Obituaries (1990) (287 pages)

\ MOSCOW (AP) ——The govOne person was killed in a clash €mment rushed more troops to the among the protesters, the official southern republic. of Azerbaijan to-_news agency Tass reported today. day to try to stop a rampage by Border guards did not use their thousands of people along the weapons and none were injured, it reported. a newspaper said. The report.did not say how many protesters were injured. NN NAILS SS HMAIU IS UY AGC VAHAH LU VULUOVWY Se eee stew The government daily Izvestia all barriers at the border unless about the viol said more than 4,000 people tore down guard towers: and-destroyed electronic alarms along the border. The rioters want southern Azerbaijan to be unified with northern Iran and have threatened to remove _authorities remove them, the newspaper. reported.—Azerbaijani said they merely want the right to freely visit friends and relatives on the other side of the border. Tass had said in the first report rioters were ¥e—alcohol’’and: litical motives. Izvestia, in Petrovas, h Caucasus bord Regulator testifies S&L violated law with loan WASHINGTON (AP) — The regulator who called for the govemment’s takeover of Lincoln ‘ Savings and-Loan Association last __ April-today defended his assertion . _ that the now-defunct thrift provided the down payment for the sale of 1,000 acres of its own land in violation of the law. Kevin O’Connell, a deputy director of the ‘Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervi\) y sion, testified in U.S. District Court that he could-not specifically iden-tify the $3.5 million, 25 percent down payment that the government asserts Lincoln lent to Phoenix developer Emest C, Garcia for the $14 million purchase on March 30, B is RRs 7 ) —— But -O'Connellasserted that the Identification of fire victim due this week Sheriff's investigators expect to have a positive identification of the burned body found in the aftermath of a Dec. 15 Cruzon Grade Road fire, The body was found as North San Juan firefighters mopped up alter an carly moming blaze in the 19700 block of Cruzon Grade Road in an area’ known as Dogpatch. Undérsgex{f Paul Rankin told The Union TMs moming that dental charts have provided some information, and that a positive identification probably could be made by the end of the weck. t Police blotter <= TUESDAY Grass Valley Police Department * Paula Ann Charmak, 43, unemployed of Penn Valley, arrested at 10 a.m. at the Grass Valley police station on suspicion of forgery and embezziement. Bail was set at $3,000. Nevada'County Sheriffs Department * A shoe store in the 11500 block of Sutton Way lost between 50 and 75 pairs of shoes — and the table they were on — when unknown persons too from in front of the store sometime between Sunday night and Tuesday morning. A report said the items, inadvertently left outside the store, were valued at approximately $650. * A $2,500 pipe-threading machine was taken from a construction site sometime during the long holiday weekend. A report sad the machine had been inside a grocery store under construction in the 12000 block of Nevada City Highway. the items loan was linked to another $20.2 million loan that Garcia obtained from the S&L on the same day to repurchase stock he had sold over the previous two years to Tucson Electric Power Co. : Attorneys for Lincoln, of Irvine, Calif., and its embattled former owner, Phoenix millionaire Charles H, Keating Jr,, cited documents of wire transfers of°$19.6 million from Lincoln to Tucson Electric Power as evidence that proceeds from the stock loan were not wsed for the down payment. O'Connell, however, cited several other transactions among Garcia, Lincoln and the thrift’s parent company, American Continental Corp.He said his office believed the stock: and land deals were direcuy connected because Garcia had said so in a deposition with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a . “Tm saying what the case 15s fungible (interchangeable) and that is the basis’* of the recommendation to seize control of Lincoln, O'Connell testified. “If the down payment had not had to be made, Mr. Garcia would have had to borrow the full $20.2 million. The same cash cannot be identified, but that was the intent"' Lincoln had purchased the land just two years earlier for $3 million. The government. contends that through such land sales — many of them shams — Lincoln was able torecord phony profits that allowed Keating and his associates to effectively loot the thrift of fed¢grally insured deposits. . Under federal regulations, thrifts were required to make purchasers of land from the institution put up at least a 25 percent down payment on raw land purchases in order to record.a profit . Meanwhile, Garcia, a key witness for the government in its case that ‘Lincoln was being operated in an ‘‘unsafe and unLab tests may provide > sound manner,”’ testify. . Regulators estimate taxpayers will have to pay up to $2 billion to cover Lincoln's loss of federally insured deposits through sham land uransactions, fraud and racketcering. Keating, contending Lincoln was being ®perated soundly and in accord with regulatory requirements, has asked U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin to overtum the government's seizure of the thrift as *‘capricious and arbitrary.”’ Keating and his son, Charles H. Keating III, have been subpoenaed as witnesses and are expected to be is refusing to ending to death case\ A Nevada County Sheriffs Depanment invesugator said tests scheduled to be returned Thursday from the state's Department of Justice laboratory may allow him to close the strange case of Gordon Harvey Brown, $2. Brown's body was found Nov, 20 near Greenhorn Creck. The Newcastle resident had been missing since Nov. 7. ; The cause of death initially was put as a suicide, but a coroner's investigauon revealed a gunshot wound under the left arm probably could not have been self-inflicted. Sgt. Joe Loven said lab results might explain the cause of death. “One thing DOJ is checking is to see if the rifle (found in Brown's abandoned car) might have been rigged in such a way as to be used ina suicide attempt,’’ Loven said. Obituaries called to the s day, governm Tuesday, The elder target of a cri vestigation in his constitutio: lo answer qi poena ppe: before the Hot tee. Annie Jennings A memorial serviee for Annic Belle Jennings, 88, who. diced Dec. 26, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m Monday in the United Methodist Church in Grass Valley with the Rev. Edward Farrell-Starbuck officiauing. Mrs. Jennings was a Nevada County resident for more than 50 year. Benjamin Kopp ‘ Benjamin Kopp, 70, a Nevada County resident since 1985, died Monday at a Sacramento medical facility. Mr._Kopp_was_bom_Apnl lL. 1919, in Brooklyn, N.Y,, to the late Louis and Rose (Best) Kopp. Hic attended school in New York, including two years of college, before entenng the U.S, Navy in 1941 and serving in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War IT. After discharge in 1947, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he worked for the Military Sealift Command as a ship surveyor until retirement in 1976. Mr. Kopp lived in Palo Alto and Danville before moving to Penn Valicy. He was a member of SIRS and the local Moose Lodge. He is survived—byhis wife Florence; daughter Barbara Pegoda of Grass Valley; sister Blanche_of Actor Alan Hale dead of cancer at age 68° LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Alan Hale Jr., who anpeared in 65 Sun Dicgo; four grandchildren, and (40 great-grandchildren. A funeral service will begin at 2 pan, Friday at the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Nevada City with the Rev. Andy Owens of the Grass Valley Furst Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Indian Springs Cemetery in Penn Valley. BARBARA LEE eal Estate Broker 273-1679 sizes 36-48 Req, 6599

\ MOSCOW (AP) ——The govOne person was killed in a clash €mment rushed more troops to the among the protesters, the official southern republic. of Azerbaijan to-_news agency Tass reported today. day to try to stop a rampage by Border guards did not use their thousands of people along the weapons and none were injured, it reported. a newspaper said. The report.did not say how many protesters were injured. NN NAILS SS HMAIU IS UY AGC VAHAH LU VULUOVWY Se eee stew The government daily Izvestia all barriers at the border unless about the viol said more than 4,000 people tore down guard towers: and-destroyed electronic alarms along the border. The rioters want southern Azerbaijan to be unified with northern Iran and have threatened to remove _authorities remove them, the newspaper. reported.—Azerbaijani said they merely want the right to freely visit friends and relatives on the other side of the border. Tass had said in the first report rioters were ¥e—alcohol’’and: litical motives. Izvestia, in Petrovas, h Caucasus bord Regulator testifies S&L violated law with loan WASHINGTON (AP) — The regulator who called for the govemment’s takeover of Lincoln ‘ Savings and-Loan Association last __ April-today defended his assertion . _ that the now-defunct thrift provided the down payment for the sale of 1,000 acres of its own land in violation of the law. Kevin O’Connell, a deputy director of the ‘Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervi\) y sion, testified in U.S. District Court that he could-not specifically iden-tify the $3.5 million, 25 percent down payment that the government asserts Lincoln lent to Phoenix developer Emest C, Garcia for the $14 million purchase on March 30, B is RRs 7 ) —— But -O'Connellasserted that the Identification of fire victim due this week Sheriff's investigators expect to have a positive identification of the burned body found in the aftermath of a Dec. 15 Cruzon Grade Road fire, The body was found as North San Juan firefighters mopped up alter an carly moming blaze in the 19700 block of Cruzon Grade Road in an area’ known as Dogpatch. Undérsgex{f Paul Rankin told The Union TMs moming that dental charts have provided some information, and that a positive identification probably could be made by the end of the weck. t Police blotter <= TUESDAY Grass Valley Police Department * Paula Ann Charmak, 43, unemployed of Penn Valley, arrested at 10 a.m. at the Grass Valley police station on suspicion of forgery and embezziement. Bail was set at $3,000. Nevada'County Sheriffs Department * A shoe store in the 11500 block of Sutton Way lost between 50 and 75 pairs of shoes — and the table they were on — when unknown persons too from in front of the store sometime between Sunday night and Tuesday morning. A report said the items, inadvertently left outside the store, were valued at approximately $650. * A $2,500 pipe-threading machine was taken from a construction site sometime during the long holiday weekend. A report sad the machine had been inside a grocery store under construction in the 12000 block of Nevada City Highway. the items loan was linked to another $20.2 million loan that Garcia obtained from the S&L on the same day to repurchase stock he had sold over the previous two years to Tucson Electric Power Co. : Attorneys for Lincoln, of Irvine, Calif., and its embattled former owner, Phoenix millionaire Charles H, Keating Jr,, cited documents of wire transfers of°$19.6 million from Lincoln to Tucson Electric Power as evidence that proceeds from the stock loan were not wsed for the down payment. O'Connell, however, cited several other transactions among Garcia, Lincoln and the thrift’s parent company, American Continental Corp.He said his office believed the stock: and land deals were direcuy connected because Garcia had said so in a deposition with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a . “Tm saying what the case 15s fungible (interchangeable) and that is the basis’* of the recommendation to seize control of Lincoln, O'Connell testified. “If the down payment had not had to be made, Mr. Garcia would have had to borrow the full $20.2 million. The same cash cannot be identified, but that was the intent"' Lincoln had purchased the land just two years earlier for $3 million. The government. contends that

through such land sales — many of them shams — Lincoln was able torecord phony profits that allowed Keating and his associates to effectively loot the thrift of fed¢grally insured deposits. . Under federal regulations, thrifts were required to make purchasers of land from the institution put up at least a 25 percent down payment on raw land purchases in order to record.a profit . Meanwhile, Garcia, a key witness for the government in its case that ‘Lincoln was being operated in an ‘‘unsafe and unLab tests may provide > sound manner,”’ testify. . Regulators estimate taxpayers will have to pay up to $2 billion to cover Lincoln's loss of federally insured deposits through sham land uransactions, fraud and racketcering. Keating, contending Lincoln was being ®perated soundly and in accord with regulatory requirements, has asked U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin to overtum the government's seizure of the thrift as *‘capricious and arbitrary.”’ Keating and his son, Charles H. Keating III, have been subpoenaed as witnesses and are expected to be is refusing to ending to death case\ A Nevada County Sheriffs Depanment invesugator said tests scheduled to be returned Thursday from the state's Department of Justice laboratory may allow him to close the strange case of Gordon Harvey Brown, $2. Brown's body was found Nov, 20 near Greenhorn Creck. The Newcastle resident had been missing since Nov. 7. ; The cause of death initially was put as a suicide, but a coroner's investigauon revealed a gunshot wound under the left arm probably could not have been self-inflicted. Sgt. Joe Loven said lab results might explain the cause of death. “One thing DOJ is checking is to see if the rifle (found in Brown's abandoned car) might have been rigged in such a way as to be used ina suicide attempt,’’ Loven said. Obituaries called to the s day, governm Tuesday, The elder target of a cri vestigation in his constitutio: lo answer qi poena ppe: before the Hot tee. Annie Jennings A memorial serviee for Annic Belle Jennings, 88, who. diced Dec. 26, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m Monday in the United Methodist Church in Grass Valley with the Rev. Edward Farrell-Starbuck officiauing. Mrs. Jennings was a Nevada County resident for more than 50 year. Benjamin Kopp ‘ Benjamin Kopp, 70, a Nevada County resident since 1985, died Monday at a Sacramento medical facility. Mr._Kopp_was_bom_Apnl lL. 1919, in Brooklyn, N.Y,, to the late Louis and Rose (Best) Kopp. Hic attended school in New York, including two years of college, before entenng the U.S, Navy in 1941 and serving in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War IT. After discharge in 1947, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he worked for the Military Sealift Command as a ship surveyor until retirement in 1976. Mr. Kopp lived in Palo Alto and Danville before moving to Penn Valicy. He was a member of SIRS and the local Moose Lodge. He is survived—byhis wife Florence; daughter Barbara Pegoda of Grass Valley; sister Blanche_of Actor Alan Hale dead of cancer at age 68° LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Alan Hale Jr., who anpeared in 65 Sun Dicgo; four grandchildren, and (40 great-grandchildren. A funeral service will begin at 2 pan, Friday at the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Nevada City with the Rev. Andy Owens of the Grass Valley Furst Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Indian Springs Cemetery in Penn Valley. BARBARA LEE eal Estate Broker 273-1679 sizes 36-48 Req, 6599