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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - Miscellaneous (125)By SHAWN HUBLER Citizen Staff Writer On paper, 13-year-old Amy Vinik (characterized as 14-year-old Pamela .lackson) takes the silver medal at a Son- oita horse show, wins the love of the handsome bronze medalist and prevails over the wealthy Wister sisters even though.they have expensive mounts and she only has a scarred old mare. On horseback, 17-year-old Amy Vinik nabs gold, silver and bronze like Her- nando Cortez and his mounted troops. She's deferring true love until college, at least. And she could be, the first Arizonan to represent her region at a North Ameri- can junior championship meet this sum- mer — even though some of her competi- tors will have expensive mounts and she'll only have a scarred old gelding. By the time Amy wrote her as -yet - unpublished novel, "Red Flag on Your Right," she had been riding for eight years. Other children were trail -riding, or saddling up once a week for fun. But Amy, at 13, meant business. She spent every spare moment at the stables. She was in combined training, or "eventing," a sort of equestrian decatha- Ion with only three events: a cross coun- try race, a jumping contest and dressage (a test of grace and control, like a floor exercise for horses.) She also was frustrated. "Back East, there's an event every weekend she said. "Here, we're lucky it there's one a month. So, like most Arizona eventers, she was practicing three or four hours each day just in case someone decided to sponsor a contest. Some people would call that a waste of time, but not Amy. "i lived from one (riding) lesson to the next," she said. In between, she talked about horses. She thought about horses. She wrote about horses. "She: wrote a book -- it was sort of autobiographical — about a girl and her horse,'' said Joanne Vinik, Amy 's mother. "She called it `Red Flag nn Your Right` because cross country courses are marked along either side by red and white flags, and you're always supposed to keep the red flag on your right. "It's pretty well written for a 13- year-old," Mrs. Vinik continued. "We've Continued on page 6 `A' Mountain traaedyPage., Growth and Oro Valley.,... A look at life at 99 Centerfold Page 2 Tucson Citizen oThursday, April 3, 1980 People Elks awards winner Kelly Ann Patton, a Marana senior who placed second out of 75 applicants in the Arizona Elks Club's "Most Valuable Student Contest," has won $700 from the Arizona Elks As- sociation and $500 from Tucson BPO Elks Lodge No. 385. She still is in the running for national -level awards. Todd Laporte and Carol Cullinan of Sahuaro High School and Raine M. Figueroa of Catalina High School will receive $600 each from the Elks State Association, plus awards won on the local level. Honors for Hart Larry Hart, popular foot- ball coach and principal at Flowing Wells High School, will be honored at a ban- quet April 11 at the Univer- sity of Arizona Union Club. Hart is giving up his coach- ing duties after 25 years. He will continue as princi- pal. Teacher of Year John Bevan, a teacher at Canyon Del Oro High School in the Amphitheater School District, has been named Special Teacher of the Year at the Council for Exceptional Children's con- vention in Phoenix. Bevan, who came to Tucson in 1961 after teaching in Chicago, has spent most of his ca- reer in special education. In Chicago, he taught so- cially maladjusted and emotionally disturbed stu- dents, as well as regular students and a group of gifted students. Soldier of Month Spec. 4 Daniel L. Staples, a clinical specialist with the Medical Activity Depart- ment at Raymond W. Bliss Army Hospital, has been named Post Soldier of the Month for April. Now sta- tioned at Fort Huachuca, Staples is a native Ari- zonan, born in Chandler. He has won many citations since entering the military service, and now is compet- ing for Fort Huachuca Sol- dier of the Year. Aide to Udall Melody Hokanson, a se- nior in public administra- tion at the University of Arizona, has been selected to serve as an intern this semester in the office of Rep. Morris K. Udall, D- Ariz. Miss Hokanson is in Chi Omega sorority and is the immediate past presi- AWOL ^M^n1Fr Lewis Johnson Katterman Harman Peterson Five area Boy Scouts have at- tained the rank of Eagle Scout. Four are from Troop 232 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints (Mormon). They are: John A. Lewis, 14, of Amphithe- ater High School, and Steven Ray Activities Prayer for World Peace Meditation to the sound of OM Sunday at 8 and 9 p.m. at 4203 E. Grant Road, rear. Doors close at 7:45 and 8:45 p.m. Arizona Opera Puppets Introductory programs for children and adults of the upcoming production of "The Barber of Seville," at Tucson Public Li- brary branches during April. The next one will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Green Val- ley. Fun Run for Hunger The second annual Fun Run for Hunger to benefit the Community Food Bank be- ginning at 7 a.m. Saturday at the Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Call 884-6965. On the cover Seventeen -year -old Amy Vinik and her partner, Irish Coffee, are brush- ing up for the qualifying rounds of a contest that hasn't had a Tucson entry in years. To find out why they're hot to trot, see the cover and page 6. Cover photo by Joy Wolf; design by Paul Krause. Old Pueblo is the Tucson Citizen's weekly supplement for local and neighborhood news. If you know of a person or activity that merits cover- age, we'd like to hear from you. Call 2944433, ext. 203. Johnson, 14, Frank R.H. Katter- man Jr., 14, and Wade Harman, 15, of Canyon, Del Oro High School. John Peterson, 15, of Troop 226 at CDO, is the fifth Eagle Scout. Peter Rabbit The Tale of Peter Rabbit puppet show will be performed at the Columbus branch library 11 a.m. Saturday. It's free. Lighthouse YMCA The Lighthouse YMCA offers trips to Nogales the first Saturday of each month. The second Saturday is reserved for trips to Bisbee and Tombstone. Other trips are planned to Greer for cross-country skiing and to Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon and the Grand Canyon. Also at the Lighthouse YMCA, 2900 N. Columbus Blvd., there will be activities for youngsters during spring break. Spring session of classes will begin next week, including two additional classes in Dance Aerobics at 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays or 8 p.m. Mon- days and Wednesdays. Call 795-9725 for reservation information. Western Homes Display Award winners sponsored by Sunset Magazine and the American Institute of Architecture 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays through April 7 at the UA College of Archi- tecture Lentrum. 626-3358. Hispanic Heroes This week "Via Zapata" with Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Arizona Historical So- ciety, -949 E. Second St. General admission is $1, children under 12 free. Poetry reading University of Arizona students will read dent of the Panhellenic As- sociation. Post for general Brig. Gen. Truman Span- grud, who was graduated from the University of Ari- zona in 1956, is the new vice -commander of the electronic systems division of the Air Force's Systems Command at Hanscomb Air Force Base, Mass. The divi- sion has a $2 billion annual budget and manages the ef- forts of contractors around the world to build elec- tronic systems and turn them over to the operating agencies of the Defense De- partment. Achievement award An Outstanding Achieve- ment Award will be given to Edith L. Ball at the 95th anniversary convention of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Educa- tion, Recreation and Dance at Detroit April 13. She is chairwoman of the Univer- sity of Arizona' advisory committee on physical edu- cation and helps form UA's recreation graduate curric- ulum. Scouting elections Walter E. Lovejoy III, president of the Catalina Council of the Boy Scouts of America, announced the following elections to the Executive Board: James A. Wares, chairman of the board of CNWC Architects; Merrill Grant,)superinten- dent of Tucson Unified School District; Mic Wil- liams, vice president of Coldwell Banker, and Gen. Robert Reed, commander, of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. . Name corrected In last week's Old Citizen Photo by Joan Renni: k Sue Logan (left) and Jewel Lightsfoot attempt to guess the number of buttons on a table at an "A Mountain" -area fiesta last weekend. The festival was held to raise money for area activi- ties, among them the annual Juneteenth cele- bration that commemorates the emancipation of the slaves. Pueblo, the name of Sandra Mellor, who was elected to a two-year term .on the board of directors of the from their poetry at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Terrace Lounge. The program is free and open to the public. Feminist lecture "The Kibbutz and Feminist Utopias" is the topic of a public lecture by Mollie Ro- senhan from Stanford University Center for Research on Women, 4 p.m. next Thursday at the University of Arizona Stu- dent Union Room 251. Breathing improvement Classes in breathing improvement for persons with chronic lung disease will be held Tuesday and Thursday from 4:45 to 6:15 p.m. beginning next week. Classes will be taught by a registered physical therapist and include breathing exercises, physical conditioning exercises and tips on how to cope with every -day activities. The fee is $25 but may be waived. Call the Ari- zona Lung Association for information. 323-1812. Rabies vaccinations Cats only can be vaccinated from 1 to 3 p.m. April 12 at Flowing Wells High School, the 22nd Street Baptist Church and the Green Valley Fire Station, sponsored by the Southern Arizona Veterinary Medi- cal Association for $5. California life styles The Long Search Series, a study of reli- gions in the modern world, continues with "Alternate Life Styles in California: West' Meets East" by Professor Richard Hen- derson 7:30 p.m. today in the University of Mental Health Association of Greater Tucson Inc., was erroneously listed as "Mel- lon." Arizona Modern Languages Auditorium. The program is free. Classic film series "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) and "Devil May Care" (1929) will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at he Uni- versity of Arizona Social Sciences Building Auditorium. Admission is $1.50 general and $1 for students. "The Spring Sky" An astronomy lecture on the Spring sky will be given in the Grace Flandrau Plane- tarium at 8 p.m. Tuesday. It is free. Energy awareness April is Energency Month in Tucson and the public is invited to information programs sponsored by the Tucson Public Library. "Energy Alternatives: Gasohol and Methane" will be presented 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Valencia branch library, 202 W. Valencia Road. Easter party Children are invited to attend an Easter Party tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the Main Li- brary, 200 S. Sixth Ave. The program will include puppets how and a bilingual ver- sion of the shadow puppet play "The Golden Egg." Easter Egg hunt The West University Neighborhood As- sociation will revive an old neighborhood tradition Sunday with an Easter Egg hunt at Catalina Park on North Fourth Avenue at East First Street. It will begin at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 3,1980 Tucson Citizen Page 3 `A' Mountain Council dies, and so does hope By SHAWN HUBLER Citizen Staff Writer "It's like a death in the family," said Maybelle Bledsoe. She wiped her hands on a paper towel and turned from her wooden refreshment booth. To raise money for the annual "A Mountain" Easter Egg Hunt and the upcoming "Juneteenth" festival, Mrs. Bledsoe and fellow members of her Homemakers' Club were sponsoring a fiesta at Vista del Pueblo Park, near Sentinel Peak. "Seems like this fiesta means more this year than it ever did, now that they're closing down the area council." She shook her head and quietly repeated, "It's just like having a death in the family." To an outsider, the "A" Mountain Area Council, which closed Monday, is simply one of a handful of neighborhood agencies that recently were axed be- cause their parent organization, the Committee for Economic Opportunity Inc., lost its federal fund- ing. CEO, Tucson's anti -poverty program, had been deemed ineffective by the federal Community Ser- vices Administration (CSA). Plagued by infighting among its members, the CEO board was unable even to agree on a phase -out plan for the five area councils under its jurisdiction. Consequently, all but two closed automatically Monday. (The El Rio and Manzo councils had other funding.) The councils, which had administered social ser- vices in several Tucson neighborhoods, were viewed with some skepticism by CSA officials. One said last week that if the councils were to be funded again, the CSA would need "some pretty solid back- up data showing (they) are worthy of support." But ask any resident of the "A Mountain" area what the 8-year-old council has done for them, and most will have an answer. "I got one lady, fell out of bed at 6 o'clock in the morning," said Ellen Allen, the council's facilitator on aging. "She has a neighbor, but she called me instead, and I drove out there at 6 a.m. just to put her back in bed. You get close to people. They depend on you. "I don't care that I'm out of a job — I'll find another one," she said. "I'm just concerned about who's going to take care of these folks." Last year, according to area council officials, the council created summer jobs through Man- power Inc. for nearly 40 area teen-agers. The previ- ous summer, they claim, more than 50 teens were hired through federal programs administered by the center. "With this place closed, there'll be no more sum- mer jobs — no jobs at all," said Shirrel Foley, aged 17. "So what are we gonna do? Hang out and get high? "We're the youth of this city — they're supposed to be helping us. But it's the youth who are getting short-changed." Teens from nearby Cholla -High School congre- gate after school at the little council building on San Marcos Boulevard because, they said, "there's no place else to go." At the area council, they can play basketball on the tiny court, "hang out" after school, or get career advice from "The Rev" — the Rev. Z.Z. Copeland, who has directed the council since its inception. Copeland says he fears that the area will lose its feeling of community without the council. He had Election Tuesday Oro Valley voters have sights on growth issue Growth within Oro Valley will be a major issue as voters go to the polls Tues- day to elect five of six candidates to the Town Council. The election is a primary, but if five candidates receive more than 51 percent of the votes, they automatically will be elected, Town Clerk Patricia Noland said. In the five years since the town incor- porated, Oro Valley has never had to have a general election, she said. Some residents, especially land inves- tors, are pushing for the continued allow- ances of zoning for multi -family dwellings such as apartments while others recently have urged the town's planning and zoning commission to limit, if not delete, this type of zoning. Incumbents seeking re-election are Mayor E.S. "Steve" Engle, Vice Mayor James Peterson, James Kriegh and Ed- ward Needham. Also running are Pauline Johnson and former Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission Chairwoman Ro- salyn Glickman. Engle, a retired food company execu- tive and 18-year resident of Oro Valley, was appointed to the original council in 1974 by the Pima County Board of Supervi- sors. He has served two full terms on the council and says he hopes the council can arrive at a solution of regulating Oro Val- ley's density. Peterson is a semi -retired land devel- oper who has lived in Oro Valley 10 years and served two years on the council. He says the council must develop growth stan- dards that will meet town residents' ap- proval. Kriegh, a professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, has lived in Oro Valley for 19 years. He was appointed by the county Board of Supervisors to the original council and is completing his first two-year elected term. Kriegh, who serves as town engineer, says he basically doesn't favor high density housing, but would ap- prove up to six homes per acre being built in some cases if they were "aesthetically desirable." Needham, a retired contractor and de- veloper and current construction supervi- sor, is finishing his first term on the coun- cil. He has lived in Oro Valley for three years, and before that was the equivalent of a town councilman for 20 years in New Hampshire. Needham says he favors low density development in Oro Valley. Pauline Johnson is a former law stu- dent who has lived in Oro Valley for two years. She hopes to keep the town's den- sity low. Rosalyn Glickman has lived in Oro Val- ley for 18 years and is a part-time book- keeper for a construction firm. She is the former Planning and Zoning Commission chairwoman and does not favor dense zon- ing. One point all the candidates seem to agree on is that a limited number of busi- nesses must be brought into the town to boost its economy. Voters also will be asked if they favor staggered terms for council members. If they approve it, the new members will choose among themselves two members who will serve for two years and the re- maining three will serve four-year terms. Thus, a regular council term would then run four years instead of two, Ms. Noland said. Voters will use five voting machines provided by Pima County and may vote from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 680 W. Calle Concordia. About 680 persons are registered to vote in Oro Valley, Ms. Noland said. even approached the area's neighborhood associa- tion with a plan to continue some services on a volunteer basis. But the association vetoed the idea, claiming that a volunteer council would lessen their chances at obtaining city or county aid in administering pov- erty and local programs. Copeland said he has since decided to leave "A Mountain" altogether. "I'm turning in my keys to the building," he said. "I'll stay until June or September at the lat- est, but ultimately I plan to return to Alabama to complete my requirements for a liberal arts degree, and then go back to the ministry." Mrs. Allen and Copeland's.aide, Maude Piggee, probably will find other jobs in Tucson, he said. Fred Archer, who heads a nearby social service center for the city Department of Human and Com- munity Development, added that a few of the area council services might be taken over, temporarily and partially, by his small staff. However, an immediate takeover would be un- likely, since CEO failed to approve,a phase -out plan. If it had, Copeland said, the council would have had time to find another agency to administer its programs, or gradually to discontinue them. Meanwhile, people like Maybelle Bledsoe say they are struggling to maintain a sense of hope and community in the "A Mountain" area. "I wish these people in their bureaucracies could understand that it's the poor who are being pun- ished because all (CEO) ever did was bicker among itself," she said. "The people on the board will find other jobs. But the people who need the programs will suffer — the ones they say they were trying to help in the first place." Future of Cortaro Farms worries area residents Lack of adequate landfill area and a concern that industry is moving in where recreation space should be has prompted several Northwest Side residents to pro- test certain changes in development plans for Cortaro Farms. The residents, many of them Tucson Mountain Association (TMA) members, will attend a Board of Supervisors hearing Monday to voice their concerns about land use in the area bordered by Avra Valley and Silverbell roads, Interstate 10 and Ina Road. "We're running out of landfill area and that causes problems," Norma Thweatt, a TMA member, said. A covenant between Pima County and Dow Chemical Co., which sold the Cortaro Farms land to Tucson developer Lew McGinnis, gave the county the right to a 60-acre parcel on Ina Road that would have been used for a landfill. The covenant since has been deleted and a sand and gravel operation is using the site, but residents hope a landfill cove- nant can be reinstated. The Pima County Wastewater Manage- ment Department will request the board to reinstate a covenant that provides for a landfill area somewhere within the Cor- taro Farms area, John S. Jones of the Pima County Planning and Zoning Depart- ment said. County Board of Supervisors Chairman E.S. "Bud" Walker said he was surprised by the request. "When Bill Waller and Norma Thweatt of the Tucson Mountain Association came to the board and said they wanted a land= fill, I like to fell out of my chair," Walker said. About two years earlier, Walker had ap- proached Mrs. Thweat and about 25 other area residents about the possibility of a landfill and they had strongly rejected the idea, Walker said. "So with that in mind, I told the board they didn't want a landfill," he said. But Mrs. Thweatt said she and the others opposed the original landfill pro- posal because the site the county had cho- sen was adjacent to a well that served about 40 area residents. A landfill so near a well could mean possible contamination, Mrs. Thweatt said. Aside from opposing the landfill cove- nant change, residents are upset by a re- zoning request that would allow sand and gravel operations in a 122-acre area within a flood plain. They would like to see the acreage re- main open space and recreation area. The area, which McGinnis has sold, is located north and south of Cortaro Farms Road and just east of the Santa Cruz. It would become a site for asphalt plants, cement block plants and ready -mix con- crete plants if the rezoning request is ap- proved, Mrs. Thweatt said. "This irritates people," she said. "We're talking about pollution and noise along a long stretch of road." Wastewater Department answers to new number The Pima County Wastewater Manage- ment Department has a new emergency after-hours telephone number — 882-2962. People may call this number after 5 p.m. and on weekends to report breaks in public sewer lines, overflowing manholes or other emergencies involving the sewer systems. On weekdays, emergencies should be reported to the Field Operations Division at 326-4333. 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I m lien RKJ r mir a pfyWJ. and 3*. pi �dtl $Nlai ClcLi, —hi alVbab. eremlp' a hleb�ndL Ip,..- iil fatl behrp N d—N rlwgr — 6, WT '•1 hrrr fiLsdf om lnlli crowd LY. ire.'1 xdl .asdmrL"' 9e sa.y s. 11n1 lirm "Nell. Ii 7Pl ones m pa amal Pn'"+Af I'll Ln y. i min. M.0 1e —liblr uhh oM a Yw 4a114 lrel —ry rwy[urmiL 5' I Ihr✓ ni *ayS laid 'VW'4Y: fie[ Ih 1bl .h-d Mre t -deml}' hs—M. Page 6 Tucson Citizen o Thursday, April 3, 1980 Citizen Photo Amy and friend take a jump When it comes to horses, it's all business with Amy Continued from cover even thought about trying to get it pub- lished. Really, you could learn all about eventing just by reading that book." Amy chalks up the manuscript to ado- lescent enthusiasm. But the stable is still her second home, and horses are still her first love. This November, at a regional meet, she placed seventh among the 20 best teen-age equestrians in California, Arizona and Ha- waii. Tomorrow she enters the first of two selection trials in which an Area Six team will be chosen to represent the same three states at a North American junior champi- onship meet in August. According to offi- cials at the U.S. Combined Training Asso- ciation, which sponsors the event, no Arizonan has ever made the team. In fact, the officials said, this is the first time in years an Arizonan has even tried out. Because there were so few events in this state to prepare teen competitors, they said, Californians historically have dominated the Area Six team. In 1966, Eugene Vinik bought his baby daughter an equine rocker. The tot rode her little toy mount with such fervor that within two years it was headed for rocking horse heaven. At age 5, Amy decided it was time for the real thing. The Viniks refused to buy a horse until their daughter learned to take care of it. So Amy leased a pony, signed up for riding lessons and gradually immersed herself in one of the most expensive hobbies a child can undertake. A decent mount, says Amy, costs $1,000 or more, with shoeing and veterinary bills tossed in for good measure. Joanne Vinik says it costs about $150 a month to care for her daughter's horse if it stays healthy. Nonetheless, Mrs. Vinik says, she never worried that the family was shelling out an exorbitant sum on a passing fancy. "I would rather have her interested in horses than pregnant at 16," she said. Meanwhile, Amy turned 11. She got her first horse, a Colorado ranch horse with little training and a mind of its own. Pa- tiently, gradually, Amy trained the mare, making plenty of mistakes along the way. Supervising her was her present instruc- tor, Peggy Wagoner, owner of Horse - feathers Farm on River Road. It's Wagoner's horse, Irish Coffee, that Amy will ride in the selection trials this summer. "Coty," as he is called around the sta- ble, is 12 years old, strong-willed and very athletic. He is also as scarred as an an- tique sea chest, but that doesn't matter. An eventer doesn't need to be pretty to be a champ. And a rider doesn't need to be rich. "In showing, you can buy your way if you can afford a $10,000 horse," says Amy. "But in eventing — except at the highest levels —you can make a champion out of a $1,000 horse." Or a dedicated teen-ager. Thursday, April 3,1980 Tucson Citizen Page 7 Drexel Heights fire engine sold; financial problem eased The Drexel Heights Fire District boosted its ailing budget this week by sell- ing a $17,000 fire engine, which some dis- trict residents called an unnecessary pur- chase when a former fire chief bought it less than three months ago. The district received the $6,000 it ac- tually had paid on the truck. The Greer Fire Department, which is buying the truck, will pay the balance to H.D. "Bob" Murray, who originally sold the truck to Drexel Heights, said James Arena Sr., chairman of the district's administrative board. The district still has two large fire en- gines, a tanker that carries water, a res- cue truck and two smaller fire trucks used basically for minor brush fires, Arena said. Financial problems surfaced last week when the district's newly elected gov- erning board found approximately $10,000 in equipment missing from the fire station and discovered its budget for basic operat- ing expenses was virtually depleted. The board is completing a list of the missing equipment and will turn it over to the County Attorney's office within a week, Arena said. Last week board members said they would ask the Board of Supervisor to transfer $4,000 in its building maintenance fund to the gasoline, first aid, rescue and truck maintenance areas of the budget. Since then, however, the board has de- termined far more reshuffling must be done, and is working out details for the transfer request, Arena said. Plan for Oro center, advances The Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission has agreed unanimously to recommend the Town Council approve re- zoning that would allow a 20-acre shopping center and townhouse project. If the council approves at its April 24 meeting, the center, planned for the cor- ner of Oracle Road and Linda Vista Boule- vard, would be Oro Valley's first commer- cial business center. It is being planned by developer John Stamos. Plans call for a Rural Metro fire station and a supermarket, restaurant and private business offices. The proposal also in- cludes a nearby townhouse complex. The 35 proposed townhouses would sell for about $85,000, Oro Valley Assistant En- gineer Dwight Lind said. Stamos is requesting a zone change from SR (one house per four acres) to TR (transitional) and CBl (local businesses). 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Oro Valley Council approves rezoning request by Walker The Oro Valley Town Council has ap- proved a request by E.S. "Bud" Walker, chairman of Pima County's Board of Su- pervisors, to rezone a 7.5-acre parcel, al- lowing him to build 42 patio homes. Walker had requested a change from SR (one house per four acres) to CR5 (high density multi -family). Approval was given despite an elev- enth -hour citizens' petition with 42 signa- tures against the development and an ear- lier town planning and zoning commission recommendation that the request be de- nied. Walker, president of LAB Construction Co., said he will develop and sell adult - oriented homes in the $100,000 price range. His acreage, annexed in October, is the western boundary of Oro Valley, and homes. there would serve as a buffer against developments outside the city, ac- cording to Steve Renneckar, a lawyer rep- resenting Walker. 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Oracle Rd _ (602)748-8800 (602)888-7700 VISA IaBellc'e P6arvury IaBelle's Pharmacy - (602)790-3088 (602)888-2822 Page 8 Tucson Citizen Thursday, April 3, 1980 It's you vs. the IRS; not a very even fight By VALERIE A. DAVISON I think one of the most awful realiza- tions of my earliest ventures into indepen- dent adulthood was — despite my spending several frantic days in the library search- ing for loopholes — that only the very -very rich, the very -very poor, little children, priests and nuns don't file income tax forms. Since I was none of the above, the only solution to the problem of income tax forms was to pay somebody else to fill them out. This I did for a while until I read one of those small space -filler items in the newpaper. It changed my whole life. It said that some astronomical percent- age of professional income tax preparers make errors on the forms they fill out for other people. What a revelation! Errors aren't a crime! I couldn't believe it. Why pay somebody else when you can make your very own errors, just like the pros? This I have been doing for several years, now, and I am hereby prepared to share my income tax experiences with all you out there who may be 'toying with the idea of cutting the ties that bind. First of all, you must embrace the phi- losophy that getting ready to do your in- come tax is a whole lot like getting ready to ski. You should start doing exercises months ahead of time so the experience won't be too horribly painful. Errors, yes. Death, no. The first income tax exercise should be done in January and is called "dump and sort." It refers to dumping that desk drawer full of cancelled checks, receipts and other important slips of paper in a mound in the middle of the rug and sorting them into categories, such as "medical ex- penses," "business expenses," and so on. Try to follow the IRS perception of ca- tegories, as those guys are quite rigid and have been known to reject free thinkers who have used such categories as "little scraps of paper," "medium-sized slips of paper" and "big pieces of paper." Just do it their way and keep creative urges to a minimum. Enough for January. Don't overdo it. The February exercise is called "signif- icant or insignificant." You must again consult the guidelines, because what is sig- nificant to you will not necessarily be sig- nificant to the federal government or the State of Arizona. Take each of those little piles of paper from January and sort them again into "significant" or "insignificant." For example, just take the pile that says "house" and put the mortgage payments and the property tax receipts in "signifi- cant" and the three-week warranty on the garden hose and the serial number for the microwave oven in "insignificant." In the "car" papers, the payment slips are "sig- nificant," the radiator repairs "insignifi- cant" (to the feds and Arizona, keep re- minding yourself). OK, the exercises are over. Now the real adventure is upon you. Vow that the next time the weather ruins your outdoor plans, you actually will fill out your in- come tax forms. The day will be ruined anyway. Never, never fool yourself by pre- tending you will fill them out when you don't have anything else to do. Because when the auditors carry you off to prison for income tax evasion, Big Brother will not be at all impressed that you have waxed your driveway, kept a chart on the caliche levels in your back yard and have no nail holes with spider webs in them. So assuming a dreary day, set jaw in a determined position and launch into those forms. Get this. The whole secret of read- ing an income tax form is to realize that it is constructed backwards. The directions are written so y u must do the last thing first. For example, on the first page of the state form, you may see a line that reads something like this: "To the total of lines 5b and 7a, add 12 percent of line 18." It is a terrible mistake even to consider 5b and 7a at this time, as they are men- tioned there only to confuse you. Go directly to the end of that sentence and focus on the words "line 18." Turn all the forms over and shuffle them around until you actually find line 18. A tiny arrow will point to it with these words: "Compute Miscellaneous Deductions and enter total on line 18." Fine. Miscellaneous deductions is a con- crete idea that can be dealt with directly. This is where you add up the microwave serial number, hose warranty and radiator costs. Change the label on that little pile of papers from "insignificant" to "miscella- neous," just in case you're audited, and staple all those little papers together for your files. Now that the total of line 18 is well in hand, move backwards a few more words so you now embrace the whole phrase, "12 percent of line 18." If you graduated from seventh grade in the good old days of the 40s or 50s, when the schools all were turn- ing out brilliantly educated citizens who still are geniuses to this very day (to hear them tell it), you will have memorized long ago what 12 percent of line 18 is and will know it automatically. If, by some fateful stroke of luck, you missed those golden years, go out and buy a calculator or ask a modern-day fourth grader to help you fig- ure it out. The next step, as you may have guessed by now, is to continue backwards on that original sentence to "7a." The directions for "7a" say, "Divide line 4 by 12 and enter on 7a." Do not get side-tracked into asking why you are divid- ing your Social Security number by 12. The IRS does not issue reasons, and you can waste precious time wondering if it's be- cause there are 12 months in a year, 12 eggs in a dozen or inflation is up 12 per- cent. Just do it on faith. Now you're over the hard part and we're almost done. Just one more calcula- tion for 5b. This one requires that you turn to the appropriate table in the back of the instructions and find the correct amount of gasoline tax you are allowed to claim. You find that by finding the number of miles you drove your car last year and then fol- lowing a dotted line over to the tax col- umn. (Don't tell me you didn't write down your odometer number New Year's morn- ing, 1979, and you don't have any idea how far you drove in one year. Well, I'll tell you one thing, the government never will go for "quite a ways." Figuring income tax is not a job for the sloppy and careless at heart. Make up a precise number and stick to it. Just make sure it isn't more than your odometer reads today.) OK, add 5b, 7a and whatever 12 percent of line 18 was, and you're all finished. Be sure you've filled in every line so they'll know you're sincere. Don't forget to sign your form on the place where it says you sincerely believe this to be the truth. The worst thing you can do is to seem insincere to your faithful Uncle Sam. In a couple of months, he'll correct your "errors in computation" or "errors due to consulting the incorrect table," send you a computer card that states your mistake and eventually issue you a check for the amount of refund the bureau thinks you deserve, minus some for your cynical, in- sincere attitude. Now, for that you should show a little more patriotism on Flag Day. In Russia, you would never get off so easily. Valerie A. Davison, a Title I projects director for Amphitheater Public Schools, says she hasn't done her income tax yet — she's been "extremely busy buffing the skylight, tearing useful arti- cles out of old magazines and crocheting a lace edge" around her fly -swatter. Readers' Pag Playing numbers game with phone company By VEE SMITH At first, I thought one of the Moun- tain Bell kids could help me. Then I thought I could help her. But it didn't quite work out that way. It started with a recording that said a number I had dialed no longer was in operation. But since it was a number for the clinic at the Air Force base, I knew it wasn't a dis- connect. Absentmindedly, I dialed the operator, as we used to do. She told me to dial 1411. Then she said 1-555-1212. But I correctly rang up 1411 only to be told there was no new number for the clinic. So I called the base hospital infor- mation desk and was given a num- ber one digit different from the one in the phone book. I called and made an appointment. After that, it oc- curred to me that I should be gener- ous enough to share my knowledge with 1411. But to my surprise, 1411 didn't want it. She gave me another number to call. Look in the first few pages of the telephone book and you will surmise that each of Ma Bell's kids has his own telephone and handles one smid- geon of the total. There is one num- ber for me to call regarding my own prefix and another for the prefix of the base. I called the proper number, I thought, beginning to tire of well - doing. And, sure enough, that kid didn't want to be told anything ei- ther. "Oh," she said with relief, "if it is a government number, you need to call the government." "Well, call your own govern- ment," I said expressedly, and hung up. I guess I should take out Good Sa- maritan insurance. On further thought, I tried to call the business office to suggest they shouldn't charge me for having to call hospital information, but the line was busy. Vee Smith is a pen name for a longtime Tuesonian who unites for fun. Pioneer doctor's stork hidden in forgotten grave By ANABEL HARPER I needed some photos to go with an ar- ticle on geneaology I was writing, so I began a tour of old cemeteries. Some are hidden in canyons, completely forgotten. Such a graveyard can be found just off Texas Canyon and I-10. The town is gone, not even a ghost to be seen or heard. The mortician in Willcox, where I live, told me many of these plots are unknown, the rec- ords lost forever. I inquired in Willcox about an old one and was told it was out about a mile and a half northeast of town. My search for it brought me to a dirt road full of deep ruts and hollows, when I came upon what looked like a dump or a land fill. I made two attempts to drive my car through holes and rubbish up the steep bank. I fi- nally made it, and yes, there was a grave- yard. But it was grave, indeed! On the ground were disposed disposable diapers, beer bottles, tin cans, a rusty office file and an oil filter. Vandals had stolen all but two circular posts of what once was a wrought iron enclosure for a family plot. Tomb- stones were tipped and broken. Some were smashed beyond redemption or identifica- tion. A few of the headstones, however, were legible. One little fellow, 3 years old, died in 1895. Another proclaimed a daughter named "Arizona" — the date was 1896. But the saddest to me was the stone of "Wm. Hall, M.D., Died 16 December, 1893." I wondered what miracles this man had tried to perform in the Old West. Then I tried to guess how many nights he might have ridden out on his horse or hitched her to a buggy. How many desert storms did he battle to get to those who needed him? How many tears did he shed that his bag of remedies could not cure ills that we do not even experience today? I thought of diseases and epidemics that wiped out whole families — smallpox, scarlet fever, diptheria, pneumonia. I rea- lized what a blessing are our present drugs. My cousin went before insulin was discovered. Are these the tears you shed, Dr. Hall? Or perhaps they called you Dr. Bill. If you were the man 1 imagined, if you were our old-time country doctor, a long -lost person- age, gone 87 years ago, I apologize to you. I apologize for all the vandals who de- secrated the site where you rest eternally. I apologize for letting you rest beside old rusty bedsprings and mattresses. We have soiled a memory, and we have lost valuable roots that help us trace our families. I know the old pioneers cared about their lost loved ones. Some even would put a corpse in a whiskey barrel to carry it to its final destination, rather than leave it on the plains or mountains for the animals. The late British politician William Glad- stone once said, "Show me the manner in which a nation or community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathemati- cal exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land." Mine is not to reason why. Theirs but to live and die. But should they be lost for- ever? Anabel Harper is a retired writer and artisan who moved to Willcox from Tuc- son about a year ago. She says the Will- cox Centennial Society has decided to re- dedicate the cemetery this coming Memorial Day. Dear reader: This is your page. If you have an interesting story to tell or have taken an informative picture, just send it to Old Pueblo Editor, Tucson Citizen, P.O. Box 26767, Tucson 85726.