Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 16

NEW MEXICO Tuesday, December 18, 1984 Albuquerque Journal Page 2, Section Gallup Man Charged With Selling Classified Papers By Rick Nathanson JOURNAL STAFF WRITER "gathering, transmitting or losing defense information." Conviction on the charge carries a penalty of 10 years imprisonment andor a $10,000 fine. Wolff, an unmarried, self-employed automobile detailer in Gallup, was ordered released into the custody of his mother. McCoy instructed him not to leave the city limits of Gallup, and to check weekly with an officer of the court. Wolff had been a serviceman in the Navy until about 18 months ago, according to an affidavit filed by FBI agent John Hudenko. Information about the nature of his job, or where he was stationed, was not made available.

Hudenko stated in the affidavit that he "received information" Saturday that Wolff "had copies of classified Naval documents which he would sell for $5,000 to $6,000." After learning what the documents were, Hudenko said he contacted an official at the Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base and confirmed the authenticity of the papers, and their classified status. Hudenko said he posed as a man from New York City who was interested in purchasing the documents. An exchange was set up at an Albuquerque Circle store about 4 p.m. that day, where Wolff "handed over a series of documents and was arrested," the FBI agent stated. Assistant Attorney Jennifer Salisbury, told the court that Wolff had been given a general discharge from the Navy because of drug violations.

Further, she said, Wolff had burglary charges pending against him. Additional information concerning that pending case was not available. Capt. Robert Kaup, commanding officer of the Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility, said he did not know Wolff or anything about the former Navy man, and had not seen the papers Wolff had in his possession. "All I know is it (illegal sale) happened, and it involved Navy documents." Kaup said he has "notified my superiors in Washington (D.C.) that it has occurred." He deferred all other questions to the FBI.

FBI agents in Albuquerque on Monday declined to discuss further details of the case, noting only that it is still under investigation. A Gallup man, arrested in Albuquerque this weekend, has been charged with trying to sell to federal undercover agents classified U.S. Navy documents concerning weapons systems aboard Navy vessels, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. Magistrate's Office. Jay Clyde Wolff, 24, appeared Monday for an initial presentment before U.S.

Magistrate Robert W. McCoy. He was charged with the felony offense of 1 mimm'v mtmf tf i Tracing State Seeks Child-Abuse Program Aid Private Corporations, Foundations Targeted By Betty Golden JOURNAL STAFF REPORTER A Trail For Skiers Snowmobiler Rick Rice of the Angel Fire Nordic Center lays out trails for cross-country skiers along a fenceline of the northeastern New Mexico ski resort. Rice's work went for naught; overcast skies began spilling a heavy snow less than an hour later, wiping out his trail. SANTA FE The state hopes to tap private corporations and foundations to help pay for child-abuse prevention and treatment programs, Human Services Secretary Juan Vigil said Monday.

But fears were expressed that state efforts to raise contributions for the proposed children's trust funds could hurt private agencies already scrambling for dollars. The fears were expressed by David R. Schmidt, state director of the New Mexico Council on Crime and Delinquency, and Bernardo Monserrat, director of All Faiths Receiving Home in Albuquerque. wnnlrl hatp tn rpp thf statA PHOTO BY DICK KETTLEWELL Plane Crash-Lands at Raton; Three Escape Injury coming into further competition for the small amounts of money that are available," Schmidt told the interim Legislative Commit-, tee on Children and Youths during a review of proposed But Vigil pointed out that the trust funds would create another source of money for the service nrpani7JiHnnS- COMPILED FROM JOURNAL WIRES Meanwhile, 10 planes spent the daylight hours Monday in a fruitless search for a missing Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist whose plane vanished last week, Civil Air Patrol officials said. Clark Swannack, 44, disappeared Wednesday on a flight from Espanola to Durango, where he was to be married Saturday.

He left Espanola about mid-afternoon Wednesday, flying a home-built Vares-Eze, a one-seat airplane built from a kit. CAP Capt. Pat Norvell said the planes, two from Colorado and eight from New Mexico, searched between Regina and Farmington Monday. She said CAP officials would decide late Monday night whether and where to continue the search Tuesday. In Albuquerque, medical investigators still were trying Monday to get positive identification of three people killed when a twin-engine airplane crashed west of Albu ty Board, said papers found at the crash site listed the name of a Fort Worth, Texas, man.

Bob Turner, supervisor at the Albuquerque Air Control Center, said the plane was coming in from the south when it suddenly disappeared from radar screens. He said the airplane was last seen on the radar at about 2,000 feet elevation. Officials at the Albuquerque control tower said the airplane approached the city late Friday from the east and disappeared from radar while preparing to make an approach for a landing. Roy Patterson, employee at a service station several 'es from the crash site, said he heard an airplane Friday evening and what "sounded like an explosion." "State police came by and asked me if I heard anything, and I said 'Sure, and then they started hunting with spotlights," he said. querque during a severe snowstorm.

The three, two men and a woman, died in the crash Friday, when a major winter storm swept across New Mexico. A spokesman at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque said Sunday the condition of the bodies had hampered efforts to identify the' three victims. However, officials said papers found at the crash scene indicated the three people aboard the Comanche aircraft were from the Fort Worth, Texas, area. State Police said late Monday that some records needed for the identification process still had not been received by medical investigators and positive identifications probably would not be made until today. The wreckage of the airplane was found early Saturday about 10 miles west of Albuquerque and two miles south of Interstate 40, state police reported.

Arnold Scott, an air safety investigator with the National Transportation and Safe A twin-engine plane flying from Minnesota to Arizona crash-landed at Crews Field in Raton Monday, but none of the three people aboard was injured, state police said. Authorities said one of the Cessna-401's engines was burning when it approached the field, and that it appeared to have no brakes after touching down. Investigators said a fuel leak probably caused the fire, which resulted in an estimated $90,000 worth of damage to the plane. Airport officials said after the plane touched down, it rolled a short distance down the runway before the pilot turned it off into a snowbank. The pilot, who police said was flying from Minneapolis to Yuma, was identified as Craig Nichols of Minneapolis.

The passengers were indentified as Cheryl Buysse and James Gevay. The committee is to meet again today in a continuation of its last official meeting. Its chairman, Rep. Ruben Smith, D-Dona Ana, said, however, he expected to call another session to decide which bills committee members will sponsor for the upcoming Legislature. Only four of the eight members were present at Monday's all-day meeting.

As explained by Vigil, the proposed legislation, which calls for a $5 million state appropriation, would create two children's trust funds. Those funds would be invested, and the resulting income would support innovative, pilot projects to prevent child abuse and neglect and to provide medical and psychological treatment for abused and neglected chil-, dren. A similar bill died in the last, hurried hours of the 1984 Legisla-. ture. Only $2 million of the appropriation would be disbursed immediately to the trust however.

The rest would match funds coming in from the federal government and the private sec- -tor at a rate of $5 in state funds for every $1.50 received from other sources. I An estimated $250,000 a year State Investigates Vision Quest Camp As Allegations of Physical Abuse Surface Anaya Declares Mora, Torrance Snow Disasters THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FROM THE JOURNAL'S CAPITOL BUREAU "until the investigation is concluded." He said the boys' allegations "were serious enough where we considered it physical abuse." The boys' complaints came eight months after a California boy died at the camp from a chest infection. A grand jury investigated the death, but returned no indictments. Green said Alameda County authorities alerted New Mexico officials Dec. 5 about the boys' allega-tions.

Burton said state investigators interviewed all of the children at the camp and the 55-member staff. Vision Quest is not licensed in New Mexico and state officials straint and verbal confrontations are normal disciplinary methods used at the camp. He said corporal punishment is not used. The camp, which houses 70 children, is one of several such programs run in 16 states by Vision Quest, which is based in Tucson. The camps feature wilderness programs and other hardship programs aimed at teaching youthful offenders leadership and how to fend for themselves.

Paul Green, chief probation officer in Alameda County, said the two boys who complained of physical abuse were removed from the camp, but 24 others from Alameda County were to remain said there are no specific regulations that deal with such camps. "It bothers me that we have a program like that floating around," said HED Secretary Joseph Goldberg. "But it doesn't fall into the HED regulatory scheme." HED officials said they would review investigators' reports before making a statement about the status of the camp. HSD officials withheld comment. Burton said New Mexico officials could order the camp closed even though it is outside normal regulations.

He said camp officials cooperated with investigators because "we don't want to leave." SILVER CITY Allegations of physical abuse at a ifemp for juvenile offenders near Silver City are being investigated by officials -with the state Human Services and Health and Environment departments. Investigators interviewed children and staff at the Vision Quest camp recently after complaints were lodged by two boys sentenced to the camp by California authorities. Bob Burton, chief executive officer of Vision Quest, denied the charges, saying the boys were physically restrained but were not abused. He said physical re SANTA FE Gov. Toney Anaya on Monday declared emergencies in Mora and Torrance counties, enabling those county governments to contract for equipment to remove packed snow and reopen roads.

"Because of road conditions, school buses and emergency equipment such as fire trucks and ambulances can't operate," said John Ramming, who is in charge of special projects in the Governor's Office. The state will release disaster funds for the counties to, hire private contractors to re-: move the snow, he said. In Mora County, most of the roads are blocked by snow, and in Torrance County the state has received reports that roads in the western and southern sectors are blocked by high snowdrifts, Ramming said. He said Torrance County officials have reported several families who are stranded and are running low on food and fuel. In addition, the Governor's Office has received a telephoned request for aid from several residents off Forest Road 222 near Tres bordering on the Rio Arriba-Taos county line.

QfLVyernor Home Following Eye Surgery wouia De avaiiaoie unaer leaerai legislation authorizing grants such trust funds. Congress has yet to appropriate those funds however. Trying to calm the fears of Schmidt and Monserrat, Vigil said, "Our focus is going to be those corporations that would be willing to disburse large amounts of money $100,000 or more." Committe Chairman Smith said he did not believe the bill would a pass the Legislature if it relied -only on state appropriations. Schmidt expressed another concern that the fund would be used to help abused and neglected children only. But, Vigil said, abuse and neglect could be broadly defined in" the regulations implementing the -legislation to include all children with problems.

The definition need not be as narrow as in the state Children's Code, he said. David Roybal, Anaya's press secretary, said the governor's left eye will remain bandaged for several weeks. "He will go to Albuquerque twice a week for at least a few weeks for checkups. To avoid distractions and headaches that the blurred vision could promote, the governor is wearing the patch. Vision in that eye is blurred.

He was without sight in that eye immediately after surgery, which is customary," Roybal said. He stressed that while Anaya is confined to the residence he will be working on state business. But he won't be putting in the much longer workdays he does when he is in the office. The governor will continue to interview applicants for state boards and commissions, which he had done while in the hospital for the last five days, the press secretary said. Meanwhile, first lady Elaine Anaya on Monday was scheduled for surgery to remove a kidney stone from her urinary tract.

But minutes before surgery at UNMCounty Hospital, the stone dislodged and passed. Mrs. Anaya returned to the residence with the governor. FROM THE' JOURNAL'S CAPITOL BUREAU SANTA FE Gov. Toney Anaya on Monday returned home with a bandaged left eye after undergoing surgery at St.

Joseph Hospital to arrest glaucoma. Within an hour after returning to the governor's residence, Anaya spent 90 minutes meeting in his living room with immediate staff and then held a second meeting with State Finance Secretary Dan Lopez and other staff to discuss agency budgets..