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Santa Cruz Sentinel Saturday, Jan. 1 2, 1 991 A-9 Obituaries Bus driver rebuked for good deed Marie C. Colbert Serv ices will be Monday for Marie C. Colbert, a 37-year Santa Cruz County resident who died Wednesday at a local care home. She was 92.

One of 10 children, Mrs. Colbert was a native of Oregon. Her father was a Scottish railroad union leader. She moved to Santa Cruz in 1953 from Alameda County with her late husband William Earl Colbert. Mrs.

Colbert met her husband, a former Navy man, in 1918 at a social event where she was advised by her brother not to "dance with that sailor." She was married in 1919 and was active in Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliaries in both Alameda and Santa Cruz counties. Mrs. Colbert was a member of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church; St. John's Altar Society; Tres Pueblos VFW Post Auxiliary No. 7263 of Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz Senior Citizens Center; and, the Positive Thinkers.

She was also past president of the La Posada residents association. Mrs. Colbert is survived by her daughter, Loraine Duarte of Santa Cruz; two brothers, Dr. Joseph Fox and Leo Fox of Oakland; her sister, Agnes Pollen of Oakland; two granddaughters and one great-grandson. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Monday at Smith Arnold's Chapel of the Four Seasons, 1050 Cayuga Sant Cruz, with Rev. Patrick Dooling of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church officiating. Private cremation and interment will follow at Santa Cruz Memorial Park. Orion Renk Private family services are scheduled for Orion Renk, who died Dec. 25 in Sandpoint, Idaho.

He was 45. A native of Boise, Idaho, he was the owner and operator of Absolutely Invisible Windows for 10 years in Santa Cruz before returning to Idaho last April to be with his family. Mr. Renk was a ham radio operator and as a volunteer with the Redwood Youth Foundation, he helped establish ham radio stations at several local schools. His radio call number was N7DFC.

He was a member of the Witness-for-Peace-sponsored Peace Brigade to Nicaragua in 1984. He also served as an emergency medical technician in the Carmel area. He is survived by his longtime companion, Joanne Renk of Sand-point; mother and step-father, Lois and Joe Wythe of Sandpoint; and son, Joshua Renk of Carmel. Contributions to the Redwood Youth Foundation, 2355 Brommer No. 23, Santa Cruz, 95062, are preferred.

The Associated Press OAKLAND Bus driver Greg Towns is hurt. He says his boss shouldn't have called him on the carpet for using a company fire extinguisher to douse a van fire and rescue injured passengers. The boss denied it. "I did what anyone would have done," Towns said of the incident Tuesday. "It was a potentially dangerous situation.

There was a fire and I could hear voices from inside the van calling for help." Towns said he is angry that his supervisor at Ryder Student Transportation Services, Lewis Lowry, chewed him out after learning that Towns stopped his bus and used the bus fire extinguisher and first-aid kit to render assistance after a hit-and-run collision between two other vehicles. "The basic message I got in two conversations was that I had violated company policy and that I had better come in and explain because I had screwed said Towns. "I think if the (company) policy does say drivers can't stop and get involved it should be could save lives." Lowry on Friday disputed Town's account and denied that he was unhappy over the driver's use of the fire extinguisher and first-aid kit. "Mr. Towns was not reprimanded and, in fact, he will be commended for his efforts," Lowry said.

Lt. Arthur Boganes of the Oakland Fire Department cheered Towns' good deed. "He did right," said Boganes. "He got people out of the roadway Nobel Prize physicist Carl Anderson dies van, rescued passengers, and and replace Towns' fire extinguisher, and that the company was apparently worried about the first aid Towns had rendered. Towns said he used the kit to stem the bleeding from a young "Description of a litigant in terms which are objectively offensive even if no offense is intended cross that line" of impartiality, said Presiding Justice David Sills, joined by Justice Edward Wallin.

Dissenting Justice Thomas Crosby called the remark an "isolated slip of the tongue," and cited an observation attributed to Samuel Johnson in Thomas Boswell's "Life of "The Irish are a fair people they never speak well of one another." "Dr. Johnson wasn't a judge," Rosen's lawyer, Suzanne Harris, replied Friday. "I think judges are held to a higher standard." She also said the phrase "Jewish-American princess" is even more of a slur against women than it is a religious slur. "There is no special license to engage in sexist and gender-biased remarks because the speaker who says them is a judge who is Jewish," said attorney Gloria Allred, 1 Judge disqualified for 'princess' The Associated Press SAN MARINO Physicist Carl David Anderson, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize for discovering a form of antimatter called the positron, died Friday. He was 85.

Anderson, a board of trustees professor of physics emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, died at his home in this Los Angeles suburb after a brief illness, Caltech spokesman Robert Finn said. The cause of death was not released. Plans for a memorial service had not been finalized. Anderson was just 31 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering the positron, the first particle of matter shown to exist. The positron is the antimatter counterpart of the electron, the negatively charged particle that is a basic part of every atom.

When matter collides with matter, tremendous energy is re- leased. Physicists smash positrons and electrons together to learn more about the fundamental forces that govern the universe. Born in New York City to Swedish immigrant parents, Anderson I 1 ITS', ft The Associated Press got chewed out for leaving bus. girl's head wound. Ryder is a division of Ryder System Inc.

of Miami, Fla. The local business has contracts with a number of local school districts to transport disabled students. comment who submitted papers in the case on behalf of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women. She said the term used by Monarch was harmful to "the image and the rights of Jewish women" and was particularly dangerous in divorce court, where judges have wide leeway in determining support and child custody. Daniel Jaffe, a lawyer for the ex-husband in the case, defended Monarch and said the ruling would discourage judges and lawyers from speaking candidly in chambers conversations.

"We had a judge who was doing his best in chambers to urge both parties to settle," Jaffe said. "Instead of calling Mrs. Rosen a petulant child, he called her a Jewish-American princess or just a plain old ordinary princess. I'm Jewish myself and I don't particularly like the phrase but he certainly didn't mean it in a demeaning fashion." FUNERALS Santa Cruz Memorial Park Funeral Home 1927 Ocean Street 426-1601 You are welcome to write about your loved ones in an "In Memoriam" or "Card of Photos or picture cm be included. For details call Leslie Blankinship at Santa Che Sentuwl Classified Department 4234242 Ext.

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Monarch later apologized for any offense to Rosen but declined to remove himself from the case. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Denner, assigned to the matter, said he had no substantial doubt about Monarch's impartiality and refused to disqualify him. But the appeals court ordered Monarch removed from the case in a 2-1 ruling Jan. 4. Boy emerges from coma, sheds light on car crash McClatchy News Service ROCKLIN A Rocklin teenager has emerged from a six-month-long coma and investigators police now believe they know who was behind the wheel of a car that crashed in a police chase, killing a 15-year-old Newscastle girl.

"It shed light on new evidence we didn't previously have," said Rocklin Police Sgt. Sam Krahn of an interview with the youth. In May, Gayle Frisbie was killed when the car in which she was a passenger flipped over during a high speed police chase in Rocklin. Fiivbie and the other occupants, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy, were thrown from the wreckage and seriously injured. Frisbe later died of complications.

Her case received notoriety when medical authorities later learned the ambulance she was being transported in ran out of fuel five blocks from the University Medical Center in Sacramento. Krahn declined to say which one of the juveniles was behind the wheel at the time of the accident, citing the fact that they are minors and because there have been no charges filed in the case. The Jan. 3 interview of the boy has provided police the only direct evidence in the case. Vital statistics The Associated Press SANTA ANA A judge says he meant nothing demeaning when he referred to a woman in a divorce case as a "Jewish-American princess," but an appeals court has ordered him removed from the case.

"Regardless of how innocently the trial judge may have meant the term, the phrase is commonly regarded as a derogatory one," said the 4th District Court of Appeal. "The average man on the street would doubt (Judge Robert Monarch's) impartiality." Monarch, who is Jewish, said Thursday he had meant only that the woman in the case was acting like a "pampered person." "Princess denotes kind of a spoiled brat-type female who always gets her way," Monarch said, adding that he sometimes calls his wife and daughters "princesses" after similar behavior. Monarch, an Orange County Superior Court judge, was presiding over the case of Howard Bidna of wAr jh received his undergraduate and graduate education at Caltech. He studied under Nobel laureate physicist Robert Millikan, a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Anderson was working with an apparatus that photographed the vapor trail of electrons and other charged particles when his photos showed what appeared to be a positively charged electron.

The discovery of the particle, eventually named the positron, confirmed the concept of antimatter developed by the British physicist Paul Dirac. Anderson also discovered two other fundamental particles of matter, called positive and negative mesons. During World War II, Anderson put his particle research on hold to contribute to the war effort. He turned down an offer to direct the development of the atomic bomb, a job that eventually went to J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Instead, Anderson worked on a solid-propellant rocket project, focusing on how to fire these rockets from aircraft. In 1944, he supervised the installation of the first aircraft rockets on Allied planes. bh MINOUA An Introduction to Maxxum Photography Sun. 1 426-9487 COMPLfclfc a i isr av. i iur i on movies, plays, restaurants, art, books, dame, music, records TV EVERY FRIDAY IN THE SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL FUNERALS NOD MANS family chapel HURST At his home in Santa Cruz, California on January 5, 1991.

Mr. John D. Hurst. Survived by his brother, George B. Hurst of Placerville; three nieces and three nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Hazel Hurst, in 1982. A native of Cen-terville, Indiana, age 80. He came to Santa Cruz as a youngster. A graduate of Santa Cruz High School, he attended San Jose State University. He served in the U.S.

Army during WWII and was stationed at Let-terman's Army Hospital. He was active in youth athletics. Member of the Grey Bears. Private family services are scheduled. Arrangements are under the direction of Norman's Family Chapel (Gary Benito, Director), 3620 Soquel Soquel.

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