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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
— A Kentucky-based chain
plans to build a $24 million
women’s hospital that will
specialize in births, hysterec
tomies, abortions and other
women’s services despite
claims Albuquerque’s hospital
market is already saturated.
Humana Inc. of Louisville,
Ky., expects to begin con
struction of the 120-bed fa
cility on June 1st. Paul Gross,
regional vice president of the
corporation said the build
ings will be completed by late
summer 1985.
The firm filed for a con
struction permit March 27
and the city’s Development
Review Board is scheduled to
decide whether to grant it at
an April 10 meeting.
New Mexico’s healthcare
market was opened to compe
tition last July when a law re
quiring state approval of hos
pitals expired. But Humana’s
entry to the already compet
itive market has some admin
istrators concerned.
Hank Walker, administra
tor of Presbyterian Hospital,
where most of the city’s births
now take place, said the Hu
mana hospital “is not needed,
and the additional beds will
have the effect of driving up
the cost of health care” be
cause the same number of pa
tients will be paying for addi
tional facilities.
Gross disagrees. “Our com
petition perceives our hospi
tals as a threat, but the com-
munity and physicians
percieve them as bringing in
state-of-the-art to women,”
he said.
Hospital occupancy rates
have decreased to about 70
percent in recent years and
two other new hospitals are
currently under construction
in A lbuquerque.
But Gross said his com
pany is not worried about
competition.
“A glut of hosptial beds or
a glut of anything is good for
consumers,” he said. “That
means competition, and that’s
what this country was built
Mike Brown, administrator
of the new St. Joseph West
Mesa Hospital scheduled to
open this summer, said Hu
mana has ignored the work
the state and hospitals have
done to assess and provide
health care needs.
Humana’s plans to proceed
with construction before re
ceiving approval to treat
Medicare and Medicaid pa
tients shows the hospital
“plans to serve the rich and
ignore the poor.”
Gaye’s father reportedly
beaten before shooting
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — The fa
ther of soul singer Marvin
Gaye, arrested for killing his
son, was “hit pretty hard” dur
ing the altercation that led to
the entertainer’s fatal shooting,
a defense attorney said Tues
day.
Gaye Sr., a retired minister,
was held without bail pending
his arraignment Wednesday.
Detectives were scheduled to
meet with the District Attor
ney’s Office Tuesday to seek
murder charges against Gaye.
Attorney Philip Schreiber
said Gaye Sr. “was beaten up
pretty well” and suffered inju
ries to his head and an ear in
the brawl at the family home
Sunday.
“He was definitely hurt,”
Schreiber said. “He was hit pre
tty hard.”
The attorney described the
singer’s father as “a very moral
man, who in recent years has
become rather frail. The thun
der is out of the man.”
“A lot of things will be com
ing out (in this case) which will
be surprising to the public,”
Schreiber said, declining to
elaborate.
Police said the Grammy-win-
ning singer was shot in the chest
after he and his father had an
argument about an insurance
matter. Investigators said the
two men had squabbled in the
past, but their arguments had
never been violent.
Gaye Sr.’s wife, Alberta, 71,
had interceded to break up
Sunday’s argument, police said.
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New appeals were filed Tues-
day to try to stop the Thursday
executions of a Louisiana man,
sentenced for killing two teen
agers, and a Florida man, con
victed of the rape-murder of
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scheduled to die in the Loui-
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Edwin Edwards already has said
he will not intervene in the exe-
Arthur Frederick Goode,
convicted of the rape-murder
of two small boys, is scheduled
to die at 7 a.m. in the electric
chair at Raiford prison in Flor
ida, and his attorneys also
launched a new round of fed
eral appeals Tuesday.
In the Lousiana case, pros
ecutor Dracos Burke said Tues
day a new attorney for Sonnier,
William Quigley, is claiming
Sonnier’s brother, Eddie James
Sonnier, was ready to sign an
affidavit saying he was the trig-
german.
Quigley asked a stale district
judge and the state Supreme
®Court to stop the execution and
said if he is denied in the state
courts he will carry his appeal to
the federal courts. He said his
appeals include several affida
vits, “including a letter from his
brother to the governor that
goes to the determination of
who actually did the killing.”
The Louisiana Supreme
Court found in denying an ear
lier stay request that the Son
niers forced the two to lie on the
ground and Elmo fired six .22
caliber rifle shots alternately
into the heads of the teenagers
while his brother held a flash
light.
The fathers of the two teen
agers Sonnier killed asked to
witness the execution, and au
thorities granted that request
Tuesday.
“I didn’t have any reason not
to let them,” said Corrections
Secretary C. Paul Phelps in Ba
ton Rouge.
Tm going to get the same
thing out of the execution that
Mr. Sonnier did to my boy,”
said one of the fathers, Lloyd
LeBlanc.
Sonnier would be the 17th
man executed since the Su
preme Court dropped its ban
against the death penalty in
1976, and the third of those to
die in “Gruesome Gertie,” the
oaken electric chair at Angola
prison.
The last execution in the
United States was that of Ron
ald Clark O’Bryan, executed by
lethal injection at Huntsville
prison in Texas Saturday morn
ing.
Goode, 29, who said if he is
freed from prison he would
“kill as many kids as possible,”
has asked several times to die,
but his attorneys are carrying
on the fight for mercy on the
ground he is insane.
He would be the third man
executed in Florida since No
vember.
The Florida Supreme Court
rejected attorneys’ pleas that
Goode should not be executed
because of insanity.
“The mental condition of
Goode has been a continuous
subject of litigation,” Justice
James Adkins wrote for the
court. “We do not find that
Goode is entitled to any relief
and his petition for writ of ha
beas corpus is dismissed. The
petition for stay of execution is
denied.”
Goode avoided an execution
date in March 1982 when fa fed
eral appeals court granted f a
stay. But that court later ruled
against him and was upheld by
the Supreme Court.
Sonnier, 34, of St. Martin-
ville, La., was convicted of ab
ducting Loretta Ann Bourque,
18, and David LeBlanc, 16, rap
ing the girl and then killing
both on the edge of isolated
sugar cane field in south Loui
siana on Nov. 5, 1977.
The Sonniers flashed badges
in front of the couple as they sat
in a parked car along a lovers’
lane in New Iberia after a Foot
ball game.
The men handcuffed the
young couple, forced them into
the back seat of the car, and
drove 21 miles along rural
roads before stopping on the
outskirts of the cane field.
There LeBlanc was handcuffed
to a tree while the Sonniers
raped Bourque, his fiancee.
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to lie in the mud while they
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