The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 2

tt THE DESERT SUN Pita Sfrligt Ttanlq Mini 1M4 Mondale gets tough in the South Hart looking more like front-runner concedes votes crucial Prosecution rests case Mims called exceptional game player 4 setts where he is gambling on that primary A poll published today in the Birmingham Post-Herald showed a sharp increase in support in Alabama for Hart The survey of 392 likely voters conducted March 3 to March 6 said 36 percent supported Mondale 22 percent backed Hart 15 percent were for Jackson and IS percent favored Glenn A poll taken in mid-February had Mondale at 48 percent and Hart at! percent Jackson was in Mississippi today after spending Wednesday in Illinois where he hit theme The only new thing about Hart Jackson said is that he "lowered his age and shortened his name" He was referring to shortening of his name from Hartpence more than 20 years ago and to earlier incorrect listings of his age as 46 He is 47 Glenn meantime is appealing to southern patriotism to rescue his campaign with new television commercials airing in the South today The ads stress his experience as an astronaut and say he has right stuff You better believe Right is the title of a book by Tom Wolfe and a recent movie about the early days of the space program with role central On the Republican side Vice President George Bush was on a two-day campaign swing through the South ridiculing Democrats cm Wednesday as "prophets of who claimed Reaganomics would never work By Tba riilta Pim Walter Mondale telling southerners "I really need your help" is accusing Gary Hart of being soft on civil rights while the Colorado senator is aiming his words at President Reagan and sounding more and more like a front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Hart too acknowledged that southern votes have become crucial to maintaining his campaign surge and he was appearing today before the Alabama Legislature followed by a meeting with Gov George Wallace Just as his rivals have done important that I be able to demonstrate voter support in the South" Hart said while campaigning in Huntsville Ala on Wednes day Mondale boning a new tougher image in light of his three-in-a-row losses to Hart in New England appeared before the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday and held his meeting with Wallace the onetime segregationist who endorsing anyone in the Democratic field Wallace said Mondale was paying just a courtesy call and had not asked for his endorsement But Wallace said "I feel very kindly toward him" Sen John Glenn and the Rev Jesse Jackson also have made similar calls on Wallace and addressed the lawmakers Hart Mondale Jackson and Glenn all are focusing on the South because of primaries in Alabama Georgia and Florida on Tuesday three of the nine states selecting delegates that day The fifth candidate former Sen George McGovern remained in Massachu- KESQ-TV sale falls through GM announces Orange County arrest said related to PS drug probe the original attack had really taken place the attorney Mid (Mrs Mims also is accused of October 1982 murder attempt on! her sixth husband Joe Black Mims who subsequently had their marriage annulled She will stand trial on that charge at the conclusion of the Sand proceeding) After 2 years when Mrs Mims realized this alibi "just Out' she found a way to blame Sapd for his own killing Dunn suggested "Did you ever get the feeling Sand was on trial Dunn rhetorically Mrs Mims claimed Sand attacked her when she refused to play the' and that the stress of thp forced on her a psychotic break Through hypnosis in September Mrs Mims claimed she finally realized she had done the killing But aside from Mrs own words all evidence contradicts all her varying stories Dunn Hid' including the latest of self-defense and "diminished mental capacity- Mrs Mims suffered no visible-injury during the supposed Dunn commented which contradicted her account of jtjic intensity of the combat Even if Mrs testimony was percent she has no grounds for claiming self-defense Dunn Mid Noting her testimony he explained "After the initial struggle she broke free when the danger ceased to exist I asked There was nothing preventing you from walking and she ansr Mrs claim to mental inca- pacitation was based on a theory that demands for sex- compounded driving her over the edge Dunn Mid But tbe court had only Mrs word there was'' ever violent sex in the piarriage Much was made of a photo album of hundreds of nude photos of Mrs Mims implying they showed predilection for odd sex Dunn how did Andrea Sattd describe the photos? As distaste- Dunn asked "No they were almost in her mind Aftpr death she was pulling them out and showing (Continued on Page A-3) By GALE HOLLAND Omit San Staff Writer INDIO Andrea Sand Mims fabricated an elaborate story spiked with sex and violence to cover up the fact she murdered her aging crippled and demanding fifth husband for his money Deputy District Attorney Robert Dunn Hid in his closing argument Wednesday Mrs Mims 42 who is accused of the 1981 murder of Robert Clark Sand 69 claimed her death resulted from his of violent sexual fantasy Dunn said She wu turning the truth on its head he continued "Andrea Sand is a master uid Dunn "She wu constantly playing games and the game-playing did not end with the death of Robert Sand She attempted to play a game with Mrs Minis' attorney Chief Deputy Public Defender Charles Stafford will present his closing argument today Dunn will have a chance for rebuttal end then the case will go to the jury Mrs Mims told the court her "greatest fear very significantly wu becoming a 50-year-old waitress" Dunn said Jut months after an anticipated bequest from an aging sick fell through Mrs Mims a former actress and prostitute pursued and then married Sand he Mid A prenuptial agreement prevented her from collecting money through a divorce but will granted her "a quarter of a million dollars in a cash bequest and proceeds from the Rancho Mirage condominium Dunn said She could have expected a quick death from the elderly Sand who had been confined to a wheelchair for 10 years and complained frequently about his health Dunn suggested Instead she found Sand after their marriage hale and hearty if hypochondriacal and also jealous possessive and dictatorial Dunn Mid So she stabbed him to death and concocted a story that intruders had killed him Later she tried to shore up this fable with bogus and she staged to convince law enforcement officers CATHEDRAL CITY Esquire deal to seU KESQ-TV has fallen through it was announced Wednesday KESQ general manager Bill Men-dell said Esquire was supposed to have sold its local station Dec 6 to the Cimarron Corp of Oklahoma the firm headed by rock singer Harry Nilsson At that time however Cimarron said it have the capital to make the sale and asked for an extension to raise the money Since then Mendell said Cimarron has asked for five extensions and Esquire has become the wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf-Western a conglomerate which already owns 27 percent of parent company but had no interest in owning a small market television station final extension expired Feb 27 and Mendell said Esquire declined to grant it another one in effect abrogating the sale Mendell said KESQ-TV and its sister station KECY-TV of El Centro-Yuma are now up for sale again The asking price is reported to be in the neighborhood of 55 million arrested by undercover officers Feb 29 at the parking lot of liie Nest bar wu re-arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging him with selling marijuana police uid Sandlin had been released from custody Tuesday because a formal complaint had not been filed in time to meet legal requirements Deputy District Attorney Dave Downing uid Wednesday DaivdGallagos 29 wu transferred to Orange County Jail on an unrelated charge Downing said Sandlin and Gallagos were arrested after allegedly selling an undisclosed amount of marijuana to undercover investigators according to Goodwin Tbe shooting of Jose Luis Lopez Cruz occurred when officers followed the drug suspects to 536 Calle Roca Unaware that there were two separate residences police broke in at the front house after announcing themselves believing that evidence wu being destroyed Cruz one of six people living at the residence wu shot three times by an undercover Palm Springs detective after Cruz allegedly confronted a sheriffs investigator with a knife Cruz wu listed today in fair condition today at Desert Hospital hospital spokeswoman Mid Cruz faces a possible criminal complaint of asMult with a deadly weapon on a police officer authorities Mid During the Calle Roca raid police Mid they found a small quantity of drugs including cocaine meth-amphetamines and marijuana at the rear house occupied by Cathro and four or five other people By JOHN HUSSAR Desert Sm Special Pnjecti Etitar A 36-year-old suspected drug dealer nicknamed McIntyre was arrested by Orange County sheriffs deputies Wednesday in connection with an undercover marijuana raid in Palm Springs last week that led to the shooting of a 22-year-old man who police said later had had nothing to do with the investigation Two other Palm Springs men also were arrested Wednesday stemming from a police and Riverside County Sheriffs undercover operation to purchase marijuana Feb 29 at the patting lot of The Nest bar on Indian Avenue in Palm Springs McIntyre was visiting his parents at their Tustin home when he was arrested by Orange County sheriff's deputies who were notified of a warrant by Palm Springs police charging McIntyre with selling marijuana Sgt Dave Goodwin said McIntyre who reportedly stays much of the time in Tahquitx Canyon in Palm Springs was tackled by a Orange County deputy after McIntyre allegedly tried to escape arrest in Tustin about I pm Goodwin said Meanwhile Jay Cathro 25 who lived at the same duplex on Calle Roca where police shot the man who allegedly threatened them with a knife was arrested at his home Wednesday on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale according to police reports Also Gregory Sandlin 24 who initially was center Desert Hospital contract was not by city Council Suitt says of charge IT entrajpeFoaflanires High Low XMMIIIIIIHII Cathedral City Indio North Shore La Quinta MINIIIIMIMIH Indian Wells Palm Desert PALM SPRINGS Former state Assemblyman Tom Suitt a principal partner in a private firm being considered by Desert Hospital to help collect on delinquent bills denied Wednesday a charge by board member Dale Imus that the initial 1981 contract was an Renewal of the 1981 contract between the hospital and Hospital Billing Analysis Inc (HBA) was Muted by Imus at a board study session this week Tbe board is expected to make a final decision Tuesday Imus during a presentation by hospital Associate Administrator Norm Bergman said "I understand why giving them a contract to do what we should be doing Bergman said the HBA contract was adding the time we know if be successful or if be accepted by the Since it has been successful mid Board President Andrew 0 Fitzmorris "I think time we brought it Noting that Suitt is a major stockholder in the firm Imus referred to former Executive Director Larry Minden asking Bergman Minden tell you to make this deal? we looked at three other Bergman answered think it wu an inside Imus asked Bergman replied I Imus uid Fitzmorris Imus and board member Dale Klemp voted Nov 9 to fire Minden According to the minutes of the July 1981 meeting Imus voted for the HBA contract and made the motion for approval Suitt who ran unsuccessfully for Riverside County supervisor in 1982 against Patricia Larson Mid Wednesday of charge: think he even knows what HBA does at the hospital that it hu recovered several hundred thousand dollars that would have been lost to the WEATHER: Coachella Valley 345-3711 (Monday through Fri-day) SMOG: Coachella Valley (800) 242-4666 WIND: Coachella Valley and San Gorgonio Pass 345-2767 California Canada CincamaM Cleveland CnknebiBSC Eureka Doytan Denver DnMein Daholl DHS clubhouse leveled by fast-moving fire RedBkrff NedaoadCity (Continued from Page A-l) interests adjacent to the proposed site of the convention center are potential conflicts according to City Manager Norm King Councilman Dick Smith owns a part of Hutton Plaza an office complex that will be next to the convention center which is planned for a site north of Tahquitx-McCallum Way south of Amado Road and spanning 35 acres on both sides of Avenida Caballeros Maryanov has an interest in a building at 801 Tahquitz-McCal-lum Foster owns property at that address and at 901 Tahquitx-McCallum he said With the vote SENCA and Doubletree Inc the two companies that are jointly acting as master developer for the project will revise the convention center plans to conform to the new site SENCA announced Tuesday that it had negotiated leases with 17 Indian landowners in Section 14 allowing the convention center project to be moved back to the preferred downtown site The council originally had approved a site on Palm Canyon Drive bisected by Tahquitx Creek Section 14 which is almost exclusively Indian owned is a mostly vacant square mile bounded by Sunrise Way Indian Avenue Ramon Road and Alejo Road In a related action the council voted 4-0 to approve increasing the hotel room tax from 7 to 9 percent to help fund the convention center estimated to be about 6714 million or slightly less At previous meetings the Chamber of Commerce hotel committee had asked that the tax not be instituted unless the convention center was a certainty It also asked that the tax not go into effect for several months so hotels would have time to ammend their brochures and other advertising material to reflect the tax increase Tbe council agreed that although the ordinance raising the tax would go into effect upon second reading later this month the tax will not be collected until September (Continued from Page A-l) for the put four months Capt Robert Cox of the Desert Hot Springs station uid low water pressure created an for firefighters Wednesday night He said the department wu forced to hook up with the county water district in order to increase the water flow The mobile home park operates on its own private water system which is inadequate for firefighting purposes Mid Cox An unidentified volunteer firefighter wu treated for chest pains at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and later released according to a fire department spokesman Alhani 73 47 TV 43 43 73 4S 70 33 71 34 47 30 49 34 70 44 47 4V 47 34 49 47 40 47 70 33 43 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uuge The bill also prohibits air conditioning from inclusion in the baseline program occupancy of homes is not a situation unique to Palm Springs CVAG hu argued that extremely cold areas such Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear receive twice the lifeline rates for winter heating given the valley during its scorching summer months for air conditioning But the PUC wrote in its decision: are not persuaded that seasonal Occupancy of domestic premises by a segment of population of a community is unique to Palm Springs the PUC continued located in areas that suffer severe winters might very well have many seasonal residents who leave in the winter with the thermostats for heating equipment set at low temperatures to protect the property the PUC wrote effect of conservation measures on average consumption would be essentially the ume the effect of seasonal resi dents on average Si low SlJMt-Ti SdHaks 39 S3 dr dr I 01 cdy a cdj 06 cdy 33 -14 S3 30 39 73 Staurfdk fcwgapore Stodriiatoi 31 -07 33 -04 33 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