Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 9

Sunday, June 7, 1987 Santa Cruz Sentinel A-9 Budget panel working overtime to reach compromise SACRAMENTO (AP) The budget conference committee, plodding through hundreds of state government spending items, worked through the weekend seeking a compromise $42 billion state budget for the 1987-88 fiscal year that begins July 1. Following the typical pattern, the committee has been making decisions on relatively non-controversial items and deferring action on those that spend lots of money until the end. Meeting Saturday, the committee decided to spend about $76 million to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, $42 million more than Gov. George Deu-kmejian proposes for AIDS programs. The committee also voted to give the state Bureau of Automotive Repair an extra $4.3 million to inspect more of the garages and gas stations that perform the state-required automobile smog inspections in the state's smog-giest cities.

A legislative study showed that half of the stations are not performing the inspections correctly. The committee also floated a proposal to give counties special grants to pay for inflation increases In health programs and use money the state will not be able to spend next year because of the constitutional spending limit. The committee decided to find out if Deukmejian would accept the proposal, which would give counties grants equivalent to 5.5 percent Increases in public health programs. Deukmejian's proposed budget for 1987-88 is estimated to have $170 million in tax revenues that the state cannot spend because of the 1979 Paul Gann initiative that limited government spending. By giving the money to the counties, it would be counted against counties' limits, not the state's.

The state also has $700 million it is expected to be over the limit for the current year, 1986-87. Deukmejian has proposed returning that to taxpayers through a 10 percent rebate, while Democrats want to give it to schools or local governments. But that issue will be handled in a separate bill and is not a direct part of the budget conference committee's deliberations. The conference committee, which began its work last Wednesday, is seeking a compromise budget from among Deukmejian's $41.8 billion proposal, the Senate's $42 billion plan and the Assembly's $41.9 billion version. Deukmejian had proposed spending $35 million for education, testing and research programs to combat the deadly AIDS disease.

The Senate, following the advice of a legislative task force, added another $51 million. The committee Saturday reduced the added amount by $8 million because of duplications and approved the funds. Last year, the Legislature adopted task force recommendations to Increase the AIDS budget from $18 million to $43 million, but Deukmejian vetoed $14 million of the funds. Astronaut hopes she'll be role model Folsom escapee eludes capture A. A Decatur, Ala.

native, Jemison was raised in Chicago. She was the youngest of three children. Her father is a janitor in Chicago and her mother a schoolteacher, she said. Jemison joined CIGNA 1V4 years ago after spending 2'4 years as a staff doctor with the Peace Corps in West Africa. She received a chemical engineering degree from Stanford University in 1977 and in 1981 graduated from Cornell University Medical College in New York.

She interned at County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. from his prison job Friday morning. Yarborough said. Ninety minutes later a guard discovered that security bars on the storm drain had been cut. No other inmates were missing.

Yarborough said it is believed that Godwin had outside help because an abandoned raft and prison clothes were found later in the day along the river. Chief Deputy Warden Bob Briggs said it was only the third escape from Folsom "in about 15 years." He said a prisoner who escaped last year was recaptured. One who escaped in 1984, by hiding in the back of a truck leaving the prison, has never been found. FOLSOM (AP) A convicted murderer remained at large Saturday after escaping from Folsom Prison, apparently by breaking into a storm drain that led outside the prison walls to the American River, prison officials said. Lt.

Mike Yarborough identified the missing inmate as Glen Godwin, 26, who was serving a term of 26 years to life for a murder in Riverside County. Escapes are rare from the maximum-security prison near Sacramento, which holds some of California's toughest prisoners. Godwin was reported missing "I certainly hope I'll be a role model, encourage anyone to do the things they want to do," she said. The Challenger disaster, which killed the entire crew of the space shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986, did not deter her from applying for astronaut training.

"There are dangers involved," she acknowledged. "It's not 100 percent safe." She said she has wanted to become an astronaut since she was a child. "It seemed really exciting not like 'Oh, look at the rocket ship going but really exciting" in terms of a professional challenge, she said. 2A1. Mae Jemison Space trip a childhood dream State digest From 8antJnl wira Mrvflcs FUJI'S IM NAME RACING'S 7NE GAME I A CLUB FUJI FINANCING AVAILABLS LOS ANGELES (AP) The first black woman selected for astronaut training says she hopes to be an inspiration to others.

Dr. Mae Jemison was selected Friday as one of four civilians and 10 military officers in the first class of trainees chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since the Challenger explosion. Jemison, a physician in general practice on the staff of the CIGNA Medical Center, was one of 1,962 applicants for the class which reports Aug. 17 to Johnson Space Center in Houston. Woman fights to keep bird SANTA BARBARA (AP) A 73-year-old woman may be sued by the management of her condominium complex because Buffalo Bill, her pet cockatiel, violates a no-pets rule.

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Oliver said it is uncertain whether Patton's attacker was someone she knew and let in, or whether it was a forced entry into the cottage. She was to leave for a 10-day vacation in Hawaii on Friday, her 26th birthday. Oliver said the woman apparently was attacked just after 3 a.m., as she was talking on the telephone with her mother, Esther Patton. Raid nets $1 1 million worth of drugs LOS ANGELES Narcotics detectives raided a sophisticated San Diego County hilltop drug lab, ringed with explosive boobytraps, and seized $11 million worth of methamphetamines and a cache of weapons, police said. The $2 mlllion-a-week operation was described by detectives and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials Friday as one of California's largest methamphetamine producing laboratories, police Officer Fabian Lizarraga said.

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