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Charles Goad's payment of the $5,300 Rio Rancho says it is owed by Mayor Kevin Jackson is getting all the press.

But to hear Goad tell it, it's one of the least interesting of his accomplishments, which include developing a tumor-curing light and dealings with Howard Hughes.

During a wide-ranging interview on July 11, Goad, 81, said he is working on a special light to cure brain tumors and breast cancer without surgery.

"I've been proving this for years," he said. "Nobody believes it, but it will work."

He has also created informational pamphlets on how to bring someone back to life shortly after the heart has stopped, a technique he calls the Goad Maneuver.

"Every time you strain your body, your heart stops," he said. "A lot of times, you'll find someone dead on the toilet, and you only have a few minutes to save them."

Goad said he got his humanitarian bent after working at Sandia National Laboratories in the 1950s on bombs "that have killed people."

One of his inventions there was used to clean up radiation from Three Mile Island shortly after the 1979 disaster, he said.

After that invention became too sensitive for his own personal taste, he left the labs and began building and selling homes in Albuquerque, he said.

"I figured that if I could make things to destroy people, I could do something to help them," he said.

His latest project is a card game to teach math.

There are 10,000 units of the card game in El Paso, waiting to be distributed, he said.

"I would dare say that if a teacher uses it right, every child in this country would know math by the eighth grade," he said. "Unless they're mentally retarded."

Goad, now a Rio Rancho resident, said he is not friends with Jackson but thinks he is an excellent mayor.

He said he made the donation on July 6, so the city could "stop nitpicking about $5,300 and get on with business."

The city says Jackson made $5,300 worth of improper purchase with his city-issued credit card.

For all the attention Goad's donation has received, he said he doesn't like exposure.

Goad said he worked in real estate with people such as Howard Hughes and John Y. Brown Jr., former KFC Corp. owner and governor of Kentucky from 1979-83.

"I've dealt with some big people, and I have to be careful what I do," Goad said.