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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - The Arizona Daily Star (21)East They hahaveesomheavy dates on tap in Summerhaven By ROB LEVIN made up of just about everybody in Sum- holding community dinners. Area young- than Mayor Billy, was a required dollar do- -71wn Arizo a Daily Star merhaven. stems are even Join their art b hawkin g nationn withh each entry. An lance at popular _ magazines n w Y g pop o a g is pretty set in her ways. So when she calls Kool Aid. days reveals weight -loss plans for every k who wander into he Vine The good folks o de o t g About $4,00(} has been raised so W. Resi- But the prize at stake was attractive conceivable type of person. P r Restaurant are asked to pledge at least 10 cents for each and that Miller and Chil- Po dents have. until November to me their @t t ei . dinner at McDonald's in the city, a Barin Y g ff th f Golf f and to to o e game o Goo p g Thr r There lar for i s o fruit diets protein P � P o son can lose. goal of $5,250, which will then be matched b Y - an equal amount from the federal govern- - n drive-in w at of Tucso s e evening, a sho a e e i g, diets exerciseplans ns for of r f d o or young. p Y g Hard work has always consumed Bes- ment. theaters. You name it and it's been developed. ' P When the two women began the weight- loss fund -raisin drive, the both hovered g Y The money will be used to purchase new When all the entries were in, the winner ,� But in Summerhaven where there's not around the 200 -pound mark. equipment for the fire department - equ p p And out "Mother mmon hri s Mothe Le P roved to be C s much to do except sit around the general picks up in the summer, during the rainy fits for the firemen. The funds will also go in h s 60 -something n Sources say s e 60- Sheldo , So c Y g store and watch the tourists, two residents But the fire departmentgets richer — toward replacing the department's 1953 years old and having beenn on televisionand are trying to lose weightht under a lar that at least about 100 richer the women are Dodge truck. in the newspapers, is something of local corporations have been using for a different r`Po g getting thinner. Chilson and Miller said that One of the more notable Summerhaven celebrity. reason for years: the incentive plan. even before they had the incentives of residents offering to help out the _lire de - Her secret ballot read, "One celebrity Basically, that means if you've. got the money and of the entire community watch- Y partment is the Mayor William Clark. He's deserves another." money, Madonna Miller and Mary Ann Chii- ing their progress, they had already been cutting down on their meals. known as Mayor Billy to anybody who's Mayor Billy, thinking it was Linda Ron- son have the weight to lose. been in town more than once. stadt, chose it. But he apparently wasn't In a very real sense, you would be putting The first one to lose 46 pounds will be the The Vietnam veteran put his thick head disappointed with finding a date old enough your money where their mouths are, but winner, Miller said. of hair and one good eye on the line recently to still call it courting. they're not getting rich off the scheme. The In. addition to the weight -loss scheme, by committing himself to a date with who- He said the movie they will see this week - pledged money will benefit the Mount Lem- residents have been raising money by sell- ever could say, in 10 words or less, Why she end will either be "X-rated, violent or car - mon Volunteer Fire Department, which is ing ink pens, conducting rummage sales and would want to date him. The catch, other toons." Fund fun - Chriss Sheldon — better known as "Mother Lem - mon" — gets a hug, at left, from Mayor Billy Clark after winning a date with him in a fund-raising effort for the Mount Lem - mon Volunteer Fire De- partment. At right, Clark shows Madonna Miller, left, and Mary Ann Chil- son the progress of the campaign. (Star photos by Art Grasberger) Ask About Our Daily ".M-OPED Bakery Register To Win Feature Drawing Held July 7, 1979__,..., ct No Purchase Necessary Entrant frust be 16 yrs. of age Monday thru Wednesday 14 COUNT DOZEN DOUGHNU1r' r oy� y rr Purchased at our regular price of $1.95 a doz. . '�'• �H� /// ry/y r, •4rjFy r,,� � / /:.�L..'r ! :¢c f.1C, h� . ;. .. � rr �f y ,ir1 x�f, Mopedr d / t 1 1: r' ! br rrtNj✓yir r+ 1r..:+f`1 r/.7,1 hrj,y/rl r , r ;.py ,yr" err• 1r ";.! ",i r y ..� -: . r rr ".1r` j ` %• !' ,' f r ,fid - .•f`•.y':rh ``1r /!!v / r..Y.ri`. %✓/ F '�vr r .y ✓+r 0 0Courtes :.:;,{: : ' y .. 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He died in 1975 don't disagree, or she may raise a stink. while loading fertilizer onto a truck, Bessie Her friends and neighbors know her as says, adding, "That's the way he wanted to Bessie. Just Bessie, the lady at the end of go, working." the street, with four old trucks, two tractors and piles and piles of fertilizer. Hard work has always consumed Bes- sie's time, too. She says she once delivered It is a sweet, grandmotherly Bessie the 13 trucks of fertilizer in one day, but con - area kids have come to love, but it is a cedes that it was an exception. Business forceful businesswoman who orders the picks up in the summer, during the rainy high-school trucker to deliver loads of fertil- season, when the fertilizer is soft and dark. izer. Bessie buys manure from Shamrock "Everybody gets a bang out of Bessie's e Dairy and keeps it on her property. "I'm ° good black fertilizer," Bessie says. "Mine's just a little shot," she says, "and nobody natural composted, better than the pro - messes around with little shots. They cessed stuff stores sell.99 didn't when she owned a flower shop down- The manure comes from steers and cows town for 20 years. that graze at the Shamrock Dairy farm', , Although she prefers to be known as a which is located behind Bessie's house on "good of country gal," Bessie gets down- North Obetka Avenue. A right serious when dung is at stake — wear- ing her blue jeans and Southern smile, she Bessie L. Cook is now on her third mar - can move mountains of manure in a day in riage, this time to Elbert Davis, who is her blue truck. 28 years her junior. She says her girlfriends Bessie owns and operates Cook's Fertil- at church are envious that she attracts izer, which sells fertilizer primarily to back- Younger men. But Bessie just explains that yard gardeners. Delivery is made with (See BESSIE, Page 6D) Joshua weaves way into town hall For the past year, a tiny guest at the said, he is a loner who likes to come out Oro Valley Town Hall has been weaving between 4 and 5 in the afternoon. his way into the hearts of town officials. Morse said she first noticed Joshua, Since Joshua, a tan spider, decided to who is 4 inches in diameter, in May 1978, r recently decided that worke s make the town hall his residence, no one but office y is allowed to hurt him," said Town Clerk he should be protected as more than just Dotti Morse. an ordinary spider. Morse said Joshua, the name given "Who knows, the mayor may even the critter by town officials, "is now a proclaim a `Joshua the Spider Day,' " Star photos by Art Grasberger Part of the Oro Valley network." But, she she said. -!n truck or tractor, `fertilizer queen' Bessie keeps manure moving West Ho ts- -ile le wdy ne* sm a t. on..icycle MATT HANSON "It's just as well. I like to race, and I never let anyone The Arizona Daily Star on another three-wheeler pass me." She might have ridden across the country four times or The 86 -year-old woman has ridden almost 200 miles a rolled almost halfway around the world. And she probably month for the past six years. would have if she had started bicycling before she turned 80• She is taking her 80s quite seriously. This year she received a birthday card from President Carter. But instead, Estelle Towler has pedaled more than 12,000 miles much closer to home. She confines herself to Did you know I was an octogenarian?" she asked, cycling around the Holiday Isle Mobile Home Resort at knowing that she has been amember ofthatelite club for as 1402 W. Ajo Way. long as she has been cycling. "When I got my bike my daughter made me promise I For Towler, old age is a profession. She cared for people wouldn't go out on the street, and I never have," Towler as a registered nurse before she retired, and she takes good said. care of herself. "I still take care of this place, and I do my own cook- ing," she said. "I still have my own teeth ... and I can still Juneteenth fest set Saturday See. I like to keep up with things. I dont know what I'd do if Music, athletic contests and free food will highlight the I couldn't ride. annual Juneteenth Festival, which is scheduled from 9 a.m. "I've ridden more than ddh12 to midnight Saturday in the Vista Del Pueblo Park at the ,000 miles, and I bet I've had "A" Mountain Neighborhood Center. over 12,000 smiles and greetings along the way," Towler said. Juneteenth (June 18, 1865) marks the day that slavery was abolished in Texas when federal troops sailed into I always smile. It doesn't matter how I feel. A smile is Galveston to force landowners to release those who had been the thing that costs the least, and does the most good. held despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. "Everybody says `hello' in this park. But I decided to The festival, which has been celebrated in Tucson for say `howdy' so they would think I was from the South, but eight years, will include booths that will offer crafts, games I'm not," she said, with a mischievous smile. and food throughout the day. Now "Howdy" has become her nickname, and as she Track and field events are scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. breezes through the park everyone calls out, "Howdy, Registration will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at the park, Howdy." which is at 1800 W. San Marcos Blvd. Towler, who has worn out two bikes, in now on her third The free feast will begin at 6 p.m. The Ododo Theatre, one, which is bright red. Eneke and the Gospel Harmony Group will perform from She also has gone through four speedometers (she keeps 6 to 9 p.m., and three bands will perform from 9 p.m. to a close watch on the mileage), and a number of tires and midnight. inner tubes. Her cousin, who also lives -in the park, makes most of Directors elected by fire disfrict the necessary repairs, and keeps her bike in good working order. The Tucson Estates Fire District has elected a new board of directors, whose term begins July 1. Towler, who has never been in an accident, is very proud of that record because, as she says, she is usually James Thornton, Virginia Gates and Herman Tempas pushing the 10 -mph speed limit. were elected to four-year terms. John Berglund and Robert Rosen Jr. were elected for two-year terms. "I like to go fast because it's easier. I've had a couple of Tucson Estates and the surrounding area are served by close calls, but I always keep my hand on the brake. Station 43 of the Rural Metro Fire Department. - "I never learned to drive a car, and it's probably just as South. Star photo by Art Grasberger Estelle Towler rollin' on well becaus(� I would have wanted to see how fast it would go." •IEast Nei 9 hbors ffdtiL } �:�:'� - ai ns on EastCa P 9 1 9 over,-ve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By DANNY MADDUX ''` - years until the federal government recog- ff .., The Arizona Daily Star nized them. ° From the time he quit acting in silent r' -f Keller was commissioned a second lieu - films to enlist for World War I until today, H. ;; tenant in the volunteer reserve, and spent M. "Harry" Keller has never stopped being +; j stretches on active duty in the 1920s and } a Marine. 1930s. Keller, who has lived in Tucson off and on When he went back into the Marines dur- since 1954, has always tried to go where the f ing World War II, Keller was scheduled to action is. r :` :...... take a desk job in San Francisco, but "I didn't come in the Marine Corps for that," The '80 -year-old found that action in the s `+ Marines, where the traditions, the spit -and - lin' says. He begged Gen. Holland M. "How - polish atmosphere and the esprit de corps,� lin' Mad" Smith, commander of the 2nd Ma- "does something inside of you that gives you }y% rine Division, to be taken along to Tarawa, a different feeling," he says. f :f{ . and was assigned to his staff. He started his show -business career as a ±° ` °A°°`'4' s 4r.:: He served in the Tarawa campaign until - • }'� �f. _ an intestinal disorder sent him to a hospital teen-ager, performing in plays around Chi- fi at Pearl Harbor. cago. He soon went to work for United Pho-" toplays Co. of Chicago making mostly for- jr a: g He retired in 1959 as a colonel with gettable silent films, with starring roles in 35 years' service, but he is still attached to g the Marines as an active member of the several of them. veterans' Marine But movies didn't keep him from enlist- f ° �: yy }• •--° � :: ler, state chaplain for the corps Keller, ing when World War I broke out. league, spends a lot of time workingwith f ` f "There was a war, and I wanted to go," veterans groups, and recently completed a Keller says, describing himself as the "ad- ° {ff` term as state president of Retreads Inc., a venturous type." h f '" f f,� 4: national organization YP ,.,:. ..:. ¢ : � � ..._ •{ for veterans who He entered the Army,but decided he A: + served in both world wars. Star- photo by Art Grasberger Keller, of 604 N. Jefferson St., moved to would rather be a Marine when he learned that he was scheduled to go into the signal Harry Keller with 111S treasured memorabilia Tucson just before he retired because of a corps. bronchial problem, and has since worked in After hitt first hitch, Keller worked for an discussing the need for a Marine reserve, real estate, mobile -home sales and con - "I saw the poster of a Marine walking Indiana power company during Prohibition such as the other armed services had. struction. te n S tilt t C P down the dock in his blues, and that looked in a variety of posts. As an investigation "We volunteered our time because He'll never forget the Marines, however, pretty good to me," Keller says. c use we officer, he raided moonshiners with a posse loved it," he says. "We served =because we even though it almost never happened. He served as a corporal aboard the bat- and police. wanted to." He helped start the unit in Chi- Keller was only 5 -feet -7, and was turned tleship USS Pennsylvania, the flagship of It was about this time that Keller got cago, recalling that the men drilled in parks down three times before the Marines finally Towler .says she rides as much as she can daily — early ng Ine war.------ together with other ex -Marines and started without pay and without proper uniforms for took him. - in the morning or in the evening when it cools off. "If I don't ride," she said, "I'll get lazy." Other perk residents are starting to follow her example. She says there were only three or four bikes in the park when she started riding, and now there are dozens. His travel secret: working overseas, By MATT HANSONThe pieture on the cover of the book tells something The Arizona Daily Star about her character. She is sittingin the arms of a tall all Bob Gordon knows something about inflation. He once Chinese statue as she holds a handkerchief a up to its nose. paid $250,000 for a morning newspaper. a, Mill Y found several jobs as a stenographer, and, when "That was really something. When I was in China for she was on the move, she carried a suitcase in one hand and r the first time in 1929, a Chinese dollar was roughly equiva- a typewriter in the other. lent to an American dollar. But in 1949, six weeks before the t. a� Red army moved in, an American dollar was worth Gordon says the book is a memorial to his wife who died in 1975 and ' also a depiction of a way of life that has oY $12 million Chinese. We had to carry our money around in vanished. suitcases," he said. Amphitheater 2198439464 1976349988 9.8 Gordon lived abroad for 40 years while working for the "The way of life in the Orient is so different now," he export -sales department of the Eastman Kodak Company. said. He says he's been around the world five times, and only paid Tanque Verde 395219225 3,0299910 16.0 for it once. "The secret of living abroad is to work for an American He's been in countries that no longer exist, and cities g company," Gordon said. Because he was paid by an Ameri- that have changed their names. He lived in the Philippines, can company while living abroad, according to Gordon, he was able to maintain a hi higher standard of living than he ,� Chile, Shanghai and Hong Kong. would have been able to afford in the United States. He now lives in Green Valley, which he says he enjoys mally adopt its 1979-80 budget at tonight's board meeting. The d very much although he admits that his` interests have While Gordon and his wife and three children lived in ��`'`+ .: changed. r: Shanghai they employed a servant for each member of the y "I never thought I would play shuffleboard," he says. family. "But at 75, I have to admit I enjoy playing shuffleboard." Gordon graduated from the University of Rochester in dd Gordon has just finished a book about his late wife, New York in 1926, and earned his master's degree in political economy there a year later. He studied to be a teacher, but ' 4 MillY, who was also an avid world traveler. soon discovered he wasn't cut out for it. . `"I think her life was more interesting than mine," rd L a q Gordon said even though the spent almost 50 ears to - g Y Pe Y didn't want to talk about what someone else had ether. done, done, I wanted to do something myself," " Gordon said. g Y , Both meetings will be held in the library for next school year. eral government. Star photo by Art Grasberger Milly worked her way around the world in 1927 shortly "I have no regrets, if I were a young man today I would Traveler, writer Bob Gordon before they were married. do the same thing again." PAGE TWO -- SECTION D THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 149 1979 All around town Budgets approved by 3 school districts School boards for three outlying districts this week adopted final budgets for fiscal year 1979-50, and a fourth is expected to do PERCENT so tonight. DISTRICT TOTAL BUDGETS INCREASE The Sunnyside School Board adopted a 1979-80 1978-79 $23,202,219 budget Tuesday night by a 4-0 ° - vote. Board member Al Arellano did not Tucson Unified $131,920,068 $114,580,785 15.1 attend the meeting. Sunnyside $23,2029219 229389,237 4.4 The largest increase is for special educa- Amphitheater 2198439464 1976349988 9.8 tion, which was raised 14 percent to Marana 109436,506 890169783 31.0 $1,384,162 for next year. Capital projects and Flowing Wells 8,032,743 798229034 9.0 debt services are up 13 percent; mainte- Tanque Verde 395219225 3,0299910 16.0 nance and general operations fund, 9 per- cent; and.pupil transportation, 6.8 percent. Vail 194809639 1217 300 7.0 The special projects budget was reduced by 4.2 percent to $1,460,000. Jim Irwin, the district's business man- (The Catalina Foothills School District is scheduled to for-= ager, said Sunnyside's tax rate (now $8.16 mally adopt its 1979-80 budget at tonight's board meeting. The per $100 of assessed valuation) will have to district's proposed budget is $4,8431124, a 29 percent increase be raised to pay for the new budget, but he from last year s figure of $3,755,422.) would not speculate as to how much. The Marana School Board adopted a The Catalina Foothills School Board will the salary increases, and he said others are $10,436,506 budget for next year at a special conduct a public hearing at 7:30 tonight on considering resigning. meeting Tuesday night. its proposed 1979-80 budget. The meeting Thropasked the trustees for a decision b y Trustees approved $5,926,006 for the ele- mentary schools and $4,510,500 for Marana will be followed by a special session at which today, the deadline for the district's the board is expected to adopt the budget. 65 teachers to turn in their signed contracts High School. The budgets include $450,000 the district expects to receive from the fed- Both meetings will be held in the library for next school year. eral government. of Orange Grove Junior High School 1 1 g g 9 1 E. Teachers who fail to sign contracts by the Orange Grove Road. deadline face the g possibility of being re - The Flowing Wells School Board adopted placed, "probably by less experienced a 1979-80 budget of $8,032,743 Tuesday night In a related matter, George Throp, presi- teachers," Throp said. by a 4-0 vote. District dent of the Catalina Education Association, Catalina Foothills teachers are discon- has asked the school board to reopen salary Superintendent William K. Pos_ ton said major increases in the budget were tented with the a raises the negotiations after school starts in the fall. pay school board g granted in May, Throp said. Teacher morale for utilities, up 14 percent, and salaries for Throp said at least five district teachers is low, and teachers' "self-concept is being certified and non -teaching personnel, who, -- three at Sunrise Drive Elementary and destroyed because the board is not respon- he said, received an average 7 percent in- two at Orange Grove Junior High — have re- sive to the human element in the school crease. signed because they were dissatisfied with district," he said. TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 149 1979 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Jameson r from SoI lver Bell - The Arizona Daily Star SILVER BELL — Don Jameson has re- tired after 19 years as manager of Asarco Inc.'s Silver Bell Unit. Jameson, 65, a native of Nebraska, came to Tucson in 1924, and graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in min- ing. He was an Asarco student employee in 1937-38 while at the UA, and worked at a mine near P a- to onia and in Silver City, N.M., before joining the Sil- ver Bell Unit in 1957. As general manager at , Silver Bell, Jameson over- saw all phases of produc- { tion, worked with depart- ment heads and was Jameson involved in planning, pro- duction, mining and milling. Jameson said he has enjoyed working for Asarco, but that he is looking forward to retirement. He said he and his wife, Vir- ginia, will move to Tucson, "and we had some travel plans, but with the gas shortage T.E. Scartaccini, manager of Asarco's Southwestern Mining Department, said, "Jameson is a highly -thought -of individual, and Asarco is sorry to lose him. We certainly wish him well." Friends and co-workers held a farewell reception and buffet dinner for the Jame - sons at the Hilton Inn in Tucson. * SECTION D —a- PAGE SEVEN wrr Neighbors .... �oh:�=x_XK Nor th Star photos by Art Grasberger Phillip and Allene Hansen, the fruit-pickin' couple ... ■ Oro Vall.ey, budget action due The Oro Valley Town Council is sched- The Town Council has voted to abandon uled to adopt a tentative budget for next — which means the town will take no respon- fiscal year June 28. ' sibility for maintenance — the intersection Mayor E.S. "Steve" Engle said town of- of Calle Loma Linda and Linda Vista Boule- ficials have been relying on this fiscal year's vard on the town's Westside. figures in drafting the proposed $385,924 budget. This year's budget is $338,336, he Homeowners near the site are now re - said. sponsible for upkee of the dirt -road inter - P Longtime Tucsonans may remember section, said Town Clerk Dotti Morse. Aug. 13 is the deadline for the town to Bessie mostly wants to rest awhile, travel to adopt its final budget, Engle said. Town officials said the intersection was The open meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at too costly to maintain, and created a traffic Town Hall, 680 W. Calle Concordia. hazard. Bessie keeps business- ovin 9 (Continued from Page ID) landscaping business Jim started in Tucson. "any good of country girl is liked by the "You think I have time to run a com- boys•" pany?" asks Bessie. "I've got a husband to Besides her reputation as a feisty busi- feed, fertilizer to deliver, phone orders to nesswoman, Bessie claims to be one of Tuc- take. She -wants to buy a telephone -an - son's most prolific canning, pickling and swering machine because her phone rings freezing experts. off the hook sometimes, she says. Longtime Tucsonans may remember But after being a lifetime career woman, Bessie as the owner of a downtown flower Bessie mostly wants to rest awhile, travel to shop, which once sold mums at a the Pacific Coast and care for Elbert, who .18,000 University of Arizona homecoming game. was recently injured at the mines. every year," Mrs. Hansen says. "It's not a moneymaking thing, but it pays the water She doesn't always play the tough boss. Or they might recall the times she and "I never nag, do I, honey?" she asks El - Jim gave away one- and five -gallon plants to bert. fertilizer buyers. Bessie abandoned the He just smiles. These orchard-keepers branch out on newP ath By AL ARIAV The Arizona Daily Star To folks along West Wetmore Road, Phil- Mrs. Hansen recently took a correspon- lip and Allene Hansen are known as a tutti- Bence course on upholstering; redoing car frutti couple. interiors involves more than just sewing and The Hansens, who have lived on Wetmore Pulling seats out, she points out. 22 years, grow apricots, peach0s, plums, The Hansens enclosed their garage, apples, pears and figs on their 21t` -acre lot. 12 creating a workshop in a third of it. They And it's all for their 10 children, 16 grand- plan to start advertising soon, but A.P. is children and countless neighbors: Fruit not known strictly through word-of-mouth. sold at minimal prices to neighbors is given away,.or, as Hansen says, "it would just rot That system seems to work for the fruit here." business, too. "People come for the fruit P "Giving to the neighbors is the fun part of every year," Mrs. Hansen says. "It's not a moneymaking thing, but it pays the water growing, says Hansen, who was Born down bill." the block, on Roger Road, and attended Flowing Wells schools. His children at- She sa Ys that although there s never tended Lutheran schools and F1o�Vng Wells enough apples to sell," the family usually High School. gets its share of the apricots or peaches that When he is not canning, freezir,p or filling fall off the trees during the night. "We laundry bags with ripe apricot4, Hansen have breakfast off the trees some - plays country -western tunes on his fiddle times,„ she says. and guitar. "I leave some on the ground for the "IfY P ou don't ick 'emup, PeOPIe step on birds,” Hansen says. "They need feeding, 'em," he.says. Growing fruit is as much fun too." for him as working in a dairy, which he did But what the birds can't have — and before "the price of grain went up and the neighbors love to have — are Mrs. Hansen's price of milk went down." fruit pies. The apples she picked and froze in As a kid, Hansen worked at :shamrock September go into her apple pies as late as and Olson dairies in Tucson, while his dad April. ran an orchard of apricot, peach and fig "And that's no bird food," Hansen says. trees. Until he was laid off last year, Hansen had been a night -loading supervisor at Hol- BI'ds o bu'ild'in sum Bakery for 23 years, he says. But, at 56, he says he is not ready to retire. rejected by boar So Allene and Phillip formed A P. Uphol- stery, which they run from their hoose. They The Flowing Wells School Board has re - specialize in upholstering car interiors, and business, is getting better, they gay. Mrs. jested five bids to build an auto -mechanics building at Flowing Wells High School be - Hansen, who sews the materials, s�iys so far cause all were over the engineer's $170,000 they have upholstered six cars with their estimate. $1,000 sewing machine and assortment of hand tools. Bids would be reconsidered if the are y changed to meet cost restrictions, a district The business started last year after Han- spokesman said. sen wanted to restore one of his three Jeeps, but found out that nobody could fix the top, Theroposed auto -mechanics --ogram is P � g and it would cost $250 to repair the seat. With the idea of a committee of parents, teachers and mechanic representatives that was Mrs. Hansen's sewing machine, they went to work on their Jeep. asked to research the matter in December. "One thing led to another," says Hansen, year indicated that about 100 students were "and before we knew it, we started doing interested in the program, and 80 percent of friends' cars." parents support it. PAGE SIX ® SECTION D THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 14y 1979 It's red-letter day ss am takes "I at at h By AL ARIAV The Arizona Daily Star "SUPO Sam" is gone from behind the wooden counter, and so are his his basketball cards and magazines, wise- cracks and mischievous laughter. After nearly 40 years in the postal business -ti, "SUPO Sam" — 64 -year-old Sam Schesser —has sold his last stamp and given away the last lollipop to the kids who visited his crammed office. Since 1972 the office has been in the basement of the Student Union at the University of Arizona, where Sam was everybody's favorite postal clerk, especially New York Yankee fans ... and New York fans ... and New Yorkers. "SUPO Sam" made the Student Union Post Office tick, they said. (SUPO stands for Student Union Post Office and is part of the addresses of all the students who get mail there.) Sam isn't returning to New York, he says, but he plans to travel in his second retirement. He "retired" from the Postal Service in 1970, but realized that he still had some good years ahead. Sam had a following at the post office because he is a kibitzer — one who offers advice, sometimes unwanted. "You can take me out of the big city," Schesser would say, "but not the big city out of me." During the Depression, doctors, dentists and lawyers worked alongside Sam at a New York City post office. He attended college ("I wanted to be a pharmacist"), but never graduated. He became a lifelong postal employee, retiring in 1970 as supervisor of the Yankee Stadium branch in Man- hattan. "I started out as the low man on the totem pole at the post office," Sam says, "making 65 cents an hour as a substitute. "I'd work whenever work was available. They called us `hounds' because we were always on the lookout for jobs around the office — delivering mail, sorting letters, selling stamps. I never complained; you never did in the De- pression." Sam loves the Big Apple, but the subways, snow and crime finally got to him, he said, so he headed West, where he can walk at night without keeping his eyes roving 360 degrees. "No one is foolish enough to put on a jogging suit and run in Central Park at night," Sam says. "Not even the muggers." He says he was never mugged in New York, but had one close call. Swinging his attache case furiously, Sam ap- parently .got the message across to the would-be muggers that he meant business. In 1972, a year after Sam and Rochelle, his wife of 38 years, arrived in Tucson, he had an urge to return to the labor force, even if only for a few hours a week. He started to sell stamps again, the way his career back East began, at the Student Union. To the university basketball players — primarily those from the Northeast — Sam became a bleacher coach who cast a father's image, treating his "sons" with the respect they cherished. To the rest of the 45,000 on campus, Sam was anything they wanted. A close friend ... a kibitzer ... a good listener. Leisure look This familiar smile, which "SUPO Sam" flashed at customers of the Student Union post office at the University of Arizona over the years, is a smile of leisure these days. After nearly 40 years in the postal busi- ness, Sam Schesser is re- tiring. (Star photo by Art Grasberger) Formerly a smoker, he was the guy who posted anti- smoking posters around the campus post office, which is a contract station — it's run by the UA, not the Postal Service. He was also a magician of sorts — a master of several coin tricks that lured his student friends again and again to his counter. Basketball, however, is Sam's speciality. He attends every UA game, follows the Knicks and memorizes starting lineups. Sam and Rochelle have plans to travel soon to British Columbia, and to visit his granddaughter in New Jersey. Tucson, Sam says, will remain his "base," and Sam has plans to drop in from time to time on his SUPO buddies. "SUPO Sam" may no longer be in the cellar — to the disappointment of students and kids — but they can still stop and kibitz with him at UA basketball games — but only during timeouts, please. EI EnCanfo riazone bid due hearing A proposal to build five townhouses on a corner lot in the exclusive El En - canto neighborhood will be aired at a public hearing tonight before the city zoning examiner. In requesting R-2 zoning for the southeast corner of Fifth Street and Country Club Road, David N. Leggett said the cost of screening the resi- dences from arterial traffic requires development of five units, two of which might be two-story homes. The Planning Department recom- mends against the rezoning because it might set a precedent for future R-2 requests at other large lots along Fifth Street, according to planner Walter Tellez. Instead, he recommended R-1 for the corner, which would allow devel- opment of four units. Tellez noted that the corner had been zoned R-1 before El Encanto homeown- ers acquired the more restrictive RX -2 zone last July to prevent residents from splitting the neighborhood's large lots. A neighborhood plan drafted by area residents, which will be reviewed by the City Council June 25, recommends maintaining the RX -2 zoning for the corner lot. In another case to be heard by Zoning Examiner David P. Lim, the city is requesting rezoning for a parcel at St. Mary's Road and Granada Avenue to allow development of a Chamber of Commerce building. In February the City Council granted the chamber a 99 -year lease on the acre parcel, which is split among residential, commercial and industrial zonings. The requested R4 zoning is supported by the Planning Department. The hearing begins at 7:30 p.m. in the first -floor conference room at City Hall. Lim's recommendations will be sent to the City Council for final action. TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 149 1979 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR SECTION D— S PAGE. 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