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Monday, April 2, 1984-THE DESERT SUN, Palm Springs, Calif. A3 ARRIVALS Davis Barber Sun Photo Seven new slender-horned gazelles were born preventing extinction of the critically endanat the Living Desert reserve during the past gered species, according to Karen Sausman, two months, the youngest on Thursday? The executive director for the Living Desert. She additional gazelles strengthen the chances of says there are only 70 left in the world. Ray Mulligan: He helps make the Nabisco tourney a reality (Continued from Page A-1) Others are brokers who handle Nabisco products. The important thing is that we have the people here we want to have, the people we enjoy doing business with and we get to know them on a personal basis.

Those are the most important aspects of the tournament. Have there been any surprises in your two years as tournament producer? I guess the biggest surprise is the amount of detail work that goes into something like this. I used to enjoy driving up to a pro am event, dropping off my bag, going into the locker room, putting on my shoes, going upstairs and having a little juice and coffee. Then I would go out, hit a couple of practice balls, go play in the tournament and come in and have my clubs ready to put in the car and go. I didn't realize how many people had made it so easy for me to do just that.

Are there a lot of headaches involved in putting on a tournament of this magnitude? There are always headaches involved with anything you do if it's worth doing. You are going to have problems, but my philosophy is that it's a great golf tournament, it's a lot of fun and it's a good way to entertain people. It's not World War III, so you're not going to let. yourself get so uptight. I always keep it in the back of my 1 mind that it's not World War III and as long as it's not World War III, I'm not going to worry.

It will all work out in the end. What do you do once the tournament starts? 500 evacuated in chemical leak I'll be right here (in his office), but if any problems arise, I'll try to get them settled. What do you do after the tournament is over? I go home to Coopersburg, Pa. and relax. We have a little farm there and raise grandchildren, horses, dogs, cats, pheasants and you name it.

I'm looking forward to getting back. It must be quite a drain on you running the Nabisco Dinah Shore. My wife claims I'm working harder now during this period of time than I worked when I was running a major corporation. I leave the house at 7 o'clock in the morning and I get home at 6:30 or 7 o'clock at night. She says I didn't do that when I was chairman of Liggett.

When will next year's tournament be held? It will be Easter week and last year it was Easter week. Last year we had a sunrise service and about 3,500 people came out at six o'clock in the morning. It really was a beautiful, beautiful morning. Was that your idea? Yes it was. I just couldn't see Easter going by without some indication it was a special day.

Golf is great and everything else, but I guess Easter is a little more important than a golf tournament. Do you prefer holding the tournament during Easter week? We always hold it a week before The Masters; that's part of our agreement with the LPGA. We don't want to compete against The Masters on television because our audience would be split. FONTANA (AP) Some 500 people were evacuated from homes and a truck terminal Sunday after lethal gasoline stabilizer was found leaking from a commercial trailer, authorities said. Ten employees at the Ryder-PIE terminal, where the leak was discovered, were taken to Ontario Community Hospital, and one Bart Greeno, 38, of Redlands was admitted for overnight observation.

However, the residents were allowed to return to their homes hours after the evacuation was called. Authorities said between 10 and 20 gallons of the stabilizer known as "2,4 demithyl-6-tertiary butyl phenol" leaked from a 55-gallon drum in the back of an enclosed Ryder-PIE trailer. The chemical is lethal in high conentrations and skin contact can "cause severe tissue damage," said Jon Kindschy, supervising environmental health sanitarian for San Bernardino County. The trailer arrived at the Fontana truck terminal early Sunday, said terminal manager Bill Van Cleve. It had been loaded in Cincinnati with five barrels of the DuPont-manufactured stabilizer for transportation to a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, said J.

Blake Partain, a DuPont manager in Los Angeles. A terminal employee assigned to unload the trailer discovered the leak around 8 a.m. when he opened the trailer door and smelled vapors, Van Cleve said. Workers moved the trailer from the loading dock to a nearby field and summoned the Central San Bernardino Valley Fire Agency, which immediately evacuated the 30 to 40 people who were working in the terminal. Obituaries Funeral services will be held Tuesday for William Edward Yoder Jr.

of Desert Hot Springs, who died Thursday in a car accident. He was 26. A native of Montebello, Mr. Yoder was a lifetime resident of California and lived in Desert Hot Springs for a year. He is survived by his mother, Sandra Porto of Desert Hot Springs; his father, William Yoder of Valinda, his daughter, Brandi Yoder of Castro Valley, two sisters, Renee Porto of Desert Hot Springs and Karen Yoder of Hacienda Heights, his maternal grandparents, Kay and LaVerne Farmer of Desert Hot Springs; his paternal grandparents, Edna and Chuck Yoder of Cedar Glen, and his great-grandmother, Rosana Lucero of Desert Hot Springs.

Services will begin at 11:30 a.m. from the Desert Memorial Park chapel, with the Rev. Jack B. Morrow of the Desert Chapel in Palm Springs officiating. Interment will be at Desert El Salvador military aid subject of Senate debate WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate 1 faces a lengthy debate on more U.S.

military aid to El Salvador while lawmakers in both houses of Congress continue their quest for ways to reduce burgeoning federal deficits. With two congressional committees investigating the role of U.S. servicemen in El Salvador, the Senate today was beginning 50 hours of scheduled debate on President Reagan's request for a $61.7 million emergency military aid package that was provisionally approved last seek. Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy, and other opponents of U.S. military involvernent in Central America will try to trim the money to $21 million and put conditions on it. Kennedy failed last week in an attempt to require a declaration of war or some other congressional action before U.S. troops could be sent into combat in the troubled region. After the Central American debate, Senate Majority Leader Howard H.

Baker wants to begin work on a three-year $150 billion deficit-reduction package favored by Reagan. Democrats are pressing to shift the debate to the Senate Budget Committee, where they think they can collect enough Republican votes to forge a package more to their liking. The I House plans to begin debate Wednesday on a budget package proposed by its Democratic leadership that would reduce federal deficits by $182 billion over three years. Other budget plans will be considered in both chambers. Democratics leaders in the House want to cut the growth in military spending by $95.6 billion over the next three years.

The GOP plan would cut $41 billion from the president's proposed military buildup. In the Senate, Baker wants to invoke a procedural shortcut to keep the budget debate on the floor, where Republicans have a 55-45 edge. But Minority Leader Robert Byrd, wants the discussions to begin in the Senate Budget Committee, where Republicans hold a slim 12-10 majority. While the Senate debates more military aid to El Salvador, two congressional panels are trying to determine whether the Reagan administration is vio lating the War Powers Act in the troubled country. Spokesmen for both the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say their staff investigators are checking allegations that U.S.

military advisers were involved in hostilities in El Salvador. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill asked for the House investigation, saying "serious questions" had been raised by reports suggesting that U.S. military advisers the "may have been involved in hostilities" between the government troops and leftist guerrillas. Sen.

James Sasser, made a similar request to the Senate panel after a Pentagon staff officer told him, in response to questions, that advisers had been under hostile fire in El Salvador three times in the last five months. The Pentagon said Friday the officer had been mistaken, but Sasser said he would continue efforts to get "forthright, consistent answers" about the incidents. Reagan, meanwhile, was scheduled to deliver a report to Congress today that outlines the difficulties of verifying a ban on anti-satellite weapons in space. The report, required by Congress, is said to conclude it may some day be possible to verify a ban on specific weapons, but the field is so complex that such verification is currently impossible. Capitol Hill sources say Congress is ready for a confrontation with the administration if the report adopts the recommendation of key Pentagon officials who say there is no point in seeking an anti-satellite arms treaty because it could not be verified.

Shultz says Reagan will not relocate embassy in Israel WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State George P. Shultz says President Reagan wouldn't move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem even if Congress orders it, but adds he doesn't expect that to happen. "The president is very much opposed to it and willing not move that embassy," Shultz said Sunday on the NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" program. "I'm glad to say the president has kept his head about it in all of this and is staying with that position." Both leading Democratic presidential candidates, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale, say they favor moving the embassy, and the issue could be important in winning votes from American Jews in November.

Shultz said he didn't want to predict whether Reagan would veto a congressional directive to move the embassy. But he said members of Congress who have advocated the move apparently are now having "second thoughts and are looking around for some way that they might defuse this issue." "Those who are advocating that shift I can't believe have really thought the matter over very carefully," Shultz said. "It would not serve the interest of the United States to move our embassy." The administration takes the position of previous administrations that the status of Jerusalem should be decided in negotiations between Israel and Arab nations. Israel seized East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, but Arab nations still claim it. Shultz also said Sunday that a Hart campaign promise to pull most American troops out of Central America, if Hart is elected, "is ridiculous." "My gosh, this is an area of vital significance to the United States," Shultz said.

"It is an area where we are on the right side of things, where 1 we are supportdemocracy, where we are supporting the rule of law, where there are lots of people we want to help in their economic development, a and we had better stick with it." Hart, who has sought to make Central America a major issue in Tuesday's primary election in New York, advocates the withdrawal of all combat troops, such as those engaged in maneuvers in Honduras, but not necessarily all of the advisers who are training the Salvadoran and Honduran army. No distinction was drawn between combat troops and advisers in either the question or in Shultz' reply. On another subject, Shultz's said events i in Lebanon have been "a disappointment to us" and the withdrawal of American Marines has damaged American credibility throughout the Middle East. "We have suffered a lot for that in the Middle East," he said. But he also said the redeployment plan for the Marines was never fully carried out because the situation in Lebanon deteriorated so fast.

The White House late Friday announced that it was ending American participation in the multinational peacekeeping force and that the American warships off the coast of Lebanon would gradually return to their regular duties. JT medical technician puts responsibility before salary KEITH DAVIS warrants issued. Police seek man on two warrants (EDITOR'S NOTE: As a public service in cooperation with the Crime Stoppers program, sponsored jointly by Coachella Valley law enforcement agencies, an account of a serious, unsolved crime is published each week in The Desert Sun.) Coachella Valley law enforcement officials are on the lookout for Keith William Davis, for whom courts have issued warrants for burglary and escape from custody. The first warrant, for $10,000, was issued Dec. 15, 1983.

The second warrant, for $5,000, followed on Dec. 21. Davis is described as a white male adult, 5-feet-6-inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with light, brown wavy hair and brown eyes. His last known address was in Cathedral City, but officials believe he could be anywhere in the Coachella Valley. If you have information that could help police, call Crime Stoppers anonymously, if you wish at 323-6000 or 342-6662.

If the information you provide leads to an arrest and prosecution, you could earn a cash reward. The money for such rewards comes from tax-exempt donations to the non-profit foundation that runs the Crime Stoppers program. To find out more about how you can invest in a safer community, call the same Crime Stoppers telephone numbers. Or, write to Crime Stoppers, at P.O. Box 1827, Palm Springs 92263- 1827.

By CRISTINA VALDES Desert Sun Staff Writer JOSHUA TREE An emergency medical technician (EMT) with the Joshua Tree Ambulance Association says he's staying "because I love what I do." Richard Daniels, an EMT with the association the past three years, spoke of his feelings before the agency's board of directors. "It saddens me greatly to see employees who have been with the company for eight years or longer, walk off the job because their wages have been cut," Daniels said. He was referring to the recent reduction in the length of EMT and paramedic shifts implemented by the association board March 18. Meanwhile, board member Ed Burnhart commended the association's operations manager, James Henley, and his wife, Judy, for their "devotion" during the employee shortage, which resulted in the association losing its paramedic license. "He (Jim) and his wife put in over hope to get a new paramedic license 110 hours last week to keep this and full paramedic status again in (association) going," Burnhart said.

four to six weeks. "If that's not showing appreciation In the meantime, Daniels vowed and devotion, I don't know what it to be available. is." "If I walk off the said DanAs part of a cost-cutting effort, iels, "and leave people out there the board eliminated the position of without coverage, they're going to facilities manager and paramedic die." field supervisor, establishing the Daniels said he started working position of operations manager to with the association when it prooversee all facets of the association, vided on-call EMT services, paying personnel. $5 a call or 25 cents a mile "whichincluding ever was greater." Once the association receives a Daniels renewal of its license, added, "If I didn't get paid paramedic anything, and this company was a Henley said, a working paramedic volunteer I would be here company, would be appointed as paramedic doing what I'm doing now, not getcoordinator. ting a cent.

A multi- regulatory "The reason I do it is because I agency, the Inland Counties Emer- love what I do and people are more gency Medical Authority (ICEMA), important to me than anything pulled the association's license else." March 18 after the association was Daniels also supported Henley. unable to provide 24-hour parame- "Mr. Henley has done nothing but die service to the Morongo Basin. looked after my interest, leveled Association officials, who have with me, and told me the honest been working with ICEMA, say they truth about what is going on." Yoder Memorial Park in Cathedral City. Wiefels and Son mortuary is in charge or arrangements.

Wilkerson Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Ruben H. Wilkerson of Palm Springs, who died Friday at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs. He was 78. A native of Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilkerson was a resident of Banning and Palm Springs for 50 years.

He was employed for 45 years as a chaeuffer for Millinor Limousine Service. Mr. Wilkerson is survived by his wife, Eleanor Wilkerson of Palm Springs; and a daughter, Peggy McCullum of Oakland. Services will begin at 1 p.m. from the Wiefels and Son mortuary chapel, with the Rev.

L.C. Miles of the Baptist Church of Banning officiating. Interment will be at the Banning Cemetery in Banning. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the American Cancer Society. Las Vegas casinos hit by strike LAS VEGAS, Nev.

(AP) Thousands of culinary workers, stagehands and musicians went on strike today against 28 hotel-casinos, canceling shows by such stars as Shirley MacLaine and Suzanne Somers. Gambling was unaffected by the back-stage strike, and the smaller lounge shows were expected to continue as scheduled, casino spokesmen said today. Dan Swinton, spokesman for the Culinary Workers Union, said "thousands" of culinary pickets went up starting at 6 a.m. today, delayed at the request of Gov. Richard Bryan so that last minute bargaining could take place.

"I believe there's a total of 33 (picket) locations," Swinton said, including several non-union hotelcasinos. Hotels have vowed to stay open and hire replacements for striking workers, including maids, food servers, drink servers, bell captains, bartenders, casino change girls, busboys, doormen, porters, cooks and others. The culinary union, with 26,000 members, is the largest of four unions that walked out today. The other three, representing bartenders, musicians and stagehands, have 3,500 members altogether. At the MGM-Grand Hotel, Miss MacLaine's midnight show was canceled as a precautionary measure Sunday before any strike could take effect, assistant manager Greg Platt said.

"We closed it down to avoid any problems," Platt said today. At the Flamingo Hilton, "The show's been canceled," hotel spokesman Dave Verbon said today. "In our hotel, it's a production show called 'City He said no big-name star appears in the revue. "The lounge would not be affected by this. As understand it, almost every lounge in town would remain open," Verbon said.

The musicians and stagehands walked out on several locations at midnight..