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JUJ SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL Tuesday, October 3, 2000 OBITUARIES John Espey, authorteacher, dies at 87 Phyllis Latitia Turner Ruthe Streeter A Wisconsin native, Long was a public health nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner for Santa Cruz County for more than 20 years. After retiring in 1984, Long pursued her interests in sewing, dollhouses, bridge and gardening. She also served as a volunteer on the board of the Visiting Nurse Association and on the Emergency Medical Commission for Santa Cruz County. As a registered nurse, Long served in the Navy and Army during World War II, including overseas duty in New Zealand. Before entering the Navy, she worked as one of Northwest Airlines' first flight attendants.

In 1945, she married William John Long Jr. when both were stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington. In 1961 they settled in Capitola. Her family said Long will be best remembered for her love of children, her sense of humor and for her exceptional talent at poker and bridge. She is survived by four daughters, Patricia Stumpf of Santa Cruz; Jacalyn Walton Siler of Bainbridge Island, Wash; Nancy Goehring of Marina; and the Rev.

Casey LongwoodofPuiallup, and four grandchildren. Her husband of 41 years, William John "Beaver" Long died in 1986. Services will be 2 p.m. Oct. 20 at Holy Cross Church In Santa Cruz.

Contributions are preferred to the Visiting Nurse Association, 1041 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062; the Mid-County Senior Center, 829 Bay Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010; or Duncan Holburt School, 130 Herman Watsonville, 95076. If friends wish to reach the family, write them at PO Box 323, Capitola, CA 95010. Mildred E. Stuart Services will be scheduled for Mildred E. Stuart, who died Sept 17 in Santa Cruz.

She was 93. A native of Atchison, Mrs. Stuart graduated from Watsonville High School in 1926. She lived in Modesto and Milpitas before moving to Santa Cruz. She left Santa Cruz for Turlock and returned in 1997.

She was a member of Monte Visia Chapel in Turlock. She is survived by sons Harold Stuart of Lacey, Wash, and Larry Stuart of Aptos; daughter Jeanne Colvin of Atascadero; 10 grandchildren; six greatgrandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Her husband, Harold Stuart, died in 1973. Contributions preferred to Monte Vista Chapel, P. O.

Box 1006, Turlock, CA 95381, or to the charity of the donor's choice. Chapel of the Roses in Atascadero is handling arrangements. Services are today for Phyllis Lati tia Turner, who died Friday in Santa Cruz. She was 90. A native of Mayfield, Mrs.

Turner grew up in the Mount Hamilton area, Rprkplpv nnrt Fnr. Iff?" restville before moving to santa Cruz in 1943. She moved to San Fran- I i I cisco after marry-i'4 j'-it 1 tog Jim Turner, and moved back to Santa Cruz after his death in 1970. She enjoyed the ocean, visiting the Crown's Nest and Polivios and friends and activities at East PHYLLIS TURNER Cliff Village Apartments, where she lived for 14 years. She was a member of the First Advent Christian Church.

She is survived by daughter Pat Don-nellan; sons Phillip Turner and Tony Turner; six grandsons; three granddaughters; one great-granddaughter; five nieces and two nephews. A memorial service will be today at 1 p.m. at Oakwood Memorial Chapel, 3301 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz. Contributions are preferred to the Diabetes Association. Ruthe Streeter, a 31-year Santa Cruz resident, died Aug.

18 at Dominican Hospital. She was 84. A native of Fresno, she was the youngest of five children and spent her early childhood in San Francisco, where she was active in the music industry. She lived in Sacramento before moving to Santa Cruz, and was active in several local civic groups. She worked at the Teacher's Credit Union of Santa Cruz and the Aerojet Credit Union of Sacramento.

Her last position before retirement was at Wingspread. She was also a member of the Older Women's League. She is survived by son Alfred Newman of Irvine; daughters Donna Streeter of Apache Junction, Ariz, and Carol Howton of Watsonville; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Contributions are preferred to the American Breast Cancer Society or the AIDS Services Foundation. Dona Mary Long Services will be held Oct.

20 for Dona Mary Long of Aptos, who died Sept. 22 at Dominican Hospital after a long illness. The longtime Santa Cruz-area resident was 80. THE NEW YORK TIMES John Espey, a writer and teacher whose first books were devoted to his childhood in China, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Espey the son of a Presbyterian missionary, was born and raised in Shanghai. He began writing about his youthful experiences in "Minor Heresies" (1945), a collection of essays in which he described his childhood trials in the tough neighborhood that surrounded the mission compound; the people he met; and his first visit to the United States. He continued his reminiscences in "Tales Out of School" (1947), writing about his education at the Ruling American School, his early romantic encounters and his experiences as a member of the Pine Tree Patrol in the school's version of a Boy Scout troop. More such reminiscences followed in "The Other City" (1950). Espey, a Rhodes scholar, taught English at Occidental College in Los Angeles before joining the faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a professor emeritus at the time of his death.

In 1991, he revisited his years in the Far East in "Strong Drink, Strong Language," which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include the novels "An Observer" and "Winter Return." Espey also collaborated with his companion, the novelist Carolyn See, and her daughter Lisa See on a series of books. Published under the pseudonym Monica Highland, they include the novels "Lotus Land" and "110 Shanghai Road" and "Greetings from Southern California," a collection of vintage postcards. character actress THE NEW YORK TIMES Ann Doran, a character actress who appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows over the course of a career that began during the silent film era and lasted into the 1980s, died on Sept 19 in Carmichael, Calif. She was 89.

Doran's more memorable roles Included a panicky passenger aboard a disabled airliner in "The High and the Mighty" (1954), whose cast included John Wayne and Claire Trevor, and James Dean's tormented mother in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). She was a regular in the series of films based on the comic strip "Blondie," which starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Her film credits also included "Penny Serenade," with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne; "Here Come the Waves," with Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton; "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," with Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin; "My Favorite Brunette," with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour; and "No Sad Songs for Me," with Margaret Sullavan. Doran, who was born in Amarillo, was the daughter of Carrie Bar-nett, an actress who appeared in silent films. Jellyfish swarms threaten northern Gulf fisheries ted jellyfish.

The giant species, previously unreported in the Gulf, is a 25-pound bruiser of a jelly-' fish native to the Pacific. Some time ago the basketball-size jellyfish established themselves in the Caribbean. This summer, after apparently riding ocean currents north, they concentrated themselves in the passes between the barrier islands that separate the Mississippi Sound from the Gulf of Mexico. The Australian jellyfish have now mostly died off in the Gulf. But fishery scientists worry that they may already have affected next year's fish populations.

And scientists say the animals were spawning prodigiously, broadcasting millions of their own eggs as they ate the eggs and larvae of native species. Popular sport fish, including redfish, speckled trout, white trout and Spanish mackerel, as well as commercially important species like crabs and menhaden, spawn just outside the barrier islands. This year, their eggs and larvae had to drift with tidal currents through the jellyfish-choked passes to reach the estuaries that serve as nurseries for the baby fish. "These things are incredibly efficient at turning the water over, cleaning it of everything in it," Graham said. "We're finding them with 200 fish eggs in their guts." The newcomers had a frighteningly effective feeding pattern that involved swimming to the surface, then diving down to the bottom, scouring the water of virtually every living thing smaller than a BB pellet.

After flowing through the jellyfish gantlet, scientists said, the water was almost devoid of living things. "You really have two problems in terms of commercially important fish," said Harriet M. Perry, director of the fisheries section of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Mississippi. "First the jellies are ingesting the larvae and eggs of these commercially important species, and then the fish larvae must compete with these incredibly efficient jellies for the same food source." Perry said she worried that the Phyllorhiza might become permanent residents. Graham said he feared that their offspring might appear in larger numbers next spring.

He noted, though, that the newcomers represented a small threat compared with the monstrous herds of native moon jellyfish still swarming offshore below Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana in a huge swath roughly 100 miles long and 30 miles wide. It is these jellyfish that worry Dr. Joanne Lyczkowski-Shultz, a larval specialist with the National Marine Fisheries Service. Lyczkowski-Shultz said the long-term picture might be bleak if the jellyfish populations continued to grow at their current pace. "It could be totally devastating," she said.

By BEN RAINES THE NEW YORK TIMES Swaims of jellyfish consumed so many fish eggs and larvae in the Gulf of Mexico this summer that some scientists are talking about the potential for serious future threats to commercial and recreational fisheries in the northern Gulf. The jellyfish, a native species and an invading One, appeared in prime spawning areas just as breeding season for many of the Gulfs most important species kicked into high gear. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the number of jellyfish in the Gulf has been rising for at least 13 years. Scientists say the jellyfish are exploiting three major human-induced changes in the environment: thousands of oil rigs and artificial reefs established to attract game fish have greatly increased the breeding habitat for jellyfish, which need a hard surface for spawning; nitrogen pollution from farm runoff and industrial sources feeds plankton blooms, providing extra food for jellyfish; and commercial fishermen take great numbers of menhaden, a soft-finned, bony fish that competes with jellyfish for the plankton. Dr.

Monty Graham, a researcher at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, worries that with all these advantages jellyfish cannot help but multiply at an astonishing rate. Making matters much worse, he said, is the advent of Phyllorhiza punctata, or Australian spot Resignation Continued from Page Al fear, of service to the community. "I wasn't enjoying myself to the same degree as in years past," Delk said. "It's healthy to consider other options." Investors were bullish on the news of Delk's resignation, which was announced Friday and effective immediately, pushing the company's stock shares 3.55 percent higher Monday to close at 9Vi. The movement broke two indicators crossing above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages that are used as signs of a stock's potential for further increases.

The company said in a brief statement that Delk is negotiating a separation package that would be recorded against the company's earnings for the third quarter. While shares have moved up, however, they are still far from their 52-week high of 15-V4 a situation which has helped fuel the controversy over the bank's future. Delk had been trying to Increase earnings by moving the corporation from its traditional base of lower-risk home mortgages into higher-risk business loans. But the move wasn't fast enough for out-of-state investors Thomas Kahn, Joe Austin and Nick Biase of Findim Investments, who bought up to 30 percent of the corporation when shares topped $15. They pushed the board to study the earnings potential of offering the bank for acquisition.

But one year ago, Delk led the board of directors in rejecting a plan to put the corporation up for sale. A sale would have jacked up the value of the stock, which currently is trading at less than book value. At the time, Delk defended the move as preserving the bank's role as a source of home and business loans to the community. "When the community owns 51 percent of the organization, then they can control the future of that organization but you have to be attentive to those who have their capital at risk," Delk said. That service has come at a heavy price.

The corporation's earnings have declined in at least two straight quarters, due in part to a $370,000 home loan that had to be completely written off when the Santa Clara County house and most of the land it sat on disappeared in a landslide. It also had invested heavily in a new core processing system that is expected to improve service. Contact Trina Kleist at TRAFFIC p.m., through Friday, for curb, gutter and sidewalk replacement and storm drain work. Pedestrian access will be maintained where possible. Laurel Street to Rigg Street, southbound sidewalk closed, through Friday, for work at Laurel Creek.

Pedestrians should use crosswalks to access northbound sidewalks. Call 425-8600 for bus schedule changes. HIGHWAY 1: Waddell Creek to San Mateo County line, traffic control, possible delays, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., through Friday, for ditch cleaning. HIGHWAY 9: From Paradise Park in Santa Cruz to Glengary Road in Felton, closed through Dec.

15, for storm-drain repairs, retaining wall REMEMBRANCES OAKWOOD MEMORIAL CHAPEL Funeral Home Cemetery PHYLLIS LATITIA TURNER Mrs. Turner was born September 19. 1910 In Mayfield, California and died in Santa Cruz on September 29, 2000. She was 90 years old. She grew up in the Mount Hamilton area, Berkeley and Forrestville, and moved to Santa Cruz in 1943.

Later she moved to the Westlake area of San Francisco and married Jim Turner. Upon his death In 1970 she moved back to Santa Cruz. She enjoyed the ocean and restaurants Crow's Nest and Polivios. In 1986 she moved into East Cliff Village Apartment where she lived until May 2000. She enjoyed her friends and activities there.

On September 9, she celebrated her 90th birthday at the Crow's Nest with her family and friends. She lived a very full life and will be missed by many. She is survived by her daughter Pat and her husband Howard Donnellan; her son Phillip and his wife Kathy Halcomb; and son Tony and his wife Terry Hartin; grandsons, Peter, Michael, and David Marquess. Charles and his wife Margie Halcomb, Brad and his wife Sonya Hal-comb, and Sean Hartin; grandsons, Peter, Michael and David Marquess, Charles and his wife Margie Halcomb, Brad and his wife Sonya Halcomb, and Sean Hartin; granddaughters, Sharon Rummel and Tarah and Laura Hartin; great grandsons Tim and Steven Marquess, Casey and Taylor Halcomb, and Grant Rummel; great granddaughter Eva Rummel; loving nieces Barbara and her husband Robert, Sue and her husband Jimmy, Nina, Linda and Lonnie and nephews, Raymond and Ronnie. She was a member of the First Advent Christian Church.

Contributions are preferred to the Diabetes Association. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, October 3, 2000, at 1:00 p.m. at Oakwood Memorial Chapel, 3301 Paul Sweet Road, Santa Cruz, CA. 3301 Paul Sweet Road 1 Santa Cruz, CA 95065 (Across from Dominican Hospital) 475-2464 Lie. FD1530 MIRIAM AROZENA Miriam Arozena died at home in Aptos on Friday, September 29, after a brief illness.

She was almost 90. She was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. She had been active in the Santa Cruz Bird Club, and held leadership roles in several volunteer organizations including the League of Women Voters and the Girl Scouts. She played the flute, conducted a school orchestra, and inspired a love of classical music in her two daughters. Over recent years, she compiled and wrote an extensive and entertaining family history.

She is survived by her husband of sixty-five years John Arozena; daughter Enid Busser of Whitti-er, California; daughter Phyllis Rosenblum of Santa Cruz; five grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Stairway Lift Easily attached to itepi (aot wills) Rtl men stainrayt (ittaight A curved) Very affordable variety of models Residential Elevator Accommodate! ara wheelchair! Alternative to stairway lift! More affordable Jl Vi I 1 I Space efTtcient vjgja utiflkss design ALERT construction and the restoration of the highway to two lanes. Highway 17 and Graham Hill Road may be used as alternate routes. All businesses and trailer parks will remain open. Scenic Way to Woodland Drive in Ben Lomond, alternating lanes closed, one-way traffic controls, possible delays up to 10 minutes, 9 a.m.

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But Medicare is a top voter concern, and polls say voters prefer Democrats on health-care issues. Mr. Gore: "I'm not asking you to vote for me on the basis of the economy we have." No use taking credit for the economy; it doesn't work. After Gore triumphed in the Democratic primaries, he trotted out former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to vouch for the vice president's claim that he had been a big player in economic policy during the Clinton years. Voters yawned; Gore's poll standing dropped.

Americans like to look ahead, his advisers argued; now, Gore does. Mr. Bush: "I intend to end the education recession in every public school in America." With the economy humming, Bush can't use that R-word in its usual sense. So Republican image maker Alex Castellanos came up with a new formulation linking an important voter concern, education, with a scary descriptor. Bush must convince voters it's time for a change, and he needs to find a hole he can promise to pull the country out of.

Mr. Gore: "Look at her, out picking up cans every day at age 80." Meet Winifred Skinner, Gore's newest best friend. At a stop in Altoona, Iowa, recently, she told the vice president that the only way she could pay for prescription drugs was by taking stuff to the recycling center. Gore knows how to use hardship stories. During a January debate in Des Moines, he pointed to a man in the audience whose farm had been flood SANTA CRUZ: Retaining wall work at 520 High alternating one-way traffic controlled by a traffic signal, through December.

Soquel Avenue at LaFonda Avenue, traffic delays through mid-October, for traffic signal installation and landscaping. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: North Rodeo Gulch Road, traffic controls, possible delays up to 20 minutes, from today though Dec. 22, weather permitting, for road repair. MISSION STREET: One lane in each direction will remain open in the construction area, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., through Friday, for construction.

Chestnut Street to Otis Street, southbound worh continues, possible delays, 7 a.m. to 4:30 Debate Continued from Page Al sure to mention his 30-year marriage to Tipper. In a recent Florida Medicare rally, he used the grandma line. In debate, he's just as likely to describe her as being as IN youthful as a I1M UCjilri soccer mom. Bush usually gets in a plug for his wife, Laura, too, and don't be surprised if he mentions his twin teenage daughters as well.

Mr. Bush: "I pledge to uphold the honor and the integrity of the office." Translation; I'm not like Bill Clinton. The Clinton factor will be big, but usually will be dealt with in subliminal messages. Bush has had some trouble in this campaign with such indirection, and even with getting phrases out of his mouth, but this is a golden opportunity to make the attempt. Mr.

Gore: "I will never let you down." Translation: I'm not Bill Clinton, either. Mr. Gore: "He supports Newt Gingrich's assault." Let's not talk about untrustworthy leaders unless you want to dwell on Republican bomb throwers of years gone by. Mr. Bush: Favorite political philosopher? "Christ, because he changed my heart." God is alive and well on the campaign trail.

When Winfrey asked Bush recently to name the one thing he knows for sure, he shot back, "That there is a God." Gore describes himself as a born again Christian. Of course, the campaign went interdenominational with Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, who has outdone everybody else In the HIGHWAY 17: Scotts Valley overcrossing to Santa Clara County line (post mile 6.0-12.5), alternating northbound and southbound lanes closed, various locations, possible delays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., through Thursday, for clean-up. HIGHWAY 129: Murphy's Crossing Road to Chittenden undercrosslng, traffic controls, possible delays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, for mowing.

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ed in 1993, and asked his opponent, Bill Bradley, why he had voted against disaster relief. Bradley couldn't come up with a good answer and that really hurt the former New Jersey senator. Debate rules don't allow Gore to plant Mrs. Skinner in the audience, but he's likely to tell her story to illustrate how his prescription-drug plan would help. Expect Bush to say his own plan would help her, too.

Mr. Gore: "I know I won't always be the most exciting politician." That's the vice president's regular closing line. It shows some rare modesty, and he follows it with yet another promise to work for average folk. The Texas governor likes to end by holding up his right hand for a mock swearing-in and pledging "not only to uphold the laws of the land" but "to uphold the honor and the integrity of the office." Message, once again: I'm no Bill Clinton. LOTTERY MONDAY Dally 3 9, 1,9 Dally Derby 1st Place: No.

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Gore: "I want to fight for you." The vice president uses the word "fight" so often 75 times during the nine primary debates you'd think he was running for cheerleader-in-chief. But he knows a fighting Al Gore isn't a stiff Al Gore, and that was the rap on him for a long time. Mr. Bush: "I'm a leader." Notice also how many times the Texas governor uses that word, or-some variation of it. Handlers for both candidates pore over polls that ask voters which candidate would make the better leader.

Any vice president would naturally score low, the Gore camp believes, because of his years in the shadow. That's why Bush promotes himself as a take-charge guy. Mr. Gore: "You ought not be at the mercy of Big Oil and foreign oil." Not as dramatic as Theodore Roosevelt's "malefactors of great wealth," perhaps, but it makes the populist point. Gore's corporate hit list of oU, tobacco, insurance, health-maintenance organizations and pharmaceutical companies is as revealing for the industries he leaves out.

There's no mention of pollution-belching auto makers or utilities, which are big employers in the Midwestern battleground states, or big communications companies. The communications industry is Gore's biggest financial backer, and some of his top campaign aides are industry lobbyists on sabbaticals. That's a sweet line for small-government Republicans and Washington-bashing Reagan Democrats. It's the underpinning of most Bush's issues big tax cuts, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, encouraging alternative "choices" to public schools. Don't expect him to use the more controversial term "vouchers," though, which Gore will use to describe most any Bush proposal.

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