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B10 CALIFORNIA LOSANGELESTIMES Obituaries By Larry Stewart Times Staff Writer Bud Furillo, who covered sports in print and on the air in Southern California for nearly 60 years, has died. He was 80. Furillo died in his sleep Monday night or Tuesday morning at the Gables, an assisted-living facility in Ojai, according to his son Andy, a reporter for the Sacramento Bee. Known as because his lively sports column was called Steam Furillo was still writing periodic columns for the Ojai Valley News and working on a book about his life and career. Steve Kelly, who was broadcast partner at Palm Springs radio station KPSI- AM (920) for four years in the late 1990s, said he talked with Furillo by phone Sunday night.

sounded Kelly said. was telling stories and Furillo, a native of Hubbard, Ohio, moved with his family to California in 1940. They settled in Maywood, and he graduated from Bell High School in 1943. He served in the merchant marines until 1946, then attended East Los Angeles College for a year while working nights at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Huntington Park. He began his newspaper career in 1947 as a copy boy at the Los Angeles Herald-Ex- press, which in 1962 merged with the Examiner and became the Herald Examiner.

Furillo was sports editor of the Herald Examiner from 1964 to 1974. The Herald Examiner sports section under Furillo was highly regarded. The staff included nationally syndicated columnist Melvin Durslag, plus well-known local columnists AllanMalamud and Doug Krikorian. The Herald Examiner, after surviving a union strike in 1967, folded in 1989. Furillo began his long career in sports radio in early 1974, doing a sports talk show for KABC-AM (790) while he was still the Herald Examiner sports editor.

He left the news- paper later that year when publisher George Hearst said he could not keep both jobs. Furillo left KABC in 1975 for radio station KIIS-FM (102.7) but returned in 1979. He left KABC again in 1987 and was replaced by Stu Nahan. Furillo had a stint at KFOX-FM 98.5 in Redondo Beach, then moved on to KPSI in Palm Springs and retired in 2000. He lived at the Gables for the last two years.

Ross Newhan, The recently retired Hall of Fame baseball writer, covered the Angels with Furillo in the early 1960s. a young reporter getting started on a major beat, I learned a lot from Bud about pursuing news and framing a Newhan said Tuesday. my 40-plus years in the business, I would never meet anyone more passionate about newspapers or who cared more about getting the Furillo had his ups and downs. Former KABC colleague Tommy Hawkins once said of him: he was something mechanical, be an elevator. as complex as Chinese Furillo could be moody, but he was also a great newspaper man who could write his col- umn, plan an entire section complete with pictures and headlines and still have time to take staff members out for lunch dinner.

Besides being a sports journalist, Furillo also was a fan. He loved USC football and bled Dodger blue right along with Tom Lasorda. For a time, his license plate read 38 in honor of the Los Angeles 38-9 Super Bowl victory over the Washington Redskins in 1984. Objectivity? That was for political reporters. Andy Furillo, in a 1987 interview, said, dad stands for taking a stand.

His whole thing about USC, for instance, and about on the with the Dodgers is his way of saying got to stand for something. And I think it has a whole lot of meaning that goes beyond Besides Andy, Furillo is survived by two other sons, Frank Jr. of Madison, and Michael of Newport Beach; three daughters, Gail of Ojai, Jill of Tujunga and Jackie of Encinitas; a sister, Roberta Weatherbeeof Palm Springs; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Funeral arrangements are pending. Bud Furillo, 80; Covered Southland Sports Los Angeles Times BUD FURILLO He was sports editor of the Herald Examiner in Los Angeles from 1964 to 1974, when he began a long career in Southern California sports radio.

my 40-plus years in the business, I would never meet anyone more passionate about newspapers or who cared more about getting the Ross Newhan, Hall of Fame baseball writer By Valerie J. Nelson Times Staff Writer Kurt Kreuger, a Swiss-German actor who fled Hollywood in frustration over being typecast as a Nazi in 1940s war movies, died July 12 at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles aftera stroke, said his friend Lynne Riehman. He was 89. With his Continental accent and ruggedgoodlooks, Kreuger was once the third most-requested male pinup at 20th Century Fox, behind Tyrone Power and John Payne, according to the 1992 edition of Who in Among career highlights were the 1945 suspense film Under- in which he played a Nazi captain, and the 1948 Preston Sturges comedy that provided Kreuger with a rare opportunity to stretch he portrayed the personal assistant of Rex Harrison, who suspected Kreuger washaving an affair with his wife. During the 1940s, Kreuger appeared in more than 20 films, including a movie set in the Franco-Prussian war that was his first major screen credit.

Hemainly played German officersin World War II films. When Kreuger asked Darryl F. Zanuck to give him better roles, the studio boss reportedly responded, your hurry? With your looks, be good at The actor moved to Europe and played the lead in several German films but returned to the U.S. in 1950 after being injured in a car accident. He played the German submarine navigator in the 1957 Robert Mitchum movie Enemy His final film, St.

Day was released in 1967. Through much of the 1950s and hemainly appeared on television. was an interesting character. He was robust, articulate and wore beautiful Savile Row Riehman said. he got fed up with his stereotyping in the movies, he made a career in real estate buying and renovating He bought and sold more than 30 properties, primarily in Beverly Hills, and became wealthy.

For more than 40 years, the bachelor lived in the same house in Beverly Hills and kept asecond home in Aspen, Colo. He skied until he was 87. Kreuger was born July 23, 1916, in Michenberg, Germany, and raised in St. Moritz, Switzerland. His father was a businessman, and his mother died when he was 6.

An only child, Kreuger attended the London School of Economics and Columbia University, intending to study medicine. When he dropped out to pursue acting, his father cut off his allowance. KURT KREUGER Among the highlights of his acting career were and Kurt Kreuger, 89; Actor Chafed at Being Typecast as a Nazi in 1940s War Movies an said Allen Kenitzer, a regional spokesman for the FAA. But an air traffic controllers union representative said that for several minutes, safety was compromised. airplanes were allowed to come into the system unguarded for eight said Garth Koleszar of the National Air Traffic Controller Assn.

idea of safety is being sure of the time where an aircraft is. We did compromise safety here a The normal phalanx of airplane lights that could be seen streaming across the sky from nearby freeways toward LAX in the evening wasreduced to a trickle. empty, very empty. the first thing we noticed when we got said Isabel Vaqueiro, as she waited outside the American Airlines terminal at LAX for her father, arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. just said Kari Montgomery, an 18-year-old student from Scotland.

the first time been to America, let ports spent the evening waiting for flights to be rescheduled. The Palmdale facility handles flights above 13,000 feet, including commercial flights. Authorities said the shut- downhad a ripple effect on fights across the nation and that flight operations would probably not return to normal until this morning. At LAX alone, about 220 flights, mostly departures, and 25,000 passengers were affected, LAX spokesman Paul Haney said. planes headed to LAX from anywhere else in the country were held on the ground until we resolved this FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.

Pilots in the air lost radar contact because of the blackout and relied on radio communications with outlying airports to stay on course. Officials said that all airplanes have preset flight paths that they follow in the event of a radar malfunction and that there was no sign of problems. is never compromised, but obviously caused alone Los Shortly after 9 p.m., passengers began to flock to baggage claim areas as the airport hummed back to life. The power outage grounded state Treasurer Phil Angelides, the Democratic nominee for governor, as he waited to depart on a flight from San Diego to Sacramento. After his plane sat on the tarmac for an hour, he returned to the terminal with the rest of the passengers and then started shaking hands and campaigning among the stranded.

Outside Orange John Wayne Airport, cars began backing up as passengers being dropped off learned that their flights had been delayed. Inside the terminal, meanwhile, other waiting passengers were glued to their cellphones trying to figure out what to do. fine with staying said Donna Berg, 48, of Janesville, on the last leg of a seven-day vacation with her 14- year-old daughter, Jamie. is a vacation we want to end anyway. be thrilled if we had to stay another night.

just call up our friends and have them pick us Sally 32, of Salt Lake City did not share in the good cheer, as she was caught without achange of clothes for her one- day business trip. a Boy she said. now learned my lesson: Be prepared, no matter At Bob Hope Airport, Jerri Krippner, 55, of Tujunga sounded a common refrain: know she said as she waited for her husband and 3-year-old granddaughter to arrive from Dallas. should announce going on. They said one of the towers went Last she heard, her loved ones were in At San Jose Airport, teacher Pat Villalobos waited none the wiser for her Southwest flight to Ontario.

heard an agent saying, you want to go home, go Villalobos said. has come up on the intercom. If I just came in right now, I know anything was going It was the second time in less than two years that problems at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center grounded hundreds of flights. In September of 2004, as many as 800 commercial airline flights bound for Southern California were diverted and all takeoffs halted as aresult of human errors. In that case, radio communications went silent with no warning and a little-used backup system failed only minutes after it was turned on.

Air traffic controllers were left with no way talk to pilots in planes flying at cruising altitude across about 178,000 square miles spanning Southern California, most of Arizona and Nevada, even as they watched the blips on the screen in some cases getting closer together. The failure later traced to a technician failing to perform routine maintenance at the Palmdale facility created dangerous conditions in the skies. Officials said the loss of radio communication led to at least five instances of planes flying closer together than is safe. About 800 flights arriving or departing from Southern California were delayed, canceled or diverted in the hours it took to correct the problem affecting 30,000 passengers at LAX alone. For Jerad Flickner, a 20-year- old UC Riverside student, the situation was double trouble.

He was waiting at LAX about 9 p.m. for a friend arriving from Ecuador, and then he needed to go to Long Beach Airport to get his parents, who were coming in from Milwaukee. His friend, he said, on the runway right now. She had to circle for half an hour. The pilot said they were going to run out of fuel so they had to Meanwhile, Flickner said, his parents were delayed in Denver.

just got off the phone with them, and also sitting on the runway, so Times staff writers Stuart Silverstein, Megan Garvey, Robert Salladay, Sara Lin and Ashley Surdin and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Southland Air Traffic Halted by Power Outage Flights, from Page B1 Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times THE SCRAMBLE FOR PLAN Passengers try to rebook flights at LAX. The shutdown had a ripple effect nationwide. From the Associated Press Eight Ecuadoreanshid aboard a banana boat for as long as 10 days before they were discovered in Port Hueneme at the end of a voyage from South America, authorities said. Three men were treated for dehydration and three others for frostbite after they were apprehended Monday, said Mike Fleming, a spokesman for U.S.

Customs and Border Protection. The men carried no identifi- cation, and their names were not immediately available. They were expected to be detained and then returned to Ecuador, Fleming said. The men hid aboard the Malaga Carrier when it left Ecuador. It made stops in Colombia and Guatemala before arriving in California.

Authorities got a tip Sunday that stowaways were aboard but found nothing when they searched the huge ship after it arrived in the Ventura County port. However, about 8 a.m. Monday, five men were spotted walking down the gangplank. The men told authorities they had hidden among the bananas in the cargo hold. The ship was then searched by immigration, customs and Coast Guard agents.

Three men on the deck were taken into custody. They told authoritiesthat they had hidden in the cab of a crane on the ship. 8 Stowaways Found on Ship at Port Hueneme money around to win influence. political action committees have spent at least $13.6 million on candidates and $114 million on ballot measures since 1999, according to Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. But you have to pay to participate in politics.

ideas should be strong enough to sway politicians; otherwise, their students are in said Court. this union, like many other people, believe they are heard because of the power of their money and not the power of their ideas. Prop. 89 is going to be a recall of politics as The arguments against? Corporations, among other groups, will wage court battles arguing that limiting campaign donations is akin to limiting free speech. (But the 55-page proposition was vetted by constitutional experts who believe it will stand up.) Every knucklehead in the state will jump at the chance to run for office on the dime, and the public will end up paying for the kind of negative campaigns we all loathe.

(But candidates must get signatures of support and small contributions from thousands of supporters to qualify for a run, and doing so could encourage grass-roots, idea-generated campaigns rather than the usual mud bath.) Millionaire candidates can opt out of spending limits and try to buy their way into office. (But they would tick off voters because Prop. 89 would require extra public money for the foes.) Asugar daddy can spend unlimited amounts for or against a candidate so long as he coordinate with any candidate or anyone else. (But disadvantaged candidates would get additional public funds to counter the sugar efforts.) As recall, I began this column with a reference to the healthcare fiasco, and it seems fitting to end by telling you that Prop. 89 was sponsored by the California Nurses Assn.

Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro said front-line nurses gave up hope that patient care will ever improve as long as special interests are allowed to buy their way into the public policy debate and sabotage needed reforms. so fundamentally out of control that we have a choice but to do DeMoro said. is a very serious effort at trying to get people elected who will make policy free of To find out more about Prop. 89, check www.cleanmoney elections.orgto see an argument in favor and www.calchamber an argument against. Reach the columnist at steve.lopez@latimes.com.

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