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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - The Arizona Territorial (187)EM A11 A roun=town m ' igh projects despite V 10t ff radeSahuaro to take T,. h A�11111111 d,.feat .,f By DANNY MADDUX Tanque Verde teachers, after picketing board for a settlement in their stalled f,.on- The Amphitheater School Board may de - The Arizona Daily Star the meeting,made a presentation before the tract talks with the district. p y P _ clue Tuesday night to go ahead with several Tanque Verde District sophomores will They passed out a comparison of salaries renovation projects at schools despite this be allowed to attend Sabino and Sahuaro • icounty districts, which showed week's defeat of a $7 million bond issue. high schools next year instead of being Zoningexaminerexaminer will� hear n other Tanque Verde teachers near the bottont at Under state law, a school district -may bused to Tucson High School to relieve Catalina Heights request every level. increase property taxes for remodeling or overcrowding, Tanque Verde officials said. p p y g A rezoning request to allow construction Elizabeth Kemp, president of the Tanque renovation, but must secure voter approval At a Tanque Verde school board meeting of apartments in CatalinaHeights will be Verde Teachers' Association, said them is for new construction, said Leslie Follett, Tuesday night, President Jerry Cannon an- heard tonight by the city' s zoning exam- only a $9,000 total difference between each Amphitheaters associate superintendent nounced that the Tucson Unified School Dis- iner. side's package. for business and finance. trict board had agreed to let next year's A two-story, 88 -unit apartment complex "We ought to be able to come to some The bond issue failed Tuesday on a vote sophomores attend the two eastside schools. is proposed by the PAR 4 Investment Co. for. kind of an agreement," she said, adding that of 1,383 to 1,185. The district's $650,000 bud - He said the two school boards will meet in three lots northeast of Bellevue and Alamo the teachers will not back down. get -override request also was defeated. September to discuss moving Tanque Verde avenues. r have m t "There was general rejection across the students out of Sabino beginning in 1980. The teaches come o a point g J The firm is requesting R-3 zoning (high- where it's a matter of pride," she said. district," Follett said. "We had an average Tanque Verde, which does not have a density residential) for two of the lots, which number of `yes' votes, but a record number high school, pays tuition to the Tucson dis- are zoned R-1 for single-family residences. Cannon said he didn't feel the boardnumber `no' votes." trict for students in the 10th, 11th and 12th The third lot is zoned R-3. should respond while negotiations are Mill grades. in progress. Follett said some of the "priority" reno- The surrounding area is developed with The board also awarded a $109,323 con- vation projects include expansion of the Cannon also asked that the district's fea- mixed residential uses, and the requested tract for six portable classrooms snack -bar -kitchen areas and industrial arts racsrooms to Deb sibility study for building a high school be zoning is supported by the city Planning Design facilities at Amphi High, plus improvements International of Phoenix. updated. An election to form a high school Department. Space of the drainage system there. At Canyon Del district lost by only 10 votes in 1976. The hearingbefore David P. Lim will A meeting is scheduled Tuesday to qis- Oro High, there is a need to improve -the school that is library The Tucson district administration origi- begin at 7:30 p.m. in the first -floor confer- cuss the new elementary and snack bar, he said. scheduled to open in 1981. nally proposed that Tanque Verde students ence room at City Hall. Lim's recommenda- The school board will meet at 7 p.m. be moved to Tucson High next year to re- tion will be forwarded to the City Council for A final hearing on next year's budget has Tuesday at the district's administrative of- lieve overcrowding. final action. been scheduled June 5. fices, 125 E. Prince Road. ,C. aft cats know.. how., f " to kee tabs JOW on ho NJ Twenty.,six pupils at Sunrise Drive Elementary School are TV stars. By IMATT HANSOM The Arizona Daily Star Parade entry forms must be re -The J gJg�� The kids — kindergarteners through fourth -graders — de - weekend of Memorial Day events May turned to the parade committee bycreased ken. Joan Deneaugave her Little Girl signed, direct -led and starred in their own commercials, which 26 and 27. away she didn't think she'd ever see her trict's non -teaching employees by r +c Jj again • The theme is "Our Freedoms," and 35 cents an hour, school's T-shirts. The project began a month ago, and involved remedial ing at 9 a.m, and going until all events � trophies will be presented to the top 12 entries. After the parade, Memorial And when "ger Big Boy was taken away, math and reading pupils at the school, said Chris Reeves, 1 she didn't thinly he would ever come back. Homebody --W.2 resource teacher. Reeves and Mindy Kobey directed the T-shirt commercial program. But both of them did, and Deneau still .loan Deneau and her Chiding Superintendent Nels Havens. can't believe it. Big Boy, one of #wo Exhibit booths, $2 apiece, will be "I've read stories like this, but I never cats she lust can tiler- j the north end of town. Participants in- e really believed in them," she said. suade to stay away. northside school, which is in the Catalina Foothills School Dis- cluae the Veterans of Foreign Wars, (Star photo by 'Katt fied employees. Little Girl and. Big Boy are cats, and Hanson) dance that evening at the plaza.Music fairly crafty cats, too, if being able to districts Family Faculty Association, Reeves said. the 36th Army Band from Fort Hua- navigate Tucson's. streets is any measure "At first I thought the family that had and started "meowing like he wanted to get of intelligence. taken her had changed their minds and in just the way he used to. Deneau decided to give her furry just dropped her off," she said. "I just couldn't believe it when I saw friends away recently because she plans to So' Deneau ran another ad in the paper him — I almost fainted. He must have traveled over 10 miles to get here, but lie move• for both cats, this time saying she -wouldn't looked like he'd been about 50 he w4S "I ran several ads in the paper," she separate them. just covered with burrs, and he was real said, "but I only found a home for my A family that lives on the northwest side skinny," she said. Little Girl," a 5 -year-old Siamese. responded to the ad, and took both cats. The cat traveled from the vicinity of "She was gone just about a month, and "They were gone about a month, when Tangerine and Oracle roads to the Camp - then she showed up at the door one Satur- early one Saturday morning Big Boy bell Avenue -River Road area, Deneau day morning. jumped up on the window above my bed, said. "I think they're trying to tell me some- thing, don't you? "People are probably going to think I'm the meanest person in the world for trying to give my cats away. But I'd rather give them away than take them to the Humane Society," she said. Deneau said she doesn't know what she's going to do with Big Boy now that he has come home again, because she has no way of contacting the family that -had taken him. 2 -day event on tap u- T-shirts make 26pupils stars of Tarena aCtalinasets MnonoteaChrarssmall-time Twenty.,six pupils at Sunrise Drive Elementary School are TV stars. The town of Catalina has scheduled a Parade entry forms must be re -The Marana School Board has in - The kids — kindergarteners through fourth -graders — de - weekend of Memorial Day events May turned to the parade committee bycreased the base wages of the dis- signed, direct -led and starred in their own commercials, which 26 and 27. Sunday. trict's non -teaching employees by were taped On a videocasette recorder to promote the sale of the A rodeo -type gymkhana will be held May 26 at the Milky Way Ranch, start- The theme is "Our Freedoms," and 35 cents an hour, school's T-shirts. The project began a month ago, and involved remedial ing at 9 a.m, and going until all events � trophies will be presented to the top 12 entries. After the parade, Memorial The trustees also approved an math and reading pupils at the school, said Chris Reeves, are completed. The winners will re- ceive trophies and ribbons. Da services will be led by VFW Post y g,16 percent annual a increase to p pay administrators and supervisors, in- resource teacher. Reeves and Mindy Kobey directed the T-shirt commercial program. On May 27, the fourth annual Memo- 4903 Women's Color Guard. Chiding Superintendent Nels Havens. The youngsters sold 467 T-shirts, netting about $500 that will rial Day Parade will start at 1 p.m. at Exhibit booths, $2 apiece, will be o toward buying a videotape camera and recorder for the g y� g p the north end of town. Participants in- e available all day May 27 at Catalina The district has nearly 200 classi- northside school, which is in the Catalina Foothills School Dis- cluae the Veterans of Foreign Wars, plaza. And there will be a free street fied employees. trict More funds for the equipment will be donated b the g y the American Legion Marching Unit, dance that evening at the plaza.Music districts Family Faculty Association, Reeves said. the 36th Army Band from Fort Hua- will be provided by Sundown. In other action Tuesday, the board A. Sunrise teacher whose husband's firm deals with video- chuca and the Naval Reserve with a model of the USS Arizona, as well as More information is available from voted to purchase five new and three used school buses. tape machines donated the recorder for the project, which was funded by the Pima County Career Education Project. other horse and float entries. Myrtle Yttredahl. PAGE EIGHT SECTION D � THE ARIZONA DAILY STAN TUCSON, -� o SAY, MAY 179 1979 Down in the Valley., Mabel Johnson, who first arrived in Arizona on a train in 1925, developed fierce independence in her homesteader's lifestyle on 640 acres in what is now Oro Valley. Neighbors North, Page 3D. Home, sweet home. After she gave them away, Joan Deneau thought she'd never see Big Boy and Little Girl again. But the crafty kitties have proven her wrong, again and again. All around town, Page 8D. OC Arizona D'. cillli Star TUCSON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1979 - *PAGE ONE D Marana heady towwWard second budget deficit ` By AL ARIAV The Arizona Daily Star The Town of Marana is overspending its budget and heading toward a second annual deficit -- this time fnore than $4,600 — a violation of sfate spending laws. Top Marana officials acknowledge that several finan- cial errors and inexperience caused the overspending; and that the town must begin taking drastic measures to vrase the deficit. The most recent report on the town's finances, covering the 10 months of the 1978-79 fiscal year through April, shows expenditures totaled $159,979. If the rate of spending continues in the final two months, Marana will exceed its $183,000 annual budget by $8,975. Although revenues, which totaled $156,120 in the 10 -month period, have been higher than the town budget anticipated, the, total for the year is projected to be about $187,350, compared to expenditures of $191,975. Under Arizona law, cities and towns are forbidden to finish a fiscal year in the red; unless overexpenditures are approved by the State Tax Commission. The 2 -year-old town is now petitioning the commission for a variance, said Vice Mayor Ted DeSpain, Marana ended the 1977-78 fiscal year, its first full year since incorporation, $3-,347 in debt. Although that year's $161,700 budget was not overspent, the town spent more than it collected in revenues. Marana Mayor Don Frew said overspending both years was caused by "people who are not all that familiar with money politics." Councilman Ray Honea said, "The town is still young, and we, are not throwing money around." Several factors led to this year's overspending, an ex- amination of records by The Arizona Daily Star indicates. The town: e Spent $5,676 to renovate its Town Hall and marshal's office, although no money had been budgeted for the project. Marana's administrative offices were moved from a two -room office, which was rented for $300 a month, to the present structure last August after the budget was adopted. Renovation items included carpeting, an air conditioner, cement, lumber, windows, paint and other hardware sup- plies. • Kept five dispatchers at the marshal's office on the town payroll for two months after funds from the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, under which they had been hired, ran out. The town had not set aside funds for this expense. • Hired three CETA employees --, a communications supervisor, a police -record clerk and an acting town clerk — on a full-time basis after their contracts with the federal government expired. Again, the budget had provided no money for the positions. The town now has eight employees in the CETA program. • Faced accounting costs of about -$540 more than bud- geted. Met unexpected increases in the cost of insuring mar-' shal's deputies. Only $1,200 was budgeted, but the town has paid $2,559 since July. Of the town's four departments, only streets and engi- neering, which was run by Richard Doty until his recent (See MARANA, Page 3D) n,ew e u a er oo on e - . ;I _ 'fake. #♦$... �i _ J 'A B CARRIETTA WHITE The Arizona Daily Star $ ' Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are J, welcomed every.where. And so is Richard A. Lopez when he dons one of their costumes. :. Lopez, 27, is a :minister, but not in the New deal strict sense of the .word. He uses unusual Once a cocaine dealer but methods to help spread the gospel. J now a minister, Richard ! Using costumes in hospital wards has Lopez uses poetry, cos -M-7 made people open up to him.144 . _.... . turnes and his life story to As Santa I walk in open doors, Lopez, said "and people feel comfortable because get his message across. : J ' p p (Star photo by Art Gras- they are familiar with me.! berger) "Someday I hope to be so well known as a man of God that they'll receive me as I am::f without dressing .up as a rabbit or Santa ,fJ Claus." Je In the prisons, Lopez uses another - - -- method -- poetry. cocaine -drug deals. The money went to Since 1973 his attitude toward his family people without them thinking I'm trying to Although Lopez can barely read and more than his pocketbook.. though. ' and himself has changed completely. He change their religion, write and is labeled an illiterate, his poetry "In 1973 I developed a sinus -cavity infec- . recovered from the sinus infection, eyes in- �6 don't is laboriously written from the heart. The tion, and my head began to s veli up, pushing tact, and he cut all connections with drugs, i tell people about the Lord, but I do - spelling and punctuation he leaves to the my eyeballs out of their sockets," he said. he said. get into the rules and regulations of relig , iion,"he said. Lord and his wife, Peggy. In the hospital, holes were drilled into his Now Lopez is a control -room operator at "I went to 13 years of school, and never forehead to release the pressure, and doc- Anamax. Tutoring has brought his reading Lopez, who lives at 4001 W. Redwing St., learned how to read," he said, "In high tors doubted that his left eye could be to a third-grade level, and he has learned to is organizing a marathon run for Jesus to be school I had half of a semester left to go, and saved. memorize the words he uses on the job. held at 8 a.m. May 26 at Reid Park. Dona - I knew I wouldn't graduate. I had a friend "I started thinking as I was lying there in tions to the marathon will help finance his take the GED test for me." the hospital at what I had accomplished with When he travels to prisons at the request ministry. T-shirts inscribed with one of With the help of his friend, Lopez grad- my life. All the money in the. world. isn't of a prisoner's family, Lopez counsels in- Lopez's poems will be given to donors. uated from high school and took a ditch -dig- going to get me too far now," Lopez re- mates through his poetry and his life story. The only dream Lopez has yet to fulfill is ging job at Anamax Mining Co. called. a football career. Because he wasn't making enough He said he made a promise to Himself "I'm just a Christian," he said. "I'm not "I would like to go to college, not to learn, money to support his wife and two children, that if there was a God, he was going to_find any specific religion because_ without that but to play football," he said. "If I don't play Lopez said, he became a "bag man" for Him. brand I can enter any church, and talk to here, I'll play in heaven." ® Y • Centra : b��€ { eri C ti al hbors Nei _T- ----- Tucson. pairbridges a- gap whete the trick is to score By CARRIETTA WHITE Betty Puscas, is a big improvement over the The Arizona Daily Star 26 -table center the couple ran for five years There's at least one place in town where on East Sixth Street. turning tricks is legal — the new Bridge "We get a lot of winter visitors, doctors, Center at 3131 E. First St. real-estate agents, university students and faculty," Betty said of the players that fre- The 66 -table club, owned by John and quent the club. "It's a great place to meet r� r, ! F, 1. ` , !, ::! . •i / to / .. / :...� ° , , °Sir'. s •� f° , .. , : - -'' /. fi /� y ` _ ° ! !f `` • :., ✓ ,: d/rr! /! !/ _.,:: `.: °ray people. Many romances have starteQl Tucson who are members of the American here." Contract Bridge League. Seven days a week, from 1 to 4 p.m. and "Playing bridge is cheaper than going to 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., dedicated bridge player a baseball game or a movie," Betty said. play duplicate bridge for a fee of $2.50. "The bridge center has been one influencing factor for people moving to Tucson." Betty said there are about 800 persons i11 The center, which can accommodate 264 players, is more than three times as ' f large as the old club. "We have about 15 people who are blood- ;, and -thunder bridge players, but we don't let in any rowdies," Betty said. The Puscas couple admit they've had P Y trouble with some overzealous bridge play- ers, Y la - ers, but for most, bridge is just a game. In the Puscas' five years in the business they have been forced to ban some people from the club for getting upset when they felt a hand was played wrong. "The players play hard, and to win," Rundown John said. "But they do it like ladies and -- Betty Puscas ex- gentlemen." ,y plains the rules of the The center isn't just for the experienced V. player; • it also caters to the novice. game to George Good at the new bridge center she "We have lessons every Monday and Thursday that last nine weeks," Betty said. and her husband have "On Tuesday we have a director supervise opened near Speedway about five tables, and help people learn what and Country Club Road. to bid." (Star photo by Art Gras- The club is an annual stop for many trav- berger) elers who hop from center to center across the country looking for a good bridge h game. "We've been told we have the friendliest a, club in the country. This is the only center �r ` we know of that was built solely for bridge," ' Betty said. The ages of players at the club range from 11 to 90, and John maintains that the popularity of bridge has grown because "it 1J; forces people to think instead of vegetating in front of a television set." mom 9 R n in books. -- world By HOWARD ALLEN . in value when they are discontin- when more is left to your imagina- Don't worry about preserving The Action No. 1 issue of 1938 ued,Struck said. tion." your own "closet collection" of ' " A customer, who had w:�.lked into comics, Struck said. "If they're not which introduced Superman, is "In fact I'm slightly offended by flooded or eaten by rats or bugs, worth more than $4,000 today. Mar- the element of greed in buyi, ng the shop, asked for the new issue No. the should last for 50 years." vel No. 1, issued in 1939, contained comics. I'm really into them for the 100 of the Conan series. The double Y the first stories about SubMariner enjoyment, and the reading," he issue is valuable to Conan collectors, and the Human Torch, and is worth said, noting that he watched the Struck said, because they have Howard Allen is a student in the $5,000 or more. A lot for a comic comics business for 20 years before been hinting for 20 issues that they journalism department's newsfea- book• getting into it two years ago. were going to kill Conan's girlfriend, tune -writing class at the 1,Tniversity and in this issue they do it. e of Arizona. But before you go off and buy Struck said he collects Walt Dis- comic books as a hedge against in- a` ney comic series because he elijoys ,` '' r 1 ice' flation, listen to Tom Struck, owner them and he has favorite writers of Fantasy Comics. and artists he follows. "Comics are a total -chance mar - "I couldn't see paying $5,000 fora ket for investing," Struck said at his comic —not when I need a car as shop at 2530 E. Sixth St. bad as I do," he said. He noted that comic -book specula- Compared to the venerable first- r.:.�� tors, who bought early issues of a a" edition>> market in hardcover books Star Wars series, found that after an the comics market is very young he r au a initial increase in value the glutted said. The first comics in the mid- market and inferior quality of art 1930s were only reprints of newspa- q `. and story brought the price back per comics. Late in that decade, the �� `: �_:�., � �Jv � down. giants in the industry, Marvel and Some comics are more fortunate D.C., began the popular superhero choices, though, Struck said. series. "Howard The Duck had distribution "Comics are not like first edi- °� roblems on the early issues and tions, Struck said. They are less that, plus its good quality, made ev- expensive easier to get and slightly . �eryone want it desperately. But this less respectable."Y ° z was very much a fluke." Referring to the "Incredible The first issue increased in value Hulk" television series, Struck said, ° from 25 cents to $10 in three years, 6 I can't stand TV adaptations. but it would take a bale of first issues Comics dont fit well into other me- Star photo by Art Grasberger to make a bank balance jump. dia because it's so hard to realisti- "Most comics don't even increase call portray fantasy. 're best �®� Struck: die's offended by greed in buying - Y Po Y Y Y PAGE TWO SECTION D THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR TUCSON, THURSDAY, MAY 17-9 1979 Neighbors -East No -shooting zone favored Ea..stsiders taking a By DANNY MADDUX The Arizona Daily Star The whiz of bullets has become a familiar sound to residents on the far eastside as development of previously open areas puts more and more homes in the line of fire from unthinking sportsmen. A member of the Tanque Verde Valley Association has taken some steps to stop the problem. It occurs when someone with a firearm drives east and starts hunting or target shooting, believing he's in the middle of nowhere but actually firing in a neighbor- hood covered by low hills and vegetation. Marlan Scully, a physics professor at the University of Arizona, has long been af- fected by the. problem. He lives near Agua Caliente Wash, a favorite area for gun en- thusiasts, and met with an eastside-based sheriff's deputy last week to discuss the problem. "We need to have some sort of awareness on the part of the general public that this problem does exist," Scully said. The association sent out a questionnaire about the problem, and of about 500 re= sponses from eastsiders, some 90 percent fa- vored making the territory encompassed by the Rincon Area Plan a no -shooting zone. Lemmon.. plan read y for.hearing im of potshots TFP J' BY DANNY MADDUX The Arizona Dally Star mnlctcA Mniint 1 Pmmnn Scully emphasized that he's not against guns or fitinting, but said most people who come out to the far eastside to use firearms have done so for years, and just don't realize the area i.s no longer P e open. He � g said he's been able to clear up the problem in his area by talking with the offenders. "They've been concerned, apologetic,"Y he says. "They didn't know about the house." It's against the law to fire a- weapon within a quarter of a mile of a house, or to discharge it in a reckless manner, said George H oaney, a deputy at the Rincon sub- station. Heaney said residents should notify the sheriff's office when shooting occurs too close to their homes. He recommended against residents' confronting those with firearms, because "you never know." Deputies will explain the situation to shooters And get them to leave or, if the situation warrants, issue a citation or make an arrest, he said. He said most of the prob- lems can be handled without an arrest, ex- cept for ttie cases of great recklessness. "If we were, to _arrest every person out in the desert with a firearm, that's all we'd be doing all day," Heaney said. One area that's had a lot of problems is around Speedway and Houghton Road. Area 1 resident Gerland Bartels said the worst times are during hunting seasons, weekends and after. Christmas when folks are trying out new guns. "It's like being in a war zone," said her son, Martin. He said most area residents have had their mailboxes shot up at one time or another. Bullets have struck the Bartels' yard and around the corral, and they've been sprinkled by falling shotgun pellets, he said. "During dove season, nobody in this fam- ily will even ride their horses," he said. "We don't even go to the mailbox." The Bartels' neighbor, Alice Hanley, said much of the problem comes from a vacant 100 -acre parcel that sportsmen still use. "It's like living on the front lines," she said. Heaney said he's not aware of any in- juries, and Scully said he knows of just one instance, in which a woman was slightly wounded by shotgun pellets. "We've been lucky so far," Scully said. I I ea on o sa MS Navy experience nas neipea. it until the energy conservation of the last few years, the Air Force was pretty lax about the efficiency of the plants. But now they've become strict, looking for ways to conserve fuel and water." ThPv gain their- efficiency Estrada a TUCSON, THURSDAY, MAY 179 1979 Star photo by Art Grasberger .strada keeps close watch on D -M boiler says, by constant maintenance and tak- ing hourly readings of the pressure gauges to pinpoint leaks and other prob- lems. Many of the men that Estrada super- vises call him with their problems, and he believer it's because of his Navy experi- ence. THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Community Plan states that new land -use zoning will protect the area from "inappro- priate development," which could occur under the present zoning. The county • Planning and Zoning Coin - mission will hold public hearing on the plan, which will then go to the Board of Supervisors. The plan, in large part an effort by a team hired by the county from the Univer- sity of Arizona School f Renewable Natural Resources, covers about 220 acres. It lists about 60 full-time residents of the area, about four times that number in the sum- mer, and thousands of visitors. Zoning changes — from general rural to three houses per acre — are called for in the Summerhaven subdivision, and in Mount Lemmon Estates I and II — from general rural to one house per acre. A seven -acre general -business zone has been set aside at the entrance to Summer - haven along Gen. Hitchcock Highway. Margot Garcia, a member of the team, said that in public workshops, most said they wanted to preserve the quality of the area, although there was some opposition to changing the zoning. a "We used the zoning that was closest to what is already there," Garcia said. The plan states that the new zoning would pre- vent further reduction of existing lot sizes, and provide guidelines on the buildings per- mitted. Mobile homes would be prohibited, for example. Garcia said the team felt some commer- cial zoning was needed. She said some of those at the workshops called for a strip of commercial uses along the highway in Sum- merhaven, but "we felt that (would be) a substantial change in the community," so the plan calls for restricting commercial zoning to an area now mainly occupied by businesses. The plan recommends that a volunteer fire district be organized. Fire protection is financed by donations and the homeowners' association. Garcia said the community has a fire problem, as evidenced by numerous fires at the Mount Lemmon Inn, the last of which destroyed the building two years ago. Vail schedules hearings, ®n mav29 bond election The Vail Elementary School District- will hold public hearings Tuesday and Wednes- day on its scheduled $995,000 bond election. District officials will be at the Corona de Tucson community center at 7:30 p.m. Tues day to answer questions about the May 29 bond proposal. The money is to be used to build nine more classrooms at Vail Elemen- tary School. The following evening at 7:30, a hearing will be held at the elementary school. Swimathon slated Saturday The Highland Vista Aquatic Club will hold i swimathon Saturday to raise money for national and local swimming programs. About 100 members of the team will swim between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Highland Vista pool, 315 N. Woodland Vista. The team will keep 70 percent of the money raised, officials said. Twenty percent of the pro- ceeds will will go to the Swimming Hall of Fame -in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 5 percent to the international travel fund; and 5 percent to the local leagues' swimming program. e SECTION D PAGE SEVEN t t f r i r f . J .d` � J� -. _ �' Y�✓l sVflrr rfry ratorhat to Dudemranch De as see- :- ....: .... .. :.5. .x ..... J6si �.. °,s, �•%.. ...`.'.lir,',.. ,. /4�. ..,-.... a.. ..:4t� _�::.:: -. •, ::.. ..::., ...�. .: n 2 0 coun r evi is cro, G d s t y d I hly wded ------ By MICHAEL, E. QUINN Being an innkeeper, he realizes the advantages that a firing, was operating within its budget through April. The The Arizona Daily Star booming economy has upon his business, Jackson says. s !' ...,P Jack Jackson used to run a surrey ride along Sweet- Y g Being in a growth area with good transportation and good r ;. x;• water Drive for his guests at the Sundancer Saddle & Surrey shopping areas, plus being able to offer amenities such as Ranch Resort. When the county paved the road, the rides several choices of golf courses for guests, all help to keep the ' were discontinued because of traffic. resort full, he says. At a special meeting Monday, the council formed a That w wasn't too many years ago, said Jackson, who with "I guess everyone's got their own definition of g :,:��✓ ✓ 's wifeColette, hi has run the Western-style r Y e esort at 4110 W. ro ress, he says. P g Y _ �.. . f . Sweetwater for 27 years. "We're in Gods country. We have something beautiful -- -a ..� •il.�,.,;, Surroun Surrounded by desert that is rife with lents and ani- hguessf here. I love to see the desert and the blue skies, but I • • mals he ranch has for s o many years been the link between you ve got to have economic development. iY „•'. 4 vacationing Easterners and the Sonoran Desert. Along tc I personally don't like to see the houses going up, and - � Sweetwater in he Tucson Mountains, there are houses, but the desert being destroyed. And the tourists don't like to see ! not as many as in other sections of the growing Westside. it either. They come here for wide-open saces." "All in all, I'd like to see it stay the way it was. Tucson's With the Sundancer closed for the season Jackson has His guests frequently Pick up trash they find, he says, becoming more and more like Phoenix all the time. And we just finished rounding up the horses that are shipped to Vail, when the are riding or strolling through the desert. Y g g g had r " he jump on them for so many years," he says. Colo., for the summer months. For the next six months, he and a skeleton staff will repair the 14 -room resort,g p oodo and tend "It's not the tourists breaking the beer bottles and The Ohio native arrived herein 1952 to start the guest to the 22.8 -acre rounds 'est as the have done eve g Y' running over the desert with their four -wheel -drives. I know, because they pick up the trash, and they hate to see what's ranch because he liked thepeople,th u in • e business ess and the desert. From a run-down est ranch with three buildings year,I happening. he has =built up a multibuilding facility with pool, tennis However, Jackson, 53, says that major changes are an the way. And hes not so sure he likes all of them. Jackson sells the desert and the Southwestern flavor of Tucson to his guests, but says his love of keeping the •area coin -t, whirlpool, sunning tower, horseback riding, P g g� boa A and putting green. The resort has been featured in P g g "With the homes being built out here-, everything's from being overdeveloped isn't strictly economic. He says numerous TV ads, among them commercials for Coca-Cola, changing. I figure I've got maybe 10 years left here. It's not that if the dude ranch is swallowed up by the expanding city, Winston cigarettes and Hertz Rent -a -Car. conducive to good business to have a guest ranch located in a he is prepared. He has plans for a condominium, a different Colette made the cover -of Newsweek magazine many subdivision," he says. type of -inn and a health resort. years ago when the growth of Arizona business was fea- tured. _r . Nova, a Public Broadcasting System program, filmed . pads of a show on desert ecology near the Sundancer's pool this year. 4,a "This whole area used to be wide open. Now we have to ' 1: be more careful about wa rihts-of-on the horseback rights-of-way .. ;. r, J s!r � , y�._ f f i � rides , said Jackson. We haven't had any real problems :�x:,; 4 ✓ A"f f yet, though. You know, 10 ears ago you'd see 50 deer on an � Y g Y Y given day. You can call it people pollution or whatever, but now r A , You only see maybe one or two a day, and that's ifyou're . i r luC4.11 f Jackson, active in such civic and trade organizations as •' ! 3 Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce and the state and na- tional Hotel and Motel Associations, says that good guest °,• �.: � ranches are at a premium these days. . • ,�., . ". . � .. :. :. _. .: ..: When I came 'here, there were 140 guest ranches $J. -.... '... -. ,° J ;r.•: .........., , ,: • argund Tucson Now there's 10 or 12 and only about f . tour of , • thorn are worth their salt. The city's overrun them." ' it .: J ✓ ! ; - {? .. - -ranchoperator appear even if his days as a guest nnlnbered he has more stories to tell from his work than ?jrrrr:. `J rn ny people have from whole lifetimes in their jobs. • ., rff. v ' , J Like how Walt Disney, a regular visitor years ago, H�Ss ✓ri ;,�fr, /J ✓i`f3,01rr 4,r became upset when he learned that The Wonderful World ✓ ✓ ,-; ✓ ..::a s r •' �% r ✓ :fl .j✓ . �i✓J'r J ! ... r ice,' r .;: ✓ /r°lti :;:. f "Jnr :x fl� 1j% } f iwas being shown in Tucson at 9:30 or 10 n the of Disney" rr, :A !' r : J- J.J✓ ' evening.. r rr✓ e f > r/J ✓ Iust went down to the station. The program was J always on at 7 after that, Jackson said. He remembers when elaborate security precautions _ wore set up, including assigning badges to the guests, and persuading those with reservations to cancel their visits for • The Sweet life— Top dude Jack Jack- visiting a couple of his shaded "stable hands," above patriotic reasons, when Frank Borman, who had just re- turned from a moon mitsion, planned a stay at the ranch. son relaxes by the pool with his ,wife, Colette, before right. (Star photos by Art Grasberger) But Borman canceled at the last minute. •- a 'de cuts Sunnysi The Sunnyside School Board voted unan- imously at a special meeting Tuesday to reduce this year's budget by $155,000. The reduction was required by law be- cause enrollment fell below district esti- mates of this year's average daily figures, said Jim Irwin, business manager. "The reduction won't cause any prob- lems for the district this year because we have a cushion," Irwin said, "but if we use the surplus this year we won't have it next year." If the same thing happens again next PAGE SIX SECTION D ■ i this year s budg year, Irwin said, the district will be forced to°reduce salaries. Superintendent Lew Sorensen told the board, "We're down to skin and bones as far as money is concerned." In other action, the board ratified next year's salary schedule for administrators by a 4-1 vote. Board President Camilo Castrillo, who cast the dissenting vote, said the board should have frozen administrators' salaries because of the district's financial situation. The pay schedule calls for a 6.7 percent THE ARIZONP et 155,000 wage increase for 26 of the district's 30 ad- ministrators. The average raise is $1,700, with five employees receiving the maximum $2,250. Administrative salaries now range from $18,300 to $36,700. In an emergency meeting Monday, the board ratified next year's teacher wage package, which provides a 6 percent in- crease. Teachers' salaries will range from $10,520 to $21,834. Sunnyside's preliminary budget for the coming fiscal year will be presented to the board at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the learning - resource center at Sunnyside High School. DAILY STAR RIF presents one more book to pupils at Craycroft School Pupils at Craycroft Elementary School will be given another book to keep next week, through Reading Is Fundamental, a federally funded program. The program is intended to promote reading by making books more available to the children, and encourages them to start home libraries. The parent -teacher organization at Craycroft raised $410 for the project, an amount matched by the RIF program. The school purchased more than 1,000 books with the funds, and each pupil has received three books through the program. TUCSON, THURSDAY, MAY 179 1979 -o d h a S f e -r in. e. en -on h te....d he un d dence 0 es By AI. ARIAS The Arizona Daily Star Mabel Johnson has always been indepen- dent. No one bosses her around — not land developers, businessmen or bureaucrats. , She is a steadfast little lady. ✓ I made a home form mother, an was . y d r r: g contented to stayhere," said Johnson a i. -- '!,C ... r: `:° ... ':_ id 'f:' J.. :'.,. .Y.... : :. :: ++.s'.!✓4i!'6ii.. .: :.::; ,-; ?:..: .4.' r vibrant 81-year-old,� <; : r�: <::::; ..J... .. ,J .:: ;. :. -:• who says she was one of if ::� �' .:. .. < ., y • :. j N. . the first homesteaders n i Oro Valley. 7 4 She arrived in Tucson from Kansas Cit in 1925 on a train a month after her sister ,. came to Southern Arizona.Johnson and her -Steadfast, mother moved to Oro Valley in 1927 J ✓ Mabel Johnson � ar- ,f f J�� l '3�°� �..l ✓��"`. ...fir i .•�'�' ' - $: J c . p... J Other than one house down the hill and rived here half a century . ,. / ° f':�' °S,. ,: � ..;J� ice.! some cattle, we were the only ones here syr; 1 ! p%: before the territory !�` ✓ ' N Johnson said at her home located just out- y ' �r ' r , s r ou nd her h ren r �� o e became side the Oro Valle Country Club. The ! Y Y : ,���fy: ✓ s. Jr fJr . ,�. �. house which still has its hand -drawn well known as Oro Valley. I n was built in 1961 a couple of ears after the he earl days, one of her ✓: s !'<J,:., � f•r•. �,,::::; P Y t Y Y , . , rr.:;�� 7 �;�✓� fh�rn�.•:,° .�. !�J � �., . :� . adjacent golf course was constructed. John- r^ ;; s: r p �!!!••: problems was keeping ;' s 4 , , N son lived in a much smaller home before the',, ✓;> r fl;r . tiunte s away from the resent house was completed. • r f. mily _ homestead; now 1 f. Johnson has lived on the same property ever since she homesteaded one section — qhe tries to keep home- 640 acres — around her brick home. Her builders, at a distance. J Fri 97 in 1956 in Kansas (Star photo by Art Gras- . ; $ , mother, who died at ben e'x ..CitY, would milk goats while Johnson tended r , f.. f. .,✓, ' %..�� �`'�'� ,F. the chickens on their land. Johnson lived on $51.75 a month before she married. She has since sold all but a few acres of Johnson, who remembers the days when In the early days, the family home had city slickers also chopped down palo verde her section, half of which was bought by a Tucson's northern boundary was Drachman kerosene lamps. Cooking on a wood -burning trees, mesquites and cacti, she said. local land -development firm, which con- Street, and when the Florence Highway was' stove and having no telephone until, 1961 Johnson, who doesn't belong to the Oro strutted homes on it. The other 300 acres are built. were also a part of the homesteaders life- Valley Country Club, has never joined any style. e i ti d bwas never active n area clubs an now being developed. Using her 1936 Chevrolet coupe to get into cpolitics. town, Johnson shopped at Farmers Market, An automobile accident nine years ago has Johnson and her late husband, Carl, who PP ' Sometimes, said •Johnson, she and her her nein a "walker" to stroll around. was in the construction business never of she said, which was located at Drachman daughter would drive into Tucson to see a g ' • g involved in community activities, she said, arid Miracle Mile. _ movie, and then spend the rest of the day Johnson loves Oro Valley, even after noting that "we were family people." Her Johnson said she had plenty of time to shopping and running errands. Going into years of construction, road grading and in - daughter, son-in-law and. two g randchildren care for her mother and daughter because town was a big affair in those days. creasing population. "It has good, clean now live with her. she didn't hold a job and here were no air," she said. neighbors who visited. Her Tucson friends Hunters sought game on her property in Her only worry these days involves teen - "I was never going to let those land de- sometimes would come up for the entire day the early years. "They used to tell us, `This agers who prowl Oro Valley neighborhoods velopers push me around when they came to observe the wild animals,- particularly is a free country; if you don't like us shoot- " in search of goods they can steal, she said. here wanting to invest in later years," said chipmunks, near the Johnson house. ing, you can move,' " Johnson said. Some "But it's still a nice place." Financtai errors inexperience bleed a 'is head'ing Maran for 2nd bud et;def"c't (Continued from Page 1D) needed in the future. We just sort of guessed what our needs firing, was operating within its budget through April. The would be." administrative, public safety and magistrate court depart- Before leaving recently to spend the summer in Geor- ments were overspent. gia, Frew acknowledged that inexperience caused several George F. Learning, who drafted the budgets, predicts overexpenditures. that the town will surpass its budget in June. The Marana- "I will admit that sometimes we just didn't know what based economist, who offers his service free, calls the over- we were doing," Frew said. "You learn as you go in this busi- spending "fiscal mismangement and irresponsibility." ness." Frew said that Learning "simply doesn't snow how At a special meeting Monday, the council formed a much money is needed to operate this place." Learning citizens' task force to help draft the coming year's budget. disagreed, saying town officials must learn to operate in the black. Membership in the group is open to all town citizens, and the first meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday in Town Manana receives money for its budget from the state Hall. sales tax, state corporate income tax, the auto lieu tax, fines levied by the town's magistrate court, the state gasoline tax Oracle,is and federal revenue sharing funds. It also ge spec aranch is 1Oursplanned • grants from various federal agencies, such as the Federal Tours ofthe historic village of Oracle and the Hi Jinks Disaster Assistance Administration for last Decembers Ranch will be conducted Saturday by the Oracle Historical d flood damage. Society as a fund-raising project. The town recently extended its credit limit at Valley Oracle; 35 miles from Tucson on the north side of the National Bank to $20,000, and it is close to reaching that Santa Catalina Mountains, was founded in 1880. maximum limit. Tours of the town will leave from the Acadia Ranch Extending the limit "was a tragic error," Learning Museum, at the junction of Business Route 77 and the Mount - said, "because the town has no seasonal cash-flow problems. Lemmon Road, at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Only towns or businesses that must wait months before ex- The tour of the Hi Jinks Ranch, which is linked to petted revenues arrive should engage in credit limits. Buffalo Bill Cody's family, leaves at 9 a.m. Learning said the town must reduce services or, lay off employees to cut expenses. participants may be asked to drive their cars. Guides from the historical society will be stationed at each point of "We made a mistake in overspending," said DeSpain. interest. The cost is $3.50 per person for each tour or $6 for "It is very hard to start a new town and know what will be both, with a $1 discount for children under 12. TUCSON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1979 THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR * SECTION D PAGE THREE