January 1, 1975 (8 pages)

6 The Nevada County Nae _Wed., Jan. 1,1975 County settles mental health budget . County supervisors apparently settled problems the mental health budget in a ‘‘harmonious”’ fashion They directed that $21,200 from the general fund be transferred to the Sierra View Mental Health Budget for continuation of programs for the Community Workshop and Council on Alcoholism. Both of these, according to John Trauner, auditor-controllerfiscal director, were instituted within the fiscal year without prior board approval. However, Trauner said the amount will be offset by money Sierra View has repaid in an overcharge to the county during the past fiscal year. Other recommendations of the fiscal director which supervisors approved were: -In the future Sierra View is to adhere strictly to programs as outlined at the time of the presentation of the budget. ~The Mental Health Advisory Board and Sierra View shall not consider new programs during a fiscal year unless adequate provisions for them have been made in the budget. And further the Advisory. Board must have satisfied itself that contemplated programs have sufficient value to the county to merit paying for them. --Directed a management consulting firm shall make an independent audit to determine that the county is receiving mental health services on a proper ratio of cost versus service. And that programs are prides agi: gp ner pa community level, desires and Prior. to accepting Trauner’s recommendations the. auditorcontroller outlined alternatives. Sierra View had hoped also to institute a new Day Care for which the county could get additional state B-1 ROLLS OUT — Thr first supersonic B-1 bomber, with Strategic Air Command markings, rolled out of the Rockwell International hanger in Palmdale, on October 26. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, keynote speaker for the event, stressed the nation’s need for the B-1 as a means of updating the country’s manned bomber arm of.the Triad. ~~ BUSI BILLBOARD NESS funding of 90 per cent. However, county money must be spent on such a program before the state. reimburses the amount. And the state is slow to pay such reimbursements, according to Trauner Dale Rinard, Sierra View administrator, ‘‘welcomed’’ the audit and pledged cooperation. He said the State Department of Health is now in the process of auditing and upon the completion the audit would be available to the board. Trauner roughly estimated the cost of an audit at $6,000. He ‘‘assumed”’ that the state would be more concerned about a cost than management audit. He urged that the independent audit be done soon because: Sierra View’s contract to handle mental health services for the county is due to be renewed in March. Rinard felt that Sierra View “Gould live” with funding for the programs initiated, but said the amount could not implement the proposed Continuous Care. The Rev. Theron Sefton, a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board, “‘personally sta agreed”’ recommendations. However, he believed that the advisory board is directly responsible to r with . Trauner’s supervisors and Sierra View recommendations should be funneled through his oe. Rebecca Hughes said she is a licensed Rinsoat worker practicing in Grass Valley, also supported Trauner’s recommendations. She is chairman of the Mental Health Technical Advisory Committee; Dr. Robert Smith, director of Sierra View, expressed concern eaeeee inability to Pye ite financing now pt a Pekuniie Care Program. If it could be approved at budget time he said it could be put over until then. Weimar owner LS The Placer County District Attorney has disclosed that Ralph. Fuller, reported new owner of troubled Weimar Medical Center being sought on a charge of writing a worthless check, is an ex-convict who served 12 years in state prisons for grand theft. D.A. Daniel J. Higgens also said he had been informed Fuller is wanted for questioning in a fraud case in Torrance, where his ARZE Medical Management Services Inc. is headquartered. In another development, James T. Ralph of Sacramento, from whom Fuller reportedly had Weimar and Davis Community Hospital, said Fuller never made the required payment. Ralph said he gave Fuller a ‘signed. offer: contingent on payment” but that Fuller never followed through with “‘his share of the deal.” ‘We’ve never given up control” of the hospitals, Ralph said. A district attorney’s investigator was at the Weimar Center yesterday with a warrant. for Fuller’s arrest, charging Nevada county duplicate bridge Duplicate Bridge Clubs of Nevada County, Unit No. 461, elected their board of directors to serve for the ensuing year, and : will be Laura Carlson as unit secretary and Frances Slawson as Nevada county club manager: Virginia Minter will be club president; Ray Klayer, vice president; Agnes _ Prisk, RESCUE CALL The Nevada City Rescue Car was summoned at 1:20 a.m. _ Thursday when a car with its lights on was reported to be down a cliff at the W: Overlook on Highway 20. A man was let down on a winch and found the car was unoccupied, THE GIPSON’S Lon Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 Grass Valley, Ca. 265-6166 according to the report from the fire ent. However, it was determined that the vehicle had been stolen and it was released to the Grass Valley Police Department, a sheriff's department spokesman said. memberships; Maree Johnson, partnerships; Ruth Hildebrand, treasurer; Irene Yelick, supplies; Fawn ~Emmerling, publicity; and social events will be handled by Marjorie Harrison and Esther Harvey. Anyone interested in participating in one of the two ACBL franchised clubs may obtain information by calling 273-7380 or 265-6492. Winners for Monday were Virginia Minter Dan Nielsen; Frances Slawson Kay Porter; Arlene Rivet Lois Steffen. Top scorers Tuesday were Kay Porter Lois Steffen;Virginia Minter Dan Nielsen; Jean Kuchman Bennette Carlson. ’ At the 10-table annual membership game Thursday Bennette Carlson Pauline took first place, followed by Agnes Prisk:Marjorie Harrison; Doris Campbell Dan Nielsen; Lois Steffen Henrietta Mufich; Marian Jobe Esther Harvey; Lou Nuckols Peggy Slocum; Barbara Wylie Lorraine Fowler, ormer convict him with writing a worthless $231 check to an employe. Although Fuller was scheduled to be at Weimar yesterday, he apparently failed to show up. Telephone calls to the hospital went unanswered most of the day. However, when someone did answer, he replied, “‘He (Fuller) is not here and I don’t know where he is.’ The State Department of Corrections said Fuller, 55, was convicted of grand theft in SanDiego County in 1958 and served an eight-year term. He was convicted of the same charge in 1968.in Riverside County and served a four-year term. Higgens also said there was question whether Fuller is a physician as he claims. Fuller also is _ being investigated for writing an allegedly worthless $10,000 check to Dr. Harry Parsons, former medical director when Weimar was owned by 15 Northern California counties, Higgens said. The D.A. said the check was repayment to Parsons for a house on the hospital grounds Parsons wanted to buy. The 68-bed Weimar Medical Center, northeast of Sacramento, was charged earlier this week with 25 health and safety code violations by the State Department of Health. One of the charges was, “There was no. evidence available to indicate the existence of an organized medical staff.” J.E. Anderson, who heads the health inspection team which found the violations,. said there was “only \one~ attending physician” on duty. He also said he and the other inspectors persuaded the center to transfer its single patient elsewhere. located 42 miles-

6 The Nevada County Nae _Wed., Jan. 1,1975 County settles mental health budget . County supervisors apparently settled problems the mental health budget in a ‘‘harmonious”’ fashion They directed that $21,200 from the general fund be transferred to the Sierra View Mental Health Budget for continuation of programs for the Community Workshop and Council on Alcoholism. Both of these, according to John Trauner, auditor-controllerfiscal director, were instituted within the fiscal year without prior board approval. However, Trauner said the amount will be offset by money Sierra View has repaid in an overcharge to the county during the past fiscal year. Other recommendations of the fiscal director which supervisors approved were: -In the future Sierra View is to adhere strictly to programs as outlined at the time of the presentation of the budget. ~The Mental Health Advisory Board and Sierra View shall not consider new programs during a fiscal year unless adequate provisions for them have been made in the budget. And further the Advisory. Board must have satisfied itself that contemplated programs have sufficient value to the county to merit paying for them. --Directed a management consulting firm shall make an independent audit to determine that the county is receiving mental health services on a proper ratio of cost versus service. And that programs are prides agi: gp ner pa community level, desires and Prior. to accepting Trauner’s recommendations the. auditorcontroller outlined alternatives. Sierra View had hoped also to institute a new Day Care for which the county could get additional state B-1 ROLLS OUT — Thr first supersonic B-1 bomber, with Strategic Air Command markings, rolled out of the Rockwell International hanger in Palmdale, on October 26. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, keynote speaker for the event, stressed the nation’s need for the B-1 as a means of updating the country’s manned bomber arm of.the Triad. ~~ BUSI BILLBOARD NESS funding of 90 per cent. However, county money must be spent on such a program before the state. reimburses the amount. And the state is slow to pay such reimbursements, according to Trauner Dale Rinard, Sierra View administrator, ‘‘welcomed’’ the audit and pledged cooperation. He said the State Department of Health is now in the process of auditing and upon the completion the audit would be available to the board. Trauner roughly estimated the cost of an audit at $6,000. He ‘‘assumed”’ that the state would be more concerned about a cost than management audit. He urged that the independent audit be done soon because: Sierra View’s contract to handle mental health services for the county is due to be renewed in March. Rinard felt that Sierra View “Gould live” with funding for the programs initiated, but said the amount could not implement the proposed Continuous Care. The Rev. Theron Sefton, a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board, “‘personally sta agreed”’ recommendations. However, he believed that the advisory board is directly responsible to r with . Trauner’s supervisors and Sierra View recommendations should be funneled through his oe. Rebecca Hughes said she is a licensed Rinsoat worker practicing in Grass Valley, also supported Trauner’s recommendations. She is chairman of the Mental Health Technical Advisory Committee; Dr. Robert Smith, director of Sierra View, expressed concern eaeeee inability to Pye ite financing now pt a Pekuniie Care Program. If it could be approved at budget time he said it could be put over until then. Weimar owner LS The Placer County District Attorney has disclosed that Ralph. Fuller, reported new owner of troubled Weimar Medical Center being sought on a charge of writing a worthless check, is an ex-convict who served 12 years in state prisons for grand theft. D.A. Daniel J. Higgens also said he had been informed Fuller is wanted for questioning in a fraud case in Torrance, where his ARZE Medical Management Services Inc. is headquartered.

In another development, James T. Ralph of Sacramento, from whom Fuller reportedly had Weimar and Davis Community Hospital, said Fuller never made the required payment. Ralph said he gave Fuller a ‘signed. offer: contingent on payment” but that Fuller never followed through with “‘his share of the deal.” ‘We’ve never given up control” of the hospitals, Ralph said. A district attorney’s investigator was at the Weimar Center yesterday with a warrant. for Fuller’s arrest, charging Nevada county duplicate bridge Duplicate Bridge Clubs of Nevada County, Unit No. 461, elected their board of directors to serve for the ensuing year, and : will be Laura Carlson as unit secretary and Frances Slawson as Nevada county club manager: Virginia Minter will be club president; Ray Klayer, vice president; Agnes _ Prisk, RESCUE CALL The Nevada City Rescue Car was summoned at 1:20 a.m. _ Thursday when a car with its lights on was reported to be down a cliff at the W: Overlook on Highway 20. A man was let down on a winch and found the car was unoccupied, THE GIPSON’S Lon Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 Grass Valley, Ca. 265-6166 according to the report from the fire ent. However, it was determined that the vehicle had been stolen and it was released to the Grass Valley Police Department, a sheriff's department spokesman said. memberships; Maree Johnson, partnerships; Ruth Hildebrand, treasurer; Irene Yelick, supplies; Fawn ~Emmerling, publicity; and social events will be handled by Marjorie Harrison and Esther Harvey. Anyone interested in participating in one of the two ACBL franchised clubs may obtain information by calling 273-7380 or 265-6492. Winners for Monday were Virginia Minter Dan Nielsen; Frances Slawson Kay Porter; Arlene Rivet Lois Steffen. Top scorers Tuesday were Kay Porter Lois Steffen;Virginia Minter Dan Nielsen; Jean Kuchman Bennette Carlson. ’ At the 10-table annual membership game Thursday Bennette Carlson Pauline took first place, followed by Agnes Prisk:Marjorie Harrison; Doris Campbell Dan Nielsen; Lois Steffen Henrietta Mufich; Marian Jobe Esther Harvey; Lou Nuckols Peggy Slocum; Barbara Wylie Lorraine Fowler, ormer convict him with writing a worthless $231 check to an employe. Although Fuller was scheduled to be at Weimar yesterday, he apparently failed to show up. Telephone calls to the hospital went unanswered most of the day. However, when someone did answer, he replied, “‘He (Fuller) is not here and I don’t know where he is.’ The State Department of Corrections said Fuller, 55, was convicted of grand theft in SanDiego County in 1958 and served an eight-year term. He was convicted of the same charge in 1968.in Riverside County and served a four-year term. Higgens also said there was question whether Fuller is a physician as he claims. Fuller also is _ being investigated for writing an allegedly worthless $10,000 check to Dr. Harry Parsons, former medical director when Weimar was owned by 15 Northern California counties, Higgens said. The D.A. said the check was repayment to Parsons for a house on the hospital grounds Parsons wanted to buy. The 68-bed Weimar Medical Center, northeast of Sacramento, was charged earlier this week with 25 health and safety code violations by the State Department of Health. One of the charges was, “There was no. evidence available to indicate the existence of an organized medical staff.” J.E. Anderson, who heads the health inspection team which found the violations,. said there was “only \one~ attending physician” on duty. He also said he and the other inspectors persuaded the center to transfer its single patient elsewhere. located 42 miles-