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• VOLUME NO. 'I BIG SUR, CALIfORNIA 93920 (408) 66'1-2222 JULY, 1180
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THIS Sill IS LEGAL. TENDER ONLY FORCARC) CARRV'~ MEM'" NO FOR PROPERlY 8ERS OF 'THE WU .. DERNESS OWNERS OR RESIDENTS SOCIETY ANO SIERRA CLUe •
• HR 7380
• r. Big Sur LC Plan Is Unveiled • Three Years Hearst May Be Excluded of Work By Gary ·Ko_ppel • After nearly three years of work, the Monterey From Big Sur Legis/ation planning staff has completed a draft Big Sur Local Plan (LCP) and has submitted it to the Board of Smjenlilln,1'~ From the. Combrlim -"Inclusion of the Hearst native in the f Local.News ••• • Voter Registration Tai Chi Chih at Ripplewood Classes Begin • BIG SUR - The Friends sp<~ifically for the Big· Sur of Big Sur, in cooperation coast. Though our voice may with the Women's Demo be we must make it cratic Club and the Women's vote counts." Republican Club of Carmel, citizen of the United volunteered to register States Who is over .1 Ii and not Sur voters. tn the two-d~y or on for a • fort, JUl1e 9 and. 10, 15 vote. The were registered at the can be at Ripplewood. office. "Over two-thirds of the are right First Big Sur residents are on the walt the door of registered, ,. says Jim the Sur Post Office. of the Friends of Big Sur, You re-register are "but we need a 100 percent whenever you move and at to • voter turnout. The issues to 29 before the elec- a be decided in the coming means the the tion are not only crucial for final to for the Chinese Class for effective method at Bsalen where she continues to people's lives .. the future of our country but Nov. 4 election Oct. 6. over a thousand years tWd fur lnO~VKtuw d~~ropment, to lead and hold The first Nepenthe class is has to be much One of the most beautiful weekly classes. With a free introduction to the to and even more nrsLctil:le is how numerous classes on the course and anyone interested • Subscribe to the tent in its practice than Peninsula continual in welcome to attend at 9 more well-known Tai ly and often traveling to a.m. on Friday, July 11. Based on continual level, teach, she is honored and Rain, shine or fog we hope Big Sur Gazette nt'i,,,clt~lP!i: and har~ catherine BIber privileged as instru- youl! join us for a very special mollY, the movements are tW tea,chulg Tai Chi in mental in bringing gift in· morning. The COMMUNITV CALENDAR is a monthlv feature, • the Qurpose of which Is to infOrm the pubffc about communltv calendar meetings. events, entertainment and items of publiC -interest. To place something on , next month'S calendar, either phone. us at 661-2222 or write to: ' 1 July 1980 THE 810 SUR GAZETTE • Highway One • Big Sur, CalifornIa 93920 • un.... IIIOnIIaV ...... tItU...... Fr''''...... ,... 1 2 3 4 5 saturday Night MOVies • Independence Day Orange HailS p.m. p,m. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 • AA Meeting fOOd Saturdav Night MoVIes Orange Hall 11-12:30 p.m, Grange 11-6 p.m. Grange HailS p.m. p.m. Town Hall Meeting June 8, 1;30 p,m. Grange, friendS • 14 EMT ;,11 p,m. 13 Grange Half 15 16 17 18 19 fOOdCo-Qp Saturdav Night MOVies Health CliniC Grange Hatl11-6 p,m. Grange Hall a p,n1. AA Meeting 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Grange Hall, 11-12:30 P.m. Grange Hall CPOA meeting • Orange Hall, i p.m, 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 CAC meeting saturday NIght Movies AAMeetlng Orange Hall, 1:30 p.m. • (lrange Hall 11-12:30 p,m, p.m. orange lIIall 13 p.m. • t:armef Bach FestIval Through August 4 7 p.m. 29 ] • J .j f ..----- • I. JUIY,1980. THE. BIG SUR GAZETTE page! Big Sur Library Murder Mysteries Favored • • non·fiction hklllran,hiell and aut()biog • and is a sad COrlllmllntty, I get asked a lot for a ple have the like Buddhism or organic "It's e:sp!~l JULY CELEBRATED .... 1133 - First schoolhouse west of Alleghenies opened at Schoenbrunn. Ohio • 1812 - Pawnbroker ordinance enacted in New York City HUDSON 1829 - Typewriter patented - it didn't work! t3( .1848 - Bloomers introduced at Women's Rights Convention 1862 - u.s. Congressl'onal Medal of Honor authorized COMPANY 1872 - Doughnut cutter patented Ojjers the Best in 1873 - Jesse James robbed his first train • Western Fashion 1890 - Idaho admitted to. Union • 1907 - First zlegfleld Follies luccheseBoots 1918 - First concrete barge launched & Belts 1921 - Boxing's first million-dol/ar bout Resistol & 1928 - Hailstones 17'" in circumference Jell on Potter, NebrtlSka Leatherhead 1929 - New smaller size paper money issued . • Hats 1933..... Wiley Post touched down after solo global flight Leather Shirts 1935 ..... First automatic parking meters installed in Oklahoma City and Skirts 1942 - WA YES created by U,S. Navy bV Char ~ 1955 - Disneyland opened at Anaheim Salamander 1962 - u.s. frogman swam English Channel in 18 hrs, 1 min. -~underwater! • Appliques 1967 - Englishman treaded water for a record 171tS hours Annazapp ~ 1969 - Man walked on the moon! Shirts During JulV celebrate ... INDEPENDENCE DAY, BASTILLE DAY, and Vogt Sterling CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL, ST. SWITHtN'S DAY, FEAST OF LANTERNS, Buckle Sets lET'S PLAY TENNIS WEEK and HOT DOG MONTH at • &: Tips P.O. Box 900 CARMEL CALIFORNIA • 93921 The Barnya carmel, Calif. (408) 625 .. 2222 • Page 4 THE BIG SUR DAZETTE July. 1980 .1 • • • ud seeoDd graders siq out for pareDts ud' eommolly members at die mpth Aooal. Spdl1l SlOI the week before seboollet out. PAUNTS LISTEN AS dlird, fourdl ud flftb graders. plaJ recorders. BW PurdJ. mule Froot row: Jamie eov_", aOY. Bradford, Cudi Warner, Jooadlu Roberts, Sudn tpeeiaUst for CarmeHJnifted !iebool DiItrIct, cHrect.ed the UDal v_ ud tDltmmeatai ,ro VlllaloHl. MleltelleBleek, CarrIe .lOOel, LIsa Callaway, Cory Dleke,al, Chrlstopber Wagy. I"'" FolowUtl die Oatol, PriRel,aI Robert Doqlas ,resented flowers liveo by tbe CeDt. row: James Taylor. Tara Witt, Ked hutson, Abby LotI. Ehren Woyt, Jobn VWa. • PareDts' aub to LaVooo Cords for ber eiab\ yean wldl die sebooI dtstriet (she retires tilts .lea MarroD, BasIl SuRro. 8aek row: LarryWamer. Kelly Detty, Anna Allaire. Skye year); to Chris Warner, teadlers aide. wllo wW be leavtq in'" or late September; ad to Morporatb. Cbioe BurdleI, AnI De Groat, Mariah Derr, DIIIoo Brooks, Erie Grias. Cyotbia Eatoo, Olllloll1l PareDts' allb preIIld_t. After die presentatioos, dllldreD,pareDts Nadlu Thompson, Mattbew AIreY. The ehlldreo played recorders ud lUI a 5-soogmediey aad teacbers pieoicked toptb,r 00 die ,_pouDd., from Mary POppinl. Photo by Cbrls WarDer \ av.age elapsed for the protection services. Anyone Highlands Fire District Plans rescue unit to leave the CU'e who wishes to belp publicize station after the information this very important issue is bad been received from the asked to leave their name Monterey County Commun with the Cll'e department by Another Vote on Fire Tax ications Center (91 n in caJIing 624-2374, Monterey was minutes. IIy CedrIc Row,.". become 100 pereent \,olun· The average elapsed time Voluntoer AssIstant Cbillf with no one on con from the receipt of the alarm Blind Service • Cannel Hl&bIand$ FIrIl Department at tbe fire station. untii the rescue unit was on After a false report on the scene of the emergency, Center Begins June 4 tbat the user fee f'Or rangiJ11 from Carmel fire protection illthe~ol Meadows to Mal Paso, was Fundraising Hiahlands. Mal ,Paso and 4.8 minutes. ' . Philip Oral". chairman of Carmel Meadows had been men kept on With a tbe Advisory Committee to approved by two-thirds of tbe At their meeting on June duty the end of Marcb fire department the addi- the Blind Service Center. of .~ voters, it was found t~e 12 the board of directors of 1981. At that if tbe user time neoosSlU'1 fOt a the .Monterey Peninsula, bas following day tbat the 364 the Cannel Higblands Fire fee has not been approved at vohmteer .to respODa to' the announced plans 'to raise ballots cast in tbe fire station . Protection District voted to tbe November election, the fire station and man the $SO.OOO wbicb will be used to precinct bad not been place the issue of the user fee fire department would rescue unit one 'can see that train personnel ~o belp the the elapsed timebetore a ~ blind. . Cll'st~aider is on the of To launch the campaign; an emergency will bewell.the Maurine Churcb Coburn Subscribe now to your monthly Coastal newspaper ... beyond tbe tbree to six ~ Charitable Trust donated • minutes witbin wblch a $1S,000 in JUne. medical victim should 'be .The Blind Service Center.is THE , receiving care. located at 22S Laurel in Tbose people in the Cannel Pacific Grove. Highlands Fire Protection The Tel-Med Tape Library District wbo favor the at the Community Hospital protection' user fee .willbe can be pboned for assistance •• asked to urge tbeir friends at 624-1999; ask for tape 1Sig' . this issue, so that num~r SOO8 titled "Help (or win not be fOJ'eed the 9.lind and Visually 1m- to reduce its medical and paired." FREE , ., ; . '. • ~n~tl1t Get your very own Big Sur Coast Sill mitt JJigl hr ~<5aJdtt (6"x12") suitable for framfng - yours Ciary Koeppel, , . , . . .., PubliSher and id.ftDr FREE with a one-year subscription to the Paula Waiting ~ ~, , ••.. , .... community Editor Big Sur Gazette. OR send $2.50 (in Jerry COlumbo .... " .' "...... Staff writer KrIsten coventry, ..... , .....•.. , .... Manager ~Keep up-tfHltlte on the ma. tIMt tilled etudes tax, postage and handling) for Diane Farrow...... , .. ,.,.,., Bookkeeper you in,the ~ BIg SNr·c-...... ,each print. Melinda Mayland. , ".,. . . , .... Distribution. • • PLANNING • WILDLIFE. ART It POETRY typesettIng/Design., ... " .. ,., TYpo-graphics • PERSONAUTIES. CROSSWORD. HAPPENINGS contrIDutlnll stiff Wrlt'ln Ind 1d!tOts: • TRADING POST • CARTOONS • VISITOR GUIDE. VEWPOtNTS ••tt\lBarron M.ryHarrlngtOn • COASTAL ISSUES • LOCAL ISSUES • ancfso muCh morel Bill Bates JO HUdsOn tIalre Chap~t 1(, Farmer Araby Colton Jeff Norman Frank Pinney Elayne W.FltzpatrlCk-Grlmm • 1 Rosemary craven JUdith CiOOdman ------1 Clare careyWlUWd R.C. Horse 1 I Joe Ciughemettl 1 I 1 VOlUme Three, No. , JIlIy,118O 1• I THE 810 SUI QAZIITTI (tJSP$ 501-65011$ publlSlled InOntnty for Is.oO 1 I per WI!' «OUtIIde Monterey COUnt'{ $8,00; out·oktate, 112.00; forelOn $11,(JiI1It 110 sur, CA 13920, second-cl1lS$ postage Paid at I $5.00 In Monterev County. $8.00 outside Monterev countv • $12.00 out Of state • $19.00 fOreIgn I carmel, CA IB!, POSTMAfI1R: send address Changes to THE 1110 • I, Moll cItt!t:ka to: f'Ite .. StIr~. HlghWflJ! ~ ..StIr. 0IIi/~ ,me I SUR QAZIITTI, HlVt'lwav one, IIIJ SUr, CA 91920. 1 I I You'll be,lad you didl 1 HIGHWAY ONE. BtGSUR, CALIFORNIA 93~2ti I I TelephOne (408) 661-2222 ®1919 . ______!111_--_-_---'_-----_-_---___ ---'-·1IIJIA , '.:C '" • July, 1980 THE 810 SUR GAZeTTE pages Sierra Clubbers Against akeover by Federal Governmen We ,"flhal a more crelltivt! kind of praervatlon ethic can 00 IIttained, one that it less opprMtive thin "wholNle federal ownershlo. manqll!ment and control." loin the growlnll number of environn~ent.alists wbo worry just how well praeNed federal land is today and will be in the future, We are joinlns the mud',la"",,' iii Sur CoIIIitIoI'I in of.lP 1 ______,; Mai! to: SCAT fe::!s • P,O, 80x ., Big Sur. CA 91920 • New 4· Wheelers for the Sheriff In an effort to keep up Big Sqr and Carmel Valley rith the ever~increasins The vehicle assigned to the crimes and. incidents occur-· Salinas office will be utilized ring in off-road locations, along the Salinas River and Sheriff Bud Cook has an other areas where it is dif· nounced tne deployment of ficult or impossible for the three four~wheel drive patrol regular sedan to be used, vehicles. . The Sheriff stated that this ,. The Sheriff's Department is an additional resource that 9jlas purchased tltree 1980 has been long needed for Dodge Ramcharsers. These . Sherlff'·s Departnlent patrol are. four-wheel· drive .vehides deputies. While the Sherifrs specially equIpped with front Department has previously end wiithe~:·· Ah(l~.()~her had$ome older Jeeps and specill1ized equiP.ment, COO.k. other limited use four-wheel I . indicated that one of these drive vehicles, this is a first in .ehicles will be stationed in connection with the regular Salinas as well as the beat assignment. ' Monterey and K;ing City These vehicles areal! substa.tions. They are design painted white with a dark ed as a ramine pa~ol for the green stripe down each side. MGB. It's one of the best· loved convertible sports cars in. the world. south county beat and will be This is in keeping with the Come in and drive an MGB. Make your best deal and get a hefty $1'50 used in Monterey in the "new image" of sherifrs cash rebate besides, It's th&best deal ever on the classicwide-open tfoastal beat area includmg vehicles. sports car, MGB. Employee oJ. the Month Ventana Big Sur is pleased naming Bonita "Bunny" to announce the April .and Troyer as April Employee of May Employee of the Month the Month and Ed Under. award recipients. The award wood as May Employee of .ntitles the individual.to din the Month. ner for two at either the Ven The award is based .on an ~ana Restaqrant or Rocky analysis of the employee's Point Restaurant. servioe and merit and is judg Ventana takes pride in ed by the management staff: .&;SPITFIRE. Come in and deal. When you've made yourbestdeal. Triumph will sweeten it with $500 c. ash. It's a .classiC OPPG.. rtunity to 6' own this spirited roadster. Spitfire is synonymous with sports-car ~"\~~~ excitement-with 11 National SCCA Championships to ·prove tt. In August: THE WHALES OF RANDYPUCKETI HIGHLANDS GALLERY OF SCULPTURE YOU CAN USE YOUR FACTORY REBATE AS A DOWN PAYMENT -OR TAKE IT IN CASH! Highway one at Fern Canyon Road· HURRY! THIS OFFER IS AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONL", . One-Half Mile North of Hlgtllands Inn CARMEL HIGHLANDS OT • Act itself." Sur resident Lori owns to tum Lo,ckvvocKi said legislation is Wars dollars into na needed because "circumve. tjonai recreation areas. local and state regulations "You must our (Big is a popular local sport. Sur to pro- 'I what! waftt with my PICKETS wItH PLACARDS GREETED Congressman Leon Panetta at MODterey !tearing tect the " she land and your land' is Ii very on his Big Sur Coast Area BII. pkete) said. popular belief. The code is not to rat on your neIghbor . " Property Developmeltt ,be Other supporters includ. Don McQueen of the Big the Wilderness Society, Big' Big Sur Bill Hearing built on at their present dell~ SUI' Chamber of Commerce, sities, Sur Citizens Altvisory Com said landowners might even mittee, Big Sur Foundation be willing to forego develop- Is Held In Monterey and Big Sur Land Trust. Director ment of property and By Ken Peterson the LCP can tab effect would be not financial com- Opponents included the Reprinted from tIM Htrald without ' federal perlsatlon for the taking. Monterey County Founda Rep, Leon Panetta warned that sure as hell wouldn't tion of Concern, National. brought the ears of Congress would be "the opening stand for that;' Panetta said. holders AssOciation, Carmel to, Monterey to fmd out what of Ii campaign to remove McQueen replied that there Highlands Association, the county residents think about of the from the land in is compensation the Committee Opposing Ar his proposal for federal sup Big over a period of ability to live in a very rogant State Tyranny, and port of land preservation in time," ....-'...... " .. to beautiful area" wbich might Assemblyman Carol Hallett, Big Sur. lIou. Subeommittee National be worth more than money. I.-Atascadero. Seven and a half hours and They testified about the reit.era,ted claims· Another opponent, Big Sur The 29 opposing speake. 12 witnesses later. the local legislation before a that the financial other resident Alan testifying cited the likelihood hearing dosed with spe;akelrs by the House Subcommittee assistance is unnecesary. said Panetta's bill "does that putting any federal label equally fervent about on National Parks and In more than tum our homes on Big Sur would attract equally divided on the, need sular Affairs, and lives over to a millions ofnew visitors to the for a federal role in Carmel federal bureaucracy." area and the likelihood that ting the scenic coast. joined at resident John citizen rights in the region Panetfa's legislation, Peter KOjstmlay(~r • the federal would be eroded, am0I!i. which will face House, hear More than 125 has their other arguments. at1\! ings within a was call· the audience to inalbili1ty to m9.ng"fi' man even gave an a capella ed everything from "a bold about Panetta's Pf N San Simeon cambria Pinec.(i,dge 2905 Burton Drive, Cambria, California (805) 921-4200 or 921-3821 SPEND TONIGHT IN .THE PINES cabins • Restaurant • CocktailS EXAMI'U!S Large Indoor Heated Pool Alta·Oena Gill, Milk AIlII·Oenll RIIW Bliller Sauna • Jacuzzi Continental lIIl1ill WestbY"1l los, lbs, Brown RlclI Health . GrillI'! Cereal HIS Open All Year Heelth TGlmala 51111Cce • Call for Reservations • • I. July, 1980 THE ale SUR OAZmE PIg8 ., Glen Oaks Remodeling BIG SUR - Glen Oaks Restaurant is New chairs are They're a classic style changing, remodeling and But cane chair. that doesn't mean that the is goins The d\ning room has been painted a China downhill. wbiteand the formal lunch menu bas been • Forest Childs and his wife Marilee have dropped. You can now get breakfast from always been remodeling ever Since they open 8·2. They plan on adding special brunch ed last October. And in a short time have items each day. Dinners will be from 6--10 and the restaurant will be closed on Wednesdays. Forest and Marilee have nearly 2' years ex· perience in the restaurant business having worked at Hiltons, Hyatts. Harveys. Heaven • ly Valley and locally at Andre's at the mouth of Carmel Valley and the River Inn. They fast pick up. The waiting staff has to be on its toes because there are no hot lights to keep the food warm. Everything is cooked to order. "Our oooking has been likened to Neuveau Cuisine. We call it California Cuisine." • They've added several items to their dinner menu~ a scallops provencale, sauteed with fresh tomato, scallions, and garlic; abalone RESTAURANT shows off its new dining room. canneloni. buttermilk crepes stuffed with abalone. toniato, spinach and ricotta cheese doubling the size of his work space. The sur -ter told me that he thought my pancakes wete served with sauce mousseJme; and they have fa,ce area in which to prep has been increased the best he'd ever eaten." added spaghetti and elams. whole baby clams and a new upright refrigerator was bought. It's a Big Sur restaurant, all right. The • _abUshed· themselves with a strong local simmered with fresh garlic. tomato and Childs is proud of his restaurant. He envi reason Forest is staying with a breakfast trade. who come in for the fresh trout and scallions in a creamy parmesan cheese sauce. Sions always changing things but remember. menu through the day is that many of the eSls,cotnmeal hotcakes Qr eggs benedict. The kitchen facilities have been expanded he says. '.'the food's the important thing. locals don't get around to their ftrst meal of "We've toned down the carpet and opened to meet their growing needs. A brand new U Just because I'm in a tourist area doesn't the day until mid-day. Apparently, some like a new elining room," Forest explained while concrete slab was poured so that they could mean I have to cater to the winnebagos. I to sleep in. flippiq a perfect pancake. HBut we won't affIX a large walk-in refrigerator. It allows cater to the locals. u, And the fact of the mat (Editor's Note: Eoch month local and Penln have more tban '0 seats.'~ That way the them greater' storage and flexibility in ter is that more people are trying Glen Oaks sulo restaurants will btl reviewed in this n,w Chiidscan offer one room for walk·ins and decidin8 just what that dinner special is going and the word is getting around. "Frank Trot- column.) the otber for closed parties of 12·14 people. to be. Four new burners have been installed YOU CAN FIND . Big Sur Land Trust Offers Narrative History Jh8(5aJdtt • We Cever From BSLT N,ws R,lMse ter. Harrydick Ross and many others. t The Big Sur Land Trust is AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: the pleased to ·announce the com These accounts are compil pletion of uAn Oral History ed in a fiO-page narrative Ceast of Big Creek, Reserve, Big along with ten .casette tapes of personal interviews. • Events Sur" by Susan E. Georgette. In Big Sur Carmel • Historical As a senior thesis project for Copies of this history. • Wildlife UC Santa Cruz fnnded by the along with a bibliography of River Inn Store Cork J n Bottle • Features Land Trust, Ms. Georgette· literature written about· the Big Sur Campground Books Inc. extensively researched the Big Sur coast by Jean Grace Riverside Campground Surf' n Sand Drug Store known history of tbe Big win be available at both the Glen Oaks Motel Creek Reserve by personally Big Sur Library and Harrison The Vintage Shoppe interviewiq· various people Memorial Library in carmel. Glen Oaks Restaurant Carmel Drug The Big Sur who played different roles in Individual copieS of each can Fernwood Store Pine Inn • the history of Big Creek. in be obtained from the Big Sur Big Sur Lodge La Playa Hotel Gazette eluding accounts by Lulu Land Trust for S6 and S2.SO 661':2222 Big Sur Bazaar Broken Egg Harlan, Oeorge and Marion respectively (to cover printing Ventana Store Harlan, Roy and Frank Trot- costs only). Peyton's Place Ventana Inn Safe\\lay Phoenix Shop Carmel Rancho Liquors Coast Gallery Carmel Rancho Pharmacy • Esalen Monte Mart BREAKFAST Lucia Thunderbird • LUNCH Limekiln Campground Pacific Valley Carmel Valley DINNER • COCKTAILS Gorda Kestrel Books Closest to Hearst Castle! Ragged Point Valley Hardware • Rocky Point Enjoy delectable dining. with a sunset Point Sur Monterey view of the coast. Ripplewood Doubletree Inn Gourmet specialties include fresh River Inn Post Office Fernwood County Courthouse local seafood delicacies Ventana Deli Airport • Choice meat entrees. Nostalgic. S",eet Thursday Hearst Castle decor. PacifiC Grove .. Land in the San Simeon, Mandala Bookstore Cambria area: Bookworks Post Office Hearst Castle Sebastian' 5 • San Simeon Lodge NOW AT MORE THAN BS General Store Wampum 50 Pit Stop LOCATIONSI J1'5 Corner Cambria Pines lodge • ... and we're growing. Chuck Wagon ON HIGHWAY 1 AT SAN SIMEON RESERVATIONS: (805) 9274604 • Pagel THE ItCl SUR ClAZmE JUlv.19BO ·1 FOG Sounds Horn Scuttles Supert ers By Horse • A citizens' "'''''"...... ;u to Friends of remiss in cOllductillll Sacramento based on the intervention from the Peninsula, .won the battle retired ~e(:retarv of Resources, who Monterey Bay on June 11 Mariner lives in Pacific above Fischer. Their when the Army of convinced FOG Ex Qls}:>atclle ZAN HENSON, GAIL Bower, AUIIe Bartee, Albert'. Me sounds like smnetilitllg of the pro CenneD,Bob MeConltell prior to departure from Monterey Alice in to their via romplimentary tickets from Golden Gate Alrliaell. open ocean water. never heard of such a eeonomy (tourism, recrea (Howard BroaD photo) In FOG reqllestied It's piqued commercial fishing and el1'·in~.jtv. I find bizarre, meetings with elected and ap to the. that the Ar~ another Col. it endangered pointed offidalsand an un· my of Enginee'TS Adsit and his, staff at their He assured the FOG unique beau u.,...... · .... " Bay. The precedented or~ sen ted o11e last San Francisco offices to Brunn. del!~ial:lon that the "n\l·4>rnnl' ganization yielding more than stop the review the situation. It was FOG be fully and benefit to gained by 17 ,000 citizen sigllatllTeS learned that Cot Adsit had John that the Brown administra lSSl.llaD(:e of a corps permit posing tile deeided make his final ecutive committee member tion was committed to preser· does. not to outweigh· • In June 1979 a coa.lltl()n decision June 1, and James O'Brien the environment of the the to the of environmental he was in ClllllDabm for state. economy, wildlife, what appeared to The entire conference was we1:lanlds. recreation and the appeal of the permit when the reeorded by videq tap~ and· aesthetics of Monterey Bay, state Coastal Commission rapt attention and This denial concludes our ac denied an appeal flied the lmllreSlsea the FOG tion on your permit applica Sierra Club, Friends the tion," • Sea Otters and the i\.UUUI~un transportation for It was reported that PG&E Society. At this the Peninsula members of the were the pro forma permit of then an was when this letter was presented Army Corps of Engineers reo on the Colin, chairman to them in ti>e Army Corps of mained before dregging to gather The Board of Golden Gate En:gin1~ers offices on June 6, would begin. a permit usually more inf'nl"!t\A:tinllt FOG went estimated The members were. de issued automatically. FOG to wl)rk and obtained resolu In a rli""... l1nH,,,1l American delegation returned with a Their sentiments are m:embers, however, ...... ,",n",.I. rom the Central Commission would be sense of renewed that expressed in the telegram • Iy appealed to Col. Ad· staff member sent FOG 11 PO&E been pennittJed the state would intervene on which Gail Bower and Anne sit, the San Francisco District of a letter which behalf of of view, Bartee sent to Cot Adsit, }Sngineer, to his at- Executive met On June 5 Brunn, "We want Send you and tention new and the Director of the California mornUll of May Zan Bartee and your staff our gtave doubts of most area Coastal Sec:retarv of Resources Bower drove to San Fran warmest and regards cffiln'ine experts· about such directed to Col, Adsit on staff. Col. cisco for one last for your as Anne • supertanker use. 1980. reD'reslentl~d his FOG President Anne Bar- I u If """'1"''''''' Should a major oil spill occur ... a u our economy would be devastated. " courtesy to presented his bas- his brilliant research • eXj:lerienc:e at the time of one year ago state Coastal Com- is narmOI'U011lS and • luck • .. JUly. 1980 ntl BIG SUR OAZml page 9 Areas of Los Padres Closed to Public OOLE'rA - The upper these large areas of rngged, Zrelak also reminded Nacimiento River section of inaccessible terriin." Zrelak forest visitors that other Los Padres National Forest stated. Fires starting here regulations regarding the Use has been closed to public en· during the hot. dry summer of fire and smoking while in • try. The action went into ef~ months would be very dif· the forest are also in effect. fect July I, 1980. Forest Ser ficult to control. In addition, MIS l'AUIlE!! NATIONAL F(lUEST vice officials list increasing these areas form tbe'major "Since mid-May. permits MOIIITEREY fire danger and high fire portions of valuable water have been required for con RANGER hazards as the primary reason sbeds wbich provide tbe structing campfires outside of DISTRICT for the closure. water for domestic and developed campgrounds, " According' to .Forest Fire agricultural needs in the Zreiale said. "Forest users are Management Officer Ted south coast area. The also reminded that smoking is • Zrelak, extreme fire hazard closures will remain in effect restricted to cars, place of exists in these areas. "There until there is an adequate habitation or within an area is a very beavy amount of amount of rain this fall to cleared to mineral soil at least dry, burnable material in lessen the fire danger. three feet in diameter." • Ft. Ord, Hunter Liggett Looking For lEOEND HAZARDOUS Improvements Planned fIRE Volunteers CLOSURE Rep. Leon E. Panetta, for a new health clinic. KINO CITY -- The Mon AREA D-Monterey, bas voiced hill Speaking before the House, terey Ranger District. Los approval of the 1981 ap Panetta said these projects Padres National Forest, is propriation bill for military were "desperliltely needed fOr looking for persons interested • , construction projects, passed the health and welfare of in serving as Volunteer by tbe House, whicb he said members of the military and Campground Hosts fur the "contains funding for vital their dependents stationed at remainder of the 1980 Camp improvements to military Fort Ord!' ing Season. facilities in our area and The House. also appro The Volunteer Program, maintains the limit on con priated $1.5 million for a established several years ago derived from being an in~ struction outlays contained in health clinic and beds at Fort in California. has been very tegral part 'of maintaining the First Budget Resolution." Hunter Liggett, which Panet- successful according to Bob and preserving the beauty ta "an isolated Breazeale, Monterey District and natural characteristics of The legislation appro that is in need Ranger. "The Volunteer the campground as well as be- priated $42.1 million for pro its health care Campground Host Program helpful to others. jects at Fort Ord and Fort tacill1ttilS." Panetta said the allows continuous service to more information Hunter both of cUnic would "enhance the ef the thronghout which are in Mon- about the Campground Host fectiveness of the. t ..,,·iniwu, the Program and how to volun terey '-U·UllLV. post and boost the morale hosts assist the Forest teer your contact: • Of this sum, statlon«~d there. Service infor- U.S. Forest is slated for cnrldructinn bill also includes $5.1 mation to SOIl for a motor vehicle maintenance Fort maintenance at CleEIllUl,II. The r. Ord will Hunter to the host ~uCio ~odge ond CRegmu/tont CBltunCh OCean-View Lodging and Fine Dining gpecla~g • Chef'S SpeCial of the Day Chef's SpeCial SOuP I SandwiCh of the Day CB1teo.k~o.gt C()innek we will describe these selections upon request. cAppettaeltg ffiouge gpeC[a~tles FreSh (seasonall Vegetables steamed with Hollandaise Bacon and"". Ham~~ _an._ cold ReliSh Plate, Shrimp cocktail, Hot sauteed MUShrooms sauce, and Hor sour Dough Bread omelettes - Any COmbination: Cheese, Sprouts, Bacon, • Ham, sausage and Tomato CornucoPia - Fresh Fruits .. vegetable Sticks... Cheeses Served with Hash Browns, Home-Made served With Hot sour Dough Bread 1 SOup sour DOugh ROil and Orange Slice EgOS Benedict - An EngliSh Muffin Topped with canadian Bacon, Shirred Eggs (Poacnedl and Hollandaise sauce All Dinners InclUde Soup, salad, Double Baked Potato, served with freSh seasonal frUit ~uc[a ~odgc gpec[aQt~ Fresh seasonal vegetables 1 Hot Sour Dough Bread steak Tar Tar - on Rye Toast with Salad Eggs Benedict EngliSh Muffin topped wttl\ canadlanhton, • Shirred EgOS and covered With Hollandaise sauce... CBee~ served with Hash Browns and Fresh Fruit In season New Yoi1< Steak - Oarnlshed With OnIon Rinos Ctlef salad - served wttl\ Hot SOur Dough" Soup Filet Mignon - GarniShed with MuShroom caPS 0111 Herb Vinegar with Bleu Ctlease crumbs Beef Brochette - Tender Steak, MuShrooms, oreen Peppers creamy Bleu Cheese or Italian Dresstng <:Pahcakes Broiled on Skewer, served on Bed of Rice With sausage, Ham or Bacon witl\Eggs 'trlRh • stack of Three gea~ood Grilled Petrale sole - served with freSh Rice Pilaf, TWIn AustralIan Lobster Talis, Drawn Butter SOUP or salad and Kot SOur DOugh 8read scampi, sauteed In Lemon Butter" Sherry Red snapper Almondlne New York Steak 1 Egos RI 1 eggs CBee6 Chateaubrland Burger (fOr twC» - the finest Ground Beet on & E;gs gpeclaQ served on a Pllaton Roll. Topped with bacon, Monterey Jack served With Hash Browns, Home-Made Cheese, sprouts" tomato or pineapple. • Sour Dough Roll and Orange JuiCe We will deSCt1t;)e th. selections upon reQuest; Served with soup or salad and FrenCh Fnes. ttootuitUtg vUUtaasOtt CUJ(noo LOCATED ON BIG SUR'S SCENIC HIGHWAY ONE (50 miles south Of Carmel, 40 miles north of Hearst Castle) ~UCia ~odge <:B{g gult. Ca~{~Oltn[a QSQ20 For Reservations can (408) 667-2391 Your HOSts: • page 10 THE BIO SUR OAZETTE JulY,1980 • • Interagency Meeting Sur Volunteer Fire Emergency Incident Management wherein Walter Trotter called the Highway Patrol hall charge at • a with from an accident scene. 'Fair Art Jurors Announced state and agenc11ell to review pro- Althollgh the CHP primarily controls traf~ Monterey County "Award of ribbon. and Fred cedllres and reslPoDlsib'iliUes to the sum· fie at a fire emergency on the Highway, resi- receiving premium books in Jurors for exhibition allthor and teacher. mer fire seu\:)n. dent officers will respond to illegal fires the mail this week for the wiU Paul C. Mills, Direc , Additional entry blanks are Assistant Fire of authorities cannot respond. Monterey County tor o.f Santa BllrbUIl availilble at the fair'lU'lltUl\,h Ken Jones, Sur area manager for the 19-24. will note a new o.f Suzanne or from the Department Parks and Recreation, approach in the selection and San Fran Box reiterated state park of responding • exhibition of artworks. MOI:lernArt or with and personnel outside park To promote the "broadest scope in style and method of Jazzing Up The Fair He said that mutual aid would be expression," according to the ment availability in the form of " water with "Dixieland Inc.," a Fine Arts Committee's Robert Breazeale, caplabilitit~, and manpower to areas adjacent formed Salinas-Mon U,S. Forest r_nrh.tt spokeswoman, Margaret to or to park lands or, with under the leader R()berts ()f Pebble. Beach, the and Pacific 01SCretlOlrl, other desperate situations. • Curtis and BiU , artworks will, be entered manned Commander Lee from the U.S. to In I under the of Naval Facility at Point Sur said that Navy I noted equipment and woUld respond off "fine arts" hibited in the fair's the base to but wOllld return to the base as soon as posisibl.e. arts buildings withollt The category such as modern or has three fire traditional. • coast at stnlte8~c 1"calaorls A pane] of jurors wiU select Castro the best eight works of art the Ilcross the widest I scope in and metho6· of expression, and will award cash awards· of .1 5300 to each. In addition, the Alvarado jurors will select six to ten . areas in MOlllte:rev" works of art to receive, an Rellervations can be made now for chase of l .....U)l, ..~. Mike tbat will Nick Hustedt. • Jack Sutton, Steve • subscriptioR to THE 1Sig &ur <6u8titt Winhw:~\J One, Sur, california 93920. • • FROM: • $5.00 In Monterev County • $8.00 outslde Monterey County. $12.00 out of state. $19.00 foreign 111e Gazette IS published the first of each month, • I am enclosing my check for ¥ ______• • July, 1980 THE BIO SUR OAZETTE page 11 come from Southern California,'l he said. Sur Coast, "is that they never stay within the But most of the audience asserted that, original limitations of the project as envision given the strict local and state controls, the ed by Congress. Environmentalists, Residents region would not be spoiled and that if the Federal government was given jurisdiction, "The people who live in Big Sur are in as one speaker said, "a military mentality" dividualists - writers and artists and other Split on Government Control would take over. people. They don't want regimentation and • "The history of all the federalized land." once you federalize it, you're inviting'more By Robert Lindsey Obispo County, ending in a point near the asserted Howard Sitton, president of a tourists and they'll ruin it. If this thing goes Reprinted from the New York Times estate that William Randolph Hearst built at residents' group called the Friends of the Big through. they'll turn it into Coney Island." BIG SUR - Against a ba'Ckdrop of some San Simeon. of the world's most spectacular coastal It is one of the loneliest, .most lightly vistas, a bitter struggle is under way here that populated stretch of the nation's coastline, New Locations jor Highland Games is deciding the future of California's Big Sur where churning white surf pounds against The Peninsula'S Scottish All the traditional athletic, 19 and the Games will be • coast. high cliffs that plunge into the sea from Highland Games will be bagpiping and Highland followed by the traditional On one side, the Wilderness Society. an en slopes studded with the redwood trees of the staged again this year, but on dancing competitions will be party the evening ~f July 26. viroOlnental group. and Ansel Adams, the Santa Lucia mountain range. a new day and at a new loca held, according to Society Advanee tickets are avail photographer. are advocating a plan to limit Big Sur, situated roughly halfway between tion. The board of directors President James Ross RUey able at Abinante Music and development along an SO-mile stretch of the Los Angeles and San Francisco, has long of the sponsoring Scottish III of Spreckels, plus even the Elks Club in Monterey; coast and create a Big Sur National Scenic been a refuge for such writers as the late Society of the Monterey more~ of the other colorful the Scottish Shop in Carmel Area governed by the United States f'orest Henry Miller and for artists and vagabonds Peninsula has announced the festivities associated with the and Stewart's Gifts in • Service. . and eccentrics. In the 1960s it attracted many 12th annual Gaines will be day-long family celebration. Salinas. General admission is On the other side ar.e most of. the 1,400 hippies. some of whom stayed and still live Saturday. July 26, 19S0 on The a.nnual parade of the $5, students and military with people who livein the area and call the pro here. the athletic field at Monterey caber through Carmel is identification $4 at the gate, posal "a land grant," "socialism," "en~ Although the stunning scenery and the lure Peninsula College. scheduled for Saturday, July Children under 12 are free. vironmental elitism" and worse. of driving a twisting highway that hugs the Mr. Adams, who lives in a house north of cliffs far above the surf draws more than two here that affords a view of the million tourists a through Big without Federal "'''.'''''''1> summer weekend traffic • aud the coast could the time it is crowded with homes and its the amloslpnere • • • • • and hibition has the best Zantman Art in and lunches around. Carmel. The Stewart exhibition is his 10th one-man show and So come to the RiverInn RIPPLEWOOD RESORT P.O. BOX 42 his at """"1 • • • Editorial: • I Panetta's Counterfeit Bill .1 It is a felony to produce an imitation curren and management. .Quixote of fiscal conservatism, it is intellectually cy with the intent to resemble the genuine ... or to There never has been nor ever wm be a threat of dishoneSt. practice deception by. making an imitation with . overdevelopment along the Bi& All the The actual cost of complying with" the avowed tbe lnt.ent to defraud. paranOic rhetoric to the contrary not cbange and enshrined "Purposes of the Act" would total Such a felony is punishable by fine and that literally hundreds of millions of dollars. Surely prisonment. Another false reasoD federa6zatioD is this will not go unnoticed before the House If politicians were goverened by the same rules, massive Federal are needed to imple- Appropriations Committee. • pertaining to fraudulent legislation, perhaps there ment the Local Plan (LCP) and to com- 4) Perhaps the most insideous misrepresenta~ would be fewer· phoney biDs. pensate large landowners deprived of development tion Panetta is his claim that his bill would not Congressman Panetta's counterfeit Big SUJ' bm federalize the area but. rather. would provide is .a case in point. nullCOC:S over 300 acres I local control throulha Citizens Advisory COuncil. Pressured by Congressman Phil Burton, the' 100 miles of What a disgraceful Sting, Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club. and the Bia policies of The five "local" members of the glorified .i Sur Foundation, Panetta succumbed to, the masst~,e compen .....LlL£'"'U Advisory COuncil. would all be appointed politics of the club and the promise of votes from LCP should be - NOT BLECTED - itself a mockery of demo~ the armchair environmentalists with a mind·fix on a federal flX. participation. preservation. the boundaries of Panet But as if false democratic participation were not Consequently. frightened by Burton's dub bill, his aides enough, Panetta then laboriously politics and lured by election-year carrots. Panetta .no map but alsQ I1Nli"ftnl'\!l how these wonderful appointed citizens • has ignored his Big Sur-C~el-Cambria consti drstfted the legislation is would bave an unlimited power to advise and tuents and has concocted leaislation for a Big Sur recommend - BUT NOT THE POWER TO Federal Area tbat has: AND DBCIDB - which the bill une~ -No justification. quivocably entrusts to a benevqlent Federal -No boUndary map. despot, the awesome of Agriculture. -No price tag. 1984 has come and gone, and we are left with -No local control. double-think and double-speak as the thought and • language of the realm: In short, Panetta's is a fraud. War is Peace It is distasteful to make such an aCC:USElti()ln !,(IA'II'TV is Freedom our local-boy-made-good C02llgr~:ssttlan. Federalization is PTE'llI'TVDflt\11 person fuU of charisma and '0 ...., ..""" In Panetta's Counterfeit Bill provides personal appearance does not 1"",...... without reason, boundaries without • his legislative product: deflinitllon, !egl,5UU:lon without appropriation, and 1) There is no ratllOnliU JlllstlIlca'lon JeI1.81at:lon for' or federal control U.V'''"ii;,U our local boy has gone astray. We suggest to Washington ' .... i. really serious prob- • 1980 THE BIG SUR OAZETTE have asked who read same and know use the Gazette as Ii blind that would for a balanced. coverage of benefit to the planning .issues and those tape also contact the speaking to these issues. Your Blind Service Center at newspaper can m!lke quali 649·3505 to assist the Blind tative distinctions where they and Visually Impaired in in fact exist amongthe plann many ways. ing options before this com Again, my deepest grati· munity, and the confidence tude. PhUlp S. Gray tempts to interject federal The Orange's motto seems Advisory Committee. placed in that printed word Restore Faith to me to be remarkable in the Those who are working on can lead the community to Chairman, toning on communities whicb Advisory Committee have already shown their way it hits the Big Sur issue: the committee have discov those important planning ",ar Editor: tools we want to have which Blind Service Center I have just heard two ability and willingness to pro HIn Essentials, Unlly ... In ered that the democratic pro will protect aU that is central things that restore my faith in tect their .own resources. Tbis Non·Essentials, Liberty ... In cess may work slowly, but proposal would duplicate ac .. Things, Charity;" Basic that it does work. Opinions to our lives here in Big Sur. America and our political Roger Newell Public Hearing process. I was beginning to. . tivities already taken by to charity is truth. All we of members or visitors, Big Sur wonder if there was any waYl residents and communities in have had from proponents of however divergent. are Dear Editor: other than through the great the area. A federal buy-out of a federal takeover Qf Big Sur debated for relevancy and When I arrived at the "public hearing" by Con ~forts of the Friends of the land interests in California is are untruths and: misinforma merit to the LCP planning Delighted· tlg Sur Coast, to stop the not required to protect the tion. process. Meetings and work gressman· Panetta in Mon Cranston-Panetta steamroller coast around Big Sur." Frances Makowski sessions are always open to Dear Editor: terey on June 21. I found the entrance to the hearing hall from turning Big Sur i~to And on top of that healthy Big Sut the public. Decisions by the I was most delighted to another mass recreation ex· sanity. comes word that tbe Committee are reached by a read the article about the blocked by tables bearing perience under federal mis California State Orange. Newell Responds majority vote. Blind Service Center and the forms for signing names, ad management. SO,OOO members strong, bas The CAC has stayed with Tel-Med Tape now in use by dresses and. telephone Now there is a letter from joined the new Big Sur Coa Dear Editor: the arduous task of eval· the Community Hospital on numbers. A man stood be am. Ted . R. Stevens of lition, saying that the State I want to respond to your uating the practical levels of How to Assist and help the tween the tables saying, Alaska circulating on the Orange sees no need for an June editorial which com· the LCP process in spite of Blind and Visually Impaired "Would you like to sign our Peninsula. Stevens has ina-ease in the level of federal mented on the work, pro the extreme difficulty to in the June issue of the Big list?" studied the Big Sur issue and land ownership, management cedures and personalities of "make detailed, if not con Sur Gazette. I asked, "Do I have to sign says: HI am opposed to at.. .or control in the Big Sur area. the Big Sur Coast Citizens' troversial. recommendations. Our hope is that many pea- Continued on Page 14 A Billa! Goods ... Hard Sale Techniques to Take In Confused Constituents Congressman Panetta's HR 7380 makes impeccable customer that the brakes need repair, the wheels need (4) Inducement Close use of ali. of the sales closing techniques in a variety of aligning, the clutch is soft and the body is damaged from If you buy this bill now, you'll get a council to go with saleli'nanship manuals. Selling Big Sur out is no easy three previous wrecks, you point out instead that the it, The underlying message here is if you don't, you will task. as a review of sales pitch manuals will show. vehij;le has an ebony-inlayed, teakwood steering wheel only be offered the standard Burton-Cranston park The approaches vary somewhat. Used very. often, with a solid oak horn button. Your transfixed client can developer approach. Never mind that so long as even. children see through them; though more often than scarcely believe his good fortune at finding this great democracy is alive, you do not have to buy either item. not,children (and adults) are lured by them. craftsmanship incorporated in an otherwise ordinary (5) Pins and Needles . (1) The SflCondtwy Close car. If you have·chosen the right customer, he can "Now I'm not at all sure the boss will go along with B*ample: You are an expert salesperson. You are able hardly wait to get his and drive Jhis~ \\ut we~ave nothing to lose by trying.,Jf I ~an get to sell clothing no one ever thought they. would buy. off. . . ~<1p.imJ0 sell you "thjs pian is "best" is could mission made this the law. • traduce bill to con in a radio over let me know what demn Cannery Row in Mon KGO in San Francisco when "laws" figure. support tereyso that the of he commented that this is your (HR 7380), and "small" people would. have "radical" planning, that please don't list acts of Con access to the seashore here California is the "leading gress because Marbury vs. where the· population is. I edge" and that this planning Madison, 1801, has never would back that one. will extend nationwide. been overturned. • Or, maybe you could ask a We believe a statewide in J ,c. Corley. Jr. family who has .lived four vestigation is in order and Big Sur ~~~~~~~~ The PhOenix ShoP'S . caUfOmla Wine ' • Cellar Selections 'Freemarh 7lbbey Video Ca ••ette Movie. f:or Rent or Sale Chateau Montelena· -All Ratings -400 TI11es -Rent $10 ea. -2 for $15 • :Robert MOndavi 60% SAVINGS WITH CLUB MeMBERSHIP Chappellet Stags £tap Vineyari -RCA and Panasonlc Authorized Dealer Cohr -Recorders from $760.Flnaoolng available upon approval of credit • 740 Lighthouse at Prescott, Monterey Mon.·Sat. 10.6 315·5547 The Phoenix at Nepenthe Ilg sur, califOl'flla 66'1-214'1 • Page'6 THE 810 SUR GAZETTE JUly. 1980 agreed. The committee then went on to discuss its proposed specific of response to the second draft of the Panetta bill. A Report on CAC Meetings objected to wording in the bill regarding timber feeling the phrase (on page 5. 1.25) "and no timber bill is clear - that the 8e<:retarv of AlZll'lCtllltUlre harvest shall be allowed on such lands except to tbe extent with the LCP." ne<:essary to maintain the scenic character and natural environ • pan Hudson, a visitor, raised the issue that Big Sur Area." could be interpreted differently by June 10: tatives of Big Sur interests should be elected . un',.. rr,m""'i services than by the layman. He proposed deleting By Mlil1CitlMe Mille, pointed and urged the CAC to recommelild After much discussion,· Zobel's proposal to delete response to Panetta. was defeated, The CAC meeting began at 7:45 with the 14 CAC After a discussion of the in the CAe's then asked the committee to decide in what form the members in attendance: Addehnan, Doris Zoo response to the meetirlg ,.. rI '''1."·",,.. 11 at 11 :05. response would be presented to Panetta. Leavy, Ken McCloud, Mudd. Helen Morganrath, White that the take the form of Newell's Roger Newell. Sheena Stewart. Frank Trotter, Roy Trotter, 18 to the and Recreation ana include the • Paul Vieregge. Kent and Bob Zobel. tolloVl'inll nar'l'Ul:rann drafted There were abnut 15 June 17: HR to BiU Farrell, pri.ndpal LCP of the Monterey a much more sensitive cottlDl'OrftlSe Planning Department, CAe members at their 11i:S.I,U.JlIW, state and local as well as ulumaltelY to bear the CAC's rec:oltltm<:ndaticln.s on the county's "",,,,~ ..,.,, ... lm' to the Big coast." report. then that another sentence be to Comments on tbe report from CAC members and visitors \.,;ntllston, in he and the senate subcommittee were urged • revolved· around three issues: notification of land- the Panetta Rnf\rmH~Il. owners of the insisten<:e on manage- Ramistella as POllSibly ment and the trails were and the re· the CAC into an have made quest that further work be done on some trail routes, the that we would not do that." such as the Anderson J."WIWllg followed, was a heated discussion on the issue The following is excerpted from the UlSCUSSIOIIl: Ra'mi~,tell!a raised. The is from the discus· Sheena Stewart: "Landowners should be notified of the proposed trails, otherwise cowd come in not from the where the corridors are a sells one local interests in mind. have a bill could push it off on another without ",,,un,., Weare at the now where we Zad Leavy: "The new trails should not be the perly managed." An visitor; "It's a not to advise. Bill Farrell resPOlU1e(1: We need to get word to the senate that we approve one over ment progrant " use already exists. Frank Rantistella: "We can't say Frank Trotter: "1,200 one over the other because the cOll1mUlll'ty DlrUlIlitllO Ventana Wilderness and want a bm at all, We should be clear that where tbey want, There must be first the can open." "We should state that the Panetta bill is sup- The discussion on the trait report ended with the final sug~ and what was with Cranston's biU is gestion from Bill Farrell that the establish Ii com- DrClvlsion for council." mittee to walk the trails in and to the coun· we don't we will be oom· ty, Final recommendations can be made to the county at a later date. "I think we need to make a make The second of the meetilt, was the area of concern to of the .H the of the CAC's response to Panetta bill. BiU HUI~lel!,n • • e .... - • Ventana :Restaurant ocean-view 1 -- 11 a.m. to 1,5) every el a country yesteryear, located adjacent to the Res- Ventana Store -- taurant ftii'A",ilftt'! new standards quality and uniqueness to t gift-giving. Q'" S 28 miles South of Carmel on Highway One J f For.ntormation.& Reservations, Call (408)667-2331 or Write: Ventana. Big S~r. CA 93920 • JUly. 1980 THE BIO SUR GAZETTE PaDeU HunoltlCoventry Exhibit Opens at Coast Gallery • • OVER 200 GUESTS ATTENDBD the COllSt Gallery prevJew opening of the James and Robin Coventry exhibition. . • • • • • \ page 18 THI BIC SUR CAZml JUly, 1980 • • • WARRIORS and LOVERS • Big Sur Artist Jim Hunolt By BltlJIM w... , Rt~·GrJmm limb. it coultl be intelkld:ual, me :meltiCiLtiOlll, Q~~·W:lltY his body and dedicate himself "Intensity. That's what: me most," lem so intense that a _ .." ..... " diet that discoutqed less heroic • Big Sur sculptor Jim Hunolt f(Kluses~n warriors and lovers , ing it out." AI1ltrl~S: wat... grapefmit, milk; zucchini, ground round ;.... in hj:san and in his life~ He's drawn. to in intense Out 'Of this crisis that fruits, a cake of yeast and nothing else - forever. sit_OIls. under elemental stress. brlDi some urd.. to the diet rigomu~ for two years, "I was a true the heroic principle. . situation and deal with it CNlltiV1i11V. what it was doing forme. In just two days, I'd felt Every piece of Jim's scuiptl,lre~ _h...... And his lovers? Jim exputS$ in Jour months. mY strength had returned. Now or brow:e. deals with. beinls in has improved to the point where my body can do all With Zenlike awareness, Jim is work and can cope with other foods. Rut I stin try to is committed to at the moment - wlt.!>th.!!r eat only what makes me feellcod. When I don't - and his firewood bUsiness, bis ftilmdlsbi.p. sometimes! a lot of tasty thingS that do my of tbese areas, he's had to body no and physically, weak. Then 110 himself. . back to stroDi and healthyag_n. I learned how Sometimes the to fight" .,. Sometimes p'liesthe But That battled waged. lim turned his attention to a life course, the essence 'of a cotlfr(mtlltlQ1n discuvered his medium. in in his late' twenties. • the etemal drive to release creattl,e energies throujJ~h love or This w~ a PassiuMte that would give personal through violence. dinlCti()n and meaning to his life. But what about economic lim wasn't aware uf this ideliltifica!:ion with the It isn't easy to make a living from growth-inducing,: mythi~al hero at flfSt.U['dbeen doing three or thinpthat bring enjoyment, He disCovered thisthroDill trial ' , four years. And one niaht I was looking at of and error. pieces I'd compieted and was up for a It Jim had clHmgc:d IDS he was a stu· (Klcurrl~d to me that I could a my work put- dent at the of califoillia finally settliDi • tillg sculptures on one side and of lovers ecoln01~cs. He loved would his father's on the other. store. But. the work wasn't J\l~tlij!'vbtCt. and a "Warriors and mlllrri.llillt'" was upsetting. He saw his warriors as arc!letytles. Looking during that stressful he read literature, every book he could -but only books that the test situation. of time. HI in the with a little Hem· without, that ingway and Steinbeck in. And the oourishment I got to tl$t. from that stabilized me. kept me guing. In fact, it "The test it could be a to the death, made me want to try myself. I was very influenced by It could be spiritual - an awakening that isn't .. directed, has to be dealt with within It could be an deeided he leave his job and the marriage and emotiOllal l\ke, the a lUVed one or the loss of a sOuth in his spQrts car. He got as far as Big Sur. "I'd • • JUly, 1980 THE BIG SUR GAZmI!! stand this new passion. . So the sculpting had, as he put it, "wandered off onto a . secondary path. I was. spending most of time wasting my time: I gotQut of the habit of into the habit of ctfil!1king." What him back onto a more solid path fot tbe work part • of his was marriage and a supplemental vocation. "I fel in love and committed mYself to one woman .. And I f01na something I liked to do in addition to sculpting- eu firewood for money after I'd tried a lot of other jobs. beautiful work. I respect it~ It's physical and cbalienginJ. I . don't. have to go out and sell firewood; people come; to me because they uced it Illd order it. I custoD;l-cut it. At the .e • time· I'm suppomttg my family, I'm b,elping ttature weed out the dead wood. Most of all •. 1.10ve being in the moun•• '" Wben April, now bis wife, came along" he was.4dY beginning to question tbe value of carousmg as an e . suit. "I was running out of entbusiasm for it as a escape. It was causing me some problem~. too. I k(lptllriVlng my car into trees. For Ii time, you can 1.... carousing. But after awbile. it just· becomes . like • readins tbe.sante sentence over and overqain; no matter how valuable it may have been.to you the first tinte you rea.d. it. by the time you're into tbe thousandtb time. it's a dimiltlisnins return." He said he'd fallen completely Inlow with April; "But I wasn't quite ready to throw myoid lifestyie entirely out tb,~ wittdow. So we had a lot of problems the first couple of years .' • we were married. Sbe assumed I'd cbange my life afterwemar~ ried. We didn't teally discuss tbe small print. I just fiaured if I gave up other women that would be commitment enough. }Jut I did totally commit myself to the marriage. Sbe wasn't So sure never visited Big Sur and I was intrigued by the Old Wodd structured in tbe usuai student·teacher way. I was already and had a bag packed to leave at a moment's notil;;e.· f look at Deetjen's Bi& Surloo. I had a cup of coffee tbere that motiyated to sculpt, but I was a beginner; be was the master. It was their decision to have a child, and tt was tbebirth of turned my life in a.new direCtion," He just naturally taught me. I was eager to learn and he was that cbild that really brousht matters to a bead. "When our Old Helmut Oeetjen asked him to stay at tbe Inn and work, eager to teach." son was born and I actually saw him belngbom - what an ." He :spent tbe summer of '64 making coffee for guests at Deet Later. wben the Sculpture Center burned and their work eye~opening experience! Tbat was the one event. I was totally jen's, was destroyed. Gordon shQwed his own beroism: "They're unprepared .' for emotionally. That's what motivated me to . just things, Jim, and we're gOing to make them allover make the complete break with wanting to be out at night; I Tben itwas tinte to on with what he bad hOPed. at tbat again." reaiized I couldn't cope with tbe carousing and have a solid time, would become life's work- writing, He moved into Jim was working mainly in flame-cut steel when be came to family life, too. aeabin in the Carmel Higblands with a friend, read a lotand ,. wrote even more. . .. the center. It was Gordon who taught bim to carve in stone HI was in love witb April but our son's bird\ was what made and wood. His first carviugs burned in tbe fire, but he rescued me decide I would look to my bome in cQnjunction with my • HI was happy with tbe ideas I was working with, but I some of his metal warriors and moved back to Berkeley to do work, for the experience of'being a wbole person. not. to the wasn't ~py with what I was.producing on paper." What's more sculpting and prepare for a show scheduled at ~he bar at Nepenthe. I'd find satisfaction in my family. But don't more. he wal getting too mental, Maybe. pottery class at. University. think it happened overnight. ' . Monterey College would get him out the Penms:ula. ·01 .Iefft But stayaWilY·ftottl tbe peninsula. He returned "Qddl~,enough. the IUY who was my favorite drinking com btmi$~~4.j.b~f~ttAwhi}t;· ...... ' . .,to Ne\\'.Mo and worked in a converted 'shed olllluekle- . pallJ.on .. is pl'0bablYa better f.rlendtom~:.ow, tbaD; when we It did. He liked molding clay. But not in the pottery w.yhil berry :Hill. tely, it was the energy in Big Sur that \\'on .were outdrinkilll togethet. I don't seebim aI muea•. 8ut When' instructor intended. Ht madt f'tgUfes and was at odds with the him. we do get togetber it's great." . . teacher over. hiI non-conformity. ·But it didn't matter. rbil "In 1967 Oeetjen offered to let me live in his Top Heuse So the warrior worked through another crisis - tlds .., new medium deHshted him .and drove him tG get all the hGGkI above the Inn. It was great. I was only there because of his one that threatened to polarite bim in his anti·blro dimtnsien~ be could find on ~ .techniques. Then he sold hiI power graCe and good will. Oeetjen was a ~. man witb many But it bad alSQ threatened the ideal of his lift - progreq. boat to buy himself more tinte for learning_ good and several not.so-good quglities.He was my frie.qd and Ho.ver. the savins ~ rose ea•• And he fesPQttIe. He was 0lJ,. the path towart\ becomitl& avery profi~ent, lelf· patron.. lettitti me have that house for just $:&Sa month•. I lived to theeltallenge. Prolless.For liel. it's.arnatter. of naettilll tausht sculptor When he met Gordon Newell. It Wallt66. and there for &early 10 years, until Mr. Oeetjen died ~ the Dew. the best possible out of myself and puttins tbat energy into my Gordon was movilll his work into the: SculptUre Clenter:.in+ manager wanted the house. Of work .and .into my relationships, .in spite of conflict, sttua8te • Cannery ltow. Jim helPed him move innd a friendsbip began Shortly after movins to the Top House, anotber crisis occur and cottfusion." that was to bQcome the strongest positive influence 9n Jim's red in bis life - a bitter disappointment in um. He'd run into With the bell' of a lot of people who believe in bim. Jim has life .. ~er he. aecepted OpJ;don's offer.tosculpt at the center •. difficulty supporting himself on his sculpture. So be decided to built a house and studio in Coastlands where the .road meet~ , uGordottisa~e.Orie of a kin~.}Iis influenceoll$e....., give it all be bad ....., put all bis energy for, two years into the higbway. This, after 10 years of livinl by the "grace. his creative spirit - is immeasurable. Our relatiottship wasn't preparation for a show at the Coast Gallery. . 100d will" of Papa Oeetjen, in the T9PHouse, untilOeetjen "I'd borrowed beavily, sure tbat I'd at least be able to make died and tbe,patronage ended. a living from my sculptilll. I wanted to devote all my working Now be bas a mortgage, bins to pay abet a f&$ily to care ter. • bours to sculpture, and I was certain I could make it." He is as dependent on his firewood business as ever. But bl is The show wasn't a financial success. "It was great~" Jim more comfortable with his two vocations. Now there's little said, "in terms of wbat I was able to produce aesthetically. I threatto bis survival if his art sales lag for a time. was proud of my work. But economically it was a disaster. I "However, I plan to edge slowly out of firewood .. and set wound up owing a lot of money witbnothing coming in. I've back into devoting most of my working time toseulpting. The never been more discouraged, None of my Big Sur friends· was old work energy has been generated in me again after all those interested in art and they just didn't understand tbe deptb of years of copping out on myself in bars." my disappointment. I couldn't communicate my feelings to He has a new show going at Coast Gallery - 30 pieces. They • anyone." represetitwork produced over a 100year span. Twenty-four of So he tried to forget tbe feelings. them are bronzes, each in an edition. "I drank, gambled, partied - anytbing to avoid thinking •'Each time a bronze sells, I can spend more time in my shop about my work and the disappointment. I wouldn't admit it building up an inventory. I hope to be able to change the work then, but my total commitment was to escape responsibilities, proportion to the point where, instead of working a couple of Carousing was a wonderful diversion and I was a happy days in the studio and tbe rest of the time in the mountains I'll drunk. Not a care in the world from the time I sat down at the be working a couple of days in the mountains and tbe rest of • bar at Nepenthe and bad that first drink at five o'clock. Every the time in tbe ,studio." . problem I bad in my life disappeared at the bar." Jim says be worked very hard on tbis sbow "but not so Reflecting on that period - it's been four years now since mucb that I'm leaving myself open this time to needing lots of be's been drinking - Jim"says, "As I look back, I see tbat I economic feedback to come out of·it. I still work intensely, JI • • • • coutline, W~ can often Access isdif be seen this stretch of sharp there is a rare with a surging I'AI'I.fullv Iltlanied .."r.Ie,,'''' of Check with the com· before morant, Harbor seals and it be to • be seen one of their scheduled beds of nature walks. • hilzlbwSIV SI:OI':pea near v...,,,,,,,,,, ten mUes north of ranch. and them aU the that from Ouard so that one walks down the cout they come • stoRe of the ocean can see where she trail there is a stone slaved. It is a whlch wu Ollce to view miles of • • An Types of Commercial • and Personal Insurance • Alexander Held, Larry Duroche.r Ed Magner III Jeff Craig Jackson Booth General Agents and Brokers 1o BonUacio Plaza • (408) • POU Office Box MIA. Monterey, California 93940 $I 061 Fino Place Plua linda Building Carmel Vallay Californ!a 93924 • i. JUly, 1880 THE BIG SUR GAZEn'E Page 21 Few Large New Bus System Ranches Remain By Marcianne Miller At a meeting of the CAC in Big Sur Transportation Subcommit Jee on June 11, the proposal By R.C. Horse for a new bus service on the BIG SUR - In to numerous recent references to coast was outlined. the need to compensate large landowners for restrictive .The subcommittee, chaired development policies in the Big Sur Local Coastal Plan (LCP). by Sherna Stewart, has • the Ga~ette conducted a survey.to determine the number and prepared an extensive report size of "large" ranches in private on highway transportation Fourteen ranches were counted over 320 acres, the new zon- for the Monterey County ing minimum the draft LCP. Planning Department. Stress Tbe El Sur the contains approximate- ed in the report was the im ly 7,000 acres. The Doud Ranch. consists of portance of bus transporta approximately 4,000 acres. tion as one method of easing • Five ranches vary between approximately 1,000 and 1,700 traffic congestion on the acres: Posts, Funt, Harlan, Hudson and Hathaway. highway. Seven ranches consist of approximately 300 to 800 acres: At the request of the sub Newell, Martin and Ball. Cbapman, Chapman's neighbor, committee. Stephen Black, Chappellet and Rock. of Coastlines, to leave Monterey passengers. A smaller bus is The Gazette the totlOVl'lnlZ t1 ...' ...... in ..rI his efforts to bring 8:30 a.m., arrive at more conducive to the visual over 320 acres from homestead ae!iCerUle:nt small mass trans Big Sur State Park at 9:35 environment and' more in from Lee Otter of the Coastal Commission staff, portation to the Big Sur and end the one-way trip at tune with ~e energy crisis. • acres given are and the could be coast. San Luis. Obispo at 12:40 years. Coastlines will start with p.m. The return trip will start "Coastlines' first plan will incomplete. The Gazette that having more ac- to Black, the those people who wish curate information will write to the paper, one vehicle, a small bus. with at SaT! Luis Obispo at 2:30 only 16 to 19 passengers. The p.m. and arrive in Monterey of and service to spend a few hours along Coastlines will is vehicle will have full windows at 7:00p.m. the coast, withQut adding to Raoell Area Acres (Approx.) the beginning of what he for enjoyment of the sceni.c To determine the cost of traffic congestion by. driving El Sur Little Sur 7,000 hopes to see as the trend in view and room for passenger the bus trip, the coast is their own cars. We eventually Doud Gan::apata 4,000 mass transportation for the hope to increase service to • Hathaway Grimes-Torre 1,700 baggage. A package delivery broken into geographic areas. service will also be provided. For example, the trip one way Big Sur highway. more ably assist the needs of Funt 1,200 Big Sur residents. I've always Service will be one daily from Monterey to San Luis RVs arid buses not Hudson 1.200 "Big wanted to provide service to Harlarl Lucia 1,200 3()6..mile round trip from Obispo will be $14, .From only impede the enjoyment Monterey Airport south to Carmel to Big Sur $3, from the local people arid this is Posts Post Hill 1,000 of the scenic viewshed," he the beginning." Mudd Palo Colorado 800 SaT! Luis Obispo airport. Monterey to Esalen $5. "but in time the heavy .Chapman Road 700 There will be regular stops Passenger baggage is free. of the large vehicles The application Chappellet Sur Valley 700 along tne way and flag stops The service will connect show in wear and tiar on SCl1le(1tlle(1 for decision by • Unknown Road 640 anywhere alOng the coast with other forms of mass the highway surface. Also, Utilities Commis- Martin & BaU 640 route. The service will be year transportation including the buses are often fuel in 2, If approve4. Granite Rock 640 'round. bus lines at either end of the .. n\,,,, ...,,t having to 300.500 The proposed schedule is' coast and the airports. a long run with only a • • • • Fine dining orin• in town ... country ... • Fresh. fish and seafood delicacies in ~Iddition to other savory continental beef and Domestic and on the House On • Immaculate Heart St. Francis Hermitage Church Junlll\lro and IiIb Ave" CamJel, CA . At QuaJllodp Dilly 314 ",Ifill from Sunday Mass, 11 a.m. PO! roselVlllIOI1ll (408)625-17611 Hwy. Ode 011 CaIIIIeI ¥alley Road Mass on weekdays, 6:15 a.m. 5atun:layMass, 4 p,m. Dinner 1$ lIII!Ved from 5 P.M. COCktails from 5 P.M. • Evening Prayer, SundaYS at catholiC service untn elosllll/, cocktails from 4 P.M, OIOIIer from 6:lIIIevery -1111/, 5 p.m., weekdaYS at 6 p.m. eVllIJ evening. JlIClieI$l\IIItIInId. I18se1VIIIOIIs cathOliC service -II$IIIJ. Call (4118:)624-15111 0Il6 01 \lilly SlllSOrt JmteIs II! It!e u.s. to 1/2. Mile so. of LucIa LOCIOe 112 Mtle North of FernWOOd receive MobIl's li-Star AWlIfIJ.,. also MA's IIIQ!1eS! MliallH$ AWllnt • ,.22 THE BIO SUR OAZme JUlY, 1980 • young woman treading being laid through the "Pro unsteadily that line between fessional Educational Pro and illusion. Jeannie gram" or P~P 1980. CURTAINeALL Wooster, John Brady ,and WHO: Any~ne. 16 years or Steve Moorer will star. Nick over.j Hovick directs this Staff WHAT: Intensive six-week By Leslie Liebman sixth year of summer theatre Schroeder's brilliant rendi Repertory Company course in theatrical ensem success. In June director tion of Beethoven's Moon The show runs afternoons scheduled for ·1 ble techni9ues. .. WHAT'S BEEN ... ROnald Danko us the Sonata on his toy piano and p.m. Friday through WHEN: July 21-Aug. 29. 8 Elena Villa of Big Sur first of screams about this month at the a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday , shared in the swordplay and Theater Center through Friday.' intrigue of River an WHERE: York School, exciting tale based on true history and settlers • in South in The Children's Theatre annual val Of Plays last time. and sixth graders from all Applicati(>u fee is 00- over the Monterey PeninsUla from Festival region appeared twice on Theatre of Saturday and once on Sun P.O. Box • day· for tW9 weekends in CA 93902. Tuition CET's gift to the cornmunity scholar Plays by other age are available. were also presented in .... "n Theater protiuC1tion of BUs • WHAT MIGHT BE ••• the same weekend The Festival Theatre of finished its pro- Carmel duction - guess 'what! there was that pro of Hamlet at the will Stevenson School a whole America's theatrical ner:ltag.e. two before it was to • A site in Seca into repertory at the been fot ell theatre Theater. bUlildi'llI. The foundations of Conclusion: is 1I;II>" ...... u company are now not to sotnetIOQ'V'. III RENTA.L \II SWiSS 'ARMY KNiVES \II TENTS \II BOOTS • Cuddle up with a Bugaboo ..... • (I) Remember Bugaboo ... :::t- a name you can't forget. o • men 110 CENTRAl; PACIFIC GROVE - 313-6433 d ~ a:: » • CARMEL ~ III 825-6030 ' - SUSPENDERS III FRAME PACKS- DAY PACKS· III SOCKS 11\ PONCHOS • •• JUly, 1180 THE BIG SUR GAJI'I"'FE Whales of Randy Puckett on Display at Highlands Gallery • The whales of Randy decided to give UP law and to the Highlands Gallery, his Puckett will be on display at become a sculptor. work is. exhibited in Big Sur. the Highlands Gallery of The Pucketts moved to the Victoria, B.C., Canada and Sculpture during the month Monterey Peninsula in 1977 Lahaina, Maui. ,Hawaii. of August. Randy renders where he could continue stu A reception will be held these magnificent creatures in dying and observing whales Sunday, Aug. 3 from 1-S many sizes and fluid shapes and obtain the material be p.m. at the gallery, located • of California redwood. He needed to create them. Randy on Highway 1 between Point spends up to 6b hours on is president of the newly Lobos and the Highlands some of his creations which formed Monterey Bay Inn. Regular hours are 12·6 are in private collections all Chapter of the American p.m. and the gallery is closed over the world. Cetacean Society. In addition Tuesdays. 'Randy became interested in whales whUe studying en vironmental sciences at the • University of Wisconsin where he was cpmpleting a. pre-law course. Carving had been a bobby since childhOOd and oneaa., h.e carved a Golden Gate Expands I • whalefot his young son. An Golden Gate Airlines has almost twice as much as I I! aCquaintance saw it and bess moved.to expanded new facil Golden Gate had in its ed to buy Randy was • it. Soon ities in the North Passenger former Central Terminal ~ I carving more and more ttl fill Terminal at San Francis.co In location. l the orders. That's when· he ternational Airport. , Local San Francisco opera In announcing the move, tions and maintenance offices Golden Gate President Vin located under the new gates cent J. Mtdshine stated. ''At are also vastly larger, easing last Golden Gate Airlines will operational congestion, • have the large size and Mulshine said. modern type of terminal Complete Hair care facilities that an airline of our Golden Gate'li new ticket for men &women size and importance counter in the new ultra deserves." The new gates, modern $40 million terminal Numbers 74 and 75, are in the is abo near United's. ' Big Sur 667-2101 middle of United's terminal Golden Gate received its 667-2615 and will permit the parking of eighth 50-passenger aircraft, up to six aircraft at one time. a Convair 580, on June 5 and THE WHALES of Randy Puckett will be Oil display at The passenger departure placed it into service the next Bighlnds GaDeryduring August. area totals 2,500 square feet, day . 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Heated SWimmIng pOOl, the 1980's, your world in which recreation haU, eight mnes of. hiking trailS. every dollar and every mile is '4728 • so important.~' COTTAGES a GIFT SHOP Open All Year Renault Le Car. What you want and what Outside River View Patio you need in one smart car. ••• Now Open Imported by '" American Motors (408) 887.. 2171 • . • LOCATED ON HIOHWAV ONE 26 MILES SOUTH OF CARMEL MONTEREY AMC/J EEp·RENAU LT 63 M\lES NORTH OF HEARST CASTlE NO PARK INTRANCE FII ~ ItO SUR LODGE GUesTS 735 Del Monte-Monterey.A Subsidiary of British Motors of Monterey. .Inc. Est. 1958-375-1515. • 24 THE BiG SUR GAIETTE 1980 • Views on Big ur ill sed AT A BEARING CONDUCTED BY LEON PANETTA ON DR JUNE 1980 Te~timonyof logoff Testimony of Newell • Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: name is Newell. I am chairman of the Big Sur Coast Citizens' Committee. In 1975 the Board of S"'''''1"lri~nl1"R created the Big Sur Coast to act as a forum for local. and for broad public participa- tion in the plamnlJ),1 • The and useful ideas would be consistent the framework of the California Coastal Act of 1976. The committee was en """'"''','''''' to explore planning considerations even. beyond the Planning Department's Work Program, and ideas feels are worthy of discussion in preparing a for the Big Sur coast. • The committee is made. up on 19 appointees who are residents ·of the 7o.mile long Big Sur coast planning area .. They include and small landowners, non~landowners, o a joint committee agricultUl~alilsts llml.1 busiiness people, employers andempioyees, two biHscould then result. a film writer and .anattorney, and a clerk, a highway patrolman and a retired Mr. Pan~ttawhy he was det:ernlllnlild to introduce _;1,1.... ,,,, officer, This group has representation t e told us that there were reasons: 1) to from Colorado Canyon, on Willow Creek. • bring.. ~~Los Padres· forest activities under. the control of the on the sooth. Among the the Citizens' Ad~ LCP "'l 2) to com~ate landowners who would not be Committee are two members the Friends of the Big mitte4~ build under~trictions of the LCP. We out Sur two trustees of the Foundation, three to Mr:,Panetta that too, bad nmmll"" was ~eSsary to brinS Forest _1'Vtf'~~nu:o trustees of the Big Sur Land of the Big Sur Coast Owners the but had discovered that this thl\tWe Sur of Commerce, and ExecutiVe Order '" Vojlunl~eer Ambulance and members of the Sierra the Forest Service to 1,;1I1tip.~. we too think that lando'Nne:l'S Wil<1elrne:ss ZSOClletY, Friends of the Earth and the Audubon Society. More than 400 of on the Big because. of LCP restric:tioll1S Sur are brought the process by the we Pcoin:ted out that mechanism for exists. me:mb,ersbip of this committee. Orantscan be from the Land and Water """.n"",,, here is interested in the preSer- tion Fund on a matching grant basis, as well as from other funds\.and of the most often voiced concerns of that we had developed the outline of a cornmunilty have been: wheteb,the county or state could raise funds for its • the ms,tcbing grants through a user fee on vadOl.lHacilities in Big Sur, without funds •. Very simple and eOlJlitall)le. arguments that legislation was acc:otr.,pliJsh the use of he said were the reasOns. for his Panetta restrictiions iml)osc,d by the ahead and introduced HR 7380 for his own nt"rnn,... ~ The coast is protected, th()rougllly, 6. A local voice in • totaliyremove any .reason for 7. Coordination of the diff'erelilt gl::lvemrnerltal " nf(IOOnelllts of the Panetta Tahoe, when there no Sur to where it SALES • INSTALLATION up· tbe mess the Located on HighWay One • SERVICE 28 Miles South Of carmel Hot'ubs • Round and Oval -Redwood The Market •.• • Mal10ganv Ventana's own Market and Interna -teak tional Delicatessen, located right on Highway • Jarral1 -Cedar One at our entrance, featuring Quality pro- • SDas groceries and sundries plus Imported • FIOergtass rN'A reservations preferred: 667-2623 • paae26 THE 81G SUR QAZETTI JUly. 1980 Lynn Hodges Legend ... The Mission Ranch Story • BYII«i1 pleasure horses at the U.S. National Horse Show in .Albuquer .. issioo !tech mees SOftle,tbliq que, N.M., in 1979. ... even "visitors" from all Elver "Springs Rashed," a fuU "brother" of "Azur" ed "Si LytUl Hodges aru:l it is special. Sous," spent his early years at Mission Ranch Stables before LytUl's greddau(Jhter. Smith Haverly, now car· being sold to Laurie in Reno. He won reserve national cham ries on the tradition of the operatiq and car· pion. westempleasure class. and was one of the top ten at the ing for the horses she owns. a boardiq horses. Ceadie National Horse Show. He also was named cham- • She learned as she grew practically livIDI at the Mission pion of the Haif-Arabie Western Pleasure Class at the ltuch Stables. leamiq from ··Orampy" Lynn Hodges, and Monterey Horse Show. from his ~WlIlly talent~ ed capable wife. Ide. Among others whom Lynn Hodges trained. in addition to . Sharme's mQther, Donna Hodges Smith, also learned his granddaughters, have been Kim Novak ed Marlon Bre horse trainiq from her parents. ed passed on her k'fUl,wII!d1f1!! do. Lynn provided aU the horses for Bredo's One Eyed Jacks to her three . Laurie ed Lynn Hunten. which was ·filmed in Big Sur. And Michael Landon" ,Lynn ed 0 Carmel as a couple television's Bonanza star "Little Joe," came to Lynn Hodges • who had lived. in Utah ed Idaho. learniq to as for lessons after he got the part in the series. Lynn soon as tb,y CoUld walk:, both took jobs at the Mission to ride like a born-in-the-saddle Westerner. Ranch - Lynn as bartender. as cocktail waitress. This was back in the Depression Shll,rnuut with the help Doug Haver- I,.ytUl establish~ the watcllilll over eother generation of champions. The ed Junipero a"enues, the and by the Arabie staUion'Aura B," • • • • • • • • • two dop. leaves Model T belliBd to ride out from MiIIIoIl Budl Stables. ill mid.. ...,..n...... restaarlDt po!IeI .. _ w· front of une Rudin .IOt twa". . bUteo_ ad I"idiaI aaumy OWD. LYRa Hodpi td f. rllllt. • • very il1t'~f'.. <:t ..cI reasons for California "r"'..... l'tv Also be aware n""1"I.. ,..I[" owners in your district • told of your disinterest in Court, called for lellj:slal:ion the constitutional to correct this erosion of con guarantees lost to them monuments, stitutional guarantees. through the AGINS urbanization and Senator-l(en Maddy and decision." The senators are: zation in surrounding areas Assemblyman Robert Naylor Omer Rains (0), Alan Sieroty which in the past provided a (D), Dianne Watson (D), • introduced companion bills protective buffer to the parks considered in urgent SB 1869 and AB 3017, respec Robert Beverly (R), John tryin"g to limit the number of and improved park manage unspoiled water and air and need of immediate attention: tively. to remedy the prob Foran (D), John Garamendi visitors. Last year the na- ment. Park Service officials other natural resources in Glacier National Park in lem. Senator Maddy's bill (D), Milton Marks (R). The tional parks attracted a complain," All we're doing federal parklands, Montana, Glacier Bay Na was recently passed over bm now goes to the record 282 million visitors. now is reacting to emergen That the nation's parks donal Park in Alaska, Chan whelmingly in the senate with Assembly . .You are urged to External threats -- those pos- des;" At a time when na have been under increasing nel 'Islands National Park in ed by mining, development tional economic problems de only seven dissenting votes. contact your representative in assault for over two decades the assembly in support of SB Southern California and and road construction in ad- mand restraint in federal • Council Exetutive Director has been generally recogniz Organ Pipe Cactus National it Joseph Mastroianni cor- 1869 and AB 3017. jacent areas, for instance - spending, will not be easy, ed. But the extent of the Monument in Arizona. will have to be addressed by but once the economy is back destruction was never The primary need under new and stiffer zoning legisla- on track Park Service budgets Look at the redwood tree standing so tall. documented on a nationwide scored by the study is for tion. The challenge for Con- will need to be enlarged to basis until last month, when Listen to the wind blow through the limbs so free. greater funding to provide greas will be to devise meet the glowing demanc;ls on the National Park Service larger numbers of researchers stronger protective measures public parks. A:mericans Look at all the flowers that are so lovely to see. completed its first-ever com· and scientists to monitor the that will take into account the learning to adjust to a society • And look, they are of the earth, prehensive survey of the parks and to develop improv nation's need to find 'and that every year becomes more parks. The scope of the prob John Rip ed management schemes. In develop new energy re- urbanized cannot afford to lemsuncovered is startling. some remote backlands sources. lose these irreplaceable oases May 8,1980 The survey found that no parks, the Park But the place to start is of natural beauty and park was immune to such already is experimenting with with stepped-up monitoring grandeur. perils as water pollution, acid Ii!II! ~,. '*iF" rain and erosion. The biggest " ~~:;¢ of the parks, those such as Yellowstone, Yosemite and • the Great Smoky Mountains, LIQUOR STORE face more than twice as many problems as other parks Domestic and throughout the Scenic resources Impqrted Wines, i were reported to be sig • Beers and liquors nificantly in danger in 60 per cent of the parks; air quality I FREE ICE in 45 percent; animal and plant life and fresh water areas in 40 percent. As a of the the Park Service has four • on liquor and jug wines 10% CASE DISCOUNTS ~n all::': wines News 2 i that's fair, Featuring: concise, accurate, . Country ·Breaklasts .• S VISITORS NOTE: ~ that seeks 2 First liquor Store . out solutions Delicatessen Sandwiches 5 North of Big Sur to world Barbequed Ribs and Chicken Just off Highway One ~ problems, at the mouth of ' that gives Mexican & Daily Specials • Sunny Carmel VaHey you a Old Fashion Hamburgers ~ clearer view of both Natural Foods & Ice Cream i North to 2 national S Monterey S and Fay's Fabulous Desserts • .1 ~ Carm,1 Valley Road C ~ 2 international Beer, Wine, and Munchies news. OUTDOOR DINING ON THE LAWN Carmel CO0: ..,~ S 2 Rancholl ~ tJ 2 RIPPLEJKX)JJRESORT 5 II-_--,.--.Liquors ! s In the heart of the sunny Big Sur Valley • Holiday Cablnll by the River. CemplngSuppll.. ~ In~ ~ 2 Chevron Gat • Grbcery Store ,~ Rio Road (stoptlght) S Ifs all there. Ask any Monitor reader. Or. better South to Big Sur subscribe yourself, :3 months al$17.50 up to one year at $65.00.' 2 Carmel Rancho Liquors 2 Just call toll free: • 3 26340 Carmel Rancho Blvd. S Open Mon.-Thu. 8 a.mAJ p.m. FrI.-Sat. 8 a.m .•1;;J0.m. In Mass., call collect: Sun. 9 a.m.-9 p. m. (617) 262-2300. Visa, Me Ph. 824-2100 i~~~~~ • page2S THe 81G SUR GAZETTE JulY,1980 of thing happens aU oOhe time, and that the man from the U ,S. Forest Service did not seem to find it in any way unusual I What has to the once Sierra Club that they FOR Mostly should have to themselves to the depths that even the forest Service admits or even that the letter was bably tampered with a Sierra member who the THE Coastal entire meaning out of it? IIIntt this tampering with F1lBE • SPBBCH? AWARE We already know that most not all) of the worst and most destructive decisions made by the CalIfornia Coastal Commis~ know that most thouabt national forest land sion have come about as a result of "staff .. don't want should be set aside to protect or so the Commissioners themselves have often coyotes killed? That they grizzly bears even if it And we all know tbat for the most part, Coastal Commission want the shooting and resulted in some loss of jobs • poisoning That and bnilding materials. ~&m francisco Chronicle printed a "letter to the editor" staff persons are members of the Sierra Club. So now it would that we stand more or less "at the strongly favor The Department of In~ ~ that disturbed me mightily and I am not usualIy methods of coyote control? terior's Fish and Wildlife Ser distu~ by such The writer wrote to the editor to of the Sierra And why? And how did this for one used to the work of the Sierra Club 00- That the majority of vice Director, Lynn A. comp~ thlt his had been so badly mutilated or Anlericans want wildlife pro Greenwalt, is taking a pro edit_that its entire essence hid been destroyed. And indeed it saw it tum itself a group of on a power mad ego tected even at the expense of perly cautious position on had.• "t to give a true of the disturbing elemeuts honsmg and develop Dr. Kellert's study. saying • of thatwriter's I am to the entire letter We have seen them tum Ansel Adams into a mumbling man ment projects? that the report will require and I~ you see for yourselves. judge yourselves. whom 1 no longer as the canlera mist that he has These are some of the rmd· study and analysis as ERRORS AND OMISSIONS: been. I now see Adams as a IIllrnd!l1nll to many of more of the mformation Edit:Qf;" g,F. Chronicle: mill~zd and abused who are still calling the:mse:lves lJnlvel:sit~r's Dr. becomes available. This Onlune 6 I sent you a letter to editor which was printed uenvironmentalists" are report is the first oftonr to JuneU. You destroyed the whole meaning of the letter. sonal aggrandisement than in care cover the entire survey. I.te that. according to an article June 6, the "Natural vironment. the oep,artnlent However. Mr. Greenwalt Reso.rces Defense Council" is charging that the U.S. Forest Is there no way that we can get the honest word across that terior. makes a statement important • Serviee is selling timber at 'lower than market there need not be such and warfare between The study covm' a wide to all wildlifers: "The results prices! the to own to and range of Anlerican attiltud to have to redouble their ef· envirOlamc~nt. as weU·as our • to have to be SEAFOODS, O(l,Vel'llWlent to do for U$. Above Sierra Club member tbat STEAKS, I knttW to his and bet that group back on clean up their act. and the tasks that LUNCH, to do so well. No~ty ever said that the Sierra had to censor • DINNER, ne'lllllmmer articles and better not tamper with this I'd like to see away from their feel· COCKTAILS that govermnent hl one form or anotber should own alI landl The last <:over of the SUI' Gazette shows that Uncle Sanl is a miabty bit landowner Is it is. Rustic A-Frame cabins available n ..__ .. can't we just let aloni with the job of being 1000 on a dally rental basis Anlerlcans tOlether, helping our own nation to gain and regain Furnished with Kitchens" BalCOnies • ber stren_h and her pride, and worth? And can we all jnst ItOp criticisirtg everything and everybody • THE for ownhlI and wanting to his property? That is NOT CampSites for any size RV's ~ Tents a right that is going to be up easily, believe mel .Hot Showers - Clean Restrooms· ROaUE • laundromat-Groceries--PIAV;'tl'l"It • It's fabulous! laboratory Equipmen Fishing & Swimming "R:r~ 372-4586 Chemicals WHOLESALE Research A Distributor Olassware RETAil Industry Of Coleman Products OPEN ALL YEA •• Wharf Number TWO • Monterey Marina Carmel on Highway R_rYetlona accepted 881.. 2322 • July. 1980 THE BIG SUI GAZETTE page 29 I. Cmll(UIIoI to its silken A bee with the fallow seed. The quail which thistle seed: ",..,,,,.,,,,,,h have returned to a shell so murmur and chuckle as feast on and Sucb sweet sinlpllcit~\f. work itS' way UUUUJoUl how to live on mtllmate lie viable for In(let/,endlent of any larger system, • tions for 2ermilnation a I have detllemlenlOY on the powers watched thistle tide advance down the I have that in wbose hands I I to give thanks hacked and hoed in defence. But not today. On Independence for the blessed nature of my life on this Independence Day Day I refuse losing battle. before I emerge into the hot meadow sunshine to check the A small breeze thick with thistledown blows my face· from waterline for leaks. the patch at the waterhole, bearing a hint of water. Inspired, I pull on my boots in deference to the rattlesnakes and set off • across the sea of grasses which part with a hiss as I my cautious way along the almost invisible path. I'm nervo~s in Diablo rattlesnake weather when I cannot see my feet;. not an Irra tional fear considering my three encounters so far this year. Good fortune and the law of averages are with me tt>day.I Nuke Plant make it safely to the shadow of the oaks that shade my water Study Bill source, startling a family of feasting quail who clatter. out of the thicket. . • The. waterhole is a natural bollow surrounded by willows Passes and edged with thistles. A mourning dove coos from the oaks *ORANARY Independence Day Ramble Capitol N.ws 8,,",ic. on the slope above. In the water tiny yellow unpetalled buttons lIy Judith Goodman SACRAMENTO - A bill BREADS grow out of the mud. Water striders dart in spirals on the s~r. which would authorize a fresh 8. Day·Old ~LI' ot summer weather at last. I sit cross-legged on the face. Sitting on the lid of the half barrel full of gravel whtch faded red sIe~ping Dag naked in the sweltering sun, gaz study of the technical feasi fresh Pastries .JrJ acts as my sediment filter. I drink in dampness throu~h ~y ing at the wall of summertime fog which has lingered offPfeif· bility of converting the (without skin. With satisfaction I note the two-toed prints of a deer 1ll Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant • fer Beach for a week now, refusing the coast its cool blessing. the mud complimenting me on my management of water; Here in the upper meadow, the waist-high wild oats shimmer to use a fuel source other * BULK even in this dry year there has been enough water for my sim Nuts-Oils their empty heads rustling in occasional tiny than nuclear passed the whit~IYI ple needs with plenty left over for the animals with prior claim. Seeds-S€,ans breeze. Idly, I survey domain. A plethora of moths flutters sembly recently with a 41-43 For centuries the creatures of this ridge have come for water to vote. in the oaks - one step the continuing process of the oak this only all-year surface spring reliable enough to appear on leaf moth. In my first years on the ridge, noticing the plague of the early maps. Cattle watered here; until three years ago. wild Assembly Bill 2726, intro pale green I worried for 'the oaks and considered boar muddied the water; the neighborhood deer, quail, coons, duced by Assemblyman Dried fruit • intervention. experienced. I watch the moths a foxand a bobcat still drink at this small hollow of water. I Henry Mello, D-Watsonville. & Teas with equanimity, that right behind the cater- imagine that nomadic Esselen knew this source. Cool moist air would direct the Energy Carob pillars flock hungry that caterpillar droppings rises from the hollow; I am filled with peace and satisfaction. Commission to issue a report fertilize the that so nature keeps her balance. A I to check the spring. The small wooden shed on the possibility of conver- * NATURAL limited view, on a mere of observation. Indian that encloses the source has been recently chinked with cement the Diablo Nu.clear legends speak when the acorn crop failed; I know that to foil the clever rat who had set up housekeeping here, weav which is not yet in FOODS Westrae Products too is possible. no action is demanded of me, thank operation, to a power plant a nest of grass in the corner and stashing a supply of fresh Juices-fruits goodness. I which would use meth cuttill1lS in the pool. Today when open the wooden Nut Butters • It's too hot to for the sweaty work of put- into the gloom the only beady eyes that meet anol or some other fuel Pastas & Sauces ting words on A scream sirens from the canyol1 of source besides nuclear of a small brown frog. Health foods the Big wafts from One on the waves of up from the .ground into a basin of materials. Haif'! & hot air. The folks are on the move this Fourth of rimmed by of the mineral more their from "Not only are local resi~ Oils-Miller's the now that the summertime flow is A odor of glimpse 1'n .. nT"~'h lZ'reeln~tilnt€!d dents cOl'icerned about the HOfley.HeinKe sulphur rises from The water flows through an open the coast. As three nuclear plant, the Nu- T, through a short length of galvan~zed pipe, into the gravel . clear Regulatory Commission Waters-Deat • miles above it I count my blessings: no reason me to filled half barrel. I reach into the spnng and pull out roots and descend to the today. I will celebrate independence has stated that the safety Smith Peanut Sutter a few €lak leaves; some willow rootlets have grown into the evaluation hearings will be Celestial Cn~ • PAKISfANI .INDIAN KELI.N\ Dell & Restaurant u ..".,t-'''''ie, ... Dishes, largest ~ection Beer & Wine • On the Peninsula • finest quality • lUNCH, DINNER &. DELI 9 a.m.-a P.m. 11 a.m.-S p.m. Sun. 1 CARMEL CENTER MALI.. • HIGHWAY ONE It RIO CARMEL atmosphere., the mall THE· BIG SUR GAImE JUIY,1880 cians to take home. The bill autitlorilzed spenm111 about $1,2 C.B. Morton, and to name the water behind Norton Dam in • billion on more than 100 and in 44 Kansas the Keith Sebelius Lake. Mr, who is One Man,. from is the ranlung RelPubtticEUl bills lndiv!(!ualIIY worthy One Park nrol:etts in 14 states. It the House who floor of any of tbe pro- have known .• ... Reprinted Inim the WMhmlt0n June 4. 19. had turned aside a 'uct·if"it". the plans hen the laraest bill in the nation's Del'!.9.r1:melnt for a on the omllibllS had not even been when the were up debate, • worked way put in the volved 20 them, A spoJkednan expllain1w The ntimberof units under .the control of the Park Service 9Sth Consress, there wu twtter'iDlI' ment didn't know to favor ar oppose these orCt]etts has increased so rapidly - 10 percent 1977 - that it OD the mn, Some members because it hadn't reviewed all of them. is hard for to keep up with them. ones, like repl_illl water nr~11ec:ts The new units that will be added to the those now in in Alaska, close scrutiny. But bills become law include two new nadonal of the little ones do not - if they are tucked the Hawaiin Islands and Coast away onmibus bills like that and the one now • two historical pending. and· one Chaco The national park system shouldn't be with this way. JamesA. Its parks are so that the expects near and nerfection wherever that Service This reputa- such should not be diminished minor designed defteldin ~ond to spread, geosrapbicaliy or the federal don B. Johnson historical site in TeDS. spent for recreation and Senate ap- • In the bills direct· the Interior to that standard when it the proposed PHOTOGRAPHY recommend sites for to Gerald R. reeentlv the House, it may -: or may not - approve them. Ford and the bile to erect a plaque or monu~ But it be nice to know that those it approved had at 640·oet Monte snapping Centef~ Monterev, CA 93940 ment at to commemorate the late ROlers least been carefully screened. Pht)ne (408) 175-1313- Residence (4Q8) 372·2401 I think be's going to make fun of me and I say, "What • for?" "Forgive me, It he Sotl:!eby Park Dernet's, m auction honse and I could SANOwtCHES fCE.CREAM swear that is an original Applebaum." SALADS CONES, BUCHWALD "You are .. I "It's been in my famRy for years. AND SHAKES. My Aunt Ada left to us ber will." JUICES 8M001lItES The man from ptIlon hls hands and kllee!l and • "It's the mostmagnifieent Applebaum.1've ever seen, All Of YOUI GROCEIY 'VITAMIN NEEDS known of its existenee. but we were unable to trace it OOMPlm ~.ofVITAMIMS. SUPPlEMENTS after it was !lOld by the J.P, Morgan estate." COSMETICS uThe Morgans and my aunt were good friends," I say; BUlKITNS The SothebY man takes a magnifying alass out of his pocket. ORGANIC PRODUCE "It's simply fantastic.· Do you know the history of Ap- IN CARMEl VALLEY VILLAGE CENtER 659·2811 plebaum?" , U A little ••• I "But our famRy has !lO many sreat paint- • ings. we can't kCl'P track of them all ... "Applebaum lived in Alaska and spent 40 yeatS painting flOthiq bug dog sleds. He never painted the dOIS - just the sleds. For he was ignored by them world. But in 19S0 he was and museum in the world considers its Reoa\llt coRection it has one Applebaum hanging on its walls. What this pictllre !lO unique is that the dog sled • T.A···'.··C··:' . was painted in the when there was no snow on the ....,., sr. ground," "That's my Aunt Ada bought it." I say. "She never did like "What are youplatUlina to do with it?" the mJat'I. from Sotheby's asks. •'Put it in our playrOOOl with oar Cezannes and Renoirs, ,. I • tell rum. "You wouldn't consider letting us auction it off, would you?" "I don't know. We never like to pm with a painting. How much do you think it will feten?" , "We'd put a eelling of $2 million on but it wouldn't sur- What you want prise me if it brought over $S million. my know1edle it's • the last Applebaum still in hands... [!1' Room. "Well, then," I say, "it would be very selfish of me to keep it just for the fat'l.lUy. rn bring it to your offices tomorrow [!1 Ride•. morning." . In my the sells for $6.87 million -: the f!1 Comfort. highest price ever paid a painting of a dog sled. U1. Performance. But, the best of my dream is when Krueger reads the papers and out what fgot for his painting and stms • banging on the front door1 ca11ing me a thief. what you need. The last thing I to bim before I wake up "When you have a garllt! sale, sales are final," ~. Great miI.,.ge_ i®lMfJ, Los Anreles ,'finis $yfldictzte @ Elaine Staalenburg • ~~~ ~= HANDMADE Velour· Clothes • TrufY one Of a kind, Tlclde Pink Is majestic, serene. and pleasantlY 5eduded In the verlook· ... the WOrld's most beauttful ocean view. SUperior accom· Sew Softly· 'llOdattons for discriminating PlOPle, (408) 624 ..1244 e,· Uncoln btwn. Ith &. 8th MONTEREY AMC/JEEP .. RENAULT auVeclno Court-Carmel 155 HKlHLANDS O~IVE.CARMEL, CA 93923 A ,,,,,.IdI.,, ot IIrIti.h·AfOtota of 11M,..,. 1m:. f.f, ,_ 82..... 1 736 Del YonteA"... ·Yonterey·S1&..1516 • • • international Standard Oil the "crisis in have so little power that JIJ of the means • Land wildfires. Committee would allow the ucu"" UlI.C!lt of to ~nt1,trl'l,~t with dozen hours. With very • and no 13-member committee escapes and Sen. Barry land. • BUD DeAMARAL ORADINO SPICIAUZING IN ROUCH TIRRAIN • Brush Clearing. Reservoirs BE SAFEI Oradlng·Road Work BE SECURE ••• Backhoe- Loader We can helpl DOZER !It RIPPER 12 GRADER ,~ . 624-6363 Phone (408) 674·5300 Rancho Shopping Ctr. (btllln. Monte Mart &. The Barnyard) Carmel Valley .. Greenfield • THE BIQ SUR CAlma • A Special Editorial Message meetirlgs. No other notice of radio or television station notice in writing. Such DOdce mnst be delivered personally or by maD at leut 24 houn before the time of luch meeting as specified in tbe notice. 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"The people of this state for the 'Of stopping 'Or preventing violations or • all this state of this chapter by members of the It 'st to aid 1nthe conduct of the people's business." T~e do not ,yield their sovereignity le2islative body of a local or to determine the ap- act. also found to apply to organizations pU.:abltlity of this to or threatened actions of (Sed¥m 5495.1). and non-profit (Section to the agencies which lHiilllative body. Stats.l969. c. 494, p. 1106. 94~~;7 • The comPlete chapter of Code 'Nes, au4 is on file in reference section of the ' serve Leal*tlve body; toed apney. As used in this aty Ubr~. These are inform ------...... ----'*------ehl~ptClr: (a) "Legislative. body" means the.. board of super • ci~ 'Of the existtnce 'Of the intended to visors 'Or its chairman in the case of the county~ or the city .. im"';IuDt at variMee, is needed. council mayor in the case 'Of a ,,...••. The of state do not yield their "Local agency" means a whether s~pity1;O the .agencieswbich serve them, The people, in <,'h ..rt",r,M or general law . (Added p.4S3. . ority,do RGt their public servants the right t is iOO4 for people to know and what iii not AppoiDtments Uti; preparation; cODtents. On 'Or . ,OO(JS:for them to know, The people insist on remainiq Dec. 31 of each year. each legislative body shaD pI'epare fomted. SG that they may. retain over the inst,uments • am:!Owitm~mts list of all regular and. ougoing boards, com created,(Added Stats. 1S8S, p. missiorll and committees which are appointed by the legislative public agencies, liueb as of the local . The list shallcontairj. the y or city planninl eO'ltmi~l)ns foBowirut: Secret Meeting Law rMl,141'l1'0: appointive terms which win expire duriq the lellll!jlslt.ive bodies of Incal agencies to the name of the incumbent appointee, aPJloitJttmj~nt. the date the term and the the posiltion. • committees whose lelli"llll:ive body and the (Added by I • "The people insist on remaining informed so that they.may retain control over the • instruments they have created." . reasonable fee wbich shall not exceed actual cost: • I 54"'" (J:tm:Wu1ed ,,"caney; speeial Bo&e; attiJlg basis; ftmd appolauaent. Whenever an unscheduled vacancy occurs in any boatd,' commission or committee for . wbich t~e legislative body h~ the appointini power. whether • • JUly, 1980 THE BIO SUR ClAZmE pageD ssay: ildness and Weir ess to Peter Steinhart more dramatic to Mqazill.e. Mill' !!'ISI) Disrne1fiaLid tameness. Like the wild • man was struck a man shouts and it goes away. of' ~. "'UUITUI erupt, He '"U~''''''''''' think of nature as man-made attraction. A at and the role of Mikhail Bo the Chinese then I"w'rvlniTIIl' becllme silent and he the sensation of Lassen Volcanic National Park "I've had ask floating the air. The bolt knocked him un- This year, at the same campsite, I listened' to me how often we have to in and a group of stalwart outdoorsmen argue for nearly an ho~ over conscious, his and off one of his off the stellm " motorcycle boots. The part story was this: the relative merits of their Japanese quartz-erystal watches. A Visitors to national are handed brochures which little farther down the trail, a woman emerged from the trees When he regained his was II. man in a tractor cap warn them of sudden storms, dangerous rivers and wild and said she and her boyfriend had quarreled and he hill left • standing over him time's this here geyser gonna animals. But they still wade into the rivers and leave food out go off?" her and would I carry her pack the remaining seven milbs to to tempt the bears. Surveys indicate that almost everybody the road? Farther along. a young couple asked me if I had any The story something I have suspectedJor a long who sees a bear in Oreat Smoky Mountains National Park tries time: Wildness tUllling into weirdness. It is a change in the food to sen them; the night before they had stashed their:aear to feed it. In the citified atmosphere, they assume that in a bearpro.of dumpster by the highway, .but before the);llad language of surprise, from the old beatnik-era phrase, "That's someone else is mediating the risks; Says Oraber, "They aren't wild, man," to the more pmive hippy-era phrase, "That's awakened a thief or a garbage tru.ck had carried it off•...... ~ responsible for assimilating the information thrown at them. The challenges of the wild seem less and lesspersonlU',and weird." The shift in diction indicates a change in the way Sleep They under a bear·warning sign and get ripped off. more and more societal. Old·timers say mournfully that~ears . • many Americans view nature. Where once we sought to fit When you say, 'What did you think the sign said?' they say ago you could leave a $50 bill on a picnic table and oom~~k ourselves into the events. dIt wild nature, we are increasillgly they didn't really think )there were bears here!' becoming mere spectators and sensation-seekers.·· a week later to fwd it still there. "TodaY1" says one, tl,ou Little wonder that when people find out that nature i~n't an can't turn your back on a trout fly. It's ajungle out .. I see hints of the change almost daily in the news. Not long illusion, they are inclined to sue. A few years ago, a judge in ago, a man sleeping out under the stars in a cllmpground near No wonder ail those campers have begun packing guns ...... e Los Angeles, applying Disneyland standards to an incident in woods. Not just deer rifles, but man-stoppers, big.~S7 Los Angeles awoke with the sensation that something was Yellowstone, declared that the National Park Service ought to breathing on him. He was a city man, steeped more in fear of Malnums, Dirty Harry stuff. What moves the. gun-tote have prevented a bear· from attacking an imprudent cllmper tl9 . burglars and madmen than in lore of the wood~. He jumped to realization that weirdness implies that we have and awarded the camper's survivors $100,000. (The verdict nature, that man is some kind of aberration to whom:tules his feet and ~an blasting away atthe night with the .35~ laterwas overturned.) Another suit was lodged by ,a man who mean nothing. Nature is but a stage set, in which men aeltout Magnum he kept handy for just such alarms., The bear th,,' stood on a peak in Sequoia National Park in a hailstorm while had awakened him was fully 30 yards away and .the man had to urban drllmas about greed, power and survival. Animal,~and others scurried to get down, their hair standing on end with landscape cease to be entities in their ow. rights. Th~ is chase it toge! ciose enough to wound it. The bear went off to static electricity. The man was struck by lightning. The Na~ ,bleed totdeath in a remote canyon and the next morning a nothing tojudge men by except the actions 'of other meu.~ tional Park Service has seen a tnree-and-a-half-fold increase in We ought to resist thi~ change. For realwildnessimpUeS:~t thousand ClImpetS were evacuated lest the bear return in anger. the npmber of visitors over the last 20 years, but a six-and-a Two hundred miles awayin Death Valley, a man ignored We can know the rules, predict the futur.e and exercise.rne. half-fold increase in the number of tort claims. control. Those are the things that give u~ a sense of ~se- . • barricades and warnillg sips to drive .. down a flash-flooded Crowds aren't the only cause of the growing weirdness. dirt road. Approaching a rain~fillea gully • .he sped up and tried quence and .make us feel good about being human. Th()S!,are There are more of us out there, but what we're doing there also' the antidotes to the passivity and spectator~l,p that plagu.oie>ur to leap the chasm, Evel Knievel-style.The car came to rest with is different. Ours is an age of action. We are caught between a bumper on each bank. badly damaged~ theDWl~ued the public affairs and the irresolution that Stl'it::lften d:aunt~;\our the blunders of the cold war and Vietnam and tke triviality of private lives~ We need the personal challenge and National Park Service, claiming it o.ught not to have operated the counterculture, between excesses of the mind and excesses such a dangerous gully. . . of human competence that wildness makes ",ssible. If of the heart. We mistrust both reason and feeling, and that not somehow reassert the old quality of the~perience In Yosemite National Park, sm men were arrested for cliff~ leaves us stuck in the limbo of action. We are joggers. moun jumping off the roo of EI Capitan, which rises 3.600 feet above new quantity of the experience, reassert the thought· .. • tainclimhers. tennis players and off-road racers. Says Sandy feeling over the mere activity. we are likely t() lose a great,a~ the valley fltlor. "It's a great rush," e~lai~~ one of the siX. Halladay of Adventure Travel magazine. "People work at an more than just birds and trees and solitude,We need ~;.'the The same week, fOour "burtgee-jumped" the Oolden office job, and they want a little exertion. I hate to stress the wildness we can let, . Oate Bridge, 1__ 1 span· on .. long elastic ropes that risk part of it, but that may be one of the things that excites broke their falls and bounced them up and. down like yo-yos over the water:· ...... people about adventure travel." Adventurers repair to nature because it often is the only space available. Increasingly. what we see loing on in wilds out of .. The .wildlands alV\i\lYs nave been our theater of action and control. In the mountains of Cailfornia, you hear little traditionally have served America as a stage uporrwruch the in • speculation these days.·ahoutBigfoot. and a lot about.t1ying dividual can take risks without endangering the rest of society. saucers. Instead of seeking somereassurillg nov~tywithin the :lSut with the lack of solitude, the old risks ~f hand to rock. eye OUT OF PRINT BOOKS.~~ abiding pattero of najure, the woodsmen seem intent upon the fo space, tnind to night, imagination to animal fottn! the kinds OLDSt RARe lOOKS,. . supranatural,: on fmding something that will make humanity of tests that tell of man's place in nature, are vanlshing. In SEARCH SERVICE, seem irrelevant. stead, PRINTS, we are inventing new risks. Look at the list of applicants ETC. One reason is that it has hecomecrowded in the wild. As roruse permits in Yosemite: It in~ludes hang-gliders, eTC. civilizittic:m devours. more and more landscape, we gather in skydivers, toller skaters, snowmobilers,. skie~s. bicycle racers, • greater densities in the remaining wild places. Nine million visit marathon runners, balloonists, even htgh-wlre walkers. One LIBRARIES, cotteCTIONS eSTATES, ETC. PURCHASED Oreat Smoky Mountains National Park every year. Nearly local hero helicoptered to the top of El Capitan, skied off it three million visit Yosemite. most of them mapasins to find a and p'arachuted to the meadow below. Rangers in Yosemite 136 Bonifacio PI .• MontereV.372-311'hMCI\t~Sat. 11-5:30 toehold in the seven square miles tlf Ycssemite Valley. Some Valley report that, three years ago, youths began to "dive~ 200,000 float down Pennsylvania's Youghiogheuy River and bomb" river rafters as they passed under Sentinel Bridge. To 100,000 down Idaho's Snake. In some areas, you may be turn day the sport is so firmly established that a ranger must be·on ed away unless you make reservations. duty at the bridge to keep things from getting out of hand. GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO? • Gone aret~e space and solitude'we used to seek in these Orand Canyon is troubled by illegal hang-gliders and pilots Far a delectable treat, try ..•. places. Fading are the traditional challenges we sought in wild flying small airplanes down inside the canyon. "It's the nature, the mountains to climb, distances to walk, animals to bravado, the thrill, the desire to be one ,cut above the rest," contemplate and solitude to enjoy, the tests that have allowed says Dick Wilburn of the National Park SErvice. "People Juanito's 'Burritos & Taqueria . us to feel that our human nature is simple, individual and per want to do something new and exciting that no one else has sonal. The things we do out there have less and less to· do with done. We see it all the time," QUALITY FOOD - FRESH DAILY nature.· The wild is becoming citified~ The new activities have little to do with the naturalness of TAKE OUT·ORDBRS In a crowded landscape, one assumes city manners. One ex~ the setting. They only have to do with the space and the ac • peets everythinl to be managed, just as one expects property cessibility of the place. Apd, as nature recedes in importance owners and solicitors to eliminate the risks on city premises. . as a reason for visiting, citified risks and fantasies take its Open Noon to Midnight Sips warning that animals are wild or ihllt swimming over an place. You see and hear a lot more guns in the wildland these 1818 HAiGHT STREET JOHN J. l YOI\jS 8()()"'foot waterfall can be hazardous to one's health perhaps days. Last year, a man in' California's Emigrant Wilderness Be.tweenShrader & Stanvan Streets 386-3037 feed the impression. Visitors are less and less able to make that unloaded his pistol into the backside of a bear while other leap of imagination required to see that nature works on its campers pleaded with him to stop. The same weekend, another own. They expect bears that move on runners and lightning man unloaded his gun into a fellow cllmper near Yosemite. • that strikes only after a warning buzzer sounds. David Graber, As solitude and space vanish. the nature of the outdoorsman ,4~~e4d who for six years studied the interaction between men and is changing. Not long ago the wilds were a refuge for quiet ec centrics. the Thoreaus and Muirs lImong us who were af '1<~~ fronted by big-city complexity but perhaps too thoughtful or I 'Where the Mountain. Meet the Sea" Help Prevent'Forest FI .... Big Sur Construction " SUPPly Inc. • LICENSED CONTRACTORS -OPEN· YEAR 'ROUND- Plan to spend your leisure time THEMANDA~A BOOKSTORE at the camp for all seasons New &: Used Books 667-2211 2 miles south of Lucia Oil Hwy. One METAPHYSICS - ASTROLOGY - HEALTH CONSCIOUSNESS NEW AGE RECORDS & TAPES (408) 667-2403 PSYCHIC RIADINGS VERDE'S UPHOLSTERY BY APPOINTMINT CARMEL VtLLAGE SHOPPING CENTER . CARMEL VALLEY, CA. 93921 HOUrs: 12-6 Tuesday-saturday Forest Ave. - Downtown PaCific Grove -375·2577 ,Sal Verde 659-3220 ~~_'~··.~.·W·'_·.L~~~~"_'~'~~~~~'~'~~~~ • THE BIG SUR GAHl'TE Jt.\ly, 1180 Not Much U.S. Land is Owned • Foreigners • j • ,/)0< Assembly Committee Turns Quilter • Down Senate Leg· ation Miriam Layton By BETTY BARRON ...."'1J1 .. V. And I came home Cttpltol N,w!t~ to its first or review the aut:qu,I:tI,;Y making quilts. >If SACRAMBNTO - Asllem,b)y committee hurdle. of of making the latinn which would measure' ment or to pattenls involves first clarified the California on a vote of 22·7. mine wether making a pattern' on graph • Coast~ Commission's (Cc;e) ordinance, paper, then transferring the poncyof requiring developers 1585 would have local coastal DrOiliaaID a plastic to build low~ and moderate dressed what Garcia consistent wiib any >1"""",,'11 for'the in90me housing in the "sociai engineeringH: a re element. (Pioneer zone was defeated recentlY cent eee policy that reclmres "In order to gain a permit made their templates the Assembly Resources, de'l'el010ers to construct to a developer be but the l.,~d Use and BnerlY mo on a TRADING: comfortable to reach. I "We sew the on the Mrs. Layton: • BUY POST ADS stitches will i by had. of aU the is frowned ~ I SELL for all Bir Sur : \\Iere world of COlleeDttated ill three states in adds. I TRADE and Peninsula residents : fact. and South Carolina. The entire South c:ontained 39 • I as as tealclltllg • I I of all the tonmm·QWIlCU the Wild I I ad the western state with the in Pacific I CLASSIFIED . : most in- "Wild Goose" is the name I I vestors Nevada, which of one of the I I more tha 1 percent of the Mrs. Layt,on uses, one I I is foreign-owned. her favorites. But there are I I As far as the ste'wardsblip other with such in • ad cnaueKlI"U8C as uBears' • I Paw," I• I "Lone I I Sisters," ad Mllt1nne'l'lI pass. Each is as distillctive as I• I its name. I I However. Mrs. • I I changes the overall effect of I I each pattern dif· I Yes, a new service Of the Big Sur Gazette ... now you can run FREE I ferent color I ClaSSifiedadSlnyourlOcaleoastll~lt'seasytodO.too.Do r. ~I ed and posmon«t I vouha'lle forsometnlngspedflt, ! to purtl'llSe1 Let , RADING P05n No I grew up in New IlnjgmIlQ I. pnoneadS, Please, Malt vour.eopv to me Big Sur Gazette, Hlgnway I where there were lone. Big Sur, CA 93920. You can use tne handy form aDove. I around," says Mrs, ""Cl,1'Y'''' • I DEADUNE: 20tn of the mon~ preceding ISSue. I "so it was I I me ,to be aware of I I ing. But I did not begin quilting until 1 came to the "":• Name I Highlads to after years 1'1 of over the world. I turned to WellYIttl noon. • first, but after we rettll"ne:a , " And it is a productive • I from a tour of social hour'" adds Mrs. •I I visited Strilcklet'S Layton as she displays her in Marin ...... 'u... ~y, home,.fuU of ~uUts and ;"'S~~l.,.~,~~.~~".!• ••• "•• R.!t.,--~- __ "R _____ '"I • JuIV,19JO THE BIG SUR GAZETTE NOTICE Shop" from 11-5 JuIV. 12. r~~~~-~~~~--~ PAINT YOUR OWN summer $5.50 to $1.50, !noilldss I-shirt on the Amphora T-shirt· and all matlftals, Terrace at the Phoenix 661-2341. • Immediate CaSh i TR"liiNGtepOST 1 for GOLD & SILVER • Jewelry • Coins • Sterling.. Bumon ,Placer & Dental Cold • Platinum Scrap DIAMONDS ~~~~~~~~~~.~~ Highest prices Paid for Diamonds Of Half-Carat and larger • Carmel. Tennis courts, swim guaranteed. Bryan CaUas (408) terms or trade. (707) 829-2501 MISC. FOR SALE 375-8806 after 5 p.m. or (4(8) 336-2839, RECIPES: 2-year c.ollection from ming pool. Available June 15. $550 per month, 1st and last INSTRUCTION Clalre'.s Cooking Corner. Bound RENTAL SHARING FINE GEM JEWELRY booklet: Big Sur Gazetle months 'In advance, cleaning FOLK HARP INSTRUCTION. A few deposit 667-2128. Instruments for rent. Carmel WOMAN SEEKS share rental in or Especially Interested In purChasing Gourmet $5.00, Box 48, near Big Sur. Permanent resi jewelry, antique or modern, with RubYI Sur, CA 93920. Studio. Alter 5 p.m. 624-6542. 16 FT. SE\.F·CONTAINEO trailer for Lessons also given on concert dent with excellent references. Sapphire, Emerald, or other precious 375-4202. Half of all expenses. MT. ST. HELENS Volcanic Ash. rent '- your space. Write Box harp. stones. We are active brokers of • 111, BIg Surr, $2.50 per bo:llle.$20 .for 10 bot CARETAKING investment gems and interested in tles. Wonderful Things Gifts, 16 WORK WANTED RECREATION VEHICLES CARPENTER. Experienced in both RESPONSIBLE MATURE couple will pieces by Faberge, Tiffany, Cartier, etc. BoyeF Ave., Walla Walla, WA caretake home in Big Sur. Will· 99362. FOR SALE remodeling and new construc 197B POp·TOP VW Camper. 33,000 tion. Call Richard Pystor, ing 10 dO minor repairs on pro COLLECTIONS & ESTATES. miles, excetlent condition, 667-2213, early morning or perty also. Call collec!, (114) FOR RENT 540-6683 after 5 p.m. UNFURNISH.EO 2·bdrm. con· AM/FM· a-track, Call evenings, evening. OBJECTS OF ART • dominium. High MeadOWS, 449-6874. Free appraisals SEEKING MAINTENANCE work or VACATION RENTAL Strictly confidential - 1978 TIOGA motorhome for sale. 23 full-time maintenance position in HAVE A BIG SUR vacation this year. oarraPata Home, ' toot Many extras, mint condl· Big Sur area. 9 yrs. experience Vacation rental: 2-bdrm., PHONE 659·3274 $19,500 tlon. $11 ,900 or best. 376- in all phases maintenance. Con 2-balh. Propane gas, generator. l. Coastlands estate 9483, Monterey, tact Glen Oaks Restaurant, leave No phone. $1200 mo. 1 month $415,QOO message, 667-2623. minimum. Remote 8. primitive, If no answer • Call Robert cross 1969 FIREBAll 18' self-contained Near Gorda, 4 miles on county 373-4491 (home> 408-667-2406 travel !raUer. $2,395. Call REAL ESTATE FOR SALE dirt road. Spectacular ocean UOOlIIII.XllI~lty U::al t!!lIlle 667·2162 evenings. 40 ACRES PALO COLORAOO Road. views. References please. (415) Ocean View. Giani Redwoods. 824'4997, (416) 282-3650 or m 625-1113 NOTICES Electricity and p,hone .available, write. to Bob, 3979 24th SI., san ASTROLOGICAL' SERVICES. Quality Good spring. $'100,000 cash, FranciSCO, CA 94114, • Properties from CARMEL TOBtG SU Mountain retreats tosp_ctacular ocean setting. We have several • homes for sale In distinctive styles, many with excellent financIng available. HERE'S JUST ONE .....• , .$850,000 Magnificent 3700 sq. ft. Monterey • Colonial home with guestnouse. 4 + acres with mature fro·lt trees and evergreen groves. Beautiful ocean views from both homes, . From California Soenlo Highway One In the heart of the magnifloent Big Sur Country, a paved road followa the atreambed In Syoamore Can yon paat fern-ftlled benks, towering redwOOda and gnarled aycamorea until, juat before both road and atream reaoh the sea at Pfeiffer Beach, they travarse aboWl, of hIlla, the aheltered a/te of Sycamore Canyon Ranch. A century and a half ago, membera of the Pfeiffer family, realizing Call now whether Y014 • the protactlenaftordedby tha lIurroundlng hlllllidell, pioneered thla property. Their original homeataad and barn. conatruoted of handcrafted are interested in selfing redwpod, ara IItlll'n uae es part of the presant ownere' 6Q.aora Arabian horse ranch complex. Tha homestead Is now a guest houae, or oaretaker'S cottage, and the bern, converted to an entertainment center, also haa foaUng atalla, hay and other storage araas. In !\arrnony with these hIstoric buildings la new OOnstructlon on the property which Includea a tWo,story, redwC!od chalet (maIn realdence), an Equeaco barn or buying. and five other bulldlnga one of whloh, with a flreplaoe, la the ranch oflloe. A year.round creek flowa through the property which haa, too, a pond, three wella, Windmill, riding ring, hot walker, five large paddocka, three paaturea and gravel roadways windIng past fruit, eycamore and oypress treea. thE! lalter planted by the original settlers. Telephone and eleotrlolty aervloe add to livability of this unique properly In a superb setting 25 mliesaouth of Carmel, Pebble Beach and Monterey, 140 • miles south of San FranCiSCO, 300 miles north of Los Angeles, $2.5 million. Illustrated brochures on request, Merit-McBride .REALTORS Menlo Park to Carmel .. ~. '. PageS6. TKlIlC SUR 0AZmI JUly. 1980 Big Sur LCP Plan Is Unveiled where COlltillned from Page 1 answer for that." • he j 1 ..,~ .J~ AGIUCULTUU AI nreiservAtinn of the natural environment is the • nnlilr"". all future access must be snl)or,Qmate .~ obiectllVI!, Care mllst be taken that while nfCfwdmll cess, the of the coast, its tranqllUllty its environment are not marred 1 a sum· Latld use and de,relQrpment carelessness. The of tlirc,lUrft the ·best availabile plLanxliq nrac:ticies pbslSizelc ttlrOl1g!ldut Big Sur as an ant)f011na,te rc:soo,nse exe:rpt~ld from the risk to life atld property of l:ecreatltonlists. Visual to I • j environment. ttiT'I~l'tiIUt all future Cle"eiO'pmlent BISTOIUCAL RESOURCES pro,tecl:ion of of the to maintain and where renore of the coun~ I ma1l~lIlade resources and trtllStl()ns. coast ~ ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES recreatic)nal hikiq Sur'lI those areas prO'VlSicm of cOJllsid1,red to be • l ! it's the coast, • I tomorrow ... there is already access easements be sur· a Santa Monica Mountains rendered in return for Commission add they'fe response to coastal ab- Innlrin.fI at a desert comxnis- shoreline should be maintained blaj~kn:lIlil. it'll extor- sion. ment of theviewshed. .. Mastroianni said. The SCENIC RESOURCES Legal has • Recognizing the Big Sur coast's outStt]lCU!lg not see the commis the in its great benefit to the people of state and it is the out of being," the ex Callft'llrnia Coastal county's objective to preserve these scenic resources in director said. "Yon Council vs. California perpetuity and to promote the restoration of the natllral beau. to will never sec the role of the Coastal Commissiotl." ty of visually degtaded whetevet To this end it council ex- Coast'll Commission din1ln- Mastroianni'slid a second is the county~s policy prohibit all future or private develop· lawsuit will be fued in the ment visible from Highway One atld public viewing Mastroianni admitted that near future the • areas. tbe council's goal was a dif~ Coastal with ENVIRONMENTALLY SBNSmYE HABITATS one. But, he { local All pr;acti<:al eff<)rts made to maintain. restore and high, .....·h ...'" control" in the de\/Clolpmlent where possible. enhatlce Sur's environmentally sensitive of local coastal 1 habitats .for the enriehment of and future ecutive director claimed that citizens and visitors. of all eategories for an after local plans are aDt)ro'veI1 use, both public and private. be to the pro- Mas but rather the regional cOInmissil.,ns • tection of these crltical uses should be Cotl~ troianni told News pro·Wlty rights. are then sent to the state sidered compatible only all site Service in a recent telephone say we're a commission, that wq and des~n elittlinate interview. "1 tllink that at de"el()pers out to min the refuses to OK them unless habitat impacts. and Imt by that route we en"Jrc,oolent," he certain conditions are for continued can elimination of out that the Cal'ifni'ftia violation of state law. cumulative tIle .. an influential local coastal Mastroianni that political lIlagazine,. lists the to be • Sur's water the Coastal Califorma Coast!\l Council as - Coastal News protection of all other of - the statute anti-environmentalist In addition res()urces wlU be COllsll1e:rel1 whicb 'Set up commission in the state. lawsuits on of -,Local Events plaJtlnilll dl~slions Rnt'IFn'II'llIli. In particular , as as a scheme MII,l:trlrdlll'nni said this is un· members, the California adequate water be retained in the to protect the state's coastline true, that the. Coastal Council is also - Classi/ieds maintenance of the natur.al ''"l!.lVU,W coastal commis amonl its 9,000 to close the driest established those who belong to Coastal and ... Sierra former coastal gest and for legislation labor atld conduct a You can and ness program. take it *1 "We try to educate the' public as to how Clulaerous withYOUI these