Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 7

AI.BUVLKRQUE JOURNAL Friday, February 25, 1977 A-7 'Mini-Block9 Fund Plan Postponed Two Ask Return Of Fusion Funds Hogares Training Program and the shelter for runaways. Also during the meeting, the MCJCC confirmed as its vice-chairman Dr. Robert Wirth of the University of Albuquerque and reaffirmed its existing open meetings policy. A decision was postponed on mini-block' funding, a plan whereby local agencies would determine the expenditure of federal monies for criminal justice projects, during a Thursday meeting of the Metropolitan Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (MCJCC). The council at its monthly meeting also recommended approval of six criminal justice project applications asking a total of $156,000 under the federal Law Enforcement Administration Act (LEAA).

The grant applications are subject to final approval from the Governor's Council on Criminal Justice Planning. The mini-block system, authorized under the 1976 Crime Control Act, allows those regional councils representing areas with populations of more than 250,000 to approvecriminal justice project applications. Currently, local councils have only the option to recommend approval to the Governor's Council. To convert to the system the council would have to approve the cdncept and develop a local criminal jus-' tice plan consistent with the state's proposed 1978 plan to be submitted by June 30 to the Dallas office of the LEAA. TheMarch4meetingof the MCJCC will again review the mini-block system.

The six criminal justice projects recommended approval in the Albuquerque Metropolitan area included requests for: $50,367 for computerization of records as an aid to the reduction of the caseload of the Second Judicial District. $35,000 for the hiring of a data systems analyst and programmer to modernize case history records in the Bernalillo County District Attorney's office. $43,687 to fund a program to acquaint and assist Indian criminal offenders in dealing with the non-Indian judicial court system. $10,763 to continue operation of a shelter and counseling center for runaway youths in Bernalillo County. $10,800 for continuation of the Hogares Training Program, an operation gearea to rehabilitation of young juvenile criminal offenders.

$5,400 for the purchase of a van to facilitate group activities at the Pioneer House, a foster group home for teenage youths. Because the latter three applications seek monies from the same funding source, the Pioneer House request was given first priority, followed by the automatic garage door opener system by ALLIANCE Wrecking Ball Ends Reprieve For Ilfeld BIdg. The 66-year-old Ilfeld Hardware Co. Bldg. was put to the wrecking ball Thursday for the second time in three years, and city officials are confident that this time the building will be demolished.

Demolition of the building at First and Copper NW began in May 1974 but was halted almost immedi-ately by state officials because the structure was placed on the New Mexico Registry of Historical Places. Rex Allender, Urban Development Agency director, said the demolition would cost city and the project is expected to be completed within 45 days. Allender said the land would continue to belong to the Santa Fe Railroad, but any development of the land would have to meet certain guidelines. The building, which was once under consideration as a site for the new city museum, was also placed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 1975. The delay cost the city almost $20,000 the original cost of demolition was estimated at $27,000 in 1974.

tified at the subcommittee's authorization hearings on the fusion budget for ERDA were Dr. Robert Hirsch, assistant administrator for solar, geothermal, and advanced energy systems, and Dr. Edwin Kintner, director of the division of magnetic fusion energy. Under questioning by Lujan, the two acknowledged that the fusion program would be set back if the LASL funds were not restored along with another $5 million for a D-lithium source facility in Hanford, Wash. The two officials were not concerned about the remaining $40 million cut from the fusion budget.

This year (fiscal year 77) LASL has $15 million for its fusion program but would have received $18.5 million under the Ford budget; however, the Carter White House cut it to $8.5 million. Lujan hopes to restore $5 million to bring it to $13.5 million. The $40 million Lujan does not expect to be restored comes from the budgets of fusion programs in Princeton, N.J. and Livermore, both of which have substantially more funding than the LASL project and are expected to survive despite the cuts. By PAULRWIECK Of the Journal's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -Two top fusion officials told a House subcommittee Thursday that $15 million should be restored to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories (LASL) budget if the fusion program is to "move foward." After the testimony by the Energy Research and Administration (ERDA) officials, Rep.

Manuel Lujan R-NM, predicted the fossil, nuclear energy and fusion subcommittee of House Science and Technology will restore the LASL funds. i "I've talked to the subcommittee members and its looks good," he said. Thefundingcuts which Lujan is seeking to have restored are: $8.6 million for the intense neutron source facility at Los Alamos, a program described as a necessary component of magnetic fusion work. SS million for the fusion program itself, bringing it up to $13.5 million. Also, it appears that recommended funding for the high-energy gas laser facility has not been eliminated but reduced by about $12 million to $2.9 million.

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Kimmick, the five-member board unanimously agreed that the proposed Embudo Dam should be the first priority. There was little talk of funding Embudo and 11 other projects, but the board later agreed to send a letter to the city saying AMAFCA Superb styling National Lighting Home Accessories 2015Candelaria. N.E. lJJf Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107 Xwm rnone (5U3) Ortiz, Party Figure Testify torney general officials declined to comment on the appearance by the two, but it was generally believed their appearance was in connection with the grand jury's probe of the nonexistent workmen's compensation policy paid for by the Employment Security Commission. Bank records of Ortiz and Davis earlier were subpen-aed by the same grand jury.

Ortiz was accompanied bv attorney David Norvell, Davis by attorney William C. Marchiondo. Neither the men nor their attorneys would comment after their appearances. Ortiz was behind the closed door of the grand jury area from 1:10 to 4:45 p.m. Davis was behind the door from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The office of Atty. Gen. Toney Anaya has been involved in an investigation of the payment of premiums for two years by the ESC to the Richard Cottrill Insur ance Agency in Albuquerque for workmen's compensation coverage, premiums for which no valid policies were ever issued. Cottrill earlier was a witness before the grand jury, as were a variety of ESC officials and state government officials. Approximately $150,000 was paid to the Cottrill firm for the two years of nonexistent insurance.

Ortiz last week filed a $2.5 million suit against Cottrill and All Star Insurance Co. of Milwaukee, the company listed as underwriters for the policies. In the suit, Ortiz alleged that Cottrill's failure to acquire valid policies had caused Ortiz to lose his job as ESC director and his means of earning a livelihood. Officials declined to speculate on when the results of the grand jury probe might emerge, but the jury is to meet again today. Robert, who has been executive engineer since it was established in 1963, has resigned effective Tuesday.

Other projects on the priority list include the Tramway' Diversion, Piedra Lisa Dam, Glenwood Hills Dam, Lomas Desilting Basin, Pino Dams, South Domingo Baca Dam and the Mariposa Diversion. Kimmick told the authority he hopes to obtain some city funds for the $1.2 million Embudo Dam project later this year. The project will also require approval of an environmental impact statement by the U.S. Forest Service. ONLY HURRY, is willing to pay some design costs if the city keeps the Embudo Dam its top priority- The Embudo Dam would tieupfloodwatersonthe western slopes of the Sandia Mountains and divert them to natural and man-made diversion canals.

Without the dam, significant portions of the lower Northeast Heights are susceptible to flooding in unusually heavy rains. James Smith, who succeeds Robert as executive engineer, said, "Without this dam, a large area of residential and commercial housing does not have the 100-year flood protection." FREE ntJ FCC regulations LIMITED! BY BILL HUME Journal Investigative Reporter Outgoing Employment Security Commission director Rudy Ortiz and longtime Democratic political figure Charles Davis testified Thursday before the Bernalillo County Grand Jury. District attorney and at- Body Found Amid Trash Authorities are awaiting an autopsy report on the death of a Shiprock man who they said may have been crushed by a garbage compactor after he crawled into a trash bin to escape the cold. City police said the body of Lee Lapahie, 33, was found Thursday morning amid compacted trash at the city dump on South Broadway. Officers said the man was seen drinking in the downtown area Wednesday night and apparently had not eaten in several days.

Investigators surmise Lapahie crawled into a trash bin to escape the cold and during the night the bin was loaded into a city garbage truck, which compacted the trash and took it to the city dump. A bulldozer operator burying trash at the dump told police he saw a hand sticking out of the compacted garbage and discovered the body. Officers said the body was found in a load of garbage collected during the night from commercial trash bins throughout the city. They said they could not determine from which bin the body came. Police identified Lapahie through a name tattooed on his arm, they said.

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