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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - Miscellaneous (96)Page 8 Education lackin 9 Here s one 1 ea By BETTYE HILL BRAUCHER In the United States every child gets an educa- tion. We proudly proclaim this as fact. What a joke. "Education?" What we actually have is a nation- wide baby-sitting service that can boast college - trained sitters who work for peanuts. Take your elementary -aged child in Tucson: In 1976-1977, we spent $1,163.66 to baby-sit him for 180 days or so, over a period of about 40 weeks. His teacher/baby sitter not only watched over him for five hours a day, she also taught him a little about reading, writing and math, gave him opportunities to work with paints and paste, to sing a little, and to play --- supervised — outdoors. All this for less than $6.50 a day! By sending along 35 or 45 cents for lunch, a parent had peace of mind and no child under foot for close to six hours every day. That's a pretty good deal for parents of kids in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Our secondary schools are a pretty good deal for parents, too. In 1976-77, the amount spent for each high school student was $1,401.02. For around $7.80 a day, a Tucson teen-ager could be supervised and harmlessly occupied by college -trained staff mem- bers who provided each child with learning oppor- tunities, in case they were interested. The average high school teacher/baby sitter earned around $72 a day for overseeing 150 or so teen -alters. That's less than 50 cents per child, per teacher — a real deal. But there's a caveat emptor in this — one we've tried to ignore for several generations: "You gets what you pays for." Not only are we tight-fisted about paying for the Time out This young girl finds a way to pass the time while her teacher par- ents meet for the Tuc- son Education Asso- ciation's strike vote in October. William Pel- tier, a fifth grade teacher at Booth Ele- mentary School, 'was there at the Tucson Community Center music hall with his camera. Peltier, who has been taking pic- tures since he was 14, is a -member of the Desert Viewfinders Camera Club. Photo by. William Peltier education of our kids, we're blind too. Take another look at those figures: Elementary (grades K-8), $1,163.66, Secondary (grades 9-12), $12401.42. Does it make sense to spend less for the basic education of a student than for his advanced stu- dies? If he doesn't get a decent "basic," what can he possibly do with "advanced?" And there we have justification for the return to basics that citizens all over the U.S. have been clamoring for. Unfortunately, most of our good citi- zens see the "back to basics" as a move to save money, to keep school taxes down. Furthermore, what those "basics" are is not very clear, either. One man's "frill" is another man's necessity and a pox on anyone who dares suggest cutting out inter- scholastic sports! True, costs of materials, equipment and instruc- tion have risen to astronomic heights, with no end in sight. To continue the present education system, which is far from satisfactory, at best, will cost more next year. To just hold spending level will require further watering down education pro- grams. So, what can we do? First, let's face some hard facts. One: Kids are not getting the kind of education they need. Two: Society refuses to pay for the kind of edu- cation it want kids to have. Vhree : Based on figures for 1976-77, each year of the secondary phase (four years) of public school education costs a third more than each year of the elementary (nine years), which is ridiculously illog- ical. And four: It's time to change the public school System. Carl Bereitter, in his book, "MUST We Edu- catt�?Y� offers an idea whose time has come: Con- centrated, mandatory education in kindergarten through eighth grade only. Horrified? Don't be. Bereitter's idea is practical and workable. Why not concentrate our educational funds and resources on truly basic education? We can do a bang-up job in those first nine grades and fulIN prepare our kids for survival in the world. VV%e can have small classes so a teacher can ac- tualy teach, working with each student in his struggle to grasp a concept or to master a skill or to apply a principle, before he goes on to the .next task, Sohools were never intended to be day-care cen- ters. Teachers were never intended to be glorified baby sitters with Master's degrees. And children werO not supposed to be followed around all day lone being entertained or just kept in line, while they rode out the years until they could become citizo-ns. Bereitter's idea may be shocking, but it could very well bring to an end this pretence of ours — public schools. Do you have a better idea? Bettye Hill .Braucher is a teacher in Tucson Unified School District, working with home- bound children. Her husband is a- .school princi- pal. Just give it some time By CLYDE E. ARNETT Whvn I awoke this morning, the sun was shining and a bird outside my window was making com- fortable noises. He had not spent the night in our patio with the usual highly visible results. Out newspaper was not in the pyracantha bush, but neer the front door in plain sight. When I took out the garbage, a teen-ager on his way to school through our alley spoke to me. "Good mornifig," he said. I heard him clearly. MY breakfast bacon was crisp, and my eggs stared back at me with unbroken yolks. I w4s beginning to feel uneasy, but our morning mail contained no bills, and no one conducting a survey called, so I began to relax. When I went to the grocery store, no one was ahead of me at the check-out counter, and the lady at the counter smiled at me. Feeling slightly giddy, I stopped at the gasoline station, My car needed no oil, and the price of gaso- line hadn't gone up since last week. At home, I turned on the TV. I didn't see or hear a single, politician, and Howard Cosell was not on any channel. Everything is going well today, and all's right with the world. Tell me — why do I have this feeling of impend- ing disitster? Clyde E. Arnett, 63, is a retired Army officer who writes as a hobby. dear Reader: This is your page. If you have an interesting story to tell or a com- m. ent to make, lust send it to Old Pueblo Editor, Tucson Citizen, P.O. Box 26767, Tucson 85726. Thursday, December 28, 1978 b 0 A g y r in the battle over growth i ea By JAMES WYCKOFF Citizen Staff Writer A local businessman sitting on the county Mai,- ning and Zoning Commission got called a son of a bitch by an irate homeowner, who also suggested of, might storm up and tear the face off the surprised advisor to the Board of Supervisors. East Siders put three supervisors on their politi- cal hit list for the 1980 elections. Various red-faced residents shook their fists in vain at what they called forced, unnecessary growth in their neighborhoods. It was that kind of year for Tucson's fringes as changes in the rural character of desert areAs marched along, through planning and rezoning .. mostly rezoning. In pleading to the county for what many neigh- borhoods claimed was the survival of an areae character, homeowner after homeowner in unill- corporated areas perhaps came away imagining their zoning fights with the county were like efl- counters with some great, implacable Buddha. This was the year when Tucson's development industry, spurred on by the arrival of IBM, yanked its heels out of the lingering effects of an economic slump, and the atmosphere spread with a fever to the county, which demonstrated it aims to please when it comes to almost any type of growth. Developers here who presented the county with just 59 requests for higher density rezonings of land in 1976 have so far sent 182 such petitions to the county this year. That amounts to better than a 300 percent increase. Many of those requests passed without public notice or a public hearing, because they conformed with Pima County's different area zoning plans. But of the 81 that did require a public hearing by the supervisors, the board turned thumbs down only three times. That, some county staff officials say privately and one supervisor rages publicly, amounts to throwing planning for growth out the window and opting for blanket growth by rezoning, whenever a. developer, large or small, says he wants it. Joe Parsons home for the holidays • .tiiv has rope, will travel By SERGIO LALLI paring for this way of life ever since he was a tad. Citizen Staff Writer He was a child prodigy, a Mozart of calf roping. He Even cowboys come home for Christmas to gee was a national champ when in high school and a the folks and get their pickups worked on. collegiate national champ at the University of Ari - That's what Joe Parsons is doing this week. He's zone gives which he attended on a rodeo scholarship. No ives Parsons a saddle for Christmas because on furlough from the 11 -month grind of the proles- before he left town to follow the pro rodeo circuit Related story, Page 6D fulltime he garnered 38 saddles as prizes for win- mng rodeo events. sional rodeo circuit. He's already brought his one - ton truck to the garage. He's said hello to the folks. He's already starting to fidget. "Feel cooped up," the 22 -year-old Parsons said, looking out at the rainy skies and slapping his hands. "Can't practice today." Life on the road affects you that way. You're on the go so much as a rodeo cowboy that you yearn for home and a chance to rest. You get home, sleep for two days and then you yearn for the exhilaration of the open road again. Parsons, who hails from Marana, has been pre - And when Parsons left town he took Joy with him. Joy Paddock lived up the road from Joe's home and they rodeoed together in school. Now they bunk together in the living compartment of their truck van, the back of which is reserved for their horses. They got married in June and, hitch- ing their van to their truck, Joe, Joy and Waspy Bar (his best roping horse) bowled off into the connubial and bovine -scented future. That was about 70 rodeos and 40,000 miles ago. Continued Page 6 Even the Planning and Zoning Commission, comprised of 10 citizens appointed by the supervi- sors, turned down more cases this year than the board. They heard 83 rezoning appeals in public hearings, and turned back eight. Others were den- ied by that body before they made it to the public hearing stage. Supervisor David Yetman openly flays his fellow board members for turning down cases in 1978 only where there was "just too much political heat" to approve them. But he predicts 1979 may see the supervisors take a tougher look at rezoning appeals, whether they want to or not. The board, he predicts, "is going to start feeling the screws" when it makes changes in rural neigh- borhoods. County planners now are able to use a computer to fairly accurately predict future costs of individ- ual rezonings to taxpayers, Yetman notes, a tool that's going to present the board with the problem of having to hold itself accountable for the high Continued Page 6 • nuiiie rupiiii on y our own• Get a Dermit By THOM WALKER Old Pueblo Editor "On weekends you can drive down the streets and hear the hammers pounding, all over town. We know its going on, but we cant do anything about it." That's James R. Singleton's way of saying he _ knows a losing battle when he's in the middle of one. Singleton, the administrator of the city's Build- ing Safety Division, is Tucson's construction watchdog. His office issues building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits for everything from a multi -million -dollar shopping center to the new bedroom you added on last month. By his own admission, Singleton's office may be one of the most ignored in the city bureaucracy. The city issues about 700 building permits a ` month, and another 25 or so citations to people who fail to get the required clearance for building projects. "That's only the tip of the iceberg," Singleton said. "We know for a fact that there are a lot of carports enclosed on weekends when inspectors aren't on duty. It's a serious problem." Singleton estimates that for every one person who takes out a permit, five others do their work' without the city's "blue card" stamp of approval. "That's a conservative guess," he added. If Singleton's estimate is correct, more than 40,- 000 Tucsonians a year ignore the building code alto- gether, performing their work "underground." And in the process, technically, they become lawbreak- ers. The reasons are fairly easy to fathom. The idea of a building permit conjures up visions of waiting lines, bureaucratic hassles, rules and regulations. And to an extent, the image is justified. One do-it-yourselfer joined the ranks of the home repair underground recently to fix a leaky gas main leading into his home. Through a friend, he got the name of a retired plumber who sometimes does work on the side. Because of Social Security laws, the plumber was forced into a peculiar, cash -only, underground economy himself. Besides, he explained, a plumbing permit takes time, costs extra money and would require digging deeper trenches to the vintage -model home, which would drive up repair costs still higher. They put in the new pipeline one weekday, even Continued Page 6 Page 2 Eugene H. Cota-Robles, a graduate of Tucsoi, High School and the University of Arizona, has been nominated by President Carter to serve a six-year term on the National Science Board, the 24 -member policy making body of the National Science Founda- tion. Cota-Robles is academic vice chancellor and a professor of biology at the University of California Santa Cruz. He was born in Nogales, Ariz., in 1926 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in bacte- riology from the University of Arizona. He is a member of several equal opportunity organizations and has aided a Mellon Foundation study on biological differences and social equality. If his appointment is approved by the Senate in January, he will leave his administrative duties and return to full-time teaching as well as serve 'on the national board. Carrie McCartan Meet Carrie McCartan, a 17 -year-old senior at Santa Rita High School who was crowned Tucson's Junior Miss Dec. 2 at a pageant at Amphitheater High School. I Miss McCartan was one of nine girls competing in the pageant, which is sponsored by the Pima Jaycees. Contestants are judged on scholarship, tal- ent, poise and appearance and youth fitness. Miss McCartan, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Rob- ert McCartan, received a $300 scholarship for win- ning and also won the youth fitness award. She will be competing with Junior Misses from other Arizona cities at the state finals in Tempe Jan. 13. The winner will travel to the national pag- eant in Mobile, Ala. in the spring to try for the title of America's Junior Miss and a $15,000 scholarship. Miss McCartan has been editor of the Santa Rita High's literary magazine, has been on the speech team and is copy editor of the yearbook. She plans to attend either the University of Colo- rado or the University of Arizona next fall. She is interested in the field of communications and 'is considering a career in broadcasting. Tucson Citizen Activities Arts and crafts classes You can learn to weave a basket, shoot a picture or cook up a batch of sour cream enchiladas at the Fort Lowell Arts & Crafts Center, starting Jan. 8. Those are a few of the two dozen or so classes to be offered at the center during the eight-week win- ter session. Registration starts Tuesday and runs through Friday, but late registration will continue through the first week of classes. Several new classes are being offered, in addi- tion to stand-bys such as glass painting, loom weaving, painting, drawing and others. Frances Manuel, a Papago, will teach the bas- ketweaving methods of her people, using natural materials. The fee for the class will be $11 and will be open to 10 persons. Another new class, Introduction to Photography, will teach camera techniques and composition. There's a $12 fee, for 10 people. Jackie Lewis Harris, a former Peace Corps member, will teach. The most appetizing of the new offerings figures to be four different classes in cooking, taught by Susie Mangarelli, an expert in many different fields of cuisine. Classes will focus on baking, Eastern European cuisine, American cooking and appetizers. The fee will be $8. Fees for other classes vary. Classes meet once a week. For more information, call Pima County Parks and Recreation (792-8815) or the Fort Lowell Arts & Crafts Center (885-7009.) Warding off evil Folk legend has it that the Ojos de dios (gods Thursday, December 28, 1978 eye)helps ward off evil from homes in which it hangs. It may not change your luck, but a class on gods -eye Inaking at Mission Branch Library can at least teach you how to make a pretty gift for next Christma4 (it pays to plan ahead). The class will be offered Wednesday, 1 p.m., at the branch library, 3770 S. Mission Road. Star Wars revisited If you loved Star Wars, you'll probably hate "Hardwa.-re Wars," a parody to be shown next Thursday; 7 p.m., at Columbus Branch Library, 4350 E. 22ld St. Another film, the Spanish "Chulas Fronteras," also will tie shown next Thursday at El Pueblo Li- brary, 101 W. Irvington Road, at 10:30 a.m. Sign up by mail You can register by mail for the winter session activities offered by the city Parks and Recreation Department, beginning Tuesday. Classes in arts and crafts, dance, drama, sports and other activi- ties are offered at various locations. Call 7914877 for more information. Mail -in registration will continue through Jan. 13. Child health A threb-_week series of classes on child care, "You and your Child," will begin Wednesday night at Mission Branch Library, 3770 S. Mission Road. Vincent Fulginiti, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona, will teach the class, which will meet at 7 p.m. each Wednesday. The first week's topic is "child immunization." Chuckhole report Here is the weekly report on road conditions around Tucson — construction work, traffic hang- ups and special hazards: Road Closings County highway crews are still digging out from under the mud left behind by last week's rampaging floodwaters, and several creek crossings in the Tucson area remain closed. The Craycroft Road crossing at the Rillito River is closed until further notice, according to °Pima County Highway Department officials, after the flood wiped out the wash -level ford. Engineers are pondering whether the crossing should be rebuilt or simply written off until a bridge can be con- structed. Also shut down indefinitely is, the Fort Lowell crossing at Agua Caliente Wash, which was wiped out for the fourth time in last week's flood. The Mount Lemmon Highway was expected to be open by mid -week, but will have to be "totally reconstructed" before it will be back to normal. . Under construction Campbell — Traffic is being routed around the construction work on North Campbell Avenue in the University Hospital area, and it'll be a good street to avoid for the next couple of weeks. The street is supposed to be open again in about another week. Overlay Resurfacing work is scheduled =�-- through tomorrow on East Broadway between Campbell and Stewart avenues, and one or two lanes are beim closed while contractors lay down a" new layer of pAvement. Oracle Road — One -lane traffic, barriers, con- struction equipment and driving delays can be ex- pected along Forth Oracle Road, from Miracle Mile to Roger Road, while crews widen the street and re- vamp the Mi °acle Mile -Oracle intersection. The work will be fitlished in April. Interstate :i9 — There's six miles of two-lane traffic on I-lla enroute to Nogales, down around Tubac, while 'vvorkers build a new north -bound sec- tion of freeway% Watch for trucks and heavy equip- ment. Interstate 10 — You can also expect to encounter construction work on I-10 going either way out of Tucson. Towards Phoenix, one lane each way is closed at times for paving overlay and safety work. Heading East out of Tucson, one lane each way will will be closed day and night in the Wilmot Road area, for similfar work. Got a hot tip for us? The Citizen's great new local news section, Old Pueblo, is in the market for news. Not the big, splashy stories that fill the front page. We're after the next-door kind of news — neighborhood concerns and activities, school news, feature stories about in- teresting people. That's the kind of news we want, the kinds of things that happen on your street that tell about life in the Old Pueblo and the communities around it. The number to call for Old Pueblo news is 2944433, exten- sion 209. Or write to Old Pueblo Editor, Tucson Citizen, P.O. Box 26767, Tucson 85726. We'd like to hear from you. Thursday, December 28, 1978 Tucson Citizen th n ture s alarm clock Dealing wt. a By DEBORAH BLOCK Citizen Staff Writer There's not much you can say about a rooster, unless you're a rooster -owner or the neighbor of one, in which case you can talk a lot about city statutes, cops, courts and all sorts of other perilous legal things. Haboring a rooster within city limits, in case you didn't know, violates Section 4-59 of the Tucson City Code, which goes "keeping male fowl or guinea fowl prohibited." It is nevertheless estimated that hundreds of Tucsonians are thumbing their respective noses at the books. Now it's impossible to tell just how many rooster -owners there are — these people have far too much sense to stand up and be counted. But such folks do occasionally get caught in the act of ownership, most often when a disturbed neighbor turns them in. What usually follows is a visit by the police. As authorities tend to be fairly intimidating, the owner might get rid of the offending fowl, move the bird inside or else just spirit it away to an out -of -limits spot until the neighbor cools off. Every so often, however, such a visit will fail to produce the desired effect. It will simply make the owner angry. It will inspire him to continue sneer- ing in the face of the law, or, rather, let his rooster do the sneering in the only way a rooster knows how. Which is by crowing. Particularly at odd hours. If the bird crows long and loud enough, the dis- turbed neighbor might take the owner to court. In which case the rooster -owner probably will beat what's known among members of the male fowl underground as a "rooster rap." A most celebrated beating of one such rap oc- curred two years ago when now -lawyer and then - law student Claudia Ellquist fogged the court into reasonable doubt as to whether her crowing birds actually were male. Which is, after all, what the law prohibits. It does not forbid, say, noisy female chickens, which is the way some hens evidently become. As Morris Franks, the city's zoning administra- tor, explains the ordinance and its inherent prob- lems: "I feel certain it was originally intended to get rid of crowing roosters. It was a noise ordinance. But we've found from our great scientific explora- tion and expertise" (he was kidding, folks) "that it's not as easy to do as it sounded originally. What crows doesn't necessarily have to be a rooster." What's more, Franks said, when it comes to tak- ing someone to court over a bird that's disturbing the peace, judicial technicalities make the defen- dant hard to. prosecute. "I doubt whether anyone has the expertise to prove what sex the bird is," Franks said. "And then you have to prove whether the bird crowed or didn't crow at a certain time. Obviously the poor police- man wasn't there while he was crowing. He can't swear to it." Even if a cop is confident he's nailed a bird in the act of -being male, the case will have rough going in court, at least if Ms. Ellquist's experience is any indication. "The first policeman they sent out to cite me wouldn't," she recalled. "He could neither see nor hear a rooster from the street." "The one who finally cited me, after spending half an hour there, claimed he saw a rooster and knew it was a rooster because he had judged poul- try in college." Although Ms. Ellquist lost her case in the first round, she came back for a victory on the appeal. She brought in poultry experts who testified that markings on a chicken often taken to denote the sex of the bird are not necessarily accurate indicators of gender. "The officer acknowledged he Could have made a mistake," Ms. Ellquist said. "And then our expert pointed out that you will have hens, maybe one in 50, that will change gender characteristics and ac- tually crow. So if this was their only evidence, that the fowl crowed, there was a reasonable doubt." The city returned the $22 Ms. Ellquist had been fined, despite testimony from a plaintiff who claimed one of the defendent's hens had hatched a Page 7 chick — a fact that would seem to be proof there had been a rooster in the vicinity, hens not being self-perpetuating. Had noise been a prosecutable offense, Ms. Ell- quist was prepared to prove with the aid of a Uni- versity of Arizona noise control expert that her bird didn't cause any greater disturbance than did the neighborhood traffic. "He (the UA expert) agreed to measure the sound level of a rooster crowing," she said. "He went to the edge of the property line --to measure it. It was daytime and it's a pretty quiet neighborhood. The rooster didn't even record above the back- ground noise on the street." Which would lead one to wonder why neighbors complain regularly to the City Council and the po- lice about the bird next door. Ms. Ellquist explains the disturbance away as "cocktail party phenomenon." "It's the kind of situation where it's very noisy and the only way you can hear someone is to hone in on what they're saying," she said. "You have to be listening for it." Others — notably the complainers — say one does not have to await a crow for it to be audible. Says one Tucsonian who doesn't particularly thrill to the cockadoodle of his neighbor's pet: "I was raised on a farm, and our rooster was never near the house. It was at least 50 yards away. At 4:30 or 5 a.m. you could hear it crowing, but it was the same sort of thing as listening to a distant train. It didn't disturb you — you just sort of rolled over in your sleep. "This one is closer to me than my own garbage can in the back yard. It's very healthy ... about the healthiest rooster I've ever seen. And when it crows it cuts right through you. It jars you right out of your sleep." That, he says, might even be tolerable if the bird crowed once and then quit. But that's not how this rooster operates. "It doesn't do it just one time," he said. "It'll go for five minutes and then- stop, and if you're not too jangled, you'll go back to sleep. And then five mi- nutes later, it'll cut loose with another dozen crows." His reaction, after complaining in vain to the neighbor, was to sic police on the matter. He was, he says, being awakened "as early as 3 a.m. — absolutely in the dark." The offending owner subsequently explained to the law that she had her birds (there was more than one male fowl here) at home only temporarily. She moved them into her washroom nights until she could get them back where they belonged --p with the horses she and her husband train at the race- track. He stirs up interest in cooking LAURA DIAMOND Citizen Staff 'Writer The "class" in Tom Kwik's home last week was much different from the type he faces every day at Borman Elementary School. Instead of a roomful of squirming third - graders, he taught a kitchenful of women, equipped with rolling pins, recipes, paper and pencils, listening attentively as he shared his culinary secrets. Kwik — husband, father, teacher — is also a great cook. So great thaat five of his friends (three of them teachers) come to his home once every three weeks to try to find out how to improve their own cooking. "They pitch in for the food and I teach them some of what I know," he explained. Much of what Kwik knows about cooking he learned from 20 classes he took at the Parisian Kitchen. The rest has come with practice. His wife Nancy (also a schoolteacher) hates to cook, he says, so she takes responsi- bility for cleaning the house and he does all the cooking. The women in his cooking group are there because they are tired of cooking the same things all the time. "I just got weary of meat and potato cooking," explained Sharon Smalley. "I had tried some of Tom's cooking and I knew he was good. I wanted to learn something different." Since October, the group has learned to make strudel (dessert and entree), basic breads and filled dessert breads. Future classes will include quiches, souffles and pasta. Kwik says teaching these women is en- tirely different from his experiences' with third graders. "At school, I constantly have to tell them to pay attention; here, they hang on every word and never stop asking ques- tions. It really makes me feel good." At the meetings, Kwik passes out recipes and goes over them carefully. He demon- strates how to prepare the food while the women take notes; then they try their hand at it. At the end of the three-hour session, the cooks sit down to eat what they've made at a specially prepared dining room table. "I try to show them how to set the scene -for a meal," Kwik says. He does this by changing the dinnerware, centerpieces, nap- kins and beverage to complement the food. "If you want to be a good cook, cook every day," he says, although he admits that after teaching school all day at Davis- Monthan, he sometimes doesn't feel like cooking. He and his wife and daughter eat simple things, he said. "For example, we might have a soup that I made before and froze and bread that I made before and froze and a salad with my dressing." He makes all his own bread "because I like to know what goes in it," and uses only fresh foods. Kwik feels most housewives have the wrong attitude about cooking. `'Too many women just put the food out on the table and the guy eats it. Then he goes and reads the paper and she cleans up, or if she's liberated, he cleans up." He said he tries to teach the women at his classes to have some pride in their cooking, to make every meal special by "using a little flair." He sees cooking as a hobby. "I love to cook. I look at it as a craft, not as a job I have to do." Each meal should be a creation, an ad- venture, "not just something you throw on the plate," he says. He says men who cook tend to view cook- ing this way — as a craft; they usually learn to cook because they want to, not because they have to. Kwik thinks the stigma about men not cooking is beginning to change. "It's not a revolution, just a quiet chang- ing of attitude." Page f Tucson Citizen Thursday, December 28, 1978 g year in the battle Ve ,.A bi o r rowth 9 CFrom Page 1 costs of improving streets, bridges, sewers and other services to handle new developments spring- ing up among the saguaros. Most of Yetman's colleagues have made it clear again and again that they were elected promising to counter the highly controlled growth philosophy espoused by former Supervisors Chairman Ron Asta . Supervisor Sam Lena, often the "swing vote" in controversial rezonings this year, says that doesn't mean the board in 1979 plans to gut neighborhoods or promote widespread "leapfrog" growth, as was charged by some homeowners upset over a South- east Side case last summer. Far East Siders talked almost as if they might repeat a call to arms for Bunker Hill after the board by a 3-2 vote approved one -acre -lot zoning on 160 acres known as the Thunderhead Ranch. The rout of rural zoning on the entire East Side was on, they feared. But Lena, who recently asked the state to re- lease for sale some 1,280 acres of land on the South- east Side, says the board just wants to put some housing where there's room and existing county services. People, particularly those north of Broad- way and east of the city limits, need not fear whole- sale rezonings, he related recently. There are overloaded streets in that area, dirt roads, undersized bridges and other problems he doesn't want to aggravate. "I'll be looking closely Have rope, will travel Ur -9m Page 1 Theirs is a working partnership, for Joy partici- pates in the women's rodeo events. "In August alone," Parsons said, "we hit 35 rodeos in 30 days . . . It's a good life when you're young. But if you don't discipline yourself and save your money, after your rodeo career is over you won't have nothing `sept an old horse and a worn-out pickup." Parsons hopes to avoid that by observing the cardinal rule of the astute rodeo cowboy: when you're not riding (a horse or a pickup), sleep. "You just hurt yourself if you go drinking and fighting like people think cowboys are supposed to do," Par - song observed. "You really don't have time to goof off." The greatest challenge facing the modern rodeo cowboy is himself. Parsons is feeling this all the more this year because he's no longer performing at home or with his college pals. "You have to do everything on your own," Parsons said. "There are no cheering squads to spur you on. There are no coaches to counsel you. You have to keep talking to yourself and practice, practice, practice." The athletic world is coming around to the reali- zation that rodeo cowboys possess as many physical skills as their counterparts in other sports. But the mental side of rodeoing is seldom appreciated. When you're on your own in a glamorous life style, the urge for dissapation and distraction is all the more tempting. "When I retire and maybe go into the construc- tion business like my father," Parsons said, "I'll have learned about a lot of things besides seeing a lot of towns and roping a calf. Things like self-mo- tivation, and most important, self-reliance." And when Parsons conducts a roping school this week for aspiring cowboys, these are the intangi- bles that the master roper will be imparting the novice ropers, even though the scoffers and dudes will say "Aw, it's just a bunch of cowboys." Joe says it ain't so. at any rezoning cases in that area before I do any- thing," Lena said. Lena and Supervisors Chairman E.S. "Bud" Walker through most of 1978 voted often against rezoning cases on the Northwest Side because they felt the Tortolita Area Plan, approved last year, was adequate and the area was taking the brunt of residential growth while industry is going to the Southeast Side. Despite that, most controversial rezoning cases in 1978 were from the Northwest. Though there were few big zoning cases to draw the power and clout of environmentalists and others out of the woodwork and into the hearing rooms, planners said they've noticed no slack in public in- terest, even with the low percentage of rezonings shot down by the board. Indeed, planners said, this was a year of active parochialism by neighborhoods over growth in their areas. Neighborhood associations that for years did little more than collect meager dues and crank out an occasional newsletter mustered the troops to fight rezoning requests for even a few acres. And while they had little success in killing off zoning changes, neighborhood groups did manage to win compromises. One North Side neighborhood, in the Wetmore - Oracle roads area, took compromise to an extreme. When a developer wanted to put in an apartment complex amid the chickens and pigs of the rustic little island near the city, residents were shocked to learn from the county that the new neighbors could successfully argue later that the animals were a nuisance and have them removed. So the neighborhood struck a bargain: they gave ►.early 100 percent backing to the developers, if they would change their request from apartments to a ,mall shopping area and storage buildings, where ilo one would be around at night to complain about n=oisy animals. That kind of give and take may be the salvation of Tucson's fringe neighborhoods, because planners are predicting another big year for rezoning in 1979. Meanwhile, the supervisors and planning com- mission next year will be putting the finishing tou- ches on four major updates or new blueprints for area growth. Already approved by the commission and set to be heard by the supervisors March 5 is the first of the area plan changes, this one for the Tucson Mountains. It may set the tone for future plans that Will be going to the board for the Southwest, South- t!ast and Rincon areas. The commission has recommended approval for h plan that residents claim is far too dense but Manners say is realistic given population projec- tions for the Tucson Mountains. There are 5,000 people living there now, and the plan going to the hupervisors would allow a "saturation" density of hbout 70,000, if the bill for new sewers is paid by developers. The supervisors have said the metro area needs more realistic population updates for the other three areas of town being reviewed now, as well. Permit needed for home work From Page 1 though there was a greater chance of getting caught. "They don't have enough inspectors to make it worth waiting for the weekend," the plumber rightly explained. It was a tense day, for the homeowner. While the plumber went about his work, he kept glancing un- easily at the backyard fence, expecting a building inspector's head to poke over. The biggest crisis of the day came when a gas meter reader came hik- ing up the alleyway, making his monthly rounds. "It must have been the day he checked the north side of the street, though," said the rattled ho- meowner. "He went right by without noticing that my meter was turned off." The work was done, and there have been no further problems. A scar across the backyard lawn is the only trace left of the day's illegal activity. By next summer, that will be gone too. Singleton knows the story well, and he concedes that such widespread disregard tends to undermine the city's ability to enforce building safety. To combat it, he's trying to streamline building permit procedures and improve the image of his office. Recently, the word "inspection" was dropped from the office title and replaced with "safety" to make what Singleton does sound more positive. "We're trying to convince people that we're here to help, rather than harass them," he said. Still, getting a permit does require a certain amount of hassle. For a typical room addition, it requires a trip to City Hall or the East Side Council Office at 7575 E. Speedway. You need three sets of drawings — a site plan, floor plan and a cross-section showing the type of floor, wall and roof you're planning to build. They can be rough drawings, as long as they show what the work involves. hour, before a plans inspector calls your number. He'll check over the plans, and if necessary he'll make suggestions to improve it. The permit will cost about $30, for a $2,000 home improvement job. Not all home improvement or building projects need a permit. Among the exceptions are backyard fences or walls below a certain height, except for swimming pool enclosures; curbs, retaining walls and awnings; remodeling work under $750, that doesn't involve structural, electrical or mechanical work; rooftop antennas, except for ham equipment; and painting, insulation, paving or cabinet work. Also exempted from building permit require- ments are storage sheds or ramadas under 100 square feet in size. However, approval is needed from the city zoning inspector, and storage sheds should be at least six feet from any building. Metal storage sheds are probably the single big- gest building code violator, Singleton said. So far this year the city has issued more than 13,000 permits, an increase of 18 percent over last year. Tucson's building boom has swamped the 35 inspectors who work for Singleton. But they still manage to snare an occasional building code violator. Technically, violators can be hit with misdemeanor charges punishable up to six months in jail or a $300 fine. But usually they get off with a double permit fee, which avoids long court battles, Singleton said. Inspectors find out about illegal work in a num- ber of ways, frequently from neighbors who call in tips. Singleton recalled one case in which a man called to report his next-door neighbor's carport addition. He knew it was done without a permit, the man said, because he helped put it up three years ago. Why had he waited so long to report it? Singleton asked. "Because back then, we were still friends," the man said. Thursday, December 28, 1978 Tucson Citizen Page 3 Holidays alco hol roads Adeadl' mix By DREW WILLIAMSON Citizen Staff Writer Since the holiday season — especially Christmas and New Year's eves — are exceptionally danger- ous times to venture onto Tucson's crowded streets, it might be useful to know why and where so many of the fatal traffic accidents occur in hof)es of avoiding them. Lt. Ken Krieger, who is in charge of the 18 mo- torcycle officers in the Tucson Police Department's traffic section, said 50 percent of all fatal accidents involve the use of alcohol on the part of the driver or victims in the accidents. 'The typical holiday accident occurs following a party or smaller get together, Krieger said. "Most people don't drink by themselves. There's always at least one person whoets bombed out," he said. An g argument might develop when the drunk wants to leave the party. The host is afraid of losing the person's friendship so he lets the drunk drive. him- self, and possibly a loved one, home. "The host has just gambled the friendship against his friend's life — a poor bet," the lieutenant said. Holiday tipplers might use some traditional wis- dom as a guideline for when they've had too much to drink: Like when the bartender tells yoti that you've had enough, or when you introduce, your lover to your spouse at a party. "I don't know how it effects other people," Krieger said, "but I've no- ticed that lately my speech is the first thing af- fected when I've had too much to drink. My tang gets all tongueled up." Unfortunately there are noreal guidelines to use. "It's different for different` people. I've known some people who are bombed after two beers. Back when I was a patrolman, I stopped one guy who was weaving all over the road. He didn't have the odor of alcohol or anything but I knew there was some- thing wrong. He passed all the agility tests we usually give. Then he told me he drank a whole quart of vodka. We gave him a breathalyzer test and he registered .42. He shouldn't have been alive with that reading, much less on the road," Krieger said. However, not only are drunken drivers at fault but in many instances drunken "walkers as well. Over the last year or so, there have been 13 pedes- trian fatalities and in nine of the cases the pedes- trian had been drinking, Krieger said. In two of the nine cases, both the driver and the pedestrian had been drinking, he said. The police department has run a computer pro- gram on fatal traffic accidents from Jan. 1, 1977, through Sept. 22 of this year. From 1 a.m. to 2 a.m., Citizen Photo by Manuel Miera Shopping spree Will it be a Superman kit, or a Star Wars doll, or ... The choice is a tough one for 6 -year-old Keith Kimball. Keith was one of about 60 children who were treated to a pre -Christmas shopping spree last week by Amphitheater High School's Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) chapter. The kids went on their spree at the Sprouse -Reitz Variety Store in Flowing Wells Plaza. The Catalina Foothills school board has ap- proved a contract change that will add two more classrooms to the new elementary school under construction at 3000 E. Manzanita. SchoolThe school; scheduled to open next fall, will house kindergarten through sixth grades and will to grow now have 24 classrooms. Superinten(lent John Eikenberry said the board decided to ad(l the rooms because the accepted bid ($1,745,900) for the 22 -classroom school was under what the district had:.budgeted. "That allowed us more flexibility and we knew we could use 4;ny available space," he said. The extra zooms will cost $123,630. when the bars close, is the most fatal time. The worst days are on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The next worst time of day is "happy hour" from 7 to 8 p.m., according to the study. There were 33 persons who died in traffic acci- dents in that time period. The deadliest location was the Nogales Highway from its intersection with Valencia Road south. Six persons died in traffic accidents during the time of the study. Nogales Highway, like many streets with bad traffic pro- files, is a major arterial, with traffic to and from the south. The areas near the intersections of North First Avenue and Fort Lowell Road, South Park Avenue and Irvington Road and East 22nd Street and South Alvernon Way had five fatal accidents each during the time of the study. The stretch of road along 22nd Street from South Palo Verde Boulevard to South Longfellow Avenue was exceptionally bad for pe- destrians. All five of the fatalities were pedestrians, four of them at night. Also mentioned as deadly intersections were West Congress Street from Grande to the railroad tracks, South 12th Avenue from South Tucson to Irvington and North 15th Avenue at West Grant Road. If ballfield disappears, bringy.our diving gear It may become known as the case of the disappearing county park. A little more of Edgewater Park vanishes each time the Rillito River goes on a rampage, as it did earlier this month. The tiny Northwest Side park was built li/2 years ago to give kids in the River Road area a place to play baseball, according to county Parks and Recreation Department Direc- tor Gene Laos. On the bright side, it gets easier to knock a homerun out of the park, each time the river runs. Unfortunately, a few more floods and there won't be enough left of the seven -acre park for a baseball in- field, Laos noted. Last March, the Rillito gouged out a 30 -foot chunk of the baseball out- field, taking with it a newly -planted clump of trees that were supposed to stop erosion along the edge of the park. The flooding this month carried off another 30 feet, Laos said. "The outfield is now in the river." At one point, Laos asked a secre- tary for the address of the park, which started outwest of Oracle Road along the river. "Marana," the secretary quipped. "That's true," said Laos. "Half of it's in Marana, now. But where did it used to be?" The park, at 4800 N. Idaho,' was built as a special Comprehensive Training and Employment Act project. Laos estimates this month's flooding caused about $30,000 dam- age — about the same as last March. Laos hopes to coax enough money out of the county to rip -rap the banks of the Rillito, before the park disap- pears. If the county Highway Depart- ment can't find a spot for it on its list of priorities, Laos.said he will ask to have the work done on a private contract. Oro Valley to expand? The Oro Valley Town Council is how they like the way the town is eyeing a neighborhood to the south run, Engle said. Meanwhile, a deve- as a possible addition to the commu- loper who wants to build 300 homes nity, according to Mayor E.S. in the western foothills of the Santa "Steve" Engle. Catalina Mountains has asked to be That's one of several possible an- annexed by Oro Valley, hoping the nexation moves being pondered by towns reception will be warmer the council, although it's the only than the county's. one on which the town has made Attorney Robert C. Stubbs, repre- overt motions. senting Atlas-Glenex .Ltd., outlined Engle said the town has written to plans for a 160 -acre development about 65 families in the Shadow east of the present Oro Valley boun- Mountain West subdivision south of daries at last month's council meet - the town "to see if they're interested ing. in becoming part of the town." Stubbs later said the developer The council is interested in the had decided to seek annexation by one-half square mile subdivision, the town because it is unlikely that Engle said, because it would help rezoning could be obtained from even out the town's southern bound- Pima County,- due to conflicts with ary and add more population, which the Tortolita Area Plan. equates to increased funding for Oro Valley government. While annexation wouldn't guar - antee the rezoning, Stubbs said he Shadow Mountain West residents was looking for "guidance" from the have been invited to attend Oro Val- council. He promised to provide de- ley's council meeting tonight to see tailed development plans later. Page 4 Ky KAKDAKA lP,idlBIN children quiet, and without lights glided out onto the ocean. One evening in June a Chinese mother and her child left their house in Vietnam and silently walked That was the beginning of a difficult voyage that into the darkness. A half hour later three of her eventually would land them in Tucson. older children went out of the house. An hour after that her husband walked out with the last two chil- Speaking in Vietnamese, Mien talked about his dren, leaving all the lights on and the door open as escape as he sat in the living room of Bao Ngoc if they meant to return shortly. Nyugen, who was translating his story into English. Mien's wife hovered nearby, wearing loose, pa- jama -like clothing. Their youngest children played Instead, the mother, Phuong Thi La, the father, outside on the sunny lawn. Mien Tuan Tran, and their six children all met Mien told haw the joined several other small some distance away where a small boat was hid- 'boats all headed for they same destination -- a bi den. They lay in the bottom of the boat, keeping the g A familiar figure in the schools of TucsonUni- fied School District is a soft-spoken Vietnamese man, a teacher to about 100 Indochinese refugee children. Quy King Pham was one of the lucky ones. An English teacher at a Saigon technical college, he and his family escaped in a U.S. Air Force plane in April 1975, two days before the Communists too over the capital. Quy's family had four hours to get ready and were allowed one small bag apiece. He carne to Tucson because he had a sponsor here, a former roommate from the University of Northern Colorado, where Quy studied in 1964. "Newcomers need moral support more than any- thing else.. But they have to have a sponsor before they can come. Without help from organizations and individuals we couldn't settle. We are grateful for such assistance," Quy said. Quy, a teacher in bilingual education, works with two aides in schools from elementary through high school levels. "Most of the teachers are understanding, and most of the children are friendly to the refugee children. We have a buddy system. We assign an American student to help a refugee student. boat ahchored a few miles out from the Vietnam coast that would take them to freedom. They boarded the big boat at night, and Mien said hip did not find out until morning that there were more than 100 people on board. They were mostly Vietnamese -Chinese who had pooled their money to buy the boat, the only means of escape,' The boat was so crowded that the passengers couldn't move around. They could only sit, even while they slept. Despite this, Mien said they were luckier than 'those who did not reach boars. Communist soldiers would atop and probably kill anyone they thought was ging to escape. Someone carrying packages or a suitcase would be immediately suspect. For children entering a strange new world, school i an essential roadmap, Quy said. "It is a survival thing so they can get along. It helps them say `I dont understand' or `1 need help' or 'I need to use the rest room.' It is really frightening for the children at first when they can't speak any En- glish. "We 'want to preserve certain things, like ways of preparing foods, and Vietnam holidays. We cele- brate Vietnamese New Year at the end of January. It's the biggest holiday of the year. "We also celebrate American holidays, which the children enjoy." Thousands of Indochinese still wait in refugee camps iii Thailand, Hong Dong and elsewhere for countries to allow them entry. At the camps they must receive health and security clearances. Those coming Here must have a sponsor. In Tucson, churches, a Davis-Monthan Air Force Base wing and individuals have sponsored refu- gees. "We have an old Mexican woman who has al- ready helped three families," said Bai Quy Do, re- settlement coordinator for Catholic Community Services. "She found houses, jobs and got them food. She is a wonderful woman," So Mien and his family walked out of the house wearing three layers of pants and shirts but with no other possessions. $jx„days out on the ocean the boat stopped. The motor 'had given out. The passengers waited. A storm broke. Everyone threw their shoes into a heap and they made a bonfire, hoping to attract help. There wasn't enough water. People began to panic. Some drank children's urine to stay alive. After four days a fishing boat from the island of Hainan spotted them and came to the rescue. For one night and half a day it tugged the overloaded boat, finally arriving at the island. There, the is- landers gave the barefoot passengers water and rice, while the boat was being repaired. Mien said the Red Chinese on Hainan were will- ing to help because he could speak good Chinese. The big boat set out for Hong Kong, but two days later it stopped again. This time it had sprung a leak. The passengers stood ankle deep in water and bailed. It was early in the morning and, as the hours passed, once again they thought they were all going to die. But inithe evening two boats from Hong bong found them., and everyone left the big boat and boarded the fishing boats. A few hours later the big boat sank. Mien and his family were in a refugee camp in Hong Dong for four months. Then they spent one month in Macao before coming to Tucson Nov. 10. Mien and his family are staying temporarily with Bao, who with his wife, three children and his mother-in-law escaped from Vietnam in 1975. Mien, a solemn -faced thin man in blue jeans, spoke of life in Vietnam. Many Vietnamese left Saigon during the Ameri- can airlift in April 1975. But Mien was in Da Nang then, and couldn't get back to Saigon and his fam- ily. So they stayed there, while South Vietnam col- lapsed. Mien had owned a grocery store in Da Nang and a four-story building, where he rented space to three American businesses. When the Communists occupied Da Nang, they took over the store, the building and Mien's large home. His family moved to a smaller house, and the Communists threw Mien in jail for 15 days because he had done business with Americans. His businesses were gone, and Mien could find no other work. His wife stftrted a little business in the marketplace, buying such items as candles and notebooks in quantity and selling them singly at a profit. In January 1977 the Communists took over the distribution of food. Each family was allowed the minimum needed for survival. There were insuffi- cient supplies of rice, the main staple in Vietnam, so people were forced to eat potatoes and whatever vegetables they could find. Meat and fish were available only on the black market at exorbitant prices. Each person was issued a card, and individual portions of food could be purchased only after the card was shown. a However, Mien got only six cards for his family of eight because two of his children were small. They couldn't buy enough food. The Communists required that anyone wishing to travel receive permission from the government. The schools stayed open, but the main subject taught was communism. In order to go to a hospital, you needed a govern- ment certificate. Sometimes it would take too long to get one, and people died. In the hospital there wasn't enough medicine, and salt water was used to clean wounds. All the South Vietniamese doctors had fled or been jailed. The North Vietnamese doctors were "bad,” Mien said. Every non-Communist still in Vietnam is trying to get out, according to Mien. He and his family came to Tucson because they were able to get a sponsor, the Catholic Church, and because people in Hong Dong told Mien it would be hot here, and he didn't want to go to a cold area. His 13 -year-old son entered the room and bowed. Tiny boys and girls, a mixture of Mien and Bao fa- milies, peeked in and stared with big dark eyes. "We're very crowded," said Bao with a laugh. "This is unusual. There is usually a house waiting for refugees when they come here. They should be in a rented house sometime next week." Mien said right now his big wish is to find a job so he can support his family and get the children started in school. Someday he might be in business again, but he thinks it's too late to start over. "Mr. Mien doesn't speak a word of English," said Bao, who is a parttime English tutor to refu- gees. "Learning English is one of the first things he'll have to do." Page a .. . Citizen Illustration by Joel Rochon A strange country, a friendly face �YGar.' M lK'n ' �� 004%AIfiSOf.Itr %X. Right now his office is busy help - f/,j ing refugees who have been in this ?ti • xtiv�mrm i IN, y vg9000iO4ppW.�(g0p. ir. H.•nN+w` other work. His wife stftrted a little business in the marketplace, buying such items as candles and notebooks in quantity and selling them singly at a profit. In January 1977 the Communists took over the distribution of food. Each family was allowed the minimum needed for survival. There were insuffi- cient supplies of rice, the main staple in Vietnam, so people were forced to eat potatoes and whatever vegetables they could find. Meat and fish were available only on the black market at exorbitant prices. Each person was issued a card, and individual portions of food could be purchased only after the card was shown. a However, Mien got only six cards for his family of eight because two of his children were small. They couldn't buy enough food. The Communists required that anyone wishing to travel receive permission from the government. The schools stayed open, but the main subject taught was communism. In order to go to a hospital, you needed a govern- ment certificate. Sometimes it would take too long to get one, and people died. In the hospital there wasn't enough medicine, and salt water was used to clean wounds. All the South Vietniamese doctors had fled or been jailed. The North Vietnamese doctors were "bad,” Mien said. Every non-Communist still in Vietnam is trying to get out, according to Mien. He and his family came to Tucson because they were able to get a sponsor, the Catholic Church, and because people in Hong Dong told Mien it would be hot here, and he didn't want to go to a cold area. His 13 -year-old son entered the room and bowed. Tiny boys and girls, a mixture of Mien and Bao fa- milies, peeked in and stared with big dark eyes. "We're very crowded," said Bao with a laugh. "This is unusual. There is usually a house waiting for refugees when they come here. They should be in a rented house sometime next week." Mien said right now his big wish is to find a job so he can support his family and get the children started in school. Someday he might be in business again, but he thinks it's too late to start over. "Mr. Mien doesn't speak a word of English," said Bao, who is a parttime English tutor to refu- gees. "Learning English is one of the first things he'll have to do." Page a .. . Citizen Illustration by Joel Rochon A strange country, a friendly face At any time of the day or night a short, slight and energetic man, Bai Right now his office is busy help - Quy Do, might be seen at Tucson ing refugees who have been in this 'i International Airport waiting to count two ears to obtain a rma- �' Y � Hent resident status. U.S. Irnmigra- greet a group of refugees arriving from Indochina. tion Service officials had hoped to adjust the status of all eligible Indo- Bai will shepherd the newcomers chinese (about 250 persons in Tuc- into his car and drive them to their son) by Dec. 31. new home, the first of many services he will perform to ease their way Refugees must be permanent resi- into a strange country. dents for five years before they can apply to become U.S. citizens, They "He does everything for refugees can't vote, and they can't hold cer- from shopping to interpreting," says tain government jobs, but they have Carlos Flores, director of immigra- most other rights, according to tion and special services at Catholic Henry V. McGehee, officer in charge Community Services, where Bai is of the 1 o c a l immigration office. resettlement coordinator. "And he • sure doesn't do it for the money," The big advantage is that perms- Flores added. Hent residents can't be told to Leave the country, while refugees could be Seated at his desk and looking expelled, McGehee eXplained. much younger than his a38 years, Bai spoke about his work with refugees. Around 600 Indochinese have He helps them enter the country, come to Tucson, but some have helps them get settled and then helps moved on to other places such as them with their problems, Texas or California, Bai said. "Some were fishermen, and they couldn't A refugee himself, Bai left Saigon find work here. Others joined rela- in 1975. tives living elsewhere." "When new people want to come Currently, about 350 Vietnamese, to Tucson, I receive a telegram from 80 Laotians, 20 Cambodians and nine Thailand, Hong Kong or wherever Vietnamese live here, he said. they are, and I try to find them a sponsor," Bai said. "Then I find The refugees are doing well in. them ahome andet Social Security Tucson, he said. Some are in the res - numbers for them so they can e taurant business, some work at the food stamps and a job. After, they're mines and sore at IBM. "One fish - here, Itake care of their first needs. erman works for Truly Nolen. He has has a good,, 1b, but he is longing for "Sometimes it's a lot of fun. I the sea. picked up a family of eight VietXam- ese from the airport one night. It "He fishes at Randolph Park" anp ark, was raining, and they all had to Bai said, laughing. squeeze into my little car. Then the Already, six or seven refugee chil- door fell off. We had a good time," dren will be graduating from the uni- Bai said. , versity this year, he said. Some When refugees from Vietnam are didn't speak English when they coming, he calls some local Viet- came here. namese to greet them at the airport. "We have found friendship and Refugees from Laos or Cambodia freedom here. It is good here, and will also find ex -countrymen on hand we can adjust. It took me a year to when they arrive. get used to it, but now I can even eat "It makes them feel more wel- Mexican food." come," he said. And Bai laughed again.