• Pullout: Big Sur Coast Visitor's Guide and Gas Map 2Sc • m t mIg :Slur ~a5tttt C' \- Serving the Visitors and Residents of th~/1Jig Sur Coast from Monterey Peninsula to Hearst Gutle VOLUME 2, No. 10 Big Sur, California 93920 408·667-2222 October, 1979 II BATES © 1979 Bill Bat•• • INSIDE THIS ISSUE: • Gazette Seeks Action to Stop • Southem Pacitlc's RaIl Rlp·Up Page 1 • Bm Bates Comes to Big Sur • Page 28,29 • South Coast to Get FIre Engine • Page 13 • The BaUle for Big Sur Page 26,27 • • Esalen Conference: Stress and Health Page 24,25 • The Legend of Sam Trotter, Big Sur • Page 8, 9, 10, 11 • Big Sur LCP Planning PoUcles • Page 32,33 • Zacbary Bone Sets Sail "Checklng my mall•••• What do you think I'm doing?" Page 14 tana's early lead of 14 to O. • Perspective The final score was 17 to 12: Outlaws Win Softball Championship A valiant try, but not to be, and another team was elimi­ Gazette Requests PubUc by Bob Schultz heard from as far away as the hitting, base running and nated from the playoffs. Large crowds of fanatical Big Sur Bazaar on Highway fielding. Seemingly snake· In the final, and champion· Hearing and Stop· Work Order fans, interspersed with cas· One. bitten, evidenced in their ship game, for the third year ual passers-by, caught up in The first night, revenging fielding and with the loss of in a row, Ventana placed • for SP'sMonterey RaIl Removal the excitement, were mostly their initial playoff defeat, the power· hitting shown in second. Unlike in other con· delighted with the final play· Ventana completely out· previous games, Point Sur frontations with the Outlaws, off games. Cheers could be by Gary Koeppel played Point Sur with deft couldn't catch up to Ven· Ventana failed to score until The Big Sur Gazette has formaUy requested the Central the third inning. The Out­ Regional Coastal Commission "to conduct public hearings laws, staying caIm, weather· reQI1r!:l:mQ Southern Pacific's proposed action to demolish 2.51 ed two five run innings (fifth railroad track between the Station and and eighth) while themselves Seaside." scoring in every inning they In addition the Gazette requested the Commission "to ask batted and won with a final the State General to issue an immediate work score of 14. to Southern pending the public hearing. Nine of intense The action was taken after the Gazette learned last week play - not so much out· from Bill Weber of Southern Pacific that a low·bid for the standing as just good bail· rail-demolition has been accepted and the contractor is playing. scheduled to begin work sometime during the month of Beating the only team that • October. had beaten them all year was Earlier in the week Governor Brown signed into law especially sweet fur the Out· Senator Alquist's (D·San bill which funded and enabled laws. They also have triump· CalTrans to begin negotiations with Southern Pacific to hed three of the four years purchase the right·of-way as a first step toward restoring the league has existed. So passenger train service to the Monterey Peninsula . once again, the trophy, an Despite the six·year effort by a local Citizen Committee . attractive plaque, is on dis· • headed by Ed Haber of Carmel Valley to restore rail play at the Nepenthe Bar. despite Ii 1977 Alquist·sponsored Senate Bill which appro· A lot of talk this and every priated funds to restore the Del Monte Express, and despite year field the new Alquist bill enabling Caltrans to purchase the trees (a short Hits right-of-way, Southern Pacific is rolling full steam ahead to there are considered singJes. raze the rails and sell the right,oC.way. If it is of Ven· According to Gael Douglas, an aide in Senator Alquist's tana's 21 hits in this final .. office, providing Southern Pacific is legaUy required to secure game, 15 were into that area a coastal permit prior to removing the rails, "the Coastal THE WINNERS. L·r Back Jon Hodson, Tom Nash. Larry Share. Photo by Ronna while the Outlaws placed 9 of Commission could stop them from ripping up the tracks. and Rowl Don Case, Tom Mc· Front Row: leo Foster, Larry Bradley. their 28 hits there. But by with the Senators new bill- now law - CalTrans can acquire Dade, Joe Amsler, Gary Braufleld, Andy Clarke, hitting to other spots the Cont. to page 6 Nelson, Christian Van ADen, Richard Russo, Jim Callen, Coni. to Page 3 • Pap 2 810 SUR OAZETTE October. 1878 • Local·News • Boar's Back Scratch Apparently Starts Fire on Big Sur Ranchland Chinese ChUdren Pain Exhibition • ren the small of China. The two done in base. • which are corner of the EmDe Norman to Appear on PBS .. TV paintings are the attracts the Haines that dust Children's Home in people and becomes a uni­ accumulates on the wire and Michael Trotter. In addition, hai and Nanking '1"", •• "h,,,.. .,' versal language." cross arms and when Emile Sur Downs. rolls in there is "j ust will be featured on the The television crew films were taken of his College and Middle School in Beyond this, the Pribusses Nanking. moisture to conduct the Public Broad­ visited Norman at his home in Carmel. have instigated an eXI~11l1JClge from the wire onto the television Sur in at which Over is a one-half • " Art and children may show between the students constitute a whole new form nro'Qram on KQED, Channel was done. hour which is tete- of the Royal of Art Wednes· ll~I.ll)nall.Y on 236 Pub· of world diplomacy. Who in London and the of The boar was found with said, 'One picture is worth a at 6:30 pm. lic stations, San Mateo an electrical burn across its will be reo and is to offer thousand words?' We did!" side. Haines said it had mud These are the thoughts log­ This show will be on October also entertainment and informa­ on its back and mud was also at 12:30 in the afternoon. Emile tion to the mature viewer. ged by San Mateo artist­ exhibit in the Marjorie Evans found on the leading teacher Char Pribuss in her Gallery opening firemen to that the Emile will be the subject af • October 2 through OC1tobcer journal-sketchbook describ­ animal was 'UL'UU"~ the of the ing a memorable adventure 30. The gallery is the pole. will also LCP PJan~hlg Update in China just before the weekday from 9 am Joan MandaIe, who advent of "normalization" and on nights of perfor­ It took fire:ngl1ters about will be interviewed in Wash­ I by Roger Newel between the People's Repub­ mance. Admission is free. one hour to out the fire. D.C. by Hugh Chakman, CltIzeIt Advisory Coumdttee lic and the United States. Big S1H' Cout Citizens Advisory Coumdttee - Next regular Pribuss and her husband, meetings: October 9th and 23rd, 1:30 to 10:30 pm, Big Sur • Rudy, a semi-retired engi­ Hall. neer who sketches and paints UPDATE: with'his wife, are addicted to 1. Critical Plamdng hIdes: The CAC has endorsed the Ob'iectivl~s and Policies of the County's draft on the •• Big Glen Oaks Captain Cooper Sur Coast LCP - Planning Policies" (see end of this We have about several of its Dlustrative Restaurant 1"00ICltl'S. but feel differences will work out as the LCP • Parent Club News the of the basic policies. to Open The draft clearly input of the' CAe! On the weekend of October by Barbara Fish 8:45 am until noon. Her Master Plan some new 2. Workshop Guests: The CAC has been gathering 26, Glen Oaks Retaurant, The first Parent Club students are then sent to needs to be considered. information from a wide range of public agencies on what which was first opened in meeting of the 1919·80 Paula and Bob Chris Warner is in their flexibilities and are, so that if 1956 by Mary Fee and has school year was held on rooms in the after­ of raffle tickets. the finds that it needs in any specific been a favorite dining esta­ 11th at the school. noons. tickets is the areas we will have done our homework on • blishment of years past, will were many interested par­ Several said same as last - 50 cents what choices are most attractive in providing supplemental again welcome residents and ents in attendance. would be to help out 12 for 25 for 510. Our guest list has or wlll include the Coastal tourists. Owner/operators Principal, Bob Douglas, in various ways on volunteer There are many lovely rn'~""'I'V'>1n"u the U.S. Forest The National Park will be Forrest and Marilee outlined the latest develop­ basis. Some offered offered this year in- 26th), Department of Parks and Recreation Childs who have lived in Big ments in the District-wide skills and health instruction to Disneyland, and Caltrans (Oct. Other agencies will be Sur l:-t 2% years. budget cuts as they per­ while others were interested a 2 to Reno. added to the guest list. Forrest and Marilee have tained to Captain Cooper in in the class- dinners at many of the rest­ From the visit of the Coastal representatives • worked together as waitress School He stated that the rooms. aurants in the area, lodging, we learned that the they have set themselves is and sous chef at Harvey's, decline in enrollment has Orlsanizal:ion of the Carni- art and services.