Daily Sitka Sentinel from Sitka, Alaska • Page 6

Page 6, Daily Sitkd Sentinel, Silka, Alaska, Monday, November 16,1987 Sons of Norway School Board Set Meeting Meeting Set The Sons of Norway will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Double Senior Center. Congratulations The Sentinel extends its congratulations to the following persons listed on the Sitka High Fidelity Drill Team calendar Libby Mears, Karla Gmssen- dorf, Gary Bowen, Elaine Thomas, Fran Edgecomb, Jeff Cook and Debbie Yadon all of whom are celebrating birthdays today. Police Blotter The Sitka School Board will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Centennial Build-: ing, Rousseau Room.

"Every Child, A Promise: A Tribute to Effective Teaching," will be presented. Other business will include three board policy revisions: interscholastic eligibility, first reading; non-discrimination, second reading; and physical examinations, second reading. Chapter I grant application approval and the 1987-1988 board goals conclude items listed on the agenda. The following were among the calls logged by Sitka police by 8 a.m. today: November 13 At 9:15 a.m.

police impounded a female black Labrador wearing a blue collar. The animal was found in the 3300 block of Halibut Point Road. At 1:52 p.m. a resident reported that her purse had been stolen out of her car while the vehicle was parked in the Hames P.E. Center lot.

At 3:28 p.m. police talked to dump truck drivers about debris being dropped in the road. A caller had told police a small log had fallen out of a truck on Halibut Point Road. A Wolff Drive party, reported taking place in an unoccupied home, broke up after police were contacted at 11 p.m. Police advised the party-giver of the laws on juvenile drinking and loud music.

At 11:25 p.m. police informed a resident her problems with a former boy friend, who had entered a trailer to retrieve his belongings, was a civil matter. November 14 At 2:13 a.m. police were told that an intoxicated man had reported that a man in the Sitka Hotel had a gun and said he was going to commit suicide. Police searched several rooms and talked to several guests but were unable to locate anyone fitting the description of the alleged suicidal man.

At 2:54 a.m. an abandoned bike was reported lying near the Columbia When police checked a report of a barking dog at 3:13 a.m. they found a car in a ditch. The car was later pulled out by its owner. A taxi driver reported a car being driven erratically in the 600 block of 'Halibut Point Road at 3:39 a.m.

Police checked the area but were unable to locate the vehicle. At 4:36 a.m. police delivered a message to guests of the Sitka Hotel about the death of a relative in Juneau. At 6 a.m. police received a report of a domestic dispute and found two 15 Disneyland.

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A man was transported to another residence but later returned to the scene of the fight. Another relative was also transported to another address. Police received a second call at 8:59 a.m. about a domestic dispute. Again a man agreed to leave the residence after police arrived.

At 11:47 a.m. a man reported acting in a disorderly manner at the airport left upon the suggestion of police. At 3:58 p.m. police advised two people who had ended their relationship they had to resolve the return of keys and clothing through civil means. At 6:48 p.m.

police searched the downtown area, but were unable to locate a man reported to be exposing himself on Lincoln Street. At 8:02 p.m. a man asked police to look for his trcuk after it was not returned by a friend as previously November 15 At 4:18 a.m. police drove an intoxicated woman home after receiving a report of a woman screaming for help near Edgecumbe Drive. The woman told police she had been trying to find her way home.

At 2:53 p.m. a resident reported two men, one carrying a firearm, arguing in front of a Katlian Street residence. Police spoke to a man holding two rifles, who said he owned them and was going to sell them downtown. The two.men left the area in separate vehicles. At police received a report of a teenage driver driving erratically.

An officer thought he knew the driver from the description and planned to speak to the boy. November 16 At 2:22 a.m. a woman told police a beligerent female had knocked on her door. EMS Progress in Alaska Described ANCHORAGE (AP) Seriously ill or critically injured people in Alaska have much better access to care today than 10 or 15 years ago, the chief of the state's emergency medical services section says. But the budget restraints affecting all levels of government threaten the progress made in recent years, Mark Johnson told the 12th annual EMS symposium Friday.

About 600 doctors, nurses, paramedics, emergency technicians and firefighters most of them volunteers participated in the three- day session. Excluding the military and other federal agencies, there were only 22 ambulances services statewide in 1972, Johnson said, and none was capable of providing advanced life support. Today, there are 80 ambulance services, 35 of which provide round-the- clock advanced life support, he said. Seventy are staffed entirely or mostly by volunteers. In 1973, there were only 29 ambulances, none of which met current standards.

Today, there more than 190. In 1973, barely half of the 335 ambulance personnel were certified emergency medical technicians. Today, there are 1,761 EMT I's, 385 EMT H's, 229 EMT Ill's, 110 paramedics, 148 EMT instructors and thousands of emergency trauma technicians. EMT Ill's are more highly trained to provide special cardiac care. Johnson said a national study in 1985 showed Alaska was among 14 states with the highest standards for EMT training and certification.

In addition, tens of thousands of Alaska residents have been trained in cardio-pulhionary resuscitation through the EMS system and the American Red Cross and American Heart Association. Johnson said 85 percent of Alaska's population can reach police, fire or emergency medical services by telephoning 911. "The state vital statistics reports show a 30 percent reduction in the unintentional injury death rate between 1978 and 1985," Johnson said. "While EMS system improvements probably can't account for all of the reduction, they undoubtedly were contributing factors." But fiscal crises could undermine the progress, Johnson said. "Since EMS is a relatively new program, it could face continued funding reductions as hard choices are made regarding services to be cut to balance budgets," he said.

"Even if government funding support stays about the same, it will be very difficult to continue development of the system, because maintaining current levels of services will use up most, if not all.available funds." In a state where injury is the number- one cause of death and disability, the benefits of a sound EMS system should far outweigh the costs of continued development, Johnson said. "We need to educate our political leaders of the value of a comprehensive, state-of-the art EMS system, so they fully understand the potential impacts of cutting EMS budgets." Native Art Lecture Set Bill Holm, well-known authority'on Northwest Coast Indian art, will lecture on traditional Native arts of Southeast Alaska 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sheldon Jackson Allen Auditorium. The lecture is sponsored by the Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum as they continue the centennial celebration of the museum. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Alaska Humanities.

Forum and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency. Holm, the author of numerous books, is also an artist and teacher and is Curator Emeritus, Northwest Coast Indian'Art of the Burke Memorial State Museum in Seattle. Following the lecture, a reception and autograph party will be held in the Sheldon Jackson Museum, A supply of Holm's books and a poster made from a Holm painting will be available. Persons who already have copies of Holm's books may bring them for his autograph. The lecture is free and the public is invited.

Four Fined for Halibut Catch KODIAK (AP) Four King Cove fishermen have been fined more than $55,000 for illegal halibut fishing. Richard Koso, Alvin Newman, Corey Wilson and Carl Koso were found anchored in four separate boats with halibut on board in a closed area in August. Wilson was fined Koso, Carl Koso, $14,250 and Newman $9,000. Richard Koso and Wilson also were fined $500 each for log violations. Hospital Board To Meet Thursday The Sitka Community Hospital Board will meet in regular session 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Sitka Community Hospital inservice room. Killer Seeks Return to State for Bid for Trial ANCHORAGE (AP) Louis Hastings, who killed six people in a 1983 shooting spree in McCarthy, wants to be returned to Alaska so he and his lawyer can work up arguments for requesting a trial. But a judge has denied that request, saying Hastings will have to work with his 'lawyer from where he is the Leavenworth federal penitentiary in Kansas. Hastings, 43, was sentenced to'634 years in prison after pleading no contest to the shootings. He was never tried.

Starting in 1985, Hastings argued that he shduld'beaHowed to-withdraw his no-contest claimed his public defender was ineffective because he had failed to pursue a defense of copper toxicity psychosis. Hastings has said he was exposed to heavy doses of organic copper in the summer of 1982 while applying log oil containing copper napthalate preservative to logs at his Kennicott residence near McCarthy. "My review of a large body of medical research indicates that exposure to the intoxicants involved can cause psychiatric effects sufficient to explain my bizarre thinking during 1982 and 1983," Hasting wrote in an affidavit supporting his motion for Iran- WOTM to Meet Women of the Moose will meet 8 p.m. Wednesday upstairs at the Moose Lodge. Green Cap Night is planned with Lou Primacio in charge.

Dress is formal. Games, refreshments and a jackpot drawing is set. Members are reminded to bring donations for the Sunshine Child's Christmas gift. The Moose Christmas party be discussed. Sitka Hospital Susan Reishus and a baby boy were admitted to Sitka Community Hospital sportation to Alaska.

Hastings' thinking led him to design a plan apparently meant to protest the spoiling of the Alaska wilderness through increased population and development accompanying the trans- Alaska oil pipeline. As outlined in psychiatric- evaluations, Hastings planned to kill everyone in the small village of McCarthy and hijack a mail plane to dump their bodies over the Wrangell-St. Elias mountains. Then he would hijack an oil tanker truck and drive it into the oil pipeline near Pump Station No. 12.

He told a psychiatrist he intended to blow up the truck arid himself. Hastings and his current attorney, David Grashin, argue that it is difficult for them to prepare for a hearing while Hastings is in Leavenworth. "I'm not allowed to call him," Grashin said. Hastings must call him, collect, on one of only six phones available for use by prisoners. Phone conversations can be overheard, and Hastings' prison mail may be opened, Grashin noted in court papers.

It will be up to Superior Court Judge Ralph Moody, who sentenced Hastings, to decide if a hearing will be held to consider his request of withdrawing the no-contest plea. Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Victor Carlson rejected Hastings' request for transportation to Alaska. "I refuse to have the defendant transported without knowing if a hearing will be held," he said. Carlson also refused to have the state pay for Grashin to be sent to Kansas to meet with Hastings. New Arrival Baby Girl Saylor Ashley Marie Saylor was born 1:56 p.m.

Nov. 13 at the Mt Edgecumbe Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds 8 ounces and was 20 inches long upon arrival. Ashley is the first child of Karen and Carl Saylor of Sitka. The father is employed with the airfare, 3 nights accommodations at the Buena Park Hotel, roundtrip airport ransfers and 2 days admission to Disneyland or 1 day at Disneyland and 1 day at Knott Berry hirm.

Price shown is per adult based on double occupancy. Children's rates are also available. You are cordially invited to view "THE CATCH" a new collection of fins, feathers and fur. A showing of new watercolor originals and limited editions off-set lithographs by Sitka artist, MARYCROXTON Now on display at First Bank November 16 December 8 FIRST Emperors ed. 750 $35.00 MEMBER FDIC 747-6636 SITKA BRANCH 202 Lake.