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erwwwewe LocalReeiomial Section MEXICAN Oct. ItSO A man fights for dignity; reaches for helping and By JEAN DUERLINGER The New Mexican Staff When Cberyl Hale turns 37 years old later this month, her husband may not be there to help celebrate. All I know," she says, Is 1 work or 1 sit here by the window and If one of the kids looks at me I bust out bawling." Actually," she added, trying to bold back tears, It was ust ignorance. In the beginning, we didn't know the procedurea. And now" Now, her husband, Hugh Hale, Is sleeping In the back seat of a borrowed yellow Bulck somewhere In Santa Fa and she and her children are facing eviction.

Cheryl and three of the couples four children live In Artesla, In northern Eddy County. Thats Just the way It Is with me. Well anyway," he added, "Cheryl was bringing In (between $300 and $400 a month) with this, this waitress-tng. It wcsn't enough to get by on, but at the same time the welfare people told us she was making too much money for us to get welfare Well, then I went to the labor board, (state Labor and Industrial Commission) and then I went to the DVR (Department of Vocational Rehabilitation) and then I went to the Social Security peopleand well Hale has received some help. Early last year, following disability certification by the DVR, he went to a rehabilitative school for several weeks.

He had to leave the program, however, said Joe Schade, an evaluator In Roswell, because he couldn't sit In one position for the duration of a class period. On Sept. 19, the 47-year-old Hale red up his wheelchair, a fistful gathei became a truck driver for most of his working life. Then, on Dec. 26, 1978, while working on the trucks air brakes, be slipped and fell from the roof of the seml-traller.

There are several ways to describe an Injury suffered by a 235-pound man whose fall was broken by a steel pipe between his legs. Today, he moves with difficulty using a wheelchair, sometimes a cane, sometimes a walker. The payments came sporadically workman's compensation through a private Albuquerque insurance firm. But, for a man used to supporting his family on between $30,000 and $40,000 a year, sporadic. was little better than nothing at all.

He took his case to district court In Carlsbad, where a Judge told him the case would not be heard until a complete battery of expensive medical tests were performed. From Carlsbad, he went to a hospital In Lubbock, Texas, for the requisite tests. There, hospital personnel refused to perform the tests until the Insurance company guaranteed payment. And, the Insurance company said It would not foot medical bills because the case was still in litigation." A burly man with hazel eyes and a warm smile, Hale shook his head and laughed the other day at the Catch-22s In bis life. He was In a Santa Fe restaurant relating events over what was probably his 10th cup of coffee for the day.

He bad $9 In his pocket. "Well," be said. After that the payments stopped and our savings were going. So Cberyl got this Job. As a waitress.

He paused and lit a cigarette. "Now you have to understand, bon. Im a little old-fashioned. The man does the working and the woman takes care of the home and the kids. And again, on Sept.

25, after he had been In Santa Fe one day, the Governors Office of Community Affairs scrambled for the last drops of some leftover reverted disaster funds. "Our director, Herman Grace, managed to pull together $134 and we got the man a room at (a local hotel), said Graces assistant, Elizabeth Sanchez. of papers and the remnants of a shattered mans dignity Vowing not to return until he found a way to support his family, he took off to meet the Social Security Administration and anyone else he could find head on. Honey," he said to his wife when he left, You may not understand this, but Im leaving you and the kids because I love you." I did understand though, she said Friday during a telephone interview. Hes a strong-willed man, a strong-minded man.

And he Just couldnt go onhe had set here for 21 months staring at the four walls anda man who's worked all his life, someone whos been there for 18 years for his family to lean onsomeone like that, well, somedhe like that cant Just sit and watch his family lose everything. He said he was going to fight this thing bis own way," she said. Born In 1933, the son of a farmer and an Illinois shoe factory worker, Hale Th Not NolcaaSiitUMlIa ltd all we could do was get him a place to stay for a week, she said. The week-long respite, courtesy of the governor's office, was up Thursday. And no one has seen Hale since.

I was flabbergasted at the man's story," Sanchez continued. He had documents to prove everything, bu agency after agency passed the buck" "I was told the Department of Human Services Welfare Office had approved an emergency food stamp allocation for him, but I havent seen hlmand I imagine hes back sleeping In his car again." ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE Disabled service agencies will help alleviate his prob-trucK driver Hugh Hale, 47, is hoping social lems. Citing confidentiality of clients, wel- was receiving food stamps. tration In Albuquerque refused to di- fare office worker Mary Malloy Also citing client confidentiality, vulge details concerning Hales Social refused to acknowledge whether Hale the federal Social Security Adminis- Security status. Do not lower your standards9 1IVI IV TV VI VUl OUllUMB Strive for larger human commitment says St.

Joints chief a unique dual ceremony, the 7 i Delattre said those who want to reach their full potential unique dual ceremony, the Delattre said those who want to reach their full potential Delattre said. 11 education tries to be everything to everyone it ends up being nothing for anyone, he said. Delattre said teachers in universities need to work more closely with teachers in high schools and other areas of education to improve the general education which all students receive. In this way students will be better prepared regardless of which path they chose either vocational training or higher education. St.

Johns College, originally founded In Annappolis, established a campus In Santa Fe in 1964. The liberal arts college bases Its curriculum on the Great Books program which includes the works of great philosphers and scholars like Holder, Plato, Isaac Newton and Descartes. weaken higher education, whom he referred to as antt-elltist, misunderstand the meaning of such words as equality and Justice as they apply to education. They believe that so little can be asked of students in higher education, once education is charged with serving the broad general public, that it ends in denegration of the human spirit and its capacity for aspiration, in a lack of respect for students and the denial that serious reflective study is an appropriate activity for most students In higher education, Dellatre said. He was critical of educational critics who would drop required study of foreign languages, mathematics, composition and deny students exposure to the fine arts and music.

"Anti-elitism concludes that if we seek to give more people a chance in higher education, we must ask less of them, he said. He said that education requires that students be treated differently according to their ability and talent to make sure that they are challenged and can strive for excellence. Justice does not mean teaching everybody the same thing, rather It means that each person have the opportunity to be challenged and to In an first part conducted In Annappolls, Md. Sept 27 and the final part conducted in Santa Fe Saturday, Edwin J. Delattre became the 19th president of the 176-year-old St.

Johns College. Selected by the schools board of Visitors and governors, Delattre, 38, began his duties on July 1, succeeding Richard Welgle who served as president for 31 years the longest tenured college president of this century. Local dignitaries. Including Gov. Bruce King, Santa Fe Mayor Art Trujillo and representatives of more than two dozen national institutions of higher learning were on the stage at Sweeney Center to witness Delattres oath and listen to his Inauguration speech.

In bis speech Delattre urged hts colleagues In higher education, whom he said labor on the knife edge between childhood and not to lower their standards or their commitment to challenge students. Delattre, former director of the National Humanities Faculty, In Concord, was critical of those who considered higher education "elitist and who would lower standards, requirements and not challenge students to be the best that they can be. At St. John's students are expected to write papers, work with tutors, do library research and be prepared for oral examinations along the lines of classic educational found at such famous English universities as Oxford and Cambridge. Tb Not HateMSutarMUMi Seek turned out in their colorful gowns and caps and were joined by several state and local dig-nataries to welcome Dr.

Delattre and listen to his address. Delattre, 38, will be president over both of St. Johns campuses in Santa Fe and in Annapolis, Md. NEW ST. JOHNS PRESIDENT Dr.

Edwin J. Delattre, named in July as the 19th president of the 176-year-old St. John 's College, addresses fellow academicians, faculty and students Saturday during his inauguration at Sweeney Center. Dozens of representatives from various institutins of higher learning Delattre who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1963 received his Ph.D from the University of Texas In 1970. LA council chairman is partner in 72-unit Chapel Apartment buy bad.

I think the governor should hire somebody to run the thing and walk away from It. Support Singer said his business interests and county council post have nothing to do with each other. People own homes and businesses and still serve on the council without conflict," Singer said. I know of no conflict of Interest situations (on the council) and I would raise bell about It If I found out they occur, he added. the Legislature and the committees that helphlm.Imsureheknowsbudget wise and ethically what Is going on within the state.

I think that the state should get a well-experienced person, someone without prior ties to the state, into the pen to correct the problems there. QUESTION: How do you think Gov. Bruce King has been handling our prison situation MICHAEL TRUJILLO, insurance field representative It seems like hes trying to put the blame on everyone but himself. I think that all governors have had a responsibility, as far as the prison is it, put whatever money needs to be put Into It and give them Jobs. JO ANNE FERGESON.

nurse I think hes doing well under the cir-cumstances, 1 considering the state of the By R.BEHNKE The New Mexican Staff LOS ALAMOS The Chapel Apartments, the largest two-bedroom apartment complex In Los Alamos and formerly owned by Shannon have been sold to J.S. Properties for about $1.2 million, records show. J.S. Properties Is a limited pa- ternership made up of Los Alamos County Council Chairman Sidney Singer and Jorald Parker, a local resident. In a brief Interview last week, Singer said he did not believe the purchase of the 72-unlt apartment represented a conflict of Interest In relation to his council Job.

1 Singer Is also part owner of Sun-r dance Apartments on Central Avenue. Singer said he had no intention of converting any of the newly purchased apartments to condominiums, although other sources said they had heard some of the apartments might be converted Into condominiums. Singer Is the main force behind a planned bond Issue that would provide low-interest mortgage money for home purchases. Twenty percent of the $20 million in mortgage money could be used to purchase home park status In another refren-dum. In mid-July, Singer and Parker entered Into a limited partnership for the purpose of Investment, ownership and management of various real and personal properties," county records show.

While the Chapel Apartments were sold In late August, no title transfer has yet been filed In the county clerk's office. Singer said the failure to record the transfer was not an attempt to bide it." There no law requiring title trans-' fers be recorded, said Deputy County Assessor Dan Partlq, but "normally, transfers are recorded as a way of way of showing ownership." Singer said the purchase of the apartments had nothing to do with his announcement Sept. 1 he was' withdrawing from the county council race. Singer also said that If it was revealed he had purchased the' apartments you will make my life un-pleasent." As council chairman, Singer said, he already receives many phone calls and that if It was known that he had purchased the apartments tenants and others would be constantly calling him, making life miserable. ADRIAN DEWINDT, architect Bruce King has appeared to have a very hands-off policy as far as I can see certainly not a strong policy.

Id like to see some- -SOTOT thing done from the point of view prison prior to last year. The prison has come a long way since the escapes and rioting in February. I think the changes In management are helping and getting new ideas. I understand that the kitchen Is Singer said his position on housing Is well known In the community. He has actively worked with the council to provide more, and lower cost housing in the community since bis election in 1978, but most of those efforts have failed.

An attempt to zone Rendija Canyon for housing was petitioned against and was rejected by voters last July 8, about a week before the J.S. Properties was formed. In the past two years, other council actions designed to stimulate housing development here have been turned back by the voters. Deer Trap Mesa, at one time considered by the council for housing, was voted Into a wilderness status by the public and a section of land on North Mesa, which the council tried to turn Into a planned development area, was voted back to Its previous mobile concerned, that they have been putting aside. They had actually noticed that there was going to be a prison riot and they Just acted very nonchalant about It.

If they would Increase the wages foi prison employees, both office workers and the guards, it would ease some of the unemployment In the city and help the prison situation. DAVID NEWBURGER, unemployed draftsman. It sounds like they're not doing a whole lot be- of the prisoners, because so far Its been all administrative. There was an interesting study done up In the Las Vegas, prison. The Inmates were asked to help design the prison and ln- Jo Anne Fergeson Student nurse back In order and that will help.

I have a friend thats employed with the medical services there, and he says that they're working on those. MARTHA RIVERA, clerk Everybody cant expect him to go In and do something that has to be Adrian Dewtndt Architect terestingly enough, it became a very homey place. All the post-occupancy reports at the Las Vegas, prison Two library documents available for review were incredibly exciting. If something was done along these lines at the penitentiary especially since a tremen cause politics are getting involved and the consent decrees are not being followed. The letters coming out of the prison are still being censored and It sounds like the tension Is still as done within a group, which Is the only way it Ik' going to be done.

You cant say that because Bruce King himself hasn't done something, that it's not getting done. Its up to public library are required by the federal government as part of administering their grant money. Two documents published by the New Mexico State Library, the Five Year Program for Library ment In New Mexico, 1980-1984," and the Library Services and Construction Act Annual Programs," are available for review at the public dous amount of their demands are architectural it would be a real progressive step, and a very good one, but I dont see Bruce King doing It at all, unfortunately. Interested citizens are encouraged to review these documents during the review period, which closes Nov. 15 The State Library receives federal funds every year for State Library programs and to help develop public libraries In New Mexico.

The two documents available for review at the Davld Newberger Unemployed draftsman Any comments or questions about the documents should be directed to the Library Development Bureau of the State Library. liitej44Ml.