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TheAssociatedPress SAN SIMEON For some movie buffs, showing Orson Welles' acclaimed film "Cit- izen Kane" at Hearst Cas- tle is like having a screen- ing of "Star Wars" on the Death Star. Fifty film fans will have the opportunity to watch Welles' 1941 groundbreak- ing film partly based on the late William Randolph Hearst at the media ty- coon's own private theater at Hearst Castle, a conces- sion the magnate would probably not have made. The screening Friday with a price tag of $1,000 is part of the San Luis Obispo Film Festival and it will in- clude an exclusive tour of the estate, which is now a state park, and a reception in the mansion's patio over- looking the Pacific Ocean. It will benefit the nonprofit Friends of Hearst Castle, a preservation group. Welles' cinema classic was shown before in the Hearst Castle, but this will be the first time the film is screened in the opulent, 50-seat theater at the hill- top estate. Great-grandson Ste- phen Hearst, the vice pres- ident and general manager of Hearst Corp.'s Western Properties, gave his bless- ing to the festival to screen the film. He said he won't attend the screening but that he sees it as an oppor- tunity to show the differ- ences between great-grand- father and Charles Foster Kane, the character played by Welles. "My logic back then was very simple, this was an op- portunity to clarify the re- cord, to draw the distinc- tion between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beauti- ful architectural master- piece at the top of the hill at San Simeon," Stephen Hearst said. William Randolph Hearst sought to derail the movie, which portrayed the rise and fall of an ob- sessively controlling media mogul, but the film went on to win an Academy Award in 1942 and is now con- sidered one of the great- est American films. The film, a searing critique of a newspaper magnate, never mentions his Hearst but the similarities to his life are many. The screening, which will be hosted by Ben Mankie- wicz, the grandson of Her- man Mankiewicz, who co- wrote the "Citizen Kane" screenplay, will be an op- portunity to draw the dis- tinctions between William Randolph Hearst's life and Welles' fiction, Stephen Hearst said. Hearst Castle director Mary Levkoff will address the audience at the begin- ning and at the end of the film and highlight those dif- ferences, he said. "I view it as clarifying the record, and showing what an extraordinary human being WR was and what he accomplished in his life," Stephen Hearst said. CINEMA CLASSIC 'Citizen Kane' to play at Hearst Castle's private theater THETRIBUNE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE "La Cuesta Encantada," The Enchanted Hill, the legendary home now best known as Hearst Castle, is seen in San Simeon. By Michael R. Blood The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Shaking from a powerful earth- quake could exceed the design of the Diablo Can- yon nuclear power plant, its owners have found, but the reactors are safe be- cause components were built with more than enough strength to with- stand the potential stress and no equipment would be at risk, a report con- cludes. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said in documents re- leased Thursday that the design problem revealed in new company research does not affect safety. Di- ablo Canyon is unique among U.S. nuclear plants, sitting amid a web of earth- quake faults in a seismi- cally active state, one just 650 yards from the reac- tors. Je a rl S t r ic k la nd , PG&E's director of tech- nical services, said in an interview that the plant's equipment has a robust safety margin above the design, meaning it can withstand greater vibra- tions. Additionally, there is no equipment in the plant that would be at risk from the type of shaking found to slightly exceed the design, he said. The conclusion is at the heart of a report that re-evaluates seismic and flooding risks at the coastal plant, located mid- way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The research was required by federal regulators after Japan's Fukushima Dai- ichi plant suffered mul- tiple meltdowns after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed its power and cooling systems. The company told the federal Nuclear Regula- tory Commission there is a "reasonable assurance" the plant's key equip- ment can continue to op- erate safely, even after be- ing subjected to powerful shaking. "These updated find- ings are the culmination of years of study and anal- ysis and further confirm the safety of the plant's design," Ed Halpin, PG&E's senior vice presi- dent and chief nuclear of- ficer, said in a statement. Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a critic of the nuclear power in- dustry, called the findings "deeply troubling." "As Fukushima dem- onstrated, earthquakes larger than a reactor was built to withstand can have devastating conse- quences. PG&E's noncha- lant response, that every- thing is OK anyway, sug- gests that they just don't get it," Hirsch said. Because of its proxim- ity to faults, the safety of the twin-reactor plant has been fiercely debated for decades, even before it be- gan operating in the mid- 1980s. Release of PG&E's study came just days after the U.S. Geological Sur- vey warned that it's virtu- ally certain that Califor- nia will be hit by a strong earthquake in the next 30 years. The Associated Press disclosed in August that a federal expert wanted the Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission to shut down Di- ablo Canyon until it de- termines whether the reactors can withstand shaking from nearby faults. The commission rejected that recommen- dation. DIABLO CANYON Study: Quake could exceed design, but nuke plant safe By Paul Elias The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO One of the four men convicted of par- ticipating in a string of ra- cially motivated attacks in the mid-1970s that killed 14 people and injured seven in San Francisco was found dead in his cell, California prison officials said Friday. The body of J.C.X. Si- mon, 69, was found in his one-man cell shortly before midnight Thursday, the Cal- ifornia Department of Cor- rections and Rehabilitation said. The cause of death is unknown, and an autopsy is planned. Simon was convicted of two first-degree murder charges in 1976 and was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole, the maximum sentence allowed In California at the time. Simon and three other black men were convicted of participating in a six- month murder spree that targeted white victims in San Francisco. Between October 1976 and April 1974, 14 people were mur- dered and seven wounded — including Art Agnos, who would go on to serve as San Francisco's mayor. The kill- ing spree was dubbed the "zebra murders" because of the racial motivations. Then-Mayor Joe Alioto ordered a city-wide drag- net to catch the killers. Po- lice stopped and questioned nearly every black man they encountered between the ages of 20 and 30. The three other men con- victed of participating in the killings are all serving life sentences. SAN QUENTIN 'Zebra killer' inmate found dead in prison cell "PG&E"referstoPacificGasandElectricCompany,asubsidiaryofPG&ECorporation.©2015PacificGasandElectricCompany. Allrightsreserved. pge.com/DigSafely OneFREEcallto811getsyourunderground utilitiesmarkedsoyoucandigsafely. SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 5 A