The Times-News from Twin Falls, Idaho • 9

Wednesday, June 30, 1982 Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho" M(9J BPA rate hike proposal criticized B3 Holiday activities get under way B2 Business news-, market reports B4 $1 1 I I 9 IV-' mm (570 release ir 1 sale Feds Mods for Tl 1 4 It .4 I 1 In photo taken only hours after right, and another Elko County where Joseph Breslin fell after being shot by witnesses who had Letters reveal little been staying in campers (background) at the rest area. of shooting motive Interior. Spencer's Pasture site, Idaho Falls, 160 acres, Department of Agriculture. Colorado Springs administrtative site, Rexburg, 40 acres without buildings, (no agency listed). Cottonwood RAH, a one-acre site 15 miles from Grangeville, Department of Interior.

Elk Road Warehouse, 12 acres of land near the Salmon dog pound, Department of Agriculture. Canyon Creek administrative site, 102 acres in steep terrain, near. Rexburg, Department of Agriculture. Selfon said only federal lands previously marked for sale or transfer in land-use plans were included in the initial list. The review board asked federal agencies to supply information on other public lands that are not used or are under-utilized.

But Selfon said the figures obtained in other categories were listed only as acreage totals not by location and size. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Idaho Conservation League said the ICL has received two replies to Freedom of Information Act requests it filed for documents relating to the inventory process. Pat Ford, the ICL's executive director, said the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service rejected the league's request, contending that the information was privileged under the category of "working papers." The Bureau of Land Management gave the ICL only acreage totals the agency had previously released, Ford said. Ford said the ICL would appeal the decision because officials in the Reagan administration had previously set a goal of land sales in the billions of dollars, while parcels identified so far are worth only a fraction of that amount.

WASHINGTON, D.C. A spokesman, for the president's Property Review Board said Monday that he would release today a preliminary list of 307 public land parcels identified for sale to help reduce the "national debt. Bruce Selfon, acting executive director of the seven-member White House panel, said 13 Idaho tracts are on the list, which will be turned over to the General Services Administration for sale or transfer to other agencies. Among the Idaho parcels are two sites in Oakley and one each in Burley and Heyburn. The smallest is a half-adre site owned by the Interior Department in Heyburn.

The largest Is 324 acres owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Dworshak Reservoir. Selfon contacted The Times-News telephone in response to a request made pnder the federal Freedom of Information Act. The Idaho parcels identified by Selfon are: A 2.3-acre administrative site in Burley; owned by the Department of Interior. Kenneth Warr site, a one-acre parcel in Oakley, Department of Agriculture.

Basin stock corral, three-fourths of an acre, also in Oakley, (no agency listed). Heyburn Substation site, a half acre ja Heyburn, Department of Interior Dworshak Dam and Reservoir site, 324 acres in Clearwater County, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mann Creek Project, 264 acres situated 20 miles from Department of Interior. An 80-acre parcel in Canyon County, four miles east of Nampa, Department of Interior.

The Luke Lowell tracts, 150 acres, also in Canyon County, Department of By BRUCE HAMMOND Times-News writer TWIN FALLS Letters written by the California man who shot an Elko County sheriffs deputy near Jackpot on Saturday, and then was fatally gunned down by bystanders, have revealed little to investigators about the bizarre incident. "They haven't added very much to our information," Elko County's chief deputy, Neil Harris, said Tuesday concerning the letter and an inscribed cardboard box top found in the gunman's possession. Joseph Francis Breslin, 32, of San Luis Obispo, shot Deputy Denny Lawrence, 49, at the Little Salmon Creek rest area, three miles south of Jackpot. He then began firing at several nearby campers, only to be cut down when two of the campers returned shots with firearms they grabbed from their vehicles; Breslin, who had been shot five times, died Sunday at Magic Valley Regional MedicalCenter-in Twin Falls. Lawrence remains in critical California police believe Breslin stabbed the mother and strangled the girl either Wednesday or Thursday, and then stole Mrs.

Cain's car to drive out of state. No motive for either of the events was mentioned in any of Breslin's writings. Breslin had a past history of violence and mental illness. According to California authorities, he was institutionalized at an undisclosed Pennsylvania mental hospital in 1968, where he reportedly killed a fellow inmate. That alleged crime was first revealed in 1977, when Breslin reportedly confessed the incident to an analyst at the California Men's Colony at San Luis Obispo.

Breslin served three years there for wounding a man in the head with a shotgun. Elko County Sheriff James Miller said Lawrence showed some slight' hope for improvement early Tuesday morning, when he opened his left eye while a doctor was talking to him. "He's still in a coma and still -in critical condition, and on life-support i Radiologists' future Pish odor waste draws complaint Gooding Commissioners mull disposal uncertain following hospital decision "I Incumbents max; work for new doctor Photo provided by Carl Haydcn, Jackpot officer inspect the scene systems," Miller reported, "but the doctors indicated this did offer some hope. "They say he could come out of luV coma five minutes from now, or five years. We don't know anything Either the sheriff or Harris has -been staying at the Boise hospital" since the shooting, waiting for a change in Lawrence's condition.

"He's one of ours," Miller saldP simply. Miller said he will continue withholding the names of the two campers who shot Breslin in self-defense because they will not be charged in the shooting, and they have requested anonymity. The two men are brothers from Westminister, and "I talked to one of the men yesterday (Monday), and he was still pretty shook up about the shooting," the sheriff said. "I understand both of the brothers just had recent surgery, and this incident is being hard on them. "Right now, they just want to play things down." plete explanation of this bizarre ordeal in the future," he added.

McWilliams has worked at the hospital for about 30 yearsDavis and McKim have been here for the last seven years. Their contract to provide radiology services expired Dec. 31, 1979. Since then, the hospital board and the radiologists have been unable to agree on a new contract. Points at issue in the contract discussions included the stipulation that the contract could be canceled by either party "without cause" on 90 days notice; the use of Davis's not the corporation's name on the contract; and a requirement that two radiologists always be on duty during working hours.

Hospital officials expressed nope that the board's decision will be "in the best interests of all concerned." The discussions have caused considerable upheaval among the medical staff and the hospital board. From 1974 to 1980, Strand worked as co-chairman of the radiology department at the Mad River Community Hospital in Areata, Calif. He has a radiology practice in Tucson and is associated with Holy Cross Hospital there. His application for staff privileges must be approved by all departments of the hospital's medical staff. make it so tough, our people don't want to go there," he said.

"I won't deny we made mistakes. But Dr. Pressmen has admitted he has made mistakes." Dr. Harry Brumbach, the chairman of the trauma committee, denied that the allegations resulted from a personality dash, saying problems occurred before the present emergency-room staff was hired. In 1976, physicians aired complaints about the ambulance service to the Twin Falls County commissioners and "nothing happened, for whatever reason," be said.

Brumbach also contends that Cloyce Edwards has not made an effort to correct the problems. See AMBULANCE Page B-3 shooting, Sheriff James Miller, condition with a. head wound at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. The incident has received national attention, including coverage by Newsweek magazine, because of its connection to a double murder in California last week.

At the time of the shooting, Breslin was carrying a letter with instructions that it be opened upon his death. In it, Breslin said he was "no good and that his New Year's resolution was to be dead by 1983. He also asked that his body was to be thrown away. On the box top, Breslin apparently wrote several almost meaningless lines, including profanity, referring to his 'last stand." It also said, "For now, I will return." Authorities had speculated that the letter might contain some reference to a double murder in Breslin's hometown. At the scene of that murder, Breslin apparently left a letter confessing to the slaying of Linda Sue Cain, 37, and her 8-year-old daughter, Desiree.

Monday that the medical staff ha? voted to uphold the board's decision not to rotate ambulance calls. In his request for a "due-process hearing," Stubbs contended that the board had not heard MVAS's side of the situation. He asked that the rotation system be re-instated until the hearing is held. If not even If the service is vindicated it may be out of business, he said. "That not the the we do things.

It is not the way fairness is metered out," Stubbs said. board rejected the appeal to go back to a rotation system. Board Chairman Clarence Hollifield said, "We don't want to run anyone out of fish that get too old, they just dump them in too," be said. Tracy Callings, an environmentalist for the South Central District Health Department, said that the oil in the fish waste seals the ground and prevents absorption of the liquid. It also slows evaporation and decay of the matter.

"This material will not break down in two years," he said. Collings also told the commission that septic-tank pumpers are required by state law to empty their trucks at established sewage treatment plants. That would include the Hagerman sewage lagoon, now under repair due to leaks, and the new Gooding city waste-water treatment plant, which is not completed yet. Collings and Mason both said the pool of liquid and fish matter posed 'K a danger to a nearby irrigation canal, only 14 feet away. Both men also agreed that covering the liquid material is impossible.

Collings showed the commissioners slides of the area, which indicate the makeshift lagoon is leaking, posing the possibility of contaminating the canal. County Prosecutor Severt Swenson told the commission that the county is required by state law to operate a solid-waste disposal V- See ODOR Page B3 By JANENE BUCKWAY Times-News correspondent GOODING A smelly problem has surfaced at the Gooding County landfill southwest of The Hagerman Valley Citizens' Alert Committee has complained about the odor at the landfill, Commissioner Robert Tupper told the other members of the com-" mission Monday. He said his own inspection of the site revealed liquid fish-processing waste, fish viscera and raw sewage "oozing over the ground." Vera Mason, caretaker at the landfill, said he had dug a six- to eight-foot-deep pit resembling a sewage lagoon to accommodate the fish waste, which is being dumped by Valley Trout Co. of Hagerman and Chase Products Co. "It's the only way I know how to handle this stuff," he said, de-; scribing the material as a liquid base with fish oil, viscera and other decaying fish matter.

Mason also said that septic-tank pumping firms empty their pumper trucks at the site, some-! times dumping raw sewage into the disposal pond. According to Mason, the dumping of fish-processing waste has increased from 150 gallons per day a year ago, to 1,000 gallons per day at present. "If they have a load of Hospital By STPEHANIE SCHOROW Times-News writer TWIN FALLS The fate of the two-ambulance system In Twin Falls County may be decided by a committee being put together by the Magic Valley Regional Medical Center. Following an appeal by Magic Valley Ambulance Service at Monday night's hospital board meeting, the board agreed that an "independent" group will be set up to review the hospital's decision to direct all routine ambulance transfer calls to Twin. Falls Emergency Medical Services.

The hospital's decision to cease, rotating ambulance calls has put Magic Valley Ambulance Service practically out of business, Mark By STEPHANIE SCHOROW Times-News writer TWIN FALLS -The future of the radiologists now working at Magic Valley Regional Medical Center remains uncertain following a decision by the hospital board Monday night to offer a radiology contract to a Tucson, doctor. After nearly a year of closed-door discussions over radiology services, the board voted to offer a contract to Dr. Richard Strand, a board-certified radiologist. Drs. Dennis Davis, Greg McKim, and C.R.

McWilliams presently are, providing radiology services to the hospital without a contract. The board had decided previously to terminate their services on Aug. 10. Strand told the board he would attempt to form some kind of partnership with the three present radiologists, although his name would appear on the official contract. Dr.

Howard Biggs of Areata, an associate of Strand, also will move to Twin Falls to provide services. Davis said Tuesday that "superficial talks with Dr. Strand are hopeful that something acceptable to all concerned can be arranged, although no agreements have been made." "I do intend to make a more com business, but we do want good patient care." Dr. Kent Pressman, an emergency-room physician, said, "If we put this man's (Edward's) service back on rotation, we are jeopardizing our patients. He may be good a couple of days, and then, we don't know." Edward's son, Calvin, in speaking to the hospital board, which he referred to as a "lynch mob," contended that allegations against MVAS resulted from personality conflicts between MVAS staff and emergency-room physicians.

Saying his life's dream was to be a paramedic, he said the emergency-room staff bad "ostracized" the MVAS staff. ER (emergency room) can BOB DELASHMUTTTWs News Fish waste at Gooding County's landfill poses problems committee may decide ambulance service fate Stubbs, an attorney for the firm, told 1 the board Monday. But on Tuesday, Cloyce Edwards, the owner of MVAS and who also is the 1 county coroner, said, "The Magic 8 Valley Ambulance Service has plenty of assets, that we could stay In business for many, many years, if we choose to." However, "Magic Valley Ambulance Service will be losing money if we're not re-instated," he said. Stubbs and Fred Decker, the attorney for the hospital, will meet July 7 with the hospital's joint conference committee composed of the execu-' tive committees of the medical staff and the board to suggest impartial persons who may form a review committee. It was suggested that the committee might Include emergency-room staff from another city, such as Salt Lake City, and-or Dr.

Doug Stagg, a former MVRMC emergency-room physician who now works at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, i In May, the board followed the recommendation of its trauma committee to cease rotation of ambulance calls. The committee claimed MVAS had violated a county ordinance concerning numbers of certified personnel and did not provide good patient care. However, county Prosecutor Harry DeHaan, the author of the ordinance, later said MVAS was not In violation of the law. Dr.

Michael Phillips, the president of the medical staff, told the board I.