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Daity Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Thursday, March 8, 1979 TEMPLE Cont'd from Page 1) The department could not tell elderly clients where to stay, said Denny, adding normal procedure was to give someone who wanted to know about homes a list of those licensed. Jones imported most of his clients, which was "perfectly legal," according to Denny, who claimed it was "obvious" the temple brought in elderly people from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Indiana and, Louisiana to fill its care homes. Denny estimated that a typical six- client home in 1973 only grossed $12,000 for the year. But temple homes, he said, could have made a "profit" for Jones because of their high occupancy rate.

Denny said the profit total is "conjecture," but if Jones' operators saved $30 per client per month, they would have a "pretty good amount of money" for the temple treasury. Although social services never added up clients or money that went through temple homes, Denny's rough calculations show the homes collectively grossed $648,000 between 1966 and 1976. A portion of this amount presumably was net profit, and up to half of the profit went to Jones. Denny could not say whether temple members getting welfare, like Aid For Dependent Children, which he called a "pittance," turned their money over to the temple. But the veteran Jones-watcher observed: "You put that (pittance) with the residential care; you put that together with baking (and selling) cookies; you put that together with employees giving salaries you put that all together, and you've got a moneymaking thing going.

"You don't have a moneymaking thing going in one specific area, but you sure have it when you put it all together and it's quite obvious that he amassed a fortune. This tonglomerate was very diversified under the guise of humanitarianism." Denny reportedly believes Jones' assets were more than $5 to $6 million when he left Redwood Valley in 1977. While admitting his department could be viewed as deficient because it never formally tallied the money that went from its programs to temple members, Denny said, "We never tried to isolate the dollars that were going to people who were affiliated with that organization. We were too busy trying to make sure that they and their enterprises were meeting all regulations." He also said there was "no purpose" at the time to calculate the money flow to temple members. "Every religious group has rights, and we know with the money they (temple members) got, they had the right to spend it and tithe it to the church." said Denny, adding "I personally disagree with that." Denny said that for someone to do a study now of the money flow to temple members would be "very difficult" and involve 'a lot of guessing, but he conceded the department has enough information in its files to make a study possible Just calculating the sum total of money that went to temple foster and residential care homes, said the welfare director, would take three accountants six months of fulltime work and cost whomever was paying a minimum of To study the cash flow from 1966 to 1976, accountants first would have to learn (from social services) what data to look for and then have to identify who lived in a temple home, Denny said, advising that the work could be done on a case-by-case basis if cases are available.

The department destroyed many case files five years after expiration and final audit, or sent them to the Social Security Administration, he noted Asked if the department ever signed a check payable to the order of Peoples Temple, Denny said, "That never happened. We never had any payment directly to the temple." "We even had a fule here," said Denny, "we would not take their candies they came around every Christmas big box of homemade candies we would not take their pies and cakes. We don't do that. We don't take liquor from people. We will not lake anything.

They (the temple) had a lot of difficulty dealing with God! They even tried to give (candies) to my kids at my house. That really kind of disturbed me." Denny alleged the temple set up a mysterious "pipeline" which illegally transferred "between 15 and 20" elderly people from temple care homes in Mendocino County to homes in Southern California, beyond Denny's jurisdiction. Denny said he first learned about the pipeline from a care home operator and from families who complained to the department they didn't want their elderly relatives moved from one home to another. He noted that the few complaints social services ever got about temple care homes concerned improper transfers. Because of the Mendocino County Grand Jury's temple probe, Denny refused to name the victim or homes in a May 1975 case in which the temple allegedly transferred an elderly man to a Southern California home.

Said Denny: "There's confidentiality of case on the man. He's protected by our confidentiality of records. The liability of this department about saying that somebody was taking people (from) here illegally that's a pretty bad charge." Jones' payoff from the illegal transfers is still a mystery to Denny, who Highlands man held in resort parking lot slaying CLEARLAKE HIGHLANDS Lake County Sheriff's deputies arrested a local man for murder Wednesday night following a shooting incident in the parking lot of the Wiseda Resort. Stephen James Schwartz, 23, of CHearlake Highlands, was taken into custody and charged with the murder of Donald Edward Poland, 29, of Clearlake Oaks. Details of the incident were sketchy this morning, but the sheriff's office said Schwartz apparently shot Poland in the chest with a handgun at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Poland was pronounced dead on arrival at Redbud Hospital in Clearlake Highlands. The sheriff's office said the motive was under investigation. Schwartz is in custody in Lake County Jail. Fire Calls Wednesday March 7 12:36 p.m. Structure fire at 567 Peach major damage to one bedroom.

Moderate smoke and heat damage to rest of house. Six units and 17 personnel responded. Probable cause: malfunction of heater in bedroom. 7:05 p.m. Public service call to 145 E.

Fircrest; Freon leak from refrigerator. 8:45 p.m. Structure fire at 51 Lorraine minor damage to kitchen. The population of the RepubUc of the Philippines is estimated at 43,750,000. GLENN DUNSTON Income Tax Service has moved from 1204 S.

State St. (Motel 6) to 303 TALMAGE RD. (new Farm Bureau BIdg.) New Rhone: 468-5208 said he never found out whether Jones owned a Southern California home or was skimming off the top of someone else's operation. Without jurisdiction and resources to track Jonfes Southward, D6nny turned over his pipeline findings to the proper authority, what was then the state Department of Health. "What happened to those investigations that we turned over to the Department of Health? That's what bothered us Nothing substantial has ever come back to my knowledge that shows that they ever did anything about those kinds of things Denny recalled, "The stuff we would get in response to our initial inquiries (to the health department) would be 'case Well, in my jurisdiction, you don't close a case until you (have) the reasons (for closing it)." Denny refused to name state officials who sent back "case-closed" letters, noting the information is in his desk drawer locked, of course and is with county District Attorney Joe Allen.

Ail inquiries to the state health and welfare bureaucracy in Sacramento led to one man, J. Shawn Ortiz, public information officer for the state Social Services Department. Asked about Denny's charges of illegal transfers and "case-closed" letters, Ortiz said, "We have no comment to make in regard to his allegations. I don't know anything that would remotely correspond to his allegations." Ortiz said he couldn't possible answer Denny's charges if Denny refused to name the allegedly guilty officials or reveal the alleged correspondence. Said the information officer, "If I were you, I would make a request for Denny's information under the Public flecords Act." When asked if he knew the whereabouts of state care home officials who once dealt with Denny, the information expert said, "That's anybody's guess." Denny said that without knowing all the "facts," it would be "unfair" and "irresponsible" of him to "analyze the ineptitude" of state, county and local agencies (other than the health department) that might have been derelict in dealing with Jones.

"What other agencies are finding they've got skeletons? I don't know," he said. Tomorrow: Denny's battle with Jones over foster children a battle waged long before some of their bodies turned up at Jonestown. Correction A story that appeared on Page 5 of Wednesday's Daily Journal regarding the retirement of Sheriff's Lt. John Stephenson erroneously stated that Stephenson, Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Shea and Ukiah Police Capt.

Larry Maxson were the only law enforcement officers in the county to have attended the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. Chief David Johnson of the Ukiah Police Dept. has also attended the academy. The Journal apologizes for the omission. Cloverdale bypass heads list of county priority highway projects The Mendocino County Transportation Planning Agency Monday accepted county supervisors' recommended priorities for state highway improvements with only minor changes The agency voted 6-2 to rubberstamp these recommended priority projects: the Cloverdale bypass as top priority, and the northbound high occupancy vehicle lanes from Greenbrae to Freitas Parkway, improvement of Highway 101 from Sonoma County line to Hopland, the Eureka crosstown freeway, and the Redwood National Park bypass as equal priority.

Added to the supervisors' recommendations was the agency's request that improvement of Highway 1 at Navarro grade be included in the five year improvement plan. Also added was the agency's request that the Redwood National Park bypass construction project in Humboldt County be funded from federal, not District 1, money. Since it is a federal project, the council agreed it should not be funded with county money. Mendocino, Del Nirte, Humboldt, Lake and parts of Trinity and Siskiyou counties are in the California Transportation Commission's District 1. Opposition to the supervisors' priority list came from County Assessor Duane Wells and CalTrans representative Rick Knapp.

Wells abstained, saying he was "hot sure the Sonoma County line to Hopland project is a high priority." The independent county agency's priority list will go to California Transportation Commission where it must compete for $63 million in District 1 highway project funds for 1980-81. The highway improvement priority list was developed by a transportation subcommittee of the North Coast Counties Supervisors Association, which is a loose confederation of county representatives from Marin to Del Norte counties. Chances of northern counties competing with southern neighbors for a share of state highway funds could be increased, the supervisors' association reasoned, if they could prioritize all member county needs and then pool their support in favor of one list. Three sought in Lake robbery COBB MOUNTAIN Lake County Sheriff's investigators are searching for three suspects alleged to have robbed a Cobb Mountain man of approximately $100 at gunpoint Wednesday night. The sheriff's office said Eric Robinson reported three men held him up at his home at about 11:30 p.rti Wednesday, escaping with ap proximately $100 in cash.

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Mexico City: Mexico's stale-run oil company said the price of Mexican oil, currently $14.10 per barrel, will go up next month but did not say how much. The energy in one pound of uranium can perform as much work as 3 million pounds of coal. PHONE 462-6788 Diamond Site The most important locality for diamonds in the United States is at Murfreesboro in Pike County, where diamonds were first recovered shortly after the turn of the present century. ACTIONS OF THE CITY COUNCIL The Ukiah City Council Wednesday: PLANNING COMMISSION Appointed local businessman Bill Fowler and private planning consultant Phil Gorny to fill two vacancies on the city planning commission. ANNEXATION Discussed setting formal city policy on annexations and agreed to continue the matter to a study session just prior to the next council meeting, March 21.

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