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Community Your health: FORUM sports digest Ask Dr. Gott Minutemen can go too far .............Page 6 ..............Page 3 ...................................Page 4 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tomorrow: Becoming cloudy 7 58551 69301 0 TUESDAY Jan. 24, 2006 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 147 Number 290 email: [email protected] Congress poised to EVERY 15 MINUTES void California’s Proposition 65 By DOUGLAS FISCHER per-billion’ and ‘parts-per-tril- The Oakland Tribune lion’ without a careful exami- MediaNews Group nation as to where do you get Congress threatens to void the best bang for your buck in California’s ability to set food protecting health and safety safety laws, potentially for consumers,” said Rep. Jim thwarting efforts by the state Costa, D-Fresno. attorney general to require “Unfortunately, aspects of warnings for such contami- Proposition 65 fail in that nants as mercury in tuna and case.” acrylamide in potato chips. HR 4167, the “National Activists warn that the Uniformity for Food Act of measure is yet another attack 2005,” would give federal on California’s Proposition regulators sole power to deter- 65, the landmark 1986 law mine what foods on the gro- requiring warning labels on cery shelf would require such items known to contain car- warnings. cinogens or reproductive tox- Activists fear the only uni- ins. formity the bill would achieve But supporters - including is the uniform absence of food 12 California representatives - safety laws. The federal gov- say the measure is necessary ernment remains largely silent to establish uniform food on food safety standards and Tyler Stoffel/The Daily Journal standards in what is increas- warnings, with the Food and A live student playing an accident victim lies down among broken glass and other debris during ingly a global economy. Drug Administration devoting Monday’s demonstration at the Boonville Airport. California’s concerns over most of its attention to phar- trace amounts of potential car- maceuticals, said Joe Guth, cinogens, they add, improper- executive director of the ly taints the safest food supply California League for in the world. Environmental Enforcement “We too often spend way A dose of reality too much time chasing ‘parts- See PROP. 65, Page 15 By LAURA CLARK The Daily Journal eal life tears were shed by some Anderson Local Red Cross gets Valley students Monday when they wit- Rnessed the aftermath of a very realistic, but needed cash infusion simulated fatal car accident. The high school in Anderson Valley -- as well Sonoma County is the largest given to date for as high schools around the state -- periodically the cause and will equally holds a program called “Every 15 Minutes” to firm donates benefit Sonoma and remind both junior and senior high students of $25,000 to help Mendocino counties. the consequences of drinking and driving. The Community Foundation of title of the program comes from the fact that dur- flood victims Sonoma County has con- ing the early 1980s someone in the United States The Daily Journal tributed $7,500, and Codding was killed in an alcohol-related traffic collision A $25,000 donation from a Foundation has given $2,500, every 15 minutes, according to the state’s Office Santa Rosa-based company, for the Red Cross local disas- of Traffic Safety. with satellite offices in ter relief effort to help meet Every 15 Minutes begins outdoors, with stu- Mendocino County, will pay the needs of families and indi- dents watching the drama as the aftermath of a for Red Cross services such as viduals affected by the floods. fatal two-car accident is played out by students food, clothing, shelter, med- As of this weekend, acting their parts. A variety of emergency work- ical and other emergency ser- American Red Cross, includ- ers, including police, fire, paramedics, helicopter vices in the wake of the New ing both Sonoma and rescue and the coroner’s office, respond to the Years Storms. Mendocino counties, esti- crash scene with sirens blaring. Crews rapidly get Local funding organiza- mates it will spend at least to work on freeing the victims from the automo- tions are helping more than $343,000 on these human ser- biles to transport those that are critically injured 2,000 residents who suffered vices needs. $266,000 of that while others are declared dead and are removed the devastating effects of the will be spent on services for by the coroner. New Year’s floods by donat- Sonoma County clients, and At the same time, a student playing the drunk ing to the American Red $77,000 on Mendocino driver is given a field sobriety test and is arrested Cross. The contribution from County clients. for driving under the influence. Medtronic Foundation, a “The turn-around on On Monday in Boonville, the jaws of life was medical device manufacturer, See DONATE, Page 15 even used to pry open vehicle doors, and a heli- copter landed at the scene to transport a critically injured teen, AVHS Principal/Superintendent J.R. Collins said. Teens involved in the simulated Confusion Hill owner accident were made up to look wounded and bleeding, and a distraught mother arrived at the incident to see her son dead on the concrete, he wants pioneer honored said. The Eureka Times-Standard remember and honor this true “It was high drama,” Collins said, Doug Campbell says now pioneer woman.” noting some students in the audience is the perfect time to honor Campbell added: “As the cried. Minnie. construction progresses all “They were able to feel like they Campbell and his wife, that heavy machinery will be were at the real thing; they were liv- Carol, have been the owners working within a few feet of ing it. ... We have several counselors of Confusion Hill since her grave site. We feel that here and available to talk, if the kids December 1999 and he says with all that commotion going are upset or concerned,” he said. they have come to “know and on around Minnie she should respect our neighbor across be included in the project in the road, Minnie Stoddard See REALITY, Page 15 some positive manner.” Lilley.” According to a 1950 Above, Anderson Valley High Minnie has been dead since Humboldt Times article, School students watch a 1947, but Campbell says he “Minnie Stoddard Lilley’s mock traffic accident at the wants to help keep her memo- story is a hair raiser for sheer Boonville Airport Monday. At ry alive by naming the pro- courage, confidence and grit.” right, in a scene eerily similar posed Confusion Hill bypass She homesteaded a claim, to what firefighters see on a after her. hired a man to build her one- regular basis, Anderson In a letter to state Sen. Wes room cabin and get the barest Valley fire fighters attend to a Chesbro (D-Arcata), of necessities. high school actor on a Campbell says, “Now that we According to the Humboldt stretcher. have the ‘bypass’ actually Times: “Her first night was happening it presents us with all with a great opportunity to See HILL, Page 2 Year End bb Stop by HotHot TuTu 509 S. State St., Ukiah UNWIND SSaalele 2 – TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 2006 DAILY DIGEST Editor: K.C. Meadows, 468-3526 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] The world briefly FUNERAL NOTICES [\ and Antionette Ascendio. lieu of flowers. Services are Center from a sudden ill- FREDRICK D. MACIAS He was a resident of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 ness. Born June 25th, 1949 Ford to cut 25,000 to 30,000 jobs, Fredrick D. Macias, age Arcata, CA and was a mem- at 2:00 p.m. at Chapel by he lived his whole life in 66, was born October 7, ber of the Maintenance the Sea. Burial follows at Mendocino County. He close 14 facilities by 2012 1940 in Los Angeles, CA. He Union for Humboldt State Ocean View Cemetery, Fort lived between Fort Bragg DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to cut up died Wednesday, January University; where he had Bragg, CA. and Mendocino until 2004 18, 2006 at the home of his been employed for the past when he moved to Ukiah. to 30,000 jobs and shutter 14 plants in a sweeping restructuring [\ it hopes will turn its North American auto business back into a niece, Nancy Tuttle in 30 years. Donald worked hard his profitable venture. Willits, CA on the Sherwood Mr. Macias graduated whole life to support his Union leaders called the planned cuts “extremely disap- Valley Rancheria. from Willits High School, family, offering 35 years to pointing.” But shares of the nation’s second-biggest auto maker He is survived by his where he excelled as an ath- retail, working more than rose on Monday’s news, indicating some investors were sons, Fred Jr., Mark lete in football and basket- one job up to 16 hours a pleased with the long-awaited “Way Forward” plan, as well as Macias-Nance; daughter, ball. He then graduated day. He was an avid fan of with a larger-than-expected $124 million overall profit in the Marie Kinzer; grandsons, from Humboldt State science fiction and had hope fourth quarter. Rio Macias-Nance and University. in the advancement of space Ford shares rose 42 cents, or 5.3 percent, to close at $8.32 on Royal Macias; granddaugh- Fred is remembered as a travel, to the point of settle- the New York Stock Exchange. The quarter’s profits came in ter, Bianca Macias; mother, sportsman who enjoyed ments on the moon. He was large part because of the sale of its Hertz Corp.