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By JOHN J. EVANS
I am not an entomologist, but I know the difference
between a grasshopper and a paloverde beetle, so I think
I am qualified to discuss the paloverde beetle — the big,
black, ugly thing that crawls out of the ground on hot,
humid summer evenings.
It is ugly because it is absolutely not pretty. when you
understand this, you can begin to understand whyI love
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to slaughter, smash, drown, trample and in any oter way
terminate their miserable, short lives, especially before
they have consummated their nocturnal marriages.
But the fact that I do not like their style of beauty isn't
the real reason I do battle with them.
We had three beautiful paloverde trees in our yard --
had, that is, until the advent of this lousy, disgusting,
useless bug with its voracious appetite for the tender
roots of this desert tree.
Now, we have only one paloverde tree, and it is endan-
gered. I have a strong compulsion to eliminate the beetles
from the face of my yard if possible, and I feel as com-
pelled to charge them with my shovel as a Don Quixote
charging windmills!
It is a big help to acquire some knowledge about these
critters. Be certain you know who your enemy is. It is not
the june bug or the ladybug. Be sure it is the paloverde
beetle, and from my above description, I know you won't
have any difficulty recognizing it.
But here I am, assuming you feel the same toward the
beetle as I do. Perhaps you don't.
I like to case the yard in the late afternoon to determine
whether there are any new breaks in the surface. The
breaks look very much like ant holes; however, there
never is any surplus dirt around them. (This is a mystery
I haven't solved).
The break in the surface tells me my friends will make
a grand entry, probably this very evening. I hold my
trusty shovel ready. When the last vestige of afternoon
breeze has diminished to a stifling nothingness and the
humidity radiates up from the hot ground, I know it is
time to go to war. I also know the killer of trees will not
so much as reveal a single whisker until after sundown.
I approach each break in the surface stealthily. Quietly
I stand, shovel raised in combat position, and peer down
to detect the slightest movement. If I do, wham!
They are wily, and the motion of the shovel must be one
beautiful, rhythmic and soundless jab. If I don't slice the
beetle in two, which I don't aim to do for certain reasons,
he will be fouled up in the shovel full of dirt I displaced.
As soon as I extricate him, I smack him with the back of
the shovel, which produces a delightful snap sound. I then
start a. funeral mound with his carcass and add to the
mound as fast as 'my faithful shovel produces results.
Then, a strange thing happens. Those that have
escaped their holes in the ground, probably in a neigh-
bor's yard, take to the air and soon are attracted to my
mound of beetles. However, when they begin to circle
their fallen comrades, I begin to swing my shovel.
Then, if it's not too dark out, the second amazing thing
happens. Two or three saucy, impudent grackles who've
been watching the action from a pine tree drop to the
ground. It may sound ridiculous, but these birds must
have a high degree of intelligence. They have watched me
enough nights that they have learned the technique I use.
They strut from hole to hole, squinting in for an inhabi-
tant, and sometimes they find one I have missed, bless
them. In one motion they jab their beaks into the hole,
nervously jump back and flip the thing into the air.
I like to think they are there solely to help me, but even
if their purpose is to enjoy at delicacy, we work well
together.
As I lie in bed fatigued from the evening's skirmish I
am filled with glee knowing that there will be no beetle
larvae gnawing all winter long on my paloverde's tender
roots.
John J. Evans, who is retired, has lived in Tucson for
30 years. He says his one surviving paloverde tree is
"pretty well affected," and he doesn't know "whether it
will make it to next year."
Thursday, August 30, 1979
Jim Bowman caught this child on
the threshold of her Naco, Son.,
home while he was on a photo-
graphic expedition along the Mex-
ican border. Bowman, who's been
taking pictures for two years, is a
display advertising representa-
tive for Tucson Newspapers, Inc.
The hazards of parking lot driving
By JEANNE BRUNS
trun(I ing up the down arrow lane and attempted to park
in thv slot.
Something should be done about those fading, painted
This, however, is practically impossible when the slot is
arrows that are supposed to guide us through shopping
pointed in the direction opposite the way my car is
center parking lots.
headed. If there is some time to spare and the aisle is not
While looking for a vacant parking space in the stag-
too narrow, I can jockey the car into alignment with the
others. But what I really need is a car that bends in the
gered rows of cars, I invariably go up the down arrow. My
middle.
mind and eyes are set to focus on parked cars and empty
spaces, not on the direction of arrows. And as soon as I
Eater -exit signs also are irritants on par with parking
drive up the wrong way, I meet Mr. Right, who somehow
lot arrows.
manages to know the correct way to go.
When I am buzzing along a busy city street and need
Mr. Right's wrath has no bounds as he bears down on
some cash, for instance, I look for a branch of my bank.
me. A blast from his horn unnerves me completely, and I
By the time I am upon one, it is a matter of survival that I
barely miss protruding bumpers as I try to squeeze over
duck as hurriedly as possible into the bank's driveway.
to let him by. No such luck -- the aisle is too narrow. One
of us must back up to the intersecting lane.
In this situation, do I have time to see if the opening is.
an diet or an outlet? A really harrowing experience is to
Now we come to an impasse. I am two-thirds of the way
accidentally choose the right opening and meet someone
down, while Mr. Right has just turned into the lane. So,
coming out of it. This means stopping in the traffic -laden
logically, I figure he should back up.
street- and taking my chances on a rear -end collision.
Huh-uh! His unmistakable glare reads, "You're the
There should be a solution to these driving problems.
How about tall, red lamp posts topped with giant, yellow
turkey — you backup." I shove the car into reverse and
flashing arrows? Then we could respond more readily
in the rear-view mirror get a bead on a slender opening
before we go up the down arrow or in the exit.
that lies between the jutting cars. Into use backing up,
though. Another up -the -down-arrow car pulls in behind
me. This means Mr. Right has to back up.
Jeanne Bruns is a Tucson resident who enjoys com-
mentcng on the small problems of daily life. She says
One time at a shopping center, I finally spied an empty
this account of her frustrations with shopping center
parking space. Before someone could beat me to it, I went
parking lots is only slightly exaggerated.
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The hazards of living in the space age i
By KEN J. TORGERSON
High frequency TV and radar waves permeate your
body; night and day, as if it weren't there.
In this modern society, have you ever become mindful
Lhies of force from the magnetic poles of our earth
of what invisible forces are at work?
pierce, our bodies by the millions.
Let's say you live near a high voltage line that
stretches through the city. Millions of magnetic lines of
Hew is it possible to have billions and billions of parti-
cles �2_nd waves constantly going through your brain and
force pulsate out for hundreds of feet, permeating every-
body 24 hours a day with no apparent effectV,
thing, including you.
Coming up from the ground under you and through you
Well, you are, you know, 99.99 -plus percent just space.
are the natural, constantly occuring gamma rays.
Space is nothing. So it might be demeaning to think that
FM and AM radio waves scoot through your body by
in reality, there's mostly a void between your ears, espe-
cially on days when you feel proud of your great accom-
the billions. X-rays of stellar origin beam through you and
plishrments.
your house continually.
Cosmic rays (high speed electrons and protons) from
Bur- then, the reverse might happen, and you could feel
outer space, with such power that they've been recorded
exhi.,rated that nothing could get so much accom-
more than a mile deep in the earth, cruise through you
plish=,-�.
with a swishhh.
Ke- J. Torgerson is a Tucson freelance writer.
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fr The C-.talina Council, which embraces Southern Ari-
�r zona, had about 10,000 youth -members and 3,500 adult
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leaders, Leighton said. The council, however, was larger
r f about fiv6 years ago and membership had been declin-
f ing.
Life saver
"We're back in a growth position," Leighton said,
On the way back to Tucson from a ranch south of here,' "rather than in a retreat position." He explained that the
the Felipe Saucedo family saw an overturned truck on ,: ,: council hts cleared u its debts and cut down on its pro-
Sierrita Mountain Road. A 'rl was standing beside the F''''f '�r fessional F P a balanced budget.
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truck with a gash on her forehead. Another girl la on the
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ground unconscious. e r
This spring the council added 59 new packs and troops.
Felipe's 17 -year-old daughter Maggie went to the aid of
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the unconscious girl. The girl was not breathing and g Po
Maggie immediately applied mouth-to-mouth resuscita- famous risen who once were Boy Scouts. For Instance, one
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tion. The girl started breathing, but then she stopped po tens says, When you help start p,
again. there's no guarantee one of the Scouts will. grow up to be
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President." Next to the message is a picture of Gerald
By the time an ambulance arrived, the girl on the Ford in a Scout uniform.
ground had stopped breathing three more times and each
time Maggie started her breathing again. J
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become a veterinarian.. Maria honored b Sheriff Richard Boykin
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the American Business
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Award winnersfor second place in the Baker Cup competition during the,
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fraternity's biennial leadership conference.
Over the speaker's table at the '
�Cynthia Butcher of Tucson has received a piano schol-
recent Goodwill Industries annual
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slo an. Every year the Morgan McDermott Post 7 and Auxil-
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�Mae Dell North received the for newly naturalized U.S. citizens.$4,000 richer
Goodwill "worker of the year"
Shelprnan award. Although severely crippled This year's reception, held last week, honored 77 new- A Tucson couple is $4,000 richer after winning the An
with arthritis, she has maintained U.S. citizens. Forty-five of the naturalized citizens are heuser-Busch Pick -a -Pair Sweepstakes.
a perfect attendance record with the agency. She is now from Mexico. Asians and Europeans made up the rest of The wincing entry of William and Janet Gracco, both
in charge of a grow of handicapped workers who compile the group.
P PP � 29, of 6709 S : Craycroft Road, was picked from some 92,000
catalogs and service manuals under a sub -contract with Among the new Americans was Mrs. Kasi Ouellette entries subiiitted in the national contest this summer.
the IBM Corp. from Thailand. One of the first things she did after be- mer.
Carol Burr who received the ear
"employee of the " coining a citizen was to look at a map of Tucson to find As grand prize winners, the Graccos had the option of
Y her voting district. $2,000 in cash and a visit from the beermaker's Cl des -
award, worked at the Goodwill training center for 10 Y
years, then graduated to outside employment with the New Scouts wanted dale horses. However, the couple chose the additional
Granada Royale Hometel.$2,000 instead of a visit from the horses.
In order to keep pace with the expanding youth popu-
The "employer of the year" award went to Mark A. lation in Tucson, the Catalina Council of the Boy Scouts of "They're the most gorgeous animals I've ever seen but
America will conduct a recruitment drive this Fall. we finallv decided that it would have created too big a
Anderson, who heads a landscaping company. He pro-
vides work for a multi -handicapped Goodwill client and Larry J. Leighton, scout executive, said he hopes the crowd for our neighborhood," she says.
he is known in the business community as a strong advo- drive is as successful as last year's when 2,600 new mem- Mrs. Gracco nearly didn't enter because she had never
tate of hiring the handicapped. bers were added. won a contest before.
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Booty boots Classes Sonoran heritage
The firemen of the Drexel Heights Fire: Pima County Parks and Recreation De- "Saints Day Fiestas in New Mexico"
Department will have their boots filled partment's new sessions begin this week will be discussed by Bernard Fontana, a
ERA fund raiser with donations for the Muscular Dystrophy with classes in arts and crafts. Cost for University of Arizona ethnologist, in 7 p.m.
.. campaign this Labor Day Weekend. Chil- children is for adults $12. The classes programs Tuesday and Wednesdayat the
The Southern Arizona ERA Coalition dren are invited to ride on the bigtrucks ' P g Y ' -
will hold afund-raisin art tonight at 7 include potpourri of cooking, Papago bas- Columbus and Mission branch libraries re
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will party g Saturday, Sunday and Monday and go ket weaving, fabric design and decoration, spectively. This is the second program in a
P ople
o'clock at the Sundance Saloon, 4525 E. from door to door with the boots collecting photography, glaze formulation and ' mix- five-week Sonoran Heritage series co -
22nd St. T here will be country swing dant- money. The routes are as follows: Satur- ing, glass painting, china painting, weav- funded by the National Endowment for the
ing with instructors, feature movies, pool, day, along Los Reales south to the Reser- ing, basketry, beginning drawing8, acrylic Humanities and the Tucson Public Li -
pinball and door prizes. Tickets are $6 at vation. Sunday, along Los Reales north to painting, watercolor 8 intro and more. bran . Call program director Kathy
the door. Drexel Road. Monday it's from Drexel Dannreuther at 791-4379 for more informa-
Road north to Ajo Way. Children should Classes will be held at Fort Lowell Park, tion.
meet at the station, 5960 S. Cardinal Ave., Tucson Mountain Park, Manana Recre-
before 10 a.m. each or any one of the days.
Lunch for participants will be provided by
the ladies auxiliary at about 1:30 p.m. at
the station.
Tom Thumb players
Tom Thumb -Front Row Players classes
in creative acting, pantomime, theater
games, improvisations, singing and speech
will begin Sept. 8. Registration will be held
today through Sept. 6 by appointment at
4737 E. Towner St. Young people age 4
through 20 will be grouped according to
their age and advancement. Call 326-0118
for appointments and further information.
Aquarium show
The Desert A uaristi
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of the Tucson Botanical Gardens, will hold
its annual show of aqua-riums and fish at
Park Mail Saturday through Sept. 9.
ation Center, Anamax Recreation Center,
Littletown Recreation Center and Emily
Gray Junior High School. Most meet one
day a week for 8 weeks. Call 792-8815 for
information on these and other programs.
Cat show
There will be close to 150 domestic
championship pet cats on display Saturday
and Sunday at the Tucson Community
Center, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m: Admission is $1 for
adults and 50 cents for children.
Swimming instruction
Fall swimming classes at L.A. Lohse
Memorial Branch YMCA will begin the
week of Sept. 4, including pre-school
gym/swim (6 months to 5i/2 Years), youth
swiminstruction to r adult
i n 6 14 years), '
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swim instruction (
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ning),
ning), swim team and aqua gym. Call the
Y at 624-7471 for more information.
Speed reading
A self -instruction speed reading course
with a video cassette format will be of-
fered at Columbus Branch Library begin-
ning Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. for eight Saturdays
or Sept. 11 at 3 p.m. for eight Tuesdays.
Call 791-4081 for information.
Day camp
Lighthouse YMCA will. hold day camp
for children ages 3 throu 5 beginning in
the fall. Call 795-9725 for de ails.
Dance auditions
Verdi's "Macbeth," scheduled for per-
formances Sept. 27 and 29 in Tucson and
for Oct.4 and 6
in Phoenix needs dancers.
Audition I at 5 .m. tomorrow
Auditions
will be held P
and at noon Saturday at the Arizona Opera
Company office, 412 N. Sixth Ave. Call 884-
7980.
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Dia,V1n,'k to Dacked houses
By THOM WALKER
Citizen Staff Writer
Although he's only 14, Richard
Loustaunau has an uncommonly
clear vision of the path he wants to
follow.
It has to do with fuzzy -faced char-
acters who speak in growly voices
and move their mouths, wiggle their
eyelashes or dance their jigs to the
trained movement of his hands.
Richard wants to be a puppeteer.
And the Salpointe High School
sophomore is well on his way, having
played to packed houses this sum-
mer at libraries, birthday parties
and schools.
Wilmot Branch Library was
jammed with so many kids for one of
his recent shows that librarians had
to ask adults to leave the audito-
rium. The large crowd violated the
fire laws, they explained.
Right now Richard's "Kermit and
Friends" show is riding on the fame
of Jim Henson's Muppets. Miss
Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Kermit, Animal,
Ralph and assorted chickens and
creatures from the Henson menag-
erie show up on Richard's home-
made stage, performing to records
from "The Muppet. Show."
But at the same time, Richard is
starting to develop his own act, with
his own characters. One of them,
Marisa Gomez, speaks Spanish and
lives in Hermosillo.
Marisa is a favorite with his Aunt
Blanche, who got him started in the
puppet business five years ago with
a birthday present. It was a hand
puppet, the first of 20 he now owns.
The oldest of seven children — in-
cluding a set of 9 -year-old quadru-
plet sisters, Richard learned the
puppeteer's craft performing for his
family. His first stage was a sofa,
before his father, insurance agent
Richard Sota, built him a real one.
He estimates that he now has
around $100 tied up in his show, with
the price of puppets running as high
as $20 for an eyebrow -waggling Ani-
mal. However, he's more than
earned that back this summer, put-
ting on private shows at $20 a
whack.
His July shows brought in $160, he
said, and he was booked fairly well
for August.
"I haven't learned to save it yet,"
he said of his earnings. "I think I'm
going to start saving $10, spending
$10.1f
He has a special dream that goes
like this. He gets a phone call from
Jim Henson, who just happens to be
in town. And he gets an invitation to
meet Henson and perform with him.
There's no question that he wants
to be a puppeteer*when he grows up,
even if it does pose some disadvan-
tages to him now, he says. "I know
this Christmas all I'm gonna get are
puppets," he groans.
Traffic
snarl
solution?
Residents and busi-
nessmen interested in find-
ing out exactly how the City
of Tucson hopes to ease
those classic traffic snarls
at Broadway Boulevard
and Alvernon Way are in-
vited to a meeting Wednes-
day in the Randolph Park
Auditorium, 200 S. Alvernon
Way.
Among those attending
the 7 p.m. meeting will be
B.D. Collier, Tucson's as-
sistant director of transpor-
tation, Richard Nassi, city
traffic engineer, and a rep-
resentative of Blanton &
Co. Architects and Engi-
neers, the firm that has
come up with a preliminary
design for an over -under-
pass intersection at Broad-
way and Alvernon.
"The primary purpose
(of the meeting) is to have
an interchange, to let the
people know what we've
come up with and to get
their ideas," Collier said.
Nassi and Collier figure
the project would allow 35
percent more traffic
through Broadway and
would eliminate a lot of
stopping and idling, helping
to decrease air pollution in
the area. It also would pro-
vide about 20 percent more
"green (light) time" on Al-
vernon Way.
The design involves a
141/2 -foot underpass tunnel-
ing under the intersection
to allow east -west traffic on
Broadway to flow without
stopping. Broadway's cen-
ter lanes would lead to the
underpass, with through
traffic being directed to the
center about 600 feet away
from the intersection. The
outside lanes would remain
at curb level and would be
used for turns from Broad-
wayonto Alvernon, U-turns
aneast-west traffic bound
for businesses and resi-
dences close to the inter-
section.
The intersection also
would sport 10 -foot side-
walks with wheelchair
ramps to aid pedestrians
crossing Broadway.
The entire project calls
for widening Broadway 30
to 35 feet, Collier said, add-
ing that the widening would
be to the south side of the
street, where -there is quite
a bit of vacant land. He an-
ticipated "up to seven prop-
erties would have to be
taken."
Nassi said the city is
planning on using textured
underpass walls "with a lit-
tle bit of color" instead of
using concrete.
About 81,000 vehicles
travel daily through the in-
tersection, and both Nassi
and Collier said that num-
ber is far above the cross-
road's capacity. They said
while free-flowing traffic
on Broadway might cause
back-ups at lights east and
west of the Broadway-Al-
vernon intersection, those
other intersections can han-
dle added traffic.
Thursday, August 30, 1979
m lo schools offer
free milk, free meals
At Amphitheater Public Schools, there is such a
thing as a free lunch. And free breakfasts and free
i-nilk.
As part of the National School Lunch, School
1'�reakfast and Special Milk Programs, certain stu-
dents will be eligible to receive free and reduced -
price meals, depending on family income.
less qualify, a family of four must earn $8,940 or
less a year and a family of six must earn not more
than $11,840 annually.
All families in the district will be sent application
forms. Officials said families who do not meet the
income criteria but have other financial hardships
are urged to apply.
For further information, contact the distriqt of-
fice at 887-5500. '
T.V. classrooms readN
Tanq'ue Verde Elementary School's six new portable
cla8srooms are all in place, awaiting plumbing and elec-
trical hook-ups that are- expected to be installed before
school opens Tuesday.
Tailque Verde School District officials had been con-
cei-lied that the classrooms, needed for sixth graders',
Wotild not be ready on time because delivery was delayed
by last-minute paperwork.
In a meeting Tuesday night, board trustees approved
Sul)erintendent Raymond Haugen's request to seek bids
on onderground tanks and fuel pumps for a new bus main-
teriance facility adjacent to Tanque Verde Elementary.
The board also was told that new lockers for Emily
Gray Junior High School won't arrive until the end of
September. Meanwhile, eighth and ninth graders will
have to double -up.
In other business, the trustees resisted a request by
former board member Robert Goodrich to rename Tan-
que Verde Elementary School the Marjorie Neil School in
honor of a longtime Tanque Verde teacher who retired in
P7 -
19M. The board agreed, however, to accept recommenda-
tiolis at its next meeting for honoring Ms. Neil.
War -m-- Mara4l^la students...
cool agal"n, thankfully-
Marana School District
been completed on a new
students should be cooled
air conditioning system.
off again after spending the
first few school days with-
In other action, the board
out air conditioning, Supt.
approved a policy that
would allow the school
N e l s Havens told the
MaVana School Board Tues-
nurse to dispense over-the-
day evening.
counter drugs.
Previously, the nurse has
A�� of Tuesday, only two
been able to dispense only
classrooms were without
doctor -prescribed drugs.
air conditioning, Havens
said,
The rooms had been
without cooling since the
opening day of school, Aug.
23, because work hadn't
Oro Valley OKs
an-nexation plan
The Oro Valley Town
Council has given the go-
ahead to a homeowners
group seeking to be an-
nexed.
In a session prior to last
Thursday's council meet-
ing, representatives of Ca-
sitas del Oro Norte, a town-
house complex south of Oro
Valley, were encouraged to
begin annexation proce.,
dures pending majority ap-
proval by subdivision
homeowners.
In other business, the
council alloted $2,500 for
landscape improvement at
the town hall.
Low Riders
to assist drive
The Tucson Low
Rider Coalition will
sponsor a "Low ride-
athon" Saturday to ben-
efit the Jerry Lewis
Muscular Dystrophy
drive.
Anyone wishing to
cruise in a low rider ve-
hicle is invited to meet
at noon at the vacant lot
on South Sixth Avenue
between West 37th and
38th streets. Donations
of $1 a person will be
asked.
About 30 or 40 vehicles
are expected to take
riders from the lot to El
Con Shopping Center
and on to Park Mall.
While at El Con at about
2 p.m. ,the low riders will
conduct a public car
show.
Thursday, August 30, 1979
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Youngsters from First
Baptist Church got a
full-day workshop on
TV production Satur-
day in the church's
new basement studio.
First Baptist recently
spent, more than $20.-
000 on television equip-
ment, said youth min-
ister Barry Holohan,
who hopes the studio
will draw teen-agers,
back to church. Satur-
day's youth workshop
featured instruction by
KURT -TV personnel,
but Holohan said use of
the studio also Will be
offered to Tucson -area
churches interested in
producing religious
and other programs.,
He said First Baptist is
creating a library of
video programs that
will be available "for
the cost of postage to
anyone who'd like to
have them.'!
Citizen Photo by Dan Tortorell
Tucson Citizen
Page 3
Added s
By DEBORAH BLOCK
Old Pueblo Editor
Some of the tenants at Park West Mobile
Home Estates are pretty disgusted, and it
sounds like their landlord feels the same
way.
The tenants in the mobile home commu-
nity at 3003 W. Broadway think it's illegal,
if not unethical, for landlord Leonard
Sobel to add a fee to their monthly sewer
use bills, a fee Sobel says covers "admin-
istration and sewer problems."
Sobel, meanwhile, says those tenants
"just don't like landlords," and "just don't
like to see .people make money."
"I'm selling that park, and one of the
reasons is to get rid of these people," he
said. "I have never been able to make
these people happy. I've suffered with
them for nine years without making any
money and they weren't happy then. All of
the sudden I'm making money ... If my
charges are unreasonable, I don't know
it.99
Darrel Trevor, a Park West resident and
the first vice president of the Mobile Home
Owners of Arizona, Inc. (MHOOA), said
Sobel, in October 1978, started charging
residents of the 151 -space park $1 a home
in addition to the actual sewer use fee.
"The sewer bill was $337 a month in
1978," Trevor said. "That was about $2.25
apiece, and he made it,$3.25.11
And this past July, Trevor said, Sobel
"started breaking it (the surcharge) down
depending on what you have." I
"He's charging everybody differently,
according to how many people there are in
a home, whether they have a washer, and
so on," Trevor said.
Sobel said he didn't "have time to look
up" his sewer use bills and the actual
amounts he was charging his tenants.
But Trevor said he figured Sobel was
making, $1.33 on him.
-an -4z
ewer fee riles mobile home tK;n t.,
"I figure with what the sewer tax is, my
bill should be $2.67," he said. "But last
month he charged me $4."
Ed Curley of the Pima County Depart-
ment of Wastewater Management said "a
typical trailer in that park would, if indi-
vidlially metered, run about $2.56.pp
,,That's what's known as a class aver-
age," he said. "With the new August rates,
it would be about $2.80.
,fBut the issue here is that they don't
have to maintain the system," Curley said.
,,We bill the man, ,and he pays the money,
and whatever kind of sewer charge he
wants to charge his customers is some-
thiog he's got to determine."
Trevor seems to think, however, the
surcharge hasn't gone into maintenance
but into Sobel's pocket.
S`This has to do with park owners mak-
ing a profit," Trevor said. "The sewer
charge is just a flat fee, there is no admin-
istrative work ... Now he (Sobel) is put-
ting something on top of that."
Trevor said 90 to 95 percent of the park's
tenants are retired, many of them on fixed
incomes.
14There are a lot of people here who are
well off, but there are some who are begin-
ning to hurt," he said. "And 30 percent of
the people here are widows."
Al Stang, president of MHOOA, agrees
with Trevor that "the expenses for these
things (system maintenance and paper-
work) have been built into the rent struc-
ture," leaving Sobel no reason for "charg-
ing an administrative fee over and above
-what the actual utilities are."
But when MHOOA asked the Pima
County Attorney's office to investigate the
matter, the organization was told Sobel
was within his legal rights to impose the
surcharge.
"It's not a violation of the consumer
fraud act to charge an extra fee for book-
keeping if you disclose the extra charge
and what it is for," said John Moffitt, a
deputy county attorney.
Moffitt said his analysis is based on
state criminal laws and the consumer
fraud act and has "nothing to do with the
landlord -tenant act or their (the tenants')
private rights."
But Mike Low of the state Attorney Gen-
eral's Office said if such a charge "ain't in
a contract, they'd be in their rights not to
pay the fee."
"A lease is like any other kind of con-
tract," Low said. "If it's set forth in the
lease, the tenants don't have any bitch.
But if the charge sought is not agreed to in
the lease, why pay it?"
Trevor said he doesn't have a lease,
doesn't think "there's over one person in
this park that has a lease." He also said
Sobel gave the tenants "no notification"
when he started charging the administra-
tive fee.
"There was no notice, nothing," Trevor
said. "He just made the change."
Stang and Trevor further contend that
since Moffitt's July 5 interpretation, "sev-
eral" other mobile home parks in Tucson
have "slapped on sewer charges." Stang
said he has heard of newly imposed
charges as high as $4.
Moffitt said in an interview, however,
that he was given to understand that ad-
ministrative fees already were common in
Tucson's mobile home parks.
Stang, however, said Moffitt "met with
a park owners association, on behalf of
Leonard Sobel," before meeting with ten-
ants to get their side of the story. He and
Trevor say they think Moffitt was bam-
boozled by the park owners into thinking
that the sewer surcharge was common-
place and that the Park West tenants were
raising an unnecessary ruckus.
Moffitt, however, said he spoke to Tre-
vor about the problem before speaking to
Sobel or the Tucson Mobile Home Park
Owners Association.
Sobel, meanwhile, contends that had the
disgruntled tenants come- to him with the
problem instead of "going right to the
county attorney ... perhaps there would
have been a solution."
"I've had problems with MHOOA for
years," he said. "They don't look for solu-
tions, they look for headlines. They never
came to me, they never came to my man-
ager. I've opened my books to these peo-
ple, and I could never satisfy them."
Trevor said, however, he asked both the
park manager and Sobel about the charge
and all he was told was, "Oh, we're al-
lowed to do that."
"I called Sobel," he said. "Before I went
to the county attorney, I called him and
asked him about it. And as far as I know,
he has never opened his books to us. And if
he has, it would be to people of his own
pick who would never find anything."
But MHOOA, Stang and Trevor stress, is
not aiming to pick at who did or didn't do
what should have been done.
"What we want to do is to force the
Arizona Corporation Commission to put
out something in writing," Trevor said.
"The corporation commission says no one
should add on a profit on their utilities."
(The Corporation Commission doesn't
-regulate sewer fees, but a commission
spokesman said the ACC does "regulate
trailer parks with respect to electricity
and gas ... and you cannot charge a sur-
charge for those utilities.") -
And Stang wants the law clarified.
"Moffitt now makes it (the surcharge)
legal, if it's itemized," he said. "And it's
legal as far as he's concerned, but not as
far as the landlord -tenant act is con-
cerned."
At least not as far as MHOOA is con-
cerned.
he rush is on. It's that time of
year again, when students all
over Tucson are heading for the
nearest school.
Many students in the outlying districts
will find new and improved facilities
constructed to help cope with their ever-
increasing numbers.
For some this will mean new class-
rooms, libraries and cafeterias. For
others it will mean double sessions and
portable classrooms until construction is
completed.
In this year's construction race, the
Sunnyside School District leads the pack
of districts surrounding Tucson.
When the estimated 10,590 students re-
turned this week to their respective
schools in the South Side area, 350 were
to fill 14 new classrooms in Sunnyside
High School.
Seven new classrooms in Los Ninos
School were to accomodate 175 children.
Soon -to -be -completed are two classrooms
(art and music) and a multi-purpose
room at Santa Clara Elementary and a
new library, speech therapy room and
room for emotionally handicapped chil-
dren a t Liberty Elementary.
Scheduled to be completed by October
or early November are two multi-pur-
pose cafetoriums at Drexel and Cray.
croft Elementary Schools.
Double sessions will end at Los Ran-
chitos and Elvira Elementary Schools
around the first of the year when
Esperanza School opens at East Bantam
Road and South Ale Drive. The 24-
classroom facilitywill handle about 600
students transferrd from Los Ranchitos
Elementary, then about 200 students
from Elvira Elementary will be trans-
ferred to Los Ranchitos.
Some Catalina Foothills School Dis-
trict elementary students will be attend-
ing a brand new school next week when
Manzanita School opens its doors. The
24 -classroom building at 3000 E. Manzan-
ita St. will be able to house about 500
students.
Superintendent Larry E. Frase said a
20 percent increase in enrollment is- ex-
pected this year, slightly down from the
23 percent jump the North Side district
faced last year.
Some of the district's expected 1,450
students will be greeted at Sunrise Ele-
mentary with a remodeled exterior, en-
larged basketball courts and a new play-
ing
Y
ing field.
Frase said Manzanita and Sunrise will
absorb the students displaced by the clos-
ing of Murphey School.
Junior high school students, mean-
while, will be attending a remodeled -Or-
ange Grove Junior High. Three and a
half classrooms were added to the exist-
ing building through reorganizing the
available space.
This fall, construction will begin on a
12 -room addition to the junior high, to be
completed in fall, 1980.
In Marana, first, second and third -
graders are awaiting the completion of
an eight -classroom addition to Butter-
field Elementary, scheduled to be fin-
ished by Thanksgiving. Until then, the
youngsters will be on double sessions that
began last week.
Eight additional classrooms should be
open at Butterfield in January, district
officials said. The officials anticipated a
10 percent increase in enrollment this
year, an increase of about 300 students.
Enrollment in that northern district
has doubled in the past nine years, offi-
cials have said, and is expected to con-
tinue to rise as development continues in
the area.
New subdivisions are popping up in the
Tanque Verde School District as well,
where enrollment rose 24 percent last
year and is expected to increase another
10 percent this fall. Enrollment should
continue to go up during the year as the
new housing areas fill with families, said
Superintendent Raymond C. Haugen.
Sixth -graders in the district will attend
classes in six portable classrooms at
Citizen Photos by John Hemmer and Manuel Miera
f..
•
By Laura Diamond
Citizen Staff Writer
Tanque Verde Elementary School when
school starts next week, Haugen said.
The portables will remain there until fall,
1981, at which time Agua Caliente Ele-
mentary School should be ready to open
at East Limberlost Drive and North
Homestead Avenue.
The Amphitheater School District is
"pretty much out of the construction
business right now," as a result of a de-
feated $6.9 million bond election in May,
said Associate Superintendent Leslie
Follett.
But the 9,700 students expected to at-
tend school in the district this fall will see
a few changes, Follett said.
Canyon del Oro High School opened to
students this week with a new fine arts
facility. The science laboratories at
Amphi High School also have been remo-
deled.
A four -classroom building for the men-
tally handicapped that was expected to
open this month will not be open until Oc-
tober or November, he said. The facility,
which will be behind Amphi Junior High
School, will serve up to 50 students.
Follett said total enrollment will prob-
ably be up about 2 percent this year.
In Vail, school officials are expecting a
total enrollment next week of about 225
students, up nearly 8 percent from last
year.
A $995,000 bond election that failed in
May, then passed in July, paved the way
for seven special -use and two general -use
classrooms to be built at Vail Elemen-
tary School. The classrooms, which
would bring the district's capacity to
about 250 students, are scheduled for
completion next fall, said Superintendent
Raeford Wells.
More growth is expected in the future,
district officials said, as the Interna-
tional Business Machine plant brings in
workers and more construction continues
in area subdivisions.
In the Flowing Wells School District,
students are using a new library at La-
guna School and two classrooms created _
from the old library there.
High school students have an expanded
photography laboratory in Flowing Wells
High, but will have to wait until some-
time in November for the renovation of a
building to be used for the new automo-
tive classes.
Meanwhile, Robert S. Richardson
School is under construction at 6901 N.
Camino del . Terra. About 500 kindergar-
ten through fourth -graders will be able to
attend the 20 -classroom school in the fall
of 1980.
Flowing Wells Assistant Superinten-
dant James Lenihan said he had no pro-
jected enrollment figures, but expected
some growth as a result of new homes in
the northwest corner of the district.
prom
barrio fnends
1Rv Maria I. Vigil
6itizen Staff Writer
J.V.- Stroud, principal - of the down-
"His heart goes all out for the child,"
town -area Carrillo Elementary School
she continued. "He's done a tremen-
for the past three years, was somewhat
dous amount of community work. He
surprised and a little bit sad when he
always knows there's some way to
learned he was one of 11 Tucson Unified
overcome obstacles. If someone closes
School District principals being trans-
a door on him, he just finds another one
ferred to new schools this fall.
to open. He really believes that tomor-
Before he came to Carrillo, he spent
row will be better. He will be greatly
20 years as principal at Tully — an ele-
missed."
mentary school just north of El Rio Mu-
nicipal Golf Course on West Speedway
From his years at Tully, he remem-
Boulevard. Tully, he says, has remained
"very dear" to his heart.
bers such thinggs as the time parents,
Boy Scouts and nei hborhood residents
Before that, the 60 -year-old educator
organized to remove more than 400 tons
had taught at Hughes and Holladay Ele-
of refuse from their neighborhood.
mentary Schools. But something was
special about the people, most of them
He remembers the floods of 1962,
Mexican -Americans, at Tully and later
when it took a concerted effort by
at Carrillo.
teachers, Tucson Unified School Dis-
Stroud, who began teaching in 1951,
trict officials, parents, students and
stressed that his sadness in no way
area residents to rescue students and
means that he does not look forward to
teachers from the flooded school and
meeting new people and taking on big
Parking lot and get them all home
challenges at his new school — Blen-
safely.
man — in the north -central part of the
city. Transfers take place every year
due to retirements and reass'ignments,
he understands. So he explained his
reaction.
�
"You've heard the old saying about`
-
being able to take the boy out of the
country, but not the- country out of the
-
boy?, he asked from behind the prin-
cipal's desk he had gone to clean out
one recent morning. Well, with me,
,
it's the same thing, only with the bar-
no. The need will continue to be here.
.....-
It's a desperate need to help the people���
`
in the barrio. I still think I'm going to
be part of that war, even if I won't be
able to get in on the day -today bat-
`
tles."
Shortly after he learned of his up-
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coming transfer, he regretfully submit-
ted a letter of resignation to the Tucson'
Barrio Association, Inc., an organiza-
tion of barrio residents working to revi-
talize their neighborhoods. He told
them he was resigning from its board
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cepted.
"They told me they hadn't selected
me as one of two at -large members just
because I was the principal at Car-
rillo," he said, obviously flattered.
"They said they weren't going to let me
go just because I would be working on
the other side of town."
"We really hate to see him go," said
association chairwoman Bertha Santa
Cruz, echoing the sentiment of many of
the Carrillo staff and association mem-
bers who threw a luncheon party in
Stroud's honor recently. "He's just a
wonderful man."
"The thing that makes him so spe-
cial," said Molly A. Hunter, speech and
language specialist at Carrillo, "is that
he absolutely loves people, be they
young children from Mexico who can't
speak a word of English, 50 -year-old
grandmothers who come to pick up
their grandchildren from school, or
whoever. All he does is try to help peo-
ple. I've never known anyone like him
before."
"He really knows the culture and ap-
preciates it," added Carmen Urrutia,
whose brother, sisters and daughter at-
tended Tully when Stroud was principal
there. Now her son is enrolled at Car-
rillo and Ms. Urrutia is working with
Stroud again.
He recalls several years of futile at-
tempts at getting city, state or national
officials to build a bridge across a
nearby drainage ditch where school
children always played. He thinks of
the deaths of a first and fourth grader
in that ditch and the foot bridge that
was finally put up by parents after that
fatal day.
"The work that we started with the
underpriveleged there (Tully) was
about the same thing we needed to do
here (Carrillo)," Stroud said. "It was
beautiful to just step in here and know
how to go about doing things."
What drives Stroud to give his very
all to his students and their families?
"I just like to think of education from
the human standpoint instead of strictly
from the scholarly one," he answered
simply. "My idea is that the school is
part of the community."
He spoke proudly of a young man
who is now the custodian at Carrillo. He
wants to look for another job, Stroud
said, and told Stroud he wanted to use
him as a reference.
"I think of you as more than a boss,"
he reportedly told Stroud. "You're my
friend."
. Eugene Benton will be succeeding
Stroud as principal at Carrillo.