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6 6: SOT 3:0 LIE -THE DESERT SUN -Wednesday, July 1, 1992 Quake adds to damages at fire station Earlier temblor closed facility By ROSE WOJNAR The Desert Sun PALM SPRINGS After Sunday's major earthquakes, cracks widened and plaster fell in Fire Station No. 3, closed because of previous temblor damage. But the additional deterioration shouldn't add to the yet-to-be-deter- Expert refuses to say 'it's all over now' By VIC POLLARD Desert Sun Los Angeles Bureau PASADENA Seismologist Kate Hutton knows what people want to hear when they switch on the TV after an earthquake. "They want to hear that it's OK, don't worry, it's over," says the California Institute of Technology researcher. Hutton and fellow seismologist Dr.

Lucile Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey form the two-woman team that provides information for the news media after quakes. But they can't tell people what they want to hear most when a quake will strike. "I'm not going to say that," Hutton said, "because one day I know I'll be proved wrong, and I'll get my pants sued off." Earthquake science is making strides, but those who practice it cannot predict when an earthquake will happen or when it won't. But they can give people facts on the size and site of quakes and their estimate of the chances of aftershocks and that can be soothing, experts say.

"When an earthquake happens, everybody gets a little jittery," said Nancy Valenta, news director of KNBC, channel 4 in Los Angeles. "If you can give the viewer solid, basic information, which is what those women do, I think it acts as a very calming influence." Hutton is a descendent of Episcopal missionaries in Taiwan, who knew Jones' grandparents, who mined repair costs, said Battalion Chief Jim MacLean and city Public Works Director David Strecker. "It was just a continuation of the damage that occurred earlier," MacLean said. Cracks showed up in the station, built in the late 1960s of concrete block, after the 5.9-magnitude earthquake in 1986. Those cracks grew and new ones appeared after the 6.1 temblor on April 22.

KATE HUTTON don't feel calm" were Methodist missionaries there. Hutton, is a former astronomer who switched to seismology because of better job prospects, is the calmer half of the duo, with her slim build, short -cropped gray hair and scientist's deadpan manner. "People say I look calm on TV," she said. "I don't feel calm, but that's OK." She said she doesn't have time to be frightened during earthquakes because they mean she has to get to work in her job as manager of data processing for the southern California seismic network run jointly by Cal Tech and the USGS. Sunday's 8:05 a.m.

Big Bear quake was one of her most frightening experiences, but not because of the quake itself. "I was on (TV) live when it happened and they were asking me for information I didn't have and I was making judgments based on what I felt. And they kept pushing me back against the wall. That was pretty scary." Fire and city officials closed the station at 590 E. Racquet Club on May 15, fearing for the safety of personnel and equipment.

Firefighters and the engine are temporarily quartered at the nearby Shiloh Inn. Cracks are in the room where the engine and equipment are stored. MacLean said those cracks got wider after Sunday's 7.4- and 6.5-magnitude quakes and some plaster fell. Repairs will include installing reinforcement beams, MacLean Seismologist (and son) get right to work By VIC POLLARD Desert Sun Los Angeles Bureau PASADENA Seismologist Lucile Jones was awake and nursing her 21-month-old son, Niels, when the Landers earthquake rocked the desert at 4:58 a.m. Sunday.

Niels is best known for appearing on television in his mother's arms as she reported on the Joshua Tree earthquake centered north of Palm Springs just before 10 p.m. April 22. But his mother, a researcher for the U. S. Geological Survey, is far more famous for her alternating appearances with fellow seismologist Dr.

Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology, as they explain the size, location a and implications of earthquakes. They are credited with calming the public's quake jitters and forcing residents to confront the fact that the Big One is long overdue on the dangerous San Andreas Fault. "As a scientist, I've got to believe that more information is better," Jones said. "I believe that if you give people information, most of them are intelligent enough to process it reasonably and use it. "If you tell people there's a 10 percent chance they're going to be shaken more today, that means there's a 90 percent chance they won't.

I think those things get through and people use it." The daughter of an aerospace engineer and granddaughter of Methodist missionaries in China, she studied the Chinese language and physics in college, but switched to and Strecker said. The project should go out to bid within two weeks and repairs should be completed by the beginning of August, Strecker said. Fire officials abandoned plans to install a modular building in back of the station as firefighters' living and business quarters while repairs are ongoing, MacLean said. It would have been too expensive to rent such a building and hook up all the utilities, he said. LUCILE JONES Nursing son when quake hit geophysics when she realized "You didn't have to make bombs and geologists get paid for going out and playing in the She specialized in foreshocks and prediction in graduate school at MIT, which positioned her to become the first U.S.

scientist to be admitted to China to study quakes there. At the USGS, she and her husband, Cal Tech seismologist Egill Hauksson, a native of Iceland, have done much of the leading research on the San Andreas fault. Growing up in the Los Angeles area where she played math games with her father and learned calculus from him before she took it in school, she said she wasn't conscious of breaking the stereotype that "women don't do science." "I had a friend from high school that I saw a few years later, and she said, 'The thing about you is, you were the only girl I knew who wasn't afraid to show that she was Quake gives Bear Valley students a school break By LYNNDEE KEMMET The Desert Sun Summer school students in the High Desert were back hitting the books Tuesday, two days after a 7.4 earthquake hit the area. But students in Bear Valley Unified School District in the Big Bear area have the rest of the week off. Though state engineers found all six of the mountain district's schools structurally sound, officials need the rest of the week to clean up fallen books and objects, said Marie Wanke, a secretary in the superintendent's office in Big Bear.

Of the district's 3,200 students, all but the high school students are on a year-round schedule and should have resumed classes today, she said. State engineers also declared High Desert schools structurally sound after an inspection found nothing more than broken ceiling tiles and support rails at Landers Elementary School, said Jack Dempsey, superintendent of Morongo Unified School District. But because of water supply problems in Landers, district officials sent students to Joshua Tree Elementary, Dempsey said. Because there are only three more weeks of summer school, he said students won't return to Landers school until fall classes begin. "It would be too disruptive to move them back," Dempsey said.

Of the district's 10,500 students, he said about 1,500 are enrolled in summer school. Summer school classes normally run Monday through Thursday. Monday's missed school day will be made up July 10, he said. Students aren't the only ones Father of boy killed in quake slams media The Associated Press YUCCA VALLEY The father of a boy killed in last weekend's earthquake lashed out at the media and said the boy's funeral would be held privately at a secret location to keep reporters away, a newspaper said. John R.

Bishop, father of earthquake victim Joseph Bishop, said since the boy was killed by debris from a collapsing fireplace Sunday morning, the family has been inundated with press inquiries, the HiDesert Star reported in today's editions. "There is no news here, only the documentation of the obvious at the mourner's expense," the father said. His statements were contained in IEFELS and Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS SINCE 1908- 666 VELLA ROAD, PALM SPRINGS 327-1257- BERK, ARNOLD M.D. Services on Wednesday, 12:30 P.M., Lieberman Chapel GALINSKY, LEON Services Private MARCHESE, JOHN Services Pending MARTIN, MARGARET Services on Thursday, 11:30 A.M., Welwood Murray Cemetery SCHULTZ, PRISCILLA Services on Thursday, 11:30 A.M., Wiefels Son Chapel THOMPSON, SHIRLEY Services on Wednesday, 11:30 A.MY. Desert Memorial Park ON THE RECORD OBITUARIES Priscilla Schultz, 71, a native of Wisconsin Funeral services for Priscilla Louise Schultz, 71, of Thousand Palms will be at 11:30 a.m.

Thursday at Wiefels and Son Funeral Home Chapel in Palm Springs. Mrs. Schultz, a native of Superior, died Saturday at the Manor Care Nursing Center in Rancho Mirage. Survivors include her husband, Wilford; a daughter, Nancy Seligman of Northwood, England; two sons, Bill Schultz of Laguna Beach and Michael Schultz of Grapevine, Texas; two sisters, Renie Abramhanson of Superior, and Dorothy Larson of Anaheim; and six grandchildren. Burial will be private.

The family suggests donations to the Arthritis Foundation, 631 Oleander Road, Palm Springs, CA 92264. Josephine O'Donnell, 80, owned guest home Services for Josephine O'Donnell, 80, of La Mirada will be at 9 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Solitude Catholic Church in Palm Springs. Mrs. O'Donnell, a native of Jefferson, S.D., died Monday at Imperial Convalescent Hospital in La Mirada.

A Palm Springs resident for 17 years, she owned and operated the O'Donnell guest home for the elderly in Palm Springs. Survivors include a daughter, JoAnne Shipherd of La Mirada; a brother, Charles Streeter of Jefferson, S.D.; a sister, Freda Crotts of Oceanside; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Eternal Hills Memorial Park in Oceanside. Samuel Kert, 93, builder and native of Russia Services for Samuel Kert, 93, of Palm Springs, will be at 10 a.m.

today at the Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel. Mr. Kert, a native of Russia, died Monday at his home. He was a self-employed builder. Survivors include a sister, Esther Rosengarden of Royal Oak, and a niece, Rhoda Katzman of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Burial will be at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City. Gordon Allan Menendez, 69, Canadian veteran Private services will be held for Gordon Allan Menendez, 69, of Desert Hot Springs. Mr. Menendez, a native of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He served in the Canadian Merchant Marines during World War II, and was a manager for Waterman Steamship Lines for 30 years.

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months; 20044, INFORMATION CENTER. 1-900-773-6000 (Weather, Sports, Money or Life Entertainment, callers charged $.95 per minute) ON TI Anita Parada Hernandez, 81, reared 11 children. Services for Anita Parada Hernandez, 81, of Palm Springs will bel at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Palm Springs.

Mrs. Hernandez, a native of Sonora, Mexico, died Monday at EL senhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. She was a homemaker. Survivors include three sons, Raul Hernandez and Frank Her-5 nandez, both of Palm Springs, and Tony Hernandez of Cathedral City; eight daughters, Carmen Sandoval: of Mexicali, Delia Meza of El Centro, Anita Zargoza of Riverside, Amelia Ramirez of Oceanside, Angelina Charon of Palm Desert, GI6ria Hernandez of Palm Springs and Juanita Hernandez and Mary Esther Franz, botit of Cathedral City; three sisters, Lupe Morales of Palm Springs, Josefa Ochoa of Calexico and Luz Espinoza of San Jose; two? brothers, Gilberto Parada of Ba. kersfield and Roberto Parada of Mexicali; 40 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. today at the Palm Springs Mortu4 ary Chapel. A vigil service will be at 7. p.m. Burial will be at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City.

The family suggests donations to: The American Heart Association. Margaret Martin, 81, lowa native, hotel owner Graveside services for Margaret Martin, 81, of Palm Springs will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Wel-6 wood Murray Cemetery in Palm, Springs. Mrs. Martin, a native of Cresco, Iowa, died Saturday at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs.

She was a hotel owner. Survivors include a son, Dean Perchall of Palm Springs. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.ma today and 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday at Wiefels and Son Funeral Home in Palm Springs. Ron Drews, 62, native Kansan, worked in sales Memorial services for Ron: Drews, 62, of Palm Desert, will be, Thursday in Palm Desert.

Mr. Drews, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, died Saturday at Elsenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. He was a sales representative. 8 He served in the armed forces during the Korean Conflict and was a member of the Masonic Lodge fore many years before moving to California in 1962. Survivors include his wife, Mara tha; a son, Mark Drews of Lake Tahoe; a daughter, Rhonda Drews; of Palm Desert.

Palm Springs Mortuaries LOCATED IN PALM SPRINGS DESERT HOT SPRINGS PHONE 327-1331 WILLIAM GEMME Services Pending ANITA HERNANDEZ Vigil: 7:00 P.M. Wednesday, Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel. Liturgy: Thursday 9:00 A.M. St. Theresa Catholic Church.

Rev. Fr. Danny DeVitt, Celebrant. Interment: Desert Memorial Park. Visitation: P.M.

Wednesday at Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel SAM KERT Services: 10:00 A.M. Wednesday at Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel. Dr. Rabbi Joseph Hurwitz, officiating. Interment: Desert Memorial Park.

ANN WEINBERG Services 11:30 A.M. Thursday Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel. Graveside Service Thursday 2:00 P.M. Riverside Nat'l Cemetery Cantor Giora Sharon, officiating. JOSEPHINE O'DONNELL Liturgy: 9:00 A.M.

Friday Our Lady of Solitude Catholic Church Cryptside Service Friday 1:30 P.M. Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside. Rev. Fr. Ignatius Rasquinha, celebrant.

Visitation P.M. Thursday a Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel Did You Know It is your right, by law, to compare funeral prices by phone or in person. POLIC a seven-page, handwritten news release delivered Tuesday to the newspaper. The release gives additional family details and describes how the boy's brother tried to save his life during the quake. The child was the only official death from Sunday's twin earthquakes and the numerous aftershocks that have followed.

Two heart attack deaths were reported around the time of the quakes. The Bishop family, from Wilmington, was in the high desert to attend a Yucca Valley High School class of 1972 reunion. The father asked reporters to stop calling the family. "This is a private time between family, friends and God," he said. "Please respect that." TOMORROW THURSDAY, JULY 2 1992.

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5:27 p.m.: ida El Mu 9:35 p.m. McCallum SHERI making use of the district's schools. Of its 16 schools, two Yucca Mesa Elementary and La Contenta Junior High are being used as American Red Cross shelters for those left homeless by Sunday's twin quakes, Dempsey said. Big Bear's high school is also serving as a shelter, Wanke said. LA QUIN' Monday 4:22 a.m.: "senhower 10:39 Montezun 5:28 p.m.: senhower PALM DES Monday 11:07 a.m Starl 20 Mo SA.