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SaS 'IJ'J'VS Vlfw hr riwii naxiiw tar tf 'll 31 tta AwHt vfc wr irf- 4 si S' U- Tiuti) Mi 1 THE BESOT SUli Fite Spriiji Ctlif -43 i i PD man needs treatment for disease told he qualify for free care 4 i I case Hying to do so requires advanced written permission Cheney Hid Medi-Cal stopped payments after the couple submitted an income statement that showed they were drawing $1100 a month for state worker's compenution and state diubility insurance The money Cheney Hid coma from $213 his wife receives every two weeks in compenution for a work-related leg injury that has left her unemployed for a year The remaining amount coma from a $350 state diubility insurance check Cheney receiva every two weeks But that money will run out in eight months Cheney Hid the income barely supports his family Little Is left for his treatments which cost more than $M0 a month Medi-Cal officials reportedly did offer to help pay for treatments if he paid the first $512 part of a shareeost program was not worth he uid Ironically Cheney quit bis Job last October as an executive with the chain of convenience markets so he could apply for state aid Cheney uid the company was paying 80 percent of the cost of his treatment but he could not afford his share of 20 percent What is ironic about the situation he uid is that while he cannot receive free state medical aid the court recently ruled undocumented workers are eligible for Medi-Cal Cheney Hid his relatives friends and former co-workers all have tried to help him but have been unsuccessful The situation has left him shaking his head in bewilderment and anger 1 figure it he Hid By SAM RAMIREZ Dncrtlaa Staff Writer PALM DESERT Duane Cheney was lick weak and bitter as he sat In his darkened living room Monday He was running out of time For two monthly the 29-year-old Palm Desert man has been trying to get state Medi-Cal officials In Riverside County to continue paying for his treatments for disease an inflammation of the lymph tissues And for two months the former top-level Circle Food Store company executive has been told by county officials that he does not financially qualify for free medical treatment to combat the oft-times fatal condition Monday he described his mood as desperate He has been warned he said that he will die in six months to a year if he get help Medi-Cal paid for the treatments he received in January and February he uid That was before officials ruled that he and his wife were not qualified for the assistance and stopped paying for the treatments Tve tried all angles to try and get Cheney Hid other people have tried to defraud the government (to receive aid) and here trying to get by always paid my taxes (while working) and now when I need help I get he said Already the disease has caused neck to swell Pat Stewart a Medi-Cal supervisor in Indio refused to discuss LOOKING FOR HELP Because he is being refused financial assistance through Medi-Cal Duane Cheney a Palm Desert resident and a victim of Hodgkin's disease is not sure where or when treatment will become available to him Jesse Jackson is heavy favorite to win his first primary in capital WASHINGTON (AP) The Rev Jesse Jackson is heavily favored to next week and even aides were conceding he needs a win or Youth to be placed in neutral setting DENVER (AP) A bitter interstate tug-of-war for custody of a 12-year-old boy sought by both his homosexual father and his fundamentalist Christian mother ended with an agreement to place Brian Batey in a neutral setting where both parents can visit "I think this is the mat beneficial step been taken in 19 Denver District Judge Harold Reed uid Monday after presiding over nearly three hours of discussions between parents is the first time in 19 months the parents are starting to talk I would hope the ume spirit of cooperation will continue in the Reed uid Frank Batey 39 of Palm Springs and his ex-wife Betty Lou Batey 39 of the Denver suburb of Aurora were divorced in 1976 in Southern California Mrs Batey said she removed the boy from his custody ordered by a California court in 1982 in the fall of that year became homosexuality conflicts with her Pentecostal faith Her son has been attending the Aurora church of which she is a member Under the agreement Brian initially will go to the California Child Theft Unit in San Diego The unit is a division of the district office Jama Walsh an attorney representing the father uid a longer-range goal is to see Brian placed in a foster home Mrs Batey wept after the agreement was announced and her son came into the courtroom looking tense but resigned The father appeared relieved The pact followed non-public presentation in the chambers of information by the lawyer that the attorney Tom Gillooly Hid was too sensitive to be disclosed in open court Reed rejected a requat that the proceedings be closed to the press and public Ms Batey is wanted in California on child-staling charges Walsh Hid the possibility of dropping those charga not been two to keep his challenge alive Hart was in Indiana Ohio and Maryland today before hading to Texas Mondale was stopping in Indiana and Ohio before heading to Texas while Jackson was spending the day in Washington In Texas on Monday Hart cited the Iran hostage crisis when Mondale was vice president and the deaths of US troops in Lebanon under the Ragan adminstration and uid a Rugan-Mondale race would be bleak choice between two failed must not accept more of the same more days of infamy or more days of Hart uid Mondale responded by uying remarks suggest don't recall at that time the senator being so clur about what he would have done that was Mondale said Jackson in Memphis renewed his charge that the delegate-selection rula are stacked in favor of Mondale fact is now I have about 18 percent of the popular vote 7 percent of the delegata or about 11 percent leu than my Jack-son uid There are 717 national convention delegata at stake through next Tuesday: Texas holds caucusa and Louisiana has a primary next Saturday Colorado holds caucusa on Monday and there are primaries next Tuesday in Ohio Indiana North Carolina and Maryland Going into primaries Mon dale has 120305 delegates compared with 64875 for Hart and 1822 for Jackson It taka 1967 to win the nomination notch his first Democratic presidential primary victory today in Washington DC even as Walter Mondale and Gary Hart look to Tennessee for the resumption of their long-running fight for the party nomination Together the two primaria account for 80 national convention dele-gata the beginning of the second half of a nominating campaign that ha Mondale hoping to pad a commanding delegate lead and Hart pursuing a comeback strategy Western style Hart and Mondale resumed their hated rhetoric on Monday with Hart raising the Iranian hostage crisis and term as vice president in a harsh new attack Jackson campaigned in Tennessee and made a brief pilgrimage to the Lorraine Motel where the Rev Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968 Jackson then a young King aide was present when the civil rights leader was slain Both Mondale and Hart effectively have conceded the District of Columbia primary to Jackson a civil rights leader who has run strongly earlier in the yar in citia with large black populations Washington has an atimated 70 percent black population Maxine Isaacs pros secretary predicted on Monday: will win We hope to do respectfully The city has 15 delegata at stake Hart Mondale and Jackson all have campaigned hard in Tennessee where 65 delegata are up for grabs in the primary But even before the vota were cast they were turning their attention to several other stata holding primaria and caucusa over the Dominelli 2 others to face federal charges in SD court SAN DIEGO (AP) Federal authoritia citing security reasons are refusing to ay when financier David Dominelli and two of his associata will be brought back to San Diego to face federal charga related to the collapse of La Jolla-based currency trading firm will never be told when where or how they will be returned to San Diego The reason is for security aid Pete Nagurny an inspector for the US office in Miami where the three were arrested last Saturday after they were refused sanctuary on a Caribbean island Dominelli whose bankrupt David Co may owe some 1500 investors up to $112 million waived further removal proceedings and agreed to return voluntarily to California during a hearing before a US magistrate in Miami on Monday Assistant US attorney Bill Grauer uid that federal marshals be bringing him back within the next few But he declined to uy when the three would arrive in San Diego transportation of prisoners is done with a great deal of confidentiality to avoid any problems with the prisoners" Grauer uid lawyer in Miami Theodore Klein uid his client and his two associata waived further removal proceedings because have decided to confront the situation where it should be confronted in court in Basie eulogized at Harlem church NEW YORK (AP) Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillapie and a dozen other big nama in the music world paid their last respects to jazz great Count Basie at his funeral in a Harlem church Hundreds of simple fans also packed the Abyssinian Baptist Church on Monday overflowing into the street as they honored the man mourned as the "univerul ambasudor of Basie who died of cancer Thursday in Hollywood Fla at age 79 was remembered by the Rev Samuel Proctor modest and humble man in an era when modesty and humility were no longer in The senior minister Proctor eulogized Basie who achieved the heights of his profession" yet left behind legacy of a well-ordered life and the esteem of his colleagua and don't often have a chance to celebrate a genius like he added Basie's body was cremated after the funeral according to Benta's funeral home Basie born in Red Bank NJ came to Harlem in the 1920s a a teen-ager He first heard the late Fats Waller playing organ at tbe Lincoln Theater not far from the church where the funeral was held Hasbrouck riA- Indio doctor honored as COD benefactor By NOEL FLETCHER Dncrt Sm Staff Writer PALM DESERT For $5000 you an a bench at the College of the Desert the staff parking lot is $25000 the showers and locker rooms cat $50000 and the Business Education building goa for $150000 College officials uy a donation to COD can immortalize a benefactor and help support the school It is all part of a fund-raising program called For The allege foundation is asking for donations in return for having a facility named after the donor On Monday night one such generous person Dr Reynaldo Carreon Jr of Indio was honored at the Annual Rotary Awards Program for a fountain Carreon uid he donated about $100000 in bonds for the fountain which he named the Fountain of Knowledge" to be used primarily for scholarships to help students of Mexican-Ameri-can descent He was born the oldat of 12 children in San Antonio Texas and moved to Los Angela to attend allege of the main reasons that I made the donation was to improve the breed" Carreon joked had a heck of a time going to school in my day They weren't any scholarships and if there were I was too dumb to get them" He uid he held a variety of jobs to pay allege expensa including being a professional dancer in 1922 He once held two jobs at the ume time after school at a cigar store stand and as a night clerk before beaming a physician and eye surgeon He moved to Indio with his wife Lucila in 1976 He uid "Kids won't have any excuses for not being able to go to school (because of the scholarships)" Sabby Jonathan foundation treasurer and ule coordinator uid the purpose of having the ule is special way to show appreciation and to commemorate large donors of substantial amounts by having them immortalized" by a plaque on the item they He uid the fund-raising is to help the allege maintain and improve its servica especially because of Proposition 13 cutbacks The program began this spring Another donor Robert Boone of Palm Desert the football field for $100000 after aware of the dire needs of the allege (for athletic equipment) by talking with Coach John Marmon" uid Jonathan Dick Codd director of development uid $10 million would give the allege a nameuke He uid a donor can designate what the money will be used for to maintain the facility for an endowment or for scholarships Funeral services will be held in Eagle Grove Iowa for Bernard Harry Hasbrouck of Salton City who died Friday at his home He was 66 A native of Iowa Mr Hasbrouck was a resident of the Salton City area for a number of years He is survived by his wife Violet Hasbrouck of Salton City a son Michael Hasbrouck of La Verne a sister who liva in Iowa two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren Interment will be in the Rom Hills Cemetery in Eagle Grove FitzHenry Funeral Home in Indio is in charge of local arrangements A native of Susanville Calif Mr Moore was a longtime Coachella Valley resident He worked as a self-employed general contractor Mr Moore was a member and past master of the Coachella Masonic Lodge No 476 as well as a member of the Bermuda Dunes Country Club He served in the US Navy during World War II Mr Moore is survived by his wife Velma Moore of Indio a daughter Shari Hill of Palm Desert a son Patrick Moore of Reno Nev a brother Lloyd Moore of Roseville Calif and three grandchildren Servica were to begin at 11 am today from the FitzHenry Funeral Home chapel in Indio Interment was to follow at Coachella Valley Cemetery In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Riverside County chapter of the American Hart Association PO Box 1639 Palm Desert 92261 Van Ronselo Kramer Servica were held Monday for Yucca Valley resident Leon Van Ronsele who died April 24 He was 75 A native of Mishawaka Ind he was a resident of Yucca Valley for 13 years and a California resident 47 years Retired he was employed as a painter for 42 years He is survived by his wife Elvira Van Ronsele of Yucca Valley and a sister Zita Hollister of Indiana Gravaide servica were held at Moutain Valley Memorial Park in Joshua Tree The Rev Daniel O'Donovan of St of the Valley in Yucca Valley officiated Wiefels and Son mortuary of Yucca Valley was in charge of arrangements Moore Funeral servica were to be held today for Jimmie Thomas Moore of Indio who died Saturday in Indio He was 62 Graveside servica were to be held today at 3 pm for former Rancho Mirage resident Louis John Kramer Jr who died Friday he was 68 A native of Iowa he lived in Rancho Mirage for 10 years He was a self-employed sporting goods equiptment manufacturer representative for 15 years A retired aval aviator he was past president of the Huntington Park Kiwanis Club and SunriM Country Club-Men's Golf Association in Rancho Mirage Mr Kramer is survived by his wife Helen Kramer of Rancho Mirage two sons Louis Kramer III of Brawley and Kevin Jama Kramer San Diego and a daughter Mary Door of Portland Ore Interment will be at Riverside National Cemetery Gulf Broadcasting also declined to purchase Pacific' Media choosing to buy KESQ but not KECY Gulf Broadcasting owns television stations in Tampa Fla Phoenix Ariz and Greensboro NC It owns radio stations in Atlanta Ga Cleveland Ohio Dallas and Houston Texas Indianapolis Ind and Washington DC Mechling uid there can be no discussions of ehanga in personnel or philosophy at KESQ until the FCC approves the transaction but he uid KESQ employees are about" the agreement people are broadcasters Esquire was not" Mechling said "so I assume they 11 do a lot of things (but) I don't know" CATHEDRAL CITY Gulf Broadcasting Co of Dallas Texas has agreed to buy KESQ-TV the local ABC network affiliate for $375 million it was announced Monday The ule however must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) before the acquisition is final according to KESQ General Manager Bill Mendell Gulf Broadcasting hu no affiliation with Gulf-Western Inc which purchased KESQ's parent Esquire Inc in February but did not acquire Pacific Media an Esquire subsidiary which operates KESQ and its sister station KECY in El Centro KESQ Advertising Director Dick Mechling uid KESQ-TV bought by Texas firm.