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ObituariesCalendarT elevisionPeople Thursday, June ic, 1900 Protection for victims developed Ell Rod0r tadrww Daily Sentinel fails to ffle by deadline Bob Mbwingrt Daily Sentinel for comment Mclnnis is the chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, and his name has been mentioned frequently as a possible candidate for Congress. In December he was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of 10 rising political stars from around the country. Mclnnis said he plans to contact the Secretary of States office today to see what can be done. I would think the vacancy committee for the 57th District could meet and appoint me, he said. Regardless of what happens, one way or another I will run for re-election.

Its just something that slipped through the cracks. Mclnnis has no Republican challenger in the 57th District However, Democrat Dan Arrow of Aspen has filed the necessary papers to run against Mclnnis. Arrow was out of town and couldnt be reached for comment Candidates of both parties in the 54th, 55th, 56th and 58th Districts in Western Colorado all filed the required papers to run for those seats, Burton said. State Rep. Scott Mclnnis is one of the rising stars in the states Republican Party, but he may have to run as a write-in candidate for his own legislative seat in November.

Mclnnis, 34, a Glenwood Springs attorney who represents the 57th District, was nominated by his party June 3 to seek re-election for his seat But he failed to file acceptance of nomination within 10 days after that, said Michelle Burton, a staff assistant with the Colorado Secretary of States office. His only option after that was to file a party petition, but those were due at 5 p.m. today, Burton said Wednesday. His option now is run as a write-in candidate in the primary. Mclnnis, who left on vacation shortly after the 57th District Republican Convention, said he returned home late Wednesday to find a message from the Secretary of States office about his candidacy.

Usually, the chairman of the district files all those papers, Mclnnis said. The chairman, John Hanson, just got married and apparently he didnt get those papers filed. Hanson is on his honeymoon in Europe, and couldnt be reached New bonding procedures developed by a Mesa County task force are designed to keep perpetrators of domestic violence from quick release and continued harassment of the victim. In many cases, before a police officer has completed his paperwork regarding an incident of domestic violence, the perpetrator is back home intimidating or even harming the victim. The new procedures should go into effect July 1.

The task force consisted of Mesa County prosecutors, law enforcement personnel, judges, counselors and service providers, said Sandy Dougan, coordinator of Mesa Countys FamilyDomestic Violence Project. Dougan said under old procedures, perpetrators could bond out immediately regardless of any past history of domestic violence. They were issued a summons which required them to appear in court four weeks later at which time they were issued a mandatory restraining order to prevent contact with the victim until the final disposition of their case. What that procedure didnt do, she said, is protect the victim immediately after the incident. Under the new procedures, defendants will be reqired to wait until court convenes the next day after their arrest before bond is set Any prior history of domestic violence will be considered in determining bail, she said.

Higher bonds and stiffer conditions, such as no contact with the victim, may also be imposed at that hearing. Dougan has been training law enforcement personnel about the new procedures which will also entail police contacting counselors from the Domestic Violence Project at the time of the arrest to assist the victim. Counselors will obtain any prior history of violence from the victim and will request that the victim complete a form detailing the incident Dougan is also involved in tracking defendants through the system with the goal of preventing repeat occurences. She estimates she has handled over 250 cases since July. The plan was developed by a 198o task force, which changed the way police handled domestic violence calls.

Before police were mediators, now they are empowered to treat domestic violence as a crime. Bob Munden, a showman from Butte, can draw, shoot and reholster his Colt .45 revolver in 0.0175 of a second. Munden will be appearing at Meads Classic Motors through Saturday. PUC to hear Bell Folks get bang out of fast shooter Paula Mmm Andwrson Daily Sentinel rate plan this fall Aseeelbled Press looked at each other in amazement as Munden fired a shot with a blurred hand movement. You have the illusion that I never moved, said Munden, during an interview.

The guys awesome, remarked car dealer Dick Mead, who was among the bystanders and who sponsored Mundens visit. Other feats among Mundens repertoire include sighting targets by looking through the prism of a diamond, shooting two targets with shots so close together they sound like one, and splitting a playing card with the edge facing him. He said hes taken his gun show to 46 states and three foreign countries. Munden will be showing off his skills at Dick Meads Classic Motors. Demonstrations are scheduled for 4.30, 6 and 7:30 p.m.

today and Friday; and noon, 2 and 4 p.m. on Saturday. The fastest gun in the West or anywhere else in the world is in town, but youd have to see it to believe it Bob Munden can draw, shoot and return his Colt .45 revolver to his holster in the blink of an eye. More precisely, thats 0.0175 of a second, says the 45-year-old showman from Butte, Mont You can look it up. It's listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and in Ripleys Believe It Or Not.

Im an example of how fast a human being can function, boasted the squat, 5-foot 8-inch tall, 200-pound, barrel-chested Munden, adding that his short, compact build contributes to his fast draw. Viewers watching a demonstration at Cross Orchards Living History Farm Wednesday afternoon it wanted to increase charges in fees for unlimited local calls in the Denver area in order to reduce toll fees in many rural areas. Mountain Bell wants the proposal to be effective Jan. 1, 1990. It said the proposal is revenue neutral, meaning it wont increase the companys earnings.

It is asking the commission to decide the case before the end of the year, contending a full year is needed to put mechanisms in place to be fully operational in January of 1990. DENVER Mountain Bells proposal for increasing business-phone charges and the monthly residential fee for unlimited local calls in the Denver area will be the subject of hearings next fall, the Public Utilities Commission announced on Wednesday. The commission also set up a procedure to encourage public comment and to determine how many hearings would be necessary. The phone company said Monday Administrator says rural hospitals need to respond with innovation Colorado has 4 lower taxes, report shows Nanoy Loftiolm Daily Sentinel 19C3 personal Income vs local taxes Colorados average persons! Income Colorado' $15,234 cians, he said. In other success stories: Florissant in Teller County used state funding to organize a countywide health-care system using non-physician practitioners to fill in where no doctors were available.

Eagle County has been able to keep an ambulance service alive while many counties in the state are going under by charging patients and aligning itself with a hospital for lower cost services. La Junta overcame some small neighboring community animosities and merged several hospitals to form one acute-care center and several long-term rehabilitation centers. Scott told his colleagues. He said rural-health-care administrators need to respond with innovation to buck federal cost cutting that could translate into lower quality care. The big fix is not going to come from Denver or San Francisco or Washington or anywhere else.

Its going to come from right here, Scott said. In Montrose, Scott and the hospital board of directors got innovative by creating a for-profit subsidiary to attract obstetricians when the town was threatened with having no more doctors to deliver babies and the hospital was threatened with the loss of deliveries. That effort attracted six obstetri GUNNISON Exhorting rural-health-care officials to ignore the naysayers, Montrose Hospital Administrator Steve Scott said despite prevailing opinion rural hospitals do not have to settle for lower quality health care. Scott made his remarks as one of five medical professionals who outlined rural Colorado success stories in the third and final day of a Rural Health Care conference in Gunnison. I have never accepted, nor will I ever accept, the difference between urban and rural health care, between the patient with AIDS or the sheepherder with no money," DENVER Per capita state and local taxes in Colorado for 1986 were $1,485, or 4 percent under the national average of $1,547, the Colorado Public Expenditure Council said in a report issued this week.

That put the state 19th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., the report said, and for every year since 1970, Colorados ratio of taxes to income has been equal to, or below, the U.S. average. The CPEC is a privately funded agency that keeps a close watch over state and local government taxing and spending. Please check Taxes, page 2B $14,641 per capita taxes U.S. average personal Income U.S.

average per capHa taxes $1,547 Sourv: Cokrado Put to Expndtw Daily Sentmei Crews clean up after Denver twisters Also much of the property damage involved uprooted trees, lost shingles and broken windows, rather than wholesale destruction of homes. In the area of East 17th Avenue and and Monaco Parkway, trees were downed, and power was cut off in the area until about midnight Police ordered spectators off the streets to put an end to looting attempts. It was the most powerful thing weve ever seen, said Bernie Clark, who works in the area and watched the tornado make its descent A second tornado touched down at the corner of South Broadway and East Evans Avenue, sending vehicles flying through the air, blowing out windows and causing minor ture, but with six tornadoes on the line all competing for the energy in the area, they may not have the strength that the June 3, 1981, tornado in Thornton had. That storm touched down in a residential area about 10 miles north of downtown Denver and flattened homes, hurtled storage sheds and dumped them blocks away, ripped, off roofs and left people homeless. Forty-two people were injured and officials estimated residential property damage alone at more than $8.5 million.

About 50 homes in the city of 40,000 were destroyed and an estimated 600 buildings throughout the metropolitan area were damaged. Damage estimates from Wednesdays tornadoes were unavailable, but the number of buildings damaged appeared to be limited. DENVER Cleanup crews were put to work in Denver in the wake of six tornadoes that touched down Wednesday, causing property damage and minor injuries but failing to create the devastation of the 1981 tornado in the suburb Thornton. The Larimer County sheriffs office also reported that a tornado touched down north of Fort Collins near the Anheuser Busch brewery, but there were no reports of damage. In Denver, trees were uprooted, vehicles overturned and buildings damaged in two neighborhoods.

National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Dulong said tornadoes are erratic by na A tornado near the east side of Denver begins its descent Wednesday. It was one of six that swept through the metre area. i.