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By KEITH BAGWELL Mary Weaver,70,has a heart condition and requires her
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' The Arizona Daily Star daughter's close care. Her income is a small government
"It's marvelous,really,the work they're doing.” pension and Social Security.
That's Pauline Murray's view, and she's summing up She and her husband moved into their home in 1954.
the sentiments of manyothers in the National Cityarea on Because he suffered many years of poor health before heQ died four years ago,he was unable to make repairs.
< • •,, `` Tucson's southside where a federal neighborhood rehabili-
�� � tation program is under waythroughthe efforts of the cit Its done wonders for me.Theydid quite a lot of work
Murray, 50, has lived alone for the past 10 years in the here and it was all very good,”she says.
. , house she bought when it was new 27 years ago. "The bathroom leaked and it seemed there was no way
�` She says she tried to keep it up. But unable to make to stop it. It was fixed. They repaired cracks and painted
repairs or afford the cost of hiring help,she saw her home's inside and out. They replaced water pipes. They replaced
;`� ---.,.„ �. condition relentlessly decline. the heater and put heaters in the bedrooms. They replaced
� _ _ the roof, Weaver says.
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The main heater's vent went up inside the wall a few feet The National City rehabilitation program began in 1975
� and ended.
•- �, � and should be finished in two years. It includes three of the
•The final insult came just before her home was worked area's 12 subdivisions — those within a 31-block area be-
tween. S. 6th and S. 12th avenues from Irvington Rd.
t � � �.y� on under the program. The sewer vent, badly undersized, gt to
stopped up and the odor began drifting through the house. Michigan Dr.
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When the contractors left after six weeks and $6,500 Michael J. Maloney, Tucson's community conservation
worth of repairs, the construction problems were gone. and development administrator, says $1.5 million has been
�►� ..,.,;•.....i.- Murray's house now has a new roof, new trim, inside and spent there and the bill should reach$2 million by project's
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t outside int,new heaters anew electrical box,a new sink
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and counter topin the kitchen, and a remodeled bathroom
The program has been responsible for improvements in
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floor tile and a new shower. 300 of the area s 685 homes,he says.With program funds,87
rr She lives on a meager income from her job as a cashier homes were rehabilitated and work was begun on 166 more.
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at a nearby market and paid nothing for the improvements.
glt `,, All the expenses involved with her moving temporarily to Private projects,for which low-interest loans are avail-
able through the program,number between 30 and 40.About
• the Spanish Trail Motel while the work was done were paid 20 are finished,Maloney says.
for with federal funds,too.
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improvements and street lighting, which were finished in
� . The rehabilitation project also benefited Dolores Luce- p
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"The whole house needed fixing. It was an old house when Finally, $162,000 is earmarked for preparing Rodeo
f•` ` we moved in.We paid rent at first,"she said.
��� Wash, which runs through the area, to handle a 100-year
That was 35 years ago "when we didn't have anything flood and for turning it into a linear park. It will be the
U. - i ' - here—no houses;they're all new." neighborhood's first park when complete. Completion is
"""'."" , targeted for early 1979.
Her husband, Felix, dead for more than a decade,
sculpted the "Garden of Gethsemane" statues near the
Congress St. bridge over the Santa Cruz River. "We gave
them to the city and they fixed them up nice, too," Lucero
says.
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The Arizona Daily Star water. when fuel tanks are refilled. plant growth would not be affected at present
Bacteria in a plot of soil at Davis-Monthan Bohn is about to apply to the U.S. Air D-M has 13 storage tanks holding 40,000 levels of discharge,he says.
Air Force Base soon may be growing fat on a Force for a grant to support detailed re- gallons apiece, and one to three a day are Further stud is needed to determine how
diet of airplane-fuel vapors,compliments of a search by a graduate student. Studies could refilled, de ndin on how man fli hts are Y
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,�� w leased alternately from two of the huge stor-
Cement i e would cost more, but "would
usin
- :��-� �� *---,.:5,,,,,,,,,,,-- :„., � � � � �- age tanks,he calculates. P P
last at least 100
years"he said.
.:-.4,:" �7m� "The organic molecules will sta in the
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� groundandbeconsumedbysoilmicro-orga- Bohnsaidhehassuccessfully applied the
nisms and be turned to compost,"he said. same idea to extracting sulfur dioxide, a
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major air pollutant. "But the volume of the
• - 4 "It's just like leaves falling to the ground in pollutants is so enormous that you need vast
. -, the fall and turning into compost."
Po amounts of land to absorb it, he said.
'fir':. <- ;� � ��.. ••-
,t,,, . ';:...-1piktot '--,'''''',..i4F'-12.:4,..:.'.,,,,,,-,-„,*
--:4!..,,' ----''','''''.',.* , 4.,.. . - ... 'Alf ' ,,.. ' Sunnyside
discards
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idea
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"^fin- .;k i `.' � -`ffi,,$+.s,
��, churches
� � �> ---_-..-, . A ,... .„.. ..,...;:... ..,....„. *7-.:‘--iii..,.... -7-' -,,;,.- Parents' objections have forced the be adjusted by five or 10 he
�.�� ,° ro a;. � •, ., . ".,. ,t ,� � � • ,� �� �-�> � � minutes,
,= "� � `" � Sunnyside School District to discard a added.
plan that would have senthelowft; --...---„,„..4:-.- '''' from childrenLos
i-7-F.4.4.-#;:;,,..„,q-:`� .. * three district elementaries to classes in
Third-grade at Ranchitos
" ,°x'-, , , '�'.144. - and maybe at Los Ninos will have the
.... �- '.' ,,�- ..a churches this fall. same double-session schedule,a. a Goitia
-_,--- :9. said.
.." The plan's demise means many pri-
= "' mary-grade children from Elvira, Los "The children will have ust as much
A Ninos and Los Ranchi 1
I f F tos schools will be academic time as those on regular ses-
�� on double sessions when the district re- sions,"he said, but such areas as music,
a
turns to a nine-month year in August. art and h sical education will
P Y be cut
4.
�" �� "' The plan was to affect 665 kid back.
•n ergar-
`° The church lan had drawbacks, too.
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ten and f' t
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� � .� �i.-° � -� ..� r����- � � ��.^ •� jrs grade children this fall.
�°�����.;'::7----:-.,-7,-,�e �.0� -�: ..,��.� -., .-, They would have attended classes at St.
Children at churches would have done
Monica's Church, 212 W. Medina Rd., without some recreational equipment,
.-.....,.,.,...:,, '. . . . "b. , ...4 and Verde Heights Baptist Church, some hot lunches, on-premises nurses
``, ' • 1/ ic'';'. S. Palo Verde Blvd. leavingclassrooms and ready access to a library and other
: � �i -�.a ,Y ,, ▪ �`??•-• k `'4 open for second-and third-grade children. educational aids.1
�_ u The district's other nine schools will
'"` .
Questionnaires were sent to the chil- not have dou
,.,_, - s. ii - dren's parents and of 332 returned, 84 •
ble sessions this fall, but' Sunnyside High and two junlea'or highs,
IIIpercent favored double sessions over
`, s Apollo and Sunnyside,will havextended
classes in the churches.
sessions—staggered starting nd finish-
• Daniel Goitia,district bilingual educa- ing times.
"Ist
tion director and compiler of the
. p poll A bond issue approved by voters last
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F results, said first-and second-grade chit- December for school and classroom
.0.,-.......„—
', dren in the three schools will attend clas- construction is expected to eliminate
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t- ses either from 8 a.m. to noon or from double sessions after the coming school
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�► noon to 4 p.m. this fall. The times may year.
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