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Ranch plain shrinks for Highland's needsB2 Court finds 36-year-old father guilty of murderB2 Man convicted of threatening officials has againB2 INLAND The Sun WEDNESDAY MARCH 11, 1992 Rick Farrant, Metro Editor (714) 386-3874; Fax (714) 885-8741 Feimistem: Europe cam defemid itself "TTT -l 1 1 OR IE i Making trips to visit S.B. ranch One of my fondest memories is when I was in the first grade at Street (now Mountain View) School. Miss Fine vas our teacher and whenever an airplane flew over, which was seldom, she let us run to the window to see it. That was between 1915 and 1916. Feinstein said.

It also would pay for education and training programs. "Our national security is on the domestic home front now," Feinstein said. "People don't want us to negate our role in the world but somebody better come home and tend to our problems." Feinstein, who lost the governor's race by 3 percent to Pete Wilson two years ago, is the front-runner in the Democratic prima-, ry over state Controller Gray Davis and last-minute entry Joe Al-ioto the son of the former San Francisco mayor. Feinstein, who is a former mayor of San Francisco herself, believes her political reputation is that she gets things done. Her top issue is the economy.

Beyond the "Invest in America" campaign, she would jump-start the economy by supporting a cut in the capital gains tax for small Senate candidate says the $135 billion saved could be used to solve some of America's domestic problems. By Jim Specht Sun Political Editor The United States should take $135 billion from the defense budget over five years and use it to build schools and housing and train displaced workers, U.S. Senate candidate Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday. "Should America i be paying for Europe's defense to the tune of $100 billion (a year)?" Feinstein asked while speaking to The Sun's editorial board. "It's time for Europe to pay for its own defense.

We should turn some of that money home, to balance the budget deficit and prime the pump." At a meeting today with the county Central Labor Committee, Another fond memory is when I visited my ranch at Fiah and Sierra Way in San Bernardino. The farm home was the old DAVID CREAMERThe Sun Alan Wolpe, medical director ot the neo-natal intensive care unit at Red-lands Community Hospitaltalks with Dianne Feinstein there Tuesday. The $135-billion fund would be used to stimulate the U.S. economy and rebuild the nation's roads, bridges and other public facilities such as schools, Feinstein will announce a proposal called "Invest in America" as one of the major planks in: her campaign to unseat appointed Republican Sen. John Seymour.

A family affair Martin adobe. Sometimes I would get a string with a bent pin on the end and go down to the creek that ran through my grandfather's pasture(Seccombe Lake). To my disappointment, I never caught a fish. Nedra McGinnls Weismeyer, Colton Playing 'Army' on Rialto's streets When I was growing up in the mid-1950s and early 1960s, my family lived in a neighborhood in north Rialto. The block was abundant with children and consequently was limitless in childhood imaginary games.

One of our favorites was to gather and play "United States" Army." I remember how we would plan our assault through Mr. Wilhite's yard, then scale silently over his fence and step onto "The Field." We would spend hours building our camp headquarters and hospital v. inward out of the hundreds of I It rs' tiimbleweeds that were the na- lK 1 LI business and partially restoring investment tax credits for research and development. She supports an income tax cut for the middle class "out of simple natural fairness," but doesn't believe it will do much to help the economy. Her No.

2 issue is health care, and she spent part of Tuesday at Redlands Community Hospital. As she peered in at premature babies and toured the hospital's Women's Health Center, Feinstein called for a national health plan that would include universal coverage and cost-containment measures, and would focus on prevention. But she would prefer that the plan be run by private insurance companies, with a backup of government funds to ensure that everyone is covered. "I don't believe government should run medicine. They have a hard enough time running things like police departments." Group hopes to build on old site Salvation Army in Redlands was rebuffed by neighbors when it sought to relocate.

By Pamela Fitzsimmons The Sun's Redlands Bureau REDLANDS The Salvation Army, which lost its bid to put up a new facility at a new site, will try instead to build at its current location. Representatives of the charitable organization are hoping that by staying at 838 Alta St. they will not run into opposition from neighbors. "After last time I am still gun-shy," Capt. John Tolar said Tuesday.

"We have been here 31 years. All we are doing is replac- ing the existing building. Hopefully everything will go smoothly." Last month the city council rejected the Salvation Army's plans for a new building at Tribune Street and Lugonia Avenue. Although the project met chy requirements, neighbors near the new site banded together in opposition. They feared the facility would lower their property values and attract criminals.

The Salvation Army already had purchased the new lot after clearing it with city officials and the group's money was tied up in a piece of undeveloped land in a buyer's market. The churchmultipurpose building as now proposed is still 17,515 square feet, but it will be on a smaller lot, and the Salvation Army will need permission from the council to lower city parking requirements. The old lot is 31,000 square feet with room for 47 parking spaces. To meet parking requirements the Salvation Army would need about 15 more spaces, which could have been accommodated on the new lot of 63,000 square feet. Architect Richard Hickey thinks parking will be adequate on the smaller lot since many who use the Salvation Army either walk to the facility or take the bus.

"At Christmas we had over 400 people at the Army for hot meals, and there were fewer than If the organization's plans are approved, the Salvation Army will begin a campaign to raise money for the facility and will seek another location to hold church services after the existing building is demolished. Meal services will continue during construction by using portable buildings or disaster field equipment at the Alta Street site. Said Hickey: "We think there is support for us in the city. We can't be bitter about what happened. We have to trust that the Lord knows what is right." 4 ti ii mi i iiiiwi iiinriti'fiii niiliitiiMftn i i tf tJi l.

ft. 1 2 live snruuuery. We girls would nurse the wounded boys (stickerweed and dirt clods were the objects of our concern). The boys Would dig trenches in the sand, capture horny toads and burn red ants with their fathers' magnifying glasses as punishment if anyone in our regiment had been stung. Our world of make-believe allowed us many freedoms freedom to grow, freedom of choice.

Today, when I pass the new Smiths Market on Base Line, I sigh in compassion for today's children, who do not have the freedom of choice to play in "The Field," to grow with others, to build memories. Jann Malinka Miner, Rialto 'Happy Birthday Nanny; I miss you' Feb. 28 would have been my great-grandmother's 100th birthday. She passed away Jan. 11, 1987, at the age of 94.

MARK ZALESKIThe Sun James Russell, 18, of Rubidoux will fly to Texas on Thursday to see his sister, Heidi Russell, for the first time in seven years. Heidi Russell found James through the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries." TV show reunites area man, Texas sister He looked for relatives in Fontana but never found them. Heidi Russell ran away from the shelter within days and lived with friends. A bit later, she started looking for her family. She found her mother in Texas.

She tried getting information about her brother through relatives in California, but they hadn't seen the boy. A brief account of her search and the photograph of her brother were shown on last Wednesday's show. By the weekend, she was talking to her brother. A waitress at the restaurant where the father works as a cook recognized the brother. She telephoned the show's toll-free line.

The whole family won't be attending Thursday's reunion. The children and their mother will be there, but the father will stay home. He and his daughter still have unresolved feelings. "She's not really ready to see me, and I guess I'm not either." munity and attends Rubidoux High School. "I had accepted the fact that I might not ever see (her) again." Heidi Russell of Amarillo, Texas, last saw her towheaded brother in 1 985 and is nervous about the reunion.

"I'm so scared. I haven't seen him in seven years," she said. In 1985, authorities came to the Tulsa, school Heidi Russell was attending and placed her in a shelter. The children's mother had left them, and their father was struggling. "I was making $3 an hour and we were living in a station wagon converted into a camper," said their father, James Edward Russell.

"It was a bad arrangement for a bunch of kids, but it was the best I could do." The father, a Fontana native, fled to California with his son, then 1 1, before authorities could take the boy. By M.S. ENKOJI Sun Staff Writer For seven years, Heidi Russell has been trying to find her younger brother. In all that time, the strongest clue she had was a relative saying he might have seen him several years ago on a San Bernardino street corner. That was it until last week.

-As a last resort, Russell, 21, sent an out-' dated picture of her brother and his last location to producers of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries." It worked. James Michael Russell, now 18 and living in Rubidoux, will board a plane this week for a reunion with a sister who worked so hard to find him. "I didn't think I was that important, but I guess I am," said James Russell, who lives with his father in the Riverside County com- I have many fond memories of her the heavy quilts on the bed, the cakes she made on the top of the stove and the walks we took along LOTTERY UPDATE DAY IN HISTORY March 11 Family's deaths still a mystery the railroad tracks on our way to the library in Riverside. Then there was the time I took a day off from work because she had fallen and broken a bone in her hand. I can't remember how long we sat in that emergency room to have a cast put on her arm.

The next day, when I went to check on her, she had taken the cast off. This very special lady meant so much to me. Happy birthday, Nanny. I love you. I miss you.

Sheryl A. Gllmer-Mack, San Bernardino Fond Memories runt every Wednesday In The Sun. you have fond memoriae ol life In the Southland, we'd like to know about them. 8end us a letter ol no more than 150 words describing you recollections arxl a picture ol yourself. Please Include your name, address and telephone number.

Mall It to Metro Editor Rick Farrant, The Sun, 399 N. San Bernardino 92401, orfax It to (71 4) 885-8741. FANTASY 5 12,15,23,25,27 Jackpot estimate: $250,000 DECCO Picked Tuesday 43 OA -9 Lotto Information (714)938-4545 (English) (714) 938-4565 (Spanish) (619) 492-1720 (English) (619)492-1742 (Spanish) haven't mentioned," he said. Found dead in their Johnston Street home March 14 were: Albert Z. Perez, 39; his wife, Lydia A.

Perez, 37; a daughter, Eileen M. Perez, 2 1 and a son, Anthony V. Perez, 12. People with information can call Colton police at (714) 370-5110. Sharon China COLTON A year after four members of a Colton family were found slain in their home, police are no closer to making an arrest.

"Most of our leads have been dead ends," Detective Jack Morenberg said. "We're hoping someone will come forward with something just a bit of information that maybe they I ONE YEAR AGO: The second wave of nearly 1,600 soldiers lands at Norton and March Air Force bases. 1 10 YEARS AGO: Nine Black elementary students are expected to return to Bradley Elementary School in San Bernardino after harassment incidents. I 20 YEARS AGO: Kaiser Steel strike negotiators vow to meet around the clock until they reach a settlement. I SO YEARS AGO: 124 auxiliary San Bernardino police officers are told they will handle any blackouts or other wartime emergencies that may arise.

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