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Kung Fu COMMUNITY demonstration Wednesday The Commerce File ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 Sept. 17, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 9 Thursday: Low clouds, H 75º L 50º 7 58551 69301 0 Friday: Partly sunny H 77º L 49º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 16 pages, Volume 150 Number 161 email: [email protected] County budget debate turns heated Previously approved consent calendar vote on the final by 5th District Supervisor David to divert all revenues back into the BOARD OF SUPERVISORS adoption of the county’s budget Colfax, who had previously second- plan, remove the county’s member- budget pulled from Tuesday turned into a heated back ed and voted in favor of the original ship to the Regional Council of Rural consent calendar for Relatively speaking, it was sup- and forth debate that lasted through resolution the previous Tuesday. Counties, use money from the gener- posed to be a short meeting for the lunch and into the late afternoon. After several failed attempts, 3rd al fund reserve to fill in any funding daylong discussion Mendocino County Board of Before it could be approved for District Supervisor John Pinches gaps, direct any extra monies By ROB BURGESS Supervisors. final adoption the item was pulled made the motion on Sept. 11 to leave The Daily Journal What was originally a routine from the consent calendar Tuesday the Teeter Plan payment at $200,000, See BUDGET, Page 9 Driver WINE GRAPE HARVEST GETS UNDER WAY Ukiah arrested Lithia in crash lot to be on 101 The Daily Journal closed The California Highway Patrol arrested a Willits Last week for auto woman after a traffic collision dealership on N. State north of Ukiah Tuesday By DAVID MINTON morning, in which one car The Daily Journal ended up on a bank of You’d never have known Highway 101 and the car that anything was wrong at the bumped it fled northbound. Lithia-Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge A 2008 Ford vehicle driven dealership on North State by Marri Krch, 47, of Willits, Street Tuesday. Rows of shiny was traveling in the fast lane new vehicles, festooned with at a high rate of speed. Krch American flags, were lined up passed a 2000 Honda and in their typical rows in front drifted out of the lane, with of the offices and service her vehicle striking the department. Silver streamers Honda’s left-front bumper, overhead were waving in the according to a CHP report, breeze. After contact with Krch’s But employees had just vehicle, the report stated, the been told they had no jobs Honda left the roadway and beyond this week. traveled up the road bank. General manager Jack The driver of the Honda Wright was reluctant to say was a 39-year-old Ukiah whether he and his staff had woman, Ronal Moser. been surprised by the corpo- Passengers in the Honda were Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal rate decision or if he had seen an 11-year-old boy and two A crate of zinfandel grapes from Chevalier Vineyards awaits crushing on a truck outside of Ruddick this coming. However, he Farms Tuesday afternoon. asked that reporters not speak See ARREST, Page 2 with his employees -- “because frankly no one’s in a good mood right now” -- indi- 2008 crop light; all cating there was likely some TOP 5 ONLINE shock and surprise over the situation. Employees who were asked for comments grapes off 10-30% deferred to Wright’s wishes that they not answer ques- Monday By ZACK CINEK qualities under the cloudy sky. Her tions. The Daily Journal winery was already hearing thun- Two corporate Lithia men 1. Motorcycle vs. SUV on Mendocino County’s wine der, she said in the afternoon. on the site Tuesday also West Road grape harvest is under way in a Handley assesses the grapes in declined to comment, refer- season when unusual spring ways more sophisticated than most ring questions to corporate 2. She’s 99, and living life weather challenged grapes from would eat a grape. In Redwood public relations representative to the fullest the get go. Valley, she walked among the Robert Sacks. vines to sample the range of sugars 3. Fire threatens wood For Milla Handley of Philo- “We regret the inconve- based Handley Cellars, Tuesday from clusters of grapes. nience this causes customers products yards was a day for tasting the grapes of How the skins are holding up in Ukiah, but we have a duty and how the pulp pulls away from 4. The Daily Digest the 2008 harvest. to our shareholders to From Redwood Valley to the seeds are examples of ways uphold,” Sacks said. “Our 9/10/08 Sonoma County, Handley sampled stores know when they are 5. Child killed in Willits grapes and assessed the grape’s See GRAPES, Page 16 meeting internal benchmarks that we have set for them and accident Storm clouds threaten rain on these vineyards off of Gielow when they aren’t. This store ukiahdailyjournal.com Lane on Tuesday. was underperforming.” Wright said he is negotiat- ing with Lithia to buy the operation “and turn it into a privately owned company, owned by the employees.” Seventeen people are Original art by creator of Popeye on display downtown employed at this location. By DAVID MINTON characters that could be found in all-service camera shop and a friend. Wright said the negotiations The Daily Journal newspapers, on the radio and in This relative one day asked, out of the could go on for 15 to 30 days. animated shorts on the big screen and blue, if Rogers might want to display reezing past the shop windows “I don’t want to put any later, through syndication, on the items in his windows. Rogers says blame on Lithia; it’s not their on South School Street, you television. Yes, Popeye was big his reaction was “Great! Fantastic! might find yourself stopped in fault. It’s not our fault. It’s the B business from the time he was created Yes!” oil companies, it’s the econo- your tracks by an exhibit of original in 1929. On the 75th anniversary of He seems to know a bit about my,” Wright said. art by E. C. Segar in the front the “birth” of Popeye in 2004, A New Segar, who was born in Chester, windows of the Triple S Camera shop. Sacks said Lithia owns 100 York Times News Service writer Illinois, in 1894 and died in Santa “stores” in 15 states, and that What’s that? You say you’ve never wrote: “Not even Walt Disney’s Monica in 1938. “He learned to draw heard of Elize Crisler Segar? the Ukiah dealership was not Mickey Mouse or Warner Bros.’ Bugs by taking a correspondence course, the only one in California that If you’re over a certain age, you Bunny can top Popeye in the high was given notice this week. probably have and just need to have profile department.” See POPEYE, Page 16 The Fairfield dealership will your memory jogged or an association In the ongoing exhibit are sketches also close Sunday. made: Segar was the creator of by Segar, oil paintings, what looks David Minton can be reached Popeye The Sailor Man, the spinach- like an original lithograph, a finished Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal at [email protected]. eating mariner who battled bad guys cartoon panel or two, and a An original sketch of Popeye by Bluto and Brutus, whose rope-legged photograph of the cartoonist and his his creator, E.C. Segar, hangs in Visit our web site at girlfriend was named Olive Oyl, wife. Triple S owner Mike Rogers a window display at Triple S whose father was known as Poopdeck explains how these artifacts, if you Camera on School Street in ukiahdailyjournal.com Pappy, whose friend Wimpy was will, ended up in his store windows: It Ukiah, along with other original email us at always borrowing money for seems that a relative of Segar lives in paintings and drawings by the hamburgers -- popular cartoon the local area and is a customer at the artist. [email protected] 2 – WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 2008 DAILY DIGEST Editor: Jody Martinez, 468-3517 The Ukiah Daily Journal [email protected] Alleged bribe attempt FUNERAL NOTICES [\ was known for her ty of Santa Rosa, Ben people. in marijuana arrests love of life and her devo- Daugherty of Ukiah, She loves to travel and The Daily Journal tion to her family. Af- Jenny Cowan of Ukiah, loved spending her Two Willits men and a man from Malibu are suspects in a ter she retired from Joel Cowan and Ka- winters in Mexico as she marijuana related investigation by the Mendocino County Redwood Coast Lumber tie Cowan of Willits, Sonia was fluent in Spanish. Sheriff’s Office . in 2001 Bud and Joan took Whittle ,Arron Pat spent her days Discovery of a marijuana garden led one man to allegedly try numerous trips Whittle, Brandon Whittle among friends Donna to bribe a sheriff’s deputy, resulting in his arrest and the arrest and planned many more of Kelseyville and 6 Parker, and Mollie Terry, of two other men. vacations for their great grandchildren. and with her family Dennis Raymond Gage, 37, and Benjamin Meadlin, 36, of golden years together. Joan There will be a celebra- and (canine companion Willits, and John Welde, 24, of Malibu, were booked into jail loved reading, tion of her life on Tiny). She is preced- by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday morning. shopping, traveling and Thursday, September 18 at ed in death by her ex-hus- Deputies discovered a marijuana grow near the Mendocino extremely enjoyed 1:00 pm at the band Leon Terry.