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June 8, 1932 D-4THE SLN Drive Suspect held in weekend slaying of innocent bystander in S.B. Witnesses gave police a description of the vehicle and later that night Rey was arrested hile driving in the neighborhood, police said. Police believe there was more than one person in the vehicle at the time of the shooting. The weapon used, believed to be a .22 caliber has not been recovered. Supervisors delay new appointments Having reached no consensus, the Board of Supervisors on Monday postponed appointments of four new county planning commissioners until its scheduled 1:30 p.m.

session June 21. home in a county housing project. Early Saturday evening there was a brief altercation between the family who lives at 988 N. Muscott St. and some other person or persons stemming from a fist fight several months ago, police said.

That night, Johnson was walking to her boyfriend's home. On her way she met about six or seven of her high school friends standing near the Muscott Street address. The group was standing on a street corner talking and listening to a portable radio. "They were doing what kids anywhere else do on a Saturday night," Maudsley said. A vehicle drove by and shots were fired into the crowd.

Johnson was the only person hit and she died hours later at Loma Linda Community Hospital. 1 CI 2 At' kj ii i ffy fl Jn rf k- it i i 1 A (Continued from B-l) registration projects failed miserably," he said. According to June 1980 figures, the latest available, there are 988.000 registered Spanish-sur-named voters. Last week, Secretary of State March Fong Eu reported that 326.668 persons registered between Jan. 5 and May 10, but her office said it did not know how many of them were Spanish-surnamed.

Each of the registration projects' coordinators said he was more than satisfied with the work. But the projects fell down, said Santillan, noting that: Computer data was available that could have facilitated more effective registration. Significant amounts of money were thrown at the efforts, most of it by the Democrats and by Democratic politicians such as Gov. Brown, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Roberti. A statewide Hispanic political activist network had been set up last year by Californios for Fair Representation, formed during the reapportionment battles.

In fact, Garcia, a Los Angeles area' attorney, was a leader of the group, and said that the registration project was an outgrowth of his involvement with the group. And Mario G. Obledo, the state's highest-ranking Hispanic official as secretary of the health and welfare agency before his resignation earlier this year, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor. It was thought that his candidacy would arouse interest among the state's Hispanics, who comprise about 20 percent of California's population. Santillan, an instructor at Cal Poly University-Pomona, said, "With all those factors, there should have been a much greater degree of voter registration in the Latino community." In addition to the larger registration projects, he said, many of the Hispanic candidates running in the primary, such as Obledo, Assemblyman Art Torres and Esteban Torres, also registered voters.

While the projects "pretty much stayed out of each other's way," they probably would have been more successful had there been a coordinated effort, said Santillan. As statewide coordinator for voter registration for the Raza Unida Party between 1971 and 1975, Santillan spoke from experience. Noting that most of the projects were content to register people and had neither plans nor funds to get out the vote, he wondered what the net result would be. The Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, which began operation in 1975 and has run 400 registration campaigns since then, goes into a community only after an invitation, said Velasquez, 38. Typically, he said, an Hispanic community has a candidate or an issue it thinks important and then requests the project's help.

Consequently, the project takes care of the registration and leaves getting the vote out to the individual community. Velasquez, considered one of the sharpest Hispanic political organizers in the country, said, "We found that as registration increases, turnout increases." Phones (Continued from B-l) access charge will go up from $14.55 to $15.00. Pacific Telephone said the increase will raise annual intrastate revenues 1.4 percent and the average flat rate residential bill by 2.5 percent. It said the added revenues will only enable it to maintain its previously authorized earnings level in the light of requested accounting changes which reflect shorter lives of telephone equipment. The new income, it explained, is to cover accounting changes approved last February by the PUC.

By RAMON CORONADO Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Police have arrested a man in connection with the slaying of a 15-year-old girl, who was an innocent bystander in a drive-by shooting resulting from a family feud. Edward Galvan Rey, 23, who gave police several addresses in San Bernardino, has been arrested for investigation of murder, said Sgt. Mike Maudsley. "It was a family feud and she was there, an innocent bystander, and she took the bullet," Maudsley said. Dedra Marie Johnson, a Cajon High School student, who lived at 2647 Pennsylvania died Sunday morning after being shot Saturday night as she stood outside a Error.

(Continued from B-l) while the other read surgical specimens. Scott read the sample and concluded it was a "compound nevus (benign skin tumor)," that was "adequately cleared," meaning it had not affected the surrounding tissues. It was not until June 1976, when Kearney had an operation to remove swollen lymph nodes under his right arm, that doctors at San Bernardino Community Hospital realized he had cancer, Shore said. They asked to see the original slide of the mole tissue removed from Kearney's back and Root, who received the request, retrieved the slide at that time, Scott testified. Before sending it to the hospital, Root examined the slide himself and concluded that the mole was malignant melanoma, a highly cancerous disease that forms a tumor in the skin's melanin pigment cells and can spread throughout the body.

Afterwards, Root discussed his findings with Scott "very briefly," Scott said. "He felt that it was a malignant melanoma and that I had erred on my earlier diagnosis," Scott said. The doctors at San Bernardino Community Hospital arrived at that same conclusion and upon reexamining the slide, Scott agreed he had made a mistake, he said. "I was, at that point, very emotionally upset," Scott said. "I looked at that slide I realized the fact that I had made an error.

"I was blaming myself," Scott said, and his attitude then and now was that it should not have happened. Shore finished his line of questioning Monday and Ruston began cross-examining Scott minutes before the trial recessed. It resumes today at 9:30 a.m. in Department 5. Root, chief forensic pathologist for the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office and Scott's former business partner of 16 years, is the next witness scheduled to testify in the malpractice case.

Root dissolved his business relationship with Scott in 1980 after Scott was fired by the county coroner's office for alleged' autopsy errors. Root remained on the coroner's staff and now holds the county contract for all autopsy work. city's grandfather ordinance. Holcomb said if the Schaefers plan to operate the hotel under its original use they would have to stick primarily to a transient clientel. No one could stay there beyond 30 days.

And that would not be economically viable, Holcomb said. The committee, comprised primarily of city officials, will review the hotel plans and report back to the council at its next meeting. ADVERTISEMENT) Staff pht. by Chuck Mu.ll.r Bridegroom Ron Pirtle, left, and the Rev. Sig Caswell Jr.

watch bride Tattoo Gypsee as she prepares to greet a guest at the end of the wedding ceremony. Wild west wedding for Tattoo and Ron By CHUCK MUELLER Sun Staff Writer HINKLEY The wedding of Tattoo Gypsee and Ron Pirtle was a quiet country affair until the shooting started. The marriage ceremony, conducted beneath the ranch gate, was real enough. But the gunshots were part of a charade to lend a Western touch. Mayor Barney Keller of Barstow, garbed in a mangled, black 10-gallon hat, gave away the bride.

"Everybody calls me Tattoo Gypsee," the traveling tattoo artist said. "Spell it with two 'E's." Flip O'Rourke, a familiar figure who sports two six-guns around town as part of his efforts to establish his Western Gunfighters as a performing group, said, "This will be a real shotgun wedding." As 200 wedding guests gathered Saturday outside the couple's small desert ranch, O'Rourke stalked among the buildings with a shotgun under his arm. He soon was joined by his son, Mike, and their gun-tottin' companions Duane Leitner, David West and Harold Porter. Tattoo Gypsee told the group her fiance was trying to dodge the preacher. Shots rang out, and Pirtle was snared by O'Rourke's men as he dashed from an outbuilding.

He was dragged to the ceremony as the happy bride, dressed in white, arrived at the head of a parade of bridesmaids. Her bouquet consisted of sagebrush, greasewood and desert wildflowers. The preacher, the Rev. Sig Caswell Jr. of Los Angeles stepped onto a wooden crate, Bible in hand.

A welcome wind rippled the bridesmaid's dresses, and tossed a few hats into the dust. In an exchange of vows, Tattoo Gypsee and her bridegroom swore eternal fidelity, and the crowd closed in to congratulate the newlyweds, sprinkling them with grains of rice. Someone passed a jug to help celebrate the festivities, as a voice from the ranch house yelled, "Come and get it." Three freshly barbecued pigs were unearthed from a rock-lined firepit behind the house, and friends stacked makeshift tables with garden vegetables and salads. In the corral nearby, two geese and three ducks gawked at the ragtag crowd as a Western band struck up a lively tune. And the wind spun a whirl of dust that carried away the grains of rice.

Delayed a decision until June 21 pending further review of proposed new Environmental Public Works Agency policies governing the hiring of consultants. In view of the recent hiring of two consulting companies from outside of the county, engineer David Turner of Pioneer Consultants in Redlands questioned whether new policy statements seemingly more favorable toward local firms would be implemented, and San Bernardino engineer Joseph Bonadiman complained that the proposals continue favoring large outside firms which, although they have local offices, must import certain types of expertise. Approved a $90,000 sale of half an acre of commercially zoned property on the east side of Del Rosa Avenue north of Highland Avenue in the east San Bernardino area to Mansour Tan-nour ji of Glendora, who submitted the highest bid at a recent auction. The county Flood Control District previously acquired the property for access to the Del Rosa Channel and is retaining an easement for that purpose. Agreed to pay the city of San Bernardino $53,336 for the fire protection it provided for unincorporated areas around the city during the first eight months of the current fiscal year before the contract for such protection was terminated March 1 after a dispute over the city's requested price increase.

The county administrative office said the payment represents a compromise between the city's re-' quest and the $40,000 the county paid for the same eight-months period the year before. Approved leasing 38 acres of county land along Central Avenue, Just south of the Aerospace complex, to Noah Robinson of San Bernardino for $1,519 for one year for farming purposes. arcades, is a kind of electronic version of school-yard tag. Players must clear their screen of point-scoring dots before being devoured by Pinky and Blinky and friends. Once the screen is cleared a new set of dots appears.

En route to the record, French cleared his screen 478 times and scored on 115,000 dots. He began his attempt to reach 5 million points at 9:30 a.m. and by 11:12 a.m. he had surpassed the 1 million mark. By 5:30 p.m.

he had reached 5 million points. Although he did not leave the machine once, French said he was never in any serious trouble until he was just a few screens away from 6 million. "At the beginning of a pattern, I started coughing and so I hestitated just for a 10th of a second and that changed the way the game reacted," French explained. As any seasoned player will attest, hestitation spells doom on a Pac-Man game. Cable.

(Continued from B-l) programming between adjoining systems. Permit fees charged to new systems will amount to 3 percent of gross income per year, plus a 2 percent surcharge to be held in trust for later expenditures on local educational and community TV programming once a plan for such activities is approved by the Federal Communications Commission. Existing systems will not be subject to the new service and fee requirements until their current licenses expire generally 10 to 20 years from now. Those systems now pay the county 1 percent of gross income annually for the first three years and 2 percent thereafter. In other actions Monday, the supervisors: Awarded a $1,628,000 contract to Buckner-Wilson Fabricators of Lancaster to manufacture and erect the steel beams and other framework required for the planned $22 million County Center office building just north of the County Courthouse.

The firm, which submitted the lowest of six bids, is expected to start erecting the framework early in the fall following completion of site preparation work. Approved an additional $1,541,975 contract with HMC Architects Inc. of Ontario for final design of the county's planned $30 million Foothill Communities Law and Justice Center in Rancho Cucamonga. The firm previously prepared only schematic drawings for the building. The administrative office reported that an additional contract will be required for design of interior finish work.

(Continued from B-l) the maze-like game, he had no way of verifying them. However, French said his latest score will be turned over to National Scoreboard, an organization that has taken on the task of recording and verifying video game scores. National Scoreboard, based in Ottumwa, Iowa, publishes a newletter detailing the top scores so a system of certification can be achieved, according to one of its founders, Jon Bloch. The current Pac-Man record, as listed in National Scoreboard, is 5,579,350. French's score, along with the signatures of the arcade owner and witnesses will be sent along with his score.

French should have little trouble hunting down witnesses since scores of kids crowded the noisy arcade to witness his feat. Pac-Man, a staple for most hotel restoration postponed Decision on SAN BERNARDINO The City Council Monday postponed granting permission to two Yucaipa contractors to restore the condemned California Hotel. Instead, the council authorized the formation of a committee to work out some kinks in the plans of contractors Robert A. and Robert E. Schaef er.

The" primary kink was raised by Mayor W.R. Holcomb, who said the Schaefers needed more parking spaces for the hotel if they planned to rent the 101 rooms to senior citizens. But Robert E. Schaefer said he and his father no longer consider the hotel as strictly a home for senior citizens. They plan to restore the building under its original use and therefore are exempted from adding more parking spaces under the (POLITICAL.