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11 i A TucsonoArizona I 5A Tucson Citizen CITY EDITOR MARK KIMBLE 573-4561 Tuesday November 1 1988 By DAN SORENSON Citizen Staff Wnter money from a diocesean fund used -previously to provide loans to parishes in the diocese for building projects I But Bishop Manuel Moreno also said he was dissatisfied with some of the programming The station has been criticized by some local Catholics for showing movies with sex scenes and earlier this year for carrying the Downey Jr a talk show that dealt with controversial social issues and was hosted by an often abusive host The show quickly was dropped and later picked up by another Tucson independent station KPOL-TV Channel 40 sale exists An operating station means a prospective buyer would have a trained staff in place advertising account? could be maintained and the station would not have to be recertified by the FCC after the sale is completed Once a station goes off the air its right to sell and transfer the license is much less clear and diminishes quickly after just couple of weeks Local TV industry sources say the station was close to being sold several times already The main problem with the station according to the diocese was financial The diocese said the station was being supported with He and Frank Kalilthe radio-TV station broker handlingsale of the station both declined comment on the prospective buyer Allison said the 40 fulltime and two part-time employees were to have been fired with two severance pay today Instead they will be kept on for the week while negotiations for the sale continue Allison said any sale would have to be approved by the Federal Cpm-munications Commission Traditionally stations operate normally during the mpnths it takes the FCC to approve a sale In spite of the greater cost of staying on the air it is preferable to closing the statin if the chance of a KDTU-TV to remain on air i Week's reprieve helps potential sale KDTU-TV Channel 18 which was to have gone off the air today was granted a reprieve under an arrangement between the station "Hind a prospective buyer according to a spokesman for the owner The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson owner of the independent station announced last week that the station would be shut down today because it had been draining diocesan resources and the diocese had been unable to sell it But a spokesman for the diocese Fred Allison announced a reprieve late yesterday afternoon i Panel probe reopened in heart mismatch Child play at the zoo By CARLA McCLAIN Citizen Staff Writer Dateline 1 Arizona Gov Rose advises milk naps PHOENIX Gov Rose '-Mofford taking a pagerirom Advice for kindergarten stu-'dents says business and civic leaders should drink their £5nilkeat cookies take a nap 'very afternoon and and paint and sing and Mofford who once told reporters in Olympia Wash that their colleagues hnd others in Arizona refer to her as did not deliver the speech to the Arizona Town Hall meeting because she was suffering froirf laryngitis but press aides released a copy of the text yesterday Said Mofford: "This advice is a small essay called I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergar-ten are the thmgs I learned Play fair Share everything hit people take things that yours Wash your hands before you eat Take a nap every afternoon of what a better world it would be if we all the whole world ate cookies and milk every afternoon and lay down with our blankets for a I I I I II Ousted speaker moving to Phoenix WILLCOX House Speaker Joe Lane never run for office again in his southeastern Arizona district and will move to Phoenix to live there Lane 53 a fifth-term representative was upset in the Republican primary Sept 13 Observers and Lane attrib--'uted the loss to a reaction over his part in the impeachment last February of former Gov "Evan Mecham nothing for me to do down here I sold the ranch a number of years ago and I run again (in District 8) because the Mechamites would be after me said Lane who has lived Ifere for 48 years Man braves fire to rescue another PHOENIX Unemployed mechanic Ron Dennis of Phoenix rescued a man trapped in a burning condominium yesterday 'The man Dennis rescued Henry Williamson 3 1 was in fair condition at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-Osborn after being treated for smoke inhalation Dennis 19 said he found Williamson 1 0 to 1 5 feet from the front door and dragged him to safety Prop 106 debate gets cable air time A debate on Proposition 106 a measure that would make English the offi--cial language will be televised on Cooke CableVision Channel 45 tonight through Monday The program will air each evening at 7 pm Speaking for Proposition 106 are Wes Bramhall Tucson chairman of Arizonans for Official English and Stanley Diamond acting chairman of US English Speaking the measure are state Rep Armando Ruiz D-Phoe-nix and Pima County Superior Court Judge Lina Rodri-' guez i comments are limited to the potential impact on the judicial system The debate was coordinated by the Office of Hispanic Affairs for the Diocese of Tuc-' son and Cooke CableVision On this day In 1893 the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act caused much suffering in Arizona as the price of silver dropped from 125 to as low as 25 cents an ounbe Many mines closed ANIMAL NURSERY The Reid Park Zoo is home to several new babies this fall One of two unnamed male llamas born a week ago today (above) struggles to his feet Five llamas live at the zoo and 20 have been born there And a baby mandrill named Mara (right) eats with her mother Geraldine Mara was born Sept 9 Mandrills resemble large baboons and are native to Cameroon and other parts of 9 western Africa LINDA SEEGERTucson Citizen The state board of nursing has reopened its investigation into the case of Janice Copeland the former University Medical Center heart transplant nurse blamed for mismatching a donor heart given to a dying UMC patient last year The board had recommended in September that Copeland be formally disciplined for what the board saw as her failure to adequately check the blood type of the heart given to that patient As a result of that apparent mistake the patient James Shocklee of Phoenix immediately rejected the mismatched heart was forced into emergency use of the risky artifical heart and later underwent a successful heart transplant However the board delayed disciplining Copeland who is the wife of the head of heart trans- plant team Dr Jack Copeland until she was notified of and responded to the judgment against her According to sources Jan Copeland has now decided to fight that judgment and has requested that the board hear on the mismatch case The board will consider that request at its regular meeting later this month 1 investigation will be re-presented in light of new said Fran Roberts executive director of the nursing board She declined to detail that information saying it was at this point However the information concerns the accusation that Copeland failed to follow proper procedure in checking the blood type of the heart given to Shocklee The investigation found that Copeland confirmed only by her memory that the heart and the patient were the same blood type when in fact paperwork done on the transplant later revealed they were not Copeland apparently is arguing that there was no formal procedure for matching donor heqrts and tients at UMC at that time so she cannot be disciplined for failing to follow any particular procedure explained Bruce Preston the assistant state attorney general prosecuting the case for the board is saying that the original information is not said Preston original information seemed to indicate that she failed to follow a during this transplant However her point is that a formal protocol was not actually set up until after the mistake was made in order to be sure it happen again If you accept that in effect she could not have violated a protocol that Jan Copeland has declined tp comment on the case She resigned her job as a UMC heart transplant coordinator several months after the Shocklee incident citing stress she and her husband had suffered over the mismatch it After the board rehears the Copeland investigation and new information it may decide to reconsider its vote to discipline Copeland with a formal censure said Preston If the" board does not change that decision then Copeland must either consent to the disciplinary action or she may ask the board to call a formal hearing to deal with her case publicly he said Reservation drug haul $61 million agents estimated the value of the marijuana at $612000 and that of the cocaine at $609 million Customs officials have seen a shift in activity because of the presence of the sophisticated aerostat radar balloon anchored at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista in far southeastern Arizona said EK Vaubel Customs special agent in charge in Tucson The aerostat is designed to deter smuggling by low-flying small aircraft across the Mexican border into Arizona The three men all residents the Tohono Nation were booked into the Federal Correctional Institution on Jiouth Wilmot Road on charges of conspiracy possession and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana A search of the car turned up 600 pounds of cocaine packed in eight duffel bags Turner said The two men in the car William Corne-lius Johnson 28 and Gordon Lopez 27 were arrested Turner said A request was broadcast to law enforcement agencies throughout southern Arizona asking that they watch for a third man Stanley Salazar 40 of Sells At 11:30 pm Saturday Tohono police spotted Salazar driving near Sells and arrested him The next day Turner said agents searched a mobile home on a small ranch about two miles west of Sells Relieved used as a stash house by Salazar The agents found another 71 pounds of cocaine and 681 pounds of marijuana in the mobile home Turner said Customs By DAVID LTEIBEL and ROBERT McCORMICK Citizen Staff Writers US Customs Service agents seized more than $61 million worth of cocaine and marijuana over the weekend and arrested three men The bust the first major cocaine seizure made by customs agents on the To-hono Indian Reservation shows there is a changing drug-trafficking pipeline authorities said The arrests came after an anonymous tip said Judy Turner a Houston-based spokeswoman for the Customs Service Based on the tip she said agents stopped a car with two men inside at 6:30 pm Saturday as the men drove along State Route 86 near Three Points Supervisors race boils down to experience By MARY BUSTAMANTE Citizen Staff Writer SUPER SQUASH This "Dude as it has been dubbed weighs 1 66 pounds according to Tim Farmer (top) and his friend Pat I Timmons think the largest in the state although the state fair featured a 1 69-pound uncarved pumpkin Farmer bought the pumpkin from an Elfrida farmer There have been offers for the prodigious pumpkin's seeds LINDA SEEGER Tucson Citizen Nicaraguan relief effort Private donations exceed expectations By RUBEN HERNANDEZ Citizen Staff Writer It took last-minute scrambling but Tucson relief workers managed to deliver a planeload of supplies to hurrican ravaged Nicaragua over the weekend shows what can done on a people-to-people basis without governments and large bureaucracies said Tim Nonn who coordinated the effort for Walk Peace a medical relief agency Nonn said Tucson volunteers in conjunction with the Tucson Ecumenical Council a church coalition raised 150000 in five days to send tents blankets food medicine clothing and electrical supplies to Bluefields a town of about 30000 on the east coast The town was ravaged by NICARAGUAN contmued6A In the Pima County Board of Supervisors race in East Side District 1 Republican Greg Lunn and Democrat Tom Goddard agree on the most important qualities for the job: experience and leadership They differ on who they think has those qualities Lunn a state senator for eight years said annual surveys of effectiveness have without exception put him at or near the top of the list Goddard owner of a small public policy research firm said he simply think Lunn is qualified has never met a payroll or done a budget I understand the plight of the small businessman in this community combination of my experiences (as an attorney as a special assistant to Gov Bruce Babbitt in the southern Arizona office as a state legislative counsel to the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and as head of the research company) prepared me very well to become a Goddard said adding he has worked in the private public and non-profit sectors and therefore his background is much diverse than Goddard called Lunn a career politician with one priority: to advance his career (Rep Jim) Kolbe decide to run for governor Greg would resign within 14 months and run for Congress He has been hand-picked by the powers that be just for that Lunn responds that he would not committed thyself to four SUPERVISORS continued6A Moore called issiie in supervisor race 7 What is the big issue in (he David Morales-Ed Moore battle for the county seat in District In tomorrow's Citizen Morale? says the Issue is simple: Moore "himself i 1.