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• 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",,,,in 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
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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. Burns operates turns the fly wheeland sparks the generator. from the Pelton wheel." from water moving through the wheel, which The renovation of the CORRECTION: Pelton wheens projected to When National Park Service Director Bill Whelan spoke be complete by June 1980: at the Grange Hali, one of his comments was Inadver· • Phases currently under way tantly attributed to Kenny Wright. It was actualb are electrical hook-ups, refur Whelan who said, "Obviously, I'm going to stand up in bishing the Pelton wheel front of the Senate and the House and say, 'We're get Congressman Panetta In Big Sur housing, and the exhibit ting involvedpand this is how we're getting involved.' panels for public display. At And Mr. Panetta's right there saying the same thing. the start of the 1980 summer and sols Alan Cranston nd hopefully we get it approv CAC MEETING season, the Pelton wheel ed." • DECEMBER 11 • GRANGE HALL house will be open every day to the public and the old 7:30 P.M. wheel will have a bright new future:
The COMMUNITY CALENDAR is a new monthly community calendar feature, the purpose Of which is to inform the • public about meetings,events, entertainment, and Items Of public interest. TO place something on next month's calendar, either phone us at 667·2222 or write to: december 1979 THE BIO SUR OAZETTE .. Highway One. Big Sur, California 93920 sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday frida, ·saturda, . 1 •
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 \ # Health CliniC open Big Sur Cinema • Grange Hall, a p.m., Grange Hall 9·5 p.m. "Greaser's Palace"
• 9 10 11 12 13 14 \ 15 Health Clinic Open citizen's Advisory Big Sur Cinema Committee Meeting Hanukkah Grange Hall a p,m., Orange Hall (Chanukah) 9·5 p,m. Grange Hall, 7:30 p.m. "The Man Who FE!II us Congressman to Earth" Leon Panetta, \ • guest speaker 16 17. 18 19 20 21 22 - """'e1lth Clinic open Big Sur Cinema Captain cooper Grange HaJJ First day a p.m., Orange Hall Shortest Day of Year of Winter 9-5 p.m. N "Stavlsky" Christmas Sing 1 p.m. Brrrrrr! • Orange Hall 23~ 24 / 25 26 27 28 29 Health Center open Big Sur Cinema Orange Hall a p.m., Grange Hall 9·5 p,m. Merry "Olmme Shelter" • ChrIstmas 30 V31 • page 4 THE 81C SUR CAZmE December. 1979 positioned him on a stairway, on the brink of disaster," he Adams Snaps Polaroid of President Mondale cracked: "My of said in urging prompt action • By PAT c:;RlFFlTB it as a setting for a presiden- ing to tea. getting pure color without fice i$ good for this kind of for Alaskan wilderness pro~ Benld WubiqtOll B_a tial pbotograpb-"the color "I was really .. said shadows or distortion, was work. I stand where I'm tection and some form of wouldn't bave come across Adams afterwards. "I really making it all if not told. " federal control over the Big President Carter may not weB, it would bave been too felt I was invading Karsh's exactly at least He also told Adams about Sur coast. have known much about1he dark!' domain." The complimen natural. , his response to a question in Lousy Politician Big Sur coast before this Trailing bim. like. Sherpa tary reference was to Yousuf "I like the object,' Iowa about how California "This is terribly important week, but you can bet he d.oes porters approaching Bverest Karsh, Canada's interna whether a rock or a person," Gov. Bdmnnd G. Brown Jr. to me as a matter of princi • now. were tecbnicians pacldn:g tionally famed portrait he explained. "I don't like would change the presidency ple," he explained. And he He was educated. so to 1,000 ponnds of lights and photographer. obvious posing, although for if he were elected. added, his face crinkling in a s~, while having his pic· assorted gear. And a Adams had expected the somethin{ like this, it ob The vice president said broad smile, "I'm a lousy ture snapped a few dozen Polaroid camera. president to be preoccupied viously.has to be. Still, we Brown would "substitute a politician but I've got feel times by a Carmel At 200 pounds, this was with affairs of state and in a Were to make it all glider for Air Force One, and ings. " photographer Who's known not your everyday push·puB hurry to get away. natural. to know where he's coming "The truth is, you're a more for his portraits of and peel.off-tbe·paper "But he wasn't. He was And that is where Big Sur from. you'd check the helluva politician," shot back • mountains than men. A model. This camera measures very relaxed!' came in. prevailing winds." Panetta as everyone laughed. photographer by the name of about 4x3x6 feet and sports a He photograp1:ted the .Talking about the scenic Adams delivered his con Adams returned to his Ansel Adams. 3{)..incb lens. It was brought president in the private fami spl«lndc)r of Big Sur or the servation message to a Carmel Highlands home, Adams arrived in from New York a crew of ly dining room and on the to protect America's ...... t ..". with California Sen. bringing with him some black Washington early in Alan Rep. Leon and white negadves to print Polaroid tecbnicians for Truman balcony I looking out wilderness areas comes as nnrtrIJ11rll Panetta, D-MQnterey, and November to tackle an the official across the south lawn of the natur~lllY to Adams as analyz as well as the' color portraits assignment every bit as It delivers 20x24-inch White House towards the of light. Phil Burton, D~San to mark for cropping and awesome as capturing the full finished prints in 75 seconds. Wa.shingl:on Monument. began chatting.....;..first Fnmcisc(), who chairs the na reproduction. • moon flooding Half Dome. Or at least it does when the And took still more about the Alaskan wilderness subcommittee of If all goes well-and for He had been asked by the button is pressed by Ansel tures of the president bill now pending in COlrtgrlilss. Interior Commit- Adams, .photographs usually director of the National Por Adams. ' Mrs. Carter Walking out of then about his sense tee. do-hi~ portraits will hang in trait GaBery to capture for As tbe critical time ap the Bast Room of the White cy that some type of with legislators and the National Portrait Gallery, posterity the essence of two proacbed. tbe White House House. nr()te<:l:ion is needed to save aides under a glistening in sharp contrast to the oil stars of the political firm clamped a tight lid of secrecy Mrs. had ...... ,.. ;'",.11" Sur coast from an·· chandelier in the . paintings which have tradi ament-Jimmy Carter and on the photographic mission. for the overdose of development. Adams tionally been commissioned • Walter Mondale. No press allowed. wearing a bright blue dress. Potential for Preservation imt)atient "at the rather for the benefit of future He spent the weekend scur Not network TV. which "It was lovely, " Adams "I really just sort of in of conser generations. rying around the Victorian wanted to pbotograph said almost apologetically, troduced the president to the in Con- Adams has offered his ser mansion that serves as the Adams photographing the "but it just wasn't to " Adams said. "I don't vices for free. "It is, after all, "F'v.. ,.·vthil1a I've ever vice president's home and up president. Not the New York be So she gra'CiO\Ully he was really familiar an honor to be asked, II he and down the White House Times, which wanted to write to change, and so I just talked about with is always said. corridors to· size up the ter about Adams photographing wore a bright red dress. That not:emt1lu there for • ritory. the president. Not even, was perfect. " something His eyes doted on the rich believe it or not. The Herald. big challenge for CA C Meeting Dec. 11 BIG SUR COAST CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE .....;.. greens of the White House One have thought beyond all the He gave the president Treaty Room. but he rejected that Yasser Arafat was com- technical considerations of Next meetings: Dec. 11th and Jan. 8th, Big Sur Grange memos on both Alaska and Hall, to 10:30 p.m. with a framed Adams'Memo to Carter: "Strictly Personal" of Mt. UPDATE: In early November, Carmel tor of the Wilderness Society. it.' Was the memo from which the I. LCP Concept. The CAC has in outline form the beginnings Highlands photographer The Gazette called Mr. Mr. Adams or the Big dent he would hang in of a local coastal program concept. This working draft will: 1) • ! Ansel Adams photographed Adams to obtain a copy of Sur "The his List the issues the Coastal Act requires each program to President Carter and Vice~ the memo for publication, memo is personal," He put in a good word answer and the issues the community has expressed; 2) President Mondate at the but his sec~etary said "the she said. for Big Sur preservation with Establish the categories into whicb we feel our local planning White House and told them memo is a personal message Vice President Mondale, reSl1On:se should be made; 3) Propose a series of programs that Big Sur was "threatened from Mr. Adams to President White House in this case there should provide resolution for the range of needs and- by overdevelopment" and Carter regarding Big Sur and Se!;:retary Jody Powell, no need for Adams concerns mandated law and identified by the community; the area needed •'federal con- Alaska. I am not at liberty ~o wa~, Deputy and Weigh as as we can the risks. costs and • trol." Mr. Adams also left make it public." Press '",,,· .... t"' ..,, Pat Bario was effects limited forms of public the Chief Executive with a When asked if Mr. Adams asked the about assistance versus the costs and potential effects of not memo about Big Sur which would comment about the the memo. Ms. Bario forms of public assistance for our LCP_ had been written in his name general contents of the tbat it was a private com outline is done each Tuesday fz:om 2 to 5 p.m. at- by William Turnage, Adam's memo, the secretary said that IllUnication and a copy of it with twice a month at the regular business manager and Direc- he did not wish to discuss was not available. At one point, as Adams 2. CAC -- Planning Forum. The CAC was created by the Board of to be the planning forum for the coastal • .------,I CAC has the particular task of making : Please send a one:year gift subscription to: recommend~ltions to the County on the Big Sur Coast LCP on behalf of the coastal community. Therefore your participation I and your contributions to the development of a local planning I concept, either as an individual or as a special interest group, I are to the success of this process. Regular and sub- I ,",V'Il"".'.';C meetings are ope/\ to interested persons. I, 3. Workshop G~ests. Ken )ones. Area Manager, Department and Recreation was our guest bn Nov. 13th. He ex upon the earlier DPR presentation by giving us a more From detaIlE!d explanation of the different types of State Parks classifications, their management objectives, and the possible options for State Parks in Big Sur. On Nov. 27th, Don Rubenstein, Senior Project Analyst, State Coastal Conservan- • talked about two Conservancy in Big Sur and the $5.00 In Monterey County • $8.00 outside Monterey County lC"'UI~'U""UJJ and/or effect of these on the LCP pro- $12.00 out-of-state • $19.00 foreign. published monthlY cess. One was the from a willing seller of a 1 acre lot at the north end the DPR I;>oud Ranch property for $155,000. The other project is the possible purchase of I am enclosing my check for __ three lots from willing sellers on the bluff overlooking Pfeiffer Beach. • NOTE: OUf for December 11th is Con------, gressman Leon Panetta. is still in session on that date, an- I nouncement will be made by the CAC in the Dec. 10 edition of I the and a new date Newell, Chairman I I I I I One year's gift I I I • I subscription to: I I I Koeppel, . , ,. " .. PubliSher and Editor I I Coventry. . . , ... , , . Manager I illg ~ur I Paula WaIling ... . CommunJtv Editor I I Diane Farrow .. ,. '. . ,...... Bookkeeper I • .. i. I. • • • • Editorial • October-November 1979 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Ansel Adams and the West." • Oct. 8, 1979. Robinson Jeffers Tor House Founda The Adams Machine: What Makes Ansel Click? tion fund-raiser. • Oct. 13, 1979. Alan Cranston fund·raisers: For two years photographer Ansel Adams has focused "50 Years of Portraits" $l00-plate brunch, Salinas; $lO-person tennis match, • on one subject: Big Sur. His magnificent obsession is Such a portrait portfolio came in 1978 in Untitled 16, Carmel Valley Ranch; $I,OOO-couple dinner, Barton's not to preserve it in his usual way, through stunning "Ansel Adams: 50 Years of Portraits." The success of Palo Colorado home; Secretary of Interior Cecil Andrus photographs, but to nationalize it. And we are all in that this portfolio is a matter of opinion. The point is that attends (National Park Service is under Department of picture whether we like it or not. Our names and actions it-and the ensuing fall 1979 media blitz-were suc Interior). See October Gazette. and those of former Big Sur individualists will be pro cessful enough. Successful enough, that is. to get Adams • Oct. 14, 1979. (Spinoff). Monterey Peninsula cessed, enlarged or reduced according to whoever is as far as the Oval Office with a Polaroid that produces a Herald article "About the Rattlesnakes, Mr. doing the printing, and history and culture and the en 16x20 color photo in one minute, 15 seconds. And Secretary. " • vironment as we now know them today will have come whether or not the session was done for "free" as • Nov. 5,1979. Adams photographs Walter Mondale to an end with one click of his shutter. reported is also a matter of opinion, as Adams put at at the Victorian Mansion. To assist Adams in his quest, he and his friends least as much thought into lobbying the president on • Nov. 6, 1979. Washington Post article, "Fritz formed the Big Sur Foundation. However, Adams' recent ac behalf of his opinions about Big Sur as he put into Mondale says 'Cheese' for Ansel Adams." tions have purportedly been outside the "goals and ob photographing him. Adams and his business manager, • Nov. 6, 1979. Adams photographs President Caner jectives" of the Foundation. Turnage, also put together a "memo" on Big SUf, at the White House and presents "memo" on Big Sur Since early summer, we have known that this faU one which at this time is not available to the people of prepared by himself and Mr. Turnage. would hold a personal campaign by Adams and his Big Sur. One wonders why. • Nov. 7, 1979. Adams briefs Congressman Panetta, • business manager, Bill Turnage, to boost the The composition for this subject, Big Sur, must be as Sen. Cranston and Rep. Phillip Burton about Big Sur photographer's personal image and personal views. perfect as possible. A different kind of zone system and after White House session. The history of the Adams quest began two years ago some very complicated equipment had to be devised to • Nov. 8, 1979. Monterey Peninsula Herald anicle Christmas when he and his associates announced a plan capture Big Sur. a difficult and fleeting subject to cap "For the National Gallery-Ansel Adams Snaps Carter, for a Big Sur National Park. This plan did not sit well ture indeed since it is most often described as "a state of Mondale in Natural Habitat." Caption under photo of with Big Sur citizens, none of whom wanted the over mind." Adams reads "... with a word on Big Sur." (See whelming tourist influx, the additional buses, the big elsewhere in this issue for reprint of story.) • business concessions, and the additional public facilities Timing and Exposure • Nov. 8, 1979. Carmel Pine Cone article "Proposed of all kinds that such an ambitious undertaking would The machinery for this came in the form of a sudden, by Ansel Adams-Beach at Point Lobos Named in require. The National Parking Lot fallout on the but carefully orchestrated, media blitz and a round of Honor of Late Photographer Edward Weston." Photo Monterey Peninsula and in San Luis Obispo County was private parties and fund-raisers to which very specific caption says, "Cole Weston and Ansel Adams are exul also harshly criticized. people were invited. Timing and exposure were essential tant after the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approv Despite the objections of Big Sur citizens to the Na to the finished product: Big Sur-taken, processed, ed ... the name 'Weston Beach' " (formerly known as tional Park Service presence in any capacity, Con mounted, framed! Pebbly Beach). • gressman Panetta went ahead with a bill for a $350,000 The following is a proof sheet of these events: • Nov. 19, 1979. Adams on KQED Hugh Downs study (just on the heels of a thorough USFS study) that • Sept. 3, 1979. Time Magazine cover story, "The "Over Easy." would have left any future decisions on Big Sur in the Master Eye," (on Adams). Overexposed hands of the National Park Service. With due respect to • Sept. 24, 1979. Newsweek feature, "Two Faces of "Why is there all this stuff about Ansel Adams all of Mr, Panetta, he listened to the almost unanimous voice Ansel Adams." a sudden?" asked a Carmel resident a few weeks ago. of Big Sur and when they petitioned him (albeit • Sept. 25, 1979. (aside) National Park Director "He's been around a long time." twice), he the bill. Some other way had to be William Whelar,t speaks at the Big Sur Grange Hall. To those of us who live in Big the answer seems found to in this alien form of bureaucracy Ansel • Sept. 28, 1979. Adams achieves world record when clear. It also seems clear that Big Sur and Adams' own • Adams so favors. "Moonrise, Hernandez. New Mexico" is auctioned off plans for it keep him clicking. And if the photographer Thus the idea of photographing and lobbying the for $12 1000 at a Friends of Photography benefit ... himself does not get overexposed in the process, Big Sur president of the United States must have been born. Maggi Weston makes a successful $19,000 bid on certainly will. Sllch an undertaking had to be carefully plotted, and the Adams' Portfolio Three. "Of course, the people really do mean more than the first thing that needed to be done was to attempt to • Oct. 4. 1979. Carmel Pine Cone front page and rocks," said Adams in another context. Unfortunately, establish for Adams some kind of reputation as a por centerfold "Absorbing the Beauty-Yosemite and tht" this sentiment does not seem to apply to the people on trait photographer, to retouch and soften his own image Range of Light." the Big Sur Coast. In any case, it is possible that Adams • to include the human element. Enter Friends of • Oct. 7, 1979. Autograph-signing party at Weston may find the Big Sur people more unrelenting than the Photography, the non-profit organization Adams Gallery for new book, "Yosemite and the Range of rocks-and if he would only step closer. just as in formed over a decade ago. Light." teresting to photograph. • pageG THE BIO SUR GAZETTE December, 1979 • RPZs and Private Property (Editor's note: the following good enough to hold in but to keep the concept ... on letter was sent to the chief response to citizen protests an even broader, undefined • director ofthe Department of about the RPZs. There are geographical basis. We also Parks and Recreation by a several comments I would realized that this was not local resident and sent to the like to make: your intent although you nOa1.ette Jt for publishing. made very clear your respon L You have no idea what a sibility to protect what you Dear Mrs. Huffman: joy/relief/shot-in-the-arm it felt were the department's I received your letter of was for those who have been valid interests in what Nov. 2, concerning the fighting to preserve some semblance of private proper development took place in • of AB 687 (Chapter the neighborhood of your the require ty rights against the hideous parks. ment that your department steamroller of the Coastal This brings me to my sec establish RPZs. I was a par Commission, to realize sud ond point which is a (belated) ticipant in both the Carmel denly that we were dealing response to your request for High School and Sur with a public official who was input as to how the depart public hearings that you were a responsive non-bureaucrat. ment could protect its interest • Your formidable intelligence in the areas around the parks. Regulations was refreshing. Your accep 2. I recognize the right of Corrections tance of the audience's con any property owner within a cern was genuine and made a Dear Editor: "Life Everlasting" is a Labels certain distance (defined by Dear Editor: true discussion possible. As an American and Big common name for a native local zoning law) of a pro I was pleased with the ap Editor: Your ability to articulate the Sur resident-property owner, succulent that grows on the Dear posed development to pro pearance of my Rainy Day In Big Sur, as els«:wbere. Department's points of view I feel far more threatened by coastal bluffs, proper name, vide input to planning and • Ramble on the page. The there are people inclined to and needs succinctly was an the loss of autonomy Dudleya. zoning bodies regarding that photograph of Pfeiffer Beach label themselves (oh, how we enormous change from the indeed our basic constitu which 1 took from Deer On the whole, the first development, and to express love labels!) as "conser gobbledygook of so many tional rights-as our daily Ridge loses a lot in the pro monthly column has been a objections, etc. In order to vationists," or "liberals," or state employees (as exampled lives become more regulated experience. H I Famous Voices Museum ThM* BIdf· ,U Old FI.I'lelmln'1 WhIff 'i MontllfllY t3940 (408) 373-l1li11 • Government Pushes Plans for ,GOING TO SAN FRANCiSCO? Low Income Coastal Housing For a delectaQle treat, try ... Juanito' s Burritos 6 'T aqueria By MARK STEVENS in the state. Tile Christian Science Monitor To prevent owqers from making quick profits. the units will QUALITY FOOD -- FRESH DAILY be bought by local'housing authorities when the owners move TAKE OUT ORDERS . Their names alone tell the image, the reality, and the pat and will be resold at a price corresponding to the percentage increase in median income since the original purchase. tern. Open Noon to Midnight La Jolla. San Clemente. Laguna Beach. Malibu. Santa Bar "Over time," coastal planner Steve Horn says, "a unit that bara. Carmel. Mendocino. is affordable to a family earning 90 percent of the median in 1818 HAIGHT STREET JOHN J, LYONS • They are jewels on the California coast-cities that afford come will staY that way. and not get out of reach." Between Shrader!l< Stanyan Streets 366-3037 splendid views of the ocean and a comfortable seaside life style Next month the Coastal Commission will consider standards for those who can afford it. They are not pockets of poverty. for new housing. While these are still k1eing discussed, it is .like While there are some communities where the average ly the commission will recommend that 25 percent of the new homeowner lives modestly, the California coast is for the most housing be made ,available to low- and moderate-income part a magnet for the wealthy and a nice place to visit for those families. No such standard will be set for new rental construc not as fortunate. tion. however. The Coastal Commission believes that the policies are • economically feasible. thereby meeting the mandate of the Many coastal communities insist they are doing Coastal Act, since federal subsidies to developers who build their best to protect the fragile coast, that public the cheaper units will ensure the developer's profit. In many cases, in fact, such projects are lucrative. No federal subsidies beaches and parks afford an opportunity for others are involved in condominium conversion, however, and to visit the coast, and that the guidelines would developers may squawk over those guidelines. mean more trouble for the delicate coastal environ The main objection is likely to come from those already liv is published ,the first • ment. ing in coastal cities who simply want to close the door. The League of California Cities is expected to work through .Monday ot every month. the state Legislature next year to stop the commission from dabbling in housing issues. Many coastal communities will insist that they are going Taking authority froin the Coastal Actof 1976 to "protect. their best to protect the fragile coast, that public beaches and encourage and where feasible provide housing opportunities" parks afford an opportunity for others to visit the coast, that • for low- and moderate-income wage earners, the California taxpayer money should not be used to subsidize any such ef Deadline for News Items, Coastal Commission is working to alter the pattern of ex fort, and that the guidelines require more development and, Classified Ads I Announce clusivity. While just surfacing in many communities, it is an ef therefore, more trouble for the delicate coastal environment. fort that is certain to stir heated debate. The Coastal Commission disagrees. "We can protect the en ments is the 20th of the This summer, the Coastal Commission adopted guidelines vironment without being elitist," says Don Neuwirth, coastal month preceding issue. that specified what conditions must be met before buildings access program manager at the commission. within the coastal zone can be converted to condominiums. In To date, the guidelines have produced just 300 units for low order to obtain the permit to cODvert, the developer must and moderate-income owners, but the commission expects that • make one-third of the units "affordable." That means the figure to climb rapidly. Without such guidelines, Mr. Horn price must be within reach of prospective owners who earn says, the coast will "continue to degenerate in the direction of from 50 percent to 120 percent of the average median income more affluent housing." • Carol Hallett Blasts Odd-Even Declaration As~embly Minority Leader and a very apprent crisis, of running for the presiden Carol Hallett said Gov. Gov. Brown merely askecl cy, the governor apparently Brown's order for a state counties to let him know if feels compelled to take this • wide odd-even plan is a they wanted an odd-even drastic step for the whole "blatantly political move that plan," Mrs. Hallett said. state, I think it's obvious that will work a hardship pn rural "Now, when a crisis is his decision is blatantly areas." speculative at best and when political. " "When we had gas lines Jerry Brown is in the throes Mrs. Hallett said Californ ians have been cutting down on fuel usage since the spring 11I1l1I111111 shortage, as demonstrated by • TO~RE monthly gasoline consump 111111 111111 tion figures released by the I111I "t" I ENGINEERING state. Inadditimi, she said. 11111111\1\1 this time of year is usually 111I111l!!1I1 (408) 667'-2220 marked by a decrease in gas consumption. "Californians will do their • part to cut back on fuel con sumption voluntarily without GLEN OAKS the sledgehammer approach ()f the .. odd-even plan," the RESTAURANT assemblywoman said. "Gov. NO Brown's move, in fact, may Highway i-Big Sur, Ca. actually encourage rather DRIVING, UNDER • than alleviate gas problems. If we use measures for reasons, THE 667-2623 will lose their effectiveness and we will have (c times of INFLUENCE • 's Clothing - mClrUQ,m. FACT ... DRINKIN DRIVERS ARE INVOLVED IN HALF Of All o IN I DRIVERS ARE INVOLV [) E OURTH , AY ACCIDENTS IN lIFORNIA · 6~4...,.215 CARM FACT ... MORE THAN DRINKING DRIVERS ARE ARRESTEO .. Mw TAKEN TO JAil EACH YEAR IN CALIFORNIA REMEMBER, DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE LAWS ALSO • INCLUDE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ANY PRESCRIBED OR ILLEGAL DRUG ALONE, DR IN COMBINATION WITH ALCOHOl. pageS THE 810 SUR OAZEnE December, 1979 • Property Owners Elect Officers The annual meeting of the we'd still be around." Big Sur Co.ast Pronerty Owners Association (CPOA) was held on November 19 to acre. elect new officers and listen "The commercia! to guest speakers from the recreational facilities find • Big Sur Land Trust, Sur themselves in a Foundation' and Uel'}d! '!.lIIt'" DO!IIt1Cm from the v£n',",';,."'", of Parks and values of their "nt"r... ,,.i~,,,,~ The 1979 officers were re Mr. said, elected for a new term: Pres!-'" A National Reerea- dent, Katherine be an President, Marion Harlan; for the • Secretary, Charles Treasurer, Barbara "'"·",, ....rf. son. "The members of the new melmh,er of the Board Directors are: D.C. Bar in Marilyn Abel, John Cluett, ' troduced the Trustees of the Mary Fee, Foundation as follows: wiil Helmuth Morganrath, President; Ansel • Sanborn, Howard Vice-President; Frank Trotter, Secretary; with "con- New USFS Los Padres Lockwood, Hugh Fred Farr, " such as re John Harlan, and Bill Newell "and we Big Sur Land Trust and Kenneth a need to find a Forest Plan Underway Big Sur Land Trust Presi He said the main objective great deal money to to attend these brief Forest Service {!er dent of the Foundation was "to tect the scenic values and to join with us as we sonnel are available to make • presented the Sur as it is." Coast." a develop this plan," presentations on this subject organization: to preserve acc:om,pll:sh this Sur State Parks visor deHoll said, to groups and organizations. open space and natural Ken manager of has a lot at stake in the Arrangements can be made , to protect Parks in Big not only to Padres Na- sites and collect nresented list of but for the future. Their 42 Aero needed to aid the CaliL area. and ac Forest Service in 968-1578, Atten • "I can that Forest areas, that reflect Information Of- there PU1,pose of this and demands as well as tions those of the various Forest planning is part of a hidden nationwide effort by the U.S. said. out that Forest to develop the Existing Big Sur Parks effort is the Forest Management Trustees as follows: She rna many other Plans for each National Stewart, Secretary; that have taken Forest. The development of • Addleman, Treasurer; in recent years by the these is being guided by " Vice-President; Service. "Our recent efforts Nl'll'!t\n"t Forest Manage attorney; and Peter . the Resources of 1976 recently ..., ''-4''',,,", attorney. Act and RARE II \'''''''''''''~'' :m1gr"~'1iI Persons "The Land • • • additional this t'HIlUUUllS effort may' contact office of the LOs • National Forest for an informational pac:ka!~e BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER • COCKTAILS Closest to ,Hearst Castle! Enjoy delectable dining, with a sunset • view of the coast. Gourmet specialties mclude fresh local seafood delicacies meat entrees. Nostalgic, Hearst Castle decor. • Merry Christmas • from The Phoenix Shop • ON HIGHWAY' AT SAN SIMEON RESERVATIONS: {805} 9274604 .. December, 1979 THE BIG SUR·GAZETTE Page 9 :. I • • • • • • HARRY DICK ROSS lights up before going to work in his work, good books and., above all, kindness and humor make sculpture studio. "Wine, women, song," good food, hard the good life in Big Sur. (Photo by Steve C,ouc~) • Big Sur Pioneer Artist • By ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICK·GRlMM "I've always been told what to do by women, and I enjoy it. weakness-he has never made an"enemy!" One of the ingredents for .1'1 lasting marriage, Harry Dick Saves me from making a lot of decisions. I adore women. I But it was Henry Miller's daughter Valentine who, when she believes. is room to grow. He bases this on experience with wouldn't give a good goddamn for all the men in the world, was jUst 7, expressed the primal essence of this man when she Lillian. After the walking trip through Big Sur 'and Ii freighter excepting me!" scribbled these words: "Harry Dick is a great man he helps trip to Europe for a year when they were in constant company, This is Harry Dick Ross talking with a George Burns you when you need it and who protects you and loves you." they parted "for eight or nine months." She took a job in a twinkle. He's a robust, wiry BO~year-old Big Sur artist who What more could a woman ask, at any age? Los Angeles book store, and he remained at a book shOp in could pass for 50 or 60. In the company of Harry Dick, a Harry Dick is the pioneer of contemporary Big Sur artists. San Francisco. They kept in touch by phone and letter {!Uti! it • wOman becomes quickly aware that here is man who, unlike There were other artists living in Big Sur before Harry seemed the right time to get together again. "I just wanted to Yahwab, has enough deity of his own to allow other men, or a Dick-if you want to consider the Esselen Indians the gang of see her," said Harry Dick. So he went to Los Angeles. Took a woman, to assert themselves. No need for anyone to walk soft convicts at Anderson Canyon. The Indians specialized in jade job on the docks to be near her. Finding work Was never ly or humbly in his presence. His confidence in his rnasuclinity and carnelian arrow points. And the convicts made boxes and blem. "I was a card-carrying railroad man. You could damn doesn't require the exaggerated pride of machismo. cigarette holders from abalone shells while they were working well get a job of some sort whenever you wanted. This was a Logger, miner, freight hauler, dock worker, tilesetter. on the road that opened Big Sur up to the world in 1937. job fixing up broken cargo." forester, artichoke picker, carpenter, musician and bartender But neither the Indians nor the convicts came by choice. "That separation enhanced our relationship," he said • in his Gemini lifetime, Harry Dick has always been a sculptor. Harry Dick and Lillian pioneered, walking from San Simeon thoughtfully. Then, more emphatically, "I know it did." At least ever since he followed a Promethean bent as a boy and· to Monterey in and returning to build a hand-hewn house Now he believes that .periodic separations are "a .deIlnite ~ molded a horse from a handful of dirt father thrown in the '408. Harry Dick sculpted and did odd jobs while Lillian recipe for a lasting marriage." He says, "They give you Ii his way from a shovel on the~_!tftt:U wrote and kept house. chance to be your own self. If you don't want hot cakes for But it's clear that in his art, as wen as in Their life . the best of it, was described by Lillian in breakfast, you don't have to have them. It's very important subject has always been women. Harry an article she wrote about Harry Dick: "His family, one wife, for an individual to be an individual, and sometimes in a mar three geniuses." thinks of his laughter at breakfast, of firelight evenings, talks, riage you can't accomplish that." • The· first was Lilliam Bas Ross, poet and novelist, whose books and a lot of to music." Harry Dick had been studying sculpture with AVjird Fair book, The Stranger, was made into a: film, Zande's Bride, star Harry Dick lives now on Partington Ridge. He banks at the University of Oregon when he met his first ring Liv Ullman, a few years ago. He called her cultivates a garden that includes vegetables and hollyhocks. "genius' lady. The scene was Gill's Book Shop in Portland "Shanagolden." The second was Eve McClure MUler, actress, And his house and studio mirror the complex nature of a milD where Lilliam was a buyer. "She showed me a new book artist and one-time wife afone of Big Sur's most notable who cares for books, music, art, firelight, food, children, by-you know-that woman Who lived in a tree house in residents, author Renry Miller. Lillian and Eve are dead. Now humor, technology, crafts, booze, cigarettes, good conversa· Carmel-Mary Austin. She was a famous dame around here." Harry Dick is married tostUl another genius, artist Helen Col tion, and sex-though not necessarily in that order. The book was Isidro. by. " Wife Helen Colby has her own studio in a Carmel Highlands "I looked at it, H Harry Dick continued, "and, in my male • San Francisco Chroncile columnist Herb Caen has looked at home. Each respects the otber's need fOI space and privacy to arrogance, I put it down and said, 'I never read novels by Harry Dick as "a dignified and talented wood carver who create. They meet at specal times for the closeness that an ar women: And she said, 'You buy this book and take it home serves a dryly civilized martini and a good bullshot." tistic temperament too often militates against, if the artist is to AndJ.OJWe:"ShanagoJdenwrote •• ~ ... he may have had one continue creating. • Page 10 THE BIG SUR CAZETTE December, 1979 easier for a lady in those days. A lot of people froWIled on a dame with a guy without a piece of paper saying they're Dick explains. "One of the myths that Harry Dick Ross ••• It really wasn't any trouble to, get mar- did it in Saiinas. But that wasn't where they intended CmttiJ:lued from previous pale Dick had been interested in the history of the and read itl' I did. It was.good. We were friends from then CaUfcfrni.a U"~~IV!l:S, and San Juan Bautista was a favorite. • j on." That's when he admitted to eniiov!n1l extra(l~rdin'l.\lry not get married there? women teUing him what to do. never occurred to me that I was agnostiC, not Harry Dick described as "older I was, gracious, even a we couldn't be married there. So when the and bandsome-a fascinating and brilliant woman." He said Dick said, "Lillian was said we headed for Salinas to find a judge or she had to quit her formal education in the third grade because " minister. It was a minister, I think, who murmured holy vows of family problems. But that didn't keep her from. learning. Fra.nci!.co, Harry over us In his house. " . She was a born storyteller who loved to play. pretend, act out They spent their official honeymoon in Halcyon, a religious •. , fanta.sies. "She was a little U said Harry Dick. Fit right in bridges behind community and colony near Pismo Beach. They stayed with his own Peter Pan aspects: spent a lot of summers tOi~ettler' "for seven or with friends in a place called "The Doll's House" and entered playing on California beaches-acting as if they were pirates, into the carefree Bohemian life. Harry Dick worked 'in the ar or playing the part of robbers (objective: neighbors' vegetable' tichoke fields for "four bits a day." Lillian wrote poetry. and • • • A GRACEFUL FEMALE appears when Harry Dick's hands • wood. • • • • HAKRY DICK and Lillian Dos Ross, his "Shanagolden" who became one of California's best·known writers. survey Big Sur from the porch of the house they built on Partll1lton md&.e In 1947. (Phot!) by MIU')' • • • • ABSORBED IN RAIELAIS, Hanj Dick is call1llt in It COl)' moment USING A DOVBLE AXE lIS a chisel. Harry" Drek works on a 'on ,June 7,1913. One of his·eariyfema sketches can be seen in the wllU~ Eve MUIer Ross and visitor look on. . , December, 1979 THE b, • Harry Dick made drawings-when they werenJt actipg out fantasies. . , "One day/' he said, "we stopped at Arroyo Grande for gas and saw a map of the coast. 1 noticed that it was blank from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. We were intrigued and decided to put some on our backs and hike through that >coun- try. We as far as San Simeon. That's where the road ended. I worked for awhile on It was just • being built. First I was ala1:>orer, then a -That lasted for several months until I'd earned enough to stake us to San Francisco. Then we got a map of the old coast trail, put the packs on our backs with some dried food and wild honey pro· vided by ftiends, and we headed north, keeping diaries all the way. "When we'd find a place we particularly liked, we~d stop and enjoy. And we'd catch fish fOT vitamins. Only trouble we ever had was with hogs. One night we dug a hole for a fire and buried a pot of beans in it so we could have them in the morn· ing. Some hogs dug '$!m up ,while we slept, so we had j:!f\ncakes for breakfast. "We stopped over at Pacific Valley and the Harlan Ranch. The people treated us w!,nderfully. Found out that Wilbur • Harlan was a natural naturalist. No formal schooling. He'd learned all about the flora and fauna and I just gobbled up his knowledge. We met John Pfeiffer and the Posts and soaked up all kinds of lore from them." When they reached Monterey, Harry Dick said, "we got very grand and took the train to San Francisco. But we knew we'd come backlo 'the coast! Nobody called it Big Sur in those days. Sometimes they called it the South Coast." • In San Francisco, Harry Dick heard that a friend from his art school days was living in The Compound on Telegraph HilL "We marched with our back packs down through Mont gomery Street. I was hollering .!It the top of my voice which, in those days, could be pretty top. 'Bob Johnston, hey, Bob Johnston. where the hell are you'I! , A balcony wimiow opened up in The .Ccmlpoundand Bob Johnston walked out. So we • went up and were visiting, and I guess they must've called somebody af. they'dY;heard we'd been through Big Sur because pretty'soon the door opened and a big handsome man walked in. Bob introduced us and the minute Big Sur was men tioned the man just turned and walked away-didn't say a damn wordl In. about five minutes he came back with' his hands full of photographs and information on Big Sur. Said Big Sur was his greatlove. We' had that in common." • The man was Harry Lafler,an "uptown ,realtor," who was later to give Harry Dick a job helping to build a stone house in Big Sur. Big Sur people liked him so much they named a can yon after him. But before the Rosses couldsettIe in Big Sur, there was to be a sojourn in Europe and a time for working again to save money for a freighter trip to get there, via the Panama Canal. • So Lillian sold clothes at Ransahof's and Harry Dick worked in the Paul Elder Book Shop until there was enough in the kit· ty for the trip. This was in the early '30s. As for Europe, Harry Dick. remembers the Dutch and Belgians with most pleasure. He says the French were •'ornery as ever." . But he and Shanagolden were delighted because "Europe was allv:e with art." • He'd made a lot of drawings during their travels, and when it came.time to go through customs, the official reviewed them with interest, then said, in great disappointment, "What, no nudes?" Did they have any adventures? No. "Most people who have adventures are foolish-yet, it's good to be foolish once in awhile. On the other hand, why take risks if you can plan and enjoy?" • In spite of this philosophy, they did run out' of money. There was only enough for one ti(:ket back to the states. But the good .captain of the freighter agreed to let them payoff the HARRY DICK ROSS poses in bisstlMlio with some Df (Photo by Dick HlImm) second ticket at SiO a month in a time when the installment plan was almost unbeard of. the woodea laweshe caned iato his,Jife. Back in the states, Harry Dick and Lillian partedforawhiIe. were reunited in Los Angeies,. then heard that Harry Lafler • was planning to build his house in Big Sur. l:afier offered to pay Harry Dick' $4a day, working as a .carpenter with stonemasons brought from Spain. It's known as the Stone House. It's perched On the ridge above Deetjen's Big Sur Inn. When the house was finished, Harry Dick says, "there was an interlude-a lovely, amazing, awfulinterlude. We lived in Salinas for a year." • Harry Dick had wanted to try to make a living from his art. Commercialize it a little. So he'd gone to an "earn while you learn" art school in Los Angeles for a few months with this in mind, He learned to make show cards, "all the things for win dow decoration" and was employed as a commercial artist by Sees Candy Company. When he and Lillian decided on Salinas as the place closest to Big Sur where might make a living: Harry Dick put up • a sign,"H.D. Ross-Commercial Artist" and went to work. Shanagolden wrote articles for Salinas and Monterey Penin . sula publications-and both of them became involved with local radio stations. "We made a pretty good living." Then one day Esther .Ewaldsen called them and said Mt friend Beth Livermore wanted somebody to live in her home down on Livermore Ledge in Big Sur. "So Jesus, we just • leaped at that. We borrowed a truck and moved down there in a hurry. There were 10 wonderful, gorgeous years there." This was the late '30s. ' Harry Dick worked as a carpenter onBi~ Sur projects, in cluding the River Inn, and carved. He turned the Livermore Ledge garage into a studio. Made signs, too. "I didn't confine myself to fine art at all. I carved trays and craft stuff that would sell. I 'belonged to the craft group in • Carmei and we had a sales room there. I carved everything from buttons for coais to Godkhows what. Some guy was up here'the other and asked me if I'd ever felt that 1'd bastar- dized my art; of course I didn't.! If I built somebody a nice wall, 1 felt that was art. There are loads of artists who feel they've got to ·rnake fine .art or nothing:" Nearest neighbors to the ROises were the Harlans. "One of the Harlan sons had. a ranch just above us," Harry Dick said, '~and he used to appear once in awhile and say, 'Harry Dick, AT HOME on Livermore Ledgt, Harry Dick loved to get your shoes on.. I just knocked over a buck and I want you 'play the guitar and sing during those early years in Big Continued oil next page Sur. • .I'te SIP SUR OAZETTE December. 1979 .~ • • • • Bos Ross, acttllss/artist Eve Miller, lind artist Helen Colby. like all nature's creatures, And one shouldn't be free at the ex pense of another. "I think that men, by and large,. have put women down too Men say, 'Christ, I'm the guy, I'll • Big Pioneer Artist decide!' I'm awfully unless a woman is clever as S,ur the ml:\n makes up his mind when they're going to make Continued from previous page love, or he 'I want bacon and eggs for breakfast,' and to come up and help me skin it ' H 'we'll go to movies ' But I think more and more H~ry Dick would' 'get home with about and women now are can say, 'Bug off, buster!' And I Shanagolden would "get busy and can it, There was no approve I I'm so this women's lib!" refrigeration in those days, so the was filled with can- And how men and women look at each other? "As ned venison, canned ,fish, raIsed dear loves and Dick, "Right now I think • "nearly every vegetable we in we're in one of worked-up eras town,-Monterey-only for was anybody could ever live and there aren't enough 'dear lovely!" loves! " But it was when they the Murphy's Henry Miller knew how he was to have Harry Dick as Jersey pint-sized cow" complete. a neighbor, Once he wrote that Dick could pick up and 'My God, she was the most examine a leaf and a dithyramb on structure, gorgeous cheese, And we got a .of from· the about the inconceivable collaboration • Department of Agriculture to tell, us how to it. We even the and above the about made Essie a nice little barn to her warm the and about and about the storms," worries of the little creatures, about their skill, for- How did they keep their so on and so on, until I feel that it's not the dead cooler"-a screened-in container burlap. Water he's in his hand but a dictionary, encyclopedia, dripped Q.ver it through a tiny hole in a pan. this reduced the Dick liked manual of art, pnllOl,ptllY of all rolled into one." ins.ide temperature 15 to 20 "We were so damn smart. neighbor anybody ever He loves every But may be that Harry Dick's • We could open the pantry and the cooled" fun of ideas. When :SlUt~ajgoll;ten for women and their own need to .express All patt of his creative pioneer including my read to be with even when she wasn't fully aware of hp,nc,·lv,·< revealed so openly in his art and in rancher-farmer Idaho parents, used these before there his He was so wo~derful to his two children, too. what makes his life most were any ice boxes. I loved to soak in ways and stories he shared with them! He'd have them lore, especially MormOn lore. I a about the with of each climax. There was always h"illll"'r>t religion, but I love those Mormon pic.nei~rs! conversation at dinner no matter how tired he was. He always "Our life in Big Sur? 1 had energy for stories." us in The Stranger when never the second • the first time in my life Uelt t' home in world I was borned .. n..... "u" in Harry life. Dick had lost in.' " Henry Miller called that book "a little dassie," It had SIlanllgolde1n to her illness. Eve Miller came to live with him. been instrumental in his own desire to get the feel of the reason Eve moved here waS that Henry was Big Sur. ' the star attraction. Eve had been more than successful Harr:rDick looked at one day in in theater world before she came to Sur. And she gave like any other, People had to look to the:mseIvles a lot of her life to Henry's two children. I guess she finally entertainment. For example, he "On a day, I got' got tired of it and decided she to move out into the • up and built a fire in the wood stove. The man always does world. that. Then i'd take the stove lid off and put the tea kettle over "She was a natural artist.:....no it. That hurried up the coffee. I could in seven minutes., with Helen for quite awhile on '''''''fi'''''''''' and that was the most important morning,.' she turned into a wonderful artist! Helen at time was "Shanagolden had an agreement herself. She wrote a William Colby, living in and w~ all got tOgetllier thousand words every day. So, after coffee and a tittle fre:QUenl'ly. Helen spurred Eve into into art, breakfast, she'd get to her typewriter. Maybe I'd do a little out what was all about, how to do • wotkin the garden or go to my studio to carve. Or I'd chase the finest artists in AnnPT1,..R the pack rats the hell out of the place! You they're com· from her. But it wasn't. C01PYlng. pletely wonderful! Some people call them trade rats, That's a own. Her favorites were etCnln,gs, misnomer. They just see better so they and Later, she 'with Alba drop what they've got and take the other H who later kiUe(i himself south of here, Nothing ever goes unnoticed with with her world of art and work·' "l'd·work at a lot morning until late at Then we'd have "But," Dick smiled like a small "she was also '1:\' • one o'dock. Themailmanwasgol.ge()~s creative that didn't hurt a damn That was true came three times a week and his of and it's true of I've had' my diet well Monday. you could him a taken care of ail my life!" bring. your lT~<,."p,.j ..~ His nice darkened a little. "Eve did have a till the maillm~1Jl life here. But alcohol got the best of "In the Dick and Eve were for g!lrden ..","".". more two decades and to fix it. There was wood to "We've been married now for 10 '. Then we'd have nA,'''''''''. and marvelous artist, in awhile we'd ever known, It's how We were Then came a look. "I've been early period down here! We went over to the ",u.rnnv 80 years. Helen and I were went to the Hot Of to the Free Lynda I'v.e been so fortunate Sargent would come t:iown duck. It was a gorgeous happened to me that are bad, period! lqeal!" that's come to me • tn the late decided to awhile, That's all. was my pioneer leave Livermore Ledge on Partington 1I",ht'1"aiina and Sur with three outstanding Ridge from Jean Wharton. house from The Ross twinkle return· "scrounged materials!' They could do as pleased then because there was no bullding to dictate, were first and Helen lived "We paid about $1,800 for three a half acres-money at Hin Helen's and rented out his we'd saved from our wartimejobs as Aircraft WllrTliTllr house on Partington for awhile, "But our life now, with me, lookouts. We'd accumulated interest on a stack of we'd here on and Helen in the Highlandsstudio, works bought from payroll deductions so we could pay cash for the out perfectly. A HARRY DICK ROSS SCULPTURE in smoothly rubbed acreage and the buUding materials, He believes that married peoPle need room to be themselves wood. (Photo hl',Joltlm P,Grab_> • December, 1979 THEEl ... Farrel said the planners "don't have ~ their own." He said he is sure the citizens . Carmel Highlands Begins tuitive sense of what's right for their area .. recommendations as to what they want to see in the, vironment, beginning with plans already in existence, n. Local Coastal Plan Process ing them where growth issues are in conflict with the Coab. Act, and coordinating plans with Carmel Valley and Big Sur shooters" and that they become well-acquainted with tl;le efforts. • Gazette Staff Reporter workings of the Coastal Commission, paying particular atten McCreary pinpointed the following Carmel area coastal tion to efforts in the Big Sur area during the pastJour years. issues to be considered: The Carmel Citizens Adyisory Committee for the Carmel •'We've learned a lot in the Big Sur process, and you'll need . -Shoreline access, including opportunities for coastal trails Segment, Local Coastal Plan, developed by the Monterey to meet with the Big Sur Advisory Committee to see where you and bikeways and consideration of "the lack of adequate County Planning held its first organizational have overlapping issues. The stakes are pretty high," the parking" at Monastery Beach, Pc Lobos Reserve, and the meeting Nov. 8 at p.m. in the Carmel High School supervisor stated. Carmel Point area. library. He also said that, among other things, the committee will -Recreation and visitor-serving facilities, including "long It was to meet again Nov. same time and place, to select have to give some thought to two major utility issues-how to range development plans for state Parks and Recreation a chairman, hear oral presentations on issue areas, and get a handle the Riviera Water Co. and sewage-septic tank disposal, Department property between Carmel River and Carmel general idea of basic policy recommendations after committee especially in the Highlands area. And it is obvious, he added, Highlands" and "the potential for a visitor information center members had "done their homework." That homework in that the development of Highw,ay 1 will have a tremendous im relating to Highway 1 and recreational areas to the south." volved studying of background date - Coastal Act policies, pact on both Carmel Valley and CarmeL -Housing, including evaluation of plans for private pro Big Sur goals, philosophy,and other related reports on the Big "One problem is," said Farr, "that you're being asked, as perty "south of Carmel River to Carmel Highlands in light of Sur-Carmel areas. local citizens, to plan not only with your own interests in mind state policies encouraging provision of low and moderate in • Scott McCreary, coastal planner in charge of the Carmel but with the interests of other citizens in the state in mind as come housing opportunities where feasible." segment,~conducted the initial meeting with Bill Farrel, senior well. If we fail to address state-wide problems at this local -Water and Marine Resources involving "continued planner in charge of the overall LCI? process. They emphasiz level, the state may offer solutions we don't want to discharge of treated wastewater into the Carmel Bay Area of ed that all meetings will be open to the public and that "all recognize. " Special Biological Significance," "continued use ofindivid:ual parts of the community should be urged to participate in our He suggested a tour of the area being planned for-from septic tank systems, " "the potential drawdown on the Carmel circle, including commercial interests and large landowners, Del Monte Forest on the north to Mal Paso Creek on the River acquiferby private and public wells," and "the effects the biggest of which are state agencies." south-and, perhaps, an. "overview from Lobos Ridge." of increased surface water run-off" resulting from Monterey County Supervisor Sam Farr was present and told McCreary and Farrel $ave committee members California development needs. • committee members that their updating of the Master Plan for Coastal Commission-approved "issue identification" reports -Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas involving the area will have a "constitutional" effect in years to come. and a work program and time schedUle. They said that the development in Pt. Lobos and the Gowen Cypress Grove areas Once a plan is adopted, he said, final decisions won't be left to deadline for completed plans for the program is Jan. 1, 1981. and development along the lower Carmel River. the Board of Supervisors. He urged that committee members They said that $36,000 has beep allocated for planning work in -Agriculture, including preservation of floollplain lands .. think of what effects their planning will have in the year 2000 the county and that the committee will be "looking at county -Hazard areas, including flooding, seismic activity, as they go through the LCP process. Master Plan documents in terms of the California Coastal Act geologic or soil instability and fire. Supervisor Farr pointed out that land use is crucial and must to see if then~ are any conflicts with the Coastal Act." They -Forestry and soils maintenance. • include needs for housing, energy and industry. He said he noted that the Big Sur Master Plan will be ready in draft form -Locating and planning new development that won't considers education an "industry" in the area. "If we're going by January "Hand we will learn and benefit from that." It was destroy the community character, destroy archaeologic to help fhe ,area economy,' we'll need to have places for people emphasized that all planning must be completed by 1981 "so resources Ot increase pollution' substantially. to live." He urged that the COmmittee serve as "problem the Coastal Commission won't have to finish it for us." -Preservation of coastal visual resources. -pubue works projects, including the need to preserve "the remaining limited capacity of the highway from Carmel through Big Sur for tourist and coastal recreational use," evaluation of existing and water for future • Highlands CA C Selection Flap development, review of current planning the Carmel District wastewater treatment,and of Reprinted from MCFC Newsletter that recreation, commercial be Once we have learned there seem to be more than cords of wood that • "stacked" this time -<* Shop by Phone or and that with "the time to discuss the demands of the committee with each • volunteer" (ernpiha!iis We Sam's letter at face value, until we looked at the members. For a the list attached with ir. the original. applicants, a considerable apparently took the cake. number names who we knew had volunteered to be From the wealth of • acrimonious, scathing, per turbed and just plain angry mail subsequently addressed to Mr. Farr, copies of which What's the were dispatched to this of up to? fice, we have deduced that, Forest Service notwithstanding our super visor's claims to the contrary, • apparently none of the ~ volunteers who were rejected had been interviewed, that some CAC appointees were interviewed only after receipt of, the appointment to the committee, that some, who • had not even volunteered for the task; had actually been solicited and entreated to come aboard, whereas still others among those selected professed amazement at,their appointment, never having • been contacted at all. Shades of the Big Sur CAC! The current flow of in ... a selection of the best of vective towards the fifth within national district's representative Big Sur art &CalifOrhia coastal crafts The Padres National Forest has scheduled a series reCalls, in our minds, the _ .. ____ .. _ ...... _ f", ~ _ ..... __ .. ___ .. -. _ .. __ .. _ .. of public brie.lings to talk about forest·~how best to resignations, six allocate resources for and for the future, The include slide/tape presentation, exhibit, months ago, of John remarks by Forest Service personneL and Gary Koeppel from that Yea! Please send me __ coples of the Coast Gallery's Fail/Winter Catalog. I en to attend! 12/3/79 7:30 p.m" committee and serves to close $t per copy. Make checks payable to Coast Gallery, Highway One, Big Sunset Center" - Room #4; ihrow new light on Mr. Koep SUf, CA 93920. San Carlos & 9th Ave. pel's charge to Sam Farr that Carmel, CA , "you have finally succeeded Name ______For information and publications regarding this project in appointing a majority of please contact Monterey Ranger District members to the committee Address ______~~ 406 S. Mildred who advocate your position King City, Ca. 93930 but do not represent the com City ______State ____ Zlp ____-- Phone; (408) 385-5434 munity or its interests. Citizen participation," Koep- • THE alo SUR OAZETTE December, 1919 Number of Permits Stirs Com.mission From the Berwd Sur Coastal Commis flow expressions of sion members and an indica from some Central tion that talk of a a na moratorium may not be far " agreed off. cOlnmlisslion .. ,.o.rni-lv.. direc • stating The pnlce:ssiIlg of the applications FOR meeting, the agency could be handled approved a coastal permit for through the LCP. one single-family dwelling on That, said chairman Mary THE Pfeiffer Ridge Road and took Henderson of Redwood City, an application for a second raises the questions of AWARE under study. whether the commission will By ARABY COLTON. Dissenters in the vote for a reSDOI'ld to every application for Russell and Jo before the LCP is COInpJ:eleu and whether it will Because Christmas is a Redick were Hummel of Santa Cruz a moratorium at time of joy, and of ~""'U".!!i, of Big Sur, who voiced some • may! share with -If a further increase son1ettlmg that has concern over the pace and nature of development in the in the application rate, great joy-not a Brown replied, that might carefree feeling, but a area between Highway wen be the case, sense of truth, of respect for 1 the coast south of "Let's not wait until we get and kinship with wild. Andrew Molera Park. to the bottom of the line It's frotn Wild BOBO, SIBERIAN Husky, born with the leadership instinct, return. before recognizing that we .: and sense of social responsibility inherited by a few sled dogs "Bobo was have to do that," Mrs. from leaders of wild-wolf packs. too-I never hurt him ae- Henm~rS(1ll said. are Second Application The second application in an area he said was from Pfeiffer Ridge Road Big SUr erossword No.4 to "unmerciful was from Patricia Von Burg, by lbtmIy LInoD , before the who said she planned to in .1 Aero.. passage of coastal i~gl:;lilIUVIl. stall her own well. 1. If you could get rid of that insect from this span. it would Before that ap- be one of the high places around here to climb. (5) She writes of him after his Dramatic .Increase plication to a later meeting, 4. You can fill 'er up at this vista. (4) death: said the rate of per r ..., ..,,·t .. rl his concerns 7. What would life be without a beginning and an end? (2) there .. and for the area. Mrs. Henderson 9. Careful, man. that stuff could explode in your'facel (3) along the South 10. If it's on top of the cargo, it's too mUeb. (4,4) said that she would like· to get Coast has increased 12. WIlen the family aCleIi camping. pells what tals alona the question of safe yield behind them. (7h in the Big Sur River water • 15. "My!" saYIi the Parisian, "And... " he continues. He's shed, trying to think of the name of t1Mt Freneh painter. (5) Whether water is pumped 17. If you thit\k .they're a nui~ce when they bite. be from a well or supplied by a thankful you don't have them in your car engine. (4) left me with a mutual water company, she 18. Yes? On the contrary. you've got it backwards! (2) sense of loss, as if I had observed, "It all comes from 19. Scramble part of a pine tree aDd you'll find the whole lost a friend. I felt for Dani~ the. same place." thina. (6) n.';'"il.. a ..rl to have shared are coming in Otner actions. induded 20. Ah. this era of commercial proptaanda we live inl It's an at the rate of about two a unanimous approval of a per • . old sayina. however. (2,3). . . *' month and are exceeding 40 a mit enabling tne city of for the entire Pacific Grove to make exten Dowu sive: improvements and 1. If you everything arranpd· and straiabteaed .out set repairs to the municipal pier aaain, it'll be a fun place to stay. (6) . , 2. If you're going through Oklahoma and get hunary, here s at Lovers Point, what you ean do if you bact up into this town. (4) 3. Turn the white one around and squeeze ,it into your gin and tonic. (4) 5. In the areat outdoors, this is what you do to yourselfwben Big Sur Coastal Permits you really excel. (5) • By MARY BARNETT nmmslte the de1re!ctprrtent and consider it a potential 6. You, the girl with the low voice. go and feteh that other Redwood & Company, has withdrawn its con- eyesore, among other things. girl. What she's in.~.well, she's nudel (4.3.3) trn""T.~"al nr()D(1.sal for a 205.:acre on Palo Col- 8. A certain number of py. who can't spell (4,3), but only In other actions last montn, the commission: one of them is in ebarse. (7) the Coastal ComnlissioIl. -Approved the application of Russell and Jo Ann Redick • 11. These reduce the number of Bia Sur winter visitors, . ' to" construct a single-family dwelling, septic_ tank apd water beeause they're afraid of aettins wet.,(5) Removal of the aDl0licatii:m Richard, l. storage tank on Pfeiffer Ridge Road in Big Sur. Conditions in· tI.. r'",,,,.,,,u·A ·of Redwood 13. After you eut this from a tree, it'll be your turn to buy us notu::e elude: no structures above the roofline, no additions without a because of questions ..... ",,,,,Alna M'Olnterev d.rinkll. {5} and a standard requirement tbat water conservation 14. A turned-round conjunction. (2) be installed, required of all homes in water-short Big 16. Polish it or hammer it, whichever you prefer. (4) The application t.._~... _1"', almost unanimolls 00I005:iti(m Sur. 17. This Ions fellow can really", you iD a dahl squem. (3l In addition to it included construction of -Continued for more geologic information an application 19. A pair of vowel. in the middle of a breae. (l) three helipads, two miles of fire of Victor Palmieri to build a single-family nome and septic • roads. Although the was to be done to seaward of Highway 1 between Anderson Creek and allow development charge it would Creek in Big Sur. The application is for a second be to development. residence for the caretaker on the parcel. Coastal Commis Comnlission staff said the staff sioners expressed concern about the possible precedent of aPl)!icati<)Il should ever been at- bouses on a lot. Some of them feared such a nre:ceOlem could double the f:!otential buildout of Big Sur. it, but that may have been an error," he M.lIl1LUCl concern is stability because the house is to sit • applicants would now have to remove on the edge of a Commissioners feared the topsoil-and until get all the necessary local the house-might slip over the edge, and decided to require a report, No staff recommendation. has been made as Director I1PI)l1~ • C®UNTRYMART Gifts· • the most vocal oPlpmlents of the Redwood & Com- Items aOlolicatil)ll are Kent of Big Sur Citizens (408)372·0303 Club Gate Center· PaCific Grove 93950 '"""LlUJU ...... and Virginia and Mudd, who live en a • • A Restful Retreat On The Big Sur Coast • REAL ESTATE MISC. FOR SALE FOR SALE BIG SUR Coast Country NEOLIFE PRODUCTS for OLD·TIMEY . trailing home and guest house. 35 sale. Natural, organic banjo. Beautiful neck. miles so. of Carmel. 33 beauty and health Plays well. New pegs. acres. Spectacular panora care. 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LICENSED CONTRACTORS Salinas Construction GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR • 667-2211 New Construction • Remodeling Hot Tubs • Decks • Etc. RIPPLEWOOD RESORT P.O. BOX 42 BIG SUR, CA 93920 • Rocky Point Area (408) 667-2552 JUAN SALINAS Hard to find 10 acres overlooking the blue Pacific. Spectacular views from this redwood and glass home. Featuring four bedrooms • and three baths, and only eight years old. Deadline Owner financing available to qualified culous attention to details and craftsmanship buyers. A real investment for $325,000. for NEWS ITEMS, in the skylighted, beamed ceiling, paneled inter· CLASSIFIED ADS, ior with plank flooring and an open plan embracing living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom ensures ANNOUNCEMENTS essentials contributing to comfort, also enjoyment • of a superb site. These include a fireplace, book .I ./ is the 20th of the ,/ cases, cabinets and cupboards, as well as sliding month preceding glass doors opening to a deck on the seaward side. issue. • CORNER REALTY The Big Sur Gazette 8th and San Cartos • Carmel Highway One .. Big Sur 93920 Mailing Address P.O. Box 1655 or phone newsroom 10-2 dally • Phone 62~5856 687·2222 • Typical of the efficient, attractive use of space f-'C "ALL... e~ in this compact cottage is the kitchen with hand crafted cabinets and countertops, a breakfast bar. ...f". ~ Visit our new PUB ROOM • »~ Similar effective use of space is a feature of the .8".,. -enjoy a game of pool and the best of good companvl ~ bathroom where the sunken tub in a windowed corner "'IIIIIJ 35 miles South of Big Sur Village on Highway One ~ has view of .sheltering hills, ocean and coastline. • Telephone, electricity and ample water supply from Panoramic View of Ocean and Coastline a private system increase livability in this rest ful retreaLPIl the Big Sur Coast. Price. $197,500. Restaurant • Groceries • Gifts Steve Gann photos • Beer • Wine • Gas Master Charge Open All Year Your Hosts: BankAmerlcard (80S) 927·3083 & Lee Rhoda Junipero near Fifth Visa Thompson P.O. Bin 5367, Carmel, CA. 93921 PHONE 624-1593 ANYTIME • Page 16 THE BIO SUR CiAZmE December, 1979 • • • • • CARTOONIST BILL BArES of the Gazette sketches Lou l!;ls:enlltef1ll. Diane Farrow waits a tum. Bates attracted many PERFECT DAY FOR a carnival. Just the same, it was held cnstomen and onlookers ail and in $107 for the between storms. Each year min threatens the late October school as weI). • Misake Wheeler· Wagy Two Big Sur "Firsts" \JU<'''"",,,,,,,,, Walk, Francesca Burchell-Face Raffle Ticket Newell and at Captain Cooper C rnival Protz • and to Roger Newell for up park- who were fortunate nr{lce,~h to and clean up, to Principal to ride in .it, Sur's nuv."~. line that Don Case, hot air balloon took to thc ""VVV';U until the carn this Knut· the entire ival had ended! banner across Dave for from the hot In which was made booths, to John Alaska-and for Barbara Fish • Bill Post and Tom Bryan Sur Mike Sur Volunteer to Gazette's cartoonist, drew and Bobbie enter members, Coor caricatures of "''''' """"-"U"" tained time for the raf The school staff and dinator Martha and fle. children are to Gene helpers, Jill De Groat , Lisa Judith Goodman told Estribou Ridge Thompson, Burt Kelly and stories to the children, Pinney and finally. to the Carmel middle • at which she is {Joynt Ven school and high school Rowena Mayer and students who returned· to Cooper School Connie for up Captain Cooper to lend a teaCIl!lrs' aide, Chris Warner, and to hand: Stacy Benson, Justin handled raffle ticket sales. number of parents Cheshire, Michael Eaton, The raffle brought in the friends for standing Berley Farher, Julianne most money ever, $1,763.50. watch at the many booths: Leavy, Julia White, and Its success was due to Knutson-Dunk Tank Byron Wilkerson, Many • its Thelma Bur Krausfeldt for fiU· thanks! and committee Dana Knutson Once again the Big Sur members Sandra Detty, Lois n~fJ.tuu,,! and Nails, Barbara community staged a suc Farber and Beverly Newell. Fish-Fish Tank, Bm cessful school fund-raiser; in this year's Burleigh-Bean Bag the most successful so Christa Griggs-Stuffed far, Net proceeds this year Animal Toss, Doug Detty came to $2,479.37-an ex • and Dennis Bleck-Dart cellent day's work. Photos by Paula Walling • • • • RAY DEMERRIT of Plolletlr RaDooDS helps Carmel climbs out. Tile first couple in line .JAKE STOCK and the Abllone Stompers Jason Allen In the basket for a ride with Ials lIad come from Carmel just to ride in the (.Jackie Coons, Mike Marrotta, Al O'Day dad Pat of Plio Colorado. Issie Head of baDoon. and Bobbie Phillips) entertllned III ages duro • December, 1979 THe .BIC SUR CAZme page 17 threats to your house simultaneously. You are probably wonder ing at this point what to do. Dial 911 and tell the operator YQU have a house fue in Big Sur . .Give your location and the extent of the problem • clearlY to the, dispatcher so that the Fire Brigade can get to your house as soon as possible. Shut off the air to your fireplace or stove im mediately. Douse the burning lIRE BnlGl.~t material with water and break up the fire with a Only yo~ Can Prevent poker. This .will slow the porcelain forced draft which is feeding a Chimney Fire the chimney fire and may By FRANK PINNEY even stop it altogether. The Santa Claus faces the same cooler areas of the chimney. chimney will usually burn problem this time every year. Then, when the temperature only as long as the creosote is christmas • Not only does he have drops you put a big log or hot present. Once the material is presents to distribute to his burning fuel in the fireplace used up or the air is shut off, four billion member t\mily, to warm up the room. The the fire will subside. Focus studio sale but an increasing number of excess heat melts the deposits your attention now to the them are using their wood and ignites the fuel build roof and surrounding area. one day only burning stoves and fireplaces up. Have a well-placed hose near to heat the house. This has Once the material (creosote by which can put a stream of meant an increase in Santa's primarily) has ignited, you water on the roof. Use this sun., dec: 16 • 10 a.m.-4 p.m. • overhead just to cover cost of will hear a loud roar develop, hose now to extinguish spot 625·2329 cleaning his joily red suit. sounding like a jet plane. fires which may have started Over 40,000 households in Your fire in the stove is now from the clinkers. directions to studio: from carmel, drive south the U.S. and Canada have ex feeding super-heated air to 'What can you do to pre perienced chimney fires in the the chimney fire and the vent .. a11 this from happening? 11 miles on highway one to palo colorado road. past year. In Big Sur alone we temperature will exceed 2,000 Clean your chimney! Once follow road 3.2 miles to studio. had six chimney fires which degrees F. Thisis hot enough every two to four cords for a • resulted in several hundred to crack or shatter masonry fireplace and every two to embree porcelain thousand dollars in real estate and will eat through the four weeks for a stove is a destruction. Fortunately. the stoutest metal-bestos flue good rule of thumb. No one loss from these fires has been liner in minutes. This burn is immune to the dangers of a relatively small. through is a real problem, but chimney fire. What happens with a more immediately, you will Yes, I know. Now you chimney fire is. simply that see the secondary fires as have looked at your flue and unburned material from the white-hot soot and clinkers are wondering how that big • fire deposits on the wall of spew from the top of the fat jolly old man will ever fit the chimney builds up over a chimney onto the roof and to come down it. Well, clean period of weeks, deending on ground below. your flue regularly and let" the type of wood you are If you not only forget to Santa Claus worry about the burning, the design and con clean YOUr chimney, but also details. dition of your chimney. No leaves built up on your roof, Only you can prevent chimney is totally immune to then you face two serious chimney fire. • flue fires and your only in surance is regular cleaitiIlJ. The deposits form with con depsation of hot gases in the Ventana Wilderness USFS Study Available The public has an oppor and share ideas about the • tunity to review ,the draft various problems and Support Your study report for the Ventana management alternatives. In- Wilderness Management . dividuals and groups are en With the present high cost of Direction. The Ventana couraged to present their \\~ ~UR VOLlJJllll.!' Wilderness is entirely within recommendations in writing living, most of us can't afford the Monterey Ranger District so their inputs can be a to go out for expenSive dinners of the Los Padres National documented part of the these days. weH, the River Inn • Forest. Monterey District Wilderness planning process. Ranger Bob Breazeale says These recommendations has done something about it. this document describes a from the public will then be wide range of alternatives to carefully considered in the problems identified in the ~decision making process for ~~~ management of this 159,000 establishing the future Send acre wilderness. Alternatives management direction of the ~~ t.lilx-deductible selected will direct the VentanaWilderness. • donations to: Management of the Wilderness during ~t least the Copies of the Ventana CHIEF next 10 years. Wilderness Study Report are ~16l WALTER TROTTER Locations and dates will be available upon request from t=t!? 1l[{'6.~ announced for public the Monterey Ranger District Big Sur, CA 93920 workshops. These workshops Office, 406 South Mildred .. We're now serving our • will give interested citizens an Ave., King City, Calif. homestyle breakfast and lunch opportunity to ask questions 93930 . .ehone (408) 385-5434. menu until ten 0' Clo~k each evening, in addition to most of our regular dinner menu. And you all know that the River Inn has the best breakfasts • and lunches around. So come to the River Inn in the evenings now and eat • anything you darn w~llplease - .. . and pay less""_. for it! • HOT AIR BALLOON casts (ts shadow first time. across t"'e turf as it is fully inftatedforthe • Page 18 THE BIG SUR G~mE December, 1979 2.. \ 1. • • • • • COlrnmuntty Services. Office, 373-5522, BAND CONCERT The traditional music of Christmas will be spotlighted when • MPCEVENTS the Penins.ula Concert Band and the Com- Fernwood DICKENS' "A CHRISTMAS CAROL" a concert on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at A.C.T.'s festive adaptation of Dickens' "A Christmas in MPC Theatre. Restaurant • Store Carol" will be its in time for Ute bands are under the direction of Dr. Henry Smith of Bar • Service Station holidays in a two-week run Peninsula the MPC music The program also include works for small-wind.ensem- Happy Hour 6-7 p.m. every day classic fable opens ble as well as traditional compositions for band. One of • CAMPGROUND MOTEL continue on Friday and Saturdav. the selections will be variations On the theme of We, Three 667 .. 2422 HI~hWay 1 ,Big Sur ActlrnlSlllon to the concert is free. The public is invited to at- tend. adOlllsSlon; $3 for """'''''U'''', GUITAR CONCERT and $2 for children under 13. Classical and folk Byron Paul Tomingas will per- Box Office, form a free "Classic Guitar Concert" for the holiday • season on 13 at 7 p.m. in room M-IO at Mo,nterev Peninsula '-UUICKC. The Music Department is presenting the program, which will feature arrangements of popular songs as well as selections from the classical field. The: program will be video taped for television. A reception is planned. .------jUUl",n"",,;;u from the MPC Tomingas is an instructor in guitar at the college. • I I (I I '7t'~ e441!'.1&. {ltaee ~ ~. J4:t : I I Located on Highway One I Fill. in blank using one word to a space. I 28 Miles South of carmel I I • I I The Market ... I I Ventana's own gourmet Market and Interna· I Classified heading : ______I tional Delicatessen, located right on Highway I I One at our entrance, fetturlng quality pro I for 20 words. duce, groceries and sundries plus Imported I cheeses, meats, salads and sandwlcnes to go or I Additional words • to eat on our adJoining outdoor Look I for the colorful Clnzano umbrellas just north I 10c each. of our snell Gas Station. I Mall payment Shell Gas Station ... I Just at 'the entrance road to the'Restaurant with copy. and Inn on Highway One. Flne'Sheli gas and 011 • products, at your service, Open eight to six FREE Classified Ad every day of the year. to Every Subscriber' Ventana Campgrounds ..• A beautiful, private campgrouns set In a forty 2.00 acre redwood grove. Unique, natural setting. DEADLINE Open year-around, 20th Of Month The ,Bakery. •. Preceding Issue 2.10 2.302.40 2.50 I • Freshly bakea breads, cakes and I prepared dally, For custom·made cakes, ask for FOR LONGER COpy USE SEPARATf PAGE. I Vehtana's'executlve chef. I MAIL THIS FORM TO: I Phone I 887·2222 ~i!l ~ • Claire's Cooking Corner by CLAIRE CHAPPELET FRUITCAKES for FOUR SEASONS FROM F·OURCOUNTRIES aaa Plus! • start a tradition. Make a different fruitcake for each season of the year. Then, even on foggy summer days, you can sit before your wood-fire - a mug of hot tea in one hand • and a slice of the spirit and taste of Christmas in the other. . WINTER: Nova Scott.'a Black SPRING: English Bishop's Bread nostalgicallv shared by Bill u ..r'\J" .... One loaf -Fit for thiS is a delicate Nova .. even If you t'1"l!:l,I"'Ct'\1" than 1/2 tsp. mace 4 oz. butter 2 oz. 1/2 cinnamon 5 oz. • 2 Ol~ ,.."' ..,",,;," 1/2 pOWder 4 1/210. '1 4 .oz. 1 lb. candied oineao,ole 1 Tbsp. almond 1/2 110. gOlden 1/2 cup butter Pi.nch salt 112 lb. seeded 1 cup granulated sugar . Grated rind of half 4 oz. black currants 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1 Tbsp. lemon juice 1/2 cup dark rum or cognac 5 eggs 1 Tbsp. milk 4 oz. almonljs, blancheCi and slivered 1 tsp. vanilla extract • 4 oz. walnuts or pecans, coarsely chopped 4 whites 2 cuPS Sifted all-purpose flour CUPS Of fruits and nuts -- diced candied fruit; raisins; currants; dried in narrow strips; coarsely broken walnuts; dried apricots cut in narrow 1. Mix the frUits. Add rum, cover and fet stand overnight. 2. Preheat oven to slow (2750). Grease two 9xSx3-inch loaf pans. Line with wax First butter a 4V2x8%-inch loaf pan. Sprinkle it thoroughly with granulated sugar. paper and grease the paper. Invert pan and shake out surplus sugar. Take 2 tablespoons of the measured 3. Combine the fruits, the nuts and one·half cup floUr. flour and mix it into.the fruit mixture, shake •• the fruit should be well-covered 4. Sift together the remaining flour, mace, cinnamon and baking powder. Mix with the flour. Put aside for later use. • the milk With thealmond extract. Sift remaining flour with baking powder and salt 5. Cream the butter until smooth, adding sugars gradually. 'Add the eggs, mix Cream butter, add sugar and yolkS and cream till light and fluffy. Add grated well and add the milk mixture. Add flour mixture; mix well. lemon rind, lemon Juice, mill< and vanilla. Stir in fruits alternating With the flour, 6. Pour the batter over the fruits and nuts and mix thoroughly. Fill the pans and baking powder and salt mixture. Blend well.' Beat egg whites till stiff butnot press batter down. firmly. dry, mix flrst"bne·third of the beaten egg whites Into the batter. then fold In the 7. Bake loaves about 3 hours. Let cakes stand 30 minutes. Turn out onto a rack rest of the egg whites. Work With light hand with downward movements. and peel off the paper. Pour Into the prepared loaf pan and bake In preheated oven at 325 degrees F. 8. Wrap cooled cakes In. cheesecloth soaked in rum or cognac. Place in a crock or for 40 to 50 minutes or till cake tester comes out clean. . • deep kettle and cover tightly. AS the cloth dries, dribble a couple ofteaspoons Coolon a cake raCk in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes, then invert to the cake rack of the same liquor over it. Let rIpen .one month before frosting with .a layer and Inthe.pan so that the cake rests in the same Position as baked. each of the fOllowing two frostings. When dry, spread confectioner's icing Cool completely, store in a tightly closed container. Serve cut Into 1/2 inch evenly on top of the milk frosting, . slices. . . . FROSTINGS: 1. Almond Paste -1 lb. almonds, blanChed; 1 lb. sifted confectioner'S sugar; 3 egg whites, lightly beaten; 1 tsP. almond extract. Grind the almonds finely. Add remaining Ingredients; mix thOrOl,!ghly. spread over the cake. Let dry. Danish Delight • 2. Milk Frosting: 1 tsp. butter; 1112 cups sugar; :t Tbsp. light corn syrup; 112 cup . FALL: milk; 1/2 tsP. almond extract. Cook the butter, sugar, corn syrup and mitk to One loaf - This rs TRUE-Iy the favorite frUit caK~ of Fern 234 0 F., stirring. Cool. Add the almond extract and beat until of a soft fudge Trotter's family and has a homey goodness that appeals to all consistency. Spread over almond paste. Let dry. ages. 3. Confectioners' Icing: 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar; 2 Tbsp: milk; 11.4 tsp. al· mond extract. Mix all ingredients until smooth. Sift together: 3 cups flour 1112 tsps. baking soda • 1 tsp. salt SUMMER: Poetically American Combine in a bowl: Two lOaveS...,. Found among the writings of Emily Dickinson and 2 eight·ounce packages of pittecHmdchOPped dates delivered on(~tage during a one~woman performance by:Julie 4 oz. candied cherries, chopped Harris - in a play written by William Luce. called "The Belle of 1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts Amherst" - comes a richly dark cake. The Handleys handled this 1 cup coarsely ChOpped Brazil nuts one on. (add 1/3 of the sifted dry ingredients to the above the mix welf) • 2 cups sugar 1 tsP. cloves Beat until light: 1 cup butter 1 tsp. mace 5 eggs 1 tsp. nutmeg 1 cup butter 1/4 cuP molasses 1/2 cup brandy 1'A cups sugar 2 cups Sifted flour 1 lb. raisins Add, one at a time, 3 eggs. Beat well after each addition. Add remaining 2/3 of 1/2 tsp. baking powder 2 cups currants Sifted dry ingredients alternately with: 2 cups Citron 1 cup buttermilk 1 TbSp. orange jUice • Add sugar to butter, blend until light and creamy. Add eggs, unbeaten, and 1 tsP. vanll1a . molasses. Beat well. Reslft flour With baking powder and spices. Beat into batter Blend well after eaCh addition. stir In fruit and nut mixture, mixing well. Turn in· alternating. with brandY. Stir In raisins, currants and Citron. to well·greased 9x5x3·lnch loaf pan. Bake for one hOur, then. test. Pour batte.r Into 2 loaf pans lined with waxed paper. Bake In. preheated oven 225 degrees for 3 hours. Place a shallow pan of water Topplng:·comblne one cup sugar, one cup orange juice and the grated rind of on the lowest level Of oven. Remove water for the fast 30 minutes of baking one orange in a saucepan. Mix well and bring to a boll. Remove and add one cup time. of shreddeC1 coconut. Mix aM pour over top of hot cake. Cool. Let stand in COOl loaves In pan. Remove and take off waxed paper. When completely COOl, refrigerator overnight before removing from pan. (Optional: add 1 oz. of brandy • rewrap and store In cool place. . to orange Juice.> P.S. ThiS Is the "PLUS"! A Big Sur Country Fruitcake has already been baked and prettily wrappeEr,'i'or you, by Barbara woyt. She has honeyed fresh fruits, such as papayas anCi meyer lemons, and placed them In a sweet-butter and honey pound cake. Each "Potted pudding," as she lovingly calls them, are indeed baked in a terracota flower pot and wrapped in red cellophane. Make arrangements through P.O. Box 120, Big • Sur. EaCh ca~e, ten dollars. Happy Holidays to A.ll! • P8g820 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE oecember, 1919 • • HIGHWAVONE o Roger B. Strange • OPTOMETRIST Valley Hili, Center • • • • .~ Welcome to sunny • Carmel Valley I?j; • /r--~ CARMEL VALLEY VILLAGE • CARMEL VALLEY VILLAGE SHOPPING AREA • • I " ~------• December. 1919 THE 810 SUR CAzmE page 21 • season"s Greetlngsl m t iBfg CIM' ...-.... r I .. <&a5tttt I I- t SECTION TWO • PULLOUT: Big Sur Coast Visitor'S Guide • Historical Society Meets in Torre Canyon from his of dug and wagers put down noted the winds and weather will be held at the U[,HI""', A n<11mU'W<1Y recalled one par the same year that he locals who had come to of the day and even took the Jan, 1980, 2-4 p.m. ticular time in 1927 when she the witness the event, as to time to philosophize. He once meeting, for members only, is and her husband made the He was 56 whether the snake or rat· observe,d the clearness and for the of organizing trip from Los to years old and home at the tlesnake emerge the freshness of the air and wrote of various Big to find the road be- time was Mule victor. it seems that that looked as historical interests. Members tween Pfeiffer's Resort and north of the the snakes weren't interested it room of the Pacific Grove ..... ,'"'''''' w.ashed out "6""",5, maybe because it " On another occa· will also be present to a storm. They had to too cold, so they sian, after offer ideas, at Pfeiffer's until up in opposite corners and Lillian's graduation The historical the road and and went to sleep. So much town, he wondered whether now over a old and it was at time that for he ""'"6U'" "any of those kids would its a great deal homes were met Mrs. Grace Boronda Sam Trotter's diary served make some sort of mark on of local history had been laid structed of native was also at Pfeiffer's a number of purposes. In it world." ' out, untwisted, and examin rock. and unable to get to her south he his work time, The next meeting of the ed. who wishes to • He Mrs. Charles F. n.,M",""y hqme. rp~'r.r,i",ti memorable events, Sur Historical mi:ty still do so. served as hostess with her and Mrs. Russell their six children the Santa Lucia Land make the from their Trail's Los in two as a number of cars. At that time the drive other landowners. The Santa and guests were to took 1:; hours via the inland Lucia Land and • walk about on the lower level route that is nQw U.S. Trail's Club later of the home and 1!:rClunas. Highway 101. From Salinas built a number of homes on Walter Trotter, son of Sam they traveled west to Partington Ridge and in Trotter, is for the Monterey and then over the Coastlands (once called Santa and architecture of mountains to Big Sur, a two Lucia Coastlands), so the present Hathaway home, and a half hour trip. perhaps it was around this built during the 19508 when Slides were shown of the time that Sam became a • the family simply outgrew the original cabin built by Sam sbught-afterbuilder by these original lodge. The fabulous Trotter. who packed in most property owners of the rock walls and landscaping of the wood and supplies and Trail's Club and also served are evidence of Trotter's cut and milled most of the as a broker for the Bill mastery. lumber materials. The stone Fassett purchase of Nepenthe The meeting, held in the fireplace was noteworthy from Orson Wells in 1947. living room. that overlooks' because' of the two Indian He wrote of going to a • the redwood capyon, was mQrtars that were laid into dance at Oldham Han in presided over by Sylvia the rock near the top on Sycamore Canyon and Eisenberg. After the discus" either side. Sylvia recalled another at Cooper Hall, pro bably located on the Rancho sion Of new ~d old business, that tney used to mat- Sylvia and her mother ches for lighting the in EI Sur. Of particular interest discussed their introduction the mortar. In his diary of to most of us was his pur to life in Big Sur. 1927, Sam Trotter mentions chase of 800 pounds of hay In 1927, Charles and that he and Mr, Hathaway from Bill Post for a penny a pound. • Melodile Hathaway, purchas· went to the Pfeiffer Ranch On ed the 236 acres of land in this particular day to pur Sam wrote of going to a Torre Canyon from Mr. chase some mortars from "snak;e fight" at the Pfeiffer Russell Field, with the inten Oscar Pfeiffer. Ra.nch tha(had been organiz tion of building a vacation Following the slide show ed by Esther Pfeiffer FIREPLACE In living room of t ..e bouse to In tbe article. (Permission Melodile retreat for the family. Mrs. Fr~nk Trotter read excerpts (Ewoldsen). A pit had oeen Sam Trotter built for the Hatbaways in Torre Hathawav) ., Canyon showing mortar and pestles referred • • Canyon. Pieture taken in .1930. (Permission Torre of MelodUe jlathaway) "THE BIO $UR ~me • THEN ONE DAY MARCH r:ON6 ... WHEN 11M I FELT OlD AWAY WIl1-\ PAY TOILETS THROUGH i I USED TO FEEL SECURE PEOPLE. AND MY HYGIENIC HABITS BE GOING INTO CALiFORN'IA WITH 'O~ GAN TO CHANGE. NOW I pusH tiCK THr PAY TOJ,LETS •••• ,. WERE THE DOOR OPEN WlTH MY EL CLEANER', F/,US,,-, BOW, I NEVER SIT OOWN AND • ~~~~~~ battle for the Lord." Republican Roosevelt in Defbocrat Brown in 1979? Oil Reserve is Not Yesterday's candidate had natural panache. To- ) '. .. FULL SERVICE· ! ...""1 ...... '"" uses made-in-HollyWood paraphernalia. • maybe there is.a parallel. TR lost the GOP 2 LIQUOR STORE 2 Inadequate year. Courant. Hart/ord. Conn •. 3 Domestic and 3 In 1975 the United States set a '~ Imported Wines, ~ barrels of oil in deep Beers and Liquors The idea was to provide in case of war or another foreign oil emt)arg,o. People Want Less FREE ICE f the first of this year there were barrels of oil stored in five salt the Gulf Coast. As of now 91 million barrels are in the caverns. Government, Not More It took some time to.crank up the and to get the President Carter says he is forming a new "Office for 15% CASE O'SCOU NTS "rne"',,m started, and then came the Iranian This reduc- ~ Families" to be run out of Department of Health, Educa- 2 on all liquor and wines 2 ~:~l~~~~ ~~~:~r tion and Welfare. As the it, families have been strained • S 10 % CASE O'SCOU NTS 3 ~:~ tt~::~~;~oemst:eatvlloil'ihceinsg to the social and economic forces beyond on all premium wines be abandoned. their ,,"Ull'" VI. It is true that prices are up even more. Most will with that. ~ It also is true that we are oil. But is more the answer? Will the attention of . ... In any event, the United cannot allow itself to be in a hundreds of new jobs, research papers and chafts at HEW do $lI1\1'fl1trlO to We doubt it. f VISITORS NOTE: f""·~ where it can be blackmailed or where its is ie01"lU'lii"'M because it does not have fuel. Mr. Carter could do more to help the family by • First Liquor Store Daily Progress. Scottsdale, Amona reducing government and taxes thana hundred new Offices for Families could do. f North of Big Sur Yes, the has addressed an important problem. But Just off Highway One as usual he comes up with the old Washington answer: spend f more money, create a new department.' .. . at the mouth of u.s. in Eighth Place For all his talks with Americans" he still hasn't j Sunny Carmel Valley The Union Bank of Zurich in Switzerland tells us that the message: tile want less government in their • the world's wealthiest nation. We not more. even Telegram, Worcester, ~ No"h to 2 Based on per capita 5 Monterey 3 amount of and tiun-the five last year .were Switzerland Cacmel Vall., j Kuwait Sweden ($10,440) and ! • States. We are in at Stocking StufFers Some take '"'''".>''''".'uu in the fact that the Soviet Brandv Keenan-Plnnev and Wtd~r Trotter Rancho Liquors II ! its of armed might, was in are pleased to announce the birth of with a GNP of $3,010, less than a ! n·------, ten beautiful puppies ... Dally OklahoMrm, Oktttl/oMa Okla. in time for Christmas giftS! call Katlw and Frank at 667-2584 • to arrange for viewing and selecting. ~ So,'h to .'. s" ~ Look at the Big Picture 2 Carmel Rancho Liquors 2 Leave it to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to 3 26340 Carmel Rancho Blvd. S remind of cosmic. He told coJlege students in Holiday Time looms Open Mon"~ Thu. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Fr•. -Sat. 8 a.m .•10;;].m. Boston that America is to serve people, pro- ...unIQue clay·potted,.. brandieCl • Sun. 9 a.m.-g p.m. tect the earth and universe!' fruit cak~s available for yourself, Visa, MC PI1.124.21oo Well, that's a mouthful of but then presidential friantts, "Aunt Tillie" al1'C1 i~~~~~ candidates are to at the Not since even classic fruitcake haters. All Theodore has there been a who speaks so home-honeyed fruit and peel. One sweepillgly of America's universal burden. and onefhalf pound cake In clay man who carried the on the eve of the pot and gift wrappeCl, 510.00. Place • HOLIDAY national convention "We fight in order with Barbara Wovt, 667-2676 .. GREETINGS! honorable fashion for the of fearless of the or P.O. Box 120, Big Sur, CA 93920. \AU",,,,,,,,,, .. !; of our with Jl Country Inn anJ :Restaurant in 'Big Sur Ventana Inn -- an country inn providing ocean-view Featuring hot baths, saunas, swimming pool, and complimentary continental • Ventana :Restaurant -- In an elegant, yet informal, ocean-view lunch and dinner, 11 a.m. to 10 p.rn., every Ventana Store ... - of located __ ,___ to the Res • new standards and uniqueness to 28 South of Carmel on Highway 9ne or Write: 4& ~"," December, 1919 .• THE BIOSUR GAZETTE "page23 YuieTime By JUAN HAWK'S PERCH You'll all remember that.the25th of December was said to belhe Christ's birthday that it was around this worshipped the Lord of the Trees, Each year at Yule time. rt:l}llut:fll-fj'Ut:' who also does a Grove on Mon- JADE CREATIONS: Clocks • Tables. Sculptures" Wind Chimes • Bookends • • Custom Work Xmas Jade Specimens: Vulcan" • Funk & W"''',,"ff>''r • • Xmas - Christmas: nr""w',r Jim Clark best avoided in Poetry Editor since the commerCialism. BIG SUR. JADE CO. All contributions to the Hawk's Perch snoultl be Contact Gomez -- GORDA STATION-- Southcoast typewritten double-spaced. and mailed with a self-addressed BIG SUR, CA, stamped envelope to: Hawk's Perch. Big Sur Gazette, Bus. Hours (805) 927-89711 After 6 p.m. 927-8246 Highway One, Big Sur, CA 93920. ********** He walked among his people sharing what was him And he shared the splendor of heaven Trying to explain a way of life and the glory of love which is his. ~~~e4d which is unique ~k He said, "Love yourself as thou art God, *"'''*'''**,,'''''' 1<~~ud • "Where the Mountains Meet the Sea" And Brothers and Sisters os One, " and in the spirit of Christmas: Help Prevent Forest'Fires Some people heard him In Thy Presence some saw him i am grateful ·OPEN YEAR 'ROUND- and some, still remember his passing for this tife which we may live Plan to spendyour leisure time tyk at the camp for all seasons In thy presence • ********** i am humble 2 miles south of lucia on Hwy. One And he sang a love song (0 God in witness of all that is (408) 667-2403 with a smile on his lips and a tear of joy in his In thy presence i am thou as thou art love And he said, "Oh, Lord, i am gratejul and that lOVe, flows among us jor every day that passes by.," Iyk And he said, "Dear God i am humble (Editor's note: tyk is an abbreviation for the words thank you in witness oj all that is. " kindly) • Exhibiting the carefully • selected works of over seventy-five Big Sur artists and coastal craftsmen. Robin Coventry, one of the many fine artists exhibiting "at the Coast Gallery, has caught the atmosphere of the gallery perfectly in this • drawing, Nestled into the side of a mountain, on a trUly JUST OPENED! spectacular coastline, it Is a magnificent setting for the Featuring: m"any fine art objects displayed within. Henry Miller's lithographs and • Country Breakfasts serigraphs are featured in a exhibition of his Delicatessen Sandwiches The sculptured animals of loet Venderveen Barbequed Ribs and Chicken and the bronze figures of James Hunolt compliment Mexican & Daily Specials the unusual Neanderthal Furniture by Ken • Old Fashion Hamburgers Green. Gary Koeppel's old world candles and ho"lders Natural Foods & Ice Cream ape surrounded by unique hanging pots and wind Fay '3 Fabulous Desserts chimes for your garden. The fine handcrafted jewelry of Beer, Wine, and Munchies Douglas May and Muriel • OUTDOOR DINING ON THE LAWN Jenny are displayed amidsl exotic hardwood boxes by Dean Santner and Fred Buss, RlPPLEJffX)[) RFSCJKI along with sculptures by in the heart of the sunny Big Sur Valley Frank. Lloyd Wright and Gordon Newell. There is much more ... unusual things Cabins by the Rlvllr • Camping Supplill. • Chllvron Gil •• Grocery Sior. for your home or yourself, which will make the Coast Gallery an experience you will never forget. OPEN 9·5 DAII. Y 667·2301 Located on Highway One, Big Sur, California 33miles South of Carmel, 50 miles North of Hearst Castle 3 miles South of Ventana and Nepenthe pag.24 THE BIG SUR GAZETTE Supreme Court will do," Murray explained. It was his Tax-Free Cigarettes understanding that the cigarettes wer.e not ,to. be BUCHWALD marketed within the state. Raises Government Ire However. a check detertnined By ART BUCHWALD that indeed can By BOB QAVIDSON sion Indians, located in the tbat can be pending the order the cartons. CI Coachella Valley in Southern outcome of two court cases. "It's ridiculous to say WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed last week to tribes are sovereim. senara1te decide whet.her you patent a new life form created by man Sovereigruty of Indian na California, is marketing the One case is in the r ..llif.n,rn'" can tions has created a legal cartons at $4.60 apiece, Federal District Court, and and apart from in a laboratory. It goes under the name of genetic engineering. loophole allowing the sale of through the mail. tbe otber is calendared witb and the United Mur- One of the cases bas to do witb a scientist at General tax-free cigarettes throughout John Murray, attorney for tbe U.S. Supreme Court. ray not.ed angrily. Electric who made a The small Indian band bacterium in the lab and call the state and nation. the state's Board of Equaliza~ "We're in a holding pat is believed to be making a ed it Pseudomonas. Tbe The Cabazon Band of Mis- don. there is nUl"'... ,,,, tern over wbat tbe U.S. $l,()OO..a-day profit-gross bacterium is capable of eating approximately $150,000 oil spills by breaking down per month with a 20 percent tbe molecular structure of Earthquake petroleum as it floats on the Tribal chairman Art ocean. Fait Near .. Welmas was quoted. as I am not concerned "We've beaten whether you can patent Weapons Lab system. Even if we're taken Pseudomonas or not. What From the Herald, to and are required to worries me is , that the • Nov.3,1979 have cigarettes taxed, it's bacterium exists at all. As with so many thillgs Federal geologists have the consumer who will have to taxes, not us." scientists 'come up with, it I,;VIUUU'''U that an confirms this view. great in a test fault runs near two nuclear Everyone hates oil weapons laboratories in the adJ:l1ittled that it will be virltuallv impossible to and if you can have hungry organisms feasting on the Livermore Valley about 40 solves that problem. miles east of San Francisco. recover any tax due the state • or nation. "It is not cost But wbat happens after the bacterium eats up all the oil that SPllkesmcm for the nuclear In a few days the Pseudomonas will start getting facliliti!e5 say tbe fault poses effective for us to track down every persoll who owes us again and going after oil that is being drilled up from hazard. But tbe ocean floor. It will start cbomping away at any fuel it can Supervisor cig,are1tte-ltax," Murray be moaned. its teeth in, and it's not inconceivable that as billions of John George says a board of work tbeir way through an oil field there will be notbing supervisors hearing should be His chief concern is whether or not cigar stores, up salt water. held to discuss the discovery, chomp-and there go all tbe reserves in the • and called for investigations and might be ordering qUlwu.tles frerm the In North Chomp, chomp, chomp""'7and it's goodbye to the by the state and the U.S. oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Chomp, chomp. chomp-and you Nuclear Commis the cartons under tbe counter. can kiss the petroleum off the coast of Cali sion. fornia aOI:w1tlve. The U.S. Geological He has no evidence of this He does The can't tell the difference between oil spill- Survey says the Las Positas ed from a tanker and "oil on the ocean floor. All it knows is Across Fault was discovered "It's the way f(Jf tax evasion. that if it wants it bas' to eat. And one lousy tanker • 1. Marine jail refreshment for the smoke eaters. (4,3) Wednesday to run east-west will not feed of bacteria very long. 8. ThiS half of' a .Iocal name Is the large part. (31 along a stream bed that forts to secure inl1JnctioltlS .h.. ,n"e,h the courts fail this isn't to make you nervous, what happens 7. If you write this kind of letter to the Gazette it won't be UW"UJi~U the grounds explained tbat the when tbe bacteria start clinging to the shoes of someone work printed. (9) . . Livermore on an oil rig? There is a big turnover in men who work on 9. The kind of breath watlace usually had In his roles. (5) which is across aUllSnC~ these injunctions oceangoing rigs. After a wbile they long to drill on land. Sup- 11. So far, there Isn't a sign of this In Big Sur. (41 the street the Lawrence the rigger moves to and wears the same shoes in the 12. ThiS girl was "The Sweet," lnFrench. {4t Livermore Laboratory. the same ploys time time "I'm tired oUhe Pallha.ndl.e. The bacteria will immediately start going down the 14. HOW do you feel about meeting me? m The fault line was confirm- well and cbomp, arrived to Texas oiL 18. Take lessons from this guy? I'm all for it. (31 ed dug in the sameness," Murray said. The Indian band offets a I know that argue that the Pseudomonas won't 1~. What yOU sell things witl'l to make a tennis toU-free number eat oil unless it's witb salt water: But bacteria are very .. {~l ...• .. Andrew Baldwin of the 2.. O. (61 ·Metallic, ...... in ~. way, to jUdge, Eartb said that the environmental n"""Dnl"'''~ Once the into our domestic oil a short f1. TI'lat's wl'lat I'd call that thing. (2) don will urge the U.S. cartons. ,Credit cards can be when ordering. or for it to tben into your bome beating 22. DE'S condition after he stopped living. (6) of to customers can request Chomp, ";U\IUUI... cllOn:1D--arld half tbe oil that cost you • the removal of .... rI.(\.. ,,,. order form which be 90 cents a gallon by bacteria before it gets to Down dve material from the two can or checks •. furnace. 2. Wanderer with a uniform. (6) labs in the quake-prone may be unfair to the Psewdomonas, or,tbe man who 3. There'S a nice surprise in store for you, colonel, In that That's not all. to accounts' created it. For all I the bacterium may get its fill of oil store. (J) "If an active fault bas been hired a legal firm spills and tben die. But engineering is a dangerous 4. This way it needS more time to dry. t41 found a mile or less from the game, and when you start creating bacteria in a test tube you 5•. I've already told you it isn't hers. t31 D.C, stockpile, and , Sback have no idea what to feast on. 6. A tot of things went out with It. and rather In a hurry. (6) the tritium laboratory, • well as a Today it may just on tar balls off Cape Cod, but 8. Quite possible. I'd say. (3) they've got to get it out as rellilltiOllS man, Robert tomorrow it might decide sweet oil tasted better. Wben it 9. A golfer's delight, just out of the shell. (6) of there, Baldwin said. does it's shalom to Saudi Arabia, 10. Big Sur businesses can't do as much of this in winter as in R",if.. r,"ino to the labs' ex- So far tbat has been the ®1919, Los Angeles Times Syndicate summer. (6) "These are 13. It's enough to make you laugh your head off. (5) who have been to keeping the govern ment at bay, while Or()mlltiru( 15. ThiS poem doesn't make a long stOry shOrtl (51 to ten us that 16. long? Well. with that,good bvel (2) eVf:rvt.hil1la was alI right out the sales. Tribal cbairman • Welmas explained that when 17. ThiS palm tree? Oh, I'd say about Dec. 10. (4) they are suffer~ Quote of the Month 21. I diCin't.lt "will be." I said right now. cre,dibiiUty gap." tbe U ,So government the Indians on the reservation it sovereignity, and "Ventana Chapter who might favor 'a excml),ts tbem from the Sur National Area or Seashore Na~ of the Jenkins Recreation Area or Seashore should be act covers the sale following very what is currently being pro- and tax of cigarettes in in for the Santa Mountains, encom~ • terstate cornn1erce. passing some 220.000 ~:u,:res in Los Angeles and "First we gave you tobac* Ventura " co, Now we're giving you the best way to buy cigarettes," Sierra ..Club News/ertel', Na·~??mtJer. Welmas has said. As an LL._,___ .. y~~ Welmas explained that there are 25 members of • e./'rr«Ar~ EST ABLISHE(') ~IN' 1888 the band, The issue of sovereignity not limited to cigarette tax. by R.Diggs Types 'of Commercial General An Deuklnejian has a and along the Personal Insurance • want, state law. This issue is over commercial fishing The • the of and Agents and Brokers Game to with the law • (4Q8)373~4925 as it relates to the lower end ...... 4."' ...... " California of the Klamath River, an issue that may be thr,oUll!!l the courts for years, • [)ecember, 1979 THE BIO SUR GAZETTE, Page 2S hemlines are rising to meet the knee. And Smootby Executed miniskirts--t of our strongest modern-day eCCl!lomy-are coming back in full force in some select circles. Progressivism is crazy in Sweden, know why, but we believe the experts who say that Earlier in the year the Swedes outlawed parental spanking of shorter mean better fiscal times. It has nothing to do children. Now an official cOQ1mittee on children's rights pro with chauvinism-believe us! ~. t1ART'~ poses to give kids the right to divorce their parents. It's jUllt the best economic forecast we've heard in ages. And . CARMEL VALLEY AOAO . • Well, if that's what they want, OK. But if it happened here, in times like these, we need all the help we can get. So we urge OPEN 8:00-5:00 • PHONE 624--8387 we'd be ripped off of an income-tax deduction, which at cer all to keep their fingers crossed and their eyes open. tain stages is all some of the nippers are good for. Dally News, New York City And children's rights,. children's rights ..• blah. blah! What Pumokin Season! about parents rights? Why can't parents divorce their kids? CORN sfALKS • FRESH FRUIT Equal rights and all. & VEGETABLES DAfLY The chairman of the Swedish committee said kiddy divorce would be permitted if the parents "had shown themselves to be ,Hazards of unsuitable .. , if they no longer function properly as parents." Whataboutthem? Is it suitable to backtalk or track mud on a scrubbed floor? Is it functioning properly to vanish when the Pot Smoking lawn needs raking or th~ car washing? Bah! In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's characters used an Are You Concerned? Des Moines Register. Des Moines Iowa alluring recreational drug; it produced euphoria without detrimental side effects .. But that isn't the way things usually - about conserving the Coast? work in real life. - about preserving Indlvlduatand A Rosy Outlook Take the case of marijuana. Millions of Americans have - private property rights? adopted the illicit drug as if it were as harmless as soda pop, - about focal control of local affaIrs? So what if America's national debUs huge, our productivity and much of the pot now consumed is 10 times as strong as the is still sl~pping and inflation is raging? stuff that was prevalent a few years ago. The california Coastal Council believes Who cares if the stock market is down and the Federal Moreover, many of the users take up pot smoking in their Reserve Board and the banks. are raising interest rates so fast early teens, an age when they may be most inclined to develop that Coastal Conservation can be achiev they are putting loansharks out of business? . drug dependence. ed without losing Individual or property Forget all of this bad news. There is great economic news Of course, some of the smokers use pot only occasionally, rights and. without indiVidual com coming "fom Paris, of all places. After all the below-the-knee and thus may incur no more of ~a health risk than do their munitieS-losing control of their destinies. friends who use alcohol moderately. Yet the latest evidence indicates that many pot smokers-like all too many drinkers-use immoderate Support and Join amounts. That's where the main trouble lies. Although there is no scientific consensus on the hazards of The marijuana, and although it may not be as unhealthful as it California Coastal Council once was widely assumed· to be, the substance does cause disturbance of physiological and psychological functions. Until the long·term effects are more fully assessed, it would california Coastal Council ------Central Region 13 be prudent for any user to err on the side of cautioJ1'. None of this means that harsh criminal penalties against 417 Cannery Row simple possession of small amounts of marijual1a should re· Monterey, CA 93940 main on the books. In the first place, the penalties are less and o Enclosed is my $25 membersnlp fee • less frequently enforced. When they ,are invoked. they can resuJt in punishment far out of proportion to the offense. A fairer and more realistic answer is to make simple posses· Addr~s ______sion a civil offense, punishable by a cash forfeiture. while criminal sanctions are kept intaCt against people ~who peddle the drug. Lydia Catherine Relnlardt-Green. Such a compromise may be a less than perfect answer. but it For Monterey area memt::>ersnip Inforn'latlon: Bom on Oct. 27~ 1979. Partington Ridge. strikes a reasonable balance between criminalization and call 372·8718 or 373·2766 8lbs. 2 oz. legalization of a drug that still needs to be more fully assessed. I Parents; Webb Green & Ragnhild Reingart-Karlstrom Mawok" IOIlnud, MaWIIUk", Wis. L ------_.PAID FOR BY THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COUNCIL I This is a unique, idealized vehicle. It was built with the idea of having all conveniences for ·extEmded travel, In all • . kinds of terrain, together with maximum comforts. Every thing was optimized to the extent possible. Though funda mentally designed for two adults, it can accommodate ·10ur. It is unbelievably compact, with ample work areas, and a real pleasure to drive. With all Its power units it feels as simple to handle as a light passenger sedan. A major change of family plans, as to traveling, has meant that we • I now use the vehicle for only one or two trips a year .- In 1979 these totalled only 20 days. Th{trefore, Jt is unreasonable for us to continue having it, with only an occasional trip into town as Its mileage. Total mileage to date is just under 24,000. Though the van was purchased In 1974, tM work on it was so extensive that it diet not take to the road until April of 1975. It has,been entirely success • ful for our purposes, but it Is obviously a pity to keep a vehicle of this kind. for such little use. It is being offered. at approximately one-half its cost. It will be shown by appointment only. . ) • PHONE ROSARIO MAZZEO (408) 624-7014 or write Route 1, Box 213, Carmel, CA 93923 • BASIC VIPIICLE-Fom P 4-wheel drive Quad . doubt. l'IIock.. ··SI Po~\>St.... lng • extra~6l1ng ridlator.!. 471111lfon gas tllnk. 80gy,...Baja Beige- Insuillted with Urethane. Includll')g rall11d f rluIde by Open Road. Ell storage-NauCIIIIJIY<1e .lI8IItt h • Failing in California HAPPY HOLIDAYS! ;~erry Brown Wants to Save • the Natinn By FRED w. KLINE Clillitof News Serriee UlU!'DIJllLICat seers watched with almost ram- and to no one's s\lrpris~'Oovernor Ed· Jr. announc.ed his candidacy for n".'~1I11 ..nl of the United States of America. H~ving failed to do much of note in California, especially to proVIde much·needed Brown is now offering his in- considerable talents to the PAKlsrANI Th~ one th~ng that remains very large with Brown is his ego, for hIm to thmk that he has what it takes to be president. INDIAN "The times call out for discipline and for reason," he told an unenthusiastic group in the nation's capitoL "Because I see KELI~ I offer myself as a candidate for, the presidency. New Park Bond Act "It's time to wake up America!" he said. largest selection At the same time, his across the land have come the need for more been held 011 the bill closer to lulling of his Democratic party into On the Peninsuia Repdnttd from Coastal slumber. They're still trouble taking this man seriously. • Finest quality • Commission Newsletter recreational areas, uwrUcl.dar .011 Oct. 24 in Walnut Creek. Should the bill (SB 547) pass This.has become so since Sen. Edward F. Kennedy Californians are near urban in the Mall John .in legislative ses- also officially announced he will challenge President to beaches and coastal areas (between long's & Safeway) R-Walnut Creek, the measure will Carter for the Democratic nomination next year. in numbers than ever. Kennedy may not be.a either, because an incum· Rio Road & Hwy. of the Senate Natural California voters in state's major urban areas 1980. ' bent president has a of things he can .do to help salvage are near the coast and 85 Resources and Wildlife Com- Carmel Center is proposing a 1980 The measure also a troubled incumbent:y. cent of the state's I.JVIVU1."n~IU Tel. 624-2929 Bond Act which would con to budget $25 J:l..etmeclY has his Chappaquiddick, and he also has yet to lives Within 30 of the for grants to local that can lead. We don't mean to be cruel in any way, Pacific Ocean. Mindful of tain $55 million for coastal land aCCIUi5iltlCID governments for local coastal so far the only qualifications for president that Ted Ken- A hearing on the has going for him are the Kennedy name and the fact that "Parklands and his two popular brothers were assassinated. Brown, on the other has executive eXllel1lem:e here in SANDWICHES ICE-CREAM Renewable Resources. Invest· Coastal ac· ! ;; and that has been his SALA.DS • . ~ I CONES. ment Bond Issue," will be tivities. The LCP grants • held the Senate Coml1l1it· be used for a wide the opportunity to Brown has instead AND ~ tP SHAKES at chosen to be a follower most of the time. tee on Resources nr"''''rit<: including accessway JUICES ~b.A\.i SMOOTHfES He has failed, time after to leadership on legisla- ~ Wildlife and the construction and choosing instead to sign or veto bills offered by All OF YOUR GROCERY & VITAMI" NEEDS Committee on Water, facilities. initially, com and Wildlife on Dec. 7,1979. mission had supported $50 others on major when he has signed a bill, he COSMETICS The will be held from million for the local has then taken for its enactment, even though he did nn,'fl>rllY to help get it to his desk. BULK ITEMS 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the San ment LCP in pro· Administra act, and is still to alleviate the energy shortage has been com- ORGANIC PRODUCE mClrat.onum on nuclear plants, calls for con- tion Center, 1600 Pacific with local govern· IN CARMel VAllEY VllLASE CENTER 659·2811 servation and reliance on coal as the· fallback source One has the of energy. author, the Brown Ad~ ministration to have that It is LlVO,3lU'C. that because of the inaction by the Brown adrninistrati!)l1 California may face a severe, even amount included in the For Business, Shopping or Fun! critical energy in the mid-1980s, some experts have measure. suggested. With to coastal • bond act While as a fiscal bet:ause he senses it is the NOW YOU CAN Park Bond Act Brown has appointed far-out radicals imcompetents to in state government. may provided 5116 It Fly Yosemite Airlines take the state years to recover from his administration, once he coastal departs. To date $105 California win survive Jerry Brown. It is a resilient FROM MONTEREY bas been allocated for state and bounce back. But we don't think the nation aCQiuis:itions at 36 coastal wants to suffer the same fate. • San Francisco locations. Two projects have been with funds to the 1976 Bond New'------~---- remaining n .."i""tr Specializing In''''''1H_...... -. SUNDAY are in various stages Servel Propane ~, SHUTTLE SERVICE Gas Refrigerators e,,0..;:j Continuous between MoO: SALES-REPAIR • terey and San Francisco Airports, and SERVICE 1 :30 p.m. to 5:00 p,m. $57 Round Trip Tbe California l .... ".~n~""''''"' ENERGY ACCESS CO. of Parks and ($45,60 if 3 aware .of the SUNDA Y AFTERNOON SHUTTLE (408) 625-2433 coastal is ",,,rid,,,, Ext. 51 • celerate its coastal .,"rm;,';';'''' Jack Director of the Parks Tahoe Yosemite Gold Rush Recreation Ovemlght National Park Country Tour believes the entire !IN,ni,,i'',,,, "Gambler's Special" using sources from Bond Acts of 1964, enJoY the excitement &. bright 1974 and 1976 and from • lights of our Tahoe Ovarnight ... or Just ReI.AX~ various' other funds and ac Regular Round Trip, fII4.00. Exc:uralon. $75.20. counts, will be Mus! be p~pald at least 3 day, either settlement, prior to dllpartu~, abandonment, or the Hon of condemnation YOSEMITE FLIGHT SCHEDULE July Monies the new bond • act would be used to "U!,ll'''''' new ones. • Firewood 412 ova Jim Hunolt 432 422 667-2490 Call your travel agent or Yo.emlte Airline. at the Monterey Airport (408) 646-1871 I. Jjlrilal(j;;€an~tJn?NdcleQr ,Plant • N~t'Pr~d~cingit Using Entrgy; )CHOCOLATIEFtl::AFlMEL: 3614 The Barnyard By MIOBAEL WILLIAMS ing deteeted. Carmel, CA93923 Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant is Pacifie Gas and Phone (408) 625-1719 A pair of !)eagulls glide easiI~ on the wind currents and eye Electric Company's lO-year, $1,7 billion projeet whieh is near The finest, purest European chpcoletes the ever-pounding surf below, looking for tidbit$ for lunch. ing completion but may never begin operating unless the Suddenly, their flight path takes them over a huge, futuristic Nuclear Regulatory Commission lifts its ban on new operating b~ilding compound tucked neatly along the coastline. licenses. Although the gul1swiU never appreciate it, they have done The picturesque ocean-front setting just west of San Luis what no human has done, penetrated the intense security Obispo is actually the site of two nuclear reactors, referred to systems at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plan without be- as Units One and Two. Unit One is eomplete and awaiting only the go"ahead from the NRC to "go on line," the term meaning beginning operation and production of eieetrieity. Unit Two is N o • still under eonstruction with a projeeted completion date sometime in 1980. o P Making the Together the reactors should be able to produce over two million kilowatts, which is supposedly the equivalent ~f burn w E Most of ing 20 million barrels of oil a year. At the present however, according to Project Engineer John N Proposition Four Hoch, the project is actually a drain on the area's eleetrical supplies because of the electricity needed to continue eonstruc tion, security systems, constant equipment checks and other By CAROL HALLETT' aspects of the project. "That's one major reason the'sooner By passing Proposition 4 last Tuesday, the voters of Califor we get the operating license the better," Hoch said. Books & Gifts .. MUSic & Jewelry. , FifICords and Cessetlu nia did themselves one of tRe greatest, favors possible: they There are many complex reasons for the delays in obtaining , . Greeting Cards lind Notes . , end a Col/fICtion Of lhtl finally put a tight, effeCtive rein on state and local govern Contemporary Jewelry by James Avery, Craftsmlln an operating Iieense. Although there has been major political COME SEE US SOON! ment's ability to tax and spend, thereby setting the stage for opposition to nuclear power in general, whieh has lead to pr9- greatly increased governmental efficiency and responsiveness, 26386 Carmel Rancho Ln., Carmel.624-1290 • tests aimed at keeping Diablo shutdown. it has been two other "APPROACHING THE BARNYARD" While guaranteeing themselves substantial tax savings over incidents that have direetiy affeeted Diablo's,ehanees at being Ample PlIrklng It both entrenCII$ what logically could have been expected otherwise. licensed. But even so, it is bestftot to take too much for granted; for The first was the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear the mere fact that Prop~ 4 passed by a hefty margin does not Power Plant which cast doubts on many other nuclear plants mean that any such transformation will take plaee entirely by in the nation and caused the NRC to question the licensing and itself. As was the ease with the Paul Gann-authored measure's safety requirements for nuelear power plants. spiritual father, Proposition 13, it is going to require con· The second incident was the discovery of an earthquake • tinued watehfulness on the part 9f the taxpaying public to en- fault a few miles off the coast near the Diablo plant site, sure that this new addition to.the state Constitutition achieves Due to the NRC conclusions after the Three Mile Island ac all the good it can. ddent Diablo employees will undergo stricter training pro These four elements alone ensure that Prop. 4 will hold cedures and other safety systems will be enforced. down taxes'and put an 'end to excessive government spending. When the earthquake fault was diseovered it sent the Apple Pie, Children's Bookshop With the 8pigotat the trough of tax dollars now eonstitutional engineers baek to the drawing board to redesign signifieant 498C Foam St., Monterey ly eontrolled, eleeted representatives at all levels of California portions of the plimt's structural system to make it invincible (corner McClellan) go'vernment will be foreed, to either tighten their budgetary to "seismic oeeurances," the engineering term for earth 373-1230 belts and s.eek ways to cut back on excessive spending, or to quakes. With most of the structural additions on Unit One, prove to the people that additional taxes are needed. engineers predict the buildings could withstand a 7.5 Richter However, what Prop. 4 does not 'and eannot do is to ensure scale earthquake, whieh is stronger than any earthquake evet that government is indeed streamlined, and that what is eut registered in California. Hoeh also assures that the plant could CHRISTMAS baek is bureaucratic fat-rather thaQ neeessary serviees. True, withstand the onslaught of a tidal wave. In fact, Hoch claims is for there are a growing number of us in the legislature who intend that a 747 jetliner eould erash into the domed eontainment to do everything possible to aehieve this goal of a leaner, more struetures (where the radioaetive uranium would be kept when CHILDREN, TOO! effective and less intrusive government. But the experience of the' plant was operating) without penetrating the three-foot , ,. a unique collection of Prop. 13 tells us that there will also he those who can and will thick concrete-steel walls, fine children's books attempt to wreak their own subtle form of sabotage on the new When asked repeatedly how safe the entire system is, in order, either by seeking ways to circumvent its Pfovisions or by duding the possibility of human error whieh spokesmen admit seeking to make eutsthat hurt, in hopes. of eonvineing tax- cannot always be eontrolled, the answer was always "relatively payers to turnbaekthe dock. " safer than other power systems or even driving your ear on the GIVE A BOOK GIFT CERTIFICATE Clearly, such efforts must be thwarted; and it is the respon- freeway." "REDEEMABLE AT PARTICIPATI:'> • 51 '~l; a~ep 'L~ os '9~ Jlda 's~ a:lJel '~j, AOldwa 'OJ, alPJfq '6 '~de '9 al4snq '9 Sill ·s dwep '17leJaua6 "£ Ja6ueJ 'l; :uMOa paseaJ(aPJ 'l;l;:U 'j,l; JIUOJI 'Ol; pe '61- OJd '9j, paseald "17j, (aJnoQ E!1) eWJI 'l;1- dO$ •\. j, AJaaq '6 SnowAuQue 'L (,lns) 1518 '9 apel5lJq . \. :SSQJ::r\i i'ON • Elaine Staal en burg Photo by Greg Dodge .JIIIII',~~... Accommodations in Quiet, ofHhe·rbad, natural HANDMADE setting, Sixty-one cottage, some with firelJlaces and kitchens. Heated SWimming pool, 3690 The Barnyard recreatIon hall, eight miles Ofhiking trailS. Carmel, California 93923 Velour • COTTAOES & OIFT SHOP Prepared naturally, of course Clothes 408/625-1454 Open All Year RESTAURANT RE-OPENS·MARCH 28,1980 Sew Softly Lincoln btwn. 5th & 6th (408) 667-2171 Su Veclno Court-Carmel LOCATED ON HIGHWAY ONE 26 MILES SOUTH OF CARMEL 824-8911 63 MILES NORTH OF HEARST CASTLE NO PARK ENTRANCE FEE FOR BIG SUR LODGE GUESTS - Page 32 THE, BIOSUR GAZETTE December, 1919 UC Davis Study Shows mItt Growth Control Flaws <6U;tttt: to the nortb of l:"etalUma" the researchers • Coastal News that home prices in Pet.aluma have increased 7 • Local Events more since controls were instituted in 1972 than • Historical tbose in Santa Rosa. • Wildlife The study. entitled "The report which examines Effects of Growth Manage • Profiles srowth patterns in the city of ment on New Housing Prices: • Features Petaluma. Petalulma, California," also. The researchers. whose pointed out that if nearby • Poetry study was published by the cities are acceptable UC Davis Institute of substitutes for the • Classifieds Governmental Affairs control city, then demand for • Bill Bates discovered .that win increase in those growth control in Petalwma, cOlirmlunititls in tangent with Cartoons a city of 3S,OOO-plus cost of housing. tion located north Francisco in Sonoma Coun and ... ty, has resulted in the con struction of fewer, larger and You can more homes. Planning for the Next Decade take it comparing housing costs neighboring Santa Rosa, a By WILLIAM CAMPBELL police and criminals ference and arrogance over government certainly aren't with &laate Minority floor Leader were punisbed for their YOUI similar community without our whole social and the real voice of the people • controls which lies 16 We are at the threshold of severely for economic landscape. and don't reflect the temper our holiday crimes. We were People vote with hope and of ourdmes. Thanksgiving, Christmas and There was a respect for an those hopes are burled. The There must be an agenda tbe beginning of the 1980s. dividual's property. A voters have voted time after ((lr the '80s. That agenda We all share an of and patriotism w~ time for the death penalty must include a very strong reo about the course we win cbart deep in our grain. . wbile vicious murderers statement of our basic in the next decade. It could Government was different. languished in max· beliefs, the policies that built be the most critical years It wasn't huge and aloof. imum security cells, write this great nation-freedom, • in American history. Most importantly memoirs and cost tbe tax· obligation and respect for our Each of us as an individllal ment did not assume role payers large sums. People community and other in and every family must have a of "big brother!' There was have voted time and again to dividuals .. 1I'1't1IUlfll' concern about what . a for A prohibit mandatory busing What should our goals be? ahead. We must have the businessman could and bigger and even more Less regulation of our COllrlllle and the will to come make a good living. We were massive forced busing plans live.s, property and with solutionsto such taxed fairly. We built a are made, debated and businesses. . • preSSitlg problems as energy and vibrant litigated. People have asked Mor~ respect for the in~ a treasure trove of ablUldianl:e and cost, ending highest SUilllUaiTUS for government to tax them dividual. Objets d'art, jewetry inflation, cutting the size and known to history. fairly and the government We face serious problems, cost of monstrous govern- has happened? Pro- builds up greater surpluses of but tliat is nothing new for ment, safety in our are hostile to government. tax dollars. this state and nation. We neighborhoods and the are cynical. They are What is vitally important is achieved greatness by ORIENTAL RUGS development of an economic and then over- the courage and cotivictions problem-solving, with climate where security is by agency after that still remain deep within courage, and by accepting the largest collection again a reality. commission on top us. We can put government responsibility and honoring In Central California America and our state once commission. Government. back into the proper perspec our commitments to abetter had dream-a dream of it seems, has become tbe tive. We can only achieve this way of life. THE PENINSULA'S OOMPLETE /aellitnle8S. We were to tormentor not the protec- goal if we end short-term and The 1980swill be exciting RUG STORE: personal~ sacrifices tor-the antagonist not the expedient policies that usual· and tile problem we face rugs purchased, restored, aPiJraleed tbe common good of our protagonist. Government ly are reduced to simplistic together can be solved. They and expertly lumd·waahed. society. There was a moral complicates, issues slogans. The politically will be solved with a beliet in basis. Children in the schools threats, thwarts and fashionable phrases that are ourselves, and honesty to teachers, casts a shadow of indif· characteristic of bureaucratic others and determinatin. Conway 'of Asia 31,.2 miles up Cermel Valley Rd. Valley Hilla Shopping Center 625..Q595 • • • Vine indoOfS Dr on our beautiful terrace. ,and enjoy Fine dining~ or in the unsurpassed 40-milevistas in town ... country ... oj 'Big Sur Coastline. fish lind imported sellfood .V'",mrf'" Iftuddi.tion to other !"'n,,,ti"""",,1 beef and • gai Iy year '.round a"m .. to m'lttnlght • Dining and Cocktails • Reservations lor .Iarge parties only 661.. 2345 JuIIIpeto and 6th Ave., C:lIIIIIGI, CA for IUII!QIlons (4081 tI~ 11l1li .. Ill_IS servIll1flJlll61'.1Il. IIIItII ming, COCktails 1f1J1114 P ••• On Highway One '''''' lUllIng. 30 "tiles South oJ Carmel .. - December, 1919 THE Bf(I SUR GAZm& page 33 California's Automotive Future , By ED SALZMAN minister the program in California alone. suited to the production of diesel fuel than gasoline. The state • Reprinted from the California Journal Will a significant amount of synthetic fuel be used in has a large reserve of very heavy crude in Kern County, but in Cali/ornia? the past it has not been economically feasible to extract it on a Take a look at the current gasoline situation in California The decision on diesel and the trend in the pricing of gflsoline large scale. There probably will not be a major change in the from the standpoint of miles-pet-barrel effICiency and you will be major factors in determining how much alcohol and source of crude in the next few years, except that the mix will come to one inescapable conclusion: Many more vehicles other synthetic fuels will be marketed. It is easier to refine probably include somewhat less Indonesian oil and more powered by diesel fuel ought to be on the. highways. A barrel diesel than ~asoline from synthetic fuels. Under the current heavy crude from Alaska and Kern County. of crude. oil- especially the kind now availableln California technology, alcohol fuels are much more expensive to produce Will California have sufficient refinery capacity? - will produce more fuel at less cost if refineries are geared to than gasoline. Nevertheless, government officials seem deter producing distillates (diesel fuel) instead of gasoline. And Capacity i3 nat now a major problem. In fact, California now mined to put large quantities of synthetic fuels on stream, and supplies leened products to Nevada and Arizona. (California diesel produces more energy per gallon than gasoline. significant amounts will be manufactured regardless of cost. Nevertheless, federal and state policies have hindered the is included in the federal petroleum region known as PADD 5. optimum use of diesel fuel - and for very good reasons: Auto Will California cO!ltinue to maintain an odd/even system in At times, the stilte sends so much gasoline to other states that it some counties? manufacturers often cannot me~ state smog standards with must import gas from the Gulf Coast to fill its allocation.) diesel engines (although three companies have obtained cer· That depends on how tight the fuel supply is and.whether ser Nevertheless, there is s(gnificant concern about the retooling tification for next year), and. there is a question about possible vice station opc;rators stay open on weekends. Ther\! are those of refineries to make ~hem produce at maximum effiCiency, emission of carcinogenic particles from diesel engines. who feel that weekend openings are more important than the especially if synfuels are to be used and more diesel is desired, • At alm.ost every point, when an attempt is made to assess the odd/even plan because there is no automatic pump jam at the A consulting firm, Bonner and Moore of Houston, isnow con future of California's energy supply, the same bottom-line start of the week. The Assembly committee studying the 1979 ducting a major refinery study for government and industry on question arises: How much environmental protection is the gas crisis found that the shortage of gas was not as critical as California's future refinery needs. state willing to sacrifice for more fuel and electricity? had been thought and that public panic was a major factor Will truckers be able to survive the rapid rise tn fuel costs .... contributing to the long lines. The committee's first report, The Diesel Advantages There are those wh9 feel that many trucks will be forccA off The state Energy Commission estimates that less thanl per the highways by high fuel costs and that the railroads will be cent of the state's automobiles now run on diesel fuel; it has set carrying much of the freight that has traditionally been hauled • a goal of 30 percent for the 1980s.' (The commission is planning California and the world by independent truckers. a major study of diesel problems next year.)As now written. california uses about 4 percent of the Will conservation efforts succeed? state regulations on emissions - and oxides of nitrogen is the non-Communist world'S crude-Oil flow. California has a good conservation record. The state's drivers key problem for diesel· -- will get more stringent every year. long ago recognized the need to shift to smaller cars. It is a Here is a breakdown, in round numbers: myth that Californians waste more gas than drivers elsewhere. The state has no regulations covering the problem of par- World - 50 million barrelS a day. ticulates (the cancer question), and the federal government is On both a per-capita and per-vehicle basis, California drivers United states - 20 million barrels a day. are slightly better than the national average. "In Texas," sayd considering etnission standards in that area. california - 2 million barrels a day. • The basic reasons why diesel is preferable to gasoline: Ken Henwood of the Energy Commission, "they think a Ford • California's crude oil. supply is getting increasingly On an average, 60 percent of each barrel LTD is a small car." Higher gas prices have brought consump heavier, and this type of crude lends: itself to production of is refined into gasoline. tion down. In recent months, prices have risen 30 percent,. and diesel. ------'.r------..;...... consumption has dn}pped about 9 percent. Henwood says the • More molar vehicle fuel can be obtained out of a barrel if issueq by Chairman Mel Levine, contains no specific recom- basic rule is that a 10 percent increase in price will produce a refiners can emphasize diesel. . mendations for legislative action. But it does emphasize the reduction in demand of about 1 Y2 to 2 percent. • Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines. need for a close look at refinery capacity, especially with the Will taxes on gaSOline increase? • There is about 15 percent more energy ina gallon of diesel switch to diesel a good possibility. Energy Commission If the state and nation plan to invest many billions of dollars • fuel than in a gallon of gasoline. . statistics show that the gas crunch was aggravated by the on transit systems, that is an obvious way to get the money. • Diesel fuel is slightly cheaper than gasoline. shfinking number of pumps in recent years plus the tendency Will mass transit be improved in California? For years, the diesel engine was considered cleaner than the on the part of the motorist to go to the service station more Those who analyze the energy problem feel it is mandatory gas-powered motor. 11:1I1t is not now the case. The gasoline often. that urban sprawl be contained so that trips will be shorter and passenger car has caught up. Now the diesel engine has to cope Who will market'ga~oline in the 1980s? so that attractive transit systems be. built. The major emphasis with the problem of meeting the ever-tightening standards There is a move afoot in the Legislature to put the state in the will be in the Los Angeles area, where the automobile is still .. each year. F'or n~~t year, tl\ree firms ha'Ve already received Air gas business. but that has little chance of passing. The the basic commute vehicle. . Resources Board certificatioIJ to sell dieseJ& In California - marketing pattern will probably not change much. Here are Will the state be allowed freedom to solve its own fuel pro Mercedes:'Benz, Peugeot, .. and General Motors. Note the the major retailers in California by percentage of sale, accar blems? ab,sence ofVolk.swagen,.wh~~h elected. not to seek certification ding to Board of Equalization statistics: Chevron, 16 percent; No. The fate of the California driver is inexorably connected and to sell its diesels., Which are in gf1'atdemnnd, in more Shell, 14 pecent; Arco, 12 percent; Union, 11 percent; Mobil, to the national and internatiohal crude-oil distribution ! friendly regulatory.tl(rritot¥. General Motors plans to build a 8percent; Texaco, 6 percent; Lion,S percent; Gulf, 3 percent; work. large nu~ber of mid-sized diesel cars and is talking about con- Mohawk, Douglas, Powerine and Beacon, 2 percent each. Will California smog standards be relaxed? version of one-qulilfter of its production to diesel by the middle Will demand for gasoltne keep growing? The answer depends on whether Detroit will meet the challenge of the next decade. California still is experiencin~economic growth and an influx to produce fuel-stingy, poflution-free vehicles, according to Under ARB rules, it is possible for a company to sell a diesel of migrants from other states. These factors increase. demand Henwood of the Energy Commission. Car buyers are shopping~ in California that produces more smog than a comparable gasoline car the day it is driven o'!t of the showroom. That's because th~ ARB has established an optional set of standards which should make "it· easier to .obtain certification 0 f diesel models. Bill Sessa of the ARB explains that ordinarily air • pollution standards apply to the first 50,000 mires a car travels. But the manufacturer can submit as an alternative the emis • Shift to diesel? sionsfrom t,he . 100.000 miles. Since diesels are more durable, then can emitfewer pollutants titan a gas vehicle over the long haul -- even though the situation maybe reversed • Relaxation of smog standards? when the vehicles ate new, It appears virtually certatn that more Californians will bel driving diesel cars in the 1980s, especially if the cancer issue • Higher taxes to fund mass transit? • can be resolved. But there is no one who can predict how fast the conversion will tak,e place and wh.ether it will require a significant reduction in environmeI}tal protection. CJlrrent Thinking for gas. The task of the state. is to take conservation for fuel economy. "Honda can't meet the demand," Hen In fact, there are few hfm:l and fast answers to many ques- .countermeasures that will more than offset these demands. wood observes, "while American manufacturers can't sell • lions about California's future motor fuel supply. But here is Where will California get its crude oil? standard models." He feels that the Honda Accord is "the car the curreI}t. thinking a~orig those trying to solve these pro In round numbers, the state's crude supply breaks down this of the future" in California. It is obvious that there is pressure blems: way: California wells, 40 percent; Alaska, 40 percent; In from Washington, from oil companies and from auto Howt/gllt is the state'~ ~asoline supply apt to be? donesia, 20 percent. In recent months, the Indonesia supply manufacturers to relax pollution standards. The state ARB has California. • ? prices significantly -- to produce revenue for transit systems and to discourage purchases. Is rationing inevitable? During a severe crunch, the federal government maybe forced to impose fl1tioning, as it did during World War n. But there are major problems. PoliticallY, it is considered dangerous. No one has yet devised a system for allocating gasoline that all .. elements of the mptoring public will consider fair. And it is very expensive to administer; Ken Henwood, gasoline specialist for the state Energy Commission, estimates that it would cost 1112 cents a gallon, or $180 million a year,to ad- Page 54 ,THE: BIG SUR GAImE December,1979 VERDE'S UPHOLSTERY Rural Well CARMELVllJ;.AGE ~HO~PING CENTER CARMEL VAllEY, CA. 93921 Owners Face Sal Verde 659-3220 Metering • lv!ID~ LLEY MASSACE, . • Tired of Massage Studios? • 625·4200 • I~ _----!\.Cllrmel Rancho __.. zone, which Buel said a prere- Another Court Reversal Results Chiropractic of state water law . Offices The district from Deukmejian Leadership • Charles A. Nelson. D.C. wells, meters be u{Ol.a""" By FRED W. KLINE ment-one involved the Supreme Court that any war that ~\;;IIJ1-.tIlIIllW Capitol News SenitI! death and the ~other rant check of a motorist by a d,llction statements be sub the "use a gun, go to traffic officer was un A Natural Approach to Health mitted by owners to the law, constitutional. Deukmejian' s specific Gonstead' Analysis & procedure Last year when district and access for Deukmejian was ,."YIn""" He has appeared several office requested the court to • family Health Care times before legislative com conduct a rehearing, in • Workers Compensation attorney he recjf!jVf~a said even more than the normal mittees or subcommittees to dicating that the ruling would • • Group/union Insurance not aU wells ..ff"l'tl'JPlv argue on behalf of • Accidantllnjurv expected support law cause a threat to public safe- • Medicare be included for enforcement groups in legislation being rl"l>i~tr::lti()n in the immediate California. by his office. He !'",,,.. ntlv -often, facts un future, and the district board Although, it was taken for peared before the a warrant check 625-3335 will consider to granted that Hoover Commisison to officers that would be the favorite outline his efforts to combat be stolen, that 26365 Carmel Rancho Blvd., SUite F enforcement groups, there' Medi-Cal the fflt'lll\t'.d is wanted for a were some notable firsts in The is mountlnll; violent crime or may be arm the including an of- that Deukmejianls efforts are ed. 'This helps the officer to endorsement by the to reverse the himself and the public California Sheriff's Associa trend which has more than if tion, which had never done evident in the Lel~lSijature that be ob- such before. and in the courts of the tained, state. In itself, the Most the ,state court said warrant checks are Court reversed itself so long as they basically in another case which was take no more time than the a considered pyt,r"""plv business of the traffic stop, ant to law enforcement. as a ticket. 'Fhis should and This time, DO!i\;;,.Ill0 Dlrnhll"m for law en appellate courts. didn't the t'orcenlent, and they're happy'. he would Banally, about that. a law and order attorney battle plan' and doubt are just as That's what the office will not they gave such wanted, That's what adverse decisions to the current enforcement wanted. He is att()tm~y general, because it to his nrrlmj~l""', I1>tllI<;."'" case involv- nh'rjnl"~lv is proving to have there is little the state been the thing to do. 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Attorney Fleischaker Luis Obispo, tIie Scenic Gallery fea~urlnglaser art torney wants the chairman of Since last spring, PG&.E represents three organiza Shoreline Preservation Con the Nuclear Regulatory Com has been seeking a federal tions which have been ference of Santa Barbara, mission disqualified from any license to operate the first of challenging NRC licensing of and the Ecology Action Club Man's Newest Art Form votes the NRCtnay take on two units of the $1.6 billion the Diablo Canyon plant. of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. ,the Diablo Canyon nuclear Diablo Canyon plant being 121 Ocean View Blvd., Pacific Grove power pla~ built 15 miles southwest of David S. Fleischaker, at San Luis Obispo. torney for opponents of the The PG&.E spokesman, Pacific Gas &. Electric, Co. Lyle LaFaver, said Friday's BOOK AFFAIR project, Wednesday accased meeting had been called NRC Chairman Joseph .. ~n· because the power company By DOROTHY SINCLAIR drie of holding an unethicll, is "concerned that we have secret meeting" la"t week with been discriminated against," "How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years" by • the president and" the b(lard by the five-member NRC Howard J. Ruff. Times Books, $8.95. 238 pages. chairman of PO&E. board .. This "rash course in personal and financial survival'· might Thus, Fleischaker says "We've been ask.ed to do well be the best investment you can make, in this era of Hendrie should be barred things at Diablo Caftyon that $kyrocketing prices and falling stocks. I found it one. of the from NRClistening action in no other utility's been 'asked most informative and lucid I have read on economICS. Be volving PG&'E's plant, and to do at their nuclear power forewarned, however, that Howard Ruff may well put you in a the attorney vowed to form- plants," he claimed. state of glo,om unless you determine to take his predictions, • ally seek Hendrie's dis LaFaver said such requests and much of his advice, with a grain of salt. BE SAFEI qualification. include earthquake 'safety A .former actor-turned-businessman, Ruff has become a BE SECURE ••• According to reports in the studies required of PG&.E financial "wizard" only in recent years. He has now taken up We can help! San Luis Obispo County since 1973, when the Hosgd residence in a small California town, from which he publishes Telegram-Tribune, a PG&E fault was discovered three his widely read financial newsletter, "The Ruff Times." spokesman in San Francisco miles offshore of Diablo Father of nine, with a deep Mormon background, Ruff com 624-6363 admitted Hendri had met Fri- Canyon. bines his monetary theories with ethics,' morals, religion, day with PG&E board chair "This was. strictly a ecology and sociology. No mean feat for a book: of this genre. Carmel Rancho Shopping Ctr. • (btwn. Monte Mart & The'Barnyard) man Fred W. Mielke and meeting to discuss pro The author deals first with problems, and then with preser president Barton W. cedures,"LaFaver. said. "We vation, Sedion one makes dire predictions. whereas the latter Shackelford at the utility would not ask for. special portion attempts to balance them with wise, sometimes tricky, investment advice. Anyone can protect himself in the coming Caltrans is Now bad years, says Ruff, even the "little man" whose holdings are modest. ~ In a recent question-and-answer radio program, I caught Support the people • ,RecyclingRoads Ruff reiterating his theories over and over. He exudes poise who support the (CNS) Recycling The recycling process can and has great confidence in what he feels are the basics. Suc cinctly, they are as follows: newspapers, bottles, be done at a reprocessing Something.is terribly wrong "out there." The institutions aluminum cans and other center Or actually on the site we were taught to trust are now giving us queasy feelings. The materials has become a major of the repairs. Road milling U.S, is about to enter its greatest test period ".an inflationary conservation effort in machines grind up the upper spiral leading to a great depression. The breaking point is com • California and now the state surface of an existing road ing soon, American currency will collapse, creating chaos in Department of Transporta bed and provide bituminous the marketplace, but Ruff promises that if you follow hj~ ad tion has developed a method material for recycling. The vice and make the right moves ahead of time, you will not only of conserving asphalt by old asphalt can either be survive, but will preserve your purchasing power. By depen recycling torn up roads. transported to a reprocessing Our advertisers make it ding on interest from CD.s or savings accounts, you will ac Asphalt recycling has prov center or special on-site tually decrease your ,purchasing power greatly. Avoid banks pos$ible to publish each month. en to be both economically machinery can crush the entirely except for necessary transactions. sound and energy efficient. asphalt, mix it with hot oil Social Security is fast becoming a myth, since the govern and combine it with some • Caltrans Director Adriana ment may run out of available funds in the near future. Gianturco explains, "With new aggregate and asphalt. The big cities will be the first to go. To invest in them either the rising cost of ce Giant urco notes, We appreCiate their by real estate or bonds is foolhardy. If you must live in an ur ment, which is a petroleum "Although asphalt recycling ban center now, sell your property and rent an apartment. support and ask you, our p,oduct, and the of 'is stm in the experimental Take the proceeds and follow Rums investment advice. good quality aggregate, stages, OJ,lr preliminary find Just what are sound investments? Well, "junk silver" is readers, to support them. aSPhalt recycling offers a ings show that this technique worth more than its face value and in addition can always be uses less asphalt, with asphalt • practical alternative to costly used as a means of purchasing. Gold is the number one choice, road repairs. In fact, half as. priced at $120 a ton, that can followed closely by small town real estate. By "small" is meant much new asphalt is needed add up to quite a savings, those not exceeding 100,000 in population. Several states other when recycled asphalt is used plus there is a 15 perc~nt sav than California and New York are suggested, however, if you for road repairs." ings in energy." must remain in California, concentrate on central or northern ,cities. Small income property is safest and wisest-one to four units which can be easily leased and maintained. Stay away Big Sur Campground CCabins from raw land which usually brings in no income and rarely in • creases in value as readily. As for diamonds-well, they're still IN THE MAGNIFICENT REDWOODS everybody's best friend and now, as ever, are a safe and sound ON THE BIG SUR RIVER investment. Above and beyond, Ruff urges investment in a one years' supply of food per person, so certain is he that black market and price controls will eventually throw our country into chaos. If he proves wrong, he 'defends, you will be nothing • out, for you can always eanhe food. An extensive) chapter of fers guidance on the type of food~, where and how to store, etc. This comes about as a result of Mr. Ruff's background as a nutrition expert and health food salesman. If all of this has you slightly panicked, the expert assures that all of these problems do not portend the end of Western civilization. The nation will recover. Whether or not you buy these theories, buy the book. 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The narrow canyon is so last in three ofrain the past two I cannot see three yards ahead. My nose leads At dawn the curtain lifts revlmlituII\II",UJ"""",,,,;,u,,,,, the way. to a fallen log; pausing to catch my breath, I at my feet just of mu,Shroolll1 discover that my throne is scalloped with· my favorite edible, favorite kind of weather. oyster mushrooms, growing from decaying wood. A firm fresh In oiled boots and green I squish colony in its prime, not waterlogged, overlapping layers of down the spongey trail under oak and madrone. The air is palest beige scallops. ostreatus is one of the few almost SOlid water. washed leaves. lignicolous fungi (wood-inhabiting as distinguisbed from ter weillthttld with rain .. Liquid music. Before I reach oak restrial) that is good to eat, the others being tough as leather. grove I am soaked, hair Ilnd curly. rainsuit wet inside I comb through the colony searching for the young and and out. Feels good after three years of drought. tender caps; searching too for beetles and wormholes, recalling At the base of an oak I my first mushroom. PUilhitlg the the worms crawled out oyster mushrooms and earth with concave cap of cream on the hot Bversince careful, I check be- to rusty tan. An old whose name I do not know. tween the gills for signs some infinitesimal bugs, • Cream colored regular cap, a member of the which I'll skim off in water. I gather a of caps. This La<~ta"ius family I when broken. In the mushroom is so delicious shaken in seasoned flour and sauteed interest of A drop or two of I'm willing to take another chance. woods. fluid. which of the in the canyon I find my first frail Coprinus of the handbook is no in North and its common name, because of its curious two hundred the Some of the Lactariusare auto-C,ige:stion. se:creltlng an delicious and some are labeled in the From jug Since I don't chance a taste without idendfica- to vintage wines I leave the unidentified LactaTius in the trail now, in the woods, I in brown sponge of leaves from a nt'n,mj!:ina exp'oslIlg a six~inch rounClc:CI emf!t'l:Ii 11 1:1 thick 20 Carmel CARMEL~ • 824-0980 ~~~~~ Records • Tapes • ~LW Discount Prices 2 fi Best selettlon 3 Of lP's and Tapes on ~onterey Peninsula ~ ~ Barnyard 93923 Fille Jewelry 625·1229 Sensibly Priced ~ Special Orders p~ Gladly & Filled ~~~~~~ When was the The Smallest Store with the • last time vou 011 the Monterey Peninsula had vour child's 624... 5779 intriguing of the J'1.ff«lfllIW. 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