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metro final edition can hornardino, del rosa, highland, muscoy i jU Lj lJ Section Thursday, June 3, 1982 CLi irul Q)IJLi lej f' istrict agonizes over budget cuts jVL wmmmm Chain reaction ance and that it is our obligation to bring it into line," Roberts said. And, since the county super-; intendent writes and signs all the checks for the local district, it is possible he could refuse to pay its bills and meet the payroll if the budget is out of balance. The school board already has approved several reductions totaling about $2.3 million and has release see Cuts, B-2) Fund drive set to save auditorium By JAN RODDICK Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Friends of Sturges Center will start a fund drive Friday in an effort to raise about $175,000 needed to trans-form the former junior high school auditorium into a community arts center. Raymond Shaw, civil service board chairman and former fire chief here, said many people have responded to the invitation to attend Friday's gathering in the San Bernardino Convention Center, and others have mailed a donation on behalf of the 55-year-old building's restoration. Sturges Junior High School was condemned by the San Bernardino Unified School District in the early 1970s because it did not meet earthquake standards for schools.

Three of the school's buildings are presently undergoing demolition, but the auditorium was purchased by the city and the San Bernardino Historical Society began plans to remodel the structure. Some work already has been done, Shaw said, and the initial funds raised by the group will be used to install the sprinkler system needed to bring it up to city fire codes. Also, architect Keith R. Mc-Clure is redesigning the roof to make it structurally more sound. Shaw said that although many of the center's benefactors are (Please see Drive, B-5) I i Court because Scott's attorney, Donald Ruston of Tustin, won a change-of-venue motion to move the proceedings there.

The motion was granted in July 1980 because of press coverage of alleged autopsy errors Scott made as a San Bernardino County coroner's pathologist. Scott was fired by the coroner's office and his partner, Dr. Irving Root, took on the county workload and severed ties with their joint business venture, Root-Scott Laboratories. Scott still operates a private pathology firm, Scott Medical Laboratory, in that same location on North Waterman Avenue in San Bernardino. There has been no settlement offered in the case and Ruston told By STAN RUSSELL Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO It is likely that when the city's schools open this fall the rooms will be a bit dirtier, the classes larger and the pencils in short supply.

"The school district is facing a $3.8 million deficit in its $75 million budget and in order to have a balanced document ready by July 1, the start of the fiscal year, cuts are being made in nearly every area. Superintendent E. Neal Roberts said Wednesday that he and his staff are making every attempt to make cuts as far away from the classrooms as possible, but it is difficult not to affect students in some way. Especially, he said, considering the amount of money that must be saved next year in order to bring expected expenses in line with projected state appropriations. And while the Legislature has yet to approve education funding measures for next year, district officials are saying they will be lucky if the deficit is only $3.8 million given the talk of further cuts coming out of Sacramento.

Dr. Harold Boring, assistant superintendent for. administrative services, said there is a real possibility the Legislature will wipe out the cost-of-living increase that keeps school financing in line with inflation. If that happens, he said, the district could lose another $2.7 million it had expected from the state. Roberts said he is hoping for some word from the Legislature by the school board's next meeting June 22 when the preliminary budget must be adopted.

The state is required by law to adopt a budget by June 16, but in practice, the Legislature has missed that date by more than a month by what is known as stopping the clock. Roberts already has been in contact with county school Superintendent Charles Terrell to find out what will happen if the city schools do not. have a balanced budget. The county superintendent must review and approve district budgets. "He told me that if that happens, he would be contacting us by letter informing that it is out of bal Redlands firefighter Ralph Serrano sprays water on line, which sparked the explosion of a 50-gallon gutted motorhome on Interstate 10 in Redlands gasoline tank.

Damage to the motorhome and a car shortly before noon Wednesday. Firefighters said a it towed were estimated at $13,500. Walter Baum of tire blew out, apparently snapping a propane fuel Arcadia and his wife Irene were not injured. S.B. pathologist's diagnosis key issue in malpractice suit by judge's family Staff photo by Ooll rithor the jury that Kearney's cancer was too widespread to have been cured even if the back mole had been correctly diagnosed by Scott.

There was "no way other than blind luck that any cure could have been effected" with that type of melanoma, Ruston said. Kearney's chances of survival were "practically nil" and there was no way to stop the disease or prevent death because the cancer was so advanced, he said. "Dr. Scott agrees in hindsight that he did not properly read the slide," Ruston said. "But the evidence will show that at the time (Kearney's San Bernardino physician) Dr.

(Henry) Gong first re- (Please see Suit, B-5) early so that any local objections, based on concerns over air pollution, truck traffic or aesthetics, would not come as a surprise late in the planning stages. The consultants in April unveiled recommendations favoring a single rubbish incineration plant for the valley that would produce electricity or steam, or both, for By JEANNINE GUTTMAN Sun Staff Writer RIVERSIDE Cancerous tissue taken from Superior Court Judge Matthew Kearney was "erroneously and negligently" diagnosed as benign'-f by San Bernardino pathologist Wayne Scott and that mistake' helped cause the judge's death, an attorney lor Kearney's widow said Wednesday at the start of a complex malpractice suit here. Los Angeles attorney Samuel Shore also claimed that Scott's error prevented Kearney from seeking medical treatment in 1975 for the melanoma, a type of skin cancer that first appeared in a black mole on Kearney's back. Melanoma, a highly malignant disease, Ontario site said best for incineration plant 5SS forms a tumor in the skin's melanin pigment cells and can spread throughout the body. Shore, a former surgeon, further alleged that a microscopic slide of the mole later used by cancer specialists to formulate a treatment plan for the judge did not come from Kearney's body at all.

Tests have proven that the tissue, which was provided by Scott's laboratory, actually came from a woman, he said. Kearney, who was appointed as a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge in 1977 by Gov. Brown, died from the melanoma in October 1978. The suit, although filed in San Bernardino County, is being heard in Riverside County Superior SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEMS House Pool Spos Wind Electric Generators ALTERNATE ENERGY STORE Vktorville 714-245-2341 CLOCK REPAIRS SALEM CLOCK SHOP 340 W. Highland 886-6238 For Energy Conservation INSULATE NOW For Heat lost Reduction ree Esitmates.

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Two of the donors, Angel Hernandez of San Bernardino and Robert Macomber of Crestline, have each given blood 119 times, which amounts to more than 14 gallons. Until Hernandez, a civilian employee at Norton Air Force Base, donated blood last month, Macomber, an educator who retired after 30 years with the San Bernardino schools, was the number one donor, said Paul Sautter, the bank's director of donor resources. The men's next donations will put them at the 15 gallon mark, he said. The third ranking donor is Bob Howell, a special education teacher who teaches the visually handicapped at San Bernardino High School. He has given 13 gallons of blood, Sautter said.

Donors who have given 10 gallons or more have their names displayed on a "Wall of Honor" in the bank's donor room. More than 500 people have given five gallons of blood or more in the bank's 30 year history. Others to be honored and the amount of blood they have given (Please see Blood donors, B-5) sale to local industries as a means of offsetting part of the costs. They contended that such a disposal method is on the verge of becoming an economical alternative to the operation of cut-and-cover dumpsites in the valley. Reilly said other West Valley sites that might be suitable all was the assistant squadron operations officer.

Pothier was an instructor electronic warfare officer. Both were on a defense suppression training mission when their F-4G fighter crashed about 1:25 p.m. in the Nellis Air Force Base range complex. The base is about 10 miles north of Las Vegas. A board of officers is investigating the crash, said 2nd Lt Jim Ruester, George AFB public affairs officer.

Ruester said a final report on the COMMUNITY ARTS PRODUCTION PRESENTS "A FESTIVAL OF DANCE" 7:30 P.M., Friday, Juno 4, 1982 Gibbs Auditorium, Pacific High School Adults $3.00, Children $3.00 For Ticket Information Call 862-1390 Plastic Sale 10x13 Sheets 49c ea. (whtn you buy a donn) 20 off any plastic canvas book with this coupon thru 62082 Needlecraft Place 671 W. 2ndSt.N.tMrrn. 885-7206 within industrial areas include one at the northwest corner of Etiwanda and San Bernardino Avenues in Rancho Cucamonga, another along Etiwanda Avenue just north of the Riverside County line and a third on Campus Avenue about a half-mile south of the 4 (Please see Plant, B-5) accident probably won't be ready for six months. The F-4G fighter had been modified to carry sensitive electronic equipment and was designed to suppress enemy ground radar, Ruester said.

They had taken off from George Air Force Base about 12:55 p.m., he said. Ward is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ward of Albuquerque. Capt.

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Ward, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M. and Capt. Peter D. Pothier, 28, of Hebron, N.D. The two were members of the 562nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, based at George.

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