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December 1979 the BIO SUR OAZETTE • TWO Sections PULLOUT: Big Sur Coast Visitor's Guide 36 Pages • • Holiday Greetings! Serving the Visitors and Residents of the Big Sur COflst from Monterey Peninsula to Hearst CAstle • i ~ur~ . • ~ I D~C~4? : h <9~..f> r 7.9.>. • [t • • • • L_ \ • •• • Page 2 THE BIG.SUR GAImE Deeember.1979 Pt. Lobos Beach' Gets Local News ••• New Name SPORTS NEWS The former Beach" at By BOB SCHULTZ Reserve • Foreign Film F~$tival "Weston in the Pacific Grove Winter Sock-o Soft­ following action taken at Sur Wreckers team won their first five Third Western Conference games, but lost the two. However, with one regular season on Geographic Names in game remaining at press time (Tuesday, Nov. 27) they are still Planned at Big Sur Grange confident of competing in the playoffs that will follow. The Big· Sur Cinema opens schedule include Franco the Big Sur Cinema began Menlo Park. The new name for the its Foreign Film Fe~tivru at Brusati's award-winning operation in March of 1979 The bowling leagues roll aiong bot and lieavy at Pt. Sur .theGrange on Dec. 20 with Bread and and and has films like smail. beach on the south side of the Point Lobas headland Lanes! Thus far quite a scramble. In all close competi­ the French gangster classic the Distant Harold & Sidhartha, tion, with position night (the leading and second place teams, Stavisky. Directed Alain Thunder. French farce, and The Harder Come is in honor of the late master Edward third and fourth, match ups contributing to the resulting Resnais and Tall Blond Man with One to the Sur community. standings. Jorge Semprum. , Black Shoe and the mystery request for the \brilliant genre filin leads romance Dear will SU~!gesitjolIlS for future films name wa~ six weeks of internationai be shown The are welcomed by the Cinema to the U. S. GeoiOlllcat classics. festival will end with the best and interested in star- Ansel Adams of film of 1969, Z. a club should con- tlli,nUlnUS, himself an inter­ • known Highlights ·of nOl"l-nrOTlT organization, tact David Jone~. '''.'>HUISHL nrnuin"n diversion. Christmas season there will be a three-week Ii beach where my Irene Lagorio Art Exhibit Opens in CJ;lrmel father had done a tremen­ on to completion of the schedule. dous amount of " Cole In trate on the Sunset Theater as Latest available standings: Center a theme for an exhibition and Wellton of worked Mixed Doubles Wins Losses asked to visualize the theme with a The Brass 16 8 • from 1928 Lagorio l if she like to series of humorous studies of Goofballs 15 9 prepare an exhibition her ner·tor·mers and stage most famous work that beach. Screwballs 15 9 art for in Sunset 15 9 Center. 12 Irene do Bulls 12 but the ex- Will-work-on·it 12 12 hibition not be another Pt. Sur Brats 1 13 • that is The Kids 11 13 Who-What-Where· When 14 Dead End Kids 8 16 17 scratch an exhibi­ In 1974 Irene tion that be relevant to the lVIf,'Ut"n,,, .1 what happens at Sunset sula Herald's art Center and would be infor- oTie Evans mative to the To this This open each we"",,,,,,, Mixed Doubles end, she from 9 a.tn.to 5 of Dottie treasured for ar· no UU!.HUO"UU tistic value and the contrihu­ Rose have made to peo· Christie 'A Christmas Carol' Men's: Dan Matth(:ws. • of the Health Clinic Mike on stage at MPC a Women's League Wins Losses Alive and Well Team III 17 7 Sur Health Clinic The Monterey Peninsula MPC. Team #4 12 12 more of a com· College Players continue a cast of more Team 112 than 10 14 their production of the than 50 are James Jensen, Team 113 15 "ria.... "lh, believed. 9 Dickens' fable, A Christmas Hamilton, MPC Registration individual scratch: Carol, with November • Carol r.flIIIN"'·V thec1inic. Begins This Month Thursday, Willie Nelson, 173 more than we ever day (Dec. 13, aude , Rose 169 8:30 p.m., and on Frances Looram and " remarked nn·"ll1Ipnl of (Dec. 16} at 2 p.m. in Patrick. Men's League Wins Losses MPC Theatre: Tickets are priced at $4 for Jan. Bad News Spares 23 7 The production is. the admission; $3 for Inmates 21 11 regional premiere of the and Ginslingers • Students 19 13 American and $2 for children Wreckers' 15 17 the Committee, ,mllt~tCI)me to the AdmisisiolllS Theatre (A.CT.) ...."'v,, .. ,"'" under 13. They may be Heavies 14V2 that an average of 20 in the StUdents Ser· 17Y2 of the favorite h.oliday story teserved the MPC Outlaws 13Y2 18V2 clinic used seT- vices where y",,,,i<!t,,,•• and is directed oy Peter Theatre Box Office, Big Sur 111 13 19 DeBono. It is co-sponsored 375-0455, between 5 and 9 and that the clinic now tion will be made on a first had 120 files. come, first served basis. Of· Wild 13 19 by the Associated Students of p.m. individual games scratch: Mrs. remarked fice hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jim Clayton, 246 • Andy Knudsen, 255 The second registration Nelson, 209 for the I9-week semester is set for Jan. 2 Prisoner Faces Junior League Wins. Losses Jan. 17. Reg~isUati(>n Team #2 is 11Y2 14Y2 Team #4 17 15 Charges in Team 111 16 16 • Team~#3 13 V2 18Y2 Big Sur Murder ROBERT'S RAIN GAUGE " From The Herold Date Amount Total !temam .. ........ A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a Penn­ 10-19 .70 .70 St~dy rain • Big Sur sylvania prisoner sought in connection with a 10-20 .95 1 ..69 that occurred ia Big Sur more than a year ago. 1()'25 .50 2.1S First blustery storm··blew aU • • • Monterey County District Attor:ney the apples off the tree . Flippo said that his has charged Robert 10-30 .to 2.25 • IMEAt • chio. 29, an inll}ate at a state pr,ison in U-3,4 UO 3.35 C. ~.ents ~ Pennsylvania, with murder l and grand theft. u-s 2.35 S.70 Blustery winds • Sheriff's Capt. Bill Davis that Varricchio is 11-24,25,26 .63 6.33 FILMS FOR DECEMBER • suspected of murdering 24, of 'Farm- ington, Utah. and of robbing and stealing his car. • Dec. 6 GREASER'S PALACE • C Thon's body, bearing stab wounds, was found Sept. MPC Players to Open Color 1912 91 minutes 26, 1978, over a bank off Highway I a haif mile south of • and SHORT • the Big Sur Inn, where it had apparently been dumped Dec. 13 THE MAN WHO FELL from a car. Shakespeare Play • YO'EARTH 118 minutes • Because the body carried no identification, it was a For the first time on the MOlnteTev 'nsula, the Staff and SHORT year before it was identified as that of Thon, who was Repertory will Shakespeare's • Dec. 20 STAVISKY believed to have been in Caiifornia on a trip to buy car Color 1974 • That Ends Forest Theater in 111 minutes parts. and SHORT • Davis said the murder is believed to have occurred in • Dec.27 GIMME SHELTER • This lively drama involves the triais and tribulations of a the Vent ana Campgrounds· where signs of a struggle snobbish aristocrat and a lowborn heroine as they struggle Color 1910 90 minutes were found at one of the sites. • and SHORT with love and marriage-ending with a surprise Shakespearean • According to Davis, his office received a call about twist. three months ago from prison authorities in Allentown, The directed Marcia Gambrell Hovick. will be • Curtain 8:00 p.m. • Pa.. stating they had ,a man in custody who had nre",lI":nted every Friday, and Sunday night at 8:30 knowledge of the murder, tnrOUiltl Jan. 13. (The theater will be dark for Christmas • At The Gra.nge • Highwa.y One -1 VarriccWo is in prison fot parole violation, .Davis said. • weekend, 28-30,) Tickets are $4.50 general admission and "A WILD LUPINE PRODUCTION" $2.50 for students and seniors. Reservations are recommend- • • ed. Fol' more 624--1531. • ..- ........ • I December. 1919 THE BIC SUR CAZETTE Page! to this region, the Pelton • wheel was installed in 1940 and has remained on the site Pelton Wheel Turns Again of the old Brown estate since. Operating on the principles of pressure and velocity, at Julia Pfeiffer ·Burns Park fresh stream water is diverted through the wheel and then • The latest and most in- State Park. The Pelton as a demonstration of alter­ rerouted back into the stream genious method of generating wheel, a clean and efficient nate energy sources. to generate electrical power electricity, for the .19308 that cast iron version of the water The only source of with no water loss and is, is going back opera- wheel, is renovated and on this coast for years minimal environmental im­ at Julia Burns put on for public before PG&E power pact. Hans force·behind this • for the • vatlon State State • Jones ~~~.ln"n&'" of this was tW()-U)1O. "J'his a small means of demonstrating to the public that there are alternatives to our current energy sources. HANS EWOLDSEN and State Park staffer lay the water line We also expect to save tax­ wbich powers the Pelton wheel. payers money. By next sum­ • mer we are confident that we will be generating power for several 0 f the Park utilities THE PELTON. wheel at J.P.
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