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July 13, 1983 Mtr Flnol THI SUN Q-3 Rialto planners turn down proposed methadone clinic inland metro final edition He said the clinic uses a drug, methadone, to treat men and women addicted to heroin, and ul timately attempts to free them from drug abuse. Commissioner John McClure asked what the program success ratio is. Shalhoub said he could not give specific figures. "However," Shalhoub said, "our objective is to get people off heroin, onto methadone and make them eventually drug free. "Methadone allows a drug (heroin) addict to function normally in the community by being able to hold a job, raise a family and without being a law-enforcement problem." However, most of those in the audience objected to the facility, fearing it would cause significant crime problems.

empire future chances for development there. Ernie Sherman, special agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad, across the street from the site, also objected. Sherman said there are enough security problems In the area without adding the clinic. He also said it would be ill ad vised to have the clinic not far away from Bloomington Junior High School. Shalhoub said the clinic, now at 1236 N.

Waterman San Bernardino, has operated without crime-related problems. Desert loner is convinced meteorites built mountains A II YT vr 4 By FLOYD RINEIIART Sun S'aM Wriier RIALTO A proposed methadone clinic in south Rialto has been turned down by the Planning Commission. The clinic was sought by the Revcnt Partnership on a site south of Slover Avenue and 6S0 feet west of Riverside Avenue. The parcel zoned for general manufacturing. William J.

Shalhoub. chief of the county Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs, Department of Mental Health, spoke In favor of the program and use of the site for the clinic. Shalhoub said no more than 220 people would be treated at the proposed facility. He also said it would be fenced and would have a security guard during its operational hours. Summer camp I He also said San Bernardino Police Chief Ben Gonzales has commended the operation and said he would have no objections to relocating it elsewhere in San Bernardino if another site couldn't be found.

Shalhoub said the only reason the Rialto site was sought was its central location for people from Chino and Ontario to San Bernardino and Yucaipa. "Although we have around 200 clients," he said, "they are not all treated on the same day. "And 90 percent of those who are treated daily are treated between 530 and 9 a.m." Far from causing crime problems, Shalhoub said, the methadone program makes for a safer community because it allows the client to function as a positive member of society. Loskot did. "I studied it for a very long time." It was, he determined, a meteor.

"Suddenly," he said of that moment, "I could see hundreds of other meteorites all around, and as the days passed, and I began to look around, I found that the meteorites were in the hills, mountains, everywhere." A case of too much sun perhaps? No need she loves By CONNIE RUTH Sun Staff Writer RIALTO The song "I Won Dance" hardly applies to Regina "Gina" Lines. There's nothing she'd rather do. Lines, selected Student of the Year recently by the Exchange Club of Rialto, would rather dance than eat, as the old saying goes. And though dancing is her life, the 14-year-old Rialto Junior High School student manages to cram a lot of other activities into her daily schedule. Among them, appearing on television talk shows and in films and plays.

Lines was one of six youngsters selected by the club as a Student of the Month during the school year. She was chosen in November. The other students of the month were Tim Ericsen of Fris-bie Junior High School, Carole Ambrose of Kolb, Felice Gonzalez of Rialto Junior High, William Huff of Frisbie and Alex Green of Kolb. Club President Russell Dickinson described the six candidates for Student of the Year as "impressive in their own ways." He said the club made its selections based on interviews with principals and fellow students. Needless to say, when Lines, who stands just under 5 feet and weighs 95 pounds, got up to say a few words, she spoke mostly of her love of the dance.

"My hobby is dancing," she said. "I've had nine years of ballet, tap, jazz, Hawaiian dance and gymnastics." She also said she has appeared on the Mike Douglas television talk show with a dance group and has performed in various plays mington said he maintains citrus groves in the vicinity and would feel uncomfortable with drug ad diets being treated there. "I've talked to quite a few neighbors around there and they are quite concerned about this, too," he said. Robert Hauchans of 10720 Wil-low Ave. said he lives 1,000 feet from the clinic site and opposes it.

He said it should remain a manufacturing zone for industry. A representative of Valley Engineering, 600 feet from the proposed site, also objected. He said the clinic would hurt Hi. After the jury returned its verdict, Morrall's attorney asked for a new trial. That motion was denied and the appeal process began.

Bar-stow Superior Court Judge LeRoy Simmons released Morrall on $100,000 bail pending the appeal. Court documents show he posted that amount in cash. Staff photo by Matt Sporting Nevertheless, McClure said, "It's hard for me to believe you can have a clinic like this without crime problems." Patrick McDermott, commission vice chairman, said he was Influenced by the objections of Superintendent Richard L. Jacob-sen of the Colton Joint Unified School District in a letter. Jacobsen, referring to the clinic's proximity to Bloomington Junior High with 1,000 students, said in the letter, "It is not in the best Interest of safety of our students to subject them to the possible influence of drug addicts." The four commission members voted to deny the clinic a conditional development permit.

Chairman Gary D. Hand was absent. An offcial of Revent Partnership, which operates the clinic for the county, indicated an appeal would be made. "I doubt it, I doubt it," came Loskot's crisp reply. "The things I've learned out here are astonishing.

How about the sodium I can take out of the water? People have been out here for thousands of years, and never knew that. Would you say somebody who could discover that is a nut? "I doubt it," he said, answering his own question. to ask; to dance and short and feature-length films. Lines was a dancer in the motion picture, "Six Weeks," starring Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore. She was an extra in "One From the Heart" and "Man.

Woman and Child," and played the main character in the film short "The Strongest Man." Lines said she began doing film work after she competed in a Riverside talent show three years ago. "One of the judges was an agent," she said, "and she wanted to sign me up. I thought about it for a while and signed up, but I've switched to a different agency." Asked about her love of dancing, Lines said, "I just feel like this is where I want to be. This is what I do best." Lines said she will take teacher training this summer at the Vera Lynn School of the Dance and will begin teaching at the dance studio in September. Rialto Junior High Principal Melanie Smith, who attended the luncheon, told club members, "You couldn't have picked a more versatile, enthusiastic and bright student.

She's involved. She's an outstanding student body president. Gina is tremendous. "She's also on the cheerlead-ing squad and is involved in everything that goes on at the school. I appreciate the club for recognizing Gina and Rialto Junior High School." Lines' mother, Irene, described her daughter as "very motivated." Regina Lines was recently part of a dance group on the NBC television show, "Fantasy." Dickinson closed the award presentation by saying, "I have a feeling this won't be the last time we'll hear the name Regina Lines." 248 donations in one drive, topped Fontana 's single drive donation total, officials said in a release.

Chaf-fey High School was third with 210. Redlands High School students contributed 323 donations in two blood drives for the highest overall school total, officials said. For the second year, the blood bank collected more than 4,000 pints of blood from students at more than 30 high schools, with seven schools visited twice, officials said. Fontana student blood drive committee members were singled out in the release for their innovative efforts in dressing as blood drops and carrying the theme "Steelers give with class the gift of life that lasts." The committee members at Fontana High and the others set up dates and times and recruited potential blood donors, who must be 17 years of age and weigh at least 110 pounds, officials said. More than 200 blood donors are needed each day to provide for patients in Inland Empire hospitals, officials said.

By STEPIIAN STERN Sun Staff Writer DUMONT DUNES Around here, the most you'd except to find is a lot of sand and rock. None would dare call it home. Then along comes a guy like John E. Loskot, a tax-disdaining, independent thinker who has converted a piece of this harsh land into a liveable, economical hideaway, complete with swimming pool and greenhouse. Loskot, a retired electrician, came to the Mojave desert in 1972, settling on 160 acres of desert badlands off State Highway 127, 37 miles north of Baker and 18 miles from his nearest neighbor in the tiny town of Tecopa.

The 76-year-old Loskot said he purchased the property from the federal government because it was cheaper than paying the taxes he would have had if he and his wife had built their dream house in Merced. But there were other advantages, too. "All I have to do is go out in the San Bernardino Valley and breathe that smog, and then I'm thankful that I live alone out here." Loskot is his own utility company. He gets his electricity from six solar-powered panels and his water from a well on the prop- erty. Propane for cooking and heating is delivered.

"Yes, I just made a discovery," he says, wriggling his toes from a chaise lounge on the patio outside his trailer house. The temperature is in the upper 90s. Loskot seems cool and content. As Loskot explains it, the discovery was purely accidental. He had been processing ore using a secret leaching formula.

Out of curiosity, he poured the spent waste fluid into a bucket of water from a well on his land. Loskot repeated the experiment for the benefit of a dubious listener. Instantly, the water turned milky white in color. Several minutes later, the white component had separated from the clear water, and had dropped to the bottom of the bucket. Around him, outside on the patio, are a dozen bottles of the green waste fluid that does the trick.

By using sodium-free water, Loskot hopes to create a farm belt in the desert. He also is interested in the heaps of rocks that are on top of his patio wall. They represent another Loskot claim to fame. In fact, Loskot even wrote, edited and published in 1981 a soft-cover book about the rocks. Al though the book didn't make money, that dfn't stop Loskot from continuing to promote his unusual theory.

Loskot believes the rocks are meteorite fragments. The Earth's mountain ranges, he contends, were created by huge meteor swarms that pummeled our planet billions of years ago and carried into oblivion all civilians alive then that were enemies of God. Loskot recalled how he first stumbled upon the meteorites. He was sitting in the desert on a rock praying. Then his dead wife spoke to him.

"John," the voice said, "look at the stone you're sitting on." Robert Zimmerman of Bloo- tri time of the shooting, was arrested after he took his wife's body to the hospital. The prosecution contended that Morrall shot his wife as she stood at the entrance to her Anoka Road home in Apple Valley. The Morralls were on the verge of obtaining a divorce, and the prosecution said Morrall's motive was to end the court action and keep his wife from obtaining money or property in a settlement. A psychiatrist testifying for the defense during the trial said Morrall was suffering from "diminished capacity" as a result of stress caused by the divorce proceedings. Morrall's attorney, Donald Jordan of San Bernardino argued the shooting was not deliberate or premeditated, but rather the irrational act of a man beset by deep psychological troubles.

He said Morrall "just snapped" under the pressures of the divorce and other amily problems. Three boys engage in a game of soccer during the Fontana YWCA's Summer Fun Day Camp. The two-week camps are held throughout the summer, offering 1 youngsters a variety of activities. Former pilot who killed spouse surrenders to start prison term Fontana High blood donations were No. 2 SAN BERNARDINO Fontana High School students made 221 donations of blood, chalking up the second highest single-drive total this year among schools.

Offcials of the Blood Bank of San Bernardino-Riverside Counties said the drive was part of their Community Blood Program. Only Upland High School, with Solar One open to public Saturday BARSTOW A former airline pilot who was convicted in 1981 or shooting his estranged wife seven times has begun a 17-year-to-life prison sentence, Norman Morrall, 50, surrendered to Barstow Superior Court this week after the Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld an earlier court denial for a new trial. Morrall, a former resident of Beaufort, S.C., indicated through b.is attorney he will continue the appeal to the Supreme Court, Deputy District Attorney Dennis Christy said Wednesday. The victim, 43-year-old Jeanne Ann Morrall, was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Desert Valley Hospital Jan.

15, 1981. She had been shot seven times in the neck and head by a pistol. Her husband, who was a pilot for Pan American Airways at the Sandia National Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas Martin Marietta and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will sponsor exhibits. Solar One first generated electricity April 12, 1982. While its General Electric turbine is rated at a 12.8-megawatt power capacity, the plant produced 13.1 megawatts June 21, including auxiliary storage capacity.

The visitor center can be reached via Interstate 40 from Barstow. Tong-Snyder said visitors should take the Daggett exit, and continue north over the freeway to National Trails Highway (before the railroad tracks) and the center is two miles east of the intersection. DAGGETT Public tours of Solar One, the nation's first solar electric power plant with central receiver, are scheduled here Saturday. Exhibits on innovative uses of solar energy also will be offered, center supervisor Pat Tong-Snyder said. Free bus tours, scheduled every half hour, will begin at 9 a.m.

at 'je Solar One visitor center and continue until 5 p.m., ong-Snyder said. The tours mark the center's third year of operations, and Barstow Mayor Barney Keller and Daggett Honorary Mayor Virginia Harcourt will greet visitors at 9 a.m. Free helium balloons and Solar One post cards will be given to visitors, Tong-Snyder said..