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Happy�y birthday♦, Insurer shied from OV after bomb blast
Oro Ya 11 a y! A dynamite shed blast north of here be among the three largest home insurers cloud high into the air and covered north-
that killed three men 17 months ago also in the west• side homes with dust, sent dozens of
You're three years 01(l led to the cancellation of at least four Several explanations were given by Shadow Mountains residents to their
in Shadow agents and residents as reasons for the insurance companies--bearing claims for
this u'e e - April 15! hone insurance policiessimultaneous cancellations, one of which shattered windows, cracked walls or
Mountain East. holds that the subdivision is a "high risk crumbling tiles.
All those policies were held by the area,"prone to burglaries• One of the four homes whose Farmers
Farmers Insurance Co., which claims to The explosion, which shot a mushroom insurance was cancelled lieai just half a
mile south of where the now-obliterated
.,,I �`"' _ i 5 shed was located.Officials determined the
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W �-' -Tucson youths shat at a target attached to
the shed's door.
, r Agents who represented two of the four
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Published for residents of the Town of Oro Valley,Pima County;Arizona Aril 13, 1977
' 15 cents P cellation said the explosion merely served
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as the proverbial straw that broke the
• • Three nee ly� r',*•,, camel's back. T- that their customers had
yearsfiled a number of claims previously and
• RAIir alr` : Win Oro- Palle, r lives. were developing into insurance risks
• leave Celebrate town's birthday anyway.
town. P&I Commissio ,, � tx following heBwutasodhat his cancellation resultedtneof the four policy-holders said
from situations•peculiar to the Shadow
• •' n �%� tl 't i' b°`� Mountains subdivision itself -- a rash of
Rosalyn GLcJlfian, appointed to the Mrs. Glickman was elected--;ming
Ttown's first Plait win and Zoning Com- commission chairman Sept. 2, 19'75 to April 28 at 7:30 .m. burglaLitas,e,s‘ combined with the explosion.
. g Tho 'W. Epperson haus his Farmers
mission three years ago, will leave the replace Ron Slyter, who moved.to Sierra
in p library.
commission when her term expires May Vista. — [Continued on Page S]
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L .r }.YzYincor oration Mrs.Glickman has seen the , QY { ,: •/ r },a : � ya �v s r•s. '1} �: Z ° J >vg � i , fcomnssion through several controversial , ,� .: :; � : � t dr JY. s h 4 zJ <mnSdstnsions in OroValley'ssfirst three Y J Y � ,t r ,.,,,,,,,i4,,,,,,,;,,,,,.
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struction in their area and startingwork6 .�on the Oro Valley Area Plan, which is
expected to guide future zoning and
Speeders orewarnedcommunitY s rvices to be offeyed inthe
town. i
Mrs. Glickman will attend one of her Oro Valley Police Officer Dave Ewing liras one of the violators.The towns recently attached radar warnings to speed
last functions as town Planning and department's radar guns at a passing motorist on Calle limit signs on that street to deter drivers thinking of exceeding
Zoning commissioner April 25, when Concordia,where the police have had problems with speed limit the 25 mile per hour limit.
University of Arizona Students are
scheduled to present th.? final area plan .INCLuDES OV STRE TCH
they were asked to design by the coin -
mission.
She won't be involved, then, in the I I e 09 •
discussion and possible alteration of that roiect may start in January
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50- to 70-page plan during the coiling;
months.
Mrs. Glickman was named to the An Oro Valley town councilman has instructed by the council at its meeting on A 1.8-mile stretch of U.S. 89 bissects
Commission in 1974. Current members received a letter from the Arizona March 24 to write a letter to ADOT and the Town of Oro Valley and is the main
Gerald Korte and Sharon Chessen, who Department of Transportation tADQT) ascertain the status of the project. thoroughfare for traffic here.
have since been reappointed after serving that says bids for $4.4 million n in un- However, he received the letter dated Construction of the road improvements
shorter, staggered first terms, have also pavements on U.S. Highway 89 will be April 4,from Orville Abner,ADQT t�raffit�c ;he:kfiroritheini,
Januaryand end about a
been on the commission since its in- letin Decemberofthisyear. ,engine r,before he had a chancetod in 1979,Abney said.
caption. W� E. "�” Hanes had been letter of his own. The project will include paving, '_*74
widening and building new culverts for .„ '
drainage,he added. '
!O !ICOME AN ILCORPOR&TITiWN ,
,. The improvart project will cover
Oracle Road from Ina Road to First
Oro
• Avenue and will include widening the road Valley c(turt battle took 4 years
to at least four lanes with a divider,Hanes
said,
When the residents of a 2.5-square-mile Town of Oro Valley didn't constitutea -- That the supervisors were "pulling An ADOT engineer in Tucson who's
area in northern Pinna County went to the "community•" chestnuts from the fire" for the City of working on design of the planned iai-
Board of Supervisors with signed Bitterly disappointed and angry, the Tucson,which'.--7 in addition to fearing the provement said the highway will be
petitions for incorporation in March,197Q, petitioners charged that the supervisors' loss of revenue sharing funds and other widened to six lanes from Ina to Hardy —
they expected to find the supervisors stated reason was hypocrisy -«- that monies to the new town -- was afraid of just south of Oro Valley •--- and to four
reluctant. several other factors were actually behind allowing even a single town in its lanes as it passes through the town.
They didn't expect, however, an their refusal: surrounding area to incorporate, lest it The engineer said that although
outright refusal bythe board (then -- That Oro Valley, if incorporated, encourage other towns to do the same. December is a "target date" for letting
gwould be a new municipality with a voice But the supervisors refused to in- construction bids, "it's highly unlikely
composed of Dennis Weaver,Tom Jay and in the PiAq Association of Governments corporate the Town of Oro Valley. that the road project will reach that stage
James Murphy). After alltheir petitions
carried the signature*of 81 per cent of the (PAG),thus diluting the influence of Pima So the petitioners took them to court-- so soon."
gn County and the City of Tucson; specifically to a neutral court,that of Proal "The December date is assuming there
proposed town's property owners. _ That the new town would receive County. idge Mahoney,at Florence, will be no foul-ups and that federal and
But an outright refusal was what they state tax rebates and federal and state Still, It was December, 1972 -- more state highway officials will approve it
got. revenue-sharing funds,thus depriving than two years later — before the Oro quickly."
Weaver, Murphy and Jay first stalled, city and the county of some of these funds Valleyans could force their way through The highway washeduld to be
then denied the petitions -- on the -- or at least,the right to say where they legal delays,changes of venue,etc.,to get rebuilt by the end of 197'1, but was
grounds that the area proposed for the would be spent; [Continued on Page ] [Continued on Pogo �]
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Page 2 - ORO VALLEY [ARIZ'VOICE April 13, 1977 ,
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. The 'Voice has 'new look - , . .
... . Brickbats for Congress,
prices
but job stays the same . In the nation's capital, We purchased a well- latter must be taking a profit
_ where the murky Potomac known brand of candy bar at that is far too big.
the ORO Our editorials will, as usual flows and the fringe benefits noon today and it cost us 20
This issue of ' multiply with increased pay cents, plus tax. We know Gasoline and lots of other
VALLEY VOICE is the first in be blunt and direct. We'll try to for Congressmen, some of - that coffee is in short supply things go up a cent or two at a
its new tabloid er' or- calla newspaper for- spade a spade; that's what these seem to be starting to worldwide, and has, as ex- time, but the candy people
p pfeekth180P0t8tb'0m pece , versa nicmat; we hope our readers will VOICE readers have come to
their constituents. - dollars a pound. But candy when they raise their prices.
like it. expect from us, and anyway,we The haste and nuts just haven't gotten Somewhere along the line
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The VOICE,
Which is more couldn't change if we wanted to.- with which that short in supply and the somebody is making an un-
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people who make and sell the holy profit.
than two years old as a small Congress °; s
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[but good] monthlynewspaper, Our subject matter will be, adopted .
is going bi-weekly[which means basically, Oro Valley, Arizona. the ethics
: Pit, .,; .,
measure1-
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• would In � "°`�,-:,y,.� `" � �.'f E.'r t L�I" E n e r
every other week, not twice a This newspaper was born
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week as some think. Within a dicate that �2 :• •
- because of Oro Valle and its news of its -, . : T
to Ycosts
onthe we water prompt
couple of m planlast pay ¢�
• fight for survival. Without the -raisegot through to the
publish every week, 52 weeks a Town of Oro Valle there g • •
Y' voters. The forthcoming
e ectiviear. would be no VOICE. Some of �battles on the labor front will � OF
As part of our new look, the our readers have been kind also stir up more than a little
VOICE will be using more say that Without a dust in the hustings, we The high cost of water Large commercial plant-
enough to y predict. used for irrigating plants Ings have been made in
pictures and graphics, and in- VOICE, there would have been around the home has northern California and
tends to publish more featureBig George Meany,head of
p no Town of Oro Valley. the AFL-CIO, is making it prompted- many home many other areas are investi-
stories about the people who live plain that he will pull no gardeners to become more gating its potential.
in and around Oro Valley. Whatever the relationship, punches in trying to get selective in their choice of
Section 14 of the Taft-Hart- landscape shrubs and trees. Pistacia vera trees are
Instead of scattering our we take it seriously. We have leyAct repealed and Right- deciduous — shed their
• been Oro Valley's newspaper p g Plants with low water leaves in winter-- and they
editorials and comment Yto-Work laws prohibited.er, requirements and those that are also classified as
throeg p p lout the a , as we since the birth of this ineorpor- The other day he was quoted have dual purposes are being "dioecious," having male or
as saying. We may have to
have in the past, we intend to ated community, and we have a remind the President who more widely planted. For female flowers on separate
p example, a gardener inter- trees.
have a regular editorial page. It vested interest in its success. elected him."
• g p g• * * * ested in shade might select a In order to produce nuts,it
will include editorials like this, a The publisher and founder of dual purpose tree such as is necessary to have both
personal column byPublisher A lot of people helped elect pecan, fig, apricot, peaches. male and female trees plant-
Ted this newspaper lives in Uro Jimmy Carter and many,
Turpin, ' frequent other Valley. It's a lovely town. many of them have no loyalty All furnish shade and also ed close to each other.
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columns by staff Waters and Ma be the VOICE can hel to Meany and Big Labor. crop.
produce an edible The foliage is gray-green
Y p Those of us who worked A new dual purpose tree, in color and the nuts are
guest writers and occasionally kee it that way. longand hard Pistacia vera, has created a produced in clusters near the
• reprinted from other p • to get the great deal of interest amon p '
editorials rep to Right-to-Work law on the g terminal end of branches.
newspapers. Anyway, we re going to try. books in Arizona can be home gardeners and com- When compared to pecan or
expected" to let our rep- mercial growers. Farmers ash, Pistacia vera does not
resentatives know what we are interested in its potential make a large tree.
expect when they vote--on as a high return crop to
The dismal truth about a measure that's been on our replace others that bring a A Pistacia vera tree was
books for a long time and has lower return per each acre planted on the University of
witl0at9 4 , o . . co
�� �J�te�consumed �rirc�r-i ren i rTucson
de- ye ago
4,. sirbout ars to
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. 40 ,fro
attack. Also,
there is Pea evaluate its adaptability as a
state's water prioritiesIronicall Arizona has mind for the istacio nut.
Ironically, p small tree for landscape
only one Congressman who The United States,imports purposes.
worries us. Rep. Mo Udall over 30 million pounds per It was subjected to
Every so often we get be- these millions of city-dwellers? voted against repeal the last year and projections indicate temperatures as low as to
. . time Big Labor attempted it, that consumption will soon
mused [but not amused] by the Oh,well. The pol�ticians..,who he explained his vote by surpass the 150 million degrees with no apparent ill
urbanologists who contend that make the final. decisions are saying that the people of his pound mark. effect.
all water supplies in Arizona and going to do what they want, statewanted the law to Commercial pistachio Pistachio trees have a pro-
the Southwest must begiven anyway no matter what remain. He was right, and plantings in Arizona current- duction potential of about 35
y we hope thathe doesn t ly total about 1,000 acres, pounds of nuts per tree —
over to the cities. common sense dictates. And the change his position. Orchards are located in Co-
reason S is simple, as observed It is true, however, that chise, Maricopa, Pinal and year to year. Some growers
If agriculture is driven out of bitterly by many a rancher and Mo thought he hada love Pima Counties. have experienced alternate
g affair going with Labor when bearing heavy drop one
business for lack of water, what farmer: he sought the nomination,so Qyear and light the next.
do theythink is goingto feed all "People vote. Crops don't." he endorsed the repeal idea Uuie5 Late spring frost can re-
nationally.
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p p i n 11 . But the fact that duce the crop.
nit o a y I think the main thing u p
he was jilted by the Meany that's wrong with our society There is a tree located in
OTHER outfit (and gained nothing) is we've allowed people to Phoenix that was planted in
may not make him feel p p
_. . i.r'.t obligated to them. think that in this day and age 1929. A limited number of
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l fr SAY it is sufficient to vote a couple trees were planted in the
o He is definitely obligated
ro�te�cf�onsConsumer •
of times a year at most in Cochise Stronghold during
� � are order to be a good citizen. 1942 and these trees are still
in production.
And I think if that's all we
- ____- . _____-_ do,we're going to continue to Pistacio trees for com-
get consumers - - .. -= t exactly what we deserve. mercial production are
:: ` . `" '�- = grown differently than
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- I think that all of us have to
-- `gam` pecans. The pistachio root-
Over the years, there grams are working against creasing the supply ofx �� start doing what I call tithing
-`- �-' ,,-----=-2_ stocks are started from seed
seems to have developed an him, rather than for him. natural gas will be one which = r�„ 1i-_ to our society. Spending at
axiom in Washington that An excellent case in point has as its foundation the . 0..-.-9 , least 10 per cent of our time grown in small containers.
bigger government means is the current shortage of complete deregulation of all
.111, : - ,,e_ trying to help run it. One of the oldest trees on
better government. natural gas and emergency new natural gas. • __ That doesn't necessarily record is one growing in Iran
Particularly under the efforts to deregulate for the The 'emergency' bills will r. / — mean being a politician, but which is reportedly 700 years
guise of "protecting" the short run. only lead Congress to ,, i it may. Getting involved in old.
consumer, this canard has The need for long-term squander its time on stop- '•
' local government, getting
helped to spawn 1000 con- deregulation of natural gas gap measures and further 4 ..- involved in action organiza- Editor'sQuote Book
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sumer-related programs in prices was stated recently by postpone coming to grips . - , .' - .- tions of certain sorts,inform-
33 federal departments and R.Heath Larry of U.S.Steel with an enduring solution." ing yourself about issues and• Be a friend to yourself •
agencies. Corp., in a letter to the The same might be said of One man with courage so on
and others will.
But there is increasing Carter Administration. a vast number of regulatory, makes amajority --Paul R.Ehrlich
consumer recognition that He said: "The only gambits. Andrew Jaekson , Professor of Biology Scottish Proverb
many of the regulatory pro- successful approach to in- —Arizona Weekly Gazette Stanford University ,
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>< , --, .y �;.' .q ,x most of the northwest side,is y_ ;-,T :-, ,>,r; ,, ;> :- :.!01 � over provisions of the town asks us to do some
/�A'yrr , ,: , ' �•u y z , ;� -•' located within the town. „
r y' � controversial Tortolita Area work for it.
FO' f�� •
fir y , >.4 *y - 4, t. Plan, the Town of Oro Traffic flow on Oro Valley McVittie said the last
fro!);r ,f 7 Y r /;r f � �r` rr� } �- , . K �.. �r.'
" ;<, ,;� y� : '''''•-.:4',';',-;#'': > , if..;":',;;--,,,':..4717%.,..:',-,--;:710:,;,71' c. , - �:'. Valley stands by as a roads will therefore increase regular chore his depart-
:.fi r ( .,. ... ..s':,-.7.'.-v, . , < s.,e ,; ; :� :'','*'..07.--‘k.:-:..:,,,- . w? detached observer -- as attendance rises at CDO
f x# � {� �. �•, r��s ;:�,; r. ��,.� • ;�.: wx � �;. � ment performed for Oro
' ' , y ?kx Y` -,. ' `y •1`. „; ,,; ”°J�`:4 seemingly immune to and the roads will
� �' � �• �'� ,„''../ ,-;:'..,;;',1"- ,� - Y Valle was to handle
'" r y:.. "' ``"� rumblings about future deteriorate quicker, said
;r <: -!* ,.a�^, g 4 rezoning studies in Oro
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71;-"FP.5,i, ` ,. ,,,! Y, !, ...',..,14,':., .�'-'...1.4,7p.--.7. ;e' • K: 1 .% •••, �- . -' Y r ,•? a. . development in northwest Kreigh. Valley's earlydays, before
it :-' :ti T, Y . �x� _,4.,� ,y ,,, ^'.',•�`x' -r.; ,N ,T5/�. Tucson• It isn t so ironic, then
,, 3 ¢ <� < «;,r o:. . ... :,---,,,,i ''''"C'''' ' > the town developed its own
.;<��` >f• .. 7,!;‘,1::.."y': f4�- /' >/^.' �r irR%�.� �• �.'y�,,•s.,.'r .4,''''�. S �� •N'�1• �'off+`
:.. . .. /.f,l > � ff ,�, , >£;,, .�; ..: ,.�.: . y �, With its incorporation in that the one tiny area in the staff.
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< b. �' 3'•. 1974,the town threw off the northwest which isn t ad- That Pima County-Oro
4' 4 �66 r �a , �f����� 4k�' r. ,gin; a fAi'< it�- 4� �. o �� •4 Y�i }7 '. . YT0:-;'' ,,a >,,•-�' .3.,-- 'urisdiction of Pima dressed in the Tortolita Plan4 -: ,�TCounty Valley relationshipended in
o ,'".. ,.iy . r?,;�.irk�fk z %YV' :r,,,Fr41;144'�>'•s° ' ,�,*�l'"r `'➢P,'t',{r`.�, ,. ''4.(:,,,: •:: :,�� 4:. n r ' > - > .f:;S.'. ;. ..,.,>•.- .:: lanners and su ervisors. Oro Valle --� should:. , ` ,,;, a� 1 ', '. ( » 64i^, ,? °�% ` Y 1975,he said.
• !f6,y` ,,,G..r I• r'. 0 , ' . .f^�'Cfl� ¢o'.4' , `7 ''��r ,04(<. :4 1t.,.,..'A� .j
,4 f'-, .. '. 4' �.4, , -r ( � . serve as the site for the next
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`'' ' ; ,� 4 - And its Town Council has The towns only official
,4 • „ '.' a in a series ofpublic hearings
' Z`y s Y- chosen to take noposition g
F ' •• input in the Tortolita Plan
frF y <�• , "``'4 v' since then on the Tortolita ° has been through Zoning
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Plan, which will guide That hearing. wiU held Administrator Dorothy
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- , x 4 growth over the next 20AprilCanyon
T >'rrn} , �<,4Jf� Montgomery, who has
># ! ?.> Oro High School multi-
4.0..kyr
�. r years in a207-square mile g attended a few staff
,, : ,, area— located mostly north purpose room, beginning at meetings where the plan
- and west of Oro Valley. 7:30 p.m.,• said Lance was discussed,she said.
{ McVittie, principal planner
But whileresidents She declined to elaborate
Y� . local esrd for Pima County's Planning
Y • : :� '. have earned the right to on her part in those
and Zoning Department.
' y *',{¢?f determine the future of their discussions, noting that she
�. _ � � . - � � �:*:- ��, �• Oro Valley s incorporation .
,,M,: -! µ•:.. ,. r:::�:;- town, Oro Valley can't •in 1974 didn't disturb the wasn t instructed by the
remain isolated from the work of staff members council to present any
Sleepyday in Oro Valleypolicies to be set in the far- drawingthe Tortolita arguments on behalf of the
reaching up town.
Plan. plan, McVittie said. The
With Pusch Ridge, identifying landmark for Oro Valley in the background, two For example, says Town planners had come to expect She added, though, that
neighborhood pooches reluctantly abandon their sprawl in the middle of warm asphalt on Engineer Jim Kreigh: as the action a few years she attended in her official
Calle Concordia.Before the photographer accidentally routed them,considerate motorists more homes are built around earlier when the drive to capacity, as on Oro Valley
slowed and drove around the drowsing pair. [VOICE staff photo] the town, more residents incorporate began,he said. representative.
CANCELLATIONS FOLLOWED •
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Nearby blast shook •Insurance cintipany as well
[Continued fnmi Page 1] Farmers, he said. The total rate runs They were told their policy wouldn't be This was apparently the case with the
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that company w-re I ur arize I m a i o, ' t ., , ''., .moi: 4 so,
p Y g �. t r, with the so
MatEson i ea vi Claims*it�i arme '•
Mountains East during one 14-day period and Zoning Commission chairman and a in a little more than five years,
in early 1975. Shadow Mountain resident, said her home his file The explosion claim they submitted for
insurance was cancelled b Farmers but shows. But he argues that three of those $226 was their third in less than a year,
James Clevenger, agent for one of the Y were covered by a non-deductible option Ahlers said. Turpin was given about$200
other four families, said, however, that a was reinstated soon after —.at her in- for broken windows that he never con- for a slot briefcase and later, $1,000
colleague of his "would be out of line"to sistence. sidered buying until Clevenger suggested followinga burglary at their Riviera Drive
peg the Oro Valley subdivision a high risk - . Her claim for the explosion was only the g Y
area for those reasons. second in five years, and totalled$500 to it. home.
Epperson's insurance was cancelled $600, she said. The first was for a light- Clevenger conceded that he sold that Mrs. Turpin said she and her husband
about a year after the Nov. 11, 1975 Hing-damaged television which cost about window option to Mattson when he was probably would have been denied a policy
explosion, he said. His claim for damage $50,she said. first starting in the insurance business-- with another company they applied to
during that blast— about$350--- was his "I was afraid to go to another company, about six years ago -- ata time "when I soon after Farmers cancelled March 14,
second with the company, the first being having had my old policy cancelled," she wanted to put all I could on a policy•" 1975 -- except that the publishing
an$1,800 claim following a burglary about said, "So I protested and was later "Now I have experience behind me,"he business she and her husband own was
a year earlier. reinstated." added,"I haven't sold one of those window already insured by the other company.
Clevenger said that "a rule of thumb in Clevenger, formerly agent for Roy non-deductibles in two or three years." The couple had to threaten to pull out of
insurance is one loss per house every 4'/2 Mattson, along with John Ahlers, agent that existing policy, if necessary, to get
years." for the Theodore Turpins, said can- The glass option cost Mattson little
"In some of these Shadow Mountains cellation of a policy is a drastic step for money over and above his regular coverage on their home,she added.
homes (and elsewhere) they were their company. They suggested that homeowners policy -- but Clevenger did
with his former client that this A spokesman at the Farmers Insurance
recording four or five losses in the same instead, Farmer's had simply refused to agree claims office in Tucson said when an area
year." renew the policies on the yearly "an- minor addition resulted in the policy has a high frequency of crime, insurance
Epperson complained that he had to pay niversary"°date. cancellation.
companies are more hesitant to insure
higher rates when he switched to another But a check of company and personal Agent Ahlers said insurance un- residents there.
company, after the cancellation by records showed that only one of the four derwriters--who are directly responsible
Farmers. policy terminations didn't involve a for decisions to cancel policies — often He declined to speculate whether this
He currently pays a $200 deductible as cancellation during the period of look only at the frequency of 4 claim could be a reason for the Shadow
compared to a $100 deductible with coverage. That case was the Turpins'. rather than the dollar amount. Mountains cancellations.
Council approves jury
,. ordinance
0 L.D . t:tif• T1 i.t ►ri .�I Sit"
• ` An ordinance providing The council voted to table
9 ADOBE PATIO . .,• • •" - for juries to judge traffic action on the form until it
- cases in the town when could be reviewed by Town
requested bydefendants AttorneyWalter Henderson
.. � q
was approved by the Town and Councilman William E.
.. A. Oil) 11! :• Council at its monthlyMarch "Eldon"Hanes.
REsTAuRANT ---- meeting. • The council also passed a
''" Jurors will be drawn from resolution to create an Oro
Before you pack your bags and leave the beautiful Sonora Desert, make it a point to town's voter registration Valley Office of Emergency
9 stop in at the Old Adobe for some genuine Mexican and American food. list,although no fury has yet Services, to be headed by
been requested by traffic Lt. Frederic Roof of the
You may already be thinking about feasting on rainbow trout while vacationing in the defendants here. town police department.
snow-capped mountains of Colorado or tasting some ocean-fresh halibut while A controversial addition Roof said establishment of
watching the ocean roll in on the shores of California. to the town's building or- the office will qualify Oro
• But only in Tucson,at the Old Adobe,will you find the exquisitely prepared Mexican dinance that permits con- Valley for federal funds in
food that Arizona is famous for. struction here without case of a catastrophe here,
Here,proprietor Bill Gordon and Chef James are waiting to serve you lunch,afternoon r posting of financial which could range from
9 snacks and dinner in their quaint outdoor patio or special indoor dining room for assurances was tabled again flooding to nuclear war.
non-smokers. by the council. Roof compared the office
The third party trust to the federal government's
And best of all,the tasty Quarter Litre Margaritas are only $1 from 4-6 p.m., Monday , agreement, as the addition Civil Defense Department.
thru Friday. is called, was passed in Along with Roof, other
The Old Adobe Patio Downtown,Plenty of Parking February by the council,but Oro Valley police officers
W.Broadway Restaurant882-9411 a form to fill out for builders and town officials will staff
40 y . Closed Sundays using the option wasn't the emergency services
. �� approved at the March 24 office. It will operate at no
meeting. expense to the town.
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HOW IT ALL BEGAN THE IPU
•'Father' of OV was Jim Corbett, .Tucson mayor whc
By TED TURPIN {
other "clumps" of population that large in ,: 4,,.,•w•" ' .-
Publisher the Catalina foothills which weren't also f 'Q ` � ��? � �• Vis-
Amonghis neighbors, :ei
g town engineer within the six-mile"frozen"zone. ' i ; ¢�,"
• James D.Kriegh is sometimes referred to, "A lot of homeowners around f h f'.
Casas ,.�
half jokingly but sincerely, as "the father Adobes (shopping center) wanted • •
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of Oro Valley." incorporate," recalls Kriegh, "but <. = / 441 "
g they ',�•,��,' „,..:. •
But Kriegh, with a were helpless because they were within six f
grin, will acknowledge ,, . j` ' '
g miles of thy. Tucson city limits. k ,
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that perhaps one other Bt.4 what about Shadow Mount \i i ,
man "really deserves1/4° i
Estates, where Kriegh lived — and still
the credit” for Oro "' >' lives? It .:„
was outside the six-mile frozen p•r „, j '/
Valley becoming an zone, ' .
incorporatedtown. Aid And how about its across-the-highwayNI.`" "." / ' '.. '
�,� ,s �r
His name? James .,, neighbor,Shadow Mountain .• ,,,c.:,..-",, Vµ'�
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d tr..9St. a�
Estates East. �-�
Corbett, former mayor And on the west side,Campobello Estates K 3 ":yam
of the Cityof Tucson. A. P � �,. - � .: � k; •-: �.: •
and Linda Vista Citrus Tracts?
It was Corbett, then Tucson's chief And to the north, the luxurious viP X�
Oro .
�. �,•.,..o.'.,:. �. s?, ?P.> ! • r by •I'''' �....
executive, who announced back in 1968 Valley Country Club with its many .•-•• r•:�i..
r. x$.. Ra
is t$ Y I Y
that he planned a major annexation homes`1 z
program for the city — one that would � � �`4� .��'
t',.,:t � ��•
Kriegh, a professor of civil engineering <,� . °r3 � ` n ,.:
reach out in all directions, upinto the . : •} s ,,
at the University of Arizona, got to work. t w .<.W.rrfi .*
foothills, and would drag annexation k �� } t
First he talked casuallywith friends and ^�• ` ¢. t: ... `'
opponents "kicking, screaming, and neighbors about the dangers of an Yr �����. �����` �� �� � h �:> � �. � ; •
stomping"into the city. g annexation �,�,��Y�,•,,,:X.�.�, . �:: � � '4
by Tucson. Many of them had already :144;1'
'' y • tiTo which many a defiant foothiller � ; • N t� 7,...,..concluded that somethin needed to bemuttered:"Oh, eah?" g Vii► fi �s. * �Y done — but what) " r•:w4K ;,,," ">�Y :A flamboyant Democrat iven to un- �}�`� ,,:� -• iri
•g "They were intrigued with the idea that >idiplomatic public statements,Corbett was we mi ht be able to c sT ' �` °"~� '�'�v 4 >4� rg Teats our own town ,� ,�� . � '�?.A..4,,�µ < � � �..� r �about as popular with the Re ublican- � � �fi`'� � �V � >� �t . ,P Kriegh recalls. So we kept investigating."heavy foothills as a polecat at a picnic.And �f� .
At approximately the same time, the *at, .
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many believed that he did, indeed, plan to Pima County4
Board of Supervisors, the - ,
move rapidly to annex their suburban county planning/zoningcommission,
neighborhood, and
•then-Sheriff Valden Burr 1 gging ��eSo the east lie an to wo , a so gave the memories
Y g work. incorporation movement a push, un_ Jim
Kriegh sorts through his boxes of Oro Valle Inco
A number of Catalina Foothills residents wittingly,
letters, petitions and new Y rporation records, clipping
— Jim Kriegh among them -- began to ("The county has been a great help to the +ampere(VOICE staff photo]
investigate the possibilities of incorpor- incorporation movement," says one early when the public hearings were scheduled officials) was addirifuel to the inc
(and many times the schedule was g orpo.
ating; of forming their own autonomous Proponent of the town. "Sometimes it anon fire.
municipality and thus gaining immunity almost seemed as if they were.trying to off-again,on-again, forcing the protestors Cindy Winters, 14 was r
from a Tucson.City takeover, force us intoe incorporating in self- to revise constantly their personal lives) aped ar.
•► - and plan to take the day away from work. murdered by an unknown assailant; h�
But for gest, their investigations
defense."). 4 body was discovered on the
Once at the scheduled public hearing, desert
brought out one bitterly disappointing n s The county's planning and zoning quarter-mile from Canyon Del Oro
PP g the foothills residents couldn't be sure the Yhig
fact:they were legally blocked sa being Loo commission during the late i 960s approved school.
a number of rezoning applications in the agenda would be followed by the county Parents and other resident
close to Tucson.
g pp• officials; often one sof the are
In 1968, state law provided that an Casas Adobes and Mountain. Shadowsmight sit through a were scared and angry.They clamored fc
areas which were�strongly o supervisors' meeting or zoning hearing Burr and his deputies to find and ca tui
unincorporated area could become an �Y pposed by from 8:30 a.m.until 2 .m, only to captur town if it weren't residents there — but to almost ever "their" P • Y be told the murderer. The embattled sheriff firs
Y that their case wouldn't be heard that refused to respond, t
six miles incorporated �o_wn only town ore city.withinOr if it case, the three-man Board of Supervisors po hen complained t o
day and that they must come back
were, the area had to upheld the rezonings. he hadn't�`enough deputies to do the 'o
obtain the permission unincorporated the nearby city or Local foothills protestors, often led by When the properly`
town — in this case, the City ofr Tucson. Linda Vista Citrus Tracts resident Orville actual hearing began, the The foothills residents countered '
Shields, periodically made the trip to the foothills residents usually found them- , wit-
Foothills dwellers were that Pima Countycourthouseselves arrayed against a polished lawyer or bitter claims that"we never saw a deput*
Corbett and Crew would convinced give that the rezoning to testify against y sheriffs patrol car here very the
g measures in public hearings, land developer, formidably armed with murder, and we haven't
permission, expecially in view of their Usually they lost, maps, statistics, traffic studies, drainage since seen very man;
annexation plans. reports, and a staff of assistants, then, either.
"You had to keep track of the applica- "It's Ed Jewett, publisher of the week)
Another requirement of the state law in tions so theydidn't sneaka wonder we won any cases at all," 3
1968 was that at least 500 persons live in recalls Shields. one past you," Arizona Territorial, led a drive'
says one Casas Adobes resident. businessmen who offered their
the proposed-for-incorporation area. And Meanwhile, Pima Countyvolunteet
Even then, the protesting homeowners Sheriff services to the sheriff and posted a rewarc
with the exception of the area making up faced a sizableWalden Burr(later to leave office `'
task they had to•query under a for"-information leading to the murderer's
what is Oro Valley today, there were no the courthousecloud after allegedly makinga "deal"
staff almost daily to find out �y deal to capture.
prevent prosecution by county and state Eventually,the killer was captured after
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• ![TIT IAM POI I11CQtKIRAT IOM Or YID 1Yr -.
TOIAI.Or�1.Or. ✓4 Ad/ ., ,
...threats brought action
Ye,the und*tato.,do hereby petition Cho Ward sr'
• alters of Inas Gnus.Arisen,sod do row,
follow:
being sought for another murder, on a Corbett's annexation threat wasn't one L.Thar re ars` , ,,_<` "
¢o.a„rtltr `
lonely road west of Tucson. But the that foothills residents forgot. �,,,d•� ,a
•
circumstances did little to still foothills
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, a�.� ,, �:`"
criticism of the sheriffs office. A mobile home park cropped up •in .. ,;i0 f..sem' +"',d -, ,' -
Shadow Mountains East, to the dis- ++�'-'` •t°`
During all this,Jim Kriegh continued to pleasure of nearby homeowners. A two- ,,T• w►'r�,��°'� •
move his neighborhood toward incorpor- story apartment building went up just y, �' ,_��.0,_ .�``.�t ,,,.�''.
ation. south of East HardyRoad; more county ,��'"'Mme►' . .�"`ate a4' °'_~
At meetings of the now-dormant zoningwas approved for townhouse 4'°'' .w'=''r` s•p''`r''~0.0 • `*' �' '�'"'"
Shadow Mountains Homeowners Associ- developments in and around Oro Valley 0.0'_� '`l♦•rr`'"�`1,`'`''~
ratiEf ..1
ation, he discovered that many residents Count y P Club. a Y 'may. ' 0'' 0_,.....4 ''.• -
were unhappy about the conditions of their In each case, local residents blamed �• `. 00`"
neighborhood streets, which — although a . .001..;04*-'�0'
permissive county planning and zoning ► 0
the responsibility of the county to repair board,one they felt either knuckled under '� l"',+r.
and maintain — were badly neglected. to land developers or sold out to them. ...it,.0' r •rl°"
Kriegh and others spearheaded a local They kept searching for ways to counter0. oa`''`� ,� .�';K•1, �
g P that threat. �,,�,� O...S4%4 °sty' ,r '
drive to raise volunteer funds which �`'',•l;�i�w d a���,• %it,
county highway officials said were In 1968 Kriegh met with Steve Engle, a l• °re,it Q�,s,
necessary as a local share to get paving for leader in the{ conservative Oro Valleyt 'sadA!'�°olo ;�`;,t ,��\Northern Avenue. Running parallel to Country Club. Engle in turn talked with 5 s.d"' a�t1
:.%44q+.�, '' �it,� `'°wl.� °r•t
Oracle Highway, it began to carry heavy' et cr.w'„' `"'�' 411�"•�b �r ' .�` t°'' . •
other club members, and'found a sub- T.1A •1,
1. ael orod.1 '`�.'b ^�t
school bus traffic to CDO and Harelson 3 �,o: ,,,��a„►1+� J. �•• 1 ,w1
stantial number of them leaning toward
ElementarySchool, with resultingclouds
I. Wit'""0"'�' 4:142:1*Ziti,
of 4:' •`tf.incorporation. 6: x �"° ' to Q'�q••• /tea
of dust which were a nuisance and health
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� �' o+�rtii.Tom a�•r�bt(1%�j4+�4!t �l'r jlt4�
hazard to residents of the area. Civil engineer Jim Kriegh got out his li. i u:��.r ,,1i'�;att.,.,o �°it!.,,, l..�•
• maps and coordinates and began to plot the :M c;ldn c vim+ d. a• i� ,,.t.it.. `
And the threat of Tucson annexation boundaries of a new town --- as yet '`� �, 'w y •• ' o,6:.4:,47.14.._
1'4t ,
i�*.'` �'t ,-. ore r,,<,vas t 1, c
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kept moving closer. unnamed.This was necessary,he explains, ;17'�i`6'-Z s �d`, .�, �`'tom` .:t .h'•
With the final windupof the city's longbecause without a specific area proposed ''-01,�';k°`;l° '•�s' ,▪ 10,, .t pi.
444,4:4:411.1.......
Y P� . . P Po r;oo.' e;44:� ,r "44.�a Pl.y t�
condemnation proceedings against Citizens for incorporation, the petitioners couldn't at• a4.4.,.• •1 y ,
'fl g g rP Pe p'°A,j mol ate �rla-*,, 1�. +t� 1 t
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Co., Y �'1 l o "tet X4,1 �' t�
Utilities Water many Cases Adobes- get started. , ;��,°"�•a. ��,.�,J.4;�1ti
Mountain Shadows residents awoke to findL., 1 to--.. w..,•.
The first boundaries of the "Town of j•.,� � '�a� `• ••. :.''',it ' ',
that they were now relying not on Citizens, Blank" were roughly the r=°'o 1 `''��'".jj'" `,,, ��o'• '' - • -�
same as those °_ fk•,t 1��ed.�• 4 ,
a private water company (and thus eventuallyadopteda �• 1 .
regulated the Arizona Corporation I
for Oro Valley—with `'' ,>,�• ,, t4 4.;,4 liar
by Co p ration one•major exception. The maps drawn 4'"° i„4174,44 I.,74;'�„ti;,•4.4.,.4
Commission), but by MUM/City of initially included The Highlands, a •
,,101 i 4.„a'" a.,,,:3/4,,
ucson. relatively isolated mobile home park for .`�
As a municipal utility, MUM/City of I retired persons, located high in the hills t..
Tucson wasn't—and still isn't—subject to, I• ., just north of Oro Valley Country Club. -
any state regulation. i "-, ,,,,,,P,4,,,'��
But many of the older residents there
And the former Citizens Utilities / feared that incorporation would make their
customers in the foothills were—and still taxes rise — and although Kriegh and
are—subject to water rates set by a city in Engle thought thata groundless fear,they •
which they don't live and with which they complied by removing The Highlands from Documents tell the history
have no voter input. the proposed incorporation area.
. These copies of the first petition for incorporation,a call to a public meeting,a statement of
In Tucson city politics, the battle of Naturally, these early "town planners" goals, and a list of suggested names shows bow the town's concept evolved from "Palo
Republicans vs.Democrats continued.But [Continued on page 8] Verde"to"Oro Valley."
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April 13, 1977
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„ . . .. Jy '" :<.w , >>i� '> f! s>„ A proposed area plan for planducted, and
J,r, � " ^s
The students' will be the proposed
-'''''--iv-- .:. n.. o• Oro Valley will recommend reviewed by the Planning Tortolita Area Plan in
ismil '.{, �:. Y./.; <.. -;:!-....:::'•••::..,'.-..-•0::.:.
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t , . .. >8 J ,' .4•A• , �'`` -` • '4 ' • • against the town's an- and Zoning Commission, drawing up their recom-
; � 34A "'''''
w • � nexation of bordering which requested them to mendations.
r•'`7`4 14:,;:srw,
0, 4,{ ' »"�; > 3-:; � f p Y •' subdivisions in the near r w' Their most..:, ti. kk draw it up in January. intensive work
:141.1":.f'..;° ell '� t',.: , i, t {,: .„ future, said one of the 0
on the plan was done last
4It must be approved b
>"' ' ' "�r°''' x ` r':_{ document's authors. PP Y week, Grassinger said,
•� J!f'� ifs t .�
`" J,,.: ,;l,s s ;> 4 !� , commission and the when they spent an average
.the comm s
y v .<+ �� :.y ,.�� fes,: The lavprepared
re aced b •
Y riJ P P P Y Town Council. Some
Att•� �,�" ��J, of five hours per day
! t 4 ,``; University of Arizona revisions are possible, said compiling,7.-l �, � :. ,��:�;� s! Po compiling uiformation and
I,
J�J Y, �` Y "i r ' < f, graduate students, will be Town Zoning Administrator drawing up their proposals.
4
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r t� ,, ,y �y ! : 4 « � presented in the town for Mrs.Dorothy Montgomery. That work ended
• ' . •,,e4;;!'411•1011101t { the first time April 25,at the .
• i + q S• She predicted that a final Thursday. They have also
�,,yr r :,;�<, - > ,•,... v. Planning and Zoning
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.1 v <y .: { .! �.: g $ donated a total of $50 in
x , d� k,ry �. 3 �w>� .,. +�, >. '�y.K version of the plan will be
, :: ..;4.:',. y � rNr Commis•on s stu session.
.nf�:'.lja'1 �•.. -� •:,: �'>••:Sr!' . .f6o ..9<-0.�•� t ..,(. gJ-'' '• l.f.`.•<.�+. ��r.�;r! k,�}: •oma �Y
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Cyadopted this fall. PP
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M . �" �. o,,> ,,+: , :Y x �•r < It begins at7:30 .
<> pockets in preparing the
.��s., :' ''`r. '<. t.•.. �.,,y�""•,ty� r��,'�'.'.�.�►.:>.„ -..<• •Tit' ..J • �wy, fir �`} .
;$ " The students — all in the plan. They will probably
Mike Grassinger, one of UA's urban planningor spend another $20 to $30
Is � _-z the• five students working on �
the bus eorninand area before it's completed,
the lav, said I seriously P
doubt that it will contain development , departments Grassinger said.
It wasn't — but these youngsters who gather each schoolday morning at the corner of any --- have reviewed county The town will pay only for
Northern Avenue and Camino Fairhaven didn't care; there's something of a tradition in
surprises." zoning records, results of a printing and distributing
"waiting for the school bus"and exchanging kid-type news while doing so. [VOICE staff On the subject of an- town , survey they con- copies of the plan.
photo] nexation, the students •
. reviewed the benefits of
added federal revenue which
DISTRICT OFFICE IS HERE increases in townPoP ulation NEWS DEADLINE NOTICE
would bring,he said.
Nnt /s industry
eW � _ -- But the drawbacks of We are interested in'giving publicity to worthwhile
annexation at this time = activities, lust as you are interested in getting the story
urf• • including responsibility for published. However, we must meet our production
inancialhearsreportT police protection and upkeep deadlines; so we urge those having news items to
of roads m the annexed area submit them by:
company •
with its district office in the Newmont,he said,"would be bad, but not — outweigh those benefits,
A the.students feel• '1� oo N0011 FridaTown of Oro Valley got a dour financial insuperable." y
report last week from its chief executive Offsetting the ill effects of a strike, The area plan is expected `
officer. � to guide future land -� �' � __
Thompson added, would be the likelihood development and coin- � or•o valley it»G-'�- -�
The company is Newmont MiningCorp., that copperprices would increase sub- ir 4.60
p y P pP b munity services within Oro "'"""°'a""°"'��'�'°""°'�°v""P"" """°� s
and the bad news came from Plato stantially in world markets if the U.S.
Valley, cervi n er said.
Malozemoff,chairman of the board, as he industry is struck. Y g d
spoke to a group of New York securities A copy of the 30- to
analysts. - Next , 50-
Voicer editionP g a e document -- . a f\
Newmont expects a "very poor" report semester project reflecting \ I1 A'
for its first quarter, said Malozemoff, to include supplement almost three months of work
a1 el ;oil(
, a
largely because of smelter problems at the by the students -- will R} 1 14
company's principal copper operation in on summer travel probably be available in the ( /".) 7
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V_Cill
Arizona — located at San Manuel. town office Monday, he
The next edition of the Voice will carry a added
lie also said the chance of a labor strike &S/JJ()i2 S
special magazine supplement bushed by
p ,.a.
in the copper industry, which he termed Sancruval Corp., ublisher 4, Vance. '" ;' •
"substantial,"is casting a shadow over the P , r . In addition ► ,atu�o, 2929 EAST BROADWAY
Easy Living, the magazine supplement other town issues
profit outlook for the company. to the Green Valley News, will be inserted Grassinger said will be •
However,the chief executive officer said with the Voice whenever Easy Living is addressed in the plan are the ,
"recover
he expects Newmont earnings to published. coin-
smartly"
� •
Pp development of a com
smartly" in the second quarter. The April 27 edition will focus on prehensive capital im-
And, barring a sharp decline in copper . summer travel throughout Arizona, other provement plan and ar-
prices and a really prolonged labor strike, sALEI :.
parts of the country, and out of the U.S. chitectural controls.
Malozemoff said, "better earnings should The magazine's regular features include a
persist throughout the year." full color cover,book reviews,a restaurant
roundup, and an entertainment calendar. ALF
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April 13, 1977 ORO VALLEY-[ARIZI VOICE Page 7
BOB DEWITT LEADS LINKSMEN
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CDO m er ittennisplayers
h =>r Y, �-' ' Y , ?< ,> � ': By MARY SCHMIDT
,> ,• ,,,�5 , ,,: Y {< The team's record is 8-4 hasn't fared so well this
a t -. \ ', 'J ♦ currently, with four or five season.
-4n r r • - The Canyon del•Oro High .,
•4f , c 4 S 1 't d 'rls' more matches left, Hazan "We'll have to win all the
2 s ig,,., R , , ` choo varsi y golf an gi said• remaining nine games if we
P, ,
4 ,<. '> fy fix " s ‘ :,:„;.,,,y, .,s tennis teams — both state "We'll w to et into the playoffs
;� ,.,',,,,••.,��,,,h,':%.1.,„,, ..1,.-�•y - �}:�` „, ���.4. � champions in the AA win the rest of our ant g p y
f < < �; {, >_ ,��< .. • p w winand have any hopes for the
;; matches and we'll the
•,- ..„, : >y, Division last ear —ho to
' '” r Y " the state tournament," said
t Y ••:6• { � division and state,
< , '' : o T ,? ;; repeat their efforts again
r 4k rAJy t, , P coachpredicted. varsity coach Dean L.Metz.
l this season. The team, which finished
<d, "Our four losses were
•Y < Golf coach John G Ruiz, second in state last year
3 " :� f because we had three people
}{- ,, �{ f' .�, whose team is currently 12- with an 18-10 win-loss
ti : f �.;.. r >. out earlier this year,
, ° 0, said he thinks the team " e record, currently posts a 7-
said. We ve been hurt and
't f '-',.N.,,,,,,;„ can take state again this , 10 record.
sick all year -- but we've "It's Y- -.; � •� ti ,� � year—for the fourth time in „ Its going to be kind of
} : • '. : won our last seven games.
•{, "' , a row.
,. � ., tough getting to the
• , The girls'next match is at
•• 8'i Coach Metz said.
` LI believe well be the playoff,"
. . ..we . � �����Y. ��-� �• :.��� Flown Wells Fridayaf-
.;:..4 ....• . • � ' 6 " g "We're a youngball club and
1 ' was. eats favorite, Ruiz said.
l If we ternoon♦ The CDO netters •
,.� -- a` 1 dont win, I'm sure we'll be we did have injuries,at the
w 4 • defeated Flowing this
in beginning of the year.
in the top three." their first match this season, Jeff Fisher, second
$`.: The coach said his top 84. baseman for the CDO club is
s` , il, ,,,..,;,,, #,, player is Oro Valley resident On April 6,-the team beat leading in RBIs and is
• f �,�w v\s,"'. Rincon 6-3 in a non-division hitting.420.
y ? \..,n �s.,rr •••,•., Bob DeWitt.
x.. `. � h �� f � � The diamondmen lost a
° ' The team's next game will game.
�" ' ratintilaikitatlea a ane to San Manuel
; :;_'-' ' 4 . '. ai Aj id gir:� �' `"`<.;� .�; . . . : be ag net o Fr ay at The is were undefeated gu g* ` ' ' ' { ' `•" aSaturday b a score of 4-1•
• {. +�g�Q Arthur Pack Golf Course at last season, winning all 14 Y Y
t ' - . ' ' ' _ - 41:–??,,, situ : 2:45 p.m. matches. The next game, also
♦ ? : • , , 1 : . tt ,7``` Last-% Thursdaythe The CDO boys', baseball against San Manuel,is today
. 4 f s y "` etateam, plagued b injuries, at home.
�� �. � � linksmen defeated Benson P Y �
} £ 1 i 4 .. y mgr ;
y-:: f �. .�. r Y ; i r ♦ .. ° 5�74•♦f6d s iNM eetF etlEDY o Kgs x i•
«. --> w' .. ,,, ,, � 4 .,,, The golfersposted a 22-6-
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Instant reBucky Hazan's girls' fordenser suiidivision
exe s
tennis team, led by Casey
Casey Esparza returns a shot and places it out of reach of an opposing Rincon High School Esparza — the top high The Town Planning and denser home building in a
player at a non-conference game played Friday at Canyon Del Oro.CDO won the game school player in Tucson — Zoning Commission has planned subdivision along
6-3.Esparaza is the CDO girls team's top player and is ranked number one in the city. also expects a state title unanimously recommended Valley del Oro Road, near
[Photo by Chris Kemberling] again this year. approval of rezoning to allow Oro Valley Estates.
• • The subdivision, Valoro
• Estates, is planned by
Comiiromise with town brngs dental office LEDCO, Inc. The company
will now ask the Town
Co.,- w trimtopurchase his Council to approve its
By CHRIS KEMBERLING CoInc., said he disputed have no more impact on off-site development was allowed. request for rezoning, to
A dentist has begun the regulations because they services than a family begun. own building. allow one home per acre —
construction of a1,900 were intended for sub- home, Hale said. Workers started putting rather than one per four
square foot office in Oro divisions, apartment and The 30-year-old dentist, acres as current zoning
Valley after reaching a commercial complexes — "Many of the other up the frame and walls of the who has been in practice for r
compromise with the tow not t•e on,- n_ he im-
building which is located Pe
_ �. � re�uirena u a were three
.,.�. . ' - :--;*'''''''' 4 , �: ,,.,.,° 1„,,,,,,1 �� �-�.. list of seven n
{ � i.. b+aF�patients fr4►tn said he Drti A conditions
of our ro ect, a added. as we .° ' ori, uc't on on the rezoning suggested
over development plans. He said the main con- P should bedone in six to i Valley and north of the town
Building was delayed by An semen eight and the move to the new site by the Planning and"fairly
the Planning and Zoning tendon was over the,town agreement to delete weeks,Hale said. will leave him more cen- Commission is fairly
regulation requiring some of the requirements trail located. standard, said Town
Commission earlier this
developers to determine the was finally reached after Haymore, owner of the Y
year, because of what the . P Hale and the commission site, practices in the Casae Zoning Administrator
contractor said was a impact the development. Adobes area andplans to When completed, the Dorothy Montgomery.
disagreement over whether would have on local roads, met a number of times to office will be large enough to One of those conditions
and sewer, water and discuss the pertinance of move his practice to Oro
the -towns commercial telephone services. regulations as applied to the Valley by July 1. house two dentists but will suggested is that all
development regulations dental office. only be operatedby preliminary work -such as
applied to the office of Dr. -"I think it's an excellent Haymore said he located Haymore until he negotiates roads and sewers con-
John Haymore. idea for subdivisions,but it's Development plans were in Oro Valley because the with a friend to join him in struction — be completed
The contractor, Glenn unnecessary for small approved in early March and less expensive land here practice. within two years.
Hale of Hale Construction commercial buildings that
The Oro Valle
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0011-1-4
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January;
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41 [Continued from Page 11 portation is aware of the deficiencies in
delayed by the state Transportation the present highway and is most anxious
slop i F .
Board. Abney said he suspects that a to see the improvements completed,"the
. . .. •
shortage of funds in the state is letter continued.
• C{$' • responsible for the holdup. Hanes said the1
o>.'/ etter was a response to
• r} I The project is in the design stag+es,, an earlier a query by him and it confirmed
\ •
I
: : Abney's letter said: Because of design and information the council was aware of six
• : • engineering requirements, he wrote, or eight months ago.
-...,bAd 11,fr L Hop • , `>, : "there just isn't any practical way to
{ ' - • hurry this job along any faster. The widening of the road "eventually
• hey ; "Please be assured that everyone will be a tremendous improvement and a
A .. " concerned in the Department of Trans- lot safer,"he said.
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ORO VALLEY [ARIZ] VOICE April 13, 1977
Four-year 'court battle saw OV defeat city, county .
, ,
[Continued from Page 1] The city had annexed one or two blocks
They protested that at the time they willing neighbors. E. S. "Steve" Engle
a hearing, and a ruling, from the Pinal of land to bring it closer than six miles to originally presented theirpetitions to
County Court. the boundary.of the Town of Oro Valley. Pima Countythe tried to counter these claims by delivering
Judge Mahoney ruled in favor of the Then, armed with that annexation result, supervisors, their area was to the supervisors petitions containing 301
residents — and ordered the supervisors the cityappealed beyond the six-mile limit. They insisted signatures in support of incorporation.
.pp Judge Mahoney's ruling that Tucson's after-the-fact annexation He pointed out that these signatures
to incorporate the town immediately. to the Arizona Appellate Court. was an obvious ployto block Oro Valley's includedg
This ruling was called a "minute The Appellate Court reversed suet's 233 of the 410 registered voters
incorporation,and should be ignored. in Oro Valley--or 57 per cent.
decision," because the judge made it but Mahoney's ruling—saying,in effect,that And theyappealed the case to
didn't sign it. Shortly after issuing it, he Oro Valley couldn't incorporate because it Arizona PPe the But the county did fan the fears of some
Supreme Court. iOro Valleyans who thought incorporation
suffered a heart attack and wasn't able to was within six miles of the Tucson city The State Supreme Court's five justices would mean •
sign it until the following year — July, limits. P J �� an automatic and sharp rise in
1973. ruled unanimously,early in 1974,that Oro taxes. These fears were encouraged by
The Oro Valley residents, drawing Valley met the requirements of the law, reports such as the one made byBruce
In that meantime, the City of Tucson closer together against their common foe, and they ordered the Pima CountyPostil,county
had been busy. (His
grants coordinator.
were furious. supervisors to incorporate the town. ( ipredictions have failed to
It was now three years and ten months- materialize.)
RELATED since the Oro Valley petitioners had asked ' ' One highly vocal Oro Valleyan who
= a'i X 3;.. STORY ... i ' L. the supervisors to do the same thing, predicted economic collapse
P if the cam-
County and city elections during that munity incorporated was Virgil Brandon,
: time had made some changes -- there . a retired military officer — who was,
were now five supervisors instead of just coincidentally, a University of Arizona Father', of OV, was Corbett -
three, and four of them:were new --but student of government professor Joyner
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• at the time
the oppositionto Oro Valley reraatied •
rock-solid. ti Brandon's opposition and his attempts to
[Continued from Page 5] Kriegh, Engle, and other pro-in- ' For the City of Tucson, former city disincorporate Oro Valley continued even
had to lay out a southern boundary for the corporators mulled over a list of possi- attorney Murphy was now mayor,and his after he was appointed • to the dismay of
proposed community which was outside bilities: Mountainaire, Pueblo Del Oro, resistance to the incorporation continued. those who alued incorporation -- to the
the six-mile limit from the Tucson city Desert City, Santa Catalina Village, So did the resistance of most city first Town Council by the supervisors.
limits. Golden Desert, Mountain Canyon -- and councilmen (who viewed Oro Valley as an Brandon and supposedly "neutral" Ken
Holford,the town
"We cut it pretty close up along Hardy Town of Oro Valley, upstart and a threat) as did the growing s first mayor,won their
Road,"recalls Kriegh.The six-mile limit is Bythis time, the su city and county bureaucracy. seats legally in Oro Valley's first(and very
why only a portion of Shadow Mountains ppoi•t of Oro Valleyclose)election.
why es West is withinfthe ton. Country Club residents seemed imperative So it was the city-county combination With those two and Dorothy Mont-
if the new town were to succeed--and as which,in February, 1974,asked the State gomery holding an anti-incor oration
East of Oracle Highway, a large Kriegh says today,"The name`Oro Valley' Supreme Court to re-hear the Oro Valley majority, P
commercial block of land at the northeast ,� the town for some months was in
was as good as any on the list, incorporation case. the odd position of being run bypersons
corner with Hardy Road, also had to be Within a few weeks,the Supreme P
excluded.And the M.M.Dow home at the So the petitions were amended (see opposed to its existence.
intersection of Hardy and Riviera Drive is illustration) from "Palo Verde" to Oro reaffirmed its ruling, and again ordered But• the final battle for the town
Valley."And thepetition drive beganthe county to incorporate Oro Valley. appeared to be won when, finally, the
just barely within the boundary -- Y for It was now almost fouryears exactlyoar
incorporating the Town of Oro Valley. Board of Supervisors conceded.
somewhere between 30 and 7 feet inside it, since the original request to the county. ,
says Kriegh. Kriegh, Engle, and the others who After mulling over Brandon s petitions
But what were theyto call this new, carried First the supervisors found cause to to disincorporate and weighing them
petitions knew there would be delay for several weeks carrying out the against affidavits from �e
embryonic Arizona town? problems and difficulties. ("We tried toy g g persons who asked
"First we thought of'The Town of Palo keep a low profile,"recalls Kriegh, "so we Supreme Court's order. Then, led by that their names be removed as signers,
" wouldn't alert the Tucson citycouncil and supervisors Ron Asta and Conrad Joyner the supervisors voted—•reluctantly--not
Verde,' says Kriegh,"which seemed like (who, ironically, represented Oro Valleytopursue disincorporation.
a good Arizona name."The early petitions city bureaucrats.") rpt ,tion
as part of his district), the county began ' The disgruntled board members said at
do bear that title. t But they didn't realize the town which "discovering" that residents of the area that asked meeting that
"But then ,I discovered that there Jim Corbett caused would face bitter didn't reallygP g at Oro Valley would
alreadywas a 'Palo Verde' want to incorporate at sill get no help from Pima County — and for
post office opposition for more than four years -- Joyner, as the supervisor for the area, the first year, at least, that was true.
somewhere else in Arizona," recalls opposition which would end formally only repeatedly assured his fellow board But the town has survived. And Pima
Kriegh, "so we had to find a different after it was defeated by a State Supreme members that"only a minority"of the Oro County,like manyother hard-to-
name." Y Y convince
Court Decision. (See related story.) Valley area wanted to incorporate, and critics,has apparently concluded that Oro
were forcing their wishes on their un- Valley is here to stay.
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