Valley News from Van Nuys, California • Page 27

Sunday. July 10,1977 Van Nuyt, Calif. VALLEY NEWS Breaking logjam of 40,000 medical bills Denise Serrell, billing department supervisor, begins will be mailed out for payment. Two shifts will work on sorting some of the 40,000 medical bills piled up in project for 90 days in an effort to bring $4 million into the basement of County-USC Medical Center which county treasury. vaitoy News photo by caneton Scheib shows up, pleads innocent to arms charges Phillip Earl Scheib, son of car paint-shop owner Earl Scheib, surrendered in Los Angeles Superior Court, pleading innocent to charges he stored illegal firearms, explosives and ammunition in three Southern California locations.

Scheib, 43, of Clarkston, was released on his own recognizance following arraignment Friday before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge E. Talbot Callister. The defendant, who has posted $35,000 bond in Washington, was due back in court on July 13 for setting of a trial date. The County Grand Jury indicted Scheib on June 29, charging him with two counts of possession of a machine gun, and one count each of possessing explosives with intent to injure, grenades, launching devices, a satchel charge and a silencer. All the'charges are felonies.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert N. Jorgensen, who presented evidence to the grand jury, wasn't able to publicly discuss the case in depth since the indictment was returned secretly and the transcript of the proceedings is not open to the public at this time. However, when Scheib was arrested last June 30, Jorgensen said the charges related to the discovery of weapons and explosives caches in Lancaster, Ontario and Wrightwood last December.

Friday morning Jorgensen told reporters the investigation into the case is continuing. The prosecutor also refused to comment on whether Scheib was linked to any extremist, paramilitary groups. When the arms cache in the desert near Lancaster was uncovered. Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess said literature from a right-wing.

anti-Communist, anti- Jewish, anti-black group called the "Christian Defense League" was found. Records also show that Scheib had been linked to a self-styled Minuteman named Joseph Raymond Carey 11 years ago. Scheib PHILLIP EARL SCHEIB Arraigned had been accused of harboring a fugitive (Carey) and possessing a machine gun, but those charges were dismissed in August 1966 when a fedreral judge ruled federal authorities lacked sufficient cause to enter Scheib's home looking for Carey. The indictment against Scheib in the current case was returned after Jorgensen called several witnesses during a one-day hearing. Among the witnesses were ex-wife and Donald C.

Wiggins, the Pomona foundry owner who has admitted possessing explosives found in one of the concrete-lined bunkers near Lancaster. Wiggins. 41, of Ontario, is due back in court for sentencing on Sept. 30. Friday, Jorgensen said Wiggins was allowed to plead guilty to one of the 11 felony counts against him in exchange for his testimony in the Scheib case.

Jorgensen also told reporters possession of the weapons in Lancaster. Ontario and Wrightwood "appears to have been joint" Children playing in the sand stumbled on the bunkers about 25 miles from Lancaster last Dec. 5. Authorities later removed five tons of munitions--including machine guns, hand grenades, mortar shells, land mines and the literature from the bunkers. Wiggins, who owned the land where the munitions were found, surrendered to authorities on Dec.

9. Another three tons of arms and supplies were found in his Ontario home and his foundry. Then, on Dec. 12, more ammunition rifles and a half track truck were found in the area around a Wrightwood cabin owned by Michael S. Stringer.

33, of La Canada. Stringer, a Glendale arms dealers, faces trial Aug. 22 in Victorville Municipal Court on three weapons procession charges. Prosecutors won't comment on Scheib's connections with Stringer and Wiggins, although Jorgensen did "Obviously there is a relationship in that he (Scheib) has been charged with the weapons found in Lancaster and Ontario." The i i returned against Scheib alleged he possessed weaponry and explosives in both- Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties dating back to June 30,1974. During Scheib's arraignment, Jorgensen told Judge Callister Scheib had posted bail in Washington and then had traveled voluntarily to California for legal proceedings here.

Jorgensen said the prosecution would agree to reducing Scheib's bail to $15,000. "The court will not, my goodness," Judge Callister responded. "How do you justify $15,000 bail with possession of these types of articles?" He continued, reading from the indictment. Bail was set at $60,000 but the Judge, under urging from both Jorgensen and Scheib's attorneys, gave the Defendant, until July 13 to post the higher bond. Scheib.

who has taken to the Bauchet Street jail for booking, was released on is own recognizance, pending the next hearing. Suspended deputy DA guilty of possessing cocaine for sale A suspended deputy district attorney has been convicted on charges he possessed cocaine for sale. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Nancy B. Watson returned the verdict Friday after studying the transcript of Ronald David Land's preliminary hearing. Land, 30, of 4626 Via Marina, Marina del Rey, was due back in court for sentencing on Sept 21.

He had accused of one count of conspiracy to sell cocaine and two counts of selling cocaine. The two counts on which he was convicted by the judge were lesser included offenses. Authorities charged Land had sold undisclosed amounts of cocaine on Nov. Sand Nov. 11 of last year.

He wasarrested last Dec. 3aiong with Stephen Meddoff, 29. of 505 28th Venice. A third defendant in the case, Michael Pichurko, 34, of 4600 Via Marina, Marina del Rey. surrendered to authorities on Dec.

7. Last April 29, Meddoff pleaded guilty to a charge of cocaine possession for sale, while Pichurko admitted a charge of maintaining a place where unlawful substance is sold. Both men were fined $500 and placed on probation for three years. Land, who had been assigned to the district attorney's child support division, was suspended after his arrest Former psychiatrist sent to Chi no for observation in bomb threat case A former psychiatrist, convicted of making false bomb threats was sentenced Friday to90daysobser- v-ation at the California Correctional Institute in Chino. James Oliver Jackson of Sherman Oaks will return to Van Nuys Superior Court on Oct.

14 when a psychiatric evaluation will be presented to Superior Court Judge David Cunningham. Jackson was convicted on June 39 on three counts of sending false bomb threats to a radio station, a church and the Van Nuys Municipal Court clerk's office, A fourth count was dismissed. The 56-year-old Jackson, whose license to practice medicine had been revoked, served as his own attorney during the course of the trial. Cunningham ordered the psychiatric evaluation despite the fact Jackson never raised the question of sanity as a defense. During the course of the trial, Jackson appeared jn court in various outfits, sometimes dressed as a cowboy and other times asa general.

Anti-airport sale group plans suit A group of San Fernando Valley residents has announced plans for a fund-raising campaign to stop the pending sale of Hollywood- Burbank Airport to the cities of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. Richard H. Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, said the purpose of the drive is to raise money for a legal suit. "Unless we stop the sale now," Close said, "we will be like the residents of Inglewood. We will get the noise but we'll have no control over the number of flights." Former Burbank City Councilman and Mayor William B.

Rudell, one of nine commissioners of the new Hollywood-Burbank Airport Authority, called the move Close's "latest grandstand play." He said the appeal for funds by Close, also an attorney, is "irresponsible and, in my judgment, unethical," and called foran investigation by the California State Bar Association. "The anti-airport homeowners' groups constitute a minute percentage of the 2.3 million people within the service area of Hollywood-Burbank Airport," Rudell said. He said both state law and local policies will prohibit the airport authority from increasing noise levels and will require that all reasonable steps be taken to reduce existing noise impacts at the airport in Burbank. The authority, formed by Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena to buy and operate the airport, is "committed to operating Hollywood-Burbank Airport in an environmentally and fiscally responsible manner," Rudell said. According to Close, a large number of people are concerned that noise pollution will become a serious problem if the airport is sold to the three cities.

Close said legal efforts would be aimed at invalidating the environmental impact report on the airport, a move that if successful would mean the denial of federal funding for the purchase of the airport. Some six homeowners groups have banned together to fight the sale, the Burbank Anti-Noise Group and the North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Sun Valley and Van Nuys homeowners assocations. Burbank Airport purchasing unit to meet tomorrow The first meeting of Hollywood- Burbank Airport Authority Commission, organized for public purchase of the airport, is set tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Glendale City Hall, 613 E. Broadway.

The group, composed of representatives of the cites of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena, intends to elect officers, select interim staff and office and agree on dates, hours, place and rules of conduct for meetings. Also on the agenda is authorizing the filing of a notice of the joint exercise of powers agreement with the secretary of state pursuant to section 6503.5 of the California government code. Summer silhouette A mother and daughter enjoy walking along Malibu beach just north of the Malibu pier. Waves were flat at the traditional surfers' beach, but the sun was just right for a tan for these two. Seat vacant on college board Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees has invited the submission of resumes from qualified citizens interested in serving on the board, announced board president Ralph Richardson.

The appointment will fill the unex- pired term in Office Number 7 created by the election of Ira Reiner as city controller. In conformity with the city Charter and state Education code, an individual must be a registered voter and a resident of the district for at least 30 days to qualify. Each board member is paid $100 per meeting up to a maximum of $750 per month. Resumes, which should be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, should be mailed to the President of the Board of Trustees, Los Angeles Community College District, 2140 W.

Olympic Room 310, Los Angeles, 90006. Appointment is expected to be made on or before Aug. 15. Jury will study sanity phase in murder trial Jurors resume deliberations tomorrow on whether Phillip Guy- Stephens was legally sane at the time he murdered a 15-year-old Reseda High School girl. Arguments in the sanity phase of the Stephens trial ended Friday.

He was convicted last Tuesday of the first degree murder of MaryAnn Henderson. A closed hearing was held as arguments were presented to jurors on Stephens' state of mind at the time of the murder. Deputy Dist. Atty. who prosecuted the case, said Stephens met Miss Henderson at a- football game last Sept.

24. After the game, Steinitz said, they went to an agricultural area of the Reseda High School campus where Stephens assaulted the girl, hitting her with a wooden board. The 18-year-old Stephens was not a student at the high school at the time of the murder, Steinitz said, and had gone to the school to watch the football game. Talk set on cutting drug trafficking "Curtailing the Border Narcotic Traffic" is the title of an address Albert C. Bergesen will give Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.

before Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Drive. Bergesen. who is regional commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service covering California. Arizona and Clark County in Nevada, will bring along a German shepherd dog to demonstrate how it goes about sniffing out drugs, which generally are enclosed in containers.

The commissioner, who directs 1.500 employes in the three areas of his jurisdiction, was recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Sen-ice Award, highest given to a civilian by the U.S. Navy. Saving fruits of his labors For the third consecutive summer Evan Oshan, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Oshan of Entino, is peddling fruit he picks from his family's orchard.

His patrons come largely from three financial institutions in the area, and fast learning the old business adage, "You scratch my back and HI scratch yours," Evan maintains accounts at each one. Here he opens his third account at Wells Fargo Bank after delivering a basket of fruit to banking services representative Kathleen Harrington..