Turner Offers Help for CUC, with Conditions

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"'. \',' . .,~ ~~f~r!:!!!O"ffi~~!~U'fu~yed By Ferdie de la Torre try to ar:ange a meeting with rep- gional Meeting of National Fel- referral program." ~ov~rnment faces the continuing THE DEPARTMENT of Public resentauves from the U~iversity lowship Officers from August 23 The draft audit report on the nse In health care and medic~1 Health and Environmental Ser of S~nto ~omas hospu.al, S~. to 26.. medical referral program with the r~~erral costs, the.prospe~t of un- vices is looking at three reputable Luke s hospl~ and ~~atI Medi- In h~s letterto Governor Froilan San Diego Hospital Association lizing le.ssexpensive ~edical ~are hospitals in Manila, Philippines, c~1 Center dunng his lop to Ma- Tenono, the DPHES director said (SHARP) for the past three fiscal alternatives becomes irnperauve. as possible medical referral pro nila next week. in addition to the WHO trip, he years, indicated that as the CNMI 1?e report stated that the re- gram sites for the CNMI. Abraham will be leaving for will be "looking at two or three cruitrnent of specialized physi- Variety gathered that DPHES Manila on Monday to attend the facilities as potential referral sites cians from non-western develop ing countries could reduce costs and provide stability and continu ity of specialized medical care Turner offers help for that cannot be provided by off island based physicians. CUC, with conditions Continued on page 1 ,By Rafael H. Arroyo help CUC pay for the defaulted JT'Sablan portion of its engine loan obliga ASSISTANT Interior Secretary tion to Mitsubishi. 'maylose ' Leslie M. Turner is proposing a Such approval however, is con partnership agreement with the , tingent upon the governor's and mortgaged CNMI government and the Com CUC's concurrence to the pro p~opertY': monwealth Utilities Corp. to once Continued on page 8 Isamu J. Abraham . and for all resolve long-standing problems faced by the utilities By Rafael L Santos firm in its operations. In an August 11 letter, Turner San Vicente' school is PROSECUTING attorney Russell asked for Governor Froilan C. E. Marsh yesterday asked the Tenorio's concurrence to the first to go year round Superior Court to forfeit a $1.5 planned accord, which when ex THE SAN Vicente Elementary School will be "piloting" the million property mortgaged by a ecuted would provide for a five Japanese businessman a few pronged approach at how to ad implementation of the year round program by adopting a multi track schedule. months ago to secure his release. dress the issues facing the contro In yesterday's Board Of Education meeting held at Garapan At the same time, Marsh said versial government corporation. some assets used by Kojo "I recognize the difficult finan Leslie M. Turner Elementary School, the BOE specifically recognized the needs ofthe SVS to adopt the scheme. Ishibashi as property bond must cial situation your administration mit resources and efforts to re also be forfeited for violating his inherited from previous CUC solve long-standing matters with At the same board meeting, the BOE likewise approved a 1994-1995 school calendar for all schools. curfew. management decisions and I ac the public utility. Ishibashi, who faces drugs and knowledge the efforts you have "I hope that our efforts from Commissioner of Education William S. Torres disclosed 'that four other elementary schools', William S. Reyes, Garapan, arms charges, was released a few undertaken to address these and this date forward will be focused )1 Tanapag and Koblerville have indicated their desire to proceed months ago to Arnold Palacios, many other difficult issues facing on maximizing the benefits of the president of Sun Splash which is the CNMI," Turner told Tenorio timeandmoneyinvestedinCUC," . with the implementation of a year round calendar this school year. said to be partly owned by the in her two page letter. the assistant secretary said. defendant. Noting that the objectives and Turner indicated willingness to . Torres however said these schools will have to. submit plans est~blishing th~ir.readiness Palacios mortgaged company plans for CUC have undergone a approve the release of $10 mil . and support needed to implement their schedule. ., assets amounting toabout $80,000 "tortuous and often inconsistent" lion from the interest earnings while John T. Sablan agreed to Continu~don, course overthe past several years, from the 1987 bond issue cur page 8 mortgage a property worth $1.5 Turner expressed the need tocom- rently kept at Bank of Guam to million to guarantee the appear ance of the defendant in court proceedings. Yesterday Judge Marty Taylor was asked to forfeit the mort gaged property and set a $1 mil lion bail for the release of the defendant. The businessman has been ~n del' the custody of the Department of. Public Safety since Sunday following his arrest. In a hearing yesterday morn ing, DPS agent Pete Salas testi fied that Ishibashi violated his curfew twice. The defendant is not allowed to stay outside his girlfriend's house between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. nn l"np ,)J. <II nrrvn nrl 1()'4'; _________"» • ," r .". kM.AJ.U~NAS vA~IETY.~WS A.ND VIEWS-rnU.R,SPA.Y; AUGUST, 18" J994. Hundreds flee as California fires rage Sablan wantsjetskis in Managaha By SCOTTUNDLAW of them gathered from other fires, ties had spent $4 million fighting ares (388,000 acres) in Arizona, Mendocino coastlineburnedover A BILL has been introduced at "Managaha is fun island. It is in the tourist economy," said the battled the blaze in 38-degrees it, the California Department of California, Idaho, Montana, Or 635 acres. the House of Representatives, where our tourists go to relax and congressman. SANLUIS OBISPO, Calif.(AP) • Celsius (lOO-degree Fahrenheit) Forestry said. egon, Utah and Washington state, The San Luis Obispo fire, the seeking to lift the current restric indulgein recreation.Why should Sablan, who is chairman of the Hundreds ofpeople fledasa wildfire heat. Seventeen aircraft bombarded according tothe National Interagency state's largest this year, was be tion on the operation of jetskis webe preventingour touristsfrom House Committee on Commerce blarredon an arsonist racedup and "It's been like a firefighters' flames approaching San Luis Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. Tbey lieved to have been set near the near and about the island of enjoying Managaha," said the & Tourism, pointed out that in down the oak-studded canyons and Woodstock," said Richie Burgett, Qbispo and the rural communi were being fought by more than Cerro Alto Campground on Sun Managaha. lawmaker from Saipan. stead of curtailing tourist-related hills of central California on Tues owner of Richie's Market and ties of Santa Margarita and Gar 19,(0) firefighters. day. More than 600 people fled :~. , House Bill 9-233, authored by Currently, he said, there is buta activities, government should day,destroying arleastI 7horresand Grill near the fire line. den Farms,as wellas thesouthern IntheAngeles National Foresteast their homes when it spread at the Rep.Benjamin A.Sablan, aims to limited choice of water sports even exert more effort at provid burning 65 square miles. The fire destroyed 3I houses end of Atascadero. The flames of Los Angeles, a fire on Mount rate of upto 2,000 hectares (5,000 permitjetskis and other types of available for tourists who visit the ing moreoftheseactivitiesif tour Pushedbyerratic winds, the blaze and six mobile homes as it bore movedmovedbothsouthandeast. Baldy burned across 120 hectares acres) an hour. relatedrecreational watercrafts at islands. By disallowing jetskis, ism is tocontinuetoprosper in the sent 6O-rreter-high (200-foot-high) down on San Luis Obispo, 250 Smallerfiresalsoburnedinboth (300 acres) Tuesday, and two fires California Polytechnic State Uni Managaha, by exempting such the choice is further narrowed islands. fingers offlarre crackling across San kilometers (150 miles) northwest Northern and Southern Califor nearLake Arrowhead, 120kilorre versityarSanLuisObispowasevacu activitiesfrom the regulatory ann down. "We should bepromoting more Luis Obispo County, closing a major of Los Angeles. It also burned 17 nia, and large fires continued to ters (70 miles) east of the city, had atedas flames scorched 30hectares of the Coastal Resources Man "This only makes us less attrac of these activities. In fact, there is north-south highway andprompting outbuildings and 23 vehicles and burn in other Western states. scorched 730hectares (l ,800) acres. (75 acres) of campus range land agement member agencies. tive to our tourists," said Sablan. a needfor us to giveour tourists as theevacuation of a stateuniversity. caused an estimated $10 million Twenty-seven major fires have fire the In Northern Califomia, a in Classes atthe 15,500-studentuniver Currently,jetskioperation,both In addition, he said not only are much attention as we could give Morethan 2,(0)firefi ghters,many in damage. By Tuesday, authori- burned more than 160,000 hect- Zeni Ranch Hills above the scenic sitydon't startuntilSept. 19. rental and private, is not allowed the tourists affected by the re them," said the Saipan lawmaker. near Managaha, pursuant to striction but also jet ski operators "We'relookingformorerevenues CRMO rules and regulations and who are in effect deprived of a and promote business. The re the Boating Safety Act of IY82, huge chunk of their business. striction on jetskis in Managaha as amended. "This is unreasonable. Most of is counter

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