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i Waipahu house hit by drive-by shooting. A-4 Retirees go back to college in Kailua-Kona. A-4 a ti WS WAT II A Adjournment delays judgeship nomination Honolulu attorney Susan Oki Mollway, 45, is one of 28 Clinton Judicial nominations held up in a partisan Senate fight during an election year. The Senate adjourned Thursday without acting on the nominees. In a simple explanation that masked the politics behind the inaction, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told Saturday Afternoon Page A3 October 5, 199 6 Pilot stable after a day in the ocean After being forced to ditch his plane, he survived by using a life vest and drinking salt water reporters, "Basically I think we just kind of ran out of time." But he later said he had received "a thousand calls to my.

office saying 'No more Clinton federal judges. ByGaryT.kubota Maui correspondent with large cuts. Dr. Vladimir Svesko, emergency room physician, said Siegel was in stable condition and appeared to be "in really good shape" considering his ordeaL Siegel suffered a 10-inch cut from a bite on the left forearm and a one-inch cut on the right leg, Svesko said. Siegel works as a helicopter pilot for Hawaii Helicopters Inc.

and flies airplanes for pleasure. He left Kahului Airport on Thursday morning on a flight to Kona and was expected to return to Maui on the same day after an island-hopping trip that would also take him to Molokai and Lanai. After taking off from the airport in Kona, the engine on his rented Grumman Yankee two-seat airplane quit and he was forced to ditch the airplane in the ocean about 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Bradley said. The airplane sank in 30 to 45 seconds.

With the help of a life jacket, Siegel kept afloat through the day and night and drank saltwater to quench his thirst Bradley said she called police Thursday evening when Siegel failed to return home. "I just knew something was not right," she said. Police advised her to check with friends and other sources. Bradley said a friend found Siegel's vehicle at Kahului Airport at 11:10 p.m. The Coast Guard began a search focusing on waters between Maui and Lanai yesterday morning, along with three Civil Air Patrol aircraft Flight instructor Heather Hamilton said she heard a news report about the search on her way to Honolulu Airport yesterday.

While piloting a Cessna to Hilo, she dropped to the 500-foot altitude, saw Siegel in the water at about 10:45 a.m. and notified Diamond Head Traffic control, which called the Coast Guard. Hamilton said she noticed Siegel because there were so many sharks around him. "I have never seen so many hammerhead sharks in my life," Hamilton said. A Coast Guard helicopter found Siegel in the water midway between the Big Island and Maui.

He was hoisted aboard the aircraft and brought to Maui. "He said if the Coast Guard hadn't found him, he doesn't know how long he could hang on," Bradley said. Bradley had confidence in Siegel's ability to survive. "He's a surfer and windsurfer. He's really a competent pilot, and he's not the type of person to panic," she said.

Susan Mollway If Clinton is re-elected in November, he will WAILUKU Mark Siegel survived a fish attack and more than a day in the ocean after ditching an airplane 19 miles northwest of Upolu Point on the Big Island. "He's extremely grateful to be here," said Siegel's girlfriend Sharonrose Bradley. "I Just started to cry when I first saw him." Siegel, 35, of Kula, was too tired to grant Interviews yesterday at Maui Memorial Hospital. But he told Bradley about his ditching Thursday and a fish attack that left him Family, friends remember slain man Unions try to stop planned payroll lag for state workers Complaint says Cayetano can't change how employees are paid By Mike Yuen Star-Bulletin Unions for public-school teachers and university faculty are trying to block Gov. Ben Cayetano's payroll lag for government workers that is intended to save the state $47 million.

Yesterday, the Hawaii State Teachers Association and the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly filed a complaint against Cayetano with the state Labor Relations Board. The unions say the Cayetano administration can't change how state workers are paid. That's a collective bargaining issue, they insist. T. Anthony Gill, the unions' attorney, said across the nation, labor boards and courts have ruled against payroll lags.

Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo failed to get such a plan implemented, Gill said. George Yamamoto, HSTA executive director, said the lag would create an additional financial hardship for state workers. We don't know what Gov. Cayetano plans to do," said Yamamoto, who hopes Cayetano will abandon plans for the payroll lag.

"We sincerely hope he will consider people affected by the lag and the impact it will have on them and their families." Cayetano, through a spokeswoman, had no immediate comment. If Cayetano implements the payroll lag beginning Jan. 1 as planned, state workers will receive one fewer paycheck. That's because paychecks will be delayed throughout 1997 as the state converts its payroll system from one based on the hours employees are presumed to have worked to the hours they actually worked. Under the present system, state workers fill out their timecards before they complete their two-week work period, which has at times led to salary overpayments.

Having state workers paid like their counterparts in the private sector will provide the state with a one-time savings of $47 million. In winning legislative approval for a payroll lag, Cayetano said it was a key element in his plan to balance the state's budget. But it also means that state workers would receive one paycheck in February instead of two. have to nominate his choices for judgeships again. Mollway breezed through a confirmation hearing before the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee, but North Carolina Republican Lauch Faircloth held up her appointment, complaining about Moll-way's "very, very liberal ideas." Hawaii Democratic Sen.

Daniel Inouye has criticized the delay. State ends contract for child-support database Concerns over a $20 million computer and database project led the state to terminate a contract with Network Six, a Rhode Island-based computer system developer. The project for the state's child support enforcement agency was originally estimated at $20.7 million, but earlier this year was increased to $25.2 million, according to Network Six. The firm said that $15 million of the work has been completed, billed and substantially paid. But because of claims that it was the state that breached the contract, Network Six also terminated the contract.

"We claim that the state breached our contract, we are working with the state in an effort to resolve the open issues in an amicable way," Ken Kirsch, Network Six chief executive officer, said in an interview this week. Michael L. Meaney, child support enforcement administrator, said that if differences aren't worked out, the state will have to finish the job with a new contractor. The new system is supposed to automate the child-support enforcement system, Meaney said. It would cover areas such as locating parents, establishing court orders, establishing paternity and enforcing court orders.

Parks bill reestablishes Kaloko-Honokohau panel A newly passed national parks bill will reestablish the Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau Advisory Commission. The commission, originally established for a 10-year period in 1978, will advise the National Park Service on archaeological, cultural, historical and interpretive programs for the Big Island park. Because the National Park Service did not acquire a sufficient land base for park operations until October 1990, the 10-year period expired without the commission being established, said Ed Thompson, an aide to Sen. Daniel Akaka. "My provision reauthorizes the Friends of Kaloko-Honokohau to fulfill its original mandate," Akaka said.

Kaloko-Honokohau Historical Park is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional native Hawaiian culture, Akaka said. The commission will have at least six native Hawaiian members, he said. Two-hour lane closure slated for H-l tomorrow The Ewa-bound lanes of the H-l freeway near the Aala Street and Gulick Avenue overpasses will be closed between 10 a.m. and noon tomorrow. Crews will install signs during that period, said Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marilyn Kali.

From staff and wire reports "III Jfii v. vs i BY KEN IGE, Star-Bulletia Photographs of Donald Gillis, including one showing him with a big catch, are displayed at services for him today at the Hawaii Kai Maunalua Bay Park boat ramp. A fishing boat is moored before being taken out to sea for the scattering of ashes. Gillis, 52, died Sept. 28 after he was shot to death in a parking lot near the Arizona Memorial.

Duane Staggs, 29, a co-worker at Hawaiian Dredging Construction has been charged in federal court with Gillis' murder. Gillis was the father-in-law of Philadelphia Phillies' pitcher Sid Fernandez, who was at today's services. State auditor targets AIDS program Second-place vote-getter challenges primary results Questions focus on using federal funds to boost pay Carol Sword says a poll taken before the election indicated she had stronger support ing morale, he said, "A lot of things happened in the past year that might have been negative on morale. To identify this was a disservice to Dr. Vogt and other individuals in the department." The audit notes some improvements in the STDAIDS program but says: Strategic planning and better coordination are needed to justify $8 million in funding.

Management of the Community Health Outreach Work Project should be tightened because it couldn't account for 16,422 needles in its a needle exchange program over nine months last year. Monitoring and evaluation of contracts could be improved. Miike said budget and position cuts last year caused delays in strategic planning but a state Care Services planning process has started. "One of the criticisms was that strategic planning would help budget cuts," Christoffel said. "No one anticipates budget cuts of 17 to 40 percent.

That's not realistic." He said the STDHIV Program, headed by Peter M. Whiticar, "has made tremendous progress" since an audit two years ago. "They have providers involved and they have active support from the is a physician-administrator requiring a medical license and the salary range is noncompetitive with comparable positions across the country. Undocumented statements that the arrangement undermines employee morale "provide a disservice to the Department of Health and to the administrator," Miike said. The STDAIDS Prevention Branch works on prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.

It operates in the Communicable Disease Division. Deputy Health Director William Christof el said the division chief's job had been vacant for several years before Vogt was hired about three years ago. He said there are few physician-trained epidemiologists and the Hawaii salary of about $88,000 a year isn't competitive. He said he couldn't say what Vogt earns with the addition of federal funds, but there's a federal limit of $125,000. Christoffel said he talked to federal officials about the arrangement "As far as compromising future grants of the Centers for Disease Control, that's totally false." As for the arrangement affect- er system.

In the four-candidate Democratic primary for House District 21 (Waikiki), attorney Pamela Ferguson-Brey was the top vote-getter with 957 votes, while Sword received 422. Sword said she suspected that there was a problem particularly in the district's 1st Precinct (Ala Wai Elementary), because five days before the primary an "independent" poll of likely voters showed her receiving a greater proportion of the vote than she actually received. Sword in her court papers didn't disclose who conducted the poll. The survey showed Sword having 34 percent support, compared with Ferguson-Brey's 19 percent. Thirty-nine percent were undecided.

The results in Precinct 1 were: Ferguson-Brey, 63.7 percent (415 votes), Sword 11.5 percent (75 votes). Sword asked to examine the tabulations at her own expense using an independent computer system. By Helen Altonn Star-Bulletin An audit is questioning the use of federal funds to boost a division chief's salary in the state Health Department's STDAIDS Prevention Program. But state health officials said they couldn't attract anyone for the job with a salary that is so much lower than those offered elsewhere for physician-epidemiologists. The money was used to create a University of Hawaii faculty position for Dr.

Richard L. Vogt, Communicable Disease Division director. The funds "travel a sinuous road from five different federal grants, to the Department of Health, to the University of Hawaii, back to a division chief in the Department of Health," state Auditor Marion M. Higa reported. The "artificial arrangement" causes morale problems and could jeopardize federal funds because they aren't being used appropriately, the report said.

State Health Director Larry Miike pointed out the division chief Star-Bulletin staff State attorneys and election officials have asked the Hawaii Supreme Court to reject an election challenge from Democratic state House candidate Carol Sword. She is claiming that her distant second-place finish could have been due to a computer malfunction of the ballot-counting system. In court papers filed this week, state attorneys said Sword, a travel consultant, doesn't have sufficient evidence to sustain her challenge. It is simply based on suppositions, they said. State elections chief Dwayne Yoshina and Russell Mokole-hua, chief election observer, said their examinations have shown that there were no problems with the election comput CORRECTION The median resale price for Oa-hu houses fell last month to the lowest level since 1991.

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