RAIN. RAIN. GO AWAY — Tommy Trojan received a reprieve from Friday's rain while a little girl who strayed from under her mother's umbrella wasn't as lucky.
Pre-trial hearing date for dentistry professor reset
By Charla Foster
Staff Writer
Confusion over what constitutes the difference between dental and medical practice has forced a university dentistry professor, who was arrested on suspicion of practicing medicine without a license, to face yet another extention in a series of pre-trial hearings.
Orange County authorities said Friday that David Eggleston, associate professor at the university's School of Dentistry, will appear at his third pre-trial hearing on April 12 because the defense and prosecuting attorneys are deliberating over “the fine line that exists between legally practicing dentistry and legally practicing medicine.”
Eggleston, w’ho was arrested on Jan. 8 on suspicion of illegally treating patients in his Newport Beach offices for at least a year, pleaded not guilty during his Jan. 22 arraignment to two charges of practicing medicine without a license .
Craig McKinnon, the prosecuting attorney on the case, said the first pre-trial hearing occurred on Feb. 22, but was subsequently extended to March 22, and finally moved to April.
‘We have to consider what constitutes the difference between what medical practice constitutes as opposed to dental practice.'
"The case has really been dragging because of the issues involved," he said.
‘‘We have to consider what constitutes the difference between what medical practice constitutes as opposed to dental practice.” Several Orange County authorities said the dental profession has experienced an onslaught of "holistic dentists.” whose dental treatment is comparable to that of “holistic physicians.”
Generally, holistic treatments within both dental and medical fields include non-traditional forms of therapy, such as electrical acupressure and acupuncture treatments and hair and eye analyses.
Because these practices are relatively new, the medical and dental aspects of these treatments appear to overlap and are difficult to define in court, McKinnon said.
During pre-trial hearings, however, definitions are important. In Eggleston's case, both McKinnon and defense attorney Mac Jacobs must determine whether the professor practiced medicine rather than a new form of hoiistic dentistry'.
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Redevelopment budget will fund residential, public improvements
By Alan Grossman
Staff Writer
The second meeting of the Project Area Commission (PAC) for the proposed expansion of the Hoover Redevelopment Project Thursday produced a budget for the plan, while the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) briefly introduced a draft of the project to the commission.
The budget was passed after lengthy discussion on the best ways to noticeably and effectively redevelop the community with the funds available.
David Lewis, a deputy administrator of the CRA, the city agency handling the plan through feedback from PAC and the community, began the meeting by announcing that the city council has allocated $1,044,000 to the plan.
He added that an additional $200,000 remained from the original Hoover Project, but is specifically designed for commercial rehabilitation on the Vermont Corridor — the strip of Vermont Avenue between Jefferson Boulevard and Adams Boulevard.
With 11 possible areas in which to target funds, Lewis said an ad hoc group of PAC voted before the public meeting to choose the five most logical projects which included residential rehabilitation. public improvements, commercial rehabilitation (in addition to the $200,000), community clean-up and an anti-graffiti campaign.
He said other plans not chosen were considered unfeasible. Those plans included recreational refurbishing, remodeling the Olympic
Swim Stadium at the Coliseum, improving traffic circulation and a provision for parking and exterior restrooms for Exposition Park.
A sum of $544,000 was allocated for residential improvements. Lewis said that these will be carried out via “very low-interest loans” to the property owner, who would then choose a private contractor.
Lewis assured the property owners who at=_ tended the meeting that the CRA would not make any uninvited improvements on residential homes.
He said even if a site did not meet the Health and Safety Code, the CRA would not force the cost of improvememts on the property owner.
‘‘We are not a policing agency,” he said.
Lew'is said an average of $9,500 would be loaned to a particular party, but this figure does not include inspection and other bureaucratic costs.
After asking the city to delete the east side of Vermont Avenue from its North University Park historical landmark plan, PAC decided to spend $150,000 in the area in addition to the $200,000 already earmarked for the Vermont Corridor.
The historical landmark plan would restore the Victorian style houses in the community, thus creating a 1940s appearence in that neighborhood.
Leon Alexander, a PAC member, said if the council adopts the historical landmark measure with the east side included, it could not be a
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