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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - The Arizona Daily Star (35)Neighbors , •• J 1 ,.__ __ _, , , , t't11r · ,..\ri~ona Dailn Slur * TucsoN, THuRsoAv, JUNE 19, 19so H Beef, brotherhood make this company a cut above By LAURA STONE The Arizona Daily Star At first it was Alex and Jack and Ruben. Then Alex moved to California. Soon, Oscar and Filiberto joined the team. The five are the Islas brothers, known to many longtime residents as proprietors of the American Meat Co. Inc., 1435 S. Fourth Ave. Beef is the mainstay of the thriving retail business. The good-natured brothers say they sell 20,000 to 25,000 pounds a week. Add to that another 20,000 pounds of pork, chicken and lunch meats. Groceries -in- cluding milk, cheese, fresh vegetables and canned goods -round out the business' bill of fare. But the meat company was not always so prosperous. When it was started in 1953, the brothers did not have enough money to buy meat and lacked another essential: a name for their new enterprise. It was Alex and Ruben, the meatcutters in the family, who decided it was time to go into business for themselves. Jack, now president of the company, said he joined his brothers even though he knew nothing about meat: "I was a machinist. I just wandered in here and learned the meat business. Or tried to, anyway." Their original investment was $4,800, about half of which they borrowed from their father, Alex Sr. The money was spent on equipment and to rent a building for- merly occupied by the American Realty Co. in the 1200 block of South Fourth Avenue. Ruben, 48, explained, "When we finished buying equipment, we didn't have any money left. So Alex hired this sign painter for $10 who painted over 'Realty' on the outside of the building and put 'Meat' there instead." And the business has been called Ameri- cean Meat Co. ever since. They had the store and the equipment, but no meat. "A friend of Alex's from Saf- ford gave us meat on credit," said Jack, 52. He paused and wrinkled his brow: "Those first few years were rough." It took the brothers three years of 60-hour weeks tu pay back their father. Then Alex, now 61, decided in 1960 he wanted to move to California, and he sold his interest to his brothers. But the remaining duo soon had some help from their younger brothers. Oscar, now 42, started working for the business while he was in high school. "It was to keep him out of trouble," Jack said, chiding his younger brother as the four relaxed over coffee recently. And Filiberto, now 44, had been a welder for 10 years when he developed a problem with his eyes. "The doctor recommended I give it up. The brothers asked me to join them, and I've been here for 13 years now," Filiberto said. By 1963, the business had outgrown its first home, and the brothers moved to their present location. Today, shoppers make their choices from refrigerated cases of meat and displays of groceries and produce toward the front of the building . But the real action takes place in the Work in stride Page3H lslases all -Say American Meat Co. to longtime Tuc- _sonans and it means the Islas brothers, from left, Ruben, Filiberto, Oscar and Jack. And it means Islas relatives, such as Alex 111, below, son of an- other brother. (Star photos by Art Gras- berger) back of the store, where about a dozen butchers chop and cut the meat. A large freezer "hold s up to 80 head of beef," Jack said. A second freezer is reserved for pork and chicken. Meat goes from freezer to cutting room via a network of rails attached to the ceil- (See BROTHERS', Page 12H) Neighbors South Quilters- The art of quilting is practiced for a profit by , from left, Viola Theobald, Tenny Forsling, Wilma Davis and Verna Busch• man. The women's church in Green Valley reaps the benefits. (Star photo by Carol Sowell) Warm quilts bring cold cash for Green Valley church By CAROL SOWELL The Arizona Daily Star Eight Green Valley women have been getting together for 11 years to practice an art form that was common in their grandmothers' day. The women have been meeting weekly to quilt, a craft now rare enough that their skills are in great demand . People with stitched or embroidered tops for quilts bring them to the women, who add the backing sheet and a layer of cotton batting for padding. Then, members of the group stitch by hand through the three layers in patterns that give the quilt its three-dimen- sional, sculptured look. The customer is charged according to the amount of work the job requires. For example, a recent fee for quilting a double-bed cover was $85 . And the group charged $160 for finishing a king-size, flower-garden quilt, made up of l¼- inch squares that required stitching around each piece. When they aren't quilting for somebody else, the woinen make small, quilted lap robes, which they sell for $10 to $25. They use the proceeds from all their work to buy items for their church, Lutheran Church of the Risen Savior in Green Valley. Last year, they spent $950 earned during the last four years to build steps to the church's social room and install wrought-iron railings along the church entryway. The art of quilting takes patience, which doesn't seem to come easily to modem-day women, said Wilma Davis. "I guess they're afraid of sticking their fingers," one quilter quipped. Viola Theobald remembered a group of women who met to quilt and talk in the church basement when she was a child in St. Louis. "That was the only activity of ladies' groups in those days. Nowadays, women have so many activities," Theobald said. Besides patience, quilting takes basic hand-sewing abil- ity, Davis said. But Verna Buschman added, "If you can push a needle, it doesn't take too long to learn." The quilters have been meeting at Davis' home almost all day each Monday. They bring sack lunches and work together around one or both of their two quilt frames. The work -top, batting and backing -is rolled gradually from Sunnyside begins search for new superintendent The Board of Education of the Sunnyside Unified School District has announced plans to hire a new superintendent by the end of July. At a special meeting Tuesday night, board members outlined the procedure for selecting a replacement for Lewis T. Sorensen, who resigned as of June 30 to become superin- tendent of the Tanque Verde School District. The district is accepting applications from district em- ployees through June 24. It will advertise the position be- tween June 30 and July 11. Applications will be reviewed by a citizens' screening committee, made up of one person appointed by each of the five board members. Committee members must live within the district boundaries, but may not be employed by the district. Board members will begin interviewing candidates July 23 and plan to name a new superintendent by July 29. At its regular meeting last Thursday, the board adopted a $25.4 million budget for the 1980-81 school year on a 4-1 vote. The budget is 9 percent higher than the 1979-80 budget. Camilo Castrillo voted against the budget, saying he feared PAGE TWO -SECTION H * it included relocation and reduction of staff members. Also last week, the board hired Barbara Guyton as administrative director of elementary curriculum effective July 1. Guyton has been director of reading in the district for the past five years and previously taught at Elvira Elemen- tary School for 11 years. The board also voted to hire the law firm of Stompoly and Even, effective July 1. The firm will replace John Price, who has been the board's lawyer for three years. Car-test unit to visit Green Valley The state's mobile emissions-testing unit will visit Green Valley July 15-18. The unit will test automobile emissions from 8 a.m . to 3 p.m . on the Haven Green Valley Mall. Vehicles may be inspected up to 90 days before their_ registration expires, Arizona Vehicle Inspection Program officials said. The vehicles should be driven at least five miles before testing to get the engine to normal operating temperature. THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR one side of the frame to the next, as the quilters complete each section. A variety of stitches may be used on a quilt, Davis explained. "The stitches are uniform and even," she added. After the stitching is completed, a strip of bias binding is sewed around the edges and hemmed by hand. "You can't hurry this work," Buschman said. Those who bring their quilts to the group have to be patient , too. Since 1974 , the women have completed about 15 quilts and 20 lap robes, Davis said, consulting a record book she has kept since that time. "We have a backlog of four or five quilts to do. We're never out of work," Buschman added. It usually takes four to six weeks to complete a quilt, depending on how many hands are at work each week, Davis said. "A lot of the people have had tops (for quilts) for years, but couldn't find anyone to do the quilting," Buschman said . Most of the women in the group learned to quilt when they moved to Green Valley . But Davis was introduced to the art by members of a longstanding quilting group at her church in Wintersvill e, Ohio . After 10 years with the Wintersville group, Davis moved to Green Valley , where she looked for others to help her continue the tradition . Davis, Buschman and Hazel Lind- shield were among the founders of the Green Valley group and are still active. The founders were motivated to do something for their fledgling Lutheran church, which didn't have a building at the time. By the time a structure was completed in 1974, the quilting group had earned enough money to buy dishes and utensils for its kitchen . "It's a good feeling to go to church on Sunday morning and see something you've been able to contribute," Theo- bald said. Tenny Forsling added, "It's a great feeling of satisfac- tion ." Other regular quilters are Alma Kiefer, Helen Girod, Irma Dittmar and Marvel Stout. Members of the group are taking a rest for the summer, but will resume meeting again in October to earn more money for the church. The next expenditure hasn't been determined, but "we're looking for another good project," said one of the members, steadily stitching away. Neighbors ~~i , f;j I w ~\!1 {;\w~ East Doorstop -Millie Hutchins' feet provide transportation for her job delivering advertising fliers door-to-door. (Star photo by Art Grasberger) Footloose 83-year-old takes her job in stride By SUSAN M. KNIGHT The Arizona Dally Star One eastside resident has found an to time, Hutchins will keep walking until answer to the gas crunch. noon. Then, she calls it quits while the Millie Hutchins' idea not only saves gas mileage, but it earns her extra spend- ing money and often brings peace of mind, she said. Besides, the spry 83-year..old woman loves to walk. So she has set up a service delivering advertising fliers door-to- door, charging about $35 per 1,000 pieces. Some weeks Hutchins does not have any orders. In a typical job, she logs about three miles and delivers about 3,000 fliers. All types of businesses, from hair- dressers and hobby stores to delicates- sens and dance schools, use Hutchins' service. "Do you think it would turn people off if they knew my age?" the sun-tanned woman asked. But Hutchins shouldn't have to worry about stereotypes. Her enthusi- asm for keeping active is immediately obvious to potential clients. And her youthful exuberance might be familiar to the people she meets on her rounds. Hutchins has been the star of sev- eral television commercials, the latest being a spot for Do-it-Yourself Pest and Weed Control. "They told me I photographed well," Hutchins said. For her more permanent employ- ment, she rises with the sun, along with roosters and newspaper deliverers. On a typical morning, she sets out at about 6:30 to begin delivering the circulars to car windshields and home doorjambs. "One thing I like so much about this is that I ordinarily wouldn't be apt to go out," Hutchins said. Taking 20-minute breaks from time sun is at its hottest and hits the road again about 4:30 p.m . The business began six months ago when Hutchins' neighbor, owner of a pub- lic-relations firm, needed some circulars delivered. "I said, 'I'd Jove to be doing some- thing like that,' and so I got started," Hutchins said. "General chatter" is a welcome part of the business, Hutchins said. "I meet some very nice people. Some are out in their yards. Others have dogs that warn them, and they meet me at the door. "I'm a cat and dog Jover, too, and I see plenty of them," she added. How- ever, her puppy, Whiskers, is too young to make the treks and stays at home. Born in Canada and raised in New- foundland, Hutchins later settled in Cleveland. She married there and reared two children, but was widowed in 1935. Hutchins always has liked keeping busy. "My marriage was a merry-go- round of happiness and activity,'' she said. She later lived in Florida, where she modeled for dress shops and had parts in a few commercials. Many summers she worked as a cashier in various New En- gland resorts. Hutchins moved to Tucson 10 years ago because she has a daughter living here. But wherever she has lived, "I liked to walk for my own enjoyment. If I like it, I may as well make it pay off," Hutchins said. Her secret to the fountain of youth? Hutchins said she gets plenty of sleep and eats properly. "I guess it's being happy and taking my vitamins," she added . All around town------------- Studenf leaders, advisers heading for conference Highland Vista Neighborhood POOL OPENS MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE Students and advisers from Sunnyside and Palo Verde high schools will attend the national conference of the Na- tional Association of Student Councils and Student Activity Advisers beginning Saturday in Aurora, Colo. Oro Valley hearing continues The Oro Valley Town Council will resume a public hearing tonight on the town's area and transportation plans and zoning categories. The hearing, continued from last week, will begin at 7 tonight in the Town Hall, 680 W. Calle Concordia. The adopted area and transportation plans will be part of the Oro Valley General Plan, which has been on the drawing board for almost three years. The council also will hear public comment on changes in four zoning categories: TR (transitional), CB-1 (local business), and CR-4 and CR-5 (both multiple residence). TUCSON,THURSDAY,JUNE19,198O Sunnyside will be the host school for the 1981 national conference. Barbara Direnfeld and Janet McNally will be student- government delegates from Palo Verde. Adviser Paula Edgar will accompany them to the conference. Attending from Sunnyside will be Susie Ballesteros and Renee Domanico, student leaders of next year's conference. Other Sunnyside students at the Colorado meeting will be Patty Ennis, Ernie Orci, Teresa Pareses, Alex Ballesteros, Cheryl Nelson, Lori Duffy, Eileen Nolan and Kathy Lund. Teachers Carol Griffith and Jack Pirtle, who will be co-leaders of the Sunnyside conference, will attend the Colo- rado meeting. Other adult delegates from Sunnyside will be Carl Brunenkant, Brenda Even, Irene Diaz, Ray Lopez, Maxine Faust, Lee Gustus, Louie Sanchez and Ray For- ster. THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR . UM C:TREET ~ f -···- 1 * § HIGHLAND VISTA POOL .,t .).. ,q' ~ I BROADWAY I Our pool is inexpensive, family oriented, with swim teom/ lessons. A greot place for the whole family this summer. Located at 7th St. and Woodland Vista. Drive by and look it over/ stop in. For mare information call evenings 7 45-1561 or 7 45-1200 or 326-1058. Play a • piano. Check classification 402 in Star/Citizen Want Ads. To place an ad, call 889-5333. * SECTION H -PAGE THREE All around town Arizonans en route to Indian woman's beatification rites By LAURA ST9NE The Arizona Daily Star A Yaqui stole and a Papago weaving will be gifts from Tucson-area residents to Pope John Paul II during Mass thi s weekend in Rome. • The offerings are being taken to the Vatican today by a small group of Arizonans as they begin a pilgrimage that ties a 96-year effort to canonize an Indian woman with the American Indians' struggle for recognition within the Roman Catholic Church. Six Arizonans, three from the Catholic Diocese of Tuc- son, are joining 109 other pilgrims from across the United States for the trek to Rome to witness the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century New York Mohawk. The delegation, made up of tribal and religious repre- sentatives, also will be present Saturday for a special audi- ence with the pope, which President Carter is expected to attend . • None of the three local representatives knows much abou t the Indian woman, they said before leaving . But one of the delega t-es, the Rev . Stanley Nadolny , diocesan vicar for Native Americans , spoke for all three when he said : "This is an acknow ledgment of the Indians and their place in the church." William R. An tone, a Papago from Covered Wells , added , "Before, it was always the missionaries who had the • final say. Now, it is beginning to be the Indian people ." "It's a breakthrough, said the third delegate, Dolores Lopez, a Yaqui from Old Pascua Village . "The Vatican is listening to the little people." The three other Arizonans making the journey are: the Rev . Simon F . Conrad , Fort Defiance; Sister Rosita Shiose, St. Michaels; and the Rev. Edmund Savilla, Winslow . During the beatification ceremony, which marks the last step befor;e a person is declared a saint, the title "blessed" is conferred. Nadolny said the ceremony comes at a tinie when "Indians are coming of age." There has been an effort by the Indians to move from being supported by missions toward "self-determination," he said. Antone, chairman of the Papago Catholic Community, remembered seeing a statue of Kateri Tekakwitha in the front of St. John's Mission, where he went to school. "I thought she had always been a saint," he said . Antone related the events that le~d up to the pilgrim- age : Several months ago, a group came from Phoenix to the Papago reservation to explain the .canonization process for the Indian woman, he said . Only the highlights of the Indian woman's life are known by the delegates. The daughter of a Mohawk chief, Kateri Tekakwitha was born in Auriesville, N.Y., in )656 . She was raised by an uncle after her family died in a smallpox epidemic. The disease left her with pitted skin and poor eyesight. The Indian woman, known as the "Lily of the Ma- hawks," was baptized in 1675 by Jesuit missionaries. Against local custom, she refused to marry. Two years later, she fled her homeland after barely escaping death for her beliefs and walked 200 miles to Sault St. Louis, near Montreal. There, she devoted herself to prayer and service to the Indian community . She died in 1680, a year after taking a private vow of chastity. She is buried in Canawaga, On- tario. Her canonization process was begun in 1884. In 1943, she was declared venerable, a recognition of her holy life by the Vatican. The Rev. Joseph McBride of New York, U.S. vice postu- lator for the Indian woman's cause, said that although a • candidate usually must have been responsible for well docu- mented miracles before beatification, that requirement has been wa\ved in this case. "The beatification will be based upon the wholeness and sanctity of the person's life," McBride said. Antone and Lopez agreed it was an honor to make the pilgrimage. The Diocese of Tucson provided $2,000 for the trip, and the rest was raised during the past several weeks . PAGE FOUR -SECTION H * Epilepsy society cooking up Swanway Plaza bake sale The Friend~-0f Epilepsy will hold a bake sale from 9:30 a.m . to 4 p .m. Saturday at Swanway Plaza at Broadway and Swan Road in Tucson.'-The sale is to raise money for the Epilepsy Society of Southern Arizona . KODAK -PENTAX -NIKON COLORBURST 250 INSTANT CAMERA Built-in electronic flash, motorized print ejection. 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Star photos by Art Grasberger TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 Neighbors West All in the tortilla Brothers keep family plant rolling in dough By LAURA STONE The Arizona Daily Star Plenty of flour, a little salt, some lard and water all go into making a flour tortilla. Likewise, hard work, a bit of luck and a lot of help from the family are the main ingredients of the Grande Tortilla Factory. Five mornings a week, the kitchen in the back of the building at 914 N. Grande Ave . hums with mixers and grind- ers that chum out the makings for tortillas and a variety of Mexican food for the takeout restaurant up front. With a green apron tied around his waist, Frank Pes- queira, one of the owners, grinned with pride as he talked about the family run business: "I don't think I'd want to change it." Frank, 34, has worked in the business since he was a youngster. He watched as employees in matching aprons moved soft, white dough through machines that mixed, formed and stretched the tortillas . With a flip of the wrist, the dough was given one last stretch before sailing through a huge revolving oven. Minding the front counter was Frank's brother and business partner, Art, busily packaging chimichanga lunches for businessmen and tortillas for neighborhood resi- dents . Neatly dressed, Art, 31, demonstrates confidence that comes from eight years in the business and a degree in finance from the University of Arizona. Before joining the family enterprise, Art worked for a year with the city, but "that got to the point where I could hardly wait for Friday and my paycheck. Here, that doesn't happen. "There's something about watching it grow and do well. You work harder for yourself than you do for someone else," Art added . And grow the establishment did. In 1947, the brothers' father, Frank Sr., decided to give up a 20-year career as an ironworker. The senior Pesqueira bought a dough mixer from his sister and brother-in-law, Artemisa and Willie Garcia, who own La Suprema Mexican Food Products Inc. He also acquired a hot grill and started a tiny tortilla-making business at the present location. The early days were filled with seven-day weeks and hot summer work -the building lacked cooling in those THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR days . Frank Sr . dealt with the customers while his wife, Ar- mida, mixed, stretched and cooked the 300 tortillas sold each day . They later added a variety of takeout foods . Once a year in August, the couple would close down the store and head for a vacation in cooler country. Those hard days paid off. Today, Frank and Art market 5,000 of the thin, unleavened discs each day, using more than 400 pounds of flour. The brothers, who bought the business from their father in 1975 after their mother died, are pleased with its success, though they have made some changes. "It was a difficult first year (1975). We had a lot of arguments with our father because we really did things differently," Art said . 'One point of contention was the brothers' reversing their father's "no-checks" policy. Their father's negative attitude toward credit extends to checks, Art explained . Today, Frank Sr. stops by the factory for abou t an hour each day, but basically does not interfere with the operation of the business. He still grimaces, however, when he sees a stack of checks going to the bank, Art said. Another major change Art and Frank made was to cut back on the operating hours . The business is now closed on Sundays and Wednesdays in an effort "to improve morale," Art said . Regular hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p .m. the other five days. "We enjoy the business. We don't have to hustle as hard as my parents did, because people know us," Art said. They do little advertising these days because most customers hear about them by word of mouth, he added. Family is still an essential element. Frank's wife, Irma, works in the kitchen, as does Irma's brother-in-law , Barney Amparano. Frank and Irma's oldest son, also named Frank, comes by on Saturdays to lend a hand. And the family turns out in full force to help in Decem- ber -tamale-making time, a Mexican tradition at Christmas. "It gets really hectic around here then," Frank said . Their different but compatible skills may be the most important mixture to their success, the brothers said: "Frank does most of the cooking and the fixing of equipment," Art said. And Frank said of Art: "He's more or less the brain. He takes care of the bookkeeping." * SECTION H -PAGE FIVE All around town * Home ag ain -David Sebba, 13 , de scribe s hi s exper iences at a Denver hospital and center for asthmatic child ren to his par ents , Jon and Carta, and hi s brother, Rafael, 8, far right. Att acking as t hma Adapting puts t he win d back in his sails By JILL SCHENSUL The Arizo na Daily Star After si x yea rs of gasping for breath, 13-yea r-old David Sebba can breathe a sigh of r eli ef, freely. Not because a year's stint at the National J ewish Hospita l/Natio na l Asthma Center in Denver cured Da vid's asthma. It di dn't. Asthma , a chroni c respi ratory diso rd er, is not somethi ng that ca n be cured , but an ast hmatic can learn. to live with it, said David and his parent s, Carla and Jon. And that is one of t he most valuable leS- so ns David lea rned du ring his year in Den- ver -he returned ho me May 23. A year away from home, living wi t h other asthmatic child ren a nd performing "nor- mal" activities gave Davi d the confi dence he needed to break the ho ld asthma had on his life, the teen -ager said. Although David did not have his first asthma attack until he was 7, his parents could not remember a time when they were not helping their so n fight for every tortured breath. But Mrs. Se bba r em em bered the first attack. She was readi ng a bedtime story to David in their Chicago home and "he was making these fun ny sounds." She imitated labored, raspy breathi ng. "It told him to stop breathing like that. I thought he was just fooling around ." She looked at her son, who was listeni ng soberly. The doctors' diagnosis was asthma and pneumonia . David was hospi ta lized "at lea st eight . times" during the year after his first attack. Finally, David's lung collapsed wrule his father was in the hospital room. Asthma qui ckl y changed the youngste r's life . Be fore, Dav id wo uld spend afternoons in the street, running races with his friends. Then, Sebba wa s watch ing ms son from the livi ng-room window one da y . "I saw rum out t he r e telling his fri ends he woul d time for them whil e they raced ," he said . "It really broke my heart to see my so n bei ng a timer instead of a competitor ." Sebba's voice wa s soft as he glanced at his son. "The emotional strain, for all of us, was tremendous,'' Mrs. Se bba added. The Sebbas moved to Tucson in 1975, hoping t he cli mate woul d help. On his fifth day of breat hing clea n , dry air, David turned bl ue a t a restaurant and was taken to the a ll -too-fa milia r su rroundings of a hospi- tal eme rgency room. Da vid's pa r ents became businesslike about certain a spects of their son's asthma. For example, they pl a nned trips with at least one hosp ital en route, and ordered enough med ici ne for an extended vacation. But the Sebbas said they never managed to harness their emotions. Then one day in 1979, David collapsed on his way into the emergency room. It was the replay of a sce ne that had happened so many times, his parents had lost count. Mrs. Sebba ran for the doctor, frantically demanding that he save her son one more time. This time, the doctor recommended that David be sent to the Denver facility, 00th for the you ngster's health and for that of his parents. Patients at the asthma center must be referred by a docto r , Funds from contribu- tions are available for those who need help with all or part of th e medical costs. David was placed in t he hospital section of the facility when he arrived in March last year. There, doctors designed a medication regjmen to control his asthma , and counsel- ors worked with David to help him cope with the emotional strain. And while t he youngster sorted out his own life, his parents we r e picking up the threads of theirs, whi ch t hey said they had put in a holding pattern for six years. "We had a lot of t hings to talk about." Mrs. Sebba said, looking at her husband . "We learned a new ap preciation of each ot her." Af ter three months a t t he ho spital, do e- tors decided to t ran sfer David to th e center, where he li ved in a donnitory with oth er asthmatics. About HlO children, ages 6 to 16, are residen ts of the ce nter at any one tim e. While David did not have m uc h to say about his frequ ent and le ngt hy hospitaliza- ti ons, the precocious 13-yea r-0ld be came an- ima ted and eloquent when a sked about hi s stay a t the cente r . The t ransi tion was rough at fi rst, beca use he was "picked on," David said. But, "I know it was better for me that I wen t," he a dded philosophically . "Yo u learn ho w to be more ope n, more hon est with yo ur feeli ng s. I had to be mo re sensitive to my internal feeli ngs." David expressed his thoughts with almost a larm- ing seriousness, i n a tone that emphasized his direct honesty. His sessions with counselors and every- day dealings with 100 peers made this sort of directness a necessity, David said. Living with a variety of children also helped David to learn to get along with peo- ple, he said. In the past, he sometimes fe lt different because of his extensive vocabu- lary and special health problem, David added. Probably the biggest surprise to both David and his parents was the way the teen- ager bloomed as an athlete, they said, Aft er having given up physical activity fo r seven years , David was sitting on the sidelines of a football game one day, think- ing about things. "Then 1 remembered, 'There's something to this kid,' and got up and joi ned in," Dav id said. After a few test runs in sports events, David said he dec ided there really was somethi ng to that little kid -asthma or no asthma. Sure, he did his share of wheez ing a nd coughi ng down the field, but it was nothl ng an exhilarating run over the goal li ne co ul dn 't cure. And Da vid add ed, "The r e's just nothi ng li ke the fee ling of s tanding on the field, a ll a lo ne, waiting fo r your f riends to stop wheezing a nd com e out to join you. "It's great to be on th e in side, looki ng out." You're all alone with a choking feeling, but shared responsib il ity helps breath le ss to adjust Da vid Sebba 's story was not new to re- porter Jill Sch ensul, whose o wn chronic asthma as a child made it n ecessary for her to spend two yea rs at th e National J ewi,sh H ospital/Na t ional Asthma Center in Denver. Schensul explains th e kin ship she fee ls with Da vid and other youngsters who have shared their experiences . By JILL SCH E NSUL The Arizona Daily Star It has been 15 years since I sat at that little desk in that space they called my room and beseeched my parents: "Dear Mommy and Daddy, I hav e plenty of time to wri te to you now. Nobody likes me . I have no friends. Oh please, come and get me. Don 't you love me?" I meant every sad word, and I would cry onto my pink stationery and circle the tears so they would know I meant business. Then, I would mail my pleas 2,000 miles away to New York-to my parents, who , in their own ways , wer e suffe ring at lea st as much a s I was . Many years had gone by since I began my two-y ear stay a t what is now the Na tional Jewi sh Hospital/Na tional Asthma Center. But looki ng a t David Sebba, sitting shyly in the corner of the couch -hi s pa rents watching him every once in a wru le with a n intense mi xture of love, concern and a mu se- ment -it seemed lik e just yesterday. The fa mil y's remini scences were like shock Waves, sending my thoughts rippling in a ll directions : To choking nights with my head out th e window of the old Buick, inhaling th e ex- haust fum es on the streets of Brooklyn for a bit of "fresh air " before we visited the emer- gency room once more. "Hi, Jill,'' the peo- pl e in white would say with resign. My blanched face was as fami1iar as Band- Aids. David's story was so similar . Could this still be happening? Are parents still driving their wheezing chHdren frantically through the streets a t 3 d.m. in sea r ch of fresh ai r ? I wondered a s I heard th e fa miliar episod es . David's se ntiments about his asthma a lso echoed my own. It was no bi g dea l, David said . There a re worse thi ngs. I k new t ha t. I have had ast hma a ll my life a nd a m pre tt y bla5e a bo ut it -unl ess I'm i n t he middle of choking. No big deal either to li ve aw ay from home on your own when you're just a chil d, Davi d said simply. It's tru e -you do it because if you don't, you just might not be aliv e next year. I felt in David's silence and ru s sho rt, shy sentences a bond that explained all the things unsaid . We shared the feeling of all-aloneness - t he feeling that, though doc tors and parents looked on with love and medicine, you were alone with that choking feeling . And, though onlookers might argue the point, you know in those mo ments you would rather be dead . But David and I s hared somethi ng be- yond t ha t , whi ch sprang from our stays in Denv e r. Da vid summ ed up the experi e nce sim- ply : "They teac h you ho w to li ve wi t h it." My thoughts went hurtling ba ck ward. I flashed on an inc iden t several months afte r I a r ri ved in Denver. I was 9 years old, trudging home from a nearby public school through heavy snow- d ri fts in a dirty-blue down jacket, sucki ng in col d air wi th a fee ling of hyst e ria. "Come on, Jill , it's not much fu rt her," my a sthmatic friends urg ed. Th ey took my books and pu t my arms around their shoul - ders . Some of them were wheezing, too. Nobody was going to rescue us. The thought scared me out of my wits, but I was stuck with that fact. So I sat down periodi- cally in the snow in vain attempts to calm myself and catch my breath. I wanted to cry, but had no strength. We made it to the hos pital on the center's camp us . The nurses too k off my dirty little jacket, put me in bed a nd st uck me wi t h needles. Before t hey left me to wheeze myself to slee p, th ey told m e I had dou ble pneumoni a and had don e very well to wal k all tho se bl ocks hom e from school. We go t used to it . We all sensed we had a bi g res ponsibili ty to each other. So we dragged one ano t he r to wa rd help when we were sick and flung each other playfully into the snow when we were not. We sneaked peanut butter into the hospital (p ea nut butter was off-limits because so many asthmatics a r e allergic to it) because we could sacrifice only so much to stay well. The nights of telling each other ghost stories, the days of sledding down long hill s with a dog named Blackie and afternoons of mora l support via crayons and ice-creani sodas by a hospital bed created indescrib- able bo nd s. Tho se times a re pennanent fi x- tures in my past. But part of them are a lways with me . And who knows if I would have had t he chance to be a reporter if they had not come to pa ss. Or to have had t he experi enc e last we ek a s dusk fell on th e Sebba home. Th ere, a n- ot her set of feelings overpo we r ed my me mo- ries of Denver. As David's parents bared their hearts to share with each othe r and me the effects of asthma on the normal runnin g of a fa mily, I felt something in the pit of my st omach. - A rush of pride and a wave of -for lack of a better word -gratitude for my own parents filled my head. Afte r all these yea rs , I wa s finally beginning to understand what was behind the simple words my parents used to sum up their experiences with my asthma: "You'll never know wha t we wen t through." I knew there was no way to thank them. And the feeling was twice as strong because I knew that I really didn't have to . ' ' =J&· ~ , " i![ ... t 1;;;'.,;.:,10=1-, , . ...__,__ Twice-told tales -Reporter Jill Schen sul and David Sebba wa lk David's dog, Li la, as they discuss their similar battles wit h asthma . Star photos by Art Gr asberger ,;,, ~ " ~- Neighbors >) Southern Arizona Plain planes bring the bug for more piloting, inventing By ANNE HOLLIDAY-ABBOTT The Arizona Daily Star COOLIDGE -Mix a desire to soar though the wide- open sky with a concern for fuel economy, and what do you come up with? A flying Volkswagen? Close. Calvin Parker is an inventor and pilot here who has twice designed simple, all-aluminum airplanes powered by Volkswagen engines. He is now work,ng on modifications of his P.rototype!:, to allow for a two-seat airplane and one powered by a 16-hor•;e-_ power garden-tractor engine That'<. keeping •um pretty busy, makmg 11 d,fflc1..I• to Keep up with his many other projects. He is Jn elenrician, engineer .. nct des1grP.:r, and nis entire mobile homl' at lwy ligh ' Tra•.ls 1s Jammed with t'1e inner wor;,;in6s Jf the pro1ects. ScattPn'd m vanous stages of completion in his living room are pians for a sa·ellite television receiver ar.d an electronic word processor. He already has completed plans for a mini ca ·per designed for a subcompact car, Parkers two completed auplanes, "Jeanie's Teenie" PAGE EIGHT_:_ SECTION H * and "Teenie 2," were featured on the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine in 1968 and 1971. Parker said the plans for his home-built airplanes were innovative because he was the first to use a Volkswagen engine to power an all-aluminum craft. The construction of the home-built airplanes requires no complicated equipmen t, Pa rker said . He noted that the plane can be put together with only a hacksaw, tinsnips and a plastic-headed hammer. Indeed, the airplane parts may be bought from any metal -prod ucts shop, he said Parker, who has been a pilot since 1946, said he built several airplanes from other people's designs before "Jeame's Teenie," but tne simple design he came up with made his plans highly marketable. About 7,000 plans were sold for each model, bringing him about $200,000. He has about $40,000 invested m his new a .rplanes, he said At the time of the original design, Parker said, the planes could be built for about $750. Inflation has doubled the cost today, Parker said, but they· are still economical com- pared to other small airplanes "Jeanie's Teenie," named after his daughter who THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Simple fare -Whether it's the single-seater "Teenie 3" he's adapting to accommodate a larger en- gine, left, or the half-finished two-seater, below, Calvin Parker's homemade air- planes have one thing in common - smallness. (Star photos by Anne Holli- day-Abbott) helped him with construction, will fly at about 120 mph, Parker said . Parker said he has landed the airplanes on "unbeliev- ably rough terrain," and they have held up well, although once he bounced six feet in the air. And he said he has logged more than 250 takeoffs and landings in "Teenie 2." Parker, 55, is a high school dropout , he said, so he has been largely self-taught, consulting technical books when he was stumped by a problem. After he had developed the original "Jeanie's Teenie," he submitted the plans to six aviation magazines. Popular Mechanics was the only one co respond. and he struck up a deal with the editor ·'in three mml'tes on the telephone.' The magazine sold the p1ans, for which Parker received royalties. Parker still has 12 garbage cans filled with corre- spondence concerning his airplanes that he said he cannot find time to answer. Detractors and imitators have plagued Parker ever since his original plans were ~ade public, he said He said he is bothered by people who dende his air- planes, but not enough to stop trying to top his latest en- deavor. "I still have a great deal of cunos1ty about things. If a person doesn't have curiosity, they're dead," Parker said. TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 ~ B Old-time soldiering soothes prison staff By DON DALE The Arizona Dally Star FORT GRANT -Employees of the Fort Grant Train- ing Center have turned the clock back 100 years to relieve the stress of working in a prison. The results are a combina- tion of soothed psyches and sore seats . The re-creation of "C" Troop of the 4th U.S. Cavalry was the brainstorm of Dave Keefer, a security sergeant at the Arizona Department of Corrections' minimum-security prison. The administration has supported it wholeheartedly as a kind of play therapy . "It's minimum security," Fort Grant Superintendent Steve Hargett said of his prison, "but (in) any facility where you have people confined 24 hours a day, you have a lot of problems." Those psychological problems were unresolved in the past, Hargett said. "It's good to get your mind away from it," he empha- sized. "I'm trying to develop more activities for the employ- ees." Keefer -a cowboy and rancher before joining the Corrections Department three years ago -was the logical instigator of this type of activity. With his interest and the prison's nine horses (used to work its cattle and chase escaped prisoners), the ingredients of a cavalry troop were there. "I have more fun putting this together than I do riding," Keefer said during a recent open house. "C" Troop re-en- acted the old days of soldiering during the open house with Fort Huachuca's "B" Troop and the 7th Confederate Cav- alry from Phoenix, which also has an artillery battery. At the re-enactment one "C" Trooper fell off his horse, many had patchwork uniforms, and none had sabers. Keefer said of his 13 riders he had only "two horsemen and 11 fellows that are just learning." But you have to start someplace, and Keefer's men are enthusiastic. He also has 35 people waiting to get on one of TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 the two nine-man teams that eventually will constitute "C" Troop. "We've done a lot of scrounging," Keefer said of his efforts to organize the troop. He said some material has been provided by the prison (for which he said the state will be reimbursed), and the inmates are getting into the act by making uniforms and leather gear in their vocational shops. Ironically, this lends a degree of authenticity, accord- ing to Keefer. He said the uniforms for the 19th-century cavalry were made by federal prisoners at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan. "I'm a horsetrader by trade," Keefer said. He has traded with other troops to obtain some of his gear, including the reproduction of a breech-loading Wentworth cannon that he obtained to provide a little firepower -nothing else makes quite the same impression on a crowd. Keefer would like to bring that big bang to more people. "We're looking for engagements," he said, hoping for invi- tations to put his troop in parades and events all over Arizona this summer. But even if the men practice only among themselves they feel it is worthwhile. "There's a lot of pressure built up on (prison employ- ees), and they let it out in practice," said trooper Art Ramirez, a security guard. He added that this in turn re- lieves pressure on inmates. "It's a stressful job," said troop commander Terry Lawson, a lieutenant with prison security. He said that by the time "C" Troop hits a full gallop, more than 30 men will be directly involved, and the fact that they work together off and on the job boosts overall mo~ale. Apart from all the psychological talk; there are even more important reasons for all this saber-rattling . Keefer expressed it best: "The attraction is it's just one heck of a lot of fun." THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Fun, foibles and firepower -After parading the colors, "C" Troop members get down to the fun, a battle re-enactment, above. One rider who lost his mount gets a lift from a fellow trooper, below. But when the day is done, the first battle re-enactment is a booming success. (Star photos by Don Dale) * SECTION H -PAGE NINE All around Southern Arizona Patter of cattle feet ruins woman's fences, quiet life By DON DALE and JILL SCHENSUL The Arizona Da ily Star CASCABEL -The big-city trappings on the other side of the Rincon Mountains seem pretty far from the quiet ra nge land here in the San Pedro River Valley. But the city of Tucson is nonetheless reaching out to disturb Marie Kell y . Since the city bought a ranch next to Kelly's property sou th of here in August 1960, she has had problems with the ca ttle from that ranch. "They let them run wild," Kelly said of cattle belonging to members of the Gallego and Santa Cruz families, who lease the ranch that Tucson bought for the water rights. "They break down your fences year after year," Kelly said. The ranch, 5,000 acres of city-Owned and 15,000 acres of state-Owned land, is on open range, which means that any- one who wants his property protected from cattle must fence them out. Kelly, 80, acknowledges that fact of range life, but said the ranchers overstock the leased land so badly that the cattle trample her fences looking for water and greenery. A maximum of 150 head of cattle can be run on the ranch, said George Parker, property manager for Tucson. The Gallegos, along with all other ranchers leasing land from the state, were asked earlier this month to report any excess cattle to the state and arrange for paying to graze them on t_he land, said Wally Alexander, natural-resource manager for the Arizona Land Department. Star photo by Don Dale Jesus Gallego, a spokesman for the family operation, estimated it had 125 head of cattle on the property. Marie Kelly surveys damage at trampled section of her fence Because the city is leasing land from the state, it is directly responsible for ensuring that the correct number of cattle is being grazed on the land, Alexander said. The sublessee is also responsible, "but it falls back on the city," he said. The city has received complaints about the Gallegos' cattle from nearby residents almost since the family began leasing the land in 1973, Parker said. Jesus Gallego confirmed that neighbors and cit y offi- cials have complained in the past, but said he was no t aware of any recent complaints. Whenever they have received complaints, the Gallegos have removed the trespassing cat- tle, Gallego said. "Our cattle may very well be on other people's prop- erty, but cattle from other people's property is on our la nd, too ," Gallego said. Parker said, "The Gallegos have very st rong tenant rights, and as far as the city is concerned, the neighbors' complaints are only hearsay," Parker said. "I don't believe it's up to the city to respond to livestock complaints,." he added. He suggested complaints be directed to officials at the Arizona Livestock Sanitary Board, the agency that has the responsibility for policing cattle and other livestock operations . If the board finds the Gallegos' cattle on neighboring property, the cattle can be impounded and the Gallegos made to pay for damages, Parker said. He added that he did not know if neighbors had been advised to call the agency . "If they (the sanitary board) come back to us and say we must react, then we would react," Parker said . Kelly said members of the Gallego family , who live in Tucson, have repaired her fence a couple of times, but not often enough to suit her. "I think they purposely let (the cattle) go to feed on the neighbors' (property)," Kelly said. Her neighbor, Armand Mattaush, supported her contention, saying the cattle break through his fences to get at water he uses to irrigate a small pecan orchard. "We've been having trouble with those cattle for years," Mattaush said. "They don 't watch their cattle very closely ." At lea st Mattaush is physically fi t to mend fences ; Kelly said she tries to tie them back together with baling wire, but the job is getting to be too much. "It makes me kind of mad at (Tucson) Mayor (Lew) Murphy," said Kelly, who has carried on the battle of her husband, Pete, who died last year. She said letter writing does no good . "The city of Tucson, they don't care," Kelly said, of- fended by these intruders into an idyllic existence she has enjoyed since 1952. She said she never had trouble with cattle belonging to any of the previous ranch owners . Parker said, "It's a situation where we care very much , but it goes back to the rights of our tenants. And, in her (Kelly's) case, it goes back to the ownership of the cat- tle." The house on her little homestead of 160 acres, bought from an old gentleman named Francisco Villa in 1950, is "more than 100 years old," Kelly said . She loves talking about the history, people and wildlife of the area, and resents the newcomers from Tucson who bought the prop- erty only to take its water. "We're not going to give them that water," Kelly in- sisted . "I'm interested in retaining this water for th is dis- tric t." She said t he "foolishness" of the cattle owne r s from Tucson , which she remembers as a "beautiful little village ," is depressing her. The "last straw" came when cattle en- tered her yard and knocked over her well pump in their search for water. "I just figure I'll have to sell this place," she said. But she'll retreat only a little way -she said she will keep 20 acres and build a new house, presumably with a stronger fence. This land under the huge mesquites along the San Pedro River will always be a part of her. "It's a nice quiet place to live and die in," she said. Teacher forced to pick job or election Star Photo by Howard Fischer Georga Cox PAGE TEN -SECTION H * By DON DALE The Arizona Daily Star NACO -A candidate for Cochise County school superintendent has dropped out of the race because the Naco Elementary District school board has said it will not release her from her teaching contract if she wins the election in November. Georga Cox said she was refused permis- sion to insert a release clause in her contract contingent on winning the election . The Re - publican candidate said she can't afford to quit her job or take a year's leave of ab- sence. "I have to work . I can't run ," Cox said . "It's not allowing the electoral system to work." Naco school board member Jack Ladd said the board turned down the request be- cause a teacher leaving in the middle of the school year in such a small district would put the school in a tough spot . "That would leave us high and dry," Ladd said. "If she wanted to run for the county school superintendent job we felt she should make the total commitment." Ladd said nothing in the board's bylaws covers the situation and the board is acting on its own judgment of what is best for the distrct. "I don't care if it's a Republican or Dem- ocrat that's holding the job, it's wrong," county Republican Chairman Haskell Wil- liams said of the board's decision. Williams, speaking at a gathering of Re- THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR publican county-0ffice seekers in Willcox last month , said a teacher working to sup- port a family would be excluded from run- ning for any full-time office if all school boards adopted this policy. "If she breaks her contract (after win- ning an election), they can lift her teacher's certificate," which is a prerequisite to hold- ing the county school superintendent's post, Williams said. Ladd confirmed that the board probably would not favor granting Cox a leave of absence if she wins the election because it would not be an "emergency" request. In this situation, Cox said she felt she had no choice but to withdraw from the Republi- can slate and sign her teaching contract by the deadline last week. TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 All around town-----'Talking' machines -Work-ers of the Community Outreach Program for the Deaf demonstrate two types of telecommu-nications devices. Steve Rinehart, at right, re-ceives a message on a teletypewriter. Below, Tommy Agee sends a message on a Porta-tel. (Star photos by Art Grasberger) What deaf have here is ability to communicate By CAROL SOWELL The Arizona Dally Star "What time does the restaurant open?" "Is your cold any better today?" "May I change the time of my appoint- ment?" Telephones are wonderful tools for such things as ob- taining infonnation, keeping up with the latest in a friend's life and handling personal business . But to enjoy these advantages, a telephone user must be able to hear. For those with hearing impainnents, simple communication can be laborious. "For years, deaf people have depended on driving," said Tommy Agee, infonnation specialist with the Commu- nity Outreach Program for the Deaf. "They would drive over to your house and knock on the door to find out if you were home." But the outreach program offers a service that helps persons with hearing problems to "talk" on the telephone. With the aid of a third person or relay operator, a deaf person is able to make telephone contact with a hearing friend or a business . Relay operators convert infonnation from a hearing person into written messages to be read by someone who has a telecommunications device for the deaf connected to the telephone. The deaf person may respond with a written . message, which will be relayed by the operator. The telecommunications devices have been around since 1964, outreach officials said. But the relay system, introduced locally by the outreach program in 1978, recently was expanded. There is no charge for the relay service. Mountain Bell charges customers with devices for the deaf the same rates for local and long-distance service as it does customers who use regular telephones. Patterned after the telegraph system, the telecommuni- cations devices have keyboards that produce messages and allow people at two machines to communicate. The original devices produce typed messages; modernized equipment displays the messages on a screen. The relay service makes it possible for a deaf person to chat with a hearing friend, order a pizza, call a plumber or do any of the "everyday things that you and I can do in a TUCSON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1980 couple of seconds," said Nonna Maynard, office manager for the outreach program. For example, a client whose child had a problem in school was able to talk with school officials and "get some action immediately," Maynard said. In another instance, out-of-town relatives used the relay to notify a deaf person of a death in the family. "He was able to find out right away, rather than be notified through the mail," Maynard explained. The outreach program, which is operated by Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, last year provided a telecommunications device to the lnfonnation and Refer- ral Service of Tucson. The purpose was to make available the referral service's infonnation to the deaf community. But referral-service workers found that deaf persons were more interested in obtaining help making personal and business calls, said Kathy Alexander, executive director. "We found there was a need for greater relay service," she explained. At first Alexander's office tried to relay emergency calls during hours when the outreach program's relay was not in operation. But "deaf people say any call you need to make is an urgent call when you can't dial it yourself," she said So the outreach program last month expanded its relay service to the referral office on a three-month trial basis. The relay is available through the outreach office, 792-1437, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Volunteer operators using outreach equipment now handle relay calls through the referral office, 881-1797, 5 to 8 p .m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The outreach program's goal is to offer a relay service 24 hours a day, Maynard said. More personal calls are made nights and weekends, while business calls seems to domi - nate the daytime hours, she added. THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR The relay handles long-distance calls, either collect or charged to the client's telephone, Maynard said. Callers also may come to the outreach office at 268 W. Adams St. to u_se the equipment. She stressed that volunteers are trained to treat all conversations confidentially. The development of the Porta-tel, a modem telecom- munications device that displays messages on an electronic screen, has made it easier for deaf persons to use the telephone service, Agee said. The instrument costs about $.550 and is battery-powered and easy to carry, he added. The older, more cumbersome teletypewriters are still in use, though they are not widely marketed, Maynard said. The Porta-tel connects to any telephone -such as a pay phone, in a hotel or hospital room -Agee said. It "rings" by flashing a light signal. A recent special grant made it possible for the outreach program to distribute 83 Porta-tels to needy deaf Tucsonans. The agency also provides Porta-tels on loan. Outreach officials estimated that about 250 deaf resi- dents (out of about 36,000 Tucsonans with hearing problems) own Porta-tels or teletypewriters, and that another 250 are installed in local businesses, institutions and homes of rela- tives of deaf persons. The instruments also are helpful to persons with limited speech ability such as those who have had larynx surgery, Agee said. Maynard said the outreach program welcomes addi- tional volunteers to work with the relay service. Infonnation may be obtained by calling 792-1906. Connections for the deaf Some local agencies and businesses have telephone num- bers that can be called directly from a telecommunications device for the deaf. The following list was provided by the Community Outreach Program for the Deaf: Pima County Sheriff, 24-hour emergency number, 624-6075 University Hospital Emergency Room, 626-6634 Arizona Department of Public Safety, 1-800-352-4557, toll-free Tucson Fire and Rescue Dispatch, 326-8888 Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind, 882-5357 Pima Community College, 884-6001 University of Arizona, 626-2344 Department of Economic Security, 882-5731 Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, 882-5567 or 882-5132 Woods Branch of the Tucson Public Library, 791-4540 Goodwill Industries, 623-0316 St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, 888-9319 Internal Revenue Service, 1-800-428-4732, toll-free Armory Park Senior Citizens Center, 791-4685 Tucson Electric Power Co., 624-6124 Mountain Bell, 1-800-352-8434, toll-free IBM, 741-4584 Jim Click Ford, 747-2000 Union Bank, 792-2358 Tucson International Airport, 294-6377 Language Enterprises, 325-2714 Associates in Human Development, 327-5209 Catalina Business Systems, 326-5314 Mike Waling-Realtor, 297-9795 Dr. Richard Sebastian, dentist, 887-4511 Some airlines and hotel chains have nationwide toll-free lines that can be reached with a telecommunications device. * SECTION H -PAGE ELEVEN Brothers' only beef I I 1s 1n case (Continued From Page lH) ings throughout much of the back shop. Hooks attach 150-pound sides of beef to the railing for easy move - ment. Each brother, dressed in white butcher's garb, agreed they have few prob- 1 ems working together . "Businesswise we get along pretty good. There's noth- ing we can't work out," Fili- berto said. "It's just like getting along with your wife. You have to learn how to com- municate," Ruben said. They hold frequent meet- ings to discuss any prob- lems. Each brother is in charge of an area of the business . Filiberto supervises the meat cutting, Ruben is in charge of the meat counter and deals with customers, and Oscar is the office man- ager . And Jack? "You might say I'm the general manager . Sometimes I sweep the floor . Isn't that what a general manager's supposed to do?" The four brothers, each wi th laugh lines around his dark eyes, said their rela- ti onship doesn't end when they leave work . "We go out to dinner together and party together ," Jack said . "Drink a little, eat a little," Ruben added . "We've always been close . We were all born on a ranch this side of Nogales. When you live on a ra nch, you grow up closer," Jack expla i ned . The family, which i ncludes another brother, Eddie, and three sisters, Mercy , Ophelie and Emma, came to Tucson more than 30 years ago. The brothers said they don't encourage their chil- dren to follow in their foot- steps, though they do offer their offspring part-time jobs while in school. "It's better for the kids to go their own way," Jack said . "I would tike to see my son go on to something else," Filiberto said. But he added that his son has learned responsibility by work ing for the meat com- pany . However, two of Ruben's son s have decided they like the mea t cutting business enough to make careers of it , and many of the other child r en have accepted their fathers ' offers of part- time jobs . So the list of Islases at American Meat Co. does not end with Jack, Ruben, Fili- berto and Oscar . 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