with some mouse, Punds for acquiring the relatively few parcels lost deV1eloJ:lmelnt involved could come from State Park md Recreation Bill sunncmtel'S argue. "Therefore de\l'elopm1&ntwm .oe"artmellt bond funds, federal tmd md Water Conserva­ have to be even thOQgh it is COllltra;ry SlSmillion. or possibly private sOurces. It would be nice to coastal plm!' Area proposal for? :federal mooy for the purpose, but. the proposed legi n Unless, of course, the Panetta bill One of the major coacems of the LCP is keel)tng the 14 would seem to go too far. POI' a mouse, why Dot first try a • votes 525 million for iand acquisjl!:ioo rmches in the which is mouse-trap?

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• Page 32 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE October, 1180 • Slow and BUCHWALD Steady We Almost Lost Arkansas • By AI't Buchwald B,Pala he meets lit SOOd many WASHlNGTON-We almost lost Arkansas a few weeks Free Wll4i1elUw the way, many ago. Some smart aleck threw a wrencb into a,Titan missile silo. of Seattle - or to It bit the fuel tank and set it off. • the GulnfSS D1-c:yc:lJists. He often The only' tbing that saved the state was that the nuclear Records at a later witll tllat warhead, whicb was on the top of it. didn't blow up. The incident raised a lot of mechanical etlI~neerbli dent from qu<~stilons in the minds of the

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A WA'fCBIU. .! Btl FOK PEBBtBS AMD POTHOLES, Be. tbuler the wWs hi. way ...... tile ClOUt view of the hill c.-Ja to SaD..... coast. Linder .... where be piau to meet like to peddle." ...... v-~nlJ'w that the Soviets know where Arkansas is, will we have to move the Titan silos to another state? • A-No. are too to move, and because of the Flying Boat adverse it's that any other state would take them. FOR Displayed '_'\AI""" effect will this have on tbe of Arkansas Im:.tbllill team, which is in the top 10 at end of eacb in Long Beach season? THE A-It will difficult now to ,recruit out-of-state high • to(l,tbSIU stars,and the school may have to give up its AWARE entire athletic program. are we to make of the accident in terms of all the that were built into the Titan? '" , By A'ilby 011to1l U<:l!;lenllS on which side on. If you're on the JalTENS(OR PUPPIES) mnit"r1t'~ can claim that the system worked because FREE TO GOOD HOMES Wl:\l'helild didn't go off. If you live in the area, you • How 9ften have you seen fmd it hard to sell your house. these, words-on cards on is the Soviet reaction to seeing one of om Titans bulletin ' as in out of the witbout prior warning? newspapers? (l such an They always thought ad, from a local paper. trelnerlQOUS amounts of sophisticated elec­ , front of tronic and computers to launch a Titan. But now they To the unt:uatj~ know we can set one off by just a monkey wrench fine, natural to and mmder all into the hole, and they have no .anSWer for this. If the • a loving home those beautiful associated witb dog t11,Ilt:lngi SALT II talks ever startup again, the fll'st order of business puppies, or darling, kittens orlanized crime will be the of wrenches anywhere near a missile silo. that you have all loved for the involved as the the have comparable to the Titan -few weeks they have in for your home. tended by yom A-As far as we don't. Wello know they've been own beloved cat or dog. drnnnitto wrenches on their missiles fpr 20 years, but To those of us .e of never able to their fuel tanks with them. • dog fighting those nawe little restlOnsible for enfC)I'CU12 it comes to wrench l'If''rIM'ratil\" capability. we're at least are almost more than law ahead of them. we can stomach. If your However, because Hughes most American can take pride in the fact , newspaper 'accepts such ads been' so tlUs,t,,,,,, the Queen in the Titan II missile is our greatest deterrent against the you may want to call the tbe tbree years of in time to accom· Soviets? editor. to ask him to refuse to responsiblity USDA bo not the large numbers of A-You could that. But don't. if you live in Arkansas. run them. prosecuted a single case of visitors anticipated next sum­ the breach security secrets that might • The following appearcld necessary dog fighting), ISRA (Int:ema· Elder said. "I'm very om defense "",,,.,, .... '1 a recent copy . JUesSiventss is killed. tional Society, for Protec~ that the Lei~jsllitU!re "",--",un one. people know. there is a man with a Magazine: If you think dol is ti~m of Animals) and HSUS and tbe governor pro- black box who follows President everywhere he goes. The ..Advertisins kittens alid rare wrong. It is (Humane Society of tbe to this spien­ black box is at the President '8 disposal in case of a nuclear at­ PliPpies as give-aways in widesPl~ad and &rowing. Au­ United States) are ftri.1oi",o for future tack. until now no one but the President and his national newspapers may mean diencesas large as 300 men, suit against USDA to knew what was in the box. Now the secret is sentencing them to tortUl'e woman, and children gather the agency to enforce tbe u""",_,_m~J for almost 40 out , and death. It is in this marmer for thluport. A dOl fighting swiftly and effE:cti'l!'ely" HnWDlrft Hughes built Q-Whti.t in the black box? that "sparring partners"for subculture exists wbich sup­ YOU can di~ourale Goose to carry 700 A-A three-pound monkey wrench, • fighting dogs are obtained. ports several underground nrn·"i!dl~n of kittens troops with combat or Two dOlen live kittens a m·.lazlnes~ , breeders, to these dOirfightisas lSO and wo only ',week are required for the pro- fighters •. handlers. larDblin~ monsters. himself. JADE CREATIONS: . Ck:IckI- Tab,.-Sculpiur.-Wind laboratory Equipment Chimes -Iookenda - Jewelry • - Custom Work Cbenlicab WHOLESALE hseareb ....1peoIment: Vulcan -Iotmyicial Chatoyant. Polished NUllets Glassware RETAIL Industry to BoukSarll ~.tifie Instruments (408) Bducation 375 .. 1865 Hobbyists BIGS JADE CO. Contact Gomez - GORDA'STATION •• SoutflC'lGeat, 408-384.4983 • LOOMIS SCIENTIFIC COMPANY IIG SuA, CA 93920 P.O.BOX 221475 658 Airport Rd. Btdg_ 1geMonterey , Ius. Hours .,1I1-89111After8 p.m. 927.&248 ...c:::::::::IIE::=IE=ilE:dllc::::I.wI CARMEl, CA 93922 • .. October, 1980 tHE BIG SUR GAZETTE Page 33 CURTAIN CALL

By Leslie Liebman Not that simple at all, but tedious even with as • WHAT'S BEEN every bit as absorbing. In fact subject as alcoholism. Melodrama ruled the west the villain himself doesn't original production brought once again for three nights at realize who he is. Peninsula Maureen Stapleton back to the Big Sur Grange Hall when favorites Jim Jensen and Broadway ten years ago and the Staff Players of the Harrison Shields will play was one of the biggest suc­ Children's Experimental main roles as a lay teacher cesses of its season. But on Theater staged Dead Man '$ and the headmaster. Jensen opening night at the Wharf it • Mill Sept. 12-14; Tom San­ recently appeared at Hidden seemed a bit long. chez as the sneering villain Valley in My Fair Lady and LaVonne Rae Andrews with appropriate mustachios Shields is currently directly portrays a not-quite-has-been .plied his victim with devil The Gingerbread Lady at the singer starting out on a dry rum, stole every nugget in the Wharf. Also appearing will life. To welcome her home we Mother Lode and did his best beAndy Philpot who recent­ find people who love her but to get the lady in distress. But ly graced the Big Sur Grange who have never known her • justice .prevailed to the Hall as the villain's innocent sober, and who have some delight of all. .Fortunately a victim in Dead Man's Mill. pretty hefty problems of their high7r percentage of natives Peter De Bono directs. Call own. We expect her to fall off got to .see this production 646·4212 for showings Oct. the wagon any minute. Miss ROD ALLISON tries to convince Inspector JtmWebber~ tbat Marina Curtis is not bis than in August when the lJ...12 and .Hi-18. Andrews actually is a Singer wife even tbougb Fatherlloberl Tidwell claims tbatsbe is in Catch Me If YotlCan at 1n"".,...,.._ toudsts had us outnumbered California's First Theater and an experienced per­ dio Tbeatre RestauranHhrougb Oct. '25. ;:; nine toone. in Monterey opens Only An former attacking a straight • The Jamesburg Players put Orphan Girl on October 3 dramatic role for the first not. to end. Irene MOftis. Kevinit,ss on Oklahoma again Sept. for a two month run on time. Which may explain why Jim Webber as the unco- Director Marma Curtis ap- and Randf:McEndre(l~1.so 11-14 at Hidden Valley to Fridays and Saturdays at her self-consciousness seems operative inspector acts like pears as the imposter. She perform well in smaller roles. benefit the Jamesburg School 8:30. Call 3754916 for reser· to belong more to the actress the perfect clod. Whenever a seems totally at home in the McEndree plrticularly b,,",s a way out appears, it disap· role, as if villainy comes way with a cbaracter role .. in Carmel Valley. The school vations Wednesday~ through than to the character. ~bat derives most of its income Friday after 1 p,m, The First Stephanie Cunningham pears in a worse mess than naturaily. Robert Tidwell as makes the audience wantz. to from an annual musical. com­ Theater presents authentic makes her adoring daughter a before. Most frustrating for Ii the priest lOOks' saintly most keep him around longet:~ distraught Allison whose of the time, but always edy performed by parents 19th century melodrama in refreshingly naive though up·· ~ weak mental health may giVe manages to be there when evil Can for dinner • and friends of the non­ the style in which it was first to-date adolescent. Leonard 624"\661 sectartan private grade done in the very same theater O'Neill as her homosexual way at any moment. occurs. A very smooth per- and/or show reservatfi>ns. oC school. Oklahoma was its building where. out-oC-work actor pal doesn't fit the usual Rod Allison as tile confus- formance. Choice roast beef .. or first production five years sailors used to·~ twirl their stereotypes and thus becomes ed hero flies between Connie Curtis' set looks so turkey starts.at 7 p.m. Friaay ago, and most of the original mustaches wear long all the more interesting. Bar­ righteous indignation. rage warm and cozy, the thought and Satur4lilY. at 6 p.m,Sun- or and a pitiful helplessness. He of dastardly deeds in such a day, with the show begtrtning cast was back to participate golden wigs and beg for mer­ bara Koch~Conklin turns in in the encore. One thing you. cy in falsetto exactly 100 the finest performance of the keeps the audience in the . place becomes all the more 1 V2 hours later. Beer and • can't miss about their perfor­ years ago. The play being a evening as a lovely lady who palm of his hand from start horrible. wine licen~e, liYOB. mance is the exuberance.. Lin­ mite short, it is followed by a at forty discovers that even· da and John Prejean taste of what we refer to these beauty won't hold a man directed. days as vaudeville. There's forever. Also appearing are WHAT'S COMING also .a taste of honest-to­ James Collignon as a If you've never heard of goodness sassparUla between philosphical delivery boy and Goldoni's The Servant of shows. Dennis Dale as a former Two Masters, hide your face WHAT'S NOW lover. By the way, Chuck • in shame! The plot couldn't New York critics pro­ Thurman's lighting and set be more complicated. lis nounoo sentence on opening design is some of the best befits a commedia dell'arte night. Yet, like quality beef such work I've seen at the play. Of course, by tbe time and fine wine, even a Broad· Wharf in two years. . Goldoni got on the scene the way play needs time to age Performance times are 8:30 style .was becoming pretty before the final tasting. After Friday and Saturday •. and 8 ribald. So while we were busy ~ all; how would you like to be p.m. Sunday through • having a revQlution, he was judged on the basis of your November 1. CaU 372-2882 busy cleaning up Italian com· first public appearance? or 372-1373 for reservations. medy. The result is that Tom That's I normally drop When you've.a great plot, Sanchez is.now playing a in a few later. it can withstand anything. vant on a banquet At least one other Me If You Can at the two at the Momte:rev Peninsula reviewer Studio Theatre Restaurant in same time at the Indoor sbares my Carmel has withstood three • Forest Theatre nre,ferenc:e for older rewrites and more November first. He's translations over the past sure that the seventy years. still maidens end occa· walk around handsome my doesn't. intermissions his head cut So it seems only fair to men­ like "How can I ask for more tion fact on that odd oc- done it when I'm not even concrete sure what done?" You might This version takes MPC's first show the Catskills '. season just to $ee weekend. Rod is Selvig's dabout on his Without Child's .Neil wife. A IGcal brings Marasco in a bread him an imposter, Why? Catholic where Theater in Mo.nteTev Money, no dOUbt. Allison's • senseless has broken good worth $100,000. Dead. And out among the children. H~d.son is a nobody within a thousand What is the cause? Not most capable. director and miles can vouch for whether standard Neil Simon could never be the imposter is for real or

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• t....."' ...... ~~ ...... ~~~~~~ WMlII TO tENT FlttSM.E $179,5()0 Call Kane 625-2680 Califomla, Write to: D.H. HOUSE IN B!9. Sur, Permanent 'S3VW CREW CAB; front & back or 625-2014 Stevens, P.O. Box 245, resident, Illcal referentes, seats with piCk-up body. Cayucos, CA 93940 • Randy Smill'l. catl 667-2331 i\ebuilt engine, tral'lsmissiofl, 1979 FORD COURIER pickup, day, 66l7-2202 evenffiGs.WlII brakes, Very dfl!)endaQ.k1l, Excellent coni'!. $4,700. PAY CASH. Haeres with cabin consider caretaldl'li, ClaSSic model. $1,750 - offer. ;484-t2G7 , Big Sur. Write: Keltner 14639 .Call Rob 667·2373 FOllHca, La Mirada, CA .Ie_. SEt'tCES OfFERE• 9011~·· WANT TO exchange raw land If WILD Hooey3tes ha.ve turned (in this area 4Jf Caltf.) for MSZ 39ft CUSTOM HOME in sunny your home into theirs; Contact SCHOOL BUS ORIVER, $4.66 to • 1971 280 SE 3,5, conv, Ex­ location, cQrnpJete privacy, Tom at 667-2423 for free $5.6f per hour Plus benefits. cellenteond't Valued at springwater, streams; view, r'Elm!>vaL ' 8-habltJ)ef day split shift Big SALINAS $35,600. (40:8) 424·9207 Japanese tardln &, hot tll:t;}. Sur to Carmel route. Work Attentlerty protection. Respon­ decor!lit& new facHities. ExceJlent long t1IfflIl~Se, es amt'~ Cl'lefEld:na> ~NT£D: WRiTeR, sjbl$~slnes6:person with, {.... ·90l0···· (408) $67-26941 '1Jf to work wMl' a trail", ~(l"",_'\llOndable, and "lour Guide oilf'. '.ut looal t_iJ'I'tCe$. 394-4770 •

~rttes frOm CARflEl to BIG SUR

BIXBY CANYON RETREAT • $385,000 Come to the canyon below th.e graceful Bixby Creek Bridge, as rich as a rain forest, ~. and live in this private red· wood home with a magnifi·

I ;~'i_\4»:~ate s~rChir ~!SiI~W.. CtIIlmlw whether. y. Ten miles south of Carmel, a road climbs from Highway One to the eleven·acre site at the Interested in sell/fig home, also a guest house, both featuring craftsmanship and .wlndow walls calurlng panora' . • try coastline, canyons and mountains, Patios and decks, one wlIlI,B hot tub, provide outaoortn}oyment. The strength." 8r buying. stone harmonizes with/he warmth of woods in the main t:lwelling encompaSSing 1iving/dininglkitch~n area wlfha fireplace, two bedrooms and a bathroom. In the guest house are living room with bar/kitchen and a bathroom. Price of this property-where hawks soar in the sunny stillness of daytime, sunsets over ttre ocean are a. glory, and the' moon rises above mountains to wash the world with silver";;",s Merit-McBride $425,000. . • REALTORS Menlo Park to Carmel &: South Lake Tahoe CARMEL MONTEREY • 625-3600 373-3126

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Open Septic Tanks • and Drain Lines WITHOUT EXPENSIVE PUMPING • $epti-Zone Does The Job For Pennies • • No More Expensive Pumping. SEPTJ.ZONE u,.. money and inconvenience by domg away with pumping out septic tanks periodically. A sman amount of SEPT1-Z0NE .convertl all wastes Into It wilt clean the Unes to theseplle tank. • It goes to work digests the the walls and then travels to the fie1ds.·" opens the earth lets the abSorb • • No More Oftensive tank overflows fields methane ,-"'.... ,., .. prevents this. SEI"'TI"ZO'NE Is to use. lI1:1..,...... and flush toUet. Harmless to and anima's, wm • trees or pipes. .. Before treatment Septi-Zone is added C.ean Tank • No More Sud n Expl Ings. Elim.lnates the need for costly, routine cleanings. Even if the &elltuc·.Il\V.Il\cem is working at present, SEPT,-ZONE m .... sur. Ihat the septic nOI all of a sudden "EXPLODE", SEPTi·ZONE • Septic tanks must be kept free-flowing or they require will keep the trouble tree, pumping out at routfne intervals. Netther yeast nor chemicals can maintain the enzyme/bacteria balance necessary to liquefy the organic matter. But Septi-Zone will dissolve, digest and Uquefy aU organic waslemalter • paper, fibres, cotton. sludge, greases and. fats. SEPTI-ZONE Regular use of Septi-Zone will give you a trouble-free sewage system. for just pennies a treatment . Excttllent for Cesspools tool •

I You'll Reeeive Our RU S H SEPT I-Z 0 N E I I N.wly PulMlstied 800IIIet I • HOUSE OF WRIGHT House of Wright Box 4457 : '019 Orange St. : Downey, CA 90241 I BOX 4457 Check if this I DOWNEY. CALIF. 90241 is a reorder. tie Tanks, I ~ • I COOordefS , I understand SEPTI·lONE is fully guaranteed. I can return any I wlthl1.00tlandling , unused It any time and receive aU my money back. I I Paid- Fast Personal Service I I , CAlif RESIOENTS AOO 6 peT. SALES TAl( I

Tomakllla I, I 2 lbs. at $9.90 8 lbs. at $34.90 I. Zona. SallE! 54,70 Your product has been a monay lIa'ial' to rna. • 1 ASK FOR I 4 lbs. at $17.80 12 Lbs. at $49.95 I , 1~8;,~UFORNIA OPERATOR ' Salle 52,00 Say. SlM5 • Ownlllf Windmill Home Park I 1'-" I NAME I T",.. "."'"I,"flI Palms, ell I OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA • (800) 824·7_ PleaH Note. MAILING ADDRESS I Downey, ell 90241 I .'9 Savln9$1 I HAWAII/ALASKA on large I • I f"f I ••, UPS 5"",k:" !live Pl'lysk:.1 Add"'$.I<>< 01'111:11"".. , PIU$ lIIIom"g Add,."s (800) 824-1111 Orders I I in I I STATE ___ and eVllIn 10 dig up linas to keep things going and they tell I SSG I summer we applied Sooit!·Zone I I backups·overflows or .a.llY know. Thank you very much, ,I •... : .. 'Yo!l8mlte Bible I: . . I FU 1, 80x I EJ(cl,!sive Distributor· I I Oaktlurat. ell 93644 W.st.rn United States CARl) , 1 •.. .• I IXI'IRU -- • ...... J .. _ .. _ ...... -'..... =- ..=- ..=--=--~. ~- --- III •