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City enlists gangs to fight graffiti B4 The Sun THURSDAY, January 21, 1993 Audrey Hepburn, actress, dies at 63 'One thing that I ask of the residents of this city Is to give these guys a chance to prove RALPH HERNANDEZ Councilman Community crew, supervised by the city's maintenance department, began work Wednesday. Earning less than $6 an hour each, the youths work at a cheaper rate than the city's regular graffiti fighters. "These guys have a lot of energy," Hernandez said. "They cleaned up three times more (graffiti) than the crews that they had before. "One thing that I ask of the residents of this city is to give these guys a chance to prove themselves.

I think the people here are going to be happy with this." So far, the anti-gang program, which started in September, has pleased at least one tough customer: the police. "They have made a real difference in the community," Assistant Police Chief Wayne Harp said. "Crimes of violence have gone down." In Los Angeles, violent crimes by Latino gangs have increased lately, Harp said. "This is not the case in this community." The council's action, which will keep the cash-strapped pro- Her first major film role made her a star. In the 1953 romance "Roman Holiday," she played a princess who runs from her duties and falls in love with a journalist played by Gregory Peck.

Audiences were enchanted by her combination of grace, elegance and high spirits, and she won an Academy Award as best actress. The same year she won her Oscar, she won a Tony for her performance in the play "On-dine." In a string of films that followed, she continued to play the lithe young thing with stars in her eyes and the ability to make Cinderella transformations. In "Sabrina" (1954), she was a chauffeur's daughter forced to choose between wealthy brothers, played by William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. In "Funny Face" (1957), opposite Fred Astaire, she played a bookstore clerk turned high-fashion model. Billy Wilder once recalled directing her in the 1957 film "Love in the "You looked around and suddenly there was this dazzling creature looking Obituaries Desert voters get final say on Odessa water district Audrey Hepburn UNICEF special ambassador like a wild-eyed doe prancing in the forest.

Everybody on the set was in love within five minutes." Among her most popular and acclaimed roles was that of Holly Golightly, the backwoods beauty turned New York sophisticate in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961). At the height of her career, she worked with such directors as William Wyler and George Cukor and acted with the great male movie stars of her day, playing the younger woman opposite Gary Cooper in the Cary Grant 1963) and Rex Harrison, in the 1964 movie version of "My Fair Lady." lived in Highland for one year and was an installer for Sparkletts Water. A retired Air Force master sergeant, he served in Korea and Vietnam. Survivors include his wife, Pamela; three daughters, Vickie Howe of Columbus, and Mel-anie Davidson and Amanda Davidson, both of Mira Loma; his parents, Elmer and Anita Lindstrom of Stow, Ohio; two brothers, Dennis of Stow, Ohio, and Brett of Summerset, four sisters, Daneen Denny of Panama City, Janice Lindstrom of Board-man, Ohio, Gerri Lindstrom of Stow, Ohio, and Jeanne Wolf of Bumpass, Va. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m.

today at Pierce Bros. Ingold Chapel, 8277 Juniper Fontana. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Staging Area 3, Riverside National Cemetery, 22495 Van Buren Blvd. ROSELINDA MANZO Environmental technician Roselinda Manzo, 43, of Fontana died of heart failure Saturday in Boise, Idaho.

Manzo, a native of Meridian Idaho, lived in San Bernardino County for 30 years. She was an environmental technician. Survivors include her companion, Jett Darrah of Meridian, Idaho; and a brother, Joseph of Canyon Lake. Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Pierce Brothers Ingold Chapel, 8277 Juniper Fontana.

Interment will be at Green Acres Memorial Park, 11715 Cedar Bloomington. LEO E.LOPEZ Teacher Leo E. Lopez, 50, of San Bernardino died of heart failure Tuesday at Hoag Memorial Hospital. Lopez, was a lifelong resident of San Bernardino County. He taught in San Bernardino schools for 14 years and was teaching at Fremont Junior High School in Pomona.

Survivors include his wife, Patsy; a son, Aaron of San Bernardino; a daughter, Paula of San Bernardino; and two sisters, Pauline Molina and Sarah Jaffe, The San Bernardino program not only spruces up neighborhoods, but helps cut violent crimes. By Carol Baker Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO The city charged ahead Monday on a new front in its war on graffiti, recruiting some hired guns: gang members. The city council voted to pay $185,000 to expand an anti-gang program that puts youths to work painting run-down homes and sprucing up their West Side neig-borhoods. Cleaning up graffiti throughout the city will be all in a day's work for about 45 gang members working in the Los Padrinos Community Coalition which police say has helped cut violent crimes by three Latino gangs. The youths also will continue to paint homes that need it on their own turfs, in the Arden-Guthrie neighborhood and other blighted areas, said Councilman Ralph Hernandez, who helped start the coalition.

The first youth anti-graffiti both of San Bernardino. Visitation will be at 3 p.m. Monday until rosary at 6 p.m., both at Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, 1299 E. Highland San Bernardino. Mass of the Christian burial will be at 9 a.m.

Tuesday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 1430 W. Fifth San Bernardino, with burial at Mt. View Cemetery, 570 E. Highland San Bernardino. THADDEUS P.

WALSWORTH Former design engineer Thaddeus Peter Walsworth, 81, of Yucaipa died Saturday of pneumonia at Kaiser Perma-nente Medical Center. A native of St. Johns, Walsworth lived in Yucaipa for 10 years and in San Bernardino County since 1942. He was a design engineer for the California Department of Transportation for eight years. He held the Office of Inner Guard for Elks Lodge 2389.

Survivors include a son, Terence of Cascade, one daughter, Blake Holpzbach of San Bernardino; and five grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Elks Lodge 2389, 12165 Second Yucaipa. Inurnment will be private. The Neptune Society is handling arrangements.

PAULA JEAN POH Courier driver Paula Jean Poh, 59, of Rialto died of cancer Wednesday at home. Poh, a native of Loma Linda, lived in Rialto for 38 years. She was a former resident of Twenty-nine Palms. She was a courier driver for Top Priority. She is survived by her husband, William two daughters, Cherry Evans of Seattle and Melody Mahmoud of Rialto; a sister.

Cherry Dykes of Victorville; a brother, Garry Griswold of Yucca Valley; her parents, Paul and Lily Griswold of Yucca Valley; and three grandchildren. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Jan. 28 at Living Hope Fellowship Chapel, 224 W. Eti-wanda, Rialto.

strength to help anyone who needed it, even until your last day. I miss you deeply and the pain I have inside my heart hurts more as each day goes by. I miss your phone calls every day and those funny nicknames you gave to me. Who ever knew you know what funny names those were. That's what made you so special as my friend, because you always said what was on your mind.

Thanks so much for stopping by on Dec. 11. I'll always treasure this special day for that was the way you said your last good-bye. Tweetle Ruby Gulllermina, Redlands Tell us about someone special to you who recently died. Provide the name of the funeral home, the writer's daytime phone number and the deceased's name, age, place of death and date of death.

Entries should be 150 words or less. No poetry Is accepted, and Information contained In obituaries should not be repeated. Tributes can be taxed to The Sun at (909) 885-8741 or sent to Assistant Metro Editor Jan Sears, The Sun, 399 N.D San Bernardino 92401. Among Hepburn's most popular and acclaimed movies are 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'My Fair By Caryn James New York Times Audrey Hepburn, the actress who epitomized Hollywood chit-in the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday at her home in Tolo-chenaz, near Lausanne, Switzerland. She was 63 and had undergone surgery for colon cancer in November.

Her death from cancer was announced by UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, for which she had been a special ambassador since 1988. In recent years, she made few movies but traveled the world raising money and awareness for the U.N. organization. Her last screen role, in 1989, was a cameo as an angel easing the hero toward death in Steven Spielberg's "Always," a role in which the character's grace and serenity echoed the image Hepburn had maintained throughout a 40-year career. GRACE W.BRITSCH Former psychiatric technician Grace Whitehill Britsch, 75, of San Bernardino died Friday of complications from cancer surgery.

Britsch, a native of Lorain, Ohio, lived in San Bernardino for 48 years. She was a psychiatric technician at Patton and Pacific State hospitals for 20 years and a medical secre-t a at Loma Linda Community Hospital for five years. She is survived by a son, Thomas L. of San Bernardino; a daughter, Mary Ann Olson of San Bernardino; a brother, Clarence M. Griggs of San Bernardino; and four grandchildren.

Visitation will be from noon to 5 p.m. today at Grove Colonial Mortuary, 738 E. Highland San Bernardino. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Mt.

View Cemetery, 570 Highland San Bernardino. WILLIAM D. CLARK Retired electrician William David Clark, 85, of Lake Havasu City, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at Havasu Samaritan Hospital. Clark, a native of the Oklahoma Territory, lived in Fontana many years. He was a retired electrician for Kaiser Steel.

He is survived by a son, Howard of Spokane, three daughters, Wilma Bruce of Lake Havasu City, Mary Woodhouse of Campbell and Vera Smith of Fontana; a sister, Mary Collinson of Corona Del Mar; two brothers. Leonard of Riverside and Roy of Fort Worth, Texas: 13 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Draper Memorial Chapel, 811 N. Mountain Ontario, with burial at Bellevue Memorial Park, 1240 Ontario.

KERMIT Q. JOHNSON Saw shop owner Kermit Q. Johnson, 74, of Rialto died of an aneurysm Tuesday at San Bernardino Community Hospital. Johnson, a native of Cabot, lived in San Bernardino County for 30 years. He was owner of Johnson's Saw Shop in Rialto for 25 years.

Survivors include his wife, Mildred; four sons. Paul V. and Phillip both of Rialto, Dean of Newport Beach and John W. of Newberry Springs; three daughters, Dixie Johanningsmeier of (ilendora, Jean Gallagher of El Monte and Mollie Johnston of Temple City: a sister, Martha Lou Villians of Indiana; and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, with services at 11 a.m. Saturday, both at McNear-ney Family Mortuary, 130 S. Willow Rialto. Burial will be at Rialto Park Cemetery, 200 N. Willow Rialto.

TIM H. MERRIAM Taco Bell supervisor Tim II. Merriam, 40. of San Bernardino died of cancer Wednesday at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Merriam, a native of Tokyo, Japan, lived in San Bernardino for 13 years.

He was a supervisor gram going until June 30, is contingent on final approval of a detailed budget. Councilwoman Norine Miller cast the only no vote, saying she wanted to see the budget before doling out the money. Already the city has invested $96,000 in the pilot program, which includes counseling for gang members and their families. Hernandez, a mayoral candidate in the March 2 election, said he will try to obtain federal money with the help of U.S. Sen.

Dianne Feinstein. The new anti-graffiti program was adopted one day after Fonta-na's city council stiffened fines from $250 to $1,000 the first time a graffiti vandal is caught red-handed. Community service work sentences went from 40 hours to 375 hours. Odessa district contains adequate safeguards to regulate the sale of water pumped from underground basins, said James Roddy, the commission's executive director. "Anything the district does must be consistent with the Mo-jave Water Agency's plans for wholesaling of water.

It doesn't affect any retail water delivery or change the abilities of agencies to withdraw water." City Manager Eric Ziegler said creation of the Odessa district, named for a turn-of-the-cen-tury silver mine in the nearby Calico Mountains, will give thirsty Barstow a way to acquire additional water from the Mojave River basin and desert dry lakes like Coyote. The local water table has been dropping steadily for years, and Barstow has sued upstream users because it claims they have depleted its supply. The Odessa district would have the power to buy land to obtain new water sources and to store water underground. It also could finance and build pipelines and fix rates for water that would be sold to Southern California Water which serves Barstow. In Memoriam Death notices In this column are prepared bv The Sun's classified advertising department.

For Information, please call (714) 888-3252. RENE ARAUJO, JR. Rene Arauio, passed away January 13, 1993 in Redlands. He was born in San Bernardino, was a laborer had worked for Redlands Farming. He is survived by his parents, Renee and Fannie Arauio; his daughter, Chauntie; 4 sisters, Linda L.

Arauio-Wilson, Judy Pina, Yvonne Delgado, Yvette Arauio; his fiancee, Dena Perez Visitation will be tonight, January 21, 1993, from p.m. at Emmerson-Bartlett Redlands Chapel, 703 Brookside Ave. Prayer Vigil will be at 7 p.m. at the mortuary. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, January 22, 1993 at 10:00 a.m.

at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1214 Columbia Street, Redlands. Burial will be at Hillside Memorial Pk. Mark MEMORIAL CHAPEL 1 525 No. Waterman Avenue San Bernardino, CA 889-0173 George Schwartz Thursday, 1 2:00 Noon Cornerstone Assembly of God 9791 Richardson Interment Riverside National Cemetery Area 2 2:15 P.M.

Alfred B. Garcia Evening Service Thursday, 7:00 P.M. Chapel Moss: Friday, 9:00 A.M. Christ the King Church 272 E. Rialto Ave.

Interment Riverside National Cemetery Area 4 10:45 A.M. Richard Malone Graveside Service Friday, 2:00 P.M. Mt. View Cemetery Afdera Caldera Evening Service Monday, 7:00 P.M. Chapel Mass: Tuesday, 9:00 A.M.

Our Lady of Assumption Church 796 W. 48th Street for Taco Bell for two years. He was a member of Calvary Chapel of San Bernardino, AYSO Soccer League and Victorville Chamber of Commerce. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte two sons, Scott H. and Daniel both of San Bernardino; his mother, Hope E.

of Long Beach; a sister, Pamela S. Edwards of Kingman, and two brothers, Robert D. of Garden Grove and Alan R. of Long Beach. Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m.

Friday at Bobbitt Memorial Chapel, 1299 Highland San Bernardino. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Chapel of San Bernardino, 1499 E. Base Line. Burial will be at Mon-tecito Memorial Park, Waterman Avenue and Barton Road, Col-ton.

The family suggests donations to the Calvary Chapel of San Bernardino, 1499 E. Base Line. San Bernardino 92410, or the American Cancer Society, 2060 Chicago Suite A-17, Riverside 92507. ALICE A.WAGNER Retired teacher Alice A. Wagner, 89, of Rialto died Tuesday at Kaiser Perma-nente Medical Center in Fontana.

The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report. Wagner was a native of Iowa and lived in Rialto for 45 years. A teacher tor more than tf 1 1 1 't' i she taught for 13 years with the Rialto and Fontana school districts. She was named Woman of Achievement by the Rialto Business and Professional Women's Club and Woman of the Year by the Rialto Chamber of Commerce. She was a member of the Rialto Women's Club, the California Retired Teachers Association, the Christian Women's Club and Eastern Star Lodge of Ho-bart, Ind.

She served on the Rialto Bicentennial Committee and was chairwoman of the Miss Rialto Pageant. Survivors include two daughters. Nan J. of San Francisco and Margaret of New York City. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m.

F'riday at Montecito Memorial Park, Waterman Avenue and Barton Road, Colton. McNearney Family Mortuary is directing. JOHANNA B. COSTELLO Yucaipa resident Johanna Bridget Costello, 92, of Yucaipa died Tuesday at Yucaipa Valley Convalescent Hospital. The cause of death is unknown, pending a doctor's report.

A native of Portage, Costello lived in Yucaipa for eight years. Survivors include a son, James F. of Yucaipa; a sister, Anna K. Vaughn of Metamora, seven grandchildren; and three grandchildren. Services will be at 7 p.m.

today at St. Joseph The Worker Catholic Church, 10816 Mountain View Loma Linda. Burial will be private. Hughes Funeral Chapel is directing. ERICW.

LINDSTROM Sparkletts Water Installer Eric Wayne Lindstrom, 43, of Highland died of heart failure Sunday at St. Bernardino Medical Center. A native of Ohio, Lindstrom By Chuck Mueller The Sun's High Desert Bureau The way has been cleared for Barstow voters to decide the fate of a proposed new water district. Despite opposition from the Newberry Springs-Harvard Property Owners Association Wednesday, the Local Agency Formation Commission unanimously approved the creation of the Odessa Water District. State legislation that set up the district within the Barstow city limits requires voters of the desert community to give final approval.

The measure will be placed on the June 8 ballot. The Newberry Springs group argued that the proposed water district would drain water from an underground basin northeast of Barstow, causing water levels to drop in the two rural communities. The Coyote dry lake basin, which receives subsurface flow from the Newberry Springs and Harvard areas, already is short of water, said Richard Weeks, president of the property owners group. "If Barstow needs to import water to support expansion let them build a pipeline and obtain supplemental water from a renewable source such as the state aqueduct but not from their neighbor's already overdrafted water basins." The measure that created the BOBBITT MEMORIAL CHAPEL 1299 E. HIGHLAND AVE.

882-3761 FAMILY OWNED I OPERATED FOR 4 GENERATIONS Lucille R. Kan-Graveside Service Friday 10:00 A.M. Montecito Memorial Park David A. Judon Friday 1 2:00 P.M. Chapel Tim Merriam Saturday 10:00 A.M.

Calvary Chapel of San Bernardino Edith Houghton Rosary Sunday 3:00 P.M. Chapel Mass of the Christian Burial Monday 10:00 A.M. St. Bernardino's Catholic Church Jamet Starn Monday 1 1 :00 A.M. Chapel Leo E.

Lopez Rosary Monday 6:00 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial Tuesday 9:00 A.M. Our tady of Guadalupe Catholic Church CRIME VICTIMS If you are the victim of a crime and need assistance, please call the Victim Witness Assistance Program in your area listed below: San Bernardino (714)387-6583 Rancho Cucamonga (714)945-4233 Victorville (619) 243-8620 Barstow (619)256-4802 Tributes Woman always had shoulder for friend to help ease pain Patricia Albarran-Reese, 39, of Redlands died of renal failure Dec. 16 at Loma Linda University Medical Center. I treasured your friendship, Pat.

There was no greater treasure than an understanding friend. One I could depend on no matter what time of day or night, who was there to listen to me in times of trouble, who knew my every mood and could brighten my cloudy days. You were there to share my happy times and to lend a helping hand when times got tough. You never ever turned your back. Not once did you ever hint that it was really you who needed a helping hand, who needed a friend to lean on, to help ease the pain.

I guess you had too much pride. All the pain you had to live with and you still lad the.