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Ketchup, please
By GLORIA SALGADO
Most people write to the newspaper about litter, land,
sex and other issues. I'm writing about food.
I want to complain about the greediness of restau-
rants. When we go eat at a hamburger place, it's always
the same thing. We order hamburgers, Cokes and fries.
But when it comes to ketchup, they give you so little,
it's not even enough to fill a tooth.
I'm not writing to get anyone in trouble, but only to
make a point and a suggestion. If a customer asks for
ketchup, he should be asked how many packets he wants.
He should be given as many as he asks for, within rea-
son.
I think if restaurants do this, they'll have no prob-
lems. If they don't, people might just decide to bring their
own bottles.
, Gloria ,Salgado is a Tucson resident.
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Jessie K. Sparks found this empty, weather�beatern structure in a Gleeson, Ariz., Meld.
Miss Sparks has been a member of the Tucson Camera Club for 17 years, and has
belonged to the Photographic Socie off America for 12 ears.
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Plot of desuo%late 1 U ild solves inobile -home pi ublein
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By Anabel Harper
alleviated the financial pain for both
So we headed back the way we
few things. It reminded me of the de -
of us. 'We were pushing 70, hard!
came and saw a sign, "Lots for sale
pression '30s.
Old Pueblo recently carried a
Park life certainly wasn't a "beer
low down, low monthly payment.'
We now have growing at the living
story about mobile home parks and
bust" for us.
Following the sign, we found a lot
room door an apple tree. We have a
the high rents that are devastating
retired tenants in some of these
I took stock of the situation. I rea-
covered with weeds. It measured 53a
by -105, and it cost $3,000. There wa
cottonwood that eventually will
parks. Here is another side of the
lized moving expenses would not be
available some day. My rapidly
a shopping center two blocks away-
shade my metal -shed studio. With
shovels and a wheelbarrow, we
coin.
aging mobile home would some day
and a hospital in the next block. Thi
-
freeway was only one mile away
spread 24 yards of natural gravel
A friend and I have solved many
not be admitted to another park.
And only $500 down, $75 a month.
that we scraped up the money to
of the problems confronting mobile
home owners, problems that just six
My income_ would soon look like a
buy
months ago seemed insurmountable.
rotten apple on awind-tossed sea.
Controlling landlords would not con-
Now, it would take several buil-tomatoes.
are eating fresh, home-grown
tomatoes. We have a small crop of
Will Rogers said years ago,
trol the price of fuel to transport my
Bred dollars to move. Even doing
much of the work ourselves, it woul
lettuce growing in a pot and a dis-
s Land, they dont make it any-
food or the expenses of many folks
take $1,000 to hook up utilities. But
carded doll buggy. The worms and
more. Is this true! The price of
who catered to the butcher, the
our mobile home park neighbors
bugs got the corn I planted. I'll sit up
land and the rate of rent on land is
nurse, the doctor, the truck driver or
helped us install the electrical ser-
next year and shout them out of the
astronomically high and rising.
the farmer.
vice. There are many senior work-
stalks.
softly put,
Rent control, or, more so y p ,
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Where would I go .
men, skilled people, doing nothing
We both figure that trading the
gu g
rent stabilization, is not any more of
a solution than prohibition was in the
I was armed with information- that
with their time.
landlords for bugs and worms is a
very equitable deal. We are one
1920s. Somehow, somewhere, land-
just getting meters installed on a
tiny piece of land in Pima County
Many of the neighbors who helped
us said of our new location, "It has
block from a rest home, and I never
lords will find ways to charge hidden
fees, harass, bribe and threaten the
was catastrophic, not to mention the
no trees, no gravel, no other neigh-.
intend to live there.
very seams of such a law. I know
price of the land, the cost of getting
utilities hooked up and the cost of
bors." Let me tell you what it dial
have.
If one person in 10 profits from my
story, if anyone can do likewise, I
some people will point to cities that
have rent control. But dont forget
moving to said land. I came up with
one fact — none of this was to be
It was a plot of ground that would
consider the time I took to write this
time well -spent.
the hidden factors. The price of food,
utilities and medical expenses fur-
done on my {or our) budget.
.
require no payment in three years'
There would be only taxes and utili -
,
Anabel Hamer, a former Tuc-
ther threatens the financial status of
So my friend and I put the litter
ties to pay. It had a spot to put it
son -area mobile home park resi-
many people on fixed incomes.
pan and Ditty into the camper and*
small greenhouse for raising fresh,
dent who now lives in Willcox,
I am one of those people. There I
sat in a mobile home park last Feb-
set off for parts unknown. We ar-
rived at dusk in Bowie, Ariz., in Co-
high-priced vegetables at a low cost.
And best of all, it had hope.
used to write a column for the Mo -
bile Home and R. V News. She also
ruary with an income of W. I had
chise County.
We managed to borrow enough to
served as corresponding secretary
$600 in the bank and a small mobile
The country looked desolate, but
cover moving, deposits, utility lid-=
and publicity chairperson for the
home, paid for, that was nine years
we love the desert. Unfortunately,
stallation and" meter installation. We
Mobile Home Owners of Arizona,
old. The landlord didn't want me be-
the real estate broker there acted as
had a windfall here, earned a buck
Inc., a tenants association. Ms.
cause I had a companion who helped
though we had just arrived from To-
there, sold an article somewhere,
Harper describes herself as a
with the expenses and lived in. This
bacco Road in a Model T.
We even traded and swapped for a
"frustrated writer -of articles."
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Page 2 Tucson Citizen Thursday, October 4. 1979
Poster child
The poster child this year for the Epilepsy Society of
Southern Arizona is 6 -year-old Jody Stevenson.
Jody, who has had epilepsy for a year and a half, is
the daughter of Mrs. Patricia Stevenson. Jody will be
pictured in fund-raising posters and will make appear-
ances for the Epilepsy Society during the coming year.
Recognition
James M. King has received a $550 scholarship to the
University of Arizona from the auxiliary to the Southern, -
Chapter, Arizona Society of Engineers. James is a junior
in electrical engineering at UA.
Richard Shaw has been selected as one of 12 saxo-
phonists to join the Virginia Tech's Marching Virginians
this fall. Richard is a graduate of Sahuaro High School.
Elsie A. Phillips, head of the music branch of the
University of Arizona Library, has been named "librarian
of the year" by the Arizona State Library Association..
Miss Phillips is writing a book, "Fine and Performing
Arts of Hawaii."
Cecilia Gentil and Amy Zuckerman are traveling
around the world through an educational program called
Semester at Sea. Cecilia is an animal science major at the
University of Arizona and Amy is a major in horticulture.
"I was born and raised in Tucson," Amy said, "and I feel
the need to explore and grow in new places."
VFW honors
The Proud Ladies, the ladies auxiliary color guard of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 549 of Tucson, took
second place in the senior ladies competition in the recent
V.F.W. national convention held in New Orleans.
Sue Lee, publicity chairwoman, tells us the group
also received a first -place award as the best appearing
senior ladies color guard in the national parade held dur-
ing the convention.
The Proud Rifles, the Tucson post's male color
guard, took second place in the national senior mens color
guard competition.
Happy birthday
The monthly birthday party at the William Wesley
Nursing Home honored all patients who were born in
ActiV1ties
Rio Rico Oktoberf est
Bratworst, kartoffeiknodel, apfelstrudel
and lots of music will be on the menu Sat-
urday night at the Rio Rico Convention
Center. The Oktoberfest is sponsored by
the Santa Cruz County Young Audiences
Association. It costs $12.50 per person (tax
deductible) and begins at 6 p.m. with a
buffet and continues with dancing to the
Bavarian Oompah, Oompah Band. Rio
Rico is south of Tucson on I-19.
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Tours to Tombstone and Bisbee (this
weekend), to Nogales for shopping Oct. 13;
and Helldorado Days in Tombstone Oct.
21, climaxed with an overnighter to the
White Mountains _the last weekend of the
On the cover
John Lundahl has nothing but
praise for his pet goats. Their quirky
appetites -- paint chips apparently
make dandy hors d'oevres ®- help
keep the field of Lundahl's airplane
junk yard clean and smooth. More
on Lundahl, his wife Caroline and
their goat -laden lifestyle, pages 4
and 5. Cover photo by Eugene Louie;
design by Paul Krause.
Old Pueblo is the Tucson Citizen's
w-eekly supplement for local and
neighborhood news. If you know of a
person or activity that merits cover- r
age, we'd like to hear from you. Call
294-4433, ext. 203.
Pen pals wanted
Yeon-soo Kim teaches English at Daesung High
School in Seoul, Korea. She has written us to solicit pen
pals for members of her Conversation Club.
"I surely believe that a friendly correspondence be-
tween students of our two countries will contribute to
international fraternity and better understanding," she
says.
If you want to be a pen pal to a Korean student write
to this address with a little description of yourself and
your interests: Miss Yeon-soo Kim, P.O. Box 100, Central,
Seoul, Korea.
`outstanding'
Bailey E. Battiste, a sanitation expert with the Pima
County Health Department, has received the honor award
for outstanding contributions in public health at the re-
cent Arizona Public Health Association annual meeting.
Battiste set up Pima County's first water quality
month will be hosted by the Lighthouse
YMCA. Call 795-9725, for price and regis-
tration information.
"Oklahoma! "
Palo Verde High School Concert Choir
will present the Broadway musical Oct: 24
and 25 in the school auditorium, 1302 S.
Avenida Vega (off 22nd Street). Tickets
will be $1 and are available at the door or
at the PVNS Bookstore in advance. Show-
time is 7:30 p.m. both days.
Microwave cooking
Ott YMCA, 401 S. Prudence Road, will
begin microwave cooking classes from
10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays, be-
ginning Oct. 10, for four weeks. Classes
will include basic theory and introduction
to microwave cooking, egg cookery, veget-
ables and poultry. Advanced microwave
cooking will follow. $15 for members, $20
nonmembers.
St. Joseph's fiesta
The fifth annual fiesta will be. held Sat-
urday at St. Joe's, 215 S. Craycroft Road,
from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Featured will be
games, food, entertainment and a raffle
drawing for a Love Boat Cruise to Mexico
for two.
Show time
The Tom Thumb Players, a children's
theater company, will perform scenes
from famous plays, theater games, panto-
mimes and improvisations during October
at four Tucson Public Library branches: 4
program, created the county's first food handlers course
and pioneered a school safety program.
He has been intrumental in bringing about changes in
the stat codes on swimming pools and nursing homes. He
also wa instrumental in getting the "sanitarians regis-
tration bill passed.
Band Day judges
Bill Richardson Sr., associate director of bands for
the Un1versity of Arizona, and Paul Grimes, former direc-
tor of bunds at Rincon High School, will be two of the
judges for Arizona State University Band Day on Oct. 27
at Sun Devil Stadium.
Among the 38 Arizona high school marching bands
and auxliary groups participating will be the Sahuaro
High School band under the direction of Bruce Ammann.
Headmaster named
St. Gregory High School, an Episcopal private school
scheduled to open next fall in Tucson, now has a new head
roaster. Re is the Rev. Russell W. Ingersoll, a Dartmouth
College and Virginia Theological Seminary graduate who
has been rector and headmaster of private boarding
schools in Virginia and Wisconsin.
The new school still lacks a building site, but Inger-
soll said that matter should be resolved soon. The school's
trustees -Are negotiating for land on Tucson's North Side
and hope to begin construction early next year. Active
recruitment of students will begin in mid-October.
The trustees, led by chairman Ruth "Bazy" Tanker-
sley, envision the school on a 20 -acre campus. The curric-
ulum will emphasize the three R's and fine arts, religion
and ethics. The trustees plan to open with classes for
grades nine and 10 next fall. They would add grade 11 in
1981 and grade 12 in 1982.
Library delegates
Tucsonians Trini Goebel and Marguerite Pasquale
will be joining another 1,000 -some community representa-
tives and librarians from across the nation in November
at the finst White House Conference on Library and Infor-
mation Sf-iDvices.
Mrs. Goebel will be among the two-thirds of the con-
ference delegates who are community representatives.
Ms. Pasg11ale is librarian at Rincon High School.
The Conference will be the first national forum to
address the future of libraries and information services.
Among the issues delegates will tackle is the right to
privacy versus the freedom of information. Conference
delegates will make recommendations to President
Carter.
p.m. today at Wilmot; 6:30 p.m. next
Thursday at Columbus and at 4:30 next
Thursday also at Himmel, and 4:30 p.m.
Oct. 18 at Woods. The shows are free.
Writing contest
Tucson area children in grades one
through eight are invited to enter the an-
nual Children's Book Week writing conteit
cosponsored by the children's and young
adults' services of the Wilmot branch li-
brary. This year's topic is "If you could
choose one book for yourself, what would it
be? Why?" Stories should not exceed 5W
words, should be written in ink and submit'
ted by Nov. 5. Call Margaret Nichols at
7914627 for more information.
Garden classes
Attend a free demonstration on flower-:
and vegetables in containers by the Tu( ----
son Garden Center at the YMCA, 401 S,
Prudence Road, beginning at 10 a.m,
Wednesday. The weekly plant clinic is at
a.m. Call 882-5628 for information.
Downtown Mercado Oktoberf es t
The Sauerbrauten Glockenspielen Ooni
pah-pah Band will entertain tomorrow and
Saturday at the Downtown Mercado, open
air farmers' market, in International
Alley, behind Jacome's and Penney's.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and new
winter hours for Saturdays are 8:30 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Senior citizen tours
London Bridge and Prescott are on the
itinerary for the next senior citizen tour,
Oct. 8 though 11. The cost is $115 perper-
son and includes bus transportation, tood
and lodging. Call the Senior Citizens Cen-
ter for reservation information. The next
one is to Hawaii, a tour of the four islands,
Nov. 14 through 26 for $985 per person.
Rincon alumni
Rincon High School alumni are invited
to attend homecoming festivities tomor-
row at 7:30 p.m. A dance will follow. Call
the high, school for information.
Palo Verde drama
Palo Verde High School drama depart-
ment will produce "The Star Spangled
Girl" Oct. 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Courtyard Little Theatre on PVHS cam-
pus. Tickets, available at PVHS bookstore,
from drama students or at the door before
the performances, are $1.25.
Amateur radio enthusiasts
A free course in amateur radio will be
given from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday
nights at Nash Elementary School's Zoom
Room, 515 W. Kelso St., sponsored by the
Old Pueblo Radio Club. The second of the
10 classes is tonight. Novice Class Licenses
will be granted by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission upon completion of
the course. Call 889-4776 for information.
Child Care Food Program
The Mulcahy YMCA, 4902 S. Sixth Ave.,
will provide free -meals to children en-
rolled in the Preschool/Day Care Center
who meet the approved eligibility criteria.
Call 299-1449 for information.
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booing when it doesn't agree with a call, Metz doesn't Kazantzis will speak about
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Thursday, October 4, 1979 Tucson Citizen Page 3
t G -s Tanque Verde Road in knots
Traffic 1
By LAURA DIAMOND
Citizen Staff Writer
When Jayne Fife wants to make a left turit from
Pantano Road onto Tanque Verde Road, she tuns right
lonto Tanque Verde, then left into the parking lot of
Werstler's furniture store, then left onto Pantarl.0) then
right on Tanque Verde.
Some kind of a nut, bent on wasting time and gas?
No, just a resident of the Rancho Perdido subdivision
trying to cope with the traffic mess at Tanque Verde and,
Pantano.
Tanque Verde has a volume to capacity ratio of 2.02,
the highest in the county. A
That's Pima County Highway Department talll,'for an
incredible amount of traffic. It means that the read that
was designed to handle 12,000 cars sees from 2A,000 to
26,000 autos a day.
It means that school buses have had to change their
stops to the north side of the street because some students
who couldn't get across the street in the morning would
miss school.
It means the people who live in the Rancho Perdido
subdivision northwest of the Tanque Verde-Pantano in-
tersection have to use their imagination to figure cut how
to get in and out of their homes. -
"Trying to make a left turn on Tanque Verde is like
signing your own death warrant," saidL Phylli§ Reid,'
whose home in Rancho Perdido is one of about 40 pestled
in a grove of mesquite trees.
And making a right turn is difficult as well. "One day
I was counting cars as I waited to get out," she said. "I
counted to 100 and then I quit and I was still waiting."
The Rancho Perdido folks have developed their own
methods of getting in and out of their secluded oasis.
Many say they have sworn off left turns when coming into
or leaving Pantano Road.
A great number of them make tricky maneuvers in
Werstler's parking lot.
"I talked to the owner of the store," said Mr, Reid.
"I told him we're not trying to take short cuts of abuse
your parking lot. We're simply trying to stay alive"
The intersection has a high accident rate, according
to county officials. Rear -end collisions are a common oc-
curence, and impatient people who pass on the right add
Anmnm,ak,exation
plai4LO'lh OK I d
The Oro Valley Town Council has
given its approval to Pima County
Supervisor E.S. "Bud" Walker and
another petitioner seeking annexa-
tion of 13 acres of land west of the
town. The council may approve the
annexation when procedures are
completed, which should be in 30 to
90 days.
Filing the petition with Walker
was Arthur Kramer. Both men own
parcels of the 13 acres.
The council also discussed passing
an ordinance that would prohibit the
parking of cars displaying "for sale"
signs on vacant lots.
The members will vote on the
matter following a public hearing at
the council's next meeting, Oct. 25,
Mayor E. S. "Steve" Engle said.
The council appointed Patricia
Noland, 36, the new town clerk.
Ms. Noland, former clerk for Casa
Grande, replaces Dotti Morse, who
was dismissed last month for alleg-
edly not performing all her duties
and for high absenteeism.
The council appointed Maja
Stewart chairman of the Census
Committee and named Twink
Monrad to be citizen member of En-
vironmental Protection Agency
Commission.
Rekerdre
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to the number of sideswipes and broadside accidents.
When developer George Rekerdre tried again re-
cently to get a triangle of land at the intersection rezoned
for commercial development, area residents started mak-
ing noise about the traffic problems. .
Three times Rekerdre has brought his case to the
county Planning and Zoning Commission. Three times his
proposal has been rejected.
"There is a horrendous traffic problem that defi-
nitely needs to be taken care of before any more additions
are made to that comer," said Mrs. Reid.
Two years ago, the county spent $14,900 on a study by
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`red DeSpain, the 39 -year-old co-owner
of Marana Hardware, was elected mayor
thin i week in the first meeting of the newly-
elf-eted Marana Town Council.
DeSpain, who defeated fellow incum-
bent Gary Nesbitt in a 4-3 vote, has been
acting mayor since May when Don Frew
resigned that post.
DeSpain is a native Arizonan and the
father of five children. He and his wife,
Sandy, have lived in Marana for 10 years.
Mike Calvin, a newcomer to Marana
politics, was elected vice mayor. Calvin,
33, was the top vote -getter in the Sept. 18
general election.
Calvin owns an auto supply store and
has lived in Marana 11 years.
Also sworn in at the meeting were coun-
cil members Lorraine Price, Billy Wayne
Schisler, Stan Gladden and John Mayo.
In his first action, as mayor, DeSpain
appointed Mrs. Price representative to the
Pima Association of Governments, a col-
lection of representatives from all govern-
mental agencies in Pima County.
DeSpain also appointed Schisler en-
vironmental planning representative to the
Environmental Protection Agency Com-
mission.
He named as liasons to various town
departments the following council mem-
bers: administration, Mrs. Price and Glad-
den; public safety, Nesbitt and Mayo; and
street and maintenance, Calvin and
Schisler.
Marum and Marum engineers to develop alternatives to
remedy to situation.
The proposed solutions were major undertakings, in-
volving reconstruction of all of Tanque Verde, with spe-
cial attention to correcting the mess at Pantano.
The most promising plan has become unusable, how-
ever, because it involved the property now occupied by
Werstler's.
That leaves a number of other plans ranging in cost
from about $3.2 million to a few hundred thousand dollars
(in 1977 figures), said Charles Huckelberry, county tran-
sporation director.
"Now we are trying to come up with alternative
number two (now that the first alternative is out of the
question) and let the Board of Supervisors know so they
can -preclude any other development from blocking that
alternative," he said. I
The department plans to submit its preferred plan to
the board around the end of October, Huckelberry said.
But that won't necessarily mean help is on the way.
Major highway construction costs money, and the High-
way Department doesn't have any earmarked for Tanque
Verde Road right now.
A $43.6 million bond proposal, part of which would
have been used on Tanque Verde, was voted down in
June.
Huckelberry is pushing for another bond election in
January or February, and said the Tanque Verde project
would be included again in the proposal.
If there is a bond election, and if the Tanque Verde
item is on it and if it passes, it still will be another two
years or so before the project is completed, Huckelberry
said.
Are there no temporary solutions to the problem?
"We've Band -Aided and Band -Aided," Huckelberry
said. "We've done all we can. The only other action we
can take would be major reconstruction."
Meanwhile, the Rancho Perdido people will have to -
keep making tight turns and being extra careful when
they drive. -
Monty Webb, a 14 -year native 'of the subdivision,
looks at the problem with a day-to-day perspective.
"We figure if we go downtown and get home without
getting clobbered, we've had a good day," he said.
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Mull"Joilhey School is ded4o*,hd,
lun6,0� livre Mulyhelyplp School
Students who attended the now-
Mrs. Gaines wants to name the
closed Murphey School may soon
new school after John W, Murphey,
find themselves attending Murphey
since he donated the land for the
School.
first Murphey School site as well as
No, they're not going to pile back
part of another site. Board President
John R. MacDonald agreed.
into the classrooms of the building at
2102 E. River Road.
Meanwhile, back on Manzanita
But the elementary school they're
Street, the school that has been open
attending now, at 3000 E. Manzanita
for nearly a month remains name -
St., might be named Murphey School
less.
if two Catalina Foothills school
board members have their way.
"We've been calling it Manzanita
When naming the new elementary
School, but the board has not for -
really approved any name," said Su -
school on Manzanita Street was on a
perintendent Larry E. Frase.
May meeting agenda, Rosie Gaines
A,
suggested the board table the matter
Whether it will be named Manzan-
until the future of Murphey School
ita, Murphey, or Son of Murphey re -
was decided.
mains to be seen.
0
L bi table 0
ow d accep lu
$f"410, 000
The Catalina Foothills School Superintendent Larry E. Frase
Board has voted to advertise for bids said the board's options included
for the sale of Murphey School, but selling the entire site, selling part of
will not decide what to do with the the site and using the rest for new
site until bids are received. administrative offices, leasing all or
I In a unanimous vote Tuesday part of the school, or moving the ad -
night, trustees set $700,000 as the ministration center into part of the
"minimum net figure to be accepted school and using the rest for kinder -
for the entire 81/2 -acre site at 2101 E. garten and first grade classes.
River Road.
The board said bids for part of the On Sept. 11, district voters gave
property also will be accepted, but the board permission to sell the
added that it retains the right to ref- closed elmentary school, should that
use any and all bids. option be chosen.
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By SHANNON TRAVIS
Citizen Staff Writer
Bill Bavin is nothing short of a real
live Western hero. Captain of the Pima
County Sheriff's Posse he often scours
the star -lighted Arizona plains on his
faithful horse, rescuing lost souls from
he clutches f th
t c s o a and desert.
But Bavin is not your typical all
'round Arizona -bred cowboy.
A native Londoner, Bavin has
roamed practically every corner of the
globe, settling in Spain and Ireland,
with interludes in Japan, Switzerland
and, as he says,, "You name it, we've
been there. 9 9
Now, however, he and his wife,
Diane, have made their home in Tuc-
son, in a spacious house with a breath-
taking view of mountains and desert.
And as chief of the posse, a group
actively involved in search and rescue
operations in Pima County, Bavin has
formed a
ed kinship with a people and a
f land he discovered on a visit.
"Eight years ago I came here
wanting a good look around. I've al-
ways had an interest in the Wild West —
the cowboy bit and all that," Bavin
said.
Then five years ago he returned to
see a rodeo. Soon after, he decided to
make his home here. And soon thereaf-
ter, he got involved with the posse.
"I thought I'd like to integrate my-
self, so I went to a meeting (of the
posse) and I said, `Well, I don't know,"'
Bavin said.
Diane remembered it differently.
"He said, 'Oh yuck."'
Nevertheless, the first thing Bavin
knew, he was being sworn in.
"It happened quite quickly," he
said.
Maybe "quickly" isn't descriptive
enough.
Since joining in 1977, Bavin has
risen through the ranks at a surprising
pace, moving from treasurer to second
lieutenant, secretary and first lieuten-
ant, and finally being named captain in
September 1978.
In his second year as head honcho,
Bavin said he has seen a steady im-
Bill and Maine Bavin
provement in the group to which he
dedicates several hours a week.
"We've made a good posse out of
what was a raggedy old mop a few
years ago," he said. "It's more of a
cohesive unit here. We've got a cama-
raderie we've never had before; we've
got a lot of mates."
And apparently the banding to-
gethe,r has paid off.
The group recently purchased a
new chuck wagon to follow it on trips
throughout Arizona for parade and
rodeo performances. It also has spear -
Citizen Photo by Joan Renick
headed a movement to install a statue
of a horse in Tucson, and has put to-
gether a country -western jubilee slated
for Oct. 19.
And in an effort led by Bavin, posse
members have come up with a floure-
scent light contraption that attaches to
their horses, allowing them to be seen
easily during search operations.
"They are basically for searching
at dawn and night," Bavin said. "They
won't break and they allow an aircraft
to see you, and you can see each other.
That way, we can get to them (lost or
injured persons) sooner."
Bavin, who plays the guitar hand-
ily,
and-
fy, also has written a new theme song
or the posse, and he hopes it will be
recorded some day.
"We want to get a disc if we can
get some of these lads to play," he
said.
A former military man and broker
with Lloyds of London, Bavin retired at
the ripe old age of 38 to devote time to a
writing passion that has produced 10
books.
Since then he has been traveling,
"cramming everything into life" he
can.
Bavin said he's encountered just
about every culture there is, and as an
Englishman, he feels comfortable living
int the United States.
In fact, he said he even feels some-
what patriotic toward his adopted
home.
"I salute the flag; everyone
should," he said.
Diane said she knew she and her
husband were feeling an immense kin-
ship with the country when, during a
rodeo the posse was marching in, a se-
ries of mixups brought about the play-
ing of the Star Spangled Banner three
times.
"The third time I'm standing up
me, an English girl. How patriotic can
you get?"
a
4f
By SERGIO LALLI
Citizen Staff Writer
When military airplanes become se-
nior citizens, they are retired from ser-
vice and sent to Tucson.
The planes are sent here from all
over because the desert's rust -free en-
vironment helps preserve them while
they wait, parked in long lines at Davis-
Monthan Air Force Base, for their fate to
be resolved.
Some of these old birds are auc-
tioned to civilians who make a living dis-
mantling the planes and reselling their
parts. Once auctioned, the planes are
towed to nearby pastures to be canniba-
lized.
In one of these airplane graveyards
— the one operated by John Lundahl and
his wife, Caroline — you will see a herd
of goats grazing contentedly among the
airplanes, the creosote bushes and the
desert broom.
Whenever one of the old planes is
flown to the air base, the goats momen-
tarily cease their endless browsing to
look heavenward. The wind ruffles their
elegant beards, and the tail of at least
one huge white goat starts flicking like a
windshield wiper.
The Lundahls live on the Big Buck
Ranch, where South Wilmot Road meets
Interstate 10. Their home is only a couple
of miles from the airplane graveyard
they operate beside the air base. They
keep goats at both sites.
Their work involves tearing things
up, but at home they do the opposite.
John, a jaunty, crew-cut, 62 -year-old
who wears red suspenders, is standing on
top of the 26 -foot water tower he single-
handedly constructed out of cylindrical
metal crates used to ship airplane parts.
"Sometimes I bring a mattress up
here to sleep," John says. "It's breezy.
Good view, too."
It's night. From the top of John's
water tower, you can see the electric
power plant on Irvington Road, twinkling
like a crystal palace adrift at sea. The
rest of the view is of desert and of the
highway, swooshing with traffic.
Caroline is downstairs in the house,
barbecueing a leg of goat. She is 30 years
old, broad -shouldered and flaxen -haired.
Her hair is braided and it hangs down in
pigtails. Both she and John hail from
Wisconsin where dairy cows, not goats,
are spoken of reverently.
John has been cannibalizing air-
planes for 20 years. He got the idea to
raise goats only after his ulcers began
flaring up. Goat milk, he says, is the best
thing for a bad stomach. Goats also are
good for keeping the airplane pasture
clean and well -clipped. That way it's ea-
sier to roll the airplanes in and out of the
yard and easier, also, for the dismantling
crews to work.
Altogether, between the airplane
pasture and the ranch, there are 78 Nu-
bian and Saanen goats rambling and ru-
minating in John's domain.
Chief among the goats 'is Salty, a
white, goateed wether that once drank a
can of hydraulic fluid.
"It didn't seem to hurt him none,"
John says of Salty's strange appetite,
"but Salty acted crazy for a couple of
days."
Goats eat just about anything.
"Sometimes they get fond of the
paint chips and Air Force decals on the
plains," John says.
•
Caroline is in the kitchen preparing
the tomato sauce in which she will mari-
nate the leg of goat. Country music from
an antique radio set is playing softly.
Caroline has just returned from a
vacation in Wisconsin, where the maple
leaves are turning colors. John missed
her presence sorely. He's crotchety when
she' gone. They work together at the
airplane graveyard and they make a
home together.
But she's back and there is the busi-
ness and the chores to worry about. Daily
work is like a religion. The Lundahls
grow most of what they need to survive.
Onc@ in a while they have to go to the
store to buy some things, like salt. They
don't need sugar, however, because they
get all the honey they need from their
bee dives.
They got married eight years ago.
,Iwe got married mainly for the paper-
work," John says. "I didn't want Caro-
line to not be entitled to my pension and
other benefits when I'm gone. She's de-
served it. She's earned every bit of it. We
were living together, anyway. Marriage
was just to make it legal."
"Well, you know, I'm often asked
about children," Caroline says. "Evers if
we could have children, I wouldn't have
any. We're not living in a good time to
have children. I don't want to have
babies so they ,can grow up to become
numbers ... Anyway, we have the ani-
mals."
For libation to accompany the goat-
meat repast, Caroline has chosen a bottle
of Lebfraumilch wine.
•
John's realm, as seen from aloft his
water tower, is pocked with holes.
`That hole there," John says, "is
where our 7 -foot swimming pool is going
to b(- , That there is where our root cellar
is going to be. That hole over there is
going, to be a catfish pond.
He has many projects under way
that will take time to complete, and this
is one reason he will retire at the end of
the year. Twenty years in the airplane-
cani ibal business is enough.
4'Is catfish good to eat?" John is
asked.
John looks at his interlocutor
askance, as if to say, "Is catfish good to
eat? Do ducks quack, do geese honk, do
chickens cluck, do dogs bark, do hogs
oink, do pigeons coo, do peacocks shriek,
do goats bleat?"
John knows about these animals be-
cause he is surrounded by them on his
ranch. Every,morning and every eve-
nin , he andaroline have their chores:
Few the animals, collect the eggs, milk
the goats ...
Last year, John bought himself a
runt pig. Everyone told him the pig was a
runt and wouldn't grow to be very big.
John bought the hog anyway and fed it a
special diet of a gallon of goat milk and
four eggs every morning. When the hog
was slaughtered, it weighed more than
400 pounds.
John and Caroline drink goat milk
just about every day. They prefer it to
cow milk, which tastes bland to them and
which they do not think is as digestible or
as i-otritious as goat milk. ("The closest
thing to mother's milk," Caroline says,
"is goat milk.") Not long after they
began drinking goat milk, they began
eating goat meat. That spoiled their taste
for beef, which they no longer eat at all.
("Beef has no taste," John insists.)
As to the question about the catfish's
delectability, John answers, "Why,
pshew, jeez, yes, they're good eating."
John has descended from his water
tower. He is joining Caroline at the din-
ner table for a meal of barbecued goat,
buttered bread and green peas. Caroline
fills the glasses with the white wine from
the Rhine.
"It's got a taste to it," John says,
stabbing chunks of meat from his plate.
"Once you get used to goat, you don't
want to eat beef."
John waxes ecstatic about goats.
"They're cheaper to feed and maintain
than cattle. They don't attract flies like
cattle, and where there's goats, there's
no snakes."
Caroline agrees that goats are won-
derful and that it's only modern civiliza-
tion that disdains them.
A black pigeon hobbles on top of a
cabinet while John and Caroline are eat-
ing their meal. Flutters, for that is the pi-
geon's name, was granted guest privi-
leges at the Big Buck Ranch after the
Lundahls discovered him cowering under
a billboard. If you go up to Flutters and
extend your hand amicably, he will rub
his beak between your fingers and coo.
John doesn't have one good thing to
say about modern civilization. He doesn't
even keep a telephone at the ranch. But
he and Caroline do sleep on a waterbed.
"What we have here is a way of
life," John says between bites of goat.
"Some people go out partying or do other
things. That's their way of life but not
ours. We come home and work on our
place and tend our animals. This is not
stagnant. This is a way of life.
"We are just about self-sufficient.
We have everything we want. There's
nothing fancy about us. We put on no
airs. We couldn't care less about keeping
up with the Joneses. So what more could
we want?"
Caroline answers: "A green
meadow with spring water running
through it."
The goat meat absorbs John's atten-
tion again. "You can't get tired of goat
meat," he says. "It's not fatty, but lean.
It's a little tough, though."
"Did you know that some goats have
their own personalities, like people?"
Caroline says.
"People have no respect for one an-
other," John says.
"We could be at a time like the fall
of Rome," Caroline adds.
"Destruction is one of the main fac-
tors of today," John declares. "People
today, they want to tear up things. Deep
inside there's nothing in them but the
ability to destroy. There's not enough
growing. The universe shouldn't be de-
teriorating, it should be developing."
John and Caroline don't know what
can be done about modern civilization
other than to watch television infre-
quently and to keep working on their
house, their vegetables and their ani-
mals.
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By SHANNON TRAVIS
Citizen Staff Writer
Bill Bavin is nothing short of a real
live Western hero. Captain of the Pima
County Sheriff's Posse he often scours
the star -lighted Arizona plains on his
faithful horse, rescuing lost souls from
he clutches f th
t c s o a and desert.
But Bavin is not your typical all
'round Arizona -bred cowboy.
A native Londoner, Bavin has
roamed practically every corner of the
globe, settling in Spain and Ireland,
with interludes in Japan, Switzerland
and, as he says,, "You name it, we've
been there. 9 9
Now, however, he and his wife,
Diane, have made their home in Tuc-
son, in a spacious house with a breath-
taking view of mountains and desert.
And as chief of the posse, a group
actively involved in search and rescue
operations in Pima County, Bavin has
formed a
ed kinship with a people and a
f land he discovered on a visit.
"Eight years ago I came here
wanting a good look around. I've al-
ways had an interest in the Wild West —
the cowboy bit and all that," Bavin
said.
Then five years ago he returned to
see a rodeo. Soon after, he decided to
make his home here. And soon thereaf-
ter, he got involved with the posse.
"I thought I'd like to integrate my-
self, so I went to a meeting (of the
posse) and I said, `Well, I don't know,"'
Bavin said.
Diane remembered it differently.
"He said, 'Oh yuck."'
Nevertheless, the first thing Bavin
knew, he was being sworn in.
"It happened quite quickly," he
said.
Maybe "quickly" isn't descriptive
enough.
Since joining in 1977, Bavin has
risen through the ranks at a surprising
pace, moving from treasurer to second
lieutenant, secretary and first lieuten-
ant, and finally being named captain in
September 1978.
In his second year as head honcho,
Bavin said he has seen a steady im-
Bill and Maine Bavin
provement in the group to which he
dedicates several hours a week.
"We've made a good posse out of
what was a raggedy old mop a few
years ago," he said. "It's more of a
cohesive unit here. We've got a cama-
raderie we've never had before; we've
got a lot of mates."
And apparently the banding to-
gethe,r has paid off.
The group recently purchased a
new chuck wagon to follow it on trips
throughout Arizona for parade and
rodeo performances. It also has spear -
Citizen Photo by Joan Renick
headed a movement to install a statue
of a horse in Tucson, and has put to-
gether a country -western jubilee slated
for Oct. 19.
And in an effort led by Bavin, posse
members have come up with a floure-
scent light contraption that attaches to
their horses, allowing them to be seen
easily during search operations.
"They are basically for searching
at dawn and night," Bavin said. "They
won't break and they allow an aircraft
to see you, and you can see each other.
That way, we can get to them (lost or
injured persons) sooner."
Bavin, who plays the guitar hand-
ily,
and-
fy, also has written a new theme song
or the posse, and he hopes it will be
recorded some day.
"We want to get a disc if we can
get some of these lads to play," he
said.
A former military man and broker
with Lloyds of London, Bavin retired at
the ripe old age of 38 to devote time to a
writing passion that has produced 10
books.
Since then he has been traveling,
"cramming everything into life" he
can.
Bavin said he's encountered just
about every culture there is, and as an
Englishman, he feels comfortable living
int the United States.
In fact, he said he even feels some-
what patriotic toward his adopted
home.
"I salute the flag; everyone
should," he said.
Diane said she knew she and her
husband were feeling an immense kin-
ship with the country when, during a
rodeo the posse was marching in, a se-
ries of mixups brought about the play-
ing of the Star Spangled Banner three
times.
"The third time I'm standing up
me, an English girl. How patriotic can
you get?"
a
4f
By SERGIO LALLI
Citizen Staff Writer
When military airplanes become se-
nior citizens, they are retired from ser-
vice and sent to Tucson.
The planes are sent here from all
over because the desert's rust -free en-
vironment helps preserve them while
they wait, parked in long lines at Davis-
Monthan Air Force Base, for their fate to
be resolved.
Some of these old birds are auc-
tioned to civilians who make a living dis-
mantling the planes and reselling their
parts. Once auctioned, the planes are
towed to nearby pastures to be canniba-
lized.
In one of these airplane graveyards
— the one operated by John Lundahl and
his wife, Caroline — you will see a herd
of goats grazing contentedly among the
airplanes, the creosote bushes and the
desert broom.
Whenever one of the old planes is
flown to the air base, the goats momen-
tarily cease their endless browsing to
look heavenward. The wind ruffles their
elegant beards, and the tail of at least
one huge white goat starts flicking like a
windshield wiper.
The Lundahls live on the Big Buck
Ranch, where South Wilmot Road meets
Interstate 10. Their home is only a couple
of miles from the airplane graveyard
they operate beside the air base. They
keep goats at both sites.
Their work involves tearing things
up, but at home they do the opposite.
John, a jaunty, crew-cut, 62 -year-old
who wears red suspenders, is standing on
top of the 26 -foot water tower he single-
handedly constructed out of cylindrical
metal crates used to ship airplane parts.
"Sometimes I bring a mattress up
here to sleep," John says. "It's breezy.
Good view, too."
It's night. From the top of John's
water tower, you can see the electric
power plant on Irvington Road, twinkling
like a crystal palace adrift at sea. The
rest of the view is of desert and of the
highway, swooshing with traffic.
Caroline is downstairs in the house,
barbecueing a leg of goat. She is 30 years
old, broad -shouldered and flaxen -haired.
Her hair is braided and it hangs down in
pigtails. Both she and John hail from
Wisconsin where dairy cows, not goats,
are spoken of reverently.
John has been cannibalizing air-
planes for 20 years. He got the idea to
raise goats only after his ulcers began
flaring up. Goat milk, he says, is the best
thing for a bad stomach. Goats also are
good for keeping the airplane pasture
clean and well -clipped. That way it's ea-
sier to roll the airplanes in and out of the
yard and easier, also, for the dismantling
crews to work.
Altogether, between the airplane
pasture and the ranch, there are 78 Nu-
bian and Saanen goats rambling and ru-
minating in John's domain.
Chief among the goats 'is Salty, a
white, goateed wether that once drank a
can of hydraulic fluid.
"It didn't seem to hurt him none,"
John says of Salty's strange appetite,
"but Salty acted crazy for a couple of
days."
Goats eat just about anything.
"Sometimes they get fond of the
paint chips and Air Force decals on the
plains," John says.
•
Caroline is in the kitchen preparing
the tomato sauce in which she will mari-
nate the leg of goat. Country music from
an antique radio set is playing softly.
Caroline has just returned from a
vacation in Wisconsin, where the maple
leaves are turning colors. John missed
her presence sorely. He's crotchety when
she' gone. They work together at the
airplane graveyard and they make a
home together.
But she's back and there is the busi-
ness and the chores to worry about. Daily
work is like a religion. The Lundahls
grow most of what they need to survive.
Onc@ in a while they have to go to the
store to buy some things, like salt. They
don't need sugar, however, because they
get all the honey they need from their
bee dives.
They got married eight years ago.
,Iwe got married mainly for the paper-
work," John says. "I didn't want Caro-
line to not be entitled to my pension and
other benefits when I'm gone. She's de-
served it. She's earned every bit of it. We
were living together, anyway. Marriage
was just to make it legal."
"Well, you know, I'm often asked
about children," Caroline says. "Evers if
we could have children, I wouldn't have
any. We're not living in a good time to
have children. I don't want to have
babies so they ,can grow up to become
numbers ... Anyway, we have the ani-
mals."
For libation to accompany the goat-
meat repast, Caroline has chosen a bottle
of Lebfraumilch wine.
•
John's realm, as seen from aloft his
water tower, is pocked with holes.
`That hole there," John says, "is
where our 7 -foot swimming pool is going
to b(- , That there is where our root cellar
is going to be. That hole over there is
going, to be a catfish pond.
He has many projects under way
that will take time to complete, and this
is one reason he will retire at the end of
the year. Twenty years in the airplane-
cani ibal business is enough.
4'Is catfish good to eat?" John is
asked.
John looks at his interlocutor
askance, as if to say, "Is catfish good to
eat? Do ducks quack, do geese honk, do
chickens cluck, do dogs bark, do hogs
oink, do pigeons coo, do peacocks shriek,
do goats bleat?"
John knows about these animals be-
cause he is surrounded by them on his
ranch. Every,morning and every eve-
nin , he andaroline have their chores:
Few the animals, collect the eggs, milk
the goats ...
Last year, John bought himself a
runt pig. Everyone told him the pig was a
runt and wouldn't grow to be very big.
John bought the hog anyway and fed it a
special diet of a gallon of goat milk and
four eggs every morning. When the hog
was slaughtered, it weighed more than
400 pounds.
John and Caroline drink goat milk
just about every day. They prefer it to
cow milk, which tastes bland to them and
which they do not think is as digestible or
as i-otritious as goat milk. ("The closest
thing to mother's milk," Caroline says,
"is goat milk.") Not long after they
began drinking goat milk, they began
eating goat meat. That spoiled their taste
for beef, which they no longer eat at all.
("Beef has no taste," John insists.)
As to the question about the catfish's
delectability, John answers, "Why,
pshew, jeez, yes, they're good eating."
John has descended from his water
tower. He is joining Caroline at the din-
ner table for a meal of barbecued goat,
buttered bread and green peas. Caroline
fills the glasses with the white wine from
the Rhine.
"It's got a taste to it," John says,
stabbing chunks of meat from his plate.
"Once you get used to goat, you don't
want to eat beef."
John waxes ecstatic about goats.
"They're cheaper to feed and maintain
than cattle. They don't attract flies like
cattle, and where there's goats, there's
no snakes."
Caroline agrees that goats are won-
derful and that it's only modern civiliza-
tion that disdains them.
A black pigeon hobbles on top of a
cabinet while John and Caroline are eat-
ing their meal. Flutters, for that is the pi-
geon's name, was granted guest privi-
leges at the Big Buck Ranch after the
Lundahls discovered him cowering under
a billboard. If you go up to Flutters and
extend your hand amicably, he will rub
his beak between your fingers and coo.
John doesn't have one good thing to
say about modern civilization. He doesn't
even keep a telephone at the ranch. But
he and Caroline do sleep on a waterbed.
"What we have here is a way of
life," John says between bites of goat.
"Some people go out partying or do other
things. That's their way of life but not
ours. We come home and work on our
place and tend our animals. This is not
stagnant. This is a way of life.
"We are just about self-sufficient.
We have everything we want. There's
nothing fancy about us. We put on no
airs. We couldn't care less about keeping
up with the Joneses. So what more could
we want?"
Caroline answers: "A green
meadow with spring water running
through it."
The goat meat absorbs John's atten-
tion again. "You can't get tired of goat
meat," he says. "It's not fatty, but lean.
It's a little tough, though."
"Did you know that some goats have
their own personalities, like people?"
Caroline says.
"People have no respect for one an-
other," John says.
"We could be at a time like the fall
of Rome," Caroline adds.
"Destruction is one of the main fac-
tors of today," John declares. "People
today, they want to tear up things. Deep
inside there's nothing in them but the
ability to destroy. There's not enough
growing. The universe shouldn't be de-
teriorating, it should be developing."
John and Caroline don't know what
can be done about modern civilization
other than to watch television infre-
quently and to keep working on their
house, their vegetables and their ani-
mals.
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Portrait
of a family
Lundahl's wife Caroline is a working
partner in his business. But after
work, the two like to spend their time
fixing up their home and tending .
their goats and other animals at the
Big Buck Ranch,
Citizen Photos by Eugene Louie
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