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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - Miscellaneous (143)ue.r 0 Summer? Some're bored and some're busy Centerfold Lady in a uniform Page 3 Work takes • place of schoo~ • suspension Page3 Collector likes insignia in big way Page 7 Tucson Citizen Thursday, June 26, 1980 Page 2 • People Membership drive .Members of the Do ugla s Social Club of Tucson hope to attract more than ants with their grou p pi cnic Sunday. More mem bers a r e what the group of former Douglas residents have in mind. In addition to raising funds for scholar- ships and needy Douglas residents, the group holds social activities for its mem- bers. The membership drive picnic is set for noon Sunday at Reid Park ramada 16. Beverages, games for children and en- tertainment will be provided. The club's 1980 officers are Tony Gomez, president; Armando R. Garcia, vice presid ent, and Olga Carbajal, secre- ta ry. Former Douglas area residents in- terested in joining can call Ms. Carbajal at 889-5832. • Reunions .A reunion picnic, golf tournament and danc e fo r members of Spring Junior High 's classes of 1952 through 1955 will be held July 4 and 5. Th e reunion will kick off with a 6 a .m . golf tournament at El Rio Golf Course. A family picnic is scheduled for noon at No r thwest Park, Silverbell Road a nd Spe edway Boulevard. The reunion will end with a dance at the Casino Ballroom . Spring grad_s interested in the reunion should call Johnny Ruiz at 623-5993 or Gloria Zepeda at 624-6811. • Former residents of the Rosalie Tilles Orphanage in Fort Smith, Ark., will hold a reu ni on on July 4 at UCT Hall, 1022 W. Dodson St., in Fort Smith. • Former Tilles residents now living here can contact Geneva Downing Kolp at 501- 785-1585 for information . Activities Summer speed-reading The Tucson Public Library wiJI offer speed-reading classes this month for adults and mature teen-agers via a n S--part video cassette course produced by Time- Life and moderated by Dick Cavett . An a spa ra t e , 12-part Rea d ing Effi cie n c y co urse, con centrating primarily on co m- prehension skills, may a lso be available . Enrollment will be li mited , so call Cha ri Mayna rd, 79 1-4397 , to get on the ma ili ng list . Salva t io n Ar my day cam p Ca mpers are eli gible by applica tio n for On the cover Spl at ! El e ven-yea r -o ld Sara Payn P wi nces as she gefs pelted wi th spong es at the P enny Carni val a t Blenman Elementary Schoo l. Th e carni val is one of many summertime act ivi ti es spo nsored for children by city , county and other pu blic a nd private organizations . Tum to the centerfold for a sampling of wha t•~ still avail able for your youngsters. Cover photo by H. Darr Beise r; de- sign by Pa ul Krause . Old Pu e blo is the Tucson Citi zen's wee kl y s upplemen t fo r loca l and neigh bo rhood news. If you know of a person or a ctivi ty that merits cover- age, we'd like to hea r fro m you. Call 294-4433 ext . 203 . Tucson Citizen Thursday , Jun e 26, 1980 Jafvert Voigtmann Zaeske Greer Wilson Haney Coe Hazelton Paula Lynne Jafvert, 15, Pamela Leight Voigtmann, 18, MicheJle Anne Zaeske, 16,- and Marilyn Greer, 13, are finalists in the Arizona National Teen-ager Pageant, which will be held July 11, 12 and 13 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phoenix . • Sally Wilson, 17, and Caryl Ann Rebecca World War II members of the 16th Ar - mored Division will get together Aug·. 7, 8 and 9 at the Albert Pick Hotel in Grand Rapids, Mich . For information, contact Don Milleman at 502-491 -5979 . Hams on the rocks .Members of the Catalina Radio Club will head for the hills this weekend. But the radios they'll take with them won't be blasting Waylon Jennings or Paul Mc Cart- ney . Members of the Catalina cl ub, most of whom are employed at Hughes Ai rcraft, will compete with thousands of o ther United States hams in the annua l Field Day operations, which allow radio ama- teurs to test their abilities to operate under emergency conditions . Portable gear. con- nected to gas-powered generators and seven I-week sessio ns begi nning J une 30 . Ca ll 79~9671 or 792-9114 for inform ation. Tucson Hi g h Sc hoo l reuni on The class of 1960 is pr eparing for its 20th reu nio n July 19 a t the Arizona Inn . Charge for the dinne r bu ff et and dance and a "mini " a nnua l wi ll be $35 per couple, wh ich should be sent to Mrs . Carolyn Big- gam Michel , 5428 N. La Casi ta Driv e, Tuc- son , 85718. Call 299-6154 or 323-1581 fo r in- forma ti on . Volleyball games Kids in grades 3 th ro ugh 8 can sign up to learn about volleyball at the Lo hse branch YMCA, 516 N. Fifth Ave. Games wi ll be held Sa t urday mornings beginning July 12 with practice drills featured t hrough June 28. Call 624-7471 for informa- tion on this a nd ot her Lohse YMCA pro- g rams . Art museum tours Tou r s of the current exh ibit a t the Tuc- son Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave., are held Fridays at 1:30 p .m . (except July 4). Rincon reunion The class of 1960 will have its fam il y- oriented reunion at 2 p .m. Saturday at the Lodge on the Desert, 306 N. Alvernon Way. Call Thomas M. Flynn in Phoeni x at 258- 6871 or 838-0167 fo r informa tio n . Kin de r gym and gymnastics The Lig hthou se YMCA, 2900 N. Colum- bus Bl vd., wi ll begin classes for 3-to 5- yea r-olds July 1 in coordi na tion a nd fle xi - bili t y. Gym nastics is offered to older chil- dren . Call 79~9725 for in fo rmation. , Teen queen competitors Haney, 17 , have been chosen as finalist in the Ari zona Teenworld Pageant. The pag- eant will be held July 26 at the Marriott Hotel in Phoenix. • Karla Ann Coe, 16, has been selected as temporary antennae will be set up atop Mt. Bigelow in the Catalinas . The club will compete for points with other clubs based on its ability to operate effectively under conditions simulating a national emergency . Honors and awards . Gilbert A. Carillo, principal of of Tucson High School , has been selected as a mem - ber of the Institute for Development of Educatio nal Activities. • James A. Carr, a May gradua te of Am - phithea ter High School, com peted in t he Voca tional Ind ustrial . Cl ubs of Am e ri ca Skills Olym pi cs in Atlanta this wee k . Carr, 17, earned the right to compete in the national co nt est by winning the state gold med al for air-cooled engi ne repair. Ott YMCA progra m s The Ott YMCA , 401 S. Prudence Road , has begun summer da y camp, in clu din g swimmi n g , crafts, a rche r y, tum bli ng , sports and field t ri ps. Ca ll t he b ra nc h for in fo rma tion . Dance lessons The Movi ng Cente r, 135½ S. Sixth Ave ., will offer classes, begin ni ng Monday , in modern dance, Afro da nce, ballet, modern jazz, mythical dance , children's creative movement , dance ex ercise a nd improvisa- tion . Afternoon and evening sessions are scheduled. Call 884-7359 or 882-0961 for price and schedule informa tion . Dance classes Summer session by Isis Dance Com- pany, 2510 E . Sixth St., including instruc- tion in jazz, ballet and modern dance for adults and children will run through July 18. Call 888-o774 for registration informa- tion. Sonoran Heritage series At the Tucson Public Library branches : Continuing with What Is Cactus Good For? at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Nanini ; Archaeol- ogy in Your Own Backyard 2 p .m . Wednes- day a t Himmel; Corncobs, Feathers and Wood at 2 p .m . Wednesday at Himmel and 2 p.m. Thursday at Green Valley. Childbi rth classes A Kin o Com m unity Hospital series on childbirt h. prepara ti on will con t in ue t hrough July 21 in ro om 3030 , 2800 E. Ajo Wa y . Call 294 -4471 , ext. 103, for informa- tion . a finalist in the Arizona Miss Teen Pageant to be held in Phoenix at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Aug. 1, 2 and 3. Pamela S. Hazelton has been chosen a finalist in ' the Arizona Miss United Teen- ager Pageant. Enid Edmund, a patient who recently saved her nurse's life, has been awarded the Emergency Alert Award by Tucson General Hospital. Mrs . Edmund performed the Heimlich Maneuver on GiseJla Oppegaard, who had choked on a cracker. Military stuff .J im, Steve and Ken Thalmann of Tucson will be united this fa ll at the U.S. Ai r Force Aca demy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Jim, 22, and Steve, 20 , will be seni ors. Ken, 17, is a 1980 graduate of Palo Verde High School who will be a fres hm a n at the academy when classes resum e in Augus t. The th ree all hope to become pilots . The Thalmann brothers' dad, Verle, as you may have guessed , is a retired Air Force sergeant. Su mmer garden walk s Survivi ng summer squash, t hos e r esis- tant to th e vine bore r pes t, will be the top ic a t 9 a .m. Wed nesda y at t he Tucson Garden Center , 4040 N. Ca mpbell Ave, sponso r ed by th e Pima County Cooperative E xten- sion Service. Camping trips . Ligh t hous e YM CA off ers t rips for chil - dren and adults; overnighters to Mou nt Lemmon, Lake Patagonia, Madera Can- yon a nd Cave Creek Canyon t hroughou t the summer. The cost is $20 per person . Call 79~9725 fo r in format ion. Scuba diving Classes are offe r ed by tile' City Parks and Recreation Department at Amphithe- . ater High School. Call 791-4870. Voter drive The Southern Arizona Chapter of A. Philip Randolph Institute will sponsor a voter registration drive through Sep t. 14 on Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m . at Prince Chapel A.M .E. Church at South Stone Avenue at 17th Street and at Mount Calvary Baptist Church , 210 E . Les ter St. Free University Registration for the Free Un_iversity wi ll be held weekdays from 10 a.m . to 5:30 p.m ., evenings Wednesdays onl y from 6:30 to 8:30 and Saturdays from 10 a .m . to 3 p.m. Ca ll 622-0170 afternoons for places. We ight cont rol Wei ght co n trol classes a nd a wom en's suppo rt group wi ll be off ered by t he Pima Coun t y Health Department t his su mm er. Call 889-9543 fo r informa tion . Thursday, June 26, 1980 •, She spells respect u-n-i-f ~o-r-m By DEBORAH BLOCK Old Pueblo Editor It got to be one pinch too many, it did, so she found a costume that made her per- fectly unpinchable. The pants were khaki; the shirt, the same. There was a little tie to snap closed at her throat and some red braid to wrap around one shoulder. But best of all was the badge -no cheap tin, and it had her very own personal number on it. And so it happened , the transformation of Jane Come, Waitress, to Jane Come, . Security Guard. No one thinks about touching her now, least not without an in - vitation, and not because she wears a nightstick, either. It is, matter of fact, not the weapon but the uniform she means when she says: "You've got all this authority that stands out. As a waitress, you're running around looking like something that came out of a wringer, and people don't respect you." Such was Jane's experience, anyway, as unpleasant as it was necessary . There were kids to support and no husband to help win the bread , Jane being a divorced person these past 10 years. So she wai- tressed. And drove a school bus . And , at one point, even held a third job, all for the sake of keeping a precariously balanced budget in line. Jane, who at 38 is a grandmoth e r , enjoys driving school buses, but she lik es being a security guard even better. Even if the pay's not very good . That fact Jane drops with hesitation , her boss being seated with her at a big oval table down at Ac e Securi ty Co . Inc . headquarters on Miracle Mile. Her remark leaves Jim Roberts, Ace president, no alternative but to clear his .thro a t and confirm that, yes, beginning se- curity guards usually make somewhere be- tween $2 .10 and $3.10 an hour . "That doesn't seem very much when you're putting your life on the line ," Jane says , not so much complaining as sounding like an outsider who had butted in on a cocktail conversation. Work plan • vs. suspension proves worth Tucson Citizen GZ ... or,K't ~d•1•t l'lf'tWflCl>•lt"-" " ~l I • Citizen Photo by Dan Tortorell Jane Corne with her boss, Jim Roberts Oh, well , what 's money? Jane is getting something else . "If I stop in at a store on my way home from work and I'm in my uniform , people are nicer," she says . "I get looked at, but it's a really nice look." Amazing what a change of clothes can do. The kids pay better attention to her at . home. Even the dog backs off. By TOM SHIELDS Citizen St~ff Writer Students who flub up in most high schools face suspension -the traditional, although not always effective, way of dish- ing out discipline. The Flowing Wells School Board, how- ever, has taken a new tack. During the past year, students in the district's junior and senior high schools who committed the more serious infractions had a choice: sus- pension or work around the campus. And most students -78 out of 99 -chose work. "I couldn't be more happy with the pro- gram ," said Principal Larry Hart . Board members liked it, too, and have voted to contmue it next year. The progra m , called the Saturday Cam- pus Corps, calls for six-hour, no-nonsense work sessions washing windows or school vehicles , weeding lawns, cleaning up after football games or doing whatever needs to be done at the tim e. "The program ha s been pretty well ac- cepted by student s ," said Hart, pointing to the fact that about 80 percent of those as- signed to work sessions showed up and carried out their duties . Those who failed to show up were automatically suspended. The violations committed most often "There's a whole different person be- hind this ," Jane confirms. "And this badge number, it makes you feel a little impor- tant, too. It's special; it's my number. I feel more of a pe rson with it on." Now Jane is no dummy, and she readily admits that part of her enthusiasm for the sartorial trappings of her 6-month-new job is sheer reaction to years of catching the short side of the public temper . were smoking, fighting, loitering and creating disturbances in classrooms. Sixty-three students from the junior high and 36 from the senior high were as- signed to the program . There were more than twice as many boys as girls . Hart, who proposed the program to the school board , said he copied it after one used by a school in Olympia, Wash. He said he is not aware of another such pro- gram in Tucson, al though he has had in- quiries from other administrators. Hart doesn't think suspension is an ef- fective way to handle misbehavior . "Par- ents don't want them out of school ," he said, adding that "most parents would agree that anything is better than suspen- sion." An important consideration is that stu- den ts on suspension usually do little other 'than fall behind in their studies . But under the Saturday Campus Corps, there is no loss of classroom time since the supervised work sessions are held -as the name im- plies -on Saturdays. And students are expected to show up on time. If they are one minute late, they can't work. No excuses -period, Hart said . The program, he said, "is a reality. Page 3 "You 're on your feet eight hours, you don't need some grouch coming at you," she says. "But there's nothing you can do when you're a waitress. You run people out of there, you 've got the boss on you." Such is not the case at Ace. "In this job, you don 't run people out, you got your boss on you," Jim Roberts says with a fix of the eye. There is~owever, one similarity be- tween Janes former and present occupa- tions. While she's no longer running a sla- lom course between booths and tables, she still is on her feet. • She walks and walks, pacing to check the gates, doors, windows on whatever turf she's guarding. Then she walks some more and checks them again . Ad infinitum, or at least until the end of her shift. There is no relaxing. "Never know what might come over that fence at you ," Jane says. And when it's time for a break, what she does is go to her car, set her sandwich next to her on the seat and tear off a bite at a time. She eats discreetly, surrepti- tiously, the point being to look less occu- pied with the victuals than with the job - the point being that looks have a lot to do with being an ace in the security business. As the boss puts it, "This company be- lieves that an officer with the proper atti- tude, the proper uniform, will deter the majority of common criminals." And because Jane knows how -nay, is further inspired by her uniform -to carry herself well; and because she doesn't chew blankly on her sandwich (Roberts confid e s that some malefactors actually arm them- selves with binoculars to study a guard 's most piddling behaviors), Jane is as effec-'- tive a deterrent as an obviously malnour- ished Doberman. . So Roberts says, and so Jane believes . And that 's good. For Jane may be trained in first aid, fire prevention an.9 the laws of arrest, among others . And Jane may be licensed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. And she may be good with a gun (she learned to shoot when she was a kid, used to put food on the table that way). But she 's not schooled in any kind of martial art and she says she's not sup- posed to use force on the job, anyway. Never matter. Doesn't faze her. She can take the dark and being alone in it , even when the coyotes· are bad. And no lurker with binoculars would drive her as crazy as would a table full of alternately grouchy and lecherous bad-tippers. You can take it from Jane. "It's more of a strain being a waitress than being this ." These students need to be responsible. These are commitments that have to be made on their part." Indeed, one of the biggest assets of the program is an "immediate consequence to the student for his misbehavior ," Hart said. Furthermore, it makes students "sensitive to the fact there are rules and regulations." On the negative side, Hart said , is the loss of personal contact with students when they choose the Saturday Campu s Corps . In th a t case, the assistant princi- pals , who usually handl e di s ciplinary prob- lems, "don 't even have to deal with th em ;" Hart said. Studen ts , howev er, can appea l and op t to have thei r cases heard by .a school a d- ministrator. Th re e student s chose this route during th e past year, Hart said . The Satu rday Campus Corps also holds a plus for the school district. Since state aid is based on school attendance, schools receive more money when students stay in school than when they are suspended. Besides, Hart pointed out, the work that 15 or 20 students do on a Saturday is work "that would have to be done by someone." This, he said, offsets the cost of the person supervising the students. Summer? Some're bored and some're busy Boredom .need not be · your fate By Tom Shields Citizen Staff Writer "Ohhhh no," you moan as your kids come tearing through the kitchen door for the 50th time. "Johnny, how many times do I have to tell you to close the door behind you?" you snap, slamming it on a wave of Tuc-son's blast-furnace heat. "Mommy, there's nothing to do," Johnny pouts. "He's right, mother. Summer is such a bore," little Mary sighs dramati-cally. You roll your eyes skyward. School has been out only three weeks and al-ready two small humans with more en-ergy than six large bulldozers -to put it plainly-are driving you up a wall. What will you do? "Don't despair, lady fair. I will save you," a deep voice booms as a tornado swirls into your kitchen and a knight on a white horse suddenly appears. He gal-lantly flips onto the table a pile of pam-phlets about things for kids to do in sum-mertime Tucson. Yes, 1here are programs, beneficial ones, that are still available to your chil-dren. And while a knight may not ride to your rescue with the details, you can get them by picking up a phone. (Besides, you really don't want a clanky knight and a cloppy horse on your vinyl floor.) • Your youngst~rs can still sign up for activities at Pima County Parks and Recreation Deparlment centers and pools. In fact, the first sessions of swim-ming lessons at ·county pools are ending now and new se~sions are about to begin. Information is •available on all county programs at 882-2680. Also, registi-ation starts next week for county .arts and crafts classes in, among other things, pottery, painting and puppetry. Cfh sses begin J_uly 14. • • Registration for the second round of Tucson Parks and Recreation Depart-ment aquatics classes at all city pools will be held on a first-come, first-served basis Saturday at 8 a.m. The second ses-sion runs from July 7 to 18. Call 791--4870. Youngsters 6 to 12 may sign up any-time for the city's free playground pro-gram. The only requirement is that a parent or guardian sign a pennission • fonn_ Call 791-4878. The city and county also offer spe-cial programs for physically and men-tally handicapped youngsters of all ages. Call 791-4870 for details on the city pro-grams and 882-2680 for the county pro-gram. • Several organizations -public and private -offer day camping. The YMCA, for example, still has a few openings in the five day camps its branches operate. A sp0kesman said, , however, that "they are filling up rather quickly." On the other hand, the Salvation Army day camp program, which begins Monday, still has lots of openings in each of its seven week-long sessions. Each ses-sion will be for youngsters from a differ-ent part of the city, beginning the first week with the Flowing Wells area. The Salvation Anny day camp pro-gram includes transportation from each area, swimming, arts and crafts, singing, field trips and games. Chjldren must, however, take their own lunches. The weekly fee is $15 for the first child from a family, $13 for the second and $11 for each additional child. More information may be obtained at 795-9671. A recent penny carnival at Blenman Elementary School is a sample of the many summer activities the city Parks and Recreation Department sponsors for children. Below, carnival helpers apply grease paint to aspiring clowns like Sean Cely, above. Sean, 7, later found himself Wlder a bean bag tOSS, right, retrieving the bags. Citizen Photos by H. Darr Beiser .fl!!<"'-:' :".i ; __ " ~--~---If' .• --~ -. i -... ! ;1 ,, ~~' ~, j k"" 1 ~• •• ' ,~. r -,::.!!!! ---• * {, t '. • .... , ~ , . tt ~ _, '"f.• ..;,' ...... .::,~, r . . \ \· t ~,""i"t t . •. ' J.~ -iii ,f,fi ,' .. -..;: }l~ --~ ~l\ \" • \ .... By Shannon Travis Roberts Citizen Staff Writer Imagine, if you will, a cluster of young and energetic persons hovering over a jumble of maps a nd plans, care-fully plotting Tucson in the year 2000. "I think it's water that should be what we spend most of our time study-ing," says one. "If whul we're hearing about sinking groundwater levels is true, that could be our biggest pro~ lem." Says another, ''Sol.lr energy would be something we should take a close look at, too. We get more sun than practically anywhere in the nation." "But we also need 10 look into how we can preserve our naiural desert and wildfife areas," yet another suggests. "If we're not careful, all that land could end up covered by housing." And so the session goes, each one offering a well-researched opinion on how to make Tucson grow in a manner that would benefit the IJreatest number of people. The planners, how ev er, are not ex-perts hired by the city. county or state. They are a group of IO to 13-year olds who will take part in "Utopias -Plan-ning for the Future," on e of 43 different "Great Escapes" to1>i<.:s the Tucson Public Library is spon'>Oring this sum-mer. More than 100 fr ee , one-to two-hour "Great Escapes " sessions will be held at different libru ry branches on subjects ranging from so lar energy to photography. The participants w1\l be mostly ele-mentary school-age children. Sherry Mitchell found her summer job as a food server with the help of Call-A-Teen, n youth referral service. There's help for a job hunter By Shawn Hubler Citizen Staff Writer wen, kid, it's summer, and your days are filled with morning quiz shows, af-ternoon soaps, endless munching and more hanging out th a n you'd ever dreamed possible. You never thoughl it'd happen, but you're bored. Even worse, you're broke. (And face it, there's nothing worse than hav-ing an entire day to spend at the pinball machines, and not having a nickel to your name.) • "So how do I cur e this malaise?" you cry. Elementary, gra ss hopper. Get a job. • ~ Citizen Pbolos by Joan Rennick For a 'Great Escape,' go to the library "It's one of the best offerings I've seen for childrens' programs," Jere Stephan, the library's coordinator of children's services, said of the variety. "This year we got carried away with so many programs, but they're being snapped up and devoured." The program was started three years ago when library personnel put their heads together and came up with 20 activities for local youth. "It went over like hotcakes," Ms. St€phan said, and since then the pro-Admittedly, many summer job slots already are filled. But hope springs eternal at several youth em-ployment agencies in Tucson and Pima County. • Call-A-Teen, a referral service run by the Arizona Department of Eco-nomic Security, still is receiving orders for babysitters, janitors, yard workers, car washers, and other positions for people 13 to 22. Pay for most jobs is minimum wage ($3.10 an hour), al-though babysitters usually receive less and daily sitters sometimes have to settle for what the parent can afford. Unlike many referral agencies, Call-A-Teen does not require that you gram has grown each year. Library of-ficials are not discounting the possibil-ity of offering some "Great Escapes" during the school year, too. "We will continue to do lots in the winter with arts education, but maybe we should make the program year round," she said. The program encompasses topics in the arts, humanities and sciences. In one c;,lass , called "Step by Step: The Arts of Choreography and Cinema-tography," some students will learn about 16-mi!limeter film production uuzen t'ltolo by Lew EIUon be economically disadvantaged to reg-ist er with its job bank. Some of its of-ferings, such as the federally funded summer jobs offered through the Com-prehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA}, are open only to teens from low-income families. However, most of the odd jobs and openings in pcivate industry are availa ble to any-one (even if your dad's a millionaire). Call-A-Teen has offices at the Ju-venile Court Center, 2525 E. Ajo Way, and at the DES Job Service offices at 32 02 N. Oracle Road, 97 E. Congress and 4525 E. Broadway. For information call 882-5530. • New Directions for Young Women is starting a job bank for females 12 to while the others will learn about dance and how dances are put together. At the conclusion of the nine-part course, which begins in August, the filmmakers will film what the choreography stu. dents have produced. In another workshop, students will join forces with scientists from the Mt. Hopkins Observatory to learn about solar energy. They also will learn why time has historically been kept by the sun and will form a human sundial. Some of the workshops will be story hours, with one sporting a real 21, and is -taking job orders from pri-vate industry and from publicly funded agencies. New Directions also offers career counseling, General Education Development (GED) preparation for high school dropouts, guidance for women interested in non-traditional skills and counseling for families and couples (for when you have a problem with your parents or boy/girl friend). You can conta~t the agency at 623-3677. • If you are economically disadvan-taged (poor) and jf_ you meet CETA qualifications for federally funded jobs, a coup le of agencies in Tucson can help you find work. The Tucson Urban League at 745 N. Fourth Ave. coordinates its youth job bank with Tucson Manpower Devel-opment Inc. to find CET A summer jobs for teens. Right now, according to Man-power officials, all of the CETA posi-tions are filled. But in case you'd like to get the jump on next summer's job market, officials say you should apply for a CETA job in the spring, as soon as applications are available. For infor-mation, call Tucson Manpower Devel-opment Inc. at 623-5843, or contact Phyllis Douglas at the Urban League. Her number is 623--6528. • If you're female, the Young Women's Company has three immedi-ate 40.hour-a-week openings for build-ing/house maintenance repair persons. You must be 18 to 25, meet CETA quali-fications and live in Pima County -that is, outside the Tucson city limits, or in the City of South Tucson. How-ever, you needn't have experience. YWC trains women on the job in non-traditional skills, such as carpentry, painting and landscaping. For more in-formation, call the YWC at 622-1146. Be persistent. The office often is empty because all the workers are on site. The best time to call is on weekdays be-tween 1 and 3 p.m . The Tucson Public Library's summer programs for kids attract a variety of children, but a recent story-telling hour seemed to inspire listeners uniformly to do a little tongue-chewing. Left to right are Jason Trible, 7, Olivia Robinett, 3, and Melissa Harrington, 3. live cowboy who will talk about the Old West. Most of the sessions begin in the af-ternoon, but some start at 7 p.m. Also, some of the sessions require preregis-tration. For more information, call one of the Tucson Public Library branches in your area. Workshops will be held through August at the Main Library and at the following branches: Nanini, South Tucson, Woods, Himmel Park, Wilmot, Mission, Green Valley, Colum-bus, Valencia, El Rio and Marana. Don't get discouraged if you don't succeed on the first try or don't find anything through one of these agencies. There's always the neighbor whose lawn needs mowing, or whose house needs cleaning. Check the Help Wanted ads in your newspaper. Check, too, with your local library, service station and other establishments. Often these places need people to shelve books or do other odd Jobs from time to time. Counselors from New Directions for Young Women offer these other helpful hints (which work equally well for boys or girls): --Make sure before you apply for a job that you'll have a way to get there every day. Most employers want a guarantee that you won't miss work or show up late because you don't have reliable transportation. -Approach prospective employers in person and alone. Don't bring a buddy for moral support. -Dress appropriately. Conserva-tive school clothes usually work well. Don't come to an interview in cut-0ffs or disco clothes. -Before the interview, practice answering possible questions. Have a friend pretend to be your future boss, and try to anticipate questions you'll have to answer. -When filling out your application, write neatly and legibly, and try to spe\.\ correctly. The things that impress teachers usually are the same things that impress employers. -Don't give up after the first "No." Just because an employer doesn't ne ed someone right away doesn't mean there won't be an opening a week later. Keep trying. Show that you're persistent. -If you can't find a paying job, don't write off volunteer work. It may not bring you money, but it will get you some job experience, which will be val-uable later on. Page6 Tucson Citizen • Thursday, June 26, 1980 This author, now 90, has a will, and found a way to express it . By DEBORAH BLOCK Old Pueblo Editor Helen M. McIntosh didn't set out to write great literature. Great literature, consequently, is not what she produced. What she did turn out over the course of a year was an abridged tale of her life -abridged because even the dullest person would find it difficult to summarize one's career on earth in 84 pages, and Helen McIntosh is not exactly dull. Which is to say that anyone who sits down to write a first book at age 86 and hits print at 88 has to be, at the very least, worth mentioning. It is now about two years since "Unpacking a Bundle" was published by Exposition Press, a van- ity press in Hicksville, N.Y. Some 100 copies of the book -the leftovers -are stashed in Mrs. McIn- tosh's apartment on Miracle Mile. The bulk of the first and only printing sold fairly well, particularly in Florida, where Exposition Press did its most con- centrated hawking. But to the remainder. After the book's first two years in print, Mrs. McIntosh either had to market the work herself or pay the publishing company more to do it for her. And since no one, including the author, ever expected the slim volume even to approach best seller status, there was no choice but to save the cash and do the selling herself. So she sits in her bedroom -a sunny place whose focal point is a bridge table and a portable typewriter -and mails literature order by order. The requests come in -not in floods, but they do arrive, despite there not having been any advertis- ing-lately for "Unpacking a BuncHe." People just hear of the book, Mrs. McIntosh says, and she is . ha ppy fo r that . She is especially pleased because th e people who hear tend to be the kind she hoped to r each -old er people who need to know that "they ha _ve a futu re, too ," the author says. "I had worked a t different rest homes, entertain- ing and so on, and I had seen so many people giving up-people 10 and 15 years younger than me," she says. "So I had an idea that I'd write my life. And my life hasn 't been any bed of roses." Her life has been, however, a running illustration of what not giving up will net. And "Unpacking'' has a moral, a lesson, if you will, that Mrs. McIn- tosh expresses this way: "If your heart is stuck on something, you can do it." The story, written under the pen name of Helen Mack, recalls not only the stumbling blocks of pov- erty and the determination it took to overcome them . Best of all, it recounts the refusal of a woman, widowed at age 82 after 56 years of mar- riage, to think herself too old to do what she really wanted to do -become a "flying gypsy" and see the world. It was her husband, Roy, who provided the im- petus for what at this point has amounted to 10 ocean crossings. Says Mrs. McIntosh, "Before he passed away, he said to me, 'Now, honey, all your life you have wanted to travel. You and I have worked hard for (our) money; don't leave it to someone who didn't earn it. You take that money and travel it up.'" And so she did. Since 1974, she has seen most of Western Europe, Hawaii'and some of the Far East. Her years have been a succession of packings and unpackings, the only real hazard being the "come down" she says she experiences when she returns from one of her jaunts. Mrs. McIntosh does not ignore the limitations imposed by age -she never travels alone, always goes on a tour witli a group. But she is not intimi- dated by the limitations of her savings. Citizen Photo by Joan Rennick "A year or two ago, I wanted to go to a conven- tion in Washington, D.C.," Mrs. McIntosh says. "I knew I would meet well-<lressed people; clo thing entered my mind. And I thought, what do I have?" The author and her book There was nothing appropriate in her closet, and she didn't have money to buy the gown she would need. So she got hold of a piece of material and made her own. And a success it was . And Helen McIntosh has applied it since her youth. "Most people who travel like I do were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and had money," she says . "I didn't. I walked a mile to save 5 cents carfare." The cliche is, where there's a will, there's a way . Schools Computer plan approved Vail School trustees have authorized a $6,000 pilot program to apply computers to the school's administration and curricula. The computer program, to be phased in over two years , is slated to start in Sep- tember, Superintendent Reaford Wells said. Its first application will be in finan- cial record keeping, he said. • "From there, it will expand to cover most of the administration functions," Wells said . "Then it will move into curricu- lum applications . Eventually we hope to move it right down to teacher-pupil appli- cations." The trustees approved the computer program at a meet ing last Thursday, in which they also accepted bids on furniture and supplies for a new school annex open- ing in September. Accepted were a $13,492.50 bid for lock- ers from All-Am erican School Supplies in Phoenix; a $5,600 bid for desks from Dun- bar · and Associates in Phoenix; and a $4,- 175 bid for seating from Vireo Manufactur- ing Co . in California. The next regular board meeting will be August 5 at the Vail School. Summer meetings cancelled Sunnyside trustees have cancelled two summer meetings scheduled for July 22 and Aug.26. The next regular board meeting will be Aug. 12 at the administrative conference room, 2238 E. Ginter Road . School dean appointed In a reorganization of high school ad- ministration, the Marana School District Board of Trustees has appointed Helen Lambertson high school dean. Mrs . Lambertson has been a high school special education teacher in Marana for the past two years. She is com- pleting a doctorate in administration at the University of Arizona . This spring, the board decided to delete the position of assistant principal at Marana High School and replace it with two deans . The other dean has not been named. Bus extension called doubtful CIiium Photo by Peter Weinberger I An extension of bus service in the area surrounding Anklam a nd Greasewood roads is doubtful, a SunTran official says. doon said . "But 1t doesn't look very prom- ising because it means several additional miles of service . When you make several round t rips a day , it adds up to a lot of money ." A bunch of kids Paul Muldoon, who met Tuesday with West Side residents at the El Rio Neigh- borhood Center, said SunTran is looking into a citizens' r equest for extended bus service from downtown and from Cholla High School, at 2001 West 22nd Street. Currently, the closest route from down- town is Route 3, which ends at a Pima Col- lege bus stop about a half-mile from the Anklam/Greasewood intersection. The area also is not traveled by Routes E and F, which service Cholla High, Muldoon said. When Bruee Erickson's goat got around to having kids, she did it in a big way. Instead of giving birth to the usual two-baby litter, the goat presented the Ericksons with quadruplets. . "We told the people that if we could afford it in our budget, we'd try it," Mui- Thursday, June 26, 1980 • Tucson Citizen Page 7 He has patches, and patches, and patches By SHANNON TRAVIS ROBERTS Citii.en Staff Writer They say necessity is the mother of invention. So with thousands of soldiers to keep track of, George Washington in 1775 addressed a potential identity crisis by inventing colored rosettes military officers could wear on Collector dotes on • • • 1ns1gn1a their hats to indicate rank. Be that as it may, the troops through the years have grown to number in the hundreds of thousands, and necessity isn't the only rea - son the U.S. Army still is hashing out military insig- nia. "In World War II the Department of Defense brought out a shoulder patch to signify the 81st Division, and it just caught on," George "Buddy'' Amos, who has an extensive collection of military insignia, said . "Before, everybody looked exactly the same, but this built morale and identified them (the soldiers)." Amos has become somewhat of an expert on military insignia since he started collecting it as a boy. "One day in the 1960s, I was moving and came across an old box of shoulder patches I had collected as a kid," Amos said."So I decided to start collecting msignia, but didn't know where to start." Patches, he explained, are worn on the shoulder to indicate what unit a soldier is in . "During Wo rld War II, kids would go to the buses and hand a soldier coming home a razor to cut off his shoulder patch," Amos said. "From there, the two would become pen pals, exchanging letters." When Amos found his old patches, he decided to start collecting distinctive insignia : small medals worn on top of the shoulder signifying various units all the way to battalion ~ and sometimes down to companies. A friend put him m touch with the Amencan Society of Military Insignia Collectors, and "from there, it just evo lved," Amos said . His pasttime has turned his office at Tucson Realty an d Trust into something of a curiosity shop, with inquisi- tive visitors being given special explanations for some of the hundreds of brightly col ored medals decking one wall. "This one," Amos explained, pointing out a medal with a blue line waving across it diagonally, "means the unit was located near a river, or water." "By studying the colors, shape and design, you can figure out what the medals mean, and everthing means something." For example, the color red painted on a medal signi- fies a n artillery unit, green suggests military police and blue charactarizes infantry . Sometimes a medal will have an animal identifica- tion, like a bear or an eagle. And the animal's face always faces toward the right, which is the honorable side, Amos said. Also, each medal is inscribed at the bottom with a motto, and Latin and French terms are used to describe the different parts of the medals, Amos said. "When I first started collecting, I didn't know what the hell they were talking about," Amos recalled . But now that he has the collector's vocabulary straightened out, he finds himself immersed in shop talk with other collectors scattered across the country. "You really get into it; sometimes I get 20 letters a day," Amos said. "It's like stamps and everything else you collect." Through the years, Amos ' collection has grown to about 3,000 shoulder patches and the same number of distinctive insignia . And it just keeps growing . "The Department of Heraldry authorizes new insig- nia every time a new unit is created," Amos said. "When a unit disbands, th e insignia stays in limbo in case the unit is reactivated." With so many di fferent types of medals in circula- tion, bogus insignia often turn up, but if a collector is careful, he can tell true insignia from the phony. "You can tell if a patch is authentic by looking at the material and the weave," he said. "An identification on the back of a medal tells when, where and by whom it was struck. "Actually , the medals are nothing more than coats of arms, but they are steeped in heraldry." Soldiers are proud to wear the medal of their unit, particularly if it is one that is well-known, Amos said. But there were times when soldiers had to be careful about being identified . "During World War JI, lots of the Americans would take them off because they didn't want the Germans to I - Citii.en Photo by Joan Re nnick George 'Buddy' Amos displays his vast collection identify them," Amos said. "If tlley wore their medals, everyone would know where all the units were and who was commanding them." An d legend has it the military insignia were even used to bring about the 1944 invasion of Norm a nd y, Amos said. "The Germans figured it was Patton's new army, which never, of course, existed," Amos said. The Ger- . mans also thought the invading troops would land in Calais, and were somewhat surprised when the Allies stormed into Normandy, Amos said .. At that time, National Geographic magazine ran an extensive illustration of all American military insignia . The ruse also fooled some collectors who thought they had all existing insignia, Amos said . , Unbeknownst to the magazine personnel, some of the msigni a stood for nonexistent units -a ploy to confuse the Germans and make them believe the new insignia stood for Gen. George S. Patton's newly formed unit, which the Germans believed would be used in the invasion of Eu- rope. "The collectors were going crazy -they just went bonkers, but no one would expl ain," Amos said . "National Geographic didn 't even know." If only Pa tton had known of the interest and uproar a simple identification piece could cause . Around the County Special Drexel meeting The Drexel Heights Volunteer Fire District will hold a special meeting July 3 to discuss the 1980-81 budget . The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. at the fire station, 5960 S. Cardinal Ave . Public hearing at Oro The Oro Valley Town Council will hold a public hearing during its regu- lar monthly meeting tonight on an appeal by California developer Lilian Fox concerning a proposed 96-unit apartment complex. Mrs . Fox filed a law suit last month charging the council with pur- posely delaying setting a rehearing on the plan, which the council earlier had denied. Under threat of a suit, the council originally set a July 24 hearing date, but that date was moved back in an agreement reached last week be- tween lawyers representing both parties. If the council rejects the plan for the apartments, which would be 10- cated on a 2.44-acre site west of Ora- cle Road and south of Calle Concor- dia, Mrs. Fox will continue her suit, her attorney, Henry Hufford, said. Council members have objected to the high density of the project. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p .m. at the Town Hall, 680 W. Calle Con- cordia. Land inclusion approved The shareholders of the Cortaro- Marana Irrigation District and the Cortaro Water Users Association .itave approved 1he inclusion of 400 acres within their boundaries. C. Brad Despain, project manager for the association, said the acreage is in two parcels -one of 80 acres and one of 320 acres. Founders Day Parade Plans for the fourth annual Marana Founders Day Parade are well under way, and the event's sponsors are searching for a parade king and queen. Anyone 13 or older living in the Marana School District is eligible to compete for the honors in a ride-off Sept. 13. The parade will be Satur- day, Oct. 4. Two princesses and two princes also will be chosen . Those interested should si_gn up by .Sept. 6 at the Marana Town Hall, the Marana Town Marshall's office, both a t 12775 N. Sanders Road , or Bill-Moe Enterpri ses, 13943 N. Sanders Road. Representatives of several area horse clubs will judge entrants on their appearance and riding poise on a horse,Lions Club member Richard Insalaco said. The Lions Club coordi- nates the annual event. Technician honored Anthony Ball, an emergency medi- cal technician on the Drexel Heights Volunteer Fire Dept., recently re- ceived a Certificate of Appreciation from the Tucson Fire Dept. for sav- ing an infants's life while off duty . Ball said he and his wife were driving on Ajo Way to visit relatives May 27 wheri they saw a tw0-car ac- cident at 16th Street and Ajo Way. Among the six victims was a 6- month-old girl whose pulse had stopped . Ball performed cardi0-pul- monofy resuscitation on the child while his wife, who was •,even months pregnant, directed traffic around the wreckage. Because of Ball 's quick action, the child was breathing when ambulances arrived, and is now in stable condition at Tucson Medical Center. None of the victims was killed . Ptge8 Tucson Citizen Last rays Citizen Photo by Lew Ellioll Thursday, June 26, 1980 Sponsored by UA 'Black Heritage' conference topic The University of Arizona will sponsor a conference on "Black Heritage in Arizona" tomorrow and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 404 N. Free- way. Topics include "Black Women in Africa and Ari- zona," "Black Soldiers in Africa and Arizona," "Black Slavery in America," "Black Pioneers in Arizona and New Mexico" and "Black Towns and Societies in America." Speakers include John W. Blassingame, head of Afro - American studies at Yale University; Charles Blockson, author of "Black Genealogy"; Eula Cox, educator and author, and Vera Cushman, employment and opportunity program complaints officer and historian at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Meal costs are $6 for tomorrow's luncheon, $8.50 for tomorrow's banquet, $5.50 for Saturday's luncheon or $20 for all three meals. For registration information, contact Gloria Smith, 315 Social Science Building at the univer- sity. Haugen to assume post in Montana Raymond Haugen, superintendent of the Tanque Verde School District for the past seven years, will head for Kalispell, Mont., to take over as superintendent of the Evergreen District there. • Haugen resigned from his Tanque Verde post effec- tive June 30, citing philosophical differences between himself and the school board. He will begin his new job in northwestern Montana July 7. "It's a small elementary district with about 800 stu- dents, about the same size Tanque Verde was when I came here," he said, adding that he is very pleased with the new post. The move to Montana actually will be a homecoming of sorts for Haugen, who spent 16 years in that state as a teacher and administrator. He also served for three years as superintendent on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands before moving to Tucson and eventually becoming Tan- que Verde's first superintendent. A windmill atop a hill in Patagonia catches a gleam of light before nightfall. Suceeding Haugen will be Lewis T. Sorensen, who has been superintendent of the Sunnyside School District and also served two years as superintendent of the Cata- lina Foothills School District. From our readers A red rose: The beginning and end of life's romance By FRESIA H. LOPEZ It took a red rose to make me take no-· tice and fall in love, and another red rose some very long time later to end a long love affair. When I first met the man who would become my husband, he struck me as being too proud and too vain. He came on too strong, and I did not like him much. I was attracted to him, but he was nothing of what I looked for in a person, much less a man. Nevertheless, his persistence in asking me won out, and I accepted a first date a few days later. What could I lose? It was just going to be a middle.of-the-week, not-too-important date. Getting into his car after he called for me at my home, I noticed a perfect red rose and a red-wrapped candy bar sitting on the dashboard. We went to a movie. Don't ask me what movie! On the way home we found time to talk and to learn a little bit about each other -and to get a little bit closer. He let me know that I was the girl he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, and he presented me with his gifts -the red rose and the wrapped candy. His tenderness and gentleness showed clearly, and I found him so unlike what I had thought him to be. I magically fell in love. We were married after a . brief, three- month courtship . Our first year of mar- riage was interrupted by his service in the United States Navy during the Korean War. When he came back after a two-year absence, we were already a family; a son had been born. In time, that family grew to include five children -two boys and three girls. Gifts and presents have been plentiful in my life, but they always were practical items when the gift was from husband to wife. There was a shiny new mixer, a do- it-all blender, a new bedspread, a new set of dishes. There even was a fat little cut- ting board under the Christmas tree a few years back. But there never was a per- sonal thing. I would wish for something more meaningful, but rather than hurt feelings or be thought ungrateful, I would keep my silence. Were those lovely pieces of lingerie, the sweet perfumes, the flower - shop flowers and all that fine jewelry only for the romantics? Then, three months ago, he came home from his job, as he had every day for 30 years. He entered the busy kitchen where I was preparing the family's evening meal. I almost dropped what I was doing! In his hand, he carried a perfect red rose. For no reason whatwever, other than his love for me, I suppose, he handed it to me. It was not even Valentine's Day, not my birthday, not an anniversary. Just an ordinary Mon- day-Tuesday-Wednesday kind of day. What bad deed did you do, my husband, I thought, that you must give me this? Never in my life have you agail) presented me with this magic. The children, grown, some home and some not, made such a comic time of it. Was. he drunk? Was he feeling sick? What happened? Mama got a red rose from our Dad! How could those doing the laughing and teasing foretell the important message this one little flower would so soon leave? It was as if that little flower was fighting its battle to hurry and fulfill the errand it had to complete. It worked in S(!ch a small and quiet way, if the giving of a flower to a loved one ever can be quiet and small. As in a time not so long past, the woman of middling years fell in love with the same man, a man with more than his share of gray-shaded hair. She wondered what had moved him on such a common day to ease an unwanted fear that love might die with age. I went on to save the rose until its petals turned black with age and brittle with thirst. Many a time, I almost threw it out, but for some reason I put it away and tried to keep it intact. It was so fragile, just as a fine love affair between two peo- ple can be fragile. The now-withered flower was moved from place to place, begging to find a resting place. I finally put it away in a glass box, wanting to save it forever. I set it in the box, and it lay crowded among other saving things. My husband died three months later, three months after the presentation of the rose on that quiet day. On March 2, he died a very, very sudden death. Now the red rose remains by itself in its box, a nostalgic reminder that once there was a love as fresh as only a red rose can be in the first burst of romance, and as everlasting as its last fragrance before it dies. The symbol, even in the eventual ab- sence of the flower, as in the absence of my husband, is forever mirrored in my heart. Fresia H. Lopez, a Tucson native, says her husband, William V. "Vic" Lopez, died suddenly and unexpectedly this year of complications after gall bladder sur- gery. Surviving him were not only his widow and five children, but also seven gra-rdchildren.