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The Santa Fe New Mexican from Santa Fe, New Mexico • 7

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Santa Fe, Monday, September 16, 1985 THE NEW MEXICAN A-7 Loral Man in serious condition with gunshot wound New Mexico A Santa Fe man was reported in serious condition early this morning in the intensive care unit of St. Vincent Hospital after being shot in the chest Sunday evening. Police have charged Arthur J. Anaya, whose age and address were unavailble, with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of Donald Santana, of 1550 6th Street, Space 58. Anaya was arrested in the 3,300 block of Cerrillos Road about 11:30 p.m.

by Santa Fe Police Detective Ray Flores. He was being held at the Santa Fe County Detention Center. Santana was shot in the chest, apparently by a gunshot fired through the window of his trailer, while sitting in his living room about 9 p.m. Sunday, said Sgt. Tom Hill.

Hill said the wounded man was able to walk to a neighbor's trailer where he said that he had been shot and needed help. Santana had been shot by what police believe was a small caliber handgun. Hill said after police questioned Santana, they began seeking Anaya as a suspect in the shooting. Anaya was stopped after police spotted a car matching the description of his vehicle. Abrupt Stop The New MexlcanLeslie Tallant Weather-related problems kept Sante Fe police busy Sunday minor accidents reported during a hail storm that left roads night.

This Volkswagen slid under the rear bumper of a Chev- wet and slippery. Police also answered 86 false alarms at erolet pickup on Cerrillos Road about 8 p.m., was one of 14 businesses as the rain triggered shorts in electrical wiring. 5 police officers injured by psychiatric patient St. Michaels Drive and about a half-mile from the hospital. Officer A1 Hense reported he stopped Canava, but the man hit him in the face with a piece of wood.

Hense then called for assistance. Officer Dan Nava then tried to apprehend the patient and was also hit in the face. Officer Ernie Lujan, who was helping subdue Canava, was hit in the head and suffered a severe eye cut. Officer Dan Chappel tried to tackle the patient. Canava hit him in the chest, bruising his breastbone, police said.

Detective Mark Clayton was hit on the left hand as he tried to sit on Canavas chest. The patient was eventually subdued and taken back to St. By ROBERT STOREY The New Mexican Staff Five Santa Fe police officers were injured Saturday during an almost 40-minute battle to subdue a psychiatric patient who walked away from St. Vincent Hospital on St. Michaels Drive.

Greg Canava, 42, of White Rock, faces five charges of aggravated assault against a police officer. He has been transferred to Vista Sandia Psychiatric Hospital in Albuquerque because of his mental state and for security. Police said Canava was a patient in St. Vincents 14-bed interim psychiatric unit when he wandered away about 2:06 p.m. Saturday.

He was spotted a few minutes later on Botulph Road south of Vincent Hospital and later transferred to Albuquerque. All five officers were taken to St. Vincent where they were treated and released. St. Vincent President Hugh Hallgren said the 14-unit psychiatric unit is in a converted medical-surgical wing of the hospital that was not designed to hold psychiatric patients.

We have fire and escape alarms on the doors and windows, but the unit is not locked, he said. Construction is underway on St. Vincents 36-bed unit specifically designed for psychiatric patients. Hallgren said it will have different levels of security. "If that unit had been available, with its three zones of security, I dont think the patient would have been able to leave the hospital, Hallgren said.

The New MexicanLeslie Tallant Laurie and Scott Wallace, directors of the new KKSS-FM radio station. KKSS hits airwaves today Campaign launched to make New Mexicans healthier people Healthnet hopes to show changing habits prevent disease chased by the parent company to upgrade the stations broadcasting quality. While the trend in many new radio stations is for computerized, taped programming, Wallace said KKSS will broadcast live 24 hours a day. We will have a popular, contemporary music format which will be between the hard rock music of Q106-FM and and soft contemporary music of KOB-FM, said Laurie Wallace, Scotts wife and also the stations news director. KAFE-AM will continue with its traditional county and western music format.

She said she and her husband will be the morning on-air personalities and mix music with news, sports, weather. The Wallaces came to Santa Fe three months ago from Dallas, but have worked for several other stations throughout the country. Other on-air personalities include long-time Santa Fe disc jockey Jose Pino, Jonathan Stewart, Elaine Werner and Lou Kelley. KKSSs general manager is Dave Gifford, a well-known area broadcaster, who now manages KAFE-AM. Both stations are broadcasting from a station at the foot of KAFE-AM tower on lower Agua Fria Road, but Scott Wallace said KKSS-FM hopes to move into new quarters in a few months.

By ROBERT STOREY The New Mexican Staff Santa Fes newest radio station, KKSS-FM 97, goes on the air today, but the exact time the transmitter will be turned on is a closely guarded secret Program Director Scott Wallace said after a month of heavy promotions, choice prizes await the person whose contest entry correctly predicted todays sign-on time. KKSS will be occupying the assigned frequency of former Santa Fe station KAFE-FM and is a sister station of KAFE-AM. Both stations are owned by New Mexico Broadcasting which in turn is owned by Broadcast Properties headquartered in Bryan-College Station, Texas. With an assigned power of 100,000 watts, KKSS (Kiss) will have a broadcast range of 100 to 150 miles. Although we can be heard in Albuquerque, our broadcasts and orientation will be aimed at Santa Fe because this is our home, Wallace said For the past several weeks the KKSS staff has been scrambling around and working late at night assembling, testing and coordinating $500,000 worth of new broadcast equipment pur- Hull said that although New Mexicans tend to smoke less than citizens in the nation as a whole, the number of smokers in the state is going up as cigarette companies target their ads toward Hispanics.

Hull said that unless rountermeasures are taken, the increasing incidence of smoking-related disease among Hispanics will continue to rise. The five-year media campaign will be linked to educational efforts in the schools, colleges and workplaces throughout New Mexico. Healthnet also is designed to measure the effects of the new education and lifestyle changes at various stages in the program. The program will be based on one at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. After five years of a coordinated media campaign there, the community around the university experienced a 15 percent reduction in coronary heart disease, a substantial impact on what is in fact the No.

1 killer, Wiese said. Bingaman said the program will be financed solely from the private sector. Nearly $50,000 of the projected $80,000 first-year budget has been raised from organizations and businesses in the state. ALBUQUERQUE (AP) A five-year campaign launched over the weekend is aimed at making New Mexicans healthier by rhanging their habits. Sen.

Jeff Bingaman, doctors and broadcasters announced the statewide Healthnet-New Mexico campaign Saturday. The health improvement organization will bombard New Mexicans with messages that emphasize a change in habits as a way to prevent The campaign will focus on quitting smoking, exercising regularly and controlling weight and drinking of alcoholic beverages. The real impact on fighting illness is to prevent it and this impact can be effectively made with media messages, said Dr. William Wiese, director of community medicine at the University of New Mexico. Wiese said the big killers heart disease and cancer are highly influenced by behavior such as smoking and by lifestyle.

Dr. Harry Hull, state epidemiologist, added, I think it is important to realize that the purpose of this program is not only to reduce disease, but to reduce health care costs. State police investigating weekend arrests of TV news photographers one was hospitalized. Authorities said the one leak was found in a pressure valve on a 55-gallon drum and a second was found in a railroad tank car containing about 10 to 15 gallons of the liquid. Gov.

Toney Anaya was contacted about the incident about 9:20 p.m. by KOAT representatives who reached him in Las Cruces, where he was attending the New Mexico-New Mexico State football game. Anaya pledged to have state police Chief J. Payne investigate whether the arrests should have been made. Im sure there were reasons to prompt the officers to act as they did.

Anaya said Saturday. representatives from the stations said. State police officer Felix Valdez, who made the arrests, said the two men were simply told to stay away from that particular area because of the danger. Police were on the verge of evacuating an Albuquerque South Valley neighborhood when firemen were able to close off a toxic chemical leak. Ethyl mercaptan was discovered leaking from a barrel and a railroad tank car in a petroleum storage area at a butane company the South Valley about 4 p.m.

Saturday. The leak caused numerous reports of nausea and headaches from people in the area, but no ALBUQUERQUE (AP)- State police are investigating the weekend arrest of two television news photographers who were covering a story about a toxic chemical leak in Albuquerques South alley Leonard Pena of KOB-TV and Dan Edblom of KOAT-TV were arrested Sunday evening as they tried to photograph near a tank car. The photographers were booked into the Bernalillo County Detention Center on suspicion of disorderly conduct, interfering with a police officer and resisting arrest, jail officers said. The two were released from custody shortly after 10.30 Penitentiary guard foils prisoners escape bain hez is serving a term for armed robbery in Dona Ana County and Barela was serving terms for burglary, auto theft and escape from Chaves County. Both men were unarmed and surrendered without resistance.

A quick search of the area turned up no tools or weapons. Sanchez and Barela were transferred to Cellblock 3, the prisons maximum security unit pending investigation, Gaussoin said. ment spokeswoman Helen Gaus-soin. Within a few minutes, Raul Gonzolo Sanchez, 25, and Toby Barela, 26, were found hiding between two cellblocks on the east side of the prison, about eight miles southeast of Santa Fe. Gaussoin said the pair had apparently rut through bars on a cell in Cellblock 2, a medium security area on the prisons west side.

By ROBERT STOREY The New Mexican Staff An alert prison guard spotted movement outside the Penitentiary of New Mexico rellblorks and foiled the escape of two inmates Sunday night Gilbert Ramirez saw something moving between Cellbork and the educational wing on the penitentiary's southeast side about 9 -10 and reported it to officers on foot and vehicle patrols, said Corrections Depart The New Mev 1 -n Harvesting grapes It's harvest time and Len Rosingana shovels 6,000 pounds of chancellor grapes into a stemmer-crusher Sunday at his Santa Fe Vineyards winery. Rosingana has been in the winery business for ten years, with the last three years trying to start his winery..

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