The Desert Sun from Palm Springs, California • 3

iiii in the Sun WMIU1V Insido: On record A4 Across the valloyA5 Nows from back homo All A3 TUESDAY January 1 1991 Keith Carter Monaging Editor News: 322-8889 eiwu Friends remember Kiel courage i Street actor died Friday By MARGERY ROSS WARSHAW Tha Oaaait bun RAM HO MIKAGF Kun-iil services are (lending tor actor Kid Martin a regular tn the Kitiinv winning teles isum M-nr Hill Street who died at his home He wj 16 Martin who portrayed shady de-ter live Johnny I) l-iltoe on the series dun! Friday of tardnxtw ii lar mllapse stemming from lung ranrer Riverside County In-putv Coroner Mu had Weik sud Rancho Mirage resident Hilpli Mai tin He also is sui vived iv Ins niotlH-r Kiiis-n Mueller who liared In -Itaneho Mirage hiuuc Hoi ii Julv 2d 1961 in I'ittshuigli Pa Marlin was raised in Miami Kla ft Mler gaining fame on the Hill Mleel IHlies" dining tils' show eight year inn Marlin went mi In Kov Hroidcasling Scoml Cliances lie plated a dead man dying to elm ui his younger sell in Iiom- gaming admission to heaven In I 'in 7 In- also stalled with iiii Jillian III Convu lest A Moth i-l Stmy all MIC television i IIIOVII- aite ami his ife Linda both long lime friends of Martin paid tribute to his courage ami positive attitude during the last year of his life Waite said he and Marlin had two things in common truth were actors and rcrovmng alcoholic I lirst met Kiel while lie wa in Hill Street Hlues and I was doing The Mississippi in Ian Angeles' Wnte said 1 We were both in rccov-ery and fie was so (Mixilive that he had made a life for himself with lesper and dignity I saw him just a week ago and he bail a gleat life affirming dill tude He was a viurceof strength to everyone aiound him'' Waite said Martin donated lus time and tal ent to a numlier of rltanlable orga niatlon in the deseil int lulling the I lilted (Virtual Paisv annual telethon "There weie minv htii things about him tie was a deal friend said Arlsn Itudolph telethon and special event ciHiidinitoi lor I'CP He had been appealing on the tele I linns lor manv vears hi the nation al poilion hut when he moved down hen- he slatted apH-aiing in mil Iin al segments giving up all itiit national eMisure And smi know what that means In an ailor --lie sud A cording to Linda Waite Mir tin was divorced Irmu smgi i Ih-an Malt ins daughter Claudia I he cuiiple had one daughter Jeniuler KIEL MARTIN Supported charities i Banning businesses lie in Sonny shares views on ex with Copy' The New Vrar'i Kve edition of the TV new magazine Copy" featured Palm Spring Mayor Sonny Bono commenting on former better half CVr Mono who war romplimm-tary about accomplish' menu uld function from a "victun'i oint of view don't think that necessary Comments that Cher thought the moon was the other side of the sun and that Mount Hush-more which features heads of four presidents was a natural wonder were meant In be anecdotal to be funny lionn said Ho no said he wouldn't trade his wife Mary for 10 Cher Grocery store melee leads to arrest of three PALM SI'HINCiS Three men were arrested on robbery and assault charges after gro eery store employees said they were atlacked About 6pm Sunday two store employers at Luckv Food On ter 1751 Sunrise Way attempted to stop a griNip of simplifiers said Palm Springs police Sgt Starrs The three resisted and assaulted the store employees with bottles ami a broom iundlr Ih sinl Police arrested three men at lie store Adrian Placentia (la Spar Id of Cathedral City Carlos Alberto Cisneros 20 of Palm Springs amt Javier (laspar To cano 22 of Cathedral Cilv hatc was hooked in the Palm Springs Jail on suspicion of rob UTy and assault with a di-adlv weapon Starrs said Hail is set at (20 000 each Police hold suspects after couple assaulted PALM SPRINGS Three Ca Ihedral City men were arrested on suspicion rohltery Sun day after accosting a couple walking (rum Iyons Knglish (inll across South Palm Canyon Drive to their hotel Ret West ern Host about a block away (ailicr Sgt Hon Starrs taid Three men kina ked Alexandra Ciochon 43 of Winnipeg Cana da to the ground he said They smash's! her head onto the con rcte several times while trying to grab her purse Starrs said The womans companion Homan Haranowski fit of Winnipeg trn-d io help hut two men kirked and struc him Starrs Said The men fled in a brown vehicle and were stopped by an ufh-cer who saw the car leave the area Arrested and booked in the Palm Springs Jail on suspicion of robbery were Gabriel Pacheco Cruz 19 Juan Alberto Kstrada 20 and Gorge Monroy Marquez 23 all of falh'-dral City They remain in the jail Monday night with hail at (20000 each City considers limit to car sale displays CATHKDKAL CITY Park ing of cars for sale would la-forbidden on city streets and commercial parking lots under a proposed ordinance The law before the City Council Wednesday would prohibit displaying vehicles for sale hire or rental unless the projierly they are parked on I licensed and zoned for that business The eouncil meet at 7 30 in the Council Chamber at City Hall 68-625 Perez Road Blood bank holds drive to find donors PALM SPRINGS The Community Blood Hank will sponsor a blolid drive Wednesday The drive open to all Valley resident will be held between 10 a and 3 at the Century 21 Van Lizzen Realty office 100 Palm Canyon Drive said Verla Marsh drive chairman ashes RODRIGO PFNA To Desail i rntologs (m is rocovnnng ronlnri frotrurtion firm destroy'd high fai'-s he said Tin- 12 inch hy IK inc remov able signs would have In be posted in fie passenger side front window while Hie cars are at taxicab stands according to the ordinance Tfie airport would start enforcing ili- ordinance 8 a rn Thursday Smoot said The cab companies ere told last week that the council will probably adopt the ordinance he said Cabs will probably lie require to post th'-ir rales permanently on I heir door after February when SooLinc Transit i likely to bcromr (he taxicab regulator for Hie Coachella Valley Smoot said IV 1 i lO 'I li urban planner 'i 11 PICKING UP THE PIECES: oss fjloolo owner of Hanning Ob so Into at Hanning salvages supplies bom (us automotive store Mon -d (7 vi 000 Next dooi Dni Hw-ilv owner of ft-'-rlv Const i iii lion Iht'-w pa h-1 and tools into Hie hark of tils pickup as he salvaged what he i ould (loin ins V'-ar old business lb- sii'l lie iiad iri'uturiie on th-hiuhlmg hut hot on lh'- 'otiteiits It not a gmd wav to end Hie v-ar but I haw- to look on as a foi of progress lie said Across tin- all'-v from llu- three buildings sits the lutiir l-'ox fine-pl-x built in Hu- teens or the 1920s manager William Smith said senior building iri-p-( tor 'I In- (mint is now mooi tw ause the buildings weie damag'd tn-yniiil repair Harrell said fitv oltn iiN want the defiis temnyed within two weeks I- said The bar was hril'-t'-d to have In-ell built III III'- 19 pis Ir 1 'zlo while Hie uitolllolive stole alld Hvi-tl' Const i ii( mu Co the Hind hlilldmg were hee'-i built oimiit 1913 Hill'-tt said Steeles rented the building hut had no inoiranie on the auto motive parts valued at an estimat- By ROSE W0JNAR Th Dasart Sun IIANMNt Kus Steele wearing ski pants boot and rubber glove walkeif through Hie charred remains of hat used to be the front dMir id the fanulv's vintage automobile parts stme on San (iorgonm Avenue His sister l-wa md three other familv friends were standing at the hack wall of blackened bricks Wearing (link yellow and white ruhta-r gloves and cotton doctor's masks the live gmgerlv carried out tiarely discern ihle hubcaps imping to salvage them It been devastating to our family" Muss Steele said This was basil atlv our sole imome to nr familv and now it gone The Steele family business valued at an est unatml (75(1 00(1 was one of three businesses de st roved by a 6 pm Sonilay tire in me of Oh city's oldest business districts The historic Fox inepics sep-1 only a 20 fool alley from one of the horning buildings was spared from Hu- hlae cxicpl for the slight smoke smell that perme-alisf Ha- building early Monday afternoon Fire olhi lal hclu-ve Hie accidental lire was caused by an dec-Irical problem in a wall in Frankie Nugget bar oik- of Hie three buildings destroyed said Hanning Fire tepartment Insjas-tor Ted Varhrough The Steeles' store where part (or antiques built in the early 1920s an-l 1930s were kept shared a wall with Hie bar Tim fljnu-s which left his business roofli-ss meant the end of a 30 year old family business al least temporarily Steele said The family moved from Santa Ana about I 1 1 years ago after San ta Ana building inpertrs said I he old storage building where they operated needed to tie upgraded to meet earthquake standards he said That same fate befell the Steeles in Hanning and (he owners of the other two business -s In-fore the hre said James Harrell Hanning's King leaves rain forests for greens By JEFF 0ILL0N Th Drn Sun INDIAN WKLLS you were king where would you spend New Year If you were Sultan Azlan Shah King of Malaysia you spent it driving chipping and putting on a golf course in Indian Well and partying at the Stouffer Ksmeralda Resort Shah rarne here to lead the royal team of hi home state of Perak in a one-day tournament against a team fielded by Malaysian Air lane Shah 62 declined to he interviewed he lx a king after all but the country' consul general spoke on hi behalf Monday are a lot of thing we do that you don't understand" said llajt Salim llashim who represents the small Southeast Asian country from an office in Lm Angeles Take the Malaysian tropical rain forest which American environmentalists criticize hi country for cutting down rains every day If you throw a seed anywhere it will grow" Ha-shim contended Take the tourism industry Council reviews taxi rates day fiteolo fin id the nuf'imutivo valuable Huto information Vaudeville actors arid if esses well as Calm Springs resident alld comedian Hull Hope ofitei I lined on lli- stage in-foie it was rniiv cited into a three screen the afi-l tie said Smith said 210 peliple weie in the theater wli'-ri the 'llioke from the tdie irept 111 Hiroilgll III'- heating sy stem Tolu lirowri a nislomi-i wifiti mg Kiiideign ten Cop Mi'h his liincee and iu-i son said some pen ile Ian lip the aisles to get nut of I when they smelled smoke an Hill Im raised its tales diamal if ally since I Ik- City Council d'-t'-g ul i led taxicabs two weeks ago the director said The airport now ri-rmics hit rate Ik- posted inside Cabs hl ll has led to rustorner the king out various taxi to see what ih ir tales area lie said In these busy times if we have people getting in and out of taxicabs clicking Hk- rates have an accident waiting to happen 'urioot said Repeat passengers have called the airport and eomplamed about taking cabs to their regular d'-sima lions and being surprised by Hie vote on funding for others on plans to give dow ntown a face lift SKNCA developed the Vision Plan for the city last year Part of the face lift will include (5 million cd "street scape" and parking improvements Ogburn also would prepare downtown development regulation design guidelines and a centralized retail management program The project will include the area of downtown hounded by Indian Avenue on (he east Wlardo Road on By JErF DILLON Tfm Lit NGS Taxicabs operating in th-' it will have to carry signs listing their rates in two-inch high letters starting Thursday morning if the City fount tl approver an urgency ordinari'c Wcdn--diy Hales need to Ik- nisI-i for the ease of prospective rider and for safety outside the terminal of the Palm Spring Regional Airport said Allen Smoot the city's director of aviation The ign are needl'd now because at least one of the hve companies which provide service to the Palm Springs to By JEFF DILLON Tn Desert Sun PALM SPRINGS Design for a new downtown will move from the mind' eye to a planner's pen if the City Council approve the next step of the Palm Springs Vision Plan Wednesday The council will vote on spending up to 1281000 this year to put an urban planner in a downtown office and design studio The program calls for Jerry Og-burn of the SKNCA Palm Springs Inc consortium to work with area property Owners merchants and HAJI SALIM HASIM Malaysia's consul general which makes up a growing part of Malaysia's economy Hashim didn I find it ironic that Shah and his entourage came to America 'o play "Tourism isa two-way street We have to come here and Americans have to come and visit our count ry a well" he said Or take the Malaysian government which has both a king and a federal system Shah spends hi days a his country's ceremonial head and exercising some of his royal power Dissolving Parliament declaring states of emergency and the like "You can mention that he play golf all the time" lfahim added with smile The king golf score wasn't available by press time the west (Han via Valmonteon the north and Ramon Road on the south according to a city staff report The counril on Dec 20 approved a (95 million expansion of the Con- ati vention Center as the first step of the revitalization plan A vote on the third part of the Vision Plan a $23 2 million downtown golf course ha been tentatively set for January 16 The council meets at 7:30 pm in the Counril Chambers at Cilv Hall 3 Jf0 Tahquilz Canyon Way Decco Winning card number picked Monday for the California Lottery's game Hearta: Queen Cluba: 3 Diamond: 3 Spadea: Ace For the record We correct error of fart promptly and courteously If you have a correction or clarifica-tiorf call the city dcjk78-4fil9.