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16-WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1999. THE Daily Digest Wednesday, Nov. 3 OBITUARIES Melva Jean Greene A gathering of friends and family in celebration of the life of Melva Jean Greene will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

14, at her home in Ukiah. The family asks friends and relatives to call 468-5111 for directions. At her request, her body has been cremated by the Neptune Society of Santa Rosa and the ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay at 9 a.m. today. Mrs.

Greene died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, in a Santa Rosa hospital following many years of dialysis for kidney failure. She was 64. She was born Nov. 1, 1934, in Needville, Texas.

Her parents were Clifton Smith and Corine Kyles. Mrs. Greene was given the name Bdella Smith but chose "Melva" as her given name in later years. She lived most of her young life with an aunt after her mother died. Mrs.

Greene attended grade school in northern Louisiana, a time she later told her husband was the happiest of her entire life. During World War II, she lived with relatives in Houston and graduated from high school. After the war she moved with her aunt to Oakland where they lived until Melva's marriage to Franklin Greene on Aug. 6, 1976. In February 1985, the Greenes moved to Ukiah, where they enjoyed entertaining family and friends.

Surviving are her husband, Franklin; son Shawn Johnson and his children, Amber and Shawn ward Kevin Huggins, and Melva's oldest daughter, Gwen Brooks, all of Ukiah, oldest son Darryl Brooks, son and daughter-in-law Donald and Rhoda Smith and their son, Donald Smith son and daughter-in-law Edward Keith and Tammy Smith and their son Edward Keith Smith son-in-law John Cecil Maddox and his wife Trina and their son John Maddox daughters, Janisha Maddox, youngest daughter, Kimberly Smith and her children, Eugene Brown Gina Brown and Steve Neal, all of Oakland; and four great-grandchildren. Also surviving are Mrs. Greene's sister, Mrs. Henry Etta Dezzani, nieces and nephews and many in-laws in Honolulu, Hawaii. Remembrances may be sent to the American Diabetic Association or the donor's favorite charity.

Elisabeth Anne Schneider REDDING Services for Elisabeth Anne Schneider will be held at 11. a.m. Saturday, at Valley Christian Fellowship, 3180 Rancho Road, Redding. Mrs. Schneider died Wednesday, Oct.

20, 1999, at the age of 72. She was born April 9, 1927, in Aitkin, Minn. The Allen Dahl Funeral Chapel in Redding, is in charge of arrangements. Hazel E. Kennedy Services for Hazel E.

Kennedy will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, at the Evergreen Memorial Gardens with Pastor David Donnell officiating. Mrs. Kennedy died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at the age of 92.

She was born Oct. 30, 1907, in Albion. She spent her childhood on Election Continued from Page 1 scores. Colwell received 50 percent, Other big issues on the or 2,448 votes in Mendocino board's plate include improvCounty and 64.3 percent, or ing other facilities and votes in Lake County. ering building another high Contender Paul Ubelhart school.

was second, with 36.7 percent "I think that's the next big or 1,783 votes in Mendocino issue we're going to have to County and 20 percent, or 558 look at," Gomes said. votes in Lake County. Smart and Graves could not Ubelhart, a former educator, be reached for comment this said he was disappointed, but not discouraged. morning. "I'll over it.

Of the three winners, Gomes get It's my first the time out and I learned a lot," he was top vote-getter, with said. 26.4 percent or 1,736 votes. Robert Tjepkes was third, Smart was second with 25 with 12.6 percent, or 615 votes percent or 1,638 votes. Graves in Mendocino County and 15.6 got 20.2 percent or 1,329 votes. percent or 433 votes in Lake As is the case in small elecCounty.

tions, the voter turnout on In the Ukiah Unified School Tuesday was bleak. District race, the two incum- A paltry 18.1 percent of bents, Michael Gomes and affected Mendocino County Peggy Smart garnered the most voters turned out to cast ballots votes, followed by new board for six school and three member Sheryl Graves. special district elections. Gomes said this morning he's The percent of voters in the pleased. He said there are a lot of Ukiah Unified School District issues he wanted to be on the was even smaller just 13.7 board to address, including percent.

And 17.2 percent of whether to eliminate lockers, county voters bothered to vote building the new elementary in the Mendocino-Lake college school and improving test district race. AIDS Continued from Page 1 heterosexual men and women. "AIDS is now one of the three main causes of death for women and men 25 to 44 years old in this country. It is among the top 10 causes of death for children 1 to 4 years old. AIDS is now becoming a disease of families.

"Today, most of the people with AIDS are young adults." Caron Eskridge, director of COMBAT at the Mendocino County Office of Education, said statistics show that ranks sixth among the leading causes of death for young people in the United States ages 15 to 24." She said, "in the United UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL year member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. She was with the Republican Women for over 25 years, and she was a homemaker. Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Dick Simpson, both of Ukiah; granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Suzan and Andy Pearce, both of Flaggstaff, niece, Helen June Holmes of Eureka; and great-granddaughter, Kyla Pearce of Flaggstaff. Memorial contributions to Native Daughters of the Golden Westing Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 1803, Fort Bragg, 95437 are preferred by the family.

Arrangements are under the direction of Eversole Mortuary. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY WEATHER EUREKA Areas of low clouds and tog along the coast otherwise party Lows In the upper 30s to mid Thur Party sunny. Highs in YESTERDAY'S to mid-708. High- 0870. Fort Bragg TEMPERATURES FRIDAY SUNDAY.

Friday Party cloudy. Lows in the upper fo Highs in me 10 mid dos. Saluiday and Sunday: Mostly cloudy with a chance al rain Saturday Sunday. Lows in the upper 30s to mid- Highs in the mid-505 to mid-608. Amateur FORT weather BRAGG watchers: URIAH TEMPERATURES RAINFALL Water To add your As of 8 a.m.

.0.00 Season 10 2.0.94 Lake Mendocino town to the map call year to 1.36 Storage 48,423 468-3526 season acre-feet. STATE TEM Max acre-feet allowed 122,500 ..225 cts temperatures 250 cis TIDES AIR QUALITY Sunset today: 5:14 p.m. Low tide: 2:20 p.m. (Today Ozone: .047 (state standerd .09) High tide: 8:16 measured in Uriah Sunrise tomorrow: 6:34 a.m. tide: missing p.m.

Carbon Monoxide: 1.93 High (Tomorrow) Dioxide: .039 (20) Low tide: missing (Tomorrow) Nitrogen 4.25) the Mendocino Coast, moving to Fort Bragg in 1922. She married James Kennedy in 1926. Mrs. Kennedy was a past president and a 50- CHP REPORTS cion of driving under the influence and hit and run at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday on Eastside Calpella Road.

Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as hate been arrested may contact the Daily Journal once their case has been concluded so the results can reported. Those who feel the information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case? st those arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant: all DUI cases reported by law enforcement agencies are reported by the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes no CORRECTIONS A letter to the editor in Tuesday's Daily Journal titled "In defense of the fair manager," should have read, in part, "Our manager worked with us (in the rain) to construct a cover prior to the fair so we would be able to have our outdoor garden area." The Ukish Daily Journal reserves this space to correct errors or make clarifications so news articles Significant errors in obituary notices or birth announcements will result in reprinting the entire article.

Errors may be reported to the editor, 468-3526. The following were compiled from reports prepared by the California Highway Patrol: ARREST Jason A. Seeley, 26, of Ukiah, was arrested on suspi- POLICE REPORTS The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department. To anonymously report crime information, call 463-6205. ARREST Amy Combs, 24, of Ukiah, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon during a fight with her boyfriend at 8:22 p.m.

Tuesday in the 200 block of Ford Street. ARREST Donald Massey, 20, of Ukiah, was arrested on suspicion of battery and making terrorist threats during a domestic dispute at 10:22 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of El Rio Court. ARREST Miguel Ruvalcaba, 25, a transient, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence at 9:53 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of South State Street.

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Race time: 1:48.17. Mental Health COMBAT But it would send other county agencies into a tailspin, noted 5th District Supervisor David Colfax. the lone vote against allowing Kelly to convert the PHF to crisis intervention in the event it was forced to close. The already short-staffed Sheriff's Office would be further impacted because deputies would be required to transport mentally ill patients to and from other counties, he noted. At any given time, 25 percent of the PHF's patients are also jail clients, Kelly said.

'The percentage was even higher than that the first part of this year. Between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15, the PHF logged 597 patient days for "penal code" patients, compared with 1,892 total patient days. Defense attorneys also would be affected.

They would need to drive out of county to consult with those clients, said Assistant Public Defender Kit Elliott. That would likely result in fewer attorney-client consultations and fewer plea bargains, which means higher court costs, she said. It also means that some mentally ill clients will spend more time in jail, which has been known to cause mental backslides, she said. "You are looking at some very significant impacts," Elliott said. the PHF to a crisis unit, Colfax In voting against converting said a conversion would simply allow the ongoing staffing and funding problems in the departments to continue.

A total shutdown of the PHF, Food Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page I However, both former Gov. Pete Wilson and current Gov. Gray Davis vetoed the funds for food purchase and gathering, citing the same reason. Both governors pointed out the state's role with food banks i is to administer the federal food commodity program, and said they didn't want to put state dollars into a federal- on the other hand, might force the public and the board into dealing with longtime problems, Colfax said. District Attorney Norm Vroman said he can't predict a shutdown's effects on his department, but he knows what the solution to the crisis is.

"It's nothing time and money won't cure," he said. Sheriff Tony Craver seconded the opinion, noting that Mental Health's staffing problems are caused by the same thing as his office's inadequate pay. While the PHF's recent crisis was brought on by work-related injuries, the department already was facing problems with staff leaving for better paying jobs, Kelly said. She said the last two staffers who left are now making $10,000 a year more in Lake County. The Sheriff's Office has mostly lost deputies and corrections officers to better pay in Sonoma County.

"If you're not going to pay the going rate for a gallon of gas, you're not going to get here," Craver said. On a separate, funding issue later in the day, supervisors approved reclassifying some mental health workers and adding other positions to improve services. An evaluation of the overall pay levels is pending the results of a comparison study the county has commissioned. ly-funded program. Mendocino County supervisors Patti Campbell and Richard Shoemaker met with the food banks last year after the first funds were approved, and helped draft a two-year plan to seek funds for the county's highest priority infrastructure needs, which was approved by the Board of Supervisors last spring.

Continued from Page 1 in court and at teacher and administrative conferences. Last year, they also traveled to Burbank to attend a state conference held for 800 teens involved in prevention education. Recently, COMBAT collaborated with another local teen group called the Hooligans and they kicked off summer with a show called "Are You Crazy?" which was a "direct response to anyone who, knowing there is a risk out there, would simply choose to ignore it," Eskridge said. The play was meant to provide a "fresh awareness" for students who were about to be off for summer vacation, she added. "The performance was able to reach the students and had a profound, powerful, and lasting Eskridge said.

"The power is when peers talk to peers. Teens know that the risks are out there. They want to know more. They want to share information among themselves. They want explanations about sexual situations to be out in the open." She said teens want to talk about AIDS but sometimes are afraid, especially if they suspect they have taken risks.

The COMBAT troupe "takes on the task of educating, protecting and preventing a generation from this insidious disease," Eskridge said. COMBAT troupe members not only need to know how to act, but Eskridge said they need to be able to field hard questions and respond to audience members who might have suspicions about their own risky behavior. They also need to be non-judgmental, caring, positive and educated in and STDs. "Actors don't shy away from words like sex or condom. We know that what we have to talk about is controversial, but we NOYO THEATRE 459 40:0 6696.

INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES 7:00 Wed, Thur Only MUMFORD (R) (R) AMERICAN BEAUTY (R) DAILY: 6:25, 8:50 believe in our message and what we have to share is important and without a doubt can save a life. It could even be yours or your granddaughter or child," she said. "Often just a phone number to a local health clinic and the assurance that the visit will be totally confidential is enough encouragement to get a student to the clinic to get tested," Eskridge: said. Many teens don't realize the test is no longer a blood test, she noted. Instead, it is an oral and results are ready within one week.

Despite "drastic cutbacks" in grant money, Eskridge said the group is proceeding with a new company of COMBAT actors who will go into the classroomns and perform and STDs prevention. Auditions for, the COMBAT Troupe will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, at the Ukiah Playhouse, 1041 Loy Gap Road: Eskridge encourages Ukiah High School students to audition and Ukiah High School teachers to contact her about having the troupe perform in their classroom. For more information, cons tact Caron Eskridge at 467-5161. States, from January to June 1998, 3,282 cases of AIDS, in people aged 13 to 19, had been reported to the CDC and many other adolescents are currently infected with HIV but they haven't yet developed AIDS." Adolescents are the slowest to get tested because of their age, Eskridge said.

Oftentimes, adolescents think they are invincible, or they may be in denial, or just too embarrassed to get tested. She noted that "up to one quarter of the estimated 40,000 new cases of HIV infection that will occur in the U.S. each year may be among young people under age 22." THEATRE 612 5. Stale 462-67KN HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL DAILY: 5:10, 7:20, 9:20 ADD.MAT. SAT, SUN WED: 3:10.

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