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' a | ~ Also: Human Beans in Isla Vista Jojoba: Fighting to Save the Whale From Lima Beans to Pampas Grass Guayule: The Organic Lubricant PAGEA2 DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY, OCTOBER5. 1979

Santa Barbara’s agricultural marijuana industry, for which scene has been undergoing revenue figures are unavailable, $ £ 6 6 ] dramatic changes during the last no other crop in the area is quite as What’s Growing 200 years of the white man’s lucrative as the avocado. supervision. Alternative farming methods OFF I In this edition, we’ll take a look are taking root over at the Isla at the flora that has come and Vista Human Bean Farm where Regular Price — In gone. More than a mere rotation of members aim to make Isla Vista a ANY • crops, the coastal area has been self—sufficient community. host to everything from lima beans Other uses for the land are for ATHLETIC SHOE!!: and hay, to walnuts and pampas developing experimental crops with this coupon : grass, to eucalyptus and avocados. such as the jojoba and the guayule. Expires 10/13/79 ! Presently, the avocado is the The former may cut down the Santa Barbara reigning crop, expecting to yield world’s dependence on whale oil I : over $20 million this season. while the latter hopes to reduce our Barring the homegrown need for synthetic rubber. ^°les& Resoles ; 4419 Hollister at Modoc : # 964-2222 a sm 9 fit

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Dark green fields of avocados now cover the rolling hills of the Goleta Valley as thickly as the summer fog. The plants ability to thrive on land too steep for other flora and the expanding. nationwide market have turned the Goleta hills into gold.

County Director and Farm Advisor until prices rise. In the market­ parcels of land, managed by the for the U.C. Cooperative Ex­ place, this type of avocado will last owner who lives on the property. tension. Bishop Ranch, the first up to twice as long as other These farms range in size from one Goleta Guacamole: large scale grove in the state, was varieties, (having a shelf-life of acre to over a hundred with the started in Goleta in the 1930’s with from two weeks to a month) and its average being around six acres. 200 acres. Today, the ranch is still thick skin protects it from bruises. “ One of the beauties of avocados” The Greenest Crop one of the county’s top producers. Most of the avocados grown in says Goodall, “ is that there is no Avocados do very well in this the county are raised on small (Please turn to p.A4, col.2) By DAVE KIRBY previously uncultivated foothill area mostly because of its climate. The mighty avocado----- that land. Second, the market for A native of the tropical rainforests luscious green-black pearl of avocados has been expanding as of Mexico and Central America, perfection that adds rich flavor to promotion and advertising have the fruit has adapted very well to any meal and hundreds of calories helped boost the fruit’s image both the drier, yet equally mild to any diet, is bringing in an locally and nationally. Finally, mediterranean climate. The astounding $20 million to Santa new strains of avocado and better county coastal region is practically Barbara County growers this year. growing and irrigation methods, free from winter frost and what is In 1977 avocados were the single combined with consistently high lost in rainfall is augmented by most valuable cash crop in the prices, have made avocado irrigation. Since temperature is county. This year, the avocado is growing more attractive to the fairly mild during the summer expected to exceed lettuce, (last farmer. (The gross per acre in­ months, the fruit matures less year’s most valuable crop), and come for an orchard is $3,000 to rapidly, thus enabling farmers to again be number one in the county. $4,000 a year.) take advantage of “late market” Avocado cultivation has been prices. The favored growing areas steadily on the increase since the Avocados have a long history of in the county are in the foothills 1950’s and continues to be popular cultivation in this county. The first extending from Refugio in the with county farmers. Today, more trees wore imported from Mexico north to Rincon in the south. than 6,000 acres are being in 1871 and planted on the property Production underwent rapid cultivated by about 800 individual of Judge R.B. Ord. Other pioneers expansion in the 1950’s and it was growers making S.B. county of the fruit included George A. during this decade the “ Haas” second only to S.D. Co. in avocado White, and Joseph Sexton whose- variety became popular among production. Over the last twenty grove, planted at the turn of the farmers in the county. The Haas years, the once giant groves of century, is still producing in Goleta avocado is easily recognized by its lemon trees that covered the today. Avocado growing really- thick, black, bumpy skin. There county have gradually been didn’t become an industry however are several advantages to this replaced by more profitable land until 1915 when local farmers variety for both the farmer and uses- avocados, flowers, and of formed the California Avocado seller of the fruit. First, the Haas course, housing. Society, the first organization of its variety produces more fruit per County avocado production has kind in California. acre, thus increasing profits. Once doubled in the last ten years for Santa Barbara county farmers matured, the avocado can remain several reasons. First, along with became involved in avocado on the tree for as long as five replacing lemon groves, new or­ production “ as early as anyone months, enabling the farmer to chards have been started on else” according to George Goodall, “ play the market” and hold out r DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY EDITOR FRIDAY. OCTOBERS. 1979 KARLMONDON PAGE A3 MAGAZINE v . ______J Human Beans in Isla Vista?

BY LISA RENEE HARRIS pride and enthusiasm are in toward making Isla Vista more I admit it... when I first found out abundance among the workers. self-sufficient. I was doing a story on the Isla The gardeners divide their crops The major difference between Vista Human Bean Farm, I en­ between two basic types of far­ the French farming and industrial visioned a troupe of anti­ ming: French Intensive and dry. agriculture as we know it, is establishment, couldn’t-get-a-job- The former is a restoration of a energy. The amount of resources so-I-stayed-in-I.V., “ totally technique which was outmoded in used to grow and transport this casual,” pseudo-hippie-farmers. France by the introduction of the country's meals is staggering. The And I ’ll willingly admit I was dead tractor. The Isla Vista version Human Bean Farm feels it is wrong. uses the fundamental principles of essential to produce the food for a Standard texts here include French Intensive in a modernized given area in that area, to reduce Huxley and Spinoza. When he way. transportation costs, to use human needed information on French Dry farming relies on natural rather than mechanical labor and farming techniques, Farm Quasi- irrigation, and is therefore to eliminate petroleum pollutants. Coordinator Steve Mitchell didn’t cheaper than the French Intensive “ The vision,” according to Gary- hesitate to go to the original text. which must be watered once a day. Michael,” is to create a self- In French. But not all crops can be dry far­ sufficient community. There's a Terms like microclimate, bed­ med and, for the farm workers, the lot of vulnerability in a culture heating (no, not bed warming), French form is the best alter­ where only a few percent of the and microcatchments roll off the native. people know how to grow their own tongues of the CETA-paid and “ Agri-business and economics food.” volunteer farmers like “cosmic” take such a small view of what’s Mitchell feels that the modern and “ intense” from Del Playans. valuable and profitable, and it’s methods of farming in the U.S. are Highly technical methods of soil frequently just money,” explained destined to fail eventually. “ In­ preparation, compost layering and Gary-Michael Bean (no relation to dustrial agriculture stands in companion planting were the farm ‘Bean’ ). “ Right now the contrast to ecologically guided researched thoroughly, mainly by driving value is money. If that agriculture,” he wrote for one of Mitchell, before implementation in could change into something more the information panels that the farm. Each crop’s growing humane, growing organic food describe the farm's procedures. season and method is delicately would be more profitable.” “ Its energy sources are un­ planned and overseen by a small The Human Bean Farm is a non­ diversified, as well as inefficient group of informed and very profit organization. They sell their and expensive when all their costs sophisticated farmers. produce to the I.V. Fud Coop, are calculated (for example, air Techniques are imported from as Sunburst, and various restaurants pollution). Most importantly, they far away as Israel and France, and around I.V. The seasonal harvest are destined to be either depleted, research into new farming yields approximately one ton of as in the case with fossil fuels, or methods is an integral part of the tomatoes in addition to the various pose a direct threat to our health, farm’s work. Understandably, other crops, which all contribute ( Please turn to p.A8, col. 1 ) PAGE A4 DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY. OCTOBERS. 1979

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ByKARLMONDON east-west Santa Ynez mountain To those of us living in one of range blocking cold weather fronts Goleta Valley’s many sprawling incubated in Alaska, and the Lemons were first in­ housing tracts, it is near im­ Channel Islands providing troduced to Santa Barbara possible to belive that this land was protection from ocean storms, the county in 1874 by W.W. GONE with the once covered with dense jungles of area provides a long and gentle oak, willow, and sycamore growing season. Stow, a controversial WIND growing in the thickest, richest While avocados dominate the character who also headed topsoil found in the state. rolling hills of the Valley today, the the “political department” Friday, October 5 Early agricultural pioneers took last 150 years have seen a wide of Southern Pacific advantage of the nutritious soil to Variety of crops ranging from lima Railway. The bitter fruit 6&10 PM produce such mega—produce as beans and pampas grass to lemons has been a'major crop since ☆ Philander Kellogg’s 300 , pound and tea. Campbell Hall $1.75 pumpkin, Ellwood Cooper’s 10 The earliest and perhaps most the first World War. pound onion, and W.W. Hollister’s famous horticulturist was W.W. 12 pound turnip. The Moreton Bay Hollister. A sheepherder from Fig Tree in downtown Santa Ohio, Hollister became enchanted Barbara, the largest in the with the coastal foothills during a hemisphere, is one living example sheep drive up to Monterey in 1869. of this lands fertile past. Later that year he purchased 5000 However, the average Goleta acres of Goleta countryside and residents intent on planting a started the first walnut tree grove Miniature “victory garden” in their in the county, a major crop until backyards are met with nothing the first World War. but deficient hard-pan clay He tried other exotic crops such Race Car Track capable of sustaining little more as bananas, coffee and even tea than the gnarliest of flora. In the with limited success. On one oc­ early 60’s when housing casion Hollister lost 50,000 tea Arcade & Snack Bar developments mushroomed, plants from a single night’s frost. developers had their tractors Lemons, long a major county scrape the land of its topsoil to product, were introduced in 1874 by NOW OPEN! provide a base for building foun­ W.W. Stow, a controversial figure dations. Now the shovels of who was head of Southern Pacific potential week-end farmers turn Railway’s “ political department” . up little else than a shower of The bitter yellow fruit started with 50 Games & Videos sparks in their encounters with the 3000 trees planted near present day earth. La Patera school, but didn’t ex­ Hot Sandwiches When white men first set eyes pand until walnuts became un­ Serpentine Race rack upon this coastal land, they found feasible after World War 1. Custom Designed Cars it the heaviest populated land in Alta and Baja California. Indians of the Chumash language group had been dwelling for. centuries around the Goleta Slough, now STOP 'N GOLF Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. Corner of Los Carneros & Hollister, Goleta A Franciscan priest, Father 11:30 am -10:30 pm. Sun. - Thurs. Crespi noted in a page of his diary 11:00 an -12:00 mid., Fri. & Sat. dated 1769, “ the whole country is entirely delightful...giving signs of 685-2010 or 685-4346 being very fertile land capable of producing whatever one might MINIA TURE GOLF COURSE plant.” UNDER CONSTRUCTION While Father Crespi’s estimation was a little extreme, he was correct in discerning the agricultural potential. With the

“THE BEST THE w e s t and Goleta Guacamole Fillii (Continued from p.A3) years in an attempt to combat the CBS RECORDS economy of scale. In other words, disease. So far, there have been present one acre by itself is as profitable as only two major breakthroughs and one acre in 300.” Goodall describes these as being, Even so, however, avocados are “ only partial cures-— not a LOCAL BOYS MAKE GOOD! one of the riskiest crops to raise. panacea.” One hope is the in­ Extreme temperatures, (under 30 troduction of the “ Duke #7” root degrees or over 100 degrees), can stock which apparently has partial Kenny Loggins T K e M u ta , devastate a whole year’s crop. In resistance to the disease. The other Keep The Fire OASIS addition to this, the farmer has to potential solution is in chemical including: including:. deal with fertilizers, thinning and control. Last year, “ Terrazole” This Is It/Love Has Coma Of Aga/Mr. Night New And Different Way Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong/Will It Last Seeing You (For The First Time) pruning, erosion, proper drainage, was introduced by farmers who The Magic Of Love/FreeTo Be Me rodents, weeds, and the dreaded claim to have had some results. Do Ybu Want lb Dance “ root rot” disease. Other products are due to be on the Root rot, or Phytophthera cin- market soon. Many farmers are namomi, is a fungus which grows finding that a combination of the on the tree’s small feeder roots. Duke #7 stock with chemical “ The fungus seems to follow fungicides is most effective. water” , says Goodall. Root rot Another risk that farmers take is occurs when moisture ac­ that of theft. Goodall cited theft to cumulates beneath the tree. The be a “ serious factor” in hindering JC 36172 A sensational rock ’n9 JC 36140 “Oasis’' . .. the long*an- disease causes a slow deterioration production. A few years back, as roll album from one of the most ticipated solo debut album by Jimmy of the tree as water is cut off from much as 5% of all ripe avocados popular performers in America.______Messina. reaching the upper branches. It were taken off the trees. That takes five to eight years of wiiting figure, however, is much lower and defoliage before the tree ac­ today after a “very aggressive NOW ON SALE tually dies. Root rot is the number program” surveillance, arrests one enemy of the avocado farmer. convictions. Those caught stealing $ ¿ 8 9 One half of the orchards in the avocados more than one time face FOR ONLY *ft each county are infected with the a hefty fine and possibly even a jail fungus. Goodall estimates that term. High fences are also helping over the last three decades, about curb the theft problem. 910 EMBARCADERO DEL NORTE • ISLA VISTA 2,000 acres of avocados have been Avocado growers are actively lost to root rot. involved in all aspects of the in­ OPEN 10-10 DAILY • 12 -8 SUNDAYS • 968-4665 Much research work has been dustry. Each grower is a member conducted during the last few of the California Avocado Com- FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1979 DAILY NEXUS PAGEA5

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While you were away this summer, Hobey Baker’s changed management! We did away with disco, added a new, more moderately priced menu Aside from Hollister, the man of the early 60’s, much agricultural most responsible for bringing land was “ devoured by housing and Live Entertainment Tuesday thru Sunday, agricultural. integrity to Goleta tracts,” notes local historian come for the Fun of It! was Ell wood Cooper. Cooper’s Walker A. Tompkins. In his book, land, now called Ellwood Canyon, Goleta: The Good Land, Tompkins became home to the countries relates the esthetic effects on the The New largest olive oil refinery. Valley during the switch from an Cooper was impressed with the agricultural to an industrial em­ Hobey Baker’s olive trees that the Santa Barbara phasis. “ Everywhere one looked, mission had grbwing and decided housing tracts appeared, blending 5918 Hollister Ave. to grow his own commercially. like raw eggs in a skillet.” During the 1870’s he was producing With the water moratorium Food & Drink & Dancing an olive oil that competed with the holding the growth on future finest Italy could produce. It was housing developments and the an inferior, inexpensive Sicilian oil lucrative markets for avacados that finally drove him out of the and lemons still expanding, the business in the late years of the immediate danger of losing more century. of the area’s agrarian nature has SEPT-OCT Cooper’s other claim to fame passed. What crops the Goleta came with his propagation and Valley will produce in the future distribution of eucalyptus seeds. remains to be seen; condos or FRAME SALE He is largely responsible for in­ alvos, only time will tell. troducing the tall blue tree to the California landscape for wind­ Jojoba beans grown in break uses. 20% O F F Carpintería áre used by the Perhaps the most exotic plant PREMADE WOOD grown commercially on the coast Noble Oil Laboratories to WALNUT, OAK, TEAK was the pampas grass plant. T ô u make various skin Growing wild throughout the BOX FRAMES moisturizers and tanning Valley these days, pampas grass eBe tcï6 a r lotions. was originally brought to the METAL SECTIONAL continent from Argentina by one Joseph Sexton in 1872. Sexton SILVER, PEWTER, BLACK, GOLD harvested the long plumes off the 20 foot plants for decorative use on PICTURE GLASS pageant horses and ballrooms in LOWEST PRICE ANYWHERE Perhaps the most exotic Europe. It spurned a 20 year plant grown commercially decorator’s fad across the sea until Open Tuesday - Saturday 10 am -10 pm in this area was the pampas 1900. Sunday 10 am - 2 pm As fads come and go, so did the Closed Monday grass. The tall plumes were large pampas grass plantations. a European decorator’s fad When farmers could no longer get 934 Em barcadero del Norte, bla Vista in the last decades of the $60 per thousand plumes, the in­ 19th Century. dustry was abandoned. With the expansion of the wm. University and the housing boom Hing the Nation s Salads

îe mission which is a branch of the Nutritionally, the fruit is ideal m California Avocado Advisory with one very major drawback- id Board. The commission is avocados are fattenning. The g, responsible for all advertising and average fruit contains about 350 a promotion as well as marketing calories. However, it is one of your in- policies. Each farmer has a voice best sources of Thiamine, Niacin ot in how these issues are handled, and Riboflavin among all fruits E-X-P-A-N-S-l-O-N SALE al Four and a half percent of the and vegetables and is by far the sr farmers’ income is sent to the number one source of vitamin B6. al commission for advèrtising. And so, as long as you are not i” Goodall cites vigorous nationwide dieting... ENJOY! CONTINUES to promotion of the fruit as a major s. contribution to the doubling of le sales over the last ten years, re California has the highest con- îe sumption rate of avocados while al New England and the Midwest ★ SHOES - #5°° & up . consume the least amounts, is Campaigns are currently under LSAT to way to promote sales of the fruit in ★ SKI CLOTHING - SAVE 50% lg importing countries such as Japan, and on limited selection of tops Er as England and France, jackets remaining from last season os The mighty avocado— Its at popularity continues to increase as ★ SWIM TRUNKS - SAVE 25% er more and more people discover the G 1 W ne rich, buttery quality of its con­ on LARGE selection of Laguna, Sundeck Er Offshore its tents. The fruit is rapidly A m ity ig becoming a Californian institution, ce Mexican food would not be the Review Seminars University Village Plaza lil same without it and how could 7127 Hollister Ave., #18 15 student average class eixe ig humanity ever hope to carry on Team teaching technique Goleta without occasionally treating itself Convenient weekend classes 685-1295 ly to the ever popular guacomole? EXCLUSIVE MATH REFRESHER in- Avocados are great in salads, Monday thru Saturday 9:30-6 P.M. e Fridays ’til 8:00 P.M. e Closed Sundays er sandwiches and omeletes and can (Master Charge and Visa welcome) n- also be enjoyed simply eaten plain. 800-243-4767 PAGE AS DAILY NEXUS. ! FRIDA Y, OCTOBER 5. 197$ Guayule: Organic Rubber By SANDRA guayule by grin­ THOMAS ding the stem and What if there roots of the were no rubber for guayule, and tires, insulation separating the materials, elastic, grind from the tennis shoes or rubber in a cen­ balloons? An odd trifuge. Along with question, indeed, the rubber, resin but it stresses that can be extracted rubber has many and separated for common uses in our other uses, and the lives. All natural leaves yield a form rubber, for the U.S. o f wax. The is im ported. guayule requires a Synthetic rubber is desert climate, and made from in­ in the U.S. grows creasingly rare only in a desert belt crude oil. from California Authorities predict through Arizona, Hmé if VM toot Bria. that between the New Mexico, and MONTY PYTHON S 1980s and 1990s the Texas. LIFE demand for natural During the 1920s, OF BRIAN rubber will exceed small fields of th e expected guayule were O S ' production and a successfully plant­ worldwide shortage ed in Irvine, will result. Yet, an Salinas, Cayuma alternative to a Valley and some rubber crisis exists 500 acres were in a stubby, gray- cultivated on the green bush called west side of Santa guayule. Maria. However, Th e guayule, when the formally called depression of the Parthenium Arge- 30s hit, rubber ntatum, is a native prices bottomed out of Mexico and has and the fields were been known as a abandoned until the rubber source since onset of World War Pre-Columbian t- II. imes. The Aztecs When the fashioned balls Japanese took over JOSEPH rubber sources in WAMBAUGH’S from guayule A True Story. ONION rubber and used it Southeast Asia, the U.S. turned to ' HELD for chewing gum. Les Baird: The Guayule man of Isla Vista. Gut, m ore im ­ Mexico and to the teCIWI MMM portantly, in the past century, “ Guayule has historicaly been small branch company in guayule has been successfully the hard-luck plant,” says Baird. California for guayule rubber. The l^ m ^ TU N N Y * TOUCHING"— Judith CrisT domesticated in this country. “ Everytime it was on the verge of government allocated $45 million “A DEUGHT"— NBC 7V Leslie Baird, an Isla Vista being successfully introduced, to be spent on guayule rubber r\> T I L n / t starring "that tall blond man” ft resident, has been studying and something happened to it. Wild production, took over a mill in O p p a w Cl I n c o m e n o n i T I J C P I E R R E R I C H A R D guayule was being processed in Salinas, and brought in a team of M5-6188 I n i T i ------writing about guayule since 1960. A Iioaily Trts a ONE WEEK ONLY retired industrial advertising man, Mexico at the turn of the century, botanists, soil chemists, and •un. aaa, 7ris a ana T A W OCT 5-11 Baird is neither a botanist nor a but the Mexican revolution of 1912 rubber specialists to conduct in­ »T A R T S OCT. 12 T H E INNOCEE H T - - m•ubtttleePG i » chemist, but he has studied the closed most of the mills down tensive research. guayule intensively, written a book there. It was brought up to this Once again, the success of the about it, and is considered a country because things were guayule was not a permanent one. leading consultant on guayule relatively peaceful here then, and Baird explains, “ At the end of the rubber research. He feels the we wanted to domesticate the war, over 20,000 acres of growing guayule is “ a natural resource plant.” guayule shrubs were destroyed for material that has been neglected.” Rubber is obtained from the a number of reasons and not all of them good ones. It seems the government was ‘hell-bent for "AUDIENCES WILL SIMPLY normalcy’ and while they had two CHERISH 'BREAKING AWAY.' mills going at the time, the rubber companies weren’t interested in The pleasures of this warm, them; they had just developed a funny movie extend well high grade of synthetic rubber ag. .j beyond the plot...with an made from oil. Since we had plenty |8i affection and a truth- of oil, and many of the farmers fulness that are very wanted their land back, some $10 & refreshing." Richard Schickel, to $50 million of guayule was i ft TIME MAGAZINE destroyed at a time when people “A sparkling were still using rationed rubber com edy!*’ One of the most tires.” „ funny, totally Since that time, the guayule has —San Francisco Chronicle • 0 unique film largely been ignored by rubber “La Cage Aux Folles*» ■ experiences companies, although research has EngMi miMMm w jitf this or any been on-going on a small scale. Rated TV (Bird* of a Feather) %-f other year., Yet, with the current energy issues you’d be in this country, there is new hope dead wrong for the guayule. It has great to miss it.’ potential for providing em­ Rex Reed. VOGUE ployment and land usage on Indian MAGAZINE reservations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, “ Fast, funny where the land is unsuitable for and very traditional farming. fresh...superb - performances.' A bill was introduced to Charles Michener, Congress and signed by the Honk if you NEWSWEEK'' »€7-0744 president, called the Native Latex FairviewI love Brian Commercialization Apt of 1978, 251 N.Feinriev MONTY that was to fund a guayule PYTHON'S production program estimated at LIFE OF BRIANS. BREAKING AWAY $60,000,000 for five years. Yet, JMCrnyfafam APETBUMESKM ’BREAMC/W Baird states, “ It is still in the S W C O f E T O M R (B N S a W D O W E SfflN am JA0CE EAftf HALfY throes of appropriation and has attamq BARBARA BARRI B U D O O Ü Y r m a ç T O N DOUGLASS fates) an) Oscrtbr PETER WES AwsnOrSlEII T E D I Use Adrad Dy R9HCKVHUAMS been subject to all the pressure am 11 • Oraran* U0NË. NEWMAN COLCBStDdlAf s c x «s s n > over reduction of government HMENT* WORMSUBESTB expenditure.” Fairview*2 (HE! © Iti* TWf NT1TTH CINTURY EOX » 1 N-EetrNew ^ THE ONION Ü A. While the guayule plant in­ FIELD a PLUS— nocuously grows in experimental JoMph Wambaugh’a avca E.veA5Sv PETER ALAN plots throughout California, FALK bureaucracy continues to retard ARKIN production of guayule rubber. It Theatre I M S -3 3 5 6 Magic Lantern Theatre II may take a decade at earliest Richard predictions, for the U.S. to develop “IN-LAWS” Twin Theatres 9 68-3356 M€ tataicsUne Bel Vierte lO P E N IN G TONIGHT! its own natural rubber industry, Chamberlin Magic Lantern Theatre I “THE LASTJ WAVE” "BREAKING" 6:30, 10:10 since botanists are still working to BREAKINGE AWAY” Twin Theatres M#E«Barca4era Del Harte "IN-UWS" 8:20 (PG) ______(PG) lb breed an ideal commercial variety of guayule. FRIDA Y. OCTOBER S; ' DAILY NEXUS PAGE A j. Jojoba Oil: Organic Lubricant

By SANDRA THOMAS dustrialists and the general public picked off the bush, laid out like It is an excellent lubricant, to the value of this natural coffee beans and then the sun-dried natural skin moisturizer, tanning resource. hulls are separated from the seeds. agent, hair conditioner, make-up “ I ’d say we have been successful High pressure, stainless steel, base, and massage oil. You can in waging an uphill battle,” said worm-screw presses slowly ex­ cook with it, clean with it, use it to Kelley Dwyer of the Jojoba Center. tract the oil, which is then run treat psoriasis, warts, sunburns, “ We have heavy customer loyalty through a paper filter. The largest and revitalize old leather. It is and more growers are becoming consumers of jojoba oil are natural found in automatic transmission interested in jojoba.” Five cosmetic companies, such as fluid, serves as a lubricant in thousand acres of jojoba are Noble Jojoba cosmetics, produced artificial human hearts, and can planted in California, and more by Noble Oil Laboratories in even help hair grow on your head. will soon be introduced in the San Carpintería.

While this may sound like the spiel Joaquin valley. The Jojoba Center supplies free Cohen I. Mitchell By Photo Nexus of a carnival con-man peddling his “ The San Joaquin valley exists information about jojoba and has Jojoba seedlings awaiting delivery in Carpintería. home-brewed panacea, these are on the water canal system there the largest selection of jojoba oil the authenticated properties of and the water level of the valley products available along with a jojoba oil. has been decreasing yearly. Cotton mail order service. The center, DRIVE THEATRES The jojoba (ho-ho-bah) plant is is a major crop there, but jojoba located at 855 Linden Ave., in IN an evergreen shrub, native to takes one-third the amount of Carpintería is open from 11 a.m. to California, Arizona and Baja water as cotton, requires no 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. California. The plant thrives in pesticides or herbicides, and As Dwyer says, “ People read ftfll flUTT doesn’t require enriched soil,” sandy soil with a high salt content, about jojoba oil and get very ex­ [A irp o rt1wwvE-wi and requires only four to five in­ explained Dwyer. Jojoba plants cited about its possibilities. We call ^HaHittt and Fairview^ ches of water per year. The annual produce seeds three years after this Jojoba Bean Fever, and it’s crop of jojoba beans contains a planting and live for 150 to 200 the only disease in the world that is plu^TH E MOOSE AND ¡ liquid wax (oil) that has all the years. The potential yield of jojoba easily transmitted from one in­ HI8 CHILD" ¿S3 properties of sperm whale oil, plus is $20,000 per acre of land, which is dividual to another over the a few advantages. more than any other California telephone.” If you have a case of Jojoba oil is the only known produce, except Kiwi fruit. Jojoba Bean Fever, the center’s CUNT EASTWOOD vegetable oil that never gets In the past, jojoba has not been number is 684-6790. 'tW N <*•«-" f \ ESCAPE rancid. It has a flash point of 55 cultivated because it could not be i M fM irfllef ilEaiagg T alfti Æ degrees Fahrenheit, and is produced for the same price as J64-9400_^F FROM therefore very stable and safe to sperm whale oil. It cost less than a ALCATRAZ! work with. It was used by the dollar per pound for whale oil, plus: “PROPHECY" native Indians of the area and first while jojoba was eight dollars a recorded by Father JUnipero pound. Today, jojoba oil sells for Serra. Today the oil is very $65 a gallon or eight ounces for There are many ways to be seduced. popular in natural food circles, $14.95. Joe Tynan knows them all.\

because as a cooking oil, it has no Accessibility of sperm whale oil MsworisIHwry.stKHIsg i/CslH r ALAN ALDA calories or cholesterol and it does has changed in the past few years 964-9400 BARBARA HARRIS not take any chemicals to refine it. with the passage of the Marine With all these beneficial THE SEDUCTION Animal Protection Act of 1972, plus: “GOLDEN GIRL“ qualities and a multitude of uses, which bans the importation or OF JOE TYNAN m why isn’t jojoba a household word? harvest of sperm whale oil by the m The answer is that jojoba oil is U.S. Industries are currently very expensive, has not been working off a tremendous stockpile produced in large commercial of oil accumulated before 1972 and quantities, and therefore has not exceptions to the act are made for “In any language, been promoted to the general pharmaceutical companies wha public. The Jojoba Center in need the whale oil for penicillin, the film Is laugh-out-loud funny.’ Carpintería has for four years and the automotive industry, -N ew sw eek served as a clearinghouse for which uses the oil in transmission information about the jojoba, fluid. trying to educate farmers, in- Jojoba beans are manually

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THE LAST WAVE MARCELLO DANON presents RESTRICTED -£$• iMia ir Mfdflks MCORMtriK with 0#vi» Hemnett Gotpim and Nanjhwarre Amagirie Directed by Peter Wetf English Subtitles) UGOTOGNAZZI MICHEL SERRAULT K MRm Ml MM* MMftM Produced by Hal McElroy and James McElroy A w 6 rid Northal Picture Based upon the play by JE A N P O IR E T A film by EDOUARD MOUNARO 'PGinwnui tueect sjmhth ^ Screenplay and adaptation by FRANCIS VEBER. E D O U A R D MOL1NARO. M A R C E LL O D A N O N and JE A N POIRET - ______OPENING r 968-3356 ■ 1 TONIGHT! L Magic Lantern d _. OPENING TONIGHT! T w in Th e a tre s J n n ^ a ^ n * n « — Showtimes— 6:30, 8:15, 10:00 ^^•••twbarcaderoOelNert^^^Jj 7:00, 8:50, 10:35 PAGEA8 DAILY NEXUS FRIDAY, OCTOBERS. 1979 Human Bean (Continued from p.A3) over and at least check it out,” said as with nuclear power. Put sim­ Rick, one of the farmers, as he ply, present day industrial pointed out various windbreaks agriculture is based on a cen­ and compost heaps. “ We just dig tralized energy pinnacle which dirt and have good produce and threatens to topple.” have a really high time. We want Betty Haley, previously the people to share in the beauty of Garden Outreach director, sum­ growing things. ’ ’ marized Mitchell's philosophy: “ He knows that for survival in this Besides crop farming, the farm country, we must go back to a also keeps bees and is in the m ore natural, ecologically process of starting an aqua culture balanced system of feeding.” which will raise African algae- The Human Bean Farm, owned eating fish for consumption. by Recreation and District Parks, Artists Betty Haley and presently consists of the strip of Katherine Gring have used their land between Camino del Sur and talents and Mitchell's research to Camino Corto on either side of make a collection of large placards Estero Road. There are other which, when finished, will be areas designated as farm plots, but placed around the farm, ex­ these are as yet uncultivated. plaining the various techniques Haley attributes the fallow lands and philosophies. to lack of workers. Tipi village The ideal of the Human Bean Used to supply labor in exchange Farm is clearly to make the best for rent and food, but “ they were use of Isla Vista's diverse kicked out, so we lost our good resources to achieve a self- workers,” Haley said. “ But I have sufficient community. Steve every intention of getting the Mitchell, “ the constant source of Youth Project over here with their energy for the project,” according grubby hands.” to Gary-Michael, was not available They offer a laborfood exchange for comment. Said Haley, “If for interested gardeners, which Steve could have it the way he they hope will bring in more land in Isla Vista dry farmed people. In addition, an internship (leaving out the children's Farm program involving the UCSB and recreation space) in order to Environmental Studies Depart­ make Isla Vista fulfill its own [ p l e a s e RECYCL.il University Catholic Community presents: ment is in the planning stages. needs, and be independent of huge “ We want die students to come agri-business.” THIS PAPER BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON Lutheran Campus Ministry FRIDAY, October 5*8 pm St. Mark's HOLY COMMUNION Back Lounge at the LV, Recycling Center WORSHIP 966 Embarcadero del Mar Bring a Friend! Sunday, 9:00 a. m. behind LV. Town Hal St. Michael’s Church Donation: $1 & Sunburst Markets, Camino Pescadero and Picasso Í Bruce Wollenberg, Campus Pastor EXPERIENCE PART TIME WORK THE WORLD AS YOUR CAMPUS For Established Business Publisher MAKE YOUR OWN HOURS between 6 am - 9 pm • 7 days a week Commission 10% — average •6/hr. APPLIED CONCEPTS INC. 23 W. M ISSION, S.B. • 963-6581 ______Established since 1967j

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