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Section itwct Monday, October 11. 1982 Page 1-B 2 School dirt 'homework' for parents If I'M i JZ i' ffc Mr- Hi-tiP-'vr S. 3W. tr nr 4 I i rfwwc3h Parents of students who attend Anthony Elementary School spent two hours Sunday scrubbing dirty desk tops, cleaning toilets and mopping floors at the school. "The school was just awful," Marilee Martin said.

"The floor was filthy. There was accumulated dirt and paper all over the floor." She said she had heard from her daughter that the school was dirty. "Our kids would come home and tell us they had to clean up before they started elass some days," she said, "and that they couldn't use the toilets because they were all backed up and overflowing." Mrs. Martin said one of the parents had contacted Jim Fick-ling, superintendent of schools in Anthony, and he promised to call the head janitor to let them into the building. The head janitor, when contacted by other parents Sunday morning, said he had not heard anything about the cleanup but unlocked the school at the par- -ents' request.

i Later in the day, Mrs. Martin Said, school board President Gary Bailey came to the school, told the parents they should not be there and threatened to call the police to have them evicted from the building. Police Chief Timothy Godfrey, tyho was among the cleanup crew, "said, 'Well, you'll have to arrest me, Mrs. Martin said, and the cleanup continued without incident. Bailey said he was at the school only briefly, having received a call from someone who reported people rushing in and out of the building.

He said he walked into the building at about noon Sunday, saw people cleaning, and left in search of Fickling. Bailey said Fickling denied knowing about the cleanup when the two spoke three hours later. Bailey said he looked for Fickling because he was "somewhat concerned with the school security, safety and (the parent's) lack of supervision." However, Bailey added, he did not think it was his responsibility nor his duty to remain and supervise the cleanup. The board president said he was not angry at the parents but wished they had "followed the proper channels" in getting permission to be in the school. Bailey said he spoke to no one while in the building and did not see the police chief there.

He denies threatening to call the police. Bailey also said the school appeared dirtier than he ever had seen it Sunday. "I would hate to say the dirt and debris was fabricated," he said, "but it was dirtier than I ever had seen it. The issue has been unduly exaggerated, and I think the situation's (Please see School, 3B) Timet photo by Al Gutierrez Grounds for fun and frolic Music floats from multicolored tents at the 1982 Border Folk began Friday and ended Sunday, a "roaring success." De-Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial. Park Superin- spite Sunday's nippy weather, the estimated 24,000 people tendent Frank Smith called the city's ninth festival, which who came to the festival topped last year's crowd by 10,000.

Dignity in death Hospice care helps terminally ill, relatives prepare for end City to hear request on TV station bonds How hospices operate 3B By MOLLY FENNELL Times staff writer Susan Mayfield knew her mother was about to die when she called the nurse early one July morning. Six minutes later, the nurse arrived at her house, she said. "And when she got here, she immediately took over with such assurance and calm. "Then she sat with us at our kitchen table and had a glass of orange juice and let us talk and cry a little. The nice thing was by this time, I knew her.

She was not a stranger coming into my home." Mrs. Mayfield can talk now with relative ease about her mother's death. "Time is such a good healer," she said. But the team of nurses, social workers and volunteers from Hospice of El Paso made an emotionally difficult period a little less trying. In medieval days, a hospice was a way station for travelers a refuge operated by a monastary.

In today's society, people go to hospitals to be healed, said Peggy Schwartz, executive director of Hospice of El Paso. Doctors and nurses aren't as comfortable or as well trained in treating people who will not get well. Hospice of El Paso, which accepted its first patient in March 1982, is an umbrella of services that include nursing, home-making, counseling and spiritual support that helps terminally ill patients and their families prepare for death. They also offer support services during the bereavement. In April, doctors discovered that Margaret Ballantyne, Mrs.

Mayfield's 81-year-old mother, had terminal cancer. "Doctors always are unwilling to give you a time factor," Mrs. Mayfield said, "but our doctor at Beaumont (Army Medical Center) told us it would not be long before she died." Mrs. Mayfield had been reading about the hospice concept of home care for terminally ill patients since she took a course about death and dying at the University of Texas at El Paso. "Through the course, I began a process of thinking about death and dying and forming my own attitude about it," she said.

When the doctors formed their diagnosis, Mrs. Mayfield decided she would bring her mother into the Mayfield household and eventually turn to hospice. This way, her mother could be in familiar surroundings and enjoy the company of children, grandchildren, even greatgrandchildren until her death. El Paso volunteers did not actually participate until about two weeks before her mother died, "but it gave me a tremendous peace of mind knowing that would be available," Mrs. Mayfield said.

Once Mrs. Ballantyne's doctor approved the arrangement, a nurse came to the house regularly to check on the cense and making it illegal for them to set up shop on a city street, sidewalk or right of way. They will be allowed to operate on private property or on streets as long as they do not solicit business while stationary. Council also will discuss and possibly act on whether permits should be issued to taxi drivers who are not legal residents of the city. Other meetings this week in-4 elude: MONDAY 11:30 a.m.

Charitable Solicitations Committee, council chambers, second floor of City Hall. 5:30 p.m. Administrative Structure and Representation Committee of the El Paso City Charter Commission, mayor's board room, 10th floor of City Hall. TUESDAY 1:30 p.m. Electrical Inspection Advisory Board, fifth-floor conference room of City Hall.

5 p.m. El Paso Independent School District board of trustees, 6531 Boeing, board room. Adopt tax rate. 5:15 p.m. Finance and Taxation Committee of the City Charter Commission, lOth-floor press room of City Hall.

5:30 p.m. Ysleta Independent School District board of trustees, Eastwood High School lecture room, 2430 McRae. A corporation planning to build jnd operate El Paso's first Spanish-speaking television station needs City Council to designate Ihe top of Comanche Peak a blighted area so its transmitting station can be financed with tax-exempt bonds. Council will convene a public hearing on the designation at its Tuesday meeting, which starts at 9 a.m. on the second floor of City Hall.

El Paso Del Norte Broadcasting headed by former Alderman E.H. Baeza, is backing proposed sale of $2.5 million in industrial revenue bonds to cover construction of the atop Comanche Peak, iabout seven-eighths of a mile north of Scenic Drive. To qualify for the bond program, the area first must be declared "blighted or economically depressed." Dwight Culver, an economic fprogram analyst for the city's -Economic Development Department, said the designation is routine and already has been approved by the Texas Industrial Commission. "Some may think it's strange Jo designate a mountain peak an economically blighted area, but there's logic behind this," Culver "said. In other action Tuesday, council will consider giving final approval to an ordinance requiring peso peddlers to obtain a $100 li Timrs photos by Carlos Resales SUSAN MAYFIELD DESCRIBES HOSPICE CARE "Time is such a good healer" Another volunteer made regular, friendly visits to Mrs.

Ballantyne. "I was so relieved," Mrs. Mayfield said. "I wasn't sure enough in what I was doing for my mother. I was afraid that I was hurting her more than helping her But, Mrs.

Mayfield said, her mother appreciated the hospice volunteers. "When the nurse and home health care person came to the house, they were such a comfort to her," she said. "You could just see the lines in her face relax when she saw them there." The nurse also could tell Mrs. Mayfield when it was necessary to call for a doctor's help. She said she was more confident "knowing there was someone on the other end of the line in case of a crisis" especially the ultimate crisis.

"I didn't understand what was happening to mother until the nurse got there," she remembered. "In a skillful, kind way, she explained what had happened. That my mother was hemorrhaging internally and that this was a sign of impending death. By that time, I was prepared." Becky Horowitz, social worker for Hospice of El Paso, said the hospice philosophy allows people to begin grieving before the patient dies. "We try to tell the patient and his family that it's OK to share their feelings, to cry together and hold each other," she said.

Jane Claire, a registered nurse who works with Hospice of El Paso, agreed. "The grieving is important to the patient, too." she said. "All of us want to know that our death will make a difference." (Please see Hospice, 3B) i i final i "iii 'i i ii i'w Album Park area people still want answers to disco bash up front by Ed Foster Bill Lewis, one of the homeowners living near Album Park, says he still would like an explanation of how one alderman has the power to authorize a rock or disco concert at the park when the entire City Council passed a city ordinance forbidding amplified music without a permit. East Side Alderman Joe Divis granted a request by a local radio station to stage such a concert a week ago at one of Album Park's baseball fields. The show wound up drawing an estimated 2,000 disco enthusiasts, and police were called out in force to control drinking, use of drugs and rowdyism.

Park area residents also reported several fights and at least one stabbing. Police at the scene told residents the department had had no advance notice that the station planned a concert, nor that one had been approved, and so it was unprepared for the extra burden. Parts of the city went without protection while a force of more than a dozen officers sought to control the Album crowd, police on the Album scene said. Another problem was that, since Divis had granted the station use of only one baseball field, all other rest room facilities had remained locked. Consequently, nearby homeowners discovered their lawns being used as urinals, an experience that had enraged them and led to passage of the ordinance banning consumption of alcoholic beverages from parks in the first place.

Divis had led the fight to secure that ordinance. Lewis also is wondering who will pay the electricity bill for the concert. The ball diamond, he says, has 50 lights, and additional ones were used for the disco lights and amplifier. Then, too, there's the cleanup bill. Extra park crews had to do the job Monday.

Alderman David Escobar, who says he was bypassed in the station's request, says he surveyed the Uttered grounds the morning after the two months ago and that he liked the looks of Album as a possible site. He said West first went to Acting Parks and Recreation Director Jeff Likar and that Likar said, "Look, Bob, the parks are public property you can use them just as anyone else can. The only thing is, if you're going to use a loudspeaker, you'll have to get permission from the alderman whose district has the park. "So Bob called Divis. Divis gave permission over the phone.

I told Bob he'd better get it In writing. And he did. Divis wrote us a letter. He knew exactly what we planned to do. When police first came out, they wanted us to stop the party, but we showed them that letter from Divis, and they said, 'Oh, OK "We also got permission to use tne Softball field from those people on Delta," Frankhouser said.

He said he and West liked the Softball fipld because it was fenced, with two entrances, and they thought a security guard at each entrance would he-enough to handle a crowd of 500 or so and keep out any alcoholic beverages. "We underestimated how many would come," Frankhouser said. "At any rate, we want the people of El Paso to know that we don't condone breaking any laws. If either Likar or Divis had given us any hint of possible trouble, we'd have pulled the plug fast. When police told us to close down at 9:15, we didn't argue.

And the next morning, I had my disc jockeys out cleaning up lawns of homeowners out there whose complaints reached the station. The station's full name, Frankhouser said, is KAMZ, a sister station to Spanish language station KAMA. He said KAMZ, more popularity known as 93Z, changed to an English format only last April and the unexpected crowd at the party might he an indication how the station's audience is growing. concert and found no serious damage. But he says he is going to see that the radio station gets a bill.

Meanwhile, after the incident was made public Sunday, station manager John Frankhouser lamented that "had somebody told us of the problems that park had experienced, we'd not have staged the concert. No one did." Frankhouser said both he and his program director, Bob West, came to El Paso within the past year and were unaware of Album Park's history of problems with drinking and crowd control that led to the June 1981 ordinance banning consumption of alcoholic bcvcraf.cs In most city parks. Frankhouser said West conceived the idea for a free public party about i.